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From our E-mail…Aendethiopia@gmail.com

To the producers of aend Ethiopia Radio,

I listen to your radio regularly and I admire you for being great advocate of one Ethiopia. I agree with you 100% we don’t need arms struggle to change a government but you have to understand Zenwai comes from the culture of confrontation and violence just like your partner said on his analyses.

I am not supporter or a member of any political group. I don’t believe in ethnic federalism but I support the sacrifice of EPRDF in particular of TPLF for removing DERG. Having said that on your last Sunday radio broadcasting you referred that PM Meles Zenawi as great leader. I don’t know your criteria and test to pass for good leadership, but I think you fail short of describing Zenawi as a great leader. Great leaders are like Gandhi, Mandela, George Washington and Charles de Gaulle. These are great leaders came to power through public uprising just like the prime minster of Ethiopia, however; unlike the prime minster they gave the power to their people and that makes them great leaders.

PM Zenawi treats his opponents as his enemies and he calls his comrades in arm as enemy of people. He uses the constitution to punish his opponents. Classic example, he convened a special session to create a law so his comrade in arms Seye Abraha to stay in jail without bail. Another one after his party lost Addis Ababa he tried to make Addis the capitol of Aromiya just to create chaos among the people.  Another one he changed the law of introducing a bill from twenty signatures to more signatures because the opposition won more than twenty seats.  I can give a list of Zenwi gaffes in his 30 years tenure but it will be wasting your time. And I am sure you know it all unless you don’t want to admit it.

Do you know his party owns multi billion business and there is no accountability and transparency on the business? As a journalist have you ever asked if they pay taxes? Have you ever asked where the money goes? Have ever question why people held in comunicado without trail, you have a weekly reporter he can check this for you. If trying to say we have better leader than the previous, I will agree with you totally but to call Zenawi a great leader you wrong. BTW Zenawi was named worst dictator by parade magazine.

NB. I am writing this letter because you are the only one that make sense in current Ethiopian politics, and also apologise for not writing you in Amharic.

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