የተስፋዬ ገብረአብን ተራ ቅጥፈት ፎቶው ያጋልጣል
Posted: 02 May 2020, 22:00

Tesfaye like he said, he was born in Debreziet from Eritrean parentage. Due to the economic status of his family and the split up of his parents he has led a tough life. He was raised by his step mother and life for him was unbearable so he joined the Derge army. Towards the end of the war Tesfaye was captured by EPRDF fighters in one of the battle ground and became a POW. The fact that he was a Tigrigna speaker, however, was a good opportunity for him to join the struggle. Knowing Eritrean heritage some EPRDF commanders at the time have advised him to join the liberation movement in Eritrea but he told them that he wants to fight for the liberation of Ethiopians and officially stated that he has no faith in the Eritrean liberation movement.
After he joined the struggle, he was assigned in the propaganda branch of EPRDF until the city of Addis came under the control of the liberation fighters. During that time the key positions in the Ethiopian media was given to the EPRDF fighters in the propaganda wing and Tesfaye was one of the beneficiaries of it and he became head of the Ethiopian press known as press memria. This position was given to him not because of his knowledge of the media or his talent but it was the case of among the blind one eyed man is king. Otherwise when Tesafaye joined the Derg army he did not even complete secondary school.
በኮሎኔልነት ማዕረግ የወያኔ መርሰነሪ ጦርን ሲያገለግል የነበረው የጂማ ተወላጅ የሆነው ኮሎኔል አበበ ገረሱ የሰጠው ቃለ-መጠይቅ ነው።



N° 949
12/05/2001
ETHIOPIA
The Ripple Effect of TPLF’s Crisis
The crisis within the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the hard core of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), is having side effects in several sectors of society. The first repercussions touched the armed forces (ION 948), where the most notable example was last week’s refusal, by Brigadier General Tadesse Berhe, to attend an officers’ meeting presided by Meles Zenawi, during which the prime minister denounced the positions of the dissident group expelled from the TPLF’s central committee.
The brigadier general is said to have explained his decision by pointing out that the army ought to remain removed from any and all political influence. Another repercussion is the closing down of the TPLF’s Efoyta daily, with only the magazine of that name remaining with the party. Tesfaye Gebreab, Efoyta's editor-in-chief, recently left Ethiopia for Kenya without informing his colleagues.
A former army lieutenant for former President Mengistu Haile Mariam, Tesfaye Gebreab was made a prisoner by the TPLF, then a guerilla movement, after suffering wounds in Debre Tabor, Gondar.
He subsequently joined the TPLF, worked for the party, and wrote a book called "Yeburka Zimta"(The Silence of Burka), a fictional account a bit too close to reality since it led to accusations of his having wanted to stir up passions between the Oromo and the Amhara communities.
Considered close to the TPLF dissidents led by Grebu Asrat and Alemseged Gebre Amlak, Tesfaye Gebreab had not been allowed to join a meeting of TPLF leaders held in Addis Ababa a few weeks ago.
After his departure to Kenya, the Ethiopian leaders claimed they found the newspaper’s coffers empty, with a debt of almost 500,000 Birrs ($1 = 8 Birrs) in a local bank.
According to certain sources, Tesfaye Gebreab has already contacted the Eritrean embassy in Nairobi and may already have found refuge in Asmara .