Dear Brothers & Sisters,
It gives me mush pleasure to air my veiws on Haile Selasie who i consider to be a war criminal and colonizer. Haile Selasie the so called "god" of the Rastafarians was one of africa's many dictators. Ethiopia as we know it is an empire state. Emp.Haile Selasie (1930-36, 1941-1974) inherited colonies from his predecessor, Menelik. As you may not know,Abbysynia was the only "black" partner in the so called scramble for africa. As the Europeans were ennexing large portions of africa, so were the Abbysinians invading and conquring its neighbouring African nations. Abbysynia then changed its name to Ethiopia after including other nationalities into its empire. Ethiopia remained relatively independent from European rule. Blacks in the western hemisphere saw this and rallied toward Ethiopia as a liberator of all blacks. Haile selasie was elevated to the position of a "god" and a strange ideology called rastafarianism began to emerge. As Haile selasie encouraged the rastafarians to beleive that he was the liberater he intensively and systematically promoted Abyssinian history, language, culture, and values to the detriment of the colonized peoples*. The colonized people were the Oromo, Omotic peoples, Ogadeni's, sidama's, and various southern people's. Today when nearly all of the African peoples have won independence, the many nationalities in Ethiopia continue to suffer under the most backward and savage Ethiopian settler colonialism. Haile selasie was not a god but an African partner in the colonization of Africa. The Oromo people are not yet free those who believe in peace, human dignity and liberty should support the Oromo struggle*. END.
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