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[Wardoffa]

The elites of Amhara and Tegaru have become so perplexed and disoriented by the change reverberating under their feet, it has become impossible to find any coherent and valuable political input from them under present day Ethiopia. The two forces are now infested with inward reflection of sorts that is tantamount to soul searching on an individual basis.

They have shifted from broader vision to replacing and shrinking to narrow nationalists.

Amhara elite (Amharuma) and their Tigrian counterparts (Tegaruma) have become the opposite of what their older elites used to advocate. The Amhara elite of 1990’s and onwards (with all its rawness and unrefined traits) could be said to have served as Ethiopia’s rational conscience while OLF/TPLF were flogging it to extremity. Without exaggeration that Amhara elite kept the nation’s polity united by preaching about lofty ideals when the federalism chorus was threatening the foundational unity of the country.

In this midst the TPLF of Meles (at least in rhetoric) claimed to have worked for a unity-with-diversity although the domination by TPLF pulled others away from the center leading to unpredictability.

So enter 2022 when we’re seeing the telltale signs of the birth of Amharuma and Tegaruma. ABN (NAMA) and TPLF 2.0 served as midwives to this transition.

We saw the sad spectacle of Tegaru fighting to reinstate old glory by going to war, with the central belief that they shall have domination over Ethiopia. This Tegaruma ideology is opposite to the unity-in-diversity qifela of TPLF 1.0 which became naked after 2018 with TPLF 2.0 reaffirming that TPLF is all about Tegaruma.

We also see how the Amhara Ethiopiawinet shrunk to a level of Amharawinet ushering Amharuma in contrast to the broader visions of the Amhara elites of old.

Then we all saw with laughter when, after losing Power and Finfine, Tegaru & Amhara have been scrambling for ownership of their means of oppression - Orthodox Church, the 3000-year history, Solomonic dynasty anointment when TPLF branched out with a sect of Orthodox Tewahido church of Tigray, and claiming that it is not sharing Axum obelisks with nobody anyone.

The other hilarious thing about Amharuma and Tegaruma is they fight over Wolkait and Raya and when Gallas claim their lands (Finfine) or anything they cry narrow nationalism. But they had bloodbath over land and will stay like Palestine and Jews forever. But they have no shame on shaming others.

We also heard of Amharuma philosophizing about the borders of Amhara vs. Oromo and the call to bring all Amhara settlers from Oromia and settling them in Wolkait. Tegaruma is still in a logjam unable to go forward or backward and abandoning anything Ethiopian and singing the Tegaruma extremism while Amhara, which had advocated for Ethiopianwinet, is now fighting over Amhara (not Ethiopian) lands of Wolkait and Raya. So what do you expect from these Amharuma and Tegaruma elites? Are they better than ANDM? Really?

[Wardoffa]

This article about the fragmentation of American society in the 2010’s has striking parallels of today’s Ethiopia and the loss of basic understanding and consensus amongst the peoples and ethnicities.

WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... el/629369/

“The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to [Ethiopia] in the 2020’s. But Babel is not a story about tribalism; it’s a story about the fragmentation of everything. It’s about the shattering of all that had seemed solid, the scattering of people who had been a community. It’s a metaphor for what is happening not only between [Amhara] and [Tegaru], but within all of us, the left and within the right, as well as within universities, companies, professional associations, museums, and even families and for the fractured country we now inhabit. Something went terribly wrong, very suddenly. We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past….

But Babel is not a story about tribalism; it’s a story about the fragmentation of everything. It’s about the shattering of all that had seemed solid, the scattering of people who had been a community. It’s a metaphor for what is happening not only between red and blue, but within the left and within the right, as well as within universities, companies, professional associations, museums, and even families.

Babel is a metaphor for what some forms of social media have done to nearly all of the groups and institutions most important to the country’s future—and to us as a people. How did this happen? And what does it portend for [Ethiopian] life?

[Wardoffa]

The rise of Amharuma, Amharuma’s renunciation of Ethiopiawinet and the loss of Tegaruma to wield domination are hopeful signs that Ethiopiawinet would come to a healthy position. People distanced themselves from Ethiopiawinet because it was mixed up with Amharuma or soiled by Tegauma hatred of the word. Now Amharuma has taken shape thanks to ABN and the emancipation of the post-Bereket ANDM and Amhara youth, Ethiopiawinet has become something different from Amharuma and Tegaruma. Something Gallas and all other people can aspire to as it is no one group’s exclusive property.