by Msmaku Asrat
Can you hear me now? is a familiar question posed by a series of advertisements for Verizon wireless. I am using it here
Sebhat Negga
as
a metaphor for a series of lofty pronouncements made by Sebhat Negga –
the High Priest, the Gate keeper, the Philosophical Guru, the
Intellectual Fountain Head of TPLF and above all the mentor of the late
PM Melese Zenawi and the dedicated stooge of Isayas Afwerki of
Eritrea. He is the know it all who periodically makes definite and
unshakable pronouncements just like the Oracle of Delphi, the priestess
at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Her generic name was Pythia. She
was a deity of ancient Greece who, beginning 1600 B.C., was giving all
sorts of predictions until her demise with the rise of Christianity.
Recently
Sebhat, Pythia’s modern equivalent in Ethiopia, has asserted with
supreme arrogance that the TPLF has broken the backbone of the Amara and
Orthodox Christianity and predicted that they are finished. He made
this deliberately poisonous statement after the “election” of Haile
Mariam Desalegn as the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. Desalegn is neither
an Amara nor Orthodox Christian. We know that the ancient Oracle
disappeared with the rise of Christianity. Would Orthodox Christianity
in Ethiopia disappear the way the present Godless Oracle Sebhat Negga
predicted? and would the Amara wither away or disappear like a puff of
smoke as well? During the Second World War the defeated Field Marshall
Petain of France was overwhelmed by the might of Hitler and declared
that “in three weeks England would have her neck wrung like a chicken.”
In his speech in 1941 the defiant British PM, Winston Churchill,
recounted this episode and said “some chicken some neck” to his
delighted audience. Orthodox Christians and Amaras have you heard what
Sebhat said? How would you respond?
A year ago Sebhat Negga went to Adwa to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of his high school and he went there with his friend
Comrade Fisseha Desta, the former PM of the Derg. When asked why he
took such a notorious criminal with him Sebhat replied that Fisseha has
been his dear friend and classmate since childhood and his elder
brother was the Principal of the school. When the questioner persisted
“but you took him to an area where the Derg under Fisseha’s leadership
has committed horrendous crimes” Sebhat replied “Fisseha has served his
sentence” and with a slight chuckle Sebhat continued “moreover, Fisseha
was with me and who will ever dare to touch him.” For a straight shooter
like Sebhat this was a remarkably accurate description of him and his
TPLF. Comrade Fisseha is the right choice indeed. With whom could the
Woyane have closer affinity than the brutal Derg. They are of the same
ilk. In fact TPLF may still have to learn more about cruelty. After all
the Derg was the most brutal criminal enterprise that Ethiopians had
faced to date.
Let us take the case of Emperor Haile Selassie whom
Mengistu is suspected to have murdered with his bare hands by
personally pushing a pillow on his face until dead. Then he has the
corpse interned in his lavatory where in a macabre act of voodoo magic
he was depositing his excrement on the Emperor’s body. Though Mengistu
is Godless one need not believe in a God to go down to this level of
depravity and bestiality. The Emperor’s corpse was brought out, cleaned
and was given a proper burial in church as his Orthodox religion
requires. Whether one likes the Emperor or not this is a humane act
which the Derg has never been able to exhibit in its 17 years of
existence. Another example is the case of the former Patriarch Abune
Tewoflos. The Derg imprisoned him and then strangled him by a rope and
buried him in the prison compound. His corpse was dug out and was given
a Christian burial.
Now a lot has been said about the flight and exile of the 4th
Patriarch, Abune Merkorios especially recently. It has been said that
the former Woyane PM, Tamrat Layne, was responsible for driving Abune
Merkorios from his Synod and Patriarchate to make him an exile. Tamrat
Layne is a scoundrel and a thief who has served many years in the Woyane
prison. This sly fox is a wolf in a sheep’s clothing who has been
allowed by the Woyane to retain some of the loot for services rendered
and is now living in exile in the US. He has changed his tune and is now
saying that he has found God within the Pentecostal Church, and says
that he is regularly talking to God. Some of the gullible members of his
Church believe what he says and cry Amen. He also has to face real
justice just like Woyane and the Derg. The Derg is an all encroaching
killing machine devoid of any semblance of mercy or humanity. No amount
of browbeating or pontification on its behalf by its staunch supporters
and admirers could eclipse this brutal fact, now and forever!
Prof.
George Ayittey speaks about the over 200 African leaders which came to
the scene since 1960, the year of the mass independence of African
countries. Nearly all of them were corrupt and he calls them the Hippo Generation
whom he unforgettably characterizes as: – Swiss bank socialists;
military FuFu heads; crocodile liberators; vampire elites and quack
revolutionaries. He calls the countries they rule as vampire states.
The heads of states of these African countries are bandits and crooks
and are the richest persons in Africa. The Derg and the TPLF Woyane fit
perfectly this metaphor of the African wild life which Prof. Ayittey
applies to the human rulers of Africa. So we need not wonder that the
TPLF Hyppo is extending its hand to the Derg Hyppo. The sleeper cells
of the Derg both inside the country and in the Diaspora are beside
themselves with delight by boldly coming out of the woodworks and
spinning their false tales. After all their leader, Mengistu is
incapable of telling the truth and his avid worshippers are also the
same if not more so. These Derg criminals believe that the time has come
when they would accompany their leader Mengistu Hailemariam to return
to Ethiopia and share power with the Woyane. In the backward state in
which Ethiopia is languishing now, nothing is impossible. After all the
Derg was the most ignorant and the most primitive government Ethiopia
ever had and their Woyane admirers are not far behind. The only thing is
that the Derg excels is in absolute cruelty and is responsible for the
annihilation of any and all opposition.
Prof. Ayittey calls the young opponents of the Hippos the Cheetah Generation.
They are the fast moving enterprenual leaders and citizens who will
rebuild Africa. These are the young democrats who are trying to get rid
of the Hippos and bring rule of law and development. In Ethiopia, during
the brutal Derg era the “Cheetahs” paid enormous sacrifices during
their titanic struggle with the most murderous regime in the world at
the time. By a rough estimate a million of them perished until they were
finally subdued. There is a harrowing description of the inhuman
torture and ‘killing field’ of the Derg calmly described on ESAT TV
recently by a member of YaTewlid Nesibu Sebhat . It is a
must see video especially for the cheetah generation of today. He
describes the crimes of one Kefyalegn Alemu (aka. Habteab Merhe; Tufa)
who was found hiding in Denver, Colorado as a refugee from Eritrea. He
was member of red terror committee in Addis Abeba who has tortured him
and personally killed 200 youth. He mentions Basazinew Baysa (whom I
knew as an affable Dean of Students at the University College of Addis
Ababa); other murderers of the Derg were Girma Kebede;; Asaminew Abebe;
ZaAmanuel; Belay Samuel; Beketa Negasa Asefa Lema; Tensay; Ketema
Teshome. This is a description of one episode in one Kefitegna!
Imagine the magnitude when we multiply this with hundreds of similar
brutalities occurring ALLOVER THE COUNTRY during that time. On May Day
alone 2,000 students were killed in Addis Ababa.
A few years back
the young ladies Hirut and Ijigayehu were able to flush out Kelbesa
Negewo another murderer hiding in the US and he has been sent back to
Ethiopia. Presently almost all the mass murderers and criminals
including Derg members have been freed from Ethiopian prisons. The TPLF
has found out that it has more in common with them than with any other
political group. The Cheetah Generation of the Derg has been dissipated.
The Cheetah Generation of the Woyane has been cowed down so far.
However, the future of the country belongs to them and how well they
organize themselves and fight back the proverbial Janus-faced TPLF/DERG.
(I.e. Janus is a figure that whichever way you turn it, it looks the
same) The youth of the Derg who are middle aged now but they have a lot
to teach the youth of today. It is said plus ca change; plus la meme chose
(the more things change; the more they remain the same.) The Derg is an
equal opportunity killer. The TPLF would protect Tigreans by any means
necessary and its wrath is directed to other “ethnics” as they call
them. For them there are no Ethiopians but different tribes. The late PM
Meles Zenawi used to say ‘what is Aksum for the Oromo or Lalibela to
the Gurage’. The grand Pontificator-in-Chief of the Woyane, Sebhat
Negga does not even accept the Tigreans from Adigrat or Kilte Awlalo or
Raya and of course Tiltal as Tigreans, but only HIS Adwa, followed by
Aksum and Shire as the authentic Tigreans. How more primitive can one
become? If he has ears to hear he would have heard what other Tigreans
(equally vicious) say about Adwa. They say that the inhabitants of Adwa
are bastardized because during the battle of Adwa Menelik’s army slept
with Adwa women and hundreds of thousands of half-Adwa and
half-everything else (Amara, Oromo, Gurage, etc) were born. That is why,
they say, that the people of Adwa are so CRUEL and VICIOUS. There you
have it!
Now this vermin and alley rat, Mengistu, who bolted the
country through the back door with his amassed loot is planning to
return triumphantly. His followers in the Diaspora had braced themselves
up and bridled their horses. It is reported that Mengistu’s younger
brother, Tilahun, is in South Sudan working with the TPLF General and
former Chief of Staff Tsadkan GebreKidan and threatening Ethiopian
refugees to deport them to Ethiopia “if they do not accept our dictate”.
Nothing is impossible in Ethiopia of the present which has fallen to
the depth of the abyss. Those who can take us out of it are our
“Cheetahs” on the ground in Ethiopia. Those in the Diaspora should put
pressure on the US and other European countries not to support Ethiopian
Dictators. It is true that in the past the US has been a friend of
dictators. Apartheid of South Africa, Mobutu of Zaire (Congo) Pol Pot
of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge), Pinochet of Chile, and the colonial
adventures of France and Portugal. In the year when President Obama is
selected as Man of the Year by Time Magazine, in the year when the Mayan
Calendar of the End of Times is over and a new Time has begun, in this
coming new year of Christendom, we should implore the US to see the
suffering of our people and resist from propping up dictators and
charlatans who are robbing our people blind and driving them to an ever
escalation of poverty. A lot of African dictators had faced and are
facing charges at the International Court of Justice. Their crimes do
not amount to a fraction of Mengistu’s. We should implore the West to
help us to bring him to justice. Meanwhile we should maintain our
unconquerable spirit. And till the day of deliverance comes we
defiantly say:
A luta continua (the struggle continues)
Venceremos (we shall overcome)
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