Blogger/ Addis The word Eleh is an Amharic language word, one of the dozens of languages inside Ethiopia. I don’t know the exact translation of this Amharic word to English but you can understand the meaning of the word from this context.
Recent developments seem to show that all Ethiopian politicians are sadly in “Eleh” politics and care less about the future of Ethiopia. Some Ethiopian opposition parties are only trying to corner the ruling party and smear its reputation. They don’t want to recognize progress made by the ruling party and they want to emphasis its failures only. Sadly some of them find satisfaction in quoting western articles and statements as a verification that they won against the ruling party. Meanwhile, the ruling party is also trying to harm the work and reputation of opposition parties by trying to divide them and win the new round of bitter competition.
The recently freed CUD party opposition members are also damaging the reconciliation process started by the elders. Meanwhile the ruling party knows what mistakes it is doing but it doesn’t want to be told by others that it is doing those mistakes. It wants to improve everything by itself, and be recognized & admired for making the improvements. This is part of the Eleh politics spreading in Ethiopia. The politicians are acting like children. I think the HR 2003 bill will increase the Eleh politics in Ethiopia to a dangerous level. The bill had the potential to improve Ethiopia but the bill is also now being owned by ONLF rebel associates and other pro-armed movement groups to legitimize their violent insurgency.
Another example of this is; the CUD opposition party leadership’s growing alliance with the separatist ONLF rebels. The ONLF and CUD are opposites. As a CUD fan, I am very saddened to see my party be allied with the ONLF rebels. The goal of CUD should be to remove Article 39 and make Ethiopia more united. Instead, CUD is making the same historical mistakes made by anti-Mengistu Ethiopian politicians between 1974-1991. Thanks to those short-sighted politicians of the 1980s, separatists like EPLF already cut apart our country and took away our Eritrea. CUD is now making the same mistakes, not because it likes ONLF policy, but only to frustrate the EPRDF ruling party. Meanwhile, the other opposition parties in parliament are just sitting and watching the Jendayi Frazer/EPRDF vs. Donald Payne/CUD drama.
Today, I watched a disturbing video on the Ethiopian government news website
www.ena.gov.et. On one of the press conferences, Meles Zenawi talked about who will “have the last laugh” regarding the border dispute with the Eritrean government. I couldn’t believe to hear him say such backward statements! Sadly, such a backward mentality is the main reason why the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments have never made concessions and compromises to solve their dispute. Unfortunately, we are seeing similar trends in the internal politics of Ethiopia between the EPRDF ruling party and the CUD opposition party. Nobody seems to care about Ethiopia and her future
