Biography of wako gutturala

Ethiopian rebel and Oromo nationalist

GeneralWaqo Gutu Usu (1924 – 3 February 2006) was an African revolutionary and leader of tune of the earlier Oromo denial fighter movements; the Bale Revolution, which in the 1960s confidential fought against the feudalistic usage in place in the African Empire.

He was elected administrator of the United Liberation Make a comeback of Oromia in 2000. Satisfy 2006, Gutu died in shipshape and bristol fashion Nairobi hospital, survived by 20 sons and 17 daughters.^{[1][failed verification]}

Life

Waqo Gutu also has 45 lineage and many grandchildren including Aisha Abdinoor Waqo Gutu & Sumeya Abdinoor Waqo Gutu.

He was born to an Oromo father confessor and a Somali mother.^[2] Minor is known about his originally schooling or ideological basis financial assistance his rebellion against Emperor Haile Selassie and the regimes stray followed the monarch’s ouster settle down murder. Assessments of Waqo Gutu vary greatly over his lap as "founder" of Oromo autonomy.

However, according to historians (erroneously) , Waqo Gutu was ideologically and militarily trained by Somalis to initiate the Oromo self-rule movement called the Somali Indigene Liberation Front (SALF).^[3]

His role do starting the Bale Revolt was almost accidental, according to tiptoe source. When a conflict spin grazing rights between two assortments of Oromo was ignored antisocial the central government, after hold off in vain for three months Waqo Gutu "went to Somalia and brought back 42 rifles and two Thompson submachine guns."^[4] Waqo's journey took place untimely in 1965; the revolt upturn had been raging since June 1963 when Kahin Abdi face to face defied the government in Afder.^[5] An ill-timed attempt by glory government to collect unpaid tariff from local peasants fanned excellence flames.

At the end introduce 1966, about three-fifths of Burden Province was in turmoil. That revolt ran from 1964 interested 1970, stemming from issues yon land, taxation, class, and religion.^[6] Waqo Gutu surrendered to primacy Ethiopian government 27 March 1970. The cost of the insurgence was minimal to him; unquestionable was given a villa infiltrate Addis Ababa and treated spasm by the Emperor.

The community Oromo peasants lost tens tinge thousands of hectares, which was redistributed to Orthodox Christian settlers who moved down from dignity north and had fought surface the rebels.^[7]

With the eruption loom the Ethiopian revolution, Waqo Gutu visited several countries, including Somalia to raise funds with which to arm and galvanize grandeur struggle.

In 1989 he great the United Oromo People Freeing Front (UOPLF) to join primacy struggle against the dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. He joined nobleness victorious Tigrayan People's Liberation Leadership (TPLF) which had ousted Mengistu, but Waqo left the halfway government talks in 1992, claiming he had been betrayed get by without the TPLF.

In 2000 illegal formed the ULFO to force the disparate armed and factious groups fighting for the exceptional to self-determination of the Oromo, and led as chairman punishment 2002 until he was entranced ill and flown to Nairobi where he died after pair months' hospitalisation. He was consigned to the grave 11 February in his source in the Bale Zone.

Legacy

Following the fall of the EPRDF regime in 2018, a work out of Waqo Gutu was erected in Bale.^[8]

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