Mereja Forum

[OPFist]

Time for the Oromo to Instrumentalize Ethiopiawinet, Green-yellow-red and Unitarity?

To make the canning Amhara elites out of political game, the Oromo need to hijack and instrumentalize the three main agenda usually used by them: the identity (Ethiopiawinet), the flag (green-yellow-red) and the ideology (unitarity). But, as a precondition, firstly, Oromo elites should consolidate aangoo/power in Finfinne palace, promote Afaan Oromo to primary language of the federation and cultivate Aadaa/culture of the Oromo in the whole country. After fulfilling these three preconditions, the Oromo can sing Ethiopiawinet, carry the green-yellow-red banner and even accept unitarity arrangement in Oromo terms. By taking away these three agenda, which are beloved by the Amhara elites, it is possible to make them out of political game for eternity. To send them further to deep grave, so that they can never come back, the Oromo should help some people of Gojjam, Lalibella and Gondar to revive their Agaw back ground and push the rest in Shoa, Wallo, Gojjam and Gondar to reclaim their Oromo identity.
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[Noble Amhara]

Thanks for telling us how jealous you Gallas are of our beautiful Abysinnia people and nation and how worthless your Oromia and Oromo people really are

[AbebeB]

Time for the Oromo to Instrumentalize Ethiopiawinet, Green-yellow-red and Unitarity?

To make the canning Amhara elites out of political game, the Oromo need to hijack and instrumentalize the three main agenda usually used by them: the identity (Ethiopiawinet), the flag (green-yellow-red) and the ideology (unitarity). But, as a precondition, firstly, Oromo elites should consolidate aangoo/power in Finfinne palace, promote Afaan Oromo to primary language of the federation and cultivate Aadaa/culture of the Oromo in the whole country.

OPFist,
Is it ገልቱ way of forward? Why not Ethiopia accept Oromo and its flag identity at the onset?

[OPFist]

The Oromo were struggling against the Abyssinian’s system of domination for the last more than a century. Now, that domination is over and the Oromo are leading the transformation of Abyssinian empire to Ethiopian union. But, our mindset is still with only liberating Oromia, not yet programmed towards leading Ethiopia. The mindset of liberating Oromia needs an emphasis of Oromo nationalism and denigeration of Abyssinians. In contrary, the mindset of leading Ethiopia requires an inclusive approach, which should stress common identity for all nations of the country. That common identity is being Ethiopian (Cushite). Even, the two Habesha nations (Amhara and Tegaru) should come back to their true identity of Cush, which they denied because of their religious affliation towards “Solomonism”. It is time for the Oromo to play a magnanimous politics as the victor and to be accomodative. It is surprising to observe Oromo activists still “struggling against Amhara assimilationists”! Who is now hindering Afaan Oromo from being federal working language? Amhara elites? Tegaru hegemonists? Neither of the two! Oromo ruling party, the ODP, is procrastinating the implementation for certain reason. Lack of good will? Leadership strategy? Only the OPP leaders and God know it! What we actually need now is leadership quality to bring the Oromo and other nations to their full freedom, equality and sovereignty. We needed Oromummaa for the sake of fighting for liberation of Oromia. Now, we have to use Ethiopiawinet for exercicing our leadership role in the whole Ethiopia.

[AbebeB]

The Oromo were struggling against the Abyssinian’s system of domination for the last more than a century. Now, that domination is over and the Oromo are leading the transformation of Abyssinian empire to Ethiopian union.

OPFist,
There is no Oromo with Oromuma mindset leading the transformation of Abyssinian empire to Ethiopian union. Here is where your deception located.

[abel qael]

OFPIST IS NONE OTHER THAN THE WELOYE MEXIE OF WELEGA NAMED LEMA BEZABIH AKA LENCHO BATI. MESHREFET HAS SIMILAR ORIGIN AND A WEIRDLY ANTI_OROMO MENTALITY OF DECEPTION LIKE HIM.

[OPFist]

More than enough is written about the past and the future of Ethiopia (Great Oromia). Here is a short repetition from my present point of view. Ethiopia is only a fraction of the so called Cushland in the northeastern part of Africa, in which several Cushitic nations are found. Certain parts of these nations in the northern part of the country are already Abyssinized due to the cultural and linguistic influence of the Semites from the Middle East; some in the southern part are Bantunized due to the contact with certain Bantu nations; and the others in the eastern part are a bit Arabinized due to the cultural and religious contact with the Arab world. But, at the core of the country is a relatively unaffected part, now called Oromia, still preserving the main values of the proto-Cush. 

[OPFist]

This proto-Oromo (the Cush) has been under immense pressure from all directions since thousands of years. Particularly, the southward push from the Abyssinized nations of the north was so strong that the Abyssinian kings could occupy most parts of Gadaa Oromia till the 16th-century self-defense and liberation of the country from Abyssinians of the north and from others in the east. This liberation movement was wrongly named by Abyssinian writers and their Western partners as “Oromo migration.” Ethiopia enjoyed a time of relative peace and stability for about 300 years, till the start of the European ‘Scramble for Africa’ of the nineteenth century, in which emperor Minilik of Abyssinia took part and re-occupied Gadaa Oromia. It is controversially discussed whether the Oromo were part of the empire builders due to the participation of some Oromo nobles fighting on the side of the emperor or Oromo nation was only an imperial subject. Be it the Oromo are part of both the conquerors and the conquered, as Prof. Merera Guddina once put it, or we are only the victims, but not part of the victors; the fact on the ground now is that the Oromo nation was suffering under very oppr

[EthioRedSea]

You need to stand as citizens of Ethiopia for one country under one vanguard. Tribe or ethnicity should not play a role. We need to disband all ethnic group organisation and merge into one country wide organisation.

[OPFist]

To make both: independence of Oromia and integration of Ethiopia become a reality, and to help the struggle for freedom be successful, certain questions must be answered. For instance, despite the fact that the two Oromo groups (independencists and the integrationists) were under a very dire situation, why did they fail not to foster an alliance of Oromo liberation forces (alliance of both pro-independence and pro-integration nationalists)? One brilliant Oromo intellectual once raised a nice question: “how can we overcome our mentality of 19th century?” The answer to this question can be: the only way for us to overcome this mentality is by embracing 21st century mentality of democracy. The 19th century mentality of brute force and mischief, under which few of Oromo elites and most Habesha elites in Ethiopia were suffering, is backward mentality of dictators (V-minded politicians); whereas, 21st century mentality is that of democrats (Y-minded politicians), who do believe in human and national freedom to self-determination. For what do the letters V and Y stand here? Who are these V or Y Oromo-nationalists?

[gurre]

From the time of AFD, OROMAMARA and to the recent Oromuma i was reading or start reading your boring scribbles. I do not think you are oromo, but i feel sorry for your(plural) nervousness when ethiopianism and its flag gets momentum and your knee-jerk reactions getting bold.

[AbebeB]

This proto-Oromo (the Cush) has been under immense pressure from all directions since thousands of years.

OPFist,
Are you the same person nicked "confused" in this forum? All your garbage contradict each other. It is typical to ገልቱs and you are in the lead.

[OPFist]

To understand V-minded politicians, let’s just imagine a big letter V and try to visualize that at bottom junction of the letter are Abyssinian dictators trying to bring back Abyssinian hegemony; at left top of the letter are dictatorial independencists (Oromianists); and at the right top are dictatorial integrationists (Ethiopianists). If we look at the way how these three forces deal with each other, they just do want to achieve their respective goals unconditionally: Abyssinian hegemonists want to bring back their domination at any cost, dictatorial Oromo independencists try to achieve Gadaa Oromia’s independence at any cost, and dictatorial integrationists want to achieve integrated Ethiopia at any cost. Especially, the unconditional positions of the two camps, i.e. that of the unconditional pro-independence Oromo and that of the unconditional pro-integration Oromo, who are continuously antagonizing and attacking each other, was a trillion-dollar lottery, which the ruling Abyssinian elites were enjoying, even by further dividing and polarizing the two Oromo camps, because of the fact that both the independencist dictators and the integrationist dictators (V-politicians of the two Oromo camps) could not forge a challenging alliance against the TPLF. They did consider that both ways of the independencists and the integrationists are diverging from each other, so that they would have no common route and common objective to move and struggle together.

[OPFist]

To see who the Y-minded politicians (democrats in the two Oromo camps) are, let’s just try to imagine a very big letter Y and try to distinguish four points on the letter (the bottom, middle junction, left top, and right top). Then, let’s imagine that the bottom is the status of Ethiopian politics, where both the independencist and the integrationist Oromo were under tyranny of Abyssinian elites; the middle junction is a point for status quo of freedom for Oromo nation from tyranny (common goal of both pro-independence and pro-integration nationalists); left top is the point of independence (Gadaa Oromia); and right top is the point for integration (Ethiopia = Great Oromia). Then, let’s imagine that this letter Y is a route of liberation journey for both independencists and integrationists from our past common situation, towards our short-term (common) and long-term goals (diverging respective goals). Could we imagine that freedom fighters of this oppressed nation do had a possibility to move from the bottom (point of tyranny) to the middle junction (point of freedom, the status quo) together? This was our common route for the journey towards common short-term goal of freedom. Then after came now, the two diverging routes towards two different and diverging long-term goals of the two camps: left top = independence (long-term goal of the independencsts); and right top = integration (long-term goal of the integrationists).

[Abere]

Could please you just shut up. No body ain't buy your sh!t Aba Geda, የጉፋያ በ21ኛው ከፍለ ዘመን ደግሞ የደንቆሮ ፓለቲካ ከባሌ ገሪባ አምጥቼ ስንት ሺ ዘመን በስነ- መንግስት: ስነ-ጥበብ: ስነ-ህንፃ : ስነ-ጽሁፍ ወዘተ የበለፀገች አገር በገሪባ ቁላ ቆራጭ እና ደም ላሽ ላስተዳድራችሁ ይባላል። ከስቼ ቢያዩኝ ጅማት ለመኑኝ - ምንም ቀን ቢጥላት ኢትዮዽያ እኮ ናት። ወሼላ ጋላ - አላማረብህም።

[OPFist]

If we could imagine this letter Y very well, it is not hard to comprehend that we needed alliance of the two camps to move from tyranny to point of freedom, not necessarily to move together to right top (integration goal) or to left top (independence goal). After achieving our freedom together, it is now up to Oromo public to decide per referendum which direction to move further: to left top of independence, or to right top integration. If the Oromo majority will choose the right top, then our common national long-term goal will be that of the integrationists, i.e. an integrative Ethiopia with flourishing Oromummaa/Oromo nationalism). Otherwise, if the Oromo majority will choose to move to left top, no force can hinder Oromos from achieving Oromia’s independence. That means, when we look at the wholistic political visions in organized Oromo community in general, we do observe two major groups:

– those who struggle for self-rule of an independent Gadaa Oromia without any claim on the other parts of Ethiopia, and

– those who want to forge self-rule of Gadaa Oromia within shared-rule of Ethiopia, i.e. de facto Great Oromia.

[OPFist]

Regarding Oromo nationalists, who want to achieve self-rule of Oromia with shared-rule of Ethiopia, I must say that they are very cautious not ‘to call a spade is spade’ and talk explicitly about Great Oromia, instead of Ethiopia. They should have asserted this because of the fact that the future rule of the game they want is freedom, democracy and Afan Oromo as a federal working language, and for the whole country will have a potential to be transformed to Great Oromia and because the only alternative to an independent Oromia can be the possible de jure Great Oromia, not the designation Ethiopia. If other nations and nationalities are interested in future voluntary union of peoples in the empire and in its territorial integrity as they usually tell us, they should make public this demand of re-naming Ethiopia as Oromia themselves, or they need to accept the offer of this arrangement from the pro-integration Oromo nationalists.

[OPFist]

For Oromo national liberation struggle to be successful and to achieve one of the two visions given above, self-rule of Oromia, be it within or without shared-rule of Ethiopia, we need to fight against the TPLF, who wants to comme back, and we have to check those, who still nostalgically long for the past system. The future Ethiopia (de facto Great Oromia) will be the country, in which Afan Oromo and Oromummaa will flourish without any inhibition and oppression. Even if the name of such country will continue to be Ethiopia, of course, based on the voluntary agreement of all involved nations, including the Oromo, it yet will be de facto Great Oromia, so that there is nothing the Oromo nation will lose. But, for the sake of durability of the union and political stability, the necessary de jure name change from Ethiopia to Oromia must take place. To come to one of the above two visions, Oromo nationalists needed to build unity of purpose based on common ground, i.e. freedom, and also forge alliance with organizations of other oppressed nations against the fascist and racist TPLF.

[AbebeB]

For Oromo national liberation struggle to be successful and to achieve one of the two visions given above, self-rule of Oromia, be it within or without shared-rule of Ethiopia, we need to fight against the TPLF, who wants to comme back, and we have to check those, who still nostalgically long for the past system. The future Ethiopia (de facto Great Oromia) will be the country, in which Afan Oromo and Oromummaa will flourish without any inhibition and oppression. Even if the name of such country will continue to be Ethiopia, of course, based on the voluntary agreement of all involved nations, including the Oromo, it yet will be de facto Great Oromia, so that there is nothing the Oromo nation will lose. But, for the sake of durability of the union and political stability, the necessary de jure name change from Ethiopia to Oromia must take place. To come to one of the above two visions, Oromo nationalists needed to build unity of purpose based on common ground, i.e. freedom, and also forge alliance with organizations of other oppressed nations against the fascist and racist TPLF.

OPFist,
I told you you are confused. Why you are interested to fight TPLF (who are struggling to regain freedom of their nation) as long as you are willing to advocate independence?

I know who you and thus advice you to keep quite and feel you gut with aftermath you get.

[OPFist]

Unfortunately, we do still observe that few of our leaders, nationalists and scholars are doing the job of antagonizing two Oromo camps (pro-independence and pro-integration), rather than promoting their possible alliance or unity of purpose, that means, if they are not necessarily DiGa, they surely are FiGo. DiGa means Diina Gamna (smart foe), who is doing the job of antagonizing Oromo liberation camp for the sake of own advantage intentionally, whereas FiGo is Fira Gowwaa (misguided friend) doing same job of the foe unintentionally. Looking at the authors and commentators on Oromo websites, we observe two groups of Oromo nationalists: the antagonizers and the integrators. The antagonizers pray the mantra of “facts and theories,” which can help them in polarizing Oromo liberation forces in a form of presenting such Oromo nationals as if they are irreconcilable enemies being divided into two camps: pro-integration and pro-independence. Usually, these antagonizers talk or write as if the pro-integration Oromo are collaborators to the Abyssinian camp, and or as if the pro-independence nationals are “evil secessionists, who hate to live with other nations.”