Luos were the original owners of the Nile from Egypt and they have faced so much animosity.I as a Luo of Kenya can understand this Luo Ethiopian brother very well.Just as the Israelites one day God will bless us and punish our oppressors .There is a reason a Luo Man became the President of America because we are the blessed choose people but we must suffer before we receive our blessings.God bless Luos all over Africa and around the world.
I always wonder why the Luo are a target of genocide in whichever country they dwell. However, I think that the major reasons we are targeted is because we are great people culturally, traditionally, and politically. Luo were the founders of many civilizations along the Nile. They are even the rightful owner of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. Genocide is also being carried out against the Luo Acholi of Uganda by the Yoweri Kaguta Museveni regime. His regime and the Amin regime led to the massacre and mass killing of the Luo that eventually led to the establishment of the falsely represented Lord Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony who is indeed a true freedom fighter who is fighting for the rights of his people to freedom and welfare. However he is falsely accused for maiming, mutilation, abduction, and child enslavement. This is all bullshit and propaganda created by the Ugandan government to mislead and direct the attention of the world away from him, the real devil behind the inhumane acts done against the Luo in Northern Uganda. Museveni went into the village and cut of the ears and lips of people and blamed it on the LRA. He is the real devil. I speak from the real experience because I lived through the whole bloody genocide. Luo must unite.
Brother, the Luo especially the Luo Acholi have their oral history of ruling in Egypt. They still up to now worship the ancient Egyptian deities such as Anubis( they call Anu), Hapi (Api), Isis( Lasis/Lacic), Athor(Ato/Atho), etc. The Luo have great history and they civilized people where ever they settle. The Luo established Kingdoms of Buganda, Butoro, Luo-Bito, and the Kitara Empire among many others in East Africa. The Luo can also interpret the names of Ancient Kemet pharaohs and words.
Yes Brother, thank you for this keen insight on the subject of Luo history. I trust that your information is accurate; and I certainly believe the Luo Elders over the established historians in Europe, America and Egypt. We Afrikans here in America need to learn so much from our people in Luoland and elsewhere in Afrika. Plz be patient with us and try to tolerate our lack of information about our Motherland and the great people therein.
f. washington The history of the Luo being and ruling in Egypt and establishing many Kingdoms and Empires is evident my brother, although much have been hidden. I advice you read LUO ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION, an article written by Dr. Okello. Here is the link:www.acholitimes.com/cultureacholi/index.php/culture/6-luo-origin-of-civilisation. I am sure this will give you more ideas about the Luo history. I am a Luo myself who lives in Uganda. The Luo people live in Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Central African Republic, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Chad. We are a big nation. The fact is that we as the Africans need to write our own history because they are mostly still alive in our oral history and some written sources.
I wish our Luo leaders could unite all the luo tribes. Together we can resist oppression from the regimes in our respective countries. It seems the luo people have historically been subjected to oppression whether in Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia and Congo. It’s high time we all unite, we are blood brothers with common ancestry...I’m a Luo from Kisumu Kenya
@@lakwopobura4789 Makes much sense given that we have luos along the shores of L,victoria in Kenya and Uganda and all through the shores of River Nile in Uganda and Sudan. They must have occupied it to the very end of Egypt.
i am luo from kenya and am extremely proud to be luo.i must say i can understand so many words.one day the luos will unite and we will have a great nation for we are a people so great in intelligence and we are strong believes of justice.Nyasaye nyakalaga no konywa endalo mabiro kaa,aneno ler limbo yo nyandwat
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
The lands on the eastern and southern part of Ethiopia were Luo before the arrival of the Hebrew Solomon (Jerusalem) Crown. The lands are part of Southern Sudan, northern, central and southern Uganda, as well as the lands around the shores of Lake Victoria, all of which made/make up the country and nation known as LUOLAND. What the people who live in those lands speak is called LUO LANGUAGE and the people are LUO.
@@OtienoVictor4705 our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
From Bar El Gazel in Sudan, the Luos did not only migrate towards East Africa. But they also migrated towards West Africa and Central Africa in Nigeria, Cameroon, Togo, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Central African Republic. Many West African names that start with Os and As have a link to Luo heritage(Okocha, Obinna, Abinna). You also see this in the physical body structure of the Luos. The Luos were revered warriors who always yearned for more and wanted to achieve more. The history of the Luo has not been fully researched on because of colonial oppression in academics. For example less has been writen about the Ramogi rebellion in Uganda against the British colonial administration. This rebellion was a real thorn in the toes of the British and a treat to their colonial expansion. What the British did to the Mau-Mau rebellion(Kenya) and Maji-Maji rebellion (Tanzania) is what they did to Ramogi rebellion(Acholi land in Uganda) : massacre of the people.
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
Herina Achieng, if you had only used the Luo name Achieng, no Luo person would know which country you are from coz we all the Ugandan, Tanzanian, South Sudanese and Ethiopian luos have the name Achieng(for female), and Ochieng (for males). Then we have Ariek(female), and Oriek(male) meaning intelligence / I am intelligent - you (plural) are intelligent. The Luo Anyuak of Ethiopia are targets because they sit on oil large reserves and the crisies are made possible due to stupid African tribal politics and the evil geopolitics of energy resources. Read the article entitled To whom does Ethiopia’s gambella oil belong of 9 March 2006, and Dawn of an oil Era, 7 July 2018.
@@Didmasela well i agree with what you stated about the Anyuak luos what about the ones who are oppressed in Uganda,Tanzania,Eritrea,Sudan ,chad ,Kenya DRC what reason would you give for their predicament?
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
This is Luo Anyuak of Gambela in Ethiopia. I am an Alur Luo from Uganda& Democratic Republic of the Congo, and I can understand what they are saying. I also pick some words when the Shiluk and Nuer speak. We Luo Alur, Acholi, Langi, Jupadhola, Jaluo-Kenya and Tanzania are very close to Shiluk ( our origin from Bar el Gazel in South Sudan). We share similar heritage( names, traditions, cultures and food).
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
@@africanvoodoo4807 Yes, this was after our forefathers accepted and embraced christianity and islam, and abondoned our ancestors faith. Voodoon for instance, was abondoned and considered evil, even today by many African christians. The first Africans that the colonialists killed or forced into exile were the powerful spirit transmediums or voodoo priests because of their power to see, predict and warn their societies about incoming dangers.
@@Didmasela well we were never vodooo practitioners we were the founders of Christian kingdoms.Kingdom of Alara ,Makuria and Alodia existed long before any Christianity existed.
@@africanvoodoo4807 Voodoo is one such name of African traditional faith(belief in supernatural power). In Luo Alur we call it Juok / Jok (magical power). We call our god Rubanga but now everyone calls it Mungu(a swahili word for god). There was nothing like christian kingdoms. It was only changed to christian kingdoms in order to suit the interests and motives of the colonisers. Everything was manipulated to be related to the bible.
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
so sad state of affairs. one loudly wonders why we are a targeted community all over. am luo from Kenya. one day we will rule Africa and our tormentors we will forgive you and your descendants
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
Original of luos are all from Sudan. Though now they have immigrated to different parts of East Africa and central Africa. Sudan was a big kingdom, this luos in Ethiopia are not supposed to be there to begin with. We to blame the politic of north Sudan, especially president Jafar Nimeri, he was behind this mess.
Lies, the Anuak have been living there since long before the fake Kingdom of Ethiopia was established. Gambella was ceded to Ethiopia in WWII. It's part of Luoland.
As recently as 1980, Gambella’s Anuak population was by far the largest ethnic group in the region and a majority of the total population. This began to change very quickly in the mid-1980s. Beginning in 1984, the Derg’s forced resettlement program generated a massive influx of some 60,000 highlanders to the region.7 All of the resettlement villages were located on land that the Anuak claimed as their own. At almost the same time, refugees from the Sudanese civil war began fleeing into Gambella.8 In addition to these large-scale influxes, long-standing patterns of eastward migration among the Sudanese Nuer have led to a steady increase in Gambella’s Nuer population over the course of the past century. The pace of Nuer immigration into Gambella has been dramatically accelerated by the civil war in southern Sudan and by the success many Nuer refugees have had in claiming Ethiopian citizenship and settling permanently in Gambella. The result has been that the Anuak are now a minority in what they regard as their own land, and according to the most recent census figures, they are greatly outnumbered by Gambella’s Nuer population.9 These dramatic demographic changes are, to a large degree, responsible for the persistent ethnic tensions and frequent explosions of ethnic violence that have plagued Gambella since the fall of the Derg in 1991. The flow of non-Anuak migrants into Gambella has led many Anuak to fear the erosion of their political power, and some believe that the very survival of Anuak culture is at risk. Additionally, some traditionally Anuak lands are now inhabited almost exclusively by Nuer and Anuak widely regard the continual shrinking of their territory as a threatening development.10 The most frequent outbreaks of ethnic violence in Gambella have pitted the Anuak against the Nuer. This violence reached a bloody peak in 2002, a year that saw over one hundred people killed in clashes that displaced several thousand people. Violent Anuak-Nuer conflict subsided by late 2003, but the resulting respite was an extremely brief one, as ethnic conflict between Gambella’s Anuak and highlander communities had also been simmering throughout this period.11 Many Anuak bitterly resented the arrival of the settlers brought to Gambella by the Derg, and in May 1991, groups of Anuak villagers attacked and murdered large numbers of highlander farmers who had been living alongside them near the town of Abobo.12 More recently, in the past several years, a number of ambushes attributed to armed Anuak have left scores of highlander civilians dead.13 For the past few years, the Ethiopian military has undertaken operations aimed at rooting out armed Anuak groups operating in Gambella, some of which are based in southern Sudan. Military and government officials generally refer to these groups as “shifta,” an Amharic word that can loosely be translated as “bandit.” These Anuak fighters are not unified under the banner of any one group and do not share a common set of goals. They include Sudan-based rebels fighting against the Ethiopian government for Anuak “self-determination”; farmers carrying out isolated revenge attacks against ENDF soldiers and highlander civilians; and a small number of radicalized gunmen who seem to target the highlander population as a whole.14 One Anuak insurgent group, the Gambella People’s Liberation Front (GPLF), operates out of southern Sudan and has staged a handful of attacks inside Gambella.15 There is also reportedly at least one other armed Anuak group operating in Gambella, composed of perhaps two dozen fighters led by a small group of former regional police officers.16 A Sudan-based insurgent group led by a former Derg official named Thuwath Pal Chay, the Ethiopian Patriotic United Front (EPUF), has also been active in the region.17 The EPUF has engaged in sporadic but heavy fighting with Ethiopian military forces and has occasionally managed to seize control of villages along the Sudanese border. It is not known how frequently clashes between the Ethiopian army and EUDF forces have been. The EPUF’s fighters are predominantly Nuer, as is Thuwath Pal himself, and the group allegedly receives support from the Eritrean government.18 Due to an almost complete lack of reliable information and the impossibility of travel to much of Gambella due to security concerns and travel restrictions, it is unclear how serious a threat these armed groups have posed to the overall security situation in the region or how frequent armed clashes with the military have been. It is clear however, that there has been some fighting between armed groups of Anuak and military forces. In addition, highlander civilians continue to be killed in ambushes staged by armed Anuak, although these attacks seem to have become less frequent since the second half of 2004. While fighting between insurgent forces and the Ethiopian army may at times have risen to the level of armed conflict as defined under international humanitarian law (the laws of war), the abuses covered in this report, primarily by the army against Anuak civilians, have not been in the context of an armed conflict. As such, international human rights law, rather than international humanitarian law, is primarily applicable.19 After the Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Revolutionary Front (EPRDF) government took power in 1991, it handed control over Gambella’s regional government to the Gambella People’s Liberation Movement (GPLM), an Anuak-dominated group that had allied itself with the EPRDF in its war against the Derg.20 Political power in Gambella remained firmly in Anuak hands until December 2003, but federal officials and many within Gambella, including significant numbers of Anuak community leaders, continually accused Anuak regional authorities of corruption and incompetence. Most glaringly, regional officials did almost nothing to resolve Anuak-Nuer ethnic tensions or conflict.21 Many within the highlander community reportedly believed that Anuak regional authorities had no interest in putting a stop to the attacks against highlander civilians, and the federal authorities also came to suspect that leading Anuak politicians were actively collaborating with the armed Anuak groups attacking highlander civilians.22 The federal authorities imprisoned many Anuak political leaders, and at least thirty prominent Anuak, including one former regional president, are now in prison in Addis Ababa.23 Indeed, a substantial minority of Gambella’s educated Anuak elite have been imprisoned or forced into exile over the past decade. Gambella currently has no regional president and no Anuak representative in the House of People’s Representatives, as both have sought asylum abroad.24 The federal government reacted to its deteriorating relations with Gambella’s regional authorities by assuming an increasing degree of control over regional affairs.25 Since Gambella’s regional president fled the country in December 2003, executive power in Gambella has theoretically been wielded by the acting regional president (formerly vice president), Ket Tuach, a Nuer. But the federal government said that in February 2003, the regional government “requested” direct federal intervention in the region’s affairs and since then, real power in the region has been exercised by the federal government’s Ministry of Federal Affairs.26 In addition to assuming de facto control over the regional government, the federal government has stationed several thousand more ENDF troops in Gambella since December 2003.27 Almost all of those soldiers are highlanders and identify themselves as such in the context of highlander-Anuak ethnic conflict.28 The military has established camps throughout the region and conducts regular patrols throughout most predominantly Anuak areas. The primary reason for the large military presence in Gambella appears to be an effort to eliminate armed Anuak groups in the region and assure the security of areas under exploration for oil.29
Luos were the original owners of the Nile from Egypt and they have faced so much animosity.I as a Luo of Kenya can understand this Luo Ethiopian brother very well.Just as the Israelites one day God will bless us and punish our oppressors .There is a reason a Luo Man became the President of America because we are the blessed choose people but we must suffer before we receive our blessings.God bless Luos all over Africa and around the world.
I always wonder why the Luo are a target of genocide in whichever country they dwell. However, I think that the major reasons we are targeted is because we are great people culturally, traditionally, and politically. Luo were the founders of many civilizations along the Nile. They are even the rightful owner of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. Genocide is also being carried out against the Luo Acholi of Uganda by the Yoweri Kaguta Museveni regime. His regime and the Amin regime led to the massacre and mass killing of the Luo that eventually led to the establishment of the falsely represented Lord Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony who is indeed a true freedom fighter who is fighting for the rights of his people to freedom and welfare. However he is falsely accused for maiming, mutilation, abduction, and child enslavement. This is all bullshit and propaganda created by the Ugandan government to mislead and direct the attention of the world away from him, the real devil behind the inhumane acts done against the Luo in Northern Uganda. Museveni went into the village and cut of the ears and lips of people and blamed it on the LRA. He is the real devil. I speak from the real experience because I lived through the whole bloody genocide. Luo must unite.
Brother, the Luo especially the Luo Acholi have their oral history of ruling in Egypt. They still up to now worship the ancient Egyptian deities such as Anubis( they call Anu), Hapi (Api), Isis( Lasis/Lacic), Athor(Ato/Atho), etc. The Luo have great history and they civilized people where ever they settle. The Luo established Kingdoms of Buganda, Butoro, Luo-Bito, and the Kitara Empire among many others in East Africa. The Luo can also interpret the names of Ancient Kemet pharaohs and words.
Yes Brother, thank you for this keen insight on the subject of Luo history. I trust that your information is accurate; and I certainly believe the Luo Elders over the established historians in Europe, America and Egypt. We Afrikans here in America need to learn so much from our people in Luoland and elsewhere in Afrika. Plz be patient with us and try to tolerate our lack of information about our Motherland and the great people therein.
f. washington The history of the Luo being and ruling in Egypt and establishing many Kingdoms and Empires is evident my brother, although much have been hidden. I advice you read LUO ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION, an article written by Dr. Okello. Here is the link:www.acholitimes.com/cultureacholi/index.php/culture/6-luo-origin-of-civilisation. I am sure this will give you more ideas about the Luo history. I am a Luo myself who lives in Uganda. The Luo people live in Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Central African Republic, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Chad. We are a big nation. The fact is that we as the Africans need to write our own history because they are mostly still alive in our oral history and some written sources.
I wish our Luo leaders could unite all the luo tribes. Together we can resist oppression from the regimes in our respective countries. It seems the luo people have historically been subjected to oppression whether in Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia and Congo. It’s high time we all unite, we are blood brothers with common ancestry...I’m a Luo from Kisumu Kenya
@@lakwopobura4789 Makes much sense given that we have luos along the shores of L,victoria in Kenya and Uganda and all through the shores of River Nile in Uganda and Sudan. They must have occupied it to the very end of Egypt.
i am luo from kenya and am extremely proud to be luo.i must say i can understand so many words.one day the luos will unite and we will have a great nation for we are a people so great in intelligence and we are strong believes of justice.Nyasaye nyakalaga no konywa endalo mabiro kaa,aneno ler limbo yo nyandwat
Our word for God is Were ...
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
The lands on the eastern and southern part of Ethiopia were Luo before the arrival of the Hebrew Solomon (Jerusalem) Crown. The lands are part of Southern Sudan, northern, central and southern Uganda, as well as the lands around the shores of Lake Victoria, all of which made/make up the country and nation known as LUOLAND. What the people who live in those lands speak is called LUO LANGUAGE and the people are LUO.
Luo from Kenya why are we the target but luos are great people
I'm an acholi from chua clan in pachua I was in gambella and up to now I do speak the real anyuak language proudly luo
@@OtienoVictor4705 our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
not southern uganda.
Luo from Kenya but struggling to pick words.
I can pick some words. Am a lango of uganda
We are God chosen people our ancestors build pyramids in Egypt that's why we all have similar words.
Same to me am luo of kenya
𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙤 𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙠𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖
Am Kenyan Luo for how long will Luo's keep on suffering am understanding what my Ethiopian Luo is saying
luo must united and suceed to creat their own nation
Am luo from tanzania,awinjo matin dhikno yawa jothurwa opogwa ahinya
Am Luo from Kenya and can pick a lot of words
Yawa dak wariure wabed ji achiel. Jo luo wabosandore nyaka tich adi
I'm an acholi and i understand most of whats is being said
STAY STRONG LUO PEOPLE.
I can pick some words from the Ethiopian luo am an Acholi from Uganda
I am a Luo from kenya.i can understand some few words my brothers. Blood is thinker than water. I can understand, bel ochiek!
i understand some words am shilluk
I understood some too and I'm a lango
From Bar El Gazel in Sudan, the Luos did not only migrate towards East Africa. But they also migrated towards West Africa and Central Africa in Nigeria, Cameroon, Togo, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Central African Republic. Many West African names that start with Os and As have a link to Luo heritage(Okocha, Obinna, Abinna). You also see this in the physical body structure of the Luos. The Luos were revered warriors who always yearned for more and wanted to achieve more. The history of the Luo has not been fully researched on because of colonial oppression in academics. For example less has been writen about the Ramogi rebellion in Uganda against the British colonial administration. This rebellion was a real thorn in the toes of the British and a treat to their colonial expansion. What the British did to the Mau-Mau rebellion(Kenya) and Maji-Maji rebellion (Tanzania) is what they did to Ramogi rebellion(Acholi land in Uganda) : massacre of the people.
am luo fro northern uganda from Acholi tribe
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
Am Luo Kenya and I understand some words Ma tek yawa why are we targets
These are some of your Luo sisters. Check link and please subscribe m.th-cam.com/video/_LWOjMsT6r4/w-d-xo.html
I'm a lango from ugandan and I understood some of words too
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
Herina Achieng, if you had only used the Luo name Achieng, no Luo person would know which country you are from coz we all the Ugandan, Tanzanian, South Sudanese and Ethiopian luos have the name Achieng(for female), and Ochieng (for males). Then we have Ariek(female), and Oriek(male) meaning intelligence / I am intelligent - you (plural) are intelligent. The Luo Anyuak of Ethiopia are targets because they sit on oil large reserves and the crisies are made possible due to stupid African tribal politics and the evil geopolitics of energy resources. Read the article entitled To whom does Ethiopia’s gambella oil belong of 9 March 2006, and Dawn of an oil Era, 7 July 2018.
@@Didmasela well i agree with what you stated about the Anyuak luos what about the ones who are oppressed in Uganda,Tanzania,Eritrea,Sudan ,chad ,Kenya DRC what reason would you give for their predicament?
It was such a sad incident to hear brothers.
I understood all and feel like my own people from pari luo south sudan are the one speaking
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
This is Luo Anyuak of Gambela in Ethiopia. I am an Alur Luo from Uganda& Democratic Republic of the Congo, and I can understand what they are saying. I also pick some words when the Shiluk and Nuer speak. We Luo Alur, Acholi, Langi, Jupadhola, Jaluo-Kenya and Tanzania are very close to Shiluk ( our origin from Bar el Gazel in South Sudan). We share similar heritage( names, traditions, cultures and food).
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
@@africanvoodoo4807 Yes, this was after our forefathers accepted and embraced christianity and islam, and abondoned our ancestors faith. Voodoon for instance, was abondoned and considered evil, even today by many African christians. The first Africans that the colonialists killed or forced into exile were the powerful spirit transmediums or voodoo priests because of their power to see, predict and warn their societies about incoming dangers.
@@Didmasela well we were never vodooo practitioners we were the founders of Christian kingdoms.Kingdom of Alara ,Makuria and Alodia existed long before any Christianity existed.
@@africanvoodoo4807 Voodoo is one such name of African traditional faith(belief in supernatural power). In Luo Alur we call it Juok / Jok (magical power). We call our god Rubanga but now everyone calls it Mungu(a swahili word for god). There was nothing like christian kingdoms. It was only changed to christian kingdoms in order to suit the interests and motives of the colonisers. Everything was manipulated to be related to the bible.
@@Didmasela we also call supernatural jojuok or juogi it’s the same in all luos.Which of your Kings practiced witchcraft?I’m curious to find out.
Am a Luo from Kenya and I can understand some words almost same
These are your people,,,you can understand everything
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
Luo from Kenya so sad why US !!!
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
Im happy to see my brothers in sudan anethiopia, I never knew luos are very diverse
N why is happening or is it that w'r cursed or wat
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
Am also from Uganda
so sad state of affairs. one loudly wonders why we are a targeted community all over. am luo from Kenya. one day we will rule Africa and our tormentors we will forgive you and your descendants
our forefathers refused to follow the laws given to them by God that’s why we are scattered and oppressed no matter which country our brothers and sisters are scattered in .We need to go back and keep the covenant.
The should come to Uganda and Kenya
yeah
We are jews from Israel that's why we're targeted everywhere one day God will assemble as back to our country Israel.
Nonsense, Luos have nothing to do with Jews.
𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙚
Original of luos are all from Sudan. Though now they have immigrated to different parts of East Africa and central Africa. Sudan was a big kingdom, this luos in Ethiopia are not supposed to be there to begin with. We to blame the politic of north Sudan, especially president Jafar Nimeri, he was behind this mess.
Lies, the Anuak have been living there since long before the fake Kingdom of Ethiopia was established. Gambella was ceded to Ethiopia in WWII. It's part of Luoland.
As recently as 1980, Gambella’s Anuak population was by far the largest ethnic group in the region and a majority of the total population. This began to change very quickly in the mid-1980s. Beginning in 1984, the Derg’s forced resettlement program generated a massive influx of some 60,000 highlanders to the region.7 All of the resettlement villages were located on land that the Anuak claimed as their own. At almost the same time, refugees from the Sudanese civil war began fleeing into Gambella.8 In addition to these large-scale influxes, long-standing patterns of eastward migration among the Sudanese Nuer have led to a steady increase in Gambella’s Nuer population over the course of the past century. The pace of Nuer immigration into Gambella has been dramatically accelerated by the civil war in southern Sudan and by the success many Nuer refugees have had in claiming Ethiopian citizenship and settling permanently in Gambella. The result has been that the Anuak are now a minority in what they regard as their own land, and according to the most recent census figures, they are greatly outnumbered by Gambella’s Nuer population.9
These dramatic demographic changes are, to a large degree, responsible for the persistent ethnic tensions and frequent explosions of ethnic violence that have plagued Gambella since the fall of the Derg in 1991. The flow of non-Anuak migrants into Gambella has led many Anuak to fear the erosion of their political power, and some believe that the very survival of Anuak culture is at risk. Additionally, some traditionally Anuak lands are now inhabited almost exclusively by Nuer and Anuak widely regard the continual shrinking of their territory as a threatening development.10 The most frequent outbreaks of ethnic violence in Gambella have pitted the Anuak against the Nuer. This violence reached a bloody peak in 2002, a year that saw over one hundred people killed in clashes that displaced several thousand people. Violent Anuak-Nuer conflict subsided by late 2003, but the resulting respite was an extremely brief one, as ethnic conflict between Gambella’s Anuak and highlander communities had also been simmering throughout this period.11 Many Anuak bitterly resented the arrival of the settlers brought to Gambella by the Derg, and in May 1991, groups of Anuak villagers attacked and murdered large numbers of highlander farmers who had been living alongside them near the town of Abobo.12 More recently, in the past several years, a number of ambushes attributed to armed Anuak have left scores of highlander civilians dead.13
For the past few years, the Ethiopian military has undertaken operations aimed at rooting out armed Anuak groups operating in Gambella, some of which are based in southern Sudan. Military and government officials generally refer to these groups as “shifta,” an Amharic word that can loosely be translated as “bandit.” These Anuak fighters are not unified under the banner of any one group and do not share a common set of goals. They include Sudan-based rebels fighting against the Ethiopian government for Anuak “self-determination”; farmers carrying out isolated revenge attacks against ENDF soldiers and highlander civilians; and a small number of radicalized gunmen who seem to target the highlander population as a whole.14 One Anuak insurgent group, the Gambella People’s Liberation Front (GPLF), operates out of southern Sudan and has staged a handful of attacks inside Gambella.15 There is also reportedly at least one other armed Anuak group operating in Gambella, composed of perhaps two dozen fighters led by a small group of former regional police officers.16 A Sudan-based insurgent group led by a former Derg official named Thuwath Pal Chay, the Ethiopian Patriotic United Front (EPUF), has also been active in the region.17 The EPUF has engaged in sporadic but heavy fighting with Ethiopian military forces and has occasionally managed to seize control of villages along the Sudanese border. It is not known how frequently clashes between the Ethiopian army and EUDF forces have been. The EPUF’s fighters are predominantly Nuer, as is Thuwath Pal himself, and the group allegedly receives support from the Eritrean government.18 Due to an almost complete lack of reliable information and the impossibility of travel to much of Gambella due to security concerns and travel restrictions, it is unclear how serious a threat these armed groups have posed to the overall security situation in the region or how frequent armed clashes with the military have been. It is clear however, that there has been some fighting between armed groups of Anuak and military forces. In addition, highlander civilians continue to be killed in ambushes staged by armed Anuak, although these attacks seem to have become less frequent since the second half of 2004.
While fighting between insurgent forces and the Ethiopian army may at times have risen to the level of armed conflict as defined under international humanitarian law (the laws of war), the abuses covered in this report, primarily by the army against Anuak civilians, have not been in the context of an armed conflict. As such, international human rights law, rather than international humanitarian law, is primarily applicable.19
After the Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Revolutionary Front (EPRDF) government took power in 1991, it handed control over Gambella’s regional government to the Gambella People’s Liberation Movement (GPLM), an Anuak-dominated group that had allied itself with the EPRDF in its war against the Derg.20 Political power in Gambella remained firmly in Anuak hands until December 2003, but federal officials and many within Gambella, including significant numbers of Anuak community leaders, continually accused Anuak regional authorities of corruption and incompetence. Most glaringly, regional officials did almost nothing to resolve Anuak-Nuer ethnic tensions or conflict.21 Many within the highlander community reportedly believed that Anuak regional authorities had no interest in putting a stop to the attacks against highlander civilians, and the federal authorities also came to suspect that leading Anuak politicians were actively collaborating with the armed Anuak groups attacking highlander civilians.22 The federal authorities imprisoned many Anuak political leaders, and at least thirty prominent Anuak, including one former regional president, are now in prison in Addis Ababa.23 Indeed, a substantial minority of Gambella’s educated Anuak elite have been imprisoned or forced into exile over the past decade. Gambella currently has no regional president and no Anuak representative in the House of People’s Representatives, as both have sought asylum abroad.24
The federal government reacted to its deteriorating relations with Gambella’s regional authorities by assuming an increasing degree of control over regional affairs.25 Since Gambella’s regional president fled the country in December 2003, executive power in Gambella has theoretically been wielded by the acting regional president (formerly vice president), Ket Tuach, a Nuer. But the federal government said that in February 2003, the regional government “requested” direct federal intervention in the region’s affairs and since then, real power in the region has been exercised by the federal government’s Ministry of Federal Affairs.26
In addition to assuming de facto control over the regional government, the federal government has stationed several thousand more ENDF troops in Gambella since December 2003.27 Almost all of those soldiers are highlanders and identify themselves as such in the context of highlander-Anuak ethnic conflict.28 The military has established camps throughout the region and conducts regular patrols throughout most predominantly Anuak areas. The primary reason for the large military presence in Gambella appears to be an effort to eliminate armed Anuak groups in the region and assure the security of areas under exploration for oil.29
current country territories are not the traditional ones,that was luo land
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They live in both South Sudan and Ethiopia
Reale I was in the one
Kenyan luo,,i understand some
Luo is a Greek word meaning jew
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