Oromo Politics at 7 Levels of Orocaffé, Orofinné, Oromia, Oropia, Orohorn, Orofrica and Oroglob!
Nice to observe that Oromo nationalists are slowly, but surely becoming confident enough to foster Orocaffé (Caffé Aràrà), Orofinné (Oromummà led Finfinne), Oromia (Oromumma’s core country), Oropia (Oromummà led Ethiopia), Orohorn (Oromummà led Horn), Orofrica (Oromummà oriented Africa) and Oroglobe (Oromummà respecting world). The Oromo as father of Cush is the original stem of almost all Africa nations. The ongoing liberation of the Oromo from alien forces in order to be not only free from others, but also sovereign enough to decide our destiny, is a very good precedence for all African nations. Finfinné being the capital city of Oromia, Oropia, Orohorn and Orofrica is a wonderful chance for the Oromo and Oromummà to excercise such leadership, influence and persuation. That is why it is in the best interest of the Oromo to forge and keep an integration of Ethiopia, the Horn and Africa. If Dr. Abiy’s Medemer philosophy is in this sense, it is really a wonderful vision to promote Oromo’s tradition of guddifachà and moggàsà in a modern version. Such Oromo politics of inclusion is the best approach to have Oromumma’s ripple influence from the palace (Orocaffee = Caffé Aràrà) to Orofinné, Oromia, Oropia, Orohorn, Orofrica and Oroglob.
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Oromo Politics at 7 Levels of Orocaffé, Orofinné, Oromia, Oropia, Orohorn, Orofrica and Oroglob!
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Re: Oromo Politics at 7 Levels of Orocaffé, Orofinné, Oromia, Oropia, Orohorn, Orofrica and Oroglob!
እናንተ ፈረንጆች አበዳቹ እኮ
አገው ሸንጎም ተጋልጦ አፈል በላ። ጋላም አፈር በላ
ፋኖም እየመጣ ነው። ምን ይሻላቹሀል። የኮሪደር ልማቱ ላይ ያወጣችሁት ዶላር ከሰረ። ለማድኛውም በደንብ አጧጥፋት ኮርደር ልማቱን።
አገው ሸንጎም ተጋልጦ አፈል በላ። ጋላም አፈር በላ
ፋኖም እየመጣ ነው። ምን ይሻላቹሀል። የኮሪደር ልማቱ ላይ ያወጣችሁት ዶላር ከሰረ። ለማድኛውም በደንብ አጧጥፋት ኮርደር ልማቱን።
Re: Oromo Politics at 7 Levels of Orocaffé, Orofinné, Oromia, Oropia, Orohorn, Orofrica and Oroglob!
Just taking the current problem of Ethiopia into consideration, the only way forward for the victims (for the affected citizens and nations) of the dictators is their unity of purpose. That means we need to deal with the dictator’s method of polarizing, dividing and fragmentizing the Ethiopian democrats. We know that Oromo’s way of struggle these days is very smart; it effectively tackled dictators’ method of destroying any opposition by dividing. It is becoming inclusive of all groups of the Oromo nationalists with the vision to realize one of the different forms of sovereignity intended for the future Oromia in a process through which the nationals will vote for their respective choice, of course after consolidating together the common Oromo goal: freedom of the Oromo people from dictatorship. No question that Oromo nationals should still work on our unity of purpose, if we really are serious enough about being totally liberated from the hitherto domination. Even if the success of an attempt to forge an alliance with Amhara forces seems to be very unlikely, we still should continue to concentrate on unity of Oromo nationalists, be it in a form of a practical structural unity under one stronger OLF or as a spiritual unity of principle in targetting only our enemy from different directions, instead of fighting each other. That means, we need to support all Oromo nationalists, who are trying to struggle for Oromo’s freedom, knowing the fact that they wish to realize one of the following three types of Oromia’s sovereignity :
– an independent Oromia (getting rid of Oropia) = external self-determination of the Oromo people,
– a federal Union (Oropian union with Oromia’s autonomy) = internal self-determination, and
– an integrated Oropia (Oromummà led Ethiopia) to be influenced by Oromo people and having Afaan Oromo as a federal working language (getting rid of Oromia).
Which type of sovereignity will prevail in the future depends on the vote of Oromo majority after consolidating our freedom by any means possible, i.e through armed struggle and/or public uprising of an all-inclusive alliance and/or electroal struggle. So, it is good that the OLF now leads these moves of politically conscious Oromo nationalists in different routes towards the same goal of Oromo people’s freedom and then to one type of Oromia’s sovereignty, which will be decided by Oromo public.
To hinder this clever move of the OLF, the “smart” dictatorial regime is trying its best by preaching an ‘unconditional independent Oromia’ and an ‘unconditional integrated Ethiopia’ at the same time, just for the sake of sowing discord between Amhara democratic forces and Oromo liberation fronts so that the tsunami of inclusive revolution, which is coming up on their bosses in Finfinne palace, may be hindered; i.e to prevent the tsunami coming from the possible all-inclusive alliance. We liked it or not, the spirit of AFD can be resurrected and revive, which is really an excellent phenomen. The incumbent regime’s political acrobat could not prevent an all-inclusive alliance from being a reality. Interestingly the regime has dispatched his cadres in three directions (being camouflaged as independencists in the Ethno-nationalists’ camp of the Oromo, as Pseudo-federalists in Biltsiginna camp and as unitarists in the Ethio-nationalists’ camp of the Amhara):
– in Amhara forums to preach ‘unitary Ethiopia’ and to demonize Ethno-nationalists, specially to blame Oromo liberation forces;
– in Biltsiginna forums to act as popes of ethnic federation just in order to curse Amhara unitarists as “chauvinists” and Oromo independencists as “secessionists”;
– in Oromo forums to function as hardliner supporters of an ‘indepnendent Oromia’ just to denigrate and to insult the Amhara camp.
At the moment, the card of ‘Oromian independence’ has no more value. Even if regime’s cadres try to use this card, no one is scared of it; also pro-unity Amaras do say: “go to hell and declare your independence”. This card of course became important as the regime started to see that its power in Finfinné palace is in danger. The regime purposely advocates an unconditional ‘independent Oromia’ to the Oromo, so that Oromo people be cornered only at this position and not to be flexible. The regime knows very well that this position has got a lot of enemies (not only unitarist Amara, but also Western regimes). With the same logic, The regime preachs to Amara nationalists how important an unconditional ‘unitary Ethiopia’ is, because this position produces an enemity of all oppressed nations, including the act of inducing enemity of the Oromo towards Amara. That means, regime’s best cards now are these two diametrically opposite positions: an ‘unconditional independent Oromia’ and an ‘unconditional unitary Ethiopia’, of course beside its continous song about Biltsigina’s ethnic federation per force.
Years back, Meles Zenawi carried in one picture drawn by Gadaa.com an OLF-flag with the slogan “Oromia shall be free”. He already had hidden the “Abbay Tigrai” agenda and the “Tigrai shall be free” slogan behind his Ethiopianist rhetoric. He was happy when the pro-”Oromia shall be free” Oromo nationals and the pro-”long live Ethiopia” Amara groups did bark at each other and neutralize each other; that was why he promoted both Ethiopian and Oromian nationalisms and tried to control the two emotional communities, who he thought were ready to be moblized when ever he wanted. He tried to mobilize the emotional Amara nationalists against OLF in the time between 1992 and 2005 and he attempted to moblize some Oromo nationals during the 2005 election and after that against Amhara camp. Then, he tried to mobilize the gullible part of Amhara nationals using his Ethiopian nationalist slogan about Abbay River and Assab Port, of course to hinder them from cooperating with Oromo nationalists during the ongoing revolution. To some extent he was successful; for instance, the fact that Oromo students were revolting without any help from other students was the proof. PM Abiy is now trying the same method of Meles.
To counter this regime’s move towards the ‘right’ side of political spectrum, his intention was just to make Ethio-nationalists to rally behind himself. I think the cooperation between Amara & Oromo elites was a smart progress against such TPLF’s divisive action. They needed to foster the necessary all-inclusive alliance based on common denominators, ‘freedom and democracy’, so that we can build true ethno-federation (Oromia’s autonomy within Ethiopian union) after demise of the TPLF regime. The independencist wing of the OLF should have been wise enough not to oppose this move. The arguement among Oromo polity on: ‘independence vs union’ had to stop. Even we didn’t have to oppose the position of pro-unitary forces as long as they fought against the brutal fascist TPLF. The same mechanism is needed against Biltsigina.
So, the best anti-dote against Biltsigina’s move is that we do everything possible to make it be insecure and if possible lose power. The best instruments to achieve this result are the imperative ‘unity of Oromo liberation forces’ and the important ‘alliance with other democratic forces’. I am sure that the Oromo people have nothing to lose by pushing in this form. Those Oromo nationals, who fear the possible comeback of Amara elites with the assimilationist feudal mentality to reverse the partially achieved Oromo’s right to self-adminstration, are simply unrealistic. So, we have to fight together with all anti-Biltsigina forces in order to achieve our national Oromian liberty within regional Ethiopian union.
I personally think that we need to have only one all-inclusive opposition against Biltsigina. This opposition camp can have ‘left’ wing independencists like the OLF, ‘middle’ body unionists like those in Medrek and the ‘right’ wing integrationists like the Ezema. We are in the critical phase of the struggle where we need cooperation and coordination of all these three parts of the opposition against the common enemy – the dictatorial regime. That is why we all anti-Biltsigina political groups should stop our infighitng and start to target only the dictators, so that we can forge transitional governement based on principles of freedom and democracy after fall of the incumbent regime.
Nothing can save the political acrobatist Niltsigina, from the imminent inclusive revolution; the time is now for such revolution. But Oromo nationalists are still asking: where are others, while Oromos are revolting? Why are other opressed nations sleeping? Are they still victims of Biltsigina’s divide and rule method? We actually must be able to say together: no more antagonizing an all-inclusive freedom fighters in favour of the dictators. It is clear that Biltsigina survived Till now by dividing, fragmenting and polarizing both Amhara integrationist bloc and Oromo independencist camp among themselves and between each other.
But, the question is: how long would both Amara and Oromo camps allow Biltsigina play with them and how long did they give chance for this group to beat them turn by turn? Are they less intelligent than the regime not to outsmart this dictatorial regime? Time will show us for how long Biltsigina can play this game of pure political acrobat, presenting itself (camouflaging) as either Oromo independencist or as the only unionist or as Amara integrationist just to sow discord among the opposition and make these different parts of the opposition neutralize each other; actually the only true motive of Biltsigina is to keep its power at any cost. On the day Oromo nationalists start to make also the issue of an integrated Ethiopia their own regional issue, of course beside an independent Oromia as national issue, and on the day Amara nationals start to accept and respect Oromia’s right to exist, at least within an integrated Ethiopia, this day will be the day of real demise for the dictatorial regime.
Otherwise, we have to be able to differentiate Biltsigina’s political acrobatists from the genuine independencist Oromo, federalist South and integrationist Amara. To know this difference, what matters is not the position of their guts, but more the direction of their guns. Biltsigina cadres direct their guns (verbal bullets) on pro-integration Amara nationals and pro-independence Oromo nationalists, whereas the genuine opposition from these two camps consequently and conciously try to direct their guns only on the dictatorial regime. Biltsigina cadres shoot continously at these genuine Amara and Oromo groups, whereas genuine pro-independence Oromo and pro-integration Amhara nationals try to tolerate all opposition political groups with their different tactics and strategies in a struggle for freedom and democracy. So, we need to check the direction of their guns in order to differenitate the camouflaged Biltsigina cadres talking about an ‘independent Oromia’ and an ‘integrated Ethiopia’ from both genuine opposition blocs advocating these two agenda respectively.
What ever happens in politics of that empire, sure is that Biltsigina cadres are doing everything under the sun to divide and weaken the opposition. It is up to us, supporters of the opposition, to act against this move of the cadres. That is why we continously push for imperative unity of those with similar ideology and for optional alliance of all anti-EPP democrats. The opposition camp including Oromo liberation movement should act together against the dictatorial group in Finfinné palace. For this to happen, opposition groups need to agree on rule of the game regarding future arrangement: referendum or consensus or force.
Rule of the game against Biltsigina party is clear; EPP didn’t yet give any chance for either referendum or consensus. What remains then is force as the only means to deal with EPP; that means only civil disobedience, armed struggle and public uprising are the choice, not the usual ‘election game’. But the opposition should also find suitable rule of the game for post-EPP future politics: either consensus or referendum, excluding force. Then, they do have only the following two options:
– consensus on middle ground for all; i.e on ‘union of autonomous nations’ in Ethiopia or
– referendum on: independence vs federalism vs integration
Using force is only the last option for opposition groups to settle their difference, in case we fail to agree on the above two noble ways (on consensus and referendum). If we must use force, then the result will be ‘independence by force as in the case of Eritrea’, or ‘federalism by force as it was under TPLF’ or ‘integration by force as it was under Amara rule in the past’. Now, the question to be answered is: are both Oromo camp and Amara bloc in a position to achieve their goal respectively by force? If Oromo camp wants independence in such move by force, it must win not only EPP, but also the Amara bloc. If Amaras want to impose an integration by force, they also need to win not only EPP, but also the Oromo camp.
I don’t think this is feasible for both groups in the near future; that is why both the Amhara bloc and the Oromo camp had to make compromise/have consensus, not to fight each other, but build an alliance to be stronger force against the EPP to achieve their common goal according to consensus, i.e to achieve freedom from Biltsigina’s dictatorship and ‘union of free peoples’ as compromise solution. Biltsigina cadres are now sensing that this possibility of an alliance between Amara bloc and Oromo camp against their rule is approaching, that is why they are very busy to polarize, divide and fragmentize both groups. It is up to the elites in both sides to wake up and smell the coffee!
– an independent Oromia (getting rid of Oropia) = external self-determination of the Oromo people,
– a federal Union (Oropian union with Oromia’s autonomy) = internal self-determination, and
– an integrated Oropia (Oromummà led Ethiopia) to be influenced by Oromo people and having Afaan Oromo as a federal working language (getting rid of Oromia).
Which type of sovereignity will prevail in the future depends on the vote of Oromo majority after consolidating our freedom by any means possible, i.e through armed struggle and/or public uprising of an all-inclusive alliance and/or electroal struggle. So, it is good that the OLF now leads these moves of politically conscious Oromo nationalists in different routes towards the same goal of Oromo people’s freedom and then to one type of Oromia’s sovereignty, which will be decided by Oromo public.
To hinder this clever move of the OLF, the “smart” dictatorial regime is trying its best by preaching an ‘unconditional independent Oromia’ and an ‘unconditional integrated Ethiopia’ at the same time, just for the sake of sowing discord between Amhara democratic forces and Oromo liberation fronts so that the tsunami of inclusive revolution, which is coming up on their bosses in Finfinne palace, may be hindered; i.e to prevent the tsunami coming from the possible all-inclusive alliance. We liked it or not, the spirit of AFD can be resurrected and revive, which is really an excellent phenomen. The incumbent regime’s political acrobat could not prevent an all-inclusive alliance from being a reality. Interestingly the regime has dispatched his cadres in three directions (being camouflaged as independencists in the Ethno-nationalists’ camp of the Oromo, as Pseudo-federalists in Biltsiginna camp and as unitarists in the Ethio-nationalists’ camp of the Amhara):
– in Amhara forums to preach ‘unitary Ethiopia’ and to demonize Ethno-nationalists, specially to blame Oromo liberation forces;
– in Biltsiginna forums to act as popes of ethnic federation just in order to curse Amhara unitarists as “chauvinists” and Oromo independencists as “secessionists”;
– in Oromo forums to function as hardliner supporters of an ‘indepnendent Oromia’ just to denigrate and to insult the Amhara camp.
At the moment, the card of ‘Oromian independence’ has no more value. Even if regime’s cadres try to use this card, no one is scared of it; also pro-unity Amaras do say: “go to hell and declare your independence”. This card of course became important as the regime started to see that its power in Finfinné palace is in danger. The regime purposely advocates an unconditional ‘independent Oromia’ to the Oromo, so that Oromo people be cornered only at this position and not to be flexible. The regime knows very well that this position has got a lot of enemies (not only unitarist Amara, but also Western regimes). With the same logic, The regime preachs to Amara nationalists how important an unconditional ‘unitary Ethiopia’ is, because this position produces an enemity of all oppressed nations, including the act of inducing enemity of the Oromo towards Amara. That means, regime’s best cards now are these two diametrically opposite positions: an ‘unconditional independent Oromia’ and an ‘unconditional unitary Ethiopia’, of course beside its continous song about Biltsigina’s ethnic federation per force.
Years back, Meles Zenawi carried in one picture drawn by Gadaa.com an OLF-flag with the slogan “Oromia shall be free”. He already had hidden the “Abbay Tigrai” agenda and the “Tigrai shall be free” slogan behind his Ethiopianist rhetoric. He was happy when the pro-”Oromia shall be free” Oromo nationals and the pro-”long live Ethiopia” Amara groups did bark at each other and neutralize each other; that was why he promoted both Ethiopian and Oromian nationalisms and tried to control the two emotional communities, who he thought were ready to be moblized when ever he wanted. He tried to mobilize the emotional Amara nationalists against OLF in the time between 1992 and 2005 and he attempted to moblize some Oromo nationals during the 2005 election and after that against Amhara camp. Then, he tried to mobilize the gullible part of Amhara nationals using his Ethiopian nationalist slogan about Abbay River and Assab Port, of course to hinder them from cooperating with Oromo nationalists during the ongoing revolution. To some extent he was successful; for instance, the fact that Oromo students were revolting without any help from other students was the proof. PM Abiy is now trying the same method of Meles.
To counter this regime’s move towards the ‘right’ side of political spectrum, his intention was just to make Ethio-nationalists to rally behind himself. I think the cooperation between Amara & Oromo elites was a smart progress against such TPLF’s divisive action. They needed to foster the necessary all-inclusive alliance based on common denominators, ‘freedom and democracy’, so that we can build true ethno-federation (Oromia’s autonomy within Ethiopian union) after demise of the TPLF regime. The independencist wing of the OLF should have been wise enough not to oppose this move. The arguement among Oromo polity on: ‘independence vs union’ had to stop. Even we didn’t have to oppose the position of pro-unitary forces as long as they fought against the brutal fascist TPLF. The same mechanism is needed against Biltsigina.
So, the best anti-dote against Biltsigina’s move is that we do everything possible to make it be insecure and if possible lose power. The best instruments to achieve this result are the imperative ‘unity of Oromo liberation forces’ and the important ‘alliance with other democratic forces’. I am sure that the Oromo people have nothing to lose by pushing in this form. Those Oromo nationals, who fear the possible comeback of Amara elites with the assimilationist feudal mentality to reverse the partially achieved Oromo’s right to self-adminstration, are simply unrealistic. So, we have to fight together with all anti-Biltsigina forces in order to achieve our national Oromian liberty within regional Ethiopian union.
I personally think that we need to have only one all-inclusive opposition against Biltsigina. This opposition camp can have ‘left’ wing independencists like the OLF, ‘middle’ body unionists like those in Medrek and the ‘right’ wing integrationists like the Ezema. We are in the critical phase of the struggle where we need cooperation and coordination of all these three parts of the opposition against the common enemy – the dictatorial regime. That is why we all anti-Biltsigina political groups should stop our infighitng and start to target only the dictators, so that we can forge transitional governement based on principles of freedom and democracy after fall of the incumbent regime.
Nothing can save the political acrobatist Niltsigina, from the imminent inclusive revolution; the time is now for such revolution. But Oromo nationalists are still asking: where are others, while Oromos are revolting? Why are other opressed nations sleeping? Are they still victims of Biltsigina’s divide and rule method? We actually must be able to say together: no more antagonizing an all-inclusive freedom fighters in favour of the dictators. It is clear that Biltsigina survived Till now by dividing, fragmenting and polarizing both Amhara integrationist bloc and Oromo independencist camp among themselves and between each other.
But, the question is: how long would both Amara and Oromo camps allow Biltsigina play with them and how long did they give chance for this group to beat them turn by turn? Are they less intelligent than the regime not to outsmart this dictatorial regime? Time will show us for how long Biltsigina can play this game of pure political acrobat, presenting itself (camouflaging) as either Oromo independencist or as the only unionist or as Amara integrationist just to sow discord among the opposition and make these different parts of the opposition neutralize each other; actually the only true motive of Biltsigina is to keep its power at any cost. On the day Oromo nationalists start to make also the issue of an integrated Ethiopia their own regional issue, of course beside an independent Oromia as national issue, and on the day Amara nationals start to accept and respect Oromia’s right to exist, at least within an integrated Ethiopia, this day will be the day of real demise for the dictatorial regime.
Otherwise, we have to be able to differentiate Biltsigina’s political acrobatists from the genuine independencist Oromo, federalist South and integrationist Amara. To know this difference, what matters is not the position of their guts, but more the direction of their guns. Biltsigina cadres direct their guns (verbal bullets) on pro-integration Amara nationals and pro-independence Oromo nationalists, whereas the genuine opposition from these two camps consequently and conciously try to direct their guns only on the dictatorial regime. Biltsigina cadres shoot continously at these genuine Amara and Oromo groups, whereas genuine pro-independence Oromo and pro-integration Amhara nationals try to tolerate all opposition political groups with their different tactics and strategies in a struggle for freedom and democracy. So, we need to check the direction of their guns in order to differenitate the camouflaged Biltsigina cadres talking about an ‘independent Oromia’ and an ‘integrated Ethiopia’ from both genuine opposition blocs advocating these two agenda respectively.
What ever happens in politics of that empire, sure is that Biltsigina cadres are doing everything under the sun to divide and weaken the opposition. It is up to us, supporters of the opposition, to act against this move of the cadres. That is why we continously push for imperative unity of those with similar ideology and for optional alliance of all anti-EPP democrats. The opposition camp including Oromo liberation movement should act together against the dictatorial group in Finfinné palace. For this to happen, opposition groups need to agree on rule of the game regarding future arrangement: referendum or consensus or force.
Rule of the game against Biltsigina party is clear; EPP didn’t yet give any chance for either referendum or consensus. What remains then is force as the only means to deal with EPP; that means only civil disobedience, armed struggle and public uprising are the choice, not the usual ‘election game’. But the opposition should also find suitable rule of the game for post-EPP future politics: either consensus or referendum, excluding force. Then, they do have only the following two options:
– consensus on middle ground for all; i.e on ‘union of autonomous nations’ in Ethiopia or
– referendum on: independence vs federalism vs integration
Using force is only the last option for opposition groups to settle their difference, in case we fail to agree on the above two noble ways (on consensus and referendum). If we must use force, then the result will be ‘independence by force as in the case of Eritrea’, or ‘federalism by force as it was under TPLF’ or ‘integration by force as it was under Amara rule in the past’. Now, the question to be answered is: are both Oromo camp and Amara bloc in a position to achieve their goal respectively by force? If Oromo camp wants independence in such move by force, it must win not only EPP, but also the Amara bloc. If Amaras want to impose an integration by force, they also need to win not only EPP, but also the Oromo camp.
I don’t think this is feasible for both groups in the near future; that is why both the Amhara bloc and the Oromo camp had to make compromise/have consensus, not to fight each other, but build an alliance to be stronger force against the EPP to achieve their common goal according to consensus, i.e to achieve freedom from Biltsigina’s dictatorship and ‘union of free peoples’ as compromise solution. Biltsigina cadres are now sensing that this possibility of an alliance between Amara bloc and Oromo camp against their rule is approaching, that is why they are very busy to polarize, divide and fragmentize both groups. It is up to the elites in both sides to wake up and smell the coffee!