The old Gurage Zone had about 15 seats in the Ethiopian parliaments and more number of seats in the parliament of the conglomerate region of the SNNPR. I have never heard anyone of them speak up in regional or federal assemblies about the political, economic or peace problems in Gurage
There have been several mass murders, huge population displacements upto 60,000, rural home and crops arsons, cattle thefts, shops lootings, killing and injuries, and imprisonements that followed protests against water shortages, unwarranted declaration of Marshall law in Gurage. From Qosye town on border with Hadiya, Welkite in 7bet, Enseno town in Mesqan to villages in Sodo.
I have not heard any Gurage regional and federal represenrative speak about the injustices Gurages suffered in parliament so that the Ethiopian people hear it. So that PM Abiy Ahmed, Hailemariam Desalegn or Meles Zeradwa hear about the sufferings of the Gurage people and the remedies they sought.
Silence of Gurage represtatives in parliament
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Re: Silence of Gurage represtatives in parliament
According to the historian Paul B. Henze, the Gurage origin is explained by traditions of a military expedition to the south during the last years of the Kingdom of Aksum, which left military colonies that eventually became isolated from both northern Ethiopia and each other.[7] However other historians have raised the issue of the complexity of Gurage peoples if viewed as a singular group, for example Ulrich Braukhamper states that the Gurage East people may have been an extension of the ancient Harla people. Indeed, there is evidence that Harla architecture may have influenced old buildings (pre-16th c.) found near Harar (eastern Ethiopia), and the Gurage East group often cite kinship with Harari (Hararghe) peoples in the distant past.[8]
Braukhamper also states King Amda Seyon ordered Eritrean troops to be sent to mountainous regions in Gurage (named Gerege), which eventually became a permanent settlement. In addition to Amda Seyon's military settlement there, the permanence of Abyssinian presence in Gurage is documented during his descendants Zara Yaqob and Dawit II's reigns. Thus, historically, Gurage peoples may be the product of a complex mixture of Abyssinian and Harla groups which migrated and settled in that region for different reasons and at various times.[8]
Another stated that the Gurage were originated from a place called Gura, Eritrea. This believed that linguistically by citing a southward Semitic migration during the late classical and medieval period; however more historical research needed.[9]
Braukhamper also states King Amda Seyon ordered Eritrean troops to be sent to mountainous regions in Gurage (named Gerege), which eventually became a permanent settlement. In addition to Amda Seyon's military settlement there, the permanence of Abyssinian presence in Gurage is documented during his descendants Zara Yaqob and Dawit II's reigns. Thus, historically, Gurage peoples may be the product of a complex mixture of Abyssinian and Harla groups which migrated and settled in that region for different reasons and at various times.[8]
Another stated that the Gurage were originated from a place called Gura, Eritrea. This believed that linguistically by citing a southward Semitic migration during the late classical and medieval period; however more historical research needed.[9]
Re: Silence of Gurage represtatives in parliament
I can imagine the school kids in Mesqan wanting me to share their specfic injuries, the body parts they lost to savage criminals with the world. A repeat of Anole if it happened. A repeat of Balcha Aba Nefso.
I hear them. They want me to remember them, allowing me to mention their injuries and their sufferings, the shame they will endur until they die, the deprivation of the joy of love, to have children and not to be able to breast feed them, the rights and priviledges deprived from not having full body parts, taken away from them suddenly, out of no where, out of no falut of theirs, in a blink of an eye.
Completely innocent unerage primary school children punished savagely while attending classes while anticipating for break to play in their school compound.
They were attacked before they knew what was happening. Maimed while sitting listening to their teachers in the classes. Criminals dressed in gov security forms entered the class, armed with knives, machetes and guns. Grabbed tge children one by one and amputed the male genitals of boys and breasts of girls in gruesome and painful manners.
The boys will grow up but never marry and have children. The girls will grow up but will never breastfeed their children.
Some or many of them may commit suicide due to the unbearable shame. Some may have already committed suicide.
This savage crimes happened immediately after Clown Abiy Ahmed came to power. I guess it was some time in late 2018. At about close to the time when Qeero bloody rampages in Shashemene and Ejeto ramages in and around Awasa against non-Sidamas.
That is all I can do boys and girls.
May Allah grant you the strength to live!
I hear them. They want me to remember them, allowing me to mention their injuries and their sufferings, the shame they will endur until they die, the deprivation of the joy of love, to have children and not to be able to breast feed them, the rights and priviledges deprived from not having full body parts, taken away from them suddenly, out of no where, out of no falut of theirs, in a blink of an eye.
Completely innocent unerage primary school children punished savagely while attending classes while anticipating for break to play in their school compound.
They were attacked before they knew what was happening. Maimed while sitting listening to their teachers in the classes. Criminals dressed in gov security forms entered the class, armed with knives, machetes and guns. Grabbed tge children one by one and amputed the male genitals of boys and breasts of girls in gruesome and painful manners.
The boys will grow up but never marry and have children. The girls will grow up but will never breastfeed their children.
Some or many of them may commit suicide due to the unbearable shame. Some may have already committed suicide.
This savage crimes happened immediately after Clown Abiy Ahmed came to power. I guess it was some time in late 2018. At about close to the time when Qeero bloody rampages in Shashemene and Ejeto ramages in and around Awasa against non-Sidamas.
That is all I can do boys and girls.
May Allah grant you the strength to live!
Re: Silence of Gurage represtatives in parliament
To some banda and evil Gurages, such crimes are ok as long as they were committed to benefit the Ethiopian state.