Filtu
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Filtu ( Ge'ez ፊልቱ ) is a town in southern Ethiopia. It is located south of the river Ganale in an area that is disputed between regions Somali and Oromia. In the documents of the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency in 1998 and 2005 Filtu the Liben Zone of Somali is counted in the 1990s, there was a transitional period determines the main town in this area.
According to the Central Statistical Agency in 2005 had 8,242 inhabitants Filtu. In 1997, of 5,518 inhabitants 98.26 % registered as Somali, the remaining 96 inhabitants were the Amhara, Wolaytta, Oromo and other ethnic groups. The most important Somali clan in Filtu are the Degodia.
Filtu has a market, communicates with other markets in Ethiopia and in the neighboring countries of Kenya and Somalia. A road connects the town with Negele Boran in the West and in the East Doolow. Around Filtu are several smaller villages of sedentary farmers and ranchers.
History
Until the reorganization of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia in 1991 Filtu belonged to the province of Sidamo.
Since the Italian occupation of Ethiopia 1935-1941 penetrated Somali nomads across the river Ganale westward in the area Liben (also Liban or Libin ) ago. This led to conflicts with the already living there Borana Oromo. The Ethiopian transitional government that came to power after 1941, was of the view that this problem could best be rectified by the Somali would be displaced again over the Ganale. The British colonial power in neighboring Kenya, where there was also conflict between Borana and Somali, was a similar view. The Ethiopian government, however, hesitated to take action against the Somali, because she wanted inhabited by Somali Ogadengebiet, which was transiently administered by Britain to recover, and therefore the Somali not antagonize. In October 1964, however, attacked the Borana and Guji - Oromo - perhaps encouraged by the local Ethiopian authorities - along the Somali and inserted them significant losses in men and cattle. This attack drove the majority of the Somali in flight, but also the Rayitu who are of mixed Somali and Oromo origin and a sense of belonging as Muslims rather the Somali. In Filtu fled Somaliland were resettled by the authorities in a kind of "protected village" to monitor they can, support for a return was denied. Therefore, a portion of these displaced people went to Somalia to stand out in 1965 with the support of Somalia to participate in the armed resistance against the Ethiopian government in the Bale revolt.
In Ogadenkrieg Filtu was conquered between late July and early August 1977 by Somali troops. On March 8, 1978, the reconquest by the Fourth Division of the Ethiopian army was.
After 1991, Ethiopia was re- divided into ethnically defined regions ( " ethnic federalism "). The division of the Liben - area between the Oromia and Somali remains controversial, on maps, there are different boundary lines. Official documents of 1998 and 2005, according to Filtu is capital of the woreda Liben or Filtu in the Liben Zone of the Somali Region.
Between the various Somali-Untergruppen/Clans there were differences to the choice of the main town in the entire zone: The Garre claimed that status for the town of Moyale, which has a relatively good infrastructure, however, is currently one of Oromia. The Degodia however, attracted ago Filtu, although the infrastructure of this small town is more modest. The regional government of Somaliland particular in the 1990s Filtu transitional to the main town.
As a result of conflicts between Oromo and Somali as well as by drought to IDPs have settled in Filtu. Beginning of 2002 there were over 800 displaced households in three camps. 220 Degodia families indicated from the area between the road from Negele Boran Filtu claimed to have come to the river Dawa in the south to the north and, Gurra 289 families and 243 families of Warra Dubba were claims to be fighting in front of the Bale- zone of Oromia fled.
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