By: Seifeselassie Sibhatu, PhD
December 15, 2005
Here we go again another front of war on Ethiopia, only this time a highly biased one by a certain Italian bitch under the title How Horn of Africa brothers fell out. Mrs. Wrong, that is her name, which is rightly so literary and figuratively, showed her contempt at Ethiopian history in general and on the most celebrated and hero of heroes General African has ever seen, Ras Alula Aba Nega in particular. Under the guise of analyzing the current Ethio-Eritean confrontation, the Wrong lady tried to humiliate the Ethiopian people in general and that of the people of Tigray in particular in the face of the world.
Given the historical tangeable fact of the humiliating defeat of the major expansionist European power by a heroic Ethiopian people at the battle of Adowa, it was not unexpected least to say that one of the great grand daughters and sons of the humiliated Italian army will attempt to take one or other form of vendetta at the Ethiopian people and its history. Therefore, we should not have been surprised to see such kind of an article by great grand daughter of the Fascist Mussolini’s army, who were annihilated by the heroic Ethiopian people at the battle of Adowa. And for that matter, in her article our lady, Mrs. Wrong, has not presented any new analysis, but compiled the garbage that has been vomited on the destitute Eritrean streets. However, what makes this article most dangerous and made we Ethiopians so outrageous is the media, the bbcworld.com, that the lady used to unleash her dirty trick. It becomes serious and makes us to outcry when such kinds of garbage made its way to the bbcworld.com, one of the most respected news outlets in the world, at least it is in my view.
Since long time, we have been hearing from our brothers beyond the Mereb River of their pride in colonization by the Italians. Well good for them! Probably Eritrean has to be the exception in the world in taking pride in colonization, the ugliest part in human history. Colonization for the entire world, both for the European colonizers and the people who were colonized, has been described as the most shameful and darkest part of human history. If the Eritrean takes pride in the shame and humiliation they suffer under the rule of colonization after all that is their choice.
If a society equates national pride with full belly while human dignity is violated, well the integrity of that society is at question. But our forefathers who fought and died defending our land against the ambitious and expansionist great grandfathers of the likes of Mrs. Wrong left us a proud country. Not only have we Ethiopians, the entire black nations of the world derived its pride and dignity from the defeat of the Mussolini army at the historic battle of Adwa by the heroic Ethiopian people. We Ethiopians might be known as the poorest country in the world, but we have and will never compromise our freedom to fill our bellies with the Italian spaghetti. And not by our full belly but in our freedom we have pride and dignity.
Therefore, given not by its content but the means through which the article by the Wrong lady is published, we urged the concerned body of the Ethiopian government to urgently respond by sending a strong and official protest letter to the bbcworld.com. As an independent media, bbcworld.com should have been careful in publishing such kinds of sensitive and biased articles as that of Mrs. Wrong. The wrong analysis of Ms. Wrong is an insult to the Ethiopian people and two wrongs will not make it right.
God keep us our land!