Biyya Oromo, the land of thousand Bokkus and several Odaas, self-sufficient with an affluent nation survived the exactions of it’s Turkish invaders from the east and the northern Abyssinian’s invasion who killed five million Oromians.
During the first migration of the Abyssinians to Oromia, the Tigre-Amhara controlled the size of down town Finfinnee (Markaatoo) at a place they named Menz or showa and their population constituted only less than one fourth of one percent of the Oromian population. Even half a century later, by the time when the small Menz controlled the entire 600,000 square kilometer land mass of Oromia, the Tigre-Amhara still owned less than 10 percent land in Oromia.
At the turn of the century, when the Abyssinians began laying their plans for a Habasha state, Oromia became the land of predominant Habasha and Islamic state as a result of the Habasha and Turks conquest and majority of the land became the property of the Abyssinians. Compared to the ruthless oppression of the previous Turkish rulers, the Habasha conquerors of Oromia treated their Oromo subjects with subjugation and none tolerant manners. It is fair for none Oromo scholars and individuals to ask how the minority Habashas could conquer the majority nation such as the Oromians but one major contributing factor for such an outcome is that the Oromians of different Odaas never joined together in defense of their land and that is why once the Crusaders gained the upper hand, five million wise Oromians were slaughtered. Since that day on, the reign of the Abyssinians restored the Abyssinian identity in the hearts of some Oromians, Oromians became poor but the Tigreans and the Amharas prospered. This notion also cultivated an attitude of being civilized in the minds of the Amharas and the Tigreans but demoralized the Oromians as a result, self hate became the fashion for some inferior Oromians and fanatically devoting oneself to borrowed Abyssinians names, religion and behavior became the norm. In the mean while, those Oromians who stood against the Abyssinians superiority faced the unremitting hostility and persecution by every variety of Habasha rulers Christian Europe and Arab expansionism.
At the turn of the century, the day the colonialism was in its heyday, those days when the Europeans were carving up Africa, unashamed Abyssinians borrowed the ideology of imperialism that lent them not only a knowledge how to build prisons and jails but how to use the migration of Faranj missionaries to further divided the Oromians along what they call the Seventh day Adventist, Lutherans, the Pentecostal, the Catholics, the Orthodoxies etc.
From that time on, any idea that comes from the white man was accepted as civilization that itself brought a heavy burden against Oromian’s aspiration of reclaiming their own identity because of its confusing but attractive rhetoric about civilization, economic globalization and the issue of self-determination that hides it’s motives of veiled goal of colonialism in this confusion.
After the Abyssinians colonization set it’s confusion grip upon the Oromians, Oromia’s towns and villages were bought up and their entire population were evicted. Habasha settlers now barred the Oromians from grazing their herds on land that had been traditionally their’s and Habasha settlers refused to hire Oromo professionals, universities refused to accept those Oromo youth who have Oromo names or who did not speak and did not understand the Amharic language very well.
As the struggle against the Abyssinians rule encroachments developed, Oromians loyalty to Oromummaa was transformed into a national consciousness. Gorilla war fare, riots and uprisings were broke out in Oromia with mounting intensity culminating in the great rebellion of the self determination struggle lead by several Oromian political movements. Once again, the Europeans assistance of Abyssinians in putting down Oromo resistance came not only in providing guns and bullets but it included preparing the Abyssinians with better political tactics, inelegance gathering, economic advisory, financial support and most importantly with the organizational strategy that required deep research on how to steal ideas, how to divide the Oromians along religion, region, philosophical, age, gender, clan and age line. For example, one key assistance which the Tigre minority jungle boys received from the American government was the six month management training Meles Zenawi got here in America in the late 1980s and the creation of the OPDO and many other P.D.Os and the disarmament of the Oromo liberation fighters that took place by the deal that was put together by the American Embassy in Finfinnee and by the European union.
It also needs to be noted that the murdering of the tens of the thousands of Oromians was also happened with the brokerage of these international conspiracy and stuffing of over 100,000 Oromia’s citizens into prisons took place as a part of the 1991-92 goal of assisting the Abyssinians. Thought it is not any different from the British royal air force bombardment of Walloo or Oromia in the 1950s, the 1991 methods of eliminating Oromians self determination movement included the bombardment of villages, collective punishment, such as blowing up every house in villages suspected of harboring resistance fighters, planting explosives in hotels and blame suspected Oromo individuals and groups and then hung them up in public, steal ideas from main resistance and make it look like OPDO’s idea, produce documentary films and show the burning civilians by setting them on fire to blame the resistance fighters. Here, one can see the deception of the TPLF and it’s advising international mafia government group to the TPLF by just looking at the Oromo original flag of Black, Red and White and their outright deception when they added the Odaa tree in the middle of the flag. Obviously, they did that to confuse the Oromo nation and rally them behind the artificially produced OPDO by propagating the ideals of the Oromo nation put together by the OLF for the purpose of resurrecting Oromian’s nationhood aspiration long before the birth of PDOs.
"Elman Kushii"
"Elman Kushii"
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