Rally Behind Medrek and Hoped H/Mariam “de Klerk” Becomes a Dialogue Partner
Last but not least, we need to comprehend and accept the two phases of the struggle for freedom and democracy planned firstly by AFD and now propagated by Medrek and other oppositions. The first phase is struggling to achieve our freedom from the evil hegemonists, and the second phase is to build necessary institutions for our future multi-national and multi-party democracy in the future union. In the first phase, we all needed to cooperate for achieving freedom from TPLF, who is lording over as well as looting all nations in the empire, and then later in the second phase, all parties can compete for power in the union to be forged in a democratic way. It is now good time for all opposition democratic parties to come to their senses after the last 26 years of foolishness and division. All of them need to agree on one common ground joining the parties in Medrek. The common ground is fostering national autonomy for all nations like the Oromo within the necessary regional federation like the future union, we call it either Ethiopia or Oromia. I do now believe and think that parties with such common ground have already forged a new all-inclusive alliance, in a form of Medrek, in order to get rid of the fascist TPLF. Other parties with similar motive should join them. Of course, the central figure of this alliance was Birtukan “Mandela”. If she would have got a right “Frederik de Klerk” as dialogue partner, definitely Medrek could have done similar history to that of ANC. I think this was the reason why Medrek was an attraction for both Ethiopianists and Oromianists. It seemed that the compromise vision of both nationalists (Ethio-nationalists/Ethiopianists and Ethno-nationalists, for instance, Oromianists) is incorporated in the alliance, Medrek and in a person – Birtukan “Mandela”. That was why I liked to wish the best and the necessary victory for this alliance in “the election” of May 2010, in case the election really would have been a little bit fair and free, as the ruling party wanted to convince us. To answer the question I Raider, it seems that OLF’s position is the m iddle position.