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[OPFist]

Dr. Abiy’s Ethiopia is Dominated by Amharanet, Just Like That of Er. Menelik!

As long as Amharanet/Amharigna is dominating over Oromummaa/Oromiffaa, there is little difference between Ethiopia of Dr. Abiy and that of Er. Menelik. As far as Oromiffaa is kept inferior to Amharigna by Abiy regime, despite the majority position of the Oromo, aluta continua! The liberation struggle of Oromo nation shall continue. Since about 1270, there are two types of Oromo elites: 1) those revering Amharinga and who are happy to speak it as well as ready to Amharanize themselves and their children; 2) those respecting Oromiffaa and trying to save it from being diminished through the ongoing influence from the Amharanized ones. The ruling class from Yekuno Caalaa to Abiy Ahmed are typically pro-Amharigna, whereas freedom fighters being led by the bilisummaa mindset of the OLF are pro-Oromiffaa. The struggle now is also between these two camps of Oromo elites. We already defeated classical Abesha elites through the last three revolutions (1974, 1991 and 2018). At the present, pro-Amharigna Oromo elites being led by Abiy Ahmed are in power in Finfinne palace. It seems they are determined to keep the hitherto domination of Amharinga at the cost of Oromiffaa. That is why the regime of Abiy Ahmed is persecuting genuine Oromo nationalists dictatorially, aborting the started democratization process. In a true democracy, Afaan Oromo definatly will be the leading primary language of Ethiopia because of its demographical advantage. To maintain the existing domination of Amharinga, dictatorship of pro-Amharigna elites is mandatory. Oromo struggle now need to concentrate against such Oromo elites, who are masked as liberators and led by the 21st century Oromo traitor – Abiy Ahmed.
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[OPFist]

It is clear that the OLF is now acting like Ehnofederalist in order to materalize a genuine democratic language based federation as a prelude to an independent Gadaa Oromia. On the contrary, EPP of Dr Abiy is tentatively Ethiofederalist prefering an integrated Ethiopia dominated by Amharigna. In case, they change this domination and democratize the country, they might be called Great Oromianists for the fact that democratic Ethiopia, where Afaan Oromo takes the leading position, will be de facto Great Oromia as envisioned by OFC. Is the ongoing conflict between the OLF and EPP ideological or more of power struggle? In short, Gadaa Oromianists’ goal is sovereign Gadaa Oromia with or without Great Oromia, whereas Great Oromianists’ vision is sovereign Great Oromia with or without Gadaa Oromia. We followed one panel discussion, which took place in Minessota few years ago. The panelists were individual Oromo scholars and Oromo political leaders from three factions of the OLF and OFC. It was a nice start for further unification of Oromo liberation forces, specially it was encouraging and uplifting to see leaders from different groups speaking from same podium and sitting side by side to respond to questions raised by the public. All things in the conference went good, except my disappointment by not hearing an explicit unity of goal or unity of purpose from leaders of our liberation fronts.This disappointment does not include leader of the federalists at home (OFC), who had already done his homework in uniting the major Oromo federalist parties. Since that conference, we had different discussions and could observe that the conflict between Oromo elites is only in formulating the type of Oromia’s sovereignty to be realised after freedom: ‘liberation of Gadaa Oromia (Biyya-Oromo) vs transformation of Great Oromia (Future Ethiopia or Biyya-Kuush).

[OPFist]

As I could understand our politicians, they still try to make and maintain a “conflict” among the following  two goals of the only one Oromo objective (freedom to self-determination):

– OLF’s aim of Oromo freedom and decolonization of Gadaa Oromia,

– OFC’s goal of Oromo freedom and transformation of Great Oromia.

Here, I would like to ask Oromo elites: where is the conflict which can hinder us from forging unity, or cooperating and working together? The common denominator for the two positions is a struggle for Oromo freedom from Abyssinian domination. That means, at least we can cooperate to consolidate together  our freedom. If we really do agree on this common ground and struggle in unison, then after keeping our freedom, which is a necessary pre-condition for public verdict, it is up to Oromo public to decide whether we opt for liberation of Gadaa Oromia or transformation of Great Oromia. During the expected post-freedom referendum, all Oromo political organizations will have chance and right to advocate for their respective positions, be it to pursue the realization of an independent Gadaa Oromia or an integrative Great Oromia.

[TesfaNews]

[OPFist]

I personally will vote where possible for the bigger country (Great Oromia) if the name of the future union will be Oromia, instead of Ethiopiao. Otherwise, I prefer Gadaa Oromia to the future New Ethiopia, in case the name Ethiopia persists; having in mind that we can have a possibility to opt for a union of free peoples after independence. The position ‘Ethiopian union of autonomous nations’ before achieving full independence can not be the end-goal by itself, but achieving this term can serve as a transitional intermediate goal towards one of the two ends: Gadaa Oromia or Great Oromia. In the current political trend of Africa and in a globalized world, union of free peoples similar to that of European Union (EU) can be a common end goal we all nations in the Horn region can far-sightedly plan for. So, we can have a plan to move from the status quo rhetoric, i.e. “Gadaa Oromia is already liberated, and Oromo have already achieved our objective”, which in reality is a temporay Position, — towards OLF’s independent Gadaa Oromia or OPP’s integrative Great Oromia. The important thing to know for all Oromo nationalists is that achieving OFC’s goal is a very nice prerequisite to the further move to OLF’s goal, which is again a very good prelude for the reverse move to the OFC’s. We can either have a left to right approach of OLF – first achieve an independent Gadaa Oromia and then move to an integrative Great Oromia or a right to left approach of OFC – first opt for Great Oromia and if other neighbouring nations reject the union, our Gadaa Oromia will be left for us. It seems OLF chose the left to right approach, whereas OFC prefered the right to left. So, again: where is the conflict?

[OPFist]

Parallel to the panel discussion mentioned above, I also read one interview given by Mr. Jawar Mohammed to the journalist of Gadaa.com. Surprisingly, he also thinks that the two main ideas in Oromo liberation movement, i.e. “liberation of Gadaa Oromia” and “transformation of Great Oromia” are contradictory and exclusive to each other. But, it is really good that he has additionally said that the two “contradictory” concepts are only the means to the end of Oromo cause. If both ‘liberated Gadaa Oromia’ and ‘transformed Great Oromia’ are not the end by themselves, what is then an end he does have in mind? Union of independent nations in the region? I think he is one of “parallel thinkers,” who tend to see at the above two main ideas separately – as if they are exclusive to each other. Actually, a current constructive way of thinking is that of “series thinkers.” According to this later group of thinkers, Oromo cause has got only one objective, i.e. self-determination, with three possible terms or sub-goals:

[OPFist]

In summary, according to “series thinkers,” we can achieve in our liberation journey all the above three terms of Oromo objective one after another. We do not need to quarrel over the subjectively produced “conflict” between the two main ideas (liberation of Gadaa Oromia vs transformation of Great Oromia) for the two concepts are not contradictory, but complementary to each other. Transformation of Great Oromia, if it really happens, is a very good means to achieve liberation of Gadaa Oromia according to the right to left approach and vice versa in the left to right one. That is why dictatorial Abyssinian elites never ever allow Ethiopia to be democratic as far as they have power. We can argue over the effectiveness of this evolutionary means in comparison to the revolutionary liberation of Gadaa Oromia through armed struggle. But, if transformation really happens, now OPP is on a right track to achieve the short-term of the objective (transitional Gadaa Oromian autonomy within Ethiopian union). Then, the OLF can bring us further to middle term; of course, finally we need a consensus of all free neighboring nations of the region in order to come to the long term of the goal.

[DefendTheTruth]

Now, after the war, you started calling him at least Dr. Abiy. just before few weeks you were referring to him as Mesherefet, or something like that.

My late parents used to say: uleen maal balleessa? (using a stick to discipline children shouldn't be bad, or something like that.)

[OPFist]

To further clarify our liberation journey, we can also use a car drive on a highway, instead of a train journey. It looks as if we do drive on a three-lane highway from Djibouti to Finfinne. Taking the three-lane highway as a metaphor, we can see that certain Oromo individuals are driving their cars on the right-lane in order to leave the highway when they arrive at Diredhawa. They seem to have no will and wish to drive further up to Adaama or Finfinne. So, all Oromo, who are Ethiopian federalists out of conviction, are not seeing Ethiopian union as only transition. Oromo who made their destination to be Adaama, instead of Diredhawa, are driving on the middle-lane planning for the longer journey and, of course, those who have Finfinne in mind as their destination are driving on the left-lane for they know that they have to drive a long distance. Important now in our liberation journey is that we possibly make no traffic gridlock, but we better drive in harmony and exit the highway, where ever we think that we have already arrived at our respective destination. We have to be very careful not to be a cause for the possible gridlock and not to hinder those driving further towards Adaama and Finfinne. Do we agree? If yes, then let Waaqa help us not be the obstacle on the liberation journey towards Adaama and/or Finfinne.

[OPFist]

According to the “series thinkers,” all the three sub-goals of the only one Oromo objective (self-determination) are inline on one direction, which we can achieve one after another, if Oromo people want, all the three terms and come to the end goal. So, what we need is not a paradigm shift in a sense of give up on Gadaa Oromian independence or in a sense of change in direction, but to have a public verdict on the three sub-goals. On the process of our liberation journey or our self-determination, we need to decide based on public verdict, whether we want to have Gadaa Oromian autonomy within Ethiopian context or an independent Gadaa Oromia or a union of free peoples in the form of Great Oromia as an end goal. So, what we need now is a collectively determined move towards a transitional Ethiopian union on grave of the dead Abyssinain Empire and see if Oromo people really be satisfied with this form of sovereignty. If not, it is again up to the Oromo people to push for Gadaa Oromian independence and see if we really be satisfied with such isolated form of sovereignty. If it is free will of Oromo public, there is no reason why we can’t move further and foster a union of liberated peoples in Great Oromia as our final and beneficial sort of sovereignty, which is my favorite form of sovereignty.