They said come and demonstrate. No one listened!

In a city which has up to 65,000 Ethiopians (which is probably on the low end) 75 so called opposition members stood outside the Ethiopian embassy and shouted their lungs out. From a numbers perspective 75 out of 65,000 is 0.11% of the total population in DC. However some people say DC has 100,000 Ethiopians. If true that would reduce the percentage of the total population which came out to 0.075%.

As we have stated in the past numbers do not really mean anything because a lot of factors play a role in the outcome. However, one can not discount the level of effort which was employed to gain a large outcome. One can not discount the Ethiopian Review and Negat Radio promoting the demonstration. One can not ignore the various Paltalk rooms who urged their supporters to go out in force and demonstrate against DPM Addisu. For example Negat Radio stated that they needed a large turn out to prove those who think the opposition in DC is not divided. Listen to Negat Radio by clicking here to listen for their urgent call for a demonstration. Per the words of Negat Radio a large turn out was necessary because they new how divided they were as an opposition. They also knew that if they failed to have a large turn out they would loose credibility. Listen to their own incriminating words. We are not making this up.

As it turns out they had a turnout of 75 people. According to Ethiopian review they claimed hundreds. Fine let them have hundreds. If 200 people showed up that means .3 % of the population based on 65,000 people attended the demonstration. If on the other hand you base these numbers on a population base of 100,000 , then only .2 % of the population in DC heeded Negat Radio, Paltalk and Ethiopian Reviews call and showed up to demonstrate.We are talking about LESS than ONE PERCENT of the total population regardless of what population figure we use to measure the turn out. Less than 1% spells failure in anyone’s book or definition when the organizers state that a huge turn out is necessary to define success...Any way you measure it whether they had 75 people or 200 people; it was a total and utter failure. Not because we said so but because they said so. They said unless they got a huge turn out it would be a failure! Don’t blame us blame Negat Radio and Elias Kifle. C'est la vie!