Afghanistan fell to the Taliban once again, and Yemenis - already fallen - fell into an additional abyss of despair and despondency. Before the beginning of the twenty-first century, things were not in this bleak, interconnected way. We witnessed countless coups in Africa, Turkey and Latin America, without affecting us. Today, however, whenever a brick collapses in the delicate wall of the dreams and aspirations of the peoples of the world, this will necessarily have a new burden on our shoulders, and additional years of desolation and loss.
But on the other hand, the Afghan lesson has injected more blood into the body of the forces before the homeland and the state, so that questions of justice, freedom and citizenship are more and more abusive for us.Even as if we see in the illusions that the Western system marketed to us, during the pre-revolutionary years, as a kind of well-set traps, to strike at pluralism and social harmony.
We saw, a few weeks ago, how the spring of Tunisia turned into a winter, and last week, the military aborted the transitional phase in Sudan, and who was not certain of the right of certainty, about the countries conspiring to enable the military to monitor civilians, it is even pointed out that these countries - which, by the way, are Arabiya - a reliable ally of the alien regime, and more closely: a friend of the United States of America.
Our anger should not be understood as hostility, or an invitation to blatant external interference in our affairs, but rather to put points on the letter on the British-American role-playing game in the region, and an inevitable reminder of the lie of concern for the stability of the region.
There are also, tens - if not hundreds - of Ethiopians, who found in Yemen - until recently - a friendly environment to live, but with the collapse of the Ethiopian situation, we do not think that we will be immune from what will happen to this country... We do not need to see a new warring country in our turbulent environment.
In the few years, it seemed that there was social and economic disparity in the conditions of some Ethiopian minorities, but instead of pressing for a solution to this side problem in the government’s performance, we are seeing blatant complicity in handing over the country to armed groups, and no one cares about the catastrophic consequences that our region will witness if the Ethiopian state collapsed.
Abi Ahmed does not seem less tyrannical than the Ethiopian leaders who preceded him, and we Arabs are still suffering from the headache of his clumsy policies dealing with the Renaissance Dam, but, despite all the allegations of violations against him, his removal from power cannot be approved on this Absurd manner, except as this matter is considered a episode in the unceasing effort to enable discordant irregular groups to control the fate of the population of the region, and to add new ethnic burdens to the existing inequality.
We, the Yemenis, affirm that there is no interest in the wrong policies of the Ethiopian government, we stress that its collapse will cause us more pressure and harm, and will add more suffering to our stricken lives.
In fact, Yemen has been linked historically with Ethiopia, so that with these ties, one cannot distinguish which of the two civilizations is the original, and who was influenced much by the other during this contact. Therefore, since the entry of Yemen, in a state of civil war in 2014, Ethiopia was one of the havens, we do not say safe, but rather palatable for a Yemeni citizen, who found in the Ethiopian citizens something like spiritual twinning.
There are also, dozens - if not hundreds - of Ethiopians, who found in Yemen - until recently - a friendly environment to live, but with the collapse of the Ethiopian situation, we do not think that we will be immune to what will happen to this country. We don't need to see a new country at war in our battered ocean; More drowned people lying on our shores, trying to escape from an unknown future, or Yemen becoming a first stop for violating the rights of immigrants given the spread of flourishing human trade during the few years, and unscrupulous brokers waiting for our brothers.
We all know that despite the outbreak of war in Yemen, this did not prevent Africans from choosing Yemen as a destination to escape from the inferno of their homeland, and for this we can imagine what would happen if a large and diverse country like Ethiopia entered the all-out war. On the other hand, the Gulf leaders shall also be involved by exerting pressure on their Western allies to put an end to Ethiopian dilemma, instead of watching, because, in light of this scandalous silence, they will pay a high economic cost.
