We all know that Meles is dictator, selfish, divisive, sectarian, and an elite who destabilizing the nation of Ethiopia for the sake of his own and his cliques' ends. No leader has Ethiopia or any other world has seen ones own son selling his nation state for the sake of selfish interests. Even Adolf Hitler, Benito Musoloni, Napoleon, Alexander, Nabucadrzer, or Nero, even Mengistu Hailemariam. Whatever sins they had, they liked their country even in their blind minds. However, although his tactics are poor and he is waging a type of proxy war, his fight against terrorism has some positive element. He must correct his methods and his attitudes. The Ethiopian people can excuse him if he honestly repents. So would God Teka

For over 300 years, South Africans have been subjugated and tortured by White (European) apartheid. We Ethiopians especially the Oromo people are being tortured by black (African) apartheid. You may be surprised to know when Meles Zenawi and his Tigray minority ethnic mafia controlled "political party", massacring & oppressing the majority, if not exaggerated the third largest Ethiopian ethnic group in Africa. But as allay to USA, Meles Zenawi's dictatorship may be ignored by the so-called "freedom-loving" Western allies. Even when the United States became involved in the conflict in neighboring Somalia, it chose Ethiopia as its regional partner, providing support for former guerrilla leader Meles Zenawi. The U.S. has even given its approval to North Korea’s Kim Jong-il to sell weapons to Meles Zenawi. A former medical student, Meles Zenawi began his political career by joining a Stalinist guerilla group in 1974. Twenty-one years later he gained power after overthrowing Ethiopia’s much-reviled dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam. In order to satisfy Western demands for a multi-party democracy, Meles created puppet parties for each of the nation’s major ethnic groups, while the real parties boycotted his elections. In 1998, he subjected his people to an unnecessary border war with Eritrea that caused thousands of deaths. He agreed to international arbitration to settle the border, but when the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission ruled against him, Meles refused to abide by the decision and kept for Ethiopia land that belonged to Eritrea. Meles Zenawi's ethnic Tigray mafia dictatorship in Ethiopia as abhorrent as it is, it remains to be seen if it can stand the test of time & the Ethiopian people's volcano, cooking under his ethnic dictatorship.