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No basis for Zenawi’s Tattletales about
Somalia |
Ever since the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC)
uprooted many of the Ethiopian funded
warlords whose sole existence was for the
destruction and the maintenance of chaos and
lawlessness in Somalia, not a single day
passes without hearing from the head of the
Ethiopian autocracy. The self-anointed
spokesman of the Somali Transitional Federal
Government, TFG, Mr. Meles Zenawi, appears
to contradict himself repeatedly while
attempting to paint the UIC as an ‘Alqaeda’
affiliate without providing a single shred
of evidence.
One day Mr. Zenawi is heard denying the
widely reported sighting and presence of
Ethiopian troops in many parts of Somalia
especially in Baidoba, the home of the TFG.
The next day he is said to have acknowledged
the presence of ‘armed Ethiopian trainers’
in parts of the Somali republic. Finally he
has accepted the futility in his denials
about the presence of Tigrian troops in
Somalia by admitting that he is
‘technically’ at war with UIC in other words
he is arguing that the end justifies the
means. To Zenawi’s hallucinating mind, being
‘technically at war’ with UIC justifies the
illegal deployment of thousands of Ethiopian
troops deep inside Somalia.
The stories about ‘Alqaeda’, about ‘foreign
fighters’ and ‘Jihadists’ being part of the
UIC are ones made up by Zenawi to further
his own interest of garnering both moral and
military support from the world community in
the name of fighting ‘terror’. Zenawi is
also employing scarecrow tactics to convince
the US to get funding for his myriad
militias who have not been paid for months.
Further as discussed in detail in many of
our earlier editorials, Zenawi is exploiting
the Somali situation to stir up Ethiopian
nationalist sentiments in order to lull his
own people from realizing the abject failure
of Zenawi’s military escapades in Ogaden,
and in Eritrea for example.
There is no basis for Zenawi’s tattletales
about Somalia and the UIC. The objective of
the renewed publicity stunts employed by the
head of the autocracy in Addis Ababa through
public releases and open invitations for
interview is to discourage the TFG from
attending the Khartoum conference slated for
the end of this month. The intention is to
create a poisonous environment that does not
allow both the TFG and the UIC to make the
necessary concessions required to resolve
the Somali situation. The world community
especially the United States should neither
authorize nor fund Ethiopia’s military
adventure in Somalia.
The Somalis should be encouraged to resolve
their differences. Zenawi should be reminded
that he is not the prime minister of Somalia
but that of a failed state called Ethiopia.
If Zenawi has the means to resolve a
military crisis or a political situation he
should resolve the long standing Ogaden
issue instead of engaging in tattletales
about Somalia.
editorial@ogaden.com
Ogaden Online Editorial
Oct 25, 2006
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