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Is Irreechaa to be Celebrated in Finfinne as National Holiday?

It is good news that we hear Irrechaa will be celebrated in Fifinne for the first time. Irreechaa/Irreessaa, being the day of thanksgiving to Waaqa and being the way of empowering our nation, is celebrated yearly during the transition time from winter (darkness/problem) to spring (the season of light, green fields, flowers, fruits, engaging life partner for the youth, etc.) This is the time during which Oromo people come out in mass to celebrate Waaqa and seek solution for the existing problems. Some Oromo nationals have now started to demand from Ethiopian regime to give this celebration the status of national holiday, just as the Easter of Christianity and the Ramadan of Islam are now enjoying this status in the empire. Even though the Oromo people consider it as our national holiday, the past regimes of the colonizers didn’t want to give it this recognition. Even certain part of the colonizing force wanted to reduce this Oromo national celebration to the celebration of only Waaqeeffata Oromo, as if it has nothing to do with Christian Oromo and Islam Oromo. Is it really so?

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