TGAA wrote: ↑06 Aug 2020, 19:08
Abiy has sent an expression of condolence to the victims of the Beirut explosion, and as the prime minister of Ethiopia, sending condolence is appropriate, and expected. However, we know that in the country he is a prime minister of an Ethnic cleansing has taken place. More than 200 have lost their lives (130 Lebanese died of the explosion) and thousands upon thousands of people lost their property. The victims of this heinous crime, don’t have a place to live or to go, still, and they are afraid that they will be a victim again; had Abiy made public condolence or any of the high echelons of the government to the victims of these crimes , or did he side anything to help them to come out of church shelters to reestablish their lives. Did his government try to provide the necessities for these victims? NO NO NO. Takele uman accompanying Shimelles were cursing Addis Ababa to find an empty space to the build statue for Hachallu, naming any building without name, to praise and glorified Hachallu, most people don’t mind that however it was obvious that it’s a propaganda overkill. All the Beltsgna leaders know for a fact that Hachallu was killed in order to target the Amharas and other nationalities and Orthodox Christians living in Oromia, and they know that is exactly what took place, but the tribalist lose their humanity sympathy when the victims are not considered “their own” Abiy and Takle Uma who brought food and sheeps to Syrian refuges for holiday , cannot help Ethiopins who escaped ethnic cleansing in shasemene is mindboggling .
TGAA,
Would you mind to say the connotation of your nick, which I think must be an acronym, just out of curiosity?
This is not that a big issue, if you don’t like you can also ignore as well.
After that let me also share with you from my recent impression from an internet video I watched somewhere showing the so called Oromo protests around the cities of the world, this one was in Seattle, in the US, I think. The protesters were calling for “Justice for Sa’are Mokonnen”, “Justice for Dr. Ambachaw” and other Amhara names. There is nothing wrong in calling for justice for anybody, it is in fact the normal course of human thinking, at least for a sensible mind. But our Oromo brothers and sisters in those protests started to have sympathy for those victims after a whole year, for whatever reason and that makes them somewhat suspicious, in any case.
What is also strange here about these actors is that they were calling to “raise your mancha against the Neftegna and cut their throats” and similar hate crimes against a group of people in the country, just a couple of weeks back, claiming they, the Neftegnas, assassinated Hachalu Hundessa. At least those who committed the heinous crime on the ground thought the enemy is the Amhara people and possibly tried to revenge against the Amhara people.
Many of us questioned and warned from the onset saying if you start killing people on the ground, then guaranteed that you can’t draw any boundary between the victims on the ground. The boundary between Amhara and Oromo, two major chunks of the country’s over 100 million people, is very fluid, if any at all. So we warned that such crime will backfire before it gets started.
Those power hungry morons, who were directing those on the ground committing the crime itself, didn’t want to listen, because they didn’t care about who gets killed as far as they can come to power, their main ambition.
Now the assassin should be the PM himself and he didn’t only assassin Hachalu Hundessa but also the names those Oromo protesters are demanding “justice” for, according to their logic. I just thought that the PM is then simply out there to assassin people and doesn’t have anything else to do other than looking for people to assassin.
But I have one important question for you which is based on your own allegations:
Do you also have the accurate and concrete figures of the actual victims of the recent mayhem in our country? If you don’t have the number, then isn’t it a crime itself to accuse someone else of a capital crime of “ethnic cleansing” without being in a position to substantiate the allegation?
If it was indeed an ethnic cleansing, then it must have purposely and actually targeted a given group of people in the country, which is characterized by given identities, like ethnic background, religious doctrine, social futures, and many other similar common characteristics of the victims.
I said purposely and actually, because in the absence of these two qualities, it could be more difficult to substantiate the heinous crime of ethnic cleansing, I am afraid. Don’t you think?
It is possible that the victims of the heinous crime, which is tragic regardless of who they are, may not have a place of shelter and other basic supplies but do you also mind to say how many others have been through such tragic circumstances just during the last 2 or so years? They should be supported, I agree, but do you also think there sufficient capacity to support all the victims of such crimes in the country? Ethiopia is trying its best, right now at least I think, to pull itself from the abject poverty it has been in for a substantial long period of time and by all accounts it faces a multitude of challenges right now to overcome all of them at the same time:
- It is facing a global pandemic, fighting against which costs substantial resources, which the country can hardly afford and has to ask for external support.
- It is facing an extremely dangerous locust swarm of uncommon nature, which poses an existential threat for a substantial sector of the country’s population, and it is seeking an external support for this as well.
- It is facing an external force which is posing a danger against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country by a more formidable power of the region and beyond, and the country needs to get prepared to defend itself and this challenge itself costs the nation substantial expenditure of the meager resources it can afford.
- Internally the country is facing a multitude of adversaries, which on the surface look like a political opposition to those in power, but deep inside it represents that they are determined to challenge the continuity of the nation and its territorial integrity and the country needs to be prepared for the challenge on that front as well and this too costs the nation from its meager resource.
- The country needs to fight with all the possible capacity it has to fight against poverty and it needs to invest the resources it has got to overcome the problem down the road, which costs then more resources at least for now.
- The list is long but suffice here to show the bigger picture of the challenge the country is facing itself right now.
But could you please say if the government can also afford to support ALL THE VICTIMS in addition to your blame that it didn’t come to their assistance in time of their needs?
Now, let me cut this message short and promise you to come back on the issues of naming parks/roads in the name of Hachalu and the other issues of your alleged “tribal politics” of those in power.