Tuesday, March 27, 2012

TPLF and their hatred for Amhara people.

Ever since TPLF took power, they have targeting people of Amhara origin in their campaign of ethnic cleansing. They have displaced, tortured, and brutally killed Amharas any way they could and continue to do so. The most notable being the Bedeno genocide, where they threw men, women, and children of Amhara ethnic group down a shallow hole while alive. They have also targeted Amharas in Wollega, Awasa, Jima, and also in all remote places in the country where Amharas reside. Nowadays, being from the Amhara ethnic group is being portraid as a crime by the TPLF propaganda machine. It is indeed a crime to be an Amhara as long as TPLF is in power for they would treat anyone who is found to be an Amhara falls with in the regimes radar for possible mistreatment in the hands of the regimes hirarchy. Just this week, DW radio and other media outlets reported the TPLF regime forcefully displaced over twenty thousand Amharas from a place in southern Ethiopia called Bench Maji Zone. Their only crime was being an Amhara. They have been told that they didn't belong in that area because they are not from the native ethnic group that traditionally inhabited the area and that they aught to go back to the designated area the TPLF regime called Amara Kilil aka Kilil 3 as it diveded Ethiopian by ethnic lines. As an amhara, I feel deep bitterness against Tigrayans, and evil thoughts cross my mind everytime I hear about the brutal campaign TPLF is waging against my people simply because TPLF came from the Tigrayan people. But I do my best to held my self back and avoid evil thought against Tigrayans because I know there are Tigrayans out there who fiercely oppose the crimes the TPLF regime keeps to commit against people of other ethnic groups; Amharas in particular. Tigrayans like Getachew Reda, who I see as my hero, and one of the few Ethiopian nationalists who are fighting the brutal, and racist regime that has marginalized Tigrayans from the rest of Ethiopian people, and possibly set them up for future retaliation in the hands of the oppressed, are who inspire me to refute such thoughts from taking control of me. The TPLF regime has been working day and night to divide Ethiopian people by ethnicity, color, religion, and terf since before they set foot in Minilik Palace, thanks in all part to Col. Mengistu Hailemariam who single handedly crippled his own regime and opened the door for them by riding Ethiopia of bright generation of students and military leaders alike who could have succeeded in dismantling the EPLF and TPLF bandits even before they crossed the Mereb river. Up on toppling the brutal DERG regime, TPLF bandits and their accompaning OLF/ Interhamwe militias couldn't wait to take action against an ethnic group they deeply dispised for crimes they alleged it had commited agains the people they claim to represent since the Milik regime or before, none of which is yet to be supported by evidence. They co-ordinated the infamous campaign in Bedeno and Arba Gugu where, like i stated above, they forcefully pushed Amharas into shallow holes and displaced their relatives who managed to escape in campaign. Ethiopia is in such a dire state. Never before there has been a regime in Ethiopia that intentionally gave away its territory and harbor without the people's concent. Never before, there has been a regime in Ethiopia that divided the nation by ethnic lines. Never before, there has been a regime in Ethiopia that gave away pieces of the nations territories to neigboring countries as if it is a piece of Ambasha/ bread it wants to share. Never before, there has been a regime in Ethiopia that targeted other ethnic groups for genocide. Never before, there has been a regime that claimed to have represented a single ethnic group in the country. That is why the only way Ethiopians can live in their own country without being treated like strange creatures is by over- throwing the TPLF regime by all means necessary. TPLF DOES NOT REPRESENT TIGRAYAN PEOPLE ! TIGRAYANS MUST DO MORE TO DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM THIS FASCIST REGIME AND LEAD THE FIGHT AGAINST IT ! THE WAY TO COUNTER A DIVISIVE REGIME IS BY UNITING AGAINST IT AND BEYOND ! LONG LIVE ETHIOPIA ! DEATH TO TPLF AND ITS AFFILIATES !

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Ethiopian scholars are to blame for the suffering of Ethiopian people to this day.

For the past fourty years, since the overthrow of the feudal regime of King Hileselassie I, Ethiopian people have been grossly mismanaged, terrorized, and oppressed by the regimes that followed. The popular uprising, followed by the bloodless revolution that brought down the fourty four year old regime of Emeror Haileselassie was led by Ethiopian scholars, who at the time were students of Haileselassie I university, and who envisioned a better Ethiopia for the people. Soon after the revolution, different political parties emerged to take over the reign of power from the military junta that was ranning the country during the transition. The main popular parties that enjoyed support at the grassroots level at the time, besides the military junta, were EPRP and Meison; both embraced socialist ideologies and identified themselves as communist parties. Also, both EPRP and Meison were made up of scholars, who were fresh out of college or on the verge of graduation. However, the military junta was composed mostly of lower ranking officers with little or no academic background above the highschool level, and who were not quite sure which way to go in terms of identifying themselves with an ideology. The timing of the revolution was in the midst of the cold war between the United States and Soviet Union, and a third world country like Ethiopia could not survive long without garnering support from one of the two super powers that were wages proxy wars instead of facing each other head on. That said, the military junta brought the other parties to the table to discuss the transition of power to the people, although in vain. Before long, EPRP opted out of the negotiation and declared war against the military, while meison pledged to back the military junta in exchange for power sharing to a certain level. That turn of event that was caused by the division among the scholars who were supposed to set aside their power ambitions to bring about change that the people at large desperately wanted was what started the plight of Ethiopian people to this day. From that time to this day, Ethiopian scholars are the ones who do not seem to compromise their differences in order to come together in defence of the people, and who conspire with the ruling party to sabotage the opposition movements that are waged against it. Given that fact, the regimes that ruled Ethiopia for the past fourty years used Ethiopian scholars as a tool to stave off popular apprising in order to hold on to power for as long as they could. The most recent popular uprising, not to mention the largest, was the uprising that followed the 2005 elections. That uprising, brought Ethiopian people together in puruit of freedom at last only to be spoiled by scholars like Dr. Birhanu and Prof. Beyene, who once again conspired with the ruling party and their western backers against their own people. The point is that Ethiopian scholars should examine themselves in terms of their loyalty to their country, and put the people's cause before their own power ambitions. After all, they are the ones better equiped with the knowledge to lead Ethiopia.