Multi-dimensional greed: Woyane
Kiflemariam Hamde
May 24, 2000
Selam Dehayers and hzbey
All of us know the extent to which a greedy person can incur risky business
to his or her neighbour. Each of us know how to handle greedy neighbours. A
greedy neighbour claims whatsoever you own or plan to own. In the extreme, a
greedy neighbour can even claim his or her neighbour's life - for the sake
of looting and owning unjustifiably. In the same way, there are also greedy
states which envy their neighbours' (1) property, (2) well-being and peace,
as well as (3) their lives. The one and best example is Ethiopia. The
Eritrean people have struggled against this greedy state for the last fifty
years. At one time, it was the thirsty for greatness by having a marine port
that justified a form of looting and raid over a territory that justifiably
demanded its own being. At other times, an un-satiable greed governed that
state's leadership by even exposing its nakedness and wishing the
elimination of Eritrean people - it was the land and the sea that all
Haileselasaie wanted out of Eritrea, not its people. This crazy and
terrorist system against the Eritrean people was only continued by another
criminal leadership whose sole mission in Eritrea was Killing, Treading, and
Dominating (derg meant debdib, rgeT, gza). For decades, rural Eritrea bled
as a result of both systems and urban Eritrea suffered in terms of lives and
domination. Eritrean mothers wept for so long as a result of the cruel and
blood-thirst Ethiopian soldiers' evil atrocities. Some Eritrean fathers were
left to reflect over their decisions in joining Ethiopia - if this island of
Christianity was in fact a society infused with Christian values: respect
for life and freedom of the individual. Eritrean youngsters were left
dismayed by the continued domination of their minds in defiant educational
and administrative systems but never gave up their hearts to the system.
After liberation nine years ago, we were rejoiced but also decided to
forgive, if not to forget, what that evil system has incurred to us all. We
dared to forgive them despite lives of the tens of thousands brothers and
sisters who quietly inhabit the hills, rivers, mountains and planes of
Eritrea. The blood of our brothers and sisters are printed in the very heart
of Eritrea to allow this holy land to be again trodden by the messengers of
destruction. We have in our lives witnessed the hypocrite 'Christian'
soldiers of Hailesealasie who claimed to be fasting during the holy season
simultaneously as they looted Eritrean property and cut the breasts of our
dear sisters in all corners of Eritrea, and inhumanely finished the lives of
unconscious infants who never got the opportunity to develop in this world
as Eritreans. If Haileselassie' system was hypocrite in Christian values,
the Dergue's was even more hypocrite in ideological equality: its only goal
in Eritrea was to lower Eritreans to the level of the hypnotic and inhumane
(mass) - sefiw hzb - which existed nowhere. Hypocrisy and greed are to the
two concepts that describe best the Ethiopian systems towards Eritrea.
Worse enough, the hypocrisy of Woyane is extended not only to claims of
civilian lives or property but also sovereignty. No way to that, we say all
Eritreans. Multidimensional greed and hypocrisy is the ultimate measure of
inhumanity. I only call them to reconsider their own approach, not to us
Eritreans but to themselves, and pull out of the holy land marked and sealed
by the blood of Eritrean sisters and brothers.
Courage and determination to all of us Eritreans!
Failure is due to the Hypocrite and Naked Woyanes!
Kiflemariam Hamde