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Who Shall Prevail in Finfinne Palace, After Burial of Woyane: Amharanet or Oromummaa?

Now, after burial of the TPLF, the two remaining and highly competing forces (Amhara and Oromo elites) are at each other’s throat. A lot of conspiracies, political acrobats and speculations are going on. Activists from both sides are criminalizing, accusing and criticizing each other. As far as I am concerned, this was expected. The Oromara project could function only till the final death and burial of the powerfull common enemy, the TPLF. It seems that Amhara elites are doing their best to get rid of anything Oromo from the palace. The only two Oromo around the palace (Aadde Demitu Hambissa and Obbo Leenco Baati) are driven away with the pretext of an appointment as ambassadors. The remaining Oromo in the palace, Dr. Abiy’s where about is not clear. If Oromo forces fail to come together and defend the PM as well as the present Oromo’s partial power in the palace now, the Oromo nation should be ready for the future more difficult liberation struggle against the neo-Naftagna forces of Amharanet.
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Two years ago, I thought that at last the Oromo are free and the son of Abaa Gadaa, Dr. Abiy, is in charge of centeral power in Finfinne palace. A lot of Oromo nationalists thought the same way and some are still supprting him. Even other nations accepted him as their liberator and as the highly seeked Oromo’s Obama to transform Ethiopia (Great Oromia) to democracy. But, unforunately, he sounds now to be like Oromo’s Quisling. Quisling means a traitor or a collaborator. The term was coined in 1940 by the Times in the United Kingdom, with the lead “Quislings Everywhere”. Quisling refers to Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian, who collaborated with the National Socialistic Germany during their occupation of Norway in the Second World War. Didn’t Dr. Abiy now collaborate with the Neonaftagnas in order to sabotage Oromo’s struggle for freedom, justice and sovereignty?

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As the possible future election is approaching, we are asking ourselves: who of the Oromo leaders will prevail and take responsibility to democratize and develop Ethiopia (Great Oromia)? Dr. Abiy of OPP? Ob. Daud of OLF? Dr. Marara of OFC? I think all of them have no problem in accepting and leading Ethiopia. But, leaders of the OLF need to change their view and be ready to lead Ethiopia, beyound liberating Gadaa Oromia. They should have a paradigme shift. Who ever will take this responsibility, imperative is that the political power in Finfinne palace should stay in Oromo hand. We do not yet have a luxury to lose the present opportunity. This power center is essential for the Oromo to re-own our heart and mind – Finfinne, in order to have both political and economical influence on Oromia at all the five levels (Gadaa Oromia/independent republic, Great Oromia/democratic Ethiopia, Greater Oromia/integrated Horn, Greatest Oromia/federated Africa and Global Oromia/international Community). I thought Dr. Abiy of OPP is ready for such move.

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Few years ago, there was a discussion going on regarding Ethiopian democratization vs. Oromian decolonization (national freedom of the Oromo from any sytem of domination), which was firstly initiated by Addis Neger Online. The author of the article demanded that a certain Oromo Obama or Oromo Mandela take the responsibility to democratize the country and give a lasting solution to the problems of that cursed region. What a nice wish and good demand! The author wrote his piece few days before the Ethiopian election 2010. He seemed to be optimistic of the ongoing “democratization and election in Ethiopia”. Is now Dr. Abiy that highly seeked and wished Oromo’s Obama? Can Ob. Daud, Dr. Marara, Ob. A/Nagaa and Gn. Kamal be one?

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Let me leave the oppression history in Ethiopia for historians and talk about the recent situation under the TPLF rule. No question that the present TPLF, the hegemonist caricature of the original TPLF, was ruling all nations in the empire with iron fist since 1991. What a pity for Tigreans, who died for the cause of freedom and democracy during their rebellion and struggle against the fascist Derg. Who of them thought that their organization, TPLF, would be transformed into a worse fascist and racist organization than the regime they had fought against?

[Noble Amhara]

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Unfortunately, TPLF was not only transformed from liberation front into such fascist hegemonist force, but it also used to be an instrument for the only one dictatorial psychopath, Meles Zenawi. Then, there was no more TPLF or any organization from Tigrai ruling the empire, but there was only one psychopath as brutal as Hitler and Stalin, who ruled citizens and nations in Ethiopia with brute force and malicious manipulation. He gathered the very submissive individuals with slave mentality from each nation in the empire to use them as “representatives” of their respective nations. So, he got slaves from Amhara, Oromo, Tegaru, Afar, Somali, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gamballa, Harari and all Southern nations.

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Unfortunately, TPLF was not only transformed from liberation front into such fascist hegemonist force, but it also used to be an instrument for the only one dictatorial psychopath, Meles Zenawi. Then, there was no more TPLF or any organization from Tigrai ruling the empire, but there was only one psychopath as brutal as Hitler and Stalin, who ruled citizens and nations in Ethiopia with brute force and malicious manipulation. He gathered the very submissive individuals with slave mentality from each nation in the empire to use them as “representatives” of their respective nations. So, he got slaves from Amhara, Oromo, Tegaru, Afar, Somali, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gamballa, Harari and all Southern nations.

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The election in May 2010 was one of the situations where he could show these two methods (force and manipulation) for the sake of perpetuating his rule further. Individual citizens and national groups in the empire have been intimidated by force and manipulated by fraud in order to make the dictator and his followers “win” the election. He could “win” almost 100% of the federal and regional parliamentary seats. This election was similar to the elections which took place under dictators like Stalin, Sadam Hussen, Mengistu H/Mariam and so on. So, there was no surprise about the result.

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Why was the result like this? Why could not Ethiopia experience till now any sort of genuine democratic election? The answer may be as described below, in the following examples. Specially, elections in multinational countries like Ethiopia are the competitions not only among political parties, but also among nations in the country for power and domination. In Ethiopia, the contest for power takes place particularly between the two Habesha nations (Amhara, Tegaru) and other oppressed nations, specifically the Oromo. The relationship between the Abyssinian ruling class and the Oromo nation was a relationship between colonizers and the colonized, whereas the relationship between the two Habesha nations was a competition between two colonizers, which is similar to the fight between England and France over Africa during the scramble for Africa.

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The situation in Ethiopia under the TPLF rule was comparable, for instance, with a scenario that smaller nation Denmark would occupy Germany, France and other nations in West Europe, make Paris its capital city, choose German language as working language of the “federation” it formed, call the whole federation as Federal Democratic Republic of Europe and foster a government, where only individuals from Denmark take key positions in the government, military, economy, civil service and security. Was this not absurd?

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Unfortunately, this was what Tigreans (our Denmark) were doing today in Ethiopia. They came to Oromia (our France), made their capital city Finfinne (our Paris), their working language Amharinya (our German language) and tell us that the country they did rule dictatorially is called Ethiopia (our Europe). Then, let’s imagine that Denmark people, Germans, the French people and all other nations in “European empire” were going to election under government of the fascist dictator from Denmark.

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Can any one imagine that Germans, French citizens and other nations of Western Europe under such dictator vote for the fascist regime dominated by oligarchs from Denmark? Can anyone think that such fascist dictator from Denmark can allow the election be fair and free? Can we really believe that democratization of such “European empire” dominated and ruled by minority group from Denmark be possible?

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Ethiopia is such a conglomerate of different neighboring nations, which actually deserve their independence and it is only after freedom of nations from alien rulers that democratization of nation-states can be easier and possible as already practically seen in Europe. The question we needed to answer was why did European regimes want us to do, what they actually don’t wish for themselves and their nations? How did they come to observe such almost an impossible election in the empire or the futile attempt of democratization in the colonized (occupied, subjugated and oppressed) nations?

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To use another example to describe the past Ethiopia, such an empire with a system of domination was almost similar to Apartheid of ex-South Africa as the blogger on Addis Neger tried to compare. Was it expected that such South Africa be democratic before dismantling the system? Why then was Oromo nation, in particular, and other oppressed nations, in general, suffering under looting, subjugation and lording of Tigrean oligarchs be expected to get our right per sham election orchestrated under colonizers? The only difference between South Africa and Ethiopia was that, nations in South Africa were not colonized (dominated) by other nation from the same region, but by white minority from Europe. That is why the answer to Apartheid was not necessarily decolonization in a form of autonomy for each nation in the region. Being free from system of Apartheid used by the white minority regime was the sort of decolonization all nations together wanted to achieve.

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That is why the first example of “European empire” is more appropriate to describe the situation in Ethiopia. If “Europe under Denmark oligarchs” needs to be democratized, no question that the subjugated nations like Germany and France should be liberated first. Then after, the liberated nation-states can have their fair and free democratic election. Of course, after that, the free and democratic nation-states can build union of free peoples as they did in the form of European Union (EU). I think this is a reason for the fact that they supported “disintegration” of Yugoslavia into free nation states, including the very small nations like Kosovo. These independent and democratic nation-states are today part and parcel of European union. If this method of achieving national freedom and multinational democracy is right for Europe, why do European regimes want that Africans move another way which didn’t work for them?

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The legacy of colonialism in the Horn of Africa, in particular, and in Africa, in general, is the artificial division of nations (ethnies), which they like to call “African tribes” per colonial borders. The colonialists either divided one nation to be included into more than two countries or clamped many nations together into one state (country). For instance, the only one nation (Somalia) was divided to be included into five countries (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, British Somaliland and Italian Somalia) as well as many nations in the Horn like Tegaru, Amhara, Oromo, Afar, Sidama, etc. are put together in only one Ethiopia ruled by Abyssinian elites under protection of the Western regimes.

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Almost all African countries are suffering under consequences of such arrangement, and yet Africans are accused and blamed by these same self-righteous Western regimes for lack of democracy. For African nations to be really democratic, they should first get rid of these artificial colonial borders. Nation-states based on free will must be established. Only such relatively hemogeneous nation-states can vote freely during elections in a possible multiparty democracy of the respective nations free from unhealthy competitions among di

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Otherwise, in multinational countries, where nations are put together by force like in Ethiopia, there will always be competition of nations for dominance, not only the necessary competition of political parties for power. There can be certain arguments against such suggestion to have nation-states as a prerequisite for genuine democratization, because of the presence of many small nationalities in Africa, which may not be in a position to foster viable independent state. For such smaller nations, federal arrangement like that of genuine ethnic federalism, which is formally tried in Ethiopia, is good arrangement. It needs only to be genuine, not so fake as it was in Ethiopia now. Each nationality can have its own autonomous province (state), zone, district or county within a voluntarily formed multi-nation-country, based on its size.

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The legacy of colonialism in the Horn of Africa, in particular, and in Africa, in general, is the artificial division of nations (ethnies), which they like to call “African tribes” per colonial borders. The colonialists either divided one nation to be included into more than two countries or clamped many nations together into one state (country). For instance, the only one nation (Somalia) was divided to be included into five countries (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, British Somaliland and Italian Somalia) as well as many nations in the Horn like Tegaru, Amhara, Oromo, Afar, Sidama, etc. are put together in only one Ethiopia ruled by Abyssinian elites under protection of the Western regimes.