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Dr. Yonas Birru is perhaps one of the top prolific writers with a good command of the English language (as well as in Amharic) and has written extensively on the political issues of the country over decades. I think he was more active in a pseudonym while making comments on the country’s political issues. People also call him one of a top economist in his profession, having worked at world bank, if I am not mistaken.

Yonas Birru also considered himself as an important opinion maker in the country’s political landscape and as such a rightful claimant of political power after the current change in the country.

In this regard Yonas Birru and Jawar Mohammed are on the same page in thinking of themselves as key figures in stirring the political change in the country from abroad. Such a mindset would also be going to finally prepare a final trap of their failure.

The main problem in this regard is that the political activists (actors) in the country would consider themselves the main players, while the likes of Yonas Birru take themselves for more important. This divergence is being observed in almost all political spectrum of the country: the players from home constantly remind those abroad your role is in supporting the actions waged in the country and those abroad wouldn’t come into terms with such a “relegation” of their roles. They want to be anointed the kingmakers of the political happenings in the country.

Both Yonas Birru and Jawar Mohammed failed in this regard and there is no hope they will ever regenerate in this regard to having their ambition fulfilled.

The messaging from those back home is unmistakable, repeatedly.

When we called them to come home and join us in the effort to rebuild the country, they misunderstood that for an invitation to enter Arat Kilo, commonly meant to indicate the seat of government. After they have found out that this was not the case (a misunderstanding), the level of disappointment on their part was way too high and they suddenly turned again to fierce opponents of the government overnight, as the PM of the country recently stated in one of his TV interviews.

The Chief of Staff of the National Defense Force, Field Marshal Berhanu Jula, went a step further and called them (perhaps all of us) አንተ ንቅል ነህ በሉት, if I understood the meaning correctly to mean you are an uprooted citizen and as such not qualified to give an order from abroad to any section of the Ethiopian society. Not a simple matter especially considering the power the chief of staff of one of the most powerful militaries on the African Continent wields in Ethiopia and beyond. With declaration of the Chief of Staff of the ENDF any hope of anybody coming to power from the Diaspora community must have been dashed permanently.

It was not easy to come back to power even for the Emperor after the defeat of fascist Italy’s occupation of Ethiopia when the former decided to stay abroad for the period of occupation and came back to reclaim the throne afterwards. The patriots who decided to stay in the country and fought back the aggression were not happy that the Emperor decided to come back and get to the throne as many reports on the period indicate. As such the current fierce opposition to the idea of any individual coming from abroad to ascend the political power in the country is all very much understandable.

DefendTheTruth is in this regard on the safe side, I make comment in here or somewhere without any expectation as a favor in return. I spare myself from any kind of disappointment like Jawar Mohammed and Yonas Birru.

[DefendTheTruth]

Why no one in here opted to say something about this topic? Does that mean no one in here is clean, when it comes to the ambition to ascend state power as a diaspora?

Hope dashed, irreversibly!