Oromo speaking people? Part 2

by Rundassa Asheetee Hundee | March 2, 2014

Convincingly, the Amharas had been the elites of empire Ethiopia, particularly, hateful men like Getachew Haile and the like were considered as senior civil servants who retained much power and influence well into the 1970s. Now this insane thug promotes unequivocally racist ideology targeting specifically the Oromo people by labeling them as uncivilized bad people not understanding that framing the nation state by having his tribe above every ethnic group in empire Ethiopia adds to the political turmoil that is engulfing the already sick empire.

To deny the existence of the Oromo people, Getacho Haile, a fluent afaan Oromo speaker and the citizen of Oromia, intentionally avoided the mention of name “Oromo” while listing the names of the Oromo tribes and clans whom he called the “Oromo speaking people.”  By using term “Oromo speaking people” Getacho has tried to do what his friend Dr. Asrat, who denied the existence of the Amhara people in 1991 did. All these efforts are made to justify their claim that the Ethiopians are ONE people who share Amharic and the Amhara culture. Getchao Haile also carefully dissected Guji from Borana, Arsi from Maccaa,Karrayyu from Hoborra etc to intentionally confuse the young generation that Guji or Arsi are not part of the Oromo nation but different people who were forced to speak afaan Oromo.  In his evil mind, doing so will eventually lead to the Guji to rise against the Arsi, and the Maccaa to rise aganist the Tulamaa etc.

Of corse, the TPLF has tried to cheat our people by using the same evil tactic when they tried to create a rift between the Oromo, on one hand, and the Caboo, Sooddo, Argoba, Hadaree, Isa and Afar on the other, though they failed after these people showed an emotional and psychological attachment to each other.Yet, this old Amhara racist Getacho Haile is working very hard to achieve his racist party objectives of reviving the evil wish of MORESH, by injecting his racist poison into the minds of the new Amhara generation. However, the new generation have already rejected such evil mindset and the authoritarian patterns of inhuman views produced by low level thinkers such as Getacho Haile.Starting from the days of Germamee Niway and Gen. Mangistu Niway, tens of thousands of Amhara youth have criticized the “feudalization” Getacho’s tribe, the Moojaa family, which was thought to have accepted not only it’s aristocratic dominance in the field of politics but also the Amhara aristocratic values and pride.

In fact, without the waging of a successful revolution led by Martha Mebratu, Walelinyi Mokonon, Nagada Gobaze and the like, confronting and dismantling the Amhara racist  political tradition and bureaucracy was unthinkable. Thanks to these and the generation after them, the Amhara racism is relatively weak now compared to 1960s or 1980s.What is strange about Getacho Haile’s racist view however, that he can’t recognize a highly successful liberation movements that led to the freedom of the Eritrean people and the looming socio-economic changes that is hoovering over empire Ethiopia.

Admittedly, the Oromo people’s liberation movements may have been temporarily slowed down but power relations among the Amhara racists and the Oromo people have been changed for ever and the Amhara racism is suffering a very unstable fate as internal tensions created by racist men like Getacho Haile continued to work to the advantage of the enslaved majority.  Basically, the Amhara racists have lost much of their former dominance and legitimacy as their old way of thinking is partly replaced by the emerging liberal democracy upheld by the new generation. That was the reason for the split of the racist Amhara party known as the “mellaa Amhara.”

It is recalled that the younger Amharas left the old Amhara racist party and joined the TPLF parliament to promote the idea of modern state though the TPLF failed them so misreably. But, now racist Getacho Haile argues that the Amharas old political legacy is better and must survive only to speed up the death of the already dying empire.

Looking at things from this particular angle, certainly Getacho Haile is losing the argument even when he remained hostile towards the Oromo people who greatly contributed to his upbringing by feeding him till the day he left the country for refugee life in America.  Needless to say, like any low level thinkers do, Getacho can continue to promote his hate filled views against the Oromo people but soon or later the Amhara youth will turn his racist views into resentment against him.   That means, what is at stake here is not the Oromo people’s freedom but Getacho Haile’s credibility