ADDIS ABABA– Ethiopia is not some colonial outpost of America which can be remotely controlled and managed by Congressional legislation backed up with gunboat diplomacy, said Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam.
The Biden Administration’s attempt in imposing what it called wide-ranging economic and security restrictions on assistances as well as visa restrictions on officials have backfired spectacularly as it has further brought the people of Ethiopia together like never before.
Describing the actions of the U.S. as a “desperate move” and mentioning the fact that the Biden administration has crossed the redline, Prof. AlMariam told The Ethiopian Herald as they are being ignored, and they want to draw attention. “This won’t last the 24 hour news cycle.”
He added that Ethiopians are cultured and rational people. All what they ask is to be left alone in peace. Ethiopians desire no harm to anyone. “I pity those who dare disturb our peace.”
The professor went on saying that when America declared independence in 1776, Edward Gibbon, the great historian of Western civilization, wrote of the need to defend the Ethiopians, then called “Abyssinians, an unwarlike people from the Barbarians.” Gibbon wrote, the Abyssinians were interested in a “rational project of importing the arts and ingenuity of Europe; and their ambassadors at Rome and Lisbon were instructed to solicit a colony of smiths, carpenters, tilers, masons, printers, surgeons, and physicians, for the use of their country.”
BY STAFF REPORTER
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD MAY 28/2021
