Comments on: Now is the Time to End Tyranny!

By: Badeg

Badeg — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:25:08 +0000

Dear gobose i strongly agree with your saying "we lacked the courage of first acknowledging these ills and second addressing them in a serious and meaningful way."

This is why we have been talking about the beautiful part of the so called 3000 years of history with out mentioning the ills and defects of it.Besides many still try to assign this history to all people of ethiopia but in reality it only belongs to the northern people of ethiopia.Here i see lack of courage to acknowledge this fact Rather it is better to put it as follows.

"Northern people of ethiopia has 3000 years of written history and the southern people of ethiopia has their own different history the oromos having a geda system…Then before some years all these people starts to live in one country. As they starts to live together they all pass through good and bad times…"Now it is time to make a system more of good to all than bad. So to acheive that the society has to start to acknowledge(consider) both the good and the bad things then we will design a very stable system because we have our bad and good experience as an input to the design. So the acknowledgment starts by telling the truth…Like meles says "Ye aksum hawelet le welayeta menu new" it is a truth if we think about it positively.

The first person who tried to consider the ill and take the risk is meles zenawi who tried to solve it by implementing ethinic federalizm. Whether he is Right or wrong he tried something that the coming generation can take a lesson from.

Thanks
Badeg
Unity in diversity

By: Belay Zeleke

Belay Zeleke — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:29:40 +0000

It is all good,if the Woyane remove the "Killel", but they will never do that. They plan to rule us for years to come.So the best way is,we all of us need to wake up and support the armed struggle and crush the Mele's Malellit gang group. Wake up Ethiopians,there is no free thing. Please fight to get it.

By: Gabose

Gabose — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:24:23 +0000

Firstly, we need to acknowledge the fact that president Obama is an American citizen and president of USA and not the president of the world or the African continent.
That simply and rightly means that he is there( i.e hired by American people) to look after the American interest.

Secondly, we Ethiopians invariably talk about unity and democracy without actually meaning both. Ethiopia has been divided and undemocratic for the best part of its history and we lacked the courage of first acknowledging these ills and second addressing them in a serious and meaningful way.
Absent of a serious self-searching and having the courage to actually take painful but absolutely necessary steps of correcting the wrongs (short term pain, long term gain), Ethiopia will probably remain where it is for a long time.

Denying your weakness and illness is not the best way of preventing or treating what is bothering you.

By: Nick Giovannis

Nick Giovannis — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:48:53 +0000

Imagine, you are a very loving father sitting at home in comfort of a lazy boy sofa before a fire in a place of your adopted home watched by the confident and joyful eyes of your children eager to hear the story of your family origin. Will you share all the pal talks of the guts, all the happiness and harsh side of the real deal why you are where you are? The truth about the home that you left behind, the grim picture of the majority Children, whose physical condition weakened due to malnutrition or lack of food the high morbidity and mortality due to measles infections, HIV/AIDS and other prevalent but possibily preventable disease. Do you tell them about the conflicts, hostilities, the human rights abuse and deficits of democracy, we as people experience? Or you just tell them the material difference between the original and the newly adopted home? Or you completely ignore the issue, as never existed and protect yourself and your family from the inconveniences. Yes, unfortunately no blame to through around, we are all equally victims of denials, hiding behind our physical departure from the mother land as the last throw of psychological separation but the fact remains the same. The repressive regime thwarting democratic processes has become more abusive of human rights and more determined in intensifying ethnic distrust. Major domesticated opposition parties are rendered impotent by the repeated harassment and intimidation of its members by the current regime. Their members are abducted and for some their whereabouts remains unknown to this day. Others are jailed and tortured. The full force of government power is used against those who legally opposed its policies. Human rights and due process simply could not exist for non-government approved opposition. The escalation of hostilities is increasing by days between individuals and groups unlike. More and more people are defecting from the regime and many more are leaving the country for good. Number of refugees entering Kenya, Sudan and Eritrea on foot has increased paving the way for a gradual disintegration of families and weakening of communities.
On the other hand the current regime has secretly devised economic and social strategies that provide for government-backed profits for party and party faithful to prosper into a powerful mega billionaire’s kingdom that gives particular ethnic groups unfair advantages in all spheres of state governance and power dominance indefinitely, permanently establishing hegemony. Thus, the regime is resolved to do whatever it takes to win all elections and to destroy effective political opposition that challenges its authority, a brush of economical ethnic cleansing by removing the conditions for potential and actual opposition, whether political, guerrilla or military, by physically and economically removing any potentially or actually hostile ethnic communities. Here all ethnic groups in Ethiopia are considered potential rivals except the Tigrians themselves and still within that group there appears to be divisions by region and newly emerging classes. An ethnic group is qualified to a status of an enemy by the virtue of the strength and dominance of their influence and those identified as weak are allowed to operate under the umbrella of the strict guidance of the regime and those who present real treat are dealt with to diminish into the background staffed by loyalist and paid fakers.
So here you are, a free individual with a young family, sitting in the lazy boy sofa chair in the comfort of your adopted home lamenting the facts of the tragedy of the motherland but dare not to open your mouth to share the truth to your children whom you love and adore. They ask who you are as a person, why and where you are. You just are being called on to make a sacrifice and break the comfort of your self indulged silence to communicate better with your children. Help them understand their ancestral problems before those unsure self doubting kicks in. Of course, there is initial resistance. But will you accept the task? What part of the story will you share and why?

By: Merebai

Merebai — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:50:06 +0000

Every Ethiopian is a president of his country. United they will change the situation in their country to the better. What Obama can do to the world in general and to Africa in particular is mere LIP SERVICE. Obama's first and formost focus is US interest not Ethiopian peoples interest. So the steering wheel of Ethiopia is in the hands of Ethiopians not Obama.