DO NOT LET THE D(ER)G OUT.

Tariku Muche

December 23, 2010

I am disgusted off my mind to say the least. This is a mockery of justice and double the crime these ruthless have committed to millions of Ethiopian people. I am not sure how I am going to cope with knowing for a matter of fact that Legesse and Melaku will be walking free.

I think it’s an open file to everyone as to what these gangsters did to the country and to the people, so I am not even going to go there.

Remorse?

It’s a mockery to anyone’s intelligence to try to suggest that these outlaw suddenly feel remorse to what they did. It’s one thing if they didn’t defend themselves in a court of law and admitted they are guilty as charged and ask the Ethiopian people forgiveness. But these idiots, “fitachewn bechew atbew”, defended themselves as not criminals. They tried every means to topple the government thru CUD, OLF, Shabia, etc… thru their buddies abroad, so they can be freed. They told us they did nothing wrong. And now, when all fell apart, they are now all of the sudden feeling remorse? Unreal!!!

Spiritual fathers?

It’s an open secret that these people (whether the people involved or the institutions as a whole) didn’t bother to lend their hand to those slaughtered in day light, tortured in dark rooms, rotten in a jail cell and mothers who cried blood in those dark days of our history but now all of the sudden they are at Kality door to lend their hand to these butchers. Unreal!!!

Constitution?

Aside from common sense, is all the rhetoric about the “defending the constitution” is just a lip service or is the government really serious? How is one who clearly beyond reasonable doubt (public, international and most importantly court of law) convicted in genocide be allowed to walk free? as the constitution says otherwise. Is the government using “constitution” “law of the land” “ legal” as it see it fit its own agenda, whatever it may be ? it sounds and looks that way, anyway.

What is the point?

Yes, reconciliation becomes a must sometimes. The South Africans did it because that is the only way forward and those who were done wrong benefited a way more that one can think of forgiving the apartheid era monsters and moving on. But what good is to the country and to the people? There is nothing good that can come out of this. Absolutely, nothing good. If anything it will be these mad dogs will somehow try to find ways to crawl back to their old ways. We already have enough of the Derg ruminants’ sprinkled at home and abroad in the name of opposition who are working day and night for the worst of this poor country. The issue of the Derg is not a problem of this country and there is no need for national reconciliation as far as this issue. No one, even though remnants who fled will argue those who didn’t escape deserves to be out. So, what is the point?

I will say one thing however; these fools need to stay in jail for the rest of their life while they witness the country and its people blossom. For that, I say down grade the death penalty to life in prison.

The government has a responsibility to keep these people serve their sentence and not add injury to the wound by releasing them. It would be a colossal mistake. We haven’t healed yet and if anything else not now. We shall never forget and we shall never forgive the Derg !!!