Un published : A letter to the editor- I agree to disagree

  What does Ethnocentrism mean?  i think it is not necessary to use this terminology or word in Ethiopian politics.We already passed that stage ethnic, clan, tribal ...etc , We already intermingled to each other in our 3000 years of history as a nation. We all have lived in our mother land Ethiopia for centuries.
The empire which has been built in our country has been a product of the Ethiopian nation.It belongs to all of us .Even though  most of the time at the top of the power helm the descendants of Solomon dynasty were the emperors ,   what ever it is those emperors have managed to lead Ethiopians to survive as a nation by defending the sovereignty of Ethiopia from different invaders.
We Ethiopians have lived together under one flag.
The recent political paradigm which is based on nation, nationality issues is UN appropriate to the Ethiopian society, the Stalinist approach, Stalin himself advocated the theory , but when he was at the power , he did not practised the theory. If  we consider that the stalins' approach was correct , based on his theories of nations, nationalities ....in Ethiopia does not exist a nation, or a nationality which would satisfy the requirement which have been stated in the book of Stalin.

Mr.Abra;  I really do not have any objection with your idea, your approach is interesting. The web site which you run Etho media is a fantastic one.You have showed us the picture of the kinijit leaders, your analysis was viable,  i agree with you that the Ethiopian public was looking for years this type of leadership.
Our people on the ground in Ethiopia have spoken loudly that the politics of hatred does not have a place in the contemporary Ethiopian politics.
The ethnic politics in Ethiopia is a baseless, the colonisers has done their best and implemented it against  their subjugated peoples in other parts of the world , but Ethiopia was uncolonised and it did not happen so, how ever the fascist  Italians during their occupation of Ethiopia, they tried to implement an ethnic based administration , but it had  failed, the people of Ethiopia proved that it is impossible to divide them according to the ethnic lines,  it is not that the Ethiopian ppl is super human, the fact of the matter is the Ethiopian society is a complex society which has existed for three to five thousands years as a nation , in those years of survival, simply tribes, clans, and nationalities  have inter twinned to each other , so it became difficult to alienate or to separate them to each other.

In the process and history of Ethiopia as a nation  , the Ethiopians developed an Ethiopian   identity which transcends tribe, clans ...etc.The Ethiopians consider every part of Ethiopian language , culture , no matter they know it or accustomed it , as far as Ethiopian, they consider that it belongs to them too. For instance the oromo language belongs to wellegas, hareres , sidamas , tigreans or gojames equally no matter they know or understand the language , the same thing to the tigrean language , it does not belong only to tigreans but it equally  belongs to gambellas, gojames, wellegas...etc , a sense of ownership is there , even if they know the language or not , it does not matter being an Ethiopian qualifies all Ethiopians to be the owner of that language or culture.
Let us go further The Ethiopians have been connected with  marriages , it is very difficult to get an oromo or an Amara who does not have an oromo or Amara parent , the same thing to the tigreans , it is difficult to get a tigrean who does not have a marriage relationship with gondres , wolloyes ...etc, it is the same thing to gurages , sidamas,   kembtas , hadyas, wellaytas ...etc , .
  Dear mr Abrha The bench mark of Ethiopianism is not hate, avoidance, the identity of Ethiopia is inclusive, love and harmony. You were writing about Eritreans , as per your approach , in order to be an Ethiopian nationalist we need to avoid or hate ertreans, no, it is a wrong approach, as i have mentioned it early , ethiopianism is inclusive , the Eritreans are part of us , they are not our enemies .
Of course shabya is the core enemy of ethiopianism.We have to deal separately the people of Eritrea and  shabya
 You wrote that Meles zenawi has growed in ertrea , it does not matter where he grows , afterwards ertrea was Ethiopia , and in the future also it will be part of Ethiopia, The future generation will decide that one.
I think and you might agree that the problem lies  with Mr. meleses' familys' background. Their background could be traced to the bandas and ascaris like his grandfather who was a fascist Italian dejazmach, at the same time his grand grand father  was a man who had contributed a vital information  in  the capture of Asmara by Italians, He marched to the Italians who were in massawa and the outskirt of massawa , and told them that  emperor yohanesse and ras alula, the feared general of Ethiopia are busy in fighting the derbush in metema , even he had informed them that the emperor had died at the battle front , further he advised them to capture Asmara .Meles grew in  a family where they hate ethiopia and ethiopianism, so during his childhood definitely he has grown with anti ethiopian patriotism, ethiopiansim and so on .
I think you know more than any body about ato meles, about the seccession of erterea, meles is not the only one to be responsible( blamed )  about that .The entire TPLF leadership is responsible for that evil deed.
During the shabyas' invasion of badme , ofcourse the group of siye, gebru had played the main role in defending and averting the aggression of shabya.The ethiopian ppl has sdied with siye/gebru faction in beating shabya.But meles and his groups had betrayed the ethiopian ppl.
As a matter of fact meles has done that because of that he wanted to secure his power , meles did not care for any body, the tyranny do any thing to secure his power.
You were mentioning tat meles has spoken about tigreans that the tigreans are the golden ppl. but at the same time , after the siye faction has surfaced on the ground during the struggle with this faction , he said that i feel ashamed or bored to fly to tigray( kefefegn in amharic), in another sessions meles had accused the siye group as a narrow nationalist, regionlist and so on. Zenawi does not care for this tribe or the other tribe , all his interest is to keep his power at any expense, he plays any card .

Dear Mr. Abraha: you wrote about Ras alula ,you mentioned that the tigreans have to be proud of him , why only tigreans? is alula died or struggled for the sake of tigreans ,  no, alula was struggling and died for Ethiopia as an Ethiopian hero , he always looked the great picture ethiopia. so why you diminished him to a hero of one province.
You were writing about adwa , you were portraying adwa as a clan , even though i am not a professional , adwa is not a name of clan, it is a district or awraja.The adwas are the most mixed people in tigray region. Most of them they trace their linkeage to shewa , gojam, gonder and the other part of Ethiopia.
further you wrote that the tigreans are not responsible for what ever TPLF or meles has done , here you are right  and the people of Ethiopia agrees with  you.
Your analysis about the diaspora tigreans is very fantastic and it is perfect. After the creation of the faction in the TPLF leadership circle, TPLF does not function as a party, it has been dimished to the family business. the sibhat/meles family is running tplf , it became their sole property.

Actually the meles group get the upperhand by getting the helping hand from the BEADEns ,Addissu legesse, bereket simon, tefera waliwa played a crucial role. At this time meles lost his ground from the tigreans as a whole , but meles wants to get a backup from  tigrean people,  in order to get the tigrean back up , he had created an atmospher that the tigreans are killing the other ethiopians, this leads the other ethiopians would be provocated to see all tigreans as enemy , at the end the tigryans would be one of the most hated people in the Ethiopian society ,  according to this calculation , meles would emerge as the only person who could defend the tigreans, if he is not at the power , the tigreans would be slaughtered.
 He organised an ethnic agazi militias, who, most of them are  tigrean speakers , when these murderers were busy in killing demonstrators and so on, meles wanted to feel the other ethiopians that the tigreans are killing them, at last according to his calculation  it will have  created an ethnic animosities between tigreans and the other Ethiopians  , and at last he is going to have emerged as a Savior of tigreans from genocide. That was the aim of  his campaign .
At this time behind the meles clique  BEADEN as organization, azeb and her relatives who are from gondor, alamudi ..and so on whom they are not from tigray are taking advantages, the attention would be diverted  to tigryans , where as the real enemy probably the real honest supporters of meles are the BEADEns.
Dear ato abraha the real power base has been shifted from TPLF as organization to BEADEN and families of sibhat/meles . The people of tigray is out of the equation. It has to be done a lot to change the flow of the propaganda.