Campaign Against Prof. Megalommatis
Letters to the Editor
August 27, 2007
Dear Editor, AC:
The continued campaign by Abyssinian Ethiopians against Professor Megalommatis' articles on the Amhara Kinijit political party is a clear reflection of how members and supporters of this organization do not tolerate any freedom of speech. Their attempt to silence any opinion that does not endorse their attempt to recapture the lost political glory in Ethiopia by ousting the Tigray dictator, Meles Zenawi, is a good signal of warning to the majority of other Ethiopians who have been closely watching them since they created their coalition.
The Kinijit members and supporters must understand one thing. Today's Ethiopia is not the Ethiopia of 1890s and even not that of 1970s. Most of over 80 nations and nationalities, most of whom are in the South of the country, clearly remember the brutal Amhara rule that stripped them of any human dignity in a way that was comparable in some cases with what the Nazi Germans did to many other peoples in Europe during the 2nd WW. Therefore, at present most non-Abyssinian Ethipians consider the reorganization of the die hard Amhara individuals in the name of Kinijit political party and so on as a serious threat to their future existence. There is no guarantee that history does not repeat it self.
If I were a Kinijit member and supporter, instead of fighting an international scholar who is echoing the concerns of over 64 million Ethiopians (Amhara is 19 million and Tigray about 4 million, and the rest of Ethiopians are over 64 Million while total population of the country is 78 million according to the 2005 figure of Ethiopian Central Statistical Authority), they should present their cases against the arguments of professor Megalommatis indicating that they are different from the previous Amhara rulers and should be treated accordingly.
But instead, they continue to ignore the concerns of over 64 million Ethiopians most likely because they think that these people are still ignorant and would not question their ascendency to power, and continue to silence any one who tries to caution other Ethiopians about the future threat this political organization can pose.
This is doing them the most ugly disservice. They themselves say: "yewega biresa yetewega iyresam" - "the stabber may forget but the stabbed will never forget". Today's non Abyssinian Ethiopians are much more educated and capable of facing them as they are challenging Meles Zenawi's Brutal dictatorship.
Denial of previous Amhara wrong doings on other Ethiopians will not take these people any where. Nor will any attempt to silence freedom of expression in a free country.
best regards
Side Goodo
The continued campaign by Abyssinian Ethiopians against Professor Megalommatis' articles on the Amhara Kinijit political party is a clear reflection of how members and supporters of this organization do not tolerate any freedom of speech. Their attempt to silence any opinion that does not endorse their attempt to recapture the lost political glory in Ethiopia by ousting the Tigray dictator, Meles Zenawi, is a good signal of warning to the majority of other Ethiopians who have been closely watching them since they created their coalition.
The Kinijit members and supporters must understand one thing. Today's Ethiopia is not the Ethiopia of 1890s and even not that of 1970s. Most of over 80 nations and nationalities, most of whom are in the South of the country, clearly remember the brutal Amhara rule that stripped them of any human dignity in a way that was comparable in some cases with what the Nazi Germans did to many other peoples in Europe during the 2nd WW. Therefore, at present most non-Abyssinian Ethipians consider the reorganization of the die hard Amhara individuals in the name of Kinijit political party and so on as a serious threat to their future existence. There is no guarantee that history does not repeat it self.
If I were a Kinijit member and supporter, instead of fighting an international scholar who is echoing the concerns of over 64 million Ethiopians (Amhara is 19 million and Tigray about 4 million, and the rest of Ethiopians are over 64 Million while total population of the country is 78 million according to the 2005 figure of Ethiopian Central Statistical Authority), they should present their cases against the arguments of professor Megalommatis indicating that they are different from the previous Amhara rulers and should be treated accordingly.
But instead, they continue to ignore the concerns of over 64 million Ethiopians most likely because they think that these people are still ignorant and would not question their ascendency to power, and continue to silence any one who tries to caution other Ethiopians about the future threat this political organization can pose.
This is doing them the most ugly disservice. They themselves say: "yewega biresa yetewega iyresam" - "the stabber may forget but the stabbed will never forget". Today's non Abyssinian Ethiopians are much more educated and capable of facing them as they are challenging Meles Zenawi's Brutal dictatorship.
Denial of previous Amhara wrong doings on other Ethiopians will not take these people any where. Nor will any attempt to silence freedom of expression in a free country.
best regards
Side Goodo
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