Mereja Forum

[OPFist]

As Biltsigina Trying to Survive by Polarizing Amara and Oromo, the Opposition Must Promote the Oromara Project!

IIt is interesting to observe that Dr. Abiy is using the same mechanism of dividing and polarizing Amara and Oromo in order to survive and thrive, which was used by Meles Zenawi. He positioned himself in the middle and has APF (Amara Popular Force) at far right, APP (Amara prosperity party) at middle right, OPP (Oromo prosperity party) at middle left and OLF at far left. He tries to instrumentalize APP vs OPP and APF vs OLF in order to divide and polarize Amara and Oromo. He is balancing the two sides by victimizing both based on pressure he gets from the two camps. When the Amara bloc becomes strong and threaten his power, he sides the Oromo camp to beat the first and vice versa. Now, it seems the APP being supported by APF is in a bitter war against OPP, who is getting partial support from the OLF. Dr. Abiy is playing with both wings of the current political spectrum in order to neutralize both of them, so that he can maintain his power in Finfinne palace. He knows very well that only the alliance of Amara forces and Oromo fronts can be dangerous for his power. Only Oromara alliance can remove the dictatorial Abiy and his loyal EPP members from power, just like this alliance could defeat the TPLF.
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[OPFist]

Unfortunately, both Amara and Oromo elites are not yet in a position to trust each other due to the ongoing domination of Amaranet at the cost of Oromumma. Amara elites never want to give up this domination and Oromo elites will then legitimately continue the liberation struggle. This fact is a God given chance for Dr. Abiy and his EPP to stay in power, because of the fact that the probability of Oromara to grow and be a challenge again, like it did to Woyane, is minimal. That is why Dr. Abiy loves to see the conflict Amaranet vs Oromumma going on. His party members and supporters are deliberately igniting this Amara-Oromo conflict. Thus, he tactically delays to answer the Oromo question of promoting Oromiffa/Oromumma to its legitimate leading primary position, so that the conflict between the two big nations can continue. Today’s demonistrations in Amhara region and Oromia region are very good orchastrations purposely prepared by the EPP in order to escalates the Amara-Oromo conflict. Now, the burning question is how the opposition groups entertain this machination of the incumbent. Do they further widen the conflict and be instrumentalized by the EPP or can they revers this move and further promote the Oromara project in order to get rid of the dictatorial Biltsigina, just as they did to Woyane five years ago? Time will show us!

[OPFist]

I wrote some articles regarding and supporting democratic federalists and pointed out their few weak areas. As I have already mentioned, the main conflict in Ethiopia is the conflict between two forces, i.e. between anti-Oromia forces mostly represented by reactionary unitarists, who are parts of the unity camp, and pro-Oromia forces of national self-administration represented largely by Oromianists as well as by nationalists of the other oppressed peoples. This conflict was regarded as irreconcilable, and the lucky EPP is using this schism as a chance for its divide-and-rule method.