September 2, 2023
Dr. Yonas Biru has shown in his political Swinging Pendulum between being half Oromo and half Amhara to hide his deep hatred for Oromummaa, Gadaa, and everything the Oromo people stand for and own. Dr. Yonas Biru, who is a leader of Oromo-phobic Amhara ultrarightist extremists, has written many articles on attacking the Gadaa system- the first democratic system in the history of the world, Oromummaa, Irrechaa, Guddifannaa, moggaasaa, and Waqeeffannaa religion. He is the leader of the Amhara supremacist Nafxanyaa, an Amhara version of the American Ku Klux Klan (KKK), the most hateful and violent group in history. As it is clear to everybody who reads his articles and listens to his talks on media, Dr. Yonas Biru has been promoting Oromo phobia, hatred, violence, intimidation, and genocidal campaigns against the Oromo people and everything Oromo. Before going into these, let me restate that Dr. Yonas Biru is an Oromo phobic and hater extremist in the diaspora that already declared genocide against the Oromo people. To cover up his Oromo phobia and Oromo hatred, this shadow tyrant says this: “I am part Oromo and part Amhara.”
At the same time, he attacks the Oromo identity, calling Oromummaa a Nazification movement. So, he joined Ermias Legesse, who openly campaigns on Ethio-360 media: “Oromummaa politics is fascism and “Political Oromummaa” as Oromo fascist ideology. Ermias borrowed a phrase from Cato the Elder, the Roman Senator and a famous orator who, in 201 BCE, had encouraged war by ending every speech with the line “Carthage must be destroyed,” and finally, the Romans destroyed Carthage. So in his Ethio-360 media talk, Ermias Legesse introduced the “Oromummaa yiwudam” slogan, translated to English, “Oromummaa must be destroyed” slogan calling for the destruction of Oromummaa.
As a result, the Amhara nationals in diaspora-in the United States, Europe- and the Amhara region of the Ethiopian empire had been demonstrating for months carrying, raising high, and chanting the Oromummaa yiwudam slogan. Another person who claims to have Oromo blood is Tamerat Negera, who went on the media saying he wanted to see Oromia disintegrate overnight. It is hard to comprehend that all of them claim to be half Oromo and half Amhara, yet we see them eating their half Oromoness.
2. The Oromo hatred, Oromo phobia, and fear for what the Oromo are and stand for infested the mind, body, and soul of these individuals and their likes. As it is clear, Yonas Biru, Ermias Legesse, and Tamerat Negera have been and are synchronizing their genocidal campaign of extermination against the Oromo people. The consequence of their campaign against Oromummaa set the stage for Amhara Oromo phobic extremists to declare war on Oromummaa, chanting war must be fought; it must be won- Oromummaa must be destroyed. The Amhara settler colonialists have been using these types of personalities and their likes to exterminate the Oromo people since the conquest and colonization of Oromia. Here, it is vital to remember how Nazi Germany used Jews to exterminate six million of them during the Second World War. Regarding this, Jewish Holocaust survivor Primo Levi wrote what the Nazis told the Jewish people during their extermination in these terms: “We are your destroyer….We can destroy not only your body but also your soul. It must be the Jews who put the Jews into ovens. It must be shown that the Jews…bow to any and all humiliations, even to destroying themselves.” Here, what has to be clear to the Oromo people is that Amhara are using some half-Oromo and some fully Oromo to exterminate the Oromo people just like The Nazi Germany used Jews to exterminate Jews during the Second World War. In this article, I only deal with the attacks of Dr. Yonas Biru on the Oromo people and institutions since he is the leader and promoter of Oromo phobia. Here what Dr. Yonas Biru fails to tell is that Ras Mokonnen Wolde Mikael Guddisa Dhaabaa, Haile Selassie’s father, was half Oromo and half Amhara,. His and his mother Tenagnework was the daughter of King Sahle Selassie of Shawa. And yet, Ras Mokonnen, in alliance with Menelik of Amhara, was instrumental in the genocide at Calii Calanqoo and of five million Oromo during the conquest of Oromia.
He also well-knows that Haile Selassie’s mother Yeshimebet Ali was half ethnic Oromo and half ethnic Gurage. Despite this, Haile Selassie committed ethnic cleansing of the Oromo people, especially the cleansing of the Tullamaa Oromo, expropriated land and natural resources of the Oromo, and imposed the Amhara language, culture, and Orthodox Christianity on the Oromo and other peoples, et cetera. Not only this, but Dr. Yonas Biru also knows full well that Jerry Robert Kajuga, national leader of the Interahamwe, the group responsible for committing genocide in Rwandan against the Tutsi in 1994, was born to a Tutsi father and a Hutu mother.
3- He was a leader in the annihilating eight hundred thousand to a million Tutsi. Hannah Arendt, who escaped from Nazi Holocaust, put the collaboration and the complicity of Jewish Councils with the Nazis in these words: “Wherever Jews lived, there were recognized Jewish leaders, and this leadership, almost without exception, cooperated in one way or another, for one reason or another, with the Nazi.” The members of the Jewish Councils were half German and half Jewish like Dr. Yonas Biru is half Oromo and half Amhara. Despite the genocide against the Jews,
thousands of full Jews, and more than a hundred thousand part-
Jews joined the military in Nazi Germany fighting for Nazis. For
instance, here are the names of a few high officers in the Nazi
Vice-Admiral Bernhard Rogge, with a Jewish grandfather; Colonel
Ernst Bloch (half-Jew, half-German); Field Marshal Erhard Mulch
was half-Jew and half-German, et cetera. What one has to learn
from these is that Dr. Yonas Biru’s claiming to be half an Oromo
does not absolve him from his extreme Oromo-phobic, Oromo-hater
Amhara extremist and from his campaign in writing and talking on
Media promoting for annihilating of the Oromo nationalists who
have been struggling for the independence of Oromia from
Ethiopian colonial empire.
Dr. Yonas Biru’s enmity towards Oromo is not something recently
started. In the 1990s, when the TPLF massacred 20-30 thousand
Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) fighters, he never said anything;
when it was reported during the TPLF regime that the prison
speaks the Oromo language, he was silent; when 100,000 Oromo
nationals disappeared without their whereabouts under the TPLF
administration, Dr. Yonas Biru was silent; in 2008, when at Hora
Harsadii Irrechaa festival 800- 1000 innocent men, women, and
children were massacred, he did not say anything. In 2014-2018,
while opposing Finfinnee Master Plan, 5000-6000 Oromo youth were
slaughtered by the TPLF, he did not write or say anything. When
over 100 1000 livestock perished during the TPLF rule as a
result of drinking poisoned water that the regime purposefully
let into the rivers, he did not say anything or write about it.
Just recently, when over four million livestock died in Boranaa
and Gujii because of drought and negligence of the regime in
power, he was silent about it; and yet calls himself half Oromo.
The reason for his silence is that he is happy because it is
happening to the Oromo and their wealth. Dr. Yonas Biru, a
former landowner himself, is from a landowner aristocratic
family who used to own the Oromo land. Before 194 1974, under
the Abyssinian feudal system, the land in the south in general
and in Oromia in particular, was owned by the few Amhara
Aristocrats like Dr. Yonas Biru and his family. Instead, the
true owners of the land the Oromo peasant became gabar or
serfdom sharecroppers on their land. As gabar, they paid tax and
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other services to the landlords, farm on the land and
sharecropped their earning with these landlords. It is from such
an unfair and repressive feudal system that Dr. Yonas Biru and
his feudal family benefited and enriched themselves.
Nonetheless, with the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in
1974 and the land proclamation of 1975, the land ownership was
transferred from autocratic to public i.e., the Oromo people and
others in the south. As a result, feudal landowners lost their
status and privileges as exclusive owners of the land in
Ethiopian empire. Most importantly, they are deprived of
enriching and accumulating wealth by exploiting the Oromo people
and others. Since the Oromo people were in the forefront of the
struggle that toppled Haile Selassie and changed the land
tenure, Dr. Yonas Biru developed resentment and hatred of the
Oromo for their struggle against landowners like him. Hence, one
has to understand that it is out of this deep hatred that Dr.
Yonas Biru has been and is fighting against the Gadaa system,
Oromummaa, Irrechaa, Guddifachaa, Moggaasaa and et cetera.
Not only this, but Dr. Yanas Biru also denies the genocide
of five million of the Oromo people, the extermination at Calii
Calanqoo and Azule, and the mutilation of breasts of women and
hands of men (Harma muraa and Harka muraa at Aanolee) by King
Menelik of Shawa during the conquest, colonization, and
occupation of Oromia. Most importantly, today, in the twenty-
first century Dr. Yonas Biru and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
Church, Fanno, Amhara Mass Media, and Social Media, without a
sense of shame, have been and are glorifying and honoring the
genocidal action of Menelik on the Oromo people and calling for
the new next wave of Oromo genocide. While Dr. Yonas takes pride
in what Menelik did against the Oromo people, at the same time,
he is angry at the current Amhara generation for their inability
or failure to do against Oromo what Menelik had done- genocide
of the Oromo people.
The substitution of Cush for Ethiopia in Bible
Dr. Yonas Biru also muddles with Bible. He has been complaining
without even doing a little research about when the name
Ethiopia entered into Bible. In the absence of this, he has been
vehemently condemning Biblical religious scholars for replacing
Psalms 68:31, “Ethiopia is extending her hands to God,” by what
he called the “Oromummaa version-Cush is extending her hands to
God.” Dr. Yonas Biru should have taken time to look around for
the other version of the Holy Bible regarding Psalms 68:31, so
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he should have made not much noise about it. Here are among a
few Holy Bible that substituted Cush for Ethiopia:
New International Version (NIV) Psalm 68:31 reads: “Cush will
submit herself to God;” English Standard Version Psalm 68: 31
says: “Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God;” New
Century Version (NCV) Psalm 68:31 reads as “The people of Cush
will pray to God;” The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
Psalm 68:31 says, “Cush will stretch out its hands to God;” and
The Lexham English Bible (LEB) Psalm 68:31 reads “Cush will
quickly stretch out her hands to God.”
Cush is the oldest name in the Hebrew Bible, not Ethiopia.
According to the Biblical Archaeology Society, Cushite is
mentioned 54 times in Hebrew Bible, the oldest Bible in history.
The Hebrew Bible reads: “The children of Cush shall run to
stretch out their hands in prayer to God.” Dr. Yonas Biru has
failed to consider this before jumping up and down crying, with
complaints and condemnation. He failed to tell the truth that
Ethiopia is the English translation of the Greek word Aithiopia,
which itself originated from aithiops in the Greek language and
meant burnt face or dark-skinned or “negroid,” a racist
connotation the Greeks substituted for Cush in the Bible. It was
in 200 BC when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek that
Cush was replaced by Ethiopia.
Dr. Yonas Biru has failed to give accurate and informative
content of why religious institutions and religious scholars
chose Cush to replace Ethiopia in the Bible instead of resorting
to the fictitious fabrication of Ethiopia as existing as a
people for time immemorial. Indeed, Dr. Yonas Biru is
intellectually dishonest and unethical and has failed to meet
intellectual credibility. Of course, after the Greek
translation, several Bible translations replaced Cush with the
English word Ethiopia, to which Dr. Yonas Biru is a victim.
However, the nation of Cush was not equivalent to modern
Ethiopia. He should understand that Ethiopia means black color
for the Greeks, so black extending her hands to God is the same
as saying white extending her hands to God since Ethiopia and
white are colors; for Greeks, Ethiopia and white are colors, but
Cush is people. Another Oromummaa version of the Bible that has
become a headache and sleepless for Dr. Yonas Biru is Numbers
12: 1, which says Moses married a Cushite woman.
To the frustration of Dr. Yonas Biru, here is how the Old Bible,
Isaiah 18:2 highlights the military ability of the Cushite
warriors, calling them “a people, tall and smooth-skinned,
feared near and far and a nation mighty and conquering.” Dr.
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Yonas Biru well-knows that the Oromo people are among the large
size families of the Cushite. The Oromo people are the largest,
Cushitic people in Africa, the second largest nation in sub-
Sahara, and the third largest in Africa. Their country Oromia is
currently under Ethiopian colonial occupation. The Oromo are
patient for so long, but no one can run over Oromo and Oromia
anymore. Now, the patience of the Oromo is exhausted. The war of
liberation is continuing for independence under the Oromo
Liberation Front (OLF).
Another version of the Bible that the Amhara have been so
proud of in quoting is and always talking about, yet, this time,
Dr. Yonas Biru did not say anything about it is the Biblical
version, “Can the Cushite change his skin or the leopard its
spots?” (Jeremiah 13:23); this is a replacement for Ethiopia.
Instead of this and many others, Dr. Yonas Biru remained silent
and, making a choice concentrating on condemnation of “Cush is
extending her hands to God.” Now, Churches are reprinting the
New Holy Bibles by replacing Ethiopia with the original name
Cush.
Here, one may ask a question regarding the current state of
the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church with the Oromo people.
Here what has to be understood is that the contemporaneous
reviving of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christian fundamentalism
can be seen as the Amhara Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Amhara
political elite failure to accommodate the diversities of
nations and nationalities of different languages, cultures,
values, and traditions in the Ethiopian empire to establish
their respective Synod in their regions. Here the Amhara society
has double-wounded itself now. First, religiously it wounded
itself, and second, politically. Religiously, it denied the
establishment of Synod to Oromo, the largest third nation in
Africa and the second largest in sub-Sahara Africa and other
nations and nationalities. The cruel irony is that the Ethiopian
Orthodox Tewahedo Church officially declared that “Oromo have no
country.” Here what has to be understood is having a country and
its natural resources are a source of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church denied the
Oromo people country, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
It clearly and unequivocally stated its unquestionable position
as the enemy of the Oromo people; and that the Ethiopian
Orthodox Tewahedo Church and politics are the same. The Orthodox
Church failed to tell that Oromo are the original Indigenous
people of the region, contrary to Abyssinians who came from
south Arabia. Now, the Amhara society is limping with wounds.
As stated above, contrary to Dr. Yonas Biru’s fiction, the
name Ethiopia as a country officially came into being with the
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constitution of 1931. In 1931, Haile Selassie changed the name
from Abyssinia to Ethiopia. However, Abyssinia applied for and
accepted membership into the League of Nations in 1923, not as
Ethiopia but as Abyssinia. Here is its acceptance letter into
the League of Nations as Abyssinia by the League of Nations in
1923 as it reads:
Resolution adopted unanimously by the Sixth Committee on
September 20th, 1923. The Sixth Committee has taken note of the
report of the Sub-Committee which was instructed to consider the
application of the Empire of Abyssinia for admission to the
League of Nations. The Sixth Committee approves the conclusions
of this report and instructs its chairman to communicate them
without delay to the Abyssinian Delegation.
Before and since its acceptance to the League of Nations in
1923, the country was known as Abyssinia, and then despite Haile
Selassie’s changing the name to Ethiopia in the constitution of
1931, all countries like British, Europeans countries, and the
United States referred to it as Abyssinia until 1942. As all
know, the Italian occupation of Ethiopian empire in 1935 is
referred to as Italy’s conquest of Abyssinia (1935-1936), not as
conquest of Ethiopia. Here Dr. Yonas Biru goes to any length to
lie, fabricate, and distort history as all Abyssinian elites do.
Finfinnee and the Amhara extremists Oromo haters
Dr. Yonas Biru has to write regarding Finfinnee: “Non-Oromo
residents of Addis Ababa, accounting for 81 percent of the
population including the Amhara representing 47 percent of Addis
Ababa.” Assuming what he says about the resident of Finfinnee is
accurate, 34 percent of the city’s population is non-Oromo and
non-Amhara ethnic nationals and 19 percent Oromo. Here why the
Oromo population is so few is the question important to ask. The
Amhara extremist Oromo haters and Oromo phobic argue that they
are the majority to control and administer the city. They want
to make it a special administrative zone. These extremist Oromo-
phobic failed to ask themselves about the population of
Finfinnee before its conquest and occupation. Dr. Yonas Biru and
his Oromo hater Ermias Legesse should ask themselves why the
Oromo population of Finfinnee is only 19 percent. Before
colonization by the settlers, the area was 100 percent Oromo.
The outsiders came for different reasons. One group is a settler
colonizer Abyssinians, and the others are migrants and
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immigrants who came looking to better themselves economically.
The population of the Oromo became 19 percent because the
settler colonists exterminated 81 percent of the Indigenous
Oromo people, specifically the Tuulamaa Oromo. Despite this the
Finfinnee city is still remains an integral part of Oromia and
an Oromia capital; no one can own it except the Oromo people
alone. The Oromo phobia and Oromo haters Amhara elites may cry
to high heaven, to no avail.
Amhara extremists fabricated Oromo government
The Amhara elites are the most backward society in history.
Their scholars in the past and still in the 21st century are
still unchangeable and cannot cope with time. Amhara elites
always write fiction and believe in it. The Amhara writes at a
time Oromo came from Madagascar, another time the Oromo came
from India, and still another time from the water. Amhara elites
write a fake history about the Oromo; this is madness. They fail
to write that their own ancestors came to Africa from Southern
Arabia and mixed with the Africans and that is why they are
called Habesha meaning mixture in English Abyssinia.
The Oromo people write their history and establish their
government. In Oromo history, the leaders are elected by the
people, from the people, and for the people for one term limit
of eight years without chance of renewal under the Gadaa System.
On the contrary, the Oromo people did not elect the current
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmad’s government of the Ethiopian colonial
empire, nor have they claimed it as their government. As a
colonized people, any government of the Ethiopian empire cannot
be the Oromo government. PM Abiy Ahmed himself is half Oromo and
half Amhara. So, he cannot be categorized as solely Oromo since
he shares two cultural heritages. The fact is Abiy Ahmed has
more in common with Amhara than he has with the Oromo. His
mother is Amhara, his wife is an Amhara, and his children are
more Amhara than Oromo; at home, they speak the Amharic
language; Amharic still the official language of the empire; not
only this, he also built a statue of Amhara king Menelik, the
man who committed genocide against the Oromo people and
mutilated breasts of Oromo women and hands of men. Yonas Biru
failed to tell the world that the government of Abiy Ahmed is
the government of Amhara, not the government of Oromo. In their
happiness, it was Amharas who raised their hands to the high
heaven calling Abiy Ahmed “our Moses” when he became Prime
Minister; most significantly, as to the national composition of
personnel in his government, PM Abiy Ahmed told the country and
the world that the majority of his administration, bureaucracy,
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and army are from Amhara, including in his office. Dr. Yonas
Biru himself was an Interim Chair of PM Abiy’s Economic Advisory
Council.
The problem with Amhara is whenever they see two or few
Oromo in a high position, they say Oromo are too many, in the
majority. To this effect, here is an example, in 1970, there
were 75 Amhara military officers with ranks of Lt. Colonels and
above and the Oromo were 12, and in 1972 there were 73 Amhara
Lt. Colonels and above and the Oromo were 25. Since then and
now, the mad Amhara elites talk of the Oromo as larger than
Amhara. The Amhara intellectual like Dr. Yonas Biru and his
Amhara elites still today, in the 21st century, dance in madness
to such theatrics. They call Abiy Ahmed government is Oromummaa
government. They never question how an Oromo government fights
the Oromo people. PM Abiy Ahmed has been fighting the Oromo
since he became PM long before he fought TPLF. And yet, the
Oromo phobic and hater, Dr. Yonas Biru, and his company still
fabricate a fictional Oromo government-Oromummaa government.
Oromummaa as a universal principle
First and foremost, let me say this. The sleepless Oromo phobic
malcontented extremist Amhara elites leave no stone unturned in
attacking and attempting to demonize Oromummaa. In this attack,
the Amhara lead leader is Dr. Yonas Biru. Yonas Biru has
written, “As a political doctrine, Oromummaa imposes the Oromo
language, culture, and identity on other tribal communities
through coercion- political, economic, and military.” This is an
unfounded allegation based on Oromo hatred. He is Oromo-phobic,
peddling his imaginary fabricated fiction in his mind across his
likes. He has never identified any people on whom the Oromo
imposed their language, culture, and identity. Lies and
fabrication have been the hallmark of Amhara elite throughout
history. He should have written about the imposition of the
Amharic language, culture, identity, and religion on the Oromo
people, including other nations and nationalities in the
Ethiopian empire, by the Amhara.
The unhappy fear peddlers Oromo phobic Amhara extremists,
like Yonas Biru and company, should learn about Oromummaa rather
than running nervously around spraying lies and false
fabrication about Oromummaa like a mad dog swaggering its tail
to bite what it cannot bite. Dr. Biru’s deep aversion to Oromo,
his lies about Oromummaa, and his invention of fictitious
information to deceive his followers about Oromummaa will
ultimately take his story to the dustbin of history. Dr. Yonas
Biru needs to understand that Oromummaa is Oromoness; it is
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being born Oromo; it is Oromo unity, culture, language,
politics, independence, the sovereignty of the people,
sovereignty of the state, ownership, and control of Oromo land
and resources, freedom, self-government, worldview, religion,
and Oromo moral codes. The fact is, Oromummaa is in the Oromo
bones, flesh, and soul. An Oromo born in Oromummaa lives in
Oromummaa and dies as such. Oromummaa is not and will not for
imposition on any society contrary to the fictionalization,
falsification, and fabrication of Yonas Biru to attack it. The
Oromo people have never imposed Oromummaa on any society since
time immemorial. Oromummaa embodies love, truth, peace,
hospitality, living in harmony with others, equality, cultural
freedom, justice, brotherhood and sisterhood for humanity, and
respect for humanity and nature. Oromummaa is an Oromo-centric
value. Oromummaa upholds the undifferentiated human dignity and
universal human values, love for humanity and nature. That is
why so many members of nations and nationalities in the
Ethiopian Empire State live in Oromia in peace, tranquility, and
dignity. Oromummaa is about peace, dignity, justice, co-
existence in harmony, and equality for all humanity. Yonas Biru
does not dare to tell the readers of his articles the truth that
no members of other nations and nationalities go to Abyssinia-
Amhara, and Tigray, to live because of their hostility towards
outsiders. Dr. Biru also accuses Oromummaa stating, “Oromummaa
is religion cleansing and Cultural evilgelization project.” He
has never brought the people to the forefront who claimed that
Oromummaa cleansed their cultures and religion. Being a madman
and an Oromo hater, Dr. Biru created it in his mind for his
Nazist Ahmara followers to join him in his campaign of Oromo
phobia and hatred for the Oromo people and Oromummaa. On the
other hand, he failed to tell the truth that the Amhara cleansed
the cultural, religious, linguistic, and ethnic cleansing of
Agaw, Awi, Argoba, Qimant, Wallo Oromo, Tullamaa, and Shinasha.
Dr. Biru has never dared to tell these truths. Instead, he
created a fiction about Oromummaa.
Dr. Yonas, as an Oromo phobic, foolishly and mischievously
has been promoting unhesitatingly his deeply held hatred of the
Oromo cultural value and his Oromo phobia in these terms:
“Oromummaa is Religion Cleansing and Cultural Evilgelization”
and goes on, “What makes Oromummaa dangerous is, it is anti-
Christianity and anti- Islam…” These phrases, words, and
others he has been using epitomize his deeply held and boundless
hatred for the Oromo people and their institutions. Dr. Biru,
first, Oromummaa is not against any religion; it has never been.
In reality, it is only in the land of Oromo Oromummaa national
cultural value, in Oromia, that religions co-exist- all types of
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Christianity like Orthodox, Catholic, various types of
Protestants as well as Islam along with Waqeeffannaa, and other
believers of none of these religions. Dr. Yonas Biru knows this
peaceful co-existence of religions is alien in Amhara and Tigray
in Habasha land, but he failed to tell and write about this. As
in all societies, any religion has to adapt to the cultural
value of a community of believers. This is true for all people
throughout history. So, it is also advantageous for the Oromo
believers to have translated Bible and the Quran into the Oromo
language to adapt to the Oromummaa national cultural value.
Here, everybody of the respective religion reads and understands
in their language. The Oromo believers of the two religions know
this very well, so Dr. Yonas Biru cannot confuse anybody with
his hostile Oromo phobia and sinister and savage hatred campaign
against Oromummaa. In continuing, his attack on Oromummaa, he
went to the extent of coining the phrase, “Oromummaa movement is
the Oromo Nazification movement of nationalism.” Here, Yonas
Biru uses a false analogy out of desperation of losing hope in
everything he wished to do to save the dying empire from the
Oromummaa forces of freedom, democracy, liberation, and
independence of Oromia. He is trying to equate Oromummaa with
Nazification. It seems Dr. Biru is in impairment of memory,
reasoning, and judgment. He should distinguish that Nazification
is a German word for the superiority of the German Aryan race.
On the other, the Oromummaa movement is a movement to liberate
Oromia from Ethiopian colonial occupation. Hence, it is
impossible to equate the two. Yonas Biru should understand
without a shadow of a doubt the brutal truth that the Oromummaa
movement is an Oromo political movement against Habasha colonial
occupation of Oromia as the Quit India Movement of India was
against British Colonial occupation of India led by Mahatma
Gandhi and as Mau Mau Movement of Kikuyu of Kenya was against
British settler colonialism led by Jomo Kenyatta. Once more
reiterating, the Oromummaa movement is a movement to liberate
the colonized Oromo nation from the Ethiopian colonial empire;
it is for Oromo national self-determination, statehood,
sovereignty, and democracy in simple terms, Oromummaa movement
is a movement for the establishment of independent people
democratic republic of Oromia.
Gadaa a universal Democratic System
Since Oromo and foreign scholars have written many books and
articles about the Gadaa system, there is no need to spend time
on it here. I will only say a few things here. The Gadaa System
is a system like Feudalism, capitalism, and Socialism. The Gadaa
system existed long before the other three systems. It is the
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first democratic system in history. When Europe and Asia had to
fight themselves over kingships, Oromia was governed
democratically. The Gadaa system is a system where governing
bodies were elected by the people, from the people, and for the
people for a term limit of eight years without renewal except in
the religious institution. Hence, the simple thing to be known
is that the Oromo were the first people in history to have
developed an indigenous, egalitarian socio-political system
known as Gadaa system based on the principles of a democratic
constitutional government. Religious freedom and autonomy are,
guaranteed and respected in the Gadaa system. People are the
source of power and authority in the Gadaa system, which means
Gadaa is a system of administration of political, social,
economic, military, et cetera, based on the consent of the
people.
Yonas Biru wrote, “Gadaa is dead and in the tomb.” He is
delusional and hallucinating like all Amhara elites. Not only
this, but he has also to write again shamelessly, “Gadaa and
Irrecha are historically and socially foreign to the
overwhelming majority of the Oromo people.” The naked lie of
this man is beyond imagination. He should have felt a deep shame
for himself for his infamous and vicious statements of lies. He
writes about an issue that he does not know. He lacks self-
respect as an ordinary man, let alone as an educated elite. Dr.
Yonas Biru came out of the womb of feudalism and grew up in it,
so he does not understand the Gadaa system. The Gadaa system is
a system of egalitarian democracy, secularism, and a republican
form of governance. The Gadaa system is not a system of
oppression, exploitation, dehumanization, and demonization like
Feudalism and Capitalism, the systems that Dr. Yonas Biru
glorifies and adorns. In contrast, it is a system based on the
principles of universal human dignity, value, respect, and
equality. It embodies principles of peaceful power transfer,
check and balance, and popular sovereignty. Under the Gadaa
system, people are sovereign, power rests with people. People
elect their leaders for a term limit of eight years without the
possibility of renewal. Political authority is not hereditary in
the Gadaa system of governance. Most of all, instead of
condemning the Gadaa system without knowledge, Dr. Yonas Biru
may find it interesting to know if he wants that UNESCO
recognized the Gadaa system since 2016 as an “Intangible
cultural heritage of humanity, an indigenous and democratic
socio-political system of the Oromo of East Africa.”
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On the other hand, Irreechaa or Irreessaa is an Oromo-centric
cultural yearly Thanksgiving holiday, whereby Oromo people come
together in the open field to praise their creator, the creator
of the universe, the almighty God/Waaqa. At the same time, it is
a secular yearly festival that is a symbol of Oromo cultural
identity, and it is the demonstration of the Oromo national
unity. Shamelessly, the Amhara Orthodox Christian church and the
rulers of the Ethiopian colonial empire state portrayed this
holy thanksgiving, Irreechaa, as a practice of devil worship and
made it illegal and outlawed it.
Such a system is alien to Dr. Yonas Biru, who was conceived
in the womb of dark Abyssinian authoritarian culture and
governance and born out of this dark culture. Hence, Dr. Yanas
Biru was born and raised in an unenlightened feudal system that
he values, adorns, and glorifies. He looks at the Gadaa system
but cannot see its brightness, democratic values, importance,
and universal significance to society. Contrary to Dr. Biru’s
belief, the Gadaa system is well and alive. Because it is
living, the Oromo people have been fighting for it since the
19th century. It has already defeated the system that Yonas Biru
was born in and lived in -feudalism, capitalism, and socialism.
Neither Feudalism nor Socialism sustained his Ethiopia nor
capitalism. Yonas Biru’s option is to seek refuge in the Gadaa
System to save his Ethiopia before it disintegrates into the
dustbin of history rather than condemn Oromummaa in vain. In the
Oromo Gadaa system exist, various democratic institutions, such
as social organizations, political organizations, economic
institutions, civil institutions, religious institutions et
cetera. Dr. Yonas Biru is uncomfortable with democracy. He
wishes to resurrect the decayed Amhara institutions of feudal
aristocratic fascistic rule by condemning the democratic Oromo
institutions. He and his extremist Amhara cohorts have been
working hard day and night to impose, if possible, on the
colonized Oromo and peoples of the south the Ethio-semitic
Amhara-centric socio-cultural, religious, and politico-economic
system of the bygone days that they had been enjoying over a
century and a half. Still today, in the 21st century, Dr. Yonas
Biru and his company are salivating for fulfillment of the
unfulfillable dreams and wishful prospect of the return of the
Amhara feudal authoritarian, the harshest totalitarian police
state that established the Amhara supremacist, their supremacy
in politics, economy, social status, culture, language, and
religion over the rest of the colonized peoples and that has
been denying the existence of the Oromo people since the
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colonization of Oromia. Dr. Yonas Biru and his extremist Amhara
zealots, being Orphans of dead feudalism, have been trying to
reclaim the authority of that bygone feudalism. Dr. Yonas is
hungry and thirsty for the dead feudal aristocracy to resurrect
and rule the Ethiopian empire again. It is time for Dr. Yonas
Biru and Co. to face reality; the Ethio-Semitic meant black-
Semitic (Abyssinian or Habesha) superiority has gone, never to
come back again. It is, therefore, time to abandon this
idealistic wish of the return of the gone by the dead feudal
system and opt to live with the reality of the 21st century and
rest your mind. Think, today is not yesteryear; live in today,
not yesterday. The Gadaa system is the only system that exists
today to save the continent of Africa from the vicious, fascist
dictatorial regimes that have been humiliating, impoverishing,
and leaving to death and destruction the people of Africa. Only
under the Gadaa system of governance African peoples’ legitimate
power, authority, and sovereignty could be restored.
Another problem with Dr. Yonas Biru is cultural. He was not
born in and lived in the Oromo democratic society, the society
that values liberty and equality. As a result, what he knows is
the only Abyssinian autocratic society in which he was born and
raised, a society devoid of democratic values. Nondemocratic
society is known for conflicts and violence among itself, and so
is Dr. Yonas Biru’s Abyssinian society.
Throughout its history, the Abyssinian society has had
neither a state of internal peace within itself nor external
peace with its neighbors. It has been fighting among itself and
with others on many issues. Among the issues it has been
fighting over within itself is political power. No political
power has ever transferred peacefully from one to the other in
Abyssinian history. Also, there is no term limit in their
constitution even today in the 21st century. Let alone before
the Era of the Princes (Zemene Mesafint), but since the Era of
the Princes alone, political power has been taken or grabbed at
gunpoint- through force and violence. Such is a Semitic culture
to which Abyssinians are an integral part. One can look at
Abyssinia and Arabs; both are Semitic.
Ironically, instead of writing about the cruelty of his own
Abyssinian culture, and its undemocratic nature, Dr. Yonas Biru
has been aggressively and obsessively pursuing in writing and
talking on mass Media attacking and degrading the Oromo culture
of democratic Gadaa system, the first democratic system in
history before the Greeks; the Greeks adopted democracy from the
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Cushite during Thales, Pythagoras, Pilato, and Aristotle who
lived and studied in Africa. Democracy spread from Cushite to
the rest of world through Greek.
Dr. Yonas Biru’s attack on Waqeeffannaa
To those who read his articles and listen to his talks, Dr.
Yonas Biru has been tarnishing the Oromo people and their
institutions. He wrote, “Waaqeffannaa cannot survive where there
are competing religions…,” the competing religions he is
referring to are Orthodox Christianity, Catholics, Protestants,
and Islam. He went on to deny Orthodox Christianity came to
Oromia along Abyssinian conquest, colonization, and occupation
of Oromia. Dr. Biru wants to hide the fact that the Ortho-
Abyssinian expansionism had been on violence, death,
destruction, suffering, and extermination of the Oromo people
and peoples of the south. The foundation of Abyssinian Orthodox
expansion was forceful, while the Islam, Catholic, and
Protestants expansionism was peaceful, no force involved. Here,
Dr. Yonas Biru is seeking the support of Catholics, Protestants,
and Muslims against the Waaqeffannaa, as if Waaqeffannaa is
against them.
As it is well known to all until the fall of Haile Selassie’s
regime, Catholics, Protestants, and Islam had been marginalized,
belittled, denied equal access to resources, and treated as
alien and strange religions by Abyssinian Orthodox Christians
and the Abyssinian rulers. Similarly, since the colonization of
Oromia until 1991, the Waaqeffannaa had been demonized and
banned. Not only this, Amhara colonial regime and Orthodox
Tewahedo Church continued fighting the Waaqeffannaa religion and
its oppression, subjugation, dehumanization, demonization, and
demeaning the Waaqeffannaa religion as idiot ever since the
colonization of Oromia. Dr. Yonas Biru is the twenty-first
century leader of Waaqeffannaa religion hate groups, and now he
is continuing with demeaning and denouncing Waaqeffannaa to
renew the old Ortho-Amhara and Amhara regime attacking method on
Waaqeffannaa attempting to ban it again, if possible, and to
fulfill his and Ortho-Amhara extremist goal of Oromo hatred and
Oromo phobia campaign against it.
The Ortho-Amhara church had been playing an omnipotent role
in building the Ethiopian empire and its politics by
participating in the war of conquest, colonization, occupation
of Oromia and in looting the Oromo lands ever since. During the
conquest of Oromia, the Tuulama Oromo were forcibly converted to
Orthodox Christianity by sword and gun. The Oromo Muslims were
also coerced to convert to Christianity. Those who refused to
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accept Tewahedo Christianity had their tongues, ears, and noise
mutilated. For years the Ortho-Amhara Christians have been
denying the Oromo Orthodox Christian believers having their
sovereignty and independent Synods. As Dr. Yonas Biru well-
knows, Oromos accepted Islam as resistance against forceful
conversion to Ortho-Abyssinian Christianity and the colonial
conquest of Oromia. In some area of Oromia, Oromo converted to
Islam before the conquest of Oromia through trade and merchants.
Dr. Yonas Biru well-knows that the Oromo kingdoms of the Gibe
and Wallo regions of Oromia peacefully converted to Islam in the
early 19th century, long before the conquest, colonization, and
occupation of Oromia. Arsii and Hararghe Oromo converted in the
mass to Islam in resistance against Orthodox Christianity after
the conquest of Oromia.
The only thing the Oromo scholars have been stating is that
the Muslim region did not fight against Abyssinian colonialism.
Despite this, the colonialist denied the Muslims every right in
the empire; the same has happened to the Protestants. The Oromo
scholars have been arguing that Semitic-based Islam and Ortho-
Amhara Christianity have one common feature regarding the new
believers; both change the identities of the new converted into
the Semitic identity; this means a change to the name of Amhara
identity and Arab identity and everything that goes with it. One
can believe in any religion without sacrificing their indigenous
national identity, their names. The fact is it is only Ortho-
Amhara Christianity and Islam religions that change the identity
of people who accept their respective religion.
In contrast, Waaqeffannaa is an indigenous Oromo religion; it
fought against the colonial occupation. The colonialists
annihilated the Qaalluus and Abbaa Muudaas- religious leadership
and social and political institutions. The colonialists not only
annihilated the Qaalluus but also made outlawed Waaqeffannaa to
congregate gather together for Waaqa worship. For this reason,
the Abyssinianian colonialists waged a continuous vicious war
against Waaqeffannaa. Not only this, Waaqeffannaa Galmas were
burned down to the ground, and on the other, on the remaining
site of Galmas Waaqeffannaa, Abyssinian Orthodox Tewahedo
Churches were built. Following these, Orthodox Christian burial
places or cemeteries replaced burial grounds or cemeteries for
Waaqeffattootaa. It is significant to recognize that the Galama
Waaqeffannaa is equivalent to the Christian Church, the Muslim
Mosque, and the Jewish Synagogue.
All and all, the scholars categorized Islam, Protestants, and
Catholics for their silence and failure to fight against the
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colonization of Oromia “empire builders” along with Ortho-Amhara
Christianity.
Dr. Yonas Biru failed to understand that Waaqeffannaa is
monolithic religion. It is collective indigenous Oromo religion,
embodying Oromo identity, indigenous Oromo cultural and social
values and legal traditions, indigenous Oromo religious rituals
and practices, and the civilization of the Oromo people, and
respect for the Oromo ancestors’ values. Of course, these are
true for Christianity or Islam and any religion, for that
matter, for their respective societies from where they originate
and spread. As God is for European Christians, Allah is for
Muslims, Bog for Russian Orthodox Christians, and Igziabeher for
Amhara Orthodox Tewahedo, and Waaqaa for Oromo Waaqeffannaa. So,
God has many names for different peoples in the world. Being
Oromo-phobic and Oromo hater Dr. Yonas Biru has failed to accept
this truth regarding Waaqeffannaa.
Contradictory story of Dr. Yonas Biru
In his article titled “Oromummaa’s Religion Cleansing and
Cultural Evilgelazation Project,” Dr. Yonas Biru, besides
viciously attacking Oromo and Oromo institutions, took time to
talk about his heritage, as both half Oromo and half Amhara. To
establish this relation, he told us the channel through which he
is half Oromo. He wrote about Woizero Senait, the sister of King
Mikael Ali of Wollo. He noted that among her children was
Woizero Menen, who he said was the mother of Dejazmach Kasim,
the father of Dejazmach Biru, and that Dejazmach Biru is the
father of Dr. Yonas Biru. Dr. Yonas Biru, however, failed to
tell us to whom Woizero Senait was married.
Another story told was Woizero Senait, the sister of King
Mikael of Wollo, was the wife of King Menelik of Shawa and the
mother of wizero Menen and Dejazmach Kasim. That Means Menelik
was the father of Woizero Menen and Dejazmach Kasim, the father
of Dajazmach Biru, who was the father of Dr. Yonas. In this
scenario, Emperor Menelik II was the great-grandfather of Dr.
Yonas Biru. In this case, Dr. Yonas Biru, had a chance to be
emperor of Ethiopia.
According to Ethiopian imperial royal history, Woizero Menen
was the daughter of Asfaw Ali and Woizero Sehin, the daughter of
the King Mikael of Wollo. And she was married to Tafari Mokennen
and who later became Emperor Haile Selassie.
In another scenario, it had written that Menelik had only
married three women. One was Altash, daughter of Emperor
Tewodros, the second was Befana Gatchew, and the third was Taytu
Betul. He had no children with them but several other children
by other women he recognized. It had told Menelik had several
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wives, not married legally in Church. Here, the question is how
the story of Dr. Yonas Biru fits into all these.
The one thing we can learn from Dr. Yonas is that his family
was at the pinnacle of the epicenter of imperial power. He told
that his grandfathers were Dejazmaches, his father was
Dejazmach, and evidently, he was a Dejazmach then, even though
he refrained from telling. In the Ethiopian imperial feudal
hierarchy, the first position was emperor, the second was Ras,
and the third position was Dejazmach. They controlled the empire
and the resources. Here below Hassen, Muhammed, The Oromo of
Ethiopia, as cited in Tabor Waamii, yeWugina Dirsatochina
yetarik ewunatoch, 2006, p. 508.
Ranks of Neftegna Numbers of tenats Land owned in acres
Dajazmach over 1000 1000
Fitrawrari 300 300
Kegnazmach/Gerazmach 100 150
Balambaras 50 50
Lowest rank 15-20 2-20
As it is clear from this table, a Dajazmach owns thousands of
acres of land and a thousand slaves. Dr. Yonas, his father, and
his grandfather were the class of lordship together owned over
3000 tenants and 3000 acres of land. With the revolution of
1974, Dr. Yonas and all the feudal class lost the lands and
unlimited wealth they accumulated, and the power they had
because of the Oromo nationalists and the Oromo people’s
struggle against this colonialist of Oromia. Because of these,
Dr. Yonas Biru has become an Oromo phobic, hating the Oromo,
everything Oromo, their institutions, and things the Oromo
people stand for. From his deep hatred for the Oromo people, he
fabricated lies and fiction of hate against the Oromo, being
inspired by Hitlerism to write this fabrication portraying the
Oromo people in his article “The Fanno Manifesto” of August 15,
2023, wrote:
Apart from cruel mass evictions, hanging people upside down and
pelting them to death with stones and hacking the necks of
children and elderly with machetes have become the signature
political tools of Oromummaa’s subjugation.
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This newly constructed statement is Dr. Yonas Biru’s
longstanding work to arm the Amhara fundamentalists, the radical
Orthodox terrorist movement Fanno with a new ideology of Oromo
phobia, Oromo hate, and Oromo extermination following the
example of Menelik and their fathers and grandfathers. Such a
statement is a declaration of genocide of the Oromo people, and
he went on to write: “Fanno fights against Oromummaa anti-
Christian, anti-Islam, anti-Amhara, and anti-Ethiopia campaign.”
Closer looking at this is a genocidal campaign call on the
Christians, Muslims, galtu neo-Gobanist Ethiopianists of hue and
colors, and collaborationists of all types against Oromummaa,
the Oromo-centric culture, and values. The close observer will
note that the neo-Gobanists and collaborationists have loyalty
to the Ethiopian colonial empire political machine rather than
the Oromo people and their struggle for the right of the Oromo
nation for self-determination.
Furthermore, Dr. Biru continues writing. This time, he
accused the Oromo Christian and Muslim nationalists of saying
that they were Oromo first when asked whether they were first
Christian or Muslim, or Oromo. He wrote: “The Oromo nationalist
allegiance has become ‘I am an Oromo first before I am
Christian’ and ‘I am an Oromo first, then Muslim.’ What makes
this dangerous is that the 16th-century Gadaa military tradition
is the force behind its implementation.” Here, the question is
how Dr. Yonas Biru can overcome or reconcile his irreconcilable
contradictory statements. On the one hand, he campaigns for the
Oromo Christians and Muslims to join the Amhara to fight against
Oromummaa, yet, on the other hand, he accuses them of their
choice of being Oromo or Oromoness or Oromummaa first before
being Christians and Muslims. Dr. Yonas Biru is in a madness of
mesmerization of the “past glory of Ethiopia.”
Dr. Yonas Biru’s Campaigns of renewal of Alliance
against Oromo
In this campaign, he has drawn lessons from the late 19th-
century and 20th-century experiences, the way Abyssinians, his
predecessors, defeated Oromo and their institutions. In this
regard, first and foremost, Dr. Yonas Biru and his old feudal
aristocratic class have successfully united the rightwing Amhara
extremists and the Amhara population behind them for support
against the Oromo institutions-especially Oromummaa-the Oromo-
centric culture, Irreechaa, and Waaqeffannaa religion.
With this accomplished, his campaign is now to bring into
Amhara fold the neo-Gobanaas -the Oromo Ethiopianists, the
collaborationists, and the descendants of former Oromo
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balabbats. The neo-Gobaninsts are the Trojan horses of the
Amhara settler colonizers of Oromia. These Trojan horses are now
at the gate of Oromia wearing camouflaging clothing of
“transitional government, federalism, and self-determination” to
mislead the Oromo people into accepting the Ethiopian imperial
colonial empire. These Trojan horses, the neo-Gobanists, are
already in line to join Dr. Yonas Biru and his extremist
rightwing Amhara barbarians that is overwhelmingly overpowered
with Oromo phobia and Oromo hatred and with the desire to
destroy Oromo people and their institutions to maintain the
colonial empire. These are the methods the settler colonizers
used in the late 19th century, 1992, and since 2018. In history,
neo-Gobanists have never supported the independence of Oromia
and the armed struggle to restore the lost Oromia independence.
Another method the Abyssinian rulers used against the Oromo,
but the Oromo have never paid attention to is this. It is the
question of how the 14th-century Oromo get defeated. It is
reappearing in the 21st century once again. The question here is
how the Oromo defeated in the 14th century? In the 14th century,
two countries were campaigning to overtake Oromia. One was The
Christin Kingdom of Abyssinia, the other was the Muslim
Sultanate of Adal. Opposing these two forces was the indigenous
Waaqeffannaa population of Oromo defending the country. Here
there were three-way wars. The Christian kingdom and Muslim
Sultanate were fighting each other to control the land on the
one hand, and on the other, both were fighting the Waaqeffannaa
Oromo. At the same time, the Oromo were fighting both of them.
So, no one was able to defeat the other. Here, the Christian
Kingdom came up with a new plan; it suggested to the Muslim
Sultanate that both were brothers, had Abrahamic religions, and
needed to fight the non-Abrahamic religion. The Muslims
accepted, and Christians and Muslims allied and fought and
defeated Oromo. And the rest is history. Now, the Ethiopian
colonialist elites are trying the struggle in Ethiopian empire a
religious struggle.
In his article Oromummaa’s Religion Cleansing and Cultural
Evilgelazation Project, Dr. Biru wrote this:
What makes Oromummaa dangerous is that it is anti-Christianity
and anti-Islam in a country where the two Abrahamic religions
account for over 90 percent of the nation’s population. In
recent days Oromummaa’s ethnic cleansing endeavor has been
elevated to religion/religious cleansing crusade.
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He went on: “Those who ignore Oromummaa do so at their peril
like people who ignored the Nazi movement in its formative
years.”
Dr. Yonas Biru is trying to make an alliance between
religions –Christians and Muslims against Oromummaa. This time,
he is asking all Christians and Muslims in the Ethiopian empire
to join hands and hand and shoulder-to-shoulder as allies with
Amhara to fight against Waaqeffannaa and Oromummaa, portraying
all Oromo institutions as evil to fight. He wrote that the
“Oromummaa movement is the Naizification movement of the Oromo
nationalists” The only difference today is not the outside enemy
but to make the Oromo fight a war of Oromo against Oromo, to
turn Oromo itself against itself. Such is the campaign of the
Amhara extremist ultraright elite barbarism of the 21st century
against the Oromo people and their institutions under Dr. Yonas
Biru and his Co.
In conclusion, the Oromo people and their institutions have been
under attack more than ever before since 2018. The attackers are
Amhara political elites, political activists, mass organizations, the
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, mass Media, and social media in
unity. The Amhara elites referred to the Oromo national struggle for
independence as political Oromummaa fascism, and Dr. Yonas Biru called
Oromummaa the Oromo Nazification movement of nationalism. He,
furthermore, condemned the adaptation of Qubee, the Latin alphabet, by
the Oromo nationalists in Oromia as a Nazification of academic
disciplines in Oromia to undermine Ethiopia. Not only this, adopting
Bible to the Oromo identity, the Oromo phobic sadist settler
colonizers led by Dr. Yonas Biru called it the Oromummaa Nazification
of the Bible, but adopting to Amhara identity is not Nazification. Dr.
Yonas Biru and his Amhara elite hatred for Oromo is immense.
Eventually, this Oromo phobic like Dr. Yonas Biru and the other haters
of Oromo and Oromo institutions-Oromummaa, Gadaa, Irreechaa,
Moggaasaa, and Waqeffannaa will bow to the victorious struggle of the
Oromo people and to the establishment independent democratic republic
of Oromia. Dr. Yonas Biru seems angry with himself for his inability
or failure in his attempt to undermine the Gadaa System.
Dr. Yonas Biru’s goal has been to resurrect the “Past
greatness and glory of Ethiopia” of his fathers and grandfathers
that have never existed in history but only in his mind. He
thinks the Oromo people and institutions are an obstacle to his
mission. For this, he has chosen to engage in a deliberate
fabrication of naked lies against the Oromo institutions to
undermine, weaken, and destroy them, if possible, to achieve his
goal. Not only these, but he also wants the Oromo struggle for
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liberation turned into a war between Oromo Waaqeffannaa and
Oromummaa versus Christians and Muslims. For this, he has been
ceaselessly calling the Muslims and Christians to unite and
fight Waaqeffannaa. Now it is time for Dr. Yonas Biru and his
likes to comfort themselves that it is impossible to reverse the
inherently inalienable right of the Oromo nation for self-
determination to establish a sovereign independent republic of
Oromia. For the people in the Ethiopian Empire state to live or
not live together depends on the free will of the people and the
people alone through referendum only, not on the coming and
going dictators and Nazist Amhara elites and their Nazist
followers and other collaborationists-the neo-Gobanists of the
21st century. Dr. Biru should understand that under the Gadaa
System of governance, all nations and nationalities have
entitled to free choice through a referendum, whether to live
together in a federation, confederation, or separate and form
their respective independent state.
A Luta Continua!
Oromia shall be
