THE BANKRUPTCY OF DOCTORS AND PROFESSORS (By way of a response to Drs Getachew, Gelawdios and Tecola)
Zewdu Hailu
Ato Berihun Asfaw, a genuine nationalist, has written an apt condemnation/article (a must read) on Professor Getachew Haile whose questionable endorsement of the AFD and negative interference in the affairs of the Ethiopian Church has alienated him from many Ethiopians.
Doctors Tecola Hagos and Gelawdios Araya, former partisans of Tigrean supremacy, have written in support of the Weyane invasion of Somalia– the former on the ground of national interest and the latter invoking wrongly a parallel with the China-Japan war and the alliance of the Chinese Communist Party with the Kuomintang. It is to be remembered that Tecola Hagos backed the TPLF when it took power and has been accused of drafting the “memeria” calling for the purge of “Amara bureaucrats” from within the civil service to assure Tigrean supremacy. Gelawdios Araya worked with the TPLF sponsored Ethiopian Commentator glossy magazine, hailed the rule of the TPLF as democratic, popular and rained his attack against the opposition/in books and articles/ whom he labelled as “chauvinist”. As has been said even the Nazi propagandist Dr. Gobbles was a doctor. This tag, Dr, is used by all charlatans in the political sphere as if calling themselves Doctor and Professor lends them the visa to be “right” all the time. Take Professor Endrias Eshete an example please! Professor Getachew Haile is a scholar and intellectual but in the political field he has been a mess ever since he worked with the military regime and then engaged in divisive exile politics. His persistent attack against the church has served no one but the Meles regime even if this has not been his intention for sure. Tecola and Gelawdios turned anti Meles (never anti TPLF) after Meles fell out with Siye Abrha and his colleagues. They are not against the TPLF policy per se, not against Tigrean supremacy but only against Meles. These are the same fellows who insist that the Weyane is good but Meles bad as if Meles alone is responsible for the mess that the TPLF has brought on us. Is there some problems with our doctors?
How can anyone with common sense support the Meles invasion of
Somalia? Both Tecola and Gelawdios are deep down TPLF supporters while being anti Meles and this has affected their judgement so much so that they see in the American sponsored invasion of Somalia an action in the interest of
Ethiopia. The pretentious “historian”, aka Gelawdios, invokes the controversial alliance that Mao struck with Chiang of the then ruling Kuomintang in the “interest of China” during the Japanese invasion to lend support and justification to the invasion of Somalia by Meles and the need, again according to the pompous doctor, for us to support Meles’ action. Needless to say that the historical grasp of the good doctor leaves much to be desired and that the then situation in China and the present invasion of
Somalia by the Weyane have little in common.Meles Zenawi sent troops to Somalia not to protect any Ethiopian interest but to serve the diktat of Washington. This is apparent to all but the self declared doctors who have yet to write mea culpa, an apology or even a condemnation of the Weyane as an organization and not mere critics of Meles as a person. Professor Getachew, a respectable intellectual notwithstanding the truth of the criticism by Ato Berihun, has proved to be a thorn in the political field. He has taken wrong political positions and sadly resisted from hearing good advice from good intentioned friends. Therein lies the reason why he is sadly playing a wreckers role by attacking the Ethiopian church which the Meles regime wants to destroy or incapacitate. What is wrong with the elder professor? Why is he playing the role that the Weyane would surely appreciate?
Why indeed. It must be said that many Ethiopians in exile who add the Doctor title to their names seem to forget the first rules of modesty and intellectual rigor and honesty. Most of them know little or nothing of the political reality that is more than a maze or a catacomb in terms of easy issue. Knowledgeable ones seem to be castrated by ethnic or personal prejudices. Tecola and Gelawdios are two persons with egos the size of the USA (check their web sites) and have failed to overcome their Tigrean identity and partisanship and to be really Ethiopian. A few weeks back Tecola was asking the US to bomb Khartoum in defence of the “beautiful people of Darfur”. Are Ethiopians ugly? Professor Getachew is still in the whirlpool of an AAPO adept and his political vision is blurred by his isolation and incapacity to have a broad Ethiopian view. There are also other doctors in the opposition whose political past is something to be ashamed of but who dare no to tell all of us that they are the gurus of the Ethiopia of tomorrow.
Alas the doctors need medical doctors to check their inflated egos. Both Tecola and Gelawdios need first of all to apologize and ask forgiveness from the Ethiopian people for having backed Tigrean supremacist politics and the TPLF. Professor Getachew should retire from politics, stop dividing the church and concentrate on his research and educational books. If not, we shall be obliged to give them the reply and criticism they deserve. After all Gobbles was a doctor and a fine Nazi too.
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