Legesse ‘ the name thief ’ Zenawi, Crime Minister of Ethiopia asked the rubber stamp parliament permission to attack the Islamic Courts Militia in Somalia. And of course this permission came because the TPLF/EPRDF has got a majority in the parliament.
This way the Crime Minister tries to make his war looks legitimate. I’ll bet you that he is going to use this as an argument. But there is a slight problem. The May 2005 elections ended fraudulent. The Carter centre concluded it and the election observers from the European Union concluded it. The opposition claimed that the results of the election and the way the National Election Board dealt with their complaints was bias. So the opposition never accepted the election results. And to be fair, the TPLF/EPRDF parties probably never had a majority, but through fraud made it look like they had.
So when Legesse ‘ the name thief ’ Zenawi, Crime Minister, makes it look like he is fighting a legitimate war, he is wrong. His whole parliament, his government is illegitimate.
It’s obvious that after his debacle with Eritrea and the way he is treating the Ethiopian population, the majority of Ethiopians will see nothing in another useless massacre.
The strategy which they are following is already clear. The first messages of Ethiopian soldiers being tortured/killed by Jihad fighters are coming in. All sentiments will be drawn out of the closet. The Somali, whom themselves have suffered for many years under brutal warlords, will be portrayed as savages that have no mercy. Islam will be a threat for Christian Ethiopia, although more than 50% of Ethiopians are Muslim.
The conspiracy that Eritrea is behind the Jihadists and El Qaida is infiltrating through Somalia and will support the ONLF and OLF are used as arguments.
The fact is that the Ethiopian illegitimate government has been meddling in Somali affairs for years and has been at least jointly responsible for the atrocities the warlords committed. There is no justification for an attack at the Islamic Courts Militia, with or without consent of the Ethiopian Parliament.