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DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑

29 Apr 2021, 15:14

Nowdays I DO AGREE with SEYOUM TESHOME, he really pinpoints right on the head.

America is not Ethiopia's friend, the first thing you have to understand is this fact.

America wants to keep Ethiopia under check, a nationalist leader like the current one is not welcomed, it is indeed no where in the whole of Africa that such kind of leader is wished.

I am really worried about the wellbeing of the country's current leader, he should be very careful, in my feeling. Here it is not about a single individual's life as such but the consequence could be devastating for the country.

If someone may assasinate this man, then the first suspect is America.

Take a moment and consider the following issues:

What is the similarity between the likes of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (its first president after liberation), Patrice Lumumba of former Zaire and today's DRC, also a key figure of independence struggle, and many more nationalist leaders of Africa and PM Abiy Ahmed of today's Ethiopia?

Why is the current ethnic (or tribal) violence in Ethiopia so flaring up unsusually?

Does that somehow reflect itself to the same situation that prevailed in Ghana during and before toppling of President Nkrumah?


Ethiopians need to wake up before it could be too late, in my view, and draw a lesson.

Ethiopia is under attack.

In February 1966, while Nkrumah was on a state visit to North Vietnam and China, his government was overthrown in a violent coup d'état led by the national military and police forces, with backing from the civil service.[230] The conspirators, led by Joseph Arthur Ankrah, named themselves the National Liberation Council and ruled as a military government for three years. Nkrumah did not learn of the coup until he arrived in China. After the coup, Nkrumah stayed in Beijing for four days and Premier Zhou Enlai treated him with courtesy.[231][232]

Nkrumah alluded to American involvement in the coup in his 1969 memoir Dark Days in Ghana, he may have based this conclusion on documents shown to him by the KGB.[233][234] In 1978 John Stockwell, former Chief of the Angola Task Force of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), wrote that agents at the CIA's Accra station "maintained intimate contact with the plotters as a coup was hatched". Afterward, "inside CIA headquarters the Accra station was given full, if unofficial credit for the eventual coup. ...None of this was adequately reflected in the agency's written records."[235][236] Later the same year, Seymour Hersh of The New York Times, citing "first hand intelligence sources," defended Stockwell's account, claiming that "many CIA operatives in Africa considered the agency's role in the overthrow of Dr. Nkrumah to have been pivotal."[237][238] These claims have never been verified.[239][240]

Following the coup, Ghana realigned itself internationally, cutting its close ties to Guinea and the Eastern Bloc, accepting a new friendship with the Western Bloc, and inviting the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to take a lead role in managing the economy.[241] With this reversal, accentuated by the expulsion of immigrants and a new willingness to negotiate with apartheid South Africa, Ghana lost a good deal of its stature in the eyes of African nationalists