Meles Zenawi: The Architect of National Tragedy
By: International Committee of Tigrians for Democracy (ICTD)
A statement by the International Committee of Tigrians for Democracy (ICTD)
It is with deep sorrow and shock that we members of the International Committee of Tigrians for Democracy (ICTD) have learned that the traitorous regime of Meles Zenawi has mowed down Ethiopia's young minds in our nation's capital.
The mass murder of over 40 university and high school students and the maiming of over 250 students show what Meles Zenawi could offer to the Hope of the Nation whose rudimentary question was a police force that was running its own torture chambers on a university campus be removed from the academic environment.
Never in the history of Ethiopia's university students' movement has more blood been spilt than in the time of Meles Zenawi - the individual whose crimes against our country and people are haunting him to act as a mad dog.
Meles, who was recently stripped bare as a national crime suspect by his long-time comrades, has this week leaped from being an imposter democrat to a state terrorist who, despite public disapproval and ridicule, wants to rule the nation by means of the barrel of the gun.
If a university student's most rudimentary right to form a students union frightens Meles Zenawi into committing a mass murder, how will sell-out handle Ethiopia's demands for the release of thousands of Ethiopian prisoners of conscience? How many tanks will he file down the streets of our cities when the nation rises up demanding the abolition of ethnic-apartheid in Ethiopia? How will Meles and his mercenary thugs look when the nation roars for his removal and the formation of a transitional government of national reconciliation and healing?
On this occasion, ICTD sends its deepest sympathies to the families who have lost their loved ones to the forces of tyranny and conspiracy.
On this occasion, ICTD enters into allegiance and expresses its solidarity with the opposition Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP) to struggle and live up to the ideals of the heroic Ethiopian university and high school students who paid with their lives for a free and democratic Ethiopia.
ICTDİ April 19, 2001
[Opinions in this article are solely that of the writer.]