Mr. Jawar Mohammed, Ethnonationalist Narrative Engineering, and the ‘Illusory Truth Effect’

In his recent interview with Reyot media ‘s Theodros Tsegaye,Jawar Mohammed implied that Fano presence in Welega was anomalous, obnoxious or unnatural. He said that Fano is an Amhara organization and thus, must restrict itself to the Amhara region. In this academic summary an attempt will be made not only to refute Jawar’s shallow assertion but also to stipulate that the Amhara people have been indigenous to every corner of the present day ‘Ormia region’ centuries before Oromos arrived and started to inhabit these areas. The Amhara Fano National Movement not only deserves to operate in the Oromia region where thousands of Amharas have been slaughtered since the Colonial era but has a moral obligation to either protect them but also organize them to protect themselves from the unabated atrocities sponsored by the national and regional state. .