The Horn Times News Letter
by Getahune Bekele
Abbay Woldu
On Thursday 12 July 2012,the city of Nazareth, 90 KMS east of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia came to a standstill when Tigraye republic president Abbay Woldu(pictured) arrived to attend a sod turning ceremony as part of Tigraye martyrs day celebrations organized by an estimated 11,000 ethnic Tigres living in oromiya’s business capital.
The city greeted the feared warlord and his more than 200 convoy of cars including several military and police vehicles with glacial stare.
Later in the day, irritated by the closure of all roads leading up to the city centre and the city’s land mark St Mary orthodox church, the local youth and taxi drivers pelted the Agazi mobile death squad members with stones and bottles.
As it is the norm with the extremely rigid and dangerously too parochial warlord Abbay Woldu, again, only ethnic Tigres and their cars were allowed to pass through checkpoints.
The Horn Times journalists who followed the abrasive warlord to Nazareth reported that the gnomes then responded with live fire while the local police members, excluded from the event, were seen taking cover and later fleeing the city center in different directions.
A 17 years old boy from an area known as Bulga Sefer was killed after being hit on the chest by bullets.
As the news of the death of one protester filtered throughout the city and more protesters began to arrive, sensing more bloodshed and even capture, the usually imperturbable Woldu cut his speech short and left the area at a lightning speed.
The marquee, decorated with the flags of the Tigraye republic and with the images of her so-called martyrs was then destroyed within minutes before the arrival of municipal workers.
“This is your last gathering in our city, you idiots,” shouted a young woman who could not open her hair salon business until midday due to the closure.
“All of them must pack and go to Tigraye, we don’t want them here. Go and commemorate your traitor martyrs in your own back yard “a hawker who sells frankincense, candles and lucky sticks near the St Mary cathedral told the Horn Times reporters, pointing towards a fast moving military van.
Meanwhile, TPLF stalwart Eleni G.Medhins’ attempt to bring together the implacable warlords at a scrumptious luncheon organized for Thursday afternoon at Zenawi’s palace badly backfired and left the woman embarrassed when Abbay Woldu refused to attend.
Well-placed sources within the TPLF told the Horn Times that Eleni persuaded acting PMs, the twin warlords Tedros Adhanom and Birhane Gebrechristos to put their differences aside for the ailing Zenawis’ sake and meet Woldu. However, she only hit a glass ceiling.
“It seems he(Woldu)wants to be seen as political maverick, but he do not have the brain to score points through political legerdemain. He is using maudlin tactics to get his message across. I mean look at what happened in Nazareth on Thursday morning, the violence could have spiraled out of control. The young boy was killed because of Woldus’ licentious practice of naked, ethnocentric warlordism practiced by his boss Meles Zenawi for 21 years,” explained a political analyst.
“The dyed-in-the-wool glutton is positioning himself for possible war crimes prosecution alongside his god Meles Zenawi by committing glaring and irreversible errors outside his republic,” added the analyst who cannot be named for security reasons.
Abbay Woldu returned to Tigraye on Saturday, 14 July 2012.
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Yinegal
July 15, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Wow ….it is simply unbelievable – Tigres whom Ethiopians and the rest of the world saved from famine and starvation are pillaging, looting, raping and last but not least killing innocent Oromo Ethiopians at will.
I say unto my fellow Oromo Ethiopians – Rise up in unison and send the Woyane thugs and criminal enterprise to where they came from. Needless to say, the fallen Oromo victims of Woyane conquest of Ethiopia, shall be vindicated. Tigre criminals shouldn’t get away with the murder of hundreds of thousands innocent Oromo Ethiopians!!!
To Oromo Ethiopians Everywhere – I say DON’t GET MAD BUT RISE UP AND GET EVEN.
Addis
July 15, 2012 at 6:23 pm
We will kik them this Tplf from our land very soon
Let’s be stand togethe thier time is over.
Waa
July 15, 2012 at 5:53 pm
How interesting. Did not know Eleni Mafria was at center of peace-making machine among the political elite. I defended her all the time she was at ESX,thinking she has an economic vision not ethno-connection. What a foul I was.
What is amazing and uniform among arrogant ruling class around the globe is even when they are in danger, they still feel in control and continue to party like no tomorrow.
The very martyrs day concept is a f…..ing insult to all the dead in Ethiopia. This is sticking two finger up to all the dead to the rest of Ethiopia,civilians and soldiers. Martyred my xxx. You are lording it over everyone how are you martyred. You find the martyred under the stone in Tigray not in Addis Ababa plalace and Nazeret town. A good way to remember the dead is to have a nice prayer whatever your religion. I suppose the only god you know today is called, MONEY. Shameless morons!