Union of Tigreans in North America (UTNA) - Ethiopian Observer

The boisterous and vociferous Diaspora elements and their cohorts have started a mirage
and flood of misguided disinformation claiming that, some quarters have opted for
selective denunciation while remaining zipped on some counts of killings by the EPRDF.
They point to the sad post-election death of anti-government demonstrators in this regard.
The post-election street violence which was abated and engineered by CUD leadership
and its extreme wing of Diaspora fanatics, was cunningly tailored to use innocent youth
as canon fodder for the power mongering, and authority thirsty quarters, who were
aspiring to be the novice monarchs and dictators true to their idols; the defunct imperial
and military regimes.
Viewed in retrospect one finds it ironic to observe the Diaspora extremists gagged when
the sinister hostage taking and kidnapping of innocent Ethiopians in Afar, by Shaebia and
the recent Ogaden tragedy was mercilessly and ruthlessly launched by the ONLF. In all
honesty and fairness, what could dissuade the so-called Advocates of Justice to keep
zapped, when Justice itself was trampled upon? Is this not a glaring epitaph of travesty
and poverty of decency blindfolded by sheer power mongering?
It is equally pertinent at this juncture, to reminisce the bravado and adventurism
propounded and propagated by none-other than Engineer Hailu Shawel, who
unashamedly bragged about making the Ethiopian youth, as the sacrificial lamb, for CUD
to traverse to the apex of state power, by announcing that CUD can dispense with and
forefeit about 15 thousand innocent youth to be victims for its power-hungry elites to
gallop in the wide fields of power and to condemn Ethiopia to remain under the yoke of
tyranny imposed by CUD.
It is appropriate to state at this juncture that, the Union of Tigreans in North America
(U.T.N.A) had in the aftermath of the sad episode on the morrow of 2005 election,
expressed its deep regrets, by mourning the unfortunate death of the demonstrators and
sent its sympathy and condolence to the grieving families of the deceased and indeed, to
the bereaved Ethiopian people.
This mishap, does not however give a blank check to the notorious Diaspora and CUD
elements, for self-righteousness and point their fingers, by hailing and lauding the
unwarranted and cold blooded mass killings in the Ogaden oil fields by the ONLF.
It is interesting to note that the extreme CUD-Diaspora and its riff-raff, have opted for
baptism in the eyes of history and Ethiopian people, by drawing an apologetic and selfserving
logic of equating the CUD propelled killings of the post-election period and the
recent Ogaden ordeal.
In essence, the two tragedies were mounted by the CUD and ONLF. The Ogaden
scenario was executed and master-minded by the ONLF, cum, AFD, while the
phenomenon of the aftermath of the election was pushed to the brink, by the CUD for the
realization of its evil design of ascending to the reins of power, through illegal and un
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