September 24/2018
By Haile-Gebriel Endeshaw
The deliberate way of belittling Ethiopia from within by certain narrow racist groups has created a bleeding sore in our minds. This has caused, among other things, misunderstandings, conflicts and displacements being observed in various parts of the country. Apart from this, our vindictive leaders shamefully gave us names. They called us braggart and narrow-minded. They herded us in a blind alley. In general, they made us lose hope in everything. Due to this unjust system of governance, many citizens have been forced in to dire poverty, beggary and prostitution. Thanks to the poorly managed economic system, there are now far more street children than ever before. All these things have been done in an organized manner for the last 27 years.
Shame on us that we have systematically been made to pick quarrel among ourselves whereupon we could trap ourselves in to pitfalls set up by the enemies of this country. This way we put dividing fences among us. We were fooled by vindictive leaders to kill one another for irrelevant causes. We were put in a system that made us cause irreparable damages to our national interest.
Listen up guys to my tale of woe! Thanks to those unkind individuals who claim to lead us in to chaos without any sense of shame. These leaders, who failed to live up to public expectations, moved very far to the brink of giving away wantonly our own legal sea port. Having done this, they tried to convince us maliciously that we could do port businesses with any neighbouring countries. Then after, we were told, to our surprise, that port owners could use their seaports to water their camels! Now we are forced to peel out birr two million per day from our national coffer for port related businesses. Cry my beloved country! Cry bitterly! We were stabbed from the back by our merciless leaders who took mischievous initiative to grant large part our own territory on silver dish to the neighbouring country. Our government made fun of us, its own innocent people. Shame on that regime!
This is our government that did things behind curtain for the mere reason of benefiting certain ethnic group. This was the leadership that dared to save its hide by blackmailing, kidnapping, imprisoning and murdering its own innocent citizens. Woe is me!
Our authorities were so cruel that they could not show a fraction of sympathy to our compatriots who were flogged, tortured, chased out of the country and killed like stray dogs. Our government did not give a damn to the grave situations encountered by many innocent Ethiopians in overseas countries. It is disgraceful that innocent Ethiopians who were slaughtered to death in the deserts of Libya were not sympathised in a proper manner by their own government. This way our government failed to shoulder its responsibilities and showed negligence to its own citizens.
It is a big shame to witness that our own government facilitated ways in which billions of dollars have been embezzled by party members. It is a real shame to plunder money collected from the poor who lead life from hand to mouth. How can one believe that certain individuals got together to steal over 16 billion birr from a national grand dam project? How can individuals who assumed power steal money that was deposited in a bank by poor mothers who sells cow dungs… the money that was put aside by elderly people who stay vigilant overnight watching offices… the money saved by such citizens who push on life of grinding poverty? Our defunct leaders were so dishonest and pitiless that they could steal money in an organized way from the wallet of the down trodden poor citizens. Shame on them! … Woe is me!
Let alone ones’ own government, an invading force does not do such brutality. Our history testifies that the invading Italian force was witnessed to build roads and import vehicles including heavy-duty trucks… This is not to mean that the invading force was a sacred agent sent by the Almighty God. Really, I feel ashamed of myself to compare the works of an invading force to the organized theft in this country of ours. I am embarrassed to speak of my own government playing pivotal roles in doing or encouraging robbery of huge bread-baking machines, electric power generators and raw minerals from defenceless regions of this country.
Shame on them that our leaders at the top governance hierarchy incarcerated our genuine politicians! They sacked our best academicians from universities and other higher learning institutions. Many egocentric scholars have also played decisive roles to the long existence of that ethnic-based, despot, burglar and inefficient government. I am ashamed to say that this was our government that strangled the young generation to death with a crooked education policy. What a woeful cruelty!
Cry my beloved country that you have long been fatally pierced by your children, the black sheep of the family. We witnessed that most of professional hiring for various vacancies was deliberately done to the best advantages of certain ethnic group. Shame on earth! This happened in our Ethiopia. Shame on those who have been involved in orchestrating these devilish accomplishments. Woe that befell my beloved country.
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All said. It gives a genuine relief to exhale this bad air altogether. Now here we are facing with a different scene. It seems the by gone is long-gone. Having embarked on the threshold of the new era, we peace-loving people of this country have started pushing on life of inclusiveness and forgiveness. We are thus on the ready to correct such messy situations. Down with messy situations!
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