Siwan: Live to tell the tale

    by Hindessa Abdul

The term boat people came into the political lexicon in the 1970s with the Vietnamese escaping communism to settle in other countries. Then the term started to be used in other spots of the world, including the Caribbean in the 1980s when Cubans and Haitians flocked to the United States fleeing political and economic downturns.
In the past couple of years Ethiopians and Somalis are joining this group in leaps and bounds; Somalis fleeing chaos, and Ethiopians leaving their homeland for a myriad of reasons. The latter are an odd addition to the club in that they are boat people of a landlocked country.
The boat people of the Horn of Africa begun grabbing world attention with reports of hundreds of people drowning in the high seas. While there have been some attempts to document these treacherous sea journeys, its full story is far from being told.
Among such attempts is Daniel Gezahegn’s work entitled Siwan, the word-we are told-means May in Hebrew. The 279 page story written in Amharic is a first hand account of a refugee heading to Yemen by all means available. There lies the main advantage of the work as opposed to reports of the media that happen to write the news from exhausted survivors of the arduous sea journey. Daniel says he was fleeing persecution for stories he published while working in the private weeklies of Moged and Gemena which he edited at different times.
The book explains in detail the routes the writer took to get to the waters of Yemen, starting from the good old long distance bus terminal locally known as Atobis Tera at the heart of Addis in December 2005 following the chaos of the general elections earlier in May. He talks of his childhood villages on the way to Jijiga and then to the port city of Bosaso in the self declared state of Puntland. The situation where gangs and warlords control large swath of territory and even levying tax begins in the peripheries of Ethiopia.Then that pattern follows the immigrants all the way to the shores of Yemen.
It is difficult to track how many days and nights the writer spent before crossing the Gulf of Aden. In those circumstances days and nights lack meanings. One hardly tells what day of the week is any given day. All that matters is getting there at all cost. However, the most dangerous trip was the over forty hours journey on the water where about 150 people are crammed into a rickety boat made for a dozen people. Some of the stories told in this fateful journey are too gruesome to mention. Suffice to say it is a life and death situation. The harsh circumstances, however, hardly deter refugees from getting to the Middle East. According to the UN Refugee Agency,UNHCR, only last year 84,000 Ethiopians crossed the Gulf of Aden in similar manner.
The writer is lucky in that he lived to tell the tale. Somehow the risks paid. His four years sojourn in Yemen was concluded with a resettlement to the US. Many have not been as lucky.
The book is informative and gives a good picture of life of refugees in that part of the world. One cannot help but pointing that readers could have benefitted from some images of daily life in Bosaso, Aden or Sana’a.
Among the challenges of writing such stories is authors’ exclusive reliance on personal memories. The problem arises when conversations begin. One can hardly remember each and every sentence as spoken. Years back when veteran journalist and a one time minister Ahadou Saboure wrote his memoir, some of the criticisms revolved around the conversations aboard a vessel in the port of Djibouti, most of which were held in French.
While these exchanges are important to stories, there must be other ways of presenting them; at least not in direct quotes.
That in general becomes a challenge to all those who embark on such endeavor.
This article is hardly a review, rather an appreciation to a writer who brought the story against all odds.Thank you!

The Grandiose Foundation for the Grandiose Legacy

     by T.Goshu, April 2013

The mystification on “the great minded-ness and leadership” of the late Ato Meles Zenawi had been a campaign of indoctrination throughout his presidency, and later on his premiership. This had been ridiculously taken out of proportion right after the official pronouncement of his death that was followed by the declaration of mourning his death and paying “unprecedented” tribute. Now, the final and the highest stage of making him “an angel –like leader” of Ethiopia, “the leading politician for Pan- Africanism” and an “international political figure” are being launched. We have learnt this from the news and reports on the inaugural meeting held April 6, 2013. The people of Ethiopia have been showered with congratulatory news and messages about the coming into being of a historic foundation in honor of “a grandiose legacy of a great leader.”
Ato Amare Aregawi, the old guard of TPLF and who hopelessly continues struggling for the survival of the system of which he is extremely worried about after the death of his “great leader”, Ato Meles Zenawi has come up with a very ridiculous report titled, “the inaugural meeting of Ato Meles Zenawi’s Foundation has been Held with Mixed Feelings” (Amharic Version of April 10, 2013)
Amare Aregawi’s “smart” attempt of selecting very “impressive” topic for his report is the continuation of the mystification of the political personality of the late Ato Meles Zenawi in a very absurd and cynical manner. He has tried hard to imprint the very hypocritical legacy of the late Ato Meles Zenawi in the minds of the people of Ethiopia, and to deceive the international community. He has tried to convince (better to say to fool in vain ) the innocent people of Ethiopia and the people of the world (if the world gives any attention) that “the great and the most be-loved leader” once again made not only the people of Ethiopia but also “ the great leaders of Africa” shed their tears. It is not difficult to understand the very message of Amare Aregawi if we try to look at how he tried hard to paint his report with highly mystified and deceiving way of presentation. What he wanted once again to tell us is how the people of Ethiopia who lost “their great leader” and “the great leaders of Africa” and other “foreign dignitaries” who lost their “great friend” are still grief-stricken on the one hand, and filled with a lot of joy witnessing the establishment of the “historic foundation for his great legacy” on the other hand. That is what exactly the message Amare Aregawi has tried to send when he says “…mixed feelings.” Well, those who attended the meeting including the commissioner of of the AU, and leaders of African countries might have been inundated both with “grief and joy.” Their excitement about the political personality of the late Ato Meles Zenawi and being joyful about the establishment of the foundation on the one hand , and being gripped with life-time grief on the other hand is only and only up to them . But, one thing should surely and loudly be clear. And that is they have neither political nor moral capabilities to tell the innocent people of Ethiopia who have been incredibly dehumanized both politically as well as socio –economically that they should be grateful and proud of the legacy of the late Ato Mels Zenawi. That is an insult to the very intelligence of the Ethiopian people. It goes without saying that the innocent people of Ethiopia deserve to make unequivocally clear to those “great witnesses of their late great friend” who most of them are waiting for the days of judgments for what they have done to their own people and for their dirty political game they continue to play in the region need to stop muddling in the internal political affairs of Ethiopia.
Having said this general introductory part of my comment, I want to make myself clear before I proceed to some more points of observation. And that is to say that my comment may not be comfortable to those of us who want to be “humbly diplomatic.” I am saying this because my comment will rationally and with all due respect try to be critical of not only those cronies of the ruling circle but also those invited dignitaries of the continental organization (AU) and of countries (Djibouti, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda and Somalia.)
As I mentioned earlier, the Ethiopian people were preached during the meeting about the need to honor (worship) the late Ato Melees Zenawi forever as “the greatest leader” of Ethiopia; “the great Pan-African leader”; and one of “the brightest leaders of the world.” Imagine fellow Ethiopians how those foreign dignitaries undermine the intelligence of the great people of Ethiopia. They embarrassingly present themselves as great witnesses for a “great legacy” of the mastermind of political dictatorship, ethno-centrism, socio-economic destitution and moral degradation.

• I really don’t know what kind of gratitude the AU commissioner, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma gives to the great political figure of our time , Nelson Mandela if she had difficulties to find words to praise the late Ato Meles Zenawi whose political personality and policy have done quite the contrary to Ethiopia and its people. I remember an article appeared on the Time Magazine of Jan. 2012 that says the following about the ANC (African National Congress): “The ANC elites use the party’s legendary as the means to be elected and re-elected. They try to justify their greedy political power by referring ‘powerful legacy’ and by out crying “how you are going to turn your back on that.” Although there is no comparison between the legacy of Nelson Mandela and other genuine ANC leaders; and that of “ours”, the way the current ANC elites behave sounds what our EPRDF/TPLF elites do behave. Is the AU commissioner intentionally or unintentionally proving that?

• I do not think we need to say a lot about the Ugandan president who is in power since 1986 as one of the “new breed leaders of Africa.” But what Professor Ayittey ( Africa Unchained : The Blueprint for Africa’s Future ,2005) describes the magnitude of not only internal corruption and plundering but also the resources of other countries by African “great leaders” by citing the the DRC ( Congo ,Kinshasa ) as a typical case tells a lot about those “new breed African leaders.” By referring the report of the 2001 UN Panel of experts on Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and other forms of Wealth of Congo; he says “the panel found ’mass scale looting’ of stockpiled minerals, coffee, timber, livestock, and money by the armies of Rwanda, Uganda and Brandi military and government officials then exported the diamonds, gold, and a composite mineral called coltan to line their own pockets and enrich a network of shell companies owned by connected associates.” It is these leaders who presented themselves as “great witnesses” of the “great legacy” of our late prime minister, Meles Zenawi.

Professor Aittey adds the following particularly about President Museveni: “In fact, the first item president Yowri Museveni of Uganda purchased after obtaining debt relief was a new presidential jet.” Although the late Ato Meles Zenawi didn’t buy one, it is absolutely impossible to believe he had lived on his income of 4000 Birr of check to check as Mrs. Azeb told us.

• What about President Omar Bashir? As he is well known not only for being a terrible dictator but also on a wanted list for allegedly committing genocide on his own people, there is nothing surprising to see presenting himself as one of the great witnesses on the greatness of late Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi. Professor G. Ayittey (Africa Betrayed, 1992) states, “Lt. General Omar Bashir himself is reputed to have a number of Dinka and Nuer slaves in his own home, from the time he was a military commander.” It is these kinds of “leaders” who are trying to preach us about the “greatness of their great friend”, the late Ato Meles Zeanwi.

• Nigerian former president, Olesengo Bbasabgo ? As far as the standard living of the people of an oil rich country is concerned, I do not think the former president has rational and moral ground to present himself as one of the reliable and great witnesses of the great legacy of the late Ato Meles Zeanwi. Professor Aittey states, “The supreme irony of Nigeria’s economic development is that, despite the flow of substantial oil wealth, the country entered the new millennium with real income of per capita about the same as it was at independence in 1960 and heavily burdened by debt.” (Africa Unchained…, 2005). Is this not mainly because of the severe lack of good governance which is said to be accompanied by chronic corruption?

• I do not think I need to say many words about the leaders of Djibouti and Somalia. But, I want to say that both of them are not able to stand by themselves as governments in the real sense of the term .Thanks to France and the late Ato Meles for enabling the Djibouti government to be a government. And thank USA and allies and the late Ato Meles Zenawi for enabling the Somali Government to look like a government.

I am well aware that this would make mad those who belong to the ruling party and all other sympathizers. They always argue that the late prime minister deserves due acknowledgement for the “great things” he performed. I am not denying certain things done during his reign. But, I strongly

Mysterious Lake Threatens Ethiopian Sugar Ambitions

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- A saline lake in Ethiopia that’s baffled scientists by its 15-fold growth threatens to spill into the nation’s longest river and damage plans by Africa’s biggest coffee grower to become a commodities powerhouse.
Lake Beseka in the Rift Valley has grown to its largest size ever amid irrigation runoff and seismic shifts in past years. Should salt waters contaminate the Awash River, they would risk Ethiopia’s oldest state-owned sugar estate and an India-funded project downstream that’s key to the government’s $5 billion plan to turn the country into a top sugar exporter.
“The fear is for the river,” Water and Energy Ministry groundwater chief Tesfaye Tadesse. “If it discharges by itself without any control, the river is going to be contaminated forever.”
River basins including the Blue Nile and rugged highlands bless Ethiopia with plentiful hydropower and the continent’s second-largest water resources. The government is counting on Indian financing, a Saudi billionaire and Chinese loans to grow sugar, rice, bananas and oranges for export to expand the fastest-growing African economy without oil reserves.
It’s crucial that efforts be made to stop a possible overflow before the seasonal rains start in June, said Endashew Tadesse, a technical specialist at the Upper Awash River Basin Authority. A spill by the lake east of the capital Addis Ababa may flood towns and drive nomadic herdsmen from the area.
Beseka, fed by hot springs at 954 meters (3,130 feet), has swollen from a 3-square-kilometer pond in the 1960s to 45 square kilometers, causing the diversion of a road from Addis Ababa toDjibouti’s port, a main trade route in landlocked Ethiopia.

Frustrated Efforts

Over the past 14 years, the government has unsuccessfully installed pumps and built canals to try to keep Beseka at bay.
Irrigation projects are increasing the flow of water into the lake through the hot springs that feed it, said Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Megersa Olumana Dinka from Haramaya University in Ethiopia, who wrote papers on the phenomenon in 2009 and last year. Seismic activity may also be a factor, Megersa said in an e-mail.

Saudi Investor

Authorities have attributed Beseka’s growth to irrigation runoff in the Metahara area. That includes the Upper Awash Agro Industry Enterprise company bought this year from the government by Horizon Plantations, a venture majority owned by Mohamed al- Amoudi, the largest single investor in Ethiopia.
Studies haven’t proven Upper Awash Agro to be a source of the lake’s growth, Horizon General Manager Jemal Ahmed said in a phone interview. If it has any environmental impact, “we will investigate and cooperate with the government,” he said.
Al-Amoudi has moved into agriculture with plans to export rice, bananas and processed coffee from Ethiopia. Horizon is seeking to double orange production to 50,000 tons a year by investing 432 million birr ($23 million) in Upper Awash Agro.
The Tendaho sugar factory 380 kilometers northeast of Addis Ababa that’s financed with a $640 million line of credit from the Export-Import Bank of India could suffer if the Awash becomes saline. India is the world’s largest sugar consumer and second-biggest producer.

Sugar Ambitions

Metahara and Addis Ketema, towns with more than 30,000 residents, the sugar estate at Metahara east of the capital as well as Tendaho’s sugar facility in the arid Afar region are at risk should the lake continue its mysterious growth.
Sugar is important to Ethiopia’s growth plans as raw sugar futures at 18 U.S. cents a pound on ICE Future U.S. in New Yorkare 50 percent higher than at the end of 2008. They’ve dropped 7.7 percent this year after falling 16 percent in 2012.
Of importance too to Ethiopia, whose longtime leader Meles Zenawi died last year, in its drive to transform a nation of 90 million residents into a middle-income country are the cotton farms supplying a growing textiles industry. Cotton plantations in the Middle Awash area run by the Amibara Business Group would also suffer from a salty river. The former state farms have already lost over 2,000 hectares to salt water since 1984, according to the International Water Management Institute.

School Submerged

Any saline spill jeopardizes Ethiopia government plans to develop the Afar area including building a sugar crusher at Tendaho, whose plantation will use water from a dam on the Awash to produce as much as 600,000 tons of cane a year.
“If it rains, it’s over,” Endashew said in an interview at an office near a school submerged two years ago by the lake.
Its pace of growth has increased since the regional government began constructing the Fantalle canal for a 467 million-birr irrigation project in 2008 following a drought, said Engida Zemedagegnehu, a hydrogeology manager at the Ethiopian Water Works Design & Supervision Enterprise.

Even with runoff from farms a probable cause of the lake’s increasing rate of growth, “our efforts to pump more water didn’t reduce the expansion,” Tesfaye said. The river contains 4 percent lake water and any more could be ruinous, he said.

Thorn Trees

Whatever the reason for the swelling, “the lake has potential to flow to Awash River and devastate Metahara Sugar Estate in the next few years,” professor Megersa said. “It would then also negatively impact all downstream irrigation developments in the Awash basin, including Tendaho.”
Beyond Tendaho, state-owned Sugar Corp. is building 10 refineries, including six for the Kuraz Sugar Project in the South Omo region near Kenya. It’s working too in the Awash area with China National Complete Plant Import & Export Corp., or Complant, on the Kessem sugar project. The $150 million Kessem is funded by state-owned Development Bank of China.
From Metahara, the 1,200-kilometer Awash, which originates in Ethiopia’s highlands, flows northeast into Afar before drying near Djibouti. The area is studded with thorn trees and hot rocky outcrops inhabited by about 1.5 million people.
The Afar, primarily nomadic herders that carry long, curved daggers in sheaves on their hips, drink the river water, as do livestock. The effect of contamination on those that use the river would be “terrible,” Megersa said.
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የኢትዮዽያ ውስጥ ያለውን ጓንታናሞ አለም አቀፉ ማህበረሰብ ምርመራ ሊያደርግበት ይገባል!

    

By: Meranu Habibty

ከባራክ ኦባማ ቀደም ብሎ አሜሪካንን ለ8 አመታት የገዛው ጦረኛው ጆርጅ ዊሊያም ቡሽ ከሂትለር የሚሻለው በጥቂቱ ነው፡፡ ሂትለር ኦሺዊትዝ የሚባል ካምፕ ገንብቶ በርካታ ሚሊዮን አይሁዶችን ከነነፍሳቸው እቶን እሳት ውስጥ እያስገባ ሲጨርሳቸው አለም በአንድ ግንባር ተነስቶ የሂትለርን ርእዮትና አስተዳደር ከገምድረ ገፅ ለማጥፋት ግራና ቀኝ ማየት አላስፈለገውም ነበር፡፡ አሁን በ21ኛው ክፍለ ዘመን ደግሞ ሌላኛው ጦረኛ ጆርጅ ዊሊያም ቡሽ በአፍጋኒስታን “ባግራም” የተባለ ማሰቃያ ካምፕ፣ በኢራቅ “የአቡ ግሬብ”እስር ቤትን ና ሌላኛውን ደግሞ በኩባ ጓታናሞ የተባለውን አሰቃቂ እስር ቤት ገንብቶ በርካታ ሰዎችን በሚዘገንን ሁኔታ ሲያሰቃይ ይህን የሚያውቁ ጥቂቶች ብቻ ነበሩ፡፡ ጆርጅ ቡሽ ከላይ በተለያዩ ሃገራት በገነባው ማሳቃያ እስር ቤቶች ውስጥ እስረኞች በሚጠብቋቸው ወታደሮች ከሚያደርሱባቸው አሰቃቂ ድብደባና ግርፊያ በተጨማሪ በቀጥታ ከጆርጅ ቡሽ አስተዳደር በሚታዘዙ መርማሪዎች አማካኝነት ጥፍር ግሽለጣ፣ ሰውነትን በኤሌክትሪክ ሾክ በማድረግ፣ የሚያናዝዝ መርፌ በመውጋት፣ሰብአዊ ክብርን በመድፈርና(ወታደሮቹ እስርኞቹ ላይ ነውር በሆነ ሁኔታ ወሲብ እንዲፈፀምባቸው በማድረግ፣ በአደገኛና ተናካሽ በሆኑ ውሾቻቸው ማስነከስ ወዘተ ) አይነቶች ማሰቃያ ዘዴዎች በመጠቀም ከሂትለር ቀጥሎ ይቅር የማይባሉ “ወንጀለኞች” የሚያስብላቸውን ድርጊት ሲፈፅሙ ቆይተዋል፡፡ ምስጋና ለቴክኖሎጂ ይሁንና ይህን የተባበሩት መንግስታት ድርጅት የእስረኞችን አያያዝ በሚመለከት ያወጣውን ህግ በሚጥስ መልኩ የጆርጅ ቡሽ አስተዳደር በጓንታናሞ፣ በባግራምና በአቡ ግሬብ እስር ቤቶች ሲፈፅሙት የነበረው ህገወጥ ድርጊት በራሳቸው ወታደሮች ሞባይሎች ተቀርፀው በYoutube ፣goole ፣Face book እና Twitter ድረ ገፆች ላይ ለአደባባይ በመብቃታቸው፣ እንዲሁም አለም አቀፍ ሚዲያዎች ነገሩን ተቀባብለው በመዘገባቸው አለም ጆርጅ ቡሽን ስለሰብአዊ መብት አያያዝ የመናገር ምንም አይነት ሞራል እንደሌለውና ቢናገርም አዳማጭ እንደሌለው አስረግጠው ነግረውታል፡፡ ከሁሉም በላይ የአሜሪካንን ክብርና ተሰሚነትም አውርዶት እንደነበር የተለያዩ ሚዲያዎች ዘግበውት ነበር፡፡ በተለይ በጓንታናሞ እስር ቤት የሚፈፀሙት ህገወጥ ምርመራዎችና ሌሎች አሰቃቂ የሰብአዊ ጥሰቶችን የሚያሳዩ በድብቅ የተቀረፁ ቪዲዮዎች በየድረገፁ ይፋ መደረጋቸውና ይህን ተከትሎ አለማቀፍ ጫናዎች በመብዛታቸው አሜሪካ ጓንታናሞ የሚባለውን እስር ቤት ለመዝጋት የወሰነችበትን አጋጣሚን ፈጥሯል፡፡
ወደሃገራችን ስንመጣም ከሚኒሊክ አደባባይ ወደ ሰሜን ሆቴል በሚወስደው አስፋልት ግማሽ ኪሎ ሜትር የማይሞላ መንገድ እንደተጓዙ በተለምዶ ማእከላዊ የሚባል እስር ቤት ያገኛሉ፡፡ ይህ እስር ቤት ከባባድ ወንጀል የፈፀሙ እስረኞች ግዜያዊ ማረፊያ በሚል የዳቦ ስም ቢሰጠውም በከባድ ወንጀል ስም የሚገቡ እስረኞችን የሚበላና የጓንታናሞ አይነት ማሰቃያ መጋዘኖች ያሉበት የምድር ጀሃነም(ገሃነም) አይነት ነው፡፡ ይህን መንግስት የሚተቹ የሃይማኖት አባቶች፣ ጋዜጠኞች፣ ፖለቲከኞችና ግለሰቦች የትም ሳይሆን እዚህ ቦታ ተወስደው በፊልም ላይ ያዩትን ማሰቃያ ሁላ ያገኙታል፡፡ ሰው መሆን እስኪያስጠላዎት ድረስና በሃገሪቱ ህግ የሌለ እስኪመስልዎት ድረስ ሰውነትዎ ላይ የማያርፍ የማሰቃያ አይነት የለም፡፡ ከኤሌክትሪክ ሾክ ማድረጊያ እስከ ደም የጠማው ድቡልቡል ዱላ ድረስ፡፡ በሽተኛ መሆንዎ ከታወቀማ አበቃ!ህመምተኛ የሆኑበት ቦታ ተፈልጎ ይቀጠቀጣል፡፡ በአፍዎ ውስጥ አሮጌ ቆሻሻ ጨርቅ ይወተፍብዎትና ያለገላጋይ ተገልብጠው ይታሻሉ፡፡ አፍዎ ውስጥ የተወተፈው አሮጌ ጨርቅ 20 አመት ሙሉ በማእከላዊ እስር ቤት የገቡ ሁሉ የተጠቀሙበት ነው፡፡ አንዱ በማእከላዊ እስር ቤት የነበረ እስረኛ ከታሰረ 2 አመት በኋላ ተመልሶ ሲገባ ያንኑ አፍ ውስጥ የሚወትፉትን ማፈኛ መልሰው እንደወተፉበት በአንድ መፅሄት ላይ የፃፈውን ማንበቤን አስታውሳለሁ፡፡ አሁን ሰውየው ከሃገር ስለወጣ ምናልባት ድጋሚ ያ ጨርቅ ለ3ኛ ግዜ የሚወተፍበት አይመስለኝም፡፡ እሱ ውስጥ ተወትፎ የነበረው ቆሻሻ ጨርቅ ግን በሌላው ባለ ተራ አፍ ውስጥ ይወተፍበታል፡፡ ደብዳቢዎቹና እንዲደበድቡ ያዘዛቸው አካል የሚፈልጉትን እስኪያገኙ ድረስ ምግብ ሳይሆን ኢሰብአዊ ድርጊት ነው የሚመግብዎት፡፡ በጨለማ ክፍል ተዘግቶብዎት ሰውም አይጎበኝዎ፣ ፀሃይም አይሞቁ፡፡ ሌላው ቢቀር ቀኑ ማን እንደሆነና ሰዐቱ ስንት እንድሆነ እንኳ አያውቁትም፡፡ ቀኑ ማን እንደሆነና ሰዐት ስንት እንደሆነ ማወቅ የቅንጦት ያህል ነው፡፡ የሚገርመው ይህን ሁሉ የሚያደርጉት ለምርመራ መስልዎት ከሆነ ተሳስተዋል፡፡ ሲጀመር የተያዙት ያለ ወንጀል እንደሆነ የያዘዎት አካል ድብን አድርጎ ያውቀዋል፡፡ የሚደበደቡበት ዋናው ጉዳይ የያዘዎት አካል ዝም ብሎ ያዘ እንዳይባል መንግስትን በሃይል ለመገልበጥ ሳሴር ነው የተያዝኩት ብለህ እመን ነው ያ ሁላ ውርጅብኝ፡፡ በማእከላዊ 3 አይነት ደረጃ እንዳለው አንብቤያለሁ፡፡ 1ኛው ደረጃ ሲቀጠቀጡ ያድሩና ሲነጋ ከማንም ጋር የማየገናኙበት ጨለማ ክፍል ያሉባቸው ቦታዎች ናቸው፡፡ ሌላው ቀርቶ እስረኛ ጋር አይገናኙም፡፡ 2ኛው ደረጃ ስቃዩ በከፊል አለ ሆኖም አብረው ሌሎች ተገራፊዎችን በአንድ ክፍል ያገኛሉ፡፡ 3ኛው ደረጃ ደግሞ ደብዳቢዎ አካል ወይ የሚፈልገውን አግኝቶ፣ ወይም ደግሞ በርስዎ ጥንካሬ ተስፋ ቆርጦ ወይም አለማቀፉ ማህበረሰብ ሲጮህበት ፀሃይ የሚሞቁበት፣ ጨለማ ያልሆነ ክፍል፣ከሌሎች እስረኞች ጋር እንድልብ የሚያወሩበት ቦታዎች ናቸው፡፡ በማእከላዊ (ይቅርታ ጓንታናሞው ማለቴ ነው) አንዳንዴ እንኳን ተገርፈው ተገልምጠውም ያላደረጉትን ይለፈልፋሉ፡፡ከዚህ በፊት በ97 ላይ እኔ ነኝ ያለ የተቃዋሚዎቹ ወሬ ነጋሪ የነበረ አንድ ግለሰብ (ፕሮፖጋንዳ ሃላፊ የነበረ ልበለው ይሆን?) በጣም ገልምጠውት ነው መሰለኝ ተልፈስፍሶ ከዱላው በፊት በአንድ ተራ ግልምጫ ብቻ ያላደረገውንና ያላሰበውን ሁሉ አድርጊያለሁ ብሎ በማግስቱ በኢቲቪ አኬልዳማ ፊልም ላይ አጠገቡ ማኪያቶ ቀርቦለት ከደህንነቶችቹ ጋር እየተሳሳቀ በውጭ ያሉ ተቃዋሚ ጓደኞቹን ሁላ ስም እየጠራ ሲሳደብ አይቼ ትንሽ ገርሞኝ ነበር፡፡ ነገሩ የገባኝ አሁን ነው፡፡ በሱም አልፈርድም፡፡ ማእከላዊ ገቡ ማለት ህግ ሳይሆን የሚያናግርዎት ሌላ ስለሆነ የማያውቁትን ስም እየጠሩ እሱ ልኮኝ፣አዞኝ፣ ቦንብ አፈንድቼ፣ ቦንም ቀምሜ፣ አውሮፕላን ላጋይ ስል፣ በቤተ መንግሱ የኋላ በር ገብቼ ጠቅላይ ሚስትሩን ልጠልፍ ስል፣ በፌዴሬሽን ምክር ቤት መስኮት በኩል ገብቼ የህገ መንግስቱን ዋናውን መፅሃፍ ሰርቄ ለዲያስፖራ ልሸጥ ስል ነው የተያዝኩት እያሉ መለፍለፍዎ አይቀርም፡፡
እንግዲህ የኛዎቹ(የኢትዮፕያውያኖቹ ) የእድሜ ልክ ጀግኖች የሆኑት ኮሚቴዎቻችንም በዚህ የነጓንታናሞ ጓደኛ ከሆነው እስር ቤት ገብተው ኢሰብአዊና አሰቃቂ ድርጊት ሲፈፀምባቸው ከነበሩት ዜጎች መካከል ናቸው፡፡ ለወራት ያህል ሊነገር እንኳ የሚያሰቅቅ ማሰቃያና ግርፊያ ሲደረግባቸው ነበር የቆየው፡፡ በግለሰቦቹ ታላቅ ሰብእናና ጥንካሬ እንዲሁም አላህ ረድቷቸው የያዛቸው አካል ከነሱ የሚፈልገውን ሳያገኝ ወደ ቃሊቲ እስር ቤት ቢዘዋወሩም ድርጊት ግን ዝም የሚያስብል አይደለም፡፡ ኢትዮፕያዊያን በሙሉና አለም አቀፍ ማህበረሰቡ ማእከላዊ እንዲዘጋ ወይም አያያዙን እንዲያስተካክል፣ እንዲሁም በዚያ ገሃነም እስር ቤት ውስጥ ድብደባ ሲፈፅሙና ሲያስፈፅሙ የነበሩት ሁላ ለፍርድ የሚቀርቡበትን ሁኔታ ማጤን አለባቸው፡፡ አለማቀፉ ማህበረሰብም በኢትዮፕያ ህዝብ ስም የሚሰጡትን ብድሮች የራሱን ሃገር ዜጎች የሚያሰቃይበትን ካምፖች መገንቢያና ለአሰቃዮችም ጡንቻ ማፈርጠሚያ ላይ እንደማይውል ማረጋገጥ አለበት፡፡ አለበለዚያ በዚህ ከቀጠለ ሃገሪቱ ሌላኛዋ በምስራቅ አፍሪካ የምትገኝ የትርምስ ሃገር እንዳትሆን ያሰጋል፡፡ ሁል ጊዜ ማንም እንደበሬ እየተጎተተ የሚታረድ የለምና፡፡ ይህ መሆኑ ደግሞ ለሃገሪቱም ሆነ ስትራቴጂክክ ወዳጅ ለሆኑ ሃገራት የሚፈለግ አይደምና፡፡ አላህ ሀገራችንን ከአምባገነኖች ነፃ ያድርግልን፡፡ ኮሚቴዎቻችንን ጨምሮ ያለ ወንጀል የታሰሩትን ኢትዮፕያውያን ነፃ ያውጣልን፡፡ ድልም ገኛ ጋር ይሁን፡፡ አሚን፡፡