Finfinnee: Decolonisation or Colonisation by Another Name?
“The Historical Question That Administrative Relabelling Cannot Erase
“Can the historical dispossession of a people be resolved by asking others what administrative label should be placed upon the land from which they were dispossessed?
“That is the question Ethiopia's latest political exercise appears determined not to confront.”
Yesterday, Saudi Arabia executed another 5 Ethiopian migrants for non-lethal drug offenses, without due process. Saudi's partners shld press the authorities to halt these executions & commute the sentences of the dozens more awaiting a similar fate @hrw
FINFINNEE IS NON-NEGOTIABLE!
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No “Commission” or committee—let alone this illegal, illegitimate, and criminal PP “commission”—can ever erase the story of dispossession and displacement. Finfinnee was, is, and forever shall remain the land of Oromia.
“Dialogue” over stolen land is like attempting to whitewash and justify the theft, the dispossession, the ethnic cleansing, and the displacement of the indigenous people. There is no dialogue (or negotiation) over what is rightfully yours. There is no dialog with thugs that committed the theft and robbery. Dialogue with the very system that did the stealing and the genocide thereof is a grotesque mockery of justice.
Oromos resisted this practice of violent dispossession for over a century, and they have been paying dearly for it—in lives, limbs, and liberties.
What is defended in a fierce struggle, including through bloody sacrifices, shall not be given up in a sham dialogue conducted exclusively to legitimize the violent theft and wrest Finfinnee (and other towns) from the clutches of Oromia.
This PP Commission is now becoming the latest tool deployed for validating and continuing the project of theft and dispossession. It’s participating in the perpetuation of the genocidal logic of elimination which began in the 19th c. In so doing, it’s implicating itself in the massacre of countless Oromos over the ages and of over 7000 Qeerroo and Qarree who were brutally executed between 2014 and 2018.
This hapless “commission” is only continuing the practice of declaring the ongoing (if silent) genocidal war on Oromos and Oromia. And this PP Commission and its members shall pay for it in real time. A moment of reckoning will come. And soon.
Gaaffiin PPn Oromoof deebisu hin jiru. PPn madda rakkoo Oromooti. PPn diina. Diina Oromoo keessaa magarte. Impaayyerri koloneeffataa uummata bara baraaf ajjeessee fi buqqisee balleessuf yaalaa tureef gaaffiin inni deebisu hin jiru. Sirni impayera haaromsee gad-dhaabuf jecha Oromiyaa fi Oromummaa diiguu dhaaf tattaafatu gaaffii Oromoo deebisuu hin fedhus, hin danda’us. Maddi rakkoo furmaata hin ta’u. PPn gaaffii Oromoo deebisaa jedhanii abdachuun diina isa si qaluuf ba’ee sana “isatu na baraaraa!” jechuun doofummaa dha. #Impayerri_ni_diigama_Oromoon_ni_bilisooma!