Dr. Léncô Suggests Oromo Consensus on either Upward Homgenization (Democratic Oropia) or Downward Homgenization (Republic Oromia)!
Dr. Léncô Latà recently explained why Amara unitarists (who want a backward move to an Amaranized unitary Ethiopia) and Oromo independists (who wish to realise an independent republic of Oromia) are ideologically similar. He said both of them want a [deleted] country. Their difference is that Amara elites strive for an upward [deleted] of the whole Ethiopia with Amaranet identity and Oromo elites want a downward homgenisation of only Oromia with Oromummà identity. But, he seems to neglect the possibility of Oromo’s upward homgenization and the future reality of Amara’s downward homgenisation. Fact on the ground is that Ethiopia with Afàn Oromo as primary federal working language shall be transformed to Oropia (Oromummà led Ethiopia), slowly but surely. This process will be non stoppable. In his recent repeated interviews, Dr. Léncô suggested the importance of Oromo consensus on one of these already known two Oromo goals: democratic Oropia of OFC (upward homgenization) or republic Oromia of OLF (downward homgenisation). Then, all Oromo elites can join in unison, having common voice, the planned national dialogue in Ethiopia. Can Oromo elites reach at this consensus or should they leave it open for the post-freedom referendum on the two types of sovereignty. As far as I am concerned, consensus on democratic Oropia (upward homgenizaion) would have been better than opting for republic Oromia (downward homgenization). Democratized Ethiopia with adopted modern Gadaa system and having Afàn Oromô as primary working language of the federation will be de facto Oropia, which is definately bigger than Oromia. I hope that all Oromo elites will follow the noble call and cause of Dr. Léncô.
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Re: Oromo Consensus on either Upward Homgenization (Democratic Oropia) or Downward Homgenization (Republic Oromia)!
I have tried in my hitherto opinions to contribute my share for the possible promotion of the Oromo national liberation movement. I did it just as an obligation, which I took without any external influence, be it in a form of individual, organization or institution. I am now happy by observing the start of consolidation and process of strengthening the camp of Oromo liberation by means of the current Oromo movement towards unity for freedom and sovereignty. I think now we had enough opinions and theories which we require, but still we lack practice and pragmatism of implementing the ideas we do have into action. I just would like to wish us all that Waaqa help us live our dreams in practice.
The title I want to discuss here seems to be not yet optimally clear among our polity. Once, I heard one good interview regarding the ongoing discussion among factions of our liberation front on the possible future reunification. That inspired me to write this short opinion. According to the interviewer, the discussion is still going on and this news is very encouraging to the Oromo, who are longing for a strong and viable OLF. One of the comments I heard from his interview is that there was and there is still “difference of goals” among the polity. The question we need to ask: is there really any difference of goal or we do only have lack of clarity in comprehending Oromo’s objective? We can have different opinions regarding our history, because we used to hear and read different versions, but we need to agree on the liberation journey to our destiny.
In my opinions, for the last many years, I tried to write on this and I did my best to clarify it in different ways. I used to write that our common goal is freedom of the Oromo and sovereignty of Oromia, union of independent nations, sovereign state of the Oromo in a United States of Africa, liberty for referendum, kilil-federation/Oromo state’s autonomy as a mid-goal for Oromo state’s independence – the core goal, Oromo’s self-determination etc. Is this not clear? Am I not with clear mind regarding our destiny? Are Oromo elites, who talk about these different concepts with clear mind for the common goal? I am here just try to explain again what I already wrote regarding these concepts, and I hope this can be helpful for those still debating and discussing on our “differences in objective“.
At the moment, there are four political groups in which Oromo polity is active:
– in ruling party OPP, who tells us that we have already achieved our goal of liberation.
– in parties like Ezema, which disregards existence of Oromia, but struggles for freedom and democracy in Ethiopia – considering Oromo as part and parcel of this greater state.
– in Oromo federalist parties like OFC, struggling for Oromia’s autonomy in Ethiopian context.
– in Oromo liberation fronts like the OLF, fighting for Oromia’s independence within or without union of free peoples based on self-determination of nations per referendum.
Looking at goals of the above four groups, we should be clear that genuine Oromo in OPP can keep the status quo from setbacks, which might happen by the untiredly efforts of both the 20th-century Amhara Nefxenyya and the 21st-century Tigrai Nefxenya. Oromo polity in Ezema seem to struggle for freedom and democracy, Ezema being moderate on existence of Oromia, even though it doesn’t support it. So, if it is successful, the probability of fostering true kilil-federation/Oromia’s autonomy is not bad. I hope in due time Oromo individuals in Ezema will stop their “madness” of attempting to dismantle Oromia with the pre-text of geography-based-federation in contrary to language-based-federation, which is supported by Oromo majority. This is the reason why I do see that our liberation journey as having different stations (stops) on a way to our final goal. From the status quo, first we can move to OFC’s position and then move on to the END. Self-determination by itself is a process of liberation movement from the status quo till having public liberty for referendum with two possible outcomes: national (Oromia’s) independence within regional (Ethiopian) union or national independence without a union. Debating and discussing on these two outcomes now is not as such productive for the timing is wrong. We can debate on them after we do achieve liberty and be in a position to exercise referendum.
So, our mid-goal being Oromia’s autonomy and the end-goal, of course, being Oromia’s independence, I personally see no conflict of goal among Oromo democratic federalists, among Oromo liberation fronts and even between the federalists and the fronts. It seems, now Oromo federalists have solved their difference, but Oromo fronts are still struggling to come together. Liberation fronts should just know that the goal they can rally behind is freedom of Oromo people, independence of Oromo land and liberty of its government as a precursor for self-determination in a form of referendum. Is this not clear enough? Surely, our foes try to make it unclear in order to sow a discord among different factions of our liberation front. Some try to tell us that difference of goal is that of Oropian democratization Vs Oromian liberation. Are these two contradictory? I think, if it really happens, democratization of Ethiopia is a very good MEANS for liberation of Oromia as an END. That is why the two Nefxenyas are vehemently against the democratization process. They just give only lip service, but oppose it in their day to day practice.
The two main enemies of our goal are Biltsigina and conservative unitarists, the first being teethful and the second at the moment toothless. But, the ongoing handshake of these two foes is the sign for their alliance against liberation movements of all oppressed nations in the empire, which should be taken into consideration in our future political calculus. Till now, Biltsigina did a very hard work to polarize Amhara democratic forces and Oromo liberation fronts, to disintegrate Amhara forces and to disenfranchise Oromo fronts. It is really successful to some extent. For instance, the presence of more than 90 fragments (I don’t call them parties) in the empire now is not sign of democracy as Biltsigina cadres want to convince us, but it is sign of tyranny which is used to disintegrate different opposition parties. Many factions from OLF are part and parcel of this action of fragmentation. Of course, also “naive” Oromos writing in websites/forums and talking in Paltalks/radios different messages promoting the disintegration do have a tremendous contribution. Just as an example, a journalist of Gada-TV, who was full of hatred for OLF-Shane and OLF-QC, is doing more than what TPLF cadres could ever do. He vehemently opposes the reunification of the OLF factions and demonizes Oromo liberation leaders who are doing their best, even if they are not perfect. If he is genuine Oromo with honest intention of promoting Oromo liberation movement, he surely needs a consultation of his friends both personally and professionally. If he is Afaan Oromo speaking non-Oromo just doing his damaging job to hinder our liberation movement, he is really doing smart job.
Looking back at the positive steps taken by Oromo political organizations, the coalition of OFDM and OPC in forging OFC was smart and now we were waiting for reunification of OLF factions, which could have been the best breakthrough. Then, the one strong OLF can unite with the rest parties to form one and only one liberation front behind whom we all can rally to achieve our goal. One such OLF is very essential to be efficient in all three fields of struggle (diplomacy, politics and military). It will have our heartful support, so that we can give our talent, money and time. No diplomatic community takes weak and mini-fronts seriously, but one strong front can be feared by our enemies as well as it can be taken seriously by international community to work with. Then, having genuine Oromo polity in OPP (excluding the criminals) who are keeping the status quo, Oromo politicians in OFC struggling in “legal and peaceful” way to achieve autonomy as well as the only one OLF being strong in armed struggle to push for independence is the optimal condition we actually need in order to be successful and to arrive at our desired goal. By the way, theoretically, we can come to the status of exercising referendum in either OPP way, OFC way or OLF way, if the subjugation by Biltsigina is overcome, be it one way or the other.
Regarding past move of the Oromo for unity, the step once taken by OLA (the Oromo Liberation Army) of the southern zone to promote the reunification of OLF was very encouraging and the response of the three factions given in supporting this move was also very commendable. I hope, despite the hard work of our enemies to hinder this move, we will see reunited and strong liberation front in the future. After having clear liberation journey with common goal and its stations in mind and after forming a viable unity of Oromo liberation camp, we can easily look at further strategical coalitions with liberation fronts of other oppressed nations and tactical alliance with democratic forces in the empire against the two Nefxenyas, who do sometimes fight each other only for position of domination, but not for liberation of the oppressed nations.
Unfortunately, the attempt of Oromia’s decolonization by armed struggle as a means to our end is as difficult as the other means (Ethiopian democratization). That is why our political leaders need to be farsighted and wise to forge an efficient tactic and strategy in combining both means to lead us to our goal. They need to be sophisticated instead of only telling “a spade is spade” like it is in Chimpanzee politics of directness. Thanks to our hitherto heroes who paid everything to start the struggle from scratch and lead us to the victories we earned till now, I personally think our victory up to now is not so little as Biltsigina cadres and some misguided “naive” Oromo try to tell us day and night just to denounce our hitherto leaders and to discourage us by labeling our people as “nation of failure”. The Oromo are nation of many merits and values, people who achieved what we do have now under the following very difficult and dire situations: an enemy armored by the West to its teeth, no sanctuary in neighboring countries, almost all Western countries working with our subjugators against us, and even Oromia is not a good sanctuary for our freedom fighters, etc. Some people like the journalist of Gadaa-Tv, who are concentrating only on the hitherto “mistakes, failures and faults” of our leaders are parts of either a very destructive propaganda done by our “smart” foes or parts of a damaging journalism exercised by “misguided” Oromo friends. Most of such people who do magnify our hitherto “weaknesses” in different media outlets are actually not friends of Oromo liberation struggle, but they are the ones who want to attack our courage and determination for a future liberation move.
So, based on these facts, my recommendation for the future move is to further strengthen unity of Oromo parties, coalition of oppressed nations and alliance of all pro-freedom and pro-democracy forces against the move of the two anti-democracy Nefxenya groups. Having clear mind of our Oromo polity on a clear Oromo goal is very mandatory to lead us to our desired destiny. Goal of the two Nefxenyas is crystal clear, according to them, Oromia belongs to them. Let’s imagine as if British elites and French elites do claim Berlin of Germany as their own seat of governance and say the whole Germany belongs to them. Is this not absurd and madness? Unfortunately, their Western friends also try to look at Oromo as an “ethnic”, whereas German is a “nation.” Can any one explain to us why European nations should be called as such and African big nations, such as the Oromo, are called ethnic/tribal groups? Here is what Oromo writer Obbo Labsa Shaggar once wrote in response to the article written by an Ethiopianist elite Mesay Kebede, who was opposing right of Oromo nation to self-determination:
“… Jumping from one invalid argument to another, Messay suggests “to reject the usage of the terms ‘nations and nationalities’” and recommends, instead, the usage of ‘ethnic groups.” Here again, Messay reveals his detachment from realities, lack of intellectual integrity and breadth of thought, and a concern for public issues. The terms Messay wants to discard away at his will and whim carry meanings. More than literally meanings, they have extensive political, sociological and anthropological concepts. In contravention with these scientific concepts, the Amhara elites (including Messay) have for long been scornfully labeling the terms “nation, nationality and ethnie” (to use the French term) as “gossa,” which is the equivalent of “tribe and/or clan.” Now, Messay and his likes want to ban the usage of the terms nations and nationalities and replace them with ethnic groups. The intention behind this is clear: demeaning the concepts attached to the terms and belittling them to the lowest forms of human developmental stages. In so doing, the Amhara élites emulate white colonialists, who used to describe political malfunctions in Africa as “tribal” problems to assert the lesser evolution, development and humanity of Africans; to portray the picture of people without culture, and without history in order to justify colonialism. As that was racist and ahistorical, so is the attempt of Messay to reduce nations to ethnic groups …”
Last but not least, nowadays, we do hear and read different news confirming the move of the two Nefxenyas in attempt to reverse hitherto victories of Oromo struggle. They complain about “why should we build a wall of division, whereas Germans dismantle such wall”? They do not want to seek the right comparison. Actually, the division of Germans is like a division of Gojjam and Gondar. A division between Abyssinia and Oromia is like division between France and Germany. I know that they can not or will not comprehend this. The other news is about the plan of EPRDF member parties planning to merge in the future so that there will be no “formal Oromo OPDO” in the future. That means all children of the two Nefxenyas can rule over the Oromo and Oromia (more than they do now) as far as they can speak Afàn Oromô. Who knows the working language of Oromia may also be changed to Amarinya. The last is, which came out in the Reporter website, telling us that again Oromo elites would have said: “Oromo parties and people don’t support secession of Oromia.” Actually, the word secession is used by Woyane just to discredit the question of Oromo nation for liberation. But no one with sound mind can tell us now that Oromo people do not want liberation, be it in a form of Oromia’s autonomy or independence within or without union of free nations in the region based on self-determination per referendum. I think Oromo’s common goal of freedom and the three pre-freedom routs (rebel way of the OLF, opposition way of OFC and regime way of OPP) as well as the three post-freedom types of Oromia’s souvereignt (independent Oromia, Federal Union i.e language based Ethiopian federation and integrative Oropia – geography based Ethiopian federation) are very clear, and need only to be entertained by clear mind of Oromo polity. May Wàqa help us!
The title I want to discuss here seems to be not yet optimally clear among our polity. Once, I heard one good interview regarding the ongoing discussion among factions of our liberation front on the possible future reunification. That inspired me to write this short opinion. According to the interviewer, the discussion is still going on and this news is very encouraging to the Oromo, who are longing for a strong and viable OLF. One of the comments I heard from his interview is that there was and there is still “difference of goals” among the polity. The question we need to ask: is there really any difference of goal or we do only have lack of clarity in comprehending Oromo’s objective? We can have different opinions regarding our history, because we used to hear and read different versions, but we need to agree on the liberation journey to our destiny.
In my opinions, for the last many years, I tried to write on this and I did my best to clarify it in different ways. I used to write that our common goal is freedom of the Oromo and sovereignty of Oromia, union of independent nations, sovereign state of the Oromo in a United States of Africa, liberty for referendum, kilil-federation/Oromo state’s autonomy as a mid-goal for Oromo state’s independence – the core goal, Oromo’s self-determination etc. Is this not clear? Am I not with clear mind regarding our destiny? Are Oromo elites, who talk about these different concepts with clear mind for the common goal? I am here just try to explain again what I already wrote regarding these concepts, and I hope this can be helpful for those still debating and discussing on our “differences in objective“.
At the moment, there are four political groups in which Oromo polity is active:
– in ruling party OPP, who tells us that we have already achieved our goal of liberation.
– in parties like Ezema, which disregards existence of Oromia, but struggles for freedom and democracy in Ethiopia – considering Oromo as part and parcel of this greater state.
– in Oromo federalist parties like OFC, struggling for Oromia’s autonomy in Ethiopian context.
– in Oromo liberation fronts like the OLF, fighting for Oromia’s independence within or without union of free peoples based on self-determination of nations per referendum.
Looking at goals of the above four groups, we should be clear that genuine Oromo in OPP can keep the status quo from setbacks, which might happen by the untiredly efforts of both the 20th-century Amhara Nefxenyya and the 21st-century Tigrai Nefxenya. Oromo polity in Ezema seem to struggle for freedom and democracy, Ezema being moderate on existence of Oromia, even though it doesn’t support it. So, if it is successful, the probability of fostering true kilil-federation/Oromia’s autonomy is not bad. I hope in due time Oromo individuals in Ezema will stop their “madness” of attempting to dismantle Oromia with the pre-text of geography-based-federation in contrary to language-based-federation, which is supported by Oromo majority. This is the reason why I do see that our liberation journey as having different stations (stops) on a way to our final goal. From the status quo, first we can move to OFC’s position and then move on to the END. Self-determination by itself is a process of liberation movement from the status quo till having public liberty for referendum with two possible outcomes: national (Oromia’s) independence within regional (Ethiopian) union or national independence without a union. Debating and discussing on these two outcomes now is not as such productive for the timing is wrong. We can debate on them after we do achieve liberty and be in a position to exercise referendum.
So, our mid-goal being Oromia’s autonomy and the end-goal, of course, being Oromia’s independence, I personally see no conflict of goal among Oromo democratic federalists, among Oromo liberation fronts and even between the federalists and the fronts. It seems, now Oromo federalists have solved their difference, but Oromo fronts are still struggling to come together. Liberation fronts should just know that the goal they can rally behind is freedom of Oromo people, independence of Oromo land and liberty of its government as a precursor for self-determination in a form of referendum. Is this not clear enough? Surely, our foes try to make it unclear in order to sow a discord among different factions of our liberation front. Some try to tell us that difference of goal is that of Oropian democratization Vs Oromian liberation. Are these two contradictory? I think, if it really happens, democratization of Ethiopia is a very good MEANS for liberation of Oromia as an END. That is why the two Nefxenyas are vehemently against the democratization process. They just give only lip service, but oppose it in their day to day practice.
The two main enemies of our goal are Biltsigina and conservative unitarists, the first being teethful and the second at the moment toothless. But, the ongoing handshake of these two foes is the sign for their alliance against liberation movements of all oppressed nations in the empire, which should be taken into consideration in our future political calculus. Till now, Biltsigina did a very hard work to polarize Amhara democratic forces and Oromo liberation fronts, to disintegrate Amhara forces and to disenfranchise Oromo fronts. It is really successful to some extent. For instance, the presence of more than 90 fragments (I don’t call them parties) in the empire now is not sign of democracy as Biltsigina cadres want to convince us, but it is sign of tyranny which is used to disintegrate different opposition parties. Many factions from OLF are part and parcel of this action of fragmentation. Of course, also “naive” Oromos writing in websites/forums and talking in Paltalks/radios different messages promoting the disintegration do have a tremendous contribution. Just as an example, a journalist of Gada-TV, who was full of hatred for OLF-Shane and OLF-QC, is doing more than what TPLF cadres could ever do. He vehemently opposes the reunification of the OLF factions and demonizes Oromo liberation leaders who are doing their best, even if they are not perfect. If he is genuine Oromo with honest intention of promoting Oromo liberation movement, he surely needs a consultation of his friends both personally and professionally. If he is Afaan Oromo speaking non-Oromo just doing his damaging job to hinder our liberation movement, he is really doing smart job.
Looking back at the positive steps taken by Oromo political organizations, the coalition of OFDM and OPC in forging OFC was smart and now we were waiting for reunification of OLF factions, which could have been the best breakthrough. Then, the one strong OLF can unite with the rest parties to form one and only one liberation front behind whom we all can rally to achieve our goal. One such OLF is very essential to be efficient in all three fields of struggle (diplomacy, politics and military). It will have our heartful support, so that we can give our talent, money and time. No diplomatic community takes weak and mini-fronts seriously, but one strong front can be feared by our enemies as well as it can be taken seriously by international community to work with. Then, having genuine Oromo polity in OPP (excluding the criminals) who are keeping the status quo, Oromo politicians in OFC struggling in “legal and peaceful” way to achieve autonomy as well as the only one OLF being strong in armed struggle to push for independence is the optimal condition we actually need in order to be successful and to arrive at our desired goal. By the way, theoretically, we can come to the status of exercising referendum in either OPP way, OFC way or OLF way, if the subjugation by Biltsigina is overcome, be it one way or the other.
Regarding past move of the Oromo for unity, the step once taken by OLA (the Oromo Liberation Army) of the southern zone to promote the reunification of OLF was very encouraging and the response of the three factions given in supporting this move was also very commendable. I hope, despite the hard work of our enemies to hinder this move, we will see reunited and strong liberation front in the future. After having clear liberation journey with common goal and its stations in mind and after forming a viable unity of Oromo liberation camp, we can easily look at further strategical coalitions with liberation fronts of other oppressed nations and tactical alliance with democratic forces in the empire against the two Nefxenyas, who do sometimes fight each other only for position of domination, but not for liberation of the oppressed nations.
Unfortunately, the attempt of Oromia’s decolonization by armed struggle as a means to our end is as difficult as the other means (Ethiopian democratization). That is why our political leaders need to be farsighted and wise to forge an efficient tactic and strategy in combining both means to lead us to our goal. They need to be sophisticated instead of only telling “a spade is spade” like it is in Chimpanzee politics of directness. Thanks to our hitherto heroes who paid everything to start the struggle from scratch and lead us to the victories we earned till now, I personally think our victory up to now is not so little as Biltsigina cadres and some misguided “naive” Oromo try to tell us day and night just to denounce our hitherto leaders and to discourage us by labeling our people as “nation of failure”. The Oromo are nation of many merits and values, people who achieved what we do have now under the following very difficult and dire situations: an enemy armored by the West to its teeth, no sanctuary in neighboring countries, almost all Western countries working with our subjugators against us, and even Oromia is not a good sanctuary for our freedom fighters, etc. Some people like the journalist of Gadaa-Tv, who are concentrating only on the hitherto “mistakes, failures and faults” of our leaders are parts of either a very destructive propaganda done by our “smart” foes or parts of a damaging journalism exercised by “misguided” Oromo friends. Most of such people who do magnify our hitherto “weaknesses” in different media outlets are actually not friends of Oromo liberation struggle, but they are the ones who want to attack our courage and determination for a future liberation move.
So, based on these facts, my recommendation for the future move is to further strengthen unity of Oromo parties, coalition of oppressed nations and alliance of all pro-freedom and pro-democracy forces against the move of the two anti-democracy Nefxenya groups. Having clear mind of our Oromo polity on a clear Oromo goal is very mandatory to lead us to our desired destiny. Goal of the two Nefxenyas is crystal clear, according to them, Oromia belongs to them. Let’s imagine as if British elites and French elites do claim Berlin of Germany as their own seat of governance and say the whole Germany belongs to them. Is this not absurd and madness? Unfortunately, their Western friends also try to look at Oromo as an “ethnic”, whereas German is a “nation.” Can any one explain to us why European nations should be called as such and African big nations, such as the Oromo, are called ethnic/tribal groups? Here is what Oromo writer Obbo Labsa Shaggar once wrote in response to the article written by an Ethiopianist elite Mesay Kebede, who was opposing right of Oromo nation to self-determination:
“… Jumping from one invalid argument to another, Messay suggests “to reject the usage of the terms ‘nations and nationalities’” and recommends, instead, the usage of ‘ethnic groups.” Here again, Messay reveals his detachment from realities, lack of intellectual integrity and breadth of thought, and a concern for public issues. The terms Messay wants to discard away at his will and whim carry meanings. More than literally meanings, they have extensive political, sociological and anthropological concepts. In contravention with these scientific concepts, the Amhara elites (including Messay) have for long been scornfully labeling the terms “nation, nationality and ethnie” (to use the French term) as “gossa,” which is the equivalent of “tribe and/or clan.” Now, Messay and his likes want to ban the usage of the terms nations and nationalities and replace them with ethnic groups. The intention behind this is clear: demeaning the concepts attached to the terms and belittling them to the lowest forms of human developmental stages. In so doing, the Amhara élites emulate white colonialists, who used to describe political malfunctions in Africa as “tribal” problems to assert the lesser evolution, development and humanity of Africans; to portray the picture of people without culture, and without history in order to justify colonialism. As that was racist and ahistorical, so is the attempt of Messay to reduce nations to ethnic groups …”
Last but not least, nowadays, we do hear and read different news confirming the move of the two Nefxenyas in attempt to reverse hitherto victories of Oromo struggle. They complain about “why should we build a wall of division, whereas Germans dismantle such wall”? They do not want to seek the right comparison. Actually, the division of Germans is like a division of Gojjam and Gondar. A division between Abyssinia and Oromia is like division between France and Germany. I know that they can not or will not comprehend this. The other news is about the plan of EPRDF member parties planning to merge in the future so that there will be no “formal Oromo OPDO” in the future. That means all children of the two Nefxenyas can rule over the Oromo and Oromia (more than they do now) as far as they can speak Afàn Oromô. Who knows the working language of Oromia may also be changed to Amarinya. The last is, which came out in the Reporter website, telling us that again Oromo elites would have said: “Oromo parties and people don’t support secession of Oromia.” Actually, the word secession is used by Woyane just to discredit the question of Oromo nation for liberation. But no one with sound mind can tell us now that Oromo people do not want liberation, be it in a form of Oromia’s autonomy or independence within or without union of free nations in the region based on self-determination per referendum. I think Oromo’s common goal of freedom and the three pre-freedom routs (rebel way of the OLF, opposition way of OFC and regime way of OPP) as well as the three post-freedom types of Oromia’s souvereignt (independent Oromia, Federal Union i.e language based Ethiopian federation and integrative Oropia – geography based Ethiopian federation) are very clear, and need only to be entertained by clear mind of Oromo polity. May Wàqa help us!