Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 13 Apr 2020, 21:44
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Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 13 Apr 2020, 22:58
this is exactly the reason why I always say there will always be enemies in and out side of Ethiopia but it is upto Ethiopians to struggle keep Ethiopia safe. The fact that many Ethiopians support this Dr Tedros proves that the Ethiopians themselves (outside of Liberation Fronts as enemies of Ethiopian people) are enemies to eachother by supporting such individual for personal, fear or beneficial reasons. Thus, we are where we are because of this situations. Freedom is not free but they want to get it by being either extreme religious or by being indifferent somehow bad things will pass or by serving enemies so that the enemy will have remorse and save Ethiopia. Ethiopians are de-valuing themselves in the world arena when they said, it doesn't matter if we are killed as long as he is in power for WHO we support him?
I am sure this Dr will scare Ethiopians as usual by saying if you don't support me something will happen to Ethiopia. Tplf always set collateral for example the Nile Dam, to scare Ethiopians, if you don't support us, Egypt will attack etc
Many also like this person amaze me leman niw beinglizegna yeminagerew lemehonu? Mannew yemiredachew tplfochin, abetuta niw lewechiwochu yemilew? Denkoro hezb bicha. oh, I see why you are speaking in English now... ok Also, it is possible unfortunately American maybe trying to copy Chinese system
The tplf has entangled Ethiopia in the problem they created so that if they fall, so would Ethiopia. It makes sense also to be neutral among Ethiopians on this issue
I am sure this Dr will scare Ethiopians as usual by saying if you don't support me something will happen to Ethiopia. Tplf always set collateral for example the Nile Dam, to scare Ethiopians, if you don't support us, Egypt will attack etc
Many also like this person amaze me leman niw beinglizegna yeminagerew lemehonu? Mannew yemiredachew tplfochin, abetuta niw lewechiwochu yemilew? Denkoro hezb bicha. oh, I see why you are speaking in English now... ok Also, it is possible unfortunately American maybe trying to copy Chinese system
The tplf has entangled Ethiopia in the problem they created so that if they fall, so would Ethiopia. It makes sense also to be neutral among Ethiopians on this issue
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 14 Apr 2020, 06:09
Dr. Tedros Adhanom is a leading member of TPLF. TPLF has landlocked Ethiopia and also introduced ethnic federalism, where Amharic is the only working language and Ethiopian Airlines flies only to Addis Ababa from Europe or America. Normally even in a unitary, Ethiopian airlines would have a few more international airports, serving Ethiopians in diferent regions of the country and making investors travel to other regions easier.
TPLF has betrayed Tigray and Amhara people. It used Tigray people against Amhara people for it's own power interests. Thus TPLF is not a true federalist group. Most of the leaders are from Eritrea. It makes sense to oppose the appointment of this man for the above mentioned reasons.
TPLF has betrayed Tigray and Amhara people. It used Tigray people against Amhara people for it's own power interests. Thus TPLF is not a true federalist group. Most of the leaders are from Eritrea. It makes sense to oppose the appointment of this man for the above mentioned reasons.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 14 Apr 2020, 06:54
The guy (Lij Tedla Melaku) is an Amhara tribalist. But still we should oppose Tedros's appointment as he is not an Ethiopian and was part of the group who landlocked Ethiopia. TPLF is not Tigrayan,is not Ethiopian. It is an Eritrean stooge. Tedros is member of TPLF Executive Committee.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 14 Apr 2020, 18:46
The problem with you is that you have your 2 legs..even 3rd legs everywhere opposing expecting to win, it is such people like you who are killing Ethiopia.EthioRedSea wrote: ↑14 Apr 2020, 06:54The guy (Lij Tedla Melaku) is an Amhara tribalist. But still we should oppose Tedros's appointment as he is not an Ethiopian and was part of the group who landlocked Ethiopia. TPLF is not Tigrayan,is not Ethiopian. It is an Eritrean stooge. Tedros is member of TPLF Executive Committee.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 14 Apr 2020, 20:16
Hmm...
Dawi,
Dr. Teodros might have had his own past wrong doings but now he is doing excellent job for everybody and through that compensating his past share of wrongdoings by a great lot of high margins.
Personally I (Sun) may accuse wrong doers for their wrong doings but if the same people change roles and directions and start doing the greater good for every one I support and appreciate the positive turn around.
The so called attention seeking infant (lij) Tedla Melaku represent only his narcissistic baboon miniature self alone but not Ethiopians and me (Sun) who are looking in to the future with equality and justice for all however slowly but surely. We must stop demeaning and insulting each other more than we deserve.
If it is about behaving criminal and committing crimes, didn't His Majesty The King of kings, Emperor of the empire of Ethiopia, Haile Selassies I, descendant of the conquering Lion of Judea, King Solomon, sitting in his comfortable Imperial palace in Finfinne the beautiful and the curing mother of all the peoples, used to feeding many times a day his tiny palace pet dogs with imported high quality beef while the Ethiopian people from all over the country, specially in Tigrai (home of Ato Halafi) and Eritrea (home of ato Zmesalo) were starving to death and being buried in mass graves while at the same time the Imperial regime was bent on hiding the tragic starvation and mass deaths until a foreign journalist (ato Halafi & ato Zmesalo may call him as suspicious white man journalist)
secretly came in and exposed the tragedy inside out. How about Obbo Chairman Mengistu who massacred almost all of the Imperial civilian and military officials in a sigle shooting session.
Ok I know that this clueless noisy narcissist (Lij) Tedla guy might say that both the Imperial regime and the Mengistu regime were in fact, Angels on two wings practicing the throwing of fragrant soft flowers but not bullets and starvation which in his opinion was only characteristic to Tigriyans and Eritreans and by extension Dr. Teodros, Halafi Mengedi and Zemselo.
So this guy should learn how to put his blind complaints in to the right proportion and the right context between his side of the issue as compared to the other side of the issues. Okay? Okay!!
“But that’s the thing about narcissists. They can try to fool you, with all their heart, but in the end, they’re just fooling themselves.” ~Ellie F.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 14 Apr 2020, 20:49
The generation is tone deaf. This is not about Tedross: it is not even not about WHO.
Going forward, UN security council will lead all pandemic control in an open consortium of disease control units of security council sates. WHO doent have the funding nor the military clout to deal with pandemics.
Penalty for contemplating wild animal wet markets shoild be sanctions, suspension from WTO and/or a missile attack at the offending market.
Going forward, UN security council will lead all pandemic control in an open consortium of disease control units of security council sates. WHO doent have the funding nor the military clout to deal with pandemics.
Penalty for contemplating wild animal wet markets shoild be sanctions, suspension from WTO and/or a missile attack at the offending market.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 14 Apr 2020, 21:09
Tedross' fault parallels the fault of Boeing Chief in that both failed to send SOS and flag the world that their cost structure and resources were inadequate to meet their responsibilities. By not flagging their structural inadequacies, they perpetuated a perceptual false-positive leading to catastrophic ends.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 13:20
WHO Chief Tedros Has Got to Go
Jianli Yang and Aaron Rhodes
National ReviewApril 17, 2020, 11:55 AM PDT
If the deadly and destructive made-in-China COVID-19 crisis has a silver lining, it is this: The strengths and weaknesses of particular leaders, governments, and institutions around the world have been exposed by the pandemic, thus providing an impetus for reform.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has come under particular scrutiny at a time of rising skepticism about the ability of international institutions to act responsibly and transparently independent of corrupt political influence. The U.S., which is by far the single largest funder of the WHO, has enormous leverage in this case, and is now beginning to use it: The Trump administration, angered by the WHO’s role in the pandemic crisis, recently announced that it would suspend and review the $400 million annual American contribution to the group.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director-general, bears primary responsibility for its missteps in responding to the crisis, particularly its crucial early delay in classifying COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It is thus appropriate to inquire about his background and the motivations that have driven his actions in this pandemic.
Tedros, a trained microbiologist who did earn an MSc in the immunology of infectious diseases at the University of London, was Ethiopia’s minister of health from 2005 to 2012, and subsequently its minister of foreign affairs from 2012 to 2016. He was also served on the nine-member executive committee of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), one of four ethnically based political parties making up the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the brutal authoritarian regime that ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2019.
When Tedros sought to become WHO director-general in 2017, he met with fierce opposition to his candidacy from Ethiopians angry with his service to and defense of the country’s abusive regime, as well as his record as minister of health. He was ultimately confirmed despite allegations that, as minister of health, he directed the cover-up of three deadly cholera epidemics by simply insisting that they were Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD), apparently hoping to avoid the impact that the public admission of a cholera epidemic might have had on Ethiopian tourism and the image of his party.
In retrospect, that episode bears a striking, chilling resemblance to the WHO’s response to the coronavirus’s appearance in China.
For as long as he could, Tedros was happy to validate Beijing’s clumsy efforts to minimize and downplay the viral outbreak in Wuhan. While China was actively covering up the virus and censoring information about it, Tedros lavished praise on Xi Jinping’s response as “transparent,” “responsible,” and “setting a new standard of the world.” Even as international pressure grew, he delayed declaring the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. When the declaration was finally made on January 30, 2020, he was careful to say that, it was “not a vote of no confidence in China. On the contrary, WHO continues to have the confidence in China’s capacity to control the outbreak.”
Days later, at a time when China had reported 361 deaths from the virus — and when, we know now, the actual number of Chinese deaths was actually much higher — Tedros, echoing the Chinese government’s stance, remained adamantly opposed to restrictions that would “unnecessarily interfere with international trade and travel” in an effort to stop the pandemic’s spread. Until at least as late as February 29, shortly before the extent of the pandemic’s global reach and threat began to become clear, WHO was still officially opposed to such restrictions. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in turn, was all too happy to criticize the United States and other countries that had imposed early travel restrictions on China as having “violated the WHO’s advice.”
Meanwhile, plenty of countries believed the CCP and Tedros’s WHO, and chose not to implement necessary border controls against the epidemic. As a result, the virus began to spread from country to country across the globe, until even those nations that had tried to restrict travel from affected areas early on were powerless to stop it from invading their shores.
What makes all of this even less forgivable is that the Tedros-led WHO was informed of the truth about the virus at a time when life-saving action could have been taken, and chose to ignore it. On December 31, 2019, scientists in Taiwan, which continues to be excluded from the WHO due to Chinese pressure, notified WHO officials of evidence of “human-to-human” transmission, but the officials did not pass on this information to other countries. (Ironically, Taiwan, forced to deal with the threat without any help from the WHO, fared better than many other countries in the end, because its natural distrust of the CCP meant it was not fooled by Beijing’s efforts to downplay the outbreak’s seriousness.)
For as long as he could, Tedros ignored Taiwan’s warnings and validated China’s grossly negligent lies. But when the world finally began to awaken to the threat of COVID-19, Tedros almost immediately began blaming the international community for its earlier inaction. On March 11, 2020, as the WHO declared that the coronavirus had become a global pandemic, Tedros had the gall to say that “some countries are struggling with a lack of resolve,” that the WHO was “deeply concerned . . . by the alarming levels of inaction,” and that “some countries are not approaching this threat with the level of political commitment needed to control it.”
There is a lesson to be learned from WHO’s response to this global crisis, and it concerns the corruption of international institutions by authoritarian regimes. Tedros favors dictators because he is favored by them, and vice-versa. His candidacy for director-general of the WHO was endorsed by health ministers from Algeria and numerous other nondemocratic countries. The World Health Assembly approved him for the post with an overwhelming 133 votes out of 185, despite strong opposition from many Ethiopians who knew his derisory domestic record. China was a major backer of Tedros’s candidacy, as was his own TPLF party, which spent millions of dollars on his campaign.
Not surprisingly, Tedros’s record at the WHO has been one of whitewashing and coddling dictatorships. On October 18, 2017, only three months into his tenure as director-general, Tedros appointed Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, one of the longest-ruling and most brutal dictators on the planet, to serve as a WHO goodwill ambassador focused on tackling non-communicable diseases in Africa. “I am honored to be joined by President Mugabe of Zimbabwe, a country that places universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies to provide healthcare to all,” he said at a conference in Uruguay announcing the decision. (After the appointment was widely condemned by influential leaders in the health sector, politicians, and human-rights defenders, he eventually rescinded it.)
Of course, one need not even mention Tedros’s general affinity for dictators to explain his direction of the WHO’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The CCP and Tedros clearly enjoy a reciprocal relationship, one based on material interests as well as common values. The CCP donated generously to Ethiopia while Tedros was the Ethiopian foreign minister, and provided forceful backing of his campaign to lead the WHO. In response to the widespread criticism of the organization’s mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese state-run media outlets have vigorously defended Tedros, claiming he is being “attacked by the West” for “helping us.”
The ultimate, primary responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic lies with CCP authorities, who concealed the outbreak from the beginning and suppressed the spread of accurate information about it. But Tedros also bears significant responsibility for aiding and abetting the CCP’s coverup. He is a living testament to the success of Beijing’s aggressive efforts to coopt international institutions to its will, efforts that must be stopped sooner rather than later. And his actions have endangered hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives across the globe. The free citizens and governments of the world should not rest until he is removed from his post atop the WHO.
— Jianli Yang is the founder and president of Citizen Power Initiatives for China. Aaron Rhodes is the president of the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe, the human-rights editor of Dissident magazine, and the author of The Debasement of Human Rights.
Jianli Yang and Aaron Rhodes
National ReviewApril 17, 2020, 11:55 AM PDT
If the deadly and destructive made-in-China COVID-19 crisis has a silver lining, it is this: The strengths and weaknesses of particular leaders, governments, and institutions around the world have been exposed by the pandemic, thus providing an impetus for reform.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has come under particular scrutiny at a time of rising skepticism about the ability of international institutions to act responsibly and transparently independent of corrupt political influence. The U.S., which is by far the single largest funder of the WHO, has enormous leverage in this case, and is now beginning to use it: The Trump administration, angered by the WHO’s role in the pandemic crisis, recently announced that it would suspend and review the $400 million annual American contribution to the group.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director-general, bears primary responsibility for its missteps in responding to the crisis, particularly its crucial early delay in classifying COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It is thus appropriate to inquire about his background and the motivations that have driven his actions in this pandemic.
Tedros, a trained microbiologist who did earn an MSc in the immunology of infectious diseases at the University of London, was Ethiopia’s minister of health from 2005 to 2012, and subsequently its minister of foreign affairs from 2012 to 2016. He was also served on the nine-member executive committee of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), one of four ethnically based political parties making up the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the brutal authoritarian regime that ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2019.
When Tedros sought to become WHO director-general in 2017, he met with fierce opposition to his candidacy from Ethiopians angry with his service to and defense of the country’s abusive regime, as well as his record as minister of health. He was ultimately confirmed despite allegations that, as minister of health, he directed the cover-up of three deadly cholera epidemics by simply insisting that they were Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD), apparently hoping to avoid the impact that the public admission of a cholera epidemic might have had on Ethiopian tourism and the image of his party.
In retrospect, that episode bears a striking, chilling resemblance to the WHO’s response to the coronavirus’s appearance in China.
For as long as he could, Tedros was happy to validate Beijing’s clumsy efforts to minimize and downplay the viral outbreak in Wuhan. While China was actively covering up the virus and censoring information about it, Tedros lavished praise on Xi Jinping’s response as “transparent,” “responsible,” and “setting a new standard of the world.” Even as international pressure grew, he delayed declaring the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. When the declaration was finally made on January 30, 2020, he was careful to say that, it was “not a vote of no confidence in China. On the contrary, WHO continues to have the confidence in China’s capacity to control the outbreak.”
Days later, at a time when China had reported 361 deaths from the virus — and when, we know now, the actual number of Chinese deaths was actually much higher — Tedros, echoing the Chinese government’s stance, remained adamantly opposed to restrictions that would “unnecessarily interfere with international trade and travel” in an effort to stop the pandemic’s spread. Until at least as late as February 29, shortly before the extent of the pandemic’s global reach and threat began to become clear, WHO was still officially opposed to such restrictions. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in turn, was all too happy to criticize the United States and other countries that had imposed early travel restrictions on China as having “violated the WHO’s advice.”
Meanwhile, plenty of countries believed the CCP and Tedros’s WHO, and chose not to implement necessary border controls against the epidemic. As a result, the virus began to spread from country to country across the globe, until even those nations that had tried to restrict travel from affected areas early on were powerless to stop it from invading their shores.
What makes all of this even less forgivable is that the Tedros-led WHO was informed of the truth about the virus at a time when life-saving action could have been taken, and chose to ignore it. On December 31, 2019, scientists in Taiwan, which continues to be excluded from the WHO due to Chinese pressure, notified WHO officials of evidence of “human-to-human” transmission, but the officials did not pass on this information to other countries. (Ironically, Taiwan, forced to deal with the threat without any help from the WHO, fared better than many other countries in the end, because its natural distrust of the CCP meant it was not fooled by Beijing’s efforts to downplay the outbreak’s seriousness.)
For as long as he could, Tedros ignored Taiwan’s warnings and validated China’s grossly negligent lies. But when the world finally began to awaken to the threat of COVID-19, Tedros almost immediately began blaming the international community for its earlier inaction. On March 11, 2020, as the WHO declared that the coronavirus had become a global pandemic, Tedros had the gall to say that “some countries are struggling with a lack of resolve,” that the WHO was “deeply concerned . . . by the alarming levels of inaction,” and that “some countries are not approaching this threat with the level of political commitment needed to control it.”
There is a lesson to be learned from WHO’s response to this global crisis, and it concerns the corruption of international institutions by authoritarian regimes. Tedros favors dictators because he is favored by them, and vice-versa. His candidacy for director-general of the WHO was endorsed by health ministers from Algeria and numerous other nondemocratic countries. The World Health Assembly approved him for the post with an overwhelming 133 votes out of 185, despite strong opposition from many Ethiopians who knew his derisory domestic record. China was a major backer of Tedros’s candidacy, as was his own TPLF party, which spent millions of dollars on his campaign.
Not surprisingly, Tedros’s record at the WHO has been one of whitewashing and coddling dictatorships. On October 18, 2017, only three months into his tenure as director-general, Tedros appointed Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, one of the longest-ruling and most brutal dictators on the planet, to serve as a WHO goodwill ambassador focused on tackling non-communicable diseases in Africa. “I am honored to be joined by President Mugabe of Zimbabwe, a country that places universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies to provide healthcare to all,” he said at a conference in Uruguay announcing the decision. (After the appointment was widely condemned by influential leaders in the health sector, politicians, and human-rights defenders, he eventually rescinded it.)
Of course, one need not even mention Tedros’s general affinity for dictators to explain his direction of the WHO’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The CCP and Tedros clearly enjoy a reciprocal relationship, one based on material interests as well as common values. The CCP donated generously to Ethiopia while Tedros was the Ethiopian foreign minister, and provided forceful backing of his campaign to lead the WHO. In response to the widespread criticism of the organization’s mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese state-run media outlets have vigorously defended Tedros, claiming he is being “attacked by the West” for “helping us.”
The ultimate, primary responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic lies with CCP authorities, who concealed the outbreak from the beginning and suppressed the spread of accurate information about it. But Tedros also bears significant responsibility for aiding and abetting the CCP’s coverup. He is a living testament to the success of Beijing’s aggressive efforts to coopt international institutions to its will, efforts that must be stopped sooner rather than later. And his actions have endangered hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives across the globe. The free citizens and governments of the world should not rest until he is removed from his post atop the WHO.
— Jianli Yang is the founder and president of Citizen Power Initiatives for China. Aaron Rhodes is the president of the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe, the human-rights editor of Dissident magazine, and the author of The Debasement of Human Rights.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 17:15
All of these personalities and organizations mentioned seems to be nothing more than ideologically motivated Neo Nazi propaganda outposts and the likes Steve Bannon. The world still remembers the cruel actions of all those oriental Neo nazis cooperating with othere world neo Nazis. Uh.. uhhh...! 
Dawi wrote: ↑18 Apr 2020, 13:20WHO Chief Tedros Has Got to Go
Jianli Yang and Aaron Rhodes
National ReviewApril 17, 2020, 11:55 AM PDT
If the deadly and destructive made-in-China COVID-19 crisis has a silver lining, it is this: The strengths and weaknesses of particular leaders, governments, and institutions around the world have been exposed by the pandemic, thus providing an impetus for reform.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has come under particular scrutiny at a time of rising skepticism about the ability of international institutions to act responsibly and transparently independent of corrupt political influence. The U.S., which is by far the single largest funder of the WHO, has enormous leverage in this case, and is now beginning to use it: The Trump administration, angered by the WHO’s role in the pandemic crisis, recently announced that it would suspend and review the $400 million annual American contribution to the group.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director-general, bears primary responsibility for its missteps in responding to the crisis, particularly its crucial early delay in classifying COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It is thus appropriate to inquire about his background and the motivations that have driven his actions in this pandemic.
Tedros, a trained microbiologist who did earn an MSc in the immunology of infectious diseases at the University of London, was Ethiopia’s minister of health from 2005 to 2012, and subsequently its minister of foreign affairs from 2012 to 2016. He was also served on the nine-member executive committee of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), one of four ethnically based political parties making up the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the brutal authoritarian regime that ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2019.
When Tedros sought to become WHO director-general in 2017, he met with fierce opposition to his candidacy from Ethiopians angry with his service to and defense of the country’s abusive regime, as well as his record as minister of health. He was ultimately confirmed despite allegations that, as minister of health, he directed the cover-up of three deadly cholera epidemics by simply insisting that they were Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD), apparently hoping to avoid the impact that the public admission of a cholera epidemic might have had on Ethiopian tourism and the image of his party.
In retrospect, that episode bears a striking, chilling resemblance to the WHO’s response to the coronavirus’s appearance in China.
For as long as he could, Tedros was happy to validate Beijing’s clumsy efforts to minimize and downplay the viral outbreak in Wuhan. While China was actively covering up the virus and censoring information about it, Tedros lavished praise on Xi Jinping’s response as “transparent,” “responsible,” and “setting a new standard of the world.” Even as international pressure grew, he delayed declaring the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. When the declaration was finally made on January 30, 2020, he was careful to say that, it was “not a vote of no confidence in China. On the contrary, WHO continues to have the confidence in China’s capacity to control the outbreak.”
Days later, at a time when China had reported 361 deaths from the virus — and when, we know now, the actual number of Chinese deaths was actually much higher — Tedros, echoing the Chinese government’s stance, remained adamantly opposed to restrictions that would “unnecessarily interfere with international trade and travel” in an effort to stop the pandemic’s spread. Until at least as late as February 29, shortly before the extent of the pandemic’s global reach and threat began to become clear, WHO was still officially opposed to such restrictions. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in turn, was all too happy to criticize the United States and other countries that had imposed early travel restrictions on China as having “violated the WHO’s advice.”
Meanwhile, plenty of countries believed the CCP and Tedros’s WHO, and chose not to implement necessary border controls against the epidemic. As a result, the virus began to spread from country to country across the globe, until even those nations that had tried to restrict travel from affected areas early on were powerless to stop it from invading their shores.
What makes all of this even less forgivable is that the Tedros-led WHO was informed of the truth about the virus at a time when life-saving action could have been taken, and chose to ignore it. On December 31, 2019, scientists in Taiwan, which continues to be excluded from the WHO due to Chinese pressure, notified WHO officials of evidence of “human-to-human” transmission, but the officials did not pass on this information to other countries. (Ironically, Taiwan, forced to deal with the threat without any help from the WHO, fared better than many other countries in the end, because its natural distrust of the CCP meant it was not fooled by Beijing’s efforts to downplay the outbreak’s seriousness.)
For as long as he could, Tedros ignored Taiwan’s warnings and validated China’s grossly negligent lies. But when the world finally began to awaken to the threat of COVID-19, Tedros almost immediately began blaming the international community for its earlier inaction. On March 11, 2020, as the WHO declared that the coronavirus had become a global pandemic, Tedros had the gall to say that “some countries are struggling with a lack of resolve,” that the WHO was “deeply concerned . . . by the alarming levels of inaction,” and that “some countries are not approaching this threat with the level of political commitment needed to control it.”
There is a lesson to be learned from WHO’s response to this global crisis, and it concerns the corruption of international institutions by authoritarian regimes. Tedros favors dictators because he is favored by them, and vice-versa. His candidacy for director-general of the WHO was endorsed by health ministers from Algeria and numerous other nondemocratic countries. The World Health Assembly approved him for the post with an overwhelming 133 votes out of 185, despite strong opposition from many Ethiopians who knew his derisory domestic record. China was a major backer of Tedros’s candidacy, as was his own TPLF party, which spent millions of dollars on his campaign.
Not surprisingly, Tedros’s record at the WHO has been one of whitewashing and coddling dictatorships. On October 18, 2017, only three months into his tenure as director-general, Tedros appointed Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, one of the longest-ruling and most brutal dictators on the planet, to serve as a WHO goodwill ambassador focused on tackling non-communicable diseases in Africa. “I am honored to be joined by President Mugabe of Zimbabwe, a country that places universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies to provide healthcare to all,” he said at a conference in Uruguay announcing the decision. (After the appointment was widely condemned by influential leaders in the health sector, politicians, and human-rights defenders, he eventually rescinded it.)
Of course, one need not even mention Tedros’s general affinity for dictators to explain his direction of the WHO’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The CCP and Tedros clearly enjoy a reciprocal relationship, one based on material interests as well as common values. The CCP donated generously to Ethiopia while Tedros was the Ethiopian foreign minister, and provided forceful backing of his campaign to lead the WHO. In response to the widespread criticism of the organization’s mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese state-run media outlets have vigorously defended Tedros, claiming he is being “attacked by the West” for “helping us.”
The ultimate, primary responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic lies with CCP authorities, who concealed the outbreak from the beginning and suppressed the spread of accurate information about it. But Tedros also bears significant responsibility for aiding and abetting the CCP’s coverup. He is a living testament to the success of Beijing’s aggressive efforts to coopt international institutions to its will, efforts that must be stopped sooner rather than later. And his actions have endangered hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives across the globe. The free citizens and governments of the world should not rest until he is removed from his post atop the WHO.
— Jianli Yang is the founder and president of Citizen Power Initiatives for China. Aaron Rhodes is the president of the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe, the human-rights editor of Dissident magazine, and the author of The Debasement of Human Rights.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 21:00
sun,sun wrote: ↑18 Apr 2020, 17:15All of these personalities and organizations mentioned seems to be nothing more than ideologically motivated Neo Nazi propaganda outposts and the likes Steve Bannon. The world still remembers the cruel actions of all those oriental Neo nazis cooperating with othere world neo Nazis. Uh.. uhhh...!
You know, I have been paying attention to Steve Bannon and others like him lately; the following Chinese American Lawyer Gordon G Chang has fascinated me as well. I guess I am getting old.
Seriously though, I really feel for Dr. Tedros; I supported him when he got selected; I'm so sorry it turned out this way.
Check the following clip and listen to what Gordon had to say about Dr. Tedros/WHO! (የዲቃላ ነገር! He is half Chinese! You know what I am talking about sun? Right?
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 21:17
sun,Dawi wrote: ↑18 Apr 2020, 21:00All of these personalities and organizations mentioned seems to be nothing more than ideologically motivated Neo Nazi propaganda outposts and the likes Steve Bannon. The world still remembers the cruel actions of all those oriental Neo nazis cooperating with othere world neo Nazis. Uh.. uhhh...!
You know, I have been paying attention to Steve Bannon and others like him lately; the following Chinese American Lawyer Gordon G Chang has fascinated me as well. I guess I am getting old.
Seriously though, I really feel for Dr. Tedros; I supported him when he got selected; I'm so sorry it turned out this way.
Check the following clip and listen to what Gordon had to say about Dr. Tedros/WHO! (የዲቃላ ነገር! He is half Chinese! You know what I am talking about sun? Right?
I did not support him when he was selected but now I support him. I am happy it turned out this way, meaning from negative to positive.That is why I hate dirty cheap character assassination but rather judge him on facts and records but not propaganda and fake news ala bannonism which some say goebbelism. Even by looking just at them you can easily guess as to who they are. By the way how many times have they performed surgical operations on their eyes in order to look like not themselves, the Chinese? Safuu...!
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 21:33
Agamew
Of course you support him...no brainer; but unlike you low IQ Agames, the true Ethiopians never supported him then and never support him now. Your village boy couldn't even run as health minister as poor country as Ethiopia let alone the entire world. Keep supporting him Uggime, but his time is up and will be thrown as used condom even by Chinese once his service is become not satisfactory to them.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 21:43
sun,sun wrote: ↑18 Apr 2020, 21:17I did not support him when he was selected but now I support him. I am happy it turned out this way, meaning from negative to positive.That is why I hate dirty cheap character assassination but rather judge him on facts and records but not propaganda and fake news ala bannonism which some say goebbelism. Even by looking just at them you can easily guess as to who they are. By the way how many times have they performed surgical operations on their eyes in order to look like not themselves, the Chinese? Safuu...!
You mean "judge him by facts and records" of his EPRDF background?
Notice Gordon differentiated CPC and the Chinese people; unlike our many friends here who don't differentiate TPLF with people of Tigrai. For better or worse, CPC is "guilty" as charged; so is TPLF/EPRDF!
The former TPLF CC, Dr. Tedros, being a leftist sympathizer all along albeit a mild kind, is incontestable therefore, the "neo nazis" are probably on the money in attaching him to CPC "crimes" against humanity.
BTW, we may all be guilty of that so nothing is new here. There are lots of things I sympathize with China.
Cheers!
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 19 Apr 2020, 00:40
Sun,
I thought you were a fair person. Eritreans were not starving in the 70's. Wollo starved in early seventies. Tigrayans starved in the eighth. Eritreans have never starved at all. You can place any oppressing system over the Eritrean people. Eritreans stand in dignity and work hard to feed themselves. I don't know where you got your stories.
I thought you were a fair person. Eritreans were not starving in the 70's. Wollo starved in early seventies. Tigrayans starved in the eighth. Eritreans have never starved at all. You can place any oppressing system over the Eritrean people. Eritreans stand in dignity and work hard to feed themselves. I don't know where you got your stories.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 19 Apr 2020, 19:21
Hmm...Dawi wrote: ↑18 Apr 2020, 21:43sun,sun wrote: ↑18 Apr 2020, 21:17I did not support him when he was selected but now I support him. I am happy it turned out this way, meaning from negative to positive.That is why I hate dirty cheap character assassination but rather judge him on facts and records but not propaganda and fake news ala bannonism which some say goebbelism. Even by looking just at them you can easily guess as to who they are. By the way how many times have they performed surgical operations on their eyes in order to look like not themselves, the Chinese? Safuu...!
You mean "judge him by facts and records" of his EPRDF background?
Notice Gordon differentiated CPC and the Chinese people; unlike our many friends here who don't differentiate TPLF with people of Tigrai. For better or worse, CPC is "guilty" as charged; so is TPLF/EPRDF!
The former TPLF CC, Dr. Tedros, being a leftist sympathizer all along albeit a mild kind, is incontestable therefore, the "neo nazis" are probably on the money in attaching him to CPC "crimes" against humanity.
BTW, we may all be guilty of that so nothing is new here. There are lots of things I sympathize with China.
Cheers!
No, right now I judge him by his WHO task performance records which I is think is good, on top of being an African and an Ethiopian, regardless of differences on his former job role performance. But then again even then was it not the US government who provided them with an all round generous support in the name of fighting against the then communist regime of chairman Mengistu and placed them on the Imperial throne.?
Actually all of these barking and braying sessions are not about the virus and its origin but about the competition for power, sweet power. What do you think about those Chinese American anti Chines and pro Taiwan propagandists who performed surgical operations on their Chines eyes in order to make it look like American eyes? As for the Chines with very old cultures and values competently managing the lives and livings of some over 1 billion people in which case the world has lots of things to learn from them.
Even now China is doing very well even with regards to the virus while a rich country with smaller population like the US is becoming very helpless and vulnerable with thousands of people contracting the virus, thousands dead and thousands critically ill. In spit of the animosities being thrown at them the cultured Chines are even extending hands in the form offering critical utilities to save lives even in the US itself. But still some of those whit bed sheet wearing Ku Klux Klan extremist parrots are waving the guns and axes calling for the overthrow of the giant "Red China" and bring in the noisy dot Taiwan.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 19 Apr 2020, 19:22
Who created starvation in Ethiopia in Wollo and Tigray to blame it on H/Selassie and Derg? None other than Shabia and Tplf.Aurorae wrote: ↑19 Apr 2020, 00:40Sun,
I thought you were a fair person. Eritreans were not starving in the 70's. Wollo starved in early seventies. Tigrayans starved in the eighth. Eritreans have never starved at all. You can place any oppressing system over the Eritrean people. Eritreans stand in dignity and work hard to feed themselves. I don't know where you got your stories.
Re: Why Ethiopians should not support Tedros Adhanom of the WHO (Lij Tedla Melaku)
Posted: 19 Apr 2020, 19:37
Brother Aurora,Aurorae wrote: ↑19 Apr 2020, 00:40Sun,
I thought you were a fair person. Eritreans were not starving in the 70's. Wollo starved in early seventies. Tigrayans starved in the eighth. Eritreans have never starved at all. You can place any oppressing system over the Eritrean people. Eritreans stand in dignity and work hard to feed themselves. I don't know where you got your stories.
I am so sorry if I offended your feelings. My statement is meant to be statement of facts on the ground but not any sort of value judgement based on bad intention. May be it is true that Eritrea escaped repeat starvation similar to some regions in Ethiopia but still Eritrea also faced starvation at some points in its history. Here I am neither judging nor blaming any one for the misfortunes because we are all located in the category of the underdeveloped third world countries group and as such exposed to periodic shortages and sorrowful hardships.