On tue un homme, on est un assassin.
On tue des millions d’hommes, on est un conquèrant.
On les tue tous, on est un dieu.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror.
Kill everyone and you are a god.
Jean Rostand
Pensèes d’un biologiste
The wraps are off. The secrecy surrounding the death of the Ethiopian dictator is in itself highly instructive to those who do not know the history and the reality of the Ethiopian empire dubbed “the Federal Republic” by the EPRDF/TPLF regime. More instructive is, however, the reactions of some eminent personalities in the west especially in the USA and Britain to his death. Their gushing shameless eulogies in his memory show clearly, if anything, the structural problems of western democracies and global capitalism, an issue which I briefly tried to raise in my last article.