“To substantiate the truthfulness this news item, as I always do, I immediately pointed my web browser to the other opposition and pro-government websites to no avail. I could not find any other news source website with similar item. I was relieved, and I immediately started to get suspicious about the authenticity of the “news”. I went back and read it again, and, this time, I scrutinized it leaving my emotion by way side. And the “news” started to fall apart. I will tell you what I found.”

Dear Mr. Aklilu, I guess you have heard that justice has been served to the notorious Major Melaku, something he denied to your friends and thousands of others. I am happy you saved yourself from Major Melaku’s nonsensical killing, but I am extremely troubled by your recent “autobiography” on aigaforum.com. Before I go deep in to your “rich” autobiography, let me ask you a question – According to your autobiography, you read about the Gondar students killing on ethiomedia.com and went to other websites to authenticate ethiomedia’s claim, but you couldn’t read it anywhere! Before I went to the Aigaforum site I was @ http://www.ethiolion.com/ site and I read about the Gondar killing. My main point is not to defend ethiomedia’s claim though the truth should always be defended. Mr. Aklilu, when your friends were killed by Major Mrlaku some 28 years ago, do you think the news of the killing was reported by Addis Zemen, Yezareytu Ethiopia, or the Ethiopian Herald? I leave the answer to you!

As you told us in your “autobiography”, currently, you live in the US. Let me take you by your own words (though what you said is chauvinistic). Are you telling us “Kebraraw Gonderie” who lives in the US knows everything that happens in the entire Gondar region? The intended message of your article was to tell the world that peace is prevalent in Gondar and Ethiopia at large. Dear Aklilu, when you left Ethiopia to save your life and when Melaku and his friends were killing your brothers, sisters, and friends; Colonel Mengistu’s discourse to the whole world was about Ethiopia’s stability and economic progress. It is depressing and heartbreaking, today, after establishing yourself in America you are doing the same thing Mengistu did a quarter of a century ago! You said you are a professional family person, so am I. Few weeks ago, I read an article on ethiomedia.com, and I didn’t like the article, so my professional judgment was no to go to aigaforum.com and write an “autobiography”. I wrote an article and ethiomedia.com published it accepting my criticism, by our standard this is journalism unparalled. If you were a genuinely concerned citizen, you should have contacted ethiomedia.com and find out the truth.

Dr. Mr. Aklilu, in your scribble on aigaforum.com, you told us that you never wrote an article in 12 years, in fact you also told us you were a staunch opponent of EPRDF. I am not a profiler, but I have the experience of making an educated guess, in your case it didn’t take me much to make a good matching guess. The only smart move you did is you re-wrote your “autobiography” because as the Holy Bible says “You were born again”. By being born again, you transformed yourself from a couch potato professional [no read, no write) to a mystified scribbler, and from a proponent of the people’s cause to a staunch supporter of EPRDF. Yes, Gondar ain’t your mama’s fool no more, as it wasn’t when you left. The ‘Gonderies’ of this generation are fighting back like their fathers because Meles is killing just like Mengistu was killing.

Dear Mr. Aklilu, there is one Ethiopia and one truth about Ethiopia. Ethiopia, your country, my country, and our country, finds itself at the crossroads of history. We are facing an enemy we never faced before! Though, I sometimes make educated guesses, I always hold back myself from saying shame on you to a fellow country man, for shame arises from a sense of personal failure, however, you should feel guilty of yourself, for guilt arises out of concern for others.
I have no problem with disagreement; I always treasure it even when it is presented stalwartly. Political dialogues are favorable, even if they aren’t always at ease. Yours is not a dialogue or disagreement, it is betrayal!!! You run away from Major Melaku’s gun and saved yourself, today, of all the people in the world; you shouldn’t have been the one to condemn a news media that exposes the Melaku of this era! Let me repeat my self, Yes, Gondar ain’t your mama’s fool no more, Gondar is Mama Ethiopia’s elder son, wiser, matured, and hardened fighter!

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