Intending to shed more light on the totalitarian practices of the Abyssinian
invaders of the Sidama Land and the other southern territories, I will publish a
series of enlightening articles written by the Sidama Leader Kambata Xoola,
Chairman of the Sidama National Liberation Organization (SNLO). Chairman Xoola's
first article focuses on the interaction of the political and the socio-economic
policies of discrimination, revealing the tragic conditions under which 5
million Sidamas still live, because the Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian robbers
methodically steal all the natural resources of the occupied Sidama Land.
Sidama Land – Human Rights Abuses, Poverty, and Socio-economic Marasm
By Kambata Xoola, Chairman of the Sidama National Liberation Organization
Recent developments in the Sidama Land, still occupied by the Abyssinian
invaders, reveal that the Sidama nation continues suffering all types of
injustices, while its rich resources are ceaselessly stripped away by the brutal
colonial settlers and the few selected puppets of theirs. There is no progress
at all as regards the country's socio-economic standards, and development seems
to be prohibited notion for the occupied Sidama Land.
In striking contrast with almost the entire world, life standards in both, urban
and rural areas, are sharply deteriorating. The farmers whose lives depend on
subsistent agriculture are seriously affected by the extended expropriation of
their lands and natural resources. Furthermore, social, political, cultural, and
educational oppression generates an environment whereby every socio-economic
activity is either prohibited to Sidamas or beneficial to Amhara and Tigray
settlers. The entire Sidama nation lives under conditions of severe
imprisonment.
Unemployment remains one of the highest in the colonial empire of Abyssinia and
the few Sidamas who fill the gaps in the highly corrupt "governmental" offices
are obliged to be members of the Abyssinian colonial political establishments.
Contrarily, Abyssinian colonial settlers in Sidama Land are immediately
employed.
In the occupied, deliberately impoverished and methodically tyrannized Sidama
Land, if Sidama nationals refuse to become an Abyssinian (Amhara and/or Tigray)
party member, they risk their position, as they can be automatically fired, and
then never find any employment opportunity, as they become automatically
blacklisted. Many Sidama nationals, who refused the most dishonoured position of
an Abyssinian party member, ended up facing intimidation, harassments,
imprisonment and/or death.
Life expectancy for Sidamas is getting slimmer. For millions of tyrannized and
dispossessed Sidamas, nutrition is limited exclusively in few pieces of bread
per day. Even worse, this little is often out of the reach for the hundreds of
thousands of Sidamas who live with lees than half a dollar per day. Starvation
has become endemic, and the occupied Sidama Land faces the most inimical
treatment at the hands of the thuggish and criminal Zenawi administration.
Even if we refer to what the Zenawi administration arrogantly boasts as
achievements, we can immediately realize that none of them is to be found in the
occupied Sidama Land. In this regard, it is essential to specify that economic
discrimination takes the form of exclusion of the Sidama Land from almost all
the technological achievements of the 20th century.
The Abyssinian regime views Sidama Land as a rich occupied land from where the
invaders and current rulers can extract all natural resources permanently and to
do so they terrorize, dehumanize, and bestialize the Sidama nationals. As a
matter of fact, the Abyssinian rulers always viewed the Sidama nation as a
danger to its terrorising reign and criminal plans.
The reason is simple; the rocky and impossible to cultivate mountains of the
land of the Abyssinian invaders, the current provinces of Tigray and Amhara, are
not able to offer them what is needed to sustain them, without them working
hard. Oppression of other nations is the only method of daily work they have
learned over the past 100 years.
All the achievements of the Abyssinian regime in the Tigray province have been
materialized due to natural resources expropriated and money stolen from the
occupied Sidama Land. Socio-economic discrimination can take at times absolute
forms. In fact, the political discrimination is not the target but the medium;
it precedes the economic discrimination and the illegal confiscation of another
country's natural resources. It helps the Abyssinian terrorists materialize
their economic targets, which are merely a generalized theft.
Consequently, the Sidama People don’t have any voice in their own motherland of
which they are the only legitimate proprietors. The political power, economic
decision making, and the socio-cultural dominance entirely remain at the hands
of the Abyssinian colonizers and their puppets, the few Sidamas who scramble for
what is the leftover of their ignorant and brutish masters. These few Sidama
collaborators cannot realize that their masters' slogan of "one Ethiopia" aims
at dehumanizing the nations of their colonies.
The Southern Province of the Abyssinian Tyranny: A
Cemetery of Nations
Amorphously amalgamated, the nations of southern 'Ethiopia' suffer much more
than others who are under the Abyssinian barbaric colonial rule. In addition to
the sufferings other colonies (like Oromia, Ogaden, and Afar Land) are
undergoing at the hands of the obdurate Abyssinian rulers, the different
southern Ethiopian nations have distinct socio-political identities and
particular cultural values. The Sidamas are only one of these nations.
It is completely improper to include different nations within one province as
the phenomenon helps only raise tensions. However, the Abyssinian dictators
intentionally created a dysfunctional entity in order to let many different
nations fumigate in the oven named 'Southern Ethiopian Nations and Nationalities
Regional States’. The name itself is invalid and fallacious.
The evil Abyssinian tyrannical intention was to manage to rule the various
nations therein regrouped by turning them against one another. This helps the
Abyssinian tyrants calmly exploit the abundant resources of the lands, which is
their main objective.
The daily lives of the criminal Abyssinians (Amharas and Tigrays) are mostly
based on the resources confiscated from the so-called Southern Ethiopian
nations, including the Sidama. The method is practiced elsewhere; in Ogaden, in
Oromia and in Afar Land.
Amhara and Tigray settlers, criminal colons, are therefore dispersed throughout
the colonized lands where – with the continual support of their army – they
contribute to the colonial patchwork of plundering resources and suppressing the
development and the progress of the colonized nations.
The nations of the southern region (including the Sidama, the Sheko, the Kaffa,
the Wolayta, the Kambata, and others) are brought together because the
Abyssinian colonial empire targeted their precious and rich resources. These all
regions don’t get any benefit from their natural resources of which they are the
only legitimate owners; they are reduced to shadows, they have no voice and no
decision making power.
The decision making power entirely remains at the hands of the occupiers, and
the so called 'regional Abyssinian representative cadres' who are sent there to
make the lives of the indigenous nations as worsw as possible. Read: http://www.sidama.org/documents/continued_civil_war_in_ethiopia.pdf
Only the colonial settlers and their puppets, who form together the
pseudo-regional governments, have the chance to live a respectable life, which
happens of course at the prejudice of the impoverished and dispossessed masses.
As the prices have gone higher, the outright majority of these nations are
condemned to starvation.
One hundred kg of maize, which was under 100 Ethiopian birr a decade ago,
reached already over 500 Ethiopian birr. As the average income of the Ethiopian
civil servants remains terribly low, between 600 and 800 Ethiopian birr per
month (US $ 66 - $ 88 per month), it is very difficult for the urban populations
to sustain their family life.
As the threat of massive starvation is very real, this humanitarian tragedy for
over 75 million people seems to be given a blind eye by tyrant Zenawi's Western
allies, namely the US and the UK.
The
end.
Picture above:- explains that the Sidama children are working hard to survive and show their resilience despite utter hardships they are under.