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Fekade Shewakena

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I am a little astonished by the recent uproar among many Ethiopians regarding Meles Zenawi’s recent declaration to accept the decision of the Boundary Commission that ruled in favor of Eritrea.

First of all, the time for an uproar to bring anything to bear in influencing the court’s decision has long gone.
It is like being told of the death of a loved one that has already been diagnosed with a killer disease. The day for the mother of all uproars should have been the day Meles’s government made the decision to enter into a binding ruling after admitting defunct treaties and presenting incompetent arguments in the case.

I cannot imagine that so many people believed that Meles really meant it when he said he refused to accept the decision given by the Commission. It is not hard to see that that was simply a ploy to appease us, the people of Ethiopia, who paid a huge price in that ugly war, and perhaps the army that witnessed the death of tens of thousands of their compatriots fighting to secure the very areas we are now made to cede (..)

Pray that God help us to be able to explain this sad story to our grand-children. Many of us will not live long to face the tough questions from the generations to come. I sometimes wonder what we will tell them when they ask us why so many people died defending Ethiopia from a small nation 15 times less than our size, won the war shedding a river of blood, and then lost everything. You may want to answer it by blaming Meles and his group. But if you are asked a follow-up question as to what we did do to stop Meles and his group from doing that, I don’t know what your answer would be. I have enough problems answering some questions right now already. My daughter has already begun bothering me by asking why we have become a nation of famine and why Ethiopia’s name is used in the dictionary to define famine. She has cornered me one day with a barrage of questions that I almost felt like screaming at her. It is very hard to handle questions like these if we sit on our hands and do only the talking. The less talking and the more practical things we do now, the more things we may have to proudly talk about later. This is not even a choice for a self-respecting people.

Frankly, I am not now bothered about living without Badme or any village somewhere there. Perhaps someday, if both Ethiopia and Eritrea become lucky to become democracies no one will stop us from coming together as one nation again. Free people would choose unity because it benefits them both. A united Ethiopia-Eritrea may not even be that far down in the future. For now, I think we can all live with the price paid, however painful that may be.



The toughest thing to live with, I think, is to continue to be ruled by these pitiful rulers of our country that drove thousands of our fellow citizens to fight and die in vain.

Read me in full at Addis Tribune

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Habromai Gila-Michael

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      I am proud and realy happy to see that Ethiopia,our beloved nation,has intelligent people like you,Feccade,who can tell us ,at least retospectively,the gigantic mistakes the Meles group is making. Now that we know ,we should keep telling them to fix most if not all the egregious mistakes they have been making in the last 14yrs.If they listen to us  they will earn our unlimited brotherly support,if they don`t,to our dismay ,we will  be forced to view this people as Ethiopia`s arch enemies. The most recent move the  PMMZ-group made is one of the most grotesque ones.It might even be one of the most serious blows  to Ethiopias Sovereignity and all our country was about.They have to recant this  so called 5ppp.Our hope on the PMZ goup has so thinned that, we are left with praying for Essayas to keep saying no to Meles.


    Speaking of the Algier`s agreement,there was no Ethiopian on the face of the earth who was not shocked to see that, after destoying 1/2 of Shaebia army ,and limiting the remaining half to areas around Assab,Asmara,Keren and Akordat ;that, Ethiopia was going to nip in the bud , it`s own hard won and spectacular victory and give Shaebia(the ruthless enemy of Ethiopia and It`s people), a new lease of life.I still remember it vividly;it was one of the saddest days during the border war.However,like many fellow Ethiopians,I admit ,that no matter how many shocking mistakes the Meles regime have done,ultimatelly I forced my self to give it the benefit of doubt.For me,the reason could be , having been a TPLF supporter for the first 17 yrs of its history,I was some what biased......."TPLF at any cost kind of issue".


     I was always angry at what Menelik did to Ethiopia but I am much more Angrier now with Meles.Meles himself used to seath with anger  when ever he talked about why, contrary to Alula`s and Empress Tshaitu`s assertions, Menelik and Mengesha, decided to negotiate with Baratieri,thus undercutting the magnitude of the Adwa victory.


   The irony about the so called Italo-Ethiopian treaties is , being defunct as they are; if  however, the EEBC and the two govs. decided to resuscitate them, beyond any doubt they still would have hugely benefitted Ethiopia if the court was not corrupt or if we had lawyers standing on our side.Eritea is still sitting on huge Ethiopian territories on all fronts, but especially on the west. Bademe is atleast 120Kms to the  east of the treaty line -'the 1902 treaty'. The first and most complete treaty,i.e.,the 1900  one , leaves most what Meles calls Western Eritrea in Ethiopia.The 1902 agreement was only an annex to it  and was never delimited.Even if Ethiopia agrees to be bound by this annex we lose Tesseney but not Bademe. The 1908 ageement only deals with coastal(Afar) territories.Many historians have dubbed this and the 1902 agreements as the most vague agreements of that century.They are as open  for negotiation, be it now or after Meles.Nothing is permanent,but only truth.


   Yes, we should negotiate about exchanging Tesseney for Asseb.Negotiating for unity/confederation comes next and should be given enough time to evolve,up to 40yrs,so our wounds can heal ,to prepare to accept them again.


      God help Ethiopia prevail over all it`s enemies!!


 



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