Maandela Irraa Maal Baranaa?

Baqqalaa Jiraataa irraa*

Barri 2013 barota darban keessaa adda ture yoo jedhame soba hin fakkatu. Bara 2013 kan adda isa godhee adunyaa mara yaadan walitti fiduu isaa ti. Dubbin adunyaa guutuu yaadan walitti fidee sochose, dubbachisee, gaddisise du’aan adunyaa kana irraa boqotuu Nelson Mandelaa (Madibaa) ti. Gotichi Afrika Nelson Mandelan erga dhukkubsatee mana yaalatti deddebi’uu eegale irra kaasee hawasni adunyaa kanaa guutuun waa’ee isaa jala bu’ee hordofaa ture. Midiyalee beekamoon haala isaa duuka bu’ani adunyaadhaf ibsaa turan. Dhukkubsachunis ta’e duuti hiree namaa, kan nama biraa hin hafne yoo ta’eyyuu kan Mandelaa adda ture. Hawwasni adunyaa kanaa du’a goota kanaa dhga’us ta’e arguu hin barbadne jechuun ni danda’ama. Dhugadha namni akka Mandelaa silaa du’uu hin qabu. Otuu danda’amera ta’e fakkeenya qabsoo bilisummaa, nagaa, araaraa fi namoomaa ta’ee barabaraan jirata ture. Garuu hangam jallatamaa ta’uyyuu qaamaan du’ee boqotuun isaa hin hafne.

Adunyaa kana irratti yeroo baayee yeroo namni tokko du’u hojii fakkeessa heddutu dalagama. Namichi yeroo lubbudhan jiru wanta inni hin ta’inii fi hin dalagin irra tuuludhan fakkeesu, saaduu, faarsu. Isa goota hin ta’inin goota jechuun, isa arjaa hin ta’inin arjaa dha jechun, isa badi dalagaa turen nama haqqatti jechuudhan faarsuun beekamaa dha.

Akka ilaalcha kooti kan yeroo jalqabaatif seenaa dhugatin adunyaa marti faarsee, saadee fi gadda dhugaa gaddef Gooticha Afrikaa Nelson Mandela ti jedhen amana. Mandelaa sanyii namaa kan ta’e maratu dhugumaan faarse yoo jedhame tasumaa soba hin ta’u. Mandelaa xiqaa fi guddatu faarse. Faarsuu qofaa miti ittin boonan. Mandelaan qabsa’aa, bilisa baasaa, abbaa jalala, abbaa araara, abbaa dhiifama fi abbaa adii fi gurrachaa jedhamee farfame. Goota Afrikaa kana faarsuu fi jalala isaaf qabuu ibsudhaf namni jecha isaaf gituu fi garaa isaa gahu argachuf itti rakkate.

Kana hunda maaltu fidee, maalif duti nama tokko adunyaa mara yaadan walitti fidee rasee bosisee? Deebin isaa gabaabadhumatti hojii/ dalagaa isaa ti. Kanaa ala homtuu hin jiru. Mandelan akkuma nama abbaa fedhee baatii sagalitti dhalate. Akkuma nama kamiyyuu harka, ija, gurraa, Walumaagalatti waan namni martinuu qabu qaba. Kan inni ittin nama kaan irraa adda ta’ee sanyii namaa garaa raase garuu yaada isaa fi dalagaa isatin. Mirga ummata isaatif ni qabsa’e, wareegama barbachisus ni kaffale. Waggaa 27 mana hidhaa keessatti gidiraa arge. Falmii isaa domsudhaf gabromftan biyyaa isaa irra ture aparthid waan danda’e hunda raawwatera. Mandelaan garuu biyyi Afrikaa Kibbaa hanga isheen biyyaa walqixumaa, biyyaa dimokrasii, biyyaa olaantummaan warra adiis ta’e kan warra gurracha keessatti hin mulatne umamtutti akka boodatti hin deebine mamii tokko malee ibse. Kayyoo kanafis yoo barbachisaa ta’e lubbuu isa kennuf qopha’aa ta’uu isaa kutannoo nama boonsun mirkanese xaddacha mana murtii apartheid fuullee dabbate.

Mandelan yaadaa fi fageesanii ilaaludhan warra adii caale argame. Ummatni gurrachi Afrika Kibbaa guddaa ta’uu isaa mullise. Mandelaan akka warra xiqqatti otuu hin taane akka warra guddatti yaade. Gurracha adiin tuffate hagam akka beeka fi namooma qabus ni mullise. Aadaa araaraa fi dhifama afrikallee ni agarsise. Diina tokko erga mo’anii booda haaloo darbe irratti bahun dadhabina malee jabina akka hin taane mullise. Kun dandeetti hogganummaa Mandelan qabuu fi nama guddaa ta’uu isaa agarsise. Mandelan waan hunda caalaa dandeetti hogganumaa qabun ummata isaas ta’e hawwasa adunyaa kanaa yaadan mo’e. Ummata hogganani bakka yaadame tokkoon gahuu jechunis isa kana.

Nuyi Oromoon Mandela irraa waan hedduu barachuu qabna. Akkuma isaa akka warra guddaatti yaaduu qabna. Adeemsaa fi toftaa qabsoo xiinxaludhan socho’uu danda’uu qabna. Siyaasni gabaa isa bitu qabachuu qaba. Haala qabtamaa yeroo kanaa yoo ilaalle hanga fedhe dhugaa qabatanif bakka yaadan hin gahan. Siyaasaa hawwasni adunyaa kana nama irraa bitu qabachun dirqama. Qabsoon siyaasaa adeemsisus kan hawwasni adunyaa kanaa gurra kennuf ta’uu qaba jechu dha. Kan midiyaleen adunyaa kanaa hordofan ta’ee mullachutu irra jira. Dhimma kana ilaalchisee gorsa hogganaan repheloltota bilisummaa Algeria dr. Musxafaa kan jedhamu kennef Madibbaan akkas jechudhan ibse. “Not to neglect the political side of war while planning the military effort. International public opinion is sometimes worth more than a fleet of jet fighters.” Yeroo qabso hidhannoo gaggesan siyaasnis dagatamuu hin qabu. Yaadni hawwasa adunyaa takka takka gurmuu xiyaara waraanaa caalaa jechudha gababatti. Gorsi kun kan Mandela/ Madibba f kenname baroota dheeraa dura ture. Haala yeroo sanattillee qabsoon ummata tokkoo qalbii hawwasa adunyaa argachuu akka qabutti amanama. Haala harr’atti moo yaadni hawwasa adunya kanaa bayee barbachisaa qofaa miti dirqama ta’ee argamaa jira. Kanaafuu siyaasni Oromoon adeemsisus kan qalbii hawwasa adunyaa kanaa hawwatu ta’uu akka qabu waan nama wal gaafachisu miti jedhen amana. Walumaa galatti Siyaasni/qabsoon mirgaa fi bilisummadhaf adeemsisamu qalbii hawwasa adunyaa kanaa akka hawwatuu fi dhageetti argatuf siyaasa ummata Oromootin walgitu yoo adeemsisuun danda’ame qofaa dha. Kana irratti yoo walif galuun danda’ame karaan qabsoo ni gababata, wareegamni kaffalamus ni xiqqata.

Waggoti 20 boodatti deebine yoo yaadane barota 1991 fi 1992 Oromoon ummata walif galee afaan tokko dubbatu ta’ee ture. Ummata humna qabu ta’ee mullatee ture. Sabaa fi sablamotni biyyatti gaddiduu Oromootif ulfna kennuu eegalanii turan. Barota sana Oromoon ummata simboo yookin adda qabu ture. Filannoo gandotaa bara 1992 adeemsisame irratti namotni ABO bakka bu’anii dorgoman sagalee ummataa guddaa argatanii Finifinnee keessatti filatamun isaanii ni yaadatama. Namootni duratti Oromoo tuffataa turan “ani akakayuun kiyya Oromoodha, ani garuu afaan Oromoo hin beeku jechuu eegalanii turan.:

Afaan Oromoo nuyi (dhabbileen siyaasaa Oromoo) harra sagantaa siyaasaa keessatti afaan hojii biyyatti haata’u jennu yeroo sana namootni otuu hin gaafatamin yookan hin dirqamin barachuu eegalan. Kana maaltu fide yoo jedhame tokkummaa, jabina jaarmiyaa (ABO), walii galuu fi afaan tokko dubbachuu keenya. Tokkummaan humna, yeroo tokkummaan jiru kabajatu jira, ulfinatu jira, sodatamutu jira. Ummattotni biyyatti Oromoon aangoo siyaasaa qabachutti dhiyate waan jedhanii yaadanif of qopheesuu eegalani turan jedchuun ni danda’ama. Angoo siyaasaa jechun maal akka ta’e ummatni ni beeka. Aangoon siyaasaa waan hundaa akka ta’e muuxannoo gahaa waan qabuf.

Ega bara sanaa asitti Oromoon aangoo siyaasa biyyatti irraa yeroodha gara yerootti fagata dhufe. Kun waggooti 20 darban kana ifatti mullatera. Sunimoo akka irranfatamnu nu taasisera. Ulfinaa qabnus nu dhabsisera. Numanuu garaa gara nu tamsase. Dhiyoo kana oduu aja’ibaa tokkotu karaa TV “ESAT” jedhamu tamsa’e. Innis Mootummaan Itophiyaa G7 wajjin mari’achuf gaafate kan jedhu. Dhaabni G7 jedhamu kun dheengadda dhalatee yeroo ammaa kana innis biyya Eritira madhefatee socho’aa akka jiru ibsatera. Gaafin araaraa mootummaan Itophiyaa dhiyeesef jedhamu Kun holoa Biranuu Naggaafaa ta’un ni beekama. Garuu kun nuf Oromodhaf ergaa maalii dabarsuf akka hololi kun deeme tilmaamuun nama hin dhibu. Gabaabadhumatti isin hin jirtanii jechuu dha.

Nelson Mandelaan yeroo haalli akkasi dhaba isaa ANC mudate jedhee yaade akkas jedhe: “ANC was in danger of becoming marginalized unless it stirred itself and took up a new method.” Kun jechun ANCn siyaasa keessaa gara moggeeefamutti deemaa jira kanaafuu dafee haala jiru ilaallee of sirreesuu qaba jechchuu isaa ti. Haala jiru hubatanii toftaa jijjirudhan socho’uf qophee ta’uu jechuu isaa ti. Hogganaa qabsoo ummataa irras kan eegamuu isa akkasiti.

Siyaasni biyyatti kan adeemsisamaa jiru biyyaa keenya Oromiyaa keessatti yookin irratti ta’uun isaa ifaa dha. Dr. Gammachuu Magarsaa dhiyoo kana waan nu hubachise tokkotu jira. Maqaan Itopiyaa fi Oromiyaa walirra oole jedhe. Misensotni sabaa fi sablammota biyyatti hundi kan keessatti argaman Oromiyaa waan ta’ef Itophiyaa jechun Oromiyaa jechuu dha. Oromiyaa jechunis Itophiyaa jechu dha jedhe. Kun jechuun Oromoon ykn. Oromiyaan biyya Itopiyaa jedhamtu kana akka utubaa manaa walitti qabee jirachisa jirachuu isaa ti. Waan kana ta’eef maqaa Itopiya jedhu lagachuu hin qabnu, kallatidhan Oromiyaa ilaala waan ta’ef. Amma garuu baayeen keenya damaqaa waan jirru fakkata. Gidduu kana falmii waa’e seenaa tortoraa Miniliki ilmaan habashaa afarsanin walqabatee Oromoon jijjirama yaadaa guddaa argamsisera. Kunis maqaan Itopiyaa jedhu nun Oromoo fi sabota Kush ta’an ilaala malee habashaa hin ilaaluu jechudhan paltalk irratti habashota afaan qabachisaniru. Qubattota habashotatu biyaa keenya irratti abbaa of tasisee nutti falmaudhan biyyaa asii hin qabdan nuun jedhaa jiru. Garuu dhugaan isaa Itophiyaan kan keenya malee kan isaanii ta’uu hin dandeesu.

Yeroon kana jedhu Itophiyaa Oromoo qofti dhuunfatee akkuma habashotaa kophaa abbaa itti ta’ee ummatota hafan hacuuca jechuu miti. Mirga abbaa biyyummaa Oromoo mirkanesudhan sabota fi sablamota biroo wajjin biyya walqixummaa fi walkabajanii keessa jiratan umuu jechu dha. Nuyi Oromoon qabsoon keenya eenyummaa keenya akka hin sochonetti deebisnee gadi dhaabuu, sirna federalism sabdanesaa dhugaa ijaaruu, biyya sabotaa fi sablamotni biyyatti waqixummadhan keessa walin jirataan Itophiyaa haaraa ijaarudhan oftuulummaa hundeedhaa buqisani ballesuu kan jedhu ta’uu qaba.

Dhugaadha sabbontotnii fi qabsa’otni gameesotni Oromoo yaada kana qabatanii dhaaba haaraa Adda Dimokratawaa Oromoo (ADO) jedhamu hundesani sochii irra jiran jiru. Dimokraasin aadaa Oromoo ti. Sirna gadaa Oromoo ti erga jennee dhugadhumatti dimokratawaa taanee argamuu qabna.

Ammas yaada Madibaa tokkotti fayadamuun barbada asiratti, innis akkas jedha: “That only a democratic state, based on the will of the people, can secure to all their birthright without distinction of colour, race, sex or belief.”Kunis mirga umaadhan ummattotni qaban mirkanneesuun kan danda’amu yoo mootummaan dimokratawaa fedha ummattotaa irratti hunda’e ijaarame qofaa dha jechudha.

Sirni Gadaa Oromoos duratti akkasuma ture. Sirna Gadaa keessatti namni hudumtuu walqixa, garagarummaan hin jiru ture. Sirna gooftaa fi garbumaa kan nutti fide halagaa dha. Sirna gadaa dimokraasii keenya kan ittin boonuu dandeenyu yoo dhalotni ammaa kun hojidhan agarsisuu danda’e qofa dha. Hojidhan agarsisu jechun moo yoo biyyatti Itophiyaa jedhamtu kana akka isheen sirna dimokratawaa irraatti ijaaramtuf Oromoon adda durummadhan socho’e qofaa dha akkuma ADO lafa ka’etti.

Hawasni adunyaa kanas kan Oromoo irraa eega jiru kanumadha. Kanaafuu, nuyi Oromoon heera haaraa biyyi itopihyaa ittin bultu qopheesudhaf itti gaafatamummaa guddatu nu irra jira jedhen amana. Sabootaa fi sablamotni biyyatti Oromoo eegaa akka jiranis beekuu qabna. Ani kana qabatamatti afaan guutee dubbachuu nan danda’a, yoo xiqate ganna shanif dhabbilee siyaasaa sabota biyyatti bakka bu’an wajjin dhimma siyaasa biyyatti irratti yeroo hedduu mari’adhera waan ta’ef.

Kana mirkanesachuf yaada ummattota/ sabaa fi sablamootaa/ gaafatanii ilaaluu ni danda’ama. Harr’a haalli mija’aadha yada ummataa gaafachudhaf. Muuxannon Madibbafa/Mandela/ kanaf ni gargara. ANC n dokumantii “Freedom Charter” jedhu qophese. Ummata biyyatifis gaafii akkas jedhu tamsase. “If you could make the law … what would you do?”Otuu heera baasaa isinin jedhame maal gootuu kan jedhu gaafin ummataf tamsa’e.

Yaadni ummatni kenne adeemsa siyaasa ANC tif bu’aa guddaa buuse. Isa irratti hunda’ee ibsa akkana jedhu baasee guutuu ummata biyyatii fi hawasa adunyatif labse. Labsin isaas akkas jedha ture: “We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people.” Kunis afaan Oromootti biyyi Afrikaa Kibbaa kan ummattota keessa jiratanii, kan gurrachaa fi adii yoo taatu mootummaan kamiyyuu fedha ummataa malee aangoo irratti qabachuu hin danda’uu jechu dha.

Nuyi Oromonis wacaa fi holola abdii kutannaa ilmaan habashatif gurra kenninee yeroo keenya ballessuu dhiisnee yaada ummata guddaa fi aadaa dimokrasii qabu tokko irraa eegamuu fi dhiyaachuu qabu tokko ummattota Itophiyaa fi hawasa adunyaatif labsuu qabna. Dhabbileen siyaasaa Oromoo walitti dhufanii ejjennoo akkasi fudhachuu qabu jedhen amana. Tarii Addi Dimokratawaa Oromoo (ADO) kana irratti ni hojjeta jedheen amana. Hojjechus qaba. Kun hojii hattattama ta’uu qaba akka yaada Koo ti. Kana irratti beektoti, hayyotii fi maanguddoti Oromoo yaada kana deggaran ADO cinaa dhabbatanii yaada isaanii gummachuu qabu. Yaadni akkasii gonkumaa akka kaayyoo gatutti yookan akka “revisionist”tti ilaalamuu hin qabu. Akkuma Mandelaa mormitota keenya yaadaan caallee argamuu qabna. Seenaa abbatu tolfata malee namni namaaf hin tolchu. Oromonis akkuma Ummata Afrikaa Kibbaa seenaa isaa haresuudhan tolfachuu qaba.

Nelson Mandelaa kan du’a irra hambisee adunyaa kana irratti nama mararfatamaa akka ta’uu kan godhe ilma Oromoo kapiten Guutaa Dinqaa ti. Guutaa Dinqaa guddina ummata Oromoo aduynaan kun akka beeku godhera.

Janaral Taddasaa Birruu erga Mandeladhan wal arganii booda haala ummatni isaanii keessa jiru hubatanii gara falmii mirgaa ummata Oromootti akka fuullefatan kan jedhu yaadni ni jira. Janaralich Mandelaa irraa waan baratan qabuu jechuu dha. Isaan waan baratan sana hojirra oolchuf socho’anii utuu bakkaan hin gahin hafaniru. Dhalotni Oromoo harraa kunis Mandela irraa waan baratu qaba. Siyaasa bilchataa ademsise Itopiyaa jijjiruf qopha’uu fi hojjechuu.

Kun yaada koo dhuunfaa ti. Namni waan of harkaa qabu darbate sodataa hin jedhamu jedha mamaksi Oromoo. Namootni keessumaa yaada kana hin fudhane akka jiran ifaa dha. Garuu akkuma Oromoon dubbi baha hin dhorkin gala dhorki malee jedhe sana, maalif yaada kana dhiyeesite jedhamee abaramuu hin qabu. Yaadan garagara ta’uun kanuma jiru dha.“Despite our disagreements, we were all gentlemen.” Yaadan garaa garaa yoo taanes hundumti keenya yyuu naamusa qabna jedhe Mandelaan. Kunillee waan isa irraa baranu keessa isa tokkoo fi isa angafa jedheen yaada.

Hayyee, Hayyee!
Waaqa Umaa, Waaqa Umamaa!
Afaan keenya tokko godhi!
Warra walif galee alaa galu nu godhi!

Galatoma.

* Baqqalaa Jiraataa – Swidin irraa (bji2050@yahoo.com)

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MTCDA: All Oromo Community Associations and concerned Oromo individuals in the Diaspora

MEMO

Date:     January 22, 2014

From:     The Board of Directors of Macha-Tulama Cooperative and Development Association (MTCDA), USA, Inc.

To:        All Oromo Community Associations and concerned Oromo individuals in the Diaspora

The Board of  Directors  of  MTCDA-USA,  Inc.  is  writing  this  memo  to  inform  you  about the formation of 50th Anniversary Organizing Team of the Macha-Tulama Association (MTA) in the United States and to request you to fully cooperate with and provide your moral and material support to the team for facilitating the planning and celebration of this glorious anniversary. For your information, the MTCDA is a legally registered not-for-profit organization in the United States.

As you know the Macha and Tulama Association was formed in 1963 and banned in 1967. The government of Haile Selassie (1930-1974) banned the Association so quickly because the leaders of the Association organized huge mass meetings at which through fierce oratory, dramas, poems and prayers in Afaan Oromo, which was banned during those days, moved the Oromo into tears of anger against the oppressive Ethiopian system. The leaders of Association not only united and provided the Oromo with central leadership, but also made them conscious of their unity and their dehumanization as second-class subjects and inspired them to be agents for their freedom and human dignity. In short, the Macha-Tulama Association planted the tree of Oromo political consciousness. The limited gains the Oromo achieved since the 1970s was the fruit from that tree of political consciousness. The Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front has dominated Ethiopian regime, which is determined to deprive the Oromo of any independent organization, once again banned the Macha-Tulama Association. As a result in 2014 the oldest Oromo civic association cannot celebrate its fifty’s anniversary among our people in Oromia itself.

Those of us who live in freedom beyond the long brutal arms of the Ethiopian state have a sacred mission for celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Macha- Tulama Association. It will give us  a wonderful opportunity for informing the international community that  the  Oromo,  who make the single largest national group in the Horn of Africa and the third largest in Africa, are denied their basic human and democratic rights in their own country. What is greater shame for the Ethiopian government that beat the drum of democracy than denying the Oromo the right to celebrate the 50th 

anniversary of their civic organization? Together, let us celebrate a very successful 50th anniversary, expose the brutality of the Ethiopian regime and lift up the spirit of our people. Now is the time for the Oromo Diaspora to rise to the challenge of organizing a wonderful fifty’s anniversary that will make our people proud. Those of us in the Diaspora must prove by our practical actions to our people, friends and foes that nobody can stop us from rebuilding our national institutions, including the Macha- Tulama Association. By uniting our energies and resources we can brighten the future of our people.

It is our moral, intellectual, spiritual, and national obligations not to allow the destruction of our national institutions by our enemies by standing up for the rights of our people and defending them by rekindling the principles of Oromummaa and liberation for which huge number of our heroines and heroes have sacrificed their precious lives. Supporting the celebration of 50th anniversary of the MTA both morally and materially is one of the practical manifestations of our nationalist commitment for the cause of our nation. If we are committed to stand with our people at the time when they are not allowed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their oldest civic organization in their own country, let us joyously celebrate it in the Diaspora and demonstrate to the Ethiopian regime that they will never be able to kill the spirit of freedom and human dignity that the Macha-Tulama Association planted in the heart, mind and soul of the Oromo nation.

Therefore, the Board of Directors MTCDA earnestly requests you to assist the team so that the celebration will successfully take place on August 1, 2014 in Washington, DC. We will be very grateful to all who will accept the challenge and support us with all kinds of imaginative efforts such raising funds for the 50th anniversary and making the preparation for the event known as widely as possible. In the spirit of what the Macha-Tulama Association stands for, we urge all Oromo nationals, community associations, civic and religious groups, and political organizations to support the preparation for the 50th anniversary celebration. Together we will make it a memorable event, which may inspire the renaissance of other Oromo organizations.

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