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The Only Way for Dr. Abiy to Reconcile With the Oromo is to Promote Afaan Oromo to Primary Position Replacing Amharigna!

Post by OPFist » 03 Oct 2022, 04:22

The Only Way for Dr. Abiy to Reconcile With the Oromo is to Promote Afaan Oromo to Primary Position Replacing Amharigna!

It is good that the Hybrid regime of Dr. Abiy is trying to appease the Oromo by a well orchastrated celebration of Irreechaa in Finfinnee and Bishoftuu. The attempt to push away the Oromo resistance flag from the celebration is only temporary success of the Hybrids. Surely, the beloved flag shall come back when the genuine Oromo nationalists will be in control. If the Hybrids really want to reconcile with the Oromo, they need to give priority for Afaan Oromo in any thing they do. For instance, they should firstly use it when ever they give public speechs, and of course secondly they can use Amharigna. They should immediately declare that Afaan Oromo is the primary working language of all federal institutions like the palace parlament, cabine, court, military and security, replacing Amharigna. If they take this step, I think the Oromo have no reason to feel yet oppressed by the Hybrids, after getting our freedom from the Habeshas.
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Post by OPFist » 03 Oct 2022, 05:54

The Current trend looks like Dr. Abiy and his prosperitan Oromos are trying to come back to the Oromummaa camp, of course disappointing the Amharanet club. Most Amharianists had hope that they can hide behind Ethiopiawinet to manipulate and use Abiy Ahmed just as they did to Mengistu H/Mariam. Abiy has been in their trap in the last two years so that he betrayed Oromo cause and even persecuted genuine Oromo nationalists. Now, it seems that he is coming back to his sense. The release of Jawar and co as well as the ongoing dialogue with the OLF of Daud Ibsa shows his come back. Amharianists sensed this move of Abiy and fehlt betrayed by him. All their media outlets are crying about and because of such Abiy’s move. I hope Abiy shall keep this momentum and make peace in Oromummaa camp. The coming together and forging consensus of the three Oromo organizations (OFC, OLF/OLA and OPP) is a big blow to the canning Amharianists, who try to trade with brand of Ethiopiawinet. Oromo forces should agree to foster the bigger Gadaa democratic Ethiopia (de facto Great Oromia) by abondoning the smaller Gadaa republic of Oromia. By doing this, Oromianists can use the brand Ethiopiawinet by hijacking it from the Amharanet bloc. That was vision of Dr. Haile Fida. Gadaa democratic Ethiopia be it in the form of ethnic federation or geogrsphical federation is defacto Great Oromia, which is almost double of Gadaa Oromia.

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Post by OPFist » 03 Oct 2022, 09:52

The definition of Oromummaa is simply Oromo identity or Oromonet. Its anti-thesis has been Amharanet. Since 1270, Amharanet grew by destroying Oromummaa and Agawnet. This is the key policy of Amhara elites till now. Amharanet being camouflaged as Ethiopiawinet had to flourish further at the cost of Agawnet and Oromumma. But now, it seems that the development of Oromummaa is frustrating Amhara elites. They thought that they can instrumentalize Dr. Abiy to crash Oromummaa as they did against Tegarunet. They agitated and propagated a lot to persuade Dr Abiy invade Oromia as he did to Tigrai. Now, as they observed that this can not happen, they started to oppose him and demonistrate against Oromummaa. Thanks to the hard work of Oromo republicans, we could divorce Dr. Abiy from Amhara elites. Now, it is time for the Oromo republicans to support Dr. Abiy and his Prosperitan group so that the anti-Oromumma Amhara elites will have no chance to prevail. Also it is high time to support Agaw people of Gojjam, Lalibella and Gondar to survive and thrive with their original identity of Agawbet, which is highly suppressed by Amharanet.

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Post by OPFist » 03 Oct 2022, 11:57

Amhara canning elites did their best to separate Dr. Abiy from his own Oromo constituency and to instrumentalize him to beat and break Oromummaa. Even though the 2018 change came by huge sacrifice of the Oromo, especially Qeerroo, Dr. Abiy has got overwhelming support from the Amharanet bloc, not from the Oromummaa camp. Amhara elites manipulated Dr. Abiy and persuaded him to do a crack down on genuine Oromo nationalists and to undermine Oromummaa. Dr. Abiy did a lot to satisfy them and thus lost Oromo support. Being aware that Dr. Abiy lost huge Oromo support, they are now trying to get rid of him and to monopolize power in Finfinne palace. Amhara elites never get satisfied short of taking back the power they lost in 1991 (to that matter in 1974) and before they be in control of every thing in Ethiopia. If Dr. Abiy want to save himself and nations in Ethiopia from the coming back of assimilationist and oppressive Amhara elites, he has to come back to his Oromo constituency and reconcile with genuine Oromo nationalists in the OFC and OLF as well as people like Lammaa Magarsa and Jawar Mohammed. Then, he can have a stable and strong support base never to be shaked by any force from Amharanet bloc (camouflaged as Ethiopiawinet). He has to decide to serve the Oromumma camp by any means.

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Post by Abere » 03 Oct 2022, 12:53

You are just one big loser Woyane, now licking your wounds. I do not think any Oromo writes such VERY stupid statements. Begging Oromos to take a poisonous lethal pill to commit suicide, typical loser Woyane ill-advice.

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Post by OPFist » 03 Oct 2022, 14:02

It is clear that the main support base for Dr. Abiy now are Amhara elites. He already lost support of almost all Tegarus and majority of Oromos. It is good that the TPLF hegemonists were defeated. They made the genuine struggle of our Tigrean brothers and sisters futile. They squandered all the opportunities for independence of Tigrai because of their greed and miscalculation. They could have cooperated with the OLF in 1991 to fix the whole problem in that cursed empire. Instead, Meles Zenawi kept the domination of Amharanet and Amharigna at the cost of Oromiffa, thus got support of Amhara elites to persecute the OLF. Now, Dr. Abiy is repeating the same mistake. He is maintaining the domination of Amharanet, just to get support of Amhara elites in order to beat the TPLF and Oromo republicans (OFC and OLF). The canning Amhara elites know very well how to approach and use those in power. So, they used Mengistu and Meles; now using Dr. Abiy to undermine the legitimate leadership of Oromiffa and Oromumma in Ethiopia. As long as they can instrumentalize Dr. Abiy to keep the ongoing domination of Amharanet and can hinder the legitimate promotion of Oromiffa/Oromumma to a primary leading position, they support him. When they can develope their own strong force, they will surely get rid of him and all the mild Prosperitan Oromos now revering Amharigna instead of respecting their own Oromiffa. As far as serving Amharanet and neglecting Oromummaa is concerned, there is no difference between the hitherto Oromos, who had power in Finfinne palace (Menelik, H-Silasie, Mengistu and Abiy).

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Re: The Only Way for Dr. Abiy to Reconcile With the Oromo is to Promote Afaan Oromo to Primary Position Replacing Amhari

Post by Noble Amhara » 03 Oct 2022, 14:09

Yes they are revering Amharanet by speaking amharic language just like most shane speak amharic even diabolis Jaal Maro speak amharic so he must be a amharist

When it floods in Welega it's the Amharaists fault when their is poverty in Ethiopia oh it's the amhara fault

You even blame oromo (calling them Amharaists) because you don't have enough Amharas to blame

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Post by OPFist » 03 Oct 2022, 15:13

Otherwise, was Getachew Reda a prophet and right, when he said ” Amhara and Oromo are Isat ina Chid”? Are Woyane cadres successful in their campaign of keeping Amhara and Oromo elites in conflict? I had a little bit hope that the Oromara project may last long. Unfortunately, it didn’t. There is no question that the Oromo are already free from subjugation by Amhara elites and hegemony of Tegaru elites. The Oromo struggle is now between the liberal OPP regime and the republican OLF forces. The administration of Dr. Abiy is so liberal and magnanimous not to take radical measures in implementing the interest of their own people, the Oromo. Imagine if the republican Oromos like those in the OLF had the power in Caffee Araaraa palace! Afaan Oromo would have been federal working language over night. Parts of Gadaa Oromia given away by Meles Zenawi such as Finfinne would have been included in Gadaa Oromia without any hesitation. Now, the question of Finfinne to be part of Oromia is only the matter of time, not if. No other nation, except Amhara elites, is against this Oromo move of integrating Finfinne in to Oromia. With this opposition against Oromo’s interest, Amhara elites are doing very grave mistake in their political life. They will pay it very expensive. Thanks to thier foolish move, Tigrai elites are approaching the Oromo just to isolate the Amhara. Tigreans are playing their politics smarter than Amhara elites. To weaken the Amharas, only playing the Agaw card is enough. Reviving and promoting Agaw nationalism is the very good neutralizing anti-dote against the ongoing aggressive and assimilative Amhara nationalism.

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Re: The Only Way for Dr. Abiy to Reconcile With the Oromo is to Promote Afaan Oromo to Primary Position Replacing Amhari

Post by OPFist » 03 Oct 2022, 17:07

It is clear that the main promoter of Article 39 in Ethiopian (Great Oromian) constitution is TPLF. The TPLF just did put the article in the constitution as a guarantee for an option to push for independence of Tigrai in case it loses power in Finfinne palace (Caffee Araaraa). It was not planned to secure the God given right of other nations for this would be practically hindered as long as the TPLF stayed in power. A very good example is the revision of the decision made by Somali regional parliament for self-determination in 1995, which caused the main conflict between ONLF and TPLF. Ogadenis were denied the right to self-determination, which is theoretically guaranteed as constitutional right. Since then, ONLF had to fight for the same self-determination, which it could have achieved in peaceful way. This shows why the article had no value for other oppressed nations other than for Tegarus. I once heard very interesting interview given by Abadula Gamada in “political civility” forum. He described and elaborated the reason why TPLF’s Article 39 is good at the moment as follows: “if you close door to a group of people in certain house and tell them to be united and live together, surely they will break door and windows to get out of the house. But if you open the door and tell them to be united, surely they will live together per free will.” So, we can see how the article was the best deception tool, which has been wickedly designed against Oromo liberation movement for the intention of the Article, according to him, was not liberation of oppressed nations, but keeping them together under TPLF’s subjugation by using political manipulation. He also said that the article was good to take action of separation when certain “Nefxenya” organization like AG7 “siqebx ke tayee ina ke asega.”

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Post by OPFist » 03 Oct 2022, 23:39

This seems to be also the step taken as the best scare tactics against Amhara elites. Is it not interesting to hear this specially for Amhara elites and Oromo elites, who couldn’t come together in order to find common ground and to fight together the common enemy, which was the worst fascist and looter the empire ever had? According to this elaboration of Abadula, simply put, TPLF’s article 39 was to scare the Amhara and to decieve the Oromo as well as Tegaru’s hidden agenda to be implemented when the TPLF elites accumulate enough wealth to allow Tigrai split from Ethiopia voluntarily or in a situation they would be compelled to leave Finfinne palace by force.

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Post by OPFist » 04 Oct 2022, 00:17

On other hand, the Article is accused specially by unitarist Amhara forces because of its alleged “intention” to dismember Ethiopia. Ok, that can be, and that is why most pro unity forces reject it and even some Oromos support this opposition move against the article. But, the other question to be raised is, what is the intention of unitarist forces (mainly Amhara elites) when they oppose this article of the TPLF? What about the intrigue from their side? Surprisingly, Amhara parties, which do accuse the TPLF for this intention of dismembering Ethiopia have got their own “article 39″, which they want to use specifically to dismantle Gadaa Oromia. Their Article is stated in their respective party programmes as follows: “establishing a federal system based on historical and cultural ties, language and geographic characteristics, administrative suitability and potential for development. It opposes administrative divisions based on ethnicity and language.” With this article, their intention is primarily to dismantle the biggest state in the country – Gadaa Oromia, and then to build mini Oromo federal states like Borana, Arsi, Hararge, Wellega….etc. This attitude of all unitarist parties is one of the main obstacles for formation of a durable alliance between Amhara bloc and Oromo camp. Surprisingly, there is no single Amhara party which accepts and respects “ethnic” federation and/or self-determination, except the one in the EPRDF, i.e APP. That is why, the opposition against fascist TPLF is basically divided in to two blocs:

– bloc of Ethnofederalists, which include parties, which want to have as minimum compromise solution for current problem of the empire: autonomous national areas of each nation in Ethiopia in a form of Oromia, Ogaden, Tigrai, Amhara…etc

– bloc of Ethiofederalists (promoters of geography-based federalism), all being Amhara parties and they want to forge federal Ethiopia based only on geographical suitability. With that, they target specially Gadaa Oromia, which they want to divide in to pieces!

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Post by OPFist » 04 Oct 2022, 00:58

Interestingly, neither TPLF’s nor unitarist’s Article 39 can hinder the Oromo from achieving Gadaa Oromia’s independence within Ethiopian/African union, which is the best compromise solution for all oppressed nations in Ethiopia as well in the continent. But, unfortunately, the article of unitarists is an obstacle for the formation of a necessary tactical and strategical alliance between Amhara elites and Oromo elites against the fascist TPLF. Even if the unitarists give up their “article 39″, yet the Oromo in general, and the OLF in particular, need to build necessary trust to make an alliance with Habesha groups for the goodhearted Oromo have already been repeatedly betrayed (at least three times) in the not far dated political history of Ethiopia:

– in 1977 as Genenral Teferi Benti was executed by KGB and Habesha forces, all “socialist” Habeshas, who used to make alliance with the Oromo in Me’ison and Ici’at started to mock against “Galla” and started to act against self-determination of nations on which they used to agree. That was the reason for most Oromo in Me’ison and Ici’at to leave “legal” struggle and join the OLF.

– in 1992 the TPLF betrayed OLF which joined the coalition transitional government to honestly build a democratic and united Ethiopia in which Oromos’ right is respected. But the TPLF pushed the OLF out of the coalition and crashed its army with the help of EPLF, CIA and other Western governments, so that the OLF had no choice except to leave the “legal” status and opt for armed struggle.

– in 2007 Amhara’s CUD and EPPF which made an alliance AFD betrayed the OLF as the TPLF started to persecute Oromo nationals in Somalia during the invasion and then they declared not to stay being part of the alliance they made with OLF.

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Post by OPFist » 04 Oct 2022, 01:20

The alliance formed in the form of Medrek in 2009 was also tested well. Even though Oromo parties have given in and given up to make a compromise on the God-given right of Oromo nation to self-determination, it was again Amhara party, UDJ aka Andinet, who betrayed the goodhearted Oromos and gave up the alliance in the forum. OFC should have been very careful in Medrek it forged with Habesha groups not to give up cause of the Oromo. It should insist either to have consensus on the goal to forge independent Oromia within Ethiopian union or they need to agree on opting for referendum and allow the Oromo public decide on the issue: self-rule within a union vs self-rule without a union! Furthermore, some Amhara parties like the AG7 were trying to implement the same procedure of forging alliance again with liberation fronts like the ODF. I always advocated this idea of making alliance with such parties.

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Post by OPFist » 04 Oct 2022, 06:07

It seems that Oromos in Medrek have given up the notion of Oromia’s self-determination and gave in to the wish of Habeshas to have unconditional Ethiopian unity. That is part of the hitherto history of Oromos, always intrigued and cheated by Abyssinians. But now let’s look forward by learning from the past, never to be disadvantaged again, and not looking backward just for the sake of only resentment. We should never give in or give up, but we need to push forwards till Habeshas swallow the bitter pill of accepting Oromo’s right to self-determination. To be effective, we wished for the Oromo, Ogaden, Afar, Gambella, Benishangul, Sidama and other oppressed nations’ forces to forge PAFD and remain in the alliance to neutralize the domination effort of Habeshas.

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Post by kibramlak » 04 Oct 2022, 06:19

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Post by OPFist » 04 Oct 2022, 11:27

Once I read in Awude amharic newsletter, in which UDJ explicitly said that it was vehemently against “ethnic federalism.” How on earth could this party then made an alliance with OFC, Arena…etc? The question to be raised was: is it UDJ or the others which should give in? It seems others have given in to the wish of UDJ to keep the empire unconditionally with euphemism of unity and sovereignty. Of course, the alliance did not last long for the Oromo never give up till we achieve our self-determination. This made the alliance very shaky. All Amhara parties were persistent not to give up their “article 39″ which they formulated for dismantling Oromia. Then why on earth do they cry about article 39 of “ethnic” federalists? Anyways, TPLF is really very lucky to have this chance of playing Ethiofederalist Amharas against Ethnofederalist Oromos.

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Post by OPFist » 04 Oct 2022, 12:30

If such conflict between the Amhara and Oromo elites continue, it is possible that the TPLF can survive for the coming many years! Ethiofederalism is not the will of most Oromo nationals and others at the moment, except being that of Amhara elites, who do continuously advocate for it, because they know the advantage they get based on the fact that Amharic is still the only working language of the federation. Just let’s stop and think otherwise: suppose Afaan Oromo is the only working language of the federation instead of Amharinya. Who will then favour Ethiofederation? It will be the Oromo, not the Amhara! What I wanted to tell here is that every nation favours what is to its advantage. Now, Ethiofederation is more advantageous for the Amhara, because it favours Amharanization. We, the Oromo, now favour ethnofederation for it serves our interest (protects us from Amharanization). If Amharas do agree to accept Afaan Oromo instead of Amharinya as the only federal working language, the Oromo will be best advocates of ethiofederation. I am not talking here about making both Afaan Oromo and Amharinya working languages of the federation as AG7 and co. try to make us believe. With this maneuver, the Amhara want that Amharinya be working language of all regions including Gadaa Oromia, the privilege which they do not have now. I am telling that, let’s limit Amharinya to only Amhara region and make Afaan Oromo the only working language of Ethiopian federation. I am sure the Amhara will be then supporters of ethnofederalism, while the Oromo will be best advocates for ethiofederation.

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Post by OPFist » 04 Oct 2022, 12:53

That means one way of persuading Amhara elites and parties to respect national area of the Oromo is by challenging them with this idea of exchanging roles of the two languages. If they want to apply their “article 39″ and if Oromia has to be dismantled, then as a precondition, Afaan Oromo should be the only working language of the federation, Amharinya being demoted to local language of Amhara region. If so, the Oromo definitely will not cry because of the possible dismantling of Gadaa Oromia and separating Finfinne from Gadaa Oromia, rather we will sing about a united and sovereign Ethiopia (Great Oromia) with only Afaan Oromo as federal working language. Such Afaan Oromo speaking Ethiopia can be home of all nations and nationalities with Finfinne being separated from Gadaa Oromia, even with further disintegrating Gadaa Oromia. By the way, future democratic Ethiopia with Afaan Oromo as primary working language will be de facto Great Oromia and the Oromo will not die for Ethnofederalism, surely the Amharas will start to struggle for their own autonomous Amhara region. Otherwise, to be sure that Gadaa Oromia will not be dismantled, I just do suggest that all Amhara parties, which have their “article 39″ and which intend to dismantle Oromia should not be allowed to operate in Oromia. A law must be fostered by Caffee Oromia to make such parties illegal in Gadaa Oromia. In general, Amhara elites now being the only opponents of Finfinne as part of Oromia will cost them a lot. The political struggle will be between all other nations (including the Oromo and Tegaru) against Amharas. Does this serve the long time interest of Amhara nation? May Waaqa open their eyes!

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