Public Anger Blazing in Gondar

 Public Protest raged Gonder yesterday, Sunday, July 31, 2016 demanding democratic change in the nation in general and the release of prisoners, the return of Gondar provinces illegally annexed into Tigray State Administration and respect to Amhara People in particular.

The provinces the demonstrators request to return to the legitimate owners were formerly administered by the administrative region of Gondar which is a homeland to Amharas but added to Tigray when the Tigray Liberation Front (TPLF) seized power by the muzzle of the Gun in 1992.  “We are Amharas, and the proud children of Ethiopia” the crowd shouted. “Amharas are Ethiopians; they deserve respect as member of the nation,” they Added. The demonstrators also shouted that the unity and integrity of the Amhara people is still intact that the TPLF propaganda will not obstruct their oneness. "Amharas are one and indivisible wherever they may live." they insisted.

The Amharas have been a target of devastating subjugation and oppression ever since the TPLF took power by the muzzle of the Gun. The TPLF led government misappropriated fertile lands of Wollo and Gonder to add to Tigray Administrative region. Some taken from Gonder include Setit Humera, a province most known for its production of the cash crop "Sesame seed," that obtains a huge foreign currency to the nation next to "Coffee."   Another is Wolqaait Tegedie, a hot spot

at the border of Ethiopia and the Sudan. The inhabitants of the region complain that they are forced to be Tigreans while they are actually Amharas. “We are Amharas who lived for a time immemorial here as Amharas. Our language is Amharic, our culture is Amhara. We speak Amharic, express our sorrows and pleasures in the Amharic language and Amhara culture,” a candid speaker said in a Protest gathering in Wolqaait a few weeks ago.   But the TPLF needs this border town as an access to the Sudan via land transportation. This is an important route that links the future Republic of Tigray to a foreign land. The TPLF is also reserving Assab Port for the future Republic which would serve as an access to the sea. It will gain it either through an exchange to Badimie in a negotiation with a friendly Eritrean leadership yet to come or by invading Eritrea when the time comes. It is for this reason they don't fight for Assab today. 

Wollo is another Amhara region with which the TPLF would be deep in trouble soon. In addition to the high valued sesame seed farming land of Setit Humera of Gondar, the TPLF has taken over the fertile agricultural lands of Wollo, such as Rayana Azbo Zone, Seqota, Kobo and the like that would staunchly support its people in becoming self-sufficient in food production.   Obviously Wollo will turn on the TPLF with similar demand to Gondar. It will follow the foot step of Gondar in the demand to reinstating its territories back to the legitimate owners. The movement has already started and with the coordination and support from Gondar in the North and the patriotic North Shoa compatriots in the South, the issue will become a headache to the TPLF.

Observers comment that the TPLF had better not mess with the Amhara or will pass away as a mist in a hot zone. However, the billionaires at the TPLF palace are not satisfied yet. Their bellies are tight but still want to eat more, their hands are stained with enough blood and yet they want to kill more. They have become like the idols described in the book of John, they have eyes, they don’t see. They have ears, they don’t hear. They don’t even listen to their loyal friends, the Chinese! They are waiting for the fire that glowed in Gondar to end up in the waters of North Shoa, as predicted!