Fayyis Oromia (7 Sept. 2009) This short essay is just presented as a clarification for Oromo foes, who are nowadays delighting by “percieving” a division of the Oromo liberation vanguard in to “three”. To their information OLF has got from the very beginning only one Kaayoo (goal), which also at the same time can be interpreted as three Kayyos, in a pocket and it played with the three cards based on the objective reality it is in, aka according to the “here and now” of the situations. Even though the only one Kayyoo is self-determination, the 3 interpretations of the Kaayoo are:
- independence without a union
- referendum on the issue: independence without a union vs independence within a union
- independence within a union.
OLF permanently advocated that it fights for Oromian independence, for Oromos’ right to self-determination and for a union of nations in the empire/region. It emphasizes one of the three interpretations according to the condition of the time (Zeitgeist). Whenever Abyssinians become arrogant and start to sing about the unconditional unity of their empire with supression of Oromos’ right, it streses independence of Oromia from Abyssinian colonialism underming the possible union. The logic behind this is, where ever there is supression, there will be a move for separation. When reasonable politicians from different nations in the empire start to recognize the God given right of the great Oromo nation to self-determination, it starts to play the card of self-determination (decision per referendum either for independence within a union or for independence without a union).
Now the one structural OLF we Oromos had seems to have been devided in to three, each of them just taking as a goal one of the three interpretations of the Kaayyo:
- OLF1 of Ob Galaassa seems to make no compromise on independence without a union.
- OLF2 of Ob Daud has self-determination as its goal (being open for both independence within a union and independence without a union as far as Oromo people decide for one of the two).
- OLF3 of Ob Hassan (the new) seems to have decided for the independence within a union of nations in the empire/region so that it sympathizes with and seems to seek an alliance with Oromos in the ruling party aka OPDO and strives for an understanding from the reasonable “pro unity” Abesha forces. Here I must say, it is not yet clear whether this group moves to the position of OLF1 for it wants to consolidate all members of ULFO who do stress independence without a union under one structural organization. Time will tell us, whether this group will be either pro OPDO or pro ULFO. Or is there any association between the two (OPDO and ULFO)?
Any ways a Merdo to the foes of Oromo Liberation Movement is that the one/three OLF(s) will never give up the struggle for the right of Oromos to self-determination till we Oromos be the determiners of our own destiny, be it within Ethiopian union or without the union.
Other wise, let’s differentiate rhetoric from conviction! I do hear nowadays certain Oromo politicians talking about the “fact” that Oromo people doesn’t want “secession”. I do consider talking about Oromos wanting independence or not is a wrong generalization. One thing we need to know as a fact is that almost all Oromo politicians (including those who do make the above mentioned rhetoric) deep in their heart believe in the right of Oromo nation to self-determination. This is the whole mark of Oromos and aim of our mindset (spiritual Organization) aka OLF. This mindset, OLF has got one Kaayyoo, but also three Karaas (including three rhetorics)
- OLF mindset in the rebel organizations has got an explicit rhetoric of self-determination and it fights for this Kaayyoo by all meanses,
- OLF mindset in the opposition organizations has got the rhetoric of struggling for liberation in Ethiopian context, but it covertly struggles for the Kaayyoo,
- OLF mindset in the ruling organization has got the rhetoric, which says: “we have already achieved the liberation”, but yet it covertly pushes for the Kaayyoo.
So fellow Oromos, let’s allow the mindset move to the Kaayyoo in all the Karaas, despite the rhetorics of some Oromos in the opposition and ruling Oromo organizations. Let our foes know exactly, despite the different rhetorics, Oromo Liberation Movement can never be stopped till it achieves the Kaayyo. We need to motivate our selves to do our rhetoric and our practice in the liberation movement on the Karaa each of us did choose to come to the Kaayyo. Long live OLF as a trinity (OLF with one Kaayyoo, but with three Karaas)!
We have to forget the current rhetoric of Oromo politicians in the ruling party and in the opposition parties, who are doing their talk under the gun point of Weyane (they are just denying the right of Oromo people to self-determination at gun point) and let’s strive to our END Kayyoo, which is already determined by our mindset. I am personally against any sort of dictatorial unity and I am a supporter of a union of free nations in the empire/region based on free will. Any unity without Oromo public verdict will fail, take it only 1 year, about 10 years or as long as 100 years. That is why I do advocate for a lasting solution based on free will of all stakeholders, instead of the temporary hoyaa-hoyee of unity as a wishy-washy solution. MEDREK seems to have chosen unconditional-unity as a precondition for the alliance, but the unity they do strive for will surely never last long, because it is not based on self-determination of peoples, but on pre-determination by only few elites. TIBIBIR aka revived AFD, which may be forged by OLF et al must be based on a solid ground and take self-determination rather than unconditional unity as the precondition for an alliance!
Any ways, our foes need to know that, they can only manipulate and delay the realization of Oromo’s right to self-determination, but they can never hinder it. Oromo’s mindset is leading us to our Kaayyoo aka self-determination, take it how long it might be. Our foes like it or not, in reality almost all Oromos are lead in our liberation struggle by this mindset. That is why an International Crisis Group (ICG) put it: ” despite its organizational flaws and divisions, many ordinary Oromos retain an almost messianic belief in the OLF as the major nationalist organization”!!
September 7th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Your time is worth spent training your 25 soldier OLF army to remove woyane than writing none sense in Ethiopian forums. I am not sure who you think will be intimidated by your fictional blah, blah. Let me tell you the facts. There is one agenda that OLF elites successfully accomplished for the last 40+ years of struggle and that is hate for other Ethiopians and you are throwing a psychological words to appear strong which is another weakness. Do your job and we will believe your trinity none sense when we see it in action.
September 7th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Fayyis,
I think you are in a very bad situation. Deep inside you really hate other nationalities in Ethiopia.
Recommendation: Be advised or take any lesson to avoid your unstopped, built in inferiority complex.Then we can communicate with you. Shame on you with a population of 30-40 million, you have never never succeeded any thing. Only talk talk talk ——You better find another means of arming our oromo ppl with freedom and prosperity.
September 7th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Hi all’
What a contradictory statement! If you speak about OLF’s aim as follows: “ OLF permanently advocated that it fights for Oromian independence, Oromos’ right to self-determination and for a union of nations in the empire/region. You went on to blabber: “…Whenever Abyssinians become arrogant and start to sing about the unconditional unity of their empire with supression of Oromos’ right, it streses independence of Oromia from Abyssinian colonialism underming the posible union.”
Can you elaborate what you mean by “Abyssinians”? Does it include those who are born fom Oromo and Other ethnic groups like Amharas, Gurages Welayitas Hararis etc.? It is obvious that you wont succeed because you do not start from the right argument and do not have any positive plan for that part of the country.
Endiyaw wetet wetet iyalachu akofadachun yizachu yefernj frfari leminu!! That may be good for you but not for the Oromo who are being harassed by TPLF agents.
I really do not get the point in posting this hate infested article?
September 7th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
OLF as a Trinity: one and three….ከጤነኛ ህሊና እንዲህ አይነት አነጋገር አይጠበቅም. በውነት ይህን አመለካከት,ስብእና እና ብስለት ይዞ አገርን እና ህዝብን ያዉም እንደ ኢትዮጵያ ያለ ዘርፈ ብዙ የፖለቲካ ችግር ዉስጥ የተዘፈቀችን አገር ለማስተዳደር ማሰብ የወንጀል ሁሉ ወንጀል በምድር ብቻ ሳይሆን በሰማዪም የሚያስጠይቅ ይሆናል! ካሁን በፊት የነበሩትም ሆኑ ያሁኖቹ የወያነ ጭፍራወች አገርንና ህዝብን በድለዋል ካልን በወገናችን ላይ ሌላ በደል ላለመፈፅም እራሳችንን ቢያንስ እነዚያ ፈጸሙት የምንለዉን በደል እንዳንደግም መጠንቀቅ ያሻል, አለበለዚያ ዉሃ ቢወቅጡት……
እንዲህ አይነት ጸሃፊወች(ሰወች)ባለባቸው ያመለካከት ችግር እራሳቸዉን ከተጠያቂነት ለማሸሽ (ለማዳን)ሲሉ ለብእር ስማቸው የሃገር ወይም ይጎሳ ስም ይሰጡና ስለጽሁፋቸዉ የሚሰጣቸዉን ነቀፌታ ወይም ትችት በቀጥታ ከሃገር ወይም ከጎሳው ጋር በማዛመድ ሃገርህ ወይም ጎሳህ እንዲህ ተባለ በማለት ጠላት ይገዙለታል::
ባጭሩ ማንም እየቃመ ሲመረቅን የሚጽፈዉን ሁሉ በየዌብሳይታችው ላይ ባትበግሩት መልካም ይመስለኛል! የድህረ ገጻችዉን ተፈላጊነት ያቀጭጨዋል እና!
አመሰግናለው!
September 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
It would be wise of you if you can read what Prof. Messay wrote today. That may help you reset your mindset. And don’t forget that as you try hard to disintegrate the country for no substantial reason other than psychological we will equally fight you back.
September 7th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Tenkir,
did the author give a chance for a fly like you to jump on the dirty thing (conflict between Amhara and Oromo)? Here you are one fly aka rabid dog aka Weyane cadre farting being camouflaged as conservative Amhara cursing Oromos! I know the moment we post such “conflict” situation between Amharas and Oromos, the flies like you jump on the dirty thing you are waiting for!! His intention of posting the above opinion was not definetly to give you flies such a chance, but to remind Amhara elites how wrong they are in refusing to accept and respect the right of nations to self-determination including the right of Amhara and Tegaru nations! We do let you flies fart, shit and vomit, but there will never be a conflict between Amharas and Oromos! The time of instigating a conflict between these two BIG nations, so that you the fascists rule further, is already over!!
September 7th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Sofya,
didn’t you still swallow what Oromos achieved in the last many years? Just wake up from your sleep and look around where we are, you will be surprised!
Ageren Asbat,
well for your mini brain, this relatively complex essay is “full of contradictions”. You need to read 3000x to comprehend it well.
Abera,
Your Prof. Messay has got the same biased mind as yours, no wonder you admire his scribbles!!
September 7th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
The OLF guys do not represent the good and well meaning Ethiopian Oromos. The organization is a collection of sick elites from a single region and suffering from inferiority complex. They claim to fight the Absynian colonization but a handful of TPLF fighers took care of their demoralized and non-disciplined army. If the cause of the OLF was accepted and embraced ny the Oromos, it would not take so long to achieve the objectives of separating the oromos from Ethiopia. The Stalinist ideology of self determination and secession is now bankrupt and obsolete. That is why the OLF members and supporters are frustrated and what they call the Oromo communities in the Diaspora are isolating from their brethren .
September 7th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Ogina you think you are not telling us you stand in a very reason of not librating Oromia but hatism of Amharas? Why u hate those who tell u that u guys are wrong in going 40 yrs of nothing . Why dont u learn from Ertirea that self ness is a mass for Africa Specially ethiopia particularly oromia specfically you idiots OLF members
September 7th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Ogina,
I am not the one writing hate for Amahra day in day out. Remember woyane had a better sympathy than your OLF when they were struggling and they were able to do what they intended to do even though they started the struggle after your darling orgn. Many Ethiopians will stand behind woyane lead gov to prevent OLF from taking over power. This is just a fact. The Oromo brand is that of generosity and respect for others but OLF is about shoving supposedly majority dictatorship through Ethiopian throat; not to mention many Ethiopians have seen the tip of the ice burg 19 years ago. OLF has a long way to go starting from their philosophy as Dr Mesay said. If it wasn’t for OLF’s twisted philosophy and pity for Amahars and other Ethiopians, democracy for all (Oromo, Amahra and others) would have been realized many, many years ago.
September 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I can see here that the flies are jumping on to the dirty thing (conflict between Amharas and Oromo)! Let them enjoy the following to get the sufficient dosis of lecuter to calm them down for the Amhara and Oromo elites are already on the way to find a mechanism how to make their fascist Weyane a history in that empire/region:
“Why was it easy for Meles’ regime to rule over Ethiopians?
Why was it easy for Meles adminstration to rule over Ethiopians in the last 18 years? Why even will it be easier to rule for further many decades? If we put it simplified, it is just because of some misguided elites, specially some elites of the two BIG nations aka Amharas (forces of unconditional Ethiopian unity) and Oromos (forces of unconditional Oromian independence). To understand it well, let’s look at the five opposition groups of the elites in the empire:
- at far right position are forces of unconditional unity, most of them being Amhara elites and few Gurage elites.
- at middle right are forces of democratic unity, who do persue to realize Ethiopian unity per public verdict aka self-determination, most of them being elites from the nations of South Ethiopia.
- on the middle are forces favouring democratic CONDITIONAL union of indepnedent nations aka “ethnic” federation per public verdict, as AFD seems to have planned. This middle position is that of the alliance between the middle right forces and the middle left forces.
- at middle left are forces of democratic indepndence, who do persue to realize independence of their respective nations per public verdict, now represented by the majority of Oromos, Sidamas and Ogadenis
- at far left position are forces of unconditional independence of nations, which includes few Ogadenis and few Oromos.
To simplify this classification, we can call the three groups at the middle as forces of self-determination. So we do deal with two major forces (the right side dictatorial forces of unconditional unity and the middle forces of self-detarmination) and one minor force (dictatorial forces of unconditional independence). Disregarding the minor dfictatorial forces of unconditional independence at the moment, the whole opposition groups in the empire are either in the dictatorial camp of unconditional unity or in the democratic camp of self-determination.
Meles regime managed to corner these elites and made specially forces on the far right to cry for unconditional unitary Imiye Ethiopia and forces on the far left to sing about unconditional independence of Ayo Oromia and Ogaden. With that the ruling regime could reserve the middle ground aka CONDITIONAL union of autonomous nations i.e language based federalism as its own position, so that it could accuse forces of unconditional unity as centeralist chauvinists and forces of unconditional independence as narrow separatists and make them fight each other. Some politicians in the opposition have tried to neutralize this effort of the regime. For example, I do appreciate the position of the visionary OLF leaders and some leaders of democratic unity forces who signed the formation of the alliance called AFD (Alliance for Freedom and Democracy), which took a necessary step to deal with the regime’s tactic of devide and rule. With this step, OLF, ONLF and SLF moved from their seemingly far left position of unconditional independence of their respective nations to the middle compromise position aka to be forces of self-determination. And they do expect that those in the far right position of unconditional unity also move to the middle. Currently the forces of democratic unity and the forces of unconditional independence are the minority opposition forces in the empire. The major forces are the forces of unconditional unity, most of them being Amharas and the forces of self-determination, majority being Oromos.
Read more:- http://www.ethioplanet.com/medrek “
September 7th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
fayyis,
Now u are talking; we can clearly see your true colours. Thank the Almighty your “dreams’ will never come true. I am 100% confident the great majority of the Oromo people do not think and feel like you and your 40+-year-old org.
I do not like your “trinity” analogy; that is just me,….
Peace
September 8th, 2009 at 6:58 am
ጎበዝ ኢትዮጵያውያን! በኦሮሞ ብሔረሰብ ስም እየጻፉ የሚያወናብዱ የወያኔ ቡችሎችን መላው የኦሮሞ ህዝብ ከነቃባቸው ቆየ:: በየትኛውም የኦሮሞ ብሔረሰብ ክልል አካባቢ እንደዚህ ያለ ከፋፋይ አንድነትን የሚያናጋ ዘረኛ ነገር የሚሰማቸው የለም:: በአጠቃላይ: በአሁኑ ወቅት በየትኛውም ቦታና ጊዜ እየተደረገ ያለው የመላው ኢትዮጵያዊው የትግል እንቅስቃሴ “በግንቦት7 የአንድነት የነጻነትና የዲሞክራሲ ንቅናቄ ተቀናጅቶ: ወያኔዎችን ያስጨነቃቸው ከመሆኑም በላይ: ህዝባችንን ለማናቆር የሚያደርጉት መፍጨርጨር በየትኛውም የኢትዮጵያ ብሔረሰብ ተሰሚነት የለውም::
ሃገራችሁን ከልባችሁ የምታፈቅሩ ኢትዮጵያውያን: ከድል በኋላ: “ምነው እኔም እንደሌሎች ኢትዮጵያውያን ወንድሞችና እህቶች ሃገሬን ነጻ ለማውጣት በምችለው መንገድ በተሰለፍኩኝ ኖሮ ብለን ከመቆጨታችን በፊት ይህንን ዘረኛ ቀጣፊ የወያኔ ቡድን ለማስወገድ በአንድነት ከግንቦት7 የፍትህ የነጻነትና የዲሞክራሲ ንቅናቄ ጋር ከልብ እናብር:: ሃገራችንን ከነዚህ የወያኔ አውሬ ቡድን ነጻ እናድርግ: ከንፈራችንን እየመጠጥን ብቻ ብንተክዝ ህዝባችንን ከመከፋፈል አናድንም:: ይህ ነገር ለማንኛውም ኢትዮጵያዊ ግልጽ የሆነ ጉዳይ ነውና: “ጀግናው ኢትዮጵያዊው ሁሉ ለአንድነትህ አባቶችህ መርቀው ያስረከቡህን የሃገር ድንበርና አንድነት ለወደፊት ትውልድ እንደነበረ የማስረከብ ሃላፊነቱ ያንተው አደራ ብቻ ነውና በምትችለው አቅምህ ለሃገርህ ኢትዮጵያ አለሁልሽ በላት:: በወያኔ አፈና ግርፋት እስርና የህይወት ጥፋት ለሚሰቃዩት ኢትዮጵያውያን እንድረስላቸው::
ድል ለኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ!!!
September 8th, 2009 at 8:03 am
So far it is good idea from all of you, we still have time to stay on power for decades.since you people are solve your problem by negotation, becouse we know you like our chilldren, but one thing let me tell you the secret if these people (Oromos )comes together, ????……..
becouse they have big potential in every thing, but they don’t have unity they will not have for the future even.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:04 am
I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU ALL FIGHTING WASTING YOUR TIME FOR A COUNTRY THAT IS DESTINED TO DISINTEGRATE AFTER 2010 ELECTION. IT IS A FACT NO LONGER TPLF’s Planned Prophecy
READ WHAT ICG THINK ABOUT THE EMPIRE
Ethiopia: Ethnic Federalism and Its Discontents
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6300&l=1&m=1
September 8th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Fayyis Oromia
Your presentation is somewhat paradoxical. Anyway neither a unitarian nor a trinitarian OLF could possibly usher in the solutions. This is because the current Ethiopian set-up has listened to Oromos and delivered on peomises. Viva EPDRF!
September 8th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I still sense a fly is feeding on the dirty thing (conflict between Amharas and Oromos). That is why the smart Oromo politicians now talk about unity of ALL against the fascists without the precondition. Nowadays the issue of self-determination vs unconditional unity has been the best food for the flies. Smart Oromos need to take away this food from the flies aka never to discuss such issue at their presense like in cyber world. Let’s kill the flies through making them hungry of such dirty things they need for survival!!
September 9th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Abrha! ለምን ይጠራጠራሉ? መላው የኦሮሞ ብሔረሰብ ተወላጅ ሁሉ በአንድነት ተነስቷል:: ለዚህም ነው እኮ የፋሽስቱ ወያኔ ወያላዎችና ተመሳሳይ ዘረኞች በአሁኑ ወቅት ይህንን የፕሮፓጋንዳ ዘመቻ የጀመሩት:: ለማዘናጋትና ቀደም ብለው የረጩት ዘረኛ መርዝ ፕሮፓጋንዳቸው አልሰራ ስላላቸው: ማለትም ኢትዮጵያዊ የሚለውን የአንድነታችንንና የፍቅራችን መገለጫ የሆነችውን ውድ ሃገራችንን አስረስተው ከሶስት ሺህ ዘመን በላይ በፍጹም ነጻነት የተከበረች ሃገራችንን ለመበታተን ክልል ክልል እያሉና በቀደምት ታሪካችን ውስጥ ተሰምቶም ሆነ ታይቶ በማይታወቅ ስያሜ ለማባላት ያቀዱት ሁሉ ከሽፎባቸው ህዝባችን እንደቀድሞው ሁሉ በአንድነት እየተነሳ ስለሆነ የተምታታባቸውን ዘረኛ ፖሊሲ ለመደጋገም እየሞከሩ ነው:: በተለይም በኦሮሞ ብሔረሰብ ስም ለማወናበድ ብዙ ነገር እየጻፉ ነውና: Abrha የኦሮሞ ህዝብ ሁሉ ኢትዮጵያዊነቱን ጀግኖች አባቶቹ በውድ ደማቸውና ህይወታቸው አስከብረው ያስረከቡት ለዘለአለም የሚጠብቃት ውድ ሃገሩ ” ኢትዮጵያ” ናት:: አንድ ሃገር አንድ ህዝብ: አንዲት ኢትዮጵያ ሃገሬ ብሎ ምን ጊዜም ያምናልና: በመላው ኢትዮጵያ የሚገኘው የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ፋሽስቱን ዘረኛውንና ጨካኙን የወያኔ ቡድን ለማንበርከክ:- ከግንቦት7 የፍትህ የነጻነትና የዲሞክራሲ ንቅናቄ ኢትዮጵያውያን ጋር ተሰልፏል:: እርስዎስ? ወደተግባር ትግል በሚችሉት አቅምዎ እየተንቀሳቀሱ ነው? ወይስ ሌሎች ኢትዮጵያውያን በሚያደርጉት ትግል ብቻ ድል ይጠብቃሉ? ወይስ ትዝብት በመጻፍ በመናገርና በመተቸት ብቻ ተቀምጠዋል? ለሁሉም ኢትዮጵያዊ ሁሉ ” ሃገራችን ኢትዮጵያ የሃገራችን ኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ በፋሽስቶቹ ወያኔዎች የአፈና በግፍ የመታሰርና በማይታወቅ መንገዶች ዜጎቻቻን እየታሰሩና እየተገደሉ ባሉበት ወቅት በዝምታ መመልከት እንደማይገባን ኢትዮጵያዊ ሁሉ የሚያውቀው ጉዳይ ነውና ዛሬውኑ ያለጥርጥር እንነሳ እንበርታ::
ድል ለኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ!!!
September 9th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Analogy of the Holy Trinity with an old political insurgency (?party?) at odds with its own Nation, with the Oromo majority, and with itself will go for the funniest joke of the outgoing year, presented at the eve of the new year!
Fayyis Oromia should think better with his/her great name of one of the pillars of our great people; linking a political grouping with Trinity, for Trinity is not a political category. We never saw (or heard about) three entities ceding power to one another.
It seems a last resort “letelat des aybelew” talk. Stop hating other compatriots and work with them for a better Ethiopia for all, don’t just talk non-sense that does only benefit the real enemies of the Oromo.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
why don’t post my comments? I
September 12th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
what do mean moderation?