Sidama Ethiopians reject Amhara Abyssinian Barbarism and Racism

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

October 17, 2007

A clamor of indignation has risen from representatives of various tyrannized Kushitic Ethiopians against the Open Letter of an Abyssinian chauvinist sent to (http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=39964) me.

I believe that the speed of the reaction and the strength of the expression make clear to everybody that nothing except brutal and inhuman tyranny holds together the various Kushitic Ethiopian nations invaded and occupied by the Amhara – Tigray Abyssinian armies at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Among the protesting readers, Sidama National Liberation Organization Chairman Kambata Xola in a lengthy and consistent refutation of the Open Letter expands to markedly corroborate my earlier conclusions; neither I nor anyone can divide the various nations of today’s Abyssinia (falsely and fallaciously re-baptized Ethiopia), because simply you can never ‘divide’ something that was never ‘united’.

In this article I will publish SNLO Chairman Xola’s text, which sheds light on several critical points pertaining to the Abyssinian Barbarism.

The fact that the national leader of an oppressed nation reproaches to the Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian invaders and oppressors a pathological and hysterical reaction to down to earth realities and historical truths accepted as such in all the world’s respectable universities shows the extent of the problem.

The national pathological hysteria of the dictatorially educated Abyssinians hinges on the sacrosanct belief in a bogus-historical dogma made up by illiterate and inhuman monks, who murdered Western missionaries in order to defend their fallacious and racist dogmas that permeate the Abyssinian education.

We will expand on the subject in forthcoming articles, as we find in this point the epitome of the Abyssinian Racism, which has remained unchallenged thus far.

Sidama National Liberation Organization Chairman Kambata Xola refutes Abyssinian ‘education’, ‘culture’ and tyranny.

This response is a reaction to the Oen letter written to Professor M. S. Megalommatis by ‘Buzu Mengistu’ MD, on 15 of October 2007

Dear MD Buzu,

First of all, I would like you to know that no one with genuine mind thinks that your analysis is both impartial and articulate to be trusted. Your talk fully lack substances and truth!! Of course, you can get listeners from Abyssinian Tigray/Amhara regions. However, I empathically reject your analysis and criticisms against the intellectually formidable, articulate and historically rigorous accounts of Professor Megalommatis on distinction between today’s ‘Ethiopia’ (and the successive Abyssinians Amhara/Tigre colonial powers) and the plights of wider Ethiopian nations and nationalities whose lives are ruined and are remained under brutal Abyssinian occupation.

Secondly, I would like you to properly learn that the so-called ‘Ethiopia’ doesn’t belong to one group of people; but it does belong to peoples. Don’t use the word ‘people’!! There is no relationship between Amhara and Sidama, Afar and Tigre, Wolayita and Oromo, and so forth, unless all peoples would like to come together and coexist peacefully based on common goods for humanity. But this can’t happen under the Abyssinian successive brutal rulers that lingered to the modern times’ monster, Meles’s regime.

We are entirely different peoples who were brought to the today’s Ethiopian form under another Abyssinian barbarian who ruled the nations of distinct identities with draconian power, Menillik II. He slaughtered tens of thousands of Sidamas, Oromos, Wolayita’s (calling them with derogatory names such as Sidamo, Galla, Woy’lamo, etc.) and others while they were attempting to repulse the aggressions of his colonial army in late 1890s.

This is not past story, as you have repeatedly emphasized in your letter; but it is today’s fate of Sidama nation, the Oromo nation, the Somali nation, and others being still under Abyssinian colonial powers. Of course, you haven’t been victim of such tragic barbarism, thus you don’t know what Ethiopian nations under Abyssinian rules have undergone in the past century and are undergoing at present time. If you don’t know this fact, you must be deceiving yourself, not Ethiopian nations and nationalities. I’m telling you that I’m suffering, my brothers and sisters are suffering, and that the same fate is waiting my offspring, if we don’t take corrective actions. That is the fact you’re trying to conceal in the lights of all available evidences.

I trust my response gets you well and understanding! Yesemashiwun belibonash yasadrlish!! Profeseru be Ethiopia hizboch mehakel tilachana menakor lemefiter yemifcherecher kemesleeshi, ejig betam temogniteshalina taremi yemigebash kehone. Kalhone degimo, bechinkilatish lay telik dengay teshkimesh wukiyanosi wust gebtesh muchi!! That is the only reward you, mindless morons, deserve!! Because, you can’t walk the walk of 21st century apart from talking about it!! Do you understand properly in your own language from the above paragraph that the professor you’re blaming can’t understand and has no power over this language?

If you think that this Professor is an advocate for the issues of Sidama, Oromo, Ogaden Sumali, Gambella, Kambata …., then you continue to repeat a type of ignorant mistake that your ancestors have done and you and your affiliates continue to do against the basic rights of Ethiopian nations and nationalities. Although this seems implausible to you all, it is prevailing fact that needs to be understood in today’s context. We are not talking about the past!!

To come back to your scribble; I thoroughly went through your criticism and insult, but found nothing apart from fallacy and confusions, with no substance! It appears to me that, you don’t know what you’re discussing. Your emotion is based on ‘Mother Ethiopian or Death’ insane Derg’s (and all Abyssinian rulers’) slogan!! Your lack of understanding about the past and the present status-quo in Ethiopia puts you and your likes, the entire Abyssinians elites and their affiliates, at a ‘mindless morons’ category.

Your and your predecessors’ obdurate stance is simply mind-boggling and often difficult to understand. I wonder whether you are trying to lecture us that the successive brutal Abyssinian colonizers were a benefit for their colonies!! I wonder whether you all Abyssinians, who don’t learn from your past mistakes and are not ready to be transformed with ever-changing global dynamism, are trying to lecture us that Ethiopian nations and nationalities are better off under your cruel rules! It is pathetic and shame on you, and your successive rulers who left the country with nothing, but ultra poverty and human misery!!

The so-called education you have got (of course Medicine, not about the essence of humanity and other social issues … that can transform you and your obdurate stances), the way you perceive reality is totally different from that of other nations of Ethiopia and the wider global community; that way left you far behind in perceiving and knowing the existing reality. In today’s 21st century as you have scribbled, the perception of the global community has been dramatically transformed in all aspects. In particular, the issues of basic rights of individuals, as well as the Self-Determination of the nations of a given country is at the top of agendas for the international key players. Yet, you are going backward, talking about the articles written by various scholars about what happened and is happening in Ethiopia. You and your masters fail to have guts to accept the only truth!! Whether you believe it or not, we will continue to speak until the only truth prevails!!

By the way, do you believe that entire Ethiopian nations and nationalities are under Abyssinian occupation? If yes, are they de-colonized at the moment? If no, doesn the Sidama nation today decide on their issues? Do the Oromos, the Ogadenis, and other nations decide on their issues? Are you telling me that the Professor is not telling the truth; but instigating hatred? Do you think that the Sidamas love the occupying settlers to tell our nation how to behave in their homes and how to eat and drink? Do you think that other nations of Ethiopia voluntarily allow their resources to be exploited by the colonial settlers who fled their rocky regions? Do you think that other nations of the country would like to be told how to live in their soils? That is the case in Sidama, Oromia, Ogadenia and elsewhere in the Abyssinian Empire. Do you have the guts to swallow this fact?

Based on your scribble, I will address all points turn by turn, and refute your analysis, showing you how fallacious your analysis is and remains.

An open letter to Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis (a writer for American Chronicle)

Dear “Dr.Megalommatis”,

Our world is composed of all kinds of animals including humans. Comparatively from the “human point of view”, human being is more advanced than the rest of animals because of its brain and physical structure.

Comment: Yes that is what the Professor is intellectually analyzing and criticizing your ignorant rulers who neither voluntarily leave their colonies nor behave humanely towards the colonized peoples.

Letter: All the animals’ survival is adjusted in such a way that one kind of animal lives depending on the other one.

Comment: Therefore, you’re telling and justifying the occupying forces to live on our soil, by degrading our humanity for ever?

Letter: You can’t help it, but it is fact. Human beings still are living on the cost of some other animals. Initially (may be up to 19th century) the relation ship between each people of the world was like the other animals except that human beings didn’t consumed each other as a food.

Comment: Yes, you’re right!! Still your Abyssinian mindless morons are behaving in such a way that doesn’t allow others to realize their potentials. You can see why your successive regimes amalgamate southern Ethiopian nations and nationalities whose distinct cultural identities clearly reveal their heritage and differences? Therefore, Abyssinians are still not different from what you’re discussing.

Letter: The rule of the game was “concurring others.

Comment: You are 100% right! That is what we are discussing and explaining to you that the time has passed for such ignorance, and humbly beg your brutish rulers to change their attitude towards humanity.

Letter: It happened; it is history; you can’t help it again!

Comment: You are completely and totally foolish!! Sorry to say this. I’m saying this simply because you must come from another planet! It’s not past history. Hundreds of Sidama nation demonstrators were massacred by your people on May 24, 2002 while they were claiming their basic rights in a civilized manner, but were savagely responded by your ignorant ruler’s live ammunition. And they were also massacred immediately after the highly rigged Meles regime’s so-called elections (May 15, 2005). .

In 2003, about 2500-3000 innocent civilians of Gambella region were indiscriminately massacred by Abyssinian armed forces, while claiming similar rights in a peaceful manner when they were responded inhumanely.

Tens of thousands of Oromo people sacrificed their sons and daughters claiming their fundamental rights, yet they all were responded with bullets.

About 300-400 Keficho and Shekicho peoples also have been victims of such heinous massacre in 2002, while they were claiming their basic rights.

At the moment, Ogaden Somali people are also suffering untold havoc and their nation is exposed to human catastrophes in the 21st century while you’re talking about Kinijit. So which one is past history?

Letter: But in the modern era, people are trying to conduct fair relation ship at least among them selves using the same standard of principles (democracy) and by practicing rules and regulations for shared and common living. This way the human being distinguishes itself by thinking that it is better than the other animal world. And almost everywhere nowadays the challenge facing all is accepting and implementing democracy, respecting human rights and realizing equality of justice. This is the trend and temper at the core of debate in the 21-century.

Comment: I have discussed above. However, your analysis here is pretty immature. You’re just discussing fictitious ideals than the fact on the ground that I have just mentioned above.

Letter: If this is the fact of our modern world, why you are pulling us back to the barbaric era through your un-civilized essay so that one group of people in Ethiopia should stand in order to concur others in the 21st century because of its past grievances?

Comment: No one is asking to conquer other nations of Ethiopia. Rather all colonized nations of the country are asking for immediate and unconditional De-colonization!! The Professor you’re blaming for instigating hatred as well as other Ethiopian non-Abyssinian nations’ intellectuals are fighting for their quest for independence from lingering brutal rule of Abyssinians. It is not only past grievances, but we are talking about facts unfolded day by day in today’s Ethiopia dear Buziye. Therefore, you are still in the shadow of ‘One Ethiopian’ regardless of who Ethiopians and what Ethiopians are under.

Letter: This is vile and sinister to play up the past to cloud the directions to shape the future. It is better that you adjust with the temper of the times and come out with the new one, with democracy to fit in the thinking of current century.

Comment: Your analysis here is just not better than nonsense!!

Letter: I wonder, are you sane and healthy at all? I think you need some medical prescriptions; I will not expose you here because of medical ethics.

Comment: You appeared rather insane yourself, not the professor! Or you need to read before you scribble!!

Letter: That is why I am forced to write you this letter after thorough reading of your articles on how you deliberately fabricated Ethiopian history and its people. I started to read your articles after one occasion and succeeded to cover almost all what have posted at the moment on American chronicle and other media.

Comment: It is not fabricated history Buziye. You need to read a lot about every thing, yene konjo!! You rather don’t know anything about what you are talking. You seem that you are fully convinced by the fabricated myth of 3000 years civilization which is pathetically fallacious!!

Letter: I am not historian, or philosopher by profession rather I am an ordinary physician who cares about people’s health. That is why I asked you about your health because when I read all articles I didn’t find any scientific analysis except expression of your self with highly charged past grievance on Ethiopian people especially those of Amharas.

Comment: I think the professor doesn’t have any grievances against any Ethiopian, apart from talking the fact that Ethiopian nations continue to be brutalized by the successive Abyssinian rulers that lingered to date. Therefore, Buziye, please be sensible when you write as a person of integrity and sound judgments. Actually this doesn’t exist in your rulers’ nature those who are designed to dehumanize and depersonalize others fellow human beings.

Letter: After my thorough reference of your articles I didn’t accept you like a famous scholar rather an ill-minded direct spokes person for extreme elements in Ethiopia that are supported by enemies who have harboured ill-intent to destroy the country.

Comment: You don’t care for the basic rights respects of a precious human being, but you do care for your so called 3000 years Ethiopia myth which does not actually yours; at the expense of us, Sidama, Oromo, Sumali, Kambata, Wolayta, Hadiya, Gambella and others non-Abyssinia nations and nationalities of Ethiopia.

Letter: You can write whatever historical essay, that is your right. But whenever you start to declare war of one people over the other, pit them against each other, work to destroy Ethiopia as a nation as per your words “in to 10 Pieces”, I am afraid you are punching above your weight. You are indulging and poking in affairs that you know nothing about deliberately to fan hatred and incite inter-ethnic animosity.

Comment: You’re utterly naïve!! If you assess the present status-quo in Ethiopia, if you have power, skills and knowledge to articulate these facts, you will reach to the point of knowing what the futurity of Ethiopian would have looked like if your Abyssinian rulers had left nations to decide on their issues without their involvements.

Letter: This, I think, must be none of your business. It is the right of Ethiopian people how to solve their problem with out such evil designs to split, divide and weaken them, as it has come from you with a barrage of ill-informed and nauseating clichés and innuendoes.

Comment: You are right!! Whenever you Abyssinian ignorant hear truth, it makes you feel asphyxiated and nauseated!! However, whether you like it or not, the time has passed for deceit, suppression and pretence. We all are capable of articulating truth and differentiating fallacy from the fact!! Thus, you’ll stop your scribble there and rather send your uncomfortable message to those who brutalize our nations under the name of ‘Ethiopian’ for nothing but for poverty, slavery and human tragedy and misery!!

Letter: I have no recollection of coming across such a mendacious and sinister, unethical, pompous, vulgar and selfish person, who claimed to be historian or philosopher, like you before:

Comment: Yes, you didn’t study the facts about the so-called ‘True Ethiopia’ in previous periods, but you learnt the fallacious fabrication made up by histories compiled by your Debteras. Thus, no wonder if you say that you haven’t ever seen such a historian. Don’t forget all fabricated histories were either written by your Abyssinian liars or by the European peoples who were misguided; and perhaps were entirely used Abyssinian translators. Therefore, if you have courage to accept this fact, you can discuss further with intellectuals; otherwise, shut up and hibernate in your 3000 years myth!! You don’t belong to me unless the entire Sidama nation wants you to coexist peacefully!! Silezih afishin zegitesh bitkemechi yishalishal!! Gebash? The following part appears to me just nonsense!! However, I will address them briefly.

Letter:

1) You are worrying about individual’s English language usage rather than concentrating on the subject matter. What is that?

2) You are also offended when you didn’t get article with 5000 words. What is that? Don’t forget that writing is your daily business. For others may not be.

3) You think using non-common English Terms and phrases will distinguish you as a highly educated person in the world.

4) You always use all vulgar words what we have in the dictionary against Ethiopian people

Comment: We are not one Ethiopian people, we are peoples with distinct cultural heritage and values. Don’t call us Ethiopian people!!

Letter: especially Amhara and Tigre

Comment: Yes Amhara and Tigre are those who were and are brutalizing our nations and nationalities interchangeably for the last century; thus there is no fallacy on that analysis].

Letter: This shows that you are not respecting yourself,

Comment: This is no the case.

Letter: Remember that rule No., for primary school children is “RESPECT OTHERS IF YOU NEED TO BE RESPECTED”

Comment: That is why you still call non-Abyssinian Ethiopians ‘pagans’, as you used to call them with derogatory words mentioned above. Does this means respecting others for you? Is calling green toilet flies, ‘Galla Zinb’ is respect for you? Is it respecting to tell other about their identity in a denigrating manner?

Letter: I for example as a person with Oromo blood,

Comment: You must be liar or a person who sold his own identity or is in an identity crisis

Letter: have learned from your articles nothing except developing suspicion that you are earning well by igniting past grievances and preaching hatred among Ethiopian people. This way you are serving for the Enemies of Ethiopia who don’t like peace and prosperity to Ethiopian people forever.

5) You are opposing even the new comer the so-called “KINIGIT” party.

Comment: This is simply because they are claiming their (Amhara) lost authority, nothing else. If you think that, due to the presence of very few people originating from other ethnic groups, they represent the “Ethiopian people”, you must be kidding yourself.

Letter: You see if you were really for democracy and freedom of the people no matter which party, but you would have been preached for democracy, for the rule of majority, through which every thing will be resolved. As part of the Ethiopian people, the Oromo people will benefit. In fact why you are worrying about current Ethiopian politics if you are claiming to be historian of the past?

Comment: You must be a little girl with pre-school attitude and pre-set mind, without flexibility, like your dogmatic Abyssinian cruel rulers. Thus, you can’t have open mind for logical historical arguments. Therefore, you and your likes remain ignorant ‘Doma’ while others whom you have previously considered as ‘Domas’ are striding towards the independence with pride!! You shall wake up after the time passed; ‘Jib kalefe wusha chohe’ kind of thing!!

Letter: 6) You are trying to lead the people to the long-lasting fire, if at all you have followers, except a few confused individuals

Comment: Wud Buziye, you’re the most immature and confused person on earth; I really feel sorry for you and your likes!!

Letter: Because in today’s Ethiopia people are hungry for economic development not war

Comment: Oh! poor girl! Whose economic development are you talking about? Does the Sidama nation have any part in this economic development apart from perhaps fifty (50) individuals, who are the only among the 5 m nation to have sold their identity for money? Do other nations have any part in the process of the provocative and systematic exploitation of the natural resources of the subjugated nations of the Abyssinian Empire?

Letter: We know no one will buy your message of hate. Ethiopians are prepared to create a democratic civilisation and bequeath a bright future for the next generation. Your message of hate may burn your spleen, but will not hurt Ethiopia or your bete-noire, the ‘Amhara’ and ‘Tigre’ or what you call derogatorily ‘Abyssinians’!

Comment: Abyssinia is not a derogatory word. That is why I’m telling you to read more; just don’t hibernate in your medicine books if you want to intellectually argue on issues in convincing manner at international arena. Basically, you didn’t care for the Sidama whom you and your people still call ‘Sidamo’, including the Startbucks coffee brand from which your rulers enjoy its benefits. The same is valid for other nations denigrated as Gallas, Wolamo, etc.; yet you care for the real name by which you, Abyssinians, have been known for more than 2000 years.

Letter: Stop preaching hatred and igniting past grievances, try to leave with the people of the 21st century by respecting the ideas that are becoming the governing norms of our time: democracy, citizenship, rule of law and human rights for all irrespective of race, creed, ethnic origin, sex, nationality or religion.

Comment: That is what the professor is briefly saying and other nations are standing for - to death! Yet, you are babbling your childish talk and scribbling without substances! Yene konjo, Zegitesh tekemechi!! Kahun behuwala, minim yahil meramedi yemitichilu aymiselishi!, Gizeyachihu (ye Amarana ye Tigre) alfual. Dehina senbichi yalefewuni eyalemishi!!]

Note

Picture: Kebra Negast is a medieval (late 13th century) epic compiled out of severely misunderstood earlier sources, terribly manipulated historical data, dramatically decomposed mythical concepts, and a great part of political corruption and falsehood. Lacking the originality of an Egyptian Myth, and missing the authenticity of a Persian National Epic, Kebra Negast seems to have been erratically composed by confused authors inclined to royal fraud, and prone to anti-Islamic and anti-Catholic Hatred. Promoted by modern age illiterate and barbaric tribal chieftains as the cornerstone of the Abyssinian state imposed, bogus-historical dogma, Kebra Negast’s impact on education and culture became the main reason for the Amhara Racism.

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