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The ODF Chronicles: Resentment, Remorse and Repenting

By Suutumaa Guutaa

The newly mint Oromo political organization named the Oromo Democratic Front has become the talking point for so many over the last four or five months. Among the media outlets that had been scrambling to air what the ODF is up to, the social media and the gossip rooms ranked first followed by the Ethiopian satellite TV (ESAT)while the dust seems to settle after the first wave of all the mixed emotions about this infant politico.

As a prelude to our understanding of ODF’s metamorphosis, it is of paramount importance to recap the evolution of the Oromo people’s struggle for justice and liberty. With the formation of the modern Ethiopian State during the last quarter of the 19^th Century that incorporated the Oromo people through conquest, sporadic and isolated upheavals in different forms continued for decades. The petition by a group of Oromo notables in the western provinces of Ethiopia to the British consulate in Gambella during the Italian occupation of the 1930s was one of the testimonies as to the desire of the Oromo people to break loose from the newly formed Ethiopian State and establish an independent entity of their own.  As premature as it was, this venture did not come to fruition but was monumental in its significance as a precursor for all attempts that followed. The Bale rebellion of the 60s and the formation of the Matcha & Tulama self-help association were all parts of the desire to mobilize the Oromo masses in pursuit of a distinct Oromo identity symbolized by a national state of its own. This gave rise to the formation of the first pan-Oromo modern political organization, namely the OLF that has also changed the political landscape of the Ethiopian empire state to last for generations and beyond.

The Terrains of OLF’s Journey

As the only organization that is still thriving while its contemporaries vanished in to thin air in the course of the last four decades, OLF has become the covenant of the Oromo spirit as it has cemented the bondage of Oromoness across the spectrum. That brilliant generation went against all odds in shaping the Oromo Liberation Front as the sole asset all Oromo people own and cherish to this date.  Founded in the mid 1970s when Marxism was at its hay day and class struggle was the main paradigm preached by almost all as an instrument to eradicate all forms of exploitation, that generation was still wise enough to weigh in the path of national struggle as the only means to do away with the type of predicament the Oromo people was in. Rightfully so, the tenacity and stamina of the Oromo Liberation Front and Oromo Peoples’ quest for the right to self determination is best deservedly credited to the cream of this Great nation.

The dynamics of setbacks and successes alternated themselves in the life of the OLF as an organization that is also quite natural to any association of similar settings.  Hence, the OLF has exhibited major successes that range from demarcating the territorial boundaries of the Oromo country giving birth to the current regional State of Oromiya and Oromo language (Afaan Oromo) partly replaced Amharic as the language of instruction and administration within the limits of the Oromo territory.

It is to be noted that opponents of the Oromo Peoples’ struggle belittle the OLF as a useless Organization that did not even control a single town after 40 years of operation while the Oromo masses adore it as its guiding Sprit leading up to an independent Republic of Oromiya in which national opression will cease to exist once and for all. Thousands have sacrificed their lives and several thousands are still in line to pay the ultimate price until OLF’s agenda of the universally accepted right to self determination materializes. Knowing that OLF has already conquered the hearts of 40 million, getting in to polemics with its opponents has no meaning as it is tantamount to arguing with a mindset that is not prone to change.  As the saying goes, “one man’s trash is the other man’s treasure.” Let’s leave opponents and supporters alone for now as the unfolding events take their own due course and either of the two sides will eventually be vilified.

Exploring the setbacks suffered by the OLF in the 1992 transitional arrangement and thereafter is not the scope of this piece but some self evident causes of stagnation, split and purges leading up to the formation of the ODF would be pinpointed  to explain the chronological and logical sequences that gave birth to this infant.  Subsequently, the rumor mills of the last 22 years regarding two contending ideologies within the OLF would come to light explaining all the odds as to why OLF could not advance during the last two decades in spite of the popular support it commands and a just cause it espouses.

Halfhearted “Tegadalays/Compatriots” within the OLF Leadership or contending ideologies?

Apparently, the newly minted ODF boasts of incorporating the founding fathers of the OLF in its ranks along with its low level Diaspora cadres who were very much known for shifting loyalty from time to time.  The “New Vision” this group is preaching about, has never been new in essence because the so called founding members of the OLF, now at the helm the ODF have been anextremely controversial personalities pertaining their old subscriptions to “a Democratic empire”, now came back as a “new Vision”. At times they had vented their frustrations of being a minority within the OLF while attempting to divert the organization’s hitherto agenda of self determination for the Oromo people, just to trade it for the democratization of the Ethiopian State. The debate about a hollow “New Vision” preached by the ODFites versus the leverage Leencoo Lata is using to make it a seemingly substantial “new vision” will be dealt with separately in the upcoming series of articles to follow this.

When asked about this rumor back in the late 90s, Leenco Lata did not deny that he is pursuing the democratization of Ethiopia instead of seeking a free Republic of Oromiya as enshrined in the Political program of the Oromo Liberation Front finalized and ratified in 1976. He was also part of the generation that has ratified the program under discussion. Leenco, at the same time, proclaimed that regardless of the contentions surfacing at different times he believed in the organizational integrity of the OLF and had no any intention of breaking away from it even if his proposals could not win a majority vote within the ranks of fellow leaders and his proposals kept being “shelved” as he puts it in his writings.  Even if Leenco remained a minority with his bold ideas for over two decades that now re-emerged as a “New Vision”, the lethal wounds of the two contending ideologies within the OLF are so visible resulting in to splits and purges particularly in the Diaspora and gave rise to the birth of the ODF. The 2001 split within the OLF was primarily an outcome of the perception by the then dissident group (OLF-TA) customarily known as QC, that Leenco’s idea is winning a majority within the ranks of the OLF leadership to which he (Leenco) is emerging as a chief ideologue that would culminate in to abandoning the very idea of self determination for the Oromo People.  This had a devastating effect from which the organization is still attempting to recover to this date. In 2008, another round of split and purge occurred and this time also Leenco Lata is believed to be the architect of the reform known as “Jijjirama” while the course of events took a different direction undesirable to the architect so that he immediately distanced himself from it. The “reformists” boasted of being patriotic and wise (Jagnaa fi Gamna) from a particular region of Oromia by tracing the legitimacy of their claim  to the fierce resistance they put to Menelik’s forces a century ago at  Aanole and the sacrifices they had paid. Contrary to their claims and their hollow promises of occupying Finfinne within three months of launching their gibberish, the 2008 “reformists’’ had successfully defeated themselves and Leenco Lata’s venture of utilizing them . Some had even compared Leenco’s loss of control over the very “Reform” he was believed to have been  an architect of, with that of Michael Gorbatschov’s  reformist politics known as Perestroika in which the mighty Gorbatschov and the Soviet Union along with it went in to the dust bins of history over night.

One thing Leenco Lata has to be credited for is his persistence of clinging to his agenda, however contentious it was. But the everlasting moral question he cannot forgo would remain as to why he persuaded, organized, trained and deployed thousands of Oromo sons and daughters to fight and perish for a just cause spearheaded by the OLF while he himself did not believe in the same value.

Another controversial man of with a less magnitude is the notorious halfhearted Dima Nogo, who has never earned a full trust of compatriots during his years in the OLF.  He is described by many as a consumer rather than a “Tegadalay” in the true sense of the term as he was known by his traits of asking for more from the meager resources of the organization.  Even if he claims to be the first chairman of the OLF, most of his contemporaries testify that he took his ”chairmanship” out of context because his short lived “reign” was more of  a provisional cell like structure in the Urban areas in which Finfinne was the nucleus of such urban patches leading  up to the General Assembly. As a revelation to his half-heartedness, he rather went to Dakar, Senegal for a scholarship in the midst of his reign without notifying his compatriots and without formally discharging his duty of “chairmanship”, to say the least. A year or so after the end of his tenure in Dakar, he decided to go back to his beloved Ethiopia. This was, in fact, aborted by the precarious state of the country at that time that included the bloody red terror campaign. The flip-flopper did not take much time to change his mind and he immediately changed his destination from Finfinne to Khartoum. That is the irony of the whole story about Dima’s OLF Chairmanship and his subsequent rise in its ranks. When it comes to a claim of “first chairmanship”, he could have legitimately claimed his MALERID chairmanship until he was deposed by a certain Tesfaye Mekonen, in which ECHAT finally came to his rescue.  ECHAT’s actions might have been a rapprochement, per se, to have him returned to the Oromo camp with his controversies all along.  Dima also did not deny that his participation in the OLF was primarily for a camouflage in order to disguise himself as an Oromo nationalist on the surface while working as a counterbalance in favor of keeping Ethiopia intact, at heart.   He has revealed this during an interview with Sisay Agena of ESAT television in 2011 or 12 on the eve of launching the Oromo Dialogue Form (ODF) to be followed by another ODF.

There are also more controversial late comers to the OLF leadership that now joined the ranks of ODF. The likes of Bayan Asooba, Leenco Baati and Hassan Huseen are all aspirants of the Ethiopian throne through the mighty miracles of their creator, Leencoo Sr. With no need to go far, the Trio servants were the main actors of the 2004 Bergen Conference with no results. This was followed by the OLF General Assembly in December of 2004 in which they all ascended to the OLF hierarchy. Somehow, Leenco Lataa had succeeded in consolidating a team of his proxies within the OLF on a stronger basis but to turn against each other in 2008, 2010 and keep changing course in 2011 and 2013 gain. God knows, what will come out of these renegades next. Bayaan was the first deserter in OLF’s history who naturally followed the same course ever since. During the 2001 Split, the dissidents’ (QC) main grievance against Shane Gummi was mainly the issue of Shane Gummi embracing Bayan Asooba in the OLF leadership. Partly, they were right: Byaan was not a type of beast that could not be tamed by the OLF as he simply could not coup up with its principles. Leencoo Baati was a man who turned the OLF office in Washington DC in to a Liquor Store and a butcher. Additionally, his clientele ship with the Ethiopian bars and nightclubs in the District of Columbia coupled with his cheap behavior had remained the basis of an embarrassment, not only to the OLF but to Oromo as a people . OLF is way much better off with no representation or an office than Leenco Jr.’s presence as the face of this organization in the World’s Metropolis. Hassan Hussein is vulnerable to any thing and as such could not be relied up on. There is not much to say about him since his own personal life speaks volumes.

Given the above controversial events and personalities within the OLF for so long, there is no wonder as to why the OLF was dwarfed.   The prevalence of halfhearted “leaders” within the ranks of the OLF and two contending ideologies that could not co-exist, could sufficiently explain the odds of the OLF and most of the Organization’s handicaps to be intrinsic.

The Split, purge and some surrenders

Natural to many organizations, OLF suffered splits, purges and surrenders. The incumbent TPLF is also a living example to such course of events, but managed to attain its final goal of conquering political power in Ethiopia with persistent leadership and firm ideology.  Most of you may recall the notorious propaganda drums of the then Ethiopian Television and radio in late 1989 that two dissident TPLF members namely Abraham Yaye and Gebremedhin Araya abandoned TPLF and joined the DERG’s WPE. The higher echelons of the ruling party had rejoiced and attempted to persuade the Ethiopian masses through their only propaganda outlets that the surrender of the two named above had sealed the fate of the TPLF. What happened in real life was quite to the contrary.

Similarly OLF had lost many to such practices from within its ranks and the foot soldiers alike. It is true that the Organization has been weak ever since its conception but the capitulation and half-heartedness never deterred it from pursuing the popular agenda it was conceived to pursue. Even long before the OLF became part of the short lived transitional arrangement, Ethiopia’s version of Paris Commune, in 1992, hundreds succumbed to Colonel Mengistu’s security personnel, though, the military regime was not interested in parading them on their TV screen. The reason was of course deeply strategic and it did work for the regime in that it kept OLF in obscurity for a lengthy period of time while its contemporaries such as the TPLF and EPLF were already publicized to the Ethiopian people and the international community as enemies of the State, the Ethiopian State.

In a new chapter that came after 1992, still many had abdicated the OLF but the most notable ones were those which were orchestrated by the seeds of today’s ODF. For one, the project of encamping OLF fighters in the midst of bloody skirmishes with the TPLF militia (TPLF’s militia because the peasants that arrived in Finfinne from the wilderness of Tigray are still very remote from being characterized as a standing regular army expected of a national defense force) in 1992 is blamed on the founder of OLF and ODF plus its senior associates. The issue of encampment is the epicenter of the controversies that has remained a mystery until today while ODF could be one of its organizational manifestations.  The second phase of it could be the attempted sabotage of the 1998 General Assembly of the OLF  in Mogadishu, Somalia even if the head of the saboteurs was partly clever enough for a while to cleanse himself by saying that the intention of him and others was to give way to a new generation of leadership. Because a spade is a spade, that same spade is also blamed to have orchestrated a controversial change of leadership through his proxies in 1999. This inflamed to the split of 2001 and subsequently the surrender of  a certain Kumsa Gada in 2006 , the split of 2008 in the name of Reforming the Organization that attracted a crowd of newly arriving refugee peasantry with a very few pity elite at the top. The peasant crowd dispersed shortly but the venom of driving OLF compatriots out of the fields remained at work and reached its climax in 2011 when the onetime OLF executive committee Member who was in charge of its foreign affairs at one point, Licho Bukhra, paraded members of OLF’s southern command in front of the ETV Camera and foolishly posing as a war hero and leader of the group. Millions of Oromos express their anger and the shame brought to them by this OX when they remember that ETV footage and some even blame their very creature that destined them to be an Oromo. The national shame spearheaded by Licho Bukhra is, of course, widely believed to be orchestrated by ODF’s chief ideologue and executed by his henchmen.

Evidently, the ODF (Oromo Dialogue Forum) Cadres and now members of ODF (Oromo democratic Front) Central Committee were actively campaigning to win support for their scheme and their very points of persuasive strategy in this regard was that they (ODF both as a Forum and a Front even though there is no any distinction)claimed to have a very strong base in the country by clearly revealing that the likes of Kumsa Gada and Licho Bukhra  are actively working for them as they were dispatched for this very purpose. In fact, the name Licho and Kumsa had a repelling factor or so to say a boom rang effect so that the “flexible” group shifted their propaganda of selling such familiar names as Obbo Bulcha Demeksa and Dr. Merera Gudina  as having Conformity with ODF’s political ideology. The two “top leaders” of ODF had miserably failed their own cadres by bashing Dr Merera. In a meeting in Norway, Dima Nogo pronounced that the difference between his party and Merera’s Party is mainly that “Mararan Biira dhugaa qabsaa’a” while Dima did not have the courage to weigh in his own vagabondism who is primarily bent on auditing his supplies of perfume brands than the lots of  Oromo people from day one.  Very lately in another round of meeting in Colombus, Ohio again, Leenco Lata paraphrased that Marara’s original intention of forming a party was solely to partake in the rituals of the Ethiopian national elections every five years and to sit in their clumsy parliament. Other than that Marara has no basic grievances with the Ethiopian State System while HE (Leenco and his disciples) has fundamental differences with that very system, and hence are incompatible.

Those splits, purges and surrenders were finally concluded with the “resignation” of the newly hatched Diaspora members of the OLF in Europe and North America that was so theatrical and has remained a laughing stock for many. Some even sent their resignation Letters to the leaders of the OLF Central Committee, without an a priory knowledge of   being known to the Organization as members. The irony of their resignation was that it was coordinated by their “New Visionary” Leaders as they had to follow a circular in which every member sending resignation letter to the OLF hierarchy should send the copy to all “resigning compatriots,” a mechanism for the bosses to oversee the checks and balances. The Prisoners Dilemma scenario had very much worked in favor of the shepherds, and less for the herd.

Whatever the outcome might have been, a series of purges, surrenders and resignations were all reflections of a very coherent and consistent course pursued by the ODF founding fathers with a permanent mission of weakening and disbanding the OLF for no less than four decades.

The “unthinkable” but the inevitable storm and the final divorce from the OLF

The man who was so controversial and so influential at the same time for close to four decades had to go per resolution of OLF’s Central Committee in October 2011. The most controversial figure of all times within the OLF in particular and that of the Ethiopian polity in general, Leenco Lata, fell from grace and sought refuge in to something one cannot call an organization for a man of his caliber. As I have reiterated above, Leenco was not in favor of divorcing from the OLF but he, apparently, was forced to depart as he himself testified on Radio program known as Simbirtu. He was heard saying with a shaky voice “na geggeessani” meaning they chased me away. This was very much unthinkable to him and to many but given his unruly tenure for so long it was inevitable. There is no any specific date for Dima’s departure from the OLF but he was even believed to be in paralysis for the last 20 years as he did not have any specific role. Apart from the five years he spent on his PhD in the United States, his role in the OLF was limited to being invited to meetings of the OLF as an Ex-Minister, Ex-Executive committee member and many other EX-attributes. Any ways, Dima’s departure has never been News and did not excite anyone for good or bad. He was a neglected man by the OLF to this extent since he was known for his shrewd moves and puffy persona with no use. Rather, his current tenure as ODF’s Vice president is very much akin to his OLF chairmanship 39 years ago. The last time Dima had made headlines as an OLF executive was when he surrendered his Jeep to the Kenyan gang in Nairobi back in 1995. Besides these two, all the foot soldiers of ODF today do not warrant to be enumerated as the divorcees of the OLF because they had never been a member as such but cheer leaders of the OLF in the Diaspora whenever needed.

The politics of Resentment

It is widely believed that Leenco’s infant organization is a serious miscalculation on his part because his deep resentment against the Shane Gumii OLF is the main driving force leading up to formation of this amorphous association known as ODF. It is true that he was yearning for so long to materialize the idea of democratic Ethiopia to be the final solution for all of the social, political and economic ills in which the Oromo question could also be resolved. But the quickly backed ODF has never been in his mind for the big scheme of “Democratizing Ethiopia”. Leencoo has always been straight forward in this respect: he believed that reforming OLF’s political program should remain the most desirable way to get there because dissolving OLF would meant for him assassinating ones’ own offspring.  He was right but fell short of the principle he has harbored for close to four decades when that fateful day in October 2011 stormed him out of the very organization he took for granted as his own enterprise. Subsequent to his divorce from the OLF many discontented repenting Cadres and those who had been exhibiting a deep remorse for conspiring against Mama Ethiopia saw this as an opportunity to approach the bitterly disappointed man to come up with an irritant. The disgruntled individuals and disenfranchised groups in the Diaspora coupled with the dissatisfied cheer leaders finally flocked to a clandestine discussion group known as “Maree” or ODF Sr. Anger and resentment have become the common bond for the new franchise. ODF Jr. is an offspring of this series and that is why we say it has no form or shape nor content; it is just an irritant to the OLF as the main objective of it was also to act so.  The reason is simple: OLF and ODF could not co-exist because they pursue a diametrically opposite end while claiming the same basis of Operation; one has to wither away for the other to march forward. In the immediate aftermath of ODF’s (the organization, not the forum) formation, its vice president was the guest of an Ethiopian Paltalk room managed by a certain Aba Mela or Berhanu Damte. Dima was asked as to what the fate the OLF would be in the face of the newly formed organization. Dima replied that OLF has evolved to ODF and he kept repeating the catch phrase in all of his subsequent appearances until very recently, even though it did not hold water. One has to read between the lines; Dima was short of saying that OLF was dissolved. At the same time he repeatedly attempted, though in vain, to give the impression that OLF’s transformation in to ODF was supposedly an outcome of  a consensual process across the spectrum and hence is the legacy of the founders of the OLF-ODF is perpetual.

The Politics of remorse and repenting

Remnants of the “reformist” group who later joined the ranks of the ODF started to confess about their blindfolded Euphoria when they embarked on the infamous Jijjirama in 2008. They did not hide that they were overwhelmed by a cheerful crowd that was not cognizant of what it was cheering out for.  The crowd, mainly composed of an agrarian subsistence farmers and pastoral clans in the southern belt of present day Ethiopia who emigrated to the to the United States, was equally overwhelmed by the abundance and the life style the “new homeland” had to offer and falsely convinced of a capability to take over the OLF as a closely knit clannish society with no alien interference. This is a very crude bunch that always alienates anybody outside of the clan structure. In other words, Oromumma is alien to this group unless one is recognized as a member of one of the clan layers as they know it.

The street smart pity elite of the “Reformists” woke up shortly after the quarter Million fund raiser finances started to dwindle away. They betrayed the very crowd that crowned them to a clan prominence and they were not shy to repent also. They said they were wrong while many believe they are still wrong because after repenting they did not come back the drawing board. They rather continued on their opportunistic path and are currently swimming in the pond of controversy. If joining ODF is a remedy to their repentance that is to be seen.

Those who were very much weary of their treason to Mother Ethiopia were incessantly hanging on the pendulum and have no way of getting off of it. A remorseful mind is always prone to fear and inferiority. This group is of no use to OLF or ODF, and for that matter to any project with an Oromo Prefix at all. ODF is a temporary sanctuary until they come up with another pretext for their guilt and remorse.

From ODF to ODF: What next?

The yeast of the first ODF (the Forum) was fermented immediately after October 2011 and was “distilled” by late Spring of 2013 when the second ODF (the Front) was declared to be a culmination of a two year long thorough consultation with the “best and the brightest” of the Oromo Diaspora in Europe and North America.  The Euphoric founding members and cadres went on a spree of press releases and interviews in which they were heard of boasting that they came up with a “New, really really New Vision” hitherto unheard of that is capable of building a very fair common home for all polities in Ethiopia. Paradoxically, some shallow cadres were also caught on tape saying that ODF’s goal is to seat an Oromo in Menelik’s Grand Palace and that is it. In principle, I am not against the desire of seating an Oromo at the helm of a political hierarchy in our own homeland. In fact, whatever the OLF or any other Oromo Political organizations were trying to achieve is to have an Oromo as our own leader in our own Country. But that can only be achieved when Oromos have power as a people and are free to seat or unseat whoever they deem right for the position. But beating a drum and blowing trumpets to crown an Oromo vis-a-vis empowering the Oromo people are absolutely incompatible acts.

The transition from ODF to ODF was relatively smooth even if some reports leaked about a small scale discontents during the last days of the second ODF’s founding congress. The rough terrain was blamed on some unruly protests regarding the naming of the new born and the flag the baby was supposed to hoist. Anyways, the protesters were easily subdued and succumbed to the majority mainly because they were cognizant of their fate if they continue the course as they had no any other political home to go to. They hate political homelessness and hence ODF is their best sanctuary for now.

As to what is next, Dima Nogo on Aba Mela Paltalk interview and Leenco Baati, on the Washington DC based Addis Dimts Radio interview  hosted by Abebe Belew, already gave us  an adequate hint that ODF will eventually evolve to EDF (Ethiopian Democratic Forces) and that they are working towards that end. This next move, as they naturally had to evolve to or otherwise surrender to the wholesale politics of Ethiopian citizenry, is a fetus being eagerly awaited by all sides of the aisle even if some satirists exclaim that what comes next will be a hermaphrodite as misconceived as it was and incapable of bearing  anything meaningful.

Another hint coming from Finfinne indicated that ODF’s Liaison, also a Businessman in the “Real estate industry” who is an actual facilitator of the land grab, Abba Biyya Abba Jobir, had filed an application at the office of the Ethiopian Election Board to register ODF as one of the contestants of the 2015 Ethiopian national election. Abba Biyya had become instrumental in meditating the wealthy caliphates and sultanates of the Arabian Peninsula with the TPLF land grab tycoons and he was believed to amass some in the process. The comprador lately fled to Saudi Arabia in the wake of a tax evasion rumor he was sought for as he apparently did not pay taxes on the money gleaned from an intermediary role he played to get our country looted. In light of Abba Biyya’s absence as a liaison at the moment, ODF is said to have dispatched a replacement from Minnesota but this is not confirmed yet. Whatever the outcome of ODF’s application for election is going to be, it will come to light soon and we will take it from there.

The Multiple layers of the ODF membership

• The self appointed OLF founding fathers who claim an absolute right to drive the organization in any direction of their wish. This includes the controversial man (now President) and his co-hort. By the way, one awkward thing people comment on the structure of the ODF is that the title of President conferred to the man in charge of the entire drama and now at its helm. It is not that common for organizations like this to call the person at the top of the pyramid a “president”.  Such positions are usually given the titles of Chairmanship or so. May be it could be part of the “New Vision” or nihilism at its best.
• Remnants of the leftist political groupings of the 1970s and 80s for whom the politics of vilifying Oromo Nationalism has worked superbly with ODF’s emergence. This group was originally the anti-thesis of the OLF in the early days of its inception and was known to have played a crucial ideological role in stabilizing and corona ting the military junta, just to be whipped by the very of soldiers they had helped ascend to the killing spree. This Neo-Marxist group was also a proponent of punitive campaigns against “narrow nationalists” that included OLF activists known and unknown to them. May be they were also victims of their own times and the Marxist preaching in which proletarian internationalism was accepted as a universal norm for man’s brotherhood and as a means to defeat humanity’s lots through it. After a lengthy hibernation, some members of the said group propped up with the birth of the first ODF, and in fact had become sub-ideologues of the process that ended with the second ODF. One thing they are good at it is that they intentionally assumed obscure but crucial roles in the process ODF Sr. & ODF Jr. went though. If things do not work as they wished; they can easily coil themselves in to their shells but for now they had achieved one important mile stone. With OLF’s & ODF’s founders  claim or short of saying that Oromo nationalism is an outdated venture and OLF is irrelevant, this group’s original position of despising “narrow nationalism” was partly vindicated.  Their final vindication would come with ODF’s assumption of the throne in a “Democratic multi-national Ethiopia,” as this was the main tenet they embraced under the slogan of proletarian Internationalism.
• Remnants of the WPE (ISAPA) and REYA functionaries of the last regime-the politics of nostalgia. This group is just good for nothing other than looking for an opportunity that they believed is, no matter what, attainable through Leencoo’s miracles and they did not want to lose a once in a life time opportunity.  The nostalgic group, then, will go back to assume their surrogate roles for whoever is in power, all they need is their bossy gestures over the villagers to be restored. This group is useless for the ODF itself which the non-ISAPA ODFites are also well aware of. But they badly needed company at this juncture and anyone who believes in the scheme is welcome.
• The newly hatched members of the OLF in the Diaspora (the syndicated cheer leading cliques) whose politics of perceived self importance (the false consciousness) contributed to the defamation of the OLF as an Organization and paralyzed the Oromo social fabric in the Diaspora. OLF is, in fact, a victim of its own making when it comes to the wound inflicted up on it from this corner.  The group encompasses the ones’ who were also tribal chiefs of the Reformist group and some low level cadres in Diaspora communities. Characteristically, these were also known by their fierce rivalries amongst themselves in the matter of hosting the visiting top OLF leaders in Europe and the United States as a show off of loyalty and allegiance.  Behaviorally, the group did not change in essence, what has changed is just the visiting fellows. Besides these, there is not much to say about this group since their role was limited to either subordination or insubordination to the hierarchy depending on what is on the ground at a given time. If need be, it is still possible to unmask the social anatomy of each and every one of them and how their behavior affected the discourse of the Oromo movement.  Some had presided over a large crowd of Diaspora Oromos in the process, and mistook their role for decisiveness. But the way they portray themselves and their “crucial” roles in the OLF is, of course, quite contrary to what is being said here. We will wait and see where they end up in ODF’s election campaign in the coming two years and thereafter.
• The elderly and the helpless is the last group lured in to adherence of the ODF simply because this group is always vulnerable to any news or project that would likely get them back home, and this is one of the strongest bastions in the arena of beliefs in Leencoo’s miracles.

More or less the process of the Forum and the Front during the last two years has brought birds of a feather together on a fragile basis. Fragile, because the chief ideologue’s love for OLF is still unconditional and he has no heart to dismantle it, if not for his bitter resentment against the Shane Gumi’s actions of October 2011. His and his Disciples’ attitude towards the OLF is also diametrically opposite. He cares(even though some argue otherwise) very much because OLF is his own making to the extent that the name Leencoo Lata and OLF were used to be interchangeably  used for over three decades. Undeniably, Leencoo was the face of the Oromo revolution and hence the face of the Oromo nation at one juncture in our history. He also dearly paid a price in the name of the same OLF others are trying to assassinate. Therefore, their next move on the issue of their upcoming relationships with the OLF will be a defining moment to solve the paradox. Again Fragile, because some of the top leaders of ODF are inherently halfhearted (Dima et al) and inherently traitors (Bayaan Asooba), they have no problem of withdrawing their allegiance whenever they deem the time is right for them. The Neo-Marxists are already conscious of the possibility that things could go wrong and they already put themselves on the edge so that they can easily slide in to their usual past in any eventuality.

Further more Fragile, because the low level cadres had always remained the best spare parts for the fighting giants; it does not take them much time to shift their loyalty at any given moment. The remaining layers of the ODF membership do not warrant any further scenario analysis. Given all these possibilities, ODF is a house of cards for now unless foreign intervention (TPLF, Faranjis and True Ethiopian Nationalists) comes to their rescue or unless the main fortress from which ODF was assembled together to operate is those foreign forces from the very outset.

What is at stake?

The ODF will continue the course as long as Leencoo Lata remains at the top. If, for any reason, he leaves the post or ceases his activism, ODF will also cease to exist. If ODF’s resolve is to attain political power in Finfinne as it is yearning for it right now, every member and rank & file of the ODF as well as all Oromos  have to be weary of a bloody battle that follows  between Oromos supporting ODF and OLF. These two cannot co-exist due to the nature of their antagonistic destinations. So, ODF has to work hard towards completely eradicating the OLF, otherwise the OLF has to reciprocate the same course of action in order to clear ideological divides that is confusing the Oromo people.  The fake proposition of tolerance uttered by both sides is of course a public relations exercise, but the self evident course would be the decimation of either of the two for the survivor to thrive. OLF’s and ODF’s co-existence and the call for futile tolerance have nothing to do with political pluralism. It is rather an imperative for existentialism as a nation.

=>bilisummaa

Godina Lixaa Shawaattii Gaaffiin Mirgaa Amantoota Waqeffaannaa Jabaatee itti fufe.

Hordoftoonni amantaa waaqeffannaa godina Lixa Shawaa Aanaa Ada’aa Bargaa mirga amantaa argachuu qabna jechuudhaan gaaffii lafaa iddoo itti waaqeffatan yeroo gara yerootti gaafachaa jiru.Deebiin jala deemtota mootummaa wayyaanee garuu,isin dhimmaa amantaa osoo hin taane kaayyoo siyaasa ABO ummata barsiisaa jirtu jechuun hidhuu fi doorsiisuu akka furmataatti fudhachuun, doorsisaa jiru.Gidduu kana walgahii magaala aanichaa Incinnii irratti taa’ameen isin gonkuma lafas ta’e eeyyama argachuu hin dandeessan jechuun murtee dabarsaniiru.Garuu,dargaggoonni naannichaa gaaffiin keenya duuba hin deebihu itti fufna jedhanii jala dhaabbatan. Deemaatii eeyyama Oromiyaa irraa fidadhaa jechuun deebii jallataa fi walxaxaa laataniiru.

Kanaan,alatti namni gaaffii qabna jettan maqaa keessan galmeessaa fidaa jechuun doorsiisaa jiru,Jiraattotni naannoo kanaas duraan gaafa iyyata galfannu maqaa keenya galmeessinee galchineerra inni har’a gaafatamnummoo kan maaliti jechuun jala deemtota mootummaa  Wayyaanee fuuldura gaaffiin sardaa jiru.

Hooggantootni mootummaa wayyaanees nama lamaa ol taatanii magaalaa Mogorii fi Inchinnii keessatti argamnaan kan isin eeggatu hidhaa,dararaa fi kkf jechuun dargaggoota gaaffii mirgaa biyya abbaa isaaniirratti gaafatan doorsisaa jiru. Dhaamsi ummata naannichaas ilmaan Oromoo mirga keenyaa karaa nagaa waan gaafanneef doorsifamaa jirra, Oromoon hundii dorsisaa fi gadii qabaa mirgaa nurraatti dalagamaa jiruu nuf hubachuun bakka jirtan hundaa mirgaa keenya kabachiisuuf tumsa barbachisuu haa goonu jechuun dhaamsa dabarsataniru.
Injifannoon U/Oromoo

=>qeerroo

Barruulee Gaaffii Mirga Oromoo Magaalaa Finfinnee fi Naannootti Bal’inaan Itti Fufee Maxxanfame.

Magaalaa Fifinnee fi naannoo isheetti barruuleen mirga uumata Oromoo gaafatan baldhinaan tamsa’uu fi faca’aa jiraachuun mootummaa Wayyaanee guddoo rifaasisee jira.Tamsa’uun waraqaa loltoota Wayyaaneen irra deemamee buqa’u illee battalumatti naannoo adda addaatti irra deebi’amee Fulbaana 13,2013 bal’inaan maxxanfamuu fi raabsamuun daranuu Wayyaanee yaaddessee jiraachuu gabaasi Qeerroo Finfinnee irraa addeessa.

=>qeerroo

ሀበሻም ሆነ የሀበሻ አመለካከት ወይም አሰተሳሰብ ያለዉ፦ ሁለቱም የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ፀር ናቸዉ

በ Hordofaa Dhugaa

ወደ ጽሁፌ ዋናዉ ይዘት ከመግባቴ በፊት አሰቀድሜ አንድ ነገር ግልፅ ማድረግ እፈልጋለሁ። ይኸዉም ሀበሻ (አብሲንያ) የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ፀር ነዉ ስል ሰላማዊዉን ያአማራም ሆነ የትገሬ ብሔር ሕዝቦችን በጅምላ ባንድ አይን ማየቴ ሳይሆን ስለ ኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ፀር በማነሳበት ጊዜ በይበልጥ የማተኩረዉ ከነዚሁ ብሔሮች ዉሰጥ በወጡት አሮጌ (የአማራ) እና አዲሱ (የትግሬ) ነፍጠኞች ላይ ነዉ። የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ፀር የሆኑትም እነዚሁ ሐይሎችና የነሱን አሰተሳሰብ ወይም አመለካከት ተከትለዉ የሚሄዱ ጀሌዎቻቸዉ ናቸዉ። የነሱ አሰተሳሰብ ወይም አመለካከት ያላቸዉ ጃሌዎች ስል ምን ማለቴ ነዉ? እነዚህ ጀሌዎች የሀበሻን (ነፍጠኛን) አሰተሳሰብ የሚያንፀባርቁት በተለያዩ መንገዶች ሲሆኑ ከነዚህ መነገዶች ዉሰጥ አንዳንዶቹን ባጭሩ ለማብራራት እሞከራለሁ።
አንደኛ መንገድ ከሀበሻ እምነት ጋር በተለይም ከኦርቶዶክስ ሃይማኖት ጋር ትስስር ስለኣላቸዉ በዚህ በኩል ደግሞ በሚነገራቸዉ ወይም በሚሰበካቸዉ የኢትዮጵያዊነት ስሜት የተነሳ ማንነታቸዉን እነዲረሱ ወይንም ጥያቄ ዉስጥ እንዲያሰገቡ ይደረጋሉ። የማንነት ቀዉስ (identity crisis) ያላቸዉ እነዚሁ ሰዎች ዋንኛዉ ምክንያት የሚመነጨዉ ከዚህ ነዉ ማለት ይቻላል። ለዚህም ነዉ እነዚህ ሰዎች ማንነታቸዉን (ሆነዉ የተፈጠሩትን) ትተዉ በሌላ መንገድ የተጫነባቸዉን ኢትዮጵያዊነትን የሚያሰቀድሙት።
ሁለተኛዉ መንገድ በጋብቻና በሌሎች መንገዶች ከሀበሻ ጋር መቀላቀል ነዉ። ሀበሾች በተለይም ነፍጠኞች የኦሮሞን የነፃነት ትግል፣ የኦሮሞን የራስን እድል በራስ የመወሰን መብት ባንድ መንገድ ብቻ ነዉ የሚያዩት። ይህም ጥዋትና ማታ እንደሚዘፍኑት የመገንጠል ጥያቄ ነዉ። ስለዚህ በጋብቻ ከነሱ ጋር የተቀላቀሉትን መሳሪያ በማድረግ፣ ነገ ኦሮሚያ ብትገነጠል በመሃል (ከሀበሾችና ኦሮሞ) የተወለዱት ወይም ሚወለዱት ልጆች ዕጣ ፋነታቸዉ ምን ይሆናል በማለት ከነሱ ጋር በጋብቻ የተቀላቀሉትን ኦሮሞዎች በፕሮፓጋንዳቸዉ በማደንቆር ለኦሮሞ የነፃነት ታጋዮች እንቅፋት እንድሆኑባቸዉ ያደርጔቸዋል። እነዚህም ኦሮሞዎች በዚሁ ፐሮፓጋንዳ በመታለል የሀበሾች ጀሌዎች እንድሆኑ ይደረጋሉ ማለት ነዉ።
ሦስተኛዉ መንገድ ደግሞ የፖለቲካ አስተሳሰብ ወይም አመለካከት (political ideology) ነዉ። ይህ ጉዳይ ሰፊ ትንታኔ የሚጠይቅ ስለሆነ ሌላ ጊዜ በሰፊዉ እመለስበታለሁ። ለዛሬ ግን አንዳንድ ነገሮችን ባጭሩ ለማንሳት እሞክራለሁ። የፖለቲካ አሰተሳሰብ ወይም አመለካከት ራሱ ከተለያየ አቅጣጫ ነዉ የሚመነጨዉ። ከነዚህ ዉሰጥ አንዱ በራስ አለመተማመን ነዉ። በራስ አለመተማመን ደግሞ በመጀመሪያ አንግበዉ የተነሱለትን ዓላማ ትተዉ ወደ ሌላ አቅጣጫ እንዲሄዱ ያደርጋል። የዓለምና የአካባቢ ሁኔታ መለወጥ፣እንደዚሁም ደግሞ የነፃነት ትግል መርዘም፣ በዚህም የተነሳ ትግዕስት ማጣት ወይም ተስፋ የመቁረጥ ሁኔታ ስለሚፈጠር የቆሙለትን ዓላማ ትተዉ በተቃራኒ መንገድ እንድሄዱ ያደርጋል ማለት ነዉ።
እንግዲህ የሀበሻ (የነፍጠኛ) አሰተሳሰብ ወይም አመለካከት ያላቸዉ ጃሌዎችን ባጭሩ ካብራራሁ በኋለ ወደ ዋናዉ የፅሁፌ ርዕስ በመመለስ፣ሀበሾችም ሆኑ ጀሌዎቻቸዉ እንዴት የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ፀር እንደሆኑ ከዚህ ቀጥዬ አንዳንድ ነገሮችን ለመጠቃቀስ እሞክራለሁ።
እንደሚታወሰዉ ከጥቂት ሳምንታት በፊት በኦሮሞነት (Oromummaa) ላይ የፀረ ማንነት ዘመቻ ስካሄድ ነበር። በኦሮሞነት ላይ የሚደረገዉ ዘመቻ የተጀመረዉ ዛሬ ባይሆንም ነገር ግን በይበልጥ ጎልቶ የታየዉና እንደ ቦምብ የፈነዳዉ በአልጃዝራ ቴሌቭዥን (Aljazeera TV) ላይ ከሶስት የኦሮሞ ታጋዮች ጋር ስለ ኦሮሞ ህዝብ ጉዳይ ዉይይት ከተካሄደ ወዲህ ነዉ። እነደምታወቀዉ በዚህ ጉዳይ ላይ በቀረበለት ጥያቄ መሠረት ወጣቱ የኦሮሞ ታጋይ ጀዋር መሃመድ ”I am Oromo First” ብሎ ከተናገረ በኋላ ይህ ጉዳይ ነፍጠኞችንና ጀሌዎቻቸዉን ከማስቆጣት አልፎ እንደ እብድ ዉሻ ስያደርጋቸዉ ነበር። ለምንድነዉ እነደዚያ የምያደርጋቸዉ ብለን ጥያቄ ብናነሳ፣ ለዚህ ጥያቄ መልስ የሚሆኑትን የተለያዩ ምክንያቶችን መጥቀስ ቢቻልም ትልቁና ዋንኛዉ ምክንያት ኦሮሞነት (Oromummaa) የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ሞተር (engine) ስለሆነ፣ ይህንን ትግል ለማዳከም በመጀመሪያ ኦሮሞነትን ማዳከም አስፈላጊ ስለምሆን ሀበሻና ጀሌዎቻቸዉ በ Oromummaa ላይ ዘመቻ ያካሂዳሉ። በነገራችን ላይ ለምሳሌ እንበልና ጀዋር መሃመድም ሆነ ሌላ ኦሮሞ ተነስቶ I am Wallaggaa Oromo… ወይም Arsii Oromoo… ወይም Baalee Oromoo… ወይም Boranaa Oromoo ወይም Shawaa Oromoo First ብሎ ቢናገር፣ ሀበሾች ከመቆጣት ይልቅ ወሰን የለሽ ደስታቸዉን እንደሚገልጹ አያጠያይቅም። ለምን ቢባል የኦሮሞ ሕዝብ በክልል፣ አካባቢና ሃይማኖት መለያየት ለነሱ ትልቁ ፍላጎትና ዓላማቸዉም ስለሆነ ነዉ። ለነሱ ራስ ምታትና ነቀርሳ የሚሆንባቸዉ የ Oromummaa ማደግና መጠናከር ነዉ። የ Oromummaa ማደግና መጠናከር የኦሮሞን አንድነትና ሀይል ያጠናክራል። የኦሮሞ አንድነት መጠናከር የነፃነት ትግሉን ያጠናክራል ማለት ነዉ።
አሮጌዉንና አዲሱን ነፍጠኞች አንድ የሚያደርጋቸዉ ጉዳይ ሁለቱም Oromummaa ን እንደ አንድ የጋራ ጠላታቸዉ ማየታቸዉ ነዉ። ይህንን የጋራ ጠላታቸዉን ለማጥፋት በሚያደርጉት ዘመቻ ላይ ሁለቱም ይደጋገፋሉ። ዛሬ ባገራችን ኦሮሚያ ዉስጥ በአዲሱ ነፍጠኞች (በወያኔዎች) የሚታሰሩ፣ የሚገደሉና ከሀገር የሚሰደዱት ኦሮሞዎች በ Oromummaa የበሰሉ የኦሮሞ ብሔረተኞች ናቸዉ። “ሊጣላ የመጣ ሰበብ አያጣ “ እንደሚባለዉ በኦነግነትና በአሸበርተኝነት ተወንጅለዉ ለእስራት፣ ለሞትና ለስደት ይዳረጋሉ እንጂ ትልቁ ምክንያት ግን በ Oromummaa ላይ የሚደረገዉ የማንነት የማጥፋት ዘመቻ ነዉ። በወጣት ጀዋር መሃመድና በወጣት አብዲ ፊጤ ላይ የተደረገዉ ዘመቻ በግልፅ የሚያሳየዉ እነዚህ ወጣት ታጋዮች የኦሮሞ ነፃነት ግንባር (ኦነግ) አባል ወይንም አሸባሪዎች ሆነዉ ሳይሆን ለማንነታቸዉ ለ Oromummaa ቅድሚያ በመስጠታቸዉ ብቻ ነዉ። ማንነታቸዉን ትተዉ ለምን ኢትዮጵያዊነትን አያስቀድሙም ነዉ።
በዚህች በደም በተገነባች ኢምፓየር ዉስጥ ይቅርና የሁሉም ሕዝቦች እኩልነት በተጠበቀበት ሀገር ዉሰጥ እነኳን ማንም ሰዉ ማንነቱን (ሆኖ የተፈጠረዉን) እኔ ……. ነኝ ብሎ ከመናገር ይልቅ ማንነቱን ( identity) ትቶ ለሌላ ነገር ቅድሚያ ይሰጣል ብሎ ማሰብ ከእዉነት መራቅ ይሆናል። ነፍጠኞችና ጃሌዎቻቸዉ አንድ የዘነጉት ነገር አለ። ዛሬ የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል የተዳከመ ወይም የቀዘቀዘ መስሎ ቢታያቸዉም፣ አዲሱን የኦሮሞ ትዉልድ በተለይም የቁቤን ትዉልድ (Qbee generation) ይቅርና ያልነቃዉንም የኦሮሞ ሕዝብ በማታለል ኢትዮጵያዊነትን በነሱ ላይ በመጫን የፖለቲካ ዓላማቸዉን ከግብ ለማድረስ የሚያደርጉት ወቅት ማለፉን ነዉ። በነገራችን ላይ ባሁኑ ወቅት ያልነቃ የኦሮሞ ሕዝብ ስለሌለ ለአባባል ያህል ይህንን ሐረግ በመጥቀሴ ሕዝቤን ይቅርታ መጠየቅ እፈልጋለሁ። ነፍጠኞችና ጃሌዎቻቸዉ ዛሬም ከ 22 ዓመታት በፊት በነበረዉ ጭነቅላታቸዉ ያስባሉ ብል ነገር ማጋነን አይሆንብኝም።
የአሮጌ ነፍጠኞች (የአማራ የገዥ ወገኖች) ትልቁ ዓላማቸዉ በዉድ የኦሮሞ ልጆች ደምና አጥንት የተገኘዉን ኦሮሚያን ከካርታ ላይ መፋቅና QUBEE ን ማጥፋት ነዉ። ባጠቃላይ ምኞትና ፍላጎታቸዉ የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል እስከ ዛሬ ያስመዘገባቸዉን ድሎች ሁሉ ማጥፋት ነዉ። ይህንን ለማጥፋት ደግሞ የመጀመሪያ እርምጃ የኦሮሞን የብሔርተኝነት ስሜት መግደልና Oromummaa ን ማጥፋት ይሆናል። ለዚህም ነዉ ለምን ማንነታችሁን ትገልፃላችሁ፤ ለምን ማንነታችሁን ታስቀድማላችዉ እያሉ ዘመቻ የሚያካሄዱት። Oromummaa ን ማጥፋትና የኦሮሞን የብሔርተኝነት ስሜት መግደል ማለት ደግሞ የነፃነት ትግሉን ሞተር ማጥፋት ማለት ነዉ። ሞተሩ ከጠፋ ደግሞ የተጀመረዉ ትግል ጉዞዉን ቀጥሎ ከግብ መድረስ ስለማይችል የነሱ ፍላጎትና ዓላማ ተሳካላቸዉ ማለት ነዉ። ይሁን እንጂ ይህ የቀን ሕልማቸዉ መሆኑን መረዳት አለባቸዉ።
ወደ ፅሁፌ ማጠቃለያ ከመሄዴ በፊት የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ፀር ለሆኑት ሀይሎች ሁሉ የሚከተለዉን መልዕክት ማስተላለፍ እወዳለሁ።
በመጀመሪያ የኦሮሞ ብሔር ተወላጆች ሆናችሁ ግን የሀበሻ ጃሌዎች ለሆናችሁ፦
በእምነት ወይም በሀይማኖት፣ በጋብቻ፣ በማሕበራዊ ኑሮና በፖለቲካ አመለካከት ከሀበሻ ጋር ትስስር የፈጠራችሁት ሁሉ የሰፊዉ የኦሮሞ ሕዝብ የወደፊት ዕጣዉ፣ የራሱን ዕድል በራሱ የመወሰን መብቱ በእናንቴ ጥቅማትቅም መወሰን እነደማይችል በመገንዘብ ከእናት፣ ከአባት፣ ከወንድምና እህቶቻችሁ ጎን በመቆም፤ የዛሬን ጥቅምን ሳይሆን የነገዉን የሕዝባችሁን ግብ በማየት የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ፀር ከመሆን ፋንታ የትግሉ አጋዥ እንድትሆኑ የትዉልድ ግዴታችሁን እነድትወጡ ጥሪ ላቀርብላችሁ እወዳለሁ።
የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ፀር ለሆኑ ሀይሎች፦
የኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል የፖለቲካን ስለጣን ለመያዝ የሚደረገዉ ትግል አይደለም። ስሙ እንደሚገልፀዉ ይህ ትግል የነፃነት ትግል ነዉ። የሚፈለገዉ ነፃነት እስከሚጎናፀፍ ድረስ የማይቆምና የሚቀጥል ትግል ነዉ። የሰፊዉ የኦሮሞ ሕዝብ የራስን ዕድል በራስ የመወሰን መብት ትግል ነዉ። ይህ እስከሚረጋገጥ ድረስ ከትዉልድ ወደ ትዉልድ የሚተላለፍ ትግል ነዉ። በ 1991 የተመዘገቡት ድሎች በልመና የተገኙ ድሎች አይደሉም። ዉድ የኦሮሞ ልጆች በከፈሉት መስዋዕትነት የተገኙ ድሎች ናቸዉ። ዋንኛዉና ቀሪዉም ድል በኦሮሞ ልጆች ደምና አጥንት ብቻ የሚገኝ ይሆናል። ይህንን ሀቅ በመረዳት አዲሱ የኦሮሞ ተዉልድ በተለይም ከ 1991 በኋላ የተወለዱና በ QUBEE የተማሩ የቁቤ ትዉልድ ወጣቶቻችን የተጀመረዉን የነፃነት ትግል ለመጨረስና ቀሪዉን ድል ለመጎናፀፍ ከመቸዉም የበለጠ በቁርጠኝነት የተነሱ መሆናቸዉን እያሳዩ ነዉ። ስለዚህ የኦሮሞ ሕዝብ ከምድር ላይ እሰካልጠፉ ድረስ የነፃነት ትግሉ በየትኛዉም ሀይል መቆም አንደማይችል መረዳት አለባቸዉ።
በነገራችን ለይ ለኦሮሞ የነፃነት ትግል ፀር ለሆናችሁ ሀይሎች አንድ መርዶ ሳልነግራችሁ ፅሁፌን አልቛጭም። በናንተ ፍላጎትና ዓላማ እነድትጠፋ የሚትፈልጓት QUBEE ከጊዜ ወደ ጊዜ እያበበች መጥታ ይኸዉ ስለ ኦሮሞ ባሕልና ታሪክ የሚገልፁ በዚሁ ፊደላት የተፃፉ የ Afaan Oromoo መፃሕፍት ቁጥር እየበዙ መምጣታቸዉ ሲሆን፣ ባገኛሁት ኢንፎርሜሽን መሰረት ከቅርብ ጊዜ በፊት በአምቦ ዩኒቨርሲቲ ብቻ ቁጥራቸዉ ወደ አርባ ሦስት (43) የሚሆኑ በ QUBEE የተፃፉ መፃሕፍት ተመርቀዉ ገበያ ላይ መዋላቸዉን ነዉ። ታዲያ የነፃነት ትግሉም የመጨረሻዉን ድል እስከሚያስገኝ ድረስ እንዲሁ እያበበ እነደሚሄድ መረዳት አለባችሁ። ትግሉ ይቀጥላል። የመጨረሻዉ ድል የኦሮሞ ሕዝብ እንደሚሆን ጥርጥር የለዉም። እኛ ዛሬም ነገም ምንጊዜም ኦሮሞዎች ነን። አሮሚያ ለዘለዓለም ትኑር!!!!

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Jiddu Gala Galma Aadaa Oromoo Magaalaa Finfinnee Keessatti

Mootii Qixxeessaa*

Edda Uummanni OROMOO handhuura OROMOYAA Finfinneerraa buqqa’ee kunoo waggaan gara 130 lakkaa’amaa jira. Buqa’iinsa sana dura Finfinnee fi naannoon ishee lafa OROMOOnni horanii irra bobbaasan, qotanii  irraa galfatan dachee laliftuu fi badhaatuu bosona uffatte, laliftuu beneensonnii fi simbiroonni sanyii adda addaa keessaa fi irra bashaadan akka turte hin shakkamu.

Edda nyaapha koloneeffataa, nama nyaataa bulgicha Minilik jedhamuun durfame harkatti kuftee as yaroo dhaa gara yarootti gaaddifti bosona ishee barbadaayun,  bineensonnii fi simbirroowwan daggala ishees mancaafamuun beekkamaa dha. Bakkeewwan Ulfoon safuu, duudhaa fi aadaa OROMOOf mallattoo bu’uraa turan hora Finfinnee, dhakaa araaraa, gaaddisni Oddaawwaniif bakkeewwan kabajamoo ta’an biroo carraa duula balleessii kanaan kabajaan irraa mulqamee warra soqolattee kanaan soqolamanii salphinaaf  saaxilaman.

Nyaaphni Minilikiin durfame Goobanatti hidhatee gooticha gullallee ciminaan dura dhaabbate Tufaa Munaa galaafate.  Gootonni OROMOO Tufaan durfaman falmiin kabajaa sabaa fi biyya abbaa ittisuuf godhan meeshaa ammayyaa diinni hidhachiifameen caalamee kufaaatin ta’ee booda  Finfinnee fi naannoon ishee hundi hin barbadaaye. Dhiignis hin dhangala’e. Finfinneen OROMOOn keessaa buqqaafame nyaaphaan dhuunfatamte. Akkasiin sabni keenya hadhaa gabrummaa har’aa kana jalatti jilbeeffachuuf dirqame.

Duula kanaan seenaan, duudhaan, safuu fi aadaan abbaa biyyaa awwaalamee kan alagaa irratti dgaagfamae. Badiin bara Minilkii fi sana dura calqabe ammalleen bara  wayyaanee – Hayilamaariyaam  babal’atee itti fufee jira. Akka boru itti hin fufneefis wabiin mul’atu hin jiru.

Finfinnee fe’ii saba keenyaatin ala magaalaa guddittii Empire Ethiopia fi Aafrikaa taatee moggaafamte keessa kan diriirfatee jiruu qananii jiraachaa jiru ilmaan nafxanyaati.  Masaraan mootummaa kanaa fi waajjirri tokkummaa Aafrikaa kan gidiraa fi gabrummaa uummata keenyaa cimsuuf tajaajilu malee OROMOOf bu’aa tokkolleen qabaachaa hin jiru. Magaalattiin Ulfaan keenya keessaa mancaafame siidaawwan bulgoota lubbuu miliyoonota ilmaan OROMOOtin xabataa turanii kan Minilik kaleessaa fi Mallas har’aa baattee ilkaan baaftee nutti kolfaa jirti. Araddaa kana magaalaa teessuma issaanii gochuuf jecha lafee dhalootaatu safuu fi ooddata tokko malee bakka itti awwaalamee baafamee haraa xurii magaalattii wajjin gatamaa, facaafamaa ture. Har’as kanumatu harkaa qabama.

Heerri mootummaa biyyatiin ittiin bulaa jirtu  OROMOO fi OROMIYAAn magaalaa Finfinnee keessaa bu’aa addaa qabaata jedhulleen kan raawwatamaa jiru faallaa issaati. Summii warshaalee abbaa qabeenyaa keessaa gad-dhiifamuun bishaani fi biyyoon naannoo summaa’uu, uummannis kana waraabee dhugee, qotee irraa nyaatee, magarsee irraa dheechisee sa’aa namaan akka summaa’ee dhumu godhamuutu bu’aa issaa ta’e. Babal’ina magaalattiif jecha qe’ee hortee akkaakilee-abaabilee issaarraa buqaafamee rakkinaaf gadadoo fe’amuun bu’aa issaa akka ta’u murna gabroomfataa kanaan itti murtaa’uutu akka bu’aatti lakkaa’ameef.

Afaan, aadaa fi amantaa issaa waaqeffannaatti akka dhimma hin baane, akka amantaa ganamaa kan abbootii issaatti bakka du’aa ofiilleen itti awwaallachuu danda’u dhoowwamuutu akka bu’aa badhaadhinaa fi babal’ina misooma guddaatti lakkaa’ameef. Mirga uumamaan dhalli namaa qabaachuu male qabaachaalleen jiru garuu gartuun mootummaa gabroomfataa addatti OROMOO  lage mormuu issaatin qofa uummanni OROMOO maqaan adda addaa itti maxxanfamee haidhamuu, dararamuu,  akka bineensa daggalaa adamfamee ajjeefamuu fi biyyaarraa boqqifamee otoo baqatuu irbaata Qurxummii ta’uutu akka waan jijjiiramni jireenyaa adda ta’e dhufeefitti alkanii fi guyyaa itti wacamaa jira. Daba kana irratti dammaquun dammaqanii wareegama akka sabaatti badii dugguuggaa sanyii baroota dheeraaf nutti jiru hundeen geeddaruu danda’uuf qophaa’uun  dirqama yaroon dhaloota kana gaafachaa jiru ta’uu hubachuun waan har’a ta’uu qabu malee kan boruuf bulu ta’uu hin qabu.

Xiyyeeffannaan barruu kanaa seenaa Finfinnee fi miidhaa jiru gabaasuu dhaa miti. Galama jiddu galeessa magaalattii keessatti ijaaramee jiru irraa waa xuquuf malee.

Akkam ta’eet galmi guddaan amana ga’u maqaa OROMOOtin sirna mootummaa balaafamaa kanaa jalatti jaaramuu danda’e gaaffiin jedhu ka’uu mala.  Deebin issaa kan barruu kana keessatti argamuu danda’u miti. Namuu gama gama issaan itti yaadee waan deebiidha jedhee itti mul’atu tilmaamuutu mala ta’a.  Ykn itti gaafatamtoota projaktichaa / qaama / dhimmichi laalu qunnamanii irraa hubachuu feesisa.

Maqaan Galma kanaa akkuma mataduree irraa mul’atu Jiddu gala Galma Aadaa OROMOO magaalaa Finfinnee jedhama. Steediyoomii guddicha magaalattiin qabdu fuuldura karaa Lagahaar irraan  gara Magganaanyaa dhaqu irratti argama. Bakkichi dur yawattaaddarooch migib maaddaraajjaa / qindoomina / nyaata hoomaa waaraanaa jedhamees beekkama.

Bal’inni lafaa Galmi kun irra qubate ykn total site area   Heektaara Afur { 4} ta’eetu gamoowwan / bilookii / sagal qaba.

- Gamoon 1ffaan Muuziyeemii dha.

Qabiyyeen issaa =  B+G+4

- Gamoon 2ffaan  Akkaadaamii Afaaniiti

Qabiyyeen issaa = G+3

- Gamoon 3ffaan Library  ta’eetu gamoo 2ti hirama

1. National  Library  fi
2. Public Library

- Gamoon  5ffaan  Galma Tiyaatiraati

Qabiyyeen issaa = B+G+1

- Gamoon   6ffaan  Appraisal hall ykn bakka leenjifamtoota adda addaa    otoo hagarsiisa Uummataaf hin dhiyaatin dandeetti issaani itti xiinxalamu

-              Gamoon  7ffaan  Art center / jiddu gala Aartiiti /

Qabiyyeen issaa      =   G+1 =   galama wal-gahii 2 qaba.

-              Gamoon    8ffaan  Music center / galama leenjjii sirbootaa /

-             Gamoon   9ffaan  Restaurant / galama nyaataa  ykn soorataa /

Qabiyyeen issaa        =     G+1

Jiddu galli galma kanaa karra seensaa fi bahiinsaa 3 qaba. Kan lafoo 1 fi kan konkolaataa 2.  Karri seensaa fi baha konkolaataa deebi’ee bakka lamatti hirama.

VIP  fi  regular guest

Calaqqeen jiddu gala galma kanaa waan Aadaa OROMOOti. Siidaalee gurgurdoo dhaabbataan ojjatamanii fi jiddugaleeyyii wangoo galmichaa karaa hunda  irratti naaanna’anii siidamantu muldhata.

Kanneen keessaa siidaawwan :-

1,   Abbaa Gadaa fi Haadha Gadaa

2,   Siidaa maatii warra Irreessa Irreeffatanii.

3,   Abbaa Duulaawwan 9 tokko-lama  tokko-lamaan Abbaa Gadaa fi Haadha

Gadaa duuba Gaachana, eeboo fi hidhata mudhii shootala waliin.

4,   Siidaalee haala godinoota OROMIYAA calaqqisan / cultural zone /

5,   Mixed Media

-         Guluffi  Fardaa

-         Uffannaa fi qabannaa

-         Nyaataa fi dhugaatii

-         Qonnaa fi meshaalee qonnaa

-         Sirna raawwii duudhaa fi aadaa OROMOO adda addaatu mixed Media jalatti  kaa’amee jira

Lakkoofsiwwan qubsuma galama kanaa keessaa alasaatti argaman hundi Shanii fi Saddet- Shanii fi saddeet ta’anii muldhatu. Kunis Saddeettan bara Aangoo Abbaa Gadaa fi Shanan marsaa sirna Gadaa calaqqisuuf itti yaadamee kan ta’ee dha.

Dirree magariisaa / Green area / hedduutu bakka bakkatti qoodamee jira. Kunis OROMIYAAN laliftuu, magariisa ta’uu ishee hibsa.

Elevators / liiftii / 2tu jira. Inni guddaan nama 16 xiqqaanimmoo nama 8 si’a tokkotti baachuu danda’an. Akkasuma Raampii liiftii laffarratti warri qaamaa hir’uuwwan seensaa amma keessa galmichaatti ittiin gargaaramantu seensa hundaan ojjatamee jira. Guard chain seensaa fi baha ittiin to’atan bakkawwan barbaachisoo ta’an hundatti qopaa’aniiru.

Siidaawwan hawatoo jiddugala kana keessatti hargaman hedduu keessaa kanneen sadarkaa yaa’a Gadaa Umurii dhaan mul’isan caalaatti qalbii nama hatu.

0 – 8          Dabballee

8 – 16        Gaammee

16 – 24       Foollee

24 – 32      Qondaala

32 – 40      Raabaa Doorii           asirratti fuutii fi heermni raawwate.

40 – 48     Gadaa           Ennaa as gahu siidaan Abbaa gadaa fi Haadha Gadaa

Wal-biratti Seensa karra warra lafootti siqee laffarratti dhaabbatee

Hargama.  Siidaawwan Abbaa duulaawwan 9 siidaa Abbaa Gadaa fi

Haadha gadaa tarree gara duubaatti hidhata issaanii waliin jira. Akka kanaan umurii dabballee 0-8tii irraa kaasee amma umurii gadamoojjii 80-88titti siidaa abbaa gadaa fuulduree seensa karra lafoo fageenya gara bitaa mirgaa wangoo gamoo fuul-duraa irratti siidamee mul’ata.

Akkaataan teessuma umurii sirna Gadaa hordofee wangoo gamoo fuulduraa irratti ittiin siidame, siidaa Abbaa Gadaa fageenya gara bitaa umurii dabballee irraa amma Qondaalaatti deema. Umurii Raabaa Doorii  irra yoo ga’u fuuti fi heermni raawwatee siidaa Abbaa warraa fi haadha warraa walbira kaa’a.  Umurii Gadaatti Aangoo / Baallii / muudee siidaa Abbaa Gadaa fi Haadha Gadaa guddaa duubbeen issaanii  Abbaa duulaawwan 9liin eeggamu hagarsiisa. Sadarkaawwan umurii 48 – 88 / Lubaa irraa amma Gadamoojjii / Siidaa Abbaa Gadaa fi haadha Gadaa fageenya harka mirgaa abbaa warraa fi haadha warraa siidee garsiisa.

Hawatummaa miidhagina issaa qofa otoo hintaane ammayyummaan jaarama sirna Gadaa bilchinaa fi qaroomina dhaloota sirna kana jaaree ragaa bahuuf nama dirqa.

Bakki dhaabbata konkolaataa /parking/ jiddu gala kanaa si’a tokkotti konkolaataa 400 keessummeessuu danda’a. Galmi tiyaatira issaa si’a tokkotti nama 900 keessummeessa. Hojiin projaktichaa dibaa halluutu bakka maddee wayiitti hafe malee xumurameera jechuutu danda’ama. Jiddu-galli galama aadaa OROMOO Finfinnee keessaa kun yoo ijaan argan amma barruun hibsuun danda’amu caalaa hawataa fi miidhagaa dha. Ennaa hubatanii yaadan jabinaa fi bilchina dur-durii dhaloota saba kanaa yaachisee imimmaan nama huusisa. Hanqina har’a harkaa nuqabu irrattilleen nama xiiqessa.

Hojiin issaa bara Abbaan Duulaa OROMIYAA bulchaa ture calqabame. Akka hojiin galama kanaa hariifatuufis yoo maddate torbanitti sa’a tokko deddeebi’ee adeemsa issaa to’achaa hanqina mul’ate irratti furmaataa fi qajeelfama barbaachisu kennuu dhaan Abbaa Duulaa Gammadaa qooda guuddaa xabachuu issaa warri keessa beekan hin dubbatu. Injinaroonni, oggantoonni projaktichaa, hayyoonnii fi maanguddoonni OROMOO akka hujiin galama kanaa waan OROMOO calaqqisu ta’ee raawwatuuf gummaacha guddaa godhaniiru jedhama. Warri dhimma kanarratti gahee guddaa haa ta’uu maddee / xiqqaa / waan humnii fi sadarkaan itti jiran irraa gaafatte gumaachan hundi galata qabu.

Akkanumaa  ta’ee sodaan uummata  keessatti  guumgummii huumaa jiru tokkos waan yaaddessaa dha. Galmi kun abbaa fe’een akka fe’eti aajaaramuu yoo waan yaadameef oole amma xiqqaa wayii guddina aadaa OROMOOf waan gumaachu hin dhabu. Shakkiin jiru immoo mootummaan OROMIYAA ammaa kun kan Alamaayyoo Atoomsaan durfamu jechuu dha, fe’iis ta’ee humna kana ojiirra  ittiin oolchuu danda’u hin qabu kan jedhu.

Kanaaf jecha akka jiddu-galli kun waan yaadameefirra oolee guddina aadaa OROMOOf waa xiqqoo gumaachuu danda’u Median OROMOO fi warri Media irra ojjatan, waliigalli Uummata keenyaa dhiibbaa fi hordoffii barbaachisu gochuu irraa akka of hin qusanne waamicha godhu  warri dhimmi kun issaan yaaddesse.

Dhmarratti Abbaan biyyaa OROMOOn mirga uumamaan Finfinnee keessatti qabaachuu malu wajjin galmi baaname kun maal jechaa dhaayyi irraa dubbatama gaaffiin jedhu bakkayyuu namoota barruu kana dubbisaniif gaaffii ta’uu danda’a.  Dhugumayyuu omaa jechuu dhaa miti. Garuu omaa irra hin wayya. << Some  thing is better than nothing >>. OROMOOnis akkas jedhe,  << hamaarraa qincii fuudhu >>

Marabbaan kan Waaqaati !!!

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KOREE AYYAANA YAADANNOO WAGGAA 50-FFAA QABSOO HIDHANNOO – OROMIYAA (1963)

Ummanni Oromoo harqootaa gabroofataa Habashaa jalaa bilisa of-baasuuf qabsoo geggeesse hangafoota keessa takka lola Oromoo Baalee ka bara 1963-hii tahuun beekamaa dha. Qabsoon gaafasii babal’attee kutaalee Kibbaa-Baha Oromiyaa mara keessatti wareegamni gaafatte laafaa hin turre. Gootota wareegama qaalii baasan san yaadatuun dirqama seenaa ta’uu isaa hubatuu dhaan, Ayyaana Yaadannoo Waggaa Shantameessaa jalqaba qabsoo sanii barana addunyaa guutuu keessatti kabajuuf sochiin wagga tokkoo calaaf adeemsifamaa turte gufuulee adda addaatiin haga tokko dubbatti harkifataa jirti. Gufuulee qophii ayyaana kanaatti danqa tayan keessaa irra guddaan gara Preezadantiin OSA kan baranaa – DR. Ibraahim Elemoo tii fi obboleessa isaa Kadiiro Elemoo irraa tahuu ummanni ayyaana kana hawwiin eeggataa jiru martinu akka quba qabaatu gochuuf ibsa kana baasuuf dirqamnee jirra.

Ayyaanni kun ulfinna isaan maluun faayamee akka kabajamu gochuuf yaalii godhamee ture keessatti maqaa dhabaatiin ykn maqaa hawaasaatiin akka qindheeffamu yaada jedhu irratti ilaalchi adda addaa uumamee osomaa furmaanni manguddotaan yaalamaa jiru, Dr. Ibraahimii fi obboleesi isaa akkaataa nama saalfachiisuun harka keessa galfatanii namoota kanaan dura maqaa dhaabaatiin kabajna jechaa turan ofitti ammatanii “OSA-n ogummaa fi qabeenna gayaa waan qabuuf nutu isin wajjiin kabaja” waadaa jedhuun addaan fottoqiinsa koree dhalchanii kunoo haga ardhaatti gufuu tayaa jiran.

Jarreen kun akka gocha kanarraa eemaraman koree fi dhuunfalleen tattaaffii godhameef gatii kennuu didadii, kunoo nu ilmaan Oromoo jiddutti hammeenna dhalootaan dhaalamuuf deemu oofaa jiran. Tuffii fi dantaa dhabaan rakkinni isaan habaqaalan kun:

1. Ayyaana herregame gatii fi kabajaa isaan malu dhabsiisa
2. Hirmaannaa lammiiwwan Oromoo biyyoota adda addaa irraa gochuuf hawwaa jiran irdhisa
3. Gootatota Oromoof lolan sadarkaa gandaatti gad-deebisa
4. Ayyaana sagantaalee guyyaalee sadihii guutuun kabajamuuf bu’urfame gara saa’aa jahatti gabaabse dhama dhabsiisa.
5. OSA’n jaarmaya rakkoo hawaasa Oromoo keessatti mul’attu beekkomsa hayyootaatiin furuuf gargaaru ta’uu dhiisee, murnoota Oromoota waliindhahuu fi qooqqodutti gadi siqa.

Dr. Ibraahim akka harkaa isaatii fi ka OSA illee qophii ayyaana kanaa keessaa baafatu telefoonaa fi barreeffamaan ergaa itti himameef dantaa hin kennine. Isaa fi obboleessis ayyaana kana keessatti mul’atuuf hawwii qaban fiixa baasuuf tumsa tahuu bira dabranii hoggana qophii sanii tahuuf yaaluu isaanii, duulli sabaa-himoota hawaasotaatiin gochaa jiran waan dhokata qabuu miti.

Akka dhuunfaatti nama ykn garee fedhan wajjiin dhaabatuun mirga isaaniiti. Garuu, maqaa OSA-tiin addaan qoodamiinsi isaan nu giddutti utuban sadarkaa akkaan yaadchisaa irra waan gayeef jecha, hoggantichi kun daddafitti akka qophii kana keessaa harka baafatan hogganni OSA tii fi lammiiwwan Oromoo martinuu akka dhiibba irra kaayan kabajaa guddaan gaafanna.

Obbooleeyyan keenna kanneen gorsa jarreen saniitiin hawatamanii diiggaa dhalootaan dhaalamuuf deemu keessa seenanis akka hatattamatti shira san hubatanii gara miiza mariitti deebi’an onnee obbolummaa biyyoomaatiin gaafanna. Waamicha kana didanii jarreen kaayoo diiggaa qabaniif ulee tahuun, jeynoota saba Oromoo guutuuf qabsaawanii kufan gulantaa
warraa, balbalaa fi gosaatti gad-buusuu taati. Kanaafuu, hayyootaa fi manguddoonni, dargaggootaa fi shamarran seenaa kanaaf dhimman martinuu biyya jiranitti sochii qaanqee diigamiinsa tana dhaamsuuf geggeeffamu keessaa akka qooda gayaa fudhatan afeerra.

Akkasumattis, Ayyaanni yaadame kun akka namoonni tokko tokko maqaa itti argatuu qofaaf hobbaafataaf fiffiigan sanitti osoo hin tayin, koree ardiiwwan Awuroophaa, Awustraliyaa, Ameerikaa Kabaa, Afrikaa fi Eeshiyaa irraa ijaaramteen ulfinna isaan maluu uffatee akkaataa dhalootaaf barnoota gayaa itti kennuu dandayutti kabajamuuf akka jiraatu hirema tanatti gargaaramnee ummata Oromoo mara hubachiisuu feena.

Bara ilmaan Habashootaa eennumaa Oromoo irratti duulaa jiran kanatti, nu ilmaan Oromoo garaagarummaa bu’aa hinfidneen addaan qoodamiinsa biraa wixinuun cubbuu daangaa hin qabne. Kanaafuu, dhama obbolummaa sabaatii fi qalbii qulqulluu Oromummaa tiin ergaan kun hubatamee, hogganni OSA walitti dhufee tarkaanfii barbaachisu fudhatee akka ifatti nu beeksisu kabajaa guddaan gaafanna.

Ayyaanni darreen October 20, bara 2013, Minneapolis-tti tayuuf saganteeffames, kabajaa, gaachanaa fi qarruu Ayyaani kun qabaatuun malu waan irdhisuuf jecha, marii aadaa fi safuu Oromummaa guuttuun gara guyyaa biraatti ka jijjiramuuf deemuu tahuu hubachiifna. Bakkaa fi guyyaan gara fuuduraatti ibsama. Galatoomaa.

Kabajaa wajjiin,

Koree Ayyaana Yaadannoo Waggaa 50-ffaa Q/H Oromiyaa (1963)
Koreea.a.yaadannoo@gmail.com

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