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It's the Land of Chowie isn't?

 Anyuawa, constructed Gambella! Yes, it’s. Gambella belongs to Anyuawa without a doubt. There are many people from near and far who admire it. In their lands, they wish to know more about it. Their ears are filled with the sounds of its riches, plenty, and of the abundance of resources, and they want to be a part of it. They wonder why Gambellian, look so polished, elegant, bright, educated, sophisticated, and speak world languages. In the Anyuawa, country a friend told me his village boys are dying to be part of Gambella. They called "Pany" the center of the Anyuawa people development, perhaps one would say the New York of Anyuawa. Others feel left out if they don't live there; it is their home. For them, other places are local. As one man put it, it is a city worth visiting again and again before dying. Gambella, however, has undergone a great deal of seismic demographic, political, economic, social, and cultural change, and it no longer works for anyone, let alone the natives. Today, Gambella has lost its mosaic culture of living together side by side in harmony. It's become a center of tribal politics. Throughout the City, there are divisions based on race, ethnicity, and tribality. It's difficult to avoid territorial tribal gangs, one must be careful which neighborhood you cross. Gambella is one of the few remaining free states in Ethiopia not infected by Bantustannism, of the political division of Ethiopia. In addition to refugees from South Sudan, other nationalities have gone there, and they all had one thing in common: they were social, cultural, economic, and political refugees; Gambella saved their lives. We have not claimed anything from them. Neither also did we know their countries whereabouts. Our interaction with them have been one way since the encountering. Gambellian, culture welcomes foreigners with open arms and share its cultural- economic development with them. And we too have gained some beneficial insights from their culture. Gambellian, have not shied away from sharing their knowledge and skills even though they had little to lose. Our land has hosted thousands of migrants since decolonization, many of them have not returned, and hundreds have changed themselves into members of our society. The problem is they refused to be assimilated, lived the same as they came in from their country. And our understanding is that when foreigners have been allowed to stay longer than they are wanted, there is no doubt that they tend to develop troubling politics. That's what the Gambella people, facing now with political refugees aiming to destroy the Gambellian, who have made them walk?  The fact that some of the refugees had not appreciated the work we had done for them, it is sad to think of caring for anyone anymore. No wonder some people in the Western societies prefer to help dogs over humans since dogs don't bite people who feed them. And the grim experiences with the refugees of any kind were being expressed with the disappointment, with the idiomatic saying "Tang de dou deer", which means, "I wish the animal I missed killing had returned if I hadn't permitted it." But despite the grim withdrawal Anyuawa, have experienced from accepting strangers, the Anyuawa of Gambella have fulfilled their international obligation to help humanity. Gambella, has been a free state where all the nationalities found in Ethiopia have prospered and developed, regardless of ethnicity or creed. In other states, no one is accommodated, that's the reality. Gambella welcomes all, rich or poor, provided they obey the lawful order to live among the Gambellian. There should be no exceptions to the rules that create a peaceful territorial coexistence. If some of them do not wish to pursue a civilized life, they must go to the door which is wide and open to them. Thus, they do not belong to our family, they can leave peacefully, but they must not disrupt others who live in harmony and peace. Gabeto! In the land of Chowie, those who enter must first understand that it is the land of "Chowie" and blessed are those who respect the law. Any person who dreams of destroying anything in the land of Chowie will be destroyed first; those who aim with devil spears will be struck by thunder, of our Gods. A punishment shall be meted out first to its wrongdoers, who hoped to ruin it. Our history validates historical resolves against demon-spirited elements that have ravaged our country. In all cases, they were defeated, destroyed, and blown back to where they came from by the fury of our land. The land of Chowie shall not be inhabited by those possessed with the devil spirit.   

Glory be to Gambella!!  

 The author of the article is Namphili Otho Gilo. He can be reached at amhare14@gmail.com.  

  

The Strangers are Inside the Gate.

I knew only few Nuer in the past. They were classmates of mine; I won't name them. My relationship with them was cordial. There was no political agenda. They were refugees, that's all we knew about them, that's all they knew about themselves. Every year, a charismatic man named Tomorrow invites some of us to celebrate Christmas with him through me. Although I have lived in exile for most of my life, I still feel friendly toward some of those who are still alive. It was then a small fledgling Nuer community living in the middle of the sea Anyuak community. Back then, they lived peacefully in harmony and treated each other with respect, honor, and no discrimination. The Anyuak viewed the presence of Nuer among them positively, rather than negatively. They understood the pain and suffering the Nuer had endured to reach Anyuak-land from the ongoing conflict in South Sudan. At that time, the Anyuak understood the important politics of addition, understanding that any additional numbers could help mitigate the highlanders' centrifugal forces, almost surpassing those of the Gambellan. However, the Anyuak politician were mistaken. It was a political mistake for which the Anyuak paid dearly. The error was colossal. They had been bitten by the ones they had fed their hands to. It remains a nightmare even today. Adding insult to injury, the majority Nuer stock from Sudan, which inflated the number of Ethiopian Nuer, has continuously screamed unfounded accusations, accusing the Anyuak of not allowing the Ethiopian Nuer to enter towns, gain education, and obtain fertile land. This is utter nonsense. The Anyuak stonewalled nobody, prevented on one from coming to town from getting an education. The Nuer should blame remoteness. And pastoral rural lifestyle that kept the Ethiopian Nuer from going to school. No one would prevent Nuer from joining civilization. The wheels of civilization will spread throughout this wider world without hindrances, it isn't like a pandemic disease that man can control, the spread of civilization cannot be derailed or controlled by no one. So, such accusations are unjustified, and could not be verified. The complain about inability to access land in the Anyuak country, is not valid argument, there are plenty of undeveloped land in the NUER country, the Nuer should focus on developing those untouched barren lands and utilized them for use. It surprised anyone on some occasion to hear some Nuer politician constantly accused the Anyuak of mistreatment of them. They had a hardened judgments against the Anyuak, they are incorrect with their views. No one today can imagine that the actions of a group of people would have impeded their progress, whether they are talking about social, economic, political, or cultural progress. In the narrow nationalist political dirty books, the Nuer political elite are consuming more than what they chew, they are intoxicated by them. They preach divisive agendas, they think they are correct, but they correct only if one is hailed from a sectarian bunch of political division, yes, they could utter nonsense like that. In fact, such people, are not national politicians in the sense of the national character in the political discourse. Rather than bridging the gap between communities, they look to create friction. In the media, they often fabricated cheap lies and spread false diatribes and innuendos to propagate chasm as a political ideology. In fact, the OLF leadership thought they could bring them to power with guns but were surprised by the Gambellan people's stiff resistance and determination to defeat them. Gambella remains peaceful, united under the remaining umbrella of small Ethiopia of Gambella.  Ethiopian ethno-federalism and democracy in supposition are deeply misunderstood by NUER and other Ethiopian Ethno-political elites. Their preconceived notions about the federal system of power- division and rights -allocation have been dead wrong, neither their understanding about ethno-majoritarian rule policy. In truth, the NUER political elites are not the right messengers of democracy, its ideal. They totally misconstrued democracy, mispresented wrong outlooks regarding democratic dispensation programs in the Ethiopian constitution. Whether they know it or not the Nuer failed to understand the current regime in power political trajectory. They didn't know everything have been changed to outfit a particular group in power. Thus, the constitutional paradigm shift doesn't spouse democracy but something of authoritarian in nature disguised as democracy. In fact, what we got now is an ethno-authoritarian regime masquerading in disguise as democracy and hovering over the country.  But for Nuer stock, such types of tribal system are what they had all long for decades. They think such system would impower Nuer at all costs. They believe that the Anyuak long-held power grip must end, power must be handed over by hooks and crooks, and Gambella's political control should belong to them. This is where they are wrong. Many Anyuak believe that although some NUER are Ethiopian citizens, most NUER are of South Sudanese descent, who have become Ethiopian citizen by the default, that they have no complete rights challenging natives. That the Nuer are mostly not of the Ethiopian origin, but they are natural citizens of Ethiopia. The Anyuak think it is inappropriate for Nuer to speak first before them as they are not real citizen of Ethiopia, challenged Nuer from taking important leadership positions at the national and regional levels. Thus, no matter how majoritarian Nuer are in the Gambella regional powerhouse, the Anyuak think Nuer must be denied most crucial hierarchical power. That Gambella natives or originalists should be the only ones to hold power in the important positions.  Even so, neither the Anyuak nor the Nuer were involved in the government's decision-making process; power have often been delegated to favored individuals by the central government. And the Anyuak, Nuer, have no choice over their choices. They are just bone eaters fighting over bones thrown at them. So, tearing down their communities is pointless. Despite divergent interests, it is better to work together since the primary goal of both communities is peace and prosperity for the Gambellan people. It is a waste of time and energy to tear down their communities. To begin with, the Prosperity Party is a tribalist party with an extreme ethnonationalist viewpoint that wants to create a new image for Ethiopia, based on one ethno-hegemonic identity or otherwise they could push the country away from its traditional national discourse. Besides the Oromoma, political revanchists, regarded all good land in Ethiopia as "Kennya", or ours. Whether it be on the ground or in the sky. For instance, revisionist revanchists identified Abol and Itang, as belonging to greater Oromia in their book a few years ago. There have been many people supporting revisionists, expansionists world views out there, one wouldn't think the Nuer elites would sit well with such dangerous toxic ideological spectrum. But who knows? And Gambella is not the only place where this deadly aggrandization project is taking place. It extends throughout Ethiopia. In view of this dark cloud hovering over the Gambella people, it's imperative that they unite against the expansionist forces rather than pursue fictitious goals that bear no fruit in the long run. But how can one convince greedy NUER politicians, especially those from the South Sudan, who have brainwashed the Ethiopian Nuer into believing that a prosperity party political program will benefit them by disorganizing and dispersing their unity. It's a false conscience being cultivated within their community, which believes they deserve to rule over other communities regardless of democracy or not. They believe their cheery numbers will prevail regardless. Ajumhara, Journal, argues that the idea that certain nationalities should be in charge because of their high numbers is undemocratic, illiberal. It is wrong, according to the journal. Only the wrongheaded opportunist would entertain such divisive ideology. If Sudanese Nuer don't follow the law, or break the law, they need to be sent back to their country. It is important, we should also protect law-abiding ones even they are not citizens. They must not be forced to go but encouraged them to start preparing on their own free will to go. Any supporters of this retarded ethnos-centrist-led government should serve the interests of the Gambella people, not always disburse money given to Gambella to political factions in power somewhere else. Both Nuer-Anyuak communities have been victims of politics, economics, and social-cultural disorganization and dislocation, when it comes to push and shove. They took the wrong path to development, they split up; they broke down; they failed to fulfill their political promises and achieve their goals for bettering their communities. Both must put aside their differences, confront our common enemy methodically, and bring forward development agendas for recognition. In order to distinguish themselves from the divisive hegemonical political power in the country, both social forces must use a centered focus united agenda. It's better to tangle together. Adios Amigos! 

The author of the article is Namphili Otho Gilo. He can be reached at amhare14@gmail.com.  

  
 

      

   

For Whom is Gatluak Boum Pal fighting?

  For whom is Gatlauk Boum Pal fighting?

To answer these simple questions, we need to examine the brief history of this man. Here's my attempt. As a hardened politician, Gatluak Boum Pal has been involved in local politics for several years. Due to his tribalistic tendencies, he has always been known as a troublemaker. The assumption that Gatluak was a well-regarded politician today is sheer nonsense. And such analytical nonsense flies against the winds of truth. Gatluak Boum Pal was neither a well-known politician nor a genuine guerilla fighter politician fighting for liberation, nor was he opposed to federal interference in Gambella matters. Nevertheless, Gatluak is a committed separatist, suffering from a different political viewpoint. In reality, the Gambella Liberation Front (GPLF) that he has created is not a national movement involving all the nationalities of Gambella, but a tribalistic paramilitary organization bent on destroying Anyukland. Gatluak Boum Pal has repeatedly warned, threatening Gambella regional authorities from his bush hideout. Yet the Gambellan authorities responsible for his unpunished behavior ignored his repeated warnings until recently, when his guerillas invaded and caused havoc in the town. But they had been defeated, crashed and chased away. It is important to note that Gatluak Boum Pal has remained a thorn in their side despite the efforts of the regional security apparatus. Since his Guerilla movement had nothing to do with the federal government, he would return to hell ready for him; this time even the flies would not have wings to fly, let alone the starving guerilla who are demanding food wherever they go at gunpoint. Let them try. The Gambella security force have been efficiently armed, locked and ready for combat than ever. For a long time, the law abiding Anyuaks, the rest of the Gambellan communities, were slaughtered like goats, but now they are standing up and fighting back. So, the Gambellan are saying this time around bring it on. And if they do, they will be met outside the gate by the security forces of Gambella. This time, the Gambellan security forces will confront them outside the town's perimeter, not inside. No kidding, the bushes will be combed for those who have escaped and those captured would be, quarantined somewhere where there are no civilizational elements. Eventually, the swamps will be drained, flushed down, since the security forces know his guerilla movement hideouts, whereabouts. Alternatively, should he run into the Sudanese desert I believe, he will not survive a day. Gatluak Boum Pal is a converted South Sudanese, not of Ethiopian heritage, who is not grateful for what his new country has given him at not a price at all. He sees Anyuak support for the Government in power as a threat to his outlaw movement. Gatluak has also had pent-up grievances against the Anyuak for questioning his tribal identity, citizenship, and belonging. Yes, the Anyuak questioned Nuer historical status of origin openly, in the public domain, it's no longer hidden nor secret anymore. He is under the immense radar of suspicion by the Anyuak, they regard him and his pariah movement as dangerous to the security of the Gambella state. Adding up this, the Anyuak think of Gatluak upping up to something deep, full of devilish evil designs. They know it from Gatluak's past- political activities. Not long Gatluak's evil spirit goal was to fight for the annexation Gambella, ceded it to Sudan or declare it a separate Nat country. A recent string of bellicose statements from Pal's hideouts has threatened Gambellan safety, as his movements have typically been terroristic in nature. A troublemaker, Pal, believes that terrorism is the only means of subduing the entire regional security system and ultimately defeating Gambella's resolve. The recent fight, defeat of the terrorist organized elements in Gambella has, however, demonstrated to the people of Gambella the importance of unity in the face of adversity. Gatluak, however, wounded from political, military defeat, he has now embarked upon cheap propaganda, of which he had schooled himself with

copying Zelensky's of Ukraine toothless political propaganda playbook spreading false disinformation to pit the Gambella community against one another. Nevertheless, despite his attempts to divide and cut our community, our united front has shown a remarkable unity that is crucial to maintaining the state's safety and security. It involves controlling and maintaining disruption sources. 

Until recently, some of us have argued that we are dying helplessly without fighting back. They say we always flee from problems, that we have lost our significance as a people because we have not fought back. However, they were mistaken. Despite the importance of the Anyuak in history of resistance against historical enemies, the Anyuak of today lack the firepower or the traditional tools handed down to them by their forefathers to protect them. For years, there was a lack of leadership in the cultural institutions. The Anyuak new generation found themselves without the institutional leadership that their forefathers left behind because the So-called Progressives abolished many cultural institutions for the sake of modernity many years ago. Hence, the recent restorative initiative that encourages the rebirth of historic institutions that have contributed to our way of life for decades has been positively commendable, such an idea must be encouraged to flourish, expanded and implemented through social reengineering and rehabilitative social measures everywhere. And they are already prospering and flourishing in some parts of our country. And more should be encouraged, planted, grow more. Fortunately, that doubting argument by some of our compatriots has been settled by the recent defeat of the terrorist groups called the GLF and the OLF. The Anyuak have been lacking firepower, stupid! Thank God, we have restored those elements and regained our fighting spirits. It is my hope that we will regain all the respect we lost as a result of our heroic efforts.  

 Namphili Otho Gilo is the author of this article
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 

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