The current   Ethiopian regime is increasingly becoming canning, manifest in its uneasiness with Seeye Abraha’s transformative New thinking, specifically, Seeye’s call for reconciliation and change.

While the major Ethiopian websites have all taken the route of grace propelled by the moral engine of the idea of Ethiopianity, AIGA, who many readers of Ethiopian politics consider to be the mouth piece of the tyrannical regime in power, is increasingly seeking to isolate Seeye and some of the dissenting intellectuals into pigeon holes meant to alienate the Ethiopian people, from the voices of reason.

As everybody knows, Seeye’ call for change is serious, generous, uncanning and upright, and Ethiopians from all walks of life, tired of the venomous and divisive usage of Ethnicity, are rising to the heights of social cooperation by using the idea of public reason, the reasoning power of citizens who are drinking from the fountains of hope and moral engagement.

By using reason in concert with will and conscience  Ethiopians recently filled the corridors of gatherings in Boston, DC, Denver and Seattle, and they responded to Seeye’s message with a resounding yes, and proceeded to begin organizing civic associations and salons of discussion wherever and whenever they can.  These actions have frightened the regime, and it is sending its handlers to attack writers with the cheapest means at its fingertips. Needless to say the abuse have not stopped the abused writers from the use of the of the silent power of the pen, thanks to the mighty Lord. .

AIGA responds to the actions of the Ethiopian people in concert by setting Seeye up as the voice of Kinjit, the archenemy of Tigray, and the puppet of the oppressive party, all at once. The strategy was to alienate Seeye from his Tigrean roots, and simultaneously frighten other Ethiopians, from Seeye the hidden Tirgrean nationalist.

Note the strategy of isolation and fear. We Ethiopians however, should know better. Seeye is a genuine Ethiopian known for his fierce defense of Ethiopian sovereignty, which he exemplified with a military lucidity, befitting the portrait of a disciplined general- reasonable, conscientious and brave.

We Ethiopians must unveil the strategies of the desperate regime resorting to desperate means.

Teodros Kiros (PhD)

January 24, 2008