Waqo gutu biography of rory gilmore

He was elected chairman of the United Liberation Forces of Oromia in However, according to historians, Waqo Gutu was ideologically and militarily trained by Somalis to initiate the Oromo separatism movement. According to Oromo community leaders in Nairobi, General Waqo Gutu as he was known was a symbol of Oromo resistance and initiator of their right to self-determination.

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According to Oromo accounts Gutu sowed the first seeds of rebellion in by acquiring arms to commence the struggle against Haile Selassie, and touched off a political and military struggle that lasted for decades. The next year, he attacked the Dhombirka battalion of the imperial army, inflicting heavy casualties. His role in starting the Bale Revolt was almost accidental, according to one source.

When a conflict over grazing rights between two groups of Oromo was ignored by the central government, after waiting in vain for three months Waqo Gutu "went to Somalia and brought back 42 rifles and two Thompson submachine guns. The revolt itself had been raging since June when Kahin Abdi openly defied the government in Afder. An ill-timed attempt by the government to collect unpaid taxes from local peasants fanned the flames.

At the end of , about three-fifths of Bale Province was in turmoil. This peasant revolt ran from to , stemming from issues involving land, taxation, class, and religion. Waqo Gutu surrendered to the Ethiopian government 27 March The cost of the rebellion was minimal to him. He was given a villa in Addis Ababa and treated well by the Emperor.

The local Oromo peasants lost tens of thousands of hectares, which was redistributed to Christian settlers who had fought against the rebels.