The best opportunity for justice, freedom, peace, sustainable and meaningful success in #Ethiopia must be based on inclusive, principle-based change that protects and upholds the rights and interests of all Ethiopians
Much will be required from all of us #Ethiopians if we are to see justice, freedom, genuine reconciliation and healing become the pillars of a revived Ethiopian society.
Hope alone, without responsible action on the part of all our people, will not lead us to a better Ethiopia.
Instead, our hopes and dreams for a peaceful Ethiopia are fragile and without care, they can dissipate— devolve into something of lesser or no value— like the evaporation of water among thirsty people, leaving them all the more thirsty and despairing.
May we do what is right, just and good, caring about the wellbeing of all our people. Long live Ethiopia!
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More than 11 years ago I wrote a Open Letter to my fellow Tigrayan brothers and sisters who were supporting the TPLF and no one took my advice serious.
What I have now learned is that most of the people, especially those who are benefiting from the regimes of the day always tend not to listen to the advice and learned from the history until it is too late. My advice to everyone is “Be willing to take advice”
Below is few paragraphs from that letter.
“June 11, 2009
Dear Fellow Ethiopian,
I want to address those Ethiopians who are Tigrayans, especially focusing on those who are benefiting from this regime (TPLF/EPRDF) at the expense of the majority of other #Ethiopians.
This is Gilo River in #Gambella region: The “Ever Green” Land Of The “People Of The Rivers.”
This region is known to possess many untapped resources.These include large deposits of gold and other minerals,as well as fertile land,ample water,rivers,forests and abundant wildlife.
In the past 30 years, the people of Gambella have been largely denied or otherwise illegally excluded from the utilization of these resources in their own region.
As a result, they have suffered egregious human rights abuses, forced displacement, politically based imprisonment, especially of leaders, the destruction or loss of land, property and infrastructure, as well as environmental degradation.
Ethnic federalism, “One tribe or one ethnic group rule all” system of government doesn’t work in the 21st century. #Ethiopian politicians and intellectuals must take former US President Barack Obama warned ⚠️ to the Kenyans VERY seriously.
President Barack Obama said "A politics that's based on only tribe and ethnicity is doomed to tear a country apart. It is a failure - a failure of imagination,"
Ethnic federalism and ethnic extremism can tear the beautiful country of Ethiopia a apart if Ethiopian politicians are not very careful about how to deal with it.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT OF KINDNESS ONLY KINDNESS AND LOVE WILL TRANSFORM ETHIOPIA.
The response of the public to the humanitarian crisis in #Gedeo Zone, Southern #Ethiopia over the last 24 hours has exceeded what has been done since it all began last year, 2018.
If you look at it honestly, the crisis they face today is the result of the failure to see the humanity of each other and to not respond with love and kindness to this human tragedy. It has only deepened as it has been ignored.
In the last 24 hours, countless numbers of Ethiopians have proven that we are indeed capable of great kindness. We do not have to bring it from somewhere else, like foreign aid; instead, it is within us.