I am one of the few fans of Memire Desta, the Mahtema.
He had published a candid book about nation and nationalities and the sad fate of the people of Tigray TO DELIVER THEM FROM BONDAGE.
The other day he was telling us,
"We the people of Tigray single handedly delivered the bulk of this nation of nationalities from the fatal grip of the Derge."
He went back on and repeated those words in case we might infere it was a slip of tongue or some thing.
I sat there amused and delighted.Just then the Nation was induced to commemorate OPDO's fallen heroes in a _style_ we haven't seen to date.
We almost wetted our eyes, 'cos they sounded so earnest.
I mean the Oromos if any thing made up three quarters of Derge's army and perished like flies at the hands of TPLF.

Hey Lena, Unless and otherwise you want to make fun of the patriotism of the Oromo people, it is not uncommon, in this dog-eat-dog world to take the entire credit for oneself. Yes, being earnest is one of the colors individual as well groups can have. They don't have to be so methodical and shrewd not to come out as losers! And we don't exactly know when doomsday is.

Howsa,Zee?
I have no, absolutely no, intention of mocking the Ors.
God forbid any one daring to do any thing remotely implying that.
But here is the chronology and the anachorism.
The year 19 82 was the time when 'the great warrior splinter' was born,a year later Addis fell to the rebel's.Where and when did all those gallant warriors met their heroic ends?
Makes me wonder.
Speaking of lies and calimunies that is very fast becoming the one singular characterstic that is defining us squarely, I heard a debtera telling with a straight face that Regina Vick begged Rex Menelik for shipments of food staff for starving Britons.Guess where on the National TV.!
SHAME ON ALL US, SHAMELESS RACES!

Please stop! Lena. Who knows, another Debtera would soon claim he has the phonograph that attests that. And another would say Regina Taitu sent the Britons their first ever Motor Car!

Now I know what you meant about the makiing of OPDO. It is so sad how some pigs rushed in and how the innocents were duped!

I really mean it ,Zee.
I mean I know people of other races ,too.
Most are humble and rarely hit you with
horseshit like the kind we through around shamelessly.
God, these people make me blush ever time they open their big mouthes.
A Nation of Liars and Swindlers.
Ihave a ferenji ex-colleague here.You wouldn't believe how this hospitable nation of hosts tried to skin her alive.
The lawyers, the judges the pimps that do the go between.Money,money more money.Beginning from EPRDF cadres down to the street hasslers.
Not to mention the lies that easily comes to a Habesha.