It was clearly noted that EPRDF is the engineer of the national transformation which was taking place at a breakneck pace. Thus, by the time the election campaign began, few other than the opposition parties doubted that the initiator of this development marathon would come as a winner.
Indeed, the 7-years old Ethiopian renaissance had already been shortening the Winter of despair and lengthening to Spring of hope. The opposition coalition, Mederek, which consists UEDF and hardliners from the coalition CUD , stands out in its attempt to recycle the failed strategies of In this regard, an election campaign rally Medrek held in Gondar city shortly before the election polling day would be demonstrative.
Bereket Simon, who was in the city for the inauguration of development projects observed:. While traveling from the inauguration of one project to the next, we came across a Medrek party rally led ledby Andualem arage and Dr. Hailu Araya…….. He was said to leave behind his blanket upon release from prison, anticipating his eventual return.
If Medrek leaders intentionally picked this slogan , it tell us a lot about the opposition and their leaders mindset. Since prison is not a place for law-abiding citizen, the slogan shows the opposition is not interested in respecting the law. Bereket also described at length how EPRDF tried to engage Medrek in the inter-party negotiation, preceding election ,on electoral code of conduct. Beyen Petros to comment, during a telephone conversation with Hailemariam Desalegn now Dep.
Prime Minister , that:. Berhanu Nega made comparable remarks to Bereket Simon in , as the book reveals. Seye Abraha, who left the ruling party during the intra-party dispute, is another Mederek leader whose self-aggrandizement dismayed Bereket Simon.
Seye Abraha attempted to portray Meles Zenawi et al as sympathizers of the Eritrean ruling party claiming that the they thwarted his initiative to prepare for and the Eritrean aggression that took place in Bereket recalls:. Since , Seye made several trips to Asmara to lobby [president] Isaias to invest in Ethiopia. Though, he failed to convince us. Seye Abraha was advancing this kind of proposal while Eritrea was preparing for a war…….
Speaking of self-aggrandizement, Berhanu Nega , now leader of the terrorist group Ginbot 7, comes to mind. Bereket reveals what Berhanu Nega used to say to him when they privately meet in the run up to election Berket wrote in his book:. Kinfe is no longer around, it is only you that I have left. Berhanu, who deems himself clever than others, was hoping to trick me into helping him evade legal accountability by the mention of a martyr [Kinfe].
It was in a dinner program, following an inter-party negotiation for the election, that:. Bereket Simon speculates that Berhanu Nega chose to watch from distance. I shall note that this is not all the book got to say about the topics and political actors mentioned above. A major flaw of the book, in my opinion, is that it presumes a background knowledge on the part of the reader. Footnotes describing abbreviations, names and some events would have helped a reader 10 years from now.
Ethiopia shall prevail!! The title should be disqualify instead of demolish? Demolish is for something physical structure. You do not demolish a book? A book is not a house or bridge or any other construction. Tesfaye Gebreab disqualified the book or called it as a heap of chaffs or straw or called it something worthless or called it debook instead of book?
In my opinion Elias gave the article a very descriptive topic, which in figures of speech is simile. Minew kaltefa title yen meretu!? Addisabeban yanqeteqete…yemircha ersha, yemircha bona sabotage,Akel mircha,transformational wushet …. Mekonnen replies: January 1st, at AM. Tesfaye is right about his name.
I am from Gonder and new the guy and his father. It should be known and be abundantly clear that the people of Gonder do not consider the people on this side of Mereb or the other side of Mereb different. THe looters must to go!!! Ejetaw, you are trying to split hair in this. Elias can employee the term demolish.
Which is the same thing as saying the reviewer refuted the pile of lies presented in the book. He was known then as Amberber. During those days he fluently spoke Amharic as well as Tigrigna. Of all his outregious acts,What amazes me the most is this-his unwillingness to speak Amhaic since he arrived Addis. Has he not claimed to be an Amhara ,then how does he finds it hard to speak it.
Ofcourse we are not expected to raise these questions;simply said he is a fraud. Despite his struggle with his health and worst prison conditions, to write a philosophical and political book on Democracy in Ethiopia shows the strength of his spirit and his persistence against the odds. Advertise on this site. He was the mayor elect of Addis AbabaEthiopia in the Ethiopian general elections, Birhanu Nega is such a brilliant, talented and gallant fighter for the cause of Kinijit why Kinijit stripped him from the leadership post?
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