Government spokesman Shimeles Kemal said a new leader will come into office based on what he called “the bylaws and canons of the Coptic Church.”
http://www.voanews.com/content/ethiopia ... 89763.html
So according to their mouthpiece, T.P.L.F. is going to appoint a new patriarch based on their loyalty, ethnic, and tribal requirements. They can't even wait to insult the intelligence of the believer. It was supposed to be church's affair to announce what will happen after the death of patriarch (read Ato Ato Gebre Medhin Wolde Yohannes from Adwa tribe). Yet the spokesman dared to tell us that the tribal junta is in charge of the matter under the guise of ''bylaws and canons of the Coptic Church''.
The tribal junta is willing to risk handpicking one more Diablos. That will scratch wounds of the Ethiopian Orthodox believers in the same way Ethiopian Muslims are wounded. They are too arrogant to undermine Ethiopians of both religions. Orthodox Christians have now the same cause as Muslim Ethiopians. It is time for believers of both religions to unite and press for their right.
