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Oct 9 9 tweets 4 min read
Thank you Seyoum Teshome for shining light in darkness! When a tree is very small, you can remove it using your hands without any challenges. But you are going to need something much bigger to cut down a grown big tree! Don’t wait until something becomes a national issue! 1/
It is only in #Ethiopia where refugees are allowed to leave the camps and live wherever they like, own weapons, and even getting recruited by terrorist organizations to fight the gov’t that’s taking care of them!

On June 26, about 13 #GLF members were captured in Tierkidi, 2/
Itang woreda. Among them was the Vice administrator named Gatdet, who was secretly working with the GLF terrorists while he was still in the gov’t system. According to Gatdet testimony, he’s not the only person working with the GLF terrorists, there are many officials from 3/
the regional gov’t and police department who’re secretly collaborating with the #GLF leaders. Which is not surprising! Most of the captured GLF members stated in their testimonies that they were recruited from the #refugee camps in TierKidi, Pinyuudo, Jawi, and Nguenyiel. 4/
Yes, Gatluak Buom Pal worked in #Gambella, and he was also one of the main actors behind all the chaos in Gambella town. He is the nephew of Thowath Pal who was one of the Derg gov’t officials. Thowath used his power to bring thousands of Nuer, mainly from South Sudan, and 5/
brought them to Gambella. It was in 1985, when the Derg permitted him to bring a massive flood of Nuers and settled them in Gambella. This accelerated the future goal of Thowath and other Nuer elites: creating the “Greater Naath country”. Now, we have Thowath Pal passing the 6/
baton to his Nephew, Gatluak Buom Pal. The objective remains unchanged!

GLF members are mainly Nuer refugees, many of whom are the former Riek Machar’s soldiers. The recent attack in #Gambella showed the effectiveness of the collaboration between the GLF leaders and Nuer 7/
officials in the regional government. @AbiyAhmedAli’s gov’t must take action and investigate individuals in the regional gov’t and the so-called refugee program. #TPLF has a strong holds in this part of Ethiopia! Gambella people demand the relocation or distribution of those 8/
refugees in different regions where it will be easier for the gov’t to control them. That’s for the security and safety of the local community. Gambella should not the black market for illegal weapons flooding in from S. Sudan by the so-called refugees (Riek Machar’s soldiers) 9/

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Oct 10
Being Nilotic (Dark skin) in #Ethiopia

Growing up in #Gambella, I have always been curious about the second-class citizen treatment the #Anuak people have always faced. We were never seen or treated equally with the rest of lighter skinned highlanders. The same thing could be 1/ Image
said for the dark-skinned people of #Benishangul who have also faced genocide and mistreatments from the #TPLF and Derg regime. Why are the Nilotic treated differently in Ethiopia? This goes back to the Abyssinian Empire. During the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia,2/
dark skin people including the Anuak, had faced kidnapping and they were forcefully taken to the capital Addis Ababa and other towns as slaves. This continued until the early twentieth century, when the #Anuak land and kingdom came under #British rule. The British abolished 3/
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Oct 8
She is totally right! When you have a refugee population higher than the host community, you’ll have a problem! Leave alone the fact that those refugees are armed and are collaborating with Gatluak Buom who’s the leader of #GLF terrorist group. The #GoE should understand that 1/
Gatluak Boum is not fighting for any other reasons, but to make #Gambella an independent country, which fulfills the main and long term plan of creating the “Greater Naath country”. They’re not going back to S.Sudan! Those refugees are in the same boat with the TPLF: splitting 2/
Ethiopia into small countries! Even if TPLF is gone, this will stays a threat to the GoE. After few generations, this massive pop’n of refugees will blend in! If they don’t succeed military, with their pop’n, they will use “the constitution” in the future n create a country! 3/
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Sep 18
It is sad and heartbreaking indeed! Instead of disarming the #GLF soldiers who are hiding with all their weapons in Cangkwaar, 01 Kebele (Newland), and Beherbereseboch around Donbosco area, the TPLF agents running #Gambella are disarming the very people who defeated…
the OLF invaders last time. Why are they only targeting the kebeles that most the Anuaks and Amhara lives? Frankly, these areas were the ones that the OLF attacked last time.I guess they’re giving their friends a good time to hide their weapons properly, and also paving the way…
for those terrorists again. We all know where the OLF and GLF are hiding and keeping their weapons. Instead of pursuing them, they did the opposite! Very well planned out! That is how you know that #TPLF is running #Gambella. I don’t know the sweet lies they feed the #Federal
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Sep 7
Life in Gambella:

The numbers of OLF and GLF in Gambella town is concerning. What makes it very challenging is that they’re all blended in as civilians. They’re currently preparing by spying on the town, secretly smuggling and distributing weapons to their members in the city.1/
All peace loving citizens must do their duties and report any new moves. The safe haven places for the GLF terrorists in Gambella town are Beherbereseboch located around Donbosco, Newland, and Cangkwaar areas. These places are the safe haven for Gatluak Boum’s soldiers, 2/
and where all the weapons are kept. It is so sad that the government of Gambella is aware of this but they’re not doing anything. As a part of the preparation for a second attack, the OLF soldiers are not only in and around Gambella town but also reached to some places in the 3/
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Jul 31
To some people, Meles Zenawi was the “savior” who transformed Ethiopia both politically and economically! But for many Ethiopian, he was the most brutal, heartless person who led the most evil party:TPLF. With all the blood in his hand, he is probably looking up from wherever 1/5 Image
he’s now! May his soul Rest in Hell!
I still remember hiding in a room with more than fifty people, hearing gunshots and screaming. The smoke filled the sky, and the sun hid its light. December 13, 2003 will stay in the Anuak history books as the darkest day ever 2/5
This is the reason we will forever have TPLF as our #1 enemy, NOT our Tigerean brothers and sisters. No any human should be killed because of their ethnicity. Sadly, our innocent children of Tigray are the ones reaping the seeds of hate, brutally, genocide, oppression, 3/5
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Jul 18
Let me be clear, I am not against refugees when I raise the issue of Gambella. I am just telling the truth: what’s going on in Gambella is not a refugee program, it’s a campaign to wipe out the local population!
Unlike Kenya, which host the largest refugee population in Africa,
the refugees in Gambella have more weapons than the local police; they have both South Sudanese and Ethiopian ID cards; they work in and control the government as “Ethiopian”and also hold refugee cards from the #UN. When there is a conflict, they use their guns to kill the local
..Anuak population, and the government takes no action to disarm them. The security of Gambella is control by the refugees, and refugee camps become the black market for selling illegal weapons. When they kill innocent old farmers and kids in Gambella, the town stays calm and..
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