Wellega & Illubabur belongs to Damot not to Oromia
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In my article August 17,2016 “The
Border Lords of Oromo and Tigre Fascist Gangs”
I wrote “…the fascist gangs of Oromo (in power
or out of government power including those in the Diaspora “OLF/OPDF/IOLF….)
claimed Oromo people has obsolete right to control the large territories which
it illegally seized (prototype colonization of vast territory) since 1991 with
the permission and conspiracy of the Tigarayan people “TPLF” government ( the
present fascist group government) as owner and principal chief/Land Lord
refusing to share the wealth of those territories with other Ethiopian
citizens.”
With this I added, not only the present Oromo people
controlled the vast land in Ethiopia as a prototype colonial land grabbing act,
but also the Oromo elites claimed Oromo need to control the government sit in
Menelik palace. Such was quoted by the narrow Oromo nationalist Merera Gudina (surprisingly seen
by the ‘illiterate’ leaned elites of the opposition as Ethiopian patriot) now incarcerated by the
TPLF fascist security who himself called Kinjit as “NefteNga MeTa” in the early
stage of “Kinijit era” who openly said
“Oromos
can better claim that they are nearer to the Menilek palace at Arat kilo than
those who came from Menez yesterday and Adwa today”. (Merera Gudina)
Now, these gangs and many of them involved in a genocide crime want
us to believe them ‘Oromo never was a colonizer or aggressive or never
committed genocide against any Ethiopian society in it’s the past of present
history. Now, let us disprove their assertion with evidence. The so called Gala
who moved from the end south border of Ethiopia towards the entire territory of
Ethiopia (south, center. East, north…) did looting, burning villages,
monasteries, raping, kidnapping, murdering settled various community of
Ethiopia. In short they “committed genocide” and “colonization”. How did these
different pastoralist Gala community trace pass the then ‘settled community’in ther 15 Century
looted and colonized their present territories. Read the following map and
document by our brother Abraham Taye.
Wellega & Illubabur belongs to Damot not to Oromia
By ABRAHAM Taye
Wellega & Illubabur belongs to
Damot not to Oromia
PART 1 : Oromos’ expansion is responsible for the genocide of Gafat population
The current Wellega and Illubabar
are not lands of Oromo rather they were part of the Damot kingdom once its
Gafat population and rulers evicted to Gojjam by the Oromo aggression. In the
16th Century, the Gafat inhabited a long stretch of territory on the bank of
the Abbay River, extending from the Wellega river in the northern Shewa into
eastern Wellaga (historical Damot), up to the Didessa river, and beyond.
Southwards, their area of settlement extended as far as the headwaters of the
Awash river: lakes Chala and Zway. The available earlier data indicate that the
Gafat had inhabited a substantial portion of this territory in the previous two
centuries.
From 1574-1606, the Gafat were
increasingly exposed to the pressure of the northwards migrating Oromo. Unable
to resist their onslaught decisively, large numbers of Gafat left their
ancestral homelands and migrated across the Abbay into Gojjam, taking with them
many of their place names ( including the term Damot, which now came to
designate a town north of the Abbay ). Once in Gojjam, they were incapable of
resisting the Christian kingdom, but instead looked toward them for protection.
Overtime thus the Gafat became loyal and inconspicuous subjects of
the Christian empire. This development culminated in the linguistic and
cultural annihilation by Amara, which was virtually complete by the mid-20th
century, a process that began 150 years during the visit to the area by the
Scottish explorer James Bruce in 1769. Those Gafats who did not take part in
the trans-Abbay exodus, but remained in their erstwhile homes and were
fortunate enough to survive the Oromo invasion, were rather quickly assimilated
, thus disappearing from history as a distinct ethnic groupGafats, now
confined in Gojam speaking Amharic used to occupy a large area, are close
relatives of Gurage. Study of their language revealed that it’s
a family with Sodo and Sebat Bet dialects of Gurage. In Chaha, Sebat
Bet gurage, just southwest of Welkite near Gubrye town, there is a region
called Gafat.
The main reason many of the people
were wiped out was because of the “depopulation” or i.e. “Genocide”
that took place in the 16th century that is painstakingly recorded by the
Portuguese such as Alvarez, Bermudez and Arab Ayyan. The Amhara, Argoba, Gafat,
and Gurage people occupied much of the North, South, west and central Ethiopia
that is why they speak Semitic language because of living together in common
boundaries in ancient times. It is the Cushitic invaders Oromo occupying
Illubabur & Wellega and bloking the Gojjam Amhara from the rest of
Southern, Shewa and Gurage land.
In a related story the Mislee
Oromo tribe occupied the present time Gibe and Jimma towns in the period
between1554- 1562.This area was known as Enarya land of the Southern nations as
currently called. Untill this point we can conclude that expansion of the Oromo
towards west and North West Ethiopia Oromonized the areas by large.The
expansion not only changed names of Damot to Wellega, Enarya to Jimma, but also
resulted in extermination of the Gafat Damot population.
When to redress the crime done to
the Gafat? The Gafat people should be given back their land in Wollega
and Illubaur or monetary compensation. These people did not leave Damot of
their will or even peacefully, they were mass murdered, their women raped,
children castrated. It is a crime of genocide made by the Oromo they should
redress the Gafat people before they claim Minilik. Not all, the few moron
Oromos should learn it is typically referred to as genocide no survivor is left
after their horrendous holocaust of the Gafat and Enarya tribes.
If the former boundary is not
violated by the Oromo the possible Semitic region map will be mixing Southern
nations such as Gurage land with Amhara land as Illubabur , wellega and
Jimma were part of their land before the Orommo aggression.
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| Map the Gala/Oromo/ aggression and genocide in the west and North West Ethiopia |
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ifat.png
This part 1 approves the Oromo
aggression and genocide in the west and North West Ethiopia
By ABRAHAM Taye
Assimilation of Central and southern
Ethiopians by Oromo( to be continued)
(Posted at Ethiopian Semay)
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