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Bahir Dar Airport is named once again as Dejazmach Belay Zeleke Airport, as it used to be called before TPLF took over.
borkena
December 18, 2020
Bahir Dar’s Ginbot 20 Airport is rebranded as Dejazmach Belay Zeleke Airport, Ethiopian state media reported on Friday. The Amhara Regional Administration, which is based in the city, has been engaging community members in the region to come up with a new name.
It was the city council committee that made the decision based on feedback from community participation.
Gibot 20, which literally means May 28, is the day the now defunct Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), whose political architect was the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), entered the capital Addis Ababa in 1991 after the fall of the government of Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam. .
Ginbot 20 was more of a politically motivated name intended to glorify the EPRDF’s victory over what it called the fascist derg. As it turned out, EPRDF, which was essentially a cover name for the coalition’s master, TPLF, became much more fascist. In fact, the current president of the region, who is said to have been a TPLF champion when the late Meles Zenawi was alive, recently argued that the crime that TPLF committed is comparable to what Nazi Germany did during World War II.
Dejazmach Belay Zeleke, on the other hand, is a name that glorifies Ethiopia’s history, particularly Ethiopia’s heroic resistance against the fascist occupation of Ethiopia by Italy in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Dejazmach Belay Zeleke mobilized forces from the region to inflict heavy losses on the invaders.
The Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Bahir Dar will resume tomorrow.
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