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[OPFist]

Dr Abiy: Dismantle the Constitution and the Federation, but After Demoting Amharigna to Local Language and Promoting Oromiffaa to Federal Language!

After the victory over TPLF, Amhara elites and the PAE (pro- Amharanet elites) from other nations started to consider it as defeat of the present constitution and federation. They started their bravado and are trying to see Oromo national movement as their next target. They even started to brag: “we kicked out Tegaru elites and getting rid of Oromo elites is easier job”. I just want to suggest, let’s push Dr Abiy to dismantle both the constitution and federation, but after demoting Amharigna to local language of only Amhara region and promoting Oromiffaa to the primary language of the federation. In such case, all the military,  parlament, security and other federal institutions will use Oromiffaa instead of Amharigna. Do Amhara elites and the PAE agree? Surely, they will start to cry foul! They denounce both the constitution and the federation as long as Amharanet/Amharigna is dominating. But, surely in the future democratic and rainbow Ethiopia, the importance of the languages will be based on their size. Thus, Oromiffaa shall have primary position.
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[kibramlak]

አህያው፣ እንግሊዞች ማጆሪቲ ስለሆኑ ነው እንግሊዝኛ ቀዳሚ ያለም ቋንቋ የሆነ???

Moron idi@t gaIIa, you will never get civilized

[Za-Ilmaknun]

Who said Oromo is the Majority? Don't bloat your imagination based on what TPLF gave you. You will soon learn the reality and, hopefully eat up your own shyyytt. Mind you though, if it is the will of the majority of Ethiopians I am happy to accept weather Oromiffa or Wolayta to become the Federal language. All we are against is--- imposition!!!

[OPFist]

But, promoting the five languages (Oromiffa, Amharigna, Af Somaal, Tigrigna  Afar af) and if possible adding more languages is prgmatic solution for the ongoing dispute regarding the language conflict in Ethiopia. The time of Amharic language dominance must come to end. These five languages can help not only to keep Ethiopian unity, but also to accelerate integration of the Horn. This is fact on the ground, which all of us should swallow. No turn back to Amharic language imperialism, the freedom train is moving on. Ethiopia will either be transformed to de facto Great Oromia of Dr. Abiy through democratization process, or it will disintegrate and give birth to Gadaa Oromia of Ob. Galaasa. The choice will be made by all stakeholder nations and nationalities in the country. The Oromo should opt for Great Oromia (similar to gross salary) and if others want to leave us, at end of the day we will have our Gadaa Oromia (as net salary).

[OPFist]

Habesha elites know this fact that democratizing Ethiopia is tantamount to transforming to Oromia very well and Oromo elites are now starting to understand it. That is why Habesha elites give only lip service to democracy, for they really can see what that means. Some Oromo elites didn’t yet get it; accordingly they vehemently oppose “democratizatzion of the empire”. But, truth is that democratic Ethiopia is de facto Oromia; i.e bigger Oromia than the one planned by the OLF. Since the prompt response I once gave to certain Abyssianist Oromo, who tried to persuade Oromo nationalists so that we accept Ethiopia and Ethiopiawinet (in a sense of Ethiopian nationalism = Abesha nationalism) at cost of Oromia and Oromummaa (Oromo nationalism), I recieved several protest and few support letters from Oromo nationals per e-mail. One of the reasons raised by those who oppose the concept of Great Oromia is that the goal of federalist Oromo, i.e ‘democratic genuine federation of Ethiopia’, can not be same as Great Oromia I suggested, but “it will be a continuation of the existing Abyssinian empire”.

[OPFist]

I personally do believe that Oromia within womb of Ethiopia, as planned by federalists, is only transitional solution on the way towards either an indispensable transformation of Ethiopia to de jure integrative Great Oromia or natural inevitable birth of an independent Gadaa Oromia. But yet even the future transitional democratic Ethiopia can be considered as de facto Great Oromia, if Oromo community from now on start to call it as such, without waiting for permission and recoginition from any sort of authority as well as if we really succeed in making Afaan Oromo a working language of the future true federation. In this essay, I will try to show how using Afaan Oromo can make democratic Ethiopia be de facto Oromia.

[OPFist]

It is clear that only Abyssinian elites and few culturally and linguistically Habeshanized elites from other nations are against such Oromia (future accomodative Ethiopia) with genuine ethnic federalism or internal self-determination of nations. This Oromia is actually the best compromise solution for all nations in the region in order to live together – achieving both national autonomy and regional integration. Till recently, the position of Abyssinian elites regarding self-determination made them be not suitable to cooperate with elites of other nations against TPLF regime. Abyssinian elites promote unconditional unitary Ethiopia at cost of self-determination, which they also put as a precondition for possible alliance, especially between Abyssinian democratic forces and Oromian freedom fighters. Some Oromo nationalists tended to accept this precondition, only if Abyssinian elites also may accept one Oromo’s precondition, i.e Afaan Oromo as only working language of the federation, instead of Amharinya. They say: let’s try to persuade Habesha elites to accept Afaan Oromo as working language in a common house, Great Oromia (accomodative Ethiopia), as a test. Will Abyssinian elites then continue as pro unity and anti-ethnicity, even if Amharinya will be demoted to only a local language of Amhara region and if Afaan Oromo will be promoted to the only working language of the federation? I am sure they will not! In case they continue to be pro-unity, also under this situation, as they seem to believe now, let’s then try this new version of democratic Ethiopiawinet = de facto Oromiawinet with only Afaan Oromo, instead of Amharinya.

[OPFist]

After observing the imposition of Amharinya at cost of Afaan Oromo in the past more than one century, I just couldn’t help, but think about the main mistake some of the empire leaders from Oromo origin like Ob. Qusee Dinagde & Ob. Gobena Daacee, who are adored by Abyssianists as builders of the empire, did commit. Their worst mistake was the acceptance of Amharinya as the only national language of the empire they forgd, of course at cost of Afaan Oromo. Being Oromo, if they could have managed to promote Afaan Oromo to national language of the empire, Oromos were not the ones, who should fight for self-determination, but others. The whole of Finfinne’s “high class society” and other “modern” peoples in the empire would have spoken Afaan Oromo as well as the whole diaspora Ethiopians now would have spoken Afaan Oromo, even all would have claimed to be Ethiopian with the content of Oromummaa (Oromo nationalistm), but not Habeshanet (Abyssinian nationalism); then, to be an Ethiopian = Oromian in this sense, of course, almost equivalent to be an Oromo, not 

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[OPFist]

At the present, for Abyssinian elites to come to their sense and comprehend why we did say so, let’s look at the following fact in short. Most Abyssinian elites nowadays think they are pro-Ethiopiawinet and anti-ethnicity and they think that they do have a moral upper-hand over others, who “promote ethnic politics”. For them, to develop another view, let’s demote Amharinya to local language of only Amhara region and promote Afaan Oromo to the only federal language. Until now, just based on fact that Amharinya is the only federal language, they used to talk about Ethiopiawinet, which in essence means actually Amharanet (Amhara nationalism) for they know how Amharanization was going on. If we exchange the role of the two languages, I am sure Oromo nationals will start to value Ethiopiawinet, which will be equivalent to Oromummaa and, of course, they will denounce ethnicity. Then, surely Amhara elites will start to defend themselves from the possible “Oromonization” and will denounce Ethiopiawinet with only Afaan Oromo as federal language and they surely will automatically be pro-ethnicity. So, we can see how simple it is to be a moralist without understanding the mechanism behind all what we do believe.