Activities of Alem Hailu Gabre Kristos

From beacon of freedom to emblem of bootstrapping growth
Tying a string to loan
Taking advantage of
A poor country,
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For three reform years
Engaged in a killing spree
Not allowing citizens'
Mind for a second to be free
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While walking
In his garden
One morning fine
Seeing a snake
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{Before the curtain is raised the introducer briefs the audience about how an extremist group attacked the Ethiopian Nation Defense Force (ENDF) from the back and how a private woman solider forced a colonel, passing information to a traitor group, to surrender. Then she disarms and forces him to walk all the way to Eretria. He tries to sweet talk her to defect like him in vain.}
( Followed by a woman solider who held him at a gun point enters a colonel, hands up.)
{It is easy to read anxiety from his face, while anger from hers. Both have put on Ethiopia's uniform. A cellphone he had been using for passing on information to defectors is seenin his hand.}
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(Scene I)

Heeding golden days pays
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Those who had been
Killing heartlessly,
Their back to the wall
Are now forced to fall!
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Though to lead WHO chosen,
My moral frozen,
Perpetrators of genocide
And fratricide
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A hatred fiend,
Playacting a votary
Of democracy and federalism
To a gluttonous end,
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It is right
It is right
'Only those
That stand under a tree
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