AbebeB wrote: ↑18 Jan 2020, 18:13
Abere wrote: ↑18 Jan 2020, 13:10
According to the first 1984 population census of Ethiopia, the population of Oromo (12,387,664) and Amhara (12,055,250) were statistically equal. However, the 1984 population census did not cover some parts of North Western Gondar and Wolo, because of these regions were war or conflict zones which made difficult to send census enumeration workers. Thus, had the population enumeration covered these conflict zones, the Amhara population would have beenn relatively larger than the Oromo population. Those censuses undertaken during the TPLF regime are inaccurate and are politically fabricated hypothetical figures - amazing genocide of population at least on paper and census database by TPLF. Refer page 46 on this link
https://international.ipums.org/interna ... t1984a.pdf
Abere,
Your comment is invalid for two reasons.
1. You are talking of ancient census data whatsoever the case might be. I gave recent census data (2018) collected by neutral internationally credible entity.
2. Even more recent census was planned by gov't of Ethiopia but Amhara opposed it for fear of its result which could have yield to minority Amhara.
In fact any observer who can distinguish between presence in media and on the ground can tell that Amhara (mixed) is finger counted in Ethiopia. Only those Amharas in the media (ESAT, Ethio 360, zeHabesha, etc) are plenty but not on the ground except in Farta (south gonder) and its surroundings. Okay my dear?
2.
AbebeB :
----What I wrote is not a comment, it is a hard fact. The 1984 Population Census of Ethiopia is the first most accurate census operation the country has ever conducted free of political or religious intervention. This is the only Census the country can use as baseline year/data to project how much the population of the country would be anytime in the future, i.e. 5 years, 10, 20 , 30 ,etc. Please also note, decennial census operation is a very huge undertaking and is ONLY conducted by the government, not by any NGO or international agency as you try to disinform readers. Thus, if the Amhara and Oromo population in the 1984 Census base year were each 12 million and were equal, how on earth would the Oromo population exceeds the Amhara population by 10 or more million? Let's say you deposit 12 million Birr at Commercial Bank branch in Arat Kilo and another 12 million Birr at Commercial Bank branch Merkato on the same day at the same interest rate (say 3%) would you expect different yield rate(amount) after 10 years or 20 years - given that you never withdrew any money out from any of the accounts? No, the same compound interest rate applies will apply equal amount to your principals to each of the account. If you get a different return or yield from you accounts, that means, the accounting clerks at the bank committed error in their computation. Like wise, the population Amhara and Oromo, even on the basis of that bench mark were statistically tie - when the under enumerated population in North Western Gondar & Wolo included the Amhara population out numbers the Oromo population. This the hard fact.
---- You mentioned the 1994 political census of TPLF, which was very much flawed and below conventional census undertakings. Did you know the Somali and Afar Population twice or three times of what TPLF published. Did you know TPLF counted the Afar and Somali population again after the National population result was published because the census result was unacceptable to TPLF. First, the whole national census was faulty; second, the Population of either Somali or Afar was larger than the Tigre population which consequently pushed the Melese Zenawi Tigre population to stand 5th instead of ranking 3rd in the national population size rank. Please note that all the two censused done by TPLF are invalid and are useless to use as a population bench mark.
----- Do you know there is NO Majority ethnic group in Ethiopia and Ethiopian politics? You try to misinform readers Oromo is a majority - that is false Oromo is the same rank as others. You can only call Oromo a majority if both of the following criteria met
1) had its population made up at least 51% of the national population
2) Had the Oromo population constituted again a reasonable (say 25%) of the population in most provinces or regions of Ethiopia. Unfortunately,
there is none in most regions or provinces of Ethiopia.
Thus, the Oromo population is not a Majority. Only the OLF is fooling around which will not serve anything other than raising money for terrorist Jawar and illiterate Bekele Geriba.