The tale of two countries (Obama’s/TPLF’s Ethiopia and Real Ethiopia): The Oromo (Children, Women and elders) are dying of genocidal mass killings and politically caused famine, but Obama has been told only rosy stories and shown rosy pictures. #Africa #Oromia August 2, 2015

In Tyrannic fascist TPLF  Ethiopia war, poverty and famine were not only in the past but also very true in this very moment, right now.  It has spatial variations as rulers and time changes. In 1960’s and 1970’s (Hailse Sellasie Regime)  Wollo and Afar regions were the mainly affected. As documented in Wikpedia:-

In 1973, a famine in Wollo killed an estimated 40,000 to 80,000, mostly of the marginalized Afar herders and Oromo tenant farmers, who suffered from the widespread confiscation of land by the wealthy classes and government of Emperor Haile Selassie. Despite attempts to suppress news of this famine, leaked reports contributed to the undermining of the government’s legitimacy and served as a rallying point for dissidents, who complained that the wealthy classes and the Ethiopian government had ignored both the famine and the people who had died.^{[12  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%9385_famine_in_Ethiopia}

In 1980’s  Tigray was severely affected but not the only.

Five Ethiopian provinces—Gojjam, Eritrea, Hararghe, Tigray, and Wollo—all received record low rainfalls in the mid-1980s.^[17] In the south, a separate and simultaneous cause was the government’s response to Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) insurgency. In 1984, President Mengistu Haile Mariam announced that 46% of the Ethiopian Gross National Product would be allocated to military spending, creating the largest standing army in sub-Saharan Africa; the allocation for health in the government budget fell from 6% in 1973–4 to 3% by 1990–1.^[18]

Although a UN estimate of one million deaths is often quoted for the 1983–5 famine, this figure has been challenged by famine scholar Alex de Waal. In a major study, de Waal criticized the United Nations for being “remarkably cavalier” about the numbers of people who died, with the UN’s one-million figure having “absolutely no scientific basis whatsoever,” a fact which represents “a trivialization and dehumanization of human misery.”^[19]

Nevertheless, the magnitude of the disaster has been well documented: in addition to hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions were made destitute.^[20] Media activity in the West, along with the size of the crisis, led to the Do They Know It’s Christmas? charity single and the July 1985 concert Live Aid, which elevated the international profile of the famine and helped secure international aid. In the early to mid-1980s there were famines in two distinct regions of the country, resulting in several studies of one famine that try to extrapolate to the other or less cautious writers referring to a single widespread famine. The famine in the southeast of the country was brought about by the Derg’s counterinsurgency efforts against the OLF. However, most media referring to “the Ethiopian famine” of the 1980s refers to the severe famine in 1983-5 centered on Tigray and northern Wollo, which further affected Eritrea, Begemder and northern Shewa.^[21] Living standards had been declining in these government-held regions since 1977, a “direct consequence” of Derg agricultural policies.^[22] A further major contributing factor to the famine were the Ethiopian government’s enforced resettlement programs, utilized as part of its counter-insurgency campaign.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%9385_famine_in_Ethiopia

Since 1991 as rocky Tigray has been prospering through political favoritism, nepoltism and resource transfer from green Oromia and the south that have been subjected to underdevelopment, exploitation, land grabbing, evictions, genocidal mass killings and famine.  It is not Ethiopia that has been growing fast and rising, it is rocky Tigray at the expenses of the suffering Oromia and the south. What the TPLF propaganda machine shows to the world is rosy pictures of  its business empire that serves only the Tigray, genocidal cliques and new colonizer from the region. During the Obama visit, what the president was shown were Coffee ceremony in government office, Lucy’s skeleton, Fafa factory near Finfinnee, Ethiopian Air Line’s Boeing plane, Abyssinian women and their cultural dances and the Chinese built African Union building in Finfinnee.

Realities in Ethiopia that  Obama have not seen:-

Systematic genocidal killings, mass eviction going on against Oromo people in Burrayyuu (Central Oromia, near Fifinnee) and in Bishoftuu (Central Oromia). Thousands have been become homeless and destitute as their homes have been destroyed by Agazi (TPLF) fascist forces that has targeted Oromo for land grabs in its genocidal (Addis Ababa) master plan:-

http://odeeffannoo.com/garaa-jalaan-maastar-plaanii-finfinnee-hojii-irra-oolchaa-jiru-672

The following pictures are children, women and adults that has been exposed to famine in Eastern Oromia at the time Obama Africa/ Ethiopia visit. Thousands  are exposed to famine and dying but help is reaching them.  The pictures are on social media. The main stream media, TPLF and Obama are in Ethiopia’s fast growth hype, democratically elected government and war on terror. No one of them are talking war on politically caused famine.

Suuraaleen armaan gadii kun daa’imman dabalatee namoon kumaatamaan lakaawamani  Godina Hargee Lixaa keessatti beelaaf saaxilaman jirachuu kan mul’isu dha. Ogeessonni fayyaa balaa beelaa hammaataa jiru kana dormannoof yoo waywaatanis haga ammaa dhageetti hin arganne.  Gargaarsa tokko illee argachaa hin jiran.

Ummanni keenya keessattuu ,ummanni harargee, beela hamaaf saxilamaa jiran. Ummanni naannoo baadiyyaa jiraatan inumaa nyaata isaanii dhabanii magaalaa naannawa isanii jirtutti godaananii kadhachuutti jiran . Haati daa’maa qabduus daa’ima isii fudhattee godaanuuf dirqamteerti.I irra caalatti beelti tun kan isiin hubaa (miidhaa) jirtu manguddootaa fi daa’mmani. Ani gama kiyyaan hanga ammaatti hoongee(beela) nu mudatte tana miidiyaa gabaase ykn qaama wanta kana furuuf yaade hin dhageenye. Rakkoon nu mudatu kamiyyuu dilii teenyaaf tahuu beeynee gama Rabbii haa deebinu. Suuraan asiin gaditti argitan tun magaalaa awwadaayitti kadhaaf hawaasa godaane agarsiisti.

Source:- Adem Abdela Adem, social media