| The West was not going to subsidize
the useless slaughtering of tens of thousands of young men. It
was their opinion that the conflict should be solved at a
conference table. As they did before and would do in the future,
they misjudged the key players. Up until today after over 70.000
victims on the Ethiopian side, the conflict is still unsolved.
The correct number and from which regions the youngsters came
and were sacrificed “nobody” knows.
It seems that with the new war against the Islamic Courts
Militia, the protests are less noisy and frequent. Arguments
that were valid in 1998 remain in the closet. Ethiopia is still
one of the poorest countries in Africa and the world. Not one
militia member of the Islamic Courts has thrown even a stone
over the Ethiopian border. Just a few mad mullahs are speaking
about a greater Somalia, but that’s nothing new. Neither Kenya
nor Djibouti are reacting on this mad language. Although
Ethiopian television is trying to make us believe that the
sovereignty of Ethiopia is in danger, the population, by now,
knows that this is just another dirty trick of the TPLF/EPRDF
mafia tyrants.
Ethiopia is spending 10 times as much on its army than on
sanitation. Children die because they have no access to clean
water. The government of the United States is stirring up this
conflict. Their evidence of terrorists involvement in Somalia is
as thin as were the so called evidence on weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq. There is a lot to say about Sharia law,
democracy and freedom. But just as much can be said about the
warlords that ruined Somalia for 15 years, often backed up by
the soldiers of the Ethiopian tyrants.
As always Legesse ‘the name thief ’ Zenawi, crime minister, has
a good nose for what is expected of him. The silence of the
donor community is exemplary . Democracy and freedom has to wait
because the agenda is the war against terrorism. In Ethiopia
terrorists are ruling the country. |
11:00 GMT
