By Tedla Asfaw
The ugly face of racism once again show its face on world stage in the week long uprising to topple Muammar Gadhafi. Reports are coming suggesting foreign “mercenaries” fighting for Muammar Gadhafi, most of them black Africans. We watched on Al Jazeera a black man beaten up and dragged to his death. On this confusion many countries, Europeans, Americans and Asians are taking their own citizens out of Libya by air, sea and land. Where is the African Union ?
Most workers are seen crossing Libya to Egypt or Tunisia but we never saw anyone going to South, Niger, Chad or Sudan for that matter to Algeria. Most of the media coverage is on what is going on in the East which is now free from Gadhafi’s control. Why not we see black Africans running for their safety ? As we heard it from DW Amharic today most of them are hiding in their houses because it is dangerous for blacks to come out because they are considered by most Libyans as mercenaries.
This indeed is very tragic. Most of Ethiopians are refugees in Libya.Ethiopian women working as maids currently are under the care of the households they live seems they are safe for now. That as well is not guaranteed.Due to public pressure they might be pushed to face street justice including rape..
The passport displayed on Al Jazeera includes many passports carried by Ethiopians. From DW interview we heard most of them were dragged from their apartments beaten up and showed to the world as mercenaries. We also heard many Ethiopians killed by angry mob in Benghazi.
Muammar Gadhafi haters are taking revenge on black Africans for money Gadhafi threw for many African dictators. The mob attacked and killed many Africans including Ethiopians for being only black. This is not acceptable and we have to alert Human Right, and Amnesty International to investigate all who are paraded as “mercenaries” on Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera should also tone down unconfirmed report and endanger black Africans at this dangerous moment. Ethiopians have no representative government who cares for our refugees. If in fact Ethiopia sends mercenaries Meles Zenawi will never admit it because it will accelerate his own downfall.
However, Ethiopians in Diaspora have responsibility to represent fellow Ethiopians at this deadly moment and rally behind them, they are crying for help. We know no one is in charge of Libya right now.It is street rule until all settled down I am afraid this uprising will take the lives of many black Africans including many Ethiopians. If there are “mercenaries” it seems to me now they are only black Africans, that is absurd. Gadhafi’s money can buy a lot of mercenaries, black,white, brown and yellow. Who is now flying Gadhafi’s plane and helicopters, are they also black Africans ?
Muammar Gadhafi is ready to take Libya down with him, unfortunately, many black Africans who are caught in this mess will go down with him. Their death is only because for being black in a wrong country. The tragedy is most of them left their country for safety and faced detention and racism in Libya.Most who were in detention their situation might even be worst. We have obligation to speak on their behalf by sharing any information we got about them.
The lynching and killing that is going on against black Africans in Libya will sure further divide the Arabs from the rest of Africa. The Arab League should speak against racist killing and accusations.They should sanction and condemn not only Gadhafi but also all who are killing black Africans. President Obama who urged African Union to play its role to stop the killing in Libya should be informed also that black Africans are a target of racist killing in Libya by Libyans mob.
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November 1, 2011 at 5:26 pm
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Joe Ugochukwu Ofili
September 12, 2011 at 7:39 am
Sad. What can I do to help them?
Kome Moore
August 16, 2011 at 6:37 am
It is such a shame, that this is going on. Why gaddafy is still in power is because he is better than those imperialist backed rats called rebels. They are a disgrace to their blood. Any one who carry arms against their government is a terrorist and can never be better than the one he is trying to depose. I urge the lybian people to rally behind gaddafy, fight for their country before it is taken over by rogues, terrorist outsiders and snitches.
Dale Anthony Carter
July 2, 2011 at 5:19 pm
still supporting this foolishness?
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humayun
April 2, 2011 at 10:53 pm
here videos of african refugees in tunisia
we are all african speaking afrasan languages and believing the same abrahamic god and (also ethiosemites have as much as 40% input from the arabians that brought afrasan languages and abrahamic religion as well as pastoralism and agriculture to ethiopia and ethiokushites as high as 20%) please dont let such trivial things as skin color make you racist full of hatred
srilankan=all languages are equal and do descend from a single language of the first african modern human
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n39qrGxoYjQ
humayun
April 2, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Dont matter the skincolor of mercenaries, not only african mercenaries but arab and serbian mercenaries too are killed.
Why ecadforum does not worry about “blacks” killed by “blacks” in ethiopia (oromos against tigrays and tigrays against somalis) and ivory-coast!
For example are whites going to sustain the sa whites who killed the “black” civilians in South Africa, of course not because the whites here are the evil opressors same for the “black” skinned mercenaries in libya.
Also there are many black skinned africans fighting with the rebels and there are more than 20 thousand black africans refugees in Tunisia and Egypt where they are treated very well with food+rooms+theatrical plays given each day.
Sri Lankan star
March 28, 2011 at 6:14 am
Well. Arabs thinks they are the best people on this planet. They only have OIL. nothing more than that. Most of the arabs is very ignorant un educated people. Just used that everyone else shuld clean there asses and clean there houses .
Now when the world have turned agains them becouse of “arabs and islam”, which is pretty funny cos most of the ARABS is not muslims.
Arabs is just a people black or white or yellow that speak this ugly and backwarded language “arabic” Compare to Indian languages from Sanskrit which “persian” hindi, singhalese and most of the european languages like italian belongs to
Lissa
March 7, 2011 at 1:57 am
Arabism & Islamism = twin fascisms!
Arabism = racism !
Against: Persian, Assyrian, Maronite, Copt, Kurd, Berber, On Caucasians, “al-akhdam”, anti-Jewish, anti-Asians, Anti-Africans.
Islamism = bigotry!
Radical ISLAM has been waging a vicious bloody global WAR on non-Muslims or on those “not Muslim enough…” As in:
Thailand, India, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, E. Timor, Moluccas islands, Nigeria, UK, US, France, Israel, Germany, Russia, China, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt…
Anti Israelism’s intolerance is only PART of the above “twin-fascism”!
alyves
February 27, 2011 at 12:47 am
You right, it painful what is happening to blacks in Libya.What i know as a black African living in Libya is , Most Libyan first hate black . HOW CAN WE ACT? WHO SHOULD WE CONTACT?
alyves
February 27, 2011 at 12:40 am
You right, it painful what is happening to blacks in Libya.What i know as a black African living in Libya is , Most Libyan first hate black , just being black for them it disgusting . So at this moment they want to take opportunity to kill and chase black African from Libya.It stupid to start attacking and killing someone just because of the colour of his skin. In fact God is there and they will pay it back!!!!!!