The type of mentality EPRDF and its supporters have is so frightening. Unless one thinks the way they want him or her to think, its got to be silenced. Debating or matured dialogue doesn’t seem to belong in their dictionary. Instead of arguing why a certain idea is wrong or right, what they like and know to do is attack the person who came up with it. A couple of weeks ago, Teddy afro gave an interview to addis admass news paper. Apparently, some "organization" that calles itself "Tigrean Youth Association, Addis Ababa Branch" was ticked off with the issues teddy raised in the course of the interview. And what this so called "association" chose to do wasn’t to point out the problems in teddy's argument. Rather, complain why the newspaper dare to publish it. No matter how many times one reads their poorly written letter to addis admas, its impossible to find any mildly convincing reason why they disagree with Teddy. They are an embarrassment to themselves and the youth they claim to represent
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Various news medias have reported that the Meles government and its supporters are spending way too much money to the millennium celebration. Its an opportunity for them to show the world that Ethiopia is a stabilized nation and everything is under control. And its an opportunity for us, the opposition camp, to show the world that the country is far from stabilized and there is deep rooted and repressed resentment toward EPRDF. It is absolutely necessary that we do our homework right in asserting our claim. The millennium is a big opportunity we can't afford to miss.
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Now the Ethiopian North America soccer tournament is underway, we believe that political organizations are using the opportunity to reach many people. We got to be careful here. The diaspora have heard enough empty rhetoric and read countless press releases already. Unless that trend changes and we get back to action, its going to disappoint a whole lot of supporters than we can even imagine.So what we need from our diaspora opposition leaders is: less talk and more tangible action.
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Various news medias have reported that the Meles government and its supporters are spending way too much money to the millennium celebration. Its an opportunity for them to show the world that Ethiopia is a stabilized nation and everything is under control. And its an opportunity for us, the opposition camp, to show the world that the country is far from stabilized and there is deep rooted and repressed resentment toward EPRDF. It is absolutely necessary that we do our homework right in asserting our claim. The millennium is a big opportunity we can't afford to miss.
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Now the Ethiopian North America soccer tournament is underway, we believe that political organizations are using the opportunity to reach many people. We got to be careful here. The diaspora have heard enough empty rhetoric and read countless press releases already. Unless that trend changes and we get back to action, its going to disappoint a whole lot of supporters than we can even imagine.So what we need from our diaspora opposition leaders is: less talk and more tangible action.
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following your blog all along, u seem to reflect the voices of most of us. we need unity and we need action.
we support leaders who walks the talk not just talk the talk.
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