DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑11 Apr 2019, 15:52
Before two days after getting into bed and before got asleep I made my thoughts with my people back home whose daily life has essentially become now life under terrorism, unfortunately. I thereby thought for a while about my personal liberty and the privilege I have in going into bed and get asleep without a fear of something going to happen to me in the night. I put this in comparison to the daily life of those of our people back home, who are deprived of the same luxury while staying in their own home land. Worst of all these people are deprived of their liberty by their “own people”. My thoughts are with all those who are subjected to such suffering in their own homeland.
And then I wondered myself about why things have to be the same as they are now? Why should the innocent people in my country have to suffer in such a way in their own home country? What is (part of) the cause? Things can’t happen without having a cause, and we can’t solve problems without adequately understanding the cause and addressing them.
There could be more than one causes but one of them is without a doubt in my mind the commercialization of the suffering of one’s own people for personal (a narrow group’s) financial or other advantages. No one can deny that there are people in the country who are dispatched to kill other people in their own country, as it is happening in front of our own eyes, these days in Ethiopia. But how are those people who are killing their own fellow citizens are empowered to do so? Where do they get the resources to do so, among others?
Mostly, if not exclusively, they get the resources from the political parties. Which political parties? Mostly these are those who used to be based abroad and skilled themselves in how to raise money for “their cause” in the name of defending the rights of the people.
And mostly the diaspora is good at contributing its money while clapping its "hands very well." Those parties who stayed back home don't the luxury of renting a room where they keep their büros, let alone to buy weapons and use it to kill other fellow citizens.
Having the needed resources is vital, if not the only enablement factor, to keep the machine of killing running. We used to have differing and/or opposing political opinions in the past too, but this didn’t lead us to kill other innocent people in our own country before, at least not to the same scale like it is doing today in Ethiopia, in a coordinated and well managed/executed fashion.
So, what is keeping the machine of killing running?
In my view the Ethiopian diaspora has made itself into one of the major destructive forces in the country through the money it contributes, ostensibly to challenge those in power and as such promote the rights of the people, while effectively it has in fact transformed itself into a force of destruction of its own people.
If we didn’t realize this was the case in the past and we can’t see that it is happening today in front of our eyes, in many different forms, then we are simply just paying a lip service to the cause we claim to have or defend, which is in fact tragic. And the price we will going to pay for our collective failure will be very high, mark my words here.
Call a spade a spade and defend the truth if you think you are serious about your cause.