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Cheap
CUD for
Sale
(የሶማሌ ተራ
ቅንጅት)
Engineer
Ghirma W.G.
October
16, 2007
Those
of you who are intimately familiar with Addis Abeba, my home town,
know all about Somale Tera. It is primarily a place where you can
buy spare parts at rock
bottom prices. It was (when I was growing up) also a place
where stolen cars were surgically dismantled, and parts thereof
sold in the open market. Somale Tera used to be where victims of
automobile theft first searched for their stolen cars; before it
was too late that is. The dismembered terrorist CUD is bound for Somale Tera too. In my opinion, CUD under
the leadership of convicted felon Eng. Hailu Shawel et al is worthless.
When
I was in Secondary School, a required English class reading was a
marvelous book titled “The Vicar of Wakefield” by Oliver
Goldsmith. In the first chapter of the book, in response to a
neighbor’s admiration of the Primrose children’s beauty, Mrs.
Primrose answered: "They are as heaven made them, handsome
enough, if they be good enough; for handsome
is that handsome does."
By the same token Diaspora CUD is as ugly as its recent action
towards the Ethiopian people. Case in point is the recent HR 2003,
for which Diaspora CUD lobbied, with the sole purpose to stifle
the aspirations of the Ethiopian people. Indeed, to coin Mrs.
Primrose’s quote as it applies to Diaspora CUD: “Ugly
is that ugly does”.
As
I see it, the present CUD as a viable “opposition” is dead and
buried. It has become nothing but another terrorist group. Indeed
CUD has aligned itself with OLF, ONLF, UIC and PFDJ; all of whom
are sworn enemies of
Ethiopia
. Therefore, the EPRDF government has an obligation and legitimate
right, to scrutinize and pursue
Ethiopia
’s “enemies” aggressively in order to protect the National
Security of
Ethiopia
; with or without the partnership of
USA
in the war against terrorism. I hope and pray that HR 2003 will
fail in its successful passage into law; which will only embolden
al-Qaeda in its effort to spread terrorism in
Africa
and beyond, and thus also pose a threat to US National Security.
Perhaps
the only chance that CUD may have for survival as a viable
opposition party is by re-structuring itself from the ground up;
under fresh and progressive leadership, with fresh ideas for the
improvement of the lives of the Ethiopian people. Retaining
allegiance to DERG operatives like ex-Minister of Agriculture Eng.
Hailu Shawel and the remaining convicts (http://www.ethioobserver.net/pardons.htm)
is both repugnant and nauseating.
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