Vengeance
against
our last
“Goodwill
Ambassador”
Aklilu
Demissie
/ May 1,
2008
A regime
that is
swimming
in an
all time
destruction
of the
motherland
has now
unleashed
it
vindictive
rage
against
the most
popular
king of
Ethiopian
pop
music.
Theodros
Kassahun’s
(Teddy
Afro)
songs
have
transcended
all
barriers
of
language,
ethnicity,
race and
creed in
our
world
that has
become
increasingly
small,
thanks
to all
tools of
present
day
communication.
Teddy’s
only
crime
emanates
from his
songs
that
have
always
preached
about
love,
unity
and
nationalism.
Yet, the
songs
proved
to be
bone
piercing
for the
minority
ethnic
regime,
which
since
its
inception
has set
the
agenda
of
dismembering
and
destruction
of
Ethiopia
as a
nation.
Quite
contrary
to the
regime’s
dream,
Teddy
Afro has
quite
successfully
reinvigorated
what
being an
Ethiopian
mean and
hailed
storms
in the
upsurge
of
patriotism.
In a
land
that has
become
famous
for
celebrating
injustices
and
trampling
on
individual
rights,
where
the rule
of law
has
become a
sham,
the
nipping
of Teddy
Afro in
an
allegation
of a
hit-and-run
accident
seems to
be the
best way
the
government
could
manufacture
a
criminal
legal
wrangling
in
attempt
to strip
the
moral
integrity
and
independence
by
humiliating
him and
patriots
in to
powerlessness.
The
shrewd
attempt
is to
indicate
that the
regime
can do
whatever
it would
with
impunity
and in
so doing
send its
sworn,
born
signal,
‘I will
eat you
any time
when I
feel
hungry
for
you.’
This
detention
may be a
prelude
to a
long
Kangaroo
Court
trial
with
floundering,
coached
witnesses
typical
of
Zenawi’s
courts.
There is
no
reason
to doubt
that
Teddy,
an icon
of
contemporary
Ethiopian
music,
is a
prisoner
of
conscience.
The
regime
more
than any
time is
besieged
by
insurmountable,
unforgivable
atrocities
stretching
from
inside
the
country
to
Somali’s
blood
bath. It
is
struggling
to keep
itself
alive by
preventing
citizens
from
getting
independent
and
unadulterated
news,
reports
like its
communist
predecessors.
Dragging
Teddy in
the
regime’s
despicable
dungeons
for
quite a
while
may have
been
devised
to
divert
attention
from
ignominious
atrocities
and the
bigger
issue -
change
of
regime
in
Addis.
Teddy
has used
his
talent
to bring
the
nation
together
which
has also
got a
tremendous
amount
of
attention
in the
world.
He has
ascended
to
international
prominence
proving
that he
is truly
with
impeccable
character
and
charisma
our
country’s
Goodwill
Ambassador
of love,
peace,
unity
and
independence.
Today
that is
what
unites
the
world.
Those
who are
bent
contrary
to this
belief
will
ultimately
end up
in
defeat.
Unfortunately,
he is
forced
to a
different
world
where
his
passion
for the
motherland
has
openly
let him
spend
days in
jail
with no
power to
defend
him.
