The Unexplained Cruelty of Africa’s Emaciated Fuhrer
by Getahune Bekele
Madmen such as Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, Adolf Hitler of Germany and comrade PolPot of Cambodia occur occasionally in all societies around the world and kill thousands before they are killed or captured. The pain they cause however, takes hundreds of years to heal.
In May 1991, one such individual with unctuous and insincere personality appeared on Ethiopian television prime time news, surrounded with heavily armed Tigre sycophant, made supercilious and obnoxious by the victory over the communist regime of the time.