Jabuutawi wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:24 pm Let me worry about the boggie man called Ogaden dominating other clans at a later date. I see Amharas have taught you well, all of a sudden you are concerned for Somali clans.
You speak of forming federalism, isn"t that what Ethio has already?
We will demarcate the borders between our two
peoples by coming up with a mutual agreement.
The choice is clear, either an independent Somali region (my preference) or partitioned Somali region, some areas joining Djibouti, others Somalia.
War? What you Oromos gonna fight with? Amharas will send you all to an early grave while they enjoy the spoils of war at your expense. Last time I checked unified Somalis never lost to Habashi, including Oromos, w/o outside help.
1. Amharas aint the ones who armed 1 clan, to fight another, in somalia and in ethiopia; you can blame the tigrayans for that. you know, the same tigrayans who were once hosted by siad barre in mogadishu? yeah, those tigrayans. the same ones who know your people, perhaps, even better than YOU do.
2. no. today's ethiopia is still a centralized, unitary state; that masquerades itself as a federal union. true federalism means oromos can never interfere with your affairs, and vice-versa; but we remain 1 country dedicated to alleviating poverty and hunger and so on.
3. if we can demarcate the borders, we would have done it by now. we east africans tend to be stubborn and hard headed. compromise to most of our people is seen as a sign of weakness. do not get me wrong, i would love to be proven wrong and see oromo-somali border issues solved once and for all. while our people fight, tigrayans laugh in the background at us both. they love to see two cushitic mainly muslim people destroying each other instead of destroying abyssinian elites.
4. most of ethiopia will not sit and watch their country disintegrate. they would fight. amharas, oromos, gurages, aderes, siltes, sidama. think about it! the minority groups with the little land have the most to lose if ethiopia breaks up: militarily, politically, economically, etc. so they'd fight tooth and nail, as will the oromo and others.
5. do not forget----somalia needed and accepted foreign help to fight in 1978 too. somalia did not build those tanks you used, somalia did not make those rifles you used, somalia did not build that ammo, the magazines, and so on. it just happens that ethiopia is seen as being more FRAGILE and IMPORTANT to the outside world.