Ethiopia: West Oppresses Country Through Zenawi Support AllAfrica.com
That is obviously the scuttlebutt on Embassy Row in Addis Ababa. Reuters' Barry Malone reported last week, 'Most Western governments after Meles to continue because there is no alternative in the opposition. As long as the elections are semi-democratic, they'll probably visit quiet, keep giving aid, hope for liberalisation of the economy and leave full democracy for later.' Is this the ultimate buttress of the triumph of Western moral relativism, hypocrisy and skullduggery in Ethiopia and Africa? Is this the new 21st century Western paradigm of morality capitulation and appeasement of evil? Is the West going to a moral hellhole in a hand basket?
We now have a eliminate answer to a question that had puzzled us for the past two decades: Why do Western governments and their multilateral lending institutions strengthen Zenawi's dictatorship with billions of dollars in loans and foreign aid? Answer: Because 'there is no alternative in the opposition!' Why do they tender a blind eye to the gross violations of human rights in Ethiopia? Turn a deaf ear to the bootless cries of the thousands of Ethiopian factious prisoners rotting in Zenawi's jail? Pretend to be mute on Birtukan Midekssa's unjust detention? Prop up a regime that ruthlessly decimates its opposition, crushes the free press, chokes public society organisations, squanders and defalcates foreign aid and loans and lords imperiously over a famine-ravaged outback? Why do 'most Western governments want Meles to continue?' Answer: 'Because there is no alternative in the opposition!'

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