The truth is the best propaganda: Ethiopian Embassy and Mouthpiece Teshaye Debalkew’s Photoshop Fails November 2

3, 2013

by Kassahubn Addis

The regime in Addis Ababa and its diplomatic missions around the globe spend more time bedeviling members of the Diaspora opposed to the lack of democracy in Ethiopia. While they should be working to promote the interest and safety of citizens abroad, they spend resources spying on individuals, dividing communities and fundraising. This is on top of unofficial import export business most embassy officials are engaged in.

This short piece is to put further light on how low these embassies go to achieve their goals.   A picture caption of a story published on Tigraionline.com by the Public Relation head, Tsehaye Debalkew, of the  Ethiopian Embassy ask “What evidence do you want more than a picture?” (See http://tigraionline.com/articles/extimist-diaspora-in-dc.html )

Here is a snapshot of the story as it appears on the website:

It actually doesn’t take a computer savvy genius to tell what has been done to the original pictures

Ato Tsehaye Debalkew accuses what he calls the “few Diaspora” of “character assassination.” The irony is that he, and the office he represents, manipulated a picture, or used manipulated picture, to assassinate the characters of the “few Diaspora” Then to add insult to our intelligence, he captioned it “What evidence do you want more than a picture?”

I wouldn’t have been surprised if sharing of this fake picture was only circulated in social media. Apparently there were already 50+ shares of this picture. Well, that is unregulated sphere and anyone can do anything. But coming from an official, spokesperson, of the embassy and carried by tigraionline, a semi official website, I felt obliged to put this together.