Rough year for the guy, ethnic unrest destroys his hotels, on top of COVID. Man.
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Athlete Haile Gebresilassie Demands Justice for Destroyed Hotels
By Staff Reporter
Haile-Gebresilassie-resort-destroyedJuly 28, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- The damage from the latest violence in Oromia towns of Ethiopia included the burning of two hotels belonging to the renowned athlete and multiple world records holder Haile Gebreselassie.
Anyone check Mo's whereabouts?
Was he the one who kicked out Mo?
Sad. You expect to read this type of news in hellholes like Seattle and Portland but not Addis Ababa.
This story certainly puts the troubles America is having in perspective on so many different levels.
https://www.ezega.com/News/NewsDetails/8045/Athlete-Haile-Gebresilassie-Demands-Justice-for-Destroyed-HotelsEZegadotcom wrote:
Properties belonging to non-Oromo ethnic groups were attacked and businesses vandalized, burned, and looted by organized mobs in Shashemene, Arsi Negele, Robe, Adaba, Asasa, Ziway, and other towns of Oromia region.
According to a police report, more than 200 people were killed in the protracted attacks following the death of a popular Oromo singer Hachalu Hundessa.
“We need justice and security from the government. We need affirmation from the government that similar attacks will not occur, said Haile who demanded the government to bring the attackers before justice and hold them accountable.
Unfortunately, in Africa violent tribal and ethnic clashes within a country is a daily occurrence. Then, add to that xenophobia (that nice euphemism for hatred by black people for other black people in their country but who were born in another country ) and racism (the generally defined black <--> white hatred), and you have a daily soup of violence and destruction which is one of the contributing factors why the vast majority of African countries just don't seem to be able to move forward, their economies are stagnant, and the people remain destitute.
Source - I've been living in Africa my whole life and have seen different variations of this movie play out countless times.
Just to add to my post, the fact that the properties of the someone whose image was used in Addis Abeba airport to welcome visitors, and who is widely (in the world outside Ethiopia) seen as an ambassador of Ethiopia, are being burnt down for all the world to see, and damn the consequences of that to the Ethiopian economy (think foreign direct investment, tourism etc), should provide some insight into the psyche of the destructors.
Haile should demand equality for the Oromo people instead
Stop being a drama queen, Ed.
I feel sorry for The Emperor losing two of his properties.
Hotel Rwanda now Hotel Ethiopia.
I wonder will forensics recover Mo's missing watch?
“The investigators found that all the doorbells in the rubble were mysteriously broken”
Slurp Slurp wrote:
Haile should demand equality for the Oromo people instead
Seconded. He doesn't good here.
AU wrote:
Just to add to my post, the fact that the properties of the someone whose image was used in Addis Abeba airport to welcome visitors, and who is widely (in the world outside Ethiopia) seen as an ambassador of Ethiopia, are being burnt down for all the world to see, and damn the consequences of that to the Ethiopian economy (think foreign direct investment, tourism etc), should provide some insight into the psyche of the destructors.
So... desperation? Do we know why Haile's hotels were targeted?
Remember when LetsRun celebrated fascist Oromo hate symbols during the Olympics?
Justice is served by the torching of his ill-gotten gains.
But they should have just stolen them from him, and not destroyed good property.
I wouldn't say that ethnic violence is a daily occurrence in each country in Africa, but it has been all too frequent since independence from colonies governed by divide and rule, which placed artificial divisions among different ethnic groups (or created said groups, as in Rwanda and Burundi) and thus laid the groundwork for ethnic strife over borders. The colonial powers also left Africa with limited civil society, which can be built only over time and requires strong institutions to flourish as a limitation on absolute power. Over the past twenty years, there had been relative stability in many African nations and some international liberalization of trade from Africa, as well as a commodity price boom, rapid urbanization (which takes peasants from subsistence agriculture to a money economy) and much increased Chinese investment in infrastructure development (easily the greatest investment in African infrastructure in history: really the first time since the colonial powers were building railroads and some roads that there was massive spending on infrastructure in Africa), and consequently, there had been 4.5% annual GDP growth, excluding the very large informal urban economy. However, being so dependent on commodities makes the economy precarious, as does very heavy indebtedness to China, so the COVID effects on the economy are likely to promote instability. And as Thomas Hobbes observed and Haile Gebreselassie has seen, in a state of war, where there is no common power to overawe the people, "there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain ... no commodious building ... and, which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Unfortunately colonizers carving the continent up during the last couple centuries into "countries" with little regard to existing ethnic, cultural, and political dynamics has only blown this up. Hard existing in a peaceful equilibrium if a border now splits your ethnic group in half and includes some part of some other group, all now supposed to be governed under the same political entity. And also having to start with ravaged economic and social infrastructure.
borders wrote:
Unfortunately colonizers carving the continent up during the last couple centuries into "countries" with little regard to existing ethnic, cultural, and political dynamics has only blown this up. Hard existing in a peaceful equilibrium if a border now splits your ethnic group in half and includes some part of some other group, all now supposed to be governed under the same political entity. And also having to start with ravaged economic and social infrastructure.
America has more diverse and more ethnic groups and we are excepted to get along.
