Wayane is about to detonate
its most deadly political bomb
I felt compelled
to write this short article after listening to an eyewitness video clip posted
on Ethiopian Media website (http://www.ethioforum.org/) regarding religious
conflicts that reportedly took place in the Jimmaa and Ilu-Abbaa-Boora zones of
Oromia. I will briefly summarize the major political patterns demonstrated by
the wayane regime in the last 15 years in order to put into context the current
political developments unfolding in
For any objective observer patterns in wayane's political behavior in the last 15 years indicate one basic fact, i.e. their strategy for ensuring endless dominance on Ethiopian state machinery is solely based on the infamous old approach of divide and rule, historically used by colonialists and later widely adopted by minority regimes across the world. During the heydays of the wayane regime in the 1990s, the wayane political elites cleverly charted out every conceivable lines along which the Ethiopian society can be partitioned. The first easy pick was to capitalize on the historic inequalities and repressions perpetrated by successive Ethiopian governments, chiefly directed at the peoples of the South. They cleverly manipulated these genuine grievances to pit the two largest ethnic groups (Oromo versus Amhara) against one another. Encouraged by wayane's rhetoric of correcting the historical injustice, the oppressed nations and nationalities immediately moved to demand for their legitimate places in the political life of the country. As this was not the intended outcome of the wayane tactics, the regime was forced to tone down its original rhetoric, forced to expel independent political organization, from the transitional government and forced to put cap on what the wayane-made ethnic organization (PDOs) could demand for their peoples. These measures hinted the first sign as to what the wayane regime is all about. It sent a shockwave across the files and ranks of the PDOs leading to expulsions or otherwise voluntary departure of well-versed members of these organizations, essentially turning these organizations into collections of opportunistic individuals who go to any length to please the regime and virtually out of touch with the aspirations of their respective peoples. Failing to rally the mass, these incompetent PDOs, ruling the regions, unleashed terror on their own people further alienating the mass. Unable to effectively function, the PDOs finally resorted to producing inflated statistics about their governments' performances, falsely claiming an unprecedented popularity of their governments. This led the wayane elites to believe that their tactics were working and their regime is comfortably seated and is ready to take on the next challenge.
Without
carefully validating the reports filed by the PDOs, the wayane elites foolishly
embarked on their next move, which was aimed at gaining more trust from their
Western financiers--- earning the much needed international legitimacy. It is a
common knowledge that the Western nations have been unconditionally supporting
the wayane regime, solely basing their logic on the carefully worded promises
made by the regime about its commitments to democratizing
Panicked by the
results of the elections, the wayane picked up its old dividing tactic all over
again, but this time around, they took it further by bring in the interhamwee rhetoric. It is aimed at
separating the people of Tigray from the opposition groups on the one hand and
to scare the world about the possibility for interhamwee style genocide in
The opposition groups quickly realized what this regime has in store for the country and promptly moved to counteract its plans. They made a great deal of compromise and created a broad alliance, AFD, to seal the cracks the regime sought to exploit for its malicious agenda of pitting ethnic groups against each other.
On its part, the regime appeared to
have realized that the newly created understanding between various political
organizations has effectively killed its old tactic and thus appeared to have
embarked on yet another poisonous tactic with far reaching consequences. First,
it jumped onto
Given the behaviors of this regime
(highlighted above) and its recent adventure in
By Lammii Biyyaa
