Lagide Dikkale, Harbagoonna district, Sidama, Ethiopia
Human beings are created greedy. In particular when it comes to a personal gain, peoples can take unimaginable step to benefit from the sufferings of others. Even brothers barbarically assassinate own bothers for the sake of personal benefit such as fighting for throne (royal family). Such greedy individuals wash their hands with bloods of their immediate family members by assassinating their own children, husband/wife, father/mother, brothers/sisters and others. Doing so is known to be psychotic disorder as psycho-behavioural Science puts it; however it is extremely difficult to comprehend how mothers/fathers can kill their own children? As human beings are very important to one another, peoples have equally proved that they can actually become diabolic to their likes. When such tragic realities unfold among humanity, it will be hardly possible to distinguish wild animals (Hyena cannibalising each other’s) from human being apart from the fact of having moral code which socially obliges groups of peoples to behave in such a manner that is socially acceptable, adverse actions are punishable.
When we come to todays’ Ethiopian regime’s inhumane actions to its subjects, it’s impossible to believe that regime’s messengers at various levels condone the massacre of innocent civilians blatantly denying the truth. It also becomes serious when a person once who has appeared to be the Champion of justices and equality prefers to stifle justice by agreeing with the system that dehumanises his own people. Although such realities of individual’s being inhumane to their likes is known phenomenon since time immemorial, besides, it will be very difficult to take in what once who has appeared to be genuinely defending human rights is seen defending an indefensible inhumane actions of the regime once he’s unequivocally condemned for its brutal actions towards its subjects including his own people.
'Markos Tekle Riqqe' once who has been a staunch supporter of Sidama’s national cause has taken U-turn. He has suddenly decided to follow the misguided ideology of TPLF’s authoritarian regime by agreeing to stifle the just cause of his own nation. Since he has been recruited by the regime (no one for sure knows to date how Markos Tekle Riqqe has decided to sell the interest of the Sidama nation), he has been given his current fake Japan’s Ethiopian Ambassadorial position by the name of the Sidama nation. Even since he has been awarded this fake position, he has appeared to be believing that the regime is seriously violating the rights of Sidama nation differently. He has been in constant underground contacts with Sidama Diaspora groups advocating for the rights of Sidama nation and others subjugated nations of the country. His interview with (Kassahun of? Media June 2014) in particular obliged me to say something from the heart of Sidama land, Harbagoonna district from where the above traitor has be born and brought up.
It’s utterly embarrassing to the Sidama nation to have a person like Markos Tekle who trades by the bloods of primarily his own Sidama nation and secondly with bloods of others nations of the country. While individuals who have demanded their constitutional rights to be respected in a civilised and peaceful manner are killed in broad day lights by the regime’s army and security forces, mindful peoples can hardly believe that Markos Tekle can defend the regime’s erroneous claim on the fact that it’s implementing its constitution and respecting peoples’ individual & collective rights to freedom of expression and assembly. It’s hardly believable to learn that this very young man who has travelled to entire Sidama villages therefore has known the level of injustices the regime has deliberately caused to the Sidama nation by whose name this traitor and others trade; defends the concept of federalism whilst his nation’s civilians are massacred demanding these very rights denied to them for the past 23 years.
He has also emphasised the Ethiopian peoples have happily elected TPLF’s authoritarian regime in the past elections therefore the regime received over 99% of the vote because of its policy; yet the reality on the ground speaks otherwise. In reality however, TPLF regime won’t be able to get 20% if the election was fair and free which has been proved during May 15, 2005's elections. His claim about the fairness of the play field for various opposition groups, in his interview with his unpalatable Abyssinian (Amharic language) says that the opposition members are freely exercising their rights without the involvements of the regime, while the opposition members are hunted down like antelopes and prisons of the country and full of these. He also claims that the economy is booming, poverty is eradicated and equality of opportunity being achieved despite the fact that Ethiopia is growing most unequal and the second from the bottom last in the world in poverty measurement. Over 36,000, 000 Ethiopians don’t have proper one meal a day and others 75-80% of the population don’t have enough to eat and potable water to drink. Unemployment if rocketing while Ethiopian is the second highly corrupt country in Africa. Human rights record is extremely poor and becoming poorer from day to day.
The urge for the fact is in order. Markos Tekle Riqqe, once who has appeared to be the Champion of Sidama nation’s rights claims that ethnic federalism is the best policy on which the current TPLF’s regime is working on- therefore prospering. Such blatant denial of the fact for which the Sidama traitor, Markos Tekle Riqqe has previously claimed fighting for- as TPLF’s regime denied his own nation the very ethnic federalism rights, puts him in the bottom of Sidama nation’s history. History never forgive such traitors when the rights time comes. The Sidama nation with others oppressed nations of the country will undoubtedly be victorious. The sons and daughters of the Sidama nation must be able to distinguish friends from foes and traitors from genuine Sidama human rights defenders. The true sons and daughters of the nation must know Markos Tekle Riqqe is one of the Sidama nation’s enemies not less than the others such as criminal Shiferaw Shigute and the rest. Thus, utmost vigilance is paramount at this very critical moment of the history.
Lagide Dikkale, Yayye district, Sidama, Ethiopia
June 24, 2014
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