Bambasi
Coordinates: 9 ° 45 ' N , 34 ° 44' E
Bambasi (also Bambassi, Bambeshi , Fadasi , Abba Moti ; Ethiopian script : ባምባሲ) is a place in western Ethiopia . It is the largest village in the woreda Bambasi in the Asosa zone in the Benishangul-Gumuz region .
Bambasi is located a little west of the Dabus River at an altitude of 1668 m and is named after the Bambasi mountain, which is 2185 m high.
population
| Ethnic groups in Bambasi, 1994 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnicity | percent | |||
| Oromo | 41.47% | |||
| Amhars | 33.02% | |||
| Berta | 17.31% | |||
| Tigray | 5.38% | |||
| other | 2.81% | |||
| Official data, 1994 Population and Housing Census | ||||
According to the Central Statistics Agency , Bambasi had 7,166 inhabitants in 2005 . In 1994, 41.47% of the 4,164 inhabitants were Oromo , 33.02% Amharen , 17.31% Berta ( Jebelawi , including Fadashi ) and 5.38% Tigray ; 2.81% belonged to other races. Oromo (42.07%), Amharic (33.74%) and Berta (17%) were the most widely used mother tongues . 48.08% were Muslims, 45.24% Orthodox Christians and 4.68% Protestants.
Many Amharen from Wollo live in Bambasi and were resettled in the 1980s.
The relationship between the local Berta and the immigrant Ethiopians from other parts of the country is tense. There were conflicts over the representation of both groups in the local administration. In 2000/01 fighting broke out in Bambasi and Asosa which resulted in several deaths.
On April 2, 2007, local Muslims raided the home of an Ethiopian missionary and killed six of his cattle and sheep. Five days later, a representative from the local church was also attacked and his property was destroyed.
history
Late 19th century was the seat of the Bambasi sheikdom Bambasi. This was built after the conquest by Ismail Pasha - a son of Muhammad Ali Pasha . The sheikdom was a notorious center of the slave trade , but also drew a significant portion of its income in the 1880s from taxing the salt trade between Sudanese territories and the Oromo in what is now Ethiopia.
In 1938, during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia , Bambasi, according to the Guido of the Italian government, consisted of three groups of houses at the foot of the Bambasi Mountain, had sufficient water and a market.
During the Ethiopian civil war , the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) conquered the site on January 7, 1990 and took six Cuban doctors and nurses hostage. Thereupon the air force bombed Bambasi, there is no information about the death toll. In February, the OLF radio station claimed that the rebel group between Mendi and Bambasi had killed 84 soldiers.
swell
- ^ A b The Nordic Africa Institute: Local History in Ethiopia . Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ↑ a b Central Statistics Agency (CSA): 2005 National Statistics, Section – B Population ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Table B.4 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ↑ CSA: The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Volume I: Statistical Report ( Memento of the original dated September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1996, pp. 46, 53, 65 (PDF; 48.4 MB)
- ↑ Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (UN-EUE) Development Program: Benishangul-Gumuz, Situation Report, 10/96 ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Asnake Kefale: Federalism and Autonomy Conflicts in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Ethiopia , in: Eva Brems, Christophe Van der Beken (eds.): Federalism and the protection of human rights in Ethiopia , Law and polictics in Africa 8, LIT Verlag , Münster 2008, ISBN 9783037359402 , pp. 200, 202f.
- ↑ International Religious Freedom Report 2007: Ethiopia
- ↑ Wendy James et al. (Ed.): Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883 , Hakluyt Society , London 1996, pp. 27ff.
- ^ A b The Nordic Africa Institute: Local History in Ethiopia (older version). Retrieved February 5, 2014 (PDF)
- ↑ Ethiopia: "Mengistu has decided to Burn Us like Wood". Bombing of Civilians and Civilian Targets by the Air Force (PDF; 233 kB), Africa Watch, July 24, 1990.
