13 April 2013
(Ogadentoday Press)- Former ONLF officers have defected from Ethiopian troops in Ogaden region, a diplomatic source confirmed to Ogadentoday Press.
The officers were caught in fighting between ONLF and Ethiopian Troops in mid of 2011 after ONLF has crossed Somali borders to Ogaden.
The officers have been detained in Ogaden for a year and later were forced to be a part of Somali regional administrations Paramilitary militia known locally “ Liyu Police,” especially police “financed by the Ethiopian defense ministry.
They have been 36, 3 high profile former ONLF fighters, and 6 juniors from the Liyu Police, and the rest are Liyu Polices who were mistreated by their commanders after refusal of civilians killings in Ogaden, they arrived ONLF central military and rejoined their former brothers, said the report received by Ogadentoday Press.
Mahamed Qari, a senior leading figure of them, the report said.
ONLF is the most affective nationalist rebel group in Ethiopia and seeking the self-determination of Ogaden Region in eastern Ethiopia. They have waged a war against Ethiopian troops in Ogaden since 1994.
ONLF and Ethiopian Peace Talks Reach Deadlock in October last year in Kenya, a peace plan mediated by the Kenyan Government and International bodies, hope are still remains a live to restart peace plans.
The Ogaden region is believed to be rich in oil.
Right groups accuse Ethiopian government and local militia of Somali Regional state Liyu Police committing human right abuses but denies.
The Ogaden region is barred from the International media and aid organizations.
Somali Regional state (Ogaden Region) administration has set up first local FM Radio in Ogaden Region Qorahey Zone, Kebridahar on Thursday, a source confirmed to Ogadentoday Press.
The radio has aired last week local news, ranging from regional administration activates, health, education, sport and cultural songs.
Critics say that the Radio is to gear up propaganda against the ONLF a nationalist rebel group fighting for self determination of Ogaden Region in Ethiopia.
Ogadentoday Press
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Ethiopia: Where are Bekele Gerba and Olbana Lelisa?
The Horn Times News April 13, 2013
by Getahune Bekele, South Africa
by Getahune Bekele, South Africa
Ethiopia in distress as the TPLF junta begins sending key political prisoners to remote jails*where are Bekele Gerba and Albana Lelisa?Despite holding thousands political prisoners in dungeons of the reclusive iron curtain province of Tigre where the ruling Tigre People Liberation Front, TPLF reigns supreme, the minority junta is currently going ahead with its evil plan of dispatching key political prisoners to remote jails where torture and execution is prevalent.
Some well known Oromo and Amhara political prisoners accused of having links to Ginbot-7 and OLF have been violently taken from Klinto prison in Addis Ababa to malaria and bubonic plague infested seaside concentration camp of Zeway, near the rift valley in southern Ethiopia.
Regarding the reason for this disturbing move, the only thing clear is that at least overcrowding for common offenders, but for political prisoners, there was no prior pretext to justify their clandestine departure from Addis Ababa.
The forcible and secretive transfer, besides being a provocative action, is regarded as arbitrary and illegal, especially since it is against the very same constitution written by the same ruling Tigre junta.
Inveterate foes of Tigre tyranny in Ethiopia, the political prisoners who are serving disproportionately long prison terms inside jails that are transformed into fascist concentration camps over the course of 21 years are the most forgotten, the most abused and the most neglected souls on earth.
According to a damning report appeared on issue 71 April edition of the popular Finotenetsanet Amharic Newspaper, the two highly regarded political prisoners Bekele Gerba and Albana Lelisa are no longer serving their sentences at Kilinto’s zone-2 maximum security section. They are in Zeway prison hundreds of kilometers away from their wives and kids.
Furthermore, the following is the list of political prisoners forcibly removed from Klinto Prison and transferred to Zeway between the month of March and April, starting with a political prisoner whose whereabouts remains a mystery after suddenly removed from Zone-2 high security zone in early March…
1. Yared Sheferaw, still unaccounted for since March 2013
Transported to Zeway prison after being severely abused and kept in solitary confinement for several months…are
1. Simeneh Mitiku
2.Ambachew Zeryehun
3. Anteneh Ampolo
4. Saied Hussein
5. Nadew Firde
6. Kassahun Abdela
7. Yordanos Girma
8. Dejazmach Beyene
9. Aleneh Belata
10. Gebre Sisay
Arrested as suspected members of the main opposition party in exile, Ginbot-7, these two political prisoners were at Kilinto’s maximum security zone for more than 3 years and 8 months in handcuffs before taken to Zeway prison in April 2013…
World Bank to strengthen focus on land rights
WASHINGTON, Apr 8 2013 (IPS) - The World Bank will be placing stronger emphasis on issues of land tenure and socially and environmentally sustainable agricultural investing, it announced Monday.
The bank, one of the world’s largest development lenders, also formally reiterated its concern over the large-scale corporate “land grabbing” that has affected vast swathes of Africa in recent years.
“The World Bank Group shares these concerns about the risks associated with large-scale land acquisitions,” World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement from the bank’s Washington headquarters Monday.
“Securing access to land is critical for millions of poor people. Modern, efficient, and transparent policies on land rights are vital to reducing poverty and promoting growth, agriculture production, better nutrition and sustainable development.”
Following on decades in which agricultural sectors were almost completely bypassed by international investors – including bilateral donors and multilateral lenders such as the World Bank – recent years have seen a surge of interest across all types of investors and development institutions.
On Monday, Kim noted that the World Bank, too, had stepped up its agriculture-related investments, but warned that “additional efforts must be made to build capacity and safeguards related to land rights – and to empower civil society to hold governments accountable.”
Ahead of a four-day annual World Bank conference on land and poverty here this week, the institution stated that it expected the global population to grow by two billion by 2050, requiring an expansion of global agricultural production of 70 percent.
While the institution is reiterating longstanding calls for significant new public and private investment in both small-scale and large agricultural operations, it has warned that “investment alone will not be enough” to attain these levels.
Rather, citing spiking food and fuel prices coupled with the looming uncertainties of climate change, the bank is urging the adoption of stronger national and international standards on investments and land rights as a way of helping farmers across the globe raise yields.
“Usable land is in short supply, and there are too many instances of speculators and unscrupulous investors exploiting smallholder farmers, herders and others who lack the power to stand up for their rights,” the bank notes. “This is particularly true in countries with weak land governance systems.”
As such, the bank will now be strengthening efforts aimed at improving land governance, protecting the rights of landowners, and promoting policies “that recognise all forms of land tenure and help women achieve equal treatment in obtaining land rights”.
Growing global discussion
Particularly following the rise in both global food-price volatility and demand for biofuels over the past half-decade, agricultural land has become a lucrative commodity for international investors, who have focused particularly on Africa.
According to 2011 research by the bank, some 60 million hectares of land in developing countries were purchased or leased by private sector investors in 2009 alone, a process that has continued. In many cases, local civil society organisations have warned that these transactions are being carried out with government complicity and without following international standards on stakeholder inclusion.
“There’s been a tendency recently towards governments giving large plots of land to international investors for free or at concessional rates, thinking that doing so will fast-track development,” Nicholas Minot, a senior research fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute, a Washington-based think tank, told IPS recently.
“To some degree there’s logic to that, but there is a huge question as to whether that land was owned by the government or whether it was previously occupied by small-scale farmers without titles. Establishing secure land rights for people in rural areas is a massive but critical issue.”
Organisers say that this week’s World Bank conference on land and poverty – the 14th – is the largest they’ve ever put on, and includes participation by government officials from several countries. Bank officials also say that the conference’s focus, titled “Moving towards transparent land governance”, is indicative of a new global discussion on the issue.
“This year we have dozens of sessions on issues of land governance, transparency and implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines, which wouldn’t have been as prominent four years ago,” Jorge Munoz, a land tenure adviser for the World Bank, told IPS.
“This is not a new subject for the bank, but it has become much more prominent globally – though clearly some countries are much more interested in increasing transparency for improving land governance than others.”
As part of the bank’s scaling-up on the issue, Munoz points to the institution’s rollout of a new tool with which governments are able to get a snapshot analysis of their current land tenure and related laws. Called the Land Governance Assessment Framework, Munoz says 33 countries have now started to use it.
In addition, the bank is now assisting in implementing new international guidance, approved in May under the auspices of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), called the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security.
According to USAID, the Untied States’ central foreign assistance agency, at least 22 countries have now requested technical assistance on implementing the Voluntary Guidelines. Although the project is still in a pilot phase, a “zero draft” of the guidelines is to be released within the coming month.
“Voluntary regulations don’t always work, of course, but in this case these guidelines may be the only way to solve the problem of ensuring that small-scale farmers don’t get abused and are able to access lands they may have used for generations,” Danielle Nierenberg, co-founder of Food Tank, a Washington think tank, told IPS.
“Without these guidelines, we’d be left with anarchy. Still, governments and consumers now need to take the initiative to push corporations to take this seriously.”
The bank is also involved with another FAO process to develop an international set of Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment, aimed at offering global guidelines on socially and environmentally sustainable investments in agriculture.
In recent years, some civil society groups have questioned the bank’s own part in facilitating large-scale land acquisitions (including here and here), particularly that of its private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Yet Munoz says much of this criticism has overstated the institution’s role, which he suggests has focused less on financing than on offering technical assistance on reforms.
“There is a major global problem with land-grabbing,” says Munoz. “The bank’s role is, essentially, to be leaders in assisting countries in improving land governance and improving the behaviour of private investors.”
Source: IPS
A message to the “professional Journalist” turned into “a TPLF Camelion” otherwise known as Dawit Kebede
by Kirubeal Bekele
We are going through a very depressing time in our whole existence as a society and as Ethiopians. TPLF is throwing out innocent people of ours that include children and women into the wild, making them victims of hunger, disease and dinners for wild animals. TPLF is working hard to destroy the concept of “Ethiopianism” by targeting the Amhara ethnic group in its quest to establish the dream of “Greater Tigray”. I have no doubt within fiver years, the size of Tigray’s territory would probably be twice as much as it is now. And the dream of “Greater Tigray” may become a reality right in front of our eyes. In the meantime. we continue to carry our enemies in our bosom. We are stuck in the habit of appeasing them wallowing in confusion, with lack of determination and devoid of a heroic action.
As we are witnessing this horrible human suffering of an unprecedented level in our history, a paid agent of TPLF by the name Dawit Kebede, who has been installed among our ranks, has finally come out of his hiding. And he is laboring day and night throwing peppers into our eyes. He is going after ESAT pursuing a relentless campaign to distract, defame and discredit this great media outlet of ours at every turn and opportunity he gets.
As ESAT’s outreach in Ethiopia as well as around the world is spreading like wild fire, TPLF has learned that Jamming ESAT in not enough. And they are right. It is not working. So, TPLF has to do something. Buy someone with a media experience, however feeble, green and stupid he is, among us. Boom! Dawit Kebede of Awramba Times showed up in their radar screen. Hence the beginning of an infamous adventure of Dawit Kebede’s injection into the Diaspora as a TPLF agent declaring war on ESAT and by extension on those patriots who uphold ESAT’s cause for freedom and democracy in Ethiopia.
First of all, I am honored for being labelled as “the G7 propagandist” by this greenish and sheepish TPLF mole. Am I that good to deserve such an honor? No, I am not that good to be given such an honor. Rather, I am good at something else that I can proudly announce to the whole wide world. Do you know what it is? You guessed it. I am excellent at sniffing a TPLF rat a mile away. I can snif and flash out a TPLF little dog such as Dawit Kebede. I am a bull dog fighter that can bark and bite at the same time. Others can’t bite while they are barking. Or they have the opposite problem. They can’t bark while they are biting, if they can bite at all. I can do both.
Let alone a TPLF chuwawa like Dawit Kebede, with a combination of brain and bravado, I can handle his TPLF masters who installed Dawit Kebede in the Diaspora. There is a good reason why I and my friends have become sleepless and penniless in Seattle pursuing the enemy day and night. It sounds like bluffing until Dawit and all the TPLF dogs that are mushrooming in the Diaspora get a taste of our bite. Let me put it this way. TPLF has found its match in me. Not only I have the brain
We are going through a very depressing time in our whole existence as a society and as Ethiopians. TPLF is throwing out innocent people of ours that include children and women into the wild, making them victims of hunger, disease and dinners for wild animals. TPLF is working hard to destroy the concept of “Ethiopianism” by targeting the Amhara ethnic group in its quest to establish the dream of “Greater Tigray”. I have no doubt within fiver years, the size of Tigray’s territory would probably be twice as much as it is now. And the dream of “Greater Tigray” may become a reality right in front of our eyes. In the meantime. we continue to carry our enemies in our bosom. We are stuck in the habit of appeasing them wallowing in confusion, with lack of determination and devoid of a heroic action.As we are witnessing this horrible human suffering of an unprecedented level in our history, a paid agent of TPLF by the name Dawit Kebede, who has been installed among our ranks, has finally come out of his hiding. And he is laboring day and night throwing peppers into our eyes. He is going after ESAT pursuing a relentless campaign to distract, defame and discredit this great media outlet of ours at every turn and opportunity he gets.
As ESAT’s outreach in Ethiopia as well as around the world is spreading like wild fire, TPLF has learned that Jamming ESAT in not enough. And they are right. It is not working. So, TPLF has to do something. Buy someone with a media experience, however feeble, green and stupid he is, among us. Boom! Dawit Kebede of Awramba Times showed up in their radar screen. Hence the beginning of an infamous adventure of Dawit Kebede’s injection into the Diaspora as a TPLF agent declaring war on ESAT and by extension on those patriots who uphold ESAT’s cause for freedom and democracy in Ethiopia.
First of all, I am honored for being labelled as “the G7 propagandist” by this greenish and sheepish TPLF mole. Am I that good to deserve such an honor? No, I am not that good to be given such an honor. Rather, I am good at something else that I can proudly announce to the whole wide world. Do you know what it is? You guessed it. I am excellent at sniffing a TPLF rat a mile away. I can snif and flash out a TPLF little dog such as Dawit Kebede. I am a bull dog fighter that can bark and bite at the same time. Others can’t bite while they are barking. Or they have the opposite problem. They can’t bark while they are biting, if they can bite at all. I can do both.
Let alone a TPLF chuwawa like Dawit Kebede, with a combination of brain and bravado, I can handle his TPLF masters who installed Dawit Kebede in the Diaspora. There is a good reason why I and my friends have become sleepless and penniless in Seattle pursuing the enemy day and night. It sounds like bluffing until Dawit and all the TPLF dogs that are mushrooming in the Diaspora get a taste of our bite. Let me put it this way. TPLF has found its match in me. Not only I have the brain
Saturday, April 13, 2013
CPJ expresses grave concern over the deteriorating health conditions of Reeyot Alemu
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern about the safety of Reeyot Alemu, a jailed Ethiopian journalist and teacher.
Reeyot Alemu
In a protest letter to Birhan Hailu, Ethiopia’s justice minister, Joel Simon, CPJ’s Executive Director asked that Alemu, whose health has reportedly deteriorated since being held on terrorism charges, to withdraw the threat of placing her in solitary confinement.
Human rights and press freedom groups have long accused Addis Ababa of using its controversial terrorism legislation to curb opposition and stifle the media in the East African nation.
“Prison authorities have threatened Reeyot with solitary confinement for two months as punishment for alleged bad behavior toward them and threatening to publicize human rights violations by prison guards” said CPJ’s letter, which was published on its website.
“Prison authorities have threatened Reeyot with solitary confinement for two months as punishment for alleged bad behavior toward them and threatening to publicize human rights violations by prison guards” said CPJ’s letter, which was published on its website.
Despite pledges to the contrary Ethiopia’s Ministry of Justice has failed to ensure that Reeyot’s full human rights have not been violated during her detention, which began in June 2011.
“We urge you to fulfill Ethiopia’s promise to build a humane and democratic state by withdrawing the threat of solitary confinement against Reeyot and ensuring her access to adequate medical care” CPJ said.
“No journalists should face detention or imprisonment in the exercise of their duty”
Reeyot, a columnist for the now-defunct independent weekly Feteh, is being held of the basis of accusation that she was involved in a vague terrorism plot.
“No journalists should face detention or imprisonment in the exercise of their duty”
Reeyot, a columnist for the now-defunct independent weekly Feteh, is being held of the basis of accusation that she was involved in a vague terrorism plot.
In January 2012 she was sentenced her to 14 years in prison under the country’s anti-terrorism law however an appeals court later in August, reduced the initial sentence to five years after the court dropped most of the terrorism charges pressed against the journalist, who is known for writing columns critical of the government.
CPJ has also expressed grave concern over the deteriorating health conditions of Reeyot saying she has been denied of access to adequate medical treatment after she was diagnosed with a tumor in her breast.
Reeyot is a 2012 winner of the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage Award.
CPJ has also expressed grave concern over the deteriorating health conditions of Reeyot saying she has been denied of access to adequate medical treatment after she was diagnosed with a tumor in her breast.
Reeyot is a 2012 winner of the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage Award.
International human right groups accuse Ethiopia of using the country’s broadly defined anti-terrorism law to punish critical journalists and opposition members, an allegation Addis Ababa denies.
In 2011 the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez, urged the prohibition of “the imposition of solitary confinement as punishment – either as part of a judicially imposed sentence or a disciplinary measure.”
In 2011 the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez, urged the prohibition of “the imposition of solitary confinement as punishment – either as part of a judicially imposed sentence or a disciplinary measure.”
In the report the special rapporteur urged Ethiopia to fulfill its obligation as signatory to the United Nations Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Source: Sudan Tribune
Eritrea: 'Freedom Friday' Movement Challenges 'North Korea of Africa'
By Gianlucca Mezzofiore
April 12, 2013
A new grassroots movement in Eritrea that draws inspiration from the Arab revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia is poised to challenge the one-party authoritarian rule of president Isaias Afewerki, who has been in power for twenty years.The Freedom Friday (Arbi Harnet) movement, started in November 2011 by the Eritrean diaspora, is finally gaining momentum inside the country according to Meron Estefanos, a human rights activist and presenter with the Sweden-based Radio Erena, which broadcasts in Eritrea and around the world.
In tandem with Eritrean Youth for Change (EYC) and the Eritrean Youth Solidarity for Change (EYSC), Estefanos has set up a new campaign to reverse the Arab-style call to take to the streets every Friday. Instead, it urges Eritreans to empty the streets."We made phone calls from diaspora to Eritrea," Estefanos told IBTimes UK. "We have a phone catalogue and called random numbers every Friday, telling them to stay at home and think about problems in our country."Freedom Friday's coordinator in the UK Selam Kidane, also director of Release Eritrea rights group, explained that asking Eritreans to stay at home "give them an opportunity to protest without risking too much".""Eritreans have been denied many rights and are very afraid of the government and its informants," she said. "We want to build trust among people who carry out joint protest actions."'Go out and demonstrate'After two years, the Freedom Friday movement has established solid roots inside Eritrea. "Now they trust us inside the country, we have our team in Eritrea that puts out posters and leaflets late at night," Estefanos said."The plan now that we have their trust is asking them to go out and demonstrate."Kidane confirmed that support is rising inside the secretive Africa country. "The small team initially based in the diaspora is now an established project inside the country and everyone knows about it," she said.What started as a call to Eritreans in the capital, Asmara, to vacate the streets every Friday may soon become a widespread youth protest akin to the April 6 movement in Egypt, which eventually helped topple president Hosni Mubarak."In our country we cannot have a revolution because every youth bitter about life is fleeing the country," she said. "In my radio programme I'm discussing that people shouldn't leave because it is not a solution. I believe the youths should fight in their country. The Egyptian revolution showed that anything was possible because there was an unhappy youth."Dubbed the North Korea of Africa, Eritrea is considered one of the continent's most opaque countries. National elections have not been held in the Horn of Africa country since it gained independence in 1993. Torture, arbitrary detention and severe restrictions on freedom of expression remain routine."We have a dictatorial regime, that's why people are fleeing every month," said Estefanos. "Around 3,000 people flee to Sudan every month and 1,000 to Ethiopia. We are losing the whole generation because all the youth is fleeing the country."The mandatory military service that forces citizens to serve, on average, between the ages of 18 and 55 is one of the main causes of fleeing from the country. Advocacy group Reporters without Borders has ranked Eritrea 179th among 179 countries on freedom of expression. Access to the country for international humanitarian and human rights organizations is almost impossible and the country has no independent media."Unless there is a regime change in Eritrea, things will continue like that," Estefanos said. "[Our] only target is to keep in contact with people inside the country. Now nobody doubts us anymore."
April 12, 2013
A new grassroots movement in Eritrea that draws inspiration from the Arab revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia is poised to challenge the one-party authoritarian rule of president Isaias Afewerki, who has been in power for twenty years.The Freedom Friday (Arbi Harnet) movement, started in November 2011 by the Eritrean diaspora, is finally gaining momentum inside the country according to Meron Estefanos, a human rights activist and presenter with the Sweden-based Radio Erena, which broadcasts in Eritrea and around the world.
In tandem with Eritrean Youth for Change (EYC) and the Eritrean Youth Solidarity for Change (EYSC), Estefanos has set up a new campaign to reverse the Arab-style call to take to the streets every Friday. Instead, it urges Eritreans to empty the streets."We made phone calls from diaspora to Eritrea," Estefanos told IBTimes UK. "We have a phone catalogue and called random numbers every Friday, telling them to stay at home and think about problems in our country."Freedom Friday's coordinator in the UK Selam Kidane, also director of Release Eritrea rights group, explained that asking Eritreans to stay at home "give them an opportunity to protest without risking too much".""Eritreans have been denied many rights and are very afraid of the government and its informants," she said. "We want to build trust among people who carry out joint protest actions."'Go out and demonstrate'After two years, the Freedom Friday movement has established solid roots inside Eritrea. "Now they trust us inside the country, we have our team in Eritrea that puts out posters and leaflets late at night," Estefanos said."The plan now that we have their trust is asking them to go out and demonstrate."Kidane confirmed that support is rising inside the secretive Africa country. "The small team initially based in the diaspora is now an established project inside the country and everyone knows about it," she said.What started as a call to Eritreans in the capital, Asmara, to vacate the streets every Friday may soon become a widespread youth protest akin to the April 6 movement in Egypt, which eventually helped topple president Hosni Mubarak."In our country we cannot have a revolution because every youth bitter about life is fleeing the country," she said. "In my radio programme I'm discussing that people shouldn't leave because it is not a solution. I believe the youths should fight in their country. The Egyptian revolution showed that anything was possible because there was an unhappy youth."Dubbed the North Korea of Africa, Eritrea is considered one of the continent's most opaque countries. National elections have not been held in the Horn of Africa country since it gained independence in 1993. Torture, arbitrary detention and severe restrictions on freedom of expression remain routine."We have a dictatorial regime, that's why people are fleeing every month," said Estefanos. "Around 3,000 people flee to Sudan every month and 1,000 to Ethiopia. We are losing the whole generation because all the youth is fleeing the country."The mandatory military service that forces citizens to serve, on average, between the ages of 18 and 55 is one of the main causes of fleeing from the country. Advocacy group Reporters without Borders has ranked Eritrea 179th among 179 countries on freedom of expression. Access to the country for international humanitarian and human rights organizations is almost impossible and the country has no independent media."Unless there is a regime change in Eritrea, things will continue like that," Estefanos said. "[Our] only target is to keep in contact with people inside the country. Now nobody doubts us anymore."
How Can You Make A Deal With A Power Hungry Priest Who Is Driven By The Devil?
The Devil’s Shepherd and Advocate, Aba Girma Kebede
“He either miscalculated a failure of judgement or he underestimated the churchgoers of Reese Adbarat, London”.
“Having never had any modern education in theology and mental vision too, he has now lost his bodily sight, asilly coxcomb, farcifying himself as a beastly priest/leader, with nothing more human about him than his guttering eyelids”. He is a creator of wicked plans and schemes and a self-made man who worships his creator: himself. Truly too, he is not at all a normal church leader too, but a broken down peddler, a notorious liar and disturber of the public mind. His supporters are hard-core thugs bent on destruction. They are indeed nothing more than original baboons in foreign animal zoos looking & communicating as intelligent as human-beings: specimen to have been at the head of our church.
by Dr G Bekele, 12 April 2013 – London, England
The troubled Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church of St Mary of London Debre Tsion, that was meant to preach the true Gospel of God and also provide spiritual services to the Orthodox Christians and of the practice of Ethiopian Orthodox religion, further provide Christian counseling, encouraging the community, teaching the young religious education, promoting understanding and harmony within our community, the society and in general, supporting humanitarian and disaster relief in our beloved country Ethiopia and all around the world has unbelievably, embarrassingly and annoyingly too, turned out to be the very few shameless Woyanes’, their TPLF recruits’ and some rude children’s ugly private circus.
Why? The emotionally unbalanced sick Priest who was and still is unable to control his temper, his desire and urge for power and money and also his blinded, brainwashed idiots and screaming woyane bimbos has gone bonkers in a country where medication and hospital treatments are virtually free. Perhaps he had no close friends and or family and relatives to help him seek medical help before he sadly lost his marbles and faculties. This was a Priest who Wondimu Mekonnen eloquently described in his recent article, saying he was not that bad until now. But years ago, Aba Girma Kebede was rewarded with a higher Priesthood position by the new TPLF Patriarch: Dagmawi Aba Diablos, after he went to Jerusalem to be ascribed to a higher rank in the Orthodox Tewahdo religion by the then Aba Mathias (The New TPLF Patriarch) and is now alleged to be a TPLF Agent not only to return the favour he received in Jerusalem, but also to be appointed as a Bishop at a high cost of making most Ethiopian Christians cry and making us a laughing stoke with his brainwashed and underage teenagers whose defence knowledge has been only screaming and the elders too barking with his other few Mindless Disciples like Qes Dawit, Qes Abate, Mengesha, illegally named trustee: ex-Deacon Dawit, his wife Meseret & Mergeta Alemayehu, who all seemed to have worshiped a sinful priest than the Almighty God?
The sudden running away of Aba Girma: with the keys of the Reese Adbarat London Debre Tsion Church, has made it too difficult to
mitigate the Negative Effects of the Church’s Conflict. This sold-out and the temperamental Macho Priest who deliberately created those devious dramas to betray the church members who helped him in many ways and the churchgoers who did so much to buy the Church after 38 years of an uphill struggle? I know lots, though I was refrained from taking sides and moreover too, from going to the church as often as I used to do weekly in the past. Yes, I was, as some including Getachew Beshahwured recently explained, one of those few Ethiopians who built the foundation those years ago and since then too, I did my utmost to help own our latest church. However after I viewed and listened to the recent tearful mediation attempt, God bless him, by Qes Birhanu and Aba Girma’s shameful and unchristian rejection, I could not at all just sit in front of my PC, to see our church set on fire and burning into ashes or given away to the TPLF Patriarch and his politically-minded and racist cronies. Frankly speaking, I have never seen or heard a priest and moreover too, an appointed Church Leader to dare to lock and close the church service at any time let alone during an Ethiopians fasting period when the church and the teachings were needed with all the blessings. Shocking!
His motives and intention was only to deprive Christian believers most of whom are old and frail that did not enjoy good health as
Aba Girma Kebede
“Having never had any modern education in theology and mental vision too, he has now lost his bodily sight, asilly coxcomb, farcifying himself as a beastly priest/leader, with nothing more human about him than his guttering eyelids”. He is a creator of wicked plans and schemes and a self-made man who worships his creator: himself. Truly too, he is not at all a normal church leader too, but a broken down peddler, a notorious liar and disturber of the public mind. His supporters are hard-core thugs bent on destruction. They are indeed nothing more than original baboons in foreign animal zoos looking & communicating as intelligent as human-beings: specimen to have been at the head of our church.The troubled Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church of St Mary of London Debre Tsion, that was meant to preach the true Gospel of God and also provide spiritual services to the Orthodox Christians and of the practice of Ethiopian Orthodox religion, further provide Christian counseling, encouraging the community, teaching the young religious education, promoting understanding and harmony within our community, the society and in general, supporting humanitarian and disaster relief in our beloved country Ethiopia and all around the world has unbelievably, embarrassingly and annoyingly too, turned out to be the very few shameless Woyanes’, their TPLF recruits’ and some rude children’s ugly private circus.
Why? The emotionally unbalanced sick Priest who was and still is unable to control his temper, his desire and urge for power and money and also his blinded, brainwashed idiots and screaming woyane bimbos has gone bonkers in a country where medication and hospital treatments are virtually free. Perhaps he had no close friends and or family and relatives to help him seek medical help before he sadly lost his marbles and faculties. This was a Priest who Wondimu Mekonnen eloquently described in his recent article, saying he was not that bad until now. But years ago, Aba Girma Kebede was rewarded with a higher Priesthood position by the new TPLF Patriarch: Dagmawi Aba Diablos, after he went to Jerusalem to be ascribed to a higher rank in the Orthodox Tewahdo religion by the then Aba Mathias (The New TPLF Patriarch) and is now alleged to be a TPLF Agent not only to return the favour he received in Jerusalem, but also to be appointed as a Bishop at a high cost of making most Ethiopian Christians cry and making us a laughing stoke with his brainwashed and underage teenagers whose defence knowledge has been only screaming and the elders too barking with his other few Mindless Disciples like Qes Dawit, Qes Abate, Mengesha, illegally named trustee: ex-Deacon Dawit, his wife Meseret & Mergeta Alemayehu, who all seemed to have worshiped a sinful priest than the Almighty God?The sudden running away of Aba Girma: with the keys of the Reese Adbarat London Debre Tsion Church, has made it too difficult to
mitigate the Negative Effects of the Church’s Conflict. This sold-out and the temperamental Macho Priest who deliberately created those devious dramas to betray the church members who helped him in many ways and the churchgoers who did so much to buy the Church after 38 years of an uphill struggle? I know lots, though I was refrained from taking sides and moreover too, from going to the church as often as I used to do weekly in the past. Yes, I was, as some including Getachew Beshahwured recently explained, one of those few Ethiopians who built the foundation those years ago and since then too, I did my utmost to help own our latest church. However after I viewed and listened to the recent tearful mediation attempt, God bless him, by Qes Birhanu and Aba Girma’s shameful and unchristian rejection, I could not at all just sit in front of my PC, to see our church set on fire and burning into ashes or given away to the TPLF Patriarch and his politically-minded and racist cronies. Frankly speaking, I have never seen or heard a priest and moreover too, an appointed Church Leader to dare to lock and close the church service at any time let alone during an Ethiopians fasting period when the church and the teachings were needed with all the blessings. Shocking!
His motives and intention was only to deprive Christian believers most of whom are old and frail that did not enjoy good health as
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