This open letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan calls for the removal of the African Union headquarters from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It argues that Addis Ababa is the stolen name for the Oromo capital of Finfinne, and that the Amhara people illegally control the country through a colonial system imposed over the past 150 years. The letter claims that Amhara culture is dead, and that keeping the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa legitimizes the oppression of the Oromo people and other groups in Ethiopia. It urges Annan to use his farewell speech to condemn the human rights abuses in Ethiopia and demand justice for African nations colonized by other Africans

1. Open Letter to UN SecretaryKofi Annan-
AU headquartersremoved fromAddis
Ababa
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Dr. MuhammadShamsaddinMegalommatis
December 30, 2006
Open Letter to UN Secretary Kofi Annan
- African Union headquartersmust be removed from Addis Ababa
now!
A few hoursbefore being replaced by his elected successor, Kofi
Annan should livea memory flash back, and remembering his
African identity, utterly pronouncethe African namethat became
synonym for“Hopeof the Oppressed”, the nameof the Oromo
Capital: Finfinne
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Your Excellency,
Your tenure as first Black African UN Secretary General was not whatmany Africans
had hoped!
You know that very well, as in your Farewell Address (September 19) explicitly
declared that “widespread contempt for Human Rights and the rule of law” can be
identified as a major threat for the future of the mankind. Your frank attitude
suggests that you are able to take criticism, and eventually ponder on significant
issues without being tied to preconceived schemes, falsifying theories, colonial biases
and demented tyrants' political agendas.
You identified problems in a correct way, but many would expect you to be more
sensitive – or more involved – when it comes to African issues.
I am writing to you as a European scholar, who rejected colonial theories made in
Europe, and published for long scholarly articles, books, features and other
contributions to the world mass media, promoting thoroughly balanced, Afro-centric

2. interpretations.
Many things could have been done about Africa during your 10-year tenure, but
actually were not! Before setting a plan for an African future, the utmost
denunciation of the shameful past must be solemnly performed. How could one
expect the Black African progress, if not by adopting the frank attitude that you,
Excellency, have made yours?
Colonialism must be denounced as a Criminal Act against the Mankind.Yet, as you
know, the Durban Conference failed to speak as openly as you would have
eventually wished. The condemnation of the two cruelest colonial empires, the
French and the British, was averted because of disreputable work carried out by the
bogus-humanist diplomats of France and England. With America, India,Mexico and
Brazil having not yet risen to full national adulthood, the world should wait some
more years until the correct anti-colonial alliance be made. Perhaps, one should
interpret the September 11th events as an omen ominous for a devious international
society that falls short of all basic humanist expectations and obligations.
What has been the most criminal part within the entire construction of colonial
powers is the colonial theoretical background and system; as such it emanates from
an aberration of purely racist character,namely the false assumption thatthe
European past (Greek and Roman, mainly) was superior to that of the colonized
peoples of Africa and Asia. No other academic conclusion could be more distorted
than this one! There is nothing more erroneous than the European falsehood that
Ancient Greece and Rome, Achaean Mycenae and Minoan Crete were supposedly
formed without the determinant and decisive contribution and involvement of the
great ancient Oriental civilizations, Hittite Anatolian,Canaanite – Phoenician,
Assyrian – Babylonian, and Egyptian.
Denying historical truth for the sake of racist concepts cannot be tolerated anymore;
it consists in a real prelude to cultural racism, political discrimination, tyranny.
As this nefarious situation cannot be maintained anymore from the part of European
colonials, the isolated case of the only African colonial power must be dealt with
immediately.
When Europeans see Africans adopting your frank attitude, Excellency,among
themselves, then they will realize that the extent and the importance of the event;
only then, esteem and consideration for Africans will lead the colonial powers to
ultimate regret and public acceptance of past mistakes and wrong policies. It will
happen naturally, without anyone demanding them to proceed so anymore!
Yet, you have a possible means of triggering events and developments that will go to
the correct direction in this regard. One day before leaving your office, you can
address a solemn speech for Justice and Equity throughout Africa.
Say that if respect for the other's right is not duly paid, there is no future for Africa!
Say that if Africans are left to colonize and preserve colonial rule over Africans, there
is no hope for any African!
Say that if cultural colonialism is practiced by an African nation against another

3. African nation, there will be no peace throughout the Black continent!
Denounce the worst African theft of all times: the usurpation of the name of Ethiopia
by the Abyssinian Amhara/Tigray tyrants!
Stigmatize the worst African crime of all times, namely the abolition of the historical
name of Finfinne, capital of the Ethiopian Oromos, and its replacement by the false
and shameful name 'addis ababa' that was imposed by the Abyssinian
Amhara/Tigray tyrants!
Criticize as openly and frankly as you truly know, Excellency, the Abyssinian
Amhara/Tigray colonial propaganda,and urge its immediate dismantlement!
The Absolute Clash betweenEthiopianOromosand Abyssinian
Amhara/Tigray
The cultural clash between the Kushitic Oromos and the Semitic Amhara is so deep
that the Amhara tyrannical minority of Abyssinia has to reinvent every now and
then myths, bogus-historical interpretations, and desperate, ill-fated dogmas of
official versions of Abyssinian History that are imposed at the level of Primary and
Secondary education of this highly analphabetic country. In reality, there is not a
single bond – be it ethnic, linguistic, historical, social-behavioral or cultural – to keep
the Cushitic Oromos and the Semitic Amhara together in a country called either
Abyssinia or Ethiopia.
Abyssinian – Amhara – culture is the expression of the Semitic people that dwells in
the limited, marginal, mountainous area of Gondar around Lake Tana.The Christian
Abyssinian kingdom of Axum pursued expansionist policies in the very beginning,
invaded Ethiopia, that is present day Sudan, in 370 CE and destroyed its capital
Meroe, where still today one finds many dozens of pyramids and mortuary temples
for the 'Qore' and the 'Kandake",the Ethiopian kings and Queens.
Later and within the context of an alliance with the Eastern Roman Empire, Axumite
Abyssinia attacked Yemen and attempted to find a way for its ally at Constantinople
to contravene the Sassanid Iranian control of the Eastern trade (with India, Eastern
Africa, and China). Of course, the Iranian supremacy was such that the Sassanids
kicked the Abyssinians out of Yemen, the Abyssinians’ original land to which they
had returned as invaders. Finally, the Sassanid Iranians annexed Yemen, strangling
therefore the Eastern Roman Empire with heavy taxes and customs. Soon after that
development came the Islamic explosion. Not only Axum lost all its chances to come
back to Yemen, but the Eritrean coast was permanently cut off, and the Abyssinian
state was isolated from its derailed ally at Constantinople that had lost all its
provinces in Africa and all its Asiatic possessions east of Taurus mountains (that
separate Anatolia, present day Turkey, from Syria) and the upper flow of Euphrates.
To address the situation, the also isolated Christian kingdoms of the Sudan, Nobatia,
at the North with capital at Faras nearWadi Halfa, and Makuria at the center with
capital at Old Dongola, 600 km south of Faras, merged. They were able to survive
without many contacts with the Caliphate that controlled Egypt – first, in the 7th c.,
not further than Assiut in the south, and without any control of the Red Sea; the
Saharan roads of trade with the Western Africa world around river Niger permitted

4. unified Nobatia /Makuria to stand until the 12th century. Contrarily to the Sudanese
Christian state, Axum collapsed, since the vicinity of the coast, the Islamic
supremacy in the coast lands, and the lack of connection with other parts of Africa
predestined it to be doomed for many long centuries.
The transfer of the capital at Gondar, and the medieval rise of the Abyssinian
kingdom came after a long period of decay. Even then, the feeling of having lost to
Islam, and of having been defeated and isolated, as the Western legend of the
'kingdom of Priest John' lets us surmise, created a cultural, behavioral system that
had nothing to do with historical imperial behavior, wealth abundance,knowledge,
science, exploration, expansion,research, culture,art and royal manners, and the
ensuing majestic environment.
Post 7th c. Axum and 14th c. Gondar Abyssinia were focused on mere survival and
on a hard effort to preserve – in total opposition to Islam – the Monophysitic /
Miaphysitic perception of Christianity that was rejected by Constantinople andRome
with the same vigor by which also Nestorianism (the Christian theology that was
diametrically opposed to Monophysitism) was denounced.
The conversion of numerous Abyssinians to Islam brought about a long period of
obscurantism, backward conditions of life, and grave internal strife to the isolated
country. Most probably the outright majority of the intellectuals and artists, erudite
scholars and learned wise men adhered to Islam early. It is quite indicative that,
when the illustrious Caliph Maamun contacted kings throughout the world in the
second half of the 8th century, in his particular effort to collect manuscripts and
parchmins, and to make of Abbasid Baghdad the universal epicenter of the learned
world, he did not contact anyone in Abyssinia. There was nothing important left
there! By saying this, one does not imply that Gueze literature is insignificant, but
asserts that the most representative specimens had already been taken away from
Axum by the Abyssinian intellectuals who were converted to Islam.
There was no domain of knowledge left in the tiny state of Abyssinia after the rise of
Islam. What were left there were a limited adminsitrative continuity, and an
insistence on religious traditions that had been shaken by the explosion of Islam, and
by the conversion of many Abyssinians to the faith that challenged Christianity.
It is obvious that the state of Abyssinia, controlled by the Semitic Amhara and
Tigray, needs to end up this cultural clash, and on this purpose they permanently
come up with confusing interpretational schemes according to which the Cushitic
Oromos and the Semitic Amharas may be …. 'one people'!
Typical propaganda and bogus-historical dogma stipulate that "few Amharas have
no trace of Oromo or other African people", insist on that "the Amhara 16th century
emperors in Gondar are rumored to have Oromo trace". Funny theories – tools of
anti-Oromo racism and colonization – go that the Amhara people were formed from
Oromo and Tigray armies of the ruling class in the late 13th century as a result of
Oromo rebellions against the latter.
An Amhara propaganda story goes that the Amharic language was created to
confuse the ruling class in this rebellion. In the early 1990s, some Amhara scholars
including Professor Mesfin Woldemariam, argued that there are no people called

5. Amhara! This is a worldwide unique case of a people's self-abdication from their
historical past and true identity in the effort to preserve their colonial rule over
another people!
According to unbiased modern scholarship, there is no proof for an artificial
construction of the Amharic language. Both, Tigrinya and Amharinya (Amharic)
emanate from Gueze but with several differences due to diverse intermingling, and
to the isolation phenomenon. Tigrinya and Amharic are as equidistant one from
another as Portuguese and Spanish are; yet before 1000 years there was neither
Portuguese nor Spanish in the Iberian Peninsula. In the same way, before 1000 years
there was neither Tigrinya nor Amharic in the Abyssinian plateau, but the earlier
stage of both, i.e. Gueze, which evolved to take the linguistic forms of these two
languages. There was certainly an intermingling with other people, Afar, Oromo,etc.
But it was very limited, and we have so little information about this eventuality that
we cannot deduce concrete,imperative conclusions.
Needless to say it, Prof. Woldemariam is a fully accredited member of the Amhara
ruling class. As such, he expresses – through his papers and contributions – the
Amhara political, cultural, ideological and financial interests.
To pretend that Amhara and Tigray peoples are Cushitic, so therefore Hamitic and
not Semitic, is an aberration. There is no case to convince any serious specialized
scholar in the world by saying this. What happened to these supposedly Cushitic
peoples and they appear 'suddenly' speaking today totally Semitic languages as
Amharic and Tigrinya? What process of intermingling with other nations ended up
semitizing the Amhara and Tigray peoples linguistically? There was no such a
process and there is no proof about it. Last, it would consist in an even worse error to
pretend that Axumite Abyssinians and Gueze speaking people were Cushitic too!
All this testifies to Amhara ruling class paranoia and to their incommensurable fear
of losing the political – financial – ideological control over a country that apparently
is not theirs. Today's Abyssinia (i.e. Fake Ethiopia) is a vast area of which they have
been the occupying tyrants over the past 150 years. The Abyssinian invasion of the
Oromo and the other Cushitic Kingdoms is a dark page of African History that all
specialists and scholars have to denounce as a colonial scheme. This Amhara
Abyssinian scheme can be briefly presented as follows:
A) The name 'Ethiopia' represents an older, greater, more enlightening, more
appealing, more meaningful to Westerners, and better documented past than the
name 'Abyssinia'.
B) The real, rightful users of such a name are the oppressed Cushitic peoples of
Abyssinia, the Oromo, the Sidama and others.
C) So, 'we' (: Amhara ruling class of bogus-Ethiopia) will 1) eradicate the name of
Abyssinia, 2) diffuse the theory that 'we' (Amhara) are Ethiopians as well, and 3)
rename the country as 'Ethiopia'.
Amhara Abyssinian political and 'academic' class is not to be accredited with the
originality of this thought! This colonial perversion belongs exclusively to French,
English and American historians and reflects their efforts to address demands of

6. their colonial diplomats and politicians. But the Amhara people’s uncultured and
uneducated political rulers proved to be victims of the colonial West, because they
fell into such a trap!
This led them to hate themselves and their own identity, the Abyssinian identity of
which they – by themselves – were stripped! To western rationalistic eyes, this would
look as a terrible case of self-inflicted disaster.
There is an essential question one may advance at this point:
- Why did the invading Abyssinians not try to expand Amhara culture, Abyssinian
culture, among the people they invaded during the last 150 years?
Well, they attempted to do so through the imposition of Amharic as the only official
language in the country, but they failed and they realized their failure. This
phenomenon is due to the fact that Oromo culture, Sidama culture, and the cultures
of the other oppressed and persecuted Cushitic nations of today's Abyssinia (Fake
Ethiopia) are more original and authentic than the Amhara culture that has been
imposed on them and preserved until now by means of unequaled tyranny and
monstrous persecution.
Truly speaking, Amhara – Abyssinian – Axumite culture is dead; what one may
attest among Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians is the permanence of some stereotypic
elements of the Abyssinian culture that are the 'crumbs' of Axum. In the case of
Oromo, the traditional pastoral system that was formed after this Cushitic people
settled in the pasturelands of the Oromo country survived to far greater extent.
On the other hand, the Oromos were not fooled by the aforementioned ludicrous
argumentation! Because the Amhara rulers are ignorant enough to think that it is
possible to press a button and turn someone to a Chinese (or Cushite), this does not
imply that they have the right to rule a country of which they do not represent more
than a meager 20% of the entire population!
Your Excellency,
The moment you welcome your successor, an appeal to all Africans will outweigh all
the controversies related to your tenure.
Deny to the most hated African tyrant, Meles Zenawi, the right to barbarism! The
Amhara / Tigray claim to the historical name of Ethiopia – to which they have
always been alien – is as unprecedentedly erratic, as it would be for 1 million
Mongolians to announce "we are Chinese" and to demand to rule 1 billion Chinese in
a totalitarian way!
Demand the immediate removal of the African Union headquarters from the
cenotaph of Addis Ababa, and utterly request that no tyranny be ever a place for
African leaders to meet and deliberate!
Postulate that Africans should give priority to human rights, democracy and
freedom over political realism, governmental prerequisites and amoral choices!
Explain that by virtue of their valuable and painful historical experience Africans

7. should definitely and unquestionably castigate all acts of political dictatorship,
ethnic racism, cultural discrimination, usurpation of ethnic names, and renaming of
places and cities following invasions.
Leave therefore your name to the posterity as that of a Great African who had the
courage to say:
- African Union headquartersmust be removed from Addis Ababa
now, and they should return to Finfinne, only when the Amhara /
Tigray invadersare expelled!
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Comment
Anonymous said...
It is with clear justification and genuine demand. All Oromoo nationalists need such
educational research information. Thank you for your sensational disclosure.
8:27 PM