Gen Asaminew Tsige is one of the 46 detainees, in connection with Ginbot 7 movement,  who are accused by Meles Zenawi of trying to overthrow his regime. Eyewitness accounts who were present at court said General Asaminew Tsige told the court that his torturers were hurling ethnic insult at him saying, “Amhara shintam new!” … and “men tametalachihu?” meaning “Amahras are cowards who piss on themselves, what are you going to do?” Political observers fear such move of the regime will increase ethnic tension in Ethiopia. The cadres of Meles Zenawi are exacerbating the animosity between the Tigrian minority and biggest Ethnic groups, the Amhara and the Oromo. Such serious ethnic divisions, animosities and slurs has never been in Ethiopia before 1991. When Meles Zenawi’s ethnic junta arrived in 1991, it produced identity cards classifying the nation according to their ethnicity adopting the British colonial tactic of divide and rule.

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