Its time to put TPLF and Ethnic-Federalist on the wall and demand answers:
Where is Shoa(Shewa)?
They dissolved Shoa to make the "Oromo State". A nation that has been anointing its own kings for CENTURIES... gone. Destroyed to make way for an "Ethnic" state based on language.
Where is Shoa(Shewa)?
They dissolved Shoa to make the "Oromo State". A nation that has been anointing its own kings for CENTURIES... gone. Destroyed to make way for an "Ethnic" state based on language.
They could have made a proper federation out of all the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, why didn't they? Why choose language as a border marker? Why wipe out a thousand year history? Where is Begemeder(Gonder), why was it crushed to make the "new Amhara" state molded by "language"?
Where is Gojjam, she anointed her kings for centuries and now instead of being a federal state, squashed into the "Amhara" state. If the case is being made that Ethnic-Federalism was chosen to "preserve our history", then, by the Holy Lord, kingdoms not language is our grouping!
By 1930 our country remained true to its ancient history. You can still see all the kingdoms as administrative regions and foremost identity marker in a unitary country. 
By 1960 It was restructured, again the identities of ancient kingdoms were taken into consideration, and people aligned to these regions for their identity.
until 1991 when TPLF assumed power the nation was divided into smaller administration regions, but the old Kingdoms were the front and center identity markers.
When TPLF took power they said the old kingdoms will not be an identity marker. So they created a new map where ethnic makeup become the foremost identity marker.
This was done for one important reason. To prepare for secession. All the other maps do not allow Tigray to make a clean cut without being landlocked INSIDE Ethiopia. So, first order of business: steal more land. But how do you do that? Make states by language.
TPLF threw out centuries of history to collect Welkait and Raya. So ethnic-federalism is simply a land grab mechanism which was meant to facilitate a bigger Tigray exiting Ethiopia. It wasn't meant to last 27 years.
So why haven't they left yet? Tying up loose ends. First simply leaving Ethiopia and living in its shadows won't do. Ethiopia had to be broken. This was done in quite an impressive fashion. First you create out of thin air two non-existing states to represent two "ethnic" groups.
This is critical, for example if this was not done then the Anole statue holding the breast becomes the story of how Shoa anihlated Arsi. How on earth will the young Borana "Oromo" boy learn to hate the Gonder "Amhara" boy? How will the Jimma "Oromo" feel like a victim
of the Gojjam "Amhara"? It is reduced to the story of a war between neighboring kingdoms. Localized.
Secondly Oromo, their creation, was too young. If they left too early, Oromo would revert back to its kingdom based identities. The past 27 years was spent grooming
Secondly Oromo, their creation, was too young. If they left too early, Oromo would revert back to its kingdom based identities. The past 27 years was spent grooming
the Borena, the Arsi, the Bale, the Wellega...etc, that they are not part of Ethiopia, but Oromo, a state they created in 1991. Then the unexpected happened. War with Eritrea over Badme. But Badme was just an excuse. What actually happened was that Eritrea and TPLF were fighting
over controlling Ethiopia's economy. Eritrea controlled a lot of Ethiopia's economic sectors by passing TPLF. Badme was just a cover to kick out Eritreans and take over the businesses they controlled. This of course put a dent in the secession plan as that put them
Between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the goal post was moved. Now Tigray had to have enough military power to secede so if war with Eritrea ensued, they could do it without Ethiopia's help. But now it seems Ethiopia and Eritrea have made peace, TPLF are losing it.
They got blind sided by the Abiy administration, so they have begun detonating all their fail safe mechanisms trying to activate the ethnic hatred they have been grooming Ethiopia with.
Lets shutdown TPLF once and for all.
Lets shutdown TPLF once and for all.
They want to "protect our culture" and our "Heritage"? Ok. Bring back our Kingdoms! Where is the kingdom of Ifat, the kingdom of Narea, the kingdom of Dawro. So we can, you know, preserve our history.
Really, the question is how far back do you want to go? Do we bring back the Kingdom of Kaffa or do we bring back the kingdom of Jimma that replaced it? Speaking of Jimma, why hasn't Jimma become its own state?
Addis Ababa doesn't belong to Oromo state created in 1991 or Amhara state created 1991, it belongs to SHEWA (SHOA). FINISHED. We can't let TPLF STEAL A WHOLE KINGDOM OF THEIR HISTORY. Bring back the Kingdom of Bale, we know the Sultan was Abba Kutte or the Kingdom of Jimma
whose ruler was Abba Jiffar. Change the national id from saying "ethnic" to "Kingdom". Lets tear down their "language" demarcation and revive our TRUE HISTORICAL IDENTITY.
The IRONY of talking about the need for ethnic-Federalism because "Amhara" is destroying our "cultural identity", when they themselves have wiped out entire kingdoms and created the FIRST EVER AMHARA FLAG.
Bring back our historical kingdoms.
#BringBackOurKingdoms
Bring back our historical kingdoms.
#BringBackOurKingdoms
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