[Pol.ethiopia] Fwd: WHO IS MELES? By Hailu Mengesha -- Part One

[Abdissa Daniel]

Dear Enawgaw@aol.com

I am assuming that you have mistakenly used a reply command to send the 
following message to me rather than pol.ethiopia.  Since it is very 
interesting I am forwarding it to online.

My comment:

Haile Mengesh was one of the TPLF founders and staunch support. He remained 
silent after Melese and co kicked him out of the party. Even though it is 
too late it is good to see him sharing his thought with non Tigrean 
Ethiopians. It  is an article that must be read.

AD


>To: abdissa1@hotmail.com
>Subject: WHO IS MELES?  By Hailu Mengesha  -- Part One
>Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 20:20:00 EDT
>
>ETHIOPIAN COMMENTATOR
>
>http://www.ethiopiancommentator.com/whoismeles/
>
>Who is Meles?   (PART ONE)
>
>By Hailu Mengesha
>
>One of the prominently persistent myth that has been floating around, for a 
>long while now, pertains to Meles' intelligence. A closer observation 
>however
>reveals that Meles is not only genuinely incompetent but also utterly
>idiotic. Unlike intelligent people, who can foresee things ahead of time 
>and
>accordingly chart strategic avenues to address impending scenarios, since 
>he
>has ascended to power, Meles has been propelled by the exigencies of 
>current
>events. Apparently, he has spent almost all of his political life in
>navigating the tempestuous political storms that are fabricated because of
>his congenital malformation attributed to deep seated existential 
>pathology.
>Let us start by asserting an obvious verity
>that seems to chronically elude Meles and his perverted psyche. Meles is 
>the
>only person, on the face of the world, who is ignorant of the fact
>that he is the head of the Ethiopian government. Since his ascension to 
>power,
>he did not comprehend the scale and the scope of his status, nor does he
>recognize the internal and external factors that are part and parcel of his
>official capacity. When he was formally anointed to be the leader of
>Ethiopia, he has concurrently qualified himself to become the ultimate 
>enemy
>of the very nation that is entrusted to look out for. Then and there the
>genesis of the fundamental dissonance that has been consuming Meles has 
>taken
>root. Consequently, over the years, the paradox has evolved into a
>full-blown-out schizophrenia. Accordingly, the political seat of the head 
>of
>the government has effectively
>turned into an authentic psychoanalytic couch. Meles' transformation from 
>an
>Albanian Marxist object into a westernized capitalist subject, in less than
>10 years, is actually in tune with a split personality syndrome. Without a
>doubt,
>his malady is grave and ought to be addressed by psychiatry. Unfortunately
>however, rather than being quarantined under professional observation, the
>patient has been given a absolute power to preside over the livelihood of
>a nation. On his own, Meles is a very simplistic individual. As a leader,
>though, he is a very complex phenotype. His complexity is a function of a
>sick man bestowed with absolute power. His case is not unique, history is
>full
>of his type. Meles has a deep seated inferiority complex vis a vis the
>so-called Amhara and Eritrea. In order to alleviate the pain, which has
>progressed into an irrational hate of the other, he has to seek refuge
>somewhere. Tigray is not good enough, because he figured the only prominent
>actors are Eritrea and Amhara. Between the two, he has chosen Eritrea 
>simply
>because he can trace, genealogically that is, his root back to an "imagined
>greatness". Since his
>vision is only zeroed in either Eritrea or Ethiopia, the latter, in his
>primitive
>logical reasoning has become synonymized with Amhara. Accordingly, while
>he was officially ruling Ethiopia he was actually a voluntary puppet of
>Eritrea; it was a necessarily condition to fulfill his ultimate quest,
>slaying the Amhara demon. Accordingly, he unilaterally surrendered real 
>power
>to Eritrea reducing himself and Ethiopia into tributary vassalage. This
>unorthodox political arrangement was the status-quo during the first seven
>years of Woyane
>Ethiopia. Incidentally, it would not be far fetched to state that during
>those
>seven years, Eritrea was indeed the de facto as well as de jure custodian
>of the Ethiopian polity. The unholy alliance could not sustain itself and
>reached
>an asymptotic extreme only to be corrected through war. After the war, to 
>his
>disgust his side has won, Meles has retreated into a state of chronic
>depression. In a normal situation the winning side should be happy not only
>in exonerating
>his domain from extraneous pressure, but also in the prospect of redefining
>his relationship from a position of strength. The Ethiopian people both at
>home and
>in the Diaspora were jubilant in the hope to witness vindication and 
>justice.
>Their hope was so high; they were willing to forget the systematic harms 
>they
>have enduring during seven long years of colonial rule. Many went as far as
>expressing their unconditional support to the war effort with various 
>means.
>As
>we all know clear-cut victory is turned into actual stalemate. Meles has
>betrayed his nation in general and particularly the fighting force by 
>denying
>them the final prize that came to fruition on the terraced fields of their
>crushed bones
>nourished by their cascading blood.
>
>[Continued in Part Two)
>=======================================================
>THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE ABOVE, HAILU MENGESHA, WAS
>ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF TPLF ALONG WITH SEBHAT NEGA, AREGAWI BERHE,
>MELES ZENAWI, SEYOUM MESFIN AND OTHERS.
>
>AT PRESENT HAILU MENGESHA IS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF TIGREAN
>ALLIANCE FOR NATIONAL DEMOCRACY (TAND), A SMALL PARTY OF
>TIGREAN DISSIDENTS IN DIASPORA.  HAILU MENGESHA, WHO IS A HIGH
>SCHOOL TEACHER, NOW LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.  HE RECENTLY RETURNED
>FROM A SHORT VISIT TO LONDON WHERE HE
>MET WITH ARGAWI BERHE AND OTHER TIGREAN DISSIDENTS.  HAILU
>TOLD SOME CLOSE CONFIDANTS IN LOS ANGELES THAT HIS MEETING WITH HIS
>COLLEAGUES IN LONDON WAS TO DISCUSS WAYS AND
>MEANS OF WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE SEYE ABRAHA GROUP TO OUT THE 'PALACE
>GROUP' LED BY MELES ZENAWI AND SEBHAT NEGA AND SEIZE POLITICAL POWER. HE
>FURTHER TOLD HIS CONFIDANTS
>THAT HIS GROUP HAS ALREADY ESTABLISHED CONTACT WITH THE
>SEYE GROUP AND THAT BOTH GROUPS HAVE REACHED AN UNDERSTANDING TO WORK 
>TOGETHER
>

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