Zenawi’s Death: Paradoxes and Opportunities

by Messay Kebede

Beyond the pathetic and at times ridiculous theatrics of Ethiopians ordered not only to mourn but also to show visible

Meles Zenawi

signs of a boundless grief over the death of Meles Zenawi, henceforth advertised as a great and beloved Ethiopian leader, I hear a murmur that increasingly sounds like a condescending laughter. Who is laughing? Perhaps history is laughing at the extraordinary reversal of Meles and the TPLF. When the guerrilla troops of the TPLF marched on Addis Ababa in 1991 and their leaders seized power, they promised freedom and democracy for all the peoples of Ethiopia. After 20 years of total rule, what we observe is people mourning a leader in the North Korean style, that is, the reality of a government that feels entitled to order its people even how to feel.

This is a new landmark: already whatever Ethiopians used to have belongs to the government, including their house, their land, and the schools to which they send their children, just as they are told to which ethnic bantustan they belong and which party they should follow under pain of being demoted to second or even third rate citizens. I would hardly be surprised if the government soon orders Ethiopians who to marry and which religion to adopt. The totalitarian strangle is tightening every day to the point of utter suffocation of what makes their humanity, namely, their ability to govern themselves.

The recent drama of a prolonged and effusive official mourning is deliberately staged to achieve two interrelated results. On the one hand, by demanding that Ethiopians show an outpouring grief over the death of Meles, his successors and followers want to further humiliate them so as to erase any temptation of protest, obvious as it is that a humiliated, broken people is unable to stand up for itself. On the other hand, the submission of the people to the point of manifesting grief over the demise of their oppressor provides his successors with a semblance of legitimacy. The more Meles is glorified and his successors swear to continue his “great” work, the more they acquire the mantle of legitimacy by presenting themselves as his trusted heirs. This borrowed legitimacy is necessary to find some form of acceptance among party members, the military establishment, and the troops.

It should be noted that the strategy could backfire. Indeed, the more Meles is exalted, the less his successors appear as able people. The excessive exaltation of Meles leaves the impression that he did everything by himself, that he was the only decider, planner, and executor. His stature is now so high that his successors look like dwarfs licking his boots. This confirms what Sebhat Nega supposedly said, to wit, that “in his death, Meles took with him the TPLF as well.” Meles’s glory is obtained at the expense of the TPLF and, as repeatedly confirmed by history, the rise of a dictator always undermines his followers. Even though dictatorship was thought necessary to impose the interests of the party, the first loser is always the party in that it creates a force that it can no longer control.

The most stunning reversal is however the fuss aimed at presenting Meles as a great Ethiopian nationalist leader. Meles, who all along ridiculed Ethiopian nationalism, landlocked Ethiopia, fragmented the country into ethnic states, officially and repeatedly stigmatized Ethiopian legacy, even went to the extent of defending the secession of Tigray, is now exalted as a staunch Ethiopian nationalist. What is more, he who defined himself so pompously as a Tigrean nationalist, wanted his funeral ceremony and his burial to take place in Addis Ababa, as though he had nothing to do with Tigray. That the once vehement Tigrean nationalist suddenly found Tigray too small for him represents the apex of paradox. There is after all a winner in the 20 years of wasted rule and it is Ethiopia. The fact that Meles’s body did not even touch the soil of Tigray is his mea culpa and final tribute to Ethiopian nationhood.

Lastly, I have a free advice for Meles’s successors. Instead of trying to find the legitimacy that they lack by hiding behind the ghost of Meles, they should seriously consider the only path that provides them with their own legitimacy. The resolution to continue Meles’s policy is a deadlock and ultimately dangerous for their own survival and interests. To continue the same policy without Meles would require them to be more repressive and totalitarian than Meles ever was, the outcome of which can only be the exasperation of popular unrests. Even if we assume that the EPRDF has the ability to become more repressive, the implementation of the policy will necessitate another “strong man.” And this means back to square one, that is, back to one-man dictatorship with all its risks and restrictions on the ruling party itself. Notably, the rise of such a dictator, assuming it is possible, would come at the cost of the unity of the EPRDF and even of the TPLF.

The only viable path is to correct Meles’s mistake by opening up the political space to opposition forces and by lifting all the restrictions on freedom of speech and organization as well as by liberating all political prisoners. To do so would confer a new legitimacy on Meles’s successors while at the same time removing the possibility of another round of dictatorial rule and reaffirming the unity of the EPRDF and of the various parties that compose it. In other words, both the EPRDF and the TPLF need the participation of opposition forces to regain an internally working democratic condition and preserve their unity.

As things stand now, I see no better way to move in a different direction than to confirm Haile Mariam Desalegn as the new prime minister. More than his status as deputy prime minister, what militates in favor of his confirmation is that he represents the southern peoples and, as such, can intercede between the big competing forces within the EPRDF. This gives him the strategic position to preserve the unity of the party and opens up a space for the participation of the opposition. Let there be no misunderstanding: I am not saying that Haile Mariam is the right person. Some such conclusion would be utterly premature and unfounded on any reliable proof. Rather, I am suggesting that he should be given the benefit of the doubt, given his strategic position. At any rate, we will soon know whether he can take advantage of his position and initiate a new direction.

Ethiopia: Shedding tears for a corrupt ethnic tyrant

Shedding tears for a corrupt ethnic tyrant is a cry for help; it wouldn’t mitigate the crimes of Woyane

The Ethiopians story can’t be told by corrupt ethnic warlords that couldn’t tell if they are dead or alive. It can’t be altered by modern day robbers that define living as raiding the people’s resources. It can’t be moralized by robe/suite wearing cadres waving the Holy Books in public and the Red Book in private. For sure, it can’t be an academic exercise of ‘functionally illiterate’ PhDs serving tyranny or their unchecked ego.

The real Ethiopian story is told by the humble, modest, honest and spiritually grounded regular folks that tell it as it is. Woyane and its stooges are the last people on earth to tell the story of  Ethiopia [ns]. Everything they say and do is toxic to our mind, body, soul and sprit. We must burn down anything and everything written by Woyane and its stooges. It doesn’t even worth the paper it is written on.

by Teshome Debalke

Not long ago, the late ethnic warlord, Melse Zenawi came to Washington DC to attend the G8 summit when he was confronted with a brave Ethiopian by the name Abebe Ge law. Ever since, the dishonorable ethnic tyrant’s and his diehard cadres’ life has never been the same. Right after the Summit he was rushed to a hospital in Belgium for unknown illness until he was dragged out of bed for another  Summit of the G20 in Mexico to be rushed back to the hospital the next day.

His handlers were hiding him with all kinds of bizarre excuses until they officially announce his death last week. It is not clear why they kept lying through their teeth for over two month hiding his body in a freezer until we discovered  the stage circus show; forcing people to mourn instead of celebrate the death of a notorious and corrupt ethnic warlord with blood on his hand. It is the same old diversion Ethiopians are used to from tending the important issue of Woyane’s surrender to the will of the people. The drama is also to torment the public for last time before the mastermind of ethnic cleansing bit the dirt.

Here we are reliving the last episode of ‘The Tale of a Dead Ethnic Tyrant from Adwa’, produced and directed by Berket Simon, the notorious ethnic warlord in his own right. The ‘Eritrean’ national that spent his entire adult life lying is going to follow his comrade in grave telling fairytales. For two months he was preparing this drama leaving his comrade’s body in the freezer. As gross as it sounds for Ethiopians it is Woyane at its best.

The famous Adwa that made history as the ground of defeating Fascism with the leadership of the Honorable King Minelik II produced Melese Zenawi, a dishonorable ethnic warlord with identity crises. It is a classic story of The Ethiopian Experience of bravery, betrayals and triumphs in our long history.

There is no explanation why the self-declared Chairman of an Ethnic Liberation Front, TPLF/Woyane, a Tigrian/Eritrean warlord that was born in and claimed to liberate the people of Tigray and Eretria wanting to be buried in Addis Ababa.  His Tigrian stooges must be confused what to do with a Statue of Shame eructed in Mekele and all the staged empty bravado of ‘victory day’; waving colorful ‘rags’ every year. It is like reliving Fascist occupation of the later year of 1930s.

For any practical purpose Woyane is dead and buried with Melse Zenawi. For sure, it is disarray on self inflected wound as the stooges scramble to figure out their identity. The moving target of a collection of ethnic stooges reached the point of no return; running in all direction to no where.  At this moment, by Woyane’s own admission, what does TPLF/Woyane, the Statue and Rag of Shame means beside symbols of an assortment of ethnic criminals collaborating in robbing a nation blind and tormenting our people?

The people of Ethiopia in Tigray are lucky to skip the burial of a dead traitor in their soil from further tarnishing the place where Ethiopia civilization began and her people bravery was marked. TPLF/Woyane not only tarnished Tigray’s name but used and abused the people for its criminality. This fact is more and more evident when half a dozen ring leaders play the public for fools on the whereabouts of the ringleader. Now the stooges declared him dead the circus began. How come Berket forgot the script where the people of Tigray protesting their ‘dear leader’ to be buried in their Region he liberated…from Ethiopia?  Stay tuned for the answer from the ringleaders in Addis Ababa.

The circus the stooges put-up is another tale of the many tales in TPLF/Woyane history of criminality. The fact the burial venue of the tyrant is in Addis Ababa instead of the ‘Region’ the ethnic warlord spent most of his life ‘liberating’, not to mention the ‘Golden People’ he is ‘proud to be born from’  says more than enough in fooling his stooges to leaves them holding the bag.

The bizarre behaviors of the stooges make the funeral itself a ‘child play’. Known TPLF/Woyane personalities look like dead-men-walking; faking they are alive. Others are dumb enough to believe they will have life after Melse. Lost on the wonderland they are scrambling to hold on a dead tyrant until reality slap them on the face. It should remind us the many fairytale of the tyrant’s life. For example, what does a corrupt and atrocious ethnic warlord dead or alive means to Ethiopians if our history of Axum and the rest have no meaning for us, Ethiopians?

The famous Woyane, the Ethiopian born Saudi Billionaire Alamudi summed up the stooges collective state of hysteria. He said, he ‘lost his right hand, his friend…’.  From all people in this world, when a ‘businessman’ of an international stature reduced to submit for a corrupt African ethnic warlord it says more about the entire mindset of all the stooges combined than the deeds of the dead tyrant. The man needs spiritual help bad, not from the stooges of Woyane’s Islamic Affair Council’s but from our humble and young brothers and sisters of Ethiopian Muslims in prison. He also needs a friend, a humble Ethiopian in the rural village that makes an honest living than the lord of poverty around him. They will teach him to think straight and appreciate Ethiopians love of faith, people and country is priceless his dollar can’t buy.

When the Billionaire is not enough, the so called ‘elders’ aren’t any better in their quest to tarnish the institutions of Ethiopian ‘Elders’. Led by Professor Ephraim (the ‘Scholar’ and the ‘Educator’), Haile G. Selase (the ‘Athlete’ and ‘businessman’) and Pastor Daniel (the ‘Moral leader’). Once again, they came back from their hiding to save the hand that feeds them. As sad as it may sound, we are as much at fault for failing to make them accountable for their past transgressions not to show their faces again. Regardless, they all need spiritual help from the humble Ethiopians near and around the Anwar Mosque; where Ethiopians faiths live in harmony and share the little they have-defending each other from Woyane intruders. The real Ethiopians are not found in The Sheraton, ground zero of corruption,.

We understand why soft-heads and double thinkers piggyback on the tyrant and gravitate towards the lowest denominator in society. But, when we collectively fail to put them where they belong we empower them to do more harm; we should know better.  It is clear why learned and experienced people at the global level that are expected to be role models in society choose to travel the low-road to the bottom. Until we make them accountable there will be a rough road to come for our people.

We are also witnessing dozen episodes of unknown stooges coming out of the closet around the world where Woyane ethnic cadres are active. Unexpected double thinkers came out of the woodworks to show their true color.  Naturally, they must have been ashamed to live a double life for these long. They knew all along the head that have been guiding them was rotten to its core. Corrupted with the little goodies he provided them and trapped in the cage he puts them-in they have no choice but to flock out of their hiding gasping for air when they lost their enabler.

Many Ethiopians aren’t aware the stooges are in the process of self cleansing from the toxic of Woyane and self-incriminating themselves along the way. It isn’t easy to self incriminate in their conspiracy to aid and abide in the distractions of their own people and nation. Now the rotten mind that led them in crimes against humanity and corruption is gone, what is next for them but, cry for help. Deep inside they are lost; reaching for a way-out and looking for a safe passage. That is precisely why they have been hiding and lying until they can’t do it no more.

Ethiopians always win because we are gracious and organically just. Our love of country and people override everything else. Even the most heinous criminals are forgiven providing they understand there is no compromise on our people and country. It is the Ethiopian thing no one can understand.  For those that were diverted from the true meaning of Ethiopiawinet by Woyane and its like, they should pause and go back and understand the real story of ‘The Ethiopians’ from the people.

The Ethiopians story can’t be told by corrupt ethnic warlords that couldn’t tell if they are dead or alive. It can’t be altered by modern day robbers that define living as raiding the people’s resources. It can’t be moralized by robe/suite wearing cadres waving the Holy Books in public and the Red Book in private. For sure, it can’t be an academic exercise of ‘functionally illiterate’ PhDs serving tyranny or their unchecked ego.

The real Ethiopian story is told by the humble, modest, honest and spiritually grounded regular folks that tell it as it is. Woyane and its stooges are the last people on earth to tell the story of Ethiopia [ns]. Everything they say and do is toxic to our mind, body, soul and sprit. We must burn down anything and everything written by Woyane and its stooges. It doesn’t even worth the paper it is written on.

While we are witnessing the stooges scramble to save their behind, we must never… never… follow them to the gutter; it is Un-Ethiopian thing to do so. At this juncture of our history, we are bruised and damaged by Woyane instigated crimes against our people and country. The hash-hash work the apologist attempt to do in the last hour is no more than a diversion from the day of reckoning. Noting but Justice must prevail; Woyane must surrender for the will of the people in peace; there is no other way out. Peace or Wars of its choosing Woyane will loss. It would be juvenile to miss another opportunity and maneuver out of it.

The apologists would do themselves a favor to pass on the message and surrender than covering-up the crimes to extend the life of Woyane, the sooner the better.  They should learn a life worth lesson; Ethiopians can’t be led by ethnic warlords and demagogues. It isn’t in our DNA, we lead not led. We are too sophisticated to fall for modern day ethnic snake oil salesmen, derange zealots and corrupt tycoons. We have been through that before. It is time for Woyane stooges to get it in their head. There is time for everything; this is the time to surrender with no further crime on our people.

Finally, my humble advice to all my fellow Ethiopians is simple. Don’t be an instrument of anyone especially Woyane against your own people and country. Woyanes can’t even tell who they are dead or alive; let alone to tell the story of our peoples. The best thing we can do now is reach out to our people to cement our relationship and demand surrender of Woyane. We owe it to our divided and suffering peoples and it is the Ethiopian thing to do.

This article is dedicated to the true Ethiopians in the graves and dungeons of Woyane that paid the ultimate price. Until they get justice and freedom respectively, Woyane will continue to be on the run.

to err is human - to forgive is divine

Ethiopia: Time for Radical Improvements

by Alemayehu G. Mariam

It is time to bury the hatchet and move forward in Ethiopia! Nelson Mandela taught that “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” I would add that your enemy also becomes your friend and your ally. Historically, when warring nations of Native Americans made peace with each other, they would bury their axes (hatchets) into the ground as a symbolic expression of the end of hostilities. I say today is the perfect time for all Ethiopians to bury the hatchet of ethnic division, religious sectarianism, regional conflict and human rights violations. It is the perfect time to shake hands, embrace each other and get our noses to the grindstone to build a new democratic Ethiopia where the rule of law is upheld and human rights and democratic institutions respected.

Today, not tomorrow, is the best time to put an end to historic hatreds and resentments and open a new chapter in Ethiopia’s history. Today is the best time to unchain ourselves from the burdens of the past, close the wounds that have festered for generations and declare to future generations that we will no longer be prisoners of resentments of the past. Nelson Mandela said that “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” Mandela did not drink from the poison of resentment and managed to outlive most of his “enemies” and is still alive and kicking at 94. But today there is a lot of resentment going around in Ethiopia and in the Ethiopian Diaspora. There is the quiet and despairing resentment of those who feel wounded and defeated by loss. There is the gloating resentment of those who feel victorious and morally vindicated by the loss of others. Then there is the resentment of those who are indifferent because they just don’t care. Today is a great day to say good-bye to historic animosities. Today is a great day to end bitterness, not tomorrow. Reaching out to our adversaries must begin today, not tomorrow. Reconciliation must begin today, not tomorrow. Most importantly, “radical improvements in good governance and democracy” must begin today, not tomorrow.

Let’s Begin Radical Improvements in Good Governance and Democracy Today 

In 2007, the late Meles Zenawi expressed his “hope that [his] legacy” would be not only “sustained and accelerated development that would pull Ethiopia out of the massive deep poverty” but also “radical improvements in terms of good governance and democracy.”  Today is the day to begin in earnest radical improvements in good governance and democracy. These improvements must begin with the release of all political prisoners, repeal of anti-terrorism, civil society and other oppressive laws and declaration of allegiance to the rule of law.

All political prisoners in Ethiopia must be released. Their situation has been amply documented for years in the reports of the U.S. Government, U.N. agencies and various international human rights organizations. The 2011 U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Ethiopia (April 2011) documented  “unlawful killings, torture, beating, and abuse and mistreatment of detainees and opposition supporters by security forces, especially special police and local militias, which took aggressive or violent action with evident impunity in numerous instances; poor prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, particularly of suspected sympathizers or members of opposition or insurgent groups; detention without charge and lengthy pretrial detention…”

In its 2010 World Report-Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch (HRW) concluded that “torture and ill-treatment have been used by Ethiopia’s police, military, and other members of the security forces to punish a spectrum of perceived dissenters, including university students, members of the political opposition, and alleged supporters of insurgent groups… Secret detention facilities and military barracks are most often used by Ethiopian security forces for such activities.”

A report of the U.N. Committee Against Torture (November 2010) expressed “deep concerns about numerous, ongoing and consistent allegations concerning the routine use of torture by the police, prison officers and other members of the security forces, as well as the military, in particular against political dissidents and opposition party members, students, alleged terrorist suspects and alleged supporters of insurgent groups such as the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). It is concerned about credible reports that such acts frequently occur with the participation, at the instigation or with the consent of commanding officers in police stations, detention centers, federal prisons, military bases and in unofficial or secret places of detention.”

It is difficult to accurately establish the number of political prisoners in Ethiopia. International human rights organizations are not allowed  access to political prisoners or to investigate their situation. But various reports provide estimates that vary from several hundreds to tens of thousands. Recent estimates by Genocide Watch peg the number of political prisoners at around one hundred thousand. Political dissidents, critics and opposition leaders continue to be arrested and detained every day. In the past year, an undetermined number of members of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) and the Oromo People’s Congress (OPC) have been detained for political reasons. Other opposition parties have reported similar arrests of their members. Alleged members of the Oromo Liberation Front continue to be arrested and detained without charge. In just the past few months, journalists, opposition political leaders and activists, including Andualem Arage, the charismatic vice chairman of the opposition coalition Medrek, Natnael Mekonnen, an official of the Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, the internationally-celebrated journalists Eskinder Nega and Reeyot Alemu, and editor Woubshet Alemu have been sentenced to long prison terms.

Radical improvements in good governance and democracy also require repeal of the so-called  “Anti-Terrorism Proclamation No. 652/2009”.  Over the past few years, this “law” has been used to round up and jail dissidents, journalists and opposition party political leaders as “terrorists.” The law has been condemned by all international human rights organizations.  Human Rights Watch criticized the law as “potent tool for suppressing political opposition and independent criticism of government policy.”  The vaguely drafted  “anti-terrorism law” in fact is not much of a law as it is a velvet gloved iron fist used to smash any opponent of the regime. Speech aimed at “advancing a political, religious or ideological cause” and intending to “influence the government”, “intimidate the public”, “destabilize or destroy the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social institutions of the country” is classified as “terrorism”. Making or publishing statements “likely to be understood as encouraging terrorist acts” is a punishable offense under the “law”.  Anyone who provides “moral support or advice” or has any contact with an individual accused of a terrorist act is presumed to be a terrorist supporter. Anyone who “writes, edits, prints, publishes, publicizes, disseminates, shows, makes to be heard any promotional statements encouraging, supporting or advancing terrorist acts” is deemed a “terrorist”.  A person who “fails to immediately inform or give information or evidence to the police” on a neighbor, co-worker or others s/he may suspect of “terrorism” could face up to 10 years for failure to report. Two or more persons who have contact with a “terror” suspect could be charged with conspiracy to commit “terrorism”.

Under the “anti-terrorism” law, “The police may arrest without court warrant any person whom he reasonably suspects to have committed or is committing terrorism” and hold that person in incommunicado detention. The police can engage in random and “sudden search and seizure” of the person, place or personal effects of anyone suspected of “terrorism”. The police can “intercept, install or conduct surveillance on the telephone, fax, radio, internet, electronic, postal, and similar communications” of a person suspected of terrorism. The police can order “any government institution, official, bank, or a private organization or an individual” to turn over documents, evidence and information on a “terror” suspect. A “terror” suspect can be held in custody without charge for up to “four months”. Any “evidence” presented by the regime’s prosecutor against a “terror” suspect in “court” is admissible, including “confessions” (extracted by torture), “hearsay”, “indirect, digital and electronic evidences” and “intelligence reports even if the report does not disclose the source or the method it was gathered (including evidence obtained by torture).

As I have previously commented, the “anti-terrorism” law criminalizes democratic civic existence itself: “Thinking is terrorism. Dissent is terrorism. Speaking truth to power is terrorism. Having a conscience is terrorism. Peaceful protest is terrorism. Refusing to sell out one’s soul is terrorism. Standing up for democracy and human rights is terrorism. Defending the rule of law is terrorism. Peaceful resistance of state terrorism is terrorism. But one must be reasonable about “terrorism”. Nelson Mandela was jailed for 27 years as a “terrorist” by the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Following his release, he said, “I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one.” The “antiterrorism law” must be repealed.

The so-called  Charities and Societies Proclamation No. 621/2009 must be repealed. This “law” has been severely criticized by all of the major international human rights organizations.  Among its draconian elements include prohibitions on foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from engaging in human rights and democratic advocacy activities in Ethiopia including advocacy of gender and religious equality, conflict resolution or justice system and electoral reform. A local NGO that receives more than ten percent of its funding from foreign sources is considered “foreign”. Since few Ethiopian NGOs are financially self-sufficient, the vast majority depend significantly on foreign sources for their funding. This law has effectively put them out of business. The law allows an administrative body to have final authority over NGO disputes by granting it broad discretion to deny, suspend or revoke the registration of any NGO. Criminal sanctions and fines are also provided for violations of the law exposing NGO officials, members, volunteers and service recipients. Moreover, this law flagrantly violates various sections of the Ethiopian Constitution dealing with freedom of expression, assembly and association as has been pointed out by various human rights organizations.

Ethiopia today stands at the crossroads. It can march forward into democracy by taking confident steps that begin radical improvements in good governance and democracy. Or Ethiopia can continue to slide backwards and deeper into the vortex of dictatorship. Or it can free fall into chaos and strife. The choice is ours to make. There are important lessons to be learned by all. Those in power should be mindful that “making peaceful revolution impossible is making violent revolution inevitable.” Others should heed the message of Dr. Martin Luther King who once told the great Harry Belafonte his concerns about racial desegregation and its potential consequences: “I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning house,” wondered Dr. King metaphorically referring to the potential for racial conflict and strife that could result from outlawing discrimination. Belafonte, somewhat taken aback asked Dr. King, “What should we do?” Dr. King told him that we should “become the firemen [and] not stand by and let the house burn.’” We all need to be Ethiopian firemen and firewomen and begin “radical improvements in good governance and democracy” today, not tomorrow!!

Amharic translations of recent commentaries by the author may be found at:http://www.ecadforum.com/Amharic/archives/category/al-mariam-amharic andhttp://ethioforum.org/?cat=24 

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