“ETHIOPIAN CONTRAS”?: U.S. PLANS FOR REGIME CHANGE IN ETHIOPIA (I TOLD YOU SO!)

ANOTHER “COHEN’S COUP” IN ETHIOPIA IN 2021?

Bloomberg today reported:

 Ethiopian rebel and opposition groups are forging a political alliance against Prime Minister Abiy. A signing ceremony will be held in Washington D.C. in the coming days. The so-called United Front of Ethiopian Federalist Forces will combine at least nine entities including the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.”

Imagine Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Al Shabab, Boko Haram, Daesh, ISIS, Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Ku Klux Klan and Proud Boys were brought to Washington, D.C. to a signing ceremony for the overthrow of the United States Government.

Is the U.S. trying to replay Cohen’s Coup of 1991 in 2021?

Regime change in red, white and blue?

On January 31, 2021, I predicted this would happen to a T!

I wrote:

Susan Rice’s plan for REGIME CHANGE in Ethiopia, I believe, is to assemble the ragtag dregs of the TPLF in the U.S. and Europe and pull another Herman Cohen-type of powerplay in Ethiopia. In 1991, then Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Herman Cohen staged a “dialogue” and “negotiations” for the TPLF in London and facilitated their swift seizure of power. Susan Rice is today’s Herman Cohen and believes she can pull off a repeat of 1991 in 2021.

The “Ethiopian Contras” will soon be provided funds to run satellite television stations and radio stations. They will be provided funds to establish base camps in neighboring countries to run terrorist operations.

There is nothing new here!

In the 1980s, the U.S. backed a right-wing ragtag political group/army called “Contras” opposed to the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua (based in Honduras and Costa Rica) which came to power in 1979 after the Nicaraguan Revolution.

The hallmark of the Contra war against the Nicaraguan government was massive human rights violations and use of terrorist tactics. The Reagan administration pumped up a massive campaign of white propaganda to alter public opinion in favor of the contras in the U.S. and in Nicaragua  while secretly encouraging the Contras to attack civilian targets.

From day 1, the Contras received financial and military support from the United States government, without which they could not survive. After US support was banned by Congress, the Reagan administration covertly continued it. These illegal activities culminated in the Iran–Contra affair.

The Contras killed thousands of innocent Nicaraguans but they did not win their war against the Nicaraguan government.

That is how the U.S. managed and directed the the civil war in Nicaragua for over 10 years!

The ragtag dregs are now assembled but they will vanish like the morning dew!

Here is another prediction you can take to the bank.

The TPLF, U.S., E.U, Ethiopian Contras…. will fail and ETHIOPIA SHALL PREVAIL.

**** I TOLD YOU SO!      I TOLD YOU SO!          I TOLD YOU SO!***

About

Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam teaches political science at California State University, San Bernardino. His teaching areas include American constitutional law, civil rights law, judicial process, American and California state governments, and African politics. He has published two volumes on American constitutional law, including American Constitutional Law: Structures and Process (1994) and American Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (1998). He is the Senior Editor of the International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, a leading scholarly journal on Ethiopia. For the last several years, Prof. Mariam has written weekly web commentaries on Ethiopian human rights and African issues that are widely read online. He played a central advocacy role in the passage of H.R. 2003 (Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007) in the House of Representatives in 2007. Prof. Mariam practices in the areas of criminal defense and civil litigation. In 1998, he argued a major case in the California Supreme Court involving the right against self-incrimination in People v. Peevy, 17 Cal. 4th 1184, which helped clarify longstanding Miranda rights issues in criminal procedure in California. For several years, Prof. Mariam had a weekly public channel public affairs television show in Southern California called “In the Public Interest”. Prof. Mariam received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984, and his J.D. from the University of Maryland in 1988.