imperialist desires of the Ethiopians

Posted By: barney rubble
Date: Wednesday, 2 July 2003, at 1:10 a.m.

Voice of Oromiyaa
Colonization of Oromiyaa
The long dream of Abyssinia to occupy Oromiyaa and its southern neighbors became reality with the help of European arms, advisors, some of whom were directly involved in the war of occupation against Oromo and the south.
"Britain, France, Italy, and Russia poured arms and some military advisors into Ethiopia, each believing it would require a corresponding measure of local leverage." (Lewis)
Menelik was able to amass, a tremendous amount military hardware.
" ... he (Menelik) was able between 1880 and 1900 to import over one million rifles, a quantity of hatchkiss guns and military pieces, also making use of French and Russian military experts to train his soldiers in their use. No other pre-colonial African state had been able to build such an armory. (Luckman and Bekele)
Under such conditions, Menelik II, Amhara King of Shewa was able to occupy and colonize Oromiyaa and southern region. Menelik created a settler colonial rule over Oromos and other southern people. Many of the newly occupied or colonized people were captured and sold into slavery, and the ramining were placed in a situation that is no better than slavery. It is Italian occupation of Ethiopia that abolished slavery in Ethiopia. The defeat of Italy in World War II, and the return of Haile Sellasie to power brought more misery to Oromos and people of the south.
would you be glad about this : Menelik II, the slave trading Abyssinian king of the nineteenth and twentieth century was responsible for the massacre and disappearance of millions of Oromos, Sidamas, Wolayta, Somalis, and others. He was responsible for the physical and psychological torture of the Arsi Oromos at Anole, where his soldiers chopped off every man’s arm, and every woman’s breast.
“When the people came, they were told to enter the narrow pass one by one. All males who entered were cut off their right hands on orders of Ras Darge. The Shoans (conquerors) tied the hand they cut to the neck of the victim. In the same manner, the right breasts of women were also cut and tied to their necks. As a result everybody who went to Anole … returned by (sic) losing his right hand and (her) breast. This widely known as “Harka Mura Anole” )Abas Haji. 1982)
Menelik was a notorious slave trader, who sold Oromo and southern peoples’ prisoners of war into slavery. He also encouraged his generals to raid villages, capture slaves, and sell the captives into slavery and surrender some as gift or tax to him.
Admit that some Rases of Abyssinia were as greedy as any other imperialist. They used the european $$ and guns to kill many to fullfill their own desires.
To deny that, is to be DISHONEST.
Prove me wrong and show the evidence (any HIM speach) that promotes the freedom and equal right for all Oromos, not just the ones that wanted to be anexed to Ethiopia.
ALL EMPIRES ARE PYRAMIDS, THE ONES AT THE BOTTOM ARE THE ONES THAT PAY THE BIG TAB
Oromos had payed big time for the imperialist desires of the Ethiopians.
No one is free when others are oppresed.
I can see that some Rastas (not all)
are juzz the same as any cristian, pure fanatics,
that deny facts that can be seen by any one that seek.

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imperialist desires of the Ethiopians
barney rubble -- Wednesday, 2 July 2003, at 1:10 a.m.