Ben D May 26, 2010
On Tuesday, the Ethiopian people came out in masses
around the country angered, irritated by foreign interest groups and their
mercenaries such as HRW. So many of the western correspondents who were in
Ethiopia exited ready to cover havoc and
a rock throwing sports were disappointed because the rocks and the fire bombs
were directed to their respective governments and the global bandit hiding in
America. They were in no mood to cover this display of unity by Ethiopians, but
were at the Hilton waiting for their man with his Symphony orchestra to spit
poison on the election process.
The good thing, Ethiopians have been watching and
learning the violence orchestrated by western governments and their proxy
global NGO bandits all over the world, from Kenya to Georgia, and in almost all
African elections. They have rejected election meddling by western powers under
the guise of human rights. With life-sized placards, Ethiopians have said, “we know
who we voted for,
Stupid.”
While I am elated and happy by the peaceful conclusion of the election, I
am bothered by the similarity of HRW statements and the EU-EOM preliminary
statements. For example, the jamming of the Interahamw radio station a.k.a. Voice of
America was
declared as test for Ethiopian election fairness. The EU mission said, since
Ethiopians were not able to listen the perspectives of VOA Ethiopians were
denied to receive information from America. We all know that we are not voting
for the American presidency but Ethiopian parliamentary election, so what kind
of election information or instructions were we expected to receive from
America. The other funny statement by the EU Orchestra in regards to the media
was “The filming of opposition rallies by film crews from Ethiopian TV was
directly observed by the EU EOM observers and is considered and is considered
tantamount to intimidation in local context.” says the statement. This is
laughable, the EU-EOM appears to come with expert anthropologist too, but the
anthropologist failed to ask if VOA’s coverage from Washington is offensive and
blasphemous for Ethiopians.
Another old beat up tired issue that has appeared in statement by Human
rights watch, the state department was repeated by the EU Symphony orchestra
was the Ethiopian NGO law that restricted mercenary NGOs such as the Human
Rights Watch from meddling in our election. God forbid what will happen if these
guys were in town for our election. In its statement, EU-EOM said the law has
limited what NGO’s could have played in the electoral process. He declared the
40,000 strong Ethiopian CSO observers did not have the capacity to observe the
election. When asked by reporters why EU- report differs so much from Ethiopian
CSO observers and AU, The little Dutch man said we happen to be professionals
and 170 of us. How arrogant and patronizing can you get! I wanted to say you are not in Rhodesia or
the old South Africa, but Ethiopia. What we later learned from a local radio
interview with the President of Ethiopia CSO’s who fielded 40,000 observers
were amusing. In his interview, the President told the local radio how offended
he was by the condescending statement and further said that his group has also
rejected an offer of large sum of money from EU-EOM and said the Ethiopian
observers were out there observing with a clear conscious to ensure the rights
of the electorate is respected, and that the offer made by the EU mission was
illegal and against the law of our country. He said this is our election and
our country and that we are so proud with what we were able to do. I personally
think and view the New NGO law to be my own personal anti -terrorist law.
Other foolish, silly statements made by the EU Symphony, in line with HRW
statements were:
That the political space has narrowed because of the departure of
important opposition figures after the 2005 election. Without exaggeration, we
can count these important people and they have stopped to be a legal opposition
and have declared war on Ethiopia from Asmara, Europe, and America. For us they
are as bad as Osama Binlanden is a bad guy for Americans and Europeans who are
still chasing him. We are waiting for them from the north of our border.
After applauding the Election Code of Conduct for Political
Parties a few month ago seating next to all opposition parties and taking
pictures of themselves. The EU mission now says in its statement that the enactment of the Code
as law makes it compulsory even for parties who did not signed it. The
statement appears to inadvertently spilled the failed
strategy by the color revolutionaries and their TLELAKI party Medrek. Since
Medrek is the only party that did not signed the Code of Conduct with a
possible advice of western Embassies in Addis, the color revolutionaries
effectively lost their hoodlums, and were forced to be peaceful or join Ginbot
7 and Nega in Asmara. However, I do not understand why the Symphony orchestra
considered this peaceful mechanism as bad or undesirable. In line with this,
there was a news report in Addis where their masters at the Netherland Embassy
summoned Medrek and some other groups were told not to sing on the final
Election results. I wonder why the government keeps quite about this cheese-heads.
On a final note, the Ethiopian people have voted and said We Know who we
voted for. On Meskel Square on Tuesday, They have said the Election is for
Ethiopians not HRW! Our Sovereignty is never negotiable for Donations! Stop
meddling in our affairs! We will not let
you repeats the shameful 2005 incident! For most of this was this was a
non-violent war on our country by a smiling straight-faced lying and deceitful
white man.