Ethiopians in Dallas Exposed
Melese’s Proxies
By Ethiopians in Dallas / April 25, 2008
Melese’s surrogates were in Dallas to
address a hand picked audience from the Ethiopian Diaspora.
The local Weyane/EPDRF operatives have been preparing for
this meeting in “secret” for some time now. Tipped by
insiders and similar event participants in Houston, a
coalition of all opposition supporters in Dallas faced the
Weyane/EPDRF and challenges them why a government which
claims to be open and democratic plans and holds meetings in
secret with a selected few. The reasons for this are of
course obvious.
BubbleShare:
Share photos - Powered by
BubbleShare
If Weyane wants a discourse with Ethiopians,
it should do it at home. We know at home our people are made
captive audiences of its propaganda barrage by fiat and
control. If not dialogue what is it that then Melese and Co
are looking for from Diaspora? They have seen in the last
two years how the Ethiopian Diaspora has become an effective
voice for its people. They want to silence that voice by:
1. Influencing some of the Diaspora members
to collaborate with Melese in the name of investment. As a
dispenser of all rural/city land, Melese is working hard to
buy the loyalty of some of us with a promise of land or
property in Ethiopia. To this effect, the participants of
meetings with government/embassy officials will be
identified first and invited to attend privately through
personal mail and/or telephone call. There will be no public
announcement of the meeting.
2. The attendees of the meeting will be lectured on the
democratic and development virtues of the Melese’s regime
while they are being video taped for repeated propaganda
play and replay on Ethiopian TV. This is supposed to
embolden its supporters at home and subdue its opponents.
There is no other agenda or goal in these
meetings. Knowing this, the supporters of all oppositions
groups in Dallas together with other fellow Ethiopians made
a decision to make sure that if a meeting is held that the
true voices of the Ethiopian Diaspora is heard. If Melese’s
proxies can’t swallow that then they have to be forced to
cancel the meeting. This is exactly what is attempted and
what aborted from happening on August 24, 2008 in Dallas, TX
at the Quality Inn & Suites.
Around 5:00PM the demonstrators made their
way to the meeting Hall at Quality Inn with placards and
pictures of victims who were murdered by Agazi forces of
Melese. In the Hall, there were only 15 people; three of
whom were aligned with the demonstrators. Out numbered
almost 8 to one, the official organizers have to call
security guards and later the police to ask the
demonstrators to leave the Hall. The demonstrated continued
with their slogans until the police arrived.
The speakers of the meeting were supposed to
be Ato Taye and Ato Muluye from the Weyane Embassies in Los
Angeles and Washington DC respectively. When they saw that
they have no chance to lecture a captive audience and record
a video for propaganda display on Ethiopian TV, the speakers
chose not to speak. They asked the police to evict the
demonstrators out of the Hall. The police recognized the
right of the demonstrating Ethiopians to attend the meeting
with their placards as long as it is shown in a peaceful
manner. The police has to finally ask everybody, including
the embassy officials and the surrogates of Melese in Dallas
to leave the Hall as tension rises. The attempt of the
agents of the butcher of Addis Abeba to silence the Diaspora
voice in the name of investment opportunities ended in total
fiasco.
Fellow Ethiopians everywhere, take lesson
from today’s action from Dallas: never allow the agents of
the butcher of Addis Abeba to silence us through a promise
of land. Who is he to give us back our own land? To those of
us who want to invest in Ethiopia, go home quietly and
invest in your family and with your family. Please don’t be
used to cover the crime of a brutal regime.
Pictures from the event will follow soon.