Ethiopia's No. One Enemy is Meles Zenawi
Warn Ethiopian panelists on Radio Dejen
December 4, 2006

Panelists comprising Mezgebe Berhe, Girmai Bahli and Abraham Alemseged (Chicago and Dallas, respectively), Leake G. Tsadik (Canada), and Beyene Gebrai (Denmark) warned members of the Ethiopian Defense and Security Forces that they would ultimately be held responsible for working for the "enemy of the nation" unless they heed the call of the suffering Ethiopian people and join the struggle that aims to take Zenawi to justice.

The Tigrinya-speaking Ethiopians were almost unanimous in identifying the prime minister as the singlemost threat to Ethiopia. They described Meles as an anti-Ethiopia element whose crimes against the country range from gross human rights violations like the June-November 2005 killings in Addis Ababa to treasonous crimes of betrayal of the nation committed during the conflict with Eritrea six years ago.

Jointly, the speakers condemned the dictator as an enemy who willfully averted the victory of the Ethiopian armed forces during the 1998-2000 Eritrea War but has now the audacity to cry wolf and warn Ethiopians that Eritrea was preparing to attack Ethiopia via Somalia.

"A problem well identified is a problem half-solved," said Mezgebe Berhe, a communications technologist from Chicago who warned that Meles and his cadres were spreading fear that Ethiopia would break up unless the people rise up against radical Islamists.