VIEWPOINT
It was not without reason that this undying and muddled group was named “anarchist”. It is because it was a band of ruthless individuals who later had to bring havoc over our people. With their scheme of murder and horror they call, “White Terror,” hundreds of thousands of lives has been lost. They killed their political opponents mercilessly anywhere and everywhere.
In those days, these pioneers of anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism, the EPRPs, were tough indeed. They sang the song of International communism, preached anarchism and organized vandalism. Now days, though weak and defunct at home they are better organized abroad. A large number of EPRP members strive to pull together in
Europe and the United States. At home they are wanted criminals totally abandoned by the society. Here in the United States they lousily scramble to bring back their communist dream to Ethiopia. In their effort to do so, they cast a radio program in which they try to poison those who do not know them well. It was in this radio broadcasting that I listened to one of their horrible comments slashing the nation’s major opposition party, the All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP) and its leadership some three weeks ago. I was really stunned! Because, no one with a comfort of biting the king and queen burger in the McDonalds of Washington DC and Los Angeles will dare to utter a word against those patriots at home confronting the heavily armed outlaw militiamen of the EPRDF. But EPRDF does! because it is by nature unbound by the law of society. I am not a member of AEUP. I am just a non-partisan individual who aspire for a better government in our country. The commentary broadcasted by the EPRP Radio was quiet pathetic and actually deserved an immediate response; but no response has been made on the part of AEUP. To my dismay, I, once again came across their agonizing comment against the same party, this time in the pioneer web page of “Ethiomedia.com.”
AEUP never replied again. This is perhaps considering its talk show as trash or considering EPRP’s belligerent custom and tradition that is uncorrectable. Or perhaps AEUP maybe busy organizing the peasantry and simply hopes for some one who loves his country take care of the anarchists so that they zip up their big mouths. That thought pushed me to write this article to tell the anarchists to zip up and pull off their hands from the untiring organizers who work day and night to oust EPRDF and bring us hope and aspiration.
I do not want to go to what the anarchists in their article called for; discussion or argument because I know they will at the end pull their gun and explode into violence. I shall leave that to others to dwell on the revealing of the evils of this group, its intention and why it is now attacking AEUP. Therefore the purpose of this article shall be to hint what is the nature of EPRP? What really it wants to be? And what is that it wants from the People of Ethiopia?
It is to be recalled that it is this chaotic and quixotic group that started what the Derg called the “White Terror.“ The Derg, another tyrant itself could easily take the opportunity of killing en mass on the pretext that the anarchist EPRDF in its “White Terror” program targeted its members and therefore had to respond with what it called the “Stalin Stick” or the “Red Terror.” EPRDF carried on its black death killing those what it called “banda” (pro-derg), and Derg went on killing not only the ‘anarchists’ but uncountable innocent citizens. Terror reigned in Ethiopia in colors of “white” and “red.” The time itself was named “reign of terror.” Red or white, terror is terror. Therefore both EPRP and the Derg with its party, the Workers Party of Ethiopia (WPE) are terrorists by property of association.
It is also eminent that the Eritrean Liberation Front (EPLF) trained by Arab terrorists such as Syria, Iran, Iraque, Libya and Algeria in turn trained EPRP army (EPRPA) and the EPRDF army (EPRDFA). Some of the top officers of both parties were sent to the Arab terrorist camps for further training. The evidence is that the terrorists in the Alquaida apply same gorilla warfare tactics and wear same kind of uniform like the EPRDFA and EPRPA. Now, the WPE authorities are convicted of conducting the Red Terror and are confined in a country jail waiting for the verdict of “death by hang.” Very unjustly and very sadly EPRP members who were equally engaged in terrorizing the people of Ethiopia are not. This is because a large part of the EPRDF leadership is composed of the former EPRP members who themselves carried out the “White Terror.” It is therefore eminent that EPLF, EPRDF, and TPLF are all terrorists by distributive property. When time permits, there is no doubt that both EPRDF and EPRP shall face public justice.
We have seen that EPRP is terrorist both by associative and distributive property. How dare then it could compare AEUP with INKATHA? Aren’t former EPRP members like Tamirat Layene the menaces that fought the Ethiopian army side by side with woyane? Who is Tefera Walwa? Didn’t he give us a series of lectures on his adventure as a member of EPRP in the Ethiopian TV and Radio casts? What about Kassu Illala? Whose product is he? Isn’t he one of the top most EPRP members we call “tuba” EPRPS? So, who is closer to woyane? AEUP or EPRP? Count me a single AEUP official who is not a tested anti-woyane? Mention a single person in the leadership of AEUP that you call pro-woyane and I will give up my challenge with apology. In AEUP men and women we know are followers of the great Asrat Woldeyes who was the only one to object the secede of Eritrea in a woyane forum unlike some pretentious party leaders who now
pretend to be pro-Ethiopian unity but raised their hand high voting for Eritrea to seceed. Since when have these individuals started thinking about Ethiopian Unity, Ethiopian Front etc..God knows and of course the people of Ethiopia also know. In AEUP there are no gutless men and women who side anti-Ethiopia elements. In AEUP there are no men and women who fought in the battlefield side by side with Eritreans against their country like in EPRP. So who is INKATHA? EPRP or AEUP? What then is EPRP looking for now? Doesn’t it know that the public has spitted it out? Doesn’t it know that the people of Ethiopia do not want to see anarchism prevailing and havoc hovering over them? The answer is “yes, it does!” but it is trying to escape some how and grab political power so that it may play its game once in power. How does it escape? Escape through poor UEDF! Escape in the name of “Unity!” Thus EPRP is trying to make UEDF a hiding and riding vehicle that would escalate it to political power unchecked. The people of Ethiopia will have to watch out this dangerous game.
Gluing itself with what it calls its baby, UEDF, EPRP skulks around to win the sympathy of the people of Ethiopia; in the name of a front for United Ethiopia! Give me a break! Since when is EPRP advocate of Ethiopian Unity? Isn’t it a group who advocated the secession of Eritrea? Isn’t it a group who supported the 1976 invasion of Somalia? Since when has the EPRP started to worry about Ethiopian unity? The bottom line is that it is all a pretension. A loophole to pass through the political forum that EPRP gained from the Washington Convention. If it were not for that forum, EPRP knows that it was to remain a prodigal son of the Ethiopia politics. Still, I don’t think that there will be an easy way for EPRP to pass to power. Because EPRP will not refrain from conspiring., it shall remain where it was, in the Bermuda Triangle.
Let me remind EPRP the saying it forgot as it forgot its offence. “ye wega biresa yetewega airesa” (If an assaulter forgets its offence the victim does not forget its injury. ” To day Ethiopian mothers have not forgotten the agony of losing their sons, and daughters, Ethiopian ladies have not forgotten the loss of their loved once, a father like me can never forget the loss of a child who by now could have been a shield to any offence aimed at our country. I cannot forgive your sin for recruiting, brainwashing and hypnotizing my youngest brother who was brutally murdered by the fascist regime engaged in quenching your anarchic and satanic thirst of power. You think we for get all that? How can we forget the thousands of corps that have been left in the sun forbidden to burry? How can we forget the odd days you brought upon us in which fathers were tortured, mothers were bewildered for hiding their children? As we do not forget the havoc that the Italians brought upon us on March 5, 1937 which we are celebrating every year, we shall not forget the havoc EPRP and the Derg regime brought upon us in the mid 1970s.
So, belligerent EPRP, as Girmame Neway said “ Woman of my brother get out of my way”, get out of our ways! Wash the blood that stained your hands! though as Shakespeare said in Makbeth “even the perfume of Paris” cannot clean the stain in your hands. Zip up EPRP! Whiz kid working!