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[Fiyameta]

Thanks for sharing, Zmeselo. This one made my day!

I have a fairly interesting story of a taxi ride I had, a couple nights back. I rode it from Washington National Airport to my home, because I didn’t want to wait for Lyft. Upon entering the vehicle, I’m usually the first to greet & engage with the driver.

This time, I was met by an individual who was equally acknowledging and willing to converse. We exchanged small talk for a few, about how business was now that an ease on lockdown started & people were flying more.

He explained how he knew of several cab drivers who contracted COVID, & were no longer alive. Pleasantries continued to be exchanged between us; expressing ideas of gratefulness for life, not taking things for granted, etc...

Then the conversation took a hard turn left, when I inquired about his nationality. I asked:

Where are you from? Ethiopia?

He replied adamantly,

NO!, Tigray.

Confused & puzzled, I asked inquisitively:

But isn’t Tigray, a province of Ethiopia?

Yes,

he stated,

but WE no longer identify ourselves as Ethiopian.

He must have seen my perplexed reaction in the rear view mirror, because he quickly countered,

Where are you from?

I of course, holding nothing back, staunchly said,

Eritrea.

This is where, things got dicey.

Ohhh..., your people are killing my people.

he voiced.

I adjusted my position in the backseat, sat up & answered,

what do you mean by that?

I pressed!

Eritrean soldiers are raping, looting and killing my people.

was said in an aggravated tone - (essentially the same b.s. lies) recycled.

I answered

that’s a lie, & there’s no evidence to prove such egregious accusations.

Are you, a President Isaias supporter?

was quickly fired back at me, & I said

that’s irrelevant. I’m an Eritrean nationalist.

I stopped him before he presented another question, & asked one of my own.

Are you familiar with what the TPLF has done to my country, over the last 30 yrs!?

He ignorantly answered in a blasé manner,

No, what?

I took this as him being condescending, & I quickly tried to shut the conversation down. I said,

you know what, never mind!

Irritated, he fired back,

why?

I expressed

It’s useless to have a conversation with someone, who’se unwilling to acknowledge facts.

What facts are those, sir?

he enquired.

The indisputable fact, that the TPLF was dedicated to undermine & usurp the Eritrean gov.

Oh, c’mon...

he jokingly said.

See, that’s what I mean. The disrespectful disregard for historical facts & the actions taken by your party leaders & the deceased Meles towards Eritrea, is why Eritreans do not believe or have empathy for Tegaru; especially those who’ve been supportive of TPLF.

You know what,

he quietly uttered,

I can tolerate what the Ethiopians are doing to us, but Eritreans?! We are the same people, we speak the same language - we’re supposed to be brothers.

I condescendingly responded,

Oh c’mon! Was that same interconnection felt when Tigrayan’s illegally crossed into Eritrea, raped, looted & indiscriminately killed Eritreans during the border war? Or when 100’s of thousands, were forcibly deported from Addis?

Sadly what I hear & what comes off to me is this disingenuous belief ‘we’re the same’ when your ppl oppressed/suppressed my people but now that you’re no longer the ruling party, we’ve quickly become the enemy.

I finished by saying,

I truly pray for those who are innocent, and that they be spared during this conflict, however, as for those playing both sides of the fence, they are no brother/sister to Eritrea|ns.

He didn’t respond to my last comment, and we were nearing my destination.

The last couple minutes he perceived to be quite vexatious, sitting in silence & saying nothing, I stated,

please turn right at the next turn.

He flicked his blinker & pulled into my neighborhood. I asked,

what’s the fare?

he assertively stated

nothing, I don’t want your money.

I exited quietly. It was interesting how quickly the sense of “brotherhood” vanished, once I referred to historical grievances committed by his people upon my people. Rather than speaking candidly, he chose to relegate my points & reverted to emotional attacks by labeling me insensitive.

[Fiyameta]

This is not funny, but it illustrates the agame culture of rape they're exporting to western countries.

Denver Taxi driver from Tigray arrested for kidnapping, sexual assault of woman

By Anthony Cotton | [email protected] | The Denver Post


A cab driver has been arrested and charged with two counts of kidnapping, two counts of sexual assault and one count of robbery for allegedly taking a woman from Lower Downtown on Christmas Eve to his home in Green Valley Ranch and raping her before returning her home.

Hidet G. Molla, 36, was apprehended in part through the use of High Activity Location Observation (HALO) cameras, which detectives with the Denver police sex crimes unit later used to reconstruct his whereabouts on the night in question.

Molla is scheduled to be arraigned in Denver District Court on June 4. He is being held on $200,000 bond.

According to Molla’s arrest affidavit, some time around 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 24, the 22-year-old victim, who had been drinking with friends at a bar, awoke in an unfamiliar location, wearing a bra and nothing else. The report said the woman told her abductor to take her home. He agreed, having her type her address into his smart phone.

The victim was able to give police a vague description of the location of her abductor’s home, recognizing the Green Valley Ranch area because several of her high school basketball teammates lived in the same area.

Working from that information, in January, the affidavit said, police began reviewing video footage from HALO cameras and found a taxi that was at 20th and Larimer streets at about the time the victim would have been leaving the Ginn Mill Bar, 2041 Larimer, on the night of the attack.

Further review of HALO cameras showed the same taxi entering the Green Valley Ranch area about 36 minutes later. It was next seen at about 5:35 a.m. leaving the area.

On Jan. 27, Denver police contacted Molla, and subsequently took a photograph that was included in a six-person lineup array. The victim positively identified Molla from the lineup the next day.

An arrest warrant for Molla was issued on Feb. 3.

https://www.denverpost.com/2015/05/13/d ... -of-woman/

[Fiyameta]

Do you see the difference between Ethiopian and agame cab drivers?


Honest cash cab: Vegas taxi driver finds $221,510 in his cab, and returns it to the owner




A cabdriver's honesty shined as bright as the lights on the Las Vegas Strip. Adam Woldemarim found close to a quarter-million dollars when cleaning his taxi — and returned it. You talkin' to him about thoughtfulness?

A passenger supposedly forgot his black laptop case filled with $221,510 in winnings from the Wynn casino in Sin City.

"I have never seen that much money in real life – just in the movies. When I saw it I was shocked," Woldemarim told the Daily News.

Woldemarim, 42, from Ethiopia, brought the cash to his cab company's security office.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... -1.1179412