Although what you have stated so many facts the way he rised to reign is not stated properly. To begin with the emperor yohannes 4 was his Emperial name. His name was Kassa before he came to power. The narration is misled in the story you are telling us , Kassa was his brother indeed lost the battle against the successor of teodros. If Kassa was to lose a war by the emperor how can his brother be the emperor of Ethiopia by 1871. We could go on and on
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It is not coincidence to see now history repeats itself in ethiopia. Emperor Yohness of ethiopia was fighting to protect the Amhara people who were attacked by Sudanese Mahdi leader, how ever, the Shoa and Gojam regions chiefs of Amhara betrayed Yohanese in his critical time. Instead of helping him to fight outsiders, who were burning Amhara Christian churches, and homes, they chose primarily to fight for their own personal power gains. The same thing is happening in this time in ethiopia. When the Sudanese troops took back a disputed land which was under ethiopian sovereign land for the last 25 years, the ethiopian régime and the Amhara regional government of ethiopia ignored it and focused on invading Tigray region pieces of lands and cause miseries, killings, and committing attrocities on Tigray people.