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[teodroseIII]

Eighty four years ago, while the rest of the world was preoccupied with the Great Depression and bearing the brunt of global greed that decimated economies around the world, fascists invaded my birthland Ethiopia and ravaged the land of origins. Mussolini, seething from the embarrassment that our forefathers dealt Italy during the Battle of Adwa, was intent on restoring Roman pride by declaring a chemical holocausts against my grandparent’s generation.

Fifty years prior, Italians invaded Ethiopia bellowing vidi, vici veni only to be sent back north after jegnoch rose up and said embi! Europeans learned a lesson that day, Ethiopians cannot be defeated as long as we are united. This is a lesson that would-be colonizers would learn yet again during the runup to WWII, my grandparent’s generation refused to be divided and eventually repelled Mussolini’s forces and expelled occupiers back to Rome.

The lessons learned from two failed campaigns were plenty, chief among them was that Ethiopia could not be subdued as long as we refused to be splintered along ethnic lines. The Battle of Adwa was a victory wrought by solidarity more than any other factor; Ethiopians did not run to their respective ethnic corners, they emerged from the shadows of our differences and consolidated under one sendek alama. The forces of globalism had to reassess, as long as we were one, no one could defeat us....continued...

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[Noble Amhara]

Why you don’t add that Arbegnoch were 98% Amharas