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[teodroseIII]

The seed of strife that is girding Ethiopia was planted the minute “ethnic federalism” was introduced by Meles Zenawi and the TPLF junta he headed. Let me say from the outset that my condemnation of TPLF the ideology is not an attack on Tigray people as a whole, Tigray people are part and parcel of Ethiopia’s foundation and they are my brothers and sisters like the rest of Ethiopia’s ethnic communities. The basic premise of “ethnic federalism” was to group Ethiopians into clusters based on tribe. Supposedly, each “homeland” would be representative of Ethiopia’s main ethnic groups. If this sounds familiar, that is because it is a carbon copy of South Africa’s “Apartheid” policy that fractured the country based on tribe whereby various ethnicities were ghettoized in Bantustans.

Most people think that Apartheid was about keeping “blacks” apart from “whites”; in reality, the main purpose of of Apartheid was to partition the “black” populace along ethnic lines. The Zulus, Sothos, Xhosas and the largest ethnic groups in South Africa were given their own homelands called Bantustans where they lived in rank indigence while “white” South Africans lived apart (hence apartheid which means apart hood) in posh communities. The “blacks” were then manipulated to believe that other “blacks” were the problem.

If you read the history of Apartheid South Africa, you will uncover stories of atrocities committed by Zulus, Sothos and other tribes against each other. Parenthetically, there is a reason why I keep using quotes around the brands (which they really are labels that sinister souls branded humanity with), check out this video that explains my stance that race was a creation of racists. This is what happens when you...continued...

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