by Dula Abdu
Ethiodemocrat.com
The expulsion of the Amharic speaking people from the South is a final blow to Ethiopiawinet
The expulsion of the Amharic speaking people from the South is a final blow to Ethiopiawinet. The masterminds of Ethiopia’s demise have eventually succeeded in putting a death knell to what left of Ethiopia, complete segregation by tribe. By the way, according to the dictionary, a death knell is the ringing of a bell to announce a death. Literally speaking, the Woyanes are killing Ethiopia economically and as a nation.
All Ethiopians should have the freedom to live anywhere in Ethiopia. There are certain inalienable rights any government has to grant to its people, such as “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, sense of security, jobs, property rights, and to live and work anywhere in your country. As many of us know, none of these rights exist in Ethiopia. The recent Woyane action on Amharic speaking people clearly demonstrates that. Thus, this is tantamount to ringing of a bell to announce a death of Ethiopia as a nation, the ultimate final plan of the Woyane regime.
Woyane have been planting the seeds of hate among all Ethiopians for a long time. They have succeeded to make most Woyanes to hate all Ethiopians, they have tried to pit Oromos against Amharas, now they are pitting the South against Amharas with the help of their lackeys, as usual.
At this point, the Woyanes have completed the circle or the strangulation of Ethiopia. This is the final blow in their attempt to undermine the very existence of Ethiopia as a nation. The Amharas are being used as their bogey man, but their aim is to destroy Ethiopia as a nation.
Now, they have completed the circle of pitting all Ethiopians against each other. There is no stone unturned in their attempt to destroy Ethiopia and to make Ethiopia none existent in the eyes of many Ethiopians. Now, the Amharas have to live in their tribal area and vice versa. Ethiopia is now a tribal state with little or no commonality just tribes existing to serve the interest of ruling TPLF and their agents.
Nothing left for Ethiopians in Ethiopia to call themselves Ethiopians. By driving the Amharic speaking Ethiopians from the south by calling them Amharas or Amharic speaking people, they have successfully destroyed whatever left of Ethiopia or the unity of Ethiopians. Of course, their aim is clearly to drive a wedge among all Ethiopians so that nobody is left to fight the Woyane oppression or to redirect the blame on each other instead of focusing the Woyanes who are the real culprit and who are destroying Ethiopia as a nation.
The Woyanes may be targeting one ethnic group, but they are targeting or setting up Ethiopia for genocide. For a while the Southern states resisted or were spared of Woyane driven ethnic politics to the extent the Woyanes tried to impose on Amharas and Oromos.
Until the Woyanes masterminded the split of the Gurages into two independent groups by absorbing the Siltes as their supporters or surrogates with the help of Hodam Siltes, the South stayed relatively calm and tried to avoid the idea of hyper gerrymandering to pit one group against another. Of course, the full power rested on Woyanes, but most of the leaders stayed in the opposition camps save Siltes, recently the Wolaytas.
CUD’s spectacular failure has become a catalyst for the rise of Woyane influence in the South. With the miserable failure of CUD, and the price most of the smaller tribes paid for their support of CUD, and the quixotic and unprofessional behavior of some of the leaders exacerbated and accelerated the South acceptance of Woyane dominance and rule. .
Most leaders of the region turned pragmatic and decided to coexist or acquiesce to the inevitable subservient relationship to Woyanes.
The recent action by the leader of Benji Maji goes beyond coexistence with Woyanes, but completes the circle of capitulation to Woyane agenda, which is the destruction of Ethiopia, and Ethiopiawinet.
For a long time, the Woyanes worked hard to pit Oromos against Amharas, now, they are putting a final blow to the very remaining part of Ethiopia that refused so far to drop Amharic as its national language and to be ethnicized as anti-Ethiopia and anti-Amhara.
The question is what to do next to stop the Woyanes from creating not just eviction, but genocide throughout Ethiopia. We need to join national organization at the same time, resist the temptation of joining ethnic organizations, but keep fighting as a nation under siege and under the gun.
So far the opposition reaction has been to join chat room to discuss and to denounce Woyanes. This is not enough. Ethiopians need to resist eviction, and refuse to flee as refugees.
The Diaspora has to lead in this effort with resources and intellectual power. This is a declaration of war on our people. There has to be a commensurate response to this not just talk in the chat room.
We need to find friends who can align with us in times of need like George Clooney does for the Southern Sudan, we need to find Western politicians who can denounce Woyanes, we need to find African leaders who can stand for something and who can stand with Ethiopia. For God’s sake, Ethiopia stood for African liberation and unity, now we have a force destroying Ethiopia, where are our friends and allies.
We need to find a way to get our messages out. Many countries, Woyanes and individual organizations have a PAC (political action Committee), Ethiopians needs to have one to get their messages out. Such an organization can articulate our concerns to the rest of the world, not just to Ethiopians.
We need to support organizations that stand for a democratic, non-ethnic and pluralistic Ethiopia. If there is none, create one. Time has passed to wait for another Woyane time bomb to destroy Ethiopia.
Ethiopian churches, mosques and other civic organizations need to take the lead and stand for something. Hope they rise to this clarion call before it is too late.
Zienamarqos
May 2, 2012 at 8:29 am
Corrections:-
Anybody who is opposing the idea of organising Amharas after Twenty One years suffer is wrong. We do not accept their hidden agenda. This is not the time we need to accept advise not to be organised. To say Amharic speaking is missleading.
Zienamarqos
May 2, 2012 at 8:18 am
Any body who is opposing the idea of organising Amharas after Twenty One years suffer is wrong. We do not accept their hidden agenda. This is the time we need to accept adcise not to be organised.
Messay Dejene
May 2, 2012 at 6:07 am
Woyane’s atrocious assault on unsuspecting Amaras nation-wide is a wake-up call for all brave and patriotic Amaras who have long subordinated their ethnic interest to that of their country.
Amaras have died in the interest of their country through out out its long history . The likes of the Nway brothers Germame and Mengistu and the thousands of Amaras who were members of several clandestine movements died fighting for the motherland.
Amaras were singled out for disarmament when Woyane occupied Ethiopia. No intellectual who had the habit of barking against injustices to others had the honesty to condemn it. Oor people and by extension the whole nation is paying dearly for our pretension.
It would be an utter folly that borders on naivity to keep quiet any longer. Amaras united, can tear Woyanes into shreds in days.
However, united or not, Amaras must declare war on Woyanes, their surrogates etc. The enemy must be stung at any opportunity. Amaras are entrenched in the country they built. But mercenary Woyanes are not .These internal enemies of not only Ethiopia but the entire African people could be made to breathe their last if Amaras and Oromos could launch a concerted attack on the nemy from Bale to Wollo, from Harar to Gondar . Those outside Ethiopia must do the same wheneve they can. woyane is a spent force. Our compatriots in Gondar and Gambella are showing the way.
God Bless the Motherland
Attacking their interests,
beza
April 8, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Mr. Sisay, you are trying to scared the Amhara’s? The Amhara’s tried there best to maintained the unity of Ethiopians for long time… that doesn’t mean its only Amharas will lose if that unity is not visible… Amhara’s could defend themselves better if other like the unity let them sing about it like Amhara’s I am not any more… we can show them who really we are!
Sisay
April 8, 2012 at 7:30 am
What is going on here? Didn’t Mesfin W/Mariam declare that there is no such a thing as Amhara ethnic group? Instead he was advocating for Amharic speaking people. The comments here seem to raise the temeperature of Amharas up. That is fine, but don’t forget that there are even more people who have a history of discontnet with the central government whose historical discontent could be used any time by any group. The wise thing to do is to see to form a united front with other organizations to bring down the Meles regime. There is too much bravado these days and the end result is a frustration that will not bear fruit on its own. We have seen this before.
washeraw
April 7, 2012 at 2:42 am
Mr Dula,
I think you made a few mistakes in your article. Firstly, the administrator of Bech Maji is small fish; he will never have the powers to evict those people. Even Shiferaw is not entitled to that. This is MELLES’ WORK!!
Secondly, you are thinking in the ‘EPRDF framework’ if you lump all Slties and Wolaitas together. There is nothing like all members of one ethnic group belonging to one political stream. That is simply abnormal. There are Slties, Wolaitas, Tgrawai, Amhara, Ormo, Affar, etc. in both camps.
I agree with you that we should resist the temptation to organize along ethnic lines.
gettu mamo
April 5, 2012 at 5:22 am
This is the beginning of the End!
Adamu
April 5, 2012 at 3:24 am
Although speaking Amharas deportation from South is good but addressing the people as Amharic speaking people instead of Amhara is worrisome. Mr. Dulla; yes, TPLF has targeted Amhara ever since it ascended to power. What is left for Amhara to do now, though it is almost too late, is to organize itself. Woyane did similar eviction on the Amhara people from South two years ago and what did we do? Amhara didn’t defend itself, Oromo and others didn’t come to the rescue. Woyane did what it wanted that is destroying Amhara and got away with it. Did you, Mr. Dulla, speak for Amhara then? I don’t think so.
The only choice for Amhara has left now is either organize and defend itself or sit idle and wait for more extermination.
solomon
April 5, 2012 at 3:06 am
Why don’t you say something about Ethiopians Teachers economical problems! Specially the current situation is not good for every body not only Amhara people.
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mekuria
April 4, 2012 at 8:59 pm
What do u mean by amharic speaking people. this notion has subliminal message. u are denying the very existence of amharas by just saying amharic speaking people. hey yo. u aint differnt than tplf themselves.
do u know that esayas speak very fluent amharic. bereket simon, redwan husain, meles…………. they all speak perfect amharic but they are not amharas.
all english speaking people are not british dude.I u understand all this but u intentionally injected this idea of amharic speaking people to confuse Amhars
we are paying huge price because of ignorant, coward indiviuals like you.
being anti woyane will not make you pro amhara.
are they singled out just because they speak amharic?
Demo
April 4, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Listing the worst thing that is happening in that country by the dictator and its followers is do not bring anyting. There are two ways of fighting it. One is arm struggle in the country and the other one which is a quicker one is to reach the people through mass media like ESAT. This is because once it becomes the public discussion about the evil deeds of the weyanne regime in the country not in the cyber space, the fight for freedom and will be facilitated. The media will help to facilitate in enhancing the people’s realization of what is happening on the ground and it has the invisible hand of organizing the people. It will make them one more better than what OLF or G7 is doing now. Thiers is good is on the Psychological make up of the people; the media is to creat actual fight against the dictator. Do not forget the tplf controls the media and telecommunication because he knows it is better than any thing for its survival.
Support ESAT to shorten the struggle!
Kuraz
April 4, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Mr.Dula Abdu,TPLF leaders have very much accomplished
what they set out to do.On our part the Ethiopian oppostion has been busy through the cyber space chat room politic.Dramatizing the death of a ntion over the net is not a solution.When are we all Ethiopians to say from now on,we must try some other means?Through out history nations and socities rose against ingestice and lawlessness in arms.What of us when are we to take a stand and say enough is enough?