"Negotiations" in Ethiopia between OLF and TPLF will always fail

Published 11/15/2008
Jimma Times | By Kemal Abdisa

Several weeks ago some well-known OLF figures and former OLF leaders showed interest in negotiating with the TPLF regime. What was more unique has been that they wanted to have a dialogue without setting pre-conditions, but instead of embracing such developments, the sinister acts the TPLF has been doing the last three weeks is why Ethiopia will remain a failed state for many decades to come!!

While these good-hearted OLF members extended their arms to the tyrannical regime for the sake of peace, the TPLF began blackmailing them thru its media propaganda triangle. It took the regime only days to start its propaganda using the 3 branches of TPLF's media triangle: its state-owned TV/radios, TPLF planted foreign correspondents like Tsegaye of Reuters and thirdly its fake "private" newspaper Reporter financed by TPLF officials and TPLF businesses. Trying to embarrass the good-hearted OLF members and former leaders, the TPLF began mis-representing their motives through the "private" Reporter publication. Then days later, the TPLF began fabricating and telling foreign embassies that several "terrorist attacks" by OLF are going to fall on the capital city soon. When TPLF couldn't find any credible OLF fighters in the capital, it randomly began jailing innocent Oromos in the capital, including innocent OFDM party supporters and leaders. As usual TPLF televised the same weapons it used two years ago, to claim that it has succeeded in capturing terrorists and their arms. A few hours earlier, Meles Zenawi's top advisor used its foreign media agent Tsegaye Tadese of Reuters to blackmail OLF once again and conclude that the randomly imprisoned OFDM members are all guilty. BEFORE THEY EVEN FACED ANY TRIAL!

But the TPLF saved its biggest drama for last. A few days ago, TPLF's Ethiopian agent inside Reuters media, Tsegaye Tadese, published one of his most hilarious articles ever about Western Oromo farmers killing the well-armed OLF commander Laggasaa Wagii. First of all, why would Oromos who recognize OLF as their leader toward their freedom even attack any OLF commander? Secondly, how can harmless Oromo farmers kill one of the most skilled and armed OLF commanders? Yet, the most senseless part of TPLF's propaganda was its claim that a terrorist attack is going to take place in the capital but end up many miles away from the capital, in the rurals of western O