Yaa ilmaan Oromootaa! Bakkuma jirtan maratti, nagaan haa dursu! Jabaadhaa! Dubbii fi udaanni xiqqoo hin qabdu, jedhama. Kanaafuu, wanneen Ummata keenya irratti gaggeeffamaa jiran kana mara takkaafuu osoo hin tuffatin, jabinaan itti fufuun wal nama gaafachiisa hin fakkaatu. Egaa kana caalaa wantan jedhu hin qabu. Galatoomaa!

Ilmaan biyyaa,
gara biyya Ingilisii irraa

Comment by: Abbaa Dhiira

This is an excellent peace of work. I am happy that Oromos are coming up with such a good analysis of the situation in the horn. We would like other Oromos who have good talents to write and expose this criminal act to the world. Abbaa Dhiira

Comment by: Yared

Dear Author,

First of all I would like to congratulate you on your article for highlighting the issue of TPLF policy using non-Tigrayan communities as human mine sweepers in its war with Eritrea. I would also like to contribute my comments relating to the statement you made below:

It had to prove its "Ethiopianess" by "teaching Eritrea a lesson", no matter how many lives may be lost in the process, and gain support from those who could not come to terms with Eritrea's separation from Ethiopia. The TPLF has indeed achieved some success in this regard but how long will it last?

While I generally agree with your statements, I am not quite clear with the last paragraph which you refer to TPLF as having achieved some success. What success have they achieved? Despite many referring to the Ethiopia/Eritrea war as a border war, the truth is quite obviously different.

From the various statements that the TPLF leaders have made over the last couple of years such as "Why should Ethiopia with 60 million people has no sea port while Eritrea with only 4 million people and has two sea ports etc etc etc", you can put two and two together to provide you with a different picture: the border war was triggered simply as an excuse to invade and take the port of Assab. This they have clearly failed. It is obvious the Eritrean army conserved itself. It undertook the fighting in its own terms by conserving its strength and the lives of its civilian population. Of course TPLF portrayed this as a military defeat. They live in a world of fantasy. If the Eritrean army was in disarray as the TPLF would lead the Ethiopians to believe, why is it then demanding for the downsizing of the Eritrean army in the current peace negotiations? TPLF has an interesting logic. For those who seek the truth, time and history will judge what happened. Regards Yared

Comment by: Beku Tesfaye

The article in a simple and clear language explains the motive for the destructive and suicidal behaviour the TPLF hordes showed in their attempt to humble Eritrea and prove their Ethiopianess. Actually what they proved is that like the Khmer roughe they are a bunch of desperate hooligans and criminals showing their true colours. But their days want be long.

Comment by: Z. T.

I enjoyed your article and you could not have said it better. My heart goes out to the innocent poor Ethiopian children who had to be sacrificed to prove the TPLFs "Ethiopianness". I hope people will one day open their eyes and learn the truth..

Comment by: B. H.

Weyanie lies will soon be exposed when soldiers return from the front, if they ever will be allowed to return. The facts cannot be hidden forever. As for the downfall of this minority regime, it has already begun. They are half-way down the road. All it takes is for the majority in the country (the non-Tigreyan peoples) to reach some form of understanding. The dirty weyanies will be history instantaneously. Keep it up Oromiya.

Comment by: Ted

The TPLF regime has indeed taught Eritrea a lesson, a lesson all Eritreans were fully aware of right from the start: To destroy Eritrea & starve its population to death. It is a well-known fact that they have managed to displace more than a million Eritreans at the start of the most crucial season of the year. But let’s ask ourselves at what price? At whose expense?

You have already dealt with my questions in great length in you article. I am not looking for an answer. But I would like to add my views on the issue.

I understand, albeit with enormous disbelief, the TPLF (Ethiopian) ambassador to the USA when he says "only a few lives of Ethiopian soldiers have been lost" Surely he was not trying to deny a fact that is broadcast all over the world. The difference between what the world knows for a fact and what the TPLF Ambassador admitted is in the definition of the word "loss". For TPLF, the death of a soldier from the Oromo or other ethnic origin from southern Ethiopia is no loss. He and his Tigrayan comrades are well known for their famous phrase that goes like this: " Dear Ethiopian & Tigrayan People…."

We are still talking about what happened in the past. But who is to say the desperate TPLF government won’t drag hundreds of thousands more Ethiopians in to more deadly war in a desperate attempt to capture the "Promised Land." Despite all my prayers and hopes to the contrary, I have no doubt in my mind that the TPLF regime will do so. My brotherly suggestions to all Ethiopians is therefore that everything possible must be done to determine accountability for what happened in the past and to prevent any systematic ethnic cleansing in the future. The struggle against the perpetrators is two fold; to hold them accountable for their past actions and to prevent further atrocities against the Ethiopian youth, especially those from southern and western part of the country.

Comment by: Tigraway

You dam! Yes, TPLF are Ethiopians just like everyone else. We need to put an old, old smelly shoe in your mouth so you can stop all the lies and try to have some kind of human manner like everyone else in this world. Yes!

TPLF are from the Northern part of Ethiopia, and that makes them Ethiopian. You Devil! Oppressed brain! In your little hateful brain you even though to divide Ethiopians, see, you do not know to say enough is enough, damy!

Comment by: Efrem

In deed, my heart goes out for those innocent children of Oromo to be used as expendable resource to advance TPLF's narrow and expansionist adventurism. It is sad that the highest human cost has fallen on Oromo's childern, but by playing with and cheapening the lives of innocent people, the TPLF is only strengthening the resolve against it. Keep on the struggle.

Comment by: M Oaman.

Dear Author, I am from one of the ethnic groups suppressed by the TPLF, the minority Woyana, and enjoyed very much the truth in your article. In Ethiopia millions are dying for Aids, millions are dying for hunger, thousands are in the jails, thousands are in exile including me and yet the minority are celebrating for having been in the office 10 years. Nothing more. Let them celebrate few more days. They will end up soley where they belong -in Makale. In the mean time let us speed our effort to make them fall flat on their face.

Comment by: Meles Hagos

You are not leaving any 'stone' unturned to divert from the humiliating defeat of Eritreans. Sadly, this war has cost some lives mainly due to the obstinancy of Eritreans, but, at the same time achieved a desireable result: the nealing of Eritreans. The rest of problems, politcal problems, in Ethiopia are only in-house discussions. Hands off!.

Comment by: Ramoans

The Ethiopian FM was quoted as saying, "For Eritreans to live in peace with their neighbors, they have to clear their house. That is the source of the problem. Their problem is there, at home in Asmara."

It's ironic this is coming from an official who represents a government dominated by 6%, that is roughly one-third of the Tutsi who dominate Burundi & Rwanda (They make up 14-19% of the Hutu majority) of the population and therefore cannot even claim "choiceless democracy" to quote the Malawian political scientist Thandika Mkandwire.

I understand the Tigreans were oppressed for the last one hundred years & they never had a break since their fanatic Grandpa lost his head to the Mahdists -- I wonder if they are planning to capture Umdurman to get a sweet revenge & of course come back home with Grandpa's body part.

But the boys of Tigray who were greeted by few people when they marched to Addis & were not certain that they will dominate power for even nine days let alone nine years, have reached the point of no return.

And the only way they can stay in power is by crushing internal opposition and weakening their neighbors either by having a puppet government as in Djibouti or a passive government as in Kenya -- is the Kenyan government so timid that it does not even protest when its citizens are robbed of 6000 cattle? -- or no government at all as in Somalia.

And if their latest dream about Eritrea comes true, then Grandpa will definitely have a proper burial.

It is sad to say there is really nothing to learn from Ethiopia's 3000 years of history a history which has been rewritten countless times to suit the endless King of Kings, the misfit fascist, and now the gangsters from Tigray and that the Ethiopians have a daunting task to clear their house.

Comment by: Habtom

I read your well thought Article about the TPLF regime and their Ethiopianness. As you stated it in your article the TPLF regime have neither heart no courage to Lead the Ethiopian people. It is a courage admit your mistakes not a defeat. This are the same people who were fighting for Tigray independence yesterday preaching Ethiopian Sovereign today. The Ethiopian people are smarter than what the TPLF think about them.

For the TPLF, young Ethiopians specially if they are from Oromo they are worth nothing to them. Their suffer and death is victory to the TPLF. Losing hundred of thousands of young Ethiopians to prolong your power is a crime. Celebrating at the Sheraton Hotel with Champagne while many Ethiopians are giving their precious life for a meaningless war is not a victory it is a shame.

As an Eritrean, I can tell that 100% of Eritrean feel so sad to see young Ethiopians dead. We don't consider victory losing thousands of life to capture a small town. I have to brothers in the Front line and I always pray to god for peace not only to save my brothers but also to all Eritreans and innocents Ethiopians as well. No Eritrean or Ethiopian mother should loose her child at this war. The TPLF rulers are not human beings, they are evil and they main goal is to destroy Eritrea at the cost of innocent Ethiopians. Therefore Ethiopians should not tolerate this and do their homework to know the facts from fiction. Thanks, Habtom

Comment by: Walta

Ketemare gala, yabede gurage yishalal!

Comment by: Gala Melash

Your are an imposter trying to do the dirty work of Mussolini (Isias) .If you want an independant oromia go to Madagascar ,that is where you came from. If you want to live in peace you can live, if you donot, don't forget your immigrant statues you invaded Ethiopia 500years back like the Portugese who invaded Angola and Mozambique and remember the fate of Portugal .

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