We owe the 300 Ethiopians Victims of Ethnic Cleansing a Memorial Service
Posted: 12 Jul 2020, 19:43
One cannot trifle the wanton disregard weyanes and jewar foot soldiers, the so-called keeros, have for human life when they decided to kill Achallu as expedient to trigger a civil war. The Hachallu killers didn’t murder Hachallu just for the sake of it, but because of the sought after communal violence that would precipitate endless killing. To achieve jawar lead keeros identified the targeted nationalities, they identified where they live, they identified what kind of business they owned, the local policies, leyu forces were there to react only if and when Amharas, Gurages other nationalities opted to organize and resist. If there is no resistance the local police play their usual hear no evil see no evil games while people are killed around them and 100s of building goes up in flames in plain sight. Their federal accomplices have witnessed in the past two years three genocide singling out Amharas , Gurages and gadious , but each time they feign they are surprised that ethnic cleansing took place. Their favorite word to express this organized, targeted killing is a conflict between A and B. Though it is known who is the attackers and who is being attacked. There is no a better example of what “ jawar’s underground government keeros are capable of doing given what conspired in Shashmanee. All business owned by Oromos were left intact but all business next to an Oromo business were burned or robbed. The Amhara communities were burned to ground, those from other communities were killed and their dead body cut to pieces. So even though the killing of Hachallu is a sad event the genocide that is committed against innocent Ethiopians has much significance because it could be the prelude to a much bigger disaster. Though the memorial of Hachallo may be deserving one including the naming of schools etc, however, given the reason for his killing was as a means of triggering a genocide our eyes should be fixed on the victims of this genocide. A much bigger Memorial should have been held to remember the 300 hundred victims who have been killed for the simple reason of who they were. They were killed either because they were Amharas or Guragers, or Wellamos, or Christians, but not because of what they did. So every single victim’s life story needs to be told and remembered just like we remember the life of Hachallu. Hachallu is a victim as any of 300 Ethiopians that were killed, but again the political expediency necessitated to over glorify the death of one while ignoring or making an afterthought reference to 300 voiceless victims in cities and villages around the country. What it indicates is that there would be the fourth genocide in the near future. The last three patterns played out in the same way, deny, hide, repeat. What can we do? We can do plenty. Let us change our Facebook into a memorial to the victims of these Ethnic cleansing. Let us exposed our leaders for their dereliction of duty in protecting the Ethiopian people from Ethnic cleansing. Let us not participate in memorial service that doesn’t remember all the victims of these Ethnic cleansing, and Tekle Umas discriminatory memorial service is a good example of this sick politics.