When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage

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The news that the two most pro-active members of CUDP Diaspora, namely Kassa Kebede and Andargatchew Tsiege, from Washington D.C. and London respectively, have established an ‘Axis of Evil’ with Shabia (Reporter 26th February) did not come as a surprise to this scribe.

In August 2001, I made an attempt to alert my compatriots to Kassa Kebede’s cloak-and-dagger activities in an article I posted on www.ethiopiafirst.com (“Kassa Kebede, OLF and Guess Who Else?”) Moreover, I also took to task the London-based Ethiopian Community in Britain (ECB) – now endearingly dubbed Ethiopian Comrades in Britain – for its gross dereliction of duty by extending an invitation to Kassa Kebede whose reported aim and goal is to “divide Ethiopia into mini-Islamist states.” For many years this new Leader of the Derg (after receiving ‘the Baton of Tyranny’ from travel-restricted Mengistu Haile Mariam) had expended money, time and energy to make the ECB in London the Derg HQ in exile until his plan crumbled like a house of cards when he was ordered to leave and never to return to the United Kingdom by the British security services.

The same can be said of Andargatchew Tsiege, albeit he falls far short in terms of enjoying the same clout as Kassa. Nevertheless, the two share the same denominator: pulling wool over the eyes of Ethiopian Diaspora. Hundreds of innocent Ethiopians contributed most generously in the belief that they were supporting the party of their choice. They will now have to come to terms with the knowledge that their offerings had made it instead to the coffers of foreign currency-strained Shabia who would, in turn, use it to kill and maim their kith and kin in its anticipated wanton act of aggression to destroy the Motherland they dearly love.

No ‘sane’ Ethiopian – come what may – will send their hands to their pockets and chip in a penny to Shabia. Opposing Meles Zenawi is the democratic right of anyone, but to side with a nation that is currently in a heightened state of belligerency with Ethiopia is a blatant act of treason and, therefore, worthy of vehement condemnation by the ‘true’ sons and daughters of Ethiopia.

We all know that Shabia has no policy of peaceful co-existence with Ethiopia. We also know that Shabia is bent on destroying the union of free and equal Ethiopians precisely because such a union poses a big threat to the one party rule that suffocates ethnic and religious differences in Eritrea. Besides, these traitors especially the “Kebe Brothers” (Mengistu and Kassa) are still regarded by ordinary Eritreans as the butchers of Eritrea.

It is in the face of these glaring facts that these individuals have decided to align themselves with Ethiopia’s traditional enemy. You don’t have to be a clairvoyant, therefore, to realise that no good can come of an alliance between two bad characters who were formerly enemies. But a big lesson has to be learnt, and learnt fast. Remember that these individuals and their likes have been deafening our ears with their “Mother Ethiopia” sermon. They contracted sore throat after sore throat telling us what it means to be a true Ethiopian and we saw them, did we not, burying the name of Meles Zenawi under an avalanche of invectives for allegedly working in cahoots with Shabia against the national interest of Ethiopia. Any one who refused to join their ‘choir’ of smear-aholics was branded a traitor and a hodam (Amharic for the gutsatorially-fixated). But now, perhaps to our surprise, we have found out that they don’t after all practice what they preach. In short, they and their likes have passed the test of the fake-democrat-in-nationalist-clothing with flying colours. To the delight of us, their critics, we’ve also found out that when they pointed one finger at us three of their fingers were pointing at them.

Not seldom, but never, has a democratic electorate allowed itself to either be dormant or door-mat to the chicaneries of quislings. The idea that Kassa Kebede and co. and Shabia constitute the dream team to topple the democratically-elected government in Addis Ababa is, therefore, palpable nonsense.

So the advice that we must force our selves to heed must be: “If a Derg-cum-CUDP cheats us once shame on them, if twice shame on us.”

In conclusion, let our Admiral Quislings continue to flock to their ‘Fuehrer’ while we proudly proclaim: “its neck or nothing” and close ranks.

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