Revolution and Discipline in Egypt; A lesson for
Ethiopians

3 February, 2011 | By Teodros Kiros (Ph.D)
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    The peoples
    revolution in Egypt
    must succeed,
    otherwise tyrants in
    the region are going
    to feast and sharpen
    their military
    apparatus and jail
    thousands of those
    who camped out on
    the streets of the
    great Cairo, home to
the pyramids and the great MAAT, queen of Justice.

I can imagine MAAT the queen of Truth praying for the protesters
to hold on to the last human being and fight for their rights, die for
the sake of creating a genuine moral economy that the Egyptian
people have not seen for the last thirty years; I imagine in own my
home land, the historic Ethiopia, the ruling regime strategizing in
smoke filled rooms, on how to squelch an eminent Ethiopian
uprising before it takes root; I imagine the tyranny’s think tanks
laughing at writings such as this and defaming any outputs from the
Diaspora as infective and idle.

We Ethiopians, however, must stand with the aspirations of the
heroic Egyptian people and support them in body and spirit.  Their
struggles are our very own. Let us learn from their passions and
work for their success.

The revolution must succeed, as we too plan our own very soon,
with the backbone of our youth, our country dwellers, and those
millions of round Ethiopian eyes, impregnated with unshed tears of
poverty and hopelessness.

Our peaceful marches will drink from the winds of change and the
emergence of a genuine democracy for which millions of Ethiopians
are waiting.

Do not let the counter violence of a desperate Egyptian tyrant
intimidate you as you are thinking and planning to stage the peoples
uprising in our historic Ethiopia

In the mean time work on your souls and embark on a cultural
transformation, so that you can lead the people’s revolt, when it
unravels right in front of your eyes.

Pray that the Egyptian revolution succeeds.

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Teodros Kiros Professor of Philosophy and English (Liberal
Arts) Berklee College of Music is also a Senior Editor at Ethio
Quest News. His weekly column appears
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