By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
December 6, 2007
The Honorable Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of State
Department of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Secretary Rice,
In the aftermath of your trip to Finfinne (fallaciously re-baptized as Addis Abaab), I am writing to urge a significant reconsideration of the US approach to Eastern Africa, and a stronger US commitment to the Noble Cause of Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights in the wider Horn of Africa region.
To a certain extent, the US African policy failed to assess the true origin of the existing problems as preponderantly colonial of nature; yet, this would have helped understand that most of the issues the US is confronted with in that area are slightly different manifestations of the same reality.
Yet, America with all its rich colonial experience (before 1774), and anti-colonial firm stance and commitment would look ideal to solve Africa's problems. The Declaration of Independence, and other historical documents that have underscored America's commitment to Humanism, Democracy, Freedom, Justice, and Human Rights since the times of the Founding Fathers consist in the best existing guidelines for a successful US African policy. The principles solemnly declared in the aforementioned historical texts, if applied within the US African policy making, will be effective in troubleshooting, proficient in creating loyal friends, and functional in ensuring long term US supremacy throughout the Black Continent in terms of geopolitics and geo-strategics.
America's success lies precisely in its humane theoretical foundations, and if the country has been borne to supremacy by these groundbreaking, anti-colonial principles and ideas, there is little chance of triumph in case these same principles and values are not embedded in the US foreign policy, and more particularly the US approach to the Horn of Africa region.
It would be essential to recall things as precisely put by Thomas Jefferson in his draft:
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm)
Pillars of US approach to East Africa
The aforementioned excerpt would be enough to set basic rules of a successful – for America, not local tyrants – US African policy.
Independence of African Nations
"... necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another"; this brief statement says it all. To properly diffuse the ideas that led to its emergence, America has to contribute to the political liberation of numerous oppressed peoples of Eastern Africa.
Equality – Justice – Elimination of Racism
"... assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"; this excerpt highlights the basic belief that all the peoples, and all the nations, are equal, that they have the same right to nationhood, and that respect has to be equal to all. The aforementioned phrase makes clear what is not so clear to several tyrannical regimes in East Africa, namely the fact that there are no 'superior' races – supposedly 'predestined' to rule over others.
Life – Freedom – Prosperity
"...endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"; the numerous tyrannized East African nations would not find better words to express their convictions and to underscore their aspirations.
Honorable Rice,
This excerpt comes in striking contradiction with the image you have not been allowed to see in various parts of the country where you have just spent two days. This is due to the fact that the US Africa policy making has been unsuccessful from A to Z, and I am sure you will only agree with this, taking into consideration the various existing hotspots, notably Ogaden, Darfur, Somalia, etc.
In fact, the perpetuation of these dramas consists in a definite blow against the ideals and the principles on which America's very existence has been founded. It looks as if someone in Africa today deliberately derides the principles and the values of America's Founding Fathers.
Before shaping an effective US Africa policy, one should therefore examine ground data and identify the specific reasons for the aforementioned bleak pages of African politics.
Contrarily with what happens in the area of today's Sudan where the disastrous situation inherited originates from the times of the British colonial intervention, the existing troubles and the conflicts throughout the area of the modern states Eritrea, Djibouti, 'Ethiopia' (this is a fake name, and grave part of all troubles pertaining to the Horn of Africa) and Somalia stem from even earlier periods.
Sudan
The ideological expression of the problematic conditions encountered between Egypt and Kenya is quite indicative. In Sudan, an African state that shelters many different Nilo-Saharan and Cushitic peoples who are mostly unrelated one from another, the Pan-Arabist regimes that controlled the country for more than 50 years promoted a nationalist ideology that totally disfigures the History and the Identity of the different indigenous nations that are all non-Arabic. It is noteworthy that Sudan adhered progressively (over the span of 6 centuries) to Islam without any Arabic invasion or military expedition – contrarily to Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine.
Following 50 years of Civil War, the South of Sudan seems by now poised to become an independent country - as home to the local nations, the Dinka and the Nuer. It would be an aberration for the US and the international community to deprive the tyrannized Furis of Darfur from what was finally accorded to the Dinka and the Nuer. And it would be unfair to offer independence to Darfur, without extending this privilege to the Haussa speaking populations of Kordofan, to the Nubians in the North, and to the Bejas (Blemmyes) in the East, i.e. the Red Sea coast.
Historical nations, the Nubians and the Blemmyes have been known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and their position in the wider area could not be more favorable to the American political and geopolitical interests.
As a matter of fact, in the historical area of Sudan, which was known to Ancient Romans and Greeks as Ethiopia (the great kingdom of Napata and Meroe at the southern border of Egypt), six different states should be accommodated in the near future so that peace, concord, national dignity, and economic progress finally prevail. With the irrelevant and inconsistent Arabic Nationalism obliterated in Sudan, the six emerging countries will have all chances to establish democratic societies based on their traditions and on the experience of the modern democracies in Europe and North America.
Somalia – Djibouti – Eritrea – 'Ethiopia'
Sudan's Pan-Arabism may look like a minor episode when we are confronted with the world's most reactionary ideological – political system. By this I do not mean the Islamic extremism that controlled parts of Somalia for a brief period of time; there is, in the area between Sudan and Kenya, a far more dangerous and far more inhuman doctrine than Islamic extremism, and quite unfortunately this doctrine is a state dogma.
Contrarily to what many think Somalia is not the problem; by this, I mean that Somalia is not the cause of the currently prevailing disastrous situation in the area in question. Somalia is just one symptom of a very sick environment that has existed for centuries. The origin of the troubles goes back to the late 15th - early 16th century. Before unveiling the focus of evil, we should have a schematic idea of the different indigenous nations of the area.
The Somali Nation
Among the aforementioned four (4) states, only Somalia is a real national state that is home to the indigenous Somalis, a Cushitic Nation. However, because of the colonial divisions, not all the Somalis have been re-grouped within their national state.
Somalis have been left outside Somalia's borders for very wrong and unfair reasons, namely:
1. the useless preservation of the historical relic 'state' of Djibouti, the French part of Somalia (actually, part of the tiny state at the Bab al Mandab straits should be included in Somalia, and the rest should be incorporated in the Afar land).
2. the illegitimate annexation of Ogaden (Somalia West) by 'Ethiopia' (colonial transfer from Britain to the 'emperor' Haile Selassie, gradually effectuated in the 1940s and 50s), and
3. the equally unfair attribution of the southernmost Somalis to the colonial creature 'Kenya'.
Eritrea may be the latest state to be formed and internationally recognized in the area, but it is not a national state either; except the Afars, the Kunamas, Tigray-speaking people, Arabic speaking people, Tigrinya-speaking people, the Bejas (Blemmyes) and others cohabitate in Eritrea, without yet living under the rule of Law and Justice, as the tiny multinational and multicultural country seems to have experienced many successive wars (with Yemen, Sudan, and 'Ethiopia').
Afars
'Ethiopia' is an artificial construction maintained under terror otherwise unseen throughout Africa. As it can be easily understood, 'Ethiopia' is not a nation; in fact, there are no 'Ethiopians'.
Even before the Somalis (annexation of Ogaden), a great number of Afars had been incorporated in 'Ethiopia'; thus in the case of the Cushitic Afar Nation, we attest a trichotomy, a division into three parts, namely Djibouti, Eritrea, and 'Ethiopia'.
Oromos, Sidamas, Shekachos, Kaffas, Agaw, Anuak, Wolayitas
Similarly with the Afars, all the aforementioned nations have been gradually invaded and annexed during the 19th century, and then oppressed and tyrannized within the fake 'Ethiopia'.
All these nations are Nilo-Saharan, Cushitic or Bantu of origin, and they are totally different one from another, diverging as regards religion, culture, language, and socio-behavioural systems.
Along with them, other smaller ethnic groups have also been invaded, annexed and tyrannized for over 100 years; however, I do not mention them here analytically as I attempt to focus on only major groups that have all the credentials to become successful nations of several millions of inhabitants each.
The focus of East African Evil: Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians
Like this, we reach the focus of East African Evil; those who invaded the South of Somalia in the very last days of 2006 are those who fueled discord and fratricidal conflicts in the Somali North in 1991, contributing to the otherwise useless formation of the apostate state of 'Somaliland'.
Honorable Rice,
Those who in 2007 scathingly murder Somali citizens, just because they are Somalis, and those who in 2007 carpet bomb Ogaden's villages, just because they consider the Ogadenis as an inferior race – or just 'insects' as they call them –, are precisely those who sold many hundreds of thousands of Oromos, Sidamas and other as slaves at the end of the 19th century.
These are the criminal gangsters who perpetrated the earliest and the most systematic genocide in the world, the genocide of the Oromos and the other invaded Cushitic nations of Ethiopia.
Abyssinians: the Racist Masters of the Most Appalling Genocide
So systematic their multi-genocide was that it involved the following for the survivors, all those who escaped physical annihilation:
• Prohibition of use of their language
• Prohibition of use of their writing system (if extant, otherwise prohibition of introduction of a writing system)
• Prohibition of practice of religious rituals, rites, ceremonies, and acts of faith
• Prohibition of practice of all traditional customs and procedures of social order
• Prohibition of selection of representatives empowered to represent the tyrannized nations at either national or international level
• Prohibition of the study of their past, history, language, culture and society
• Prohibition of attendance of the Primary and Secondary education, and Universities, except for few cases of culturally alienated renegades
• Imposition of an alien language and writing system as compulsory means of communication through all levels of education
• Imposition of an alien language and writing system as official language throughout the annexed territories of the tyrannized nations
• Selection and imposition of few renegades among the subjugated and oppressed nations so that they, functioning as fake representatives, facilitate the imposition of the state tyranny
• Promotion of High Treason among the subjugated Nations as only chance for materially respectable survival
• Expropriation of lands, forests and pasturages
• Prohibition of any major economic activity for the entire population of all the subjugated nations
• Imposition of a bogus-historical dogma of purely Racist Nature
• Usurpation of the Name of Ethiopia – strictly used throughout ages for Cushitic populations inhabiting the area of Ancient Sudan
• Imposition of a systematic policy of Abyssinianization at the levels of language, writing system, religion, culture, social-behavioural system, and political life
• Systematic deprecation of all the subjugated peoples, and their cultures, languages, historical past, religions and social-behavioural systems, involving differentiation within purely Racist Context
These are the incorrigible Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians who manned the successive tyrannical regimes (monarchical, communist and pseudo-republican) down to our days; through combinations of the aforementioned practices, they even attempt now to present themselves under the Neo-Nazi formation of their racist Kinijit party as the only alternative to the ruthless tyrant Zenawi.
Historical Revenge that spreads Death
Their anti-Somali Racist Hysteria dates back to the days of the Somali King Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim whose invasion of Abyssinia in the early 16th century was about to terminate the existence of the tiny Abyssinian state, which was saved by the Portuguese. In other words, while pursuing revengeful policies, the Abyssinians in Somalia fight against ghosts, thus spreading death among living human beings.
Honorable Rice,
Through a proper historical assessment, a humanist approach to the phenomena of our societies, and a commonly shared set of democratic values and principles, one can easily draw the following conclusion.
Limit the Amharas and the Tigrays in their provinces
Peace will be established throughout the Horn of Africa region only when the Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians, who represent less than 30% of the entire population of 'Ethiopia,' will be forced to limit their rule only within their respective provinces, and to accept international tutelage similar to that implemented in post-WW II Germany.
International Tutelage for the Abyssinians
First, the Abyssinians have no right to occupy foreign territories that they invaded, and they have no right to control the respective subjugated nations.
Second, the Abyssinians have no right to impose a Monophysitic (heretic Christian) tyranny on the non Monophysitic Abyssinian populations, be they Muslim, Jewish, Catholic or Protestant.
When the last Amhara and Tigray will leave Finfinne (fallaciously re-baptized Addis Ababa), and when the structure of the tyrannical state will be demolished in the segregated Amhara and Tigray provinces of Abyssinia, the world will be sure that the Horn of Africa region will go ahead in every sense.
It will not be as difficult as diffusing Democracy among post-Nazi Germans; it simply takes determination, commitment to Justice, and rejection of the falsifications diffused by the unrepresentative bogus-diplomats of 'Ethiopia' who perform as gangsters acting against the outright majority of the population of the country they supposedly serve.
One has definitely to use the Founding Fathers' ideals and principles as compass in this Search for Democracy, Freedom and Human Rights in the Horn of Africa region - to the absolute detriment and despair of the Abyssinian totalitarian racists.
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Article Source: http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard
About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 49, 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 languages.
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