Neither ignorance nor sinister moral blindness is an excuse!
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Ethio-elite’s morally blind argument regarding Finfinnee: every body can claim Finfinnee as his own except the Oromo. When everyone says “Finfinnee is mine,” it’s okay. When an Oromo says it is mine, all hell breaks loose. Why? Because…well, there is no because (no reasoning), hatred is enough. Just pure hatred.
No, Ato Kibur Genna, the Oromo quest is not about “gaining”Finfinnee (as if it is something to be achieved); it is about recognition as an Oromo city purely because its geographic location makes it so.
Nor is it about “possession,” for the possessor is whoever is living there, possessing a plot to work or a flat he built or bought. No body, no Oromo, ever contested that.
Also, no body said, the city’s recognition as an Oromo city should make others less entitled to rights or legal protection in any sense whatsoever. The quest is merely for the city’s Oromo identity to be recognised. From your writing, it is obvious that you are deliberately making up claims that the Oromo never raised.
The fact that every resident “contributed” to the “development” of the city does not make it a non-Oromo city unless, of course, you are—rather conveniently —assuming that the land was a masterless property (terra nullius) at the time of the conquest, occupation, and dispossession that subsequently led to fashioning it as a garrison town. It was depopulated by a genocidal logic of settler colonialism, a protracted project of dispossession and displacement. I should not be the one to remind you of what your favourite court historians elaborately wrote about this.
The example of Bern is an example that actually supports the claim that the city should be under Oromia (just as Bern is a city recognised as, and governed by, the local laws of the Canton in which it is located). What makes it right when Switzerland does it and wrong when the same model is proposed for Ethiopia?
I know what causes this difference in judgement: moral blindness emanating from sedimented prejudice and long-held Oromophobia.
One can’t be anymore opportunistic(ally selfish) or cynical!
But neither selfishness nor cynicism, neither moral blindness nor crass Oromophobia, is an excuse. The truth is clear, and it shames your tactical obscurantism.
Trying to bully Oromia and Oromos out of their natural, legal, legitimate rights to their cities is a tactic used thousands of times over the last several decades. And it didn’t work. The more the bullying, the stronger the response. The table will turn. And soon.
#Finfinnee_is_Oromia!
#EMPIRE_must_Fall_and_it_shall!