As part of its Greater Tigray agenda, the Woyanne apartheid junta has been systematically attempting to weaken Ethiopian nationalism by turning one ethnic group against another. The Woyanne propaganda machine has commissioned papers and books, for example, audaciously bringing into question the Oromo people’s contribution to building Ethiopia as a nation. Unfortunately, the Woyanne propaganda is having an impact on the new generation of Ethiopians who know little about Ethiopian history. To help counter such attacks on Ethiopiawinet, poet and distinguished Ethiopian scholar Dr Fikre Tolossa has authored an article in 1992 titled: Nobles of Oromo descent who ruled Ethiopia. It’s an insightful and highly informative article. Click here to read it.
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I have a question for the lunatic tribal of the 21st century chiefs such as Gerewew Isaatuu. and Meles Zenawi Etc. You claim you are everywhere through out Ethiopia ok let us say you are right however at the same time why you people cry by saying you are not an Ethiopian. So if you are not an Ethiopian why do you claim true Ethiopians work as your own history. Because they were not like you cry babies they believed as an Ethiopian they did not claim themselves as outsiders so do not be cry babies take one of the above either be an ethiopia and continue to claim those Ethiopian Heroes hard work or stay as an outsider do not pick the history that gives you pleasure. I know it is hard to teach a new trick to an old dog like you however I hope few of your family members if you have not polluted them with your twisted view of Ethiopia we might have hope to live in the future Ethiopia without listening nonsense and gibberish understanding of Ethiopian history.What is the difference between you and Meles I think Meles might be better than you because at least he does not believe in god so if he hates others it can be understood however yours is hard to make sense here you claim every Ethiopian who is Oromo blood history maker as yours at the same time you disregard the same history imagine if Gobane, Abdisa Agga, Tefferi Bantte, laureate Tsegaye Gebremedihin, and all those Ethiopian from Oromo ethnic group heroes who shade their blood through out Ethiopia to save her which is the one you hate to your bone you take their history with no shame. These heroes had died and shaded their precious blood to keep Ethiopia in the deserts of Tigrea and Eritrea as well as in Ogaden Fighting TPLF, Shabia and Zayed Barre before them they fought the Italian, Egyptian, Turkish etc. aggression so would it be fair an individual like you who is a fox in a sheep’s skin to claim their history as yours?. Don’t you understand if they lived today or if you lived during their time I wish you lived when they were alive so we wouldn’t hear your false cry or mooning you are really a history sledge mud. What a sad and pathetic man you are you are no good for nothing. Don’t you get it you fat head you would be their enemy as a result you were going to fight them if they lived during your miserable life time because you oppose them and they do also your twisted knoledge on their history understand the history of Ethiopia the one you hate is their history which had been built with their blood and bone. When you claim them as yours to me you look like you are robbing them on a day light their blood drenched history. By the way when you say Ethiopia the empire are you trying to show your displeasure of the Ethiopian history as a symbolic insult of Ethiopia your sad inner feeling is killing you man do not get excited from nothing. If you were smart actual to be called an empire is complementary vocabulary that shows Ethiopia use to be a strong and larger than today so yes you are right Ethiopia use to be larger and stronger than today in the past days her history thanks to her selfless hero children. So do not get orgasmic when you call Ethiopia the empire because we take it with pleasure.
Dear Stoned Peter #99
The 12 Apostles
They were not:
—revolutionists
—communists
— fascists
—socialists
—ideologists
—dogmatists
—opportunists
—meteorologists
—geologists
—astrologists
—druggists
—convicts
They were:
—simple fishermen (Peter and his brother Andrew)
—simple tax collectors (Matthew)
—disciples (when Jesus was with them)
—apostles (after Jesus ascended into heaven)
—traitors (just only one of them)
—doubters (all of them until Jesus sent them the Holy Spirit, the Comforter)
—ordinary men who did extraordinary things
—ambassadors of Jesus Christ
—loyalists (faithful)
—missionaries (ሐዋርያት)
—optimists
—martyrs
St. Peter: Who was he?
—he was Simon
— he was Peter
— he was cephas – rock or stone
— he was the one who testified Jesus was the Son of the Living God
—he was the one about whom Jesus said: “Blessed are you, Simon…”
—he was the one who drew his sword and cut off the high Priest’s servant Malchus’ear
—he was the one who denied Jesus Christ 3 times
—he was the one who said: “Go away from me, Lord; I’m a sinful man…”
—he was the one who said to Jesus: “Are you going to wash my feet, then wash my hand
—he was the one to whom Jesus said: “Simon, I came to your house, but you didn’t wash
my feet
—he was the one Jesus rebuked: “Get behind me, Satan!”
— he was the one to whom Jesus said more than 3 times: “Simon son of John, do you
truly love me”
—he was the one who ran to the empty tomb to see Jesus’ body
—he was the one who jumped into the water when he was told “It was Jesus….”
—he was the one who dragged the net full of fish without breaking the net
—he was the one who insisted the other disciple to ask Jesus who was going to betray
him
—he was the one who raised Tabitha from the dead
—he was the one who said to the crippled person: “Silver or gold I do not have, but what
I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”
—he was the one to whom Jesus said: “…when you are old you will stretch out your
hands, and another will dress you and take you where you do not want to go.”
(Jesus is telling Peter the way Peter was going to die and glorify God.)
—he was the one who was finally crucified, his head down as he requested, and died in
Rome
My dear Stoned Peter, these are some of the things that easily come into my mind whenever I remember Peter, one of the greatest Apostles of the New Testament. The ones I have listed above are not by any means in a chronological order. The Catholic Church gives special respect to St. Peter; however, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church respects all the Apostles without prioritizing them. The Catholic Church traces its apostolic see to St. Peter while the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church relates its Apostolic see to St. Mark, one of the 12 Apostles. St. Mark’s Gospel was the first one written by St. Mark himself. Matthew and Luke used St. Mark’s Gospel as their sources when they wrote their Gospels. Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the Synoptic Gospels because they use the same wordings, the same sequences and the same phrases; however, the Forth Gospel, St. John’s Gospel, is different from the Synoptic Gospels: it talks abut the divinity of Jesus Christ, and it is very hard to understand for some people,especially for the Muslims. Some Bible scholars call it the Spiritual Gospel.
Have a great day, my friend!
Assta and stoned Peter,
and do you deny that st. Petros who have died when fighting the Italians is not an Oromo from Shewa ? Do you deny that the person or the ingineer, who have brought your language the Amharic to be written by type writer is not an Oromo serving in Emperor’s military ? These two famous persons are a few from many Oromos who have particepated in building Ethiopia and their names have been buried by Ethiopian rulers for ever. Brothers, i think it is better for all of us, for the sake of our country to controll our immotionality, inrationality, ” my way or no way ” , personal wishes. Digging too deep will detonate the buried bomb which will lead us to destruction .
Geremew Isaatuu #
You have said ገርማሜ ንዋይ መንግሥቱ ንዋይ ኰሎኔል ወርቅነህ ገበዬሁ were pure Oromos. Since you know the genealogies of the Oromo people, what about ኣያሌው ብሩ ደጃዝማች አዳነ መኮነን አዜብ ጎላ and መለስ ዜናዊ? Do these people are also in your genealogies? Why don’t you simply say all Amharas and Tigreans are Oromos, and you suggest the Ethiopian history must be rewritten? When I told you ኰሎኔል ወርቅነህ ገበዬሁ was an Amhara, you said I am a confused person.
My friend, you may alter and falsify the genuine history of the Amhara people when you start ruling Ethiopia. That has always been expected, and it is because of this falsehood of yours that you will never, ever, rule Ethiopia.
To cover up your natural defects and your inferiorities, you claim all the Amhara heroes as if they were Oromos. You can tell other gullible people you have a history, but you cannot tell them you have a good-looking face. They can see you what you look like and run away from you. Believe it or not, you have no any concrete history of your own; you must always borrow some historical facts from the glorious history of the Amhara people. Let me show you something: your genealogy goes like this: Be sure to copy it very carefully:
ጋላ was the son of አባ ጅፋር; አባ ጅፋር was the son of አባ ደፋር; አባ ደፋር was the son of አምዴሳ; አምዴሳ was the son of ፈይሳ; ፈይሳ was the son of ቱሳ; ቱሳ was the son ጋይሳ; ጋይሳ was the son of ኩምሳ; ኩምሳ was the son ዳጉሳ; ዳጉሳ was the son of ጫጫሳ; ጫጫሳ was son of ከምባታ; ከምባታ was the son of ገለታ; ገለታ was the son of ጉዴታ. All in all 14 generations: All of them have been warriors, invaders, and nomads who have no land of their own. Their exact origin is unknown; some historians say these invaders originated from Madagascar. They have not left us any history of their own; therefore, they are all lost generations.
Dig hard if you can find something about your ancestors!
My dear Stoned Peter #99
I wrote about St. Peter in detail, but Elias Kifle didn’t post it as with some my other comments. I think some alien people are pressuring him to stop posting my mild or controversial comments. He is still my friend though! I don’t want to let my enemies happy!
Thank you for your explanation I loved it thank you again brother Assta B. Gettu
Correction#104: with some of my, not with some my.
tameneh #103,
You have failed to comprehend what I have been saying in most of my comments that those Oromos who have the Amhara blood have distinguished themselves as some of the Ethiopian heroes who died not only for Oromia but for all Ethiopians – the Amharas.
You finally wrote: “Digging too deep will detonate the buried bomb which will lead us to destruction .” Let your buried bomb explode! Believe me; the explosion from your buried bomb cannot touch or smear a single Amhara’s hair; rather it will destroy you and leave you unrecognized, and when this happens, don’t blame the Amhara. Blame yourself!
My friend number 103 tameneh we can not and we should not count just Oromo Ethiopians just to kee high the feeling of some tribal lunatics. For your information Ethiopia was and is blessed with many Oromo, Amhara, Sidama, Kenibata, Agew, Ganbela, Afar, Somalia, Bena, Wolayita, Hadiya and many more. So why we have to single out Oromos alone the few names I named were mentioned as an example to shut up the 17th century lunatic and tribal idiots feeling You must know you can not count Oromo heroes because they are more than you can count them they were and are in millions thanks to their mothers and fathers for raising them with the love of Ethiopia unlike some of those who are with big identity crises and inferiority complex.
Stoned Peter #108,
we don’t have to miss the point of ( the start of these arguments ), it was the Assta B. Gettu’s attack on Dr. Fikre Tolesa’s artcle which multipied itself. Is that crime if a Oromo, Amhara, Tigre, Sidama, Walayita, Gambella or Benishangul person writes about their kins who have acted in building Ethiopia ? If we say yes it is a crime, then we will not get places in the courts to convict many Amhara writers who have wrote many books and artcles on Amharas. You are talking about tribal feelings, but there is some thing which is very dangerous than tribalism. It is the Amharanization which have demeaned the others Ethiopians and have created the identity crisis which you have mentioned. It is said, ” NATIONAL CHAUVINISM IS THE MOTHER OF NARROW NATIONALISM “. As i have alread said in my previous comment, digging much too deep will expose us to the explosion of buried bombs. But these bombs will not be good for both Amharas and Oromos. Paradoxically, it will serve and create more clean atmospher for Woyanes.
Selam#79
I admire your direct and consistent conviction. I do agree that ALL Liberation Fronts are under cover masquerading in the name of past and present oppression but they want bigger than that and it is with full support from outside agents that wish the demise of Ethiopia for their own reasons. Liberation Fronts could pursue for democracy and rights for their own people even to the point of civil war fighting for power and equal rights I wouldn’t have a problem with that because sometimes it requires arm resistance bring democracy and equal rights as most dictators refuse to leave power. I am however concerned that when you said Ethiopia’s problem is hunger, illiteracy, poverty although these are the effects not the cause and you obviously or deliberately fail to mention the main elephant in the room the cause which is LEADERSHIP Problem is the main cause that leads to those factors whether past or present leadership. Please read the recent article that is posted by the great Al Mariam on ER or Salon.com how famine has been used by leaders for their own agenda. As you seemed mindful in your writing, I don’t understand why you fail to mention lack of LEADERSHIP as in fact the main cause for illiteracy, poverty and hunger.
Selam in your response to Germamew or what ever the nick name, I have actually heard that in order for Haile Selassie to claim the power, he may have been involved in the killing of Zewditu, poison or something like that. I have a feeling though, I am 100% sure people have heard this if they truly come out and say it. That being said, in my case, I haven’t searched to find out if documented or not. Of course, if it is true, Haile Selassie will make sure no word gets out about this maybe some close to him must have spilled it out or maybe it is rumor. But it is not Geremew who said it first. This is an issue:
People please:
It is one thing to defend Ethiopia, religion, etc, but sometimes because of fear, defensiveness takes over honesty. Is this how we are going to see the future Ethiopia, erasing the facts and what is the truth and forcing others to swallow what others have to say and form the peaceful Ethiopia? What is leadership of one country in the first place, I am talking about not Weyane type of leadership, if we want leadership, we have to sit down and address the problems and solve it rather than perpetuate violence and the same propaganda that becomes beneficial to others when it is not for others. We want to have open discussion and tackle the problem and move together forward to developing a strong Ethiopia. We can’t say this is how Ethiopia should be and let others be forced the way how Ethiopia should be. Is this the way to leading to Ethiopia without no sense of wisdom, negotiation, conflict transformation, etc? When are we actually going to grow up? Here we are opposing TPLF regime when we are not even agreeing within ourselves. Not only that accepting extremism from every ethnic groups. Why are we fighting TPLF in that sense? If we don’t learn how to speak properly and professionally,there is no way we are going to lead Ethiopia to peace and harmony. Assta maybe a good English writer but I will be too afraid to have him sit down represent Ethiopia as he is a dividing factor, who speaks merely based on emotion. To me he is not defending Ethiopia, he is helping TPLFs cause against Amaras. Why can’t we take constructive criticism instead of being defensive? Well, we will learn the lesson once we are in fire. Well I say let experience teaches us a lesson if we refuse to grow up. We must get it through our thick head is that it is the leadership and outsiders who use the ethnic game to divide people. As it happens whenever a leader from one ethnic group becomes in power, there is a tendency naturally or deliberately the leader from that ethnic group is favored. Do you believe in this? It has happened we must not deny it. If so, accept it it happened in the past as well as the present and move on to the next issue to work out the problem, bring equality, federalism, democracy, peace and development. That is what we focus on. Endeeee!!
Long live ancient Ethiopia!
Assta B. Gettu,
you are talking about your controversial problems of Amhara’s blood or not blood again and again. That is not my problems or even not Amharas problems, it is your own identity crisis problems in which you are swiming. You are prevaricating. Don.t believe that the marriage or adultery between few Oromos and Neftegnas children does mean the marriage or agreement between Oromia and Amharas. Whether you like or not Oromia is there and it’s children will not ask you and your likes what they do or not do. Rather, they will bolster their harmony with others oppressed peoples of Ethiopia. A dementia person like you does not bring harms. The dog which barks too much can not bite, because it is the cowardness which forces it to bark too much. You are working day and night to obliterate the Oromos records and even to the stage of oversimplifying them. But whether you believe or not your racism idea and you will die together under your pc table.
Love #111,
You may have read some of my comments and concluded you will be scared to death to see me sit and represent my country. First of all, when I represent my country, as I have done many times for several years at various places, I will stand up and tell the fascinating and inspiring history of my country to the audience. I will never sit down and represent my country as you suggest. When I speak, I speak the truth the way it is from my heart of hearts, and when that truth is spoken out or written down, you get nervous and frightened when you read it. That is what truth does to some insincere, lair, pretentious, and cowardly people like you. When I see evils, like OLF members and leaders plotting together against my country, I will definitely split them apart, delude them, and blow them away and never to come together again, and in this way, you are right; I am a divider, not a unifier of evils to attack innocent people.
On the other hand, I am a unifier of good people, a peace maker between friends who have some problems, and a defender of my country, my flag, my language, and my religion. I care about my people; I care about my country, and I care about her natural resources: the rivers, the mountains, the valleys, the meadows, the trees, the birds, the insects, the Zewai big fish, the caws, the goats, the donkeys, the horses, the Semen Mountain red fox, the gold and the silver. My country produces all these natural resources, and I care for each one of them.
You have no authority to say that person defends Ethiopia, but the other one defends TPLF. Do you really know whom you are defending, and if you know, why are you defending that particular organization. How do you know I am helping TPLF and by helping TPLF that I am hurting Ethiopia? Your reason why you are not helping TPLF is you think TPLF is against Amhara. Where do you get the notion TPLF is hurting the Amharas only but not the Oromos, and the other Ethiopian tribes? Let me enlighten you a little bit: TPLF is the enemy of all the Ethiopian people but some of the Tegaru, and in order to defeat this common enemy, it is better for you not to say that person is helping TPLF and that person is hurting the oppossion groups because you cannot judge people by what they write and by what they say unless you saw them with your own eyes helping the TPLF economically, psychologically, and physically.
The more unpredictable my comments and the harsher the criticism against me, the more believable my ideas and the more reasonable my view points; therefore, don’t worry about my comments and their interpretations or their implications.
Ato Elias Kifle of ETHIOPIANREVIEW.COM,
many Ethiopians know that you are standing firm to bring justice and democracy for the thirsty Ethiopia. But sadlly, why you post Assta B. Gettu’s ant-Ethiopian peoples propoganda on this well known website ? Or may be you yourself are the so called Assta B. Gettu, who is wasting his much time by waging a war of words against our fellow Ethiopians.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
I wooud say to some comentators , “The world is a looking glass, and gives back the reflection of his own face.”
William Makepeace Thakeray. Also I will add to the above saying,
“A man does not show his greatness by being at one extermity, but rather by touching both at once.”
Blaise Pascal
I think DR. Tolosa is an Oromo philosopher and he refelected on the past world of the Ethiopian Empire and touched both extremities and you could not see what he has been researching since his college age at the AAU.
tameneh #112,
I never have had any problems until my headache started few years ago, and that headache of mine is the OLF who murdered my 17 Ethiopian Amhara Freedom Fighters in the street of Asmara with the blessings of the Asmara regime. From that time on, my headache has worsened. I saw a neurologist who told me something is bothering me, and I told him something is indeed bothering me, and that something is OLF. He wanted to know what kind of disease OLF is. I told him it is a debilitating subcutaneous disease that is hard to detect.
I wander why you called the marriage between an Amhara man and an Oromia woman is illegal or, to put it in your own words, adulterous, and the children from such relationship are considered, in your views, bastards? Whose fault is this, the Amhara man who willingly married the Oromo woman to purify her blood, or is it the fault of the Oromo woman who wittingly married the Amhara man to get a blessing and a high status like Kate Middleton who married Prince Williams? It is only through marriage with the Amhara people that some Oromos can become kings or princes of Ethiopia. And that is the whole point Dr. Fikre is trying to explain the genealogies between the Amharas and the Oromos, and such genealogies come through mixed marriages as between the Amharas and the Oromos. It is only through marriage with the Amharas some Oromos can easily wipe out their inferiorities forever and ever; therefore, the Woyanne government must encourage the Oromo girls to marry the Amhara boys in a great number before the Amhara race becomes like an endangered species. Hurry up and tell your sisters to marry the Amhara boys before it is too late. Nowadays, it is very hard for the Oromo girls to find some Amhara boys.
Yes, I am barking like a dog to scare away the OLF wolf before it snatches one of my sheep and consume it as it is without dissecting it. You wrote passionately: “You are working day and night to obliterate the Oromos records….” Those Oromos who have had some contacts with the Amharas and worked with the Amharas may have good records. Other than that, I don’t see the rest of the Oromo people have any recorded history in the annals of the Ethiopian Christian kingdom. Telling you the truth, the only truth, doesn’t make me a racist or a bigot; it would, in fact, make me a true history teacher, which I am.
tibebe #114,
I am glad you witness many Ethiopians know Elias Kifle is for democracy, justice, fairness, freedom of speech, and he is indeed very firm on those fundamental issues even though, from time to time, he gets some unjustified complaints from some people like you to abrogate his firm belief in the freedom of speech, which he will never do it.
Also, I am happy you confess the Ethiopian Review is a well-known website and a widely-red one. But I don’t agree with your statement I am commenting against the unity of my country; on the contrary, I am commenting against those people who have been trying to dismantle the unity of Ethiopia for their selfish motives.
My friend, you are befuddled Elias Kifle has been always Elias Kifle, and Assta B. Gettu has always been Assta B. Gettu. Elias Kifle has never used my name to write the comments I post on ER and on other websites. For confusing Elias Kifle, the Editor in Chief, with Assta B. Gettu, the commentator, you owe Elias Kifle an apology!
Gerewew Isaatuu #111
Your quotes are well received.The first of the quotations is based on the Christion view of the world; I admire best the third, by Pascal.I hope Assta receives these advice without being offended.Mr. Assta you need a sense of balance in your comment.Mixing issues that pertain heaven and earth to win argument is despacably wickd.
Assta B Gettu,
Indeed you don’t have work to do and you are day and night on this site trying to defend yourself and not even Ethiopia. I sense a presence of ego. What is the truth to you? Is it maintaining a status quo? What is the status quo? If you were given power Assta, after TPLF is gone, please tell us what would you do? I am just curious.
Selam #118,
Before you open your empty-tomb mouth, throw out your vituperation, and admit someone’s quotations as if they were inferred to me, go back to school and learn how to spell the word “despicably.” You spelled it “despacably.!” I could have excused you for your blunder with your spelling had you not meddled in some one’s business.
I don’t believe what a Protestant, William Makepeace Thakeray, a gambler, the son of a colonizer, and a Catholic philosopher, Pascal, had said; I believe what Jesus said: I am not a Catholic or a Protestant, and I don’t believe either in Protestantism or in Catholicism. I belong to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. A Protestant philosophy or a Catholic philosophy does not appeal to me. Of course, I admire Thomas Aquinnah and St. Augustine of Hippo for a curiosity. I can write pages after pages about the differences between my Church and the Churches of both the Catholics and the Protestants. I still love both Churches since they believe Jesus is the true Son of the living God.
You wrote as if you knew the issues very well: “Mixing issues that pertain (the word “pertain” is a wrong word to use it here; you better find another word) heaven and earth to win argument is despacably [despicably] wicked.” You must identify the issues you subsume are mixed up before you generalize those issues are as far as heaven and as close as the earth. Then I may have something to discuss about with you, and when I discuss an issue, I do it not just to win the argument as you have alluded to but to explain to my readers the intentions of the commentators.
When you said: “The first of the quotations is based on the Christian view of the world…,” which Christians’ views are you talking about? Do you know to which Church the gambler, William Makepeace Thakeray belonged? Are you telling me his statement, “The world is a looking glass, and gives back the reflection of his own face” is taken from the Christian Holy Bible, that says, “Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror” (James 1:23)? Make your tendentious statement clear so that I can understand you before you curse me out as a wicked and despicable person. I have more curses for you if you continue cursing me. For now I will confine myself to what bad words I have already uttered against you, the intruder and the uninvited nightly guest.
You may have my peace or my curse. I am the legitimate owner of both!
Mister 114 tibabe I think you have your own problem. The problem is neither Elias nor Assta B. Gettu rather it is you and yourself alone the main problem is why do you suggest censorship are you out of ideas or are you out of your mind do not forget we are in USA we are not in Ethiopia or UK why it is your desire to silence people or are you contemplating to censor people antil you come with your eureka or with your bright idea get real friend that is not possible. Why do you care let Assta B. Gettu be Assta B. Gettu. Let him write what he thinks if you want take it or leave it as you wish nobody forced you through your throat. So do not act just like Meles Zenawi the lunatic if you want to act as Meles Zenawi, you can go to pro TPLF webb sights or make your own webb sight. So please stop your nagging censorship thing. It bothers me really too much. Your nonsense censorship thing must in your world alone. You can not avoid ideas by censorship or by hiding Assta B. Gettu’s view, even if you can silence Assta B. Gettu there will be another Assta B. Gettu. I am sure Assta B. Gettu can go to any www sight and give his view. Because as you can read it from his posting Assta B. Gettu spits words like bullet he has no a language problem like most of us so you can not tie him here with threat. If you are unhappy with his posting he might drive you crazy who knows Assta B. Gettu might come with a book then if that happen you have to buy all the books he wrote and burn in your rented apartment back yard then police will be called to put you in jail for 9 months and 5 days just as you were in peace in your dear mother’s womb during pregnancy. Then you poor baby have to make a regrowth and become an adult again, oh that wouldn’t be a good choice because who is going to take care your lovely wife so it is a bad choice so take the reality as it is. Can you imagine if your mother becomes a pregnant with you oh my lord! that would be a miserable option to your poor mother so why don’t grow up now and finish your current course of life instead of recycling the same pumpkin or Duba. You must understand your recycling will bring unbearable hardship on your dear poor mother’s 90 years old age body.
love #119,
I don’t have any enemy to defend myself from, and my country is not in the hands of foreign enemy: She is in the hand of her own wicked son she had produced, and she must find a way how to get rid of him. I have tried many times by posting several comments to find a solution to her chronic problems. I invite you to read my recent comment, “Libya and Ethiopia” on this web site, especially the 7 factors I have listed.
Love, be serious now: I am not a power-hungry person, and I don’t want to have any authoritative position in Ethiopia. If Meles leaves office, I may go to Ethiopia just for a visit, and that is all. I have a good job where I am, and that is more than enough for me. I hope you will go to Ethiopia and become her prime minister when the dust settled down, and I wish you that position!
Stoned Peter#121,
i don’t understand your position which forced you to jump to defend a mad and wicked Assta B. Gettu, who is trying to create a German Nazi styled of Aryanian supernationalism for Amharas. This is his fallacy which can not mislead the Amharas. In fact he can find a few shameless and astrayed indivuals like yourself. As you have said, spitting words or writing fluence english can not make one rational and balanced for Ethiopia’s problems. It is only the people who have common senes who will bring peace for our country. We have had many many Asstas in part many years, but they have brought nothing for Ethiopia except escalation. This guy is worst than OLF, ONLF and EPPF which are terrorizing civilians and destroying infrastructures in the country side of our country. Brother, think it twice before siding him. Otherwise you will fall in the same boiling pot like Assta.
Assta B.Gettu#122
You have deorbited because you are mixing every thing possible for you to touch. Starting from OLF and Ginbot 7 meeting, the political crisis among EPPF, and Dr. Fikre’s artcle. And now you are talking that you have a better job and do not want Ethiopia except going for visit. Concretely, you are meaning that Ethiopia is too much in need of you. But, believe me Ethiopia and it’s peoples do not want a vulture like you . You are already on Ethiopia’s black list recorded. Go and discuss about your chronical problems or as you have already said your HEADACH with Ginbot 7, OLF and EPPF’s Ato Mengistu, Muse and Warkaw, if they have time for your endless nonsense bila bila. You need Ethiopia only for visiting and vacation, Adios Amigos, you will never never see Ethiopia in you life. You will die and burned to the ash in your lovely home land where you are living and spitting out the toxic hatred from you heart.
Assta Begetu
Thank you for reminding me to go to school and learn how to spell. I kindly accept your criticism regarding this matter. However ,the most important issue here both for GOD and for me is character, and not so much poor spelling. I am not saying spelling is not important skill; I am simply saying it won’t be a factor to exclude me from entering in to Heaven. I introduced this subject here because I believe it is essential, that we put the WORD of GOD in to practice than only to give a mental assent to it.
LOVE, I, and others have tried to present constructive criticism to you, and you refuse to heed the advice. Such being the case, I find it meaningless to continue to argue with you. Argument for the sake of argument is what you seem to be good at in this forum. You seem to be delight to get attention in strange and unusual ways, by calling attention to yourself .At times you will take issue with others by misquoting or, is representing the ideas of others; at other time, you twist scriptures or take scripture out of context for the purpose of scoring a point. There is no doubt you have argumentative temperament. Perhaps, this argumentative behavior masks other deep seated problem in your life.
You may respond to my message, I won’t answer you anymore. I have done my part, if you don’t want to be corrected I commend you to the LORD who is able to show mercey.
I hope you will heed the admonition and warnings of our word to be corrected.
1- “And said, Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” MT.18:3
2-” For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? … “MK.8:36
Finally Saint Paul said,
3- “For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?”1 Corinthians 4:7 .
Selam #125,
Since you like to be corrected, let me correct your English mechanics first; then I will explain to you about your comment.
1. Assta B. Gettu, not Begettu
2. is an important skill, not important skill
3. entering into heaven, not in heaven
4. it is essential that…
5. into practice, not in to practice
6. rather than, not than only
7. to give a theoretical thought, not a mental assent
8. you seem to be delighted, not to be delight
9. no comma after ways
10. no comma after or
11. scriptures (s should be capitalized)
12. to my message; I….
13. done my part; if….
14. be corrected,….
15. to the Lord, who…..
I am glad you recognize the value of admitting one’s own mistakes, and that is one of the many ways a person can improve his/her English language.
You are absolutely right you have the freedom to join the discussion at any time you want to, and I encourage you to continue participating in the discussion by posting your comments on any issue you are interested in.
It is true we have a mandate to carry out the word of God and spread it throughout the world; when we do that, we are putting what we have been taught into practice: “…but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:19).
How do you know Love’s and your criticisms are constructive? What seems constructive to you may not be constructive to the other person. Remember the word of God that says: “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things” (Romans 2:1).
Can you tell me where I have misused or twisted the word of God in order to win my case with the other person? I have learned the Scriptures since my childhood, and I know how to use it so that others can learn from my comment. Misuse of the word or the name of God is wrong, and my Holy Bible tells me so: “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name” (Exodus 20:7). After many years, David, the man of God had also said: “They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name” (Psalm 139:20). I want you to remember one thing: Most of the people who attack me are those who do not accept that Jesus is the true Son of the Living God. They accept Jesus as a messiah but not as a God.
If my comment has offended you, I ask your apology!
Tibabe #123,
My friend Stoned Peter’s position is crystal clear to you; he told you we do not live in Ethiopia where there is no freedom of speech, and where any journalist’s editorial page is censored. You want to live under the surveillance of Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi), you may stay with him if you are there; if not, leave your place and go back to the land of slavery – Ethiopia – and join your slave family living in purdah in Ethiopia. Don’t mess with our precious freedom here.
Yewalashet #124,
It seems you are concerned about me, you stupid monster, the son of another sea dragon, and your mother used to chase the dragon – to smoke opium or heroin – in her dirty sanctum. Tell her to get out and to stop chasing the dragon, which is not good for her health. Unfortunately you were born from her, and that is why you have become a juice dealer, and if you see a police coming to you, you will shake in your own boots.
I have the freedom to go to my country and work there as one of its leaders if I want to; the choice is mine, not yours, and I control my destiny and you yours. A crocked person like you will have no life either in Ethiopia or in other country because of the birth defect he has, and the destiny of such a person will be in the grave. You will be the luckiest person if you find someone to bury your dead body in a normal grave without any ceremony; in fact, you will be thrown out into the dumpster like a dead cat.
“We allow ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races , even alone in genders.” Maya Angelou, Poet( 1928- )
Let me be direct this is to Assta .
Simple and easy, go and read about the genealogy of Cushitic people.
Simple not easy go and read about the Cushitic Civilizations, you will understand all what I am saying. Sudan and Egypt are the two countries that come to my mind. Anthropologists and sociologists have written and discussed about Cushitic civilizations and I would like you to read on that. Among the Apostles of Jesus some people suggest that
Mark might be an Oromo by origin. Cush have been named in many instances in the Holy Bible. Some Oral scholars say Mosses’ mother might be an Oromo. I am not hundred percent sure but I have been thinking about it for a very long time since I heard about it. I have not dougb the Holly Bible mentions about Oromos very indirectly. I am sometimes worried about your logical thinking but you can infer that if you read the book correctly. The Cushitic civilization had flourished before the establishment of the Axumite
Civilization. Read a book written by Tadesse Tamirat.
I have never claimed that all Ethiopians are Oromos, I have been saying that historically some Oromos have contributed to the development and growth of the Ethiopia Empire. Doctor Fikre Tolossa is the author of the article. He is a well known scholar and have been reading on the Ethiopian history since he was a high school student. He was one of eminent students of the history of the county when he was in the AAU. Today he is a member of a famed academy in Germany and had penned several books and articles. He is a poet and a dramatist and well regarded humanitarian.
I am writing this little background without consultation with the author but to make you see that DR. Fikre Tolossa from Dire Dawa knew what had written. You could tell from the article he has done his home work quite scholarly for years and I wish you understand him very well where he is coming from. If you are blindfolding your minds and imagination I cannot help it.
If you keep cursing instead of researching what I have been arguing about or if you are not willing to learn new things about the Ethiopian Empire then you may be an individual without open-mindedness.
If you are such a persons, I pray your are not such a persons, you may reach nowhere with your arguments.
I want to give you a wise man advice, do not rock the boat. If you do that, you may have so many people with Cushitic origins come up against you and your people. You guys are stirring dirty laundry of your country and proving to the world that many people for many generations have been subjugated under your malicious, wicked , spiteful unpleasant systems. As individual you are acting it again while you are arguing with your pens.
Please do not compare me with anybody and just understand me as an individual who aspires to bring harmony and friendship amongst all Africans who have been denied justice in the Ethiopian Empire for generations. I think the current generation has to come to terms and do
a reconciliation without denying the past historical injustice done against my Oromo People and others such as Sidama, Kambata, Gambelas, Walayita, Gurages, Afars, Hararis, Dorzes, and many other ethnic groups in the country.
I am not arguing to create an Oromo Empire or dominance of the Oromo people over others; I am demanding and wanting to create a justifiable system of governance in for all trodden people under the yoke of Ethiopian Empire and leaderships of your people for centuries. What is wrong with arguing for freedom and justice and equitable society based on historical facts? What is wrong telling the historical past of the Empire and the contributions of the Oromo people in the Empire? Is there anything wrong about the contribution of a biologist in working hard to fight bacteria? Penicillin was born and bad “organisms “such as bacteria were defeated. I am also arguing with you to get rid of bad system that kills men and women like bacteria; I think the country needs great doses of political penicillin to get rid of unwanted ideas against justice and democracy.
Assta B.Gettu#126,
already you have jumped from persons to persons, from organizations to organizations, from points to meaningless. And now you are trying to teach Ethiopias english. Since english is not Ethiopians mother taunge, we don’t bother ourselves with it, rather than using it as a second language. But you are happy that you can buy hot dogs and onions with dollars. Also we are happy with our proud Birrs. By the way, don’t think that you are the best educated Ethiopian man, better i say you are the best deluded and confused person. Ethiopia has many educated Profs., Drs., Ingineers, teachers and etc,. But they have never undermined their own peoples from where they have originated. There is the english proverb which says ” AN EMPTY BARREL MAKES THE MOST NOISE “,. You are hypcrite who is walking around blindly. You have fallen away from Ethiopians like Lucifer has fallen down from the God’s divine.
Assta B.Gettu],
በውነቱ አንተ ያልተማርክ ሰው ነህ::ምናለባት ተመረ አለሁ ካለክ :የህ እውከት ባንተ ሀይወት ላይ አልተንሰባረከም::
ባተካላይ አንተ በተሰብ አሰዳቢ:አጉራ ዘላይከአምላክ ጋር የተታላህ :የተመታታቢህ:አውኮ አበድ:እርኩስ ማእንፈስ የሞላህ ሰው ነህ:: በአተካላይ አምህራወችህ መተፎ ሀዘቦችህ አደሉም:: ሆኖም ኢንደአንተ ያለ የቲፋት መልክተንያ አይወክለነም::
በውነቱ ነስህ ሀሊና ቢኖረህ ከምላክ ጋር ሰላም ባደርገሀ ነበር::
1. I completly agree with what yewalashet said about you. There is Avery good reason to believe that you are self deceived creature. Many people in this forum, except you, know that you are a delusinal,and your case is way overdue for a psychiatrist
Evaluation. Insanity is the word that describes you. You seem to be transfixed in this forum twenty four seven, and this is one sign that points your case is abnormal. Is there anything good going for you at all? If so why don’t you break from this monotony and find to enjoy life instead.
Let me point out some of yourself deception below.
1- You are deceived when you think mere knowledge of the word of GOD is guarantee for salvation. On the contrary more knowledge comes with greater responsblity.Inother words if you, knowingly, trifle with the word of GOD you will aggravate your condemnation for your contempt.
2- You are deceived when you think you are defending the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox believers and the faithful in it need not your diatribe, they disowe.They are peaceful; people and like in peace with followers of other faith.
3- You are deceived when you think you are healthy but are not; you are in need of help. You certainly need GOD’s help right now; you need to get in your knee and confess your sins, and be reconciled with him. It is not GOD’s will for you to claim that you are Christian and to turn around and curse and insult the people of Ethiopia who are made in the “Image of GOD”. What kind of witness is that to Christianity?
See below the warnings of the WORD of GOD in the book of James chapter 3:1-12.
1 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. 4 Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.
See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh
4- You are deceived when you think the Ethiopian Oromo’s have not contributed for Ethiopia. You may deny this fact due to your peculiar nature; but the fact is available in the history books. Many of the names maintained by Dr.Fikre Tolossa are available in the book entitled “the historical dictionary of Ethiopia”. Bigot like you is a disgrace for your own family and for a nation in which you are apart.
5- You are deceived when you think you are a self styled English professor while all you can do with the language is curse and fuss with it. In other words, it is one thing to be proficient with English language; it is quite another present perceptible or generates relevant ideas in this forum. To me you are so shallow and superficial you have nothing important to say.
1. 6-May be may be you must be a former believer who went astray or ,መናልባት የአፈረስክ ካሂን ተሆናለህ,there is hope for you if you repent now.
“and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Gerewew Isaatuu(#130}
Sir , as an oromian living in northerner Europe, I salute you for you intellect, modesty, politeness & your general decorum. This Assta B.Gettu, is either complete moron or agent-provocateur of TPLF. If he is amahara, I wonder why he is focusing on Oromos as opposed to the people, TPLF group, who are enslaving him and ruling him with iron fist and he could do nothing about it other than fleeing. He is a coward and loud mouth. I’m 100% sure he isn’t what he is claiming 2b.
Mister 130 Gerewew Isaatuu, I agree with you about doctor Fikre Tolosa’s intellectual capacity however your remaining talk was as usual a garbage in and garbage out talk. So can you write whatever you want after you took your bipolar medication because you mix apples and oranges during your continuous blabbering. One more thing please explain us the next question. When you call Ethiopia an empire are you thinking in a negative connotation because of your everlasting inferior feeling or you are unaware of the meaning of empire. The meaning of empire is a word for nations or countries who use to be or who are with a powerful economic, political, military and with a vast territory as well as bigger population. Therefore if you are using as a derogatory connotation to explain your deep inferiority feeling you better stop that childish sympathy sicking because until now people might have perceived you as an inferior and unwise person however if you continue this misuse of words they might start to think about you as inferior and idiot so come back to your senses and act as a member of the Ethiopian society. In addition before you say things why don’t you study the meaning of that word. Why do you want to get other peoples’ unnecessary sympathy I really would fake my sympathy for you if it helps you and people like you but instead of helping you actually our sympathy has brought you down to the level of two legged animal. To understand what I am saying ask one of your neighbors to read you what you wrote. Please do not ask either a family member or your friends to read you your own writing because I have a doubt you may not have a healthy friend or family member you might have polluted. If you ask a neighbor to read you what you wrote ask the newest neighbor the one you have never talk to him or her in your past. I know few Oromos have hate toward Ethiopia as a result they misuse this term many times so do not please misplace the meaning of empire. So do not use if you mean in a negative connotation because people will think you are uneducated idiot who got the meaning of empire from another inferior teacher with little history in his or her muscle head.
Stoned,
“In 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie granted Ethiopia it’s first written constitution, and established the first Parliament composed of a House of Deputies and an Imperial Senate. Both Houses of Parliament were appointed by the monarch. In 1955, a new revised constitution was granted. Although it retained the concept of absolute monarchy, it did provide for the first time, for a directly elected House of Deputies. All male and female Ethiopian subjects were eligible to vote, although no provision was made for the allowance of political parties”
The above statement tells you what I am talking about.
Stone Peter #134,
you are not the first one to hate and attack those who have advocated for Oromos and Oromos themselves. We know it for the long time and the history knows it. But whether you attack the Oromos or knock your head to the ground, the Oromos have their destiny in their hands. Nobody can silence the boiling volcanic proccess of political nature in Ethiopia, except rational accuration approach . Your insolence, lumpen notion is indicating your unlimited pixilation. But that will not serve the interests of Ethiopia, it only serves the interests of die hard and opportunistic persons. Instead of talking about hatred again and again, please correct yourself and start talking about peace and stability among Ethiopians. And that needs practice and nuritment what Ethiopia is thirsty of.
Gerewew #130
No one denies the greatness of Cush, and almost every one recognizes he was the offspring of that cursed Ham, and that curse still exists upon all of his descendants. Many of his children have been bought and sold, and some of them are in slavery in our time. Go to Sudan and to some other African countries where black people, the children of Cush are being sold and bought. Africa is one of the most backward continents because of the curse she inherited from her cursed father, Cush. Since you have that atavism from Cush, you will never be a civilized person like the Semitic people. Most Ethiopians claim they are Semitic people and because of them, Ethiopia is, indeed, unique.
You have been trying to link the genealogies of the Oromos with that blessed genealogies of the Amhara people, and now you want to trace your genealogy to the cursed man, Cush. You have finally found your real genealogy, and I absolutely agree with you the Oromos are Cushitic people, and there is no wrong with that except the atavistic curse. You are also trying to link your genealogy with St. Mark, and perhaps with the genealogy of Jesus Christ. I’m certain you are going to tell me Jesus and his Mother St. Mary were pure Oromos. I invite you to read the genealogy of Jesus Christ according to St. Matthew’s and to St. Luke’s Gospels and you may find some Oromo names there that will make you happy. I have never denied the contributions of some Oromos to the Ethiopian Christian kingdom, and those who contributed their energy, time, money, and skill were those few lucky Oromos who had the bloods or the spirits of the Amhara people. And those Oromos had never, ever, done anything important without the supervisions of the Amhara people.
The man whom you have described can defend himself if he is versed in the histories of the Cushitic and the Semitic people; you don’t have to defend him whether he is from Oromo or from Amhara. I would like to know the famed academy in Germany where your man is working; I have some German friends at Heidelberg University, and I will ask them if they know him very well. Writing genealogies, and at that a wrong one, doesn’t make one a scholar. St. Matthew and St. Luke wrote the genealogy of our Lord Jesus Christ, but that is not the one that rendered them saints; there was something else that made them saints; you better find out what that something was!
Condemning the Ethiopian Christian kingdom that gave you life and entity, modernity and continuity does not fulfill your ambition – the creation of an Oromo empire and the demotion of the Amharic culture, especially the Amharic language. You may call your Oromo Empire the Cushitic empire instead of the Ethiopian empire since you have found your real genealogy with Cush, and it seems you are proud of Cush; there are some Cushitic names in the Bible that may take away your inferiority if you know them very well and relate your genealogy to each one of them.
Your dependence on someone’s genealogy bothers me a lot, especially when I hear you say St. Mark was from Oromo. Why don’t you just depend on the word of God instead of depending on someone’s genealogy? God has power to lift you up and give you what is in your heart. Read the Biblical Hannah’s words: “He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor” (1st Samuel 2:8). Yes, some Oromos had sat with some Amhara princes and had even become emperors. Isn’t this claim enough for you, or do you have still to go to St. Mark’s genealogy?
The Ethiopian Christian emperors had done nothing wrong to your Oromo people you mentioned; in fact, it was this Christian kingdom that helped your Oromo people to have law and order, respect and honor, faith in one God and loyalty to one Christian kingdom. Without this Christian kingdom, you could have been melted away from the face of the earth. You are on the map because of that powerful Christian kingdom; you are a human being, a civilized person, a productive one, and a prosperous nation as the result of those generous, prudent, and caring Ethiopian Christian emperors.
The Ethiopian Christian emperors had never denied you justice, equality, and fairness in every thing and that is why some Oromos were Ethiopian princes, kings, and queens. You are not qualified either to write or to narrate the glorious past history of the Ethiopian Christian kingdom. It had had been recorded long time ago by the French, by the German, by the British, by the Russian, and by many distinguished Ethiopian historians. If you want to spend your money on rewriting the Ethiopian history, you are wasting your money and your time, and no one believes you what you have written; it will be taken as a fiction, not as a real history of the true Ethiopian Christian kings.
Any country has the right to get rid of the criminals, the thugs, the terrorists; if you are one of the members of the OLF, then you are a thug; therefore, you should not be called an Ethiopian who loves Ethiopia dearly. Your analogy of your last sentence is laughable; it doesn’t apply to the Ethiopian Christian emperors. You cannot remove bad system by arguing, but you can abolish bad leadership by doing something tangible and practical.
Finally, I advise you to ignore genealogy, to stand up on your own feet, and to be yourself. Stop blaming the Ethiopian Christian emperors for they were your creators, your mentors, your providers, and your defenders.
I am late to respond you right away because I have power-outage because of the heavy storm in my area.
Sorry for the delay!
Correction: It had had been…..Ignore the second “had.”
Yewalashet #131,
Second or first language, you must know the English language; you must know the Amharic language; you must also know other languages, and, of course, the prince of all languages is the Amharic language, the national language of Ethiopia. The Amharic language is a Semitic language, not the language of that cursed man, Cush. The roots of the Amharic language are Geez, Tigrigna, Hebrew, and Aramaic, which means, Amharic is a Semitic language. There are other Semitic languages in Ethiopia.
Only God knows who will be cast out from the Ethiopian society, and it is you a farcical person and a member of the OLF.
Yonas #132,
You wrote lackadaisically: “You seem to be transfixed in this forum twenty four seven,….” What kind of English is this? Is this the kind of English you learned from one of your diffident OLF teachers? How long have you been with OLF? Your Amharic is not better than your English. I have tried to correct your crocked Amharic language but couldn’t finish it. I just gave you some examples to follow.
ተምረ አለሁ=ተምሬ
ባተካላይ= ባጠቃላይ
አውኮ=አውቆ
ማእንፈስ=መንፈስ
ኢንደአንተ=እንዳንተ
You should have asked one Amhara person to help you write both the English and the Amharic languages. Since I don’t understand what you are trying to say, I advise you to go, first, to one of the best Amharic teachers; then after you have mastered the Amharic language, you can go to an English teacher. After you have done this, I can respond to you kindly without cursing you out. You can play with the English language, but don’t mess with that rich and refined Amharic language, the language of the most educated and noble Ethiopians. The Amharic language is one of the heritages of Ethiopia that defines what Ethiopia is as a country.
Anonymous 2011#133
OLF-types of Oromos are everywhere spreading their intransigent motives to enslave, not to liberate, Oromia. Oromia doesn’t need rinky-dink people like you, and I am spending my energy and time on Oromos because I vividly see the propensity of the OLF to deceive Oromia by promising her a bright future if she secedes from the motherland, Ethiopia. I promise you Ethiopia never allows Oromia to go its own way, the wrong way; Oromia will stay in Ethiopia until the last judgment day. A coward is a person whose screen name is Anonymous; he is scared to death if he writes his full name on the screen. He may have committed serious crimes, and that is why he is afraid to introduce his name to the world.
Assta B.Gettu#137,
natural proccess and history does not go as you are wishing for yourself. One can not either stop or accelerate it. It goes by it’s own. But i afraid that you will say that you can do that by your magic. Don’t think getting rid of OLF is so simple as you go to toillet and get rid of your waste product, even your boss the Derg was unable to do that. OLF is OROMOS, and OROMOS are OLF, it is confusing you, isn’t it ? You are not yet confused, but the confusion is nearing you and you will see it sooner or later, if you will live longer. In the today’s modern world, there is no place for impervious asocial notions. Still you need a long time of incubation to get rid of your lurdan. I hope that any Ethiopian will not be infected by your plague. The OROMO PEOPLE or every Oromo organizations do not yield to thousends of Asstas growling. By the way, till 1882, there was no a country which was called Ethiopia. Before that time Ethiopia was the whole Cushitic territories, from today’s Egypt to Tanzania. Your country was called Abyssinia or in arabic ” Balad Al-Habash “, a terrible tribe on which the Arabs have said ” AKTUL AL-HABASH, WA KALI AL-HANASH “, which in english means, kill the Abyssinian and leave the snake. This proves that even the Abyssinians were not in peace with their kin Arabs at that time and that was why they were chased out of Arabian peninsula. They have crossed to African continent from today’s Yemen through Bab Al-Mandab and have settle in today’s northern Ethiopia. Even today their area in Yemen is well known and there is a mountain which is called after their name. It is called in Arabic ” JABAL AL-HABASH “, which in english means, Abyssinian Mountain. This is a very short piece of history. So mr. Assta, tell me do you want to live in peace with others Ethiopians including Oromos or do you want to take up sword like your grandfathers to declare war on Oromos ? I can assure you, if you choose the first one, we can together build a modern and presprous Ethiopia. But if you prefer the second one, i am very sorry to say it, you will be like a drop of water onto the hot stone.
I am sorry my Ethiopian brother Assta B. Gettu about your situation. What do you think about my next proposal, what I am thinking is since Gerewew Isaatuu does not need electricity in his current life style why don’t you use his power for the time being until he comes back from his cave life and starts to use the electric power the USA government gave him. I am just teasing Gerewew Isaatuu so do not throw yourself to on coming train. Let me be serious now and let me wish you Assta B. Gettu the best for you and your family as well as for all Ethiopians in your situation including our country man Gerewew Isaatuu if he lives in the places where mother nature has affected regions. Gerewew Isaatuu on your posting on number 135 I have a question because your example does not explain whether a country is an empire or something else rather it indicates how the country was ruled or it is administered at a certain time. Which means your example discribes how Ethiopia was managed whether the country was administered with consensus or ruled by authoritarian individuals. If you perceive Ethiopia under king Haylesilase was an empire because of your example you gave me, would you say also Libya under Gadafi was an empire?. In addition Iraq under Sadam Hussen was it an empire. What about those few southern Africa countries who are ruled by a monarch such as Swaziland. Oh my lord what about Ethiopia under Meles the little emperor as you know Meles can do whatever he wants he can skin you alive if it makes him happy as he did to many Ethiopians. So your example was wrong and That is why you become confused and inferior Oromo with lack of self-esteem because you twist the reality away from the truth. In short unless you accept who you are you will not have the self-esteem you need like the fallowing great Oromo Ethiopians like doctor Fikre Tolosa, Abdissa Agga, General Jagamakelo, Gobena, Laureate Tsegaye Gebremedihin etc. Because of your own self inflicted wound you have developed about yourself an everlasting insufficiency or incompetent inferior feeling which is going to last until you go to your grave. You will remain confused and full of venomous hate toward Ethiopia. You chose to take the wrong perception then you develop it in to Gerewew Isaatuu’s reality then you remain a miserable person. Then you continue to dream day and night how to hurt Amhara, Ethiopia and Unity etc. You want to show us your hurt feeling just like an abused wife syndrome. Your dislike of Ethiopia is in your brain you only cary it without help from anyone so stop it before it kills you, by being a weird individual you will not attract people to fallow. You should learn by now nobody can help you unless you help yourself by trying the reality not in you but around you, which means if you like it or not you are an Ethiopian just like the rest of us. You might have faced bad things in your past. So whatever happen to you in your past move fast forward do not regurgitate the hurt Oromo feeling. You should not take back yourself to the days of Oromo migration to the time of your ancestors slaughtering of native Ethiopias. So think yourself as a proud native Ethiopian Oromo man. Again do not stagnate on your past you just drop it just like a bad habit do not dwell on your past.
Assta ,
In the name of Christianity you are justifying racism and injustice. I cannot believe it. But I can see you wholeheartedly condone it as your ancestors used to do it.
King Minilik of Ethiopia had to say the following to the king of Belgium, and you are almost repeating it again.
“Not to be isolated from states which respect human rights and freedom, when I heard that slavery was forbidden, I had returned first time 50,000 and second time 20,000 slaves captured by my soldiers to their families or to their mothers and fathers.”
A Russian historian Alexander Bulatovich wrote from Addis Ababa in 1900
the conditions in which he saw the Oromo people were in, in the following statement,” Any Oromo whether he/she was working or not whether he/she had any income, he/she was expected to pay government tax annually, things that are perpetrated against the Oromo people is similar to what had been practiced against the Russian people during the rule of Boris Godunov.”
He also explained that the Oromos never let that happened to them, they all left their villages to the neighboring autonomous Oromo regions to protect their God given freedom. Most of the time they fought back gallantly repulsing the invading armies of King Minilik.
I am appalled that in the 21 first century you support and regard that a justifiable and civilized system. I am afraid you are backward than the king himself.
Please take some logic and hisory classes. I do not get your way of thinking. Becasue we are Cushes we became slaves. Then because the Southern Sudanese are black and the Arabs were destined to rule over them. How come we saw that they are free on January 9, 2011 under their beautiful flag. How about South Africa in 1994? How about Nigeria in 1960? How about Kenyans and the whole African Continet? What about the Indain sub continet?
My dear Stoned Peter #138,
Thank you for your concern about the power-outage in my area that has affected me from responding to #131, #132, and #133. I wrote three brief responses but not posted. I like the two links you presented for us the readers; they are very educational and I like them very much!
To mr. gettu and all your cousins
I dont know weather you rememberd the article with page 19 you posted before 4 months ago intitled Jewish religion vs ethiopian christian. on this articles you insulted our Lord Jesus by siding jewish religion you have said alot. For your consuption I do have hard copy of your article in my hand.If necessory i can scan ann post at any time possible to reviel who you are. You should konw that knowing the word of God and kowing God it self is completely different.Your brother lucifer knows the word of God trillion times than you does. Keep in your mind that the day you and fellows like you will enter in your mothers dress. Truley ! Truley! Truley! Beenatachihu qemis wusti tigebalachihu.I said it. Selam Tena yistilign. Kalehubet.
IF WE ARE REALLY LOVE OUR COUNTRY AND PEOPLE, WE HAVE TO ACT NOW ON WHAT HAS HAPPENE TO THE ETHIOPIAN WOMAN IN LIBYA:
To Mr. Asta b. getu and etal
I do have alot of response for you and the likes on the ethiopian review websites but I was not allowed to post my coment on the website.If so, we are tired of your blabering you pretend as if you know every thing. You have no moral stand to talk about curse of all cushetic people by relating with old testament scripts. But didnt you read on the new testament that ” ineho bekristos iyesus lalut ahun kunene yelebachewum” yesewlijoch yemergem ida bekirstos iyesus moti ina tinsae inde tedemesese” alanebebkim way? How would you be tried to inherit the curse of amhara debteras in their beteskean worshipping the prince of darkness?Dont you know this one? Besime melaiktoch ina besime kirstos what is going on in your rooten church. yiliq lezih country who brought deep rooted curse is Amhara debteras who walled in their church . Tegbaban ante yewush lij.
You are talking loudly about your mastery skill for english language and so forth but you can rub your ass with english. qitihin tiregibet. I dont know weather you remembered the article with page 19 you posted before 4 months ago intitled Jewish religion vs ethiopian christian. Onthis articles you insulted our Lord Jesus by siding jewish religion hypocrats and you have said alot by coating the bible. For your consumption I do have hard copies of all your articles on my hand. If I think it is necessory to post, I will scan and post any time possible to reviel your hidden agenda and personslity. You must know that knowing the words of god and kowing GOD it self is completly different and in no ways related.Your brother lucifer knows the words of GOD trillion times than you does. Aperson filld with words and sprit of GOD by no meanse agitating, provoking chaos among the society. yours is uniqe and different.From the information I gathered so far about you you may be ethiopian felash or adhari amara or agent of weyane.Keep in your mind that the day you and fellows like you will hide in your mothers dress is not far. Truely! Truely! beinatachihu qemis sir yemitgebubet gize ruq aydelem. selam tena yistilign. kalehubet.
Super Man #148,
Where are your responses, Super Man? I allow you to post all my articles because I have them all, and I am sure Abugida.com has them too.
Tameneh #142,
Learn the language first, and then you can ask me about my comment.
For example:
-natural process and history do not, not does not
-I am afraid, not i afraid….
I have not corrected all your errors; I leave the corrections to your English teacher.
Gerewew #144,
By now you must know where I stand about that Great King Menelik II, and I know very well your evil intentions about him; therefore, when you get rid of your slave mentality, then you can argue with me. A slave person has no right to talk back to his master; you must know where you stand and what your status is.
Weyiyeagere sew #147,
Libyans are Arab Muslims. Kaddafi and his wife are Arab Muslims, and what Kaddafi’s wife did to that lovely Ethiopian girl is unforgettable for many generations to come. We can easily understand the nature of Islam when we saw the burned body of our Ethiopian sister in Libya. We cannot go to war with Libya to avenge the serious wound and humiliation of that beautiful girl of ours because we do not have a government in Ethiopia that cares for its own people wherever they are. We just have to swallow our angers, emotions, and sadness and live until we all perish without having a good shepherd in our country.
I, my teacchers and all Ethiopians, except you, are not the servants or ass kissers of Faranjoch. As yewalashet has already told you, all Ethiopians are not bothering themselves with your english language as you are bothering yourself with it. English is Ethiopias second language, but you have made it your mother tangue. You traitor. Don,t believe that mastering it is by birth, but it is by getting the chances of education. Also mastering english does not make you realistic, since you are the doomed creature on this earth. By the way, don,t believe that fighting for democracy in Ethiopia is with english, but it is by determination which is emraced the peoples of that country. You are out of that circle.