by Robele Ababya
It is written in the Holy Bible in Ecclesiastic 3: 1 that:
“There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens”
How long ago was is it since us Ethiopians said ENOUGH! Of TPLF regime’s multiple cruelties amounting to those of the
ruthless invader Mussolini? When is the intense hatred for the Amharas,
contempt for the Oromos and other ethnic groups in Ethiopia going to
end? When is trading in the name of the valiant people of Tigray going
to end? Why has the Zenawi regime adopted Mussolini’s strategy of total
subjugation of the
Amharas and the Oromos in particular? Zenawi
has yet again set in motion his grand design for incurably breaking the
back of the Amharas and Oromos in tandem and proceed with bringing the
rest of the ethnic groups to complete submission to the misrule of the
regime.
The vindictive Italian Fascist, after forty years of
sophisticated preparation, invaded Ethiopia with far superior modern
military weapons and highly trained army that was no match in numbers to
the ill-trained, poorly equipped and bare-footed peasant militia but
determined to die for their dignity, creed, family values, their land
and property, and independence of their motherland. It was during this
war that the Italian Fascist invaders dropped leaflets from the air
flying over villages in Tigray condemning the Amharas and Oromos and
strictly warning the villagers not to cooperate with their militia in
any way or face severe punishment.
In the circumstances, time has
come for the Amharas and Oromos to set their relatively petty rivalry
for power aside and collaborate in order to avert the grave simmering
prospect of living in slavery – ironically in the country for which
their ancestors had so bravely fought and jealously guarded its
independence as vividly demonstrated in the Battle of Adwa that marked
the humiliation of Italy, drew respect of the surprised European powers,
and became a beacon of hope for all black people living in bondage in
the Diaspora. Is it not time more than any other time to wake up to the
danger of extinction?
Hypocrisy of some Western powers:
In
my letter of 19-Feb-09 to Secretary Clinton I wrote: “In the recent
campaign unprecedented for the long time it took and the money spent, I
was torn between the wish to see the first woman or the first African
American in the White House. It is now history that Barack Obama won and
other contenders bowed out gracefully setting a spectacular example to
the international community which I believe hold you with high esteem
for your spirited campaign for Candidate Obama to win the Presidency.”
And
look at the above photograph for what I got in return to my remark,
which on hindsight was a hyperbole. There is no mistaking the intimacy
between the duos. But what was the warm handshaking and beaming smile
about? My guess is that puppet Zenawi is saying aloud Bingo! Mission
accomplished! Readers may make their own guesses.
President George
W. Bush reneged on his promise not to collaborate with dictators.
Secretary Clinton with her smile and warm handshake extended to
genocidal tyrant is vindicating that reneging on promises was right;
desperate dictators do things including torture and rendition legally
barred in the United States.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice stood, side by side with tyrant Zenawi, on the hallowed ground of
Meneliks’s City to renounce the Human Rights Bill HR2003 unanimously
approved by the exalted House of Representatives of the United States
Congress. She contradicted African- Americans and the Black Caucus in
the House who supported the Bill from its inception to its approval. The
smiling Secretary Rice posed for a photograph with the tyrant standing
on her side. Her denouncing of HR2003 in Addis Ababa – lacked
statesmanship and decorum and exposed her insensitivity to the agony,
grief and wailing of mothers of the martyrs of June and November 2005 in
the aftermath of the historic election decisively won by the opposition
and ruthlessly stolen by the ruling party of the despotic ruler.
Ambassadors
Aurelia Brazil and Vicki Huddleston complained about what they called
‘vitriolic’ attack on Zenawi by opposition bloggers, but disregarded the
execution of peaceful protesters by trigger happy security forces under
his direct command of Zenawi. Susan Rice showed her support for the
tyrant by the intimate photograph with him. Jundiai Frazer kept silent
all along – perhaps spellbound by Zenawi’s divide-and- rule atrocities
like the other senior diplomats in the State Department.
Regarding
British policy, I quote the following two paragraphs from my article
written regarding the terrorist incident in London in 2005:
“I sincerely and strongly deplore the abortive bombing of London transport system on the 21st
of July 2005, following the first devastating attack (on 07 July 2005)
on the system that sadly claimed 56 lives and caused injuries to
hundreds of innocent people. It is morally right that both terrorist
attacks drew a chorus of condemnation from the international community.”
“The
position taken by the British government over the shooting of the
Brazilian is in sharp contrast to the red carpet treatment at the G8
Summit accorded to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has ordered the
execution of 40 innocent civilians in cold blood, thrown thousands into
jail under harsh conditions, and made many to suffer mental and physical
tortures. Meles the butcher, has neither apologized to the families of
the bereaved and the Ethiopian people nor instituted his promised
‘investigation’ into the heinous crime attributed to state-sponsored
violence orchestrated by the very few innermost clique of Stalinists in
his TPLF regime. I do not know whether Prime Minister Tony Blair has
even privately regretted for inviting the tyrant Meles to the G8 Summit
where the killer basked in the lavish functions of powerful world
leaders exchanging smiles and champagne toasts even as atrocities in
Ethiopia were taking their tolls. I doubt whether the British Prime
Minister would help end tyranny in Ethiopia.”
PM Tony Blair’s successors pursue the policy of their predecessor on Ethiopia!
AU’s Impotence versus. Ethiopian Election 2005
On
that historic day of 07 May 2005 a truly mammoth crowd estimated at 2.5
– 3 million inundated the streets and squares of Addis Ababa to support
the now defunct Kinijit Party (Coalition for Unity and Democracy). That
sea of humanity was acclaimed internationally for its magnificent
display of decorum and civility; it ended peacefully without a single
incident of violence.
The unprecedented massive support for
Kinijit was followed by an unprecedented turn out of massive voters for
the election of 15 May 2005 in which the ruling party suffered a
convincing defeat failing to win a single vote in Addis Ababa where the
AU Headquarters is located. Tyrant Meles unconstitutionally declared a
state of emergency and swiftly implemented his plan B: killing close to
200 peaceful protesters by trained snipers; throwing the true victors
to the infamous Kaliti filthy prison; incarcerating tens of thousands of
opposition supports, mostly young where their heads were shaven with
unsterilized blades without regard to widespread STDs of that time;
votes were stolen and his party declared victory overriding its even its
hand-picked electoral commission announced the results.
The
African Union shamefully pronounced the election free and fair and
recognized the TPLF party as the winner. What is even more shocking is
that one of the senior diplomats of the AU hailing from Rwanda
overstepped diplomatic norms and blamed the opposition in public for the
popular unrest in the aftermath of the election marked by gruesome
atrocities. It is a shame that this Rwandan forgot so soon, in the
comfort of luxury that dollar-paid diplomats enjoy in Addis Ababa, the
close to one million victims of genocide in his country.
It is
time, more than any other time, for the Amharas and Oromos in
particular, for their own sake in self-defense, to combine their
overwhelming numbers to deter the deadly threat posed against them; and
to save the priceless heritage bequeathed by their ancestors in
exemplary collaboration.
Let us say NO to ethnic cleansing; let us
be proud that Ethiopia was the first country to develop systems of law
by which to be governed; let us believe in ourselves as equals
regardless of the chronological order of settling of our ancestors in
Ethiopia; let us believe in our irreversible bond crowned by
inter-marriage and multiple common values. It is our duty to preserve
the sanctity of our places of worship in churches, mosques &
synagogues in Ethiopia! So help us the Almighty God of the Universe!
LONG LIVE ETHIOPIA!!
Release all political prisoners in Ethiopia including
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