Leaked Documents Show Unflattering Assessment of Meles Zenawi
What do Americans diplomats think about Meles Zenawi? This week the American embassy in Addis Ababa briefed government officials about the Wikileaks release(which just came out). According to my sources, these state department documents(a lot of which are classified, secret or nonfor) contain merciless accounts of Meles Zenawi’s behavior and rule and the deteriorating condition of his health. There are at least 1395 cables originating from Addis Ababa in the release. Wikileaks Website is hacked now, but we will get the details of US assessments of Ethiopia when the website is up.
Update 1: As this link shows, Wikileaks have 1623 documents about Ethiopia. Don’t rush Aigaforum. This is not just about Eritrea. In fact, there are more documents about Ethiopia than Eritrea. Only a very, very small portion of the leaks was released by Wikileaks yesterday.
Update 2: More from my sources: The Ethiopian cable also contains strong criticisms of many prominent Ethiopian opposition leaders and parties. The leaks are to be published within the next couple of months.
And as to my source the document also has comments about Ethiopian opposition leaders particularly- Dr.Berhanu.
Wikileaks now works fine.
But, where is the reference link for your news?
I searched for “Meles” “Zenawi” but no results.
I searched for “Ethiopia” – only one result but just in a list of countries in UN.
I searched for “Addis” – only one result in relation to Zimbabwe.
Dear Abiye;
As usual you are astute and always on the mark.When I listened to BBC World Service this morning about the letter the Saudi King wrote to the people in the White House so that they bomb Iran,my mind automatically went to our own slimy crook who has been ensconced in the Menilik palace for the past 20 years.Now you came up with this scoop,I would like to say this.There’s no doubt all the Yankees say about Meles Zenawi will not amount to more than “He’s a son of a bitch but our son of a bitch/SOB/.”That’s how it’s going to be until he serves his purpose in the world of realpolitik and gets discarded like toilet paper.It happened to Mobutu Seseko of Zaire,Shah Palahvi of Iran and others.Still,I am curious to read about the part that concerns my “beloved and bedeviled”PM’s health.I was saying to myself whenever I saw his pic “what’s wrong with this guy for his skin color changes every hour like the color of Lake Bishoftu.”Please hurry up and enlighten us.
And you can not wait till you have something to read? Unblivable. You are so cheap guys!!!!
Have you seen what the Aiga “dogs” have written on this issue?
No you should not wait for wikileaks website to be up and running again. You need to get it directly from them as other press. Otherwise, what makes you different from the rest of us?
What is going on? is America realy unable to protect its crucially important security issues? What happened? What has changed, we never heard of such high degree of information leak in the past few year.
By the way there is nothing about Ethiopia or Meles. I have seen some things about Mugabe.
Wikileaks server is under attack, but the leaked documents are made available on the following site: http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/
There are apparently 621 unclassified docs, 612 confidential docs, and 162 secret documents leaked from the US embassy in Addis.
These documents were not released in this round of leaks but will hopefully be released in the future. Can’t wait to read them!
Documents on Ethiopia were not released in this round of leaks.
Interesting, however I must say I doubt if the report touches on Zenawi extensively. May be it mentions him in passing. Nevertheless I say viva wikileaks for all the hard work they are doing to inform the public. We are truly entering the vortex of the information age now. They cannot hid things as easily as they used to be able to. Now all we have to do is be careful in swifting through the information. It would be interesting to know if our dear leader has an ailment thought. God forbid its a mental one.
poor abiy
as usual this piece clearly indicates the level of your desperation which emanates from”tesfa mequret”of the sanction made on you and your group not to enter Ethiopia as far as EPRDF is in power unless you make it in the humiliation fashion as your predecessors made it by asking pardon.please see what in the leaks before you jump to conclude such silly matter.by the way isn’t the health of one is in God’s hand? in addition to this he will get treated at expensive hospitals in EUROPE owing to the sponsorship of CPJ lol.
Hey, wendeme libeleh meselegne.You are in no position to speak about God.
Please take a look at your self for a while.Are you for real?
@ Tedy, you call it “desperation” ? it seems as if Abiy is fabricating something…lol.btw The most amazing Fabrication I have heard in my life is transmitted by Sekoo ture in Ethiopian Radio/ETV and radio Fana. when he claimed EPRDF differinate the nationality of the victim of “OLF massacre” in Bedno by Binocular glass. I have never heard of this technology till now. for Almighty EPRDF, nothing is impossible .oh my God,Aigaforum also called Abiy Shabia-lover. how can Abiy love Shabia more than Melese though?
i love to see people like you who are naturally worship people and use the same strategy like your masters or gods. Throw any thing you have to the Truth…..hahahahaha. Chalute Enji mindenewe mebotebote…wayye endhue lizeche america miniyeshalatale….
@tedy, the messenger of Sekoo Ture, ere bakehe tineshe Tergaga.this is not fabirication of Abiy due to his desperation. you better use your almighty Bionucalar glass…
@tedy, who are you ? Sekko ture or the student of Sekko Ture?……kikikikikiki . Stop throwing trash on Abiy out of anger and desperation because he is mere journalist who is reporting the information he got. I know that you wanted to see your emperor Meles live millions year .Go and pray to your God so that he may elongate your small god’s life…… who are this pardon asking Abiy’s predecessors? Are you fabricating something like Sekoo Ture? BTW the worst fabricator we had in Addis is Sekko ture.
You should try to comment on the findings and speculate as to its content. That is all one can do now. no one needs to talk trash to the author or call the author names. The respect one has for others is the respect he gets back in return. libel is pointless..at worst it is ignorant.
Merkato 2020
it seems that you are a little dedebit new recurit ,but you are following the foot step of your master the midjet who undermines and insults every thing which
out of his control ,any way it is not a surprise till the Ethiopians bring you back on the reallity world and leave the fantasy one
Tedy,
Years a go (during his meeting with University lecturers and Students) one student told Zenawi he is in power because of God. Zenawi told the student that he is in power because he took arm against Mengistu and denied any role for God. I think, Zenwi’s health in in TPLF’s hand not in God. Petty Dictator’s like Zenawi forget even death.
Bravo ABIYE………the leak by itself indicates the loos handling of information on the part of Americans ” the state department accused it might have some terrorist backup”….. & i would be glad to read what is written about Ethiopia and Meles( gud leweta new)…. hope it will revile so many hidden things like our prime minster have some mental disorder ……….. I cant wait….
BTW Ayega dudes why r obsessed with Eritrea…. come on let us know about whats going on in our country (yebetachenen gud)…
Western diplomats have low opinion of African leaders. Meles’s supporters who preach the intellegence of the prime minister will learn what a useful idiot he was for the west. US diplomat may praise him in public. In private conversations they confess he is an idiot
Tedy
You are the Meles tail. You said poor Abiye? kikikiki, we know who is poor, it is absolutely you. You are dedeb from dedebit camp.
Abiye
Bravo, you are just doing the right thing. Forget the woyanne rubbish people and keep searching truth
I wouldn’t be surprised if the wikileaks documents reveal some staff about Meles and cronies. In the world of diplomacy, what you say in public is not always the same as what you actually mean. Many foreign diplomats in Addis know how arrogant and merciless Meles is. But they never tell you this in their official speeches and communiqué. Historically, the US consistently supported regimes with terrible human right records just because such regimes happen to be important for its strategic interests. As long as Meles keeps cooperating with the US in the alleged war on terror, the US is less likely to put pressure on him. Hey, I bet even Meles knows the Americans support him not because he is a good guy.
Let’s not get too excited as the leaks may not contain detailed accounts as we would have hoped. The time period of the communiques ranges from 1966 to the present. Maybe more is on recent events but everyone hold you guns for now.In any case any information we get about the relationship between the regime and the US should not be something we already don’t know. I have come to realize such revelations usually reinforce my view that US policy toward Ethiopia is very self centered. They don’t really care about the people as long as the regime accomplishes their goal.
i dont understand why abiye wants to confuse others. I have seen the leaks as well from my sources indeed and there is nothing negative about PM meles. and for the record btw, it doesnt matter what an asshole american diplomat thinks about an ethiopian leader. they think a lot of strange things about other countries leaders as we think about theirs.
It is truly disturbing why somebody who talks about press freedom reverts to smear campaign.
grow up fellow countryman the world is million miles ahead from such worthless propaganda
What is so confusing about this information? Please the messenger from Aigaforum tells us what confused you so much. Are you in Sekko ture’s Binocular glass? Once EPRDF is able to differenate the nationality of people from 300m abyss using Binoculars as stated by Sekko Ture . What a technology and what propaganda!! This one must be millions year ahead of this world’s propaganda.
Don’t worry so much about the smear campaign you think it is from Abiy.it is matter of time the wikleak will realease all 1623 documents. Surely we will also expect to hear how much aid money is used for TPLF military purpose (atleast from 1984 t0 1990), how many soliders were killed in Somalia, how much money flew out of Ethiopia(to international banks ) in corruption, how much America know about the State terror in Ethiopia and the leader Meles.
Guys , when you come from Aigaforum , please clean your mind from their “black” propaganda. if you can’t , at least wash your hand .
Doesn’t this sound humiliating to Addis Neger?
Why do you need to post it before having even a single document? No document is brought after many hours of the original post.
I suggest you remove the thread. You can re-post it when you get the leaked documents. And we will wait for that.
አቦ ይመቻችሁ እንዴት ደስ የሚል ዘገባ ነዉ!! ምነዉ ግን ስለ ግብጽ ብዙም አልጻፋችሁ
Abiye, we are checking your blog ten times a day. When are you posting the wikilinks on Ethiopia and opposition leaders? ‘Ere tolo bel…’
Abiye, we are checking your blog ten times a day. When are you posting the wikilinks on Ethiopia,melese and opposition leaders? ‘Ere tolo bel…’
Thanks Abiye. Tell the Aigas to clean themselves before talking about others.
Extremely unfortunate that this will take months to come out (rather than the days I’d been expecting), but I suppose its better than nothing.
Also, I’m little surprised about the news that there will be negative remarks regarding opposition parties and leadership. The US has made it beyond apparent these past five years that its interest in human rights & democratic freedoms for Ethiopians, despite all their rhetoric, are to be secondary to Ethiopia’s “stability” (read: “ጸትታ”) for their security interests in the region.
The following short paper by Paul Henze from sometime in 2006 is, I believe, telling about the US’ attitude: http://tinyurl.com/3ytyl6m
Negusu,
The documents that are related to Ethiopia are not yet released. How on earth did you get to see this documents which is not yet available???
Nugusu,
How dare you to say you saw all of the leaked documents? It shows how u r really silly and ignorant. Still the leaked documents from Ethiopia are not released. Have u seen, first, how many leaked documents are there in Wikileak about Ethiopia before you start writing the usual rubbish things? Man you should have to blame ur ignorance before writing anything.
To update u, still wikileaks do not released all documents about Ethiopia. So wait, after that you may have something to say.
Nugusu, grow up
Negusu what? p.m ? you are simply a jock zenawi is a pirate who holds the nation hostage with 80 million Ethiopian peoples and a banda who hates Ethiopia whole heartedly and a banda like his father and grand father and the leak of this information shows they let him live as a puppet and well aware of his atrocities till they turn the whole help and starts to hint him down if we Ethiopians comes out strong with our struggle which should
be our ultimate goal to bring this criminal to the I.C.C
The leaks WILL contain detailed profiles of Meles Zenawi and opposition leaders. That is for sure. If you look at the documents from other nations already, including one from Zimbabwe, profiles of incumbent and opposition politicians were recorded in detail. So yes, definitely a lot of dirt. I am not surprised about his health being talked about…(Ginbot 7 Radio had a couple of reports last year about his visits to a hospital in Belgium. Berhane Gebrekristos’ two maids escaped after being accused of having leaked the info to G7.)
AN, please do us a great service and apply as a media…didn’t wikileaks twitter say yesterday that they will make info available for media orgs on how to apply for restricted access? Any reason why you cannot do so? Please, please, please!
Thanks!
a head ache time is come for both brutual party and oppostion ..we will know u more ..fakes..psudos ..may be Ledtu will give a counter attack to wikileak as usual as he did to Berhanu..lol
Who cares if the “Ferenjes” wrote either negative oe postive about Ethiopia? We know what is going on in Ethiopia. Wonew Tefa Enje ! What a coward/feri gneration ! Dereg and Woyane murdered all our heroes and heroines and lefet us with coward & selfish generation ! The Grman’s Green Party is much better than our oppostions when it comes against Meles. But ours…, Uffff…Worie Becha !
a head ache time is come for both brutual party and oppostion ..we will know u more ..fakes..pseudo..may be Ledtu will give a counter attack to wikileak as usual as he did to Berhanu..lol
Where is the leak then? the clock is ticking, and we are waiting for it. Funny thing seems to happen to our media outlets these days, it is only days since Ethiopian Review has been busted for deceptive information, proving the undignified position of some reporters. And here, on ANO, we are dying for finding the account of this post/hearsay. On the other side of the sea, however, some people seem to work their homework pretty well.
American ass lickingg banda Abiy,
Do you think Meles or his government give a rat’s ass what the yankees think of them? Idiot.
The global diplomatic crisis that is Wikileaks is revealing of many things but one that should be highlighted is the extent to which ‘sovereign’ governments and even neutral states such as Switzerland and Sweden, and international institutions as the UN have been political penetrated by the US. Charges of a global American empire no longer ring hollow, just read the leaks. I’m interested in reading about Ethiopia not to see American opinion about Meles (as negus says who cares) but the extent to which Ethiopia is treated like such poor states as Tajikistan. One cable describes in detail how “the US called upon president Rahmonov to dismiss [the Drug Authority chief] Mirzoev and he fulfilled this request.”
In other cable leaks the utterly servile and occupied nature of all Arab states is exemplified in their parroting US policy in private while lying to their populations in public, which is sure to reinforce what most Arab publics already suspected.
A cable by outgoing US ambassador Dell in Zimbabwe is well written and full of “correct” objective analysis and interesting on three levels: first, much like Meles Zenawi, Dell writes of President Robert Mugabe “has survived for so long because he is more clever and more ruthless than any other politician in Zimbabwe. To give the devil his due, he is a brilliant tactician and has long thrived on his ability to abruptly change the rules of the game, radicalize the political dynamic and force everyone else to react to his agenda…” – say what you may of Meles but if that is not an apt description then I would love to now how some one can cling to power as a ruler of Africa’s second most populist and politically volcanic nation for counting on 20 plus years?
Second, Dell observes of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai (now Prime Minister) “He is a brave, committed man … He is also the only player on the scene right now with real star quality and the ability to rally the masses. But Tsvangarai is also a flawed figure, not readily open to advice, indecisive and with questionable judgment in selecting those around him … is indispensable element for opposition success, but possibly an albatross around their necks once in power. Although I tend to view the 2005 batch of opposition leaders as at best mediocre, including the much-inflated Dr. Berhanu, Ethiopia does have some relatively decent political actors amongst the recent batch of opposition.
Third, “The great saving grace of the opposition is likely to be found in the diaspora.” This is b/c the diaspora Zim’s are against the ruling ZANU-PF and is an exaggeration, a point that could also be said about our very diverse and powerful Ethiopian diasporic community- that is – it is important but not at the center of any movement for change in Ethiopia, that central role is up to home based groups operating in an increasingly hot and hostile political environment [the true heroes and heroines].
Lastly, Dell proposes staying the course and preparing for a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe and for the US to jump at the opportunity to recreate Zimbabwe saying “If I am right and change is in the offing, we need to step up our preparations … It is encouraging in this respect that USAID Washington has engaged the Mission here [Zimbabwe] in discussing how we would use additional resources in response to a genuinely reform-minded government.” The operative words are ‘prepare’, ‘use resources’ and ‘reform-minded government’ – these descriptions capture the stated intension of throwing Mugabe out and making a government to the economic-political liking of the US [not the same as to the liking of Zim’s people is ushered into power]. Yes, Mugabe and ZANU are ruthless, corrupt and self-enriching at the expense of Zim’s people but I wonder why the ‘evil’ Mugabe was not ‘evil’ in the years prior to 1999? Why was he the darling of the US and Britain when he and ZANU were stiffing it to Zim’s people?
The intrusive and manipulative power of the US reminds me of its past [and we shall see it present] role in shaping political outcomes in Ethiopia. I would urge readers to recall that Mengistu was ushered out to retire in Harare by the US [in a –then secret US deal with Mugabe].
Recall also that the TPLF and EPLF carved their spheres of rule in post-Derge Ethiopia via policy of ethnic federalism for Ethiopia and the right of secession/independence for Eritrea – all orchestrated in a conference organized and directed by National Security Advisor, under Pres. ‘Slick Willy’ Clinton, Anthony Lake.
Also, recall that in the early period of TPLF rule the massive pressure to be a “reform-minded government” entailing a fire sale like privatization of decades of Ethiopia’s national accumulated wealth was forced as the “correct” policy choice, including the massive layoff of Ethiopian state workers, breaking of unions, cut in social spending for health, education etc. [as usual American policy makers could not fathom a counter-part as greedy, short-sighted and utterly crocked as they but they have meet their match in the TPLF/EPRDF].
One can read John Young [an academic sympathetic to the TPLF] to see how ‘reform’ and ‘privatization’ were used to get rid of real and possible political opponents, i.e. Ethiopian state workers, and begin the process of hording wealth that is a hallmark of TPLF/EPRDF today, captured by that much beloved epithet of Hodam.
Anyway, like everyone else I am awaiting the Addis Embassy cable leaks to learn how Ethiopia’s rulers are serving their masters and making some money while doing it and to what extent the opposition has been penetrated [sorry for such a long response … but I had some time on my hand].