The Horn Times Newsletter-August 17, 2012
by Getahune Bekele
“I will spend the night right here wiping the tears of Waldiba monks with this handkerchief, am not going home. My
beloved church is free at last. My Ethiopia is free…oh St Mary…oh our 44 holy Tablets…”a tearful young man who give his name as Nikodimos told the Horn Times reporters in the compound of St Estefan orthodox church on Thursday afternoon 16 August 2012 as thousands, unusual number for mid week evening mass, gathered to pray and rejoice.
The death of patriarch Paulos, head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has been seen as divine intervention by the most high to end Ethiopias’ 21 years of brutal enslavement at the hands of Aba paulos himself and Leggese Zenawi, both hailed from the northern town of Adwa in the iron curtain province of Tigraye.
According to his aide, Abune Flipos, the diademed and resplendent king of darkness, Aba Paulos, died of hypertension and diabetes at Balcha hospital in the early hours of Thursday. He was 76.
Since Zenawi disappeared, the patriarch had been feeling betrayed and was inconsolable. He grieved for two months. An insider told the Horn Times that Paulos feared and dreaded capture and trial. He therefore avoided public appearances like all TPLF top dogs and up graded security around his residence.
The lavish fete he organized at Sheraton hotel on 11 August 2012 to commemorate his 20 years in power was his way of going out with a bang. He knew that it was game-over.
Soon after his death was announced on radio Fana at about midday, Addis Ababa came to a standstill. At Bole road, the traffic stretched for kilometers and around St Urael Orthodox Church, the congestion eased only at 8pm as the faithful got home in jovial mood.
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” shouted a group of young men as they rush to the hilltop Shola Michael church, famous for vehemently opposing Pauloses’ dictatorial rule, on several occasions preventing him from entering the shrine.
“Aba Paulos and Legesse Zenawi are both dead. God has delivered deliverance to the oppressed nation. Both the mother land and our spiritual mother(the church) are free. We are free.” Said Temesgen Fanta,a 42 years old taxi driver who abandoned his faith for 20 years in protest of Abune Pauloses’ scandalous sub Rosa election as head of the church in 1992.
Described as a warlord in white togs, the supreme pontiff, Aba Paulos, died leaving behind a divided church, a nervous nation tittering on the brink of freedom and hordes of heretics who escaped canonical punishment by hiding under his so-called secular umbrella.
Judged by none, feared by millions while enjoying an unfettered jurisdiction over the ancient faith, the bearded pseudo monk was also accused of larceny. Reports are that he plundered the churches’ wealth to fund his extravagant life style befitting a pop star, even arrogantly erecting his own statue in Addis Ababa.
He had been repeatedly urged by the churches’ scholars to practice the pure Christian faith based on the dogma and the sacred laws of the fathers.
However, he observed none of them.
The Ethiopians would always remember him as Judas of the modern era. In 1993, he gave TPLF gunmen permission to storm the St Mary church to dislodge protesting students who took refuge there, sacrilegiously watching the gruesome preceding from his balcony next door.
The man undeservedly called “Holy Father” and “The Supreme Shepherd of the Faithful” will be buried on August 23 in Addis Ababa against the will of the masses who want him to be taken back to Adwa.
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Ras Griot
August 22, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Now is the time to restore to Solomon’s throne the Earth’s Rightful Ruler!!!!!! Selassie I
aklilu
August 18, 2012 at 7:13 pm
GOD is grate! In our culture(Ethiopian) no one wish to someone a death, but this shabians ruled Ethiopian in the name of weyane for over 21 yrs.Today GOD said enough is enough.I am starting mark my calandeer who will be the next facist shabia to go. I think we have to wait every 30 days to announce the death of weyane.The next one September . Who Mr Legese Zenawi? or Mr Bereket Simoan?I hope it will be one of them or we will suprise someone from the group…
Asebe
August 18, 2012 at 6:52 pm
The latest unsubstantiated report by the Sudan Tribune about Meles is no different from the previous conflicting reports on The Reporter, Addis Fortune, The Capital, Addis Admas, Aiga Forum, etc. It is no different from the conflicting interviews given by Sebhat Nega and Bereket Simon either. They all turned out to be false. It is nothing but meant to spread more confusion on the part of the TPLF. We already know that Meles, before his complete disppearance, was talking to the feuding parties in the two Sudans. One of his very few appearances on the TV screen in the last several months is talking to Sudanese defence minister and it was very clear then too that Meles was sick, frail and pale. This is what they are using to create confusion and it might be what the AU officials are talking about. No one has ever claimed to have spoken to Meles in the last couple of months, even Sebhat Nega. Listen to Sebhat Nega’s ESAT interview. Just for the sake of argument, let us forget the credible report by ESAT on the death of Meles citing credible sources in the know in the ICG. If Meles cannot offer condolences on the death of one of his closest personal and family freinds and a fellow townman from Adwa, what more do you need as a proof for Meles’s death? Do you want to see his death certificate? I do not think the TPLF will release it any time soon. Do you believe that Meles who is so unable to offer condolences on the death of his close personal friend is somehow able to involve from his sick bed in as complex issues as peace negotiations between two warring countries? This is laughable and yet another fabrication by the TPLF propaganda machine. The domestice TPLF affiliated outlets such as The Reporter, Addis Tribune, etc have all dropped the story on Meles’s status altogether (because they know that no one trusts anymore what they write on this issue as all the previous conflicting reports ended in fiasco ) and now Bereket is using the newspaper just across the border, the Sudan Tribune (using a reporter stationed in Addis, kkkkk…,lol), to spread the false propaganda.
Askale Dama
August 19, 2012 at 4:47 am
Asebe,
I agree. Actually, there is not much that Bereket can do other than to use any medium to put out time-buyinh mis/disinformation. One thing he misses to recognize is that from the standpoint of actual living politics, the death or the incapacity of Meles are the same things. He is politically practically dead.
What is important is this: who will die next? Who will flee next? Who will gain or lose power next?
ER is reporting that Africom chief, Gen. Ham has compelled TPLF to make the current DPM, the prime minister for the remainer of Meles’ term. True or false, this story make sense.
The US cannot afford a major instability in Ethiopia at a time when the focus of US war on terrorism is shifting to Arabia and Horn. US is married to the horn (its strategic value), not to the power and financial greed of TPLF.
Moreover, if TPLF refuses to serve this US core security need, it will readily be removed at quick order.
This is where the rise of fortunes of Tigre-woyane vs. Eritrea-woyne cliques comes into play. Sebhat and his gang is using this opportunity to liquidate Meles & co.
Of course, US is making a big gamble if it support the radical Tigrean clique against the dying Meles group instead of starting an orderly transitional process.
Between now three years (2015), the opposition can and will put the house of Woyane on fire. In fact, from now on Woyane in any form is incapable of securing order in the Horn of Africa. Any form of Woyane existence or intervention in any conflict is nothnig but a trigger for more conflict, resentment, uprising, and war.
We all know how short sighted the US could be. Stay tuned to witness how the US throws good money after bad by sticking with a losing horse. Any reshuffle of personalities or rearrangement of Woyane security forces will not produce one iota of legitimacy. Helping woyane organs of violence and more killing will simply put the whole country on Fire.
US must begin the removal TPLF rule now, not three years from now. Live and witness
Ygermal
August 18, 2012 at 2:00 pm
@Askale, good analysis, but then its too much. I’d rather stick to devine intervention. … Now am dying to see these tigre with all the power n money fight it out while i drink my coffee with joy.
Askale Dama
August 18, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Ygermal,
I know it seems too much. AS you could see, I am hinting at three possible processes – systematic elimination of the top dogs by means some complex poisoning, inter-woyane coup, and or fleeing. If not why would the commander of the army leave at this critical moment? If Yunus is fuffering from something that cannot be taken care of Ethiopian doctors, then that itself is major development. And, it is all good!
Beahilu
August 18, 2012 at 9:53 am
DEL LE EWNTE ETHIOPIA
LET THE TRUTH ALAWAYS PREVAIL
FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM
Askale Dama
August 18, 2012 at 6:30 am
Divine intervention or the work of human -something very unusual is taking place. Generally, I don’t like conspiracy theory. In this case, I prefer to remain open for both the works of logic and magic.
Meles died around July 15, 2012. Here is why he is dead. He has not issued a single word on the death of Paulos. More significant, no one in the regime could issue statement on behalf of Meles. The split is so severe that no one can lie in Meles’ name.
Exactly 30 days to Meles’ death, Paulos died.
Now, it seems Gen Yunus is sick and out of Ethiopia. Did he run away from some internal struggle or inter-woyane coup? Did he leave Ethiopia to die somewhere? Why sick treatment outside? What is his illness?
Who else is next?
As you well know, the CIA and Mosad knew these people probably since 1973 or 1974. I think the British also knew them. The west gave them money, arms, training, information, and what not. They owe they power and wealth to their America, British, and Israeli supporters.
But these ungrateful and geedy Tigrean clique has been conspiring with China agaist the West. They have been using the Chiense lever to bleed more money from the West, so much so that Meles was lecturing the West on the essence of feedom and development relying of Chinese thought.
I wish to entertain a possibility that CIA/Mosad might have put these guys on a time capsule, each 30 days apart. If Yunus dies within the next 30 days, this hypothesis will stand on a firmer ground.
Yegebriel Wodaj
August 18, 2012 at 3:06 am
Lesu min yisanewal? Egiziabher yetemesgene yihun. Amen.