By Belayneh Abate
While African dictators are enjoying their annual festival in Addis Ababa, people in Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and other countries are suffering from endless government sponsored starvation, forced displacement and massacres.
Except their color, none of these African dictators gathered in the very China- made “African Union Hall” look like Africans. Unlike majority of destitute Africans, these brutal dictators are well-fed and well-dressed with expensive western attires. Despite this colossal discrepancy between them and the people they brutally rule, they still shamelessly claim they represent the people in their respective countries.
This year, these despots even went too far and demand reparation in the name of African patriots who were martyred to free Africa from colonialists. Like the wolves in sheep skins, they tried to appear as the representative of former African patriots, not just as “delegates” of the existing Africans they viciously rule.
As any humanitarian that follows the atrocities committed in Africa can attest, these African dictators have been committing genocide, ethnic cleansing, torturing, and punishing with forced displacement, starvation and diseases more than the European colonialists did in 19th and the 20th centuries. Similarly, these despots have been using the devilish ethnic divide and rule methods of governing more extensively than the colonialists planned to weaken Africa forever. Forthermore, these tyrants have been looting Africans and depositing trillions of dollars in Western Banks at a higher speed than the former colonialists while African children have been dying from famine, malnutrition and preventable infectious diseases.
It is a travesty of justice to watch groups of criminals who are actively massacring and starving Africans demand the former colonialists for reparations. It appears these shameless dictators want to grind and swallow the bones of patriotic martyrs in the name of reparation as they are sucking the blood of the existing Africans more than the Anopheles mosquitos.
It is pitiful to see African dictators talking about justice and compensation for the past crimes while they are actively starving, torturing and massacring Africans. It heartbreaking to watch African dictators begging for reparation in the name of African martyrs while they are currently involved in money laundering of trillions of dollars while African children lack even the energy to cry the torments of illness, starvation and famine.
It is essential that Africans petition for justice and reparation from former colonialists on the behalf of their ancestors who paid the ultimate price for freedom and independence. However, Africans should demand justice and reparation from the current looter and brutal dictators before they request compensation from the former colonialists. Thank you.
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I can say this article is written on the behalf of all african people. please send this article to major news media outlets such as bbc,reuter,afp, and aljazera
This is a telling article to a point. The government of Eritrea should get a copy, pronto. In fact, if I were the writer I would go there and present it myself where I will have the chance to learn a thing or two about uni and multi-polar world order.
Talking about reparations, Eritrea is right in its demand that Ethiopia should be ordered to pay minimum of 250 billion in US dollars for invading Eritrea in 1952 at Keren in which 6 million innocent citizens were killed and property worth 185 billion in US dollars was destroyed and also in 1952 and 1962 where 2 million citizens were killed along with property worth more than 75 bilion in US dollars was destroyed. Reparation to Eritrea by Ethiopia for all of that is overdue. Hey Ethiopia! You should cough that up now. Otherwise, your ass will be grass soon!!!
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT A LIFE TIME OLF ITTU ABA FARDA CONVERTED TO EPLF AND ASKING reparation to eritrea? where are you starting? if you start from the present your body abiy is the first person tpay.
On my Ethiopian Airlines FLIGHT, I saw west Africans harassing the attendant so much that she almost had the plane turned around. Then in Amharic she said she will call the police when we land.