Enlarge ImageI am most astounded and most fascinated by the way young and intelligent Oromo intellectuals have recently refuted the shameful, mendacious, colonial reports of BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7428936.stm), which breaks all records of misinformation and disinformation when it comes to Africa, and a lot more particularly East Africa.

Of course, no 1 would believe a total lie; the BBC experts on savage half truths know this point extremely properly. That?s why they serve the info depleted from its real, historical and political background understanding. It does not take a lot much more than frequent sense to denounce BBC?s disreputable colonial forgery.

In truth, the BBC would be constrained to tell the complete truth, if such efforts of misinformation and disinformation had been constantly and systematically denounced, and BBC?s criminal colonial attitude exposed towards the indignation with the planet?s nations.

BBC?s Systematization of Lie

In reality, BBC?s way is childish; it consists in a sort of reductionism, like the following brief story: “A man was tied up in a tree. As no 1 passed by, the man ? having not drunk or eaten anything for an entire week or so ? died”. Of course, he died, but don?t tell me that there is no responsible; accountable for the crime could be the person(s) who tied up the man. But BBC?s systematization of lie does not include anything concerning the criminal.

Yet, the criminal is real and existent. The reporter?s failure to mention the criminal within the above mentioned story makes with the reporter a shameful accomplice with the criminal. Someone (the killer) ties a person to a tree and abandons the person to thirst, starvation, and death, and yet another (the reporter) does not speak concerning the crime perpetrator but concerning the corpse, the dead body.

This is BBC mendacity, duplicity, and complicity; unrepentant, pernicious, inhuman England in its most inhumanly ugly face. The English mass media do not differ from the criminal colonials with the Scramble for Africa; they continue the colonials? deeds via their false news and erratic reports.

BBC: silent on Genocides perpetrated in Fake ?Ethiopia? by Racist Amharas and Tigrays

In the aforementioned brief story, the tied person represents the subjugated, tyrannized and dehumanized nations of Abyssinia ? fallaciously and criminally re-baptized as ?Ethiopia?. Tied up in a tree, and chained in handcuffs are the Oromos, the Ogadenis, the Sidamas, the Afars, the Kaffas, the Shekachos, the Agaws, the Shinashas, the Anuak, the Berta, the Gumuz, the Kambatas, the Wolayitas, as well as the Abyssinian (Amhara and Tigray) Muslims, who are quantity to ca. 82% with the ominous country. All these diverse nations that have absolutely nothing to do using the Semitic Amhara and Tigray Monophysites have been gradually invaded by or conceded (by whom else? ? the British) towards the latter; and ever considering that, they have been exposed to national and spiritual genocide ? without having the disreputable BBC publishing anything that would mobilize masses allover the planet against Africa?s most appalling tyranny.

In the aforementioned brief story, the killer (the guy who tied the person to a tree and abandoned the person to death) could be the planet?s most appalling tyranny, essentially the most totalitarian and most obsolete state with the globe, Abyssinia.

Abyssinia (Fake ?Ethiopia?): the Planet?s Most Obsolete State

A state whereby inhuman, heinous and racist pseudo-Christian monks give the order to mass extermination and spiritual genocide of numerous nations towards the hereditary or non hereditary tyrannical rulers; for them a fake, baseless and fictive entity, named ?Ethiopia? (by means of the usurpation with the historical name of Ancient Sudan where thrived the Kushitic kingdoms that had been named ?Ethiopia? by the Ancient Greeks and Romans) would serve to impose their Satanic, pseudo-Christian and anti-Christian beliefs on numerous neighboring nations.

Abyssinian Tyranny, Waiting the False Christ with the Amhara Monks

Working under English colonial approval, the monarchical, pro-Communist and pseudo-republican Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic rulers want to perpetuate their tyranny, and complete their genocide of all of the aforementioned subjugated nations, simply because their monks promised them that their false Christ is about to come, and “he” will reveal towards the rest with the planet the false Ark with the Covenant that they keep closed in their shameful buildings, imagining that it can be the real, historical Ark of Covenant which is recognized by means of Biblical excerpts.

To mount up their Satanic conspiracy and to diffuse (in its support) an incredibly falsified and racist version of History, the Monophysitic (Tewahedo) Neo-Nazi Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian rulers, prohibit each and every development within the vast prison that’s their country, if the project was not launched, managed and profited by them.

Promoting Traitors to Later Butcher Them: Typically ?Ethiopian? Method

The few exceptions created had been situations of numerically quite few renegades with the subjugated nations, who betrayed their nations? struggle for liberation, freedom, independence from the Amhara and Tigray Neo Nazi pestilence, and national survival.

As usually takes place in situations of traitors, several of them had been finally massacred indiscriminately.

Economy does not Function in the Time of Rain already!

In a pseudo-country where criminal Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic gangsters become settlers in occupied territories (of all of the aforementioned subjugated nations), and using the support of military extract all of the profit from agricultural activities, it can be comical to take into account the drought as reason for the famine.

In a pseudo-country where criminal Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic gangsters control the totality with the internal trade (let alone the external trade), it’s criminal to say that crops “did not grow” due to the fact “it did not rain”.

Crops did not grow, since it can be prohibited to Sidama, Oromo, Anuak and other agricultural workers to purchase crops and cultivate lands – already.

In a pseudo-country where criminal Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic gangsters control the state run economy, the administration, the education, the army along with the pseudo-justice, it can be comical to speak about “rain”.

In the execrable and inhuman tyranny of fake Ethiopia, the only rain that falls regularly will be the Rain with the Cut Heads.

I urge you to read the following criticism written by an Oromo intellectual in exile; the text selected due to its authenticity and clarity was published very first within the OLF (Oromo Liberation Front) website.

It can serve as very good seminar for the disreputable pseudo-journalists with the BBC and also the other mass media accomplices with the Neo-Nazi Abyssinian tyrant Meles Zenawi.

Reason of Famine: the Existence of ?Ethiopia?

React by all indicates against the BBC; flood them with letters and emails of protestation. Their next report should state that the famine in fake ?Ethiopia? is due just towards the existence with the dysmorphic, dysfunctional and abnormal state of fake ?Ethiopia? itself.

When it will be broken down to 10 or 12 pieces like Yugoslavia, each independent nation will exploit its own natural resources, and via a consistent and comprehensive nation building, they will achieve water sufficiency, agricultural development, and socio-economic progress, devoid with the Amhara ? Tigray Monophysitic (Tewahedo) pestilence.

Unexplored angles to Ethiopia’s famine news stories for the international media
(http://www.oromoliberationfront.org/News/2008/Unexplored%20angles.html)

“The rains did not come. So the crops did not grow and people are desperate?” Wendy Urquhart, BBC News May possibly 30, 2008.

I was provoked to write this post after I read and watched a few with the storylines the international media and news agencies are pursuing in terms of covering the current famine and drought in Ethiopia.

Before I go into my topic for today, I would like to initial start off by commending the efforts that the international media and news agencies are making to cover the current humanitarian crises in Ethiopia.

In the firs paragraph, I quoted the way the BBC News reporter excellently opens here description with the drought and starvation in Oromia region, East Shewa Zone. If I had been to report on the situation there, I would not have started with a much better phrase than the BBC reporter did. The reason I isolated this excellent quote is to suggest a far more profound angle towards researching and covering stories of famine and drought in Ethiopia. It really is primarily to inform than to critique. The quote makes a causal link in between the absence of rain and failure of crops to grow and result starvation. Yes, I agree using the reporter that the immediate trigger of drought and starvation will be the absence of rain. Nevertheless, the fundamental angle the story leaves unexplored could be the reality that these droughts like its predecessor from year s 1984-85, and 2000 are man created along with the direct consequences of government caused conflicts as well as the lack of commitment to sustainable development. Yet another opening by Reuters reads, “Famine Returns to Ethiopia”. Similarly, it makes connection among absence of rain and crop failure.

Ethiopia as country and Oromia as state are the sources of several gigantic rivers that the agricultures of our neighboring courtiers for example Sudan, Egypt, Somalia, thrive on. An elementary school geography student will be able to give us a list of these rivers amongst that are the Nile, Wabe Sheble, Awash, Tekezie, Ghibe to name just a few. Wabe Sheble flows southwards for thousands of kilometers into Somalia and of course the Blue Nile flows into Egypt transporting our fertile soil. So, why are we starving and why are we constantly on the news for it? The answer is basic: the central governments have completed absolutely nothing in terms of using the donors’ money to expand irrigations into places which are arid and semi-arid. In truth, most with the rivers I mentioned pass appropriate via the residential locations with the drought struck and also the starved people. Possibly, publicizing these is really a key angle that the globe media outlets can take in terms of story angle to ensure that the real problem is addressed, not the symptoms.

Prior towards the drought of 1984-85, the Derg military junta in energy was wasting public money on extravagant parties and banquets. EPRDF/TPLF regime in Addis Ababa/ Finfinnee has also engaged in extravagant and lavish millennium parties from September 2007 up until now. These parties are restricted inside the party circles whilst emaciated children and mothers are falling like flies within the villages of Eastern Oromia State, Ogaden, and Borana. In reality, these are the places where millions are reported to be needing immediate food aid, but I suspect the entire country is starving including employed people inside the cities though the degree is diverse. These are also the quite locations widely recognized for their dissent against the oppressive and racist ethnic government. Where there is no drought, a strategy of direct ethnic-cleansing is carried out. An example of an ethnic-cleansing will be the ongoing armed attack the Oromo by the Gumuz militias, which killed over 400 unarmed civilians, in accordance with reports. Substantially, Ethiopia’s chronic famine problem is political problem that arises from lack of a concerned leadership. The country’s leadership, much more typically than not, uses famine to rend political opposition from pro-democracy and development groups. This is portion of larger strategy to make the masses ‘starve or surrender’, to use a famous book title.

It can become quite easy and addictive to decrease the trigger of famine and drought in Ethiopia to a natural trigger since it really is easy to blame nature. The worthy approach is to investigate the patterns of government military spending, to analyze whether or not donors’ money /food aid is channeled towards the appropriate recipient, and whether or not funds are utilized for development. Are there irrigation schemes on, at least, tributaries with the key rivers as development effort? Not 1 I know of. A genuine and enduring effort to aid Ethiopia need to be to pressurize the government to stop wars inside and outside of its territories and to urge it to negotiate with opposition groups in order to come to consensus to form a new and inclusive transitional government that will facilitate democratic elections.

The permanent solution of ending the image of Ethiopia as a country notorious for its drought, famine and conflict lies within the hands of all stakeholders nationally and internationally. Each Ethiopian news website or radio-broadcast from the Diaspora have an editorial and humanitarian responsibility of shaping its coverage of current famine by linking it to not only natural climate adjustments but also towards the EPRDF/TPLF’s misguided agricultural policy and its insensitivity towards sustainable development and other local and global agenda, including climate alter. Otherwise, it really is easy, to whine on our own separate platforms without having bringing a speedy resolution towards the desperate Ethiopians under the military junta.

In summary, I suggest exploring the following editorial angles to covering famine, drought and development stories inside the Horn of Africa. The international media and Ethiopian Diaspora media should be able to:

1. Discover how our key rivers are not becoming utilized to curb food shortage;

2. Establish a link among conflict, war, and also the eco-system and climate alter;

3. Expose corruptions related to food aid/ as well as the mismanagement and mis-spending of donors ‘ money;

4. Investigate exclusions and repressions inflicted by the government on famine- hit civilians;

5. As the local media is controlled, is really a moral responsibility for the international media to step up reporting on famine, human rights abuses and systematic ethnic-cleansing in Ethiopia;

6. See how people in Oromia have been denied opportunities shut out from urbanization by successive Ethiopian regimes.

These six suggestions are the ones that I’ve distilled from my encounter and lengthy time acquaintance with Ethiopian problems as an independent reporter and human rights activist.

Qeerransoo Biyyaa

(Now in Exile)