Dear Aiga/Netters:

Lies after lies do not make accurate news. It always amazes me on how pathological liars such as Tamagn B try to undermine their audiences. "Zeywegh-ya mesiluwas ab Buckra........"

Yesterday, I stopped by a local Ethiopian restaurant in town. It was 7pm Eastern standard time. The TV  at the restaurant was on with "Ethiopian Television Network News." Although I heard the existence of It, I never had a first hand exposure to it until yesterday. Anyhow, as I just took my sit and started to watch the news broadcaster, Tamagn B, or should I name him Aytamen, oops. He pops up on the screen and asking his viewers an apology for not able to have his guests appear on time as planned and that there will be 15 to 20 minutes delay. Then, about fifteen minutes to the hour, he comes back and states that there is "seber zena."  That is, breaking news.

That breaking news was, according to him, "Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, has arrived in Washington DC. this after noon" means on June 26, 2007. And he goes on and on insinuating as why the PM has arrived and that he was in town to lobby Congress not to pass the so called HR2003.

As I watched that news, I did not have any reason to doubt or not to believe him. How ever, I wanted to know more of this breaking news and headed back to my office searching for more news pertaining to the arrival of the PM in DC. No any Ethiopian related web sites has carried the news yet.

This early morning I surfaced some sites again, but non of them carried the so called breaking news at all.  Honestly speaking I started to suspect the so called seber zena broadcast by Tamagn Beyene, hence Aytamenm.

Finally, just a moment ago, I opened some Ethiopian sites, including this one, and I read news from Addis that Prime Minster Meles Zenawi will present the performance report of the Government on Thursday to the House of Peoples' Representatives.[ENA.

Well, I leave the rest to all the readers, but this is what we call Tsa'eda Hasot or Nech Wshet means white lie. But I still could not believe that someone can go to this length and tell unfounded, unproven false story. Gmel sercko gombes gombes say our country men. I wonder when they are going to learn to tell the truth. The good news from this is, the more they lie, the more they get exposed and shame on them.

Tamrat Tesema