Thursday, July 4, 2019

ICJ Arrest Abey Ahmed! Ethiopian Semay


ICJ Arrest Abey Ahmed!
On this commentary- I will raise two issues. Abey and the so called “የኢትዮጵያ አሜሪካውያን የዜጎች ምክር ቤት “Ethiopian American Civic Council” headed by the name Amsalu Tsegaye shown his picture below pose with Berhanu Negga as a member of the E-Zema group (hard core supporter of Abey Ahmed).
I ask Ethiopian educated sectors and lawyers who differ from Abey’s “cadre group” to write a petition to the International Court of Justice to file a charge against “Abey Ahmed” who is the founder of the notorious INSA (Ethiopian security and spy net work Agency) currently the nation’s Prime Minister for intentionally and knowingly let to happen the deportation of millions and tones of mass murder incidents carried by members of his criminal party and by some of his government agencies and other armed groups against vulnerable citizens.

It is clearly obvious that our country is set on a trajectory of self-cannibalism. No wonder why Jawar Mohammed told the media that Ethiopia is ruled by two governments “by Qero government and by Abey Ahmed government”. No wonder Jawar and the OLF guns boasted of how easy it is to "create insecurity anywhere in Ethiopia!" No wonder too why, from the get go of the aggression and the internal unrest against our country, Abey Ahmed insisted on meeting all terror groups and secessionists (all Ethiopians-supposedly) face to face? Well, they met face to face and one-to-one and insecure our country has become. And at the heart of it, all is this no longer "suspect" but convicted (in the court of the Ethiopian public opinion) criminal, Abey Ahmed!

Until one year ago, our country was a nation of terror. And after continuous mass demonstrations all over our country against the terrorist TPLF (EPRDF), came the earth quake; Abey Ahmed and Lema Megerssa (both member of the terror group “OPDO” set their foot into the ‘Menlik Palace’ via an orchestrated ‘smart’ coup d’état against their comrades in terror. And ever since Abey Ahmed came to be the leader of the new terror group (EPRDF), our country has not seen a day of peace! This connive leader, in the absentness of law and order proven incapable of governing our country! Insecurity reigns everywhere in our country!

At this very junction, our country is a nation without the rule of law. Abey Ahmed (OPD-Oromo Democratic Party) and his puppet Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) have trampled Human Rights laws openly without fear for future prosecution. Citizens of Addis lead by journalist Eskender Negga (Bale Adera ‘a civic group’) voiced for their rights have been harassed, threaten, beaten and arrested. Well known public figures are being gunned down or said made committed suicide without the public knowing the details. Massive deportation, mass murder, Churches burned, banks and homes vandalized, recently again aggressive mass arrest conducted all over the country, academicians and "Human Rights", advocates and reporters are being thrown into prisons, and now angry people are going after the highest officials of the land

"You cannot scare a man about to die," says the good old Existentialist view. Our people have reached a point where they no longer see hope for their country and for their lives. How could they? The dignity of mothers and elders, the flag of the land, and sovereignty of the land is being trashed daily. A rubberstamp Parliament is agreeing to every whim of Abey Ahmed. Corrupt heads of our religious institutions are prostituting the return of Shaibia (they even wave the Shabia flag) and surprisingly, cursed and satanic criminal politicians are crowned inside our churches. And our country's national interests are being auction to foreign bidders!

 That is not all. Abey Cadres (many of the educated sectors, artists and some journalists) have, just as is the case with their "Palace Group" masters, lost their mind. In an incredible turn of events, these pathetic “cadres” have abandoned the core values of the Ethiopiawinet and opted for the royal family of the Abey-Lema duet working very hard to consolidate the Oromo rule! And no wonder the gun has begun to go off at high places, and our people no longer afraid to die! (when anarchy rules the country, results like what occurred in Bahir Dar).

We cannot and must not allow cannibalism to devour us all. We must foil the threat from within and set our country on a path to the rule of law, peace and prosperity. And there is only one way to bring about that needed change to our country and guarantee our nation's sovereignty. We must alert our people, we must demand to bring those who put our country in the trajectory of the current quagmire to justice for the last 28 years lead by Meles and now by Abey Ahmed.

 The criminals are obvious; “Abey” and his "Group" and those who are collaborators are the cause of the havoc. In this light, we ask the Ethiopian Defense Forces (if it is really “Ethiopian Defense Force/ EDF/ as its mouth says so), to open up its eyes and heed the people's call. They must arrest Abey and company and place them at the mercy of neutral courts!
At the end of my note-
The Ethiopian Diaspora need to keep an eye of the so called “የኢትዮጵያ አሜሪካውያን የዜጎች ምክር ቤት “Ethiopian American Civic Council” who is vowing to deport Ethiopians to their country who foams hate speeches from America to Ethiopia. As good as it sounds, the question we ask is; ‘how independent is this organization’? We all know that the organization’s spokes person by the name Amsalu Tsegaye and his organization (Ethiopian American Civic Council) endorses Abey Ahmed and is a hard core supporter of the apartheid Abey and Berhanu Negga of E-Zema. Knowing this scenario, how effective and neutral this organization and its lawyers headed by this individual remain to be seen.

Such move is not new to the Diaspora politics. The tactic is to silence oppositions. and was practiced in many countries, even including during the era of Apartheid South Africa and recently in our time during TPLF rule. So, the intention is worth nothing, but to try to silence the opposing comp by releasing fear into their psych. The said Ethiopian Lawyers (exclude the American paid lobbyists who might rehired and get paid by these groups to make them connect with Congress on their behalf) who surprisingly woke up from their sleep after 28 years of nap who chose to be silent when the mass deportation and Amhara onslaught going openly, knowing TPLF/OLF/OPDO… criminals were freely touring and living in the US and all over the world freely is of course surprising. Abey is lucky and happy that he got volunteer puppets all over who can go extra mile to intimidate the opposition while they intentionally sleeping 28 years without saying an iota of sentence about hate speech before during TPLF rule.

But, regardless the intention of this guy and his followers what they are trying to accomplish- what we know so far in America, hate speech is what Justice Samuel Alito wrote:

   “ Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express "the thought that we hate". United States v. Schwimmer, 279 U. S. 644, 655 (1929) (Holmes, J., dissenting).[11]

Surely, many of us have doubts that those individuals who become hard core supporters of Abey Ahmed and Berhanu Negga as you saw this man on the above photo (Amsalu Tsegaye in the middle of the crowd wearing Berhanu Negga’s E-Zema’s T-Shirt will serve the purpose without targeting/harassing/ those who opposed Abey and Berhanu Negga. It is really a shame to again see this time that political group members are now using community organizations to advance political interest to harass who opposed Abey and Berhanu Negga. Stay Tune for upcoming detail on this be posted in Amharic for Amharic readers.
Thanks. Getachew Reda (Editor Ethio Semay)