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አሁን የአዲስ አበባ ህዝብ በመጀመሪያ መጠለያ አልባ ነው። ያች የሚወዳት የቆሮቆሮ ክዳን ቤት እንኳን የለውም። እንዳውም የአዲስ አበባ ከተማ ነዋሪነት መታወቂያ ሁሉ አይኖረውም። በፎቅ እና ተራ የጭቃ ቤት ምርጫ መካከል ያለ አይደለም። የመባረር እና ተቀምቶ ከአካባቢው ደብዛ የመጥፋት ዕድል ነው። እኔ አድስ አበባ በቅርብ አይቻታለሁ። ከናጠጡ ሃብታም ቤት እንድሁም ከምስኪን ቆርቆሮ ቤት ነዋሪዎች ከፍትፍታቸው ፊታቸው የሚጋብዝ። ለእኔ ወገን እንጅ የህንጻ ክምር መለኪያየ አይደለም።

ለሰው ሰው እንጅ ቦታ ዘመድ አይሆንም። ሰዎች በሰዎች እየተበሉ ነው። ልክ በእንግሊዝ የሱፍ በግ እርባታ ለፋብሪካ ግብዐት ሲባለ ሰዎች ከመሬታቸው ሲያፈናቅሏቸው " ሰዎች በበጎች እየበሉ ነው" እንደተባለው። ኦሮሙማ ኢትዮጵያዊያኖችን ከኖሩበት ከከበዱበት ቦታቸው ላይ እየበላቸው ነው።

የአዲስ አበባ ህዝብ የመሳተፍ፤የመጠየቅ መብት የተቀማ ነው። ህጋዊ ሰውነት ቢኖረውም በኦሮሙማ ዘንድ ህጋዊ ሰውነት ብቃት የሌለው የተሰለበ ነው። በዚህ ድረጃ የምናገረው ህዝቡ እንድህ እንድሆን የታፈነ፤ የተሸማቀቀ፤ እስረኛ ስለሆነ ብቻ ህዝብ ተስማምቶበታል የሚል ፈሊጥ አይሰራምም፡


አዲስ አበባ ታላቅ የኦሮሙማ የኦሽዊዝ ማካመቻ (Auschwitz concentration) ማስቃያ ቦታ ነው - በከተማ ደረጃ። People are living and doing under duress of Orommuma. Their silence is taken advantage as if they agreed.

አበረ፣
ለጥያቄህ መልስ አንተው እየሰጠህ መሰልኝ ። እኔ the wisdom of the crowd በሚባል መርህ አምናለሁ። የአንድ ሕዝብ ችግርና ትክክለኛ መፍትሄ ከራሱ ከሕዝቡ ይበልጥ ሌላ ሰው አያውቅም ። ደሞም ስታጽቲካል ሳይንስ ትክክል ነው ብለን ካመንን የሕዝቡ አመለካከትና መልስ ከማንኛው የኤሊት መፍትሄ የላቀ ነው ። እኔና አንተ በአዲስ አበባ ውስጥ አንኖርም። ባዲስ አበባ ብንኖር እንኳን እዚያ የበሰበሰ ቆርቆሮ ውስጥ መኖር አንፈቅድም። ስለዚህ እራስክን እነዚያ ሰዎች ቦታ አድርገህ አለምን ብታይ ሌላ አመለካከት እንደ ሚኖርህ ጥርጥር የለውም ። በምራብ ጽዱ አለም ላይ ሆነን ስለ አዲሳባ እስለም መፍረስ ላይ ያለን ቅዋሜ በመሰረቱ የሎጂክ ስህተት አለበት ። የራሳችን ሳብጀክቲቭ ስሜት ስለሆነ።

ይህን ሳብጀክቲቭ ስሜታንን የሚያረጋግጥ እርምጃ አዲስ አበቤዎች ስላልወሰዱ በጥቅል ፈሪ ሕዝብ ብለን ሕዝብ መዝለፍ ስህተት ነው፤ ያውም በምዕራብ ምቾት ላይ እየኖርን። ትህትናና ህውሚሊቲ ያሻናል። ይህ እኛ የምናደርገው ክርክር ማድረግ ያለባቸው እዚያ ያሉት ነዋሪዎች ናቸው። ለምን ዝም እንዳሉ ጥናት ያደረገ ሰው ይንገረን እንጂ የኛን ፖለቲካዊ ምርጫ በቆሻሻ ውስጥ በሚኖሩ ዜጋዎች ላይ የመጫን የሞራል ትክክለኛነት ሊኖረን አይችልም።

ሕዝቦች ሁልግዜም በጥቅል የሚወስኑት ነገር በታሪክ ትክክል መሆኑ ነው የሚታወቀው ፤ ያ ነው wisdom of the crowd የሚባለው።

[Selam/]

ባለ ፎቁ - አሁን ደግሞ በልሳን የምትናገር ነው የምትመስለው። አራምባና ቆቦ እየረገጥህ ከምትዘበራርቅ፣ በመጀመሪያ ሃሳብህን መስመር መስመር አስይዘው። አለበለዚያ ይኸንን ቅራቅንቦህን ቆሻሻ መጣያ ውስጥ ነው የምጥለው ወይንም ለውሻዬ ነው የማቀብላት።

ከህወአት ካድሬዎች ሽልማት የሚገባሽ በማስመሰል ሰላም አንቺ ነሽ። ግን በሰላም የምትኖሪ አይመስለኝም። ያልሆንሽውን ለመሆን የምታደርጊው መገለባበጥ ሰላም ሰጪ አይደለም። ተቆጣሽ ምንም አትፈይጂም በማለቴ። ሀቁ ያ ነው። DDT እና sun , አንድ ሰሙ የጠፋኝ አሮሞ , ሰሞኑን በሽታ እየሰጣችሁ ያለውን ጉራጌ ሆረስ Revelations የሚሉትን አማራ ቀንሺ ቀሪው በሙሉ የህወአት ካድሪዎች ናችሁ። መንግስት በዚህ ስብስብ ምክንያት እንቅልፉ እያጣ ነው ብለሽ ከገመትሽ ደንቆሮ ነሽ። ሰሞኑን Tik Tok ላይ የሰማሁት በደንብ ይገልፃችሁል።
You can’t fix stupid, and stupid is forever.

[Selam/]

ጭልፊቱ - እርስ በእርሱ የሚጣረስ ሃሳብ የምታቀርብ ሆድ-አደር ዶማ መሆንክን ላስረዳ።

ያውም በምዕራብ ምቾት ላይ እየኖርን። ትህትናና ህውሚሊቲ ያሻናል።

እንዴ፣ ነፃነት ከሰፈነበት ሃገር ሆነህ የሰው ልጅን እንደ በግ የሚይርድንና ከቦታው የሚያፈናቀልን ዕርጉም መንግስት እየደገፍክ ስለ ህዩሚሊቲ ስታወራ ትንሽ እንኳን አይሰቀጥጥህም?

የአንድ ሕዝብ ችግርና ትክክለኛ መፍትሄ ከራሱ ከሕዝቡ ይበልጥ ሌላ ሰው አያውቅም።

እንደዚያ ከሆነ ህዝቡ የሚፈልገውን ጠንቅቆ ስለሚያውቅ ከሚኖርበት ሰፈር እንደ ጎርፍ በድንገት መጥተህ ከመንቀልህ በፊት ምርጫቸውንና ፍላጎታቸው ልትጠይቃቸው ይገባ ነበር። ካፈናቀልካቸው በኋላ ዝምታቸው የመስማማታቸው መለኪያ ነው ማለትህ ግብዝነትህንና አጭበርባሪነትክን ያሳያል። ደርግ አንተ ያሰለጠንካቸውን የኢህአፓ አባሎች መንገድ ላይ ሲያርዳቸው የኢትዮጵያ እናቶች ሃዘናቸውን ትንፍሽ ሳይሉ የዋጡት እርምጃው ተስማምቷቸው ነው? መለስ ዜናው የጉራጌ ነጋዴዎችን ሲያጉላላቸውና የልማት ማህበራቸውን ሲያመሳቅልባቸው ሰልፍ ያልወጡት የወያኔን ክፋት ስለወደዱት ነው?

እኔና አንተ በአዲስ አበባ ውስጥ አንኖርም። ባዲስ አበባ ብንኖር እንኳን እዚያ የበሰበሰ ቆርቆሮ ውስጥ መኖር አንፈቅድም።

በምን አወቅህ አበረ ቆርቆሮ ቤት ውስጥ እንዳልኖረና አሁንም መኖር እንደማይፈልግ? የኢትዮጵያ ቤቶች እኮ በአብዛኛው በቆርቆሮና በጭቃ የተሰሩ ናቸው። ዲያስፖራው ሁሉ ታዲያ ዘመዶቹን የሚጠይቀው ሸራተን ሆቴል ቁጭ ብሎ ነው? ያንተ ወገኖችህስ ባህላዊውን አሰራር እየዘለሉት ጎጆውን በቆርቆሮ እየለጠፉት አይደለም እንዴ? ካላወቅህ ደግሞ፣ ኮንዶሚኒየሙም እኮ የሚለብሰው የቆርቆሮ ጣሪያ ነው።

አንተ ቆርቆሮ ቆርቆሮ እያልክ እንደ ቆርቆሮ ትጮሃለህ እንጂ ችግሩ ያለው ጣሪያና ግድግዳው ላይ ሳይሆን ቤቱ የሰፈረበት ቦታ ላይ ነው። ኦሮሙማዎች ቦታውን ስለሚፈልጉትና ነዋሪዎቹን ስለሚጠሏቸው እንጂ የሚያፈናቅሏቸው። ቆሻሻው ፀድቶ፣ ውኃና ፍሳሹ ተስተካክሎና መንገዱ ተስርቶ ቆርቆሮው ወደ ወርቅ የሆነ ፎቅ የማይለወጥበት ሰዎቹም እዚያው ሰፈር የማይቆዩበት ምንም ምክንያት የለም። ለዚህ ማስረጃ ደግሞ የሬይክዬቪክ ሽክን ያሉ የቆርቆሮ አፓርትመንቶች ምሳሌ ሊሆኑ ይችላሉ።

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Anarchy, hatred, and demolition of heritage sites in Ethiopia
October 13, 2024

Getahun Assefa

Ethiopia is deliberately reduced to a failed state by sheer incompetence and lack of mature leadership. The country has become an epicenter of intentionally fomented disorder and chaos by the ethno-anarchic leadership of Abiy Ahmed Ali (henceforth Abiy).

The regime in Addis Ababa has been deliberately orchestrating interethnic wars, causing destruction and mayhem since 2018. The war in Tigray has already caused the death of more than one million citizens. The current ongoing war in the Amhara region killed hundreds of thousands of innocent women, men, and children. Millions are displaced and forced to live in concentration camps with little or no supplies of basic utilities. Schools, health posts, social and cultural institutions, and economic infrastructure were destroyed. Still, there is no end in sight for the suffering of citizens, with conflicts shifting from one region to another within a country. The apocalypse we have been seeing in Ethiopia over the last five years exceeds the combination of war-related deaths and destruction in all active conflicts including in Palestine, Syria, and Ukraine.

What is more saddening is the deafening silence of the international community to the daily cries of the Ethiopian people. The continued financial support of donors including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the wanton destruction waged by the ethnocratic regime of Abiy and the suffering of civilians is mind-blowing. Available evidence suggests that aid resources given to the regime by the World Bank and IMF are entirely spent on acquiring armaments and drones that are immediately put on operation against Amhara civilians, including children at schools and patients at the hospitals. While war crimes and crimes against humanity are rampant in Ethiopia and going on at an unprecedented scale, there is utter silence from the donors, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and other rights-based institutions.

In the week of 7 October 2024, the current Labor Government of the United Kingdom pledged to “support growth and stability in Ethiopia”. This only shows the ignorance and stupidity of the so-called development partners about the conditions on the ground. It is impossible to support growth that does not exist and stability that will not materialize under ethnocratic dictatorships. The aid goes to financing interethnic wars and feeding ethnic entrepreneurs at a colossal cost to British taxpayers. Likewise, during the same week, Tony Blair, ex-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom paid a visit to Ethiopia. Reportedly he had a courtesy call to Abiy. It looks like two blood-stained hands shaking and hugging each other. Mr. Blair’s role in the destruction of Iraq and the bombing of Iraqi children, women, and the elderly is all too evident and fresh in our memories. Mr. Blair has also established an institute by his name: the “Tony Blair Institute for Global Change”, attempting to influence economic policymaking in Africa and the rest of the developing world. For a warmongering and killer of Iraqi civilians like Mr. Blair, the audacity of going into influencing development policy making is a travesty of justice and a mockery of development partnerships. Mr. Blair’s meeting with Abiy is a recognition and endorsement of one war criminal by another war criminal. The adage that birds with the same feathers fly together is true.

Whatever support donors provided to Abiy is a colossal mistake and a waste of precious resources. Due to a failed and rudimentary political governance, Ethiopia remained poor and vulnerable to environmental and economic shocks. The impact of development aid on Ethiopia is close to zero or net zero, if not negative. Sadly, the nation that is often touted as the origin of mankind and which is expected to answer the most vexed questions about the origin of humanity, could not hold itself together. Unfortunately, it is on the verge of collapse like the house of cartons. The incompetence of the regime of Abiy is solely responsible for the current regional tensions and rampant interethnic wars as well as the massive violation of citizen’s rights.

The regime which is bent on reducing Amharas to political, social, and economic insignificance, is solely responsible for the anarchy and chaos engulfing Ethiopia. causing mayhem and untold suffering to the citizens. The continuation of systemic and institutionalized discrimination against Amharas and pitching them against other ethnic groups is the reflection of the political immaturity and inadequacy of Abiy to lead the nation. Surprisingly, such an immature and inadequate ethnocratic dictator is left unchecked and, in some instances, supported by gullible bilateral and multilateral donors.

With or without donors’ support, everything the regime had planned was in shams and shutters. The attempt to subjugate and unseat Amharas is backfiring and has turned out to be a dismal failure in the political, social, and economic spheres of the Ethiopian nation. Utter lies and shameless misinformation about the country’s socioeconomic progress are unraveling before our naked eyes. While Abiy was busy with his vanity projects amid interethnic wars, unemployment skyrocketed, economic malaise deepened, and war and the resulting crises were all too evident with the multidimensional poverty headcount reaching as high as 85 percent. There is no more evidence to justify policy and political failures as well as the wastage of development resources (including from donors) than the hungry, sick, and destitute men, women, and children on the streets. The lesson here is that, when citizens are discriminated against and marginalized from economic, social, and political decision-making and in a situation where ethnicity and ethnic entrepreneurship are rampant, destructive interethnic wars will become unavoidable. This results in a perpetual and vicious cycle of generalized poverty, irrespective of development aid.

The demolition of Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa was founded in 1887 by emperor Menelik and his wife empress Taitu Bitul-Amhara couples who ruled Ethiopia from 1889 to 1913. It is one of the oldest cities in the African continent and is often described as the melting pot of the Ethiopian ethnicity where every ethnic group has lived in harmony and side-by-side for more than a century.

By historical conjuncture, Amharas are not only the founders of Addis Ababa. They are also the “makers” of present-day Ethiopia. They mobilized other ethnic groups including the Oromos in the defense of the “Ethiopian empire” against countless wars of aggression. The current generation inherited a free and proud nation (with a multiethnic cosmopolitan city) that gallantly defended itself from subjugation and colonization. Despite its proud past, as indicated above, the country is made to become the locus of poverty, illiteracy, and malnutrition by interethnic conflicts orchestrated and intensified by the combination of inadequate leadership and ethnocratic dictatorship.

In developed and advanced developing countries urban centers are serving as economic growth and transformation poles. They are bringing citizens from diverse racial, social, cultural, and economic backgrounds together to live in harmony and side-by-side. Old architectural, traditional agricultural, and archeological sites as well as deposits of artifacts serve as major tourist destinations and hubs for employment, modernization, and social harmony. They attract much-needed investments and advance the balanced socioeconomic, political, and cultural development of nations. What is being done in Ethiopia under our naked eyes is quite the contrary: cities are serving to advance ethnic politics, build ethnic entrepreneurs, create socio political upheavals (latent or active), fuel disgruntlement and public anger as well as abject poverty and destitution.

The ongoing demolition of Addis Ababa by Abiy and his regime under the disguise of “development” or “modernization” of the city is a continuation of uprooting Amharas from their ancestral land. It is an attempt to change the demographic composition of the city by making Oromos a dominant ethnic group. Without changing the demography of the city, the ethnocratic regime realized that its survival for long was questionable.

What the regime is ignorant of are the international legal consequences of the demolition of one of the oldest cities in Africa. The destruction of the city is the manifestation of a sheer dictatorship and a violation of citizens’ intergenerational heritage and rights. That is, the intentional destruction of the city of Addis Ababa by the ruling Oromo elites and the demolition of more than century-old heritage sites is a crime under international law. It violates the key provisions of the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCRs) to which Ethiopia is one of the signatories.

Conceptually, international law and related covenants distinguish cultural heritages into three types: First, built environments such as buildings, townscapes, and archaeological remains. Second, the natural environment, including rural landscapes, coasts, and shorelines as well as agricultural heritage. And finally, artifacts such as books, archives (documents), objects, and pictures with historical and heritage significance. What we are observing in Addis Ababa is the wanton destruction of such heritages cherished by international law and international covenants of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

As recently as 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted resolution 49/7 on “cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage”, reinforcing relationships between the protection of cultural heritage, human rights, and the risks faced by cultural heritage defenders.

ESCR defines cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage as integral to the complex sets of “human rights such as the rights to adequate food, shelter, education, health, social security, cultural life, water and sanitation, and citizens’ right to work and enjoy decent lives”. Likewise, international law including resolution 49/7 conceptualizes the right of access to and enjoyment of cultural heritage based on various human rights norms, including “the right of individuals and communities to, inter alia, know, understand, enter, visit, make use of, maintain, and exchange cultural heritage, as well as to benefit from the cultural heritage and the creation of others”. It also includes “the right to participate in the identification, interpretation, and development of historical heritage, and in designing and implementing practices to safeguard it”. The resolution also requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) “to promote the tools for the dissemination and possible methods of implementation of an approach to the protection, restoration, and preservation of cultural heritage that fosters universal respect for cultural rights by all”.

The Ethiopian people, particularly the Addis Ababa residents, have not been consulted on the so-called “modernization” or “development” of the city. The destructive actions are imposed by the autocratic regime in Ethiopia with the ulterior motives of political point-scoring by uprooting Amharas and changing the demographic dynamics of the city. Every step of the process follows the systematic imprisonment and intimidation of the Amhara political figures, intellectuals, businessmen, journalists, and youth. These all are violations of international norms and legal instruments that Ethiopia has signed and committed to uphold.

The deafening silence of the international community to the massive abuse of human rights and rampant crimes against humanity against Amharas in Ethiopia also manifests itself in the ongoing wanton destruction of Addis Ababa. Why do the so-called bilateral and multilateral donors that poured scarce resources to maintain an ethnocratic dictatorship in Ethiopia keep silent in the face of the destruction of the city? Why do the United Nations Commission for Human Rights and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fail to uphold the laws and regulations under their respective purviews to protect and promote cultural and heritage sites in Ethiopia? Would they allow the destruction of Paris, London, New York, or Rome by dictatorships and political diatribes as we see today in Ethiopia?

Conclusions and the way forward

The ethnocratic dictatorship that we see in Ethiopia today has already proven destructive to the country’s socioeconomic progress. It emerged as a bully in the region, steering regional and interregional disagreements and conflicts in the Horn of Africa. Such a regime will not guarantee the protection and promotion of the geopolitical and economic interests of developed nations and multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, Africa Development Bank, and IMF. Ethnocratic dictatorships have never delivered on promises of development, democracy, and good governance. Nor have they produced social harmony and societal cohesion in the history of mankind. This is because such systems do not allow citizens’ interests to be expressed, protected, or promoted. Instead of advancing development, ethnocratic dictators are facilitators of ethnic entrepreneurship, favoring the interests of one ethnic group over the others. They do not respect the rules of law and continuously subjugate the groups that are perceived to be historical political rivals or enemies.

Development partnerships and international cooperation that feed taxpayers’ money to dictators and anocracies will produce neither growth nor political stability. Nor will these address underdevelopment and impoverishment. Donors, if they are genuinely committed to development, must pay greater attention to the political governance and the local conditions in recipient countries. They must ensure that their development aid is spent on the intended development programs. They should also go beyond their geopolitical interest of ensuring empty security and stability that will be short-term in nature or unsustainable for longer periods. There must also be prior agreements on policy options and approaches to development before pouring scarce resources into the hands of arch-dictators and ethnocratic leaders.

It is long overdue for the Ethiopian people (at home and in the diaspora) to make the legal case for the intentional destruction of Addis Ababa and its thousands of nationally registered heritage sites. The United Nations Commission for Human Rights and UNESCO must be held responsible for their utter silence in the face of the glaring destruction of the cultural and heritage sites in Addis Ababa by political animals ruling the country. Ethiopians must urgently establish a multiethnic and multidisciplinary group (consisting of renowned experts in the fields of international law, engineering, architecture, economics, demography, statistics, sociology, and history). The group must be tasked to elaborate legal demarch and develop legal cases against Abiy and his regime for the wanton destruction of Addis Ababa and the massive violation of the rights of citizens in Ethiopia. Uprooting citizens from their ancestral land because of their ethnic, religious, or political affiliation is a crime against humanity.

https://borkena.com/2024/10/13/anarchy- ... iopia/?amp

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It is a government of deliberately destabilizing the country.
A systematic ally of Egypt.

Horse,
A central government that arms one ethnic group (Oromo Liyu) to its teeth and disarmed another ethnic group (Amhara Liyu) is a terrorist government.

It can’t lead and it can’t govern properly. No matter how you tried to legitimize it, still is a terrorist government.

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Dismay in Addis Ababa as ‘the soul of the city’ is razed for development

Ethiopia’s push to attract tourism and investment has seen the demolition of a historic district in the capital, with people’s homes and livelihoods destroyed

A Guardian reporter
Thu 4 Apr 2024 07.00 EDT

In the heart of Addis Ababa, the historic, ramshackle neighbourhood of Piassa once teemed with shops and cafes. People would come from across Ethiopia’s capital city to buy anything from jeans to jewellery. Today it lies in ruins. Its distinctive stone houses, with their wooden balconies and slanting metal roofs, are almost all gone. In their place are jagged fields of rubble, picked over by workers with sledgehammers.

People stop to stare at the wreckage. Some take pictures. But they do not stay long: the ruins are guarded by police carrying clubs. “I’m angry,” says a former resident. “It’s my heritage that’s been destroyed in front of my eyes, without any consultation at all. We were never told the plan.”

For years there had been vague talk of demolishing Piassa, sweeping away the densely packed shantytowns that had sprung up between its historic buildings. The area has witnessed small-scale demolitions. But when the bulldozers moved in last month, it was unexpected. One person says they were given five days’ notice that their family home of more than 50 years would be knocked down. The water and power were cut off after three days.

“Many of our belongings were damaged or stolen during the chaotic process of vacating,” they say. Like everyone in Addis Ababa the Guardian spoke to, they talked on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisals. Several former residents and heritage experts declined to be interviewed at all.

A new building stands at the heart of Piassa: the recently inaugurated Adwa Victory Memorial Museum. A low-slung complex of orange stone, constructed to commemorate Ethiopia’s historic defeat of Italian colonialists in 1896, it is the latest large-scale project built by Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister since 2018.

His other projects include a national library, a science museum and a host of manicured parks. Abiy’s administration has also renovated Meskel Square, Ethiopia’s most important public space. The biggest venture is a palace complex on a hill above the city, reported to cost $10bn (£8bn). The financing of the grand palace is opaque, though most western diplomats in the city suspect it is being bankrolled by the United Arab Emirates, which has been expanding its influence in the Horn of Africa. When questioned by MPs last year, Abiy said it did not concern them because it was not part of the official budget.

“This is a leader who uses built space as a political tool,” says an architect. “Every time people ask about these projects, they are just shut down.”

Piassa was torn down as part of a “road-widening project”. Other demolitions are also taking place. A tailor in a neighbouring district to Piassa said they were given one hour to clear their shop, with no explanation. They later discovered it is due to be replaced by a cycle path.

Piassa was built by Emperor Menelik II, the father of modern Ethiopia, soon after he founded Addis Ababa in the 1880s. It was developed by the Italians, who gave it its current name – it is sometimes called Piazza – during their occupation of Ethiopia in the 1930s. People in the capital considered it their Old Town, but it was also a hub of modernity throughout the 20th century, the place where new technologies first arrived in the country.

“It was the seat of modern Ethiopian history,” says a heritage expert. “They wouldn’t have wiped out their own heritage if they understood this.” Marco Di Nunzio, an anthropologist at the University of Birmingham who studied Addis Ababa’s inner city for several years, says: “There’s no doubt the area needed renovation. But the question is how to do that. The demolitions have not only destroyed old buildings that needed upgrading. They have disrupted livelihoods, displaced residents and damaged part of the soul of the city.”

Like the people cleared from other city neighbourhoods, those uprooted from Piassa have been relocated to new housing. This is often on the outskirts of the city, far from their schools and workplaces. Much of it is unfinished. A video shared by one person removed from Piassa of their new apartment shows a concrete husk, with no plaster on the walls, and no flooring, glazing or plumbing. “There were people who were more unfortunate than us, who were told they would be living in blocks of apartments which don’t exist,” she says.

Experts say Piassa’s destruction broke Ethiopia’s heritage law and urban planning regulations, though the government denies this. Thirty-six of the neighbourhood’s 42 listed buildings have either been destroyed or earmarked for demolition, say heritage experts. Abiy believes it is necessary to remove poverty from Addis’s centre to attract foreign investment and tourism. Earlier this month, he suggested Dubai as a model.

“While some individuals may be disappointed that their fences are being demolished, the country will not change unless we take bold measures,” Abiy said. “In a year’s time, we will witness a transformed Addis Ababa. Tourists will start to come, increasing the value of your property.”

Yet some in the city are questioning if these projects are the best use of public funds. Ethiopia is struggling with soaring inflation and a foreign currency crunch. It is also facing a reconstruction bill of nearly $23bn from a two-year civil war in Tigray, which ended in 2022. Millions of Ethiopians rely on food aid, but the humanitarian response plan to help them was only 34% funded last year.

The city is now coming to terms with its loss. “You don’t have to choose between heritage and development,” says a resident. “Piassa should have been protected and conserved, and this could have easily been done.”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... t-ethiopia

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ሰላም “ ባለፎቁ” ስትይ ትዝ አለኝ ኤርትራኖችን አዲስ አበባ ካለው ቤቴ ላባርራቸው ነው ብለሽ የዛትሽው። እኔ እንኪን ፎቅ በስሜ ድንኳን የለኝም አዲስ አበባ። ዘመዶችሽህ ለወርቁ ዘር ቦታ ሲያድሉ እኔን ምስኪኑን ያስታውሱኝ ብለሽ።

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ውይ በምናብህ ኖሯላ እስከ አሁን ወደ ላይ የተንጠላጠልከው?

አየህ ይኸ ሪቨርስ ሳይኮሎጂ ይባላል። ምንም የሌለህ መናጢ ድሃ ስለሆንክ፣ የድህነት አስተሳሰብክን ለመሸወድ ስትል፣ ድሃ ህዝብ ሁሉ ተፈናቅሎ መሬቱ ለሃብታሞች ይሰጥ ትላለህ።

አይዞህ ትግሬ “ወርቅ” ስለተባለ በቅናት አትንገብገብ። የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ በሙሉ ወርቅ ነው። ጥምባታሞቹ ወያኔ፣ ሻዕቢያ & ፒፒ /ኦነግ-ሸኔ ናቸው። አንተ homelesሱ ደግሞ የአንዱ ወይንም የሁለቱ ውታፍ ነቃይ ካድሬ ነህ።
ውዳቂ!

ሰላም “ ባለፎቁ” ስትይ ትዝ አለኝ ኤርትራኖችን አዲስ አበባ ካለው ቤቴ ላባርራቸው ነው ብለሽ የዛትሽው። እኔ እንኪን ፎቅ በስሜ ድንኳን የለኝም አዲስ አበባ። ዘመዶችሽህ ለወርቁ ዘር ቦታ ሲያድሉ እኔን ምስኪኑን ያስታውሱኝ ብለሽ።

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አውቃለሁ አማርኛ ሁለተኛ ቋንቋሽ ነው ግን ይህን መረዳት ሊቸግርሽ አይገባም ነበር። መናጢ ደሀ ነኝ አላልኩም። ያልኩት በስሜ አዲስ አበባ ድንኳን እንኳ የለኝም። አድልዎ ተደርጎብኛል ከ “ ወርቁ ዘር” ባለመወለዴ ነው እያልኩት ያለው።

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[Selam/]

Homelesሱ - በቅፅል ስምህም ድንኳን እንኳን መንደፈራ ላይ የለህም? ወደ ሸገር መሄጃ ፓስፖርት ሲፈቀድልህ ንገረኝ፣ ዘበኝነት እቀጥርሃለሁ። ውርጋጥ!

አውቃለሁ አማርኛ ሁለተኛ ቋንቋሽ ነው ግን ይህን መረዳት ሊቸግርሽ አይገባም ነበር። መናጢ ደሀ ነኝ አላልኩም። ያልኩት በስሜ አዲስ አበባ ድንኳን እንኳ የለኝም። አድልዎ ተደርጎብኛል ከ “ ወርቁ ዘር” ባለመወለዴ ነው እያልኩት ያለው።

[Affable]

ሰላም ዘበኝነት መቅጠር ትችላላችሁ። የአገሪቱ ካዚና የግል ንብረታችሁ እንደነበር አውቃለሁ። እኔን ዘበኝነት ለመቅጠር ማሰብሽ ግን የትቢትሽን ልቅነት ያሳያል ። ደሀ አለመሆኔን ነግሬሻለሁ። ስለኔ ካንቺ በላይ እኔ የማውቅ መሰለኝ። ሁሉን እናቃለን የህወአት ካድሬ ድንፋታ ብዙ እንደማይዋጥልኝ አልተገነዘብሽም ልበል።

[Selam/]

Homelesሱ - ታዲያ ምናለበት በአትክልተኛነት እቀጥርሃለሁ። ደግሞ አንድ ሌላ አዲስ ህንፃ ስገዛ ፅዳቱን ለአንተ እሰጥሃለሁ። እስከዚያው ድረስ የኢትዮጵያዬን ብሄራዊ መዝሙር በደንብ ጠንቅቀህ አጥና። ተባይ!

ሰላም ዘበኝነት መቅጠር ትችላላችሁ። የአገሪቱ ካዚና የግል ንብረታችሁ እንደነበር አውቃለሁ። እኔን ዘበኝነት ለመቅጠር ማሰብሽ ግን የትቢትሽን ልቅነት ያሳያል ። ደሀ አለመሆኔን ነግሬሻለሁ። ስለኔ ካንቺ በላይ እኔ የማውቅ መሰለኝ። ሁሉን እናቃለን የህወአት ካድሬ ድንፋታ ብዙ እንደማይዋጥልኝ አልተገነዘብሽም ልበል።