Initially published on 29th December 2004 in Buzzle Excerpt: Ethiopia The name of this country is already false; the correct name is Abyssinia. The selection of the false name consists in an unprecedented act of historical usurpation of the name of Ancient Sudan. Ethiopia for the Ancient Greeks and Romans was Sudan, not Abyssinia. This usurpation was possible because of the Pan-Arabic idiocy that prevailed among the cruel and criminal dictators of Sudan, who –focusing on the tyrannical implementation of their totalitarian theory of Pan-Arabism and oppressing the various non Arabic ethnic groups of their huge country– disregarded the country's rich Ancient and Medieval Christian past. As it occurred, opting for 'Ethiopia', instead of the proper name 'Abyssinia' – was a necessity for the Addis Ababa dictators, who represent only one ethnic minority’s interests in that destitute country. Ever since the Amhara invasion of the numerous kingdoms that were located south of Abyssinia, the Oromos and many other enslaved nations found themselves under foreign yoke and occupation. More than 15 African nations have been thus confined within the territory of Abyssinian Amhara oppression and tyranny. Amharas do not represent even 20% of the country’s population, but under either bogus-royal, Communist or republican pseudo-democratic regime, they have controlled the administration, the military, the police, the education and the economy, plunging the entire country in misery, starvation, pestilence and tyranny. It is quite indicative that the recent National Congress of the Oromo Liberation Front took place in Eritrea, an earlier province of Abyssinia that was successful in seceding from the Amhara hell. Oromos represent 40% of the entire population and claim to their capital Finfinne, which is the real name of Addis Abeba, a fake name that was imposed only after the Amhara invasion. Oromos never accepted to name their old capital with the alien, Abyssinian Amhra name ('Addis Ababa'). Tigrays make up 12-13%, Sidamas total 10%, Ogadenis 8%, Afars 6%, and in addition, there are smaller ethnic groups. Oromos and Ogadenis inhabit approximately 80 to 85% of the entire territory. The current regime is an experiment of cooperation between Amharas and Tigrays, the two closest groups of the country, but this did not make of Abyssinia a more democratic country. The country is expected to split to several pieces, and the Amhara territory will fall apart, since it is the poorest and the most barren part of the country's territory.

1. UN Veto Right for South Africa, not
Nigeria or Egypt!
UN Reform to Diffuse Democracy in Africa. Part IV
UN Veto Right for South Africa, not Nigeria or Egypt!
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Through three previous articles, we advocated the extension of the UN veto
right (Security Council permanent membership) to India, Japan, Germany,
Italy, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. The articles can be found here:
"Avoid the French Trap in Reforming the UN! – 2004"
https://www.academia.edu/43038240/Avoid_the_French_Trap_in_Reformi
ng_the_UN_-_2004
"A Chance for Global Future: Reforming the UN. Part II"
https://www.academia.edu/43040055/A_Chance_for_Global_Future_Refor
ming_the_UN._Part_II
"Turkey for UN SC Permanent Membership"
https://www.academia.edu/43042730/Turkey_for_UN_SC_Permanent_Me
mbership_-_2004
We pointed out that this would help the international body reflect best
today's realities and meet a reasonable level of global representativeness,
enabling at the same time the international community to eliminate Middle
Eastern tyrannies, backward nationalistic oligarchies, and Islamic terrorism.
In this article, we will focus on Africa, advocating the selection of South
Africa for UN Security Council permanent membership, since this country is
the best positioned to represent the Black Continent. Furthermore, we will
draw attention to several other issues that are closely related to the UN, to its
proper reflection of our global world, and to its pertinent function as the
leading force to promote democracy, human rights, and freedom worldwide.
Africa: a divided, underdeveloped, poorand undemocratic
continent
Selecting Turkey for UN SC permanent membership may be the best solution
as far as the Islamic World is concerned, but this choice will leave the entire
Black Continent out of the Veto Club. In terms of civilization, population,
surface, human cultural heritage, trade and economy, the African continent
cannot be excluded. Africa may presently include many of the world’s
poorest nations, but in its totality the African continent is comparable to India
in terms of population, and to Russia in terms of GDP. As in the case of the
Islamic world, colonialism brought about, also in Africa, a disastrous political
dissemination and a great number of local tyrants, who function as puppets of

2. the colonial powers.
Africa was one home to many big and illustrious empires; without feeling the
need to go back to the times of Hatshepsut, Thutmosis II, Ramses II, Taharqa,
Psammetichus, Nechao, Ptolemy II, Hannibal, Arkamaniqo of Meroe (Sudan,
i.e. Ancient Ethiopia), Ezana of Aksum (Abyssinia, wrongly called ‘Ethiopia’
today), Ibn Tulun and many other African rulers, we can just recall that as late
as 1798 the Ottoman Empire was in possession of African territories totaling
no less than 7 million km2!
Still today Africa accommodates some of the world's largest countries, namely
Sudan (largest African territory), Algeria, and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Only these three countries control a combined territory as large as Australia!
Many countries have surface larger than 1 million km2, which is colossal by
European standards: Libya, Chad, Angola, Niger, Mali, Ethiopia, South
Africa, Mauritania, and Egypt are all above the 1 m km2 threshold, whereas
many other African countries control territories between 800000 km2 and 1 m
km2 (Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia).
In terms of population, only one African country reaches the levels of Russia
and Japan; it is Nigeria, with 137 million people. Three other African nations
go beyond the level of 50 million people, namely Egypt (76 m), Ethiopia (68
m), and DR of Congo (58 m). Fifth African nation in terms of population,
South Africa (43 m) leads Sudan (38 m), Tanzania (37 m), Kenya (32 m),
Algeria (32 m), and Morocco (32 m).
When it comes to economy, almost throughout Africa, we sink in the
bottomless pit of depression, underdevelopment, and insignificance. So low
the GDP is that at the level of per capita GDP we find figures under US $1000!
Nigeria's GDP is much lower than (10 million people) Portugal's (US $ 115 b
and 182 b respectively) and Ethiopia's GDP (US $ 47 b) is lower than that of
(8.5 million people) Bulgaria (US $ 57 b). Egypt's GDP is hardly larger than
that of (10 million people) Greece (US $ 295 b and 214 b respectively). DR of
Congo produces a little bit more (US $ 58 b) than tiny (4.5 million people)
Croatia (US $ 47 b).
The only sizeable African country that is economically significant is South
Africa. It is certainly not a coincidence that South Africa eclipses almost all
other African countries, when it comes to freedom, democracy, human rights,
minority rights, and multiculturalism. Since we already examined the case of
Nigeria and Egypt, while discussing about the proper Islamic country to
select for UN Veto right, it would be quite illustrative to focus on Ethiopia
and DR of Congo now.
Ethiopia
The name of this country is already false; the correct name is Abyssinia. The

3. selection of the false name consists in an unprecedented act of historical
usurpation of the name of Ancient Sudan. Ethiopia for the Ancient Greeks
and Romans was Sudan, not Abyssinia. This usurpation was possible because
of the Pan-Arabic idiocy that prevailed among the cruel and criminal dictators
of Sudan, who –focusing on the tyrannical implementation of their totalitarian
theory of Pan-Arabism and oppressing the various non Arabic ethnic groups
of their huge country– disregarded the country's rich Ancient and Medieval
Christian past.
As it occurred, opting for 'Ethiopia', instead of the proper name 'Abyssinia' –
was a necessity for the Addis Ababa dictators, who represent only one ethnic
minority’s interests in that destitute country. Ever since the Amhara invasion
of the numerous kingdoms that were located south of Abyssinia, the Oromos
and many other enslaved nations found themselves under foreign yoke and
occupation. More than 15 African nations have been thus confined within the
territory of Abyssinian Amhara oppression and tyranny. Amharas do not
represent even 20% of the country’s population, but under either bogus-royal,
Communist or republican pseudo-democratic regime, they have controlled
the administration, the military, the police, the education and the economy,
plunging the entire country in misery, starvation, pestilence and tyranny. It is
quite indicative that the recent National Congress of the Oromo Liberation
Front took place in Eritrea, an earlier province of Abyssinia that was
successful in seceding from the Amhara hell.
Oromos represent 40% of the entire population and claim to their capital
Finfinne, which is the real name of Addis Abeba, a fake name that was
imposed only after the Amhara invasion. Oromos never accepted to name
their old capital with the alien, Abyssinian Amhra name ('Addis Ababa').
Tigrays make up 12-13%, Sidamas total 10%, Ogadenis 8%, Afars 6%, and in
addition, there are smaller ethnic groups. Oromos and Ogadenis inhabit
approximately 80 to 85% of the entire territory. The current regime is an
experiment of cooperation between Amharas and Tigrays, the two closest
groups of the country, but this did not make of Abyssinia a more democratic
country. The country is expected to split to several pieces, and the Amhara
territory will fall apart, since it is the poorest and the most barren part of the
country's territory.
Expropriating itself from its own, Abyssinian, cultural identity, the Amhara
ruling minority opted for 'Ethiopia' in order to pretend that the name and the
country reflect democratically the cultural identity of the Oromo Cushites (:
Ethiopians), who descend from Ancient Ethiopia (Meroe) in Sudan. The name
change is however a baseless political trick, because the only permitted and
predominant culture is the Abyssinian Amhara culture, whereas the Oromo
Cushitic Ethiopian has been merciless persecuted for ca. 150 years.
With an ominous human rights record, certainly 'Ethiopia' cannot be

4. considered as Africa’s possible representative. It would be however useful to
check what this country’s economic performance is. With a population
totaling 90% of Egypt's, 'Ethiopia' produces as much as one sixth (1/6) of
Egypt's GDP! The 'Ethiopian' government's budget is just a small portion of
the Egyptian budget (income: US$ 1.8 b and 8 b, and expenditures: US$ 2.4 b
and 11 b respectively). Ethiopian exports and imports amount to US$ 0.5 b
and 2 b respectively (Egypt's respective figures: US$ 21 b and 14.5 b).
The illiterate people form the outright majority of the local populations in
'Ethiopia' (with literacy reaching only 42.7%); among the ruling Amharas the
illiteracy rises up to 80%. With fixed telephone line subscribers less than 0.5
million, with mobile users around 100000, and with Internet users around
75000 'Ethiopia' is truly the realm of ignorance and regression. Railways are
scarce in 'Ethiopia' (just 681 km!), and so are the paved highways (31500 km),
since the country is in possession of forex and gold reserves that amount to
only US$ 1 b (one fourteenth of Egypt's, one seventh of Nigeria's).
Last but not least, in the case of the worst African tyranny, 'Ethiopia' is the
land where more Christian, Catholic and Protestant, missionaries have been
killed than in any other place of the world. As we can conclude from a
lengthy and insightful interview published in the American Oromo portal
www.voicefinfinne.org, the danger of an Anti-Western 'Christian' hatred and
hysteria can also emanate from backward 'Ethiopia', a country that is still
ruled by the Monophysitic, heretic, pseudo-Christian monks and 'debteras'
(priests):
"Of course, one must expect a great Western interest, but one must rely on
one’s own forces, effort, and commitment. You are right to notice my reference
to foreign involvement against Abyssinia. This archaic structure of state
must not be permitted to exist; it consists in such a flagrant rejection of the
concept of the human progress towards Humanism and Democracy that it
cannot be allowed to develop its Christian Monophysitic religious extremism
anymore. No one wants a Monophysitic – heretic – Christian Khomeini rule
from Gondar, Axum or Addis Ababa in order to propagate the forthcoming
fight between his ‘Jesus’ and a supposed Anti-Christ. More and more people
in the correct positions in America understand that religious fanaticism is a
problem, whether it comes from Saudi Arabia or from Abyssinia. It is always
criminal whether Ossama bin Laden mobilizes ignorant people to kill
Westerners or Abyssinian Debteras drum up ignorant, starving people to
attack Christian Catholic or Protestant monks in Abyssinia. Obscurantism
runs high, and thousands of valuable Gueze manuscripts – totally
incomprehensible to the quasi-illiterate Monophysitic monks of Abyssinia –
are out of reach for any serious Western scholar because of the Amhara
Debteras’ fear that the Western scholars will unveil negative points of the
Axumite/Gondar medieval rulers"!
DR of Congo

5. Although literacy in the Central African country is higher than in 'Ethiopia'
and in Egypt (65.5%), the country is plunged into absolute chaos. The
government has absolutely no money at all (income: US$ 269 m, which is just
15% of the Ethiopian government's income, and expenditures: 244 m). No
forex and gold reserves at all! In terms of trade, DR of Congo outperforms
'Ethiopia' but belongs to the same level (exports: US $ 1.4 b, imports: 933 m).
With external debt mounting up to US $ 11.6 b ('Ethiopia': US$ 2.9 b only), DR
of Congo has properly speaking mortgaged already its gloomy future. The
country never had a real fixed line telephony infrastructure, the Internet users
are scarcer than in 'Ethiopia', and the existing rail and paved highway
network is to be credited to the Colonial past. If the various factions of this
deeply divided territory cannot make peace and control their army's
dissidents, kick out foreign armies, and establish a minimum state structure,
how this country can be seriously taken into consideration?
South Africa: the exception thatmust be highlighted and
felicitated
South Africa is by far the wealthiest and the most democratic country
throughout the Black Continent. With just 43 million people, South Africa
produces as much as Turkey (GDP: US$ 457 b) or, to put it otherwise, 11 times
more than DR of Congo, 10 times more than 'Ethiopia', 4 times more than
Nigeria, and almost twice as Egypt! South Africa's per capita GDP is higher
than that of many among the ten countries that have recently adhered to the
European Union. Literacy in South Africa runs as high as in Turkey (86.4%),
and the country's governmental budget may be half of Turkey's (income: US $
37 b and 67 b, and expenditures: US $41 b and 93 b respectively for South
Africa and Turkey) but it is triple than Egypt's, and quadruple than Nigeria's.
South African trade is far larger than Egypt's or Nigeria's, with exports
amounting for US $ 37 b (Turkey's US $ 49 b, but Nigeria's 21 b, and Egypt's
8.8 b only) and imports totaling US $ 34 b (Turkey's US $ 62 b, but Nigeria's
14.5 b, and Egypt's 14.7 b). Compared to Egypt's public debt (101.8% of the
GDP), South Africa's corresponding figure is totally under control (38.2% of
the GDP). The external debt of South Africa is also smaller than Egypt's (US $
26 b instead of 31 b). High tech penetration has advanced far more in the
South than in the North of the African continent, and with 17 m mobile users
(Egypt: 5.8 m) and 5.5 m Internet users (Egypt: 2.7 m) South Africa truly leads
the entire continent, being absolutely unmatched. Quite indicative a figure,
the railway network in South Africa is almost five times larger than that of
Egypt (22300 km instead of 5000 km)!
There are more important advantages and more serious reasons for South
Africa – and not Nigeria, Egypt, 'Ethiopia' and DR of Congo – to represent the
African Continent within an enlarged UN SC permanent membership. The
prevailing multiculturalism, the institutionalized multilingualism, the
political freedom, the respect of human rights, and the democratic life, as

6. daily practiced and lived there, consist in a midsummer night's dream for the
other African candidates for UN SC permanent membership.
The fact alone that the South African government institutionalized no less
than eleven languages as official languages in that multi-ethnic and
multilingual country (namely Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho,
Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu) shows to the other pseudo-
candidates the only way for future progress. It would be useless to make
comparisons, since all the other UN SC permanent membership aspiring
countries are obscurantist nationalistic regimes having been left behind
zillions of light years. Instead of daring express international aspirations, they
should just copy humbly what happened in South Africa.
Our suggestions end here, and we believe that a UN Security Council with 13
permanent members, namely USA, China, Japan, India, Germany, France,
England, Italy, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey and South Africa, would
represent our multifaceted world in a far better way than the 5-member 1945
'war college'.
The 13 UN Veto RightPowersand the ChallengesofOur World
In this series of articles, we intended to develop a possibly impartial approach
to the UN reform and to consider ways of using / utilizing this forthcoming
major international event in a way to further promote democracy among the
Security Council itself and all over the world. We asserted that the current 5-
member structure does not reflect any more an existent environment,
exposing therefore the entire organization to critical tests.
The world has changed a lot; the USSR has collapsed; and the USA has risen
to a predominant level of power. This situation has its own limits as every
situation does whatsoever. It is not possible for the USA to imagine that it can
unilaterally impose something successfully to the rest of the world; this
would truly be one extreme case. The other extreme case would be for a lesser
power to attempt to set up odd alliances to prevent the USA from action,
when action is precisely needed. Colonial nations have to understand that it is
impossible to further preserve colonial structures, which may fit their short
term interests, but in reality they endanger the entire world.
Certainly the alliance of the UK and the USA with the USSR during WW II
was somehow 'odd', but there were global issues at stake and the alliance
meant to promote democracy, human rights, and freedom. The recent axis
Paris – Berlin – Moscow – Beijing could not promote any of the traditional
values of the democratic and humanist West. This axis attempted to prevent
the USA, the UK and their allies from attacking Iraq on the grounds that there
were no weapons of mass destruction (WMD). This extreme hypocrisy could
not be accepted, because Saddam Hussein posed a threat in and by himself,
irrespective of the existence of WMD on Iraqi soil or not. Any similar dictator

7. poses the same threat to the rest of the world.
The realities of colonial past cannot be denied. The phenomenon of Islamic
terrorism may be new, but its roots go deep in the Islamic Ages; the negative
developments that had taken place within the Islamic world turned worse,
due to habile colonial diplomatic manipulation. French colonialism in the
Middle East is a strong contributor to the current explosive situation, and this
cannot be denied either.
By creating a bogus nationalism, by fabricating a nonexistent 'nation' of
'Arabs', by tyrannically deforming the Aramaean, Coptic and Berber face of
the Middle East, by setting up colonial elites in all these lands and by forming
them in a false 'bon pour l’ Orient' manner, France created Pan-Arabist,
nationalist tyrannies that engulfed the entire area in anti-Semitic and anti-
Christian hatred, permanent underdevelopment, educational and cultural
decay, social misery, poverty, and stagnation.
It is inaccurate to view Islamic terrorism as the sole, real enemy of the human
civilization; the foe is triple indeed! The three-headed Lernaean Hydra is:
French Colonialism/Orientalism, Arab Nationalism (Pan-Arabism), and
Islamism. This monster menaces our world, and the UN must become the
frontal battlefield to have the monster's heads cut off. Alliances will be needed
for this. A Muslim country that appreciated and successfully applied for 80
years the Western ideals of democracy, freedom and secularism is needed.
Japan and India are needed as well. The two colossi of Latin America
complete the image of a UN SC where a majority will always be reached in
this war against extremism, historical forgery, barbarism and apathy. Our
suggestions do not end here; if 13 veto powers reflect better our world, the
international community must foresee and take the necessary precautions.
How to advance further on will be the subject of the last part of this article.
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Published: 12/29/2004