የበዝብዝ ትርጉም - ክፉ ንጉሥ ነግሦ የገዛ ሕዝብ መንግሥቱን እንደ ባዕድ ገዥ እየገዛ የሕዝቡን ገንዘብ አለ አገባብ እየበዘበዘ የሚዘርፍ በዝብዝ የበዝብዝ ጊዜ ይባላል።
From 1871 until his well-deserved death in 1889, Mercha Kassa, the former warlord from Tigray, በትግራይ ስምን ሰይጣን ያወጣዋል እንዲሉ -- who was also known as አባ በዝብዝ ካሳ by virtue of his መዝረፍ እና መበዝበዝ prowess, and a hired mercenary who became the Abyssinian emperor with the help of British colonial power, he committed unspeakable crimes against the Ethiopian, Eritrean and Sudanese people.
The curse አባ በዝብዝ ካሳ brought upon the house of Tigray lingered for the next 100 years, until 1991 when the good-hearted Eritrean people felt it was time to give the House of Tigray a chance to break the curse and redeem itself in the eyes of its former victims. But as the leopard cannot change its spots, it was impossible for the Tigray to change their innate nature and character when they were installed in power in Ethiopia, so they betrayed the Eritrean people's trust and continued on to follow in the footsteps of their grandfather አባ በዝብዝ ካሳ and committed unforgivable genocidal crimes in Ethiopia that pale in comparison to the Holocaust that Hitler inflicted upon the Jews!!
Even the Derg regime, in its desperate quest to infiltrate the tightly-knit Eritrean society using undercover agents and spies from Tigray, it bent backwards to have its sweet-talking Amhara cadres fabricate a quote that goes like... "ኢትዮጵያ የተባለችው አንደኛ እናትህ ናት! ሁለተኛ ዘውድህ ናት! ሦስተኛ ሚስትህ ናት!" blah, blah, blah... , which they falsely attributed to አባ በዝብዝ ካሳ, but everyone knows the agame never said it. How could anyone possibly think otherwise despite all evidence to the contrary? He never said it, period! It was all a ploy to recruit agame spies using comforting lies.
The Derg went a little further in renaming the Asmara Airport to Yohannes IV Airport to give the agame spies an incentive to intensify their crimes of murder, torture and rape against the Eritrean people. They poisoned water wells, torched entire villages, and carried out indiscriminate killings to honor the legacy of their genocidal agame grandfather whose name appeared at the Asmara Airport.
One may argue that 100 years was not enough time to keep the curse at its birth place. Perhaps, this time around, it won't hurt to consider a millennia. What do you say?