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Sunday, March 2, 2014
Oromo speaking people? Part 2
by Rundassa Asheetee Hundee | March 2, 2014
Convincingly, the Amharas had been the elites of empire Ethiopia, particularly, hateful men like Getachew Haile and the like were considered as senior civil servants who retained much power and influence well into the 1970s. Now this insane thug promotes unequivocally racist ideology targeting specifically the Oromo people by labeling them as uncivilized bad people not understanding that framing the nation state by having his tribe above every ethnic group in empire Ethiopia adds to the political turmoil that is engulfing the already sick empire.
To deny the existence of the Oromo people, Getacho Haile, a fluent afaan Oromo speaker and the citizen of Oromia, intentionally avoided the mention of name “Oromo” while listing the names of the Oromo tribes and clans whom he called the “Oromo speaking people.” By using term “Oromo speaking people” Getacho has tried to do what his friend Dr. Asrat, who denied the existence of the Amhara people in 1991 did. All these efforts are made to justify their claim that the Ethiopians are ONE people who share Amharic and the Amhara culture. Getchao Haile also carefully dissected Guji from Borana, Arsi from Maccaa,Karrayyu from Hoborra etc to intentionally confuse the young generation that Guji or Arsi are not part of the Oromo nation but different people who were forced to speak afaan Oromo. In his evil mind, doing so will eventually lead to the Guji to rise against the Arsi, and the Maccaa to rise aganist the Tulamaa etc.
Of corse, the TPLF has tried to cheat our people by using the same evil tactic when they tried to create a rift between the Oromo, on one hand, and the Caboo, Sooddo, Argoba, Hadaree, Isa and Afar on the other, though they failed after these people showed an emotional and psychological attachment to each other.Yet, this old Amhara racist Getacho Haile is working very hard to achieve his racist party objectives of reviving the evil wish of MORESH, by injecting his racist poison into the minds of the new Amhara generation. However, the new generation have already rejected such evil mindset and the authoritarian patterns of inhuman views produced by low level thinkers such as Getacho Haile.Starting from the days of Germamee Niway and Gen. Mangistu Niway, tens of thousands of Amhara youth have criticized the “feudalization” Getacho’s tribe, the Moojaa family, which was thought to have accepted not only it’s aristocratic dominance in the field of politics but also the Amhara aristocratic values and pride.
In fact, without the waging of a successful revolution led by Martha Mebratu, Walelinyi Mokonon, Nagada Gobaze and the like, confronting and dismantling the Amhara racist political tradition and bureaucracy was unthinkable. Thanks to these and the generation after them, the Amhara racism is relatively weak now compared to 1960s or 1980s.What is strange about Getacho Haile’s racist view however, that he can’t recognize a highly successful liberation movements that led to the freedom of the Eritrean people and the looming socio-economic changes that is hoovering over empire Ethiopia.
Admittedly, the Oromo people’s liberation movements may have been temporarily slowed down but power relations among the Amhara racists and the Oromo people have been changed for ever and the Amhara racism is suffering a very unstable fate as internal tensions created by racist men like Getacho Haile continued to work to the advantage of the enslaved majority. Basically, the Amhara racists have lost much of their former dominance and legitimacy as their old way of thinking is partly replaced by the emerging liberal democracy upheld by the new generation. That was the reason for the split of the racist Amhara party known as the “mellaa Amhara.”
It is recalled that the younger Amharas left the old Amhara racist party and joined the TPLF parliament to promote the idea of modern state though the TPLF failed them so misreably. But, now racist Getacho Haile argues that the Amharas old political legacy is better and must survive only to speed up the death of the already dying empire.
Looking at things from this particular angle, certainly Getacho Haile is losing the argument even when he remained hostile towards the Oromo people who greatly contributed to his upbringing by feeding him till the day he left the country for refugee life in America. Needless to say, like any low level thinkers do, Getacho can continue to promote his hate filled views against the Oromo people but soon or later the Amhara youth will turn his racist views into resentment against him. That means, what is at stake here is not the Oromo people’s freedom but Getacho Haile’s credibility.
Rundassa Asheetee
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Egypt ramps up international campaign as Nile tensions heat up
With tensions heating up along the Nile Basin as Ethiopia presses forward on its plans to build a $4.2 billion hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, Egypt’s government is undertaking an international diplomatic offensive aimed at thwarting this effort. Cairo sees the Renaissance Dam project as a serious threat to its national security and though other political issues in Egypt have dominated international attention, the standoff with Ethiopia over the dam issue has continued to escalate behind the scenes.
Earlier this week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy met with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete to discuss the brewing crisis around the project. An Egyptian foreign ministry spokesperson was later quoted by Al-Ahram saying that the response from Kikwete was positive and the leader “was understanding on the situation and stressed that no country should suffer or be harmed from the consequences of the Renaissance Dam.” Fahmy also took care to address Egypt’s relationship with the African Union, from which it has been suspended since the military coup against Mohammed Morsi last July— an issue which has only exacerbated the distinct geopolitical disadvantage Egypt has come up against following decades of neglect of African regional affairs by Cairo
via Reuters
Cairo’s diminished position in the face of continuing construction on the project should explain the robust efforts the government has taken to lobby members of the Supreme Committee for the Nile Waters which includes representatives from all Nile River Basin stakeholders. This strategy of engagement is a distinct departure from the overt entitlement and intransigence shown by Cairo on the issue at earlier stages in the standoff. Egypt’s government appears to have finally realized that the aura of entitlement it projected regarding the Nile — rooted as it is in colonial-era laws — was not endearing it to the African nations that helped to empower Ethiopia in its plans.
Giving the appearance of making nice with African stakeholders isn’t Egypt’s only plan, though. According to Al-Monitor, Egyptian officials have also been meeting with the European countries helping to finance and develop the dam project in order to make their case and will also embark on even broader campaigning efforts:
Muttalib stated there are a number of scenarios that the Egyptian government has agreed to implement in order to deal with the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis. Among them is an effort to raise awareness in the world regarding the truth of Egypt’s position toward development of the Nile River Basin, which he insists is not opposed to development in the countries of the basin, contrary to the version of events Ethiopia propounds.
In short, look for Egypt to attempt a slightly more savvy approach to its international PR on the sensitive issue. The country should, however, be prepared if the international goodwill it is looking to harness does not come gushing forth. After all, there are consequences to a flagrant disregard for international opinion — something Egypt has grown over-confident about indulging in since the July coup.
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