At this moment, there is a mother in Ethiopia sobbing uncontrollably while burying her child and a teenager in Gaza weeping while hugging a picture of her dad she will never see again. These scenes are not outliers but the norm in two ancient lands that are being roiled by brutalities few of us could ever imagine. The roots of senseless acts of carnage that are gashing Ethiopia, Israel and Palestine alike span decades if not centuries; generations of unrecognized pains, marginalization and systematic brutalities waged against people based on their ethnicity, religion and/or political beliefs are being manifested in Tigray, Benishangul-Gumuz, Addis Abeba and beyond in Ethiopia and in Gaza and the West Bank.
Agonies birthing rage, sorrows pixilating into bitterness, the strife that is taking place among people who have shared histories and common blood coursing through their veins is an outward display of buried inward emotions that are exploding before our eyes. I know about these inhumanities first hand; the sheer amount of bloodshed and human suffering that is occurring in my birthland Ethiopia on a daily basis is beyond description. A country that survived intact for more than 3,000 years is currently unraveling at the seams as too many are giving their hands to ethnocentrism and letting proximity determine their pursuit of justice...continued...
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