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A NNEX ctEthiopia calls for regime change in EritreaAbraham Fisseha, AfricaNews reporter in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaPosted on Wednesday 6 April 2011 - 09:25Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, on Tuesday call for regime change inEritrea and accused an opposition party, Medrek, of planning and instigatingviolence in Ethiopia. Zenawi has also accused Egypt of backing Eritrea's effort todestabilize in that country."Ethiopia would not tolerate Eritrean government's destructive policy anymore and thecountry is forced to change its policy from "passive defiance" to directly help Eritreanpeople topple the regime," Zenawi said while presenting an eight-month government'sperformance report to parliament.According to the prime minister, Eritrean government has continued its attempt todestabilize Ethiopia by deploying terrorists and home grown "destructive forces", such asthe Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and Ogden National Liberation Front (ONLF), as wellas the Somalia extremists group, Al shabab.He further stated, "Until now, our strategy has been defending our sovereignty byspeeding up our development. Now, we found that we could not go any longer withpassive defense. It's not possible to take passive defense as the only alternative.""Therefore, we have to facilitate ways for Eritrean people to remove its dictatorialregime. We have no intention to jump into their country but we need to extend ourinfluence there. If Eritrean government tries to attack us, we will also respondproportionally," Meles added.The Ethiopian Prime Minster brought to light how the Egyptians are working with Eritrea1
to destabilize Ethiopia in order to hinder its decision to construct dam on the Nile.Meles told Parliament, "Recently, Eritrea is training and deploying, Al shabab and locallygrown destructive forces to terrorize our country. But Egypt is the direct force behindthese destructive elements that back them.""In order to prevent any development on Blue Nile River, Egypt and Eritrea has createdtheir own front," he added.He, however, confirmed that that Ethiopia has no intention of invading Eritrea or openinga new war.Ethiopia Prime Minster told the country's Parliament that Egypt's a long time strategy isto destabilize Ethiopia and so that cannot raise a voice about using the Nile.Meles Further pointed out that the current policy of backing Eritrea and other terroristsgroup is part of it long time strategy that goes back to over 50 years.He stressed that the Ethiopian people are not enemies of the Egyptian people and hecalled on the people of Egypt to realize that the building of the dam is also beneficial tothem.Previously the Prime Minster in his speech at launching of the dam construction he toldthe audience that Ethiopia would welcome Egypt and Sudan to join in construction at anylevel if they wish to do so.Speaking about opposition forces that are legally recognized, "The Ethiopian governmentis neither blind nor deaf You don't have to think as if we did not know anything," Melessaid adding that the government has refrained from releasing the list of detainees andsuspected OLF members by police until the opposition parties did it."Now that the opposition has made public the list of the detainees, it means that theopposition is testifying that all OLF members who are detained are their members. Inother words, they proved by themselves that the opposition is the hiding place for OLF"."We even know that OLF members have been here with us for five years at this house(parliament). We knew everything, but we did not take them to court, as we did not havesubstantial evidence. Now, the opposition parties have proved it those who are in custodyare their members," Meles told parliament.The opposition's party "Medrek, particularly Unity for Democracy and Justice," isorchestrating to instigate violence and protest in the country. However, he said I wouldlike the party to know that there is a price to pay."We would like to make it clear that the opposition cannot go long by being a cover ofanti-peace elements," he added.2
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