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[OPFist]

Final Consensus of Oromo Political Forces: Primarly Great Oromia and Secondarly Gadaa Oromia!

Thanks to Waaqa, finally there is consensus among all Oromo political forces regarding our destination (Kaayyoo). There is no more quarell between “Ethiopianists” and Oromianists. I contributed my part in this process of forging consensus. I consistently tried to show that Ethiopia in Oromo terms is tantamount to Great Oromia. We need to primarly own this Great Oromia. Thus, the best approach for the Oromo is to take power in Finfinne palace and transform Ethiopia to Great Oromia. If other nations far away from Finfinne want to have their own self-determination and decide for independence, secondarly we will have Gadaa Oromia as the rest territory. The Oromo as majority at the center will be giver rather than reciever of self-determination. Especislly, the dominant Habeshas can go as Tigrai with capital Meqele and Amharai with capital Bahrdar, if they want. The Oromo having centeral power can allow them to leave the union, in case they prefer so. I worked on this approach for several years and now all Oromo forces have consensus to move in this way. We want primarly Great Oromia and accept secondarly Gadaa Oromia, based on the decision of other nations to separate from us or stay with us.
Read more: https://fayyisoromia.wordpress.com/2018 ... at-oromia/

[OPFist]

“As far as Oromo nation is concerned, and putting it metaphorically, Ethiopia (Great Oromia) is same as gross salary, while Gadaa Oromia is similar to net salary of certain professional. In case other nations reject the offer of Great Oromia from Oromo people and go their way to be our neighbour states, we will have an independent Gadaa Oromia with its capital city Finfinne, just like Russia with its Moscow was left behind as other states of the Soviet Union decided for their independence as well as like Serbia and its Belgrade had same fate during the disintegration of Yugoslavia.”

[OPFist]

Map of Gadaa: http://oromoliberationfront.net/oromia/ ... tent-inner

Map of Great Oromia: http://finfinnetribune.com/Gadaa/2014/1 ... he-center/

[EthioRedSea]

Dirty Bantu, get the hell out of Abyssinia. Go to Kenya. There will be no Gadda. We do not want Oromo culture. We have an Ethiopian culture. Oromos should go back to the Congo where they came from if they want to have a primitive form of democracy. Gadda is a tribal war system where other people are killed and robbed. we do not want this for Ethiopia or other African countries.

[OPFist]

We all have once followed the sad news of Ethiopians suffering in Saud Arabia. Some Oromo nationalists reacted to those assaults on the immigrants in the Gulf states: “we must take back our homeland to end the Oromo national homelessness.” The concervative Abyssinian forces, on the other hand, tried to capitalize on that situation, as usual, and started their Ethiopiawinet propaganda – of course, again, attacking Oromo nationalists. That event persuaded us to shortly formulate the Oromo people’s goal and look if it contradicts with genuine unity of nations or peoples. The Oromo people’s political objective, regarding the type of Oromia’s sovereignty we want to have after achieving national freedom from any sort of alien rule, can be summarized in short as ‘an independent Gadaa Oromia or an intehrative Hreat Oromia.’ This is goal of the people in general, but Oromo individuals and organizations can specify their aim by choosing one of these post-freedom sovereingty of Oromia. For instance, the ODF wants to realize ‘a union masked with the name Ethiopia, whereas some nationals suggest a change of the name Ethiopia to Oromia‘ and the OLF wants to achieve ‘an independent Oromia state within the United Nations’. The two goals are not as such disadvantageous for the Oromo, as long as the future rule of political game will be freedom and democracy. That is why Oromo organizations can confidently forge any sort of alliance against the tormenting TPLF regime. The whole move of the Oromo organizations should be with a purpose to corner the regime at Tulluu Daalatti (TD) – the power center of the Prime Minister office, so that it will never have a peaceful life. In short, regarding the post-freedom sovereignty, there are the following possible two types:

– an independent Oromia in a form of Gadaa republic

– an integrative Great Oromia (transformation of the present fake ethnic federation to a genuine union)

[OPFist]

Given the public will or popular sovereignty as the highest value, the Oromo nation can have full right to choose one of the alternatives during a process of excercising our self-determination. The common denominator for the two positions is the struggle for freedom from the Abyssinian system of domination and capture state power in TD. That is why the pro Gadaa Oroma OLF and the pro Great Oromia OFC can now work together against the TPLF’s system of domination and struggle for freedom in unison to capture TD by any means necessary. But, the question yet to be answered is: how can we achieve either of these types of sovereignty? How can we capture TD, so that we can have a right to self-determination? By mere means of being part of the ritual “election”? By means of only non-violent resistance or only armed struggle? Of course, the best means, which can lead us to TD, is the combination of both. On the process of preparation to chart the way to freedom, we did observe that TPLF’s repeated fraudulent “elections” did confirm the necessity of decolonization before democratization – the goal which we can never achieve per ballot under the rule of the present opressive regime.

[OPFist]

Few years ago, there was a discussion going on regarding Ethiopian democratization vs. Oromian decolonization, 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 whole country and give a lasting solution to the problems of that cursed region. What a nice wish and a good demand! But is this the main objective of the Oromo? The author wrote his piece few days before “election”. He seemed to be optimistic about the “ongoing democratization and repeated elections in the country.” Can such game of “election” lead us to ‘an independent Gadaa Oromia or an integrative Great Oromia?’ To answer such questions, let me leave the oppression history of the country for historians and talk about the present situation under the EPP rule. No question that the EPP is ruling all nations with iron fist since 1991. What a pity for the Tigireans, who died for the cause of freedom and democracy during their rebellion and struggled against the fascist Derg! Who of them thought that their liberation front would be transformed into such a worse organization than the regime they had fought against? Unfortunately, the TPLF is not only transformed into such a hegemonist force, but it also used to be the instrument for the only one dictatorial psychopath  (Meles Zenawi) till the day of his death. He was as brutal as Hitler and Stalin to rule citizens and nations in the country with a brute force and malicious manipulation. The tyrannt gathered very submissive individuals with slave mentality from each nation in the country to use them as “representatives” of their respective nations. Now, the current puppet PM is doing a bidding, while APP leaders are manipulating him behind the screen. Is this better condition for the Oromo to capture TD and achieve our mentioned objective – ‘an independent Gadaa Oromia or an integrative Great Oromia’? Is taking part in “elections” the way to accomplish this objective?

[EthioRedSea]

Oromo is Arrusi area only. TPLF has been playing with Oromos. Ethiopia will remain united. The majority in Ethiopia are the Ethiopian tribe - all mixed ethiopians. Oromos you are immigrants from Lubba Kingdom of Congo. You can go back to Kenya or Congo, but there will oromo nation as long as Ethiopians live.

The Amhara are not aware of their situation. TPLF is dividing the people of Ethiopia by shading crocodile tears over equality based on ethnicity, which is wong.

No ethnic based groups. We have to disband TPLF, EPLF, OLF. Abiy Ahmed was right in a way. The problem Eritrea committing genocide in Tigray.

Down with OLF, TPLF, Degue, EPRP.
For a new Ethiopia without ethnic federalism

[OPFist]

The hitherto “elections” were one of the situations where TPLF could show two bad methods (force and manipulation) for the sake of perpetuating its rule further. Individual citizens and national groups have been intimidated by force, and manipulated by fraud in order to make the dictatorial regime “win” the election. It could “win” 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. Elections in multinational countries like Oromia are the competitions not only among political parties, but also among nations in the country for power and profit. In this country, the contest for power takes place particularly between the two Habesha nations (Amhara, Tigirai) and the other oppressed nations – specifically the Oromo. The relationship between the Habesha ruling class and the Oromo nation is that of the colonizers and the colonized, whereas the relationship between the two Habesha nations is a competition between two colonizers, which is similar to the fight between Britain and France over Africa during their Scramble.

[OPFist]

The Country is conglomerate of different neighboring nations, which actually deserve their own 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 need to answer is why do European regimes want us to do, what they actually don’t do for themselves and to their nations? How can they repeatedly come to observe such almost an impossible election in the country or the futile attempt of democratization in the colonized nations? Why is the Oromo nation, in particular, and other oppressed nations, in general, suffering under the looting, subjugation and lording of Tigrean oligarchs be expected to get our right per sham election orchestrated under the colonizers? The independent and democratic nation-states, with their own self-rule, are today part and parcel of the European union. If this method of achieving a national freedom and multinational democracy is right for Europe, why do European regimes want us Africans move another way which didn’t work for them? The legacy of colonialism in the Horn of Africa, in particular, and in Africa, in general, is artificial division of nations by 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 as well as many nations in the Horn like Tegaru, Amhara, Oromo, Afar, Sidama, etc. are put together in only one country under protection of the Western regimes.

[OPFist]

Almost all African countries are suffering under consequences of such arrangement, and yet Africans are accused and blamed by Western regimes for lack of democracy and development. 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 monolithic nation-states can vote freely during elections in a possible multiparty democracy of the respective nations free from unhealthy competitions among different nations for domination. Otherwise, in the multinational countries, where nations are put together by force like in our country, there will always be a competition of nations for dominance, not necessarily only 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 a viable independent state. For such smaller nations, a genuine ethnic federalism, which is formally tried in the present Ethiopia, is a good arrangement. It needs only to be genuine, not so fake as it is 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.

[Abere]

ዝም ብለህ ቡትቶ ትፅፋለህ። There is nothing called Oromiya. You are trying so hard to get people's attention. Oromiya is a Germany missionary's name given to the Wollega Galla. Only when you can grow trees on the moon, you will have your fancy utopia Oroomiyya.

[OPFist]

Coming back to the circumstances in Oromia, it is just a pipe dream to expect democratization as long as the Abyssinian colonial system of domination is intact. This system of domination is now under absolute control of Tigreans from minority origin. Genuine and free democratization means loss of power at TD for them, which further means lose of economical advantage they do enjoy now. It is simply a naivety to expect these elites allow genuine democratization of the country, while they do know what the consequence of losing this power is for them. Taking part in elections under such regime is good only to use the process as means of struggle against tyranny. The participation of Medrek and others in “elections” has got only this purpose. If there was anyone who expected TPLF to give up power per ballot, that was unrealistic. I personally have expected that a sort of peaceful public uprising had to follow the repetedly programmed vote riggings. Unfortunately, neither Medrek nor any other political organization, be it “legal” or “illegal”, was until now ready to call for such an uprising. This made me to ask, what is then the purpose of taking part in elections? Was boycotting not better? Some would say, “it was better to expose the undemocratic nature of the TPLF.” Didn’t we already do this job during the elections; for instance in 1992 and 2005? Is this anti-democratic nature of the TPLF not known? Can it be different in the coming “elections”? If not different, then how can the Oromo materalize our objective – ‘an independent Gadaa Oromia or an integrative Great Oromia‘?