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The Final Solution! by Dawit Giorgis

“Never again” 1948: Until Next Time

Armenia (1915–18), Ukraine (1932–1933), the Nazi Holocaust (1938–1945), Cambodia (1975–1979), Rwanda (1994), Bosnia (1992–1995), Darfur (2001–2015), Ethiopia ( 2019 to present)

“The events that took place during these periods in these countries resulted in more than 17 million deaths related to 20th century genocides or ethnic cleansing, each with liQle or late reacRon by the community of naRons. Leaders of Western democracies piously vow that “never again” will they allow such acRons to take place, their hollow words translaRng to “Never again — unRl next Rme.” ( War On Rocks, April 2014: Ethiopia included by author and therefore the number of 17 million would go upwards of 20 million.)

According to the Holocaust Encyclopaedia: “The Nazi “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” (“Endlösung der Judenfrage”) was the deliberate and systematic mass murder of European Jews. It was the last stage of the Holocaust and took place from 1941 to 1945. Though many Jews were killed before the “Final Solution” the vast majority of Jewish victims were murdered during this period.”

Like in the case of Amharas in Ethiopia, the persecution and segregation of Jews was implemented in stages under the rule of Adolf Hitler. The state-sponsored hatred of the Amharas led to anti Amahra policies, proclamations and decrees, all of which aimed to systematically isolate Aemharas from the central role they have played for three thousand years as a custodian of both Christianity and Islam, of biblical and Koranic cultures, and defense of the integrity of a nation which had remained an icon of freedom in Africa and the promised land for blacks across the globe. For most of Amahras what happened in Germany in 1941 to 1945 is exactly what is happening today in Ethiopia. The persecution of Amharas in Ethiopia began with the government of TPLF under PM Meles Zenawi and reached this stage under PM Abiy Ahmed who personifies Adolf Hitler.

Before the start of World War II, around 9.5 million Jewish people lived in Europe. By the time the war ended, the Nazis had killed 6 million European Jews in concentration camps, or pograms, or ghettos, or mass executions in what we refer today as the Holocaust. The Nazis used the term Endlösung, or Final Solution, as the “answer” to the “Jewish question.” Adolf Hitler had provided clues to his ambition to commit mass genocide as early as 1922,

telling journalist Josef Hell, “Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews.” This is very familiar for Amharas because Abiy Ahmed has said it in a different way. Abiy Ahmed and his officials have repeatedly stated that his paramount enemies are the Amharas and the Orthodox Church, and true to his words he

did start the destruction of both the church and Amharas (Semites). Hitler took the solution to the Jewish problem to its “furthest extremes,” when he found out that he had people around him who were willing to kill people a s a testament of their loyalty to the Fuhrer. Abiy has lined up these kinds of people. Like Hitler Abiy is an extremely giked orator who knew what his audience wanted to hear and how to package it with lies. But his lies has caught up with him and he now rules through terror.

It is the opinion of every legal expert involved in studying the crimes against the Amharas in Ethiopia: that genocide has and is being committed in Ethiopia with the intention of ethnic cleansing and establishing a Cushite Empire. According to Cush Media and Oromo lieretaures, Semites ( Amharas and Tigreans) are considered colonisers of the Cushites, in a very strange twist of history. To this end, genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed in the last 4 years causing the death of three million people and the displacement of 4 million Amharas. How many more have to die and be displaced for the international community to wake up and stop this madness?

This CushiRc war against the Semites of the North has been conducted in a very barbaric manner — a type of brutality unseen in our history. It is hatred to its worst limits. Recently, when the aQack on the Orthodox church became unbearably and brazenly intense and very violent, the response of the church was firm and immediate. Millions went to the streets in unprecedented show of force. This abated the aQempt to destroy the Synod of Ethiopia for now. The claim of the CushiRc movement spearheaded by OLF goes beyond Ethiopia to Kenya, Sudan and Somalia. The war has just begun earnestly in Ethiopia.

As a lawyer and a man who has worked in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, I can aQest that the crimes being commiQed in Ethiopia are more gruesome (though at a lower scale ) than the Rwandan atrociRes that shook the conscience of the world. Amharas are being murdered, crucified and burnt alive publicly, and are now forced in millions to leave their ancestral lands. All these incidents are recorded and reported by credible and ethical Ethiopian journalists and insRtuRons. RegreQably, the West has refused to see the truth and condemn the crime for what it is — a genocide!. To most Amharas, the silence of the internaRonal community is reminiscent of what happened during Fascist Italy’s aggression against Ethiopia or the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The world is silently watching the deliberate destrucRon of 3000 years of civilizaRon.

Mass murders, torture and genocide as per its legal definition has been taking place since the TPLF took over, but what differentiates this period from earlier crimes is the sudden escalation of genocide and crimes giants humanity in the last 4 years, the period of Abiy Ahmeds rule. To constitute genocide, “there must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group. It is this special intent, or dolus specialis, that makes the crime of genocide so unique.”ICC Genocide has therefore two major elements: Physical (the actual commission of crimes) and Mental which establishes the intent of the crimes. Importantly, the evidence must show that the victims of a crime have been deliberately targeted – not randomly – because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups (national, ethnic, racial and religious) protected under the Convention. “This means that the target of destruction must be the group, as such, and not its members as individuals. Genocide can also be committed against only a part of the group, as long as that part is identifiable (including within a geographically limited area)” ICC. The evidence collected so far show exactly this: that the Amharas, Christians and Muslims have been the target of the genocide as defined by the UN Convention on Genocide.

Though normally the most difficult in court is establishing the intent, this was the easiest of of the whole process of seeking justice in the case of the Amhara genocide. The most challenging was getting the attention of the ICC. Since we last recorded and presented the evidences to the ICC and the UN Human Rights Council, hundreds of thousands of Amhras have been forcefully evicted from their ancestral lands and over 20,000 murdrererd and brutalized for who they are. Four million Amharas have been displaced and their homes destroyed with the intent to force them to move out of their ancestral lands. Many more are detained with no information of their where abouts. Ethiopia has today the largest number of journalists detained.

Most recently the regime has promulgated laws that would require only Amharas to surrender their arms while the largest armed group are the Oromos, Abiy Ahmed’s support base. The decree excludes the TPLF which was supposed to be disarmed under

the Pretoria agreement. The TPLF surrendered after losing one million of its people in a brief war a with the government forces and has now preferred to be a fifth column in the war declared on the Amharas in exchange for short term advantages. The TPLF purposely ignored the long-term goal of Abiy to destroy Tigreans as well, because they too are Semites.

It is clearer to everybody that PM Abiy has reached the decision to take the final solution. As I write this, over 250,000 troops ( Oromo and Federal) are moving in four fronts

to the Amahara region to finish off Amharas that refuse to submit to the will of the regime. Abiy Ahmed has ordered the annihilation of Amharas who are protecting their lands and rights. Thousands of Amharas living in the Oromo region have either been killed or forced out of the region. It is reported that as a result of the new operation which started a week ago, thousands of innocent people have already been killed. And it is just beginning.

Any global humanitarian organization, including the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI) and the ICC which claim they have not heard read or seen the painful videos of the ongoing crimes in Ethiopia ( particularly in the Oromia region) is not worth the title it wears. It was there for the whole world to see read and listen. Even the perpetrators were not able to hide it.

We, international lawyers together with international crime investigators are prepared to present the case of genocide and crimes against humanity to any international body, lawyers, jouranlists wherver and wenever we are called. The ball is in the court of the international community if it wishes to find the truth, For the sake of millions dying and imploring for justice accept the challenge and come forward to learn about the truth and act. So far neither the UN, the West or the ICC are keen to hear our cases. This has given way to apathy indifference and neglect of the most atrocious crimes in decades.

“Why don’t these massive crimes against humanity spark us to action? Why do good people ignore mass murder and genocide? Unfortunately there are no simple answers to these questions. Every episode of mass murder is unique and raises unique social, economic, military, and political obstacles to intervention. But the repetitiveness of such atrocities, ignored by powerful people and nations, and by the general public, calls for explanations that may reflect some fundamental deficiency in our humanity-a deficiency that, once identified, might possibly be overcome.” (American Phycological Association)

Genocide and crimes against humanity is real in Ethiopia. But the international community refuses to feel this reality. It is selective in acknowledging and prosecuting cases of genocide. It would prefer sensational and geopolitcal events than real human tragedies.

On the 24th of February, Russia invaded Ukraine. On the 25th of February, a day after the invasion, the ICC Prosecutor General, Karim Khan “expressed his concern over the Russian invasion of Ukraine and said his court may investigate possible war crimes in the country. He further stated: “I have been closely following recent developments in and around Ukraine with increasing concern.”ICC. In the first week of April “Reporters from Agence France-Presse saw at least 20 bodies, all in civilian clothing, strewn across a single street in the town of Bucha on Friday. One had his hands Red behind his back with a white cloth, and his Ukrainian passport lek open beside his body. “All these people were shot,” Bucha’s mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, told AFP, adding that a further 280 bodies had been buried in mass graves in the town……The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “I am deeply shocked by

the images of civilians killed in Bucha, Ukraine. It is essenRal that an independent invesRgaRon leads to effecRve accountability.” ( AFP April 12, 2022)

These allegaRons were the basis of opening a war crime case against the Russia by the ICC. In Ethiopia First it is not simply allegaRons but proven in a way that fulfills the requirements of internaRonal law. Second it was not about 20 bodies and other allegaRons; it was more than 20000 bodies and 4 million displaced brutalized raped and tortured people. What a

travesty of judgement and jusRce! On the 28th of Feb (four days after the invasion) the ICC Prosecutor announced: “ Today, I wish to announce that I have decided to proceed with opening an investigation into the situation in Ukraine, as rapidly as possible.”

In the first week of April “Reporters from Agence France-Presse saw at least 20 bodies, all in civilian clothing, strewn across a single street in the town of Bucha on Friday. One had his hands tied behind his back with a white cloth, and his Ukrainian passport left open beside his body. “All these people were shot,” Bucha’s mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, told AFP, adding that a further 280 bodies had been buried in mass graves in the town……The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “I am deeply shocked by the images of civilians killed in Bucha, Ukraine. It is essential that an independent investigation leads to effective accountability.” ( AFP, April 2, 2022)

These allegaRons were the basis of opening a war crime case against Russia by the ICC. In the case of Ethiopia : First it is not simply allegaRons but proven cases in a way that fulfills the requirements of internaRonal law. Second it was not just 20 bodies it was more than 20,000 bodies and 4 million displaced brutalized raped and tortured people. What a travesty of judgement and jusRce! On May 17 the International Criminal Court sent a 42-member team to Ukraine to probe alleged war crimes since the Russian invasion in what has been dubbed as the largest such deployment in its history. “This represents the largest- ever single field deployment by my office since its establishment,” Khan said in a statement.” On march 17; 2023, ICC charges Pesident Putin of Russia.

The speed and extraordinary length the ICC Prosecutor General went is unprecedented in the history of the ICC. History and students of law will one day compare this extraordinary rush to prosecute the criminals in Ukraine with the more heinous crimes taking place at the same period in Ethiopia, and give their judgement on how international justice is flawed. It is stunning to think how such an international institution with great expectations would dehumanize all other people crying for justice and focus with all its resources and at an alarming speed to use all its discretions, to find a short cut to justice court for one particular crime which emerged after 4 years after a more catastrophic crime.

Ethiopian and international criminal lawyers have appealed to the world to stop the genocide in Ethiopia and prosecute the known criminals in a case with irrefutable evidence. Once again the world watched as Ethiopia bleeds and hudererds of thousands of Amharas being slaughtered. Over one and a half million people were killed ( Official version by HE Olusegun Obasanjo and Ethiopian Army chief of staff) in an eight month war between government and the northern region of Tigray. It did not make headlines or inspire serious interantional investigation. It was hidden under a so called deal ( Pretoria agreement) and accountability put aside. Neither the genocide nor the 1.4 million lives lost in an eight-month war justified the war nor the Genocide of Amharas justified accountability. Amharas continue to die and sufferi n a world devoid of compassion and justice. The repercussions to regional security and stability is enormous. American and other Western experts have always looked naive in their understanding of issues in the Horn of Africa. Whether by design or ignorance, they have invariably missed to avert imminent catastrophes, and only payed attention after the worst has happened.

  • “The West’s post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow.”— Philip Gourevitch

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What is Life: The Autobiography of Dawit Wolde Giorgis

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6 thoughts on “The Final Solution! by Dawit Giorgis”

  1. These genocides are not organized and carried out by hate. They are organized and made to happen by greed: the desire to control resources. It is the desire to dispossess, expropriate and plunder the resources of another people that is behind the planning and carrying out of genocides. The native-American genocide of the Americas, the aborigine-genocide of Australia, the Jewish Genocide of Germany, the Rwandan Genocide all share one basic similarity. Someone was dispossessed, expropriated and another one, the perpetrator, misappropriated. In the case of Rwanda, the one who organized the genocide and misappropriated the resources did not wield the machetes that actually committed the massacres. The genocider operated behind the scenes and used endless propaganda to cover his crimes.
    The impending Grand Ethiopian Genocide has been concocted, worked upon, cooked by the British and US governments (and other international allies) for thirty years. The fire pit had been built, the fuel readied and the fire stoked tirelessly. With all his expertise, Dawit fails to point fingers at the real culprits of the genocides he has witnessed, only accusing their pathetic local lackeys. Whose stock market prices soared upon the extraction of minerals in the footsteps of the Rwandan and Congolese genocides and civil wars? Who oversaw the Rwanda genocide (as an overseer to the slave master) and is still in power thirty some years later? In our own backyard, who was taken to Rwanda for training and placed back in Ethiopia to oversee a repeat performance. Western interests were behind the Rwanda genocide and western interests are behind the impending Grand Ethiopian Genocide. Their thirty-year silence in the face of the Amahra genocide speaks volumes.

  2. This article has all the indications to be too emotional. Yes there are atrocities that can be correctly be classic ethnic in their nature back in the old country but it is nothing something at par with what Hitler and his Nazis did in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Have our Amhara brothers and sisters been targeted? Yes they have been. Were Oromos targeted by their own Oromos? Yes they were. Were Tigre’s, Afars, Somalis, Gurages and many other ethnic groups targeted? Yes they were. We have read accounts that attested to that on this and other websites. We have to remember one distinctive and exclusive element Hitler and his Nazis did have back then. They built a huge industrial complex exclusively dedicated for the intended extermination of Jews, communists, the disabled, Serbs and every Slav in their sight. After the Nazis completed building the massive industry called concentration camps they sealed their borders so no one would be able to escape and they started rounding up Jews and all others they see as sub humans and gathered all at the strategically placed concentration camps. Then the carnage began in earnest. By the time the war ended 6 million Jews, close to 500,000 Serbs, more than a. Million Poles and others including Germans were savagely murdered at those industrial outfits called concentration camps. Since then others have followed similar blue print to exterminate real and imaginary opponents/enemies. Pol Pot was the best example. Commies have these sites they call ‘re-education’ camps. Mao had a murderous scheme he called ‘brainwashing’. You better be ‘brainwashed’ according to his written specs. Otherwise you would get one mortal bullet on the back of your neck while kneeling down. But in the old country I don’t see what Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot had built just for the purpose of extermination. What I see is my Amhara brothers and sisters being targeted by my own Oromo bigots. I see that and I’m not here to deny that. Such savagery should be reported and vehemently condemned. But such condemnations should not be used to incite the gullible and ignite an all out bloody conflict between the pillars of the country, Oromos and Amharas. Those of us fortunate enough to be in positions of power and influence should be accurate and careful in our utterances and writings. We should be guarded in what we say and write at all times. Let’s not try to beat the drums of war from our comfy homes here among us. Let’s not try to delineate the fact that there are Amharas in their millions in Oromia still living in peace with their Oromo neighbors. Let’s not try to turn a blind eye to the fact that there are other ethnic groups in their millions who still live in peace and harmony with their Oromo neighbors. Again, I am not denying the fact that there are bigots in Oromia who hate Amharas with runaway passion. They hate everyone including those Oromos who want to live in peace and harmony with others. Such savage bigots are not present in Oromia only but they are also here among us who make a living as college professors, lawyers and so-called human rights activists. There are no devils left in hell but such shaitans are present in soul and body of these bigots. Such demonic bigots do not exist in Oromia only. They are present in every ethnic group. They have activated themselves more in Oromia with all vigor because they think the current regime is dominated by Oromos and this is their best opportunity ever.to carry out their long planned atrocities against others. They are demons of the third kind and should be condemned in the strongest terms they deserve but as fringe groups. In my book Oromos, Amharas, Tigres, Afars, Somalis, Sidamas and all other ethnic groups are not all bigots but there are few bigots in their midst that wreak havoc. That is all to it.
    Peace and harmony y’all!!!

    1. So as per your argument, as long as this government is enabling those bigots you mentioned, they will continue committing the genocide. Thus, it is time that the International community to take action against the enablers of such heinous crime. The ongoing genocide can only be halted by removing the current government. We have to remember that killings everywhere have started to appear throughout Ethiopia by the will of the current government which enabled them by undermining rule of law. Moreover, the government has started an all out war on Amhara, the government also put hundreds of thousands of Amhara ethnic origins in mass concentration camps, some of which murdered every day. The military also murdered any Amhara throughout the region in a house to house raid. For example, 10 of my family members from under 10 to the elderly over 75 year men and women have been murdered by the military in their door step as a revenge to Fanno attack they suffered just in the past 3 months only. If this can not be used to urge this bucher leadership to step down and held accountable by the IC, what else can be done? I understood your genuine concern to the grassroots community, however it is the government who is undertaking the genocide and held accountable to the crime.

  3. Dawit forgot the Ethiopian genocide of 1975-1978 under the Derg in which he was personally involved. He has more to account for his role in the Red Terror about which he wrote a book and made a fortune. These days, Dawit is so desperate and is saying anything without weighing in the consequences: his pan-Amhara resistance collapsed before it started; his Grand Amhara Convention died before it was born; his appeal to Israel against the Oromo on the basis of common Semitic origin turned on a deaf ear; his call for a balance of power in Ethiopia – that the Amhara have to build a strong army to control the country – evaporated into the air with the melting of the Amhara Special Forces and Fanno in just two days. His bosting about Amhara-Eritrean coalition and conspiration against the Ethiopian will soon result in the ejection of Eritreans from Ethiopia. When that starts ALL Ethiopians stand with their government to deflate Isayas’ overinflated ego and throw off his vicious influence once and forever.

    Dawit is part and parcel of the problems ALL Ethiopians are facing today. The FINAL solution for Ethiopia’s current problem is to ignore Dawit or eliminate him so that Ethiopians can sit down and amicably solve their problems. When will he grow up? When will he reach adulthood? When will he mature and stop his campaign for violence? When will he start to feel the pains that he causes to his Ethiopian fellows? When will he start talking about unity, friendship and peace for Ethiopians instead of always talking about staging violence, calling for war and bloodshed? Those of you who worship him or have closer ties with him, please advise him to come to his senses. If not, he will see fruits of his conspiracy campaigns: the disintegration of our beloved country. History will never forgive him and remembers his as a man who brought down an ancient country.

  4. The distance that the writer went to create a semblance of the Nazi Holocaust with the Ethiopian case is propped up and an exaggerated assertion, to say the least. Any reader who went through these out-of-proportion comparisons is pushed to question the motives behind all these blabbers. This is not to say that those atrocities never happened but the degree of contrast to showcase his argument is based on a fallacy and vengeance. As the saying goes, those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. This same writer who ordered atrocities in mass while he was one of DERG high officials in the then Eritrea province is still in the memory of many survivors. He then looted 100s of thousands of dollars that were meant to help the poor while he was the commissioner of RRC and defected to the USA. Then, he was debriefed and started working for those nameless entities. Now, all reports that he made in his article are well-known and deliberately conducted by his paymasters. It seems to me that he is complaining about the incident to the same culprits who created the problem in the first place. The writer is well aware that the Western hegemony is helping terrorists, drug dealers, and killers when it suits their interest and they create them when they feel like it and destroy them when they no longer serve their purpose. They helped TPLF and OLA and Al Shabab and create these monsters and enjoying their performance from afar is absurd. They know it and they don’t care because in Rwanda there were no raw materials or their interest and turned a blind eye when 800k people were massacred in just a few weeks. So, any sanctions that you are begging against Ethiopia are making the matter worse for the poor people, which you don’t care about anyway from the days of your power in the DERG regime. So, I suggest that instead of finger-pointing and pressing charges on the international community where Ethiopia is not signing the ICC accord, put aside your vengeful attitude and try to help the country that you once hurt as repentance for the crime that you commit as a derg high ranking member.

  5. A well thought deep in it’s analysis with a historical background relevant to the plight of 🇪🇹ans of amhara origin currently going on in the region.Just by looking @ Abiy’s ethnic army’s conduct in the state of emergency proclamation, one arrives @
    real motive of it.The whole campaign started under the pretext of “Disarming local militias while leaving others intact.The oromia special forces are armed as good as or better than the national defense forces(ENDF).The sinister ploy to go after Fano started right after the Pretoria agreement.What the delusional narcissist planned was to crush the Fano movement and bring the region under his control by using the same tiring style of TPLF,picking individuals that would serve him as long as they perform
    under a satellite organization that would report to him and him only.We have seen this movie b4,Berket ስምኦን ታደሰ ቅንጥሹ,Alemneh Mekonen this individual went to the extent of insulting his identity
    and people just to prove his loyality to TPLF masters.@ a rally held in ባህር ዳር the people responded appropriately ከባዶ ጭንቅላት ባዶ እግር ይሻላል ! indeeded ይሻላል !

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