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Ethiopia’s current leader, Mulatu Teshome Wirtu, elected as their president since October 7, 2013. Ethiopia’s current government is Federal republic and Parliamentary republic, and their national language is Amharic Language. The Masked Dictator Meles Zenawi, the former leader of Ethiopia, was a very confusing man with a mixed legacy. To the rest of the world, Zenawi seemed like peaceful leader that was pushing Ethiopia forward economically and as a country. He was a man of many faces that had done many things good and many things bad. The bad was hidden by the extreme suppression and total control of outside information and personal expression of the population. Power, money, and total control was the game and the people of Ethiopia were getting played. The threat of physical force and death loomed over the Ethiopian people if they dared to make a move for justice and equality. Zenawi, who died in 2012, was Ethiopia’s dictator and ruled his country by jailing and killing thousands, rigging elections, and spreading government propaganda. Ethiopia’s government controlled everything, whether it was jailing journalists, exiling critics, or abusing human rights. â€Å"Zenawi’s critics were jailed, killed or chased out of the country: in fact, more journalists were exiled from Ethiopia in the last decade than any other country on earth. Let’s restate that: Zenawi kicked out more journalists than any other tyrant on the planet, thereby monopolizing control over information† (Halvorssen, pars. 6). Ethiopia only seemed like a peaceful, progressional place because people out of the country were shielded from the truth. â€Å"Keeping Ethiopia together† had it costs that dictator, Meles Zenawi was fine with taking. It was very ignorant for Bil... ...that may be violated in the process. He created dissonance amongst a people that prior to his rule had a â€Å"long standing unity and nationalism that made Ethiopia unique† (Dula, pars. 4).As he worked with the U.S. to capture terrorists, many thought he was trying to bring justice to his country and around the world but many people did not know that in return, that his government was receiving about a billion dollars a year in American Aid. He gave a rosy picture of his country’s growthh and sucess and charmed Western leaders with his Zenawi would have anyone killed or exiled if he thought they were threatening his reputation or position in office. Meles Zenawi’s death shouldn't be devastating amongst the Ethiopian people in fact it may come as a sigh of relief. However most are likely holding their breath as to the replacement if the legacy of his extremism continues.