Sadly, essentially the most educated and privileged dysfunctional elites within the diaspora that dwell in democratic nations violate the muse of democratic governance reform essentially the most seen for necked eye.
Teshome Debalke
February 10, 2021
First, it’s nice pleasure to witness, the Tigray Individuals Liberation Entrance (TPLF) that constructed the ethnic Mafia State of Ethiopia three a long time in the past lastly and formally stop to exist as we all know it when its notoriously corrupt and traitorous Kingpin Sibhat Nega and his closest lieutenants that implement his ethnic mob rule have been unceremoniously captured – ending the period of terror, extortion, and plunder of a nation as we predicted was a matter of time earlier than they bit the mud a decade in the past.
Extra importantly, the Ethiopian Protection Power led by PM Abiy Ahmed resolution to spare the warlords face justice by the rule of legislation as oppose rendering instantaneous jungle verdict of the predecessors that inflected numerous ache and struggling on the individuals of Ethiopia ended the period of lawlessness.
The self-confessed non-Ethiopian ethnic Mafia junta and its Marxist junta predecessor rule of the jungle over the rule of legislation dug their very own graves or in addition to hundreds of thousands of harmless Ethiopians and lived of off their crimes in opposition to humanity by no means seen within the prolonged historical past of the nation fulfilling the Chinese language saying, “in case you’re going to hunt revenge dig two graves”.
Subsequently, TPLF apologists and sponsors try to undermine Ethiopians and PM Abiy Ahmed’s efforts to unite them and, institute the rule of legislation is nothing in need of cheering for the rule of the jungle to disfranchise the “Innocent AEthiopians” historian documented centuries in the past.
Whatever the ‘grave digger’ regimes of the previous, the top of the rule of the jungle is an effective starting to have a good time however on no account the top. The mess left behind within the political, social, and financial establishments of Ethiopia and the hassle to institute the mandatory reform to wash up home takes time below the most effective state of affairs. However, given the unrelenting hyperactive firehoses of falsehoods onslaught TPLF apologists engaged in to undermine democratic reform, the street forward stays as harmful because it was designed when TPLF warlords got here to seen.
Sadly, generations of dilutional and functionally illiterate elites that infest private and non-private establishments occur to be the principle impediment to make the street forward as tough as attainable to move. And sadly, the die-hard ethnic apartheid elites that insist the ethnic Mafia may be agent of reform will not be the one conspirators. Many opportunists that conveniently see no evil in human nature for their very own or sponsors’ political, social, and financial finish stay roadblocks from real reform to happen that issues for the individuals of Ethiopia.
Subsequently, within the frenzy of pointing fingers at one another to keep away from particular person duty, ‘the horse earlier than the cart’ reform that favor them seen for necked eye is inevitable. Add the prevalent firehoses of falsehoods and the sleaze that comes naturally with it as human nature dictates additional made it tough how and the place to start reform and with whom.
One doesn’t want a PhD nor reference from western philosophy accustomed to up to date elites to grasp and analyze what unrestrained human nature that separates democratic from authoritarian states our sensible forefathers understood all through the prolonged historical past in easy and unambiguous phrases. Amongst notable examples are, ለራስ ሲቆርሱ አያሳንሱ, አባቱ ዳኛ ልጁ ቀማኛ, የጎርጊስን ግብር የበላ ያስለፈልፈዋል, ከብት ባልዋለበት ኩበት ለቀማ…
But, up to date dysfunctional and functionally illiterate elites (የተማሩ መሀይሞች) not solely pivot from the common fact in regards to the rule of legislation however redefine the which means of transparency and accountability to justify their very own inadequacies or what the famend 19th century Hungarian-American educational, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr Thomas Szasz frames as “two wrongs don’t make a proper, however they make good excuses”.
The writer of the Producers of Insanity (1970) wrote, “Punishment is now retro … as a result of it creates ethical distinctions amongst males, which, to the democratic thoughts, are odious. We want a meaningless collective guilt to a significant particular person duty” and, summed up the ethical and moral inaptitude of up to date elites’ what he framed as “the behavior of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction”.
If we give it some thought, the very rise of each authoritarian regime by the way in which of Fascism, Apartheid, Communism, Militarism… emerges out of the elites “dwelling on victimhood” to keep away from “self-correction”. In truth, it gotten so dangerous over time, manufacturing a nonextant sufferer to stay related not solely grew to become their lifestyle however livelihoods.
The American writer, motivational speaker, and the Founding father of EM Energy X Anthony J. D’Angelo shout out, “when fixing drawback, dig on the roots as a substitute of simply hacking on the leaves” .
Subsequently, the behavior of ‘hacking on the symptom as oppose digging on the root reason behind the issue will not be by chance however handy. The rampant lack transparency and accountability of dysfunctional and functionally illiterate elites infested political, social, financial establishments baked by firehose of falsehoods peddlers masquerading as journalists, authors and specialists calls for digging the basis trigger irrespective of how a lot time it takes.
Nothing crystalizes the combo of dysfunctional and functionally illiterate elites undermining democratic reform effort higher than these infested in financial establishments the place data and information transparency is the life-or-death of livelihoods of the individuals of Ethiopia.
Some are architect of the ethnic apartheid Mafia financial system itself. Others are consultant of multilateral and bilateral organizations pushing the previous and failed “Structural Adjustment” coverage of the 90s. Others are representatives of world enterprise (vulture) capital and their philanthropy reps banking on the chaos the Mafia state created. And the few stanch transparency and accountability advocates are misplaced within the wonderland perpetuated the same old suspects easy methods to type out the great from the dangerous and the ugly actors and the place to start out the reform effort and with whom.
To seek out out who had the clout pushing the financial agenda of the ethnic apartheid Mafia financial system in Ethiopia, one ought to look no additional than the propaganda shops empowered to relate firehose of falsehoods masquerading as English language enterprise/financial Medias.
The oldest and most seen amongst them is the self-described largest English language weekly Addis Fortune led by the notorious Founder and Managing Editor Tamrat G. Gebremariam.
However, in a July 2011 article titled Addis Fortune or Misfortune?: A make-believe unbiased Media below tyranny, we documented his presence on the UN Human Proper Fee inquiry as Tamrat GebreGiorgis.
Although nobody is aware of what a Managing Editor of the self-described “largest English language enterprise publication in Ethiopia” has something to do with human proper violation inquiry of the ethnic Mafia regime, it was clear then as it’s apparent now, he was there to defend the regime’s human proper document and undermine the famend human proper advocate and the Co-Founder and Government Director of the Solidarity Motion for New Ethiopia Obang Metho that made mockery of the nine-persons delegation led by TPLF warlord Fisseha Yimer Aboye and TPLF managed Human Proper Fee of Ethiopia Commissioner Terunhe Zenna Arajo that got here to Geneva to defend the regime’s human rights document.
Someday between 2011-18, Tamrat GebreGiorgis wished to be often called Tamerat GeberMariam for unknown cause. In keeping with AWiB that declare to be “a networking platform the place feminine leaders join, emerge and develop collectively” Tamerat Gebremariam packs “27 years of expertise in almost each facet of publishing with over 11 varied publications. He’s a member of the Alumni of the College of Georgetown’s College of International Coverage and repeatedly contributes to specialised worldwide publications such because the International Integrity’s Index on Authorities Corruption, Transparency and Accountability, and the Federation, a flagship publication of the Discussion board’s for Federations.”
As weird as it could sound how a “overseas coverage Alumni of the College of Georgetown’s College of International Coverage” ended as much as arrange an English language enterprise publication over twenty years in the past, what AWiB didn’t revile is the nonexistence of Tamerat GeberMariam in Georgetown College however, in keeping with Community – Georgetown Management Seminar “Tamrat Gebregiorgis (Ethiopia), Normal Supervisor, Impartial Information & Media” as a Class of 2007. Furthermore, there is no such thing as a International Integrity’s Index publication he supposedly contributed articles as AWiB claimed nor ‘the Discussion board’s for Federation however Discussion board of Federation — a Canadian authorities funded discussion board the place Ethiopia, the one nation that observe ethnic apartheid Federalism on this planet “has been a associate since 2006”, in keeping with its official web site.
Nor AWiB care to seek out out the opposite 9 publication Gebremariam ‘repeatedly contributes’ to boost extra questions than solutions, who could also be sponsoring the dysfunctional elites in AWiB’s community to make a mockery of disclosure and transparency.
In the meantime, the Discussion board of Federation with “flagship publication” discovered no article Gebremariam printed.
Apparently, Discussion board of Federation has 9 Ethiopian stuffs that outnumbers all member/associate nations led by “Maeregu Habtemariam Kazentet [Regional Director, East Africa Region” except Myanmar.
Brazil with 1, India with 2, Jourdan with 3, morocco with 3, Myanmar with 11, Nepal with 1, Tunisia with 4, Yemen with 1 and Ethiopia with 9 stuffs, it is not clear why Myanmar and Ethiopia needed more stuff than all the other ‘partner’ Federal nations combined to ask, why the Canadian Government makes mockery of Federalism.
At the meantime, the Board Members of Forum of Federation according to its website includes “Birtukan Ayanodadi (Ethiopia) is a lawyer and career diplomat. She is currently State Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was previously Director-General for the Americas in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia. She has served as Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to Canada and Senior Counsellor International Treaties and Legal Affairs Directorate General at ministry. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council the Adama, Science &Technology University and the Ethiopian Tourist Trading Enterprise. She was educated in Ethiopia and Belgium” while “Maeregu Habtemariam Kazentet [Regional Director, East Africa Region] who “studied agriculture at a diploma stage and has a BA in Economics (Hons) from India and MA in Worldwide Growth Planning and Administration from Germany. He has served the federal government of Ethiopia from the bottom construction (Wereda) as much as key positions at federal authorities stage for greater than 15 years. He was a State Minister of the Ministry of Federal Affairs the place considered one of his essential duties was strengthening the federal system of presidency and managing conflicts throughout the nation. Maeregu was actively concerned in organizing the fifth Worldwide Convention on Federalism in Ethiopia in 2010.”
The irony a Canadian authorities funded Discussion board of Federation doesn’t revile what college and 12 months in Ethiopia or Belgium and India or Germany the Discussion board Board Member and the East Africa Regional Director acquired their diploma nor what Ethnic Apartheid Federal State they characterize clearly reveals, Canada is without doubt one of the sponsors of the rejected Ethnic Apartheid rule in Ethiopia disguised as Federalism.
Extra telling is the tutorial backgrounds and work experiences of its Ethiopian workplace stuffs to say, the hox perpetuated in opposition to the individuals of Ethiopia comparable throughout colonial intervals is actual.
The Chairman of the Board of Discussion board of Federation is Minister-President of the Federal Free State of Saxony and Chair of Saxony’s Christian Democratic Union of Germany Georg Milbradt and, the Chief Working Officer is a Canadian with a background in “worldwide/group growth organizations such because the Canadian Council for Worldwide Cooperation, Oxfam Canada and CUSO” is Charles Cloutier can inform what Discussion board of Federation all is about.
To make matter even worse, among the many Discussion board of Federation’s “associate organizations” is the Institute of Federalism at Addis Ababa College led by Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele, in accordance Worldwide Politics and Society EU capital of Belgium primarily based outfit the place he contributed the one and solely article in Nov of 2020 titled Ethiopia wants a negotiated reform of its federal system: Ethiopia’s ‘civil conflict’ reveals the deficiency of ethnic federalism. However the federal system ought to be improved, not […]
However every week earlier (November 4,. 2020) Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele additionally wrote an article in UK primarily based Africa Report Journal titled Federal solidarity is required to unravel Tigray dispute and 5 days in a while Nov 9 “republished in partnership with Ethiopian Perception” as Far-Sighted Federal Solidarity Not Energy-Politics-And-Legalism-Is-Wanted-To-Resolve Tigray Dispute and tells a narrative of its personal in regards to the Director’s affiliation with the “Proprietor and Managing Editor” of Ethiopia Perception notorious William Davidson.
The Former Bloomberg Ethiopian correspondent Davidson who based the ‘EU registered’ Ethiopian Perception proper after he was deported from Ethiopia in March of 2018 for working with out a license to finish up changing into a Senior Analyst for EU capital primarily based Worldwide Crises Group on Ethiopia speaks quantity how a British nationwide drifter journalist can change the narrative to maintain ethnic apartheid rule in Ethiopia.
However republishing a joint article with the Director of the Institute for Federalism Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele not solely reveals the repair to maintain ethnic apartheid rule in one-form-or-another is in movement through make-believe ‘Ethiopia’s ‘civil conflict’ however the ‘dispute’ with belligerent TPLF warlords is framed as “Tigray dispute” that have to be “negotiated” as oppose handled by court docket of legislation and, the “deficiency of ethnic federalism” may be corrected as oppose dismantled. It says extra about what the identical previous ethnic apartheid sponsors are up to than the clandestine ethnic elite drifters assembled to protect the long-disgraced ethnic apartheid rule.
By the way, Ethiopia Perception’s true coloration as champion of ethnic apartheid to undermine the unity of Ethiopians confirmed its ugly head as soon as once more and located a wierd bedfellow and printed the “viewpoint” of an Eritrean nationwide Yosef Ghebrehiwet titled “The ‘peace’ that delivered whole conflict in opposition to Tigray” republished by UK primarily based The African Report Journal. The self-described “Eritrean author and activist” in keeping with Ethiopia Perception lives in Los Angeles and “has been writing on Eritrea and the area for the final 20 years, totally on asmarino.com” — reviling, the so referred to as “Eritrea author and activist” is extra a champion of ethnic apartheid in Ethiopia on behalf of TPLF warlords than democracy in Eritrea on behalf of the individuals below one-man rule he nurtured all through his grownup life till he received what he wished for others – additional reenforcing, dysfunctional elites’ “behavior of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction” throughout synthetic or colonial borders.
Going again to the esteemed Founder and Managing Editor of Addis Fortune Tamrat G. Gebremariam aka Gebregorgis that declare to run the’ largest English weekly financial Media in Ethnic Apartheid Federal Ethiopia, in keeping with Wikipedia “has a meager crenulation of seven.500 per week in a rustic of 100 million”. It says lots how far TPLF operatives go to make a noise for selective 7500 worldwide viewers within the capital conflating the politics of ethnic apartheid Federalism and Mafia run Developmental State financial system to protect what’s left of the ethnic apartheid regime. It’s nothing in need of ‘the producers of insanity’ in membership of dysfunctional and functionally illiterate ethnic elites of up to date Ethiopia.
Sadly, earlier than TPLF grew to become a footnote in Ethiopian historical past, Tamrat Gebremariam aka Gebregorgis in June 13, 2019 at Open Society Initiative East Africa (OSIEA) Discussion board titled “Candid reflections on Ethiopia’s reform course of” ranted-and-raved about PM Abiy’s reform effort with out mentioning TPLF as if the Mafia by no means existed not even as soon as not to mention its plunder of the nation in daylight as any supposedly busines/financial Media would do.
What Tamerat Gebermariam aka Gebegorigs didn’t need the world to know is, he’s additionally a workers in The Open Society Initiative East Africa (OSIEA) primarily based in Nairobi, Kenya with a reputation of Tamerat Gebegorigs Gebermariam, in keeping with OSIEA’s web site.
As a Media operator with sole duty of exposing corruption, racketeering and battle of curiosity on behalf of the individuals of Ethiopia as he faux to do associating with the “International Integrity’s Index on Authorities Corruption, Transparency and Accountability” or Open Society Initiative, one would count on, his “candid reflections on Ethiopia’s reform course of” would embody disclosing his actual id, background and who he works for and the way he funds his make-believe Media in addition to exposing TPLF Mafia warlords and sponsors as the principle supply of the political, social and financial crises dealing with the reform effort in Ethiopia.
Sadly, earlier than it was modern to be “candid” to thwart the continued reform, the Founder and Managing Editor of Addis Fortune Tamrat Gebremariam can be writer/contributor Tamrat GebreGiorgis for The Journal of Good Governance of Good Governance Africa, “a analysis and advocacy non-profit group with facilities throughout Africa centered solely enhancing governance throughout the continent” with three articles he wrote all about Covid-19 epidemic between July and August 2020.
Although it isn’t clear why he doesn’t use his official final identify on publication he writes and establishments he makes speeches, like a lot of his dysfunctional friends, creating confusion seems the motivation.
LinkedIn Profile of Gebegorigs aka Gebremariam additionally reviles, he attended Kokebe Tsebah Secondary College from 1986-1990 and, after lacking for seven years, he confirmed up at “College of Maryland, Poynter Institute for Media Research, Georgetown College’s College of FP from 1997-2008”. Meaning, he was working Addis Fortune out of Maryland since its basis in 2000 and will remind readers what the writer of The Damaged Lands, Inexperienced Glass Home, and The Thief Knot Kate Milford wrote, “there’s a proper technique to do issues and a mistaken approach in case you run a lodge in smugglers’ city.”
If the Founder and Managing Editor Addis Fortune’ did it the best approach working a Media within the ethnic Mafia city, he wouldn’t play hide-and-seek for over twenty years to start with. Sadly, doing issues the best approach will not be what he’s educated and signed up for like many make-believe Media operators.
By the way, Gebegorigs aka Gebremariam handed the baton to his deputy Fasika Tadesse, the current Editor in Chief of Addis Fortune since February 2018 in what seems when he left Ethiopia to affix the Open Society East Africa Initiative in Kenya as a stuff.
The poor younger Fasika Tadesse taking on the duty of the previous dysfunctional elite Tamerat Gebegorigs aka Gebremariam will not be an excellent signal the brand new era of “journalists” to get it proper both. Her ‘all-over-the map’ articles portfolio ever since is an affidavit
On the meantime, Addis Fortune rivals working Media in Mafia city pointing their fingers at TPLF legal enterprise apparent for all Ethiopians will not be adequate to do the best factor in attending to the basis reason behind lack of transparency by all concerned, reinforcing, “two mistaken don’t make a proper, however they make good excuses”.
Think about if different Medias and their esteemed journalists have been true to their career and the Free Press by disclosing who they’re and what they’re doing on behalf of the individuals of Ethiopia within the language of their selection. You’ll suppose they are going to be equal alternative offenders on all peddlers of firehose of falsehoods disguised as journalists or specialists of 1 factor one other in each establishment no matter their ethnicity, faith, nationality and political, social, and financial affiliation, or standing ranging from their very own career of journalism and Media by going after them.
Sadly, the essential position the career of journalism and the Free Press play for society at massive not solely a misplaced trigger throughout Ethiopia, however it’s a Weapon of Mass Distraction for curiosity teams in opposition to the individuals’s curiosity.
The variety of books printed, and analysis carried out about journalism and Free Press of Ethiopia within the final century is an affidavit to that actuality.
Amongst just a few printed books with significant content material to the fact of the Free Press is The Quest for Press Freedom in Ethiopia (2013) by the late Dr Mesert Chekol Reta. Most likely the one-and-only e-book that handle the actual historic challenge written by an actual Professor of Journalism at College of Wisconsin displays the sorry state of journalism and the Free Press to the detrimental of the individuals of Ethiopia and the continued political, social, and financial reform effort led by PM Abiy Ahmed.
Currently, “Developmental Journalism” as many disciplines are used and abused to prop up the ethnic apartheid Mafia Developmental State. A e-book by Solomon Tabor titled Developmental Journalism printed in 2019 mirror that new actuality.
In keeping with Yvonne T. Chua paper titled “Developmental Journalism is 5 a long time previous” printed by Oxford College Press reviles, “the unique beliefs of developmental journalism, which requires unbiased, important analysis of the method of growth, have been changed by justification for state-controlled media in authoritarian states being handed off as developmental journalism.”
In one other analysis paper titled The Historic Growth of Media in Unconquered Africa: A historic Assessment of Ethiopia Media (2019) by Menychle Mesert Abebe reviles, “the observe of journalism within the nation is being in its infancy stage and students within the filed as nicely”
Subsequently, ever for the reason that printing press was invented in 1450 that spurred the start of unbiased press within the 16th century Europe and the enlightenment interval and career of journalism that adopted, Ethiopia like many countries wrestle to maneuver the needle of journalism career and the Free Press and thus enlightenment interval for over 500-years.
However no single entity in Ethiopian historical past ‘justify state-controlled of media’ and journalism career masquerading as Developmental Journalism to disseminate ethnic apartheid propaganda particularly within the Tigray area of Ethiopia within the final three a long time than TPLF assembled dysfunctional elites masquerading as journalists.
Who could also be accountable for the century-old debacle within the Period of the Web Revolution is the million-dollar query?
Regardless, the very fact the esteemed Founder and Managing Editor of the self-proclaimed ‘largest English language publication in Ethiopia Tamrat Gebremariam aka Gebregorgis couldn’t make up his thoughts what final identify to make use of and when and, whether or not he needs to be a Free Press journalist or developmental journalist nor ethnic apartheid advocate in Ethiopia or good governance advocate in ‘Authorities Corruption, Transparency and Accountability in Africa Governance or International coverage knowledgeable within the US reveals, why dysfunctional elites are the basis reason behind all the issues dealing with the individuals of Ethiopia.
Subsequently, his Addis Fortune publication ought to have been a goal of investigative journalists and legislation enforcement authorities for violating the muse of the career in addition to for conspiracy to hawk firehose of falsehoods on behalf of his sponsors in opposition to the individuals of Ethiopia.
The query of who investigates the investigators remained unanswered query for hundreds of years.
Reform with out vibrant Free Press {and professional} journalism to tell the general public and expose corruption within the public curiosity is like surrendering the general public curiosity for the very best bidder. On the meantime, permitting anybody with a pen and paper or a keyboard and a monitor to be a journalist and a Media operator is equivalate to placing ‘a fox accountable for the hen home’. In each instances, the individuals of Ethiopia are both ‘offered or eaten’ in daylight.
In March 11, 2019 article on Middle for Worldwide Media Assistant (CIMA) weblog titled A Highway Map for Significant Media Reform in Ethiopia by visitor writer named Asmamaw Gizaw described as “a journalist and unbiased researcher from Ethiopia. His analysis focuses on Media pluralism. Freedom of expression and cyber activism & safety” eloquently coated all of the bases what should be executed within the Media reform effort by Media Working Group (EITI) established by PM Abiy Ahmed, the Authorities itself, Ethiopian Media and Civil Society and All Stakeholders. However he nor CIMA (an initiative of the US Authorities Nationwide Endowment for Democracy Company), reviled the mother-of-all reform of Media transparency i.e., discloser of battle of curiosity with all concerned that may make-or-break “Significant Media Reform in Ethiopia”. For fast, public document reveals Asmamaw Gizaw is related to Roha Media & Communication, a “non-government, non-political; an unbiased media group based by Asmamaw Gizaw (a former BKCIS at Harvard College & Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow) a widely known journalist who was imprisoned for defending freedom of expression by the earlier Ethiopian administration”. Why that essential data is lacking in his CIMA profile says lots about NED being cavalier about disclosure and transparency of all concerned.
Mockingly, earlier than the Nationwide Endowment for Democracy (NED) got here up with Middle for Worldwide Media Assistant (CIMA) initiative that claims, “Journalism ethics comprise requirements and codes of conduct journalists and journalistic organizations aspire to observe. Rules of moral journalism fluctuate from place to position and context to context. Nonetheless, requirements usually embody accuracy, objectivity, transparency, accountability, comprehensiveness, equity, and variety. The power of journalists to stick to moral norms relies upon closely on a constellation of usually competing pursuits and forces they can’t management, together with authorities interference, financial realities, and technical limitations” However, the US authorities company seldom demand full disclosure below penalty of legislation nor observe transparency itself.
Take for example the notorious Dawit Kebede of Awramba Occasions. In a December 30, 2013 article titled The unintentional journalist, refugee, vacationer, or the all-in-one spy? we uncovered his violation of US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) legal guidelines to not point out US International Agent Registration Act with no penalties in any way.
Three Years later, in a June 19, 2016 article titled Fasten your seatbelt Ethiopians: TPLF lie machine goes to take us for the wildest experience ever, we uncovered NED awarded Dawit Kebede 35Okay of taxpayers’ cash within the identify of selling the Free Press and democracy in Ethiopia and wrote,
“Mockingly, Awramba Occasions nonetheless claims it’s US primarily based on-line Media whereas the editor, the one identified proprietor lives in Addis Ababa escorting TPLF Miscommunication Minsters to transmit propaganda straight from the supply. The onetime political refugee and prize-winning journalist that fraudulently acquired over 35 thousand {dollars} from the Nationwide Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US authorities company to advertise the Free Press and democracy in Ethiopia to finish up becoming a member of TPLF mendacity machine in opposition to the Free Press and democracy calls for; NED or the US authorities to make him accountable in US court docket of legislation the place he claims to function for fraud.”
Now NED got here up with the Middle for Worldwide Media Assistant (CIMA) initiative, full disclosure to establish and verify battle of curiosity of all journalists and Media organizations it escorts stay an empty phrase of “transparency and accountability”.
Take for example one other article contributor on CIMA weblog by the identify Henok Fente described as “an Ethiopian journalist and media educator with 15-years of expertise in broadcast and print media. Henok is skilled in creating and launching youth reveals, he has efficiently carried out media coaching initiatives in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Kenya. He’s primarily based in Washington DC. Comply with him on Twitter at @HenokFente”
His one-and-only article in CIMA weblog on Sept 4, 2018 titled Ethiopia Is Unshackling the Media, However True Independence Will Rely upon Reforms. For unsuspecting the self-described ‘Ethiopian journalist and media educator’ seems to be actual till you unveil the person behind the scenes that conceal his id, background and work expertise and the make-believe institute he runs in Washington, D.C. By the way, Fente not mentioning the mother-of-all crimes (TPLF) in all the article he wrote in CIMA weblog is sufficient to increase pink flag and disqualify him from something of journalism.
However, in a Sep 2020 article titled William Davidson’s Ethiopia Perception or Incite ethnic division, deception and ignorance? we recognized Henock Fente is Henock Simaegzer, a Former Voice of America (VOA) reporter and the current “Incorporator, executing officer, governor, director and agent” of a one-man Washington, DC primarily based MERSA Media Institute established on 7 September 2018 by Henok Fente, in keeping with The Open Database Of The Company World.
Nobody is aware of why the Former US authorities worker neglected his actual id, citizenship, background and the MERSA Media Institute he established in 2018 after he left VOA on CIMA’s weblog article nor why CIMA didn’t confirm his id, citizenship, and background earlier than offering him platform.
The American abolitionist, entrepreneur, essayist, authorized theorist, political thinker, and author Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) wrote, “Those that are able to tyranny are able to perjury to maintain it” … so up to date dysfunctional and functionally illiterate elites that made a behavior of perjury of their identities, backgrounds, and battle of pursuits in opposition to the curiosity of the individuals of Ethiopia ignored by the make-believe journalists that entertain them.
In that regard, Al Jazeera journalists Femi Oke of The Stream program is an effective instance of entertaining dysfunctional elites of Ethiopia and past. After failing to save lots of the belligerent TPLF warlords from the Ethiopian Protection Power operation in her final program, she, and her new self-described freelance journalists for Al Jazeera confederate Zacharias Zelalem got here up with one more narrative titled Ethiopia: Why Hunger is stalking Tigray with three all girls group visitors from the diaspora to do the identical.
The little identified three-women group Oke and her confederate Zacharias discovered from the woodwork to place out firehose of unsubstantiated falsehoods to reinvite the final failed narrative consists of, the self-described “from Tigray, activist and worldwide relationship researcher” Meaza Gedy, the self-described Chief Advertising and marketing and Communication of OMNA TIGRAY Bserat Ghebrermicael, and the self-described Amnesty Worldwide Horn Africa Human Proper Campaigner Vanessa Tsehaye nobody knew earlier than TPLF warlords bit the mud.
The whole program theme was the identical previous method: Ethiopia in opposition to the individuals of Tigray as a result of Ethiopian Protection Power below PM Abiy in collaboration with Eritrean power below Isaias Afeworki not solely by stopping entry to meals distribution from the worldwide group however raping, committing genocide, and pillaging the area.
Mockingly, in a frenzy to indite PM Abiy administration to save lots of ethnic apartheid rule on behalf of TPLF neither the host or the brand new AJ freelance journalists Zacharias Zelalem nor the esteem visitors point out TPLF or its crimes of three a long time in all the program not even as soon as as if the ethnic Mafia doesn’t exist or has nothing to do with genocide, rape, and pillage it’s identified for since its inception.
To her credit score, the host Femi Oke talked about it because the regional administration and few occasions as ‘rebels’ as a substitute of TPLF that dominated Ethiopia for 27-years.
However nearer take a look at the brand new star visitors of Femi Oke of Al Jazeera to save lots of TPLF ethnic apartheid rule reveals, why up to date dysfunctional elites not solely dwell in Home of Delusion however are afraid to reveal their affiliations with TPLF and its sponsors.
Clearly, the self-described “from Tigray’, activist and worldwide relationship researcher” Meaza Gedy doesn’t know the which means of activism and analysis nor what she is activist for and what worldwide relation means beside sustaining the belligerent TPLF warlords that use-and-abuse the individuals she considers her personal by ethnic affiliation.
The self-described Amnesty Worldwide Horn Africa Human Proper Campaigner Vanessa Tsehaye seem to have selective amnesia about human rights, or she seem to consider people in Horn of Africa are completely different than in different geographical areas. The Eritrean nationwide from Sweden and the Founding father of One Day Seyoum, a youth-led group that campaigns for the discharge of unjustly imprisoned individuals in Eritrea and for the liberation of all Eritreans, in accordance Nobile Girls Initiative appeared confused what her position as Horn of Africa human proper campaigner for in Amnesty Worldwide.
On the meantime, it isn’t clear why Femi Oke of Al Jazeera invited an Eritrean nationwide opposition to the ruling regime disguised as Amnesty Worldwide Horn Africa Human Proper Campaigner to speak about Ethiopia and PM Abiy motion in opposition to TPLF warlords with out disclosing her nationality and battle of pursuits nor mentioning TPLF and its atrocities and human rights violation in its 30-years of rule Ethiopia at massive and the Tigray area.
However, the self-proclaimed Chief Advertising and marketing and Communication of OMNA TIGRAY Bserat Ghebrermicael with a mission “to construct a worldwide group and useful resource heart advocating for the human rights and financial growth of Tigrayans and different oppressed teams” tops the mom of all falsehoods to save lots of the belligerent TPLF warlords within the identify of “the individuals of Tigray”– a blue print from TPLF Manifesto.
The Gorge City College graduate is oppressed Tigrayan in Ethiopia who co-founded OMNA TIGRAY to advocate “for the human rights and financial growth of Tigrayans and different oppressed teams” however in her nation of citizenship USA, she is the co-founded BRAVE, an occasion to have a good time and concentrate on Black girls in accordance Georgetown Journal Nov 2020 challenge. Her ‘private reflection’ is a window of alternative to see how up to date Ethiopian ethnic elites within the diaspora wish to have their cake and eat it too taking part in the sufferer card.
As weird because it sounds for a US nationwide to have interaction as a champion of “financial growth of Tigrayans and different oppressed teams” in opposition to the brand new PM Administration, the very fact OMAN TIGRAY declare it “was based by a collective of worldwide Tigrayan professionals from varied backgrounds in response to the conflict and genocide waged on Tigrayan individuals on November 4, 2020” and it’s “a nonpartisan international group within the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia with a objective to successfully advocate for an finish to the conflict, name for unrestricted humanitarian help to the Tigrayan individuals, and promote the financial growth of Tigray” — contradicting its personal mission is exhibit one how dysfunctional and functionally illiterate elites’ thoughts works whatever the geographical location of the individual – reenforcing “the behavior of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction”
Because the anticipated, none of “collective of worldwide Tigrayan professionals” that established OMAN Tigray disclose their id and background on the official web site.
Daniel Woldu of OMNA interview (video deleted few days later) with the notorious Former BBC Africa Chief Editor and self-proclaimed knowledgeable Martin Plaut on the present scenario titled Ethiopia-Tigray Warfare seems to be the mastermind of the self-proclaimed “nonpartisan international group” Omna Tigray.
Although nobody is aware of why the interview was deleted, the gist of the interview was Martin Plaut to affirm, President Isaias Afewerki is manipulating PM Abiy to destroy the Ethiopian within the Tigray area.
However Daniel Woldu is best often called a Treasurer of Tigray Competition in North America in keeping with his personal Jan 20, 2013 video look. The Denver, Colorado residence’s LinkedIn profile additionally speaks quantity about his background and training.
What drive two dysfunctional elites (a white European within the diaspora from apartheid South Africa in London and an African diaspora from apartheid Ethiopia in US who reside in democratic nations to behave like males of the stone age within the 21st century can solely be described by the Egyptian born Poet Nema Al Araby assertion, “the opportunity of fact has turn out to be a dilution to those that made their very own disguise of the reality“.
OMNA TIGRAY established with a handful diaspora dilutional TPLF operatives to protect no matter profit TPLF Mafia afforded them looting the individuals of Ethiopia would possibly as nicely declare Omna Tigray is the brand new model of Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray (MLLT) to reinvent ethnic apartheid undertaking in Ethiopia once more within the identify “advocating for the human rights and financial growth of Tigrayans and different oppressed teams”.
The 18th century English classical scholar A.E. Houseman put it rightly — “the Home of delusions is affordable to construct however draffy to dwell in”. Nobody is aware of why they’re afraid of the reality about TPLF’s atrocities and corruption on the identical individuals they declare to be their very own is puzzling. However because the renown conservative African American economist and public mental Thomas Sowell mentioned “if you wish to assist individuals, you inform them the reality. If you wish to assist your self, you inform them what they wish to hear” sums up up to date dysfunctional TPLF operatives.
However once more, pointing finger at TPLF’s operatives and their sponsors taking part in hide-and-seek of projection doesn’t imply everyone else is clear and accountable. In any case, ‘two wrongs don’t make proper however make an excellent excuse.’
Choose any public or non-public political, social, or financial establishments established within the identify of the individuals of Ethiopia randomly and see who’s behind it and observe the absurdity of hide-and-seek sport they play from not disclosing their id, background and whereabout to their authorized standing.
The human nature greed for cash and energy made politics the artwork of the impossibility to divide and concur individuals. The rule of legislation and transparency made politics the artwork of the probabilities to unite and empower individuals. Subsequently, till full transparency and accountability of all concerned in political, social, and financial affairs of the individuals of Ethiopia, particularly these perpetuating firehoses of falsehoods masquerading as journalists on behalf of their sponsors to divide the individuals, democracy to get foothold in Ethiopia is unthinkable.
Within the phrases of the famend British avenue artist, political activist and movie director know by the identify Banksy, “we have been all people till race disconnected us, faith separated us, politics divided us, and wealth categorised us.”
The rule of the jungle of TPLF ethnic apartheid Vs. the rule of legislation of Prosperity Celebration
It isn’t clear what the worldwide group anticipated from a two-years-old Prosperity Celebration led by PM Abiy Ahmed that formally declared to implement the rule of legislation in opposition to 27-year-old TPLF led rule of the jungle of the ethnic apartheid regime thought of as “democratically elected authorities of Ethiopia” by the worldwide group.
Within the phrases of PM Abiy Feb 6, 2021 message titled In the direction of a Peaceable Order within the Horn of Africa printed on Challenge Syndicate Journal,
“Frequent sense tells us {that a} regime primarily based on ethnic division can’t final; however, because the saying goes, frequent sense will not be all the time frequent. Luckily, human societies can tolerate racial, ethnic, and non secular violence for less than so lengthy.”
Subsequently, the noise coming from all path significantly, as PM Abiy Ahmed put it from “the worldwide group that understood what the TPLF was. Many had condemned its ethnic-based violence. Sadly, some have been prepared to show a blind eye to TPLF torture, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings” sums up what Ethiopians are up in opposition to.
Diplomacy communicate apart, may it’s, it doesn’t matter what occur to the individuals in ‘Shit-Gap international locations’ so long as …?
Regardless of the cause could also be, all of it boils all the way down to the conduct of dysfunctional and functionally illiterate indigenous elites, particularly within the diaspora that made TPLF led ethnic apartheid regime related within the eyes of the world.
The absurdity of up to date dysfunctional and purposeful illiterate elites’ cut-and-paste empty slogan normally can solely be handled if you put the sunshine on and watch them sprint-and-hide like roaches that got here within the kitchen uninvited.
“All of the absurdity of conduct arises from imitation of those that we can’t resemble” wrote the 18th century English poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, and literary critic Samuel Johnson.
Questing the reform transparency to get it proper is official and the responsibility of one-and-all entities offering they observe what they preach. However equating TPLF belligerent warlords to the individuals they held hostage or questing the reform effort from being accountable for his or her “torture, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings” to not point out corruption to save lots of them is the very which means of crime in opposition to humanity by itself.
Climate PM Abiy’s reform effort or varied initiative from all types of political, social, and financial teams forwarded to get the reform proper, nothing goes ahead till everybody concerned within the public affairs is made clear and accountable by the rule of legislation with extreme penalties for not complying.
Isn’t that the place the basis reason behind the issue dealing with the individuals of Ethiopia started as historical past of democratic governance to get it proper teaches us?
What ever slogan, PR stunt or scare ways one makes use of to keep away from the common basis of democratic governance “Imaginative and prescient Ethiopia” is, have to be and will all the time be about transparency and particular person accountability below the rule of legislation.
Sadly, essentially the most educated and privileged dysfunctional elites within the diaspora that dwell in democratic nations violate the muse of democratic governance reform essentially the most seen for necked eye.
“If you wish to invoke your educational pedigree or job title for individuals to consider what you say, then you definitely want a greater argument” Neil deGrasse Tyson
