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Editoral Observer Call
for pogrom-the verifiable attack of Tigreans by Dr. Gregory Stanton,
President of Genocide Watch, Tigreans
could pay the price for Meles crimes – Gregory Stanton November
12, 2010 There is a very thin line between the exercise of
individual freedoms of thought and expression and crossing the line and
inciting violence. In the latter case it is a serious crime which may lead
to legal action. So far we Tigreans in the Diaspora have been portrayed as
unpatriotic and sellout as some sycophantic websites and few narrow
ethnicists tried to label us. Now paid mercenaries have ultimately joined
the bandwagon in disseminating the lies and disparaging the whole of the
Tigrean populace by trying to create a rift among Ethiopians. It is very
troubling to idly sit and watch without confronting these messengers of
death and mayhem. The sheer belligerency of the verbal assault and bigotry
against the Tigreans is unprecedented in its incivility and ferocity.
We have allowed for too long those kinds of rubbish
propaganda to float in many websites by the hate mongers and supporters of
the murderous gangs á la interahamwe. It is time that we must brace up as
a force to challenge and unmask the propaganda campaign waged against the
people of Tigray and us Tigreans in the Diaspora and bring sanity and
coherence to prevail among our Ethiopian compatriots. The Tigrean people
have throughout their history shown that their collective willpower of
survival is their bravery of resistance. This was also true during the
fascist atrocities of the Derg regime, where determination and
self-reliance were the lodestars in the struggle to get rid of the dangers
of extermination. No current or earlier watchdogs, no human rights groups
and no government of dignity were up to condemn the scorched earth policy
and killing squads of the Derg Junta. Finishing off the Derg and its party structure might
not be welcomed in the first hand by those perpetrators of torture and
suffering of the Ethiopian people and those whose vested interest were
wiped away by the fall of the regime. We know for fact that the Diaspora
politics is falling like autumn leaves and is at last ditch to be buried
forever never to resurrect and play its dirty game of suppressing and
dehumanizing the Ethiopian people. This group is desperate and we Tigreans
are being attacked by this vociferous and worthless lot even to the extent
of hiring its paid spokespersons and torpedoes. Why do Tigreans have to
pay the price? These few Shaibia agents like Elias Kifle, self-proclaimed
politicians and their associates are trying too hard to disunite
Ethiopians in general and Tigreans in particular by creating fault-lines
to existing or non-existing problems and ultimately bring about
confrontation or alienate each other from their common heritage as a
people. We have to fight back such extremely hostile narrow
ethnicists’ campaign of abhorrence and ignorance. We have been attacked
and accused of opportunism without being the direct beneficiaries of any
system in It defies any rationale to justify why Tigreans have
to pay the price for the type of government existing in
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