Merchants-of-Death undermine freedom as much as the ruling regime of Ethiopia
Articles, Ethiopian News, PopularSaturday, March 12th, 2011By Teshome Debalke
Merchants-of Death in collusion with the ruling regime of Ethiopia are instrumental to undermine freedom and development in Ethiopia. They, in partnership with the ruling regime corrupted the economic system and plunder anything of value in the name of investment and trade. Since they do not have the ability or the know-how to create wealth their specialty is to extract natural resources and raw commodities using the abandons of cheap labor available because of the mismanagement of the economy by the regime.
The Merchant-of-Death shackle competitors to control the price of goods and services and the labor market with the help of the regime. In doing so, they support the regime to facilitate their corruption to monopolize trade and corner the supply of goods and services.
Ever since Woyane found Ethiopia weak and in ruin by Derg regime’s centrally command economy it got the
opportunity to ransack the country and gabble-up all it can with its affiliate Merchants-of-Death in a span of 20 years. It managed to get hold of public properties, including land to pass-on for its cronies. It raided public banks and hand-over money for its comrades in arms and affiliates. It confiscated properties and drove-out ordinary citizens that rejected its ethnic divide, treason and corruption against the people and the nation. And it aligned with ‘foreign investors’ to exploit the resources of the country and the people.
Since then, no one has taken a concerted effort to follow-up on the criminal enterprises TPLF setup in order to track-down its Merchants-of-Death and expose them to the world and make them accountable. It is partly because of the regime’s misinformation and diversion tactics it uses to distract the attention of the public on irrelevant issues. The international community collaboration with the regime did not help nor did no one challenge them to require the regime to do the minimum standard of accountability.
In today’s Ethiopia there is no merchant that plays a major role free of corruption sanctioned by the ruling regime. And no one exhibited the practice of corruption like a half a dozen infamous investors paraded on the regime’s owned media. Some are Ethiopian national posed as ‘foreign investors’, others are a close associates of the regime. By some estimate the country’s economy is controlled by handful of individuals and the regime’s affiliated Merchants-of-Death posed as private investors. True or not, there is no independent entity or media that are permitted by design to get to the bottom of what is going on in the country.
The regime often praises the Merchants-of-Death as the role model of investor and showers them with prizes and titles. Yet, it is common knowledge how they practice corruption to get their way ahead of innocent citizens who want to engage in investments and trade. Some of the MDs are instrumental to finance, sustain and work as an envoy of the ruling regime. Their money also has gone a long way across regions and continents to influence governments and organizations and to corrupt individuals and harass Ethiopian freedom advocates on behalf of the regime.
These kinds of ‘investors’ are a classic cases of what is wrong with investment without check and balance corrupting regimes, organizations, individuals and societies at large against the peoples’ interest as witnessed in many African countries.
Instead of being a force for good to bring about good governance, better business practice and transparent and competitive market to help develop economies, they prefer search-and-destroy mission for the resource of poor countries aligning with dictators. In the process, they destabilize the market and undermine local businesses and civic societies with impunity. In their peruse to gabble up anything in their sight, they use the ruling tyrants to get their way by financing the regime to undermine legitimate leaders, merchants and advocates of good governance. They spend millions of dollars to lobby Western governments to look the other way on the atrocity regimes.
If democracy, peace and development need to come in Ethiopia as it should, the Merchants-of-Death that undermine the public interest by supporting tyranny must be challenged. The so called ‘investors’ that control the mainstays of the economy by eliminating competition through corruption and intimidation must be considered as illegitimate as the regime they tag along.
Ethiopian oppositions and freedom advocates can not continue to overlook the ever increasing hegemony of the economy by the Merchants-of-Death colliding with the regime. The merchants and the regime are all in it together to extract public resource on the expenses of the public and legitimate domestic and foreign investors that could have broadly and transparently develop the economy to the benefit of the entire population.
Therefore, opposition parties must raise the issue of widespread corruption of these Merchants in gabbling-up public resources behind the seen. And freedom advocates and the independent media must do their homework to expose and challenge them head-on.
For those who entertain the corrupt economic system is a legitimate way of doing business they must be active participants in corruption or completely blind of what is taking place in the country. In both cases, taking the regime’s propaganda at face-value is outright conspiracy to take advantage of the people of Ethiopia or laziness at best from doing the right thing.
What makes the Merchants-of-Death feel they are above the people’s interest to do whatever they feel like it by tagging along with the corrupt regime is for historian to explore and document. But, what should and must interest freedom advocate in-and-out of the country are the crimes they and their associates commit on the people of Ethiopia and the mechanism to make them accountable at present. The ill-gained properties and wealth accumulated through corruption and cronyism in partnership with the regime for too long belongs to the people. They knowingly and willingly participated in crime against the people of Ethiopia and have no excuse to defend their crime of corruption to accumulate illegal wealth.
Ethiopians in and out of the country must be mindful that there is no merchant associated with the regime free of corruption. Thus, “Democracy” and good-governance can not be possible without making one and all merchants associated with the regime accountable. Yes, Merchants-of-Death play an enormous roll to undermine public trust by promoting corruption for their own interest; in the process sustain tyranny. Therefore, every institution (private or public) they corrupted to get their way must be responsible and made to disclose their activity to the public, anything less is complicity of the highest order against the people.
For freedom to come and under development and poverty to end; individual leaders in the private or public institutions must be accountable to the public, not to the regime or anyone merchant, political party or self appointed leaders. Eventually, those who took the responsibility of running public and private entities are personally responsible for conspiracy to commit crime against the people.
If the desired freedom needs to take place, advocates and the independent media have the responsibility to be the vanguard of the public by identifying and exposing individuals and institutions corrupted by the regime and the Merchants-of-Death.
There is no short-cut to freedom but, to make all those who deprive the people surrender to the will of the people. They may delay freedom but, in due time they will surrender in shame.
this sheik is evil. he is weyane cadre.
weyane is evil regime
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For twenty years we have been complained about Woyane/Meles/Al-Moudi, It was
just a complain it did not get rid of either Woyane or Al-Moudi of course this regime is Evil {not even close} and Al-Moudi the worst thief and woyane Lover he has been drinking the poor ethiopians Blood but time is coming for both to go away from this beautiful country Ethiopia which they will never see again .