Since 1991, the year the EPRDF assumed power, there has been an unwritten law that it is horribly rude for an Amhara to comment on Ethiopian national matters. Lest I should be condemned a "chauvinist," I will declare that I pray to God to bestow on wisdom to the Axumite kids to lead Ethiopia to prosperity.

Intentionally, or maybe not, to derail focus from the most pressing issue of Assab, much clamor flocks nowadays from amid Woyane's disciples who are armed with views on how Woyane made Ethiopia "a better place to live in." They argue: "with Woyane and without Assab (since Woyane can make ports in the sky) Ethiopia will yet prosper." Democracy is the chorus of their songs.

And lo, no Ethiopian asked for a government that brings fifty free newspapers to gossip at the cost of Ethiopia's fundamental interest.

Woyane started stateship with queer hostility towards Ethiopia. PM Meles, the chief navigator of the ship, is a self-incriminating witness who wouldn't lie about it. His single span life was devoted to struggle, and in his long struggle he wrote one book, and this book wasn't about Ethiopia. It wasn't about alleviating Ethiopia's miseries. It wasn't even about Tigray, not about the sufferings, nor was it about Hawzen. It was about Eritrea. It was titled, "Eritrea: from where to where." Meles has put his intentions in clear rime: Ethiopia is not his purpose. It is not his problem if those who are close to him fail to read him.

Meles came to Ethiopia with divisive wisdom. "For peace," he plucked the sea off first. He then added a barrier where we could talk to each other less, trust each other less and he told us that 'we' and 'us' are mislikes. Then he took some here and some there and rearranged us, and he made all these and more, and posed the question to us: "how else?"

"For peace" the sea was dead; but soon peace was dead. Ethiopia is as miserable as ever. Why is it that Ethiopians, young and old alike, remember Haileselassie (Jah the king) with nostalgia? Why are a growing number of men and women mellowing their views against the cruel Dergue? Why is most everyone tempted to leave Ethiopia? It maybe useful to note that it is the haze of grief at the present time that makes former "gladness" loom so great.

Meles headed a party that officially stated that Eritrea was a "colony of Ethiopia" for the sole purpose of enabling Eritrea to secede. The same person was willing to waive his party's principle on the "colonial question" of Eritrea because the same colonial theme would enable Ethiopia to retain the port of Assab. It was an all out intrigue. The Eritrean question was of "colonial nature" to secure the right for independence, and it became a "special question" to include Assab in Eritrea. After Mr. Issias' party refused to join the 1991 conference as part of an Ethiopian quiddity in Addis, Meles named the Eritrean case "a special one." He gave Eritrea Ethiopia's ports and, on signed paper, independence. Then he made Eritrea the commander in chief of Ethiopia's economy. Of all the agony Ethiopia went through, it has seen nothing so flagless and so savage as the joint piracy of EPLF and TPLF past 1991. Yet Meles seemed unfettered by a sense of crime and he continued to do more crime. This is a person guilty conscience never wakes. Ask, why didn't Meles state in the 1991 conference that the Eritrean question was a "colonial" one? Why didn't he say, "this is how colonial questions are resolved?" Why and wasn't it his party's credo?

Legally, politically and in all spheres of balance, the case of Badime is less compelling than the case of Assab. Yet the PM reached to live up to the safety of Eritrea to declare Assab "non Ethiopian" amid the deadliest tip of time. He has made himself clear, yet the gullible crowd around him produced a dictionary of Meles' epilogue.

As an antique museum of time Ethiopia belongs to the world. So all you that read this little story weep with me. The land that gives birth to the Nile every second can't drink a cup of it. The nation that started nationhood (The Arabs- Bert ran Thomas, The origin of civilization- John Jackson, Pre-historic nations-John Baldwin) is devoid of its natural sea. It is a cruel paradox.

In conclusion, we Ethiopians pray to the Lord to clear Woyane's misted sight that it can hence view the danger in being landlocked. Peace lies at the sea and prayer is with us.