Abadula gemeda Resign from his position as Speaker of the house

That what happens when someone cajoles with predators in their heathens’ den. Do you remember the days during the demonic Mengistu regime? Boy, I used to hear it, man, from two contrasting sides. One used to tell me Mengistu was a product of the oppressed and had not choice but to side with the poor masses. The other side used to tell me that Mengistu’s ‘mass’ base was so narrow that he can be beat before the end of the following week. Well, well, well!!! The first group were not even enough for breakfast for Mengistu huge human blood appetite. Pooof….They were gone. The 2nd group tried to pick up a fight with Mengistu’s ruthless but well armed security forces with only sickle and hammer. Well, not exactly that!!! They had some bolt action rifles like Fusil Gras and on a good day may be a revolver with only 5 bullets in it!!! Now this man thought he would found a new fiefdom entity on its own by working closely with a very calculating demons of the Marxist make but he ended up guarding the big house so earnestly that even his own bosses might have been saying ‘Is this real? Is he a living, breathing being?’. Now he is heading to the place and the only place they had reserved for him – The Dog House. He is not the first one. Do you want me to call names and count for you? No, no, no!!! You know them all. All of them used to dance on the streets of Addis(Finfine) when more than 200 peaceful demonstrators were ruthlessly gunned down in broad day light in 2005. Now, I did not make up that brutal killing but it is right there in the report of the investigation committee set up by the regime itself. The same man was the member of the ruling party, EPRDF, when it committed a crime against humanity that was categorized as such by the 3rd Geneva Convention. That crime was the summary execution of prisoners of war in 1991 after it took over governing the country. Again, I did not make this up. We were told in the clearest clarion way by one of the former leaders of the TPLF, Mr. Gebru Asrat. I always ask myself the question: How come anyone of these lawyers of our own Diaspora who are always eager to dangle their credentials in our faces, did not open a case at The Hague? Where are you and your oath as a protector of the vulnerable? Where was this Aba Dula when that serious international crime was committed? To me that was a very serious crime that desrve a day at The Hague.

Now we have to pause here and ask the cardinal question: How come the regime so reviled for its deadly policies to its peaceful adversaries seems to be able to whither one storm after another for so long? Well the answer is so vividly inscribed in big and bold letters on the wall. That is there is no viable and strong opposition. It is so fragmented seemingly beyond repair. Again, I am not making this one up either. Just look at and try to count them. They are grouped the old fashioned way – along narrow and usually bigoted ethnic lines, along even ideological lines, along I-don’t-know-what lines. Let’s say tomorrow US and its allies want to talk to an opposition groups in one room. Where will they start? Dizzying, right? That is what I am talking about. Sad, sad, very sad indeed!!!