Zinewi Appears to be Putting Ethiopia in a Road of Economic and Technological Modernization and Finding a Way To Resolve All Conflicts

Zinewi Appears to be Putting Ethiopia in a Road of Economic and Technological Modernization and Finding a Way To Resolve All Conflicts 

It was 20 years when Zinewi came to power and his EPRDF forces marched into Addis Ababa and ousting a vicious dictator, Mengistu Haile Maryam. At the same time Isias Afwergus of Eritrea was marching into Asmara, and the SNM were marching into Somaliland ousting another bad dictator Siyad Barre. Clearly both Zinewi and the SNM have transformed and led their two countries Ethiopia and Somaliland in the right direction, while Afwergus is clearly leading Eritrea to the wrong direction. My real focus here today is Zinewi whom I will briefly compare with his compatriot Afwergus whose is a paranoid, schizophrenics dictator, has stifled all kinds of dissent, never accepted political parties, and picked wars with all his neighbors. Afwergus changed Eritrea into an absolute dictatorship.  Zinewi though not your typical democrat is clearly putting Ethiopia into a route of development, improvement of infra-structure, building clinics, hospitals, and resolving political problems through peaceful conflict resolution.. Clearly these days he is slowly earning the respect, of Ethiopians and many others including many people of Somali decent in Killin 5, Somaliland, Djibouti and other places. His accommodation and co-opting or having a kind of  peace with the marginal tribal terrorists, the ONLF was a great step in the right direction towards peace. The small terrorist group accepted the peace deal because they were defeated and desperate. They were a bunch of defeated criminal terrorists preying on civilians for so long, and most of them were remnants of Siyad Barre. Ethiopia along with the Republic of Somaliland may lead the way in the Horn of Africa for promoting peace, and development. We also strongly urge Ethiopia to take the lead in recognizing the People’s Democratic Republic of Somaliland (PDRS). For Ethiopia doing that will open the way for many other countries to recognize Somaliland. The people of Somaliland with or without recognition are finding their place under the sun. They recently elected  a president in a free and fair election. Somaliland is a shinning  city in a hill. Somaliland became an unlikely model for Africa and the Middle East, too unfortunate regions laden with so many vicious dictators. 

Saylicpress Editorial

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