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The translation can be like this: "If Mount Soloda were porridge I would
use a doozer to dig a huge depression at the top, pour butter from a helicopter
into the depression and eat it with excavator as a spoon". Wishes are
pleasant, dreams are elating; but could damage the mind and send the one who
takes comfort in them crazy. That is what is happening to the Amhara
illiterates and scholars alike. They are drugged into hallucination by their
own fabrications of a glorious history which did not exist in the real world of
Ethiopia. What really existed was six centuries of internecine wars, invasion
and incorporation of formerly independent nations and nationalities involving
brutalities and forced assimilation.
The Amhara elites are very busy claiming anything that is
best in Ethiopia as their own. They are writing multitudes of books; holding
countless conferences; engaged in endless interviews in the hundreds of
the same-feather media they have created; and posting in tens of thousands on
the social media suffocating viewers, listeners and readers with identical
messages about their being: "more Ethiopian than other Ethiopians; more
orthodox Christian than even the originals; aborigines of Ethiopia who settled
in the key places of Ethiopia before other Ethiopians, whom they consider as
late comers; paid more sacrifice for the defense of Ethiopia than the rest of
Ethiopians; and many many more". All the claim of superiority, with
immodest and sickeningly poetic words of praise, is accompanied by showers of insults
and degrading words forcing one to ask: "Is Amharic a language of
insult?".
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that words turn into a material form. Simply because the Amhara said they
created Axum and Tigrayans were "daily labourers who came from Yemen to
slave for the Amhara in Axum" does not give them the possession of Axum.
This was the typical Amhara daydream that was posted by Fano Amara Washington
DC last year. By the way, USA is too kind to host such good for nothings in the
midst of honest, bright and hardworking Americans. The desperate search, by the
megalomaniac Amhara elite for a "proof" of their phantom superiority,
has got them into a territory which the world knows, but they don't. The whole
world knows to who Axum belongs. Tigray is not going to hire an attorney to go
to court with distorted mentalities. The claim of Raya, Wolkait, Metekel,
Selale, etc as Amhara is also another expression of Amhara's inflated
self-image. Remember! Amhara as a state is the child of the Constitution. Like
a devilish child it wants to kill its parent. This is where the mental illness
is diagnosed. They are so possessed by their own demons of superiority and
intoxicated by the claim of land not their own they are dying like flies in
Tigray, Metekel and Al Fashqa.
The most glaring of the Amhara claim of possession is the
Finfine vs Berara contention with the Oromos. It seems that Amhara history has
its deep regrets. It should have named the Capital as "Berara", in
1890s, instead of "Addis Ababa"! Am I joking? Yes, I am! No one knew
that "Berera" existed as an Amhara settlement prior to the year
Empress Taitu enjoyed the hot spring in Finfine and named the place as
"Addis Ababa". Probably, she avoided the original name (Finfine) of
the place the Capital was founded because it was an Afaan Oromoo name she could
not correctly pronounce or hated to use it as a name of the Capital of the
Amhara Empire. The hint that "Berara" was located in the present Eka
Sub City is a ruin of a small building. No one of the claimants have told us
that the "Berera ruins spoke Amharic". The Oromos were egalitarian
societies and did not build palaces for their chiefs; but the Oromiffa place
names all over are unmistakable. It is unusual for all place names that existed
originally (Amharic place names if there were) to be eliminated without trace
after the Oromos settled on them. In Tigray, settlement by Tigrigna
speakers for thousand years did not change some of the non-Tigrigna (Geez or
Agew) place names. During the great Oromo migration most of areas settled by
the Oromos were vacant plain lands that were earlier avoided by the Amhara for
safety and health reasons. The Amhara normally preferred to be perched in the
mountain tops, which then were safer, healthier, and more fertile. Typical in
this respect is the juxta positioning of Mountain Amhara and Lowland Plain
Oromos in the Kemise area.
We had all agreed with the name "Addis Ababa",
as the home of all Ethiopians, and used it for over a century. It never
occurred to us that this name was not casual but loaded with an underlying
political message. This underlying political message, i.e., the Amhara claim of
possession of the City, started to expose itself in recent years. When on the
eve of the 2005 election Amhara affiliated parties chanted "Tigrayans go
home", it was a rude awakening about whose City Addis Ababa is claimed to
be. How was it possible fellow Amhara residents of the Ethiopian Capital City
dare to chant "go home to Mekelle and your property confiscated by the
Kebelle"? If all the non-Amhara in the Capital are living with the kind
permission of the Amhara residents, then it would feel like living in Bahir
Dar! When the questions get tougher and fiercer the Amhara claim of possession
of the Capital is camouflaged in the "possession by all Ethiopians".
The largest outcrop that exposes the Amhara claim over the Capital is the
movement that surprisingly turned into political party: "Balderas".
This party, led by Eskendir Nega, is not inclusive. It is dominated by Amhara
proponents of the claim of possession of the Capital.
If any nation or nationality is to be allowed to claim
possession of the City, it cannot be the Amhara. In principle and in convention
the Capital belongs to all residents on equal basis, but if any of them are to
be awarded the possession it can only the Oromos who have close to a legitimate
claim. However, many Oromos live in Bahir Dar the City cannot belong to the
Oromos. The same thing would be true for Hawassa; and Mekelle. Addis Ababa is
an urban settlement, similar to Adama, Assela, and Gore, which was the outcome
of the Abyssinian expansion in the last Century. Nazreth was changed to Adama
and Asebe Teferi to Chiro and Debrezeit to Bishoftu. Addis Ababa was not
officially changed to Finfine but the Oromos call it by that name. They have
every right to do so!