Former Ethiopian diplomat
I am obliged to write this short note after I heard the new Ethiopian UN Ambassador Tekeda Alemu’s, my former big
boss, interview on the EPRDF pal-talk gezategaru a week earlier. The
points he forwarded in the interview are provocative and therefore
demand a reply and correction. He cannot escape using the usual EPRDF
deceiving tactic of making up a story to disguise itself as being
somebody that it really is not. From my personal knowledge of the person
The ambassador mentioned that the reason he returned in 1974 to
Ethiopia after he completed school in the USA was because he believed
the Derg was progressive at the time and Ethiopia was at war with
Somalia.
Well, I do not contest his initial argument. However, that does not
explain why he remained cozy with the Derg people for the next 17 years
with out any opposition or resistance to their untold human rights
violations and horrific killings of innocent Ethiopians. While
Ethiopians were slaughtered on the streets and its smartest and
brightest were imprisoned and tortured, the so-called Dr. was serving
the Derg regime full-heartedly and defending its bad deeds in the
diplomatic sphere. On the interview he gave, he also mentioned that he
was in the OAU meeting in West Africa when Woyane took power, and he
said he came and joined them after Addis fall in their hands. Therefore,
as he did during the oppressive Derg period he started serving the
ethnic-psycho TPLF hegemonic rule in Ethiopia since the very day they
came to power. Until the day he was sent to New York as Ambassador he
has firmly stood in the side of those rulers who blocked the door that
takes Ethiopia from autocracy to democracy and from poverty to
development.
While we were at the ministry the Dr. was willing and happy to
execute and endorse the decisions and actions of his TPLF bosses. When
many intellectuals opposed the system at different times and resigned
from the ministry the so-called Dr is still the proud son of TPLF. The
Dr. has never said a word nor has he expressed any resentment at any
point. As he shuts his mouse under the Derg oppressive system for years
he has exhibited the same opportunist character under the current
administration that is balkanizing the Ethiopian polity. This will
definitely begs for the obvious question, how is the Dr.’s moral compass
set and what is the meaning of his knowledge? Unless used to serve
fight deceit and defend justice knowledge is the same as ignorance!
The other point the Ambassador raised in the interview was that
he is not a member of EPRDF. He said that neither he nor the government
had asked the question and so he is not a member.
To begin with, nobody cares whether Tekeda is a member or not. After
all everybody knows that Tekeda is equally responsible for all the
blunders and persecutions committed against Ethiopians and Ethiopia as
Meles Zenawi is. The question is what have you done to hurt the cause of
democracy, development and justice in Ethiopia, not whether you have
received a membership paper to be EPRDF. Today Ethiopians at colleges
and universities, civil services, businesses and farmers are being
coerced to be a member of EPRDF. Failure to do so results in
discrimination in employment, getting government services, fertilizers
and others. The rhetoric that the Doctor is not a member is a cheap
political game that will never save him when the popular peoples’
movement washes away the illegitimate Woyane junta from its place.
He used to insist diplomats at the ministry join EPRDF, at different
times treated them as enemy, and has collaborated in firing many
diplomats by accusing them as accomplice of CUD and other opposition
parties. In his diplomatic status, he has sold Ethiopian interests in
collaboration with the TPLF juntas. When the Ethio-Eritrea boundary
commission awards Eritrea the Badme region the Doctor has collaborated
in deceiving Ethiopians by telling us that it was decided in our favor.
As a State minister for Foreign Affairs he should have debated and
promoted Ethiopian cause. However, the sorry thing is that the Doctor is
working to please his TPLF bosses, nothing more. The same holds true
with respect Ethiopia’s right to get access to the sea and the issue of
Western Gondar land given away to the Sudan. In all these cases the
Doctor has done nothing except running and barking after the ball his
TPLF lords thrown before him.
I could have said a lot about the weaknesses the Doctor exhibits and
opportunism that seriously co-opted his character to the core. Due to
lack of time I cannot say any more. I will add a follow up as soon as I
got time.
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