The Absurdity of Asking a Slayer to Investigate His Murderous Regime
Now that the gruesome details of the ethnic cleansing tactics being employed by the current autocracy in Addis Ababa are slowly coming out, it is not unexpected for the Ethiopian prime minister to come out swinging against the veracity of the genocidal stories trickling out of Ogaden with the Ogaden refugees. After all who expects a slayer, at the level of Mr. Meles Zenawi, to own up to the military indiscretions of his minions and militias in Ogaden.
Coming out to claim that the fact that he was a former ‘insurgent’ makes him to avoid carrying out an ethnic cleansing in Ogaden is quite absurd to say the least. Given the documented and widely publicized human rights abuses and genocide reported in Ogaden, is it not that Zenawi is simply trying to deflect attention away from the very public decapitations, mutilations, and mass execution of innocent civilians that his poorly paid soldiers have been carrying out under his orders in Ogaden?
The only thing that is more absurd than Zenawi’s denials of ethnic cleansing and genocide is the otherwise impeccable U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes asking Zenawi to investigate the very murders and crimes against humanity that he has planned and ordered in Ogaden.
No one in their right mind asks a murderer to investigate his murders. The mass displacement, country-wide blockade, public beheadings, extra judicial killings, and the actions of the death squads that Zenawi has unleashed against the Ogaden masses should be investigated without delay by NOT ONE but by a panel of multi-UN agencies and human rights organizations. The Ethiopian regime should neither have no role nor a say in these investigations.
When the multi-UN agency panel convenes and since Zenawi has emphatically denied ‘that there have been no widespread human rights violations in the Ogaden, not only because we believe in the respect for human rights, but because we know how to fight the insurgency’ he should be personally held responsible for all the crimes against humanity that have so taken place in Ogaden.
Zenawi’s crimes are no less immoral than those carried out by the Hutu Interhamwe militias during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. These, Zanawi’s, crimes are no less wicked and gruesome than those carried out by Radovan Karadzic and Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.
Why initiate a global search for criminals like Interhamwe militias, Ratko Mladic, and Radovan Karadzic while allowing Zenawi to act like a statesman and even listen to his diatribes? If crimes against humanity are one and the same Zenawi and his murderous regime should be brought to justice instead of absurdly asking him to investigate his murderous regime.
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8 thoughts on “Zenawi’s Interhamwe in Ogaden”
The report below is from the Associated Press.
” A thin, pensive 30-year-old man, who asked not to be identified out of fear, told the Associated press about two incidents on Friday in which the army burned two villages, Lebiya and Korelits, to the ground, killing one man”
The UN envoy who visited the region, mr Holmes said the following: ” I didn’t get the impression that we are in a catastrophic situation now”.
Of course it would not seem catastrophic if he visited only under the supervision of the EPRDF officials. Were he thinking they would allow him to see all those atrocities ?
I think there need to be accountibility in that region. The United States Security Council must adopt a resolution demanding that an Independent UN fact finding mission be send.
When one man was killed in Lebanon (the then prime minister Farik Hariri) the UN took a decisive action to investigate his killing. Wouldn’t the life of thousands worth more that the life of one man? Or is the life of black Ethiopians cheap in the eyes of the UN ?
In Ruanda they were silentwhen more than one million people died. In Darfur the only thing they did is talk. In Somalia when war lords rampages that country for more than a half a dozen they did nothing. In Ethiopia when the EPRDF brutally massacres unarmed peaceful demonstrators they closed their eyes. Now in Ogaden when villages are burned down to the ground, the most they can say is :” it is not catastrophic”.
SHAME ON THEM !
There need to be a consorted campaigns, demonstrations in Washington DC et all to make our voice heard. The Ogaden human rights groups must be very organized and lead this effort. They need to call demonstrations and candle light vigils.
We need to be voice for the voices. We need to be voice for Lebiga residents. We need to speak on behalf of Korelitsa residents.
When ? NOW. Who ? US.
The current crisis in Ogaden is a continuation of the US Administration’s strategy in the Horn and in other parts of the world. The vast amounts of aid extended to the TPLF regime is merely a way of subsidizing the means by which the strategy could succeed. When the genocide in the Ogaden region was put forth before the UN, Washington officials took it upon themselves to speak on behalf of their servant regime and unashamedly claimed that nothing unusual has happened in the region. This fact only reveals that the US Administration was the real architect behind the TPLF regime’s aggression against the Ogaden people. However, such evil collaboration and tactics will not stifle the just cause of the people, but will on the contrary backfire on the architects and perpetrators of the evil strategy; for no amount of force and resources can suppress a just cause!
Meles knows very well that whatever he does in Ogaden,the Western powers will not be that hard on him and he will go scot-free.For instance,the last time when there was a UN fact-finding team in the area to speak to the Locals in Dhegahbur,Kabridahar and other towns,all those individuals who spoke against the sordid brutality of the TPLF are either in jail,disappeared or murdered.Our people have learned the hard way that they have to face this ruthless tyrant alone.
Our country is under “the zenawi’s colony” for the last 16 years. We all have to raise our voices for this mass killing and genocide until he get caught.
My fellow Ethiopians Please let’s get united and fight this enemy once and for all.
United we stand , divided we fall.
Yes indeed, Meles Zinawi and his collaboraters shall for sure, be charged not only for looting the resoures of Ethiopia, this murderer of the century shall definitely carged for the crime that is being committed all over Ethiopia and Somalia.
For sure, nobody is doubted what sort of fate Meles Zinawi and his comurderers shall meet; when these murderers meet their fate, it will be that first, they will confess their gross sin then, tell their own murder story, and then they will be laughed at and spat at, then they will be receiving their hot and burning fate in front of their supporter.
There will never be funeral cenrmony nor their will be burial; just simply pack the dead filth and send it to hell.
We Ethiopians are not quick to understand TPLF/EPRDF terrorism sponsor regime. There is no people around the world who carelessly watch their fellow citizens killed on the daylight while waiting for their day to come to be get kill too like us. When Somali Ethiopians massacred for almost three months now, we absorb that other Ethiopains are doing nothing as the same as Anyuak were murdered in thousands four years ago. What a curse is this country is swimming in. Lack of equality, injustic and segregation against other nationalities have played a slow respond and reaction to make this regime stop murdering our citizens. Many Ethiopians including Somalis, Anyuak, Oromos and etc in thousands had been killed in Badem and former Eritra conflict for gaining nothing but waste of lives to make this TPLF regime stayed in power for years. Let us stop speaking TPLF regime’s language and propaganda that says the ONLF freedom fighters are separatists, and support this brothers to shorten the age of TPLF.The culture of suporting the northern citizens such as Amhara and Tigre nationalities from outsiders attack need to be stop now and help people of East, West, South west and South Ethiopia. God should change the direction of support from north to East, West and south eventhough northerns monoplize the country leadership to twist the country to the direction they wish to extract the resources of the country.
meles is murdering all our ciitizenes, and the US is assisting him with it. The UN being the tool of the US, it too is ignoring the violations, which means in other words helping it hide the crimes.
Eventually, Meles Zinawi will face the centuries of crime trial infront of millions of Ethiopians. Crime committed buu the brutal regime has already affected millions all oever Ethiopia.
However, the fact is, Meles Zinawi and his regime is self-destrutive and shall be crumble like an old tree and left where it fell until it rots.
The united front of all Ethiopians is in the working and is getting momumtum as days pass by.