UNSC STOP! You Are Amputating The Wrong Leg.
It was not long time, it was around
late 1970's, Fiddle Castro of Cuba and Mengistu Hailemariam of Ethiopia had a
co-operation agreement and accordingly Fiddle Castro sent medical doctors to
Ethiopia as a good gesture to the friendship between Ethiopia and Cuba. The
majority of the medical doctors were fresh graduates. At that time, Ethiopia
was engaged in hot warfare with Eritrea and Somalia as well. The result of the
war was death and casualties to the soldieries. While the dead were buried the
wounded soldieries ended at the hand of the Cuban doctors. Some of the wounded
soldieries, the casualty was in one side of their legs or the other side of
their arms. At that time, it was a normal episode to hear the Cuban medical
doctors were amputating by mistake the healthy leg or arm. Some of the
soldieries lost both either their legs or arms due to these mal practices. Let
us take the above mentioned story as refreshment and continue our discussion to
what the number zero is doing at the UN.
Last week, the UNSC passed a
resolution number 1640/2005 that threatens economic sanctions if Eritrea do not
lift the ban on the helicopter use by UNMEE. If the UNSC is quick to punish
Eritrea then what is its problem when it comes to Ethiopia. In fact, the
obstacle is Ethiopia and not Eritrea.
The historical misdeeds by UN
against Eritrea is beyond to have a clarification. It can be said; generally it
is a crime waged by the name of UN against the Eritrean people. If I don't compare
it with the holocaust, I can simply label it less to it. In the early 1950's,
if UN could simply said the Eritrea people deserve independence, they could
have saved all the destruction's both to Ethiopia and Eritrea that we witnessed
in the past 50 years. Due to the crime waged by the UN in the early 1950's
still the problem of Eritrea and Ethiopia is continuing to this time. This is
the time the UN to end the suffering of the Ethiopian and Eritrean people. UN
has to take actions to persuade Ethiopia let the border demarcated and solve
the problem once and for all.
This time, UNSC is committing
another crime against the Eritrean people. In fact, it is not only committing
crime against the Eritrea people, but as well to the people of the Horn of
Africa. As our father sheik Ibrahim Sultan prophesied it in the 1950's unless
Eritrea gets what it deserve there is not going to be peace in the horn of
Africa. This time it is up to the Ethiopians either to choose to be a robot of
the super powers or liberate themselves and join the hand of the people of the
horn of Africa in creating conducive condition for development and happy life
in that region.
Ethiopians have to say enough is
enough and they have to start depend on themselves and not sell their dignity for
handouts from the super powers. The peace and harmony in the horn of Africa
should not be sold by Ethiopians to the super powers simply to receive aid.
Ethiopians have to learn the principle of self reliance from Eritrea. They
should not be part of the obstacle the super powers are creating to Eritrea.
The Super powers are observing the hard work of Eritrea relying on self relines
and they don't liked it. They are working to frustrate Eritrea not to be a
symbol for other African countries. Our brothers, Ethiopians, think of your
for-fathers deed when they smashed the colonial power at Adwa war. That episode
was a pride for the whole of Africa. This time, like the Adwa war, Eritrea is
engaged in smashing the neocolonialism of the super powers in the economical
front. This is economical war between Eritrea and neocolonialists. Eritrea is
going to win this war and it is going to be a pride for the whole of Africa as
the Adwa war is a pride for the whole of Africa. Ethiopians!!! you should join
your hand with the struggle for economical freedom of Africa. Don't let super
powers misuse you to frustrate the victory of Africa.
Tesfamicael Yohannes
Oslo, Norway.