Ethiopia is on another arms buying spree as millions of Ethiopians starve due to the worst drought in 60 years. According to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia is purchasing 200 battle tanks from Ukraine for over $100 million. Was it a coincidence that the day before Meles’ announcement, the British foreign aid office announced a $60 million “emergency food aid donation” to Ethiopia?
Why, you might be excused for asking, does Ethiopia need 200 tanks? There isn’t any realistic chance of any of Ethiopia’s neighbors invading Ethiopia, considering Ethiopia already has the largest and best equipped army in Africa.
One of the primary reasons Ethiopia needs 200 tanks is to conduct its counterinsurgency campaigns against the ethnically based armed uprisings slowly engulfing much of the country. From the Ogaden in the southeast, to Tigray in the north, to Gambella in the west, and now it is reported, even spreading to much of Oromia in the southwest, the Ethiopian regime needs to be able to crush its own people and the latest installment of armor is long overdue. It is already 11 years since Ethiopia invaded Eritrea and in the process lost its best armored divisions, including at least 2 in one day-long disaster called the Battle of Tsorona.
Tanks work well against lightly armed guerilla fighters and even better when it comes to crushing civilian uprisings, something those in the western and UN “aid” agencies are fully cognizant of. Now that Ethiopia has become a source of “peacekeepers” in Sudan, some of these Ethiopian tanks may be used to uphold Pax Americana on the North-South Sudanese border which includes Sudan’s oil fields.
As the western media once again turns a blind eye Ethiopia spends $100 million on tanks all the while millions of Somali’’s starve in Ethiopia’s Ogaden.
This is completely biased story and i am ashamed of this website who posted it.
KB YOU ARE FROM TIGRAY AND STUPED PERSON. A G A M E.
How is it biased? All the writer is saying is, Ethiopia should spend its vital resources to feed its people. Tank or bread! Of course I blame the west for giving a dictator a peacekeeper mission. ironic
Ethiopia is one of the countries in the World that spends the lowest fraction of its gross yearly income on defense budget. It is totally acceptable to spend the minute fraction of its income to strengthen its defense power to guarantee peace and stability in the region and in the country. You can not feed the starving people unless there is a minimal peace and stability and safety of travel through out the country unless the government is strong enough to do so. Ethiopia spends less than 1.5% of the GDP (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/et.html) and this is has to be appreciated by any one with a clear thinking.
Ethiopia can not live in peace with a weak military while a neighboring country (Eritrea) spends more than 6% of its tiny GDP every year. Ethiopia is among the last countries (123rd) that spend less on military while Eritrea is in the top 8 military spenders!! I wonder why this article did not mention any of these clear FACTS !!
How can something genuine about Ethiopia be come out from some one based in Eritrea?
What a news from an Eritrean journalist!!!
This Journalist doesn’t know a thing, I’m really ashamed for u calling yourself “journalist”
GET YOU A G AME. GO TO HELL.
YES, Ethiopia is gaining in the international diplomacy which it deserves being a true peace loving country towards its neighbors even Eritrea whose population still considered as brothers and sisters by Ethiopians. YES the current regime has problem with different factions (and most Ethiopians might not agree the way the Govt. tries to tackle the problem) and severe drought has surfaced which is being tackled not to spare a single life and this regime has a truck record to do that too. So when trying to report on this issue be fair to report before hand also what positive and lasting effort which most of the Ethiopian people hope for are being undertaken once to be done with food self sufficiency which we are sure soon to be achieved God willing. As you know UNEMPLOYMENT is a phenomenon in most developed countries too and when tackling it they don’t avoid to invest on other things like even waging WAR in the name of civilian protection with fund of Billions. I am writing this, not because I am supporter of my Government but I am a hopeful citizen that Ethiopia will prevail as self sufficient country even with the road being followed by this Govt. Please open your Eye shadowed by the government that you support i.e Eritrea.
It is really really … surprising
In my opinion, the journalist has written what is true of the tyrannical regime oppressing Ethiopians all over the country even in the diaspora using its senseless cadres. How inhuaman the Meles regime and its corrupted cadres whom are trying to defend the purchase of tanks while millions are in need of something to eat for survival are?
Even if the regime wants to buy arms for security,…., do you think it’s the right time to do so? Is there an urgent need of 200 tanks right now? If so, why don’t the regime use the tanks which are stationed in Addis to crush demonstrations and those hidden in Tigray? The Meles regime is now using this famine as an income generating opportunity to strengthen it’s dictatorial rule. The TPLF and Meles are known & are experienced with this shameful & inhuman act even while they are in the jungle. The only difference now is that they have changed their clothe & uniform to look like civilian & democrat leaders so as to trick the West. It’s also making a lot of money from the fictitious Nile/Abay dam. It’s never heard of such a 5.25 GW hydro elec. project planned, designed, studied both on technical, social, cost effectiveness, feasiblity, environmental & ofcourse political issues, debated, made public for all the concerned & international bidders, bid evaluated, awarded and implementation started all with in not more than 3 days. It has never been mentioned in the so called 5 year GTP of the regime which the cadres talking about using as a big propaganda tool since it’s finalization in the second half of 2010. The other laughable part is they assumed a population of 80 millions and the cost of the project came out to be 80 billion Ethiopian birr. Practically, they haven’t made even a single genuine engineering design, nor actual cost calculations. Meles has simply calculated the average amount of Birr he wanted to collect by hook or crook from 80 mill Ethiopians (80,000,000 x 1,000 = 80 Bill), converted to Euro and USD to give it another look. You can clearly understand this from what Meles himself has said while being interviewd by a Saudi journalist. They are saying that people are making profit about 5% by purchasing bonds to fund the project. I doubt if they will be able to get even a fraction of it. If so, they are actually loosing money taking the inflation and degradation of the money value at that time. The other possible trick of the regime with this game is that, those who are forced to purchase the so called Abay bond can’t get a penny of their money before the 2015 election as the minimum maturity issued is 5 years. Thus, they will be tied to vote foe the regime hoping to get their money back after a year in 2016. How a dirty political game they are playing? They were spotted while rushing to transport stones, cement,… days before they started to talk this drama of a big dam. They piled some stones over night just try to fool the people by saying the project is real and actual work has already started, and then to create a fictitious story and use it as a pretext to steal form ethiopians in & out of the country.
Because Nile/Abay is a very sensitive issue to Ethiopians, Meles has seen the opportunity to misuse it for his political game. He created the drama mainly to divert public opinion from what is happening in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya,…. and to collect money by hook or crook. He needed the money no to build such a huge hydro project, nor to feed the hungry, but to feed and embolden his cadres & militias so that they will stay firm 24/7 be crule enogh to crush any possible public demonstration for the respect of universal rights and reform in Ethiopia. They systematically forced the people to “contribute” for the fictitious hydro elec. project. Many civil servants & self dependents took the difficult choice of giving their salary or the minimums they have to feed their family and go to bed empty stomach in order not to be labled by the TPLF/EPRDF tugs as “an obstaacle to development” and be persecuted as a result. The most disgusting part is that now the regime is spending the money on tanks rather than on bread or other related projects. Actually the regime sees the repeated famines as another tool to weaken the public and thus prolong it’s hang on power. How ridiculus is to see a regime begging for both innland and international aid year after year to feed it’s own people and now to implement a fictitious hydro project, but to spend millions of dollars on arms?
Sorry for the West who is turning a blind eye on all the atrocities and inhuman acts of the regime, and applying a double standard. Now, the trend is that the so called War on Terror is a golden gift for dictators all over the world whom want to continue to oppress & suppress their own people so as to prolong their hang on power. They simply align themselves with the US and then the rest of the so called big powers in the West to pretend as if they are the force of stability, peace and eradication of terrorism. Actually the terrorists are the regimes like the TPLF/EPRDF of Meles and other dictators all ove the world. If there is no justice, then there continues to exist grievances and thus violence.
My advice to the West to win against terrorism is first of all get rid off those dictators in Africa, Middle East,…, be respectful, fair and logical to every nation & it’s people irrespective of religion, race, language, existence of oil fields & other natural resources, avoid double standards and put humanity before other political, economical,… interests, be a man of action not words especially towards those dictators aligned with you not to respect humanity and the rule of law but solely to prolong their hang on power,…… Start from stopping your political & military support and application of doule standards to Meles & it’s corrupt, inhuman, undemocratic,… regime. Then the Ethiopian people can win against tyranny and be able to form a civlized, practically democratic, peaceful, cooperative,… society. If you continue to do so to other dictators too, then terrorism will vanish dramatically. But, the problem is that there are many regimes who want the existence of terrorism for their own survival and of cource business.
I think I have to honestly speak about the above 4 comments. They write just like those cyber cadres paid by the Meles regime to mislead the readers, the international community,… As long as they are willing to discuss by speaking from their mind, all ideas are welcome. The problem is the TPLF and it’s cadre & agents don’t have such mentality. They trust on their lies and the use of force if a serious challenge comes in their way.
In my opinion, the article is a realistic one based of facts.
Mr. Thomas, please keep the good work for the sake of helping the voiceless.
Thank you all.
This is a timely and wonderful article. All the people who commented above are the ruling party’s employees who are designated to do such thing. Look Ethiopia spends 100 million euro for tanks while international NGOs begs money for it and for the drought victims. It is really a paradox. I am an African, and I hate Obama much more than ever. I wished he were not partly African. He promised a lot about the world, he is doing the same as his fathers. He permits his errand boy zenawi to starve, to smash his own people. Obama doesn’t see what is going on Ethiopia. If he understands, it was Ethiopia who helped him to be proud of his race. Ethiopia is an emblem of freedom. Had not Ethiopia fought and defeated the Italian white colonizers, Obama’s fathers would have remained slaves. It is Ethiopia who motivated the black people to fight for their freedom. Remember Marcus Garvey, Malcom X , Nelson Mandella, all paid tribute to Ethiopia. Obama now forgets this ancient land at her our of plight with a dictatorial regime in Addis. Obama seems to forget his roots. The whites don’t consider Obama as theirs, but the blacks do; surprizingly he doesn’t consider the blacks as his own. That is the crisis Obama faced personally. The loss of identity. It is only when he turns his face to Africa that he reconciles with his soul. Obama supports Zenawi despite the latter’s iron fist rule over Ethiopians. These tanks are designed none other than mashing poor and starved Ethiopians.
For me all what is reported about Ethiopia from an Eritirean is like’the Amharic saying ‘Yata lemagn tesadbo yihedal’. We know that it is not because Ethiopian ppl are under mercenary rule that you shout, but because the Woyane tugs betrayed you.
Thomas C. Mountain, aka Goitom Berhe, Eritrean propaganda machine…Why don’t you write about the thousands of people fleeing your country every month?
TO ZEHKI : ARE YOU ASKED ABOUT ETHIOPIAN THAT FLEEING ALL OVER THE WORLED? IF YOU KNOW THE TRUTH ASK THE PPL LIVE IN NORWAY, SWEDEN,SUDAN,LBYA,…ETC. SHEM ON YOU TO TALK ABOUT FEELING! IF ERITREAN FEELING BECOUSE OF YOUR PUPPET GEVERNEMENT OF WEYANE SEREVANT NOT BECUSE OF ERITREAN GEVERNMENT! WHAT A SAD THING IS WE HAVE A VERY VERY BAD NIGBORE. TIGRAY WAS NOT SUPOSE TO BE NEAR TO ERITREA. THIS IS A SAD THING. WE HEAT YOU SEREVANT.
who is servant? the eritreans who had been fucked and rammed their ass for a century or the self-esteem people of tigrai? please read and know your history. ascaris eritreans.
who is servant? the eritreans who had been fucked and rammed their ass for a century or the self-esteem people of tigrai? please read and know your history. ascaris eritreans.
Ethiopian,
how clown you are!!!!. Yes Ethiopia needs these thanks and need to be congratulated. The Eritrean askaris should be intimidated
Long live ONLF, freedom fighters, revolutionaries, Meles will be conquered..
Free Ogaden, End the TPLF dirty Woyanes…
Food or Tanks? While outsiders like UK spend their hard earned money on empty belly of Ethiopians, the government of Ethiopia is spending it’s money on empty belly of war. You supporters of the genocidal tyrant Meles Zenawi can say what ever you want but it’s even clear to a child that food is more important than second hand tanks.
Attacking the honest writer will not feed your people as well as the tanks. The money you get from outsiders will not bear any food security, means the starvation cycle will roll over and over forever until you understand the only way out of hunger is hard work but not war or lying yourself.
It is not surprising why a jobless and hopeless Eritrean cadre takes the trouble of writing more than two pages (> 1200 words) to give a negative comment about Ethiopia – and also not surprisingly at all, uses the name “Ethiopian”. This is a very desperate act of a Shabia cadre trying to make Ethiopians hate their country with the remote hope that the country will be weak and those underfeed Eritrean soldiers will be able to “defeat” Ethiopian army in their dream of dividing Ethiopia.
As for Thomas C. Mountain (Goitom Berhe) – it will be a lot better for your “professionalism” if you read just a little bit about Ethiopia before trying to write an article about it. Ethiopia has never conquered any country without being attacked first. Eritrean “conquered” Ethiopia two years before the big war of defense Ethiopia started and cleaned its territory of the Eritrean bandas. These are clear facts and any sane individual will not have problem understanding them – but when you are a defeated Eritrean, you will have big trouble living with these facts and start non sensual argument as given in this article.
Selam! Agafari, Hara, …..
I respect your opinions eventhogh I am not sure wether it’s your own idea or just a job order from your masters. I said nothing negative about Ethiopia, Ethiopians, Eritrea or any of the groups living there. I just expressed my honest feeling about the ethnocratic & dictatorial regime of Meles(Leges) Zenawi and the damages he is causing to Ethiopia and Ethiopians. Frankly speaking, I am not surprised to see that you have labled me as an Eritrean, because that is the simplest tactic to hide yourself when you run out of concrete ideas. It’s not only you who is using this tactic of labling as Shabia, …. whenever you are challenged by facts. It’s the old tricks of the TPLF and now you are applying what they have trained you. Thank you for not throwing me even out of Africa. It’s ok to labled as Eritrean than a non African country, because I am still hoping that one day Eritrea will peacefully come back to it’s home to be united and live together with her mother Ethiopia.
To say a little bit about me, I am a proud true Ethiopian who was born and raised in Ethiopia. I am from a family with a mixed background of Muslim & Ethiopian Ortodox. Though being a Muslim, I spent some months in a church to learn about the Geez letters and Ethiopian numbering system. This mutual existence is what I always like about Ethiopia though your masters are destroying it now just for the sake of “divide and rule”. After completion of 12 years schooling, I spent 1 year in the Natural Science Faculty at Arat kilo and 4 years at the Techno faculty in Amst kilo. As it was & is my dream, I tried to work with my profession in Ethiopia so as to help myself, my country and of course to pay back the nice Ethiopian tax payers who paid for my education. I am not a kind of person obsessed with making a lot of money at young age. To be honest, I have suffered a lot and went through many ups & downs for about 5 years just for the sake of keeping to work in my beloved country. Through those 5 years, I had a job which corresponds to my education and earned a relatively very nice salary as per the living standard there. But, the work environment was really oppressive, painful and disgusting. I just wanted to work freely and professionaly with out the interference of those cadres whom are always aginst true Ethiopian feeling. I can’t accept to betray my country & it’s people simply to get promotion, bonus,… by being a tool of the inhumanTPLF regime. Now, it’s been some years since I’m forced to live in exile. I am not jobless as you are not either. The possible difference may be your employer is may be one of the TPLF professional misleaders office, , but mine is a non-governmental & non-political campany in the technology sector. I am earning my salary simply based on what I do professionaly using the education I learned in Ethiopia (thanks to the people of Ethiopia), but you are may be earning as per the number of misleading comments you write on behalf of the shamful regime of Meles’s TPLF. Sorry, I wrote a lot not to make you believe me, but to say a little bit of the facts I have to say.
I don’t want to insult you like you did against me and the journalist, simply b/c that is not my nature. Fortunately, my mind is still not infected by the woyanne virus which turns people’s mind to work aginst their own country and peope. If you think you are a true Ethiopian with a genuine Ethiopian feeling and concern, let me ask both of you simple questions. I am not expecting an answer, but it will be nice if you honestly answer it for you.Temporarily let’s forget about TPLF, Shabia, ….
1. If you are true Ethiopian with a real concern for it’s soverignity, heritage, it’s people, the coming generations,…, why are you collaborating with the TPLF regime which is actively working aginst the interest of Ethiopia & Ethiopians?
2. Who is the one who orchastrated and did all the necessary preparations to separate Eritrea from it’s mother Ethiopia, is it me or your masters Meles, Bereket,….?
3. If you are asuming all Eritreans to be an arc enemy of Ethiopia & Ethiopians, why are you working as the cadres of Meles(Leges) Zenawi who is an “Eritrean” by his mother, Bereket Simon who is also an “Eritrean” but hiding himself as if he is from the amhara ethnic group,….. and the likes in the TPLF hirarchey?
4. Why are you shutting up while your master Meles is giving away Ethiopian lands Sudan in as a gift for Albeshir’s support to oppress democracy lover Ethiopian brother and sisters living there? Is it me who is betraying the people by collaborating with an anti Ethiopia regime in Addis?
5. Why don’t you say something to your masters while they are systematically clearing farmers from their ancestoral fertile farm lands and leasing it to foreigners whom want to grow crops and export it to India, Europe,… while millions are at the verge of dying because of lack of something to eat?
6. I wrote what I feel about suppression of Ethiopians and destruction of Ethiopia by the TPLF/EPRDF, but why you jumped to protecting the Eritreans whom are ruling Ethiopia by hook or crook from Addis Abeba?
7. Is your future solely dependent on the existence of the Meles regime?
8. Do you think your future will be threatened if Ethiopia gets the chance of being rule by leaders “from Ethiopia, by Ethiopians, to Ethiopia”?
9. Can you honestly define what your masters group name the “TPLF stands for, what it really means, why it still stays as it is even after 20 years of coming to power to rule Ethiopia?
10. Why is Meles Zenawi still the leader of the Tigrean People Liberation Front while being the “Crime Minister” of Ethiopia? Is it to mean that Meles is still leading the fight to liberate Tigray?
11. Which country is occuping Tigray and the TPLF is there to liberate from?
12. I believe that you have a great mind just because you are a human being. Why don’t you use it to be a person of your own, think independently, think positively, to find out your true identity, work for your country & people rather than wasting your time to count someone’s words and write destructive comments just for the sake of helping the anti-Ethiopian cliques hanging on power?…..
13. Do you really think that spending millions of dollars on painted second hand tanks from the Soviet era while millions in Ethiopia are dying of hunger, while the regime is begging for aid money tin the name of saving the life of children and mothers suffering from lack of food in their own country is a logical and justifiable action?
Try to find out your identity and the identity & vision of your masters. I can assure you that if Ethiopia becomes free, you will also be free. If the TPLF succeds in disintegrating Ethiopia, you will also suffer from the consequences unless you are from the disintegrator’s side. Don’t be afraid! If there is freedom and real democracy there, Ethiopia will be a land of opportunities for all of us. There will be enough place for all of us, we all can reconcile to one another if there is the willingness to move together for helping Ethiopia & Ethiopians. Meles’s claim of “no TPLF in power in Addis, then no Ethiopia” is an empty propaganda to divide and rule us. Of course when their plan A of ruling Ethiopia comes to an end one or another way, they might try to revert to their plan B of forming the Greater Republic of Tigray. That is why they are still keeping the name and the function of the TPLF as it was declared in 1976 G.C.
Brothers and sisters, please wake up! Use your mind which is a natural gift for all of us!
As long as you recognize what you are doing against Ethiopia and honestly reconcile with your self, it will never be too late.
I hope one day you all will come to terms with your mind! Therefor I would say chaw with respect.
In my opinion i dint think that Ethiopia have to spend this much of its money on such things; But, if we have to survive as a nation it is a must to be Strong…
About the writer of this i can only say that you are just someone with a lot of bad wish about Ethiopia. it is all negativity filled in your mind.
People are supposed to be rational for their advantage not only for themselves but also for their neigbours too! Hence,Ethiopian people are genuine & not enemy of Eritrean people rather brothers and sisters.All comments are a bit one sided full of hatred to one another.I think journalists are supposed to revealed facts based on tangible evidences,sided to neither partiesor governments .But the article posted above is not neutral.though the fact may have realities.
Whatever you write about Ethiopia, I don’t mind; I say , mind your own bussiness!!!. Ethiopians are working to fight poverty and illitracy; but , at the same time We work day and night to remain secured and peacefull. Don’t wory we will overcome our ENEMIES – illitracy ,poverty with our best policy. THOSE OF YOU , who do not like our peace and development just shut -up!!!.
Long live Ethiopia!!!
I’m really against the idea of buying tanks while leaving your countrymen for foreigners to feed them. That is a shame!
However, the so called journalist Mr. Thomas C. Mountain is 100% Eritrean and can not be called a journalist even an amateur journalist. He is taking words 1 to 1 from the Eritrean government propaganda without even bothering to check for the facts. He is not a Journalist at all. He is a joke!
This is a pure propaganda campaign by shaebia’s cadre. It is not your business about our country, mind you your young generation is spreading all over the world do something about it.
the sun rise on the fact ,we Ethiopians suffer by brutual dictators. they bougt the tank to crush Ethiopians who asked their right & freedom. by the way Melese regime assighn & pay coment writers in favour him.
Its funny this air-train booty licker Thomas C mountain can’t even spell Meles correctly, not to mention his defense of the dictator of asmara, Isaias Afewerki.
This idiot wrote that the 4 British citizens jailed and tortured by Eritrea were “mercenaries” with “intent to kill”. Such fabrications comes from the delusional old crazy dictator Isaias afewreki and his parrot Thomas C Mountain.
A disgraceful article from a disgraceful person.
You are one dumb @$$ zombie and sheeple minion.
Go find out what all this means.
watch loosechange on you tube and you will understand.
We Ethiopians need 200 tanks to come to Asmara and stop Al Shabab sympathizers like Thomas C. Mountain. We cannot use human wave again to brake through the Eritreans camped at our border.
This time we do not need an invading neighbor to take action. It will be a pre emptive strike. Mr. Thomas, head to Europe or the US, or you will join the two Sweedes in the beloved Hotel(Jail) in Jijiga.
Million and lol@eritrea
watch loosechange on you tube and you will understand.
You are one dumb @$$ zombie and sheeple minion.
Go find out what minion, and zombie means.
As far as eritrea, sitting behind a computer is not the way to do it.
come to asmara and i will show you
What? “Come to asmara and show you”? you must be crazy to invite us to come to asmara because we can do that in a matter of few hours, as we did last time, may be then you will show us how to plead the UN in the middle of the night to ask ethiopia stop, like you did last time while we were coming to asmara, by then we were only 70 KM away from asmara and we stopped there and went back that is because we respect UN, this time no such thing. In Derg time we fucked your moms and sisters this time we will fuck your brothers and fathers.
Keep smiling
MELES AND USA IS THE ENEMY OF PEACE. GOD BLESS DEAR. PR. ISAYAS AFEWORKI AND PPL OF ERITREA FOREVER.
Thomas Mountain is neither a journalist nor a normal person. Although, he is wrong in most of his the so called “journalistic” life, his report here is correct. Thug Zenawi is buying tanks to feed over 14 million Ethiopians who wish him to disappear.
Afewerki is not different from Zenawi or any other killer blood sucking starving children in Africa.
Thomas appears a welfare child of Afewerki…..he would write any thing if he gets paid……as he recently said “he is the only “western” journalist in Asmara becasue he is very independant.
Thomas C Mountain is one of the greatest free lance journalist in the horn of Africa. This man always impresses me with his knowledge. He’s the only real journalist calling a spade a spade. What in God’s name is the genocidal tyrant of Ethiopia (Meles Zenawi) doing buying $100 million worth in outdated tanks from Ukraine, while millions of Ethiopians are starving to death? The only solution for this warmongering mad-man is a swift and rapid regime change. Ethiopian people need freedom from this tyrant!
“If there is one country where the fighting of extremists and terrorists was a priority when it mattered, it was Eritrea,” said Ted Dagne, an Africa specialist for the Congressional Research Service. – By Jeffery Gentlemen, Sep, 18, 2007, New York Times
“The Terrorism Stock Market: Ethiopia and Al-Shabab” – must read
http://www.madote.com/2011/07/terrorism-stock-market-ethiopia-and-al.html
Shabya is working without rest to divided historical country Ethiopia in 4 parts but God is not helping Shabia . Egypt Mubrek was working for that for the last 30 years but God took him a way now he is living between death and life. Libya Gadafe was one of the guy who is working to dismantle Ethiopia but God put him in the trash .The Eretria president grow Ethiopia and the country after teach him he worked with Arab mafia and Jihad to dismantle Ethiopia but still he is suffering with different problem .anyone who touch Ethiopia doesn’t have good luck . Eritrean was playing good game when they lived Ethiopia they were milliner but they have been forgot that money and bless from where that came from. Ethiopia gives them a chance more than anyone but they attacked this innocent country and people. But God was watching and after Ethiopian Eritrean war they got what they deserved which is instead of prosperity death, migration, and economical suffering. Yes God is watching. Ethiopia might need 1000 tanks rocket long scud missile and other weapons because the country is surrounded by jihad elements and extern Arab mafia. Last year 80 churches burn in Ethiopia by fundamental Islamic group. We know our problem so we might need more than what we have. Thomas C. Mountain please we know our problem I don’t know why you guys are interfere Ethiopian internal issue after Eritrean referendum you guys jumping every where it is not good idea GOD is watching.
I don’t understand why this Asmara /Eritrea based Tourist , who claims him self as journalist but works as PR for the Asmara regime wants to wrtie about Ethiopia
. He mentioned about the Ethio-Eritrea war as if Ethiopia is invader ; however the UN security council agreed that Eritrea is an invader rather than TPLF. I don’t agree buying thanks should be Ethiopia’s priority whiel million are starving , but Ethiopia has the right to build its military as any other countries in the world do..Mr Thoms please write more news about the Human right violation in Eritrea and how the people of Eritrea are deprived because of the deceitful regime of Isays Afworki who is the God father of Melse /Legisse/ Zenawi both are terrorising the Horn of Africa
Peace be up on Ethiopia the only country in Africa never colonized !!!
Regardless of your position on the nature of the Ethiopian government, Thomas Mountain is clearly allowing himself as a propoganda tool of the Eritrean government. There are so many deliberate lies and distortions in the article, I am surprized someone at Foreign Policy allowed it to be published. Clearly journalistic integrity does not apply when it comes to reporting on Africa.
ak, You are welcome to elaborate and cite an example of a lie or distortion. Even just a single example.
@sisu , u and meles r slaves and ur master r us and eu .best President ever =Wedi Aforki and ERITREA is no 1 in Africa
Good grief. Why is the Journal allowing this propagandist/conspiracy theorist to post his garbage? The lies and spin in this piece are appalling, as they are most of his pieces.
akw, You are welcome to elaborate and offer an example. Even just a single example.
A “friendly tyrant” like Meles Zenawi should do everything possible to eliminate his “enemies” /his people. Donors are ready to prolong this reign of state terror and as long as the WEST does not change its policy of supporting “friendly tyrants” unfortunately Ethiopians and elsewhere in developing countries suffer under state terrorism.
fellow ethiopians ,do not be fooled by the writer !! he is a parasitic eretrian under a western name …
one day we will be neclear bomb owners
I wish to know what parasites (eretrians ) would say by then .
key ==parasites mean –hookworms,askaris ,tapeworms etc who are dependent on living things .
we were great !!! we shall assume that one day !!!!
@historian , we ERITRANS r very hard workers and work evry day 2 develop beloved ERITREA and hard work paid off , who is beging FOOD & HELP now . BTW WHAT KIND HISTOREAN R U?
The Ethiopian Agames and the Amhara gala are all
the Mouses of east Africa they live to beg.
When was the last time you met an honest Agame or Amhara. Their lies and deception has allow them to buy Tanks and Weapon to further destablize the Horn of Africa instead of feeding starving people. the West will soon reliaze what kind of evil regime they are supporting.
The ethiopian agames and the Amhara
they don’t know how to use their land
because they are brainless they are made
for handout,Egypt and the Sudan are coming
take the Nile for good.