There were tons of Ethiopians from all walks of life who thought the worst will never come once Derg departs. I don’t think if we care where you have been yesterday and which tribe you belong to. What we care is what you are doing right now!! Democracy is a right to commit mistakes and learn from them. Most of us are not trained politicians and no one in Ethiopia can claim he or she is clean as a generation. You assumed a better day is coming but you learned the worst one was on the making and you decided to abandon. As a professional, I can imagine how painful it is to abandon everything you had. For most of us writing ‘Melke melkamu teklay minister or yemarathon nigist’ has no political or social implication to be accused of. The criticism only shows their ignorance or a means to tell you who the boss is . Some one who wrote Teraroch yanketekete tewled was not suppose to bring such small matters to blackmail those men working hard for the same cause he claims to take part. Time will tell us which direction the artists creative ink is going to flow. We have seen many who attempted to fool us. For now both his books are leading me to one direction but it is too early to judge him. The new book he will release soon might tell us more. I hope his heart and mind will remain ‘Yebishoftu lej’. As he rightly said it, sometimes we should hear what we don’t like, but it is important to also know the consequence or the outcome of what one writes. If we are putting more oil into the fume we are not serving the purpose we claim to be part of.
I strongly suggest to get out of name calling and blame games and focus on our major problem. The system that is dividing and concurring us! The rotten system that is killing the whole nation systematically. We shall forgive and forget if at all there were mistakes in the past. Because these can happen among close family members, associates and friends. Most of our journalists are not highly trained professionals they use their natural gifts and their guts to raise a pen in a brutal dictatorial regeims be it Derg or Woyane. On the contrary, the two of you can join hands and strengthen the media that is serving millions of Ethiopians. It is my sincere hope that you are not discouraged by this.
You have contributed a great deal by providing a well balanced media. I am sure lot’s of accusations were there before or will come now and then when you are working hard be it in politics or in any sphere of life. I know many of Ethiomedia readers are with you. Keep up the good work.
I wish you and your family all the best.
Dagnachew Biadglign
Dear Abraha,
Tesfaye or anybody else doesn’t deserve any of your responses. I have studied you over the last few years and you are one genuine and sincere Ethiopian. I don’t give a hoot if you supported Weyane in the past – we all applauded them when they came to power. Who would have thought Weyane government would be any worse than the previous Derg regime?
Anyways, what annoyed me the most was not what Tesfaye wrote about you; albeit it was a cheap shot at you. The part that amazed me the most was Dr. Getachew Haile’s futile attempt to ‘objectively’ analyze Tesfaye’s ‘journalistic’ literature (by the way, Tesfaye is an excellent writer) in the hope of making a point about you.
It was as though he came to say those nice words about Tesfaye just to character-assassinate you; or shall I say, smear you with mid-winter Ethiopian mud in the hope of giving credence to Tesfaye’s assertions about you. What a frick’n cheap shot for a scholar of his calibre! (I hate people who wait for opportunities to appease their ulterior motives). I lost respect for the guy ever since. So, my brother Abraha, although I live in Canada, I know a lot about you and please do keep up the good work. Thousands of us have great respect for you.
