Amhara and Tigray Racists and Terrorists Extensively Denounced in the US Media
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
August 20, 2008
Mr. Douglas McGill´s article was illuminating indeed and helped the average American readership get an insightful as regards the barbaric and terrorist elites of the illegal state Abyssinia (fake ´Ethiopia´) and their unacceptable practices to which Mr. Douglas McGill had been undeservedly exposed.
I have been very familiar indeed with all sorts of debased and cannibalistic attitudes coming from the part of the said groups; their reactions provenly failed to grasp even an infinitesimal portion of my attention. This is what they, their attitudes and pseudo-theories deserve: total disdain!
If you can, using their texts, make widely known the dangerous nature of these beings, please expand on the subject! Beyond that, there can´t be any communication, so uncultured and uneducated they are - even if they got a Ph.D. in Urology or any other discipline!
This is the nature of Hitler´s children in Africa, the alien elements of the heretic, pseudo-Christian Monophysitic (Tewahedo) Abyssinians, who plunged in the darkest ignorance and most evil mentality, insult and threaten all those who reveal the truth that they criminally want to keep hidden.
The Monophysitic (Tewahedo) Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians have lost the game; the days of their illegal control over the dozens of millions of the tyrannized Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas, Afars and other subjugated nations are numbered.
With the Abyssinian Muslim minority in turmoil, and with much hatred expressed between the Tigray and the Amhara Monophysites, the shameful forgery of ´Ethiopianism´ is set to be broken down and disintegrate like a dead – particularly malodorous – body.
People from all over the world came to know the inhuman nature of the criminal – racist falsification of the African History that has been carried out by the Ethio-terrorists.
Every person with moral standards and humanist ideas understands that this pseudo-system of distortion, ´Ethiopianism´, the world´s most disreputable racist theory, must be immediately eliminated and irreversibly prohibited.
I have just received a letter of support composed in favour of the American journalist Douglas McGill; the text is written by Mr. Abdulkader Sulub Abdi, a renowned Ogadeni political commentator and Human Rights activist.
Having lived in the Cemetery of Peoples ´Ethiopia´ and having therefore crossed very difficult circumstances there, Mr. Abdulkader Sulub Abdi offers an enlightening explanation and a most convincing answer to Mr. Douglas McGill´s question as regards the ´Ethiopianist´ barbarism.
Both texts expose the nauseating attitude of these people who – submerged in mental apathy and inanity due to the tyrannical imposition of false theories and bogus-historical dogmas in Abyssinia – imagine that it is permissible for them to insult and threaten. Their ignorance prevents them from clearly seeing the dire consequences that they will face for these shameful acts of theirs.
No one fears or worries when encountering these uncivil and inhuman beings. They are totally unable to materialize anything – except the much needed Death of fake ´Ethiopia´ – the world´s most abominable tyranny.
In fact, who would possibly care if a criminal insulted him / her? And most of them are criminals, sons of criminals or daughters of criminals. Most of them (and their relatives, friends and acquaintances) have been involved in activities of oppression of, and racist attitude against, the subjugated nations of Abyssinia.
And who has the slightest doubt that the criminal and illegal state ´Ethiopia´ will finally be broken down, the Abyssinian terrorist elites will be condemned like the Nazi authorities in Nuernberg, and the two Monophysitic Abyssinian tribes (Amhara and Tigray) will be segregated and placed under UN mandate for total re-education and assimilation / integration in our global world?
Ethiopia Violates Basic Human Rights, Jails Local Journalists, and Intimidates International Media
By Abdulkader Sulub Abdi
Dear Douglas McGill,
Thank you very much for writing about human rights violations in the empire-state of Ethiopia especially the Ogaden region, which is off-limits to international press as well as international humanitarian and human rights organisations. The Ethiopian government has imposed on the region a complete media blackout to cover up the atrocities, which are being committed on daily basis by its armed and security forces against defenceless civilians.
You are a seasoned good journalist and you have done your job properly. And your detractors are Pro-government heartless Ethiopians who rejoice at our peoples misfortunes.
Most of those who attack viciously journalists and writers who are dealing with Ethiopian affairs hail from an ethnic group, which ruled and rules now the empire-state of Ethiopia, namely Amhara-Tigray elite, who oppress nations, nationalities and peoples of the empire-state of Ethiopia from Menelik to Meles. And they want their minority ethnic group to maintain its privileged and dominant position in Ethiopia at any cost.
They are from a country where there is no free press, freedom of speech, thought, movement, worship…etc so they lack the culture of tolerance and listening other people´s views and grievances.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists Ethiopia is the country where press freedom has most deteriorated in the past five years.
In its May 2007 report, The Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, blasted the Ethiopian government for jailing more than 10 journalists, mostly during and after the country's 2005 elections. Some are still in prison.
Ethiopian journalists are the most jailed in the world according to Reporters without Borders.
There are no news papers, radio stations and television broadcaster in the Ogaden. Listening international radio stations such as, VOA and BBC is a crime punishable by life imprisonment or capital punishment. On June 29th 2005, in Shilaabo, Ethiopian armed forces killed six people and wounded many others when they opened fire on a group of civilians listening to BBC Somali Service in a teashop for no apparent reason except that they were listening to an interview with an ONLF member. Information is a rare commodity in the Ogaden. http://ogadenrights.org/documents/MASS_KILLINGS_ogaden.pdf
Since the onset of the Ethiopian occupation, the Somali people in the Ogaden are victims of discrimination and persecution in terms of race, language, religion and political opinion waged against them by successive Ethiopian governments from Menilik to the current Tigrean dominated TPLF/EPRDF government of Meles Zenawi.
In the Ogaden, the Ethiopian government treats the Somalis as strangers in their own country, exploits their natural resources for its gains, and deprives them their fundamental human rights, including their inalienable right to self-determination.
Human rights groups such as, the Ogaden Human Rights Committee, has carried out extensive investigations of the human rights situation throughout the Ogaden, and has documented gross violations, including illegal imprisonments, mass arrests without charges or trials, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, extrajudicial killings, abduction, forced labour, hostage-taking, systematic religious and racial persecution, dispossession and widespread looting by Ethiopian government forces in the region.
Since April 30th 2007, more than 200 villages, hamlets and nomad pastoralist settlements were destroyed by Ethiopian infantry and military helicopter gunships, and thousands of livestock namely; She-camels, camels, goats, sheep and cattle were decimated in the military campaign as well. http://ogadenrights.org/ETHIOPIAN_FORCES.pdf
Many animals starved to death and many nomad families were left destitute after Ethiopian government forces rounded up their animals, which are the primary source of livelihood for nomad pastoralists. Confiscated livestock were put in concentration camps and were left for the elements without water and fodder. The pastoralists who resented or showed any resistance were shot dead in cold blood. The incident that took place in Labiga village, near Dhagaxbuur town, on June 18th 2007, where members of Ethiopian armed forces killed 21 pastoralists and wounded more than 50 others who resisted Ethiopian troop´s attempt to impound their animals is a case in point. http://hrw.org/reports/2008/ethiopia0608/ethiopia0608webwcover.pdf
According to the assessment of the elders the livelihoods of the region´s inhabitants, the Ogden was much better off, both economically and security-wise, in 1991, when the EPRDF/TPLF came to power, than it is today.
Ethiopian government military´s crimes in the Ogaden have no parallel in today´s world. It´s far worse than those in Darfur. But they are not reported and are unknown to the outside world.
I think threats and insults from Ethiopians in Diaspora and in Ethiopia proper are part of a campaign to intimidate and silence honest writers and journalist who are not in the pay roll of the Ethiopian government. Ethiopian government´s arrest and mistreatment of three American journalists who were on a legitimate newsgathering mission, in Dhagaxbuur, on May 16th 2007, and Ethiopian government´s defamation campaign against Mr. Jeffrey Gettleman, Mr. David Blair, Dr. Muhammad Shamsudin and Aljeezera´s Jama Nour and many others is a case in point. Recently, the Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi has accused international media and human rights groups of conducting a smear campaign against Ethiopian.
http://voanews.com/english/archive/2008-05/2008-05-21-voa30.cfm?CFID=25312993&CFTOKEN=73714510
Instead of attacking international media and human rights organisations, Ethiopians should ask their government to stop terrorizing civilian population in the Ogaden, Oromia and elsewhere in the empire-state of Ethiopia, and allow them to exercise their inalienable right to self-determinations.
Dedicated, professional, and talented journalist, who risked their lives to make us know the plight of the civilian population in the Ogaden like David Blair, Jeffrey Gettleman and his friends of New York Times And Aljeezera´s Jama Nour deserve our respect and appreciation.
Finally, I would like to express my solidarity and unwavering support to all journalists, writers and human rights defenders who are the target of the Ethiopian government´s vicious campaign of defamation and misinformation.
Best Regards,
Abdulkader Sulub Abdi
Why I live in Minnesota and write about Ethiopia
By Douglas McGill
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2008/08/12/why-i-live-minnesota-and-write-about-ethiopia.html#
August 12, 2008
Rochester, MN—"Why the hell are you messing with my country´s political affairs?" goes a typical e-mail from the dozens I´ve received this summer from readers living in Ethiopia, from immigrants living in Minnesota, and from throughout the Ethiopian diaspora.
And this was among the milder messages to ping my inbox.
To a degree I´ve never before experienced as a journalist, articles I´m publishing about human rights abuses in Ethiopia—based on interviews with Ethiopian immigrants living here in Minnesota—have triggered profusely grateful e-mails, and yet also a torrent of messages scorching me with bitter denunciations, extremely pungent abuse and amorphous threats.
"You are only spreading hate," an Ethiopian reader snapped after reading an article about the Ethiopian army wiping out entire villages in the country´s Ogaden region. On Ethiopian web sites around the Internet, my articles are bashed as often as they´re lauded.
To admirers, my writings make me a "hero," a "journalist of integrity" and "a voice for the voiceless." But to others I´m a "very sad," "naďve" and "mediocre" journalist who is "fed by propaganda" churned out by bitter Ethiopian refugees. To detractors my pieces are "nonsense," "rubbish" and "eye-gouging lies."
To my detractors my pieces are "nonsense," "rubbish" and "eye-gouging lies."
Sometimes, it´s scary to scan my inbox.
"I was shocked when I read your article," one e-mailer wrote. "You will be held accountable for your lies." And I´ve read Web site comments in which readers from various Ethiopian ethnic groups, responding to my articles, attack each other using language so violent that I won´t repeat it here.
How to respond to all this? On the one hand, I completely reject the notes that use language simply to slash, bash or stab another person as if with machetes, clubs and spears. These aren´t conversations, but armed assaults.
On the other hand, behind the frustrated tone in many of the notes, I discern eminently sensible and fair questions. These come from people who´ve grown cynical after decades of manipulation by their governments and by both the U.S. and Ethiopian media, and they deserve sincere answers.
Answers to questions such as: All right, why the hell do I mess with Ethiopia´s domestic affairs, anyway?
After all, I am not Ethiopian. I don´t speak any of Ethiopia´s six or seven major languages, or its several dozen smaller ones. I´m fascinated by the country´s complex history, politics and culture, but I´ve only traveled there once, in 2004, on a reporting trip, and stayed for less than a week.
Plus, as my aggrieved readers take pains to tell me, my own country is hardly a shining paragon when it comes to human rights.
So what gives me—a citizen of the nation that brought us the Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Haditha and other atrocities—the slightest right to parade Ethiopia´s human rights crimes before the world?
To those who´ve written to me in the spirit of a mutually respectful conversation, as opposed to a broken-bottle brawl, I´ll try to explain.
To my detractors my pieces are "nonsense," "rubbish" and "eye-gouging lies."
With our two countries interdependent in so many ways, how could anyone sustain the argument for journalistic quarantine to my home state?
Second, I am a human rights journalist. By this I simply mean that I subscribe to the idea of human rights, that all human beings have the right to live free from abuse, cruelty and oppression. I try to create journalism that contributes to the support and expansion of global human rights.
I believe the development of human rights is one of the rare bright spots in recent human history. It offers precious evidence of mankind´s moral progress, against a great deal of evidence supporting the opposite view.
One way that journalists can help sustain human rights progress, I believe, is by morally engaging with people who live in countries at great distances from their own. Theoretically, this should be more possible than ever today, with so many new technological means to communicate across borders.
To a large degree, I view my journalism about Ethiopia as an effort to define, develop and refine the skills of global moral engagement.
But all that sounds very abstract.
The most important reason that I write stories about human rights abuses in Ethiopia isn´t about theories of interdependence or human rights.
As a journalist, I just feel it´s my job.
Douglas McGill has reported for the New York Times and Bloomberg News—and now the Daily Planet.
To reach Douglas McGill: doug@mcgillreport.org
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