Hes litterally going on a sourceless rant, Buddy snipped and clipped the most bias and fake sources and didnt give full context either. Apprently them taking over haud meant they took over the entire ogaden, which was the size of ethiopia itsself at the time. Absolute lying scums. First off they did not get into the interior of ogaden thats a fact Because I wouldve KNOWN about it
Ridiculous claims
I find it funny how he thinks raids and attacks are proof that Ethiopia was establishing administration in galbeed.Ridiculous claims
@Idilinaa I found some sources about the Abyssinians apparently taking tribute from Somalis in the 19th century. I know that Ugaas Nur rejected Ras Makonnen's offer to give tribute but I wanted to verify if any of this is true.
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Ahhh gotcha. That part about Europeans confusing the raids as legitimate taxation helped because those texts I posted about "tributes" were from Europeans who at the time thought Ethiopians were doing tribute.Your own sources on page 1 show that these sporadic "Faux Tax" raids didn't really amount to much.
Do you know why? because they weren't tributes being paid , fees, incursion or tax raids at all, these were in reality Ethiopian slave peasant-conscripts that had no food, no supplies, no salaries , randomly , sporadically plundering people in the vicinity out of desperation & hunger and lacked discipline.
Melenik had no control over them, neither did he send them out to collect. It confused the colonialists at first and they thought they were ''tax collections'' or ''incursions"
Ahhh gotcha. That part about Europeans confusing the raids as legitimate taxation helped because those texts I posted about "tributes" were from Europeans who at the time thought Ethiopians were doing tribute.
It goes to show that Ethiopia has yet to undergo real societal change as it still clings onto its feudal mindset. Domestically and internationally Ethiopia behaves like a medieval state only now it has more resources to do its act. I blame the fact that Ethiopia was very babied and catered too by westerners in the 19th-20th centuries. Ethiopia never saw any real struggle or opportunities to change like say Japan did which managed to shed its outdated feudal mindset and modernize and when they tried to do the empire stuff again, they were beat back and learned their lesson.It's kinda tragic when you think about it, they were forced into conscription n mass and were given no supplies, no food or salaries to support themselves with, so they became marauding bandits looting people instead. They would do this to Ethiopian villagers but when they tried it with Somalis in Ogaden they were chased down and massacred in droves so it stopped due to the fear and loss of lives.
They operated more like a criminal band than a real army to say the least.
In many ways it's not different to what you see today, it's bizarre to see the historical parallels. Today same thing is happening in Amhara/Oromia/Tigray regions, the govt extortion, pick pockets/robberies, roaming militias going around the rural country side plundering and looting people.
Well I know of people who were fighting the Ethiopians encroaching into their territories in the 40s- 50s. Also, they did not really control anything so what was their to even fight besides when they were coming into your territory. They kept getting destroyed by the Somalis even when these other countries backed them up. It was only during the 77/78 war that the tides changed.Its seems really obvious but I'll also bring up the fact that there were no rebellions or insurgencies that I know of that happened in galbeed before the 60s. Somalis were actively rebelling against Italians in the south and north yet nothing in supposed Ethiopian controlled galbeed? Sounds fishy.
It goes to show that Ethiopia has yet to undergo real societal change as it still clings onto its feudal mindset. Domestically and internationally Ethiopia behaves like a medieval state only now it has more resources to do its act. I blame the fact that Ethiopia was very babied and catered too by westerners in the 19th-20th centuries. Ethiopia never saw any real struggle or opportunities to change like say Japan did which managed to shed its outdated feudal mindset and modernize and when they tried to do the empire stuff again, they were beat back and learned their lesson.
Ethiopia basically thinks it could get away with mistreating its citizens and neighbors and it feels no pressure or urge to change itself like many countries have.