ስሜን ኮርያና ወጣቱ ዝንጀሮ

ይነጋል በላቸው

ከተቀረው የእንስሳት ዓለም በአእምሮ የብስለት ደረጃ (አይ ኪው) ወደሰው ከሚጠጉ ሌሎች እንስሳት ውስጥ ዝንጀሮ አንደኛው ነው፡፡ አንዱን የዝንጀሮ ታሪክ ቀጥለን እንይና ከሰሜን ኮሪያ ወቅታዊ ጉዳይ ጋር እናመሳስል፡፡

ወንዱ ዝንጀሮ በጣም ቀናተኛ ነው ይባላል፤ እንዲያውም ጉዳዩን በቅርበት የሚያውቁት አባቶች እንደሚሉትማ - በጣም ከመቅናቱ የተነሣ በእንቅልፍ ልቡ ሌላ ዝንጀሮ እንዳይተናኮልበት በማሰብ - የባልተቤቱን የመዋለጃ አንቀጸ ማኅፀን (የማኅፀን በር) በእጁ ግጥም አድርግ ሸፍኖ በመያዝ ነው አሉ የሚተኛ፡፡ በዚያም ምክንያት ሴቶች ዝንጀሮዎች በእናታቸው ጀርባ እየታዘሉ እንደፈለጉ ተንፈላሰው ሲያድጉ ወንዶች ግን በጉያና በድብቅ የእናታቸው አካላት በመከራ ያድጋሉ፡፡ ሕጻናት ወንድ ዝንጀሮዎች አድገው የአባታቸውን ሚስት - ለነሱ እናታቸውን - ይቀሙናል ብለው ስለሚቀኑ አባት ዝንጀሮዎች ወንድ ሕጻናት ዝንጀሮዎችን ከመግደል እንደማይመለሱ ይነገርላቸዋል፡፡ የሴቶቹ እንደልብ እየፈነጠዙ ማደግ ግን ያው ‹እናትን አሣራፊዎች› በመሆናቸው ‹እነሱን ባረገኝ› ተብሎ የማይቀናበት እንስሳዊ ባሕርይ ነው፡፡

            ወንዶች ሕጻናት ዝንጀሮዎች እንደምንም አድገው መጎርመስ ሲጀምሩ ታዲያ ከኋላ ከኋላ እየተከተሉ የአባታቸውን ኮቴ ወይም ዱካ ይለካሉ አሉ፡፡ ኮቴያቸው ከአባታቸው እኩል ሲሆን ነጻነታቸውን በራሳቸው ያውጁና ጎን ለጎን መራመድ ይጀምራሉ፤ ከዚያም ባለፈ ‹የፈሩት መድረሱ፣ የጠሉትም መውረሱ›  አይቀርምና አባት ባሎች ሊፈነገሉ የሚችሉበት አጋጣሚም መኖሩ በስፋት እንደሚተስዋል ይነገራል፡፡ አያድርስ ነው መቼም፡፡ (አንዳንድ አንባቢያን እያሰባችሁ ያላችሁትን ዐውቃለሁ! ዘመኑ የመጨረሻ ነውና የፈለጋችሁትን ብታስቡ ከገሃዱ እውነት ባለመውጣታችሁ ኩነኔ የለባችሁም፡፡ አነጋገሬ ላቲን እንዳይሆንባችሁ ያህል - ‹ይሄ ነገር ኧረ በሰውም ሞልቷል›  ብላችሁ ለምታስቡ በተለይ በውጪው ዓለም ለምትገኙ ምዕመናን ማለቴ ነው፡፡ አይድነቃችሁ - ሁሉንም ቅዱስ ወንጌል ጨርሶታል፤ አሮጌው ዓለም ተቀብሮ አዲሱ ዓለም እውን ሊሆን የቀረው የመጨረሻው ፊሽካ ብቻ ነው - በዚህን የአዲሱ ዘመን ዋዜማ የማይሰማና የማይታይ ሰቅጣጭ ነገር አለመኖሩ እንጂ መኖሩ አያስገርምም፡፡ ከአሁን በኋላ ከዚህ ቆሻሻ ዓለም ምን ሲቀርብን? የሚቀርበት ይቀርበታል እንጂ እኛ ከደሙ ንጹሕ ነን ብለን የምናምንና የምናስብ ምሥኪኖች የሚቀርብን አንዳችም ነገር የለምና በከንቱ አንጨነቅ፡፡ ከፈለገች ዓለም ለምን ዛሬ ሌሊት አታልፍም!)( በነገራችን ላይ - ቻይና፣ሰሜን ኮሪያ፣ኢራን፣ሦሪያ፣ ወያኔ፣ አልቃኢዳ፣ አልሻባብ፣ … ለየባለጉዳዮቻቸው እንደወንድ የዝንጀሮ ልጆች ዱካ ሲለኩ ቆይተው በመጨረሻ በቀላሉ የማይቆረጠሙ ያደሩ ባቄላዎች መሆናቸውን ልብ ይሏል …)

             ይህን የዝንጀሮ ታሪክ በመግቢያነት ያመጣሁት ሰሜን ኮሪያን በጨረፍታ ለማንሳት ነው፡፡ ይህች ገና በቅጡ ባልባለቀ ሮጦም ባልጠገበ ወጠጤ እንደምተመራ የሚነገርላት የአንድ ቤተሰብ የወለድ አገድ ንብረት የሆነች ሀገር ሰሞኑን ‹ፍንዳታ› ሆናለች፡፡ አዲስ ፍንዳታ በሠፈር ውስጥ አላፊ አግዳሚን - በተለይ ወጣት ሴቶችን - አላስቆም አላስቀምጥ እንደሚል ሁሉ ይህች በተስፋ መቁረጥና ለዘመናት ሲንከባለሉ በመጡ ፖለቲካዊና ማኅበረሰብኣዊ ችግሮች የተቆላለፈች ዝግ ሀገር የታያትን እንጃ ከቅርብ ጊዜያት ወዲህ በተለይ አራስ ነብር ሆናለች - ከማስፈራራት ባለፈ ቁርጠኝነት፡፡ አሜሪካንን ያህል ዓለምን እያንቀጠቀጠች የምትገዛ የኃያላን ኃያል ሀገር እያንቆራጠጠቻት ትገኛለች፡፡ ‹አንዳንዴ ተስፋ መቁረጥ ለካንስ መጥፎ አይደለም› የሚያስብል ሁኔታ ተፈጥሯል - እንደኔ፡፡ ፈረንጆቹ - “Little temper settles the dust.” ይላሉ አሉ - ከፍርሀት ያልተለዬን ትግስት ለማንጓጠጥ፡፡ ሲያስቡት ግራ የሚያጋባ ነው፡፡ እንደውነቱ ከሆነ ዛሬ ጊዜው የጦርነት አይደለም፤ ውድ አንባቢ ምዕመናን ሆይ! ጦርነት መግጠም ዱሮ ቀረ - በፋራዎች ዘመን፡፡ በዛሬ ዘመን ጦርነት መግጠም ማለት - ትክክለኛውን የ21ኛውን መቶ ክፍለ ዘመን ጦርነት ማለቴ እንደሆነ ግንዛቤ ያግኝልኝ - ልድገመው - በዛሬ ዘመን ጦርነት መግጠም ማለት እንደጥንት እንደጧቱ ስንቅ ሰንቁልኝ፣ ፈረሴን ጫኑልኝ፣ ጋሻየን ከተሰቀለበት አውርዱልኝ፣ ሞይዘሬን ወልውሉልኝ…  የሚባልበት የሞኞች ዘመን አይደለም፡፡ በዛሬ ዘመን ዋናው ቀድሞ መገኘት ነው፡፡ አንድ የውጊያ ቴክኒሻን መኝታ ቤቱ ቁጭ ብሎ በዘመኑ ምዕራባዊ ቋንቋ ከሚመስለው ጋር በፍቅር ተቃቅፎ የድንች ጥብሱን ከሽ እያደረገ በሪሞት ኮንትሮል በሚንቀሳቀስ ዘመን አፈራሽ መሣሪያ ሚሊዮኖችን የዶግ አመድ በሚያደርግበት ዘመን ላይ ተቀምጠን የጥንቱን ኮንቬንሽናል የ‹ቆመህ ጠብቀኝ›  መሣሪያ ጦርነት ማሰብ ቂልነት ነው፡፡ ይህን ብዙዎች ያውቃሉ - ለዚህም ይመስላል ቃታ ለመሳብ ከወዲህኞቹም ከወዲያኞቹም ድፍረት የጠፋው - ‹ድብድቡ ከተጀመረ ተጀመረ ነው›  ፤ ድብድቡ ነፍስ እንዳላወቀ - አንቀልባ ውስጥ እንዳለ እርጥብ ልጅ ነው፡፡ የሚመርጠው የለም፤ የሚጠላውና የሚወደውም የለም፡፡ የሚመራው በሰው ፍቅርና ውዴታ ሳይሆን በኬክሮስና ኬንትሮስ የግሪድ ሪፈረንስ ቀመር ነው፡፡ ያ ሰው ሰራሽ ሪፈረንስ ደግሞ ክፉዎች ሰዎች በፈለጉት አቅጣጫ የሚመራ፣ ኃላፊነት በጎደላቸው ሰዎች ቁጥጥር ሥር የሚገኝ በመሆኑ ‹እግዜር ያውጣ› የሚለው ጸሎት ራሱ የሚሠራ አይመስልም - ፈጣሪ ቀደም ሲል የገባውን ቃል አይሽርምና፡፡ ቃሉም ‹ሰማይና ምድር ያልፋሉ፤ ቃሌ ግን አያልፍም› በሚለው ነባር ሕግ የሚታዘዝ “ዓለም ታልፋለች”  የሚለው ኅያው ቃል ነው፡፡ ለመቼነቱም የተሠጡ ምልክቶች ስላሉ ሁሉም በሚገባ ተሟልተዋልና ግፋ ቢል ‹ጥቂት ሣምንታት›ን እንጠብቅ ይሆናል እንጂ ‹ወራት›ና ‹ዓመታት› እንኳን አልቀሩም፡፡ ብሎም ቢሆን ያቺን እውነተኛ የጭንቅ ቀን ከአንድዬ በስተቀር ማንም እንደማያውቅ በመነገሩ የቻለ ተዘጋጅቶ ከመጠበቅ ውጪ ትክክለኛውን ዘመነ ኅልፈት ሊያውቅ የሚችል የለም - እንዲያ ቢሆን ደግሞ የሚጠፋ ባልኖረ፤ ሁሉም ለመዳን በተሯሯጠ፡፡ ትንሹዋን የገዛ ሞታችንን እንኳን ማወቅ ያልቻልነው ለዓላማ እንደሆነ የሚያውቁ ይናገራሉ፡፡(ለምሳሌ ‹በዐርባ ዓመት ዕድሜህ፣ በዕለተ ማክሰኞ ከቀኑ በአሥር ሰዓት ትሞታለህ›  ተብሎ ቢነገርህ የምትኖረው የሰቀቀንና የፍርህት ኑሮ ይታይሃል? ለዚህ ነው የዓለም ማለፊያ ቀንም ከምልክቶቹ በስተቀር ስለእውነተኛዋ ዕለት እንዳናውቅ

የተደረገው - ይሉናል የሥነ መለኮት ምሁራን፡፡)

ዓለም በሥልጣኔ ከመቼውም ጊዜ በላይ ከፍተኛው ጫፍ ላይ ደርሳለች፡፡ ይህ መጥፊያም መልሚያም የሆነ የሥልጣኔ ጫፍ ደግሞ መጀመሪያ እንደነበረው ሁሉ መጨረሻም አለው - ጅማሬ ያለው ሁሉ ፍጻሜም አለውና፡፡ ለዐይን ይበጃል ተብሎ የተቀቡት ኩል ዐይንን እንደሚያጠፋ ሁሉ ለዓለም ሕዝብ ይበጃል ተብሎ በግለሰቦችና ቡድኖች ብዙ የተለፋበትና የተደከመበት የሥልጣኔ ፍሬ በአብዛኛው ድኽነትን የሚያስፋፋና ዕልቂትና ውድመትን የሚያስከትል መሆኑን ስናጤን በሥልጣኔያችን ምክንያት እንዲህ ከምንሆን ከነጭራሹ ሥልጣኔው ሁሉ ባፍንጫችን በወጣ እንላለን፡፡ በተለይ ባለፉት አንድ መቶ ዓመታት በጣም በተለይ ደግሞ ባለፉት ሃምሣ ዓመታት የታዩ የሥልጣኔ ግኝቶች ደግሞ የመቃብራችንን ቁፋሮ በእጅጉ እያጣደፉት ናቸው፡፡ በስለላውና በወታደራዊው መስክ የተመዘገቡት አሉታዊ እመርታዎች ሲታዩ ምንም እንኳን በሺዎች ኪሎሜትሮች ከፍታ ላይ የምትበርን ድንቢጥ ወፍ በጨለማ አነጣጥሮ የሚበታትን ሥልጣኔ ላይ ብንደርስም ጎን ለጎን አብዛኛው የዓለማችን ሕዝብ ከሚማቅቅባቸው የበሽታና የርሀብ አለንጋዎች እንዲሁም እዬዬ ከሚልባቸው የፍትህና ርትዕ ጉድለቶች ልናላቅቀው አልተቻለንም - በዚህና በሌሎች ተዛማጅ ምክንያቶች ተነሣ ባወቀ መጠን የሚደድብ እንደሰው የለም ማለት እንችላለን፡፡ ዓለምን የሲዖልና የገነት ማሳያ መድረክ ለማድረግ ቆርጠን በመነሳታችን ሳቢያ ሰማይና ምድር ተጣልተውብን ይሄ ሁሉ በዓለም ላይ እያስተዋልነው ያለነው ችግርና ችጋር ሲሰለጥንብን ምንም ማድረግ አቅቶን ከልማት ይልቅ ጥፋት እየቀናን በዚያው ጎዳና እየተመምን እንገኛለን - ከማልማት ይልቅ ማጥፋት፣ ከመመገብ ይልቅ ማስራብ ከመፋቀር ይልቅ መጣላት ቀሎን ተገኝቷል እያልኩ ነው፡፡

ሌላው ቀርቶ ዛሬ ኢራን ውስጥ የተከሰተውንና በሠላሣዎቹ ገድሎ በመቶዎቹ ያቆሰለውን የመሬት መንቀጥቀጥ ከሌላ ነገር ጋር ማዛመድም እንደሚቻል መጠቆም አይከብድም - ሰው ሆኖ መጠርጠር አይከፋም፡፡ ዝናብን አለጊዜው መላክና ከማሣ ያልተነሣን እህል ማበላሸት ወይም በተቃራኒው ዝናብ በሚያስፈልግበት ጊዜ እንዳይዘንብ በልዩ የቴክኖሎጂ መሣሪያ መከልከልና የመኸርና የበልግ የዘር ወቅት እንዲጨነግፍ በውጤቱም ርሀብና ድርቅ እንዲስፋፋ ሕዝብም በርሀብና ርዛት እንዲያልቅ ማድረግ የሚችሉ የምድር ኃይላት መኖራቸውን የምንረዳ ወገኖች የዚህችን ዘመን የጦርነት መንስኤና አጠቃላይ መዘዝ አሳምረን እናውቃታለን፡፡ ለመሆኑ በመቶ ሺዎች የሚገመት ሕዝብ የፈጀው የሃይቲ የመሬት መናወጥ በርግጥ ተፈጥሯዊ ነበር ወይንስ በመሬት የውስጥ ለውስጥ የመሣሪያ ሙከራ የሰው ልጆች በሰው ልጆች ላይ ያካሄዱት የጭካኔ ተግባር ነበር?(ልብ አድርጉ፡- በዩኒቨርስ እንደሰው ልጅ ጨካኝ የለም!) በሌሎች ስንትና ስንት ሰው ሠራሽ ሊሆኑ እንደሚችሉ በሚጠረጠሩ ርዕደተ መሬቶች ምን ያህል ሰውና ንብረት ወደመ? በአውሮፓ፣ በአሜሪካና በአውስትራሊያ እንዲሁም በሌሎች የመሬት ውስጥ፣ የመሬት ላይና የሕዋ ውስጥ የምርምር ጣቢያዎች በርካታ ምሥጢራዊ ጥናቶች እየተካሄዱ እንደሆነ ለአፍታ እናስብ - (እዚህ ላይ በምሕጻረ ቃል ‘CERN’ በመባል የሚታወቀውን አውሮፓ ውስጥ በስዊዘርላንድና ፈረንሣይ ድንበር አካባቢ የሚገኘውን ‹ሰላማዊ› የምርምር ማዕከልና ‘HAARP’ በመባል የሚታወቀውን አስፈላጊ ሆኖ በተገኘ ጊዜ ጥቁር መዝገበኛ ሀገሮችን በርዕደ መሬት የማጥፋት ዘመቻ አንግቦ የተነሣ የምርምር ማዕከል ማስታወስ ይቻላል)፤ በነዚህ የምርምር ማዕከላት ከሚከናወኑ አንዳንድ ፍሬ ፈርስኪ የጥናት ጭብጦች (ለምሳሌ ቢንግ ባንግን(Bing  Bang) አስመስሎ የመፍጠር ቅዠታዊ ጥናት) በተጓዳኝ በረቂቅ መንገድ እንዲጠፉ የሚፈለጉ ሀገራትን የሚያወድም የምርምር ጥናት እንደሚደረግ እንሰማለን(ታያላችሁ!  ‹ድብድቡ ሲጀመር›  ሰው ሠራሽ የመሬት መንቀጥቀጥም አንዱ መሣሪያ ይሆናል! ሁሉም የየራሱን የማምለጫና የማጥቂያ መንገዶች ማዘጋጀቱ ሳይታለም የተፈታ ቢሆንም ቴህራን ወዮላት፣ ደማስቆስ ወዮላት፣ ኒውዮርክ ወዮላት፣ ሴዑልና ፒዮንግያንግ እንዲሁም ሌሎች ከተሞች ወዮላቸው…)፡፡ የሰው ልጅ ለጥፋት የሚያወጣውን ይህን ሁሉ ዕውቀትና ገንዘብ ለልማት ቢያውለው ታዲያ በአሁኑ ወቅት ዓለማችን ምድረ ገነት ሆና አልነበረምን? ዘርን፣ ቀለምንና አካባቢን መሠረት ያደረጉ የተናጠል ሩጫዎች ገታ ተደርገው አህጉራዊና ዓለማቀፋዊ ሰውኛ ጥረቶች ቢደረጉ አሁን የትና የት ደርሰን አልነበረምን? ግን ቃል አላ! ያ ቃል ከሚታበይ ዓለም ብታልፍ ይቀላል ተብሏላ! ትንቢት መጥፎ ነው፡፡

            ‹ስለሆነም› እንበልና ሰሜን ኮሪያን እዚህ ላይ በድጋሚ አውስተን እዚቺው ላይ እንዘምዝማት፡፡ ስለሆነም የሰሜን ኮሪያን ሽሮ መሰል ድንፋታና ለያዥ ለገራዥ ማስቸገር በጎሪጥ ተመልክተን ‹ድብድቡ ሲጀመር› ወይም ሁኔታውን ልክ እንደወዲህኞቹ የጉዳዩ ባለቤቶች እንደነደቡብ ኮሪያና አሜሪካውያኑ ትንሽ ቀለል እናድርገውና ‹ድብድቡ ቢጀመር›  የድንቡሼው ወጣት መሪ ሀገር ሰሜን ኮሪያ ከጎኗ የሚሠለፉ ወገኖች እንደማይጠፉ እንገምት፡፡ የጠላትህ ጠላት ወዳጅህ መሆኑ ጥንትም የነበረ በመሆኑ ከዚህች ሀገር ጋር በጎሣ፣ በነገድ፣ በዘርና በሃይማኖት እንዲሁም በርዕዮተ ዓለም ፍጹም የማይገናኙ ሀገሮች ‹ጅቡን ለመውጋት አህያን ተጠልለው› መነሣታቸው፣ ኃይላቸውንም አስተባብረው ከጠላታቸው ጠላት ጎን መሰለፋቸው የታመነ ነው፡፡ በማከያውም ይህን ሁኔታ በደስታ የሚጠባበቁና አጋጣሚውን ትንፋሽ ለመግዣነት የሚገለገሉበት ኃይሎች እንዳሉ ደግሞ በጣም ግልጽ ነው፡፡ በተጨማሪም ዓለም በአንዲት ራስዋን በራስዋ የዓለም ገዢ ነኝ ብላ በሾመች ሀገር መገዛቷ የእግር አሳት የሆነባቸው አገሮች አሉ - ገዢነትን የሚጠላ ስለሌለ የራሱን የዓለም ገዢነት ተራ ለማምጣት ወይም ቢያንስ ፍትህ በጎደለው መልክ መገዛትን የሚደግፍ ስለሌለ የዚያችን ሀገር ኢፍትሃዊ የበላይነት የሚቃወም ኃይለኛ እየተመምን እንገኛለን - ከማልማት ይልቅ ማጥፋት፣ ከመመገብ ይልቅ ማስራብ ከመፋቀር ይልቅ አቅጣጫ ወደፈለገው ሀገር፡፡ ነገሩ የኳሷ አበደች ቢጤ ስለሚሆን አታድርስ ነው፡፡ ጠያቂም ተጠያቂም የማይገኝለት የጨረባ ተዝካር ውስጥ ገብቶ ዕብዶች የደገሱትን የዕልቂት ድግስ መኮምኮም ነው የኛ ድርሻ የሚሆን - ‹የፓትርዮት ሚሣኤል ባትሪ› የሚሉትም ቀልድ ነው - ከምንም አያድንም፡፡ እነዚህ ከፍ ሲል በገደምዳሜ የተጠቀሱት ወዳጅ መሳይ የውስጥ ‹መሠሪዎች›  ሁለቱንም ተጻራሪ ጫፎች እያጃገኑ ወይም ሁኔታዎችን እያመቻቹ በሚፈጠረው ልዩ አጋጣሚ የራሳቸውን ሚና ከመጫወት የሚመለሱ አይመስሉም፡፡ ያደፈጠም ያሸመቀም … ‹የቤተ ዘመዱ ይታያል ጉዱ› የሚባልበት ዘመን መባቱ አይቀርም - ወዮ ለኛ ይልቅንስ ምኑንም ሳናየው የመጨረሻው የጥፋት ማዕድ ተሣታፊ ለሆን፡፡

በዚህ በታቀደልን የጥፋት ዘመቻ ውጤት የዓለም ገዢዎች መፈራረቃቸው አይቀርም - ቢያንስ ለተወሰነ ጊዜ፤ የኃይል ሚዛን መለዋወጡ የግድ ይመስላል፡፡ የዝንጀሮዎቹ የዱካ መለካካት ታሪክ መታየቱ የማይቀር ነው - ደካሞች ይበረታሉ ፣ ብርቱዎች ይደክማሉ፡፡ የተሸሸጉ ይወጣሉ፤ እዩኝ እዩኝን ያበዙ ይሸሸጋሉ፡፡ የዓለም የእስካሁኑ አካሄድ እንዲህ ነበር - ዛሬ ድንገት ደርሶ አይለወጥምና ታሪክ በቅርብ ይደገማል፡፡ የነአክሱምና የነሜሶፖታሚያ ሥልጣኔ፣ የነግሪክና ሮማውያን ሥልጣኔም በአንድ ቀን አዳር ተጨናግፎ ወደታሪክ መዝገብነት አልተዛወረም፡፡ ‹እኔም ባንድ ቀን አልተቆመጥኩም› ብላለች አንዷ ብልህ ሴት፣ እጄን አሳከከኝ ላለቻት ሕጻን ልጇ፡፡ የእጅን ማግኘት ዛሬ የተጀመረ አይደለም፡፡ ዕድሜህን እንዲያረዝመውና ሁሉን እንድታየው መጸለይ ነው ይልቁንስ - ቀኑ ደርሷል፡፡

ለማንኛውም ሰሜን ኮሪያ ብቻዋን ናት ማለት አይቻልም፤ እኛም እሷም እነዚያም እነዚህም … ብቻዋን እንዳልሆነች እናውቃለን፡፡ ሁሉም ይተዋወቃል - የመረጃ ዕጥረት የለም፡፡ ‹አስቸጋሪ እንግዳ ተዘቅዝቆ ይተኛል›  ይባላል፡፡ አሜሪካዎች፣ በመካከለኛው ምሥራቅ አስቸጋሪ እንግዳ ተዘቅዝቆ ተኝቶባቸው ተቸግረዋል፡፡ የናቁት እንትን እንዳያስረግዝም ሰግተዋል - ልብ እናድርግ የፈሩት ግን ወጠጤውን - በርሀብ አለንጋ የሚገረፍ ምሥኪን ሕዝብ የሚመራውን ወጣት የሰሜን ኮሪያ መሪ አይደለም፤ የፈሩት ጦሱን ነው፡፡ የፈሩት የታወቀውን ሣይሆን ያልታወቀውን ነው፡፡ ጉድ እየተንተከተከ ነው፡፡ በጌታዋ የምትተማን በግ ላቷን የት ነበር ታሳድራለች የሚባለው? ዳንስ ቤት መሄዱን ትቶ በጦር ሜዳ አጉል ማለቴ አጉሊ መነጽር የወታደሮቹን የጦር ልምምድ እየተመለከተ የሚዝናናው ኪም ኢል ኡንም የተማመነውን ቢተማመን እንጂ ይህች ሀገር ለአሜሪካ ጦር የቁርስ ማዳረሻ እንጂ ያን ያህል የምታሰጋ ልትሆን ባልቻለች ነበር፡፡ ለነገሩ ስለሰሜን ኮሪያ እኛን ምን ጥልቅ አደረግ? ችግራቸውን ጊዜ ይፍታው፡፡ በሀገራችን ስንትና ስንት የራሳችን ጉድ እየተፍለቀለቀ የምን በሰው ጓዳ ውስጥ ገብቶ መፈትፈት ነው!

            የማርጋሬት ታቸርን ሞት ተከትሎ የታዘብኩት ነገር በምንም ነገር ተገርሜ የማላውቀውን ያህል በጣሙን ገረመኝ፡፡ ‹ዴሞክራሲ ለካንስ እንደዚህ ኖሯል?›ብዬ በእጅጉ ተደነቅሁ፡፡ ሴትዮዋ በመሠረቱ ዕድሜ ጠግባ ነው የሞተችው - ዕድሜ ባይጠገብም፡፡ ይሁንና ገሚሱ በሀዘንና በዕንባ ሲራጭ ገሚሱ ደግሞ ሻምፓኝ እየከፈተ - እውነቴን ነው - ያለ አንዳች ይሉኝታ ደስታውን በአደባባይ ሲገልጥ በታዋቂ ሚዲያዎች ማየቴ ‹ምድር ላይ ነው ያለሁት ወይንስ ሌላ ዓለም ውስጥ?› ብዬ እስክገረም ተደምሜያለሁ፡፡ ወዲያው የመጣልኝ ነገር መለስ ሲሞት መስቀል አደባባይ ወጥቼ ሻምፓኝ መክፈቱና በጊታር ባህላዊ ዘፈንን - እንደእንግሊዛውያኑ -‹በደስታ ሲቃ ተውጬ› ማቀንቀኑ ከሀበሻ ባህል አኳያ በነውረኝነት ስለሚያስፈርጀኝ ቢቀርብኝም፣ ‹እሰይ! ሞትም ሲያንሰው ነው! ክፉ ሰው ነበር፡፡›  ብዬ በግልጽ ብናገር ኖሮ ይሄኔ የመቃብሬ ሥፍራም አይታወቅም ነበር፡፡ እንዲያውም ከናካቴው የመቀበርን

መልካም ዕድል አላገኝም ነበር - ዘልዝለው ተቃርጠው ይበሉኝ ነበር እንጂ ጨክነው አይቀብሩኝም - እንዴ ወያኔዎች እኮ ከአውሬም የመጨረሻው ክፉ አውሬ ናቸው፡፡ የሚጠሉትን በፍጥነት በማደባየት ከዓለም ፍጡራን የሚስተካከላቸው የለም - በቀለኞች፣ ተንኮለኞች፣ አንድን ሰው ለማጥፋት በአንድ ቀን ሕገ መንግሥታቸውን ሳይቀር ከመለወጥ የማይመለሱ የእፉኝት ልጆች ናቸው - መጥኔ በወያኔ አገዛዝ ሀገር አይኖርም አይባልምና ድብድቡ ሲጀመር የራሱን ኩርኩም መሠንዘሩ አይቀርም - ባመቸው የሚለኝ አንዳች መንፈስ በውስጤ ይሰማኛል፡፡ ለማንኛውም የሚገርም የሰው ልጆች የአእምሮ ዕድገት ልዩነት ነው ዛሬ ከወደእንግሊዝ የታዘብኩት፡፡ ሰው ሞተ ተብሎ - ሊያውም አንዲት የጨረጨሰች አሮጊት - ያን ያህል ደስታና ፈንጠዝያ? ለነገሩ ይሄኛውስ ምን አገባን? እዚያው እንደፍጥርጥራቸው፡፡

 ወግ ነው አሉ ሲዳሩ ማልቀስ፡፡ የዚያች የድኻይቱ መበለት የቀድሞ ባለቤት - አእምሮዋን የተነጠቀችው የማይሟ ባለድግሪ ጋለሞታ የአዜብ ባል መለስ ዜናዊ ፋውንዴሽን ተቋቋመለት አሉ፡፡ ዘመኑ ጅብ እማያውቁት ሀገር ሄዶ ብቻ ሣይሆን በሚያውቁት መካከል ዐይኑን በጨው ታጥቦ የአህያ ጎድንና ፍሪምባ አንጥፉልኝ የሚልበት የድፍረት ዘመን መሆኑ በጄ እንጂ ይህ ነገር ኮረንቲ ያስጨብጣል - ሊያውስ ኮረንቲውስ በቅጡ ሲገኝ አይደል?  (ዕድሜ ለትራንስፎርሜሽናችን የዕድገት ምጥቀት ኮረንቲና ውሃ የህልም ያህል እየሆኑብን መጥተዋል፤ የሚያገኛቸው የታደለ ብቻ ሆኗል - ለብዙዎቻችን በረጃጅም ወረፋ የሚገኙ የቅንጦት ነገሮች ከሆኑ ሰንብተዋል፡፡)

ይሄ በሙት መንፈስ እየገዛ የሚገኝ ሰውዬ መጨረሻው ናፍቆኛል፡፡ ዓለምን እያስደመመ ነው - ለነገሩ እኛኑ እንጂ የምን ዓለም አለና፤ ውሸታሟ ዓለምማ የማይነጋ መስሏት ከነርሱው ጋር ተባብራ የለምን? ሞቶም ዕረፍት የሚነሣ ልጅ የወለደች ኢትዮጵያ ብቻ እንደሆነችም ከተገነዘብን ቆየን - ዕረፍት የማይሰጥ የሲዖል ትል ሆኖብናል፤ ፎቶውና በቲቪና ሬዲዮ ነጋ ጠባ የሚወተወተው ስሙ፣ እየተፈበረከ የሚለጠፍለትም ‹ምሁራዊ› አስተዋፀዖው ብቻ ሳይሆን የሙት መንፈሱ አጠቃላዩን የሀሪቱን ድባብ ተቆጣጥሮታል፡፡ በየትም ሀገር በሌለ ሁኔታ ከሞተ አንድ ዓመት ሊሞላው ጥቂት ወራት ብቻ የቀሩት ሰው አሁንም ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትሩ እሱ ራሱ የሆነ ያህል ሀገር ምድሩ የሚምለውና የሚገዘተው በእርሱ ራዕይ ሆኗል - የቬንዞላዎቹ ሀዘናቸውን በአንድ ወር ውስጥ ወደጎን ትተው ለምርጫ ሲሰናዱ እነዚህኞቹ ቂሎች ሞት በነሱ ሠፈር የተጀመረና ብርቅም የሆነ ያህል መለስ በሞተ በአሥር ወሩ ደረት ጥለው፣ ጀንዲ አንጥፈው በመቀመጥ ገና ሙሾ በማውረድ ላይ ናቸው - ያልታደሉ፤ ግን ግን ለማስመሰያነት እንጂ ከጥንትም ቢሆን ከአንጀታቸው እንዳልሆነ ይታወቃል - ወያኔ ፍቅር አያውቅም - ሆዳም ፍቅር እንደማውያቅ ሁሉ፡፡ ኢትዮጵያ የይምሰልም ቢሆን ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር ያላት መሆኗ ተረስቷል፡፡ ያ ጉልቻ ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር ኃይለማርያም ደሳለኝና አምባሳደር ሸኚና ተቀባዩ ዘፍዛፋው ፕሬዚደንት መቶ አለቃ አቶ ግርማ ወ/ጊዮርጊስ ስማቸው የሚነሣው ከስንት አንዴ ነው - የማስመሰል ድራማ ሲያስፈልግ ብቻ፡፡ እኚህ መናጆ የመሀል ሀገር የተጋቦት ወያኔዎች፣ ደንበኞቹ ወያኔዎች የራሳቸውን ሰዎች እስኪተኩ ድረስ ወንበር ለመጠበቅ የተቀመጡ መሆናቸውን ማናችንም እናውቃለን፡፡ አሰለጦቹም ያውቃሉ፡፡

ፋውንዴሽኑ ተቋቋመ፡፡ ለነርሱ የዚህ ፋውንዴሽን መቋቋም ልዩ ዓላማና ተልእኮ አለው፡፡ ለብዙኃኑ ኢትዮጵያውያን ግን የመለስና በሙት መንፈሱ የሚመራው የሕወሓት ጀምበር ለይቶላት እስክትጠልቅ ድረስ ብዙ ነገርን እንዘክርበታለን፡፡ ኑሯችን ከእጅ ወደ አፍ መሆንም አቅቶት በሚሊዮኖች የምንቆጠር ዜጎች ደመወዝም እያገኘን ወደለማኝነት የወረድንበትን ዘመን፣ በተወለድንባት የጋራ ሀገር ጥቂቶች ሲዘማነኑባት ብዙዎቻችን ግን እንደመፃተኛ ከየምንኖርበት ቀዬ በመንግሥት ጃዝ ባይነትና መሣሪያና መመሪያን ከማውረድ ጀምሮ ሌሎች ሁኔታዎችን በወያኔ አመቻችነት በሚቀለጣጠፍ የዘር ማጥፋት ዘመቻ እየተባረርን ለሞት፣ ለመፈናቀልና ለስደት የተጋለጥንበትን የአድልዖ ዘመን፣ አማራነትን በበጎ ፈቃድ ከፈጣሪ ተሠልፈን ያገኘነው ይመስል ‹ለምን አማራ ሆናችሁ ተፈጠራችሁ?› በሚል ከአቅማችን በላይ የሆነ ምክንያት እየተገደልንበትና እየተጋዝንበት የምንገኝበትን ልዩ የዘረኞች መፍለቂያ ዘመን፣ አንድ ላይ ቢሰባሰቡ አንድ ታላቅ ሀገር ሊፈጥሩ የሚችሉ በብዙ ሚሊዮኖች የሚቆጠሩ ዜጎቻችን ሀገራቸው የገሃነም እሳት ስለሆነችባቸው በመላዋ ዓለም ተሰድደው በሁለተኛ ዜጋነት የሚኖሩበትን የግፍ ዘመን፣ በሀገር ውስጥ ለም መሬታችን ለወያ ሹምባሽ ባለሀብትና ለሕንድና ቻይና የእጅ አዙር ቅኝ ገዢዎች በርካሽ እየተቸበቸበ ኢትዮጵያውያን በዘውጋቸው፣ በሀገራዊ አቋማቸውና አንዳንዴም ሥር ለምንማቅቅ ኢትዮጵያውያን - ደግነቱ ዘመኑ ቀረበ! ‹የነጻነት ዘመን ቀርባለችና ሃሤት አድርጉ› የተዛወሩበትን የበቀል ዘመን፣ ጥቂቶች ጠግበው መሬት ሲጠብባቸውና ከድሃው የሚመዘብሩትን ገንዘብ ማስቀመጫ ሲያጡ ሚሊዮኖች በድኽነት የሚሰቃዩበትን የመከራና የበይ ተመልካችነት የማይረሣ ዘመን፣ ብዙዎች ለመኖር ሲሉ እምነታቸውንና አቋማቸውን እየለወጡ ከጎጠኛው ሥርዓት ጋር የሚሞዳሞዱበትን የክህደትና የአድርባይነት ዘመን፣ ፍርሀት ከላይ እስከታች ሠፍኖ ምሁራንና ዐዋቂዎች ለሆዳቸው አድረው ወይም በይሉኝታ ገመድ ታስረው እውነትን የሚናገርና ሕዝብን የሚያሰባስብ ኃይል ጠፍቶ ማይማን ጋላቢዎች ሀገሪቱን እንደፈለጉ ሽምጥ የሚጋልቡ የወያኔ ደናቁርት የነገሡበትን ዕኩይ ዘመን፣ ሀገሪቱ በጎሣና በዘር እንዲሁም በሃይማኖት ተሸንሽና ዜጎች እርስ በርስ እንዲተላለቁ ሁኔታዎች የተመቻቹበትን ነገር ግን ሕዝብ ከወንበዴው መንግሥት ተሽሎ ይህን መሠሪ ተንኮል ሙሉ በሙሉ ባይሆንም በተወሰነ ደረጃ ያከሸፈበትን አስገራሚ ዘመን…  የምናስታውስበት ፋውንዴሽን ነው፡፡ ይህ ፋውንዴሽን ራቁቱን የወጣ የሕዝብ ድህነትንና በተስፋ መቁረጥ ማዕበል የተመታን የቀቢፀ ተስፋን ትውልድ የምናስታውስበት፣ ዕብደትና ሰካራምነት፣ ማጭበርበርና ማምታታት፣ በዛሬ ከምሞት ነገ ልሙት የአህያ ተረት የተጠለፉ ዜጎች አቅላቸውንና ኅሊናቸውን ስተው በሥልጣንም ይሁን በንግድ ባገኙት አጋጣሚ ሁሉ ገንዘብ በመዝረፍ በአቋራጭ የሚከብሩበትን አጋጣሚ የምናስታውስበት፣ ከሞላ ጎደል አብዛኛው ዜጋ በአንድ ወይ በሌላ ምክንያት በችግርና በመከራ አብዶና ሰክሮ የምናይበትን ሁኔታ የምናስታውስበት የዘመነ ግርምቢጥ መታሰቢያ ሀውልት ነው፡፡ መፍረሱ ባይቀርም እስኪፈርስ ኅሊናችንን መቆጥቆጡ የሚጠበቅ ነው፤ መቻያውን ይስጠን፡፡

ይህ በእንዲህ እያለ በትናንትናው ዕለት የኬንያው ኡሁሩ ኬንያታ ሢመተ በዓል በናይሮቢው ስቴዲየም ውስጥ የወያኔውን ቅን ታዛዥ ምክትል ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር ኃ/ማርያም ደሳለኝን ጨምሮ መከናወኑ የሚታወስ ነው - ዋናው ጠ/ሚኒስትራቸው መለስ ዜናዊም በመንፈስ ሳይገኝ እንደማይቀር ይገመታል፡፡ ይህ ሰው - ኡሁሩ - በአንድ የምርጫ ወቅት አጠፋው በተባለ ጥፋት አይሲሲ የሚባለው ዓለም አቀፍ የወንጀለኞች ፍርድ ቤት - ይቅርታ - ዓለም አቀፍ ወንጀለኞችን የሚዳኝ ፍ/ቤት - የመያዣ ካርኒ ቆርጦበት ሲያበቃ የሀገሩ ፕሬዚደንት እንዲሆን ሕዝቡ በጠባብ ድምፅ መርጦታል(እዚህች ላይ ራይላ ኦዲንጋ ሽንፈቱን ላለመቀበል ማንገራገሩን በጎሪጥ ማየቴን ሳልጠቅስ ባልፍ ሌላ አጋጣሚ የማላገኝ ከሆነ ይቆጨኛል - የአፍሪካ ክፉ ዐመል ሆኖ ቀረ ልበል? ባይሆን 99.64 በመቶ ቢሸነፍ ኖሮ አንዳች ነገር አለ ብለን መጠራጠርና ለሰውዬውም ማዘን እንችል ነበር፤ ይችኛዋ ግን የሥልጣን ፍቅር ታስመስልበታለች! ይህች ሥልጣን ምን ዓይነት ክፉ ደዌ ናት ለካንስ! ለኔ ካልሆነ ይበጣጠስና ይጣል ይባላል?)፡፡ ስለክሱ ጉዳይ ወደፊት የሚታይ ሆኖ በአሁኑ ሁኔታ ግን ሕዝብ የፈለገውን መምረጡ በአንድ በኩል የሚቀበሉት ሆኖ በሌላ በኩል ይህ ዓለም አቀፍ የብይን ተቋም ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ ለስንትና ስንት ጊዜ ፍትህ ሲዛባ ዜጎች ከፍርድ ውጪ በጠራራ ፀሐይ ሲጨፈጨፉ… በጨረፍታም ቢሆን ለማየት አለመፈለጉ ‹ዓለም የማን ናት?› የሚያስብል ግርምትን መፍጠሩ አይቀርም - ቢያንስ በእኔ ጭንቅላት ውስጥ፡፡ ኔቶንና አይሲሲን የመሳሰሉ ዓለም አቀፍ አኮርባጆች መቼና የማን ጉዳይ ሲሆን ነው አለንጋቸውን የሚያነሱት? የሚለው ጥያቄ ሁሌ ይከነክነኛል(እዚህ ላይ - እነዚያ ወገኖች የሚያራምዱትን ‹ዳብል ስታንዳርድ› ለማመልከት ፈልጌ እንጂ ኡሁሩ ለምን ተከሰሰ የሚል ቅሬታ ኖሮኝ አይደለም - ካጠፋና ከተፈረደበትም ይታሰር)፡፡

ታስታውሱ እንደሆነ የፍልስጥኤም ሕዝብ አንድ ወቅት ይሻለኛል ያለውን ሃማስን በዴምክራሲያዊ መንገድ መረጠ፤ ‹ዓለማቀፉ ማኅበረሰብ› ‹አይ፣ ሃማስን እኛ ስለማንፈልገው አንተ መምረጥ ያለብህ አንተ የምትፈልገውን ሳይሆን እኛ የምንፈልገውን አልፋታህን ነው› አሉትና አስገረሙት - አስገረሙን፤ የኛው የኛ ቅንጅትን መምረጥና የነሱ ወያኔን መምረጥ የቅርብ ትዝታችንም የሚዘነጋ አይደለም - ያ ሁሉ ሕዘብ ሲያልቅና እሥር ቤት ሲታጎር አይሲሲ የተባለው አለንጋቸው የት እንደነበር የሚያውቁት እነሱ ብቻ ናቸው(እግዜር ይይላቸው!)፡፡ እንግዲህ ይታያችሁ - ከላይ በሃይማኖታቸው ምክንያት ከመኖሪያና ከሥራቸው እየተፈናቀሉ ወደባሰ ድኸነትና ጎዳና ተዳዳሪነት ቢሠሩ ማን ሃይ ሊላቸው ይችላል? ዋናው የአለቆቻቸውን ትዕዛዝ ማክበራቸው እንጂ የሕዝብ ፍላጎት ከቁብ እንደማይገባ ብዙ አብነቶችን መቃኘት ይቻላል፡፡ የነፓናማ፣ ግሪናዳ፣ሆንዱራስ፣ ቬንዙዌላና ሌሎች ምሥኪን ሀገሮች ሕዝብ የሚያፈቅሯቸው መሪዎች በልዩ የጦር ጣልቃ ገብነትና በፈረደበት የ‹አውሮፕላን አደጋ› ሤራ እየተገደሉ ለሕዝብ ለማይጠቅሙ ነገር ግን ለታላላቅ ሀገሮች ኩባንያዎች በተለይም ለአሜሪካውያኑ የነዳጅ ቁፋሮ ኮርፖሬሽኖች አደግድገው ለሚያገለግሉ ወያኔን መሰል ድርጅቶችና ግለሰቦች ሥልጣኑ ይተላለፋል - የዚህች ዓለም ገመና መቼም የጉድ ነው ፣ ተወርቶም አያልቅ፤ ጊዜ ሲያልፍ ‹እቡና ላይ ቁጭ ብለን ለማውራት ያብቃን› እንጂ ይሄ ሆድና ሥልጣን የማይፈጥሩት ነገር የለም - ‹ሆድ እንኳን ከፊታችን ሆነ፤ እኋላችን ቢሆን ኖሮ ገፍትሮ ገደል ይከተን ነበር› የሚሉ ወገኖች ትክክል ናቸው፡፡

ሕዝብ የሚወዳቸው የሕዝብ ዕንባ ጠባቂዎች ተወግደው ሕዝብ የሚጠላቸው ይሾማሉ፤ የነዚህኞቹ ጥፋት ለከበርቴ ሀገራት አመራሮች እንደልማት ይቆጠራል፤ ሕዝባቸውን ለማስደስት የሚሠሩ ካሉ ግን ያ እንደትልቅ ጥፋት ይቆጠርና ሕይወታቸው ባጭር እንዲቀጭ ወይም ከሥልጣን እንዲወገዱ ሸር ይጎነጎንላቸዋል፤ ምድረ ታጣቂ ሰላይ ይከብባቸውና ወደተዘጋጀላቸው እንጦርጦስ ባፋጣኝ ይወርዳሉ፡፡ ዓለም የአስመሳዮች መድረክ ናት፡፡ ይህን ጉዳይ በሚመለከት ይበልጥ ለመረዳት ጆን ፐርኪንስ የተባለ ንስሃ የገባ የቀድሞ ሰላይ የጻፈውን ድንቅ የማጋለጫ መጽሐፍ ማየት ይጠቅማል - ርዕሱ Confessions of an Economic Hitman ነው፡፡

የመጽሐፎች ሁሉ ቁንጮ የሆነው ቅዱስ መጽሐፍ ‹ኩሎ አመክሩ፣ ወዘሠናየ አፀንዑ› ስለሚል ተበልቶ ለሚጠፋ ቂጣ ብለን እውነትን አንሽሽ - አንዳንዴ ለመንፈሳዊና ለአእምሮኣዊ ሕይወታችንም እንጨነቅ፡፡ አሥር ለማይሞላ ዓለም ዘወትር ቀና ደፋ ስንል ብዙ ነገሮችን ሳናውቅ ከዓለም እንለያለን፡፡ ማንበብ ደግሞ የተሸፈነ እውነትን ያወጣልና አንባቢም አስነባቢም በዚህ ረገድ ባይሳነፍ መልካም ነው፡፡ ይህን የምለው ከተለመደው ቅኝት ወጣ የሚል ነገር የምንጽፍ ሰዎች የሚደርስብንን ውግዘትና መድረክ ክልከላ ስለማውቅ ነው፤ በጣት ከሚቆጠሩ ድረገፆች በስተቀር - ለምሳሌ - ብዙዎች ድረገፆች ከኢትዮጵያ ፖለቲካና ከዚያም ውስጥ እነሱ ከሚፈልጉት ርዕሰ ጉዳይ ውጪ ሌላ ነገር የማስተናገድ ፍላጎታቸው እንደ ጋሪ ፈረስ ዕይታ በእጅጉ የተገደበ ነው፤ ስለዴሞክራሲ እየጻፉ ዴሞክራሲን እንደዶሮ አርደውና በልተው ሲጥሏት ቅር አይሰኙም፡፡

ከመብት አንጻር ይህን አካሄዳቸውን በበኩሌ አልቃወምም፡፡ እንዲያ ባይሆንና አስተሳሰባዊ የግዛት ‹ምኅዳራቸው› ጥቂት ሰፋ ቢል ግን ምርጫየ ነው - ከሙያና ለዓለማችን አሁን ከሚያስፈልጋት ሆደ ሰፊነት አኳያ፡፡ ለዚህ ግን የንባብ አድማስን ማስፋት፣ የመቻቻል ባህልን ማዳበር፣ የዴሞክራሲን ሥነ ተፈጥሮ መረዳትና(ተቃራኒ ሃሳቦችን በነጻነት የማንሸራሸርን በጎ ገጽታ) በረባ ባልረባው ሰዎችን ከመኮነን መቆጠብን መለማመዱ ገምቢ ይመስለኛል - ኩርፊያና የማይስማሙበትን ሀሳብ ገሸሽ ማድረጉ በሕጻናት ዘንድ ካልሆነ በዐዋቂዎች አያምርም፡፡ የሚስማሙበትን ሃሳብ ብቻ እየመረጡ መውሰዱና ማስተናገዱ በእነሱም ቤት አለ - በፈለግኸው የ‹እነሱ›  ዐውድ መረዳት ትችላለህ፤ እኛ ከ‹እነሱ›  የምንሻል መሆናችንን የምንገልጸው እኛ በምንም መንገድ ከ‹እነሱ›  የማንሻል መሆናችንን በማሳየት ሊሆን አይገባም - አለበለዚያ የ‹እኛ›ና የ‹እነሱ›  ልዩነት አይኖርም - በ‹እኛ›ና በ‹እነሱ›  መካከል ያለው ድንበርም የማስመሰልና አንዲትን በየፊናችን የምንነታረክባትን ወርቃማ ዕድል የማግኘትና ያለማግኘት ጉዳይ ካልሆነ የአንጀት ወይም የምር አይደለም ማለት ነው፡፡ የኩርፊያና የሆደባሻነት ሰለባዎች ከሆንን በሥፍራ እንጂ በተግባር አንድ ነን፤ በሥልጣን ቦታ እንጂ በአፈጻጸም ተመሳሳይ ነን ማለት ነው፡፡

ከነዚህ ከጠቃቀስኳቸው ነጥቦች አንጻር እኛ ኢትዮጵያውያን ብዙ የሚቀረን ነገር እንዳለ ይሰማኛል፡፡ ባህላችን የሚቃወሙንን ለመደፍጠጥ - በምናብም ይሁን በገቢር ወይም እስከተቻለ በሁለቱም ድባቅ ለመምታት - በቅጽበት ውስጥ የሸሚዝ እጀታን ወደመሰብሰብ የሚመራን በመሆኑ ከላይ የተቀመጠው ፍርደ ገምድል እንዲህ ያለ የቁጭ በሉ ሥራ ከሠራ እታች ያሉት እነ ወያኔ ከዚህ የበለጠበ መሆኑ በተለይ በአሁኑ ዘመን ግልፍተኞችና ሆደ ባሻዎች እየበዛን ሳንመጣ የቀረን አይመስለኝምና መግባባት ከፈለግን ይህን ቀላል ግን መሠረታዊ የሆነ የአስተሳሰብና የአመለካከት ችግር ለማስወገድ ቆም ብለን ማሰብ ይኖርብናል፡፡ ይሄ ቱግ ቱግ ማለትና መገፈታተር አላዋጣንም - አያዋጣንምም፡፡ እንግሊዞችን እንመልከት - በአንድ ሰው ሞት አንዱ ያለቅሳል ሌላው የደስታ ጮቤ ይረግጣል - ልክ ነው ልክ አይደለም ሌላ ጉዳይ ነው፤ ግን ስናያቸው ይቻቻላሉ - ወደቡጢና ቁርቋሶ አልተጋበዙም፤ መሠረታዊ የአብሮነት ድርና ማጋቸውን የሚፈታተን እልህ አስጨራሽ ጠብና ፍትጊያ ውስጥ አልገቡም - ሲያስቀኑ! ማንም የሚያደርገው ነገር የሌላን ሰው መብት በኃይል እስካልተጋፋ ድረስ መብቱ መሆኑን ይረዳሉና ድንበር ዘለል ግጭትና እንደኛ ጎራ የለዬ መተላለቅ ጨርሶውን አይታይባቸውም፡፡ የነገር ቁርሾ እየያዙ መናቆርና በሞተ ጉዳይ ላይ መገዳደል ባህላችን የሆነ እኛና መሰሎቻችን ነን፡፡ በበኩሌ ትልቅ ትምህርት ቀስሜያለሁ፡፡ የመቻቻልን ትርጉም በጣሙን የተገነዘብኩበት አጋጣሚ ቢኖር የማርጋሬት ታቸር ሞት ነው፡፡ ከ87 ወይም 88 ዓመት ዕድሜ በኋላ ለሰው ሞት ማዘኑን ብዙም ስለማልቀበለው እንጂ የሴትዮዋ ሞት በርግጥ ያሳዝናል፤ ደረት የሚያስጥል ግን አይደለም፡፡ (ለማንዴላ ሰዎች ያን ያህል ሲጨነቁ ይገርመኛል፡፡ ማዘንስ አንዱንም ሳይጨብጠው ገና በለጋነት ዕድሜው ለሚቀጭ፡፡ የአንዳንድ ሰው ነገረ ሥራ ለእግዜሩም ለወይዘሪት ተፈጥሮም የሚገርም ሳይሆን አይቀርም፡፡

ለታዋቂ ሰው ፈጣሪ ስንት ዕድሜ ይስጥ? መለሳውያን እንዲህ ቢንገበገቡ አይፈረድባቸውም - የተጎዳው እርሱ ብቻ ሳይሆን በዋናነት እነሱ አልቃሾቹና በግድ አስለቃሾቹም ናቸው፤ በቀላሉ ሊተኩት ባለመቻላቸው እርሱም እንደሁጎ ሻቬዝ የሚመስለውን ወያኔያዊ ማዱሮ ተክቶላቸው ባለመሄዱ ተቆጩ፤ አዘኑ፤ አለቀሱ፤ እስከህልፈታቸውም በዚህ መልክ የሚኖሩ ይመስሉኛል፤ የማያገግሙበት ክፍተት ትቶባቸው ነው ድንገት የተሰናበተው - ማን? አትሉኝም? ሙት ወቃሽ አትበሉኝና ያ ባለጌ ሰውዬ፡፡)

ለመሰነባበቻ፡-

 እዚያ ማዶ ሆኖ ክፉ ሰው ተጣራ፤

 እዚህ ማዶ ሆኖ ክፉ ሰው ወይ አለው፤

 ጎበዝ ተጠራጠር ይህ ነገር ለኛ ነው፡፡

የተባለውን የቀደመ ነገር ላስታውስና በተለይ በመካከለኛው ምሥራቅ የምትተነትነውን ጢስ ፈቃዱ ከሆነ ድንበር ሳትሻገር ባጭሩ እንዲያስቀራት እግዚአብሔርን እንለምነው፡፡

Top Secret about Ethnocentrism and Religion

Dagmawi Gudu Kassa

Maybe instinctively reading what will happen in this country after some fifty years, HM Emperor Haile Silasie I is said to have delivered the following ominous speech in front of this world’s ‘best citizens’, the dignitaries, the ‘enlightened and chosen ones’ of this planet who were the then actors and actresses in the League of Nations.

“… that until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; that until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation; that until the cooler of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the cooler of his eyes; that until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; that until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.”

I understand that the Emperor said what he had said to teach the deaf and the blind in that hall of the so called League of Nations established and run by Mr. and Mrs. Gluttony and Injustice to control the wealth and gubernatorial reins of the habitat of the fledgling human race; the deaf and the blind who failed to believe in the oneness – in – God of all human beings and who believed blacks and yellows as subhuman and whites as superhuman, descendants of God Himself, God-incarnates; as if Mr. Blackman’s brain is inferior to theirs; his blood less red, less number of  DNA and RNA traits, less chromosomal constitution,  less RBC/WBC than theirs; their body composition more dense, more pleasant with postural elegance, more intelligent,  more important, more – chosen – by – God than his…

My black Emperor, who might have, and surely had, his own flaws as a human, had, among others, made peace in Nigeria between feuding tribes and caused the creation of one great nation in Africa. This historic event, an event any other entity failed to accomplish by then, by itself is a reminder of one biblical allusion: the ones who were at the rear will come to the front, and the ones who were at the front will go back to the rear. [Not directly quoted]. It is enigmatic that we are now degenerated into an astounding level of decadence and abysmal quagmire wherein people of the onetime antidote of tribalism and ethnocentrism now have themselves become victim of the same agonizing problem that belittles a society to the level of becoming nonentity. To my surprise, especially as of the nineteenth century, this world has become unpredictably puzzling and even now, more astonishingly than ever, it remains to be undefined, mathematically speaking, like any number over zero.
Please allow me to improve my title, I prefer it to be: Ethnic Supremacy over the Skies of my country, my Country being Ethiopia and only Ethiopia. Deal ? Let me hope so!

Between you and me:- If you come to Ethiopia now you may wonder in a degree you have never wondered hitherto. Ask why and how. I will tell you in brief below.

In a metaphoric expression, it goes without saying that Syria is Ethiopia or Ethiopia is Syria, victims of the minority. They share similar problems with an absolute semblance. Fearing the brutal consequence the Tigrian regime would inflict upon the people if any public protest arises, seemingly on a temporary basis, Ethiopia went to Syria and her problems popped up there. Otherwise, it is understandable that Syria is simmering in Ethiopia and when the time comes the Woyannes will go for good as Assad is nearly to go now.  12% there, 6% here with the same shape of governance characterized by all evils the history of this world has been registering, even beyond: genocide, ethnic cleansing, discrimination, deprivation of even the lowest animal rights. Syria is understood in Ethiopia as a token of “the minority shitting upon the majority.” You have all the right to label my diction as stupid and trash, as stupid and trash as anything born of ineptitude.

May I repeat it? Yea, ‘Syria is simmering in Ethiopia.’ In Syria, people of ‘after me the deluge' are mutilating the nation into shreds, just into microscopic pieces if things go the same for the coming few months. As a matter of fact, people of ‘after me the deluge’ are those people who brainlessly do anything to maintain their advantages and try to accomplish any of their whimsical desires. They do not bother about reason and rationality.  Their motto is based on this Amharic saying:  ‘yetim  fichiw, diketun[bitcha] amchiw’ which literally means, ‘It doesn’t matter whoever grinds it or wherever it is crushed or ground, but bring [only] the flour.’ Such people bother about the efficacy of the means, any means their malicious mind invents. Their guidance is “The end justifies the means”, not “The means justifies the end” kind of sober motive. Whenever they feel insecure, they can go to the extent of abolishing the entire world; there are multitudes of them in the world, in group form or individually.

But they are too dangerous when they are in group form; they are airtight, you can neither infiltrate nor percolate or permeate. They have time and ‘blood’–proven foolproof tests to ferret you out and segregate you from the group if you happen to be there amongst them. They do not know compromise and negotiation as long as you stand against any of their interests most of which are illegally usurped from the majority. Trying to detach them from the unlawful acts they are engaged is the same as trying to detach a gnawing hungry hyena from a dead carcass of a donkey. The hyena will die gnawing in the same manner the Woyannes and their likes will die gobbling up their preys. These people are tremendously dangerous and eccentrically treacherous who do not abide by any rule of law. They are not God-fearing. They are either irreligious or atheists; if at all they claim to be religious, they are far off the principles and doctrinal instructions of the religion. They do not have any moral and ethical values. Moreover, they are too changeable if they believe the change maintains their advantages. Psychologically, they are victims of paranoia accompanied with an insatiate id or boundless egoism which, again, causes them to develop an inflated form of megalomaniac behavior.

This psychological crisis results in a grotesque image in their mind that makes them believe they are elephants while in reality they could be rabbits. They believe everyone in the society hates them, so they are always ready to exterminate anyone who they believe is their opponent. Believe me guys; the terms ‘mercy, superego, and love’ are almost non-existent in their vocabulary. Due to all these and other related reasons, these people turn out to be uncompromisingly formidable to have any deal with them. They would rather die than give an inch of the domain they forcibly seize. Once they ‘catch the tail of a tiger’, they will never let the tiger even get a breath for a while. They always fight with their defeated enemies; or even they may fight with the tornados and the mountains like Cervantes’ Don Quixote. They never trust in the victories they secure. Because they always live in a fearful state, they are sleepless enemies of their opponents. We can say that they are enslaved by their fears which again this condition exposes them to all sorts of psychopath. They always chase after their real and/or imaginary enemies. They literally fear everything, even their shadows.

Based on this ‘analysis’ about such brutal creatures, the best and the only way of removing them from power without causing much harm is taking a military action. Unless they are forced to leave the palace with the help of might, they never surrender to condemnation or sporadic demonstrations and incessant protests. Fake and nominal sanctions do nothing either. The people under their suffering can do much if they unite and close all options of attaining private economic and political independence. On the contrary, if the people are disunited and try to save their individual life by running helter-skelter in all directions, no one will take care of the nation and these ruined citizens continue their iron-fist ruling indefinitely. This has been the case in ETHIOPIA up until the present time. Nobody seems to bother about the fate of the country; almost everyone seems to worry about their own destiny. It is not bad to go to the US or Europe and make fortunes and concomitantly expose the plight of the nation in various ways of civil protest; but freedom necessitates something more than that. There is no free lunch! Syrian doctors and professors and engineers and millionaires and reputed citizens are there in the field fighting and leading the fight to topple the monster, a monster known for his cruelty in the past two years. I don’t think we Ethiopians are less zealous and less deserving of freedom. Hibernation and avoidance will totally immerse our nation into a complete cataclysm from where any form of resurrection would be impossible.  Today, you may be in good condition abroad; but, how about tomorrow? Have you ever thought of the fate of your progenies? How far can we see into the future? A meter? 100 meters? A kilometer? Hundreds and thousands of kilometers? Where are we? What are we? What did Shakespeare mean when he said “to be or not to be?” Who said this – ‘when tummies bulge out, heads shrink.’? Wherever we are, let’s sit down and have sober time to think what to do. 
People of such group are victims of either ethnic ties or religious affiliation. They believe they are different and want to impose their difference to be the predominant feature upon the majority. If they feel insecure, it means the Pandora’s Box is open; Armageddon is about to surface. It is a time ,for them to say ‘after me the deluge’, like an Ethiopian donkey in our folklore, says, “enie kemotku serdo aybkel.’[After my death, let no grass grow.] That is what is happening in Syria, in Ethiopia, in Iraq, in almost all nations where there are various ethnic groupings and religious factions whose motto is “Mine is better than yours.” – Shia – Sunni – Orthodox Christian – Catholic – Lutheran – Evangelical – Buddhist – Hindu – what have you – “ The grain is one type but the maid that deal with it are twelve.”
Look! Syria’s Bashir Al Assad is more important than Syria and her 20 million people along with their common history of centuries, in the same fashion the TPLFites are more precious and indispensable than the 85+ million people of Ethiopia. The sustenance of political power and economic supremacy over the majority of the 12% Alawites  in  Syria is worth the perdition of the entire nation. This is the irony of world history and ethnocentric selfishness and/or religious sectarianism. Blind people leading the blind planet; an object of laughter and astonishment in the entire universe wherein so many other civilized creatures are believed to co-exist in this unsigned inter-galactic confederation.

In Ethiopia, the situation is far worse than in Syria. The difference is that Syrians have reached the level of ‘enough is enough’ while in Ethiopia such determination is temporarily out of the scene due to a number of reasons amongst which poverty and, to a certain extent, the  deviously contrived satanic divide and rule system of the ethnocentric junta  are mentionable. You can add some other oriental or occidental factors, if you like. The most interesting thing here is, thanks to Mr. History’s lesson, fair judgment will be meted out and everyone will be receiving what they deserve. That is why I am always justifiably keen to say ‘the blind are in the lead’ to mean they are myopic to the extent of failing to see what has happened in the past to their predecessors. We have to remember that whatever we do has a boomeranging effect; the farthest we throw our spear, the nearest it lands so that we are within the range of the retribution we deserve. ‘You spit upwards, you will get your own saliva soon on your face.’ There is no free kick. You kick out someone today, you will be kicked out by someone tomorrow. What anything else do you expect? And what is new? Nothing, unless we are deceived by our sense organs, which may fool us by distorting our perception, as for example, our eyes could dupe us by making us believe a rod of explosive to ‘be’ a piece of soap. 
The authorities of the world need to do something if we want to lead peaceful life. As a recommendation, I would like to suggest that all the chairs of this world, chairs of VIPs I mean, should be ‘splashed with holy waters’ from the Shenkora Yohanes of Ethiopia or from that of the French town of Lourdes which is named after St. Mary; if this doesn’t work, let them be debugged or formatted and reconfigured like a computer full of viruses.  What else can we possibly do? In Ethiopia, most probably like in Syria, almost everything belongs to the Tigrians.  You are absolutely right if you say now, just at this very moment, that death and every sort of suffering and migration and helplessness and unemployment and layoffs and what have you in the stock of Mr. Devil go to non-Tigrians. [Will it be a crime if I tell the absolute truth? Will anybody liken me with the Rwandan version of ‘kill the cockroaches’   kind of preaching? Don’t be wrong! I am simply telling you what is happening in my country where, on the rung of citizenship, I belong to the last one somewhere below the dogs, if dogs have citizenship, or I am not at all considered as citizen by the Tigrian junta and most of all, except in rarest exceptions, I do not believe in killing.]

You  can  simply  understand  that  a  certain  shop  or  supermarket  in  Ethiopia  belongs  to  a Tigrian, let me edit this clause please, - belongs to a Tigrian who doesn’t at least oppose the ruling Tigrian banditry, if you can interpret messages conveyed through paralanguage and circumstantial phenomena. You do not need the help of words or explainers with this respect to identify which institution or firm or enterprise or houses and homes, if you like, belong to whom; these neuters speak themselves loudly. The shops of non-Tigrians are always under supervision, struck by lack of a new arrival of commodities, and situated at marketwise non-attracting areas; the security are there, the customs and tax people are there to incriminate in case any tax evasion occurs even at times intrigues are devised or prefabricated to jail opponents or non-Tigrian competitors so that they remain down the ladder of wealth, for the Woyannes are suspicious of others’ prosperity in case they ‘misuse’ their money  for  subversive acts. For fear of such potential incidents, non-Tigrians are always under control, their body, their family, their money, their property, their day –to –day activity/movement, their soul and mind in general is in prison though it seems they are at large; I guess even their thoughts and dreams are under electronic surveillance, thanks to these Chinese rats. The shops of Tigrians on the other hand flourish day by day while those of others diminish and finally get closed due  to  the  discriminatory  laws  and  lack  of  conducive  conditions  to get  along  with  the  Tigrian merchants. (For instance, the rental fee assigned by the government to the non-Tigrian is ineffably expensive when compared with that of the first citizen.)  All offices fairly and timely entertain Tigrians because it is ‘their right to secure such luxury after they and their children fought for 17 years with the Dergue regime’.  All the best in the country is consensually declared to the Tigrians; mind you, not all Tigrians are beneficiaries of this roguish ethnic mafia. Being a Tigre alone may not help achieve your whims; one needs to be more active, more Woyanne even than the veterans, more anti-Ethiopian,… to get themselves in the hub of the hedonistic debauchery; so long as one chooses to be brainless, this chance is also open to others. If you are a new comer, your common sense realizes all this fact as soon as one of your feet comes out of the plane at Bole International Airport. To deny this is tantamount to deny the self. At this crooked conjuncture of historical time, it is no wonder if the non-Tigrians  feel  as  if  they  are the  n citizens  to  whom  almost  all  offices  of the  ethnocentric government are padlocked, or made ajar with the help of Mr. Money. As an observer, as a real human and humane observer, you may lament thinking the ugliest situation Ethiopianness has brought about upon Ethiopians.

It is my sincere conviction that all this has happened upon us so that we can learn, through learning we can grow, as a result of our experiential growth, we can reach a refined level of human development wherein our consciousness will have the composition of and an alignment with a real human entity which will have been free of blinding carnal desires that cause pyrrhic conflicts like the ones we are witnessing now.

Let us wade for some time in our marshy social and political problems. Almost all state offices are held by Tigrians or Tigre-controlling puppets from other tribes. If you see an industry under construction, feel free to assume it is an asset of a Tigrian(s). If you see 10 officials on TV screen speaking about certain issue(s), whose contents most often could be false or falsified data cooked by opportunist ‘scholars’ of the junta, you are safe to guess only 0.5% of them is non-Tigrian. If at all you see a non-Tigrian ‘official’ speaking on TV or elsewhere, or sleeping in the parliament for that matter, be sure that that person is condomic stature serving the Tigrian regime as a make- believe, so that the rest of the foolish world, the so called ‘International Community’ ‘understands’ that the Tigrians are generous enough to share the political power, and thereby interested groups try to convince their allies that their prescription to the country is working properly. By the way, I say the foolish world because it wanted to be called so. If we see an entity acting as a foolish while on the other hand it prettily understands the whole truth, call it foolish. The so called international community knows whether ‘a fly is a virgin or not’ or ‘whether a fly is right- handed or left-handed or even whether it is ambidextrous or not’ leave alone knowing what is happening in Ethiopia in reality. They are purposely enhancing such blind policy of ‘kill the righteous, empower the impious’ so much so that they are able to desecrate the shrines of sovereign nations. What will become of them when all this global saber-rattling gets a go-ahead instruction most probably very soon? Isn’t there such prediction, “They will be destroyed by the tools of their own making.”? The time is coming!

Let’s empathize with the innocent, the children, and the old….

Tigrians are said to be 6% of the entire population in Ethiopia. But thanks to the west or the east or the north and the south, the Tigrians in the helm of power are freely galloping the 94% of the rest of the population; thanks to the resource they controlled, their influence can even go beyond the Ethiopian compromised borders as far as the peripheries of the globe. By the way, I am not opposing the galloping per se; I am opposing the way they are galloping, as the term itself derogatively conveys bad connotation. They have lost their rationality, their ingenuity, and all their senses by and large. They have metamorphosed themselves into a robotic mechanical being which is devoid of any human element other than eating, drinking, killing, and copulating. Maybe, at a generous estimate, 10% of the 6% Tigrian population in Ethiopia might be reasonable and feel the wound of their ill- fated non-Tigrian Ethiopians. I personally understand the agony these people are forced, by their conscience, of course, to have due to their benignly humanistic nature. People like Getachew Reda of ethiosemay.com is worth mentioning here as an example of good Tigrian Ethiopians who are out of the foul play with respect to ethnic gambling. Well, I should have mentioned some more names but I shall be reserved for various reasons.

A beginning has an end.

You may know something about apartheid; you may know something about the genocidal holocaust in Germany on Jews by the Gestapo, you might have heard about the Armenians, the Rwandans, Cambodians, Chileans, etc. the genocide and the suffering of all of which is registered in world history and made known to generations. But who cared for the genocide that took place in Ethiopia in the past 38 years by the west sponsored TPLFites? Who is going to take the blame for the murder, eviction, ethnic cleansing, and impoverishment … of especially the Amharas by this junta of TPLF here in Ethiopia? Who paved the way for these narrow nationalists of the Tigrian bandits to come to the palace and miraculously do all these crimes against humanity?  Why is their crime covered? Aren’t we human beings? Why do the major media institutions including Aljazeera, as to me the voice of the voiceless, ignore our major affairs to report? Is it because we don’t have fuel? Is it because we are not white or yellow? Is it because our souls are inferior to theirs? Is it because we have an envying rich historical background mainly due to our victory over European expansionists?

What is the secret behind? Is an Ethiopian soul lighter than the soul of, for example, a royal dog in UK? What an idiocy is it? I tell you the truth: if the crimes of Adolf Hitler and other brutal children of this world are summed up, the summative effect of those historical evils is like a drop in an ocean when compared to the crime of the TPLF, provided we Ethiopians are reckoned as human beings. In the first place, those historical beasts like Hitler had a short span of time to commit the crimes they had committed. Some atrocities took place in shorter durations, though painful, like for example, the Rwandan genocide took place within three months. But when we see the crimes committed and being committed by the Woyanne, it is beyond imagination and the time is edging to be almost forty years including their jungle life. You can calculate how many millions of people, especially the Amharas, might have been sacrificed to quench the blood thirst of the gods and goddesses of these Mafiosi.

I shall leave you with a big question. Who will emancipate Ethiopia from these dragons? And when?

God bless Ethiopia,

God bless the world.

The Scramble for Ethiopia

By Messay Kebede

What else could better express the existence in today’s Ethiopia of more than eighty political parties, out of which ethnic parties represent the overwhelming majority, than the term “scramble?” That for now the TPLF holds together the disjoined parts of the country by force for its own sectarian interests only reconfirms the accuracy of the term.

How did this come about?

When we try to understand what happened to Ethiopia and, by extension, to Eritrea, since the overthrow of the imperial regime, we are invariably overtaken by a mounting perplexity. Unlike the imperial regime, which never declared its intention to empower the people, the political movements that opposed the regime emphatically and without exception asserted their primary and unique goal to be the liberation and empowerment of the people. The EPRP, MEISON, the Derg, the OLF, the TPLF, and the EPLF, to name the most important ones, all claimed to fight for the cause of the people. Yet, none of the movements that succeeded to seize power and implement their programs came anywhere near to fulfilling the promise of liberation and empowerment. On the contrary, all ended in similar types of abject dictatorial and sectarian rules.

The dominant explanation attributes the failures to accidental derailments. It argues that the initial intention and corresponding organizations were fully committed to the goal of liberation until they were derailed by the rise to the leadership position of unfit or fraudulent individuals, who used their position to institute a dictatorial rule and surround themselves by cynical and self-serving groups. Mengistu Haile Mariam, Meles Zenawi, and Isiyas Afeworki negatively altered, so it is said, the original good intention of the movements that brought them to power.
The trouble with the explanation is that the notion of derailment presupposes what needs to be explained. How could individuals, however smart, determined, and cunning they may be, succeed in overturning movements that were often able to overcome very challenging situations. Even if it was short-lived, the triumph of the Derg over so many opponents remains an exploit. Equally remarkable is the defeat that the EPLF and the TPLF inflicted on the military machine of the Derg. It just begs the question to assert that one or several individuals were able to misdirect movements with such proven strength.

Hence the need for a change of paradigm: instead of taking for granted an initial good intention, what if the devil was already in the intention? Rather than derailment, such an explanation sees continuity between departure and arrival, despite contrary appearances. What happened and is happening are already contained in the initial intention, which therefore was itself vicious. In other words, though the movements promised liberation and empowerment, the real and hidden goal was self-promotion and exclusive control of power. Ideologies advocating the liberation of the masses by revolutionary elites, such as Leninism, Maoism, and ethnonationalism, came in handy and quickly spread like a bushfire.

It must not be made to seem that the adoption of these ideologies by the revolutionary elites was a deliberate deception. The tragedy is that they honestly believed in these ideologies and honestly thought that they were working for the empowerment of the people. The fault was and still is in their mind, in the mistaken understanding of what liberation and empowerment mean. The misunderstanding can be traced to their colonial attitude toward their own people, itself being a resultant of the colonial education they received and thank to which they earned their elite status. The education convinced them that they are the native heirs to the civilizing mission of the colonizer, that the measure of their own modernity is the extent to which they see themselves as tutors and agents of change.
At first look, being agent of change is rather positive and expected from educated people. The problem, however, was that it was conceived in the colonial fashion: it was perceived as an imposition from above and deliberately excluded the active participation of the people. Modernity was not what people bring about through their active engagement and creativity; it was a dictate flowing from the enlightened ones and as such demanding passive compliance. The relationship that exists between elites and the masses is not one of answerability, but of elites fashioning their people according to an idea of modernity that defines them as domesticators, thereby entitling them to absolute power. Whether you call the goal socialism, revolutionary democracy, national liberation movement, it always amounts to a dictatorial rule lining up a whole people in the name of a self-serving idea of modernity.

Ethiopians who are familiar with my books on Ethiopia know that I have developed this flawed idea of modernity and its toxic implications from various angels. The happy surprise for me was that the idea has now crossed into Eritrea’s intellectual space, as witnessed by Yosief Ghebrehiwet’s article titled “Eritrea’s Drive for Modernity: In Search of Asmara” posted on Asmarino. Not only is the article witty and very perceptive, but it also proposes a paradigm change in our understanding of what happened both in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Thus, in analyzing the Eritrean case, Yosief barely refers to the usual motive for the uprising, namely, the national oppression by the Amhara. Instead he focusses on the impact of Italian colonization, which created “a generation that imitated the Italians in every gesture without having any understanding of the beauty of the Italian culture . . . a generation that contemptuously gave its back to the Habesha culture.” The imitation induced an abstract idea of modernity, that is, a conception of modernity “devoid of human factor” and hence intrinsically totalitarian. The modernity of the uprooted is paradoxical: though it speaks of national liberation and empowerment, it is nothing but a replica of colonization by foreign natives. Yosief courageously writes: “the structure of Shaebia’s army that marched to Asmara looked like a colonial army, with the urban elite replacing the Italian positions at the top and the peasants accorded their old place of askaris at the bottom – this was how they came to colonize Asmara.”
The reason for Eritrean uprising is thus obvious: it was a renewed scramble for Ethiopia, a reconstitution of the Italian invasion by natives. This applies to the secessionist movements in Ogadan and Oromia as well, since they aspire to dismantle the conquest by which Menilik defeated the colonial design on Ethiopia. In construing the return to a pre-Menilik political situation as decolonization of Oromia, Ogaden, etc., these movements draw, as elsewhere in Africa, the entitlement to rule from being enlightened natives pushing out alien colonizers. In other words, the ideology of Amhara colonization is how elites invent an ascriptive legitimacy to rule based on ethnic belonging. Without the ideology, the elites would have to justify their entitlement to rule by the implementation of socioeconomic progress, that is, by actual achievement and merit rather than by natural relatedness.

Needless to say, the creation of an ascriptive right to rule through the denunciation of Amhara colonization is little prone to democratic competition and accountability. Accordingly, the so-called national liberation movements are not so much liberation as elite conflicts for the control of territories resulting from the dismantling of Ethiopia. Speaking of the Eritrean war of liberation, Yoseif rightly says, “it was a war fought between Addis Ababa and Asmara elite. In between, the peasants of both Ethiopia and Eritrea perished fighting the respective urban elite’s causes.”

Elite conflicts accurately sum up the Ethiopian revolution and the ethnonationalist assaults on Ethiopia subsequent to that revolution. The reason for the radicalization of the Ethiopian educated elite through the adoption of Leninism in the 60s and 70s was the need to dislodge the old aristocracy with its bureaucracy and military apparatus from power and the control of resources. Class struggle furnished the ideology necessary to mobilize the working people against the old state apparatus and the church, not so much to liberate them as to empower elites defining themselves as “revolutionaries.” In the meantime, ethnonationalist elites were preparing the ground for another round of elite conflicts, this time by creating a form of exclusion based on ethnic belonging, which resulted in the defeat of the Ethiopian Revolution by ethnonationalist forces.

What should be underlined is that the class struggle and the ethnonationalist forms of exclusion find their common source in the colonial understanding of modernity, that is, of modernity as an imposition from above and whose main purpose is to benefit the few. Not only this form of modernization does not tolerate grass-root movements (autonomous civil societies, professional organizations, and unions), independent political parties, and a liberal economic system, but the narrowness of its goal stemming from the colonial model of modernization reserves economic benefits for the few. Such a restricted development further divides elite and unleashes a violent struggle for the control of scarce resources.

As a result, the country moves in a vicious circle: the empowerment of the few at the expense of the majority curtails economic development, which curtailment exasperates elite conflicts for the control of scarce resources. No more than overseas colonizers, internal or native colonizers can allow the enlargement of social wealth and distribution under pain of losing the absolute control of power that their faulty idea of modernity justifies. The opposite, that is, grass-roots modernization is anathema to them because it pushes for the democratization of all forms of social life and for the accountability to the people. By definition, colonizers, those who “civilize,” be they external or internal, cannot but target absolute power.

Ethiopia using spyware to monitor political activists: report

March 31, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - A recently released report has indicated that the Ethiopian government is using a controversial spyware software called FinSpy to monitor the political activities of opposition groups in the country.

The report by the Citizen Lab based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto said Ethiopia has used the surveillance technology to interfere with the political activities of opposition groups

The researchers found a version of FinSpy in Ethiopia that tricked users into downloading FinSpy embedded photos and an image file of opposition groups.

According to the report, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used in tracking the opposition’s movements belonged to Ethiopia’s state-owned telecommunications corporation, Ethio Telecom.

“The existence of a FinSpy sample that contains Ethiopia-specific imagery and that communicates with a still-active command and control server in Ethiopia strongly suggests that the Ethiopian government is using FinSpy,” said Morgan Marquis-Boire, a security researcher and technical advisor at the Munk School and a security engineer at Google.

Ethiopian officials were unavailable on Sunday to respond to the allegations. However, in comments made to a local newspaper, an unnamed official from the ministry of communications and information technology (MoCIT) has dismissed the purchase and use of spyware technologies.

The report revealed that more countries are using the spyware technology than previously thought.

FinSpy was detected in 25 countries, including the United States, as well as several other countries with dubious human right records.

The software is designed to secretly infiltrate targeted computers or mobile phones to monitor communications and siphon data, such as passwords and audio from Skype calls, which it then transmits back to a server.

FinSpy surveillance software is commonly used by law enforcement agencies to monitor criminals. However, the report shows it is also being widely used by a number of repressive regimes, namely to spy on dissidents, independent human rights groups and critical journalists.

The software, which was developed in Germany and is available for purchase through a UK-based subsidiary of the Gamma Group, is “regularly sold to countries where dissenting political activity and free speech is criminalised”, researchers said in the report.

The Citizen Lab conducts research in the fields of digital media, global security, and human rights, with the aim of analysing and impacting the exercise of political power in cyberspace.

(ST)