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Oromos Appeal to the HRW, Revealing Flagrant Aspects of the Ethiopian Genocide

[ Posted On: 2008-06-13 ]

I feel the need to keep silent for a while, and give due space to a brave Oromo who, corresponding to my call, sent just today a shocking report to the Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Read what Mr. Bakkalcha Bariisaa wrote to the HRW, and try to imagine the extent of inhumanity practiced in the world's most appalling tyranny, Abyssinia (Fake 'Ethiopia').

Note his key sentence: "thousands are being killed every day in remote villages where there are no media to cover events".

In fact, the situation of the subjugated, tyrannized, dehumanized and massacred nations of the world's cruelest dictatorship is far worse than any one - me included - has ever imagined, let alone described.

Unfortunately, as of today, only indigenous people have been the only testimonies in those places of the utmost shame. Their texts are valuable stimuli for further engagement - until the Cemetery 'Ethiopia' closes down once forever.

Ethiopia is Home to the 21st Century's Most Appalling Genocide

Mass murdering of children, burning of villages and forests, genocide, and looting of properties have been the Neo-Nazi acts practiced in the Horn of Africa by Meles regime's TPLF (Tigray People's Liberation Front) to systematically eliminate the Oromo and other groups of nations and nationalities in Ethiopia.

It has been almost two decades now since the Meles regime came to power, claiming to bring changes to the political system of the fascist-socialist Mengistu's Dergi regime that was also known for mass killings, detentions, burning of villages of Oromos and other nations who spoke against its political system.

Meles and his party have done nothing more than imposing the old political fascist system and even more of the neo-Nazi political style on the Oromos and other peoples in Ethiopia; but he has covered his evil actions by false face of democracy. It is sad to see that the international community has turned its deaf ear to the under-represented nations in Ethiopia who have been suffering from a single party Neo-Nazi system.

Today, the Meles regime continues practicing mass killings of men and women, small children, disabled and aged ones, who are incapable of escaping the brutal treatments of this regime. They slaughter small children like animals, also killing their mothers and fathers. They exposed the dead bodies to hyenas, vultures, and other wild animals. The massacres and mass killings of Oromo continued to be worse more than any other time.

From 1880-1887, Menelik killed 5 million Oromos. He cut breasts of thousands of women, castrated thousands of men like a ram; he slaughtered many like animals and burned thousands of villages. Since the start of his regime, Meles has done the same thing to the same people but used different tactics to eliminate them from the earth. Meles' system of ethnical cleansing is different from that of his forefathers, namely Menelik, Haile Selassie and the fascist Derg. The regime detains thousands of people and takes them in dark to remote areas and kills them in an open caves that like huge holes. Thousands are being killed every day in remote villages where there are no media to cover the events.

Recently, in May 2008, the so-called Ethiopian Federal Army launched war against many Oromo regions in South-Eastern and Western regions of Oromia, killing hundreds and mutilating thousands of people. The resent killings that happened between Gumuz and the Western Oromia people were widely reported in the world media over the last two weeks; this is just an example. Properties are being looted and hundreds of bodies are being exposed to hyenas and vultures to be fed upon. Villages are being burnt and hundreds of men and women are running away, leaving their homes, in order to escape these brutal actions. Voiceless children who are mostly orphans are crying for help but no one is reaching out to them. People are suffering in small and ruined huts or in the bushes as they are left without shelter at the mercy of hyenas.

Millions of men and women are currently starving due to hunger and natural and manmade draughts. Mothers cry everyday with their children and roam from house to house and from village to village, begging for food and milk. Thousands of children die due to lack of medical treatment while others suffer in cities, towns and villages from different diseases. Millions of Oromos are in despair as their troubles have not been reported and they live unknown to the world community and unmentioned by the mass medias. There has never been media coverage for many different remote cities, towns and villages of Oromia; no one went to the small huts and bushes to see how people in live their everyday lives in Ethiopia and how they suffer due to these inhumane actions. Reports that come very rarely sometimes in some media describe the situation that prevails in cities that are close to the capital Finfinnee (so called Addis Ababa) and the surroundings. Most mass media and world reporters, as well as diplomats care about other nations only when their national interests are at stake.

Our people and other brotherly nations in Ethiopia have been the victims of the Meles minority regime who forcefully entered into our land. It has been over a century since we have been suffering from the inhuman, savage and brutal actions of the Abyssinian settlers and there are no media to report about nor country to come to our help. Our cry for help has been meaningless and only crises like natural draughts are getting reported.

Go to the Tigray region and specially Mekele, the capital city and the home town of Meles, and see with your eyes. After that, go directly to those cities in Oromia and other Southern nations and see the suffering and the existing crisis; compare!

Is it really the natural draught that has been killing thousands of children and other people in the country?

Is it really this draught that is causing millions to suffer from hunger?

Where is the money pledged by the international communities and the World Bank going?

Is it used for what it is pledged or is it going to buy war planes, military equipments and to discriminatingly help build the Tigray region around Mekele?

These and the following questions will be few that you, as human right activists, should ask yourselves and others, because you have been producing reports every year on Ethiopia over the past decades.

As a result of your yearly reports and urgent press releases, what have you seen changing in Ethiopia?

Why do you see continuous Human Rights abuses in the country?

Look at the history of the Ethiopian regimes sine the last century, and tell me why the dictators come from the Abyssinia (Amhara and Tigry regions) in the north of the country?

Why mass killings, detentions, draughts and other natural and manmade disasters are reported mostly from Ogaden, Oromia and other Southern nations?

The current draught is being reported widely and soon millions of people will be suffering from hunger; already thousands have died.

Why do you think people die soon after a drought is reported in the country?

If there was a government that cared about their people, don't you think that it would introduce several programs to ensure the survival of the endangered people, before the draught kills in thousands?

Do you believe that the draught is the result of lack of long or short term rain?

Mengistu (the Fascist Derg Regime before Meles) was condemned for mass killings and there were draughts reported in his time as well; but most of the countries allover the world denounced the regime only because of its ties with USSR. But the Meles regime is still praised by some, despite the crisis - only because of his fake democracy.

Do you see any difference in these two regimes?

We, tyrannized Oromos, call on all Human Rights activists and more particularly the Human Rights Watch, humanist and democratic governments, peoples and individuals who care and love peace and prosperity to condemn these inhuman acts of the East African Neo Nazi Meles regime.

We also would like to appeal to all of you who care for Justice, for equal rights for every human being to come and see all the aspects of the present crisis of the Meles regime with your own eyes.

Meles is known to have denyied international observers from going to the crises areas. We ask that you use any means possible to demand to go to those red zones.

We call on all human beings to denounce these barbaric actions.

We ask all the major mass media to penetrate into these forgotten, red zones and see what is happening to innocent men and women every day.

We thank you for your tireless humanitarian work.

Please consider going to the unseen villages and towns where Human Rights are most abused.

Best Regards,
Bakkalcha Bariisaa

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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