June 24, 2009

Ethiopian Defense Engineering in Trouble: One Expert Went Into Exile

Ethiopian Defense Engineering in Trouble: One Expert Went Into Exile

Published by Girma Degefa Geda
June 24, 2009

In Ethiopian army, it is difficult to raise a question of national issue, or to contribute an idea that could help the country. Currently, there are a dozen of military engineers who are suffering physically and physiologically due to a direct result of harsh punishments.

Engineer Dawit Hailu Desta, a software engineer and a graduate of the Ethiopian Defense Engineering College, has managed to escape the brutal government of Ethiopia while he was on training in Czech Republic. He has applied a political asylum in an undisclosed country in Europe following the foot-steps of two engineers, Animut Demeke Tsegaye and Negussie Girma Tulu who were defected in February 2009.

Engineer Dawit worked as chief expert, maintenance, and training manager under the Ministry of Defense at the Simulator Project. The project was one of the high-tech killer visions of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces which takes the map (in 2D and 3D) of Eritrea and Somalia as an input. Using the map of those countries indicates how a war addicted Tribal Junta regime of Ethiopia plans to involve in another round of war to divert the attention of Ethiopians from the 2010 national election.

According to our sources, the Ministry of Defense has been serving the blood thirsty prime minister, his bunch of looser gangs, and illiterate military generals since it has established on the death of the Derg regime. Member of the death squads and deeply corrupted officials of the Defense Ministry owns high rise buildings and foreign accounts in the expense of the majority poor and innocent Ethiopian bloods. They became hero from zero by converting the people’s military organization into their own private business corporation.

In Ethiopian army, it is difficult to raise a question of national issue, or to contribute an idea that could help the country. Currently, there are a dozen of military engineers who are suffering physically and physiologically due to a direct result of harsh punishments. Some of them are under twenty four hours surveillance since the coup that was organized by active duty high ranking military officers was abolished in May 2009. They are also searching for a route to escape the regime.

Furthermore, high ranking officers in the Ethiopian military don’t totally like well educated new generations. However, when they faced series things like computers and other sophisticated weapon issues, they relied on the brains of those youngsters. They had no one who knows simulation system, and who can test the simulator weapons functionality.

Based on Ethio-Freedom information, Engineer Dawit Hailu Desta was under a military police cell for asking why he was signing a promissory note that states the engineers must serve the ministry for unlimited period of time without their knowledge and willingness. Everyone in the Ministry of Defense is supposed to be part of the Ruling Gagsters Party, and members who have elected other political parties in the 2007 national election have suffered a lot, including Engineer Dawit. He always had a liberal attitude and opposed the suffering of people by their own government. He believes Ethiopians should not be judged by their ethnicity, religious beliefs, or political point of views.

Meanwhile, close family members of Engineer Animut and Engineer Negussei had been under security interrogation for a couple of times. The plain-clothed security agents have been asking those family members of the two engineers where the engineers are.

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