During the early years of their rule, as violent and oppressive they were, TPLF differentiated themselves from their predecessors by being sensitive and showing reasonable respect for groups they subjected. However, they began abandoning such sensitivity as they consolidated power and began amassing wealth, and they have started adopting the ugly behaviors of their predecessors. Nowadays, emboldened by the absolute monopoly of the means of violence, intoxicated with abundance of wealth at their disposal and facing no so significant threat to their rule, the TPLF Tigrean rulers’ rudeness, arrogance and disrespect for other cultures have become their norm. Just like their predecessors, they have the false sense of inherent superiority which had made them feel invincible. This behavior is even worse among their rising generation – which was born into wealth and power and grew up being drugged with post-victory (post-1991) bravado of TPLF.
This is good and bad news. It’s ‘bad’ because such collective behaviors increase and justify violence and repression against the subjected populations. However, on the ‘good’ side, it makes the system intolerable – expanding the base of resistance, and, consequently, speeding up the downfall of the system.
There is this well known old saying in Amharic that applies for TPLF'S intention of evicting farmers in Oromia TO REPLACE THEM BY tplf AFFILIATED farmers and expand Addis Ababa . The saying goes like this "GULICHA BILEWAWET WAT AYATAFITIM" :meaning changing cooking materials won't make the sauce taste any better. I tell Al-Amoudi that same saying so he don't think whether irrigation of Awash is done by him or other people will not stop the drought the Oromo people are suffering year after year in the area.
ReplyDeleteOromo definitely do not want the toxic Addis Ababa to expand anymore, rather must struggle to turn Addis Ababa into Finfinne.
.Over the last 2 decades, the Oromo-phobic Addis Ababa expanded by more than 400x, and swallowed the Oromo surrounding it into oblivion. This must be stopped.
There is a difference between Addis Ababa and Finfinne. The Oromo do not own Addis Ababa, and they must not own Addis Ababa, but they must struggle to turn Addis Ababa into Finfinne.
Oftentimes, people use Addis Ababa and Finfinne interchangeably. This is wrong on many accounts. Addis Ababa is not Finfinne and Finfinne is not Addis Ababa.
Addis Ababa, by design, has been made to hate Oromo from its inception, its Oromo-phobic. The struggle of the Oromo is to bury this Oromo-phobic Addis Ababa, and on its grave, build Finfinne a city that is accommodating to all a city that is based on the Oromo culture of tolerance and acceptance.
The current Addis Ababa is a sore spot on the map of Oromia; Addis Ababa has toxic societal values which the ruling oppressive elites have passed down to the general public over the last 125 years since its annexation from the Oromo. Addis Ababa is unwelcoming to its own Oromo and Southern residents, but has five-star hotels to welcome African and world diplomats; this does not add up, and it must not be allowed to continue with this status quo anymore.
The toxicity of Addis Ababa (i.e. its Oromo-phobia and also, in general, South-phobia) must be healed, and it must be turned into a place of freedom and demoracy . The struggle must start by Oromo they must speak first and foremost Afan Oromo, and boycott businesses which are justice-phobic (and democracy-phobic).
Administratively, the federal government in Finfinne must beelected by all Ethiopians not just by TPLF. Definitely, Oromo do not want this toxic and cancerous Addis Ababa to expand anymore into the State of Oromia, and that Oromian land already taken over by force by . Oromo must #StopAbayTsehaye -the Tigrean Neftegna who wants to expand the toxic Addis Abab by killing Oromos, Oromo language and Oromo culture in the region, and by giving the Oromo land to Tigrean Neftegnas.
http://www.oromotv.com/abay-tsehaye-weyyane-leader-declared-war-on-oromo-people/