[dehai-news] (Business Daily - Kenya) Ethiopia on the path of self destruction


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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 15:47:17 EDT


  Ethiopia on the path of self destruction
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   Written by Mammo Muchie * Mammo Muchie
July 11, 2008:* Ethiopia is one of the oldest most suffering nations in this
planet. It went through hell in the Second World War under Mussolini's
fascist aggression.

It emerged from the war to confront a number of civil wars where external
and internal actors coalesced to make the people, country and nation suffer.

Its elite imported undigested ideas that simply became a reason to impose
terror. It fell for a virulent form of ethnic and vernacular decomposition
that has undermined Ethiopian citizenship rather than build it, despite the
claim to the contrary by those who imposed this particular form of
ethnocentrism.

The age-old plague of famine continues. Ethiopia suffered worst famine in
1973. Sadly, today a spectre of famine re-haunts Ethiopia. This is not
because the country cannot feed itself. It can. But the requisite values
that put human rights, human solidarity and social justice for all
Ethiopians irrespective of origin, religion, age, gender, politics, rather
than putting first the happiness, life and liberty of the elites and their
backers, have been discarded.

This is not to mention the values of human rights, social solidarity and
social justice that need to be institutionalised and sustained. Then there
is deception in elections. The deceptions have been rampant, particularly
since the May, 2005 election.

Peoples' voices, choices and votes do not matter. Their preferred candidates
have been sent to prison and some voters condemned to death. Other have gone
into exile. It is time Ethiopia came out of this self-inflicted prison of
problems. It is time for each one of its citizens to understand that
solidarity with others is what makes one human, and not the pursuit of life,
liberty and happiness for the individual.

In Ethiopia, those who do not have the capability and tolerance to express
spirits of solidarity should stop blocking public life from evolving into
directions that can truly tackle the real problems of real people in
Ethiopia.

What is needed now is a broad social movement to make sure key values are
shared by all those who join public life and those who do not share these
values are encouraged to share them, if they fail to share them, a
collective action is mobilised to restrain them from spoiling the destiny of
this far too much abused nation. Ethiopia must deal with conflicts and
disasters that put into jeopardy millions of its citizens.

*Prof Muchie works with the Centre on Development Innovation in Aalborg
University*

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