That’s why they killed him . They don’t want no African leaders that are working to build Africa .The western cannot afford a civilized Africa in other word progress in Africa is a threat to the civilized world.
Now, I understand why Meles die mysteriously. He was too smart and defensive of Africa like Dr. John Garang De Mabrior of South Sudan. Some entities had to make sure he doesn't help Africa move up?
The world has witnessed that Ethiopia is going in the right direction under the leadership of HE PM Meles Zenawi and it is irreversible. Individuals who were organized demonstration to against growth of Ethiopia should know that people of Ethiopia and the rest the world is with current administration of Ethiopia as it showed dramatic changes in the history of Ethiopia.
I am very impressed with his broad knowledge and approach that he picked to over come the devastated Ethiopian economy, it is modest and yet deep rooted. It is sad to see this leader to be treated the way most people think him as a dictator, when the fact is that the real dectators are those who are working under him, who have amassed ill gotten money at the cost of his party name. I will be lying if i were to say that he is clean of all mischiefs but over all in my view he is fair leader.
It's a special honor for CU to have PM Meles Zenawi as its forum guest. He is undoubtedly one of the most pragmatic statesman that Africa had to offer ever!!! Meles is perfect example of a true renaissance leadership. May he Rest In Peace.
First of all, thank you Mr. Prime Minister for giving us an hour of your time and sharing your wisdom with us. Regrettably, many watching this video will do so not with an open mind but with the now all-too-familiar distorted prism of personal hatred and self-serving ideology. So, as much as I appreciate your sincere efforts to enlighten Western intellectuals and reach out to the diaspora, I believe your one hour would have been better spent in the service of the Ethiopian people.
Columbia University, we thank you for offering a forum to PM Meles Zenawi. He is one of today's brilliant and visionary leaders. Thank you PM MZ for your dedication to bringing tangible positive changes to Ethiopia.
Excellent one! Ethiopia and Ethiopians are truely lucky to have been bestowed such a decent and sharp leader at their critical moment in time. I wish the Ethiopian government and Ethiopian people a TRANSFORMATION period, that they are entering now with sleeves rolled up, marked with momentous success stories to be told in the future. God Bless ETHIOPIA, its GOVERNMENT and its PEOPLE.
Columbia University doesn’t have to take any direction from any individuals how to run their institution. The whole world witnessed how Ethiopia is transformed under leadership of PM Meles Zenawi. What was achieved under his leadership cannot and must not be ignored. These individuals even can’t tell why they are against the growth in Ethiopia.
Wow!! The PM of Ethiopia sounds sooo Genious. I really enjoyed and get big lesson from his presentation.Thanks PM Meles - Hope you make your people and country prosperous in a near future. Good luck!!
When I started to read I thought u write it after He passed away.But when I see the time line ...Ohhhh...He deserved it..but he never liked status and posters.His works are all over the country. Hero in deed. than you
Meles Zenawi Who Had Lifted Millions Of Ethiopians Out Of Poverty & Also An Inspirational Spokesman For Africa On Global Issues. Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world, made more progress in education, health and economic development under his leadership than at any time in its history, and it is a tragedy for the Ethiopian people that they have lost a committed leader and a champion of children at such a young age" Rest in peace Sir
Very nice interview. I know he might not be the beloved President, but he is a clever man. Ethiopia has a very good chance to grow and the future looks good for this country. Thoe it's not easy to unite so many diffrent tribes and neighbours which have war or other views of leading a country and diffrent regional strategies. I also think it's hard to lead a population of 90 million. Therefore a country like this needs a strong man who cracks down if needed. It would be sad to change a goverment
Several social, economic, religious and political developments and systems were established for the first time in Ethiopia under PM Meles EPRDF's rule. First regional referendum for peaceful Secession (Eritrea, 1991-) First Multi-party National election for opposition First institutionalized linguistic freedom at local level (1994-) First ethnic based federalism (since 1994) First private media outlets in Ethiopian history (since 1994) First consecutive double-digit GDP growth - International Monetary Fund (since 2006) First multi-party parliament with opposition MPs First unrestricted freedom of religion for evangelicals/Pentecostals (since 1994; a Pentecostal succeeded him in 2012, & Now in 2018 Oromo ethnic & Muslim ancestor Leader of Ethiopia for the first time in History...) etc
I will be supriised if Meles is not awarded Nobel Peace Prize this Year. Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the person who have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations and for holding and promotion of peace. Meles is undoubtedly good, noble and ascentic person. He is a prominent man who is deservedly honoured and loved by the masses of Ethiopia and Africa for job creation and fiscal responsibility. We Ethiopians are proud of him and we will be happy if he is honored.
While many of African leaders are still looking on the International Community for salvage and aggressive panhandling, Meles never stand begging for what he knows he has power to earn. He proved that the highest grace can be attained by a person of ordinary origin. Respect is given to leaders only when they are deemed worthy of receving the honor. Meles earned that admiration and respect and we Africans are proud of him.
I think more of this kind of engagement with people who have been exposed to one side of the coin is a good way to start a dialogue between the opposing sides that are at logger heads at each other. It is all about being open to reason to safely propagate ones own agenda which other wise would fail with the test of time. After all it is all about going head on obstacles and not going around them to win time. Rushing to victory hasn't worked in the recent history of Ethiopia and won't...
Seeeing is beliving ! Go and see my country Ethiopia ! My country has transformed thanks to the hard work and geninue concern of our Prime Minster Meles ! Those who oppose him are the followers of Erteria !
In terms of economic vision and leadership, he was simply ONCE IN A CENTURY leader whose void will be very hard to fill! However, he was a disaster regarding Ethiopian national politics! From robbing one of the largest nations in the continent of its port access(he could have used several political, economic and diplomatic levers to secure a port access during the Independence of Eritrea), to fragmenting our historic nation into ethnic lines, our country is presently suffering one of the worst internal displacements in human history. Not to mention the gross human rights violation unleashed within ethnic groups is undeniably the devastating result of his ethnic politics!
Let me give you an insight- he didn't have an economic vision. The IMF enabled what we see now in Ethiopia. At the time he died, 68% of the country's GDP was financed by loans the country got from the IMF (that was the main reason why Abiy when he took over begged for the diaspora to send hard currency remitance). People see stupid buildings funded by IMF money and think growth. What a farce!
@@asinegaasinega I find your comment rather poor and condescending. When you start your sentence by giving us "insight", you lead me into the assumption that you had confidential access into the working of the Meles economic agenda! Maybe you were an insider having access to classified documents providing you with "insights", not otherwise available to the rest of us? LOL, don't think so. While I won't pretend to give insight to anyone in here, I would point out that economic growth is measured not by "buildings" but by developing infrastructure that includes connecting rural to urban locations as well as to ports, industrial parks attracting manufacturing, dams(GERD)... Now, was Tigreyans awarded most lucrative contracts thus building and amassing generational wealth? Sure. But what corner of the planet you know where people don't favor their own? Here in the US, it's called cronyism, nepotism... However, not only the stealing was kept in check by him, all relatively mega projects were completed around estimated time and put in operation to benefit citizens. Most looting and massive embezzlement began after his death! TPLF Juntas, incompetent in managing the complex and treacherous political landscape and knowing their days were limited, turned into የቀን ጅቦች። Allow me to also correct you that Total Debt to GDP ratio was around 50% upon his death. Only when PM Abiy came to power in 2018 reached over 60% due to the terrible mismanagement of the economy the previous five plus years dating back to his death. Anyone who understands economics knows that growth is impossible without debt! Especially, to an economically deprived country like ours, debt is the lifeblood for growth. The problem lies when you're not utilizing this lifeblood to fuel growth and investment!
@@MG-il2fmn hindsight be economically, politically as well as stability wise, are you better off today under ABIY Ahmed Ali than Ethiopia under Meles Zenawi?
@abeshaking370, Absolutely I agree with you bro. I have thousands of thousands of Amhara friends who stood for the truth including HE Addisu Legessie, Vice president of HE PM Meles Zenawi. I do not hate Amharas at all but those with small brain don’t know how to make simple judgement for simple matters. Backwardness is over in Ethiopia.
By the way, one question about this quick-entrance/quick- exit play Columbia University has staged for the benefit of this tyrant. Did Meles the method actor use his own props for this drama? Seriously, did Meles have one of his custom built chairs flown in to NY at Ethiopian tax payers expense?or is the chair he is sitting on an antique nursing chair donated to Columbia by Mrs. Norma Lerner?OR did Stiglitz buy a high chair for his baby banda from Yoyas or Giggles! That's what I'd like to know
Meles is our revered hero and we the people of Ethiopia must push to erect life size statue of our gallant leader in Meskel Square. The statue will remind our future generation of super human qualities of our leader. As a president, Meles faced immediate challange of and succeeded in pulling the country from chronic and widespread poverty. He acquired fame and popularity with the way he framed policies to tackle starvation in Ethiopia and led the country to the mightiest power in Africa.
TPLF has been in power 20 years. More people are hungry. More people are poor and more people died than those that died in all our wars put together in Badme Somalia Gambella Bedeno Tepi Awassa Benishangul .... 20 years is Quite enough time thank you.
Can anyone tell me how to stop loving the gentleman. How can any rational person help himself not to be impressed by the intellectual supremacy of the current ethiopian prime minister. He is so persuasive, cogent and rational....period. Besides he is a man of great vision for the the country he is in charge of ...being at the helm of the leadershiop. Kudos! pm Meles Zenawi.
I hope Ethiopian TV reporter also ask a tough question like these student did. We have to make politician accountable for their action. Otherwise they remain corrupted
I think he excessively personalizes the imposition of neo-liberalization and gives it undue emphasis. More, he says nothing about how African leaders can use the opportunity. He just repeats the old and I think imature rheoteric that the failure of America is a triumph for Africa. I think that is also inconsiderate of the audience, who is largely students who know little of these details. The real question is what exactly are you going to do about solving the problem which you didn't do before?
Where and when in his speech or answers did he say that “the failure of America is a triumph for Africa” please if you hate the person, that’s fine. But to utterly misquote him is uncalled for and uncivilized.
Anyone You can lie using statistics and Meles is no exeption. Instead of talking about the booming economy and the high rate of GDP, why doesn't he talk about the jobless rate in Addis (or Ethiopia)? How many hospitals are equiped adequately to take care of patients? Why is there is so much a short of energy? Why is the cost of living so high for such a poor country? Why does Ethiopia still need food handhouts after 20 years of Meles?? Can anyone asnwer these questions?
@endexye u might dont know but our rulers did not allow, this is the truth. nobody eliminates amhara from the face of ethiopia, we just saying we ve equal right . n u didn't apreciate it always in da name of unity. we just saying do ur thing n leave as alone. nb dont worry about us
@guracha200 wowowowowowowwo... lets calm down... he already devalue the birr now you wanna put him on the birr... you must be out of your mind... but after all this is your opinion and you have the right to say whatever you want unlike the Ethiopian people whos suffering under his rule...
hey TTTANTO Don’t be a heater just because Melles is doing what many African leaders couldn’t do. He is the man he fought for 17 years to give freedom for people like u and what do u do with it accuse him so sad. Sure he is not perfect but again no one is. He has changed the country for good it is not his fault that the country is poor. Do some research to find out who’s fault it is that the country is very poor. Melles is doing everything he can to change that.
the west was also supporting Sadam until they turn on him. is the name of the game, any ruler who are not loved by their own people in africa are supported by the non-black world. they are using few followers for the propaganda to support them for the western media, and make sure africa is strangled. anyway and melse didn't write this speech, he was reading it with difficulties,maybe that is what the neocolonizers want him to read
Judging from the comments posted about this presentation, It seems the more Prime Minister Zenawi and his supporters present transparent and lucid solutions to a conundrum of Ethiopia's past inglorious dilemmas- ethnic hostility, extreme poverty, regional instability, the more the so-called opposition sinks into mindlessly incoherent chatter fast descending into pure lunacy. Just once, stop this buffoonery and present legible arguments so that somebody out there may take you seriously.
@hamdustan one would say that comparing to his own knowledge......but crook is always crook and that what he is i wouldn't call it Intelligent i really do see where it is.
Meles have no choice but relese birtukan again. He is under a tremendous pressure from foreign countries to relese birtukan. That is why he said birtukan if she ask again pardon it does not surprise me. But birtukan did not ask pardon before according to the ethiopian law. Meles was trying at that to show that it looks according to the law. So he failed in his own trap. Now he is trying to reless birtukan and once again he hopes the pressure he is on will reduce.
@TOCRULES If I had to choose to be a puppet, I would choose to be an American puppet. That's right, the country that was founded on freedom and liberty.
Here an Ethiopian saying goes" Memot yamarat ayit yedimat afincha tashetalech" who is Meles to criticize neo liberalism in front of the advocators of it.
The contradiction about the "double digit economic growth of Ethiopia": Ethiopia launched appeal for 2.8 million people immediate food aid-Reuters Feb 2011. The percentage of starving people surpasses that of the predecessor regimes of Meles Zenawi. Recurring famine has been hitting Ethiopia more frequently within the last two decades and with more people affected than ever before. It is underestimating the intellect of humanity and most importantly an ignorant disregard for the suffering lives.
Mr. Prime Minister, according to your answers, you seem to mention the U.S. quite a lot and seem to support America’s actions to show you are America’s puppet. Why don’t you do the same and have a term limit like the U.S.?
@RasBulga are u out of ur mind calling him baby killer , i respect oppositions but liers like u i dont think u worried about the country. or most importantly to the ppl u guys r from the familly that thinks ethiopia is their private gardon
What a charade this is! hilarious Meles the economist! LOL! In the elementary economic theory of supply and demand, the markets attain equilibrium when buyers and sellers come to an agreement based on the availability of product as well as the buyers' ability to buy. But the markets still fail the Ethiopian subsistance farmers because they may demand food BUT THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO PAY FOR IT!! And lets not have any more ALDI economic ALCHEMY or of applause for a stock exchange OWNED BY TPLF!
This was a disappointing speech and Q&A. The Prime Minister's answers evaded the real questions. It left me very under whelmed. It is unfortunate that practically all persons from Tigray would probabaly support the PM and other Ethiopians in general oppose him. However, if someone hears this presentation in a neutral manner, it would be clear that the Prime Minister somewhat underpeformed and his answers were wanting on many occasions.
how come people from Adwa and Mekelle regional neighborhood area don't buy bonds or contribute their wages like most Ethiopians...i understand from Gonder and Gojjem area folks are sharing their beloved river to the rest of their country !!! My fellow Ethiopians in this matter do what people from tigriye area do....watch tigre ppl ....especially Adewa and Mekelle ppl...
@ak47gun1 Assessing from you reasoning and improper grammar, I'm confident that you have not attended any type of higher learning, nonetheless, you are sitting here criticizing ivy league academia and matters of world leadership. Shame on you buddy!
What a charade this is! hilarious Meles the economist! LOL! In the elementary economic theory of supply and demand, the markets attain equilibrium when buyers and sellers come to an agreement based on the availability of product as well as the buyers' ability to buy. But the markets still fail the Ethiopian subsistance farmers because they may demand food BUT THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO PAY FOR IT!! And lets not have any more ALDI economic ALCHEMY or applause for a stock exchange OWNED BY TPLF
Meles failed misserably. He was trying to show the jaming of voa to the voa not being transmited in usa. Well usa does not jam voa or any other radios. Everyone can see that his logic is so backward. Meles is not ethiopian that is the core of the probleme of his leadership failer. His ideas and rule are contrary to ethiopian belief and history. That is why his policy is a failure. Well even in development of africa or ethiopia he is promoting for china and india to come to ethiopia and exploit.
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Never met a man quite like you doing all he can making our dreams come true .you are strong and you're Smart ...!
That’s why they killed him . They don’t want no African leaders that are working to build Africa .The western cannot afford a civilized Africa in other word progress in Africa is a threat to the civilized world.
What a genius. Truly one of the best and brightest Ethiopia had to offer and visionary for a strong Africa. RIP ATO MELES ZENAWI.
Asefa Woldu he's indeed.
mele you are wonderful.Keep up the good work.I had wrong impression about you before.Thank you the university of colombia.
My hero my all time PM!!!
Now, I understand why Meles die mysteriously. He was too smart and defensive of Africa like Dr. John Garang De Mabrior of South Sudan. Some entities had to make sure he doesn't help Africa move up?
now yuo see......
The world has witnessed that Ethiopia is going in the right direction under the leadership of HE PM Meles Zenawi and it is irreversible.
Individuals who were organized demonstration to against growth of Ethiopia should know that people of Ethiopia and the rest the world is with current administration of Ethiopia as it showed dramatic changes in the history of Ethiopia.
U can disagree with meles but u will never denied his intelligence.
True True..
So true!
What has he done with his intelligence?
@@Fish-fx8rf something stupid, and somthing important!.
That's true fasika
What a speech and explanation!!...very smart and visionary Prime minister !!...
The best thing that happened for Ethiopia. Meles our Hero.
Yes ! Indeed!!!!!!!
Really now?
he hated amhara and was a banda
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I dont think so
Meles was very potent politician and economist ever , Africa lost this gentleman
I am very impressed with his broad knowledge and approach that he picked to over come the devastated Ethiopian economy, it is modest and yet deep rooted. It is sad to see this leader to be treated the way most people think him as a dictator, when the fact is that the real dectators are those who are working under him, who have amassed ill gotten money at the cost of his party name. I will be lying if i were to say that he is clean of all mischiefs but over all in my view he is fair leader.
It's a special honor for CU to have PM Meles Zenawi as its forum guest. He is undoubtedly one of the most pragmatic statesman that Africa had to offer ever!!! Meles is perfect example of a true renaissance leadership. May he Rest In Peace.
I FINALLY GOT IT!!!! Meles Zenawi is a politically wrong, but economically right person.
The late H. E. Meles Zenawi is missed very much here in his homeland.
First of all, thank you Mr. Prime Minister for giving us an hour of your time and sharing your wisdom with us. Regrettably, many watching this video will do so not with an open mind but with the now all-too-familiar distorted prism of personal hatred and self-serving ideology. So, as much as I appreciate your sincere efforts to enlighten Western intellectuals and reach out to the diaspora, I believe your one hour would have been better spent in the service of the Ethiopian people.
Columbia University, we thank you for offering a forum to PM Meles Zenawi. He is one of today's brilliant and visionary leaders. Thank you PM MZ for your dedication to bringing tangible positive changes to Ethiopia.
Excellent one!
Ethiopia and Ethiopians are truely lucky to have been bestowed such a decent and sharp leader at their critical moment in time. I wish the Ethiopian government and Ethiopian people a TRANSFORMATION period, that they are entering now with sleeves rolled up, marked with momentous success stories to be told in the future.
God Bless ETHIOPIA, its GOVERNMENT and its PEOPLE.
Columbia University doesn’t have to take any direction from any individuals how to run their institution. The whole world witnessed how Ethiopia is transformed under leadership of PM Meles Zenawi. What was achieved under his leadership cannot and must not be ignored. These individuals even can’t tell why they are against the growth in Ethiopia.
meles is the greatest leader of this century
our hero may your soul
rest in peace
Wow!! The PM of Ethiopia sounds sooo Genious. I really enjoyed and get big lesson from his presentation.Thanks PM Meles - Hope you make your people and country prosperous in a near future. Good luck!!
This was a time Lead BY A WORLD CLASS MIND AND MANNERS AND NORMS
When I started to read I thought u write it after He passed away.But when I see the time line ...Ohhhh...He deserved it..but he never liked status and posters.His works are all over the country.
Hero in deed. than you
Meles Zenawi Who Had Lifted Millions Of Ethiopians Out Of Poverty & Also An Inspirational Spokesman For Africa On Global Issues.
Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world, made more progress in education, health and economic development under his leadership than at any time in its history, and it is a tragedy for the Ethiopian people that they have lost a committed leader and a champion of children at such a young age"
Rest in peace Sir
No one will forget your talent, brevity and leadership style. long live meles Z..
Knowledgable man of my age
You were on of a kind Sir! RIP
It's time to honor Prime Minister Meles by putting his image on Ethiopian Birr
We miss you prime minister meles Zenawi . What a brilliant mind he had . Dynamic leader ever in my life .
Very nice interview. I know he might not be the beloved President, but he is a clever man. Ethiopia has a very good chance to grow and the future looks good for this country. Thoe it's not easy to unite so many diffrent tribes and neighbours which have war or other views of leading a country and diffrent regional strategies. I also think it's hard to lead a population of 90 million. Therefore a country like this needs a strong man who cracks down if needed.
It would be sad to change a goverment
Turbi911fication I respect ur insight
Several social, economic, religious and political developments and systems were established for the first time in Ethiopia under PM Meles EPRDF's rule.
First regional referendum for peaceful Secession (Eritrea, 1991-)
First Multi-party National election for opposition
First institutionalized linguistic freedom at local level (1994-)
First ethnic based federalism (since 1994)
First private media outlets in Ethiopian history (since 1994)
First consecutive double-digit GDP growth - International Monetary Fund (since 2006)
First multi-party parliament with opposition MPs
First unrestricted freedom of religion for evangelicals/Pentecostals (since 1994; a Pentecostal succeeded him in 2012, & Now in 2018 Oromo ethnic & Muslim ancestor Leader of Ethiopia for the first time in History...) etc
I will be supriised if Meles is not awarded Nobel Peace Prize this Year. Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the person who have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations and for holding and promotion of peace. Meles is undoubtedly good, noble and ascentic person. He is a prominent man who is deservedly honoured and loved by the masses of Ethiopia and Africa for job creation and fiscal responsibility. We Ethiopians are proud of him and we will be happy if he is honored.
While many of African leaders are still looking on the International Community for salvage and aggressive panhandling, Meles never stand begging for what he knows he has power to earn. He proved that the highest grace can be attained by a person of ordinary origin. Respect is given to leaders only when they are deemed worthy of receving the honor. Meles earned that admiration and respect and we Africans are proud of him.
I think more of this kind of engagement with people who have been exposed to one side of the coin is a good way to start a dialogue between the opposing sides that are at logger heads at each other. It is all about being open to reason to safely propagate ones own agenda which other wise would fail with the test of time. After all it is all about going head on obstacles and not going around them to win time. Rushing to victory hasn't worked in the recent history of Ethiopia and won't...
Prophetic comment.
😢😢😢ever best Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi, RIP
Best leader still now for ethiopia ... Men yadergal enezi mekegna komchewoch eyalu ,sew aybereketem
Deep stuff, trough analysis, WOW!!!
Seeeing is beliving ! Go and see my country Ethiopia ! My country has transformed thanks to the hard work and geninue concern of our Prime Minster Meles ! Those who oppose him are the followers of Erteria !
yes he is really our generation event let his past sunk and his new aim and sparkling vision shown b/c he is making unbelievable happenings.
WOW!!! I am really impressed....what a genius is Meles!!!
I pledge my loyalty to our prime minister and my beloved Ethiopia.
meles zenawi is the winer of the day aur hero
mele you are wonderful.Keep up the good work.I had wrong impression about you before.
Icon of African leaders
In terms of economic vision and leadership, he was simply ONCE IN A CENTURY leader whose void will be very hard to fill! However, he was a disaster regarding Ethiopian national politics! From robbing one of the largest nations in the continent of its port access(he could have used several political, economic and diplomatic levers to secure a port access during the Independence of Eritrea), to fragmenting our historic nation into ethnic lines, our country is presently suffering one of the worst internal displacements in human history. Not to mention the gross human rights violation unleashed within ethnic groups is undeniably the devastating result of his ethnic politics!
Let me give you an insight- he didn't have an economic vision. The IMF enabled what we see now in Ethiopia. At the time he died, 68% of the country's GDP was financed by loans the country got from the IMF (that was the main reason why Abiy when he took over begged for the diaspora to send hard currency remitance). People see stupid buildings funded by IMF money and think growth. What a farce!
@@asinegaasinega I find your comment rather poor and condescending. When you start your sentence by giving us "insight", you lead me into the assumption that you had confidential access into the working of the Meles economic agenda! Maybe you were an insider having access to classified documents providing you with "insights", not otherwise available to the rest of us? LOL, don't think so. While I won't pretend to give insight to anyone in here, I would point out that economic growth is measured not by "buildings" but by developing infrastructure that includes connecting rural to urban locations as well as to ports, industrial parks attracting manufacturing, dams(GERD)... Now, was Tigreyans awarded most lucrative contracts thus building and amassing generational wealth? Sure. But what corner of the planet you know where people don't favor their own? Here in the US, it's called cronyism, nepotism... However, not only the stealing was kept in check by him, all relatively mega projects were completed around estimated time and put in operation to benefit citizens. Most looting and massive embezzlement began after his death! TPLF Juntas, incompetent in managing the complex and treacherous political landscape and knowing their days were limited, turned into የቀን ጅቦች። Allow me to also correct you that Total Debt to GDP ratio was around 50% upon his death. Only when PM Abiy came to power in 2018 reached over 60% due to the terrible mismanagement of the economy the previous five plus years dating back to his death. Anyone who understands economics knows that growth is impossible without debt! Especially, to an economically deprived country like ours, debt is the lifeblood for growth. The problem lies when you're not utilizing this lifeblood to fuel growth and investment!
@@MG-il2fm And those that were looters and yeken gibotch as you call them are working with Abiy and have been given seats in his administration.
That aged like milk.
@@MG-il2fmn hindsight be economically, politically as well as stability wise, are you better off today under ABIY Ahmed Ali than Ethiopia under Meles Zenawi?
@RasBulga its the fact that all the ppl who opposes the right to use our languages r amharas 4 many reasons in da name of unity
Meles was the best african leader
He NAILED them!
meles zenawi hero
@abeshaking370, Absolutely I agree with you bro. I have thousands of thousands of Amhara friends who stood for the truth including HE Addisu Legessie, Vice president of HE PM Meles Zenawi. I do not hate Amharas at all but those with small brain don’t know how to make simple judgement for simple matters. Backwardness is over in Ethiopia.
Amazing prim m. You are the man, forgot the protesters what they say,, keep n finish your project ,,, good man
excellent responses us the black african ability
Zenawi one of the smartest Ethiopian leaders.... But I have to say he got so much more to do... He needs to improve ..
By the way, one question about this quick-entrance/quick- exit play Columbia University has staged for the benefit of this tyrant. Did Meles the method actor use his own props for this drama? Seriously, did Meles have one of his custom built chairs flown in to NY at Ethiopian tax payers expense?or is the chair he is sitting on an antique nursing chair donated to Columbia by Mrs. Norma Lerner?OR did Stiglitz buy a high chair for his baby banda from Yoyas or Giggles! That's what I'd like to know
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... work this time unless the beholders make the painful effort of taming themselves. I have a hunch everything I see may be a stretch for good.
😥😥😥
Meles is our revered hero and we the people of Ethiopia must push to erect life size statue of our gallant leader in Meskel Square. The statue will remind our future generation of super human qualities of our leader. As a president, Meles faced immediate challange of and succeeded in pulling the country from chronic and widespread poverty. He acquired fame and popularity with the way he framed policies to tackle starvation in Ethiopia and led the country to the mightiest power in Africa.
TPLF has been in power 20 years. More people are hungry. More people are poor and more people died than those that died in all our wars put together in Badme Somalia Gambella Bedeno Tepi Awassa Benishangul .... 20 years is Quite enough time thank you.
Wise leader
This is not Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
Can anyone tell me how to stop loving the gentleman. How can any rational person help himself not to be impressed by the intellectual supremacy of the current ethiopian prime minister. He is so persuasive, cogent and rational....period. Besides he is a man of great vision for the the country he is in charge of ...being at the helm of the leadershiop. Kudos! pm Meles Zenawi.
I hope Ethiopian TV reporter also ask a tough question like these student did. We have to make politician accountable for their action. Otherwise they remain corrupted
he was smart!
hero leader
I proud that melese is an ethiopian!
I think he excessively personalizes the imposition of neo-liberalization and gives it undue emphasis. More, he says nothing about how African leaders can use the opportunity. He just repeats the old and I think imature rheoteric that the failure of America is a triumph for Africa. I think that is also inconsiderate of the audience, who is largely students who know little of these details. The real question is what exactly are you going to do about solving the problem which you didn't do before?
Where and when in his speech or answers did he say that “the failure of America is a triumph for Africa” please if you hate the person, that’s fine. But to utterly misquote him is uncalled for and uncivilized.
Wow
wooww i love his english!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone You can lie using statistics and Meles is no exeption. Instead of talking about the booming economy and the high rate of GDP, why doesn't he talk about the jobless rate in Addis (or Ethiopia)? How many hospitals are equiped adequately to take care of patients? Why is there is so much a short of energy? Why is the cost of living so high for such a poor country? Why does Ethiopia still need food handhouts after 20 years of Meles?? Can anyone asnwer these questions?
this guy might have been on to something...
koftanaw meles
Meles Zenawi = intellectual genius...political disaster
@abeshaking370im ethiopian but dont blame eritreans for
@abeshaking370 I could not agree more with you.
@wolosefer hey i 100% agree with u, thats is it
@endexye u might dont know but our rulers did not allow, this is the truth. nobody eliminates amhara from the face of ethiopia, we just saying we ve equal right . n u didn't apreciate it always in da name of unity. we just saying do ur thing n leave as alone. nb dont worry about us
@guracha200 wowowowowowowwo... lets calm down... he already devalue the birr now you wanna put him on the birr... you must be out of your mind... but after all this is your opinion and you have the right to say whatever you want unlike the Ethiopian people whos suffering under his rule...
hey TTTANTO Don’t be a heater just because Melles is doing what many African leaders couldn’t do. He is the man he fought for 17 years to give freedom for people like u and what do u do with it accuse him so sad. Sure he is not perfect but again no one is. He has changed the country for good it is not his fault that the country is poor. Do some research to find out who’s fault it is that the country is very poor. Melles is doing everything he can to change that.
@guynoire46 amen! i agree he is talking about things that he hears while chewing Khat and watching CNN.
the west was also supporting Sadam until they turn on him.
is the name of the game, any ruler who are not loved by their own people in africa are supported by the non-black world.
they are using few followers for the propaganda to support them for the western media, and make sure africa is strangled.
anyway and melse didn't write this speech, he was reading it with difficulties,maybe that is what the neocolonizers want him to read
Judging from the comments posted about this presentation, It seems the more Prime Minister Zenawi and his supporters present transparent and lucid solutions to a conundrum of Ethiopia's past inglorious dilemmas- ethnic hostility, extreme poverty, regional instability, the more the so-called opposition sinks into mindlessly incoherent chatter fast descending into pure lunacy. Just once, stop this buffoonery and present legible arguments so that somebody out there may take you seriously.
@Leeshan82,
P.M is way better than you and many of us who could not attend a one day in Columbia leave alone to be a guest speaker ! Talk is cheap !
@hamdustan one would say that comparing to his own knowledge......but crook is always crook and that what he is i wouldn't call it Intelligent i really do see where it is.
Meles have no choice but relese birtukan again. He is under a tremendous pressure from foreign countries to relese birtukan. That is why he said birtukan if she ask again pardon it does not surprise me. But birtukan did not ask pardon before according to the ethiopian law. Meles was trying at that to show that it looks according to the law. So he failed in his own trap. Now he is trying to reless birtukan and once again he hopes the pressure he is on will reduce.
@TOCRULES If I had to choose to be a puppet, I would choose to be an American puppet. That's right, the country that was founded on freedom and liberty.
Here an Ethiopian saying goes" Memot yamarat ayit yedimat afincha tashetalech" who is Meles to criticize neo liberalism in front of the advocators of it.
He knew he was going to die 53:50
Or maybe he was just saying that the new generation will take over
The contradiction about the "double digit economic growth of Ethiopia": Ethiopia launched appeal for 2.8 million people immediate food aid-Reuters Feb 2011. The percentage of starving people surpasses that of the predecessor regimes of Meles Zenawi. Recurring famine has been hitting Ethiopia more frequently within the last two decades and with more people affected than ever before. It is underestimating the intellect of humanity and most importantly an ignorant disregard for the suffering lives.
ETHIOPIAN PUT THIS MEN AGAINST ABIY AHMED AND YOU WILL SEE THE DIFFERENT
Mr. Prime Minister, according to your answers, you seem to mention the U.S. quite a lot and seem to support America’s actions to show you are America’s puppet. Why don’t you do the same and have a term limit like the U.S.?
@RasBulga are u out of ur mind calling him baby killer , i respect oppositions but liers like u i dont think u worried about the country. or most importantly to the ppl u guys r from the familly that thinks ethiopia is their private gardon
@AmaraKoreda ya jealous Eritro Banda, you are making enemies by the minute.. Now you are bothered by Mr Mamadou. LOL
@donotmesswithethio well you're clearly an Ethiopian
What a charade this is! hilarious Meles the economist! LOL! In the elementary economic theory of supply and demand, the markets attain equilibrium when buyers and sellers come to an agreement based on the availability of product as well as the buyers' ability to buy. But the markets still fail the Ethiopian subsistance farmers because they may demand food BUT THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO PAY FOR IT!! And lets not have any more ALDI economic ALCHEMY or of applause for a stock exchange OWNED BY TPLF!
now look at as we overthrew the tplf regime and we have a nobel pirze pm now what a time we are having the time of our life
This was a disappointing speech and Q&A. The Prime Minister's answers evaded the real questions. It left me very under whelmed. It is unfortunate that practically all persons from Tigray would probabaly support the PM and other Ethiopians in general oppose him. However, if someone hears this presentation in a neutral manner, it would be clear that the Prime Minister somewhat underpeformed and his answers were wanting on many occasions.
@AmaraKoreda U R VERY FUNNY AMARA BUT I UNDERSTAND UR HATERS N NEGETIVITY, I REALY DO COZ I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS WHEN PPL U HATE GET SUCCESFUL HAHA
how come people from Adwa and Mekelle regional neighborhood area don't buy bonds or contribute their wages like most Ethiopians...i understand from Gonder and Gojjem area folks are sharing their beloved river to the rest of their country !!! My fellow Ethiopians in this matter do what people from tigriye area do....watch tigre ppl ....especially Adewa and Mekelle ppl...
@ak47gun1 Assessing from you reasoning and improper grammar, I'm confident that you have not attended any type of higher learning, nonetheless, you are sitting here criticizing ivy league academia and matters of world leadership. Shame on you buddy!
What a charade this is! hilarious Meles the economist! LOL! In the elementary economic theory of supply and demand, the markets attain equilibrium when buyers and sellers come to an agreement based on the availability of product as well as the buyers' ability to buy. But the markets still fail the Ethiopian subsistance farmers because they may demand food BUT THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO PAY FOR IT!! And lets not have any more ALDI economic ALCHEMY or applause for a stock exchange OWNED BY TPLF
Meles failed misserably. He was trying to show the jaming of voa to the voa not being transmited in usa. Well usa does not jam voa or any other radios. Everyone can see that his logic is so backward.
Meles is not ethiopian that is the core of the probleme of his leadership failer. His ideas and rule are contrary to ethiopian belief and history. That is why his policy is a failure. Well even in development of africa or ethiopia he is promoting for china and india to come to ethiopia and exploit.
Neo-iberalism " Neo-colonialism ." Recrafted .
@RasBulga SHAME ON U RASBULGA HOPE ETHIOPIA HAS ENOUGH PLACE 4 BOTH OF US PPL LIKE U N PPL LIKE US LOL