In the early 1990s, the rebel Tigrean People´s Liberation Front (TPLF) led by Meles defeated Mengistu's dreaded Derg, and in May 1991 Meles and his forces surrounded the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa which they spared from The four horsemen of the apocalypse: war, pestilence, famine and death.
That was the finest hour of Meles Zenawi.
As I now write this
Meles & his forces & the forces of Yay & Ghedi are surrounding Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. If Meles spares Mog just like he had spared Addis,
I have no doubt that he will go down in world history, just like Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999),
as a great hero,
as one of Africa's few great statesmen,
as a Pan-African leader,
as a symbol of
African hopes,
African dignity,
African unity
African solidarity
African successes.
Nyerere told a correspondent for the New York Times (March 31,1957):
"I am a troublemaker, because I believe in human rights strongly enough to be one."
That is why in 1979, Nyerere defied the Organization of African Unity
and with his army marched all the way to Kampala
to rid Africa of
the monster
the ogre
the ghoul
the gal
known as Idi Amin Dada
who was raping and robbing the Ugandan People of their human rights.
Nyerere liberated the Ugandan people from the tyranny & and the casual, capricious, and cruel cannibalism of Idi Amin;
http://www.radiofreesomalia.com/prof_togane_dec30.html
