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Gov’t seeks 42bln birr to finalize war-afflicted Welkait sugar project

Audit report reveals continued huge losses for Sugar Industry Group The federal government is searching for alternative funding sources for 42 billion to breathe life into the Welkait Sugar Plant, which has been closed since war engulfed northern Ethiopia in 2020. The Welkait sugar estate is just one of several under the ailing state-owned Ethiopian Sugar Industry Group accruing huge losses. A…

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Abiy’s foot soldiers are about to be driven out of Amhara land by Fano, and Abiy is using drones in a desperate attempt, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians.

Abiy and his vacuous general, Berhanu Jula, thought they could easily crush and disarm the Amhara Fano within a short period of time. On the contrary, Fano's forces emerged victorious, defeating Abiy's soldiers, acquiring their heavy weaponry, and asserting dominance over almost all regions. Abiy quickly realized Fano's dominance in the fight and responded by launching drone attacks and heavy artillery shelling on civilian residences, leading to the merciless murder of countless innocent individuals. As a matter of fact, a cowardly person is brutal, willing to murder without mercy when given the chance. Abiy is both brutal and narcissistic, suffering from a mental health condition known as “narcissistic personality disorder”, characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance.

Women and children are victims of heinous acts during this systematic elimination of countless lives. By committing these acts of violence, not only are basic human rights principles violated, but also the value of human life is completely ignored. The international community should have condemned Abiy for his complicity and evilness in using drones to kill innocent Amhara civilians indiscriminately, which is a genocidal act.

Sadly enough, the western countries blatantly ignored the Amhara genocide, but during the Abiy-TPLF war two years ago, the security council repeatedly held open meetings against Abiy, as requested by Ireland with the support of the US, United Kingdom, and some European nations. In fact, during TPLF's 27-year rule, they strategically invested Ethiopian wealth to gain allies in western countries, showing that the US and certain European nations supported TPLF in the war against Abiy. The US and United Kingdom's unfair stance against Amhara would not surprise the Amharas. The Amhara people have had a history of being targeted by foreign invaders, like the aggression from fascist Italy in 1935, which persists to this day. Our forefathers fought fearlessly against fascist Italy, and today Fano is showing immense bravery in its resistance against the savage Oromumma government.

It is truly pathetic how the US government turned a blind eye to the ongoing Amhara genocide under an incapable, barbarous regime. In fact, two years ago, during a press conference, President Baden made a shocking and biased remark about the war between Abiy and TPLF, demanding the withdrawal of the Amhara special forces from Tigray, a fact that was not publicly known. Amhara's special forces have never entered Tigray, but it was the TPLF forces that invaded Amhara's land. Of course, the TPLF supporters falsely led the President to believe that Welkait was part of Tigray. Let’s not forget that the US financed and provided logistical materials to the TPLF while they were fighting as guerrillas against the Marxist regime. A day will come when the US stands alongside the Amhara people. The only way to stop Amhara's suffering and deaths is by defeating its enemies. The OLF has been relentlessly working to annihilate the Amhara people for the past half-century.

In the early 1991s, Berhanu Nega and Genenew Assefa organized the international conference on the Horn of Africa in New York City sponsoring by the City University of New York chancellor, Murphy, which was heavily influenced by anti-Ethiopia groups TPLF, Shabia, and OLF. Luckily, I attended the conference where the guest speaker was a Arepresentative from OLF, who was in his early 60s with gray hair. The OLF speaker was criticizing the Amhara people, indicating that in the US city, all Ethiopian restaurants are owned by Amharas, while Oromos have no one. The audiences thought his disgruntlement with Amharas was funny, so they laughed at him. To me, his repugnant speech towards Amhara was not as funny as I initially thought. The speech was dangerous, and the Amhara should not have dismissed it as frivolous. The connivance of the OLF with the Amhara people was not recent, it was long ago. Abiy and his subordinate extremist Oromos now have the chance to use drones for bombing innocent Amharas. Not taking the Oromo's extremist propaganda seriously was a mistake made by the Amhara in the past. Nevertheless, the Oromumma’s diabolical action on the Amhara is a transient, and the Fano's strength is impregnable, and they will soon reverse this horrendous crime against the Amharas. It is an impending fact!

Let me take a moment to jot down some thoughts on Berhanu Nega. Through common friends, I have had the chance to meet Berhanu Nega on a few occasions in New York in 1991. During those short meeting with Berhanu, I observed his strong support for TPLF and OLF, as he consistently emphasized the importance of peace for Ethiopia and the removal of Derg. I was struck by his insistence that power should shift to the south this time. He continued mentioning that for the past two centuries, Ethiopia has been ruled by northerners in rotation. So, resolving the Oromo’s question is crucial for peace in Ethiopia. During the conversation, he employed diplomatic language that avoids offending others.

Without a doubt, Berhanu Nega is untrustworthy and driven by a desire for political power and an intrigue person. As widely known by all, he left his teaching job in the US in pursuit of a high-level position in Ethiopia, but was not given any opportunities by the late Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi. Unlike Abiy, Meles was not easy. For his own advantages, he used to be involved with the Amhara society in terms of social life. The Amhara people did not really know Berhanu until his true colors were revealed. What he is doing right now to the Amhara people is proof. I am acquainting the viewers with the fact that Berhanu Nega holds a negative view of the Amhara people. Regardless of how long it takes, Berhanu should be held accountable for the crime he is committing against the Amhara people while collaborating with the Oromumma government.

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welkait is an interesting , yet sad case. i have family that endured state sanctioned violence, death n toture over this border/identity dispute. its a v bilingual community. ppl that spoke both languages n used each other’s respective languages in different ways. they really do consider themselves wolkiate, a provincial identity that is historic n culturally rooted. idk if it belongs to tigray or gondar but pls remember these ppl have a shared heritage and lineage. treat all their identities + lives + livelihoods w care!

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Ethnic violence in Tigray has echoes of Ethiopia’s tragic past

Violence has engulfed northern Ethiopia and, as traditional, it’s the civilians caught in the midst of this bitter ethnic battle who’re paying the very best value. Amnesty Worldwide reported on November 12 {that a} brutal bloodbath had taken place within the city of Mai Kadra within the northwestern province of Tigray. Scores – possibly a whole bunch – of individuals, described by Amnesty as seasonal labourers, had been killed with knives and machetes.

Combating has additionally been reported close to the border city of Humera the place the Ethiopian military is known to have wrested management of the airport from the Tigray Folks’s Liberation Military (TPLF). To date an estimated 25,000 folks have fled to Sudan, together with from the Humera space, an space that may be seen as a microcosm of the tensions which might be pulling on the complicated ethnic material throughout Ethiopia.

Ethiopia’s ‘Casablanca’

Again in 1993, whereas I used to be casting round on the lookout for potential PhD analysis websites, a good friend and colleague advisable I’m going to Humera, a city within the far northwest nook of Ethiopia. “It’s like an Ethiopian Casablanca,” he instructed me. I duly went to test it out. What I discovered held not a lot the mystique of an previous Islamic metropolis however a bustling group of Tigrayan former refugees who had just lately been repatriated after a decade in camps in japanese Sudan the place that they had sought refuge through the civil struggle that raged in Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991.

Initially highlanders, they had been resettled into the fertile lowlands round Humera with the expectation that they’d change into smallholder farmers, supplementing their incomes engaged on the business sesame and sorghum farms within the space. Humera itself was a war-ravaged, dusty city that was simply coming again to life after years of neglect. Remnants of the civil struggle might nonetheless be seen: within the partitions of buildings that had been pockmarked by bullets and shrapnel, the carcasses of previous deserted tanks, and a neighborhood administration that was largely run by the previous cadres of the TPLF, as a civilian administration had not but been put in.

Though they had been repatriating to Ethiopia from Sudan, the Tigrayans weren’t returning to their highland communities of origin. They had been settled by the brand new regional administration into an space of northwest Ethiopia that had as soon as been a part of the Gondar province, however had been newly included into the Tigray area in a means of redistricting that passed off as quickly because the Tigrayan-led authorities took energy in 1991.

Repatriating 25,000 Tigrayans to those western lowlands turned a means of laying declare to the land. Most had been settled onto plots that had made up the unsuccessful state farms beneath the Marxist “Derg” authorities that had managed the realm from 1974-91 within the areas referred to as Mai Kadra, Rawayan and Adabai.

Life within the first years for newly repatriated refugees was troublesome. They needed to rebuild their lives from just about nothing and be taught to farm new crops utilizing completely different strategies than that they had been accustomed to of their unique properties. The Tigray area was confronted with huge post-war reconstruction wants, and lots of the returnees in these three websites felt that that they had been forgotten by the regional authorities as soon as they returned. They obtained solely meagre meals and money help for the primary few months after returning after which had been anticipated to change into independent. Progressively, nevertheless, folks got here to think about this place as house.

Tigray is at odds with Ethiopia’s central authorities. Laura Hammond, Writer supplied

At first, folks within the native space bought together with one another moderately effectively. Amhara, Tigrayan, Welkait and different ethnic teams coexisted peacefully. The strongest resentment to the redrawing of regional boundaries to include the realm into Tigray area appeared to return from additional away – from town of Gondar a day’s drive to the south and the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa within the centre of the nation. In these locations the symbolism of shifting regional boundaries and seizure of land fed right into a rising narrative of resentment in opposition to the Tigrayan-dominated central authorities.

Explosion of violence

These tensions have escalated through the years. The Humera space was largely remoted by the Ethiopia-Eritrea border struggle which lasted for 20 years from 1998 to 2018. The primary route for transporting sesame, its largest money crop, out of the realm – via Eritrea – was closed, and the city’s location alongside the banks of the Tekezze River which separates the 2 nations within the west was inside the militarised zone.

Since coming to energy in 2018, Abiy Ahmed, the primary Oromo prime minister, has made overtures to the Eritrean president, Isaias Afewerki, in search of to finish the border battle with that nation and implement the peace treaty initially agreed in 2000. His efforts helped him safe the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.

However internally he has been focusing his efforts on weakening the Tigrayan-led authorities. He has changed the previous ruling get together with a brand new Prosperity Occasion, which the previous Tigrayan management has refused to affix. When nationwide elections had been postponed, citing the dangers posed by COVID-19, the Tigrayan regional authorities went forward and held their very own election on September 9. The central authorities refused to recognise the outcomes and declared its intention to put in an administration of its personal selecting, thereby ramping up the tensions between the centre and the area.

Learn extra: Residual anger pushed by the politics of energy has boiled over into battle in Ethiopia

The actual losers on this political disaster are, in fact, the civilians caught in the midst of the combating. For the folks of Humera and its environment, who fled civil struggle through the 1980s, then lived via the border struggle with Eritrea and are actually once more on the entrance strains, the combating brings again the trauma of previous wars and displacements.

The grievances of every aspect are actual and legit. However the violence that’s now spreading throughout Tigray and into Eritrea and neighbouring areas is just not resolving them. It’s only including to them, heaping ache and outrage onto a harmful bonfire that’s already burning uncontrolled.

Laura Hammond receives funding from the European Union. She is Crew Chief of the Analysis and Proof Facility for the Horn of Africa. She can be International Problem Chief for Safety, Protracted Battle, Refugees and Pressured Displacement for UK Analysis and Innovation's International Challenges Analysis Fund.

from Growth News https://growthnews.in/ethnic-violence-in-tigray-has-echoes-of-ethiopias-tragic-past/ via https://growthnews.in

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POLICE CLASH WITH PROTESTORS IN GONDER

POLICE CLASH WITH PROTESTORS IN GONDER

A new clash between security forces and protestors reignited yesterday in Gonder town of the Amhara Regional State in connection with a delayed court case of Demeke Tsegaye.

Sources told The Reporter that Demeke, who was due to appear before court this week did not and since the the court will go on recess for a month the public outrage erupted.

According to sources, police used tear gas to…

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Backgrounder: Unrest in Gondar city The northwestern city of Gondar was hit by protests and violence on Tuesday and Wednesday. At least six locals and four members of security forces were killed in the two days.

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The Oromumma and The Woyanne Tigre cannot Wear-Down the identity of Welkait and Raya people by conducting a war of attrition.

Recently, I have listened to and read the joint declaration of war on the Amhara people from the Oromumma official in Mekele, and from the defence minister’s twitter, saying that Welkait and Raya will return to Tigray as the Pretoria peace agreement. This is not an extemporaneous speech or tweet for the TPLF and OLF; it's already planned to decimate the Amhara special force and the Fano in order to handing over Welkait and Raya to TPLF. During the last round of war between the Abiy and TPLF, Abiy won the war with the help of an undefeated warrior Amhara Fano, and Amhara special forces. While troops were heading to capture the TPLF warlord, the American government contacted Abiy to resuscitate the TPLF from the demise.

At the same time, the TPLF pleaded with the American government to intercede with the Ethiopian government. Based on hearsay, the American government asked the prime minister to negotiate with TPLF, and the Prime Minister swiftly agreed to a negotiation that benefited the TPLF and the TPLF accepted it without preconditions. Nobody knew about the discussion that took place in Pretoria, South Africa, where they negotiated.

According to the TPLF, the peace agreement covered Welkait and Raya, and those areas should be part of Tigray, but the Abiy’s mouthpiece, Redwan Husssin, told to the public that the TPLF never claimed about Welkait and Raya at the meeting. The Oromumma government says that disarming TPLF fighters and taking other actions are part of the peace agreement to deploy federal defense force in Mekele.

The peace negotiation in Pretoria was followed by the Abiy government's call for the dismantling and integration of all ethnically based special forces into the federal defense force within a month, which resulted in serious problems festering and growing large.

Despite these facts, Abiy made a promise to US diplomats to give Welkait and Raya back to TPLF once the Amharas are disarmed. Abiy knows that the Amhara Fano and the Amhara special forces are an indomitable opponent who fight with high sprits. Then, the Amhara special force and Fano were surprisingly instructed by the Abiy government to disarm and return home, while the special forces of other regions were left untouched. Prior to the peace agreement, the Prime Minister launched a scurrilous attack on Fano to fulfill his objectives giving a false information to his gullible parliament by stating that Fano is responsible for killing the defense force and taking their newly acquired weapons.

Amidst the government's intense war with TPLF, the Prime Minister praised the Amhara Fano's valor and welcomed them to join in the fight. Prior to the war, Fano was not armed, but the government mandated them to grab a weapon from the surrendered TPLF fighters in order to fight against the TPLF. The fearless Fano fought against TPLF, which is a fact. The TPLF soldiers were advancing towards the nation's capital to take control. In reality, the TPLF would have taken over Ethiopia if the Amhara Fano and special forces didn't fight back. Of course, Fano and the Amhara special forces sacrificed their lives to remove the TPLF invasion forces from the Amhara’s land.

After defeating the TPLF, Abiy's primary objectives are to weaken his rivals, consolidate his power, and disarm the Amhara Fano and special forces. The Amhara Fano is a significant obstacle to his plan of returning Welkait and Raya to the TPLF. Abiy's power may not be threatened by TPLF at this point if he addresses TPLF’s demand and proceeds using with a systematic ploy that targets the Amhara’s special forces while leaving other special forces intact. And it’s reasonable for Fano to remain armed as a defense against the TPLF and OLF harmful intentions towards the Amhara people.

Abiy pledged on Twitter to disarm the Amhara Fano and special forces in three months, but it didn't come to fruition. Instead of what Abiy expected, he was confronted with a daunting challenge from Amhara Fano, which prompted him to declare a state of emergency for six months and send in hireling soldiers who are rapidly crushing and surrender to Amhara Fano.

Unable to defend against Fano's attack, Abiy used air strikes and drones to commit genocide against innocent civilians in major cities. In addition to air strike and drones, Abiy's national defense force also used tanks and heavy artillery. The use of drones on civilians by Abiy's government is a clear indication of desperation. Using air strikes and drones to kill innocent civilians in a city is causing the Amhara people to unite and fight back with determination, resulting in the liberation of more key places from Abiy's occupying force.

Abiy tried to muffle the Amhara’s voices by appointing systematically anti-Amhara loyalists, replicating TPLF’s 27-year strategy. Since the fascist Abiy took office, the Amhara people living across the country have been nearly wiped out by Abiy’s extremists Oromo special force, which is a form of genocide. Abiy and his associate's primary goal is to reduce the Amhara population through indiscriminate killing, imprisonment, rape, and eviscerating unborn children from pregnant women, which is a dangerous and an existential threat to the Amharas. Then, Fano and the Amhara special force are making a valiant effort to protect the Amhara from their dangerous enemies, even as they imagine their diabolical actions. The Amhara Fano and the Amhara special force quickly mobilized to resist the inhumane and brutal attacks of the Abiy soldiers, which has filled the hearts of Amhara parents with pride.

Looking back, Abiy came to power through the efforts of the Amhara people, and all Ethiopians went to rally to support the Prime Minister, but Abiy duped the Ethiopians using his adroit tongue during his inauguration the speech he delivered at the parliament was a patriotic, praised and called Ethiopia multiple times for the first time in 27 years. At the same token, Ethiopians were expected that he would bring a genuine change in the country and amending the constitution, which does not represent the Amhara people, but Abiy and his cabals starting maintaining the status quo that favored the interest of TPLF and OLF. Abiy didn't fully address the people's demand to change the constitution. Instead, he invited exiled OLF leaders who had been pushing for secession for 50 years to join his government shortly after he took office. However, upon their arrival, they declared Addis Ababa as part of Oromia, which came as a stunning the city's inhabitants. Abiy’s regime began to forcefully impose Oromumma culture and language on people who are not an Oromo. Abiy Ahmed is not only imposing Oromo’s culture and language but also apprehending numerous ethnic Amhara in Addis Ababa and banning them from entering the capital city from the Amhara region, has caused immense anger among the Amhara society.

In spite of that, this savagery regime will take lessons from Adolf Hitler's execution of innocent Jewish civilians for not being an Aryan race. However, killing six million Jews did not exempt him from the crimes he perpetrated. The same is true that Abiy cannot avoid accountability for the crime he committed against the Amhara people. Abiy is a ruthless and treacherous character who brought shame to the nation and its people in the eyes of the world in the 21st century. Also, many people, including experts who have observed his fickleness and lack of substance consider his PhD, the authenticity of which is still uncertain, irrelevant.

It's crucial for the Amhara living both inside and outside the country to stay united.

Amhara never seen or heard such excruciating torture in its history before as it did today. When TPLF and OLF had controlled the whole of Ethiopia in 1991, the OLF mercilessly murdered pregnant women and children in Arbagugu and Bedeno, which have left an indelible memory in my mind. In fact, this heinous crime was committed by the OLF under the TPLF's acquiescence. Thanks to professor Asrat Woldeyes for being there and voiced his voice for the voiceless Amharas, otherwise, all Amharas in those regions would have been wiped out by the OLF. Although the joint rule of TPLF and OLF was brief, but OLF craved more power over TPLF. As a result, TPLF expelled the OLF from the country and disarmed their foot soldiers. The Amhara's mass killing had somewhat stopped for the past 27 years because of their squabble, but not completely.

As aforementioned earlier, the OLF has been persistently preaching their animosity for the past 50 years by creating a false narrative that Minilik killed “five million” Oromos. Despite the OLF's allegation, the 60th students movement, particularly the Amhara elites, turned a blind eye, and some Amharas even sided with the OLF's unfounded accusations that targeted the Amhara people. Looking back at what the Amhara radical students did in 1960, it was clear that their political agenda was against the Amhara people, who are now upliftment of the downtrodden the Amhara today.

Given the fact, the Amhara people are facing a dire situation where women and children are slaughtered by the savagery of the Oromumma government for no apparent reason. I implore Amharas, both within and beyond the border, to unite and fight against the murderer Abiy and TPLF. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” Abiy and his associates attempt to divide the Amharas by providing them with incentives such as luxurious houses or vehicles, using any means necessary. At this movement, Fano is fighting against not only the Oromumma force but also against dangerous and renegade Amharas who are serving an Oromo oligarchy.

Demeke Mekonenn and his surrogates are the most noxious insects to the Amhara people since the TPLF rule, and these people are the most dangerous enemy Amharas have ever faced today. The reality is that, the Oromumma force is not capable of fighting against Fano alone, so the government is using the traitors of Amharas to do the dirty job. Otherwise, Fano would have already taken over the entire Amhara region within a short period. To fasten the victory, the unity of Amhara is paramount in providing limitless support to Amhara Fano, who is fiercely battling against the inhumane and brutal Oromumma regime and the perfidious Amharas who kill their own people. My sincere plea is for the Amhara should avoid pointless arguments and come together as a unified voice to support the Amhara who are suffering under the harsh regime.

The speech by the Oromumma official in Mekele and the defense minister’s tweet are calling for a joint military action to invade Welkait and Raya, and quell the Amhara Fano and the Amhara special force uprising. Prior to Abiy becoming Prime Minister, the TPLF invaded the ancestral lands of Amhara, Welkait, and Raya, imposing their language and culture on them. Since 1991, the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) has been killing and demonizing the people of Welkait Tsegeday and Humera, with the intention of expanding their borders into Sudan by annexing the fertile lands of Gondar and forming the ‘Greater Tigray’. However, after many sacrifices, the Amhara special force and Fano were able to regain control of Welkait and Raya from TPLF. TPLF, using a false narrates, adamantly claims that Welkait and Raya have been part of Tigray from the beginning with no shame, which is ironic. Retaking Welkait and Raya will be a risky move for TPLF and Abiy as the Amharas stand behind the people.

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Jawar's new speech about the Amhara resistance is a subterfuge in an attempt to get the Amhara youth out of the Ethiopiawinet. 

To start with, Jawar is a political amateur who engages in preaching of the ethnic animosity. He has a deep-seated ill will towards the  Amharas that threatens to kindle hostility between the Oromo and the Amhara. He has been emulating the OLF's political rancor towards the Amhara ethnicity for the last fifty years. As soon as he landed in America, Jawar immediately plunged into the OLF camp to pursue the politics of hate. This anti-Amhara zealotry is a 'political business cycle',  which Jawar would immensely benefit from by raising money from credulous audiences.    

 To the point, OLF is a political miscreant, that murdered innocent Amharas in the early 90's for no reason other than merely being an Amhara. Those actions have left an indelible and unalterable impression. Jawar's recent guileful speech on Amhara nationalism was striking. In the speech, Jawar implies that the Amhara should organize and struggle to create the Amhara nation as if he has any regard for the demonization of the Amhara at the hands of the TPLF for the last 25 years. I have scrupulously listened and watched Jawar's vacuous speech and videos that preach sectarianism and seek to destroy Ethiopia in order to create a new 'Oromia nation', which will never happen.

 It is interesting to note that Jawar's recent speech about the Amhara resistance is reflective of the long time OLF doctrine that aims to expunge the name Ethiopia and replace it with the Oromia. Of course, the Oromo extremists are very much aware that 'secessionist' agenda is a venture, which has been an intractable political issue in Ethiopia, and roundly rejected by the Ethiopian people. The OLF tried to cajole Jawar into doing it by giving a passionate speech to the new Amhara resistance to create its nation, which will give the OLF a free ride to complete its struggle to create an independent Oromia. Therefore, the Amhara will become an extreme secessionist movement. Then, the Ethiopiawinet will vanish from the minds of the Amhara and other ethnic groups. Jawar and the OLF, deviously and systematically support the Amhara resistance to achieve their goals which is a sinister idea that could have dramatic results.  

In spite of this, the Amhara protesters in Gondar showed their solidarity with the Oromo protesters by saying that "Oromo's blood is my blood, stop killing our brothers". This slogan made the Ethiopians come together against the fascist regime, which effectively exposed the TPLF's ploy, 'divide and rule' of the last 25 years. It is true that the regime was seen panicking when the Oromos and the Amharas marched together to give voice to the voiceless. These two ethnicities were rifted and looked at each other as enemies for the last 25 years by the TPLF's fabulist propaganda. 

 Funny enough, while the Oromo and the Amhara youth were protesting in every city in the country against the TPLF brutal rule, the Diaspora Oromo extremists instantly held a convention in London that announced to destroy Ethiopia, which halted the impending departure of the TPLF rule.  It seems the OLF politicians are detached from the real political issues when the Oromos are killed and massively arrested by the TPLF, the OLF hypes their old and moribund secessionist agenda that helps the TPLF to stay in power. That is why I am forced to say Jawar is an amateur politician. Politicians should be very wise and systematic to know well the time and condition regarding how to win the enemy, but the OLF never comes out from its own political quagmire. 

I have recently listened to a comparison analogy about the Ethiopian identity from one of the hate preachers, an OLF extremist who lives in Australia. He was trying to explain that there is no such thing as Ethiopian identity. In other words, he was trying to tell us his contempt that "Oromo nation," which has been colonized by Ethiopia, and the Oromos are forced to accept the Ethiopian identity by Minelike. I can infer this from his fatuous utterance. This extremist should have a better understanding of the Ethiopian identity before Minelike was born. This is not a new denial of the Ethiopian national identity by the OLF, it has continued for over fifty years, and maybe this extremist thinks that his new distorted rhetoric could be a new political strategy for the OLF. Talking about the Ethiopian identity is a very impolitic idea at this point unless the goal is to help the TPLF regime to continue killing and arresting the people. However, theEthiopian national identity is an immutable fact. 

 To that extent, when Shabia and Woyanne were in the bush, their hidden political agenda was to evanesce Ethiopia into nonexistence by creating an envious environment between Ethiopia's ethnic groups that leads to the war. For the record, the late Melese openly said that 'Ethiopian history is only 100 years, and its flag is a piece of rag', but when his erstwhile friend, Isayas Afeworki, invaded Bademie, he gave a speech to Ethiopians standing alongside the flag that he belittled to retake Bademie from Shabia by saying that 'Ethiopian history is three thousand years,' which later made him under pain of ignominy. 

As far as I know, the Amhara nationalists are not as narrow minded as the OLF. Everyone knows that when the TPLF seized Addis Ababa, the TPLF's major role was supporting the Bedeno and Arbagugu genocide by campaigning for other ethnic groups to look with an invidious eye upon the Amharas. I have mentioned in my previous pieces the TPLF's diabolical actions against the Amharas. I am so glad that the Amhara resistance is fighting this vampire regime in Gondar without respite that will bring the demise of the TPLF era once and for all. 

Interestingly enough, Sebahat Nega and Samora Yenus the TPLF officials, bragged that they buried the Amhara and the Orthodox church. Obviously, the TPLF could not eliminate the Amhara and the Orthodox church; this was indirectly a threatening message for non- Amhara ethnicities who may try to resist their power that they will have the same fate, what the Amhara had.

 But the heroic Gondare showed its determination more than ever before to curtail the TPLF brutal rule at any cost. It was stupid of the TPLF to undermine the Amharas, who are a ferocious warriors who can not bargain with their identity or land. There is good evidence that the Amhara resistance in Welkait and elsewhere dislodged the TPLF hireling armies within less than a year. The TPLF thinks that annexing fertile lands from Gondar and Wollo by force will bring prosperity for the people of Tigray. Rather, this creates a big enemy that the Tigray people will have to bear the repercussions of with high grimaces on their face from the rest of the Ethiopians.

 Of course, millions of Amharas have been killed by the TPLF for the last 25 years, but the TPLF will pay the price sooner or later. The TPLF, like it or not, the Amhara people are not going to remain silent until they get back their land that was forcefully taken by the expansionist, TPLF regime.  

As I mentioned above Jawar turns his face with his adroit tongue to propel the Amhara nationalist into his dirty ethnic political acrimony that pushes the ethnicities into an endless war, which threatens the existence of Ethiopia as a country. Jawar assumes the non-Oromo opposition party is an Amhara party, as if the Amhara ethnicity is the arch-enemy of the Oromo ethnicity; whereas the Oromo and the Amhara lived peacefully side by side for thousands of years. That is how history has been written. 

 If I recall correctly, about five years ago, the OLF was lead by General Kemal Gelichu, and G7 was lead by Dr. Berhanu Nega. These parties announced that they would work together and their announcement was posted on several Ethiopian outlets. Then quickly, Jawar wrote an article criticizing the G7, which was posted on Ethiomedia and entitled "The 'new' OLF: Much ado about nothing." Jawar decries that the OLF has been hijacked by the G7. He insinuates that the G7 is an extreme Amhara party. 

I criticized Jawar's article that the G7 was not an extreme Amhara party. It can be viewed at the following link.https://quateronet.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/jawar-mohammed-vs-ginbot-7/ 

 Finally, I have been extremely critical of the Oromo extremists and the way that they poison the minds of the Oromo youngsters to have repugnance towards Amharas. It does not matter that Jawar is an adroit speaker, it is obvious he is not very adroit when it comes to Amhara nationalism. The Amhara resistance will never be enticed by Jawar's recent venomous speech that promotes secession element, is a sign of a criminal epidemics that affects society.  

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Was OLF tipped off by the authority that Dr. Ambachew and General Asaminew would be killed and claiming Wollo is part of North Oromia? To begin with, I am deeply saddened and heartbroken for the loss of  General Asaminew, Dr. Ambachew, and others. Certainly, this tragedy has devastated all Amharas. Nevertheless, the Amharas people deserve to know the truth from the government. Right now, the authority and the anti-Amharas are trying to infuriate and divide the Amharas by bruiting false and contradicting information. Why do the anti-Amharas gather with uproarious censure and clamorous applause? I can say this confidently to those who are anti-Amharas, whether they like it or not, Amharas are becoming more united than ever before and there are millions of Asaminew. Coming to the OLF's statement, I took a quick glimpse at the OLF outcry a statement posted on the Zehabesha website, which partially brought to my attention that saying the Oromos racially attacked in "North Oromia, Wollo and the political change brought into the country because of the OLF big sacrifices with its supporters of Qeeroo Bilisummaa Oromoo." This would be funny; and the statement is a tactical political gambit to pursue its dream of seceding by claiming Wollo as the TPLF claimed Welkait and Raya; where the people are still being savagely massacred on their own ancestors' land by the TPLF-Woyanne. As it is widely known about the OLF for the last 27 years, the OLF leaders were hiding in Eritrea with its remnant soldiers and the leader was engaged doing business in Asmara to Dubai. On the other side, its remnant soldiers were working for Eritrean government repairing roads, but for the last 27 years, dozens of Oromo youth had been thrown in the jail and killed by the TPLF-Woyanne and during these brutal times in history, the Oromos themselves did not see or hear any bullet in the region from OLF against TPLF. Funny enough, the OLF leaders are bragging with no shame and with falsehoods that change has occurred in Ethiopia because the OLF waged bitter warfare against the TPLF. Of course, there is no denying that the Oromo Qeeroo(s) were protesting against TPLF brutal regime, and even though, no matter how hard the Qeeroo tried, they could not win against the TPLF alone without the Amhara youth participation; and the Fano, Qeeroo, and others showed their unity with high spirit to depose the TPLF. To  remind the OLF leaders, I would like to quote from my previous piece which I wrote over two years ago how the Gondar's protesting was effective:  "The Amhara's youth protesters in Gondar were effective in  protesting and showed their solidarity with Oromo youth by saying that"Oromo's blood is my blood, Bekele Gerba  is our leader, stop killing our brothers." These slogans made the Ethiopians come together against the fascist regime, which effectively exposed the TPLF's ploy of 'divide and rule' for the last 25 years. It is true that the Woyanne regime was seen panicking when the Oromos and the Amharas marched together to give a voice to the  voiceless." Beside the Qeeroo and Fano protesters inside the country, the Diaspora of the Amharas relentlessly played a key role in removing the TPLF from the office by lobbying the US Congress. They rallied to bring attention to take a stand against the TPLF "to vote on the resolutions of HR128 about human right situations in Ethiopia."  Even the TPLF chairman, Debretsion, finally conceded that the TPLF's defeat came about by the diasporas of the Amhara elites. He said this in a private speech boasting and belittling the OPDO-OLF, which was posted on the Ethiopians outlets. These are the facts on the land where people know well who brought the so-called changes or reforms. Unfortunately, the change was not a radical political change, it was rather replaced one with another, in other words, TPLF replaced with ODP-OLF and releasing political prisoners only for international media cover-up.   Having said that, it seemed that the OLF's statement is well orchestrated to claim Wollo is part of 'North Oromia,' and after the statement posted less than a month, General Asaminew and Dr. Ambachew were killed including other officials in Baher Dar that emphatically put the Amharas in disbelief. Of course, General Asaminew and Dr. Ambachew would not easily back down for the new ODP-OLF oligarchies. However, the OLF leaders should know better that Wollo is the heartland of the Amhara and the Amharas will not implore the OLF to change its mind of the leftover dream of forming the Republic of Oromia, but it will be a big political mistake to claim Wollo is part of 'North Oromia.' To say the least, the Prime Minister Abiy came to power through the efforts of Demeke Mekonnen and all Ethiopians went to rally to support the Prime Minister. During his inauguration the speech he delivered at the parliament was very patriotic, praising Ethiopia by mentioning it several times as the Bible does the first time in 27 years. At the same token, Ethiopians were expected that he would bring a real change in the country and amending the constitution, but instead the Prime Minister and his cabals starting maintaining the status quo that favored the TPLF's reign, which his party, ODP proved that cannot compromise on the current constitution. Unfortunately, Abiy and his team duped the Amhara once again. As we all know, the Amharas for the last 27 years have been hunted and killed in every region in the country by the TPLF-Woyanne and its cronies. Now, the ODP-OLF is taking a turn to repeat what TPLF had done to the Amhara. Currently, we saw in Baher Dar innocent Amharas were arrested on a large scale, and brutally murdered by ODP armies without any evidence in the related recent death of the Amharas officials. Sadly enough, as soon as Abiy held the Prime Minister position, the Oromo extremists started displacing and killing none Oromos in the Oromia region, and the Prime Minister did not take any action against these criminals that he seemed he acquiesced to it. But, when it comes to Amhara ethnicity, he showed his true color when he ordered the army to kill and arrest indiscriminately the Amharas in Baher Dar and in other regions without jurisdiction. Arresting and killing is not quelling the people of the Amhara, it rather aggravates the situations. For that matter, the Oromo extremist, like Jawar and the TPLF are working together against Amhara at this point. The Oromo extremists and the TPLF have been recruiting some individuals from Qimant and Agew to rant on their TV condemning the Amhara, which is completely none of their business, just merely to de-stabilize the region that mainly to weaken the Amhara in order to advance their expansions agendas, but when the Amharas were cruelly killed in Benishangul, Welkait, and Raya, the OLF, and the TPLF cheered and applauded. It is true that the late General Asaminew Tsige spoke the truth that the 'Amhara is surrounded' by the TPLF and the OLF.   Undoubtedly, the OLF tries to renew its a long time doctrine that aims to expunge the name Ethiopia and replace it with Oromia. It is undeniable at this moment radical OLF members and the Oromo first extremists are given key government positions from top to bottom to control the security, military, and the finance which enables them to cling to power as the TPLF did. This recent statement tells as if  Wollo is part of North Oromia, and this should be an alarm bell for the Amharas to stand united. Enough is enough!

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The TPLF's Mouthpiece Cannot Wear-Down the Identities of Welkait People by Attrition.

I have just listened to an interview given by Mekonnen Yelewem-Wessen Weldegebriel on SBS radio based in Australia saying that Welkait was not part of Gondar.  Also, he told to the interviewer that he is of Amhara ethnicity, and since Welkait is part of Tigray, the people have nothing to do with the Amhara Kilil, it has to do with Tigray Kilil.  The journalist, from SBS radio asked him a pivotal question, if he could prove that Welkait was historically part of Tigray. Mekonnen tried to prevaricate when the journalist asked him pointed questions. He repeatedly said with an insolent voice, "I am speaking right now about Qimant, Welkait is in the Tigray region, and Welkait has no connection with the Amhara region."  And "scientifically and politically," Welkait belongs to Tigray, and Amhara has no "mandate" to speak about Welkait. Of course, 'ዉሻ እበላበት ይጮሃል!' it was expected from such an obtuse individual who has luck of historical knowledge which he could not even aver that Welkait was not part of Gondar. This traitorous human being is an imbecile who tries to ostracize the people of Welkait Tsegede from the Amhara society to please the TPLF which is impossible.  As a matter of fact, I was not surprised by this TPLF's surrogate frivolous talk. I would be surprised if he seemed reluctant to answer all the questions asked by the journalist.   Thus, this cold-blooded renegade Amhara tried to prove that he is real a servitor of TPLF by distorting the history of Welkait. I am not sure if Mekonnen is really an Amhara, but it does not matter whether he is an Amhara or not; there are many "Hodam" Amharas that killed Amharas. Sadly enough, this is the guy who calls himself an Amhara and he represents the Amharas whereas the TPLF cadres kill and incarcerate innumerate Amharas. I assumed, this individual is one of the members of the Amhara National Democratic Movement(ANDM) who justifies the TPLF's atrocities on the people of Welkait.  It is not a secret, that this person and his likes were purposely hired to suppress the movement of the Amhara people in order to achieve the TPLF's goals. It is true that TPLF has been remunerated those they believe are loyal to Woyanne and to carry out the TPLF's unlawful acts and instructions without hesitation. TPLF-Woyanne respect and rewards people who do their dirty jobs to fulfill their wishes and interests.  So, Mekonnen Yelewem-Wessen Weldegebriel is one of the hired killers who executes dirty jobs for TPLF-Woyanne. Let me jot down some facts for the younger generation on how TPLF created the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM). Before the Derg was deposed, Woyane had controlled the whole Tigray and then, the TPLF found out that there was no way to communicate with the outside world, and Tigray as a nation could not get recognition by other countries. Not only that, Tigray by itself, would not survive without the rest of Ethiopia. Then, they decided to discuss with their ally namely Shabia how to control the whole country, and started hatching an anti-Amhara individuals like: Tamrat Layne, Addisu Legesse, Bereket Simon, Tefera Walewa, and Helawi Yoseph who led the EPDM which was created as the puppet of Woyane, and latter the Ethiopian people's National Democratic Movement(EPDM) was renamed to Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM) which was  purposely created to demonize the Amhara. These idiots and perfidious people were not even an Amhara. Then, after the seizure of Menilik palace, the TPLF made Tamrat Layne, a nominal prime minister, in order to consolidate their power.  Sadly enough, Tamrat Layne was prime minister during the time many Amharas were slaughtered in Arbagugu and in Bedno, and these horrendous crimes were justified by Tamrat Layne. These bogus individuals had played a key role in convincing the young Amharas to become the Woyane's foot-soldiers, and to fight persistently against the Derg to bring Woyane to power.  At the same time, these pseudo Amharas were disseminating lies through propaganda in Amharic on the radio to the Amharas to make them believe that EPRDF is a democratic government which will return the land and the properties to the people which were confiscated by the Derg. Leaving the lies aside, the TPLF/ ANDM, whether you believe it or not, Welkait is part of Gondar and its people are an Amharas; no document or lore states that Welkait was part of Tigray. The TPLF-Woyanne regime has to think twice before making an irrevocable mistake between the people of Amhara andTigre. To change someone's identity by mass killing, kidnapping, raping and looting innocent civilians is not a long lasting victory, but a transient one which will have grave consequences to the TPLF and its cronies. As it is known since TPLF came to power, thousands of people in Welkait have been savagely tortured and killed for no reason asking their legitimate rights.  The TPLF regime is indiscriminately killing, arresting, beating, and severely torturing the innocent people in Welkait which is a systematic genocide. To refute my claim, anyone can check the interview by the journalist Muluqen Tesfaw. He disclosed how the Amharas are the downtrodden people in Ethiopia. Despite all the excruciating pain the TPLF-Woyanne inflicts upon the people of Welkait, the people are determined to fight for their fundamental identities, and for their ancestral land where the TPLF confiscated by force.  Recently, the people of Dabat showed their power against the Woyanne's cadres who came to loot their properties which was a very courageous phenomenon. The TPLF brags that they are the only brave ones and know how to pull the trigger,  and other people are not brave as they are.  This is pure stupidity and a decadence ideas of the TPLF regime tries to intimidate the armless people to stay in power in order to exploit and accumulate a colossal wealth.  The funny thing is that the TPLF cannot discern that true power comes from the people which was proven in Libyaand Tunisia where perhaps the Woyanne regime needs to learn from.  As already witnessed in Gondarand in the Oromo region, the people's uprising has begun where the minority regime seems unable to control it.  Therefore, the TPLF's  bragging is an empty echo. When it comes to Mekonnen Yelewem-Wessen Weldegebriel's rhetoric, as I mentioned above, he unequivocally said in public that the identity of the Welkait people is an identity of the Tigre. By saying this, he receives the accolade from his bosses. Do the Amharas have to remind Mekonnen Weldegebriel of the unspeakable atrocities committed against the Welkait people by him and his likes ?  It is clear that the TPLF is an archenemy of the Amhara, but at this point the most dangerous enemy of the Amharas is the TPLF servitors like Mekonnen in which all the Amharas should be vigilant.         Mekonnen's utterance is preposterous and has no a substance regarding the people of Welkait identity.  I boldly want to tell to  Mekonnen Weldegebriel that killing and detaining the people of Gondar to fulfill the interest of the TPLF, cannot mute the struggles of the people of Gondar; it can more intensify them rather than.  It is unlikely, Mekonnen can live life happy till TPLF is alive, but Mekonnen cannot wear-down the identity of Welkait by attrition.