Ethoash wrote: ↑01 Aug 2019, 15:47
then u throw left hook and ask him is that means TPLF did not rule for last 10 years because PM Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe was not Tigray so Tigray did not rule Ethiopia at least for ten year ask ስሜነህ ባይፈርስ to agree with this logic .. this will answer his own question
after you hit him with left hook dont even try to correct him let him talk just watch him sink in his own Bs...
Ethoash - Let me play, Muhammad Ali! 'Float like a buterfly, sting like a bee'!!
You're assuming HD didn't add value? I think he added a lot of value and bought plenty of time for TPLF; HD was a student of Meles and was intelligent enough to prolong the TPLF era for several years & succeeded until he passed the torch to Abiy; there was nothing more he could have done because TPLF tied his hands to the point he had to give up and resign his post.
Bottom line, TPLF was too greedy to open up and offer more decision making positions to others in the government rank. Not only that, they claimed of owning EFFORT exclusively while canceling billions of loans the organization borrowed from government banks. The least they could have done was sharing the ownership with the rest of EPRDF. They were too greedy to do that. Now, TPLF decided to sell some of the businesses exclusively to Tigreans? How low can you stoop? Shameless!
Having said that, Menelik and HIM were further from "narrow nationalism" of all hues, definitely not of the worst kind; the decision makers were not exclusively "Amara" as you accuse ad nauseam in this forum. If anything, you may call them "Shoa" as I grew up there but, that is it! They mostly have mixed national origins. Amharic was created before Tigrigna after Geez, the Emperors including Yohannes used it because it was an advanced written & spoken language. That is a fact! Afan Oromo couldn't compete because it didn't have alphabet for one. That is how languages developed all over the world. Amharic was advanced in the African setting. I don't know why you keep having a problem with that? No one is forcing you to use it but, it is a practical language across the board in Ethiopia. Other languages need to be nurtured on their own merit but, not at the expense of the widely used language. What is the problem with you opposing that and sending the country to a primordial state where we can't communicate with each other; unless you want to use a foreign language like we do here. For what?
The system of Menelik/HIM/Mengistu failed for being a backward old systems not because of its ethnic origins. Today, Oromos are finding out Abune Petros was Oromo and so on and so forth; some are freshly learning that they have their hands all over the Ethiopian State. Abiy is the exception because he already knows! It is better late than never for the others!
Finally, one more thing; TPLF/EPRDF had an advanced system of DS but, failed because "ethnic" fragmentation of the country. That is a shame! The theory Meles developed in the African setting is still valid. Abiy is probably going to continue using it and get the best results unless the ODP fails by the same "ethnic" trap TPLF played.