It is abominable and
reckless for the BBC to report an absolute lie with out verification, it is not
the first time but this is one of the most egregious, crass and vile. For the BBC to accuse the TPLF whose fighters gave their life to
save the starving children, mothers, old women and men diverting money to buy arms is outrageous and
an insult to injury.
I am more than convinced
this shoddy report was compiled by the reporter with ulterior motive as it's
timing during the election
in Ethiopia and his so called sources the two most discredited ex- TPLF fighters, are well known
for their hyperbole and out right lie. Who can forget Gebremedhin's fairy tales after he defected to the
Derg. He has nauseatingly come with new stories when ever he thinks the story may give him leverage in
politics or buy him some bread. He is known for spinning long and
unimaginable stories if he
thinks it will buy him listening ears.
Could any one tell me why
it would take 25 years for this nit wit to come with this abhorrent and
unbelievable story, of the
TPLF diverting food aid in 1984, when actually he had left the TPLF and
joined the murderous regime
of Col. Mengistu Hailemariam for about that long duration of a time? For
certain not because the
TPLF had any control over him. After all did he not join the Derg and wage
war against the TPLF? Was
he not on the TV now and then creating stories for propaganda warfare
against the TPLF? Why then
this dirty new story? It could only have one motive and that is to spread
the lie through M. Plaut, a
man whose track record of reporting in the Horn of Africa has been biased
and distorted. If the
reporter was responsible enough as his profession would demand, he would have
tried to vet the story inside
and out side of Ethiopia by asking people who are still working with REST
whose indefatigable work
saved more lives than any one during the 1984 – 85 famine and still since
then.
The hundreds of NGO's
who worked in Tigray and the Sudan to save the hundreds of thousands
of people are also witness
to the miraculous work done by the TPLF and REST and they could have
been also a source of
information if he truly wanted to verify. But why would he do that, when he has
an ulterior motive to
discredit and defame? Could it be he has an axe to grid?
Oh Mr. Aregawi Berhe !! so
much could be said about him but this article would not be vast enough
and it would be a waste of
time because any one who would care to read this scribble, I am certain has
read at least one of Mr. A.
Berhe's writings and reached a conclusion. He has been creating stories all
along like his friend
Gebremedhin with out reason or rhyme as long as it can defame his arch rival
Mr.Melles and the TPLF. I am
sure if one asks him, if he had any role in the so called vile transaction he
will be the first one to
deny it as that would implicate him. Who can forget his explanation of the
wrong things he said were
done during his leadership of the TPLF? Funny as it may be it was not his
the leader's fault but
none other than Melles who was much junior than him and others in leadership.
But of course he the leader
was fooled by them, they pulled a rug over his face and he did not make any
mistakes. He could not even
understand the responsibility of a leader when he wrote such a silly
excuse. It is this and many
other kinds of distorted and schizophrenic explanation that disenfranchised
many of his admirers early
on after he left the TPLF including yours the author of this article. His
misadventures and foray in
the Ethiopian politic since he left the TPLF has been dismal and his
frustration is so great
that he would hold to any straw that can give him another seconds breath in his
DOA political life.
My indignation with the BBC
has grown day by day that I am not any more interested to read or watch
the BBC as it is being used
as bulls whip on Africa to demonize its people as poor, corrupt, disease
infected ...... and
propagators of every social and political ill in their continent and elsewhere.
It is easy
for any one to see the
BBC's news, blog, discussion point etc on Africa and compare it to any part of
the world and conclude that
the BBC seems out to destroy Africa, a task its founders many times failed.
It should be a duty for us
Africans to hold the BBC accountable to what they do to us and may be close
our doors to any one who
belongs to the BBC except may be the sensible once.