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[teodroseIII]

It has been a week since Mek’ele was repatriated by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces yet the city, and 500,000 residents with it, is still reportedly without access to the internet. To give a speech is one thing, but deeds have to follow. Mr. Ahmed can’t speak of giving grace to TPLF forces while concurrently keeping a whole region plunged in darkness. I’m not sure there was ever justification for cutting off the internet to Tigray to begin with; now that the conflict has come drawn to a close, Mr. Ahmed will lose all credibility if internet is not restored to Tigray promptly and urgent steps are taken to provide assistance to those who need it.

Ethiopia is a country that is bracketed by a famine of the imagination, if we put aside our differences and learned to work across the divides that have been imposed upon us by outsiders, there is no reason why Ethiopia can’t become the Japan of Africa and be a light for all marginalized people around the world. This requires a mind shift among leaders and the general population; it is high time to put aside empty pride that has only led us to empty stomachs and emptied national resources. If we are able to align our passions with a collectiveness, the change that would unleash for Ethiopia would be transformational. [continued]

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[Abaymado]

It has been a week since Mek’ele was repatriated by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces yet the city, and 500,000 residents with it, is still reportedly without access to the internet. To give a speech is one thing, but deeds have to follow. Mr. Ahmed can’t speak of giving grace to TPLF forces while concurrently keeping a whole region plunged in darkness. I’m not sure there was ever justification for cutting off the internet to Tigray to begin with; now that the conflict has come drawn to a close, Mr. Ahmed will lose all credibility if internet is not restored to Tigray promptly and urgent steps are taken to provide assistance to those who need it.

Ethiopia is a country that is bracketed by a famine of the imagination, if we put aside our differences and learned to work across the divides that have been imposed upon us by outsiders, there is no reason why Ethiopia can’t become the Japan of Africa and be a light for all marginalized people around the world. This requires a mind shift among leaders and the general population; it is high time to put aside empty pride that has only led us to empty stomachs and emptied national resources. If we are able to align our passions with a collectiveness, the change that would unleash for Ethiopia would be transformational. [continued]

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What the fk are you talking about? Is internet a big deal for Tigreans now? You don't know what you are talking about, do you? When Hachalu killed internet was down for the whole country. When killings of Amhara's leaders were orchestrated also internet shut down for whole country. Is it internet a burning issue now for Tigreans? Rather, the provision of water supply, electricity and bank services should be given priority.
Who the fk are you?

[DefendTheTruth]

It has been a week since Mek’ele was repatriated by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces yet the city, and 500,000 residents with it, is still reportedly without access to the internet. To give a speech is one thing, but deeds have to follow. Mr. Ahmed can’t speak of giving grace to TPLF forces while concurrently keeping a whole region plunged in darkness. I’m not sure there was ever justification for cutting off the internet to Tigray to begin with; now that the conflict has come drawn to a close, Mr. Ahmed will lose all credibility if internet is not restored to Tigray promptly and urgent steps are taken to provide assistance to those who need it.

Ethiopia is a country that is bracketed by a famine of the imagination, if we put aside our differences and learned to work across the divides that have been imposed upon us by outsiders, there is no reason why Ethiopia can’t become the Japan of Africa and be a light for all marginalized people around the world. This requires a mind shift among leaders and the general population; it is high time to put aside empty pride that has only led us to empty stomachs and emptied national resources. If we are able to align our passions with a collectiveness, the change that would unleash for Ethiopia would be transformational. [continued]

READ FULL ARTICLE AT: https://ghionjournal.com/ethiopias-cruc ... -of-pride/

You are consumed about yourself and consider yourself someone important. Your support made no difference and your going will also make no difference.

There is a time when i supported you considering you might be someone who could going to learn something, but you are incapable of that.

This is not about an individual or a small clique, it is about a nation and one more banda will not make much a difference.

BTW. didn't you get any response or was the response a decline to your appeal to join in the government and "contribute"?

[Abere]

Wow, is this a Big enough reason for you to withdraw support?እናቱ ውሃ ልትቀዳ ሄደችበት ልጅ እናቱ ከሞተችበት ጋር እኩል ያለቅሳል ይላል የአገሬ ሰው። While our force is hunting down remnant criminals in Tigray province still sacrificing their precious lives, you are calling to give more ammunition/information to TPLF. Even if I don't concur 100% with it, TPLF is saying Tigray is TPLF and TPLF is Tigray - it in fact has some truth learning from the last 30 years and to date I don't recall any place or town Tigray People demonstrated against TPLF. Abiy Ahmed is not foolish to put any defense force or Amhara special Fano force in harms way. Do you even know that we live informational warfare? Are you asking Abiy Ahmed to send bread while the army asked him ammunition. I think you are winking to TPLF.

[Abe Abraham]

It has been a week since Mek’ele was repatriated by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces yet the city, and 500,000 residents with it, is still reportedly without access to the internet. To give a speech is one thing, but deeds have to follow. Mr. Ahmed can’t speak of giving grace to TPLF forces while concurrently keeping a whole region plunged in darkness. I’m not sure there was ever justification for cutting off the internet to Tigray to begin with; now that the conflict has come drawn to a close, Mr. Ahmed will lose all credibility if internet is not restored to Tigray promptly and urgent steps are taken to provide assistance to those who need it.

Ethiopia is a country that is bracketed by a famine of the imagination, if we put aside our differences and learned to work across the divides that have been imposed upon us by outsiders, there is no reason why Ethiopia can’t become the Japan of Africa and be a light for all marginalized people around the world. This requires a mind shift among leaders and the general population; it is high time to put aside empty pride that has only led us to empty stomachs and emptied national resources. If we are able to align our passions with a collectiveness, the change that would unleash for Ethiopia would be transformational. [continued]

READ FULL ARTICLE AT: https://ghionjournal.com/ethiopias-cruc ... -of-pride/

Ted ( the son of Atse Theodore ),

The government is in the process of doing what you are demanding. Take for instance the disussions that took place in Shire with regard to restoring services to the locals. Patience.

[gagi]

Teodros, I did not know you have such a distorted image of yourself! Who the heck do you think you are? You have no adequate information about what is happening on the ground; and yet you are issuing an ultimatum to Dr. Abiy. How can you be certain that Abiy is after your support or voice? Given the ethnicization of life in Ethiopia,
could you be a wolf in a sheep skin?

I was inspired by some of your blog previously and even shared the link to your website to friends and acquaintance. I think I need to advice them now that you are becoming like the EU parliament in putting unrealistic demand on PM Abiy.

You lost me, unfortunately!

[DefendTheTruth]

It has been a week since Mek’ele was repatriated by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces yet the city, and 500,000 residents with it, is still reportedly without access to the internet. To give a speech is one thing, but deeds have to follow. Mr. Ahmed can’t speak of giving grace to TPLF forces while concurrently keeping a whole region plunged in darkness. I’m not sure there was ever justification for cutting off the internet to Tigray to begin with; now that the conflict has come drawn to a close, Mr. Ahmed will lose all credibility if internet is not restored to Tigray promptly and urgent steps are taken to provide assistance to those who need it.

Ethiopia is a country that is bracketed by a famine of the imagination, if we put aside our differences and learned to work across the divides that have been imposed upon us by outsiders, there is no reason why Ethiopia can’t become the Japan of Africa and be a light for all marginalized people around the world. This requires a mind shift among leaders and the general population; it is high time to put aside empty pride that has only led us to empty stomachs and emptied national resources. If we are able to align our passions with a collectiveness, the change that would unleash for Ethiopia would be transformational. [continued]

READ FULL ARTICLE AT: https://ghionjournal.com/ethiopias-cruc ... -of-pride/

Ted ( the son of Atse Theodore ),

The government is in the process of doing what you are demanding. Take for instance the disussions that took place in Shire with regard to restoring services to the locals. Patience.

What the people in the video are discussing are real issues of the people on the ground such as water, electricity, bank service, market, security (law and order and controlling thefts and the likes) all are genuine issues that need to be addressed ASAP, in my view.

What Tedreos is asking is the restoration of the internet for the 500 000 residents of Mekele. He assumes that everybody else also lives like him, where he can get up in the morning and get his coffee with a good Hamberger and then pick up his laptop to serve the internet. And if internet is not available then it is a blackout for him.

What he doesn't even understand is that for the majority of those residents his demands made no difference what so ever, because they have more pressing issues like the ones I listed here and it made no difference for their lives.

What he is asking is about how to enable digital woyanes to come back and start instigating havoc one more last time before everything would get better and Tedreos is saying the government doesn't need to clear the instigators and he dares to "sanction" (understandably he can only think in terms of sanctions) the government if it fails to heed his advice. That is very much funny.

[Roha]

I had seriously read your comments here before but not anymore. You need to educate yourself about war, the TPLF and the region.
The first step in war is to block all communication systems that the enemy uses to reorganize and communicate fake news and roumors.
You are so no nave with no clue about war, I have decided not to read any comment your write here about the Horn region.
You may write about your life in America but nothing outside.

[Sadacha Macca]

It sounds well and all, but not reality based, nor are you elaborating on what you think could be the solutions in this particular case sir.
You say outsiders imposed differences on us, really, how? You need to elaborate, you are indirectly implying that we were all holding hands as one ethiopian family, wearing white shammas and eating doro wat, prior to these evil outsiders imposing differences on us.
Then you say we need to put outside our differences? What are those differences, and what would you propose as a compromise that would be acceptable to at least a significant portion of Ethiopia?

Hmmmm.

[teodroseIII]

You know, initially I was going to come in here with both guns blazing and give back than I received with respect to some of the responses in here that saw it fit to attack my character instead of debating the merits of what I wrote. But the thing about living life long enough and going through enough hardships I guess is that you learn to step back before acting with impulse and question your own actions manifest people's reactions, even the ones that are full of odium and anger.

So pause I did and reflect over buna before I wrote this response. Which made me realize that the title of my post was polarizing, in the attempt to make a statement that would draw people's attention, I ended up triggering many. So I guess first and foremost let me apologize for my approach, though what I write is genuine, the delivery was counterproductive at best.

That said, without returning fire with fire, I ask those people who justified Abiy's decisions and some of you who noted that Tigrayans should effectively accept the blackout because it "could be worse", i know a lot of you protested for 27 years about the brutalities of Meles and his regime. I was there with you marching in DC as a teenager until I realized that protesting was not for me, I say that without questioning those who marched, we all ...well you know, we all march to different drums, excuse the pun.

But during those times you protested, and during the times I used to pick up my pen to go at the TPLF and used to do videos trying to expose their evil the responses I used to always get from TPLF supporters was "it's not that bad, they are just making an issue out of nothing". This used to make me livid, i used to wonder how can people be so callous that they would ignore the plight of their own countrymen simply because they are not of the same clan?

Now though I get it, because the same feeling of indifference once displayed by TPLF supporters are now being channeled by TPLF opponents. You might think that going without internet for a few weeks, months or longer is nothing to complain about, but we live in the 21st century, the internet is to the world what electricity was in the 20th century. Having a whole region have it's internet shut down is the equivalent of imposing a blackout. It's collective punishment and its immoral.

Many of you are not considering that there are many Tigrayans in the diaspora who are not able to reach out to their families. For those living in Tigray, they are stuck in an information blackout where they have no idea what is coming next, they are cut off from the rest of Ethiopia.

Let end it with this, be very careful of the actions you excuse. None of us know truly what Abiy's intentions are, I submit to you that it would be wise to keep his feet to the fire instead of worshiping him and justifying his actions. If his plans are to eliminate all threats and consolidate power, you could very well be witnessing Meles 2.0. Question why he has yet to pay attention to the OLF and the threats that Oromo extremists are posing, what you cheer today because you hate TPLF could end up being the fire that comes to your house.

As to who I am that I make some demand of Abiy, I am a man just like him, he is no better than me, no worse, we are all children of God, I do not elevate him above me nor do I put him beneath, I give him credit when he deserves it and will criticize him when warranted. I think that is the best course of action, if not, if you worship him, do not be surprised when he treats you as a sacrifice::

[teodroseIII]

Here is a broader answer to the issues everyone raised in this thread.

[teodroseIII]

Also, let me note this...

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