JUXTAPOSING DEMOCRACY WITH THE GADA SYSTEM OF THE OROMO PEOPLE
The prophet who once warned, “fear not those who kill the body, but who kill the spirit.” Independent of time and place of their origin, settler colonialists moved with the premise of wipe out the entire indigenous people from their ancestral soil, overtook their land, declared as terra nullius, justified the ownership, exploited their resources limitlessly, and shipped back to their birthplace and enriched themselves and their homelands.
They chopped Men’s arms and legs and Women’s burst, killed by a hanging, forced proselytizing, eviction of indigenous people from their ancestor soil; repudiated the indigenous history and culture. All settler colonialists attempted to erase the memories and the knowledge of the indigenous people’s identity, and come to the point to consider them as the people without history and culture. They all stamped them as “uncivilized, barbaric and cursed the older civilizations of Africa.” But the fact is these prejudice and subjugations and assaults of the older civilizations are deployed to acquire the lands and resources of the Indigenous people by smearing with coal tar and invasions.
They all committed Democides where ever their feet held on the only inhabitable planet, Earth. Democides according to Rummel: The murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide defined and approved by the United Nations in 1948, plus Politicide; (mass murder, extermination of a particular group because of its political or ideological beliefs.)
These all bestial tragedy was pioneered by the Portuguese’s credited to be the mother of all slavers that began in 1415 who mounted a military expeditions along the Africa coasts and captured Seta or Ceuta (in modern Morocco) and in 1445 the red seas coasts and allied with barbaric Habesha or Abyssinian (Amhara and Tiger mainly) Shiftas in the horn of Africa.
Analog to the European settler colonialist’s who committed unique crime against humanity, Holocaust in human history such as about six century of chattel slave entrepreneurs mutated to colonialism more intensively from the mid of 19th centuries, the dependent Habesha warlords also attempted to wiped out numbers of indigenous African cultures such the Gadaa-Seeqqee system of the Oromo people, the Lua System of the Sidama people among man other indigenous cultures of the people incarcerated in the prison house known contemporarily as “Ethiopia.”.
Series of the ruthless barbaric Habesha brigands locally called Shiftas who lived in Gafol or Zagol system buttressed by the greedy European colonists and settlers. The dependent Habesha leading Shiftas and their nomadic mobile killer troops establishedpredator-prey relationships between the local communities on which their troops temporally settled since they left Aksum invaded southwards.
The Zagol system signifies the Habeshas as a whole since their appearances in the horn of Africa to the present inherited from their ancestors and deployed from one to the next generations. As Gada significance, the Oromo peopleand Lua signifies the Sidama people so that the Gafol system signifies the aliens of the north, the Habeshas.
Since their appearance in African content, they executed the resisted people with Sword and Spears, later with firearms provide by the European colonists and slave entrepreneurs where ever their Ships docked, who committed crime against humanity and wiped out the indigenous people and culture via seas and oceans.
The Habeshas implanted similar if not identically discourses to their supports and mentors of the Europeans. She enslaved the captives, raided the indigenous people from their ancestral soil, burned their houses, flora, fauna, and plundered all their resources. The dependent Zagol troops were considered the burden of the indigenous population, who designated them as the Human Plague, and the degree of devastation, damages they made where ever they settled were compared to the devastations of the Locust Plague.
All Habesha Shiftas moved toward the south with the motto of wiping out the whole matrices of the cultural and historical identity of the entire people of south to Habesha proper. They mobilized their criminal forces composed the conglomerate of illiterates trained to kill (dogs of wars) the Neftegnas (Gun-carriers) from Habesha proper and local converted assimilate armed mercenaries betrayals who turned their back to their people.
The Gada, the Lua System Suffered Extremely Systemic Ethnocides
The Gada System of Oromos and the Lua system of the Sidamas, and the others alikes suffered extremely cultural genocide in depth and in breadth throughout the colonization of their lands by the Habesha; one of the poorest region that was branded with war, famine, diseases, backwardness, andbarbarism in the region.
The intensity of committing crime against humanity, mass slaughter (genocides in modern parlance) drastically amplified from the day the Portuguese ships docked around the coasts of Red Sea in the 1540s, who brought 400 musketeers and Cannons led by C. Da Gama, who joined and fought with the barbaric Habesha Shiftas and killer mobile troops trained techniques of mass slaughter, subjugations, and utilization of modern firearms equipped by the Portuguese and homemade tools, like Swords, Spears, etc to fight against the formidable Oromo forces in front line.
Parallel to the occupation, settlements and plundering all resources, all Habesha Gafols (settler colonists) moved toward the south with the premise of wipeout of the oldest and the first African civilization known in the horn of Africa, Sirna Gadaa-Siiqqee System (the Gada System in short English) of the Oromo people, the Lua System of the Sidama people, and other non-Habeshas resided in the entire region of the Horn of Africa south to the Habesha proper.
All aliens of the north settlers institutionalized a long-term policies of enslavement, incarcerations, forced assimilation of Habeshaizations or Amharaizations through barbaric acts. By crossing the red-lines, cursing the physical appearances of the entire southern peoples, renaming and shaming, segregating the cultural values of the colonized and occupied people. By deviling the native language, ethics, morals, norms, taboos, religious, spiritual, imaginational, emotional desires, worldview etc, of the indigenous people they committed cultural genocides, Holocaust. There were no stones left unturned to exterminate the indigenous people physically and mentally and to supplant the indigenous population and their culture on their own ancestral soil.
They particularly targeted the Oromo people and culture as the Alpha. They targeted to erase utterly the unique and remarkable Gada System and its civilizations, the identity of Oroommuummaa (Oromoness) and to supplant with folklore of Zionist ideology.
The myths, fables and folklores imported from the Byzantine empires origin what was known as the Middle East today that was first imported to Egypt and its third hand copies come to Abyssinia as rescue vessel plead by the Habesha warlord to save his warlordism, want was finally considered as their unique “history and cultural civilizations” out of Africa.
The myth infested Oromia and the others like Influenza virus that has been intentional designed, institutionalized, planned as a long-term policies, and executed steadily. Calculated wars have been instigated and waged to exterminate the Oromos and their culture and the others southern alike to supplant with the myth of Zionism that gained its renaissance since the era of Menilik, “the pitch-black Leopold the 2nd of Belgium Congo” to the contemporary TPLF–fascists holding the political power and ruled with iron fist beats its empty drums of Zionism in each and every corner of Oromia.
Their major goals of the Habeshas; the self-denials,whose signature has been famine, diseases, chronic wars, displacement, evictions, incarcerations and chronic AIDS have been to cut off the connections of the Oromo people from their ancestral soil physically and from their Gadaa-SiiqqeeSystem, mentally and spiritually: the backgrounds, the backbones of Oroommuumma (Oromoness).
They targeted to erase the unique identity of the Oromo’s from their mind that shaped the worldview of the Oromo people in all spheres of life, and their history as an individual and as a memberships of specific product of human civilization of the Oromo nation at specific place in Oromia from time immemorial in the horn of Africa; the cradle of human in biological sense and human civilizations in cultural sense.
The aliens of the north have took similar measures if not identically against the Lua System of the Sidama people, and other over eighty plus ethno–nationals known as of non-Habesha “Semitic” stocks incarcerated for centuries in this from Waaqa (God) forgotten prison house on this planet.
The settler colonialist Habeshas committed subhuman, bestial acts, chopped Men’s arms and legs and Women’s burst. They killed by hanging the most beloved and respected personals like Religious or Spiritual fathers and mothers, prominent historian and master teachers, they burned religious artifacts and symbols, plundered the properties of the Oromo people.
They conducted forced proselytization or persecution analogy to the Roman Empire. They uprooted the Holiest trees like Odaa (Sycamore trees), Simbo,Birbiras, burned Temples, polluted Lakes, Rivers, and Streams that turned the measures, executions, and accomplishments of the Habesha settlers buttressed by all European colonizers
Most significantly the intensity of wiping out indigenous culture of the Oromo people from their ancestor soil has exponentially increased since the era of the scramble for Africa by the European colonizers conference in Berlin 1884/85 and balkanization of the continent that holds true to the very date.
As folk’s adage, exception makes rule, at Berlin conferences, Habesha called Abyssian by European was left for the rival local warlords raised at this period of time to be supported by major European colonizers of Africa for purpose, to serve as puppet, and to enhances their sphere of influences in competing and to avoid internal clashes between rivals colonizers of the Horn of Africa and Reda sea coast in the eat and the River Nile in the West.
As a result one of the poorest primitive, barbaric and dependent predatory Habesha Empire committed democides. She chopped Men’s arms and legs and Women’s burst, killed by hanging, forced proselytization, evicted indigenous people from their ancestral soil and continued their commitment to the present. Mass arrest, Harassments, cold-blooded killings, torture, rape sadistic acts subjugation in any walk of life of the Oromos, Sidamas, Ogadenian, Afars, and other over ethno-nationals, large or small in number in this prison house turned to be their major duties and major accomplishments of the series of tyrants who catapulted to the political power the barbaric predatory empire at gunpoint, and ruled with iron-fist to the very hour.
The damaged done on the Oromo people in attempt to wipe out, to control our mind by erasing Oroommummaa(Oromoness) from our memories committed Mental Holocaust and supplanted with the myth, fables, folklore’s of Zionism and justified its primitive, barbaric values and further indoctrination’s as “history and culture” on our own ancestral soil were and still are the most dangerous once and they are irreversibleand irreconcilable.
No one, an individual or a group has a right or capability to nullify or ratify the extermination policies of series of Habesha tyrants committed since our land has been under occupation whose intensity has been high rocketed since the mid 19th centuries to the contemporary TPLF-fascist democides.
Even the very respected and beloved Abba Gadas of the Oromo people cannot nullify or ratify the gruesome acts committed by the aliens of the north on own ancestral soil that is going on right now, let alone some brain drained groups or Mental Clones of the TPLF fascists products who catapulted to the political power, verbal who punches above their weight.
As folks word; one who knows respect knows shame.
If one possess a mind of humanity, Justice and a sense respect for victims and his nation as a while, then one could not begin to spit put poisons and put salt in the wounds of the oromo people and the vast a majority of the southern people and pontifices the demociders like Menelik II a pitch–black, an illiterate evil man in Abyssinia, a Leopoled II of Begium Congo.
More ridiculously, considering a fascist semi-illiteratesTPLF Military gangsters as heroes, and grandiose who are supposed to sit on the chair of Charles Taylor of Liberia, Slobodan Milosevic Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, etc, of former Yugoslavia, etc, in the International courts of Justice qualified by all standard today on the placenta land of Oromia cannot led to other conclusions rather than overtake of new tyranny who virtually knows neither respect for those who sacrificed their life and still sacrificing to liberate their ancestral soil from deep-rooted prey. He or She adds more injuries to the insulates to the victimized millions of the peoples whenever they took microphones and wishes to dance on the soil spilled with Oromo blood and Bones buried under it.
It is up to the entire Oromo people and to reassert themselves and reclaim the historical relationships of the aliens of the north versus the south in the past that we know for sure, equate and evaluates based on historical facts and figures and come to a finally conscience that must be accepted by all unanimously and concludes the chapter.
They further beats the empty drums overtaken from their establishment whose signature is known as barbaric, the absolute self’s denials, chauvinist, illiterate diabolic liars who crossed the red-lines of humanity for solid 28 years and goes on right now the millions of the victims killed, tortured, raped, incarcerated, disappeared, etc. left untouched.
Most cursedly, those cultural subjugated, mentally cloned and well-trained working horses who carry Oromo name but Habesha mind have been indeed the most dangerous one that the Oromo people have destined to witness throughout the interaction of both people, and there is nothing at all new, to detect evils and to keep on eyes, in alert and in conscious round o’clock on each steps they move. Most crucially at this final phase of the Liberation struggle of Oromia and her alikes for whom heroes and heroines sacrificed their lives and sacrificing right know in each and every corners of Oromia and beyond her boundaries.
While a person without a consciousness of his own, the site of memory of his BEING lost can be metaphorically considered a well-trained bipedal working pack animal that can speak, may read and write his masters wish and work. He or she indeed can easily guided by his owner, to wherever and whatever the master wants to take him or her, even to his own extinction.
Whereas, the occupied land by the settlers and profit-geared foreigners at gunpoint and evictions is reversible. What every damage was done on our land, water and air is polluted, the forests and bushes are desertified and still continues to pollute, they are still there and will go nowhere and can be reversible once we take it back by all means necessary and dismantle the rotten predatory-prey relationships between the barbaric empire (the Predatory) and the entire south people (the prey), the only one left in African continent. One of the poorest, predatory empire turned to the prison house, the burden of the very majority of the indigenous people that hold true to the present day.
What did & do the Habesha’s and their Marionettes of Today Dream of?
Parallel to the invasion and occupations of our land by violence, the Habesha settler colonists waged wars, committed cultural holocaust: grotesque inhuman acts for centuries in attempt to cut off the entire matrices of the cultural consciousness and practices of the Oromo people for about six centuries. By prohibitions and deviling of the language, culture, rites, symbols, images, and desires etc, they dreamed and still dream to quarantine the whole indigenous, non-Habesha cultures of the entire colonized people of the south and dreamed to conserve it in cultural museum finally.
All series of Habesha fascists who gripped the saddle of political power in the placental land of Oromia, Finfinne targeted to wipe out the formidable force, the Gada System of the Oromo people be all means they can. Since the establishment of the empire the intensity of the act of barbarism, cold-blooded killings, systemic annihilation policies increased exponentially from one tyrant replaced by the next tyrant.
The recent Irreecha massacres committed by the TPLF-fascists that rule the predatory empire of Habeshan with iron-fisted since 1991 are an open secret. The planned and calculated and deployed dog of wars armed to tooth and committed mass- slaughters on the 2ndof October 2016 in Bishoftu that racked the world, millions of Oromos incarcerated they call it “Prisons,” indeed they are concentration camps per se within the empire.
The planned and targeted to kill Abbooti Gadaa Oromoo (Gada elders-the most knowledgeable, the master teachers and vanguards of the Gadaa-Siiqqee System beloved and respected individuals like Abbaa Gadaa of Tuulama and the chairperson of the union of AbbootiGadaa’s of Oromia, the dignitaries of Abbaa Gadaas form all Oromo Gosas (Moieties) come to celebrate their beloved Irreecha celebrations in the placental land of Oromia.
Among many thousands, the disappearance of the charismatic leader of Oromo Liberation Front Comrade Nadhi Gamada, one of the master teacher of global reckon of the Gada system what we the Oromos call the living encyclopedia (Photo), Obbo (Mr) Dabasa Guyo Saffaro on 27th of September 2015 in Nairobi – Kenya after celebrating the Oromo thanksgiving that was kidnapped by the organized TPLF-fascist regime in daylight.
Obbo Dabasa was the establisher of the Oromo Cultural Heritage institute along with other Oromos in Dagoretti –Kenya 15 years ago in the process of registration in UNESCO as the world heritage. His tireless life-long worked that achieved its goal a year later in his disappearances that was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on eleventh sessions of the committee of the UNESCO in Finfinnee 2016 gaining a global reckon of human civilizations.
These atrocities sated here are indeed tips of the iceberg when what signifies the TPLF- gangsters, cold-blooded killing, mass arrest, torture, rape, eviction, disappearances, rape, terror, horror, incarcerations, looting ,killing by hanging, lists with no ends among many no yet untold gruesome acts and indisputable facts that committed for the Last solid 28 years and continued to the very minute.
The Renaissance of the Gadaa–Siiqqee System
What every vilification, wars of annihilation, subjugations were instigated and waged on Oromoness: on our history, language, culture, symbols, rites, our identity etc irreversible damage was done for centuries and continued consistently to the present, the Gada System and the Oromo people have survived. In fact, there is no culture known in human history that survived such cultural genocide in depth and in breadth and rehabilitated and celebrates “renaissance” as “the revival of anything which has long been in decay and extinct” come to a stages to perform its duties as it was before going through centuries of wipeout policies of Habesha tyranny in human history.
Our heroes and heroines of yesterdays rescued, Oroomuummaa(Oromoness) and today their blessed children are on the front line in revitalizing the Oromo people as a whole and their unique identity, the Gada System. Today than ever Gada System is rehabilitated and found in its path of Renaissance. It is flourishing in each and every angle of Oromia and foot holding far away from home, in diaspora to perform play its authentic role to resolve our issue of any sort that was absolutely prohibited for more than centuries in this prison house.
It could have had a similar fate of indigenous people’s cultures and civilizations of the North and South America, the Aborigines of Tasmania that the British criminal setters called it Australia. In Africa, it could have had the fate of the Nubian and the KMT (ancient Egypt) civilizations flourished along the banks of the Great Nile River for over 5,000 years before the birth of Greek and Europe is not yet born in historical perspective.
Today, more than ever, we THANKS our Ancestors, Grand-grandparents, Grand-parents, and Parents who are our heroes and heroines of eternity, who sacrificed their lives and conserved it in their hearts and minds, and transcended it from generations to generations in covert. They are our heroes and heroines, depots and adjuvants of our unique Culture. They resisted throughout the era of colonization’s with all means they can against centuries of Habesha tyranny and the grotesque-barbaric acts committed in covert or overt continuously on the Oromo people to the very date.
Without our heroes of yesterday, and their sacrifice, the primary targeted Gada system, and its civilization could have been kept in cultural museum as the aliens of the north dreamed. It could have had similar fate of indigenous people’s cultures and civilizations of the North and South America, the Aborigines of Tasmania that the criminal British setters called it Australia. In Africa, it could have had the fate of the Nubian and the KMT (ancient Egypt) civilizations flourished along the banks of the Great Nile River for over 5,000 years before the birth of Greek and Europe is not yet born in history.
As our elders say:Aduu fi dhuugaan suutaifaa (Truth and morning become light with time.) Civilizations began where mankind began, and mankind began in Africa. That is indisputable facts proofed and crystallized by modern scientific methods deployed by various disciplines. But, the fact we have been “educated” more precisely indoctrinated and trained and still being trained by the very people who destroy, plundered and wage wars of exterminations, deliberately distorted and contorted and dreamed to conserve our history and culture in museum and have a reasons to write our history, our culture and humanity.
As we know today the region what was called the horn of Africa, the east African rift the stretches from Afar land in the north crosses, Oromo Land, Somali Land, Kenya, Tanzania and to Mozambique in the south and the cradle of mankind and human civilizations. One of the remarkable and unique civilization is the Gadaa-Seeqqee system in short English (the Gada System) of the Oromo people among other like fraternal Lua System of the Sidama people.
As the Europeans celebrated the 2525 years of the birth of the so-called “Athenian Democracy” in this year 2018 on paper, while there have never ever the traces of it practical or in real life of their citizens, the Oromo people all around the world celebrated the 6412 years of the birth of their Gada System decorating themselves with their beautiful symbols and color of Gada: BLACK-RED-WHITE that survived centuries of WIPEOUT policies and practices of the aliens of the north.
The pioneer of Gada system, the master teacher and researcher and the author of Gada.Three Approaches to the study of Africa Society and Oromo Democracy: An Indigenous African Political system Professor Asmarom Legesse described it:
“The term Gada cannot be given a univocal interpretations. It stands for several related ideas. It is first of all, the concept standing for the way of life. The Gada system is an institution that represents an extreme development of a type of social structure based on age sets. It is an elaborate well-structured system for distributing power among all generational segments of the society. All generations enjoy different kinds of power at differ stages of life course. Oromo Democracy is one of those remarkable creations of the human mind that evolved into a full-fledged system of government, as a result of five centuries of evolution and deliberate, rational, legislative transformation. It contains genuinely African solutions for some of the problems that democracies everywhere have had to face.”
Furthermore, Prof. Asafa Jalata, an author of eight books and over sixty research publications said:
“I have studied the history of the world society, African, European, African–American, Oromo, etc, and I have never seen a system that can be compared to Sirna Gada-Siiqqee (the Gada-Siqe system), its complexity, mechanisms of check and balance of power, a civilization that can be able to be the model for the rest of the world suffering from the so-called western democracy of party lines in the 21st century.” Most importantly the flag anthem dependent “Quasi-African states.”
Professor Donald N.Levin further described:
“The details operations of the Gada system –how the various classes are constituted, and their respective functions and interrelations –are complicated. Indeed, the Gada system represents one of the most complex system of social organizations ever devised by the human imaginations.”
Thus we must ultimately keep our eyes on it, in alert, to protect it and further flourishing in all over Oromia. We must be conscious, knowledge-able of our remarkable blessed gifts of our genius Ancestors, Grands, Fathers, and Mothers who sacrificed their lives and brought it so far and inherited us: the Gadaa-Siiqqee System a primary significant identity matrics of our people that can easily mobilise, accelerate the liberation struggles, the development of our nation, inspires and shapes the vanguards of the generation of liberation.
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