Comments on: The scramble for land in Ethiopia

By: Serke Addis

Serke Addis — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:23:32 +0000

Dear Kefale ,that is what they have been saying.The propaganda machine justify this new colonial conquest by stating that the actions taken are convenient for both parties , because the rich countries provide technology, capital, business and knowledge. They hide that the problem of hunger is chronic and, no doubt, no one has ever made any contribution to stop famine . There are also for years big talks on free trades , specially by poor countries’ leaders , the need for competitions and to root out the inefficient producers. They are principles that can’t be considered valid in the economies of developed countries that use to subsidize their farmers ruining those of the poorest countries. What a shame.

By: Kefale

Kefale — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:44:01 +0000

The fact that the government let go 100,000,000 hectares of land equivalent to to 55 Gasha Meret to foreign companies is going to make the unemployed or the parttime farmer a fulltime strong farmer.It is survival of the fitest for farmers .

By: zeleke

zeleke — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:53:11 +0000

let me correct the title, It should be: The Scramble for Ethiopia! To say the scramble for land in ethiopa seems it is just the land not the country or the people. They are scrambling the land and the people, that is ethiopia.

By: Assta B. Gettu

Assta B. Gettu — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:53:41 +0000

Why are the eyes of the Arab-Muslim world fixed on the Ethiopian land, on the Ethiopian girls and boys, and on the Ethiopian gold? Why doesn’t the Arab-Muslim world look somewhere else for girls, boys, land, and gold?

I think the Arab Muslims are looking for quality, not for quantity: Ethiopia is rich in fertile land; except the Tigre area, most of the Ethiopian lands produce double crops every year, and the Ethiopian girls are the prettiest ones in the whole world. Their magnetic eyes lure the Arab-Muslim boys and almost all men of the Western and Eastern world.

As Ethiopia is a special gift to the Ethiopian Christians, Ethiopian girls are special gifts from God to the Ethiopian Christian boys. I don’t understand why the Arab Muslims have a crush on the Ethiopian boys while there are millions of Arab-Muslim boys, and at times looking for Ethiopian Christian girls.

Like its coffee, Ethiopian gold is more preferred for its purity to the Arabian gold.

Not only do the Arab Muslims want anything Ethiopian, they also want the Ethiopian Christians to accept Islam and to practice Sharia and to become violent as Muhammad was. So far, the Arab Muslims have succeeded in taking the Ethiopian land, the Ethiopian gold, and the Ethiopian girls and adding them to their harems; however, they have failed to convert a single Christian, and when they have terribly failed in converting an Ethiopian Christian to Islam, they turned to buying the Ethiopian fertile lands so that they could be closer to the public and induce some of the Christians to become Muslims by offering them a substantial amount of money.

Arab Muslims are by far the trickiest and the silliest people in this planet earth, and how can we defend our land, our gold, our girls and our boys from these predatory Arab Muslims – the hyenas of the Arabian Desert? The hole Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi) and his wife Jezebel opened for these foreign animals is now getting bigger and bigger every day, and through this hole, the Arab Muslims can easily smuggle the Ethiopian gold, but not the Ethiopian land, because Ethiopia is too big to go through this man-made hole; however, the productions they get from the purchased land of Ethiopia can go through this hole without any problem.

By: lebam

lebam — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:51:30 +0000

Hi all,

It is tragedy to see our land is sold/leased for the highest bidder. The children of Ethiopia are commodity sold/adapt to the highest bider(usually westerners).

Remember Luis Farakan wants for reperation a land not Money.
Ethiopian pride have gone below zero. The #one free country is now a modern day slavery country.

Dear Ethiopian brothers lets get rid the paracites from our God given Land and
not by ciber but by united force along with our Eritrean, Ogaden, OLF brothers.

God Bless Ethiopia

By: Serke Addis

Serke Addis — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:23:22 +0000

We have realized that western leaders have a short-sight to what happened to the world. They forget all the evil things they did and brought.
These lands scrambling by terrorist regime will push all Ethiopians to open the road for another deel of terrorism.
But, I doubt and I’m sure that we have the forces to stop all TPLF’s savagery methods to destroy our nation called “Ethiopia”
We must be united to overcome present cursing to have internal enemies like “Woyane” ad THM’s type of disgrace.

By: nunu

nunu — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:52:13 +0000

by the way 90% of the land grabbers are Arabs and Asians not EU or US ; so it will be easy to claim our land back after the demise of TPLF…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:50:57 +0000

I understand the concern, but who cares about what the westerns think. If Ethiopians are united and work for a common goal, Ethiopians don’t need foreigners to help them devolve their beloved nation. The westerners are there to hold Ethiopia from becoming a self-sufficient nation. However, the Ethiopian intellectuals ought to do more and go farther to prevent this land grabbing opportunity in Ethiopia.

By: weqaw

weqaw — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:24:28 +0000

I think George has a good point. May be, we need a lawyer to enlighten us. But, I believe, anything the scum of the earth signs in the name of Ethiopia is fait accompli.

By: George

George — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:45:07 +0000

It is very troubling in deed. What legal venues are available to stop this illegal deal. What if weyane signs a 99 year lease of fertile land to an other country? Would it be possible to void the contract in a legal way, because it was signed by an unelected and illegal government? One recent example is: the Zimbabwe government took away the fertile land from the few whites who claim to have owned it and gave it to the peasants. That’s why Mugabe faced the wrath of the powerful western nations, because according to them he broke the law by taking away the land from the few whites who legally owned it.