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By Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis (about the author)
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Note: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/25568
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/39083
The alienation, oppression, marginalization and de-humanization of the Cushitic Ethiopian majority at the hands of the Semitic Abyssinian minority was extreme, ceaseless and evil of nature, as I will further develop, and this led to total rejection of the Abyssinian rule by the Cushitic majority who aspire all to Liberation, Freedom, Independence, National and Cultural Identity, and have been engaged in ceaseless rebellion and unequivocal uprising.
Quite inhumanely, while tyrannically imposing throughout the country Abyssinian culture, Abyssinian education, Abyssinian pseudo-historical myths of discriminatory character, and Abyssinian sociopolitical options, the Abyssinian ruling classes opted for the name change (implemented between 1935 and 1955) in order to offer no reason to the oppressed Cushitic peoples´ claims for Independence. A politically treacherous choice geared to perpetuate Abyssinian tyranny over Ethiopian populations.
A national name ´Ethiopia´ would imply a state for Cushites, not Semites like the Abyssinians. However, due to the exclusively nominal value of the name, it turned out to be an extra means of oppression and unacceptable racist propaganda.
The colonial state of Abyssinia – Nations and ethno-religious groups
Certainly it is not by mere coincidence that representatives of all the oppressed Cushitic nations denounce the colonial character of the expanded Abyssinia state, precisely specifying that it has been the only African colonial empire.
To better understand the situation, one has to examine combined data as regards the various nations and the religious groups of Abyssinia. The ruling Abyssinian tribes are mainly the Amhara and the Tigray, who amount to ca. 30% of the entire population. The rest (70% of the country´s entire population) are either Cushitic (Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas, Afars, Kaffas, Kambatas, Hadiya, Agaw, and Shekachos) or Nilo-Saharan (Anuak).
It would however be erroneous to consider the aforementioned figures without further analysis; the oppressed Cushitic and Nilo-Saharan nations follow different religions, either traditional African religions or Islam and Christianity (the latter preached mainly through Western, Catholic and Protestant missionaries). The Abyssinian Amharas and Tigrays are either Monophysitic (heretic Christians) or Muslims. Muslims make ca. 40% of the Abyssinians. Viewed by the Monophysitic Abyssinian elite and people as historical enemies and as renegades, they have been terribly oppressed, perhaps more than the Cushitic nations.
We can thus draw the conclusion that the Monophysitic Abyssinians represent approximately 18% of the country´s total population, and rule invariably discriminating and tyrannizing the Abyssinian Muslims and all the subjugated Cushitic and Nilo-Saharan nations. If we compare this figure to those given for other cases of despotic regimes, notably Milosevic´s Yugoslavia and Saddam Hussein´s Iraq, we realize that nothing was more unrepresentative and more totalitarian, more discriminatory and more tyrannical than the colonial state of ´Ethiopia´.
´Ethiopian´ embassies – unrepresentative delegations to be denounced in the UN
It would therefore be essential for any country having bilateral contacts with Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized as ´Ethiopia´) to set the rules of democratic representation, and if they are not respected, to protest at the level of the UN.
It is noteworthy to study and perceive correctly what happens in the embassies of ´Ethiopia´. More than 90% of the diplomatic stuff of the ´Ethiopian´ embassies is made by Monophysitic Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians. This means that they are the representatives of only an extreme minority (ca. 18% of the population); not only the so-called ´Ethiopian´ ´diplomats´ do not represent all the other subjugated and tyrannized nations and religious groups (82%) of their country, but they also advance - through their position and the means they are made available to them - all schemes against their country´s majority, and all plans of oppression and discrimination practiced ´at home´.
In fact, ´Ethiopian´ diplomacy is a bias geared for further genocide and massive extermination of various African nations.
Note: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/57930
Certainly, several dictatorial regimes have been represented by unrepresentative diplomats in the UN and the other international bodies, and at the level of bilateral relations. However, these tyrannies reflected the imposition of political choices that were not approved of by the majority of the people (as for instance in Franco´s Spain).
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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/39083
The alienation, oppression, marginalization and de-humanization of the Cushitic Ethiopian majority at the hands of the Semitic Abyssinian minority was extreme, ceaseless and evil of nature, as I will further develop, and this led to total rejection of the Abyssinian rule by the Cushitic majority who aspire all to Liberation, Freedom, Independence, National and Cultural Identity, and have been engaged in ceaseless rebellion and unequivocal uprising.
Quite inhumanely, while tyrannically imposing throughout the country Abyssinian culture, Abyssinian education, Abyssinian pseudo-historical myths of discriminatory character, and Abyssinian sociopolitical options, the Abyssinian ruling classes opted for the name change (implemented between 1935 and 1955) in order to offer no reason to the oppressed Cushitic peoples´ claims for Independence. A politically treacherous choice geared to perpetuate Abyssinian tyranny over Ethiopian populations.
A national name ´Ethiopia´ would imply a state for Cushites, not Semites like the Abyssinians. However, due to the exclusively nominal value of the name, it turned out to be an extra means of oppression and unacceptable racist propaganda.
The colonial state of Abyssinia – Nations and ethno-religious groups
Certainly it is not by mere coincidence that representatives of all the oppressed Cushitic nations denounce the colonial character of the expanded Abyssinia state, precisely specifying that it has been the only African colonial empire.
To better understand the situation, one has to examine combined data as regards the various nations and the religious groups of Abyssinia. The ruling Abyssinian tribes are mainly the Amhara and the Tigray, who amount to ca. 30% of the entire population. The rest (70% of the country´s entire population) are either Cushitic (Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas, Afars, Kaffas, Kambatas, Hadiya, Agaw, and Shekachos) or Nilo-Saharan (Anuak).
It would however be erroneous to consider the aforementioned figures without further analysis; the oppressed Cushitic and Nilo-Saharan nations follow different religions, either traditional African religions or Islam and Christianity (the latter preached mainly through Western, Catholic and Protestant missionaries). The Abyssinian Amharas and Tigrays are either Monophysitic (heretic Christians) or Muslims. Muslims make ca. 40% of the Abyssinians. Viewed by the Monophysitic Abyssinian elite and people as historical enemies and as renegades, they have been terribly oppressed, perhaps more than the Cushitic nations.
We can thus draw the conclusion that the Monophysitic Abyssinians represent approximately 18% of the country´s total population, and rule invariably discriminating and tyrannizing the Abyssinian Muslims and all the subjugated Cushitic and Nilo-Saharan nations. If we compare this figure to those given for other cases of despotic regimes, notably Milosevic´s Yugoslavia and Saddam Hussein´s Iraq, we realize that nothing was more unrepresentative and more totalitarian, more discriminatory and more tyrannical than the colonial state of ´Ethiopia´.
´Ethiopian´ embassies – unrepresentative delegations to be denounced in the UN
It would therefore be essential for any country having bilateral contacts with Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized as ´Ethiopia´) to set the rules of democratic representation, and if they are not respected, to protest at the level of the UN.
It is noteworthy to study and perceive correctly what happens in the embassies of ´Ethiopia´. More than 90% of the diplomatic stuff of the ´Ethiopian´ embassies is made by Monophysitic Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians. This means that they are the representatives of only an extreme minority (ca. 18% of the population); not only the so-called ´Ethiopian´ ´diplomats´ do not represent all the other subjugated and tyrannized nations and religious groups (82%) of their country, but they also advance - through their position and the means they are made available to them - all schemes against their country´s majority, and all plans of oppression and discrimination practiced ´at home´.
In fact, ´Ethiopian´ diplomacy is a bias geared for further genocide and massive extermination of various African nations.
Note: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/57930
Certainly, several dictatorial regimes have been represented by unrepresentative diplomats in the UN and the other international bodies, and at the level of bilateral relations. However, these tyrannies reflected the imposition of political choices that were not approved of by the majority of the people (as for instance in Franco´s Spain).
Orientalist, Historian, Political Scientist, Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, (more...)
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