Total Demolition of ‘Ethiopia’ with the Sidamas Engaged in the Path for Independence

I have just received a brief but very informative text which sheds light on the troubles of the tyrannized Sidamas of the Abyssinian colonial empire. Written by the Chairman of the Sidama National Liberation Organization (SNLO), Mr. Kambata Xola, the text reveals the total rejection of the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian minority by one more subjugated nation, the Sidamas.

Allied with the equally revolutionary Oromos, Ogadenis and the other tyrannized nations of Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized ‘Ethiopia’), who all struggle for their independence, the text demonstrates the futility and the perversity of the pseudo-political arguments of the ultra-right, anachronistic and racist Amhara parties Kinijit and Cinbot 7, which obstinately intend to keep talking about a ‘united Ethiopia’.

‘Ethiopia’ does not exist anymore; it is a dead corpse that has burst and it’s over. The end of the Zenawi regime will be the End of the ‘Ethiopian’ pestilence that consists in the African History’s bleakest page. I republish therefore Mr. Kambata Xola’s text integrally.

Total Demolition of ‘Ethiopia’ with the Sidamas Engaged in the Path for Independence

By Kambata Xoola

The Nation of the Sidama had developed their own, African Kushitic, civilization and culture on a sophisticated socio-economic and political background which was vibrant until the 1890s when the Abyssinian king Menelik invaded the independent Sidama kingdom. With that event the long Sidama History entered into a new phase, namely that of the slavery, oppression and darkness.

The recent stage of Sidama History is consequently divided into several periods of indomitable resistance against the successive Abyssinian dictatorial regimes. Hundreds of thousands of heroic Sidamas sacrificed their lives only for the most noble purpose of regaining their lost autonomy one day. The re-establishment of a free and independent Sidama state and society has been the principal among the fundamental reasons of existence and purposes of life of the Sidamas. Their spirit of resistance and their readiness for sacrifice for the National Cause continue unabated.

Over the past 110 years, the traditional values of the Sidamas, humane, equalitarian and democratic in their essence, have been disrespected in brutal, and uncivilized way by the Abyssinian invaders and illegal settlers. Useless to add, the elementary Human and Civil Rights the rights of the people of Sidama have been suppressed too.

If not constantly slaughtered, the Sidamas have been ceaselessly mistreated, intentionally humiliated, and unreservedly brutalised by the Abyssinian rulers, who for both the Sidamas’ and the Western world’s standards proved to be absolutely uneducated, uncultured and even illiterate. Useless to add, they were totally ignorant of the Sidama civilization and culture, and without bothering to learn basics about it, they were convinced that they had to eradicate it and replace it by their own Abyssinian ‘culture’.

In their own land, the Sidamas were not recognized as an individual nation, and they were denied access to their own country’s natural resources that have been looted for over a century. The Sidamas were not allowed to exercise their basic human and democratic rights or even to freely practice their own culture and worship their own, ages old, faith.

Down to our days, the Sidamas continued being oppressed; since 1991, they have been ruled by TPLF/EPRDF's iron fist. The Abyssinian dictatorial regime did not show any interest, let alone deploy effort, to help alleviate Sidamas’ troubles. The foreign Abyssinian rulers did not even consider options on how to eliminate or reduce the Sidamas’ abject poverty and misery.

Recapitulating 11 decades of monarchical, pro-communist, and pseudo-republican rule, we can conclude that the obvious political agendas of these successive regimes have mostly evolved around the following axes:
- expropriation of natural resources
- eradication of the Sidama national identity
- deracination of all elements of Sidama culture, faith, and socio-economic organization and
- implementation of the Abyssinian anti-democratic and totalitarian mentality, culture and attitude.
It goes without saying that in doing so the Abyssinian rulers, elites and illegal settlers in Sidama Land totally ignored the steadfast and generalized opposition of the Sidama Nation in its entirety to their racist plans.

The International Community

During all these long decades of Sidama oppression and terrorization, the Western powers, namely America, England and Europe, continuously paid attention and listened to the deceit diffused by the regime, giving a blind eye for the plights of the Sidama and others subjugated nations.

The TPLF/EPRDF Abyssinian regime deployed a great effort in order to convince the international community, and more particularly the aforementioned countries; they did so, by introducing apparently democratic laws which were never implemented. Instead, they continued dictating their orders in a totalitarian way. Thus, Sidama Land never experienced the slightest notion of democracy under this regime.

In reality, Meles's regime continued taking illegal and inhuman actions in order to subdue the resistance movements an organizations of the Sidama Nation, as well as those of the other oppressed nations within the Abyssinian Empire.

Under such tragic circumstances, the Sidama Nation has increasingly become the victims of different types of brutal treatment perpetrated by the present regime. Culminating their anti-Sidama policies, the Tigray and Amhara Abyssinian rulers through their paranoid policies deliberately caused famine in Sidama Land despite the fact that the country is an evergreen Paradise. Yet, famine is currently rampant in Sidama Land.

At the political level, there is no genuine representation of the over 5.3 million Sidamas in the General Assembly.

Meles's Regime Credibility: Nil

During the past few weeks, and more specifically after the publication (June 12) of the HRW Report on Ogaden in which the current regime was held responsible for Crimes against the Mankind, Meles Zenawi administration and their democratic decorum have been exposed worldwide (http://www.sidama.org/ethiopia1.htm). The Tigray regime is by now well known for partial, brutal, undemocratic, and racist actions perpetrated against the citizens of their own country, who only want to exercise their basic, constitutional rights in a non-violent manner.

Immoral officials, known for their complete lack of ideals and humane principles, and mass media, specialized in falsehood and biases, are the regime’s basic tools of oppression. To reiterate its false allegations that serve only for cover up, the regime relied on both. Of course, all this does not change in anything the truth about the Meles Zenawi regime as one of the most brutal ones in the world. Despite all that, this regime is still supported by the aforementioned Western countries due to their vested interests.

The Unrepentant Abyssinian Regimes

The TPLF/EPRDF regime had the opportunity to learn from the History of the dictators; they should have thought twice about their cruel and unjustified actions taken against the Sidama and other subjugated nations of the colonial empire. The TPLF/EPRDF leaders could have understood that intimidation, torture and inhumanely brutal attitudes toward all the subjugated nations can not change the basic political vision, determination, and goal. The indefatigable and heroic Sidamas and all the other subjugated nations live with their mind and their spirit fixed on the Day of their Liberation and Independence. This reality is irreversible.

Any brutal and evil actions of the regime against the Sidama nation and the other oppressed nation of the colonial empire can only strengthen our unity and uplift our spirit to intensify the liberation struggle that was laid down by our heroic ancestors, whatever the cost and whatever the time it takes.

The Sidama Nation is committed to the continuation of the struggle until the Sidama National Independence; the Moment a Free Sidama nation will be re-established is not far.

As ever before, the Sidamas never kneel down to dictatorial regimes; they will continue intensifying their resistance against the Abyssinian regime, and more specifically its most atrocious representative, the monstrous Tigray tyrant Meles Zenawi.

Kambata Xoola
For Sidama Nation Online and SNLO

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Picture: Sidama Children
http://www.flickr.com/photos/devriese/371647545/