What Is The Purpose Of Alemseged's Tour? Who Is The Sponsor Of His Tour? 

By Getachew Reda 

"There is nothing worse than to live a life in fear of another human being, I will always needle Ethiopian leaders, I will be a thorn in their side; criticizing, even insulting them whenever I see injustice, despotic behavior and anti democratic and anti people tendencies. I have tremendous faith and respect for the simple men and women of Ethiopia. I believe there will come a day when citizens of Ethiopia will live all fair right, and need my help least" 

Indeed! The above description is exactly how I feel when I think of any high TPLF official. But isn't it ironic why the Ethiopian scholars kept their pen close in their pocket, while knowing one of the top dissident TPLF official Alemseged GebreAmlak is touring in the US? Before him Gebru Asrat too is amongst us here residing in the Diaspora. And yet I haven't seen any protest from anyone yet to expose these individuals who have done a huge impact to the distraction of our nation. 

What is more alarming is, none of us knows why and how Alemseged GebreAmlak is here present among us, schedule to tour all over the States & Canada. Most of all it is not clear to the public who sponsored such very expensive tour. Somehow somebody, group of people must have an admiration to these individuals (Ex-TPLF officials) to cover their expenses, if such expense isn't covered by individuals or groups, then it must be miraculously by the Bandas in power (which I doubt it). Some people just took a wild guess to who sponsored such a tour. Among the numerous guesses, the roomer dims directly to the members who were ex-supporters of TPLF. If such rumor is correct, then we are facing a new crisis, a crisis that will open a chance for dictators to redemption their position. 

This is why I am critique against the Tigrian educated elements, that have the power to peruse such groups with their pen, why they at this time prefer to hush their opinion without protesting even on the Internet media. Where will this new spin going to take us again? Are we a "dumping site" where every horrifying dead squad members and adversaries of the people, whose history is attached to a repressive and violent organization, can come and dumped their unforgivable theories & practices? Aren't we becoming naive? Who is naive? Alemseged or the Tigrians who are invited (host)? in every State to listen to what he has to say? I don't blame Alemseged for a moment. He is promoting his views, as long as someone is listening him and have trust on him and his groups WHY NOT? I am sure all the Tigrians aren't evolved in such weakness, but it is individual or groups from Tigrians, not the Amharans or Afars or Somalians, Oromos... who orchestrated such ugly invitation? We can't let such scenario go for fear not to be criticized or collide with debates, insults, from readers. This is after all a struggle. 

We have cracked TPLF to the present stage through our struggle using our pen, without shooting a singe bullet for the last ten years (the next stage must be a pen or a gun God knows what must be best to bring the thugs down) . It is on such stage, which they are trying to rebirth their ugly smile without regret to their crime. It is not mystery, how such individuals like Alemseged GebreAmlak have passed through difficult encounters and challenges, to clear their obstacles. It is through murdering and crafty skills they are still surviving. They are very seductive and experienced ethnocentric individuals with skill who squashed Tigrians into a cage of narrow nationalistic feeling, to nourish their own power ego. Alemseged and Gebru were in the heart of Tigray, ruling Tigrian farmers giving a deceit hope. Let others do write their records of the bush. I am going to concentrate for now, how the unfortunate Tigray was look like when under those leading political and administrative figures Gebru or Alemseged were in power. They discredit the hospitality of the people. Their element of spy was after every Tigrians. They locked up the entire population into their political cage, closely controlled them, and prohibited them to associate oneself outside their approval. This officials and their spy agents knows the background of each residence, what they eat, what they speak and what their activity and future plan and, what family to whom each belongs. They terrified the residences with their vengeance for fear of loosing them to other political groups. Their incompetent experience regarding the freedom of speech and writing was so bad, that to the extent there were no private papers allowed for distribution outside their own media distribution. Under those individual officials in Tigray, under no circumstances, no party be it EPRP or EDU … were allowed to freely express their political view to forge any new idea. Even EDU where have a seat in the council of repetitive was harassed, its members detained and segregated socially and psychologically. For our surprise, a dead EDU family member was refused for burial site. Member of EDU who are member of the clergies (priests) were denied to serve in the church just because their political choice was EDU. Under these officials, if such ugly political stain was practiced inside Tigray, my personal perspective is daytime political thievery! 
If this is not the case what could it be? Therefore, with all this recent memories in our mind, why do we allow these politically corrupt, insidious individuals to tour in USA & Canada, to nourish us with their political waste, to purposely incapacitate us from isolating them? Where is this new spin going to take us? Why are the Tigrian scholars so silent with this matter? What hope can those individuals bring to Ethiopia (Tigray) before asking forgiveness? Have any one heard or read from those individuals asking forgiveness?( an open apology to the Nation? all I heard them talking is About Meles & his group *that is all* the end of it!) Please help me out if you read or heard them, asking forgiveness! Though it is their choice not to apologize to the nation, can we also ask why they are shy to ask forgiveness? If they do, isn't not proper also to tell us what crime and national harm they have done, for the world to hear it? Remember! Forgiveness is hard, than to ask permission!

Getachew Reda

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