An ex-Emir of Cairo, who had become Abouna of Ethiopia, and a man of low birth named Kassa, who had been anointed Negus under the name of Theodoros, joined forces to persecute the Catholics, drive out the missionaries, and put them to death. The Negus Johannes IV, who succeeded Theodoros, followed in his predecessor's footsteps. His reign of twenty years was a time of trouble and suffering for the Catholics of Abyssinia".
From: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01075e.htm
The most extended and the most inhuman Genocide in the World History
With a brief enumeration of barbaric, inhuman and genocidal policies ceaselessly practiced by any ´Addis Ababa´ regime (monarchical, pro-communist or pseudo-republican), I will close my reference to the unfortunate realm and ominous tyranny that was repeatedly described as 21st century Hell, Cenotaph or Morgue ´Ethiopia´.
As basic bibliographical references, I would mention the excellent contribution by Prof. Mekuria Bulcha, ´The Making of the Oromo Diaspora - A Historical Sociology of Forced Migration´ whereby the author identifies the roots of the Diaspora in slave trade and repressive regimes, while extensively giving details about the physical elimination of millions of Oromos in the 19th and the 20th centuries (click here
I would also add the collective volume ´Arrested Development in Ethiopia - Essays on Underdevelopment, Democracy and Self-Determination´, edited by Seyoum Hameso and Mohammed Hassen, which provides the reader with a wider focus on Ogadenis, Oromos, Sidamas, Afars, and other subjugated nations (click here
Note: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/28927
So systematic the multi-genocide perpetrated by the Monophysitic Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians was that it involved the following measures for the survivors, all those who escaped physical annihilation:
1 - Prohibition of use of their language
2 - Prohibition of use of their writing system (if extant, otherwise prohibition of introduction of a writing system)
3 - Prohibition of practice of religious rituals, rites, ceremonies, and acts of faith
4 - Prohibition of practice of all traditional customs and procedures of social order
5 - Prohibition of selection of representatives empowered to represent the tyrannized nations at all levels, local, regional, national, and of course international
6 - Prohibition of the study of their past, history, language, culture and society
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