The unpublished testimony of a neftenya at his deathbed
Posted: 28 Feb 2025, 10:29
We fought northeast Africans. We killed and defeated them. We told them they were now Ethiopians.
We pillaged their cattle and crops as the king in his awaj, proclamation of war, allowed it. Some of our neftenyas raped their women and infected them with the sexual diseases unknown in their countries prior.
We took their lands and made them landless peasants. We reduced them to renters on the land that does not belong to them any more. We settled armed Amaras to watch over them on the most fertile sections of their lands.
We christianized those who were pagans. Most were. We suppressed and alienated Muslims, the anti-christs. We imposed our language and civilized their culture by showing them ours.
We pillaged their cattle and crops as the king in his awaj, proclamation of war, allowed it. Some of our neftenyas raped their women and infected them with the sexual diseases unknown in their countries prior.
We took their lands and made them landless peasants. We reduced them to renters on the land that does not belong to them any more. We settled armed Amaras to watch over them on the most fertile sections of their lands.
We christianized those who were pagans. Most were. We suppressed and alienated Muslims, the anti-christs. We imposed our language and civilized their culture by showing them ours.