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Meles
Zenawi, the African Saddam Hussein |
by Muhammad Shamsaddin
Megalommatis
December 20, 2006 12:00 PM EST
Meles Zenawi, the African Saddam Hussein? In
an earlier article, we stressed the subtlety
of the Horn of Africa issues; by letting an
anachronistic and murderous coalition of
Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic rulers
further tyrannize both, the Amhara and
Tigray Muslims and the (Christian, Muslim,
and Animist) Afars, Oromos, Ogadenis, and
Sidamas, the West signs the warranty
certificate for an Islamic Terror Volcano
Explosion of incommensurable dimensions and
ominous impact on global developments.
The combination of disproportionate
elimination from the decision making and
miserable underdevelopment due to mistrust
and ethnic hatred is an alarming factor in
the Horn of Africa politics. When the Oromos
(42%), the Ogadenis (10%), the Sidamas and
other Southerners (10%), and the multi-split
Afars (8%), who are dispersed among three
states, namely Abyssinia, Djibouti, and
Eritrea, face inhuman oppression and
absolute alienation within their own
historical lands that have been colonized by
the Amhara Kingdom before 110 years (or even
more recently), the despair and the
desolation run high.
Anyone, especially the Islamic Courts of
Somalia and Osama bin Laden, can capitalize
on this and by promising an alternative gain
momentum. Amharas and Tigrays (20% and 12%
of the population respectively) cannot be
left atop of this cemetery of peoples that
has been fallaciously named ‘Ethiopia’
(instead of the correct name ‘Abyssinia’) in
order to show a resemblance of Kushitic
African culture. With the proportion of
Muslim populations among Amhara and Tigray
increasing (by now reaching approximately 40
– 45%), and with the character of the
abominable oppression being double,
religious (Monophysitic Christian against
Muslims, Catholic and Protestant Christians,
and Animists) and national (Amhara and
Tigray over all the rest), the
representativeness of the bogus-elected
parliament and government runs at levels as
low as 10 to 15% of the entire population.
One could call Zeles Menawi the Saddam
Hussein of the Horn of Africa.
Mad dog Zeles Menawi declares war –
debacle according to the OLF statement!
A war between tyrannical bogus-Ethiopia and
the Somali Islamists can introduce East
Africa to an Ossama bin Laden inferno that
will cause a devastating domino effect
throughout Africa. Americans should meditate
on the terrible mistakes of the past; when
the Iraqi mad dog Saddam Hussein declared
his war on Iran’s Ayatullah Khomeini few
would expect such a nefarious outcome! It is
therefore high time to think for
miscalculations and machinations like this
are going to bring the Western world to its
knees. As a matter of fact, the
unrepresentative bogus-Ethiopian parliament
ratified a declaration of war of Somalia and
Eritrea on November 30. In an overtly
provocative way, Zenawi’s pseudo-parliament
declared war also against the Oromo
Liberation Front, demonstrating that the
‘Ethiopian’ government’s acts are directed
against its own people and the largest
ethnic group of that country. In a
statement, the OLF stipulates that “this
reckless decision would undoubtedly lead to
chaos in the Horn of Africa” and attributes
the responsibility for the forthcoming
‘debacle’ to the Ethiopian regime
exclusively.
Ogaden between the Abyssinian tyranny
(called Ethiopia) and Somalia To attack
the Somali Islamists, the constantly
deserted (by soldiers belonging to the
oppressed ethnic groups) Abyssinian army
will have to cross the great historical land
of Ogaden that was traditionally called
‘Abyssinian Somalia’. Ogaden was for
millennia a transit area between the
historical coast of Azania (eastern coast of
today’s Somalia, plus the Kenyan and the
Tanzanian coasts) and the Abyssinian plateau
where Axum (near Makele in today’s Tigray
province of Abyssinia) formed the
traditional Abyssinian kingdom. According to
the Periplus of the Red Sea, East African
trade (goods from India, Indochina,
Indonesia and East Africa) was at times
transported (not onboard alongside the coast
until the Bab al Mandeb straits and through
the Red Sea up to Egypt but) overland to
Axum and then to Meroe (in today’s Sudan
which is the historical ‘Ethiopia’ of the
Ancient Greco-Roman authors) to continue on
the great fluvial passageway that was the
Nile. Axum and the Other Berberia (as was
the name of the kingdom that was ruling the
area of today’s Somaliland – the north of
the defunct united Somalia) never ruled the
area of Ogaden.
Only recently, following the colonial
expansion of England, France and Italy, and
the end of WW II, the Amhara kingdom
expanded in Ogaden, and imposed successively
its royal – communist – pseudo-republican
terror there. The natural representatives of
the Ogadenis are regrouped in the
Ogaden
National Liberation Front (Jabhadda
Waddaniga Xoreynta Ogaadeenya). As stated in
its website, “the ONLF is a grassroots
social and political movement founded in
1984 by the Somali people of Ogaden who
could no longer bear the atrocities
committed against them by successive
Ethiopian regimes.
Today, the ONLF as both an advocate for and
defender of the people is dedicated to
resorting the rights of Somalis in Ogaden to
self-determination, peace, development and
democracy”. The Ogadenis, who aspire to
Independence and a Nationhood around their
capital at Harar, one of the holiest sites
for African Islam, are determined not to let
the Ethiopian army to cross without damages
their fatherland. This generates the danger
of Ogadeni – Somali Islamist alliance that
would be provoked by the idiotic planning of
the Africa advisors of Madeleine Albright
and the irrelevance of the Clinton
administration as regards African and
Islamic issues. If this alliance occurs, it
will be expanded further on among the other
ethnic groups of fake ‘Ethiopia’, at least
among the Muslims and the animists of every
oppressed ethnic group. When people are
starving by dozens of millions and they are
dispossessed of almost everything, it would
be an aberration to think that they would
meticulously evaluate the nature and the
beliefs of their supporters and liberators.
By letting Madeleine Albright travel to
Finfinne (don’t call the Oromo capital
‘Addis Ababa’, it is a fake name given by
the Amhara invaders), President Bush commits
the worst mistake of his life; only direct
arms sales to the Oromos, the Sidamas, the
Afars, and the Ogadenis, along with 2000
American special forces landed in strategic
spots would initiate a fruitful military and
political cooperation with the oppressed
peoples of Abyssinia. Otherwise, dozens of
millions would see in Osama bin Laden and
his Somali cronies the Liberator par
excellence. It would be essential to
terminate this article, by leaving some
space to the original actors and brave
fighters of the Ogadeni people, namely the
ONLF; in their last statement, dated 28
November 2006, they castigate the
treacherous and totalitarian attitude of the
TPLF, the Tigray thugs who support Meles
Zenawi and his lackeys of ministers. The
statement reads as following:
Ogaden rebels to resist Ethiopian army, if
it attacks Somali There has been much
written about the events unfolding in
Somalia with frequent mention of the Ogaden
National Liberation Front (ONLF) and
speculations on our position with regards to
the events unfolding in Somalia. Hence, we
would like to take this opportunity to
clarify to the international community and
members of the media our principled position
on the Somali civil war and Ethiopia’s
involvement in that country’s internal
affairs. First, the ONLF categorically
denies assertions by the TPLF led regime in
Ethiopia and members of the media that ONLF
military personnel are in Somalia. As a
matter of principle the ONLF has never been
and does not intend to be a party to the
conflict in Somalia. We wish to affirm that
the scope of our military operations is and
will continue to be limited to Ogaden and
Ethiopia.
We further wish to make clear that the
Ogaden cause in not a territorial dispute
between Somalia and Ethiopia but rather a
legitimate struggle for the
self-determination of the Somali people of
Ogaden Secondly, the ONLF strongly cautions
the international community against
permitting an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia
as that would have dire consequences for the
entire region. An Ethiopian invasion of
Somalia will trigger a catastrophic regional
war with massive loss of life and continued
instability in the Horn of Africa for years
to come.
Thirdly, the ONLF wishes to affirm that we
will not allow our territory to be used as a
launching pad for an Ethiopian invasion of
Somalia without stiff resistance from our
armed forces. Fourthly, the ONLF bears
witness to the fact that the TPLF led regime
is in continuous breach of the arms embargo
placed on Somalia and has been since the
inception of the embargo. The current
Ethiopian regime has clearly been the
primary obstacle to the peaceful settlement
of the Somali conflict for over a decade by
actively interfering in the internal affairs
of Somalia by arming various factions,
training their militias and undermining
through diplomatic maneuvers nearly all
attempts at a peaceful settlement between
conflicting parties.
In this time of increasing tensions in the
Horn of Africa, the ONLF wishes to confirm
that the people of Ogaden stand in strong
solidarity with the people of Somalia to
reclaim their sovereignty and achieve a
lasting peace free of foreign influence and
manipulation. Despite the Ethiopian regimes
policy of deliberately undermining peace in
Somalia, the ONLF urges all parties in
Somalia to solve their differences through
dialogue and recognize that they are at the
threshold of a crucial decision that will
usher in a period of sovereignty or foreign
domination for Somalia depending on the
choices they make. The ONLF will continue to
support and encourage every legitimate
effort to provide all necessary assistance
to the Somali people so that they can fully
grasp their political future into their own
hands and move toward a
peaceful, prosperous and democratic future
built by Somalis and for Somalis.
Source:
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/21233.html |
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