Mereja Forum

[teodroseIII]

There is not one family in Ethiopia that has escaped the touch of injustice and the caress of depression that comes with losing loved ones at the hands of the ruling class. While scenes of death and devastation in northern Ethiopia is at the forefront because war always captures our imagination, persecutions that beget unending sorrows have been taking place for centuries. When Tigaru families convey how they felt marginalized in the past, when Oromo youths express resentments over being excluded, when Amharas rage over unequal treatments, they do so from a place of authentic suffering—their distresses are not figments of imaginations.

The astounding levels of ethnic animosity and strife that are taking place in Addis Abeba, Mek’ele, Benishangul-Gumuz and beyond is a natural outflow of the division that was sown among the people ages ago only be passed down from generation to generation like a cursed inheritance. These divisions birthed passive indifference which eventually mutated into active malice towards others whom we have been conditioned to view and discount as “different”. A benign tumor—which could have been removed before it festered if only we had doctors who heal instead of “doctors” who harm—metastasized and grew into a cancer because too many chose ego over God whom is love and whom we are supposed to emulate....continued...

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