Kaleab Tessema

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.

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.

Actually, there has been a pattern of massively murdering and displacing the Amharas for the last 27 years by the TPLF and its agents in every region in the country, but the recent gruesome massively attacked a young boy's genitals being removed in Benishangul is very disturbing and savagely cruel. This barbarous act emphatically shows that the TPLF is deliberately planning and wilfully caused the deaths and sufferings of the Amhara, which is a crime of moral turpitude.

Strangely enough, it is not seen or heard by any of the opposition groups or advocacy in the country condemning this unprecedented and diabolical act perpetrated on 14 -year- old Amhara by the TPLF agents. It is stunning that how people could tolerate seeing a young boy with his genitals removed and thrown on the street.

 The TPLF has had a long-term goal of the destroying the Amhara and of course, a million of Amharas have been murdered since the TPLF controlled the country. The Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) intention was crystal clear that its ultimate goal was to secede from Ethiopia, by falsely accusing the Amhara by spewing hate-mongering propaganda that Tigray is being destitute economically poor and vagrant. This an utterly false accusation and an utterly scurrilous threat became the TPLF's an implacable policy of the ethnic Amhara that its virulence still makes one wince.  

 Frankly speaking in the past, no Amhara went to Tigray to look for economic opportunity. The TPLF tried to launch its political mission over the Amhara people using sophistry to convince the west that the Amhara people were the oppressors and trying to take control of Tigray and its economy. This, of course, is a falsehood and entirely untrue.

 It is vice versa, now at this time, it is an Amhara ethnicity who downtrodden by the TPLE regime, which the TPLF and its associates never realized its folly that created hostility and enemies between the Tigre ethnicity and others.  At one time the big enemy of the Ethiopian, the late TPLF chief had promised to his cabals that he would make the Amhara beggars on the street and to an extent, he tried to wipe-out the Amhara from Welkait, and still the people of Welkait under TPLF without respite from suffering. These heinous crimes created an ethnic-racial tension to fester throughout the country. Look what happened between ethnic Oromo and ethnic Somali.

 Nevertheless, I reiterate in my previous pieces that the Amhara is one of the large segments and rooted people in the country that the Tigray oligarchies could never eliminate the Amhara.

 Despite the fact, from my perspective, if this vampire regime stays in power for the next 20-30 years, say, hypothetically, there will be the possibilities of making the Amhara a minority ethnic group. If the TPLF and its cronies continue orchestrating ethnic cleansing to every part of the country where the Amharas live, it may become a reality. If I recall correctly, the late TPLF leader bragged that if "we want, we can make the Oromos minority." This is a tangible evidence having a suspicious.

 A few years ago, I wrote an article about Melese legacy where the TPLF tripped, and I mentioned the TPLF's hideous crime on Amharas populations:

 "Sadly enough, the TPLF brutal killing of innocent Amharas peasants in the southern part of the country was not enough; the TPLF tried to inject some sort of sterilizer into Amhara women that would make them unable to conceive.  Further, a few years ago a report given to Woyanne parliament about the disappearance of 2.4 million Amharas in the census conducted was evidence. The TPLF tried any means necessary to reduce the number of the Amhara population. These diabolic actions on Amharas, it is not new, it is already in the record."

 https://ecadforum.com/2014/10/27/meles-legacy-is-tripping-the-tplf/

 Funny enough, I happened to read a warning rebuttal written in Amharic by Abraham Desta the Arena Tigray chairman, posted on welkait.com saying that Welkait will be the battlefield if the Amharas do not give up on Welkait. He continues saying he told to the Amharas activist that the question of expanding territory is inconceivable, and there is no way for the Amhara to take back Welkait from Tigrayan. In other words, it will be the end of the Amharas if they think of about Welkait. That is what he meant!      

 I would not be surprised by his skin deep shallow comment. This narrow minded ethnocentric-Tigryan tries to brag that the Woyanne-Tigre is superior and strong in every aspect of, like militarily and economically, which he seemed a gullible person who falls in the TPLF's old trick, because the Tigryans peasants are heavily armed in Welkait and in Humera whereas the Amharas' peasant guns have been taken by TPLF forces, and that is why Abraham Desta tries to threaten the Amhara as if Welkait was part of Tigray even before Woyanne went to the bush.

 Arena chairman knows very well that Welkait was never part of the Tigray region. Let me acquaint him with some facts that, if the Amhara dies for its land which is forcibly taken by an expansionist regime, is legitimate and justified, but if a Tigryan dies for a land which does not belong to them is meaningless and insane. I know for sure Abraham is worried about the survival of the TPLF regime if it begins to wind down, which is inevitable.

 As it is known to all, in the TPLF's manifesto outline said that apart from "capitalism and imperialism," the number one enemy of the Tigray people is Amhara. Unfortunately, the ordinary Amhara never knew the Woyanne's ill will against Amhara people, and the TPLF for a solid 17 years organized and accumulated a large hoard of weapons so that it could easily crush its enemy. Obviously, the Amhara where indiscriminately slaughtered and evicted from their own land, which is genocide.

 Here something TPLF should know that killing the Amharas for the sake of repugnancy, will not bring peace or prosperity for the Tigray people. It brings chaos that leads to the war between ethnicities. The TPLF formulated ethnic and language-based federalism in order to stay in power. Now the TPLF's power is weakening.  "Divide and  Rule," in the 21 century is an obsolete idea that initially the system planned by the TPLF to isolate and target the Amhara, which is a primitive and show the ignorance of the Woyanne.

                   I happened to listen to the speech of Major Dawit at Ethiopian National Unity Convention in Seattle, with great interest and attention. I found myself somehow sharing some of his ideas, in particular, the Amharas being reclusive and targeted by the TPLF and its cronies for the last 26 years.

 Major Dawit is absolutely right when he says that the Amhara needs to be organized to defend itself. However, some people start to squeal like pigs unfairly against the Amhara, but when the Amharas are massively killed for no reason by the TPLF,  they stay silent. No ethnic group has been haunted and killed by the TPLF regime like the Amharas have been cruelly terrorized and slaughtered.

It is true, as Major Dawit has stated correctly that the Amharas are targeted by the TPLF, it is not because the Amharas are from Gondar, Gojam, Wello, and Shewa; it is merely because they are Amharas.

 As it is known, the Woyanne-Tigre seized Addis Ababa, and immediately started aiding and abetting the OLF to slaughter pregnant women and children in Arbagugu and Bedeno, where the worst crimes in Ethiopian history were seen.

For that matter, Shabia did the same thing to the Amhara troops before this horrendous crime took place in Arbagugu and Bedeno. While Shabia was advancing to control Asmara, the Ethiopian armies already surrendered peacefully to the EPLF guerrillas.

 The exact number of soldiers who surrendered was not known. The information disseminated from those who managed to escape the executions, and surprisingly, the Shabia selected only the higher ranking Amhara officers. This included many wounded soldiers to be brutally murdered, which is an unforgivable, unforgettable, and horrendous crime.    

 I am unsure if Major Dawit would agree with Shabia's brutal murder of the Amhara soldiers in Asmara in the early 90s. If I recall correctly, Major Dawit and Isayas collaborated on an ad hoc basis to topple the Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam government. I also read an article written by Major Dawit, which stated that Isayas was in favor of a federation with Ethiopia. I heard the same rhetoric from different Ethiopians and I could not believe it.

 Of course, Isayas could say anything to any Ethiopians who can fight for him with the TPLF in order to achieve his goals. Even his recent interview with the OLF folks was a gimmick and was perplexing, when he said that the ordinary Amharas are not responsible for what their leader did in the past. Funny enough, he continued by saying Ethiopia being a country for 3,000 years is a "myth."  This is not a new decry, what Isayas was trying to say, but Isayas' interview seemed to have a lack of candor.

 If Isayas had any empathy for the Amhara, he would not have such a kind heart shooting the peacefully surrendered troops. It was crystal clear, both Shabia and Woyanne had the same stance against Amhara when they were close alliances, but now it is a different story. Anyway at this point, Isayas is not as nearly as dangerous to the Amharas as TPLF and its surrogates.

 I know for sure that some folks will not be happy when I try to divulge what should be revealed about the Amhara's soldiers ordeal in Eritrea. However, it is a reality.

 Leaving this aside, I was enthralled with Major Dawit's encouraging speech about the unfairness of some people when the Amharas come together to defend itself from the extremists. However, I was perturbed by the allegation made by Major Dawit about Moresh Wegene saying that "the Oromos are not Ethiopians, they emigrated to Ethiopia from Madagascar."

 I thoroughly spent countless hours on the internet to find out the veracity of what Major has said, and I found no documents that support Major Dawit's speech about Moresh Wegenie.

 Beside my efforts, I read a rejoinder from Moresh Wegene to Major Dawit's inaccurate speech which inquired to produce evidence. If it was an unintentional speech, it needs an apology.

 I was a little bemused when Major Dawit spoke publicly about Moresh which is not on the surface, unless to pleased the TPLF and the OLF.  I have been following the chairman of the Moresh Wegenie speeches, which strongly condemns the TPLF and the OLF deliberately killing the Amharas. The chairman always speaks about the Amhara's contribution to the Ethiopian history.  

 To that extent, Moresh Wegene has tirelessly been vocal for the Amharas indiscriminately killing by the TPLF regime for no apparent reasons, and there is no doubt that the TPLF's and the OLF's diabolical action to the Amharas was not covert for Major Dawit. It is very strange why Major Dawit chooses to accuse Moresh Wegene of being against Oromos; if Major Dawit wants the Amharas and the Oromos to come together, he would have done his speech in a circumspect manner.

 I also read some articles of Major Dawit, which were insightful with measured approach, but compared to his recent speech about Moresh seemed a vindictive and personalized speech that degrades his credibility.

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/