William Faulkner
A saying goes, “There is nothing new under the sun, only new ears to hear it.” Recent events in Oromia have revealed war criminals who should have faced justice at ICC at least by 2018 and at most by 2022. But sadly this world is not this world rather they emboldened the criminals left untouched and continued to perform their dirty jobs worse than their master in all instance within short period of time. The UN Security Council were reinforced held numerous sessions come to conclude that war-crimes , large scale massacres, execution, widespread sexual violence, indiscriminate shelling, obstruction humanitarian assistance, etc. The New Lines Institute For Strategy and Policy reported; Genocide in Tigray: Serious Breaches of International in 120 pages,” acts constituting the crime of genocide” during the conflict, which ran between 2020-22 and called the International Court of Justice to act. https://newlinesinstitute.org/. A two-year conflict driven by the self-interest of two personal dictators is revealed in the article to have produced genocidal war crimes in the Abyssinian settler colonial empire (ASCE), showcasing a repeated history of dictators committing atrocities to retain political control since the birth of the empire in the 19th century. It was a century of balkanization of the second largest and resource-rich African continent by the most resource-less continent of all, Europe set a Template at the Berlin Conferences of 1884/85 The nomadic Abyssinian chieftains were chosen as collaborators, “allies,” at this very conference. A shareholder taking hold of Africa. The term “allies” masked the intention to prevent pre-programmed conflicts of interest in the Red Sea, its eastern coasts, the Nile River in the west, and the intervening land. The anomaly of the balkanization of Africa in Berlin 1884/85. The European colonizers backed three renegades, barefoot, nomadic, and fervent chieftains who lived in tents and emerged in the area with all the resources and know-how needed to establish a predatory, European-style colonial empire in Africa.
Dictators
Since its inception, the contemporary Abyssinian Settler Colonial Empire has been ruled by three types of autocratic regimes: personality, military, and single-party dictatorships, sometimes all in one. To understand Abyssinian dictators’ motives, we needn’t delve far into history; our present mirrors their past with a brutal retro-fascist autocrat ruling for six years.
The only distinctions are their names, the titles of their shame empires, and most significantly, their adaptation to suppliers of war machines, enabling global currency acquisition and support.
For instance, the succession of Mengistu Haile Mariam, a military and single-party dictator turned into an obligate dependent boy of the Soviet Union, from Brezhnev to Gorbachev for a solid seventeen years. While The USA’s expulsion of him, based on alleged “socialist”, left him returning empty-handed.
He then turned his face to the Soviets, who greeted him warmly and assured him that they would provide him with everything he sorely needed, including the atomic bomb if he so desired. Politically speaking, Dictators always find their alikes.
Mengistu–Meles–Abiy (Personal Dictators)
After the collapse of the So(viet Union, Mengistu Haile Mariam was overthrown and flown to Zimbabwe. However, Meles Zenawi, the admirer of Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha’s version of Stalin replaced him. Meles Zenawi made a U-Turn.
He superficially conformed to the guidelines imposed by the USA. The USA which has lost the influence for nearly two decades she had in the region post World War II comeback.
She picked up Meles Zenawi of TPLF ignoring and oppressing the rest who represented the majority of the population incarcerated within one of the most barbaric and backward ASCE such as the OLF.
This makes it possible to obtain loans in hard currency and demand war machines and political backing on a global scale. Furthermore, they elevated him as a “symbol of African democracy” while transforming the ruthless personalist dictator in his deeds until his death.
He branded the prisoners of war, conglomerates of unconditionally surrendered soldiers of the Mengistu regime, and referred to them as “EPRDF” in the Tigray Desert before they headed to Finfinnee.
One of them was named OPDO, which stands for Oromo Peoples Democratic Organization; a misnomer in fact or its successor, the Prosperity Party (PP), a chic retro-fascist corporation (Ltd) simultaneously led by Abiy Ahmed. The OPDOs were vehicles and loyal workhorses of the TPLF clan, carrying out their masters’ plans for about three decades.
The Past Never Die
As the Noble Prize Laureate for Literature, W.Faulkner famously said “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” This brings to mind the modern-day naked dictator, Abiy Ahmed, a genocidal war criminal, assassin, jailer, and established international outcast global pariah. He wants to restore a backward ASCE to the time of the outlaw villages’ chieftains, two centuries ago. They were referred to by the locals as “ half a Devil and half Habesha.”The 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report proves that 86 million people (66 %) out of living in poverty. https://hdr.undp.org/. Similarly the 2024 Global Peace Index fake and stolen name “Ethiopia” is listed as one of the 10 tail ends of global peace and security in the world. https://www.visionofhumanity.org/. The New Lines Institute For Strategy and Policy report reveals the deceit behind the façade of “Peace” to both locals and the global community, resulting in the Nobel Prize being bestowed upon Abiy Ahmed in 2019. In November 2020, thirteen months later, he launched a personal battle against the TPLF; his masters for twenty-seven years. However, the two-year conflict between personalist dictators was neither the start nor the finish of the ASCE’s genocidal war crimes.Personality, military, and one-party dictatorships, supported by the ideologically divided West and East, established and maintained the existing order of ASCE. Historically, many global dictatorships have been supported by the power struggle between the United States and Russia.Abyssinian dictators gained from siding with whichever power offered the most crucial resources, especially weapons and funding, enabling their genocidal actions. The New Lines Institute, along with numerous other human rights organizations, demands that the crimes against humanity committed by the EPRDF regime (1991-2018) be exposed and justice served. The era of the TPLF’s repressive government turned into a vicious dictatorship that targeted Oromia in particular. The beginning of a much larger issue in time and space of genocidal crimes against humanity committed within the Empires. We must expose the inhumane acts of the empire’s ruthless northern dictators and settlers who forced the Oromo and their southern allies from their homes to Abyssinia (primarily Tiger and Amhara). Since the creation of the ASCE, the Nafxaanya, (the Gun-carrying) Empire, has been a continuation of the North-South migration.OPDO or PP (Goban II) assimlates
The nominal “Oromo Peoples Democratic Organization”, or its contemporary mutant called the Prosperity Party (PP), is a misnomer to say the least.They were portions of the conglomerates of unconditionally surrendered lucky survivors of soldiers, civil military services, the Prisoners of war (POWs) of the Mengistu regime branded by TPLF in the Tigray desert under the Mantra of “EPRDF” before they headed to Finfinnee, ca- 500 km far South for purposes. They were created to serve as multi tasking vehicles for very good reasons.The TPLF soldiers without POWs were as blind as a bat out of the Tigray desert. They spoke only Tigrinya, a language spoken in Tigray and Eritrea, and It is not known in the entire south. Thus, they were strangers in all instance, except few of them, such as Meles Zenawi who was briefly in Finfinnee before joining the party in 1975 in Tig ray’s Dedebit desert. On May 28, 1991, seventeen years later, the TPLF-EPRDF, OLF, and EPLF, seized Finfinnee, the capital city at the heart of Oromia.
Tigray is located in the northern mountain terrains and was know as the poorest region of the Abyssinian Empire. The Derg Regime called Tigray as ጠመኔ ለማይገዛ ግብር / for Tigray Tax that don’t buy chalk.That was as time as of high bankruptcy of his generals and army sent to north falling like domino cascade. The TPLF plane policies as it was often to turn Tigray in to the “Singapore of Africa on the fate of the rich south by all means possible. Thus the tasks on branded multitasking, PDOs (working horse) as middle me comes in the scene to play the dirty games of exploitation, eviction, land grabbing, executions etc, to enrich Tigray and TPLFs, (themselves).
The population was estimated 5 to 6% of the population incarcerated within the empire as an extended arm of resources greedy European balkanization of Africa in the last quarter of the 19th century. The settler colonial Abyssinia Empire called Nafxanyaa (gun-carrying hordes) in folks’ mouths was born.
The combination of these elements led the TPLF to establish pseudo-political parties by incorporating fake“ethnicity” to challenge the authentic and strong liberation fronts in the south such as OLF, ONLF, SLF, etc. They met on the battlefields of common struggles and objectives laid out in their political Manifesto “Self-determination” to liberate their respective populations to whom they belong.
One can not teach about Peace, Nagaa to The Oromo People
Articulating the notion of peace (Nagaa Waara) to the distinguished Oromo nation of Gada resembles a granddaughter trying to instruct her great-grandmother on the processes of conception and childbirth. Acknowledging this reality reveals that many of our most pressing issues across various aspects of societal life stem from this disconnect. This is particularly true for individuals who assert their qualifications through degrees or certificates obtained elsewhere, often without any understanding of Oromo and Oromoness. As Dr. Gemetchuu Megersaa, an organic Oromo intellectual and master teacher, The Author of Sacred Knowledge Traditions of the Oromo of the Horn of Africa with Aneesa Kasasa published in 2019/2020, prophetically stated “Warra falfalame,” Those who are bewitched. Bear in mind Dr. Gemetchuu is also the holder of the custodianship of the bokkuu scepter, a replica associated with the Makko Billlo hereditary lineage. The settler colonial Educational institutions, including schools and colleges, ultimately serve a singular purpose: to cultivate individuals who will dutifully support the system for which they have been trained and certified, without questioning its principles. Dr. Gemetchu prophetically call it Cultivating the Natives . That is the main objective and the rationale for pursuing what was called “education”—otherwise it is a loss of times along with the associated investments of money and tools. Dr. Gemetchuu further fine tuned Warra falfalame “Those who are bewitched by saying “cultivating the Native mind”, institutionalized and executed by all possible means in all spheres of life of the colonized subject. Learning to unlearn our identities can be likened to concepts such as mental enslavement and the colonization of the mind, as well as the land itself. The colonization of the mind is often regarded as the most perilous and difficult-to-reverse form of colonization, ultimately resulting in the emergence of assimilated individuals. This transformation aligns with the insights of the polymath Franz Fanon, who highlights the creation of a new human New human Species. This process begins the moment we enter educational institutions—schools, colleges, and similar environments—where we are stripped of the meaningful names our parents thoughtfully bestowed upon us. These names are often replaced by arbitrary mytho-religious titles, frequently appropriated without any genuine understanding, and misleadingly labeled as “civilized names.” Throughout the history of the Oromo people’s life, there is not a day left the first word;Yaa Waaqa Nagaaan bullee
Nagaaan Nu’ii olchii
Hamaa hammaata nuii irra qabii
Tolaa nu’ii ti qabii
is not spoken after they wake each morning, wash their hands, face, and mouth begin their daily activities. Oromos have never ceased to focus on peace when addressing societal challenges they encountered along the way.
The Voices of Heroes and Heroines
The words of heroes and heroines who sacrificed their lives kindled the light of liberation of the great Oromo nation since Oromia fell at the hands of the barefoot outlaw wondering half devil and half Habesha chieftain and their assimilated collaborators never left to stress about peace at any issue of solving societal problems with anyone whom they encountered throughout. The voices of heroes and heroines echoed:gorsinee, gorsinee,
itti himeeen, itti himeeen
kadhane dadhabaan
rooron jabaanan
gaara tii yaaneee.
It means we recommended to the Nafxaanyas (armed settler colonialists) to address the issues to be solved through consensus, mutual respect, and a commitment to peace.
Gambits with The Name of “Peace”
We see the murderous war criminals who still wish to jeopardize the sacred word of peace despite having 25 years of Oromo blood on their hands. What was now called the Prosperity Party, mutants of POWs whose legal venue long ago should have been the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands.
Bear in mind the foundation of the so-called Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) federalism constitution where OLF played a significant role in its drafting stated in its Preamble:
We, the Nations, Nationalities and Peoples of Ethiopia Strong committed, in full and free exercise of our right to self-determination, to building a political community founded on the rule of law and capable of ensuring a lasting peace, guaranteeing a democratic order, and advancing our economic and social development; Firmly convinced that the fulfillment of this objective requires full respect of individual and people’s fundamental freedoms and rights, to live together based on equality and without any sexual, religious or cultural discrimination. (Bold meine).The text is engaging to read; the rule of law and capable of ensuring a lasting peace, guaranteeing a democratic order what most downtrodden masses of the population incarcerated within one of the most backward and barbaric empires who knew nothing except a series of dictatorial rules have fought, sacrificed and dreamed of it. But, it turned to a dead born -child. The TPLF whose preamble was to liberate Tigray as its name is self-explanatory turned to a naked retro-fascist dictator replacing what was known as the “Amahara” dictatorship since the birth of the Empire.The TPLF turned to One- man,-a single-party Stalinistic-style naked dictator for 27 years. They fostered corruption, the misuse of authority, and, ultimately, bred tyranny that persists to this day. The smear campaign targeted the OLF, the largest and most powerful force, and the richest of the Oromo People who make up more than 50 % of the population of the empire, falsely labeling it a “terrorist movement,” mimicking U.S. terminology.The TPLF clan evolved into a starkly fascistic command post rule. This oppressive rule was ultimately challenged by a peaceful revolution of the Oromo people, the great and ancient nation of Africa, which successfully dismantled the fascistic regime in April 2018.The most sorrowful aspect is not only regrettable but also represents a deeply painful chapter for the esteemed Oromo Nation, which successfully ousted the oppressive TPLF regime, only to find itself under the control of even more troubling, morally and ethically deficient groups of the current retro-fascists. They hijacked and ascended to political power by exploiting the suffering of the oppressed masses trapped within one of the most brutal empires. However, their combination of ignorance, arrogance, hypocrisy, brutality, and unchecked blind racism exacerbated the oppression. The continuous suffering, and committed crimes against the freedom-loving great Oromo nation of Gada by a barefoot outlaw, Nafxaanya Cheftians ultimately compelled the heroes and heroines to take up arms and retreat to the mountains and forests of Oromia in quest for liberation. These are the voices of heroes and heroines, individual or organized from every village, and city of Oromia who sacrificed their lives for their people echoes in our mind since Oromia fell at the hands of barefoot, wondering outlaw Nafxaayaa chieftains armed with modern European guns.One must keep in mind that the armed struggle is, after all, a means of achieving sovereignty as much as a way regimes exercise to kill-Necropolitics. Necropolitics (The Work of Death) was coined by the polymath Achille Mbembe. In his seminal work Necropolitics, Translated by Steven Corcora published by Duke University Press Durham and London in 2019 among Dozens of his works elucidated. The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die. To kill or to let live thus constitutes sovereignty’s limits, its principal attributes. To be sovereign is to exert one’s control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power. The contemporary proved naked retro-fascist trademark so-called Prosperity Party (PP)” Enterprise plans and action for the last solid six years. And yet, without the least bit of shame, gambits with sacred Oromo term Nagaa-(Peace). Whether armed or not, the Oromo resistance and the liberation struggle in general have always been founded on Nagaa-(Peace) peace. However, the competing personalist, military, one-party “half Habesha and half devil” dictators of the backward empire where the vocabulary of peace does not exist throughout her historical makeup up late alone its implication on the ground.