Friday, May 31, 2013

Egyptians up in arms as Ethiopia builds giant hydro dam on Nile River; minister rules out war

(Elias Asmare/ Associated Press ) - In this photo made Tuesday, April 2, 2013, shows the construction of the dam in Asosa Region Ethiopia. Ethiopia started to divert the flow of the Blue Nile river to construct a giant dam on Tuesday, according to its state media, in a move that could impact the Nile-dependent Egypt. Downstream nations Egypt and Sudan have objected to the construction, saying it violates a colonial-era agreement which reportedly gives Egypt nearly 70 percent of Nile River waters.
CAIRO — Ethiopia’s construction of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on the world’s longest river threatens to affect flows of water to Nile-dependent, water-starved Egypt, where there is growing outrage, anger and fear.
Egypt in the past has threatened to go to war over its “historic rights” to Nile River water but diplomats from both countries this week played down the potential for conflict.
“A military solution for the Nile River crisis is ruled out,” Egypt’s irrigation and water resources minister, Mohammed Baheddin, said Thursday amid newspaper reports recalling the threats of war from Egypt’s two previous leaders, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak.
Ethiopia on Tuesday started diverting the flow of the Blue Nile for construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Eighty-five percent of Nile waters originate in Ethiopia yet the East African nation whose name has become synonymous with famine thus far utilizes very little of those waters.
Ethiopia’s decision challenges a colonial-era agreement that had given downstream Egypt and Sudan rights to the Nile water, with Egypt taking 55.5 billion cubic meters and Sudan 18.5 billion cubic meters of 84 billion cubic meters, with 10 billion lost to evaporation. That agreement, first signed in 1929, took no account of the eight other nations along the 6,700-kilometer (4,160-mile) river and its basin, which have been agitating for a decade for a more equitable accord.
And Ethiopia’s unilateral action seems to ignore the 10-nation Nile Basin Initiative to promote cooperation.
Ethiopia is leading five nations threatening to sign a new cooperation agreement without Egypt and Sudan, effectively taking control from Egypt of the Nile, which serves some 238 million people.
Mohammed Abdel-Qader, governor of Egypt’s Gharbiya province in the Nile Delta, warned the dam spells “disaster” and is a national security issue for the North African nation.
“Taking Egypt’s share of water is totally rejected ... The Nile means everything to Egypt,” said Gov. Abdel-Qader.
Baheddin said Egypt already is suffering “water poverty” with an individual’s share of 640 cubic meters well below the international average of 1,000 cubic meters.
Egypt protests that others along the Nile have alternative water sources, while the Nile is the sole water source in the mainly desert country.
Ethiopian officials say the dam is needed to provide much-needed power for development.
At a ceremony marking the diversion of the Nile, Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnin said Ethiopia could export cheap electricity from the dam to energy-short Egypt and Sudan. He insisted the dam would not affect the flow of water to Egypt.
Experts say otherwise.
Alaa el-Zawahri, a dams engineer at Cairo University and an expert on a national committee studying the ramifications of the Ethiopian dam, said Egypt stands to lose about 15 billion cubic meters of water — 27 percent of annual share — each of the five years that Ethiopia has said it will take to fill the dam. The country’s current share already is insufficient.

Inside Story- Death on the Nile – Al Jazeera Video

The River Nile has been a source of life for millions over the centuries. Now Ethiopia is diverting water to build a giant dam pushing those downstream who depend on the river, to wonder when and whether this issue can be resolved peacefully. To discuss this, presenter David Foster, is joined by guests: Bereket Simon, Ethiopian minister of information; Lama El Hatow, co-founder of water institute of the Nile and specialist in water governance and climate change; and Cleo Paskal from Chatham House, specialist in water and food security and writer of ‘Global warring.’

Ethiopia holds reporter covering evictions in dam region

New York, May 30, 2012--Ethiopian authorities have detained since Friday a reporter who sought to interview people evicted from their homes in a region where the government is building a contentious hydro-electric dam on the Blue Nile, according to a news report and the reporter's editor. The Committee to Protect Journalists said today that the case highlights authorities' disregard for the rule of law and its systematic efforts to suppress news critical of government officials.
Muluken Tesfahun, a reporter for the private weekly Ethio-Mehedar, is being held in a prison in the town of Asosa, capital of the Benishangul-Gumuz region, Getachew Worku, the paper's editor-in-chief, told CPJ. Muluken has not been formally charged or presented in court, Getachew said. The detention appears to run counter to constitutionalguarantees that a person be brought to court within 48 hours of arrest.
"By arresting journalist Muluken Tesfahun for gathering information from the victims of forced relocation, Ethiopia is once again criminalizing independent journalism," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita. "Ethiopia should make good on its obligation as a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council to uphold citizens' rights by releasing Muluken immediately."
Local security forces picked up Muluken on Friday in the village of Dobi and confiscated his reporting equipment, the U.S. government-funded Voice of America reported, citing Getachew and members of the journalist's family. Ethio-Mehedar assigned Muluken to report on the return of thousands of ethnic Amhara, Oromo, and Agew farmers who had been forcibly evicted from their land in mid-March, Getachew said.
Ethiopian state media have not reported in detail on the evictions, despite local testimony reported by VOA and accusations of ethnic cleansing made by opposition parties, according to local journalists. After weeks of silence, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn acknowledged the evictions in an April speech in the House of Peoples Representatives. The prime minister called the action "illegal," blaming it on lower-level officials and inviting the displaced to return. This month, Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam announced the arrests of 35 Benishangul officials in connection with the evictions.
Neither federal or local authorities have provided an official explanation for the evictions, and it's not immediately clear they were directly related to construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam, which the government says will be Africa's biggest power plant. The dam's impact on water supply has renewed international tensions between Ethiopia,Egypt and Sudan.
The Ethiopian government has denied allegations of coercion, abuse, and violence in unrelated resettlement programs, in which authorities have displaced small-scale farmers in order to lease large tracts of land to foreign commercial farmers, according to international news reports
With eight journalists behind bars, Ethiopia trails only Eritrea among Africa's worst jailers of journalists, CPJ research shows.

SIX PERCENT OF ETHIOPIAN ETHINIC TIGRE / TPLF DOMINATE ARMY OFFICERS!

Nemera Dinsa
Nemera Dinsa
By Nemera Dinsa W | May 31, 2013
The table below shows that the TPLF regime has a virtual monopoly over political power; and this monopoly is established among other things through the introduction of ethnic politics into the political process. In Ethiopia, ethnic politics is at the helm of the military and other civic organizations, which naturally are supposed to be politically neutral institutions. I urge donor nations and other international aid agencies to pay particular attention to this overwhelming evidence and reconsider their policies towards a regime that benefits the few. 50% of the country populations are Oromo’s but there is no any position for ethnic OROMOS in army. This shows weyane / TPLF they made our Oromia like Syria tomorrow by ethnic violence. Obviously, donor nations and tax payers in donor countries do not want to see their funds used by dictators who deny freedom and justice to the very people to whom the aid is intended. Likewise, no democratic citizen of the world wants its hard earned money to go to a Third World country and be used to prop up a dictatorial regime that muffles free press and kills democratic movements like Ethiopia.
The domination of Tigre in army power never stops the freedom way of Our Oromia and Oromos with OLF!
Defense Departments
No
Job Division
Name & Rank
Ethnic Group
1Armed Forces Chief-of-StaffGeneral Smora Yenus
Tigre
2Armed Forces Head of TrainingLt.General Tadesse Worde
Tigre
3Head of LogisticsLt.General Gezae Abera
Tigre
4Head of IntelligenceBr. General Gebre Dela
Tigre
5Armed Forces Head of CampaignMajor General Gebreegzher
Tigre
6Armed Forces Head of EngineeringLt.General Berhane Negash
Tigre
7Chief of the Air ForceChief of the Air Force
Tigre

Heads of the Nation’s four Military Commands
No
Job Division
Name & Rank
Ethnic Group
1Central CommandGeneral Abebaw Tadesse
Agew
2Northern CommandLt.General Saere Mekonene
Tigre
3South Eastern CommandLt.General Abraha Wolde
Tigre
4Western CommandBr. General Seyoum Hagos
Tigre
Army Divisional Commanders
Central command
Northern Command
No
Job Division
Name & Rank
Ethnic Group
114st Army DivisionColonel Wodi Antiru
Tigre
221st Army DivisionColonel Gueshi Gebre
Tigre
311th Army DivisionColonel Workidu
Tigre
425th Army DivisionColonel Tesfay Sahiel
Tigre
522nd Army DivisionColonel Teklay Klashin
Tigre
64th Mechanized DivisionColonel Hinsaw Giorgis
Tigre
South Eastern Command
No
Job Division
Name & Rank
Ethnic Group
119st Army DivisionColonel Wodi Guaae
Tigre
244st Army DivisionColonel Zewdu Tefera
Tigre
313th Army DivisionColonel Sherifo
Tigre
412th Army DivisionColonel Mulugeta Berhe
Tigre
532nd Army DivisionColonel Abraha Tselim
Tigre
66th Mechanized DivisionColonel G/Medhin Fekede
Tigre
Western Command
No
Job Division
Name & Rank
Ethnic Group
123rd Army DivisionColonel Wolde Belalom
Tigre
243rd Army DivisionColonel Wodi Abate
Tigre
326th Army DivisionColonel Mebrahtu
Tigre
47th Mechanized DivisionColonel Gebre Mariam
Tigre
Commanders in Different Defense Departments
No
Job Division
Name & Rank
Ethnic Group
1Agazi Commando DivisionB.General Mohammed Esha
Tigre
2Addis Ababa & Surrounding Area GuardColonel Zenebe Amare
Tigre
3Palace GuardColonel Gerensay
Tigre
4Banking GuardColonel Hawaz Woldu
Tigre
5Engineering CollegeColonel Halefom Eggigu
Tigre
6Military Health ScienceB.General Tesfay Gidey
Tigre
7Mulugeta Buli Technical CollegeColonel Meleya Amare
Tigre
8Resource Management CollegeColonel Letay
Tigre
9Siftana Command CollegeB.General Moges Haile
Tigre
10Blaten Military Training CenterColonel Salih Berihu
Tigre
11Wourso Military Training CenterColonel Negash Heluf
Tigre
12Awash Arba Military Training CenterColonel Muze
Tigre
13Birr Valley Military Training CenterColonel Negassie Shikortet
Tigre
14Defense Administration DepartmentB.General Mehari Zewde
Tigre
15Defense AviationB.General Kinfe Dagnew
Tigre
16Defense Research and StudyB.General Halefom Chento
Tigre
17Defense Justice DepartmentColonel Askale
Tigre
18Secretary of the Chief-of-StaffColonel Tsehaye Manjus
Tigre
19Indoctrination CenterB.General Akale Asaye
Amhara
20Communications DepartmentColonel Sebbhat
Tigre
21Foreign Relations DepartmentColonel Hassene
Tigre
22Special Forces Coordination DepartmentB.General Fisseha Manjus
Tigre
23Operations DepartmentColonel Wodi Tewk
Tigre
24Planning, Readiness and Programming DepartmentColonel Teklay Ashebir
Tigre
25Defense Industries Coordination DepartmentColonel Wodi Negash
Tigre
26Defense Finance DepartmentColonel Zewdu
Tigre
27Defense Purchasing DepartmentColonel Gedey
Tigre
28Defense Budget DepartmentAto/Mr. Berhane
Tigre

Thursday, May 30, 2013

MANNI GOGAA WARAABEESSAAN IJAARAME,

GAAFA WARAABEESSI YUUSU DIIGAMA !!
Y.G(2005)
Sochiin Maqaa Oromoon gaggeeffamuuf yaadamu, garuu, Oromummaa kan of keessaa hin qabne, yoomillee ta’uu milkaa’uu akka hin dandeenye, seenaan waa hedduu akka ragaatti nu kaa’ee dabreera. Namni waan dabre irraa hin baratiinii fi of hin sirreessiin, seenaa Ummata mufachiise sana dabalee, tuffatamuun ala waan Ummata kanaaf argamsiisu tokko illee jiraachuu hin danda’u. namni ykn hawaasi ykn sabni ykn gareen kufaatii fi dogoggora irraa hin baratiin , bara baraan rakkoo ofitti dhalchaa fi of gaadi’ee bitintiraa jiraata malee, galii barbaadamu sana bira ga’uu hin danda’u. kanaaf kan kaleessaa irraa baratanii waan fooyyaa’aa hojjachuu qofaatu Ummata salphina keessaa baasu danda’a .
Har’a rakkoo keenya dabre kaafnee yennaa katabnu, ykn dubbannu, namoonni hedduun, waan dabree amma yoomitti lallabaa jiraannaa ? jedhanii , yaada arrabsoo irraa hin fagaanne yennaa laatan , guyyuu taajjabaa jirra. Garuu hundeen har’aa , kaleessa ta’uu hubachuu dhabuu keenyatu, bakka tokko dhiitaa akka jiraannu nu taasisaa jira. kaleessa waan ittiin laamshoofnee namni nutti kolfee , daballee wayita irra deebinee rakkoo kan biraa ofitti fidinu , dhibeen jiru kan kaleessaa wallaalu ykn hubachuu dhabuu keenya qofaa Odoo hin taane, yoo hubannoo qabaanne iyyu, waan dantaa keenyaa irra gaafa geenyu, isa kaleessa abaaraa turre ofii akka dabalaa jirru seenaatu ragaa ba’a. kana jechuun ammoo, sochiin Maqaa Oromoon gaggeeffamu kamuu, Oromummaan hundee sochii sanaa yoo hin taasifatiin, amma ka’anii deebi’anii gadi taa’u ta’uu, ammas seenaatu waa hedduu nu argisee jira.
Humna kamiifuu , badii ykn miidhaa ykn kufaatii yk dogoggoora kaleessaatu isaaf ka’umsa ta’a. kan kaleessaa odoo dubbannuu jiraannaa odoo hin taane kan nama komachiisu, waan waggaa 150 ol nu miidhe irraa barachuu maa dadhabne ? isa jedhutu namummaa keenyayyuu akka shakkinu nu taasisa. ammallee jabeessinee kan jennu yoo jiraate, kan kaleessaa irraa bu’aa malii argannee ? jedhanii yoo irratti walii galteen hin jiraatiin , boruu bu’aa argamsiifna jennee yaaduun , gawwummaa qofaa ta’u hubachuu feesisa. amma yaada kana hubatanii kan karaa jalqabanii fi hegaree qabsoo Oromoo gar-tokkotti luucceessuuf yaadaa fi wareegama baasaa jiran jiraachuun haqa . inni kaan ammo, sadarkaa yaada kanaa dhaqabu ykn yaadu dadhabee waan salphinaa irra deebi’aa jiraachuu inuma argina. Kaan ammoo haqa jiru odoo beeku, Qabsoof haa jedhu malee , obboleessa isaa irratti duuluuf ykn dhabamsiisuuf miidiyaa halagaa irratti yennaa lallaban argaa fi dhaga’aa jirra. Yaada wal irraa fagoo kana dhiphisuuf hanga irriibaa ka’anitti yaadachiisuun , haqa jiru itti himuun barbaachisaadha.
Kanaaf waan kaleessaa irraa yk kaleessa waan nutti fakkaate hojjannee har’a salphannee waan jennu wallaallee, isa sochaa’aa jiru abaaruu irra kan hin tarree gorsuuf , kan kaleessaa kaasuun, waan qabatamaan ta’e irraa barachuu dadhabuu isaanii qofa osoo hin taane, Mammaaksuma Oromoo Umurii guutuu isaan waliin ture irraa barachuu yoo dadhaban “MANNI GOGAA WARAABEESSAAN IJAARAME, GAAFA WARAABEESSI YUUSU DIIGAMA ! ” jechuun keenya hin dhaabbatu. Mammaaksi kun , nuuf waan dabre ykn waan bu’aa ykn miira keessa keenyaa qofaan kaane hojjannu, boruu jiraachuu akka hin dandeenye wayita nu dhaamu, DIINNI garuu, bara baraan hiikkaa mammaaksa kanaa akka hin hubanneefi of-irratti akka hin dammaqneef nu irratti akka hojjatu wal yaadachiisuun dansaadha.
Dogoggora dabre akka irra hin deebineef, dogoggorri duraanii namaa gadi nu gochuu isaa hubachuu qabna. Keenyas siinsallee kan addunyaas dubbisnee hegaree keenyaaf wal dandeenyee hin tarkaanfannu taanaan, beekumsaa fi dandeettiin keenya maalii ? beekumsi nuuti qabnu kan addunyaan itti fayyadamtee gabrummaa keessaa itti baasaa jirtuudha. Nu bira ga’ee maaf laamsha’ee nu miidhaa jiraata ? gaaffii hedduu tarrisuu dandeenya. Dhaloota itti aanu dhaqabuuf , rakkoo fi dogoggora dabre irra akka hin deebi’amneef dhalli Oromoo hundi hojjachuutu irraa eegama.
WAAN FOOYYEEFFACHUUN NU IRRAA EEGAMU:-
1. FEDHII UMMATAA GADI FAGEESSANII BEEKU :
Fedhii Ummata ofii wallaaluun Dogoggora hamaaf nama saaxila. Nama miiraan socha’u nama taasisa. Madda Ummata ofii tuffachuu ta’uu ni danda’a. keessa Ummata ofii wallaaluu irraa , halagaaa waliin teenye, ummata kana harka qabnee akka finnutti waadaa madda salphinaa nu seensisa. Kana jaallatee fudhataa ? yk sossobeen of jala hiriirsa jennee , habjuu ganama ka’aanii waan of biraa hin argannee nu habjochiisa. Sirnoota Itoophiyaa warri masaraa keessatti waliin sirban isa jiraachisuu akka hin dandeenye hundaa, namoonni nu marsanii harka nu rukutaniif jecha, qabsoo Ummata kanaa akka fedha keenyaatti micciirree , feenu diina jala galchinee, feenu kiisa keenya keessatti qabannee deemnaa jedhee kan nama yaachisiisu, fedhii Ummata ofii wallaaluudha. Gama kanaan bara 2000 kaasee waa hedduu dabarsine jirra. Har’a dhala Oromoo Addunyaa irra jiru addatti kan Biyya keessaa hiraarrii dhandhamaa jirutti, waa’ee siyaasa keenyaa,adeemsa siyaasaa Biyya Itoophiyaa jedhamtu fi addunyaa iyyuu , 1+1 = 2 JEDHANII tan itti himanii miti.
Haala qabatamaa jiruun yoo ilaallee , Ummati OROMOO , dhaabbilee Siyaasa Oromoo hundaa yaadaa fi qor-qalbiin dabree deemu eenyullee haaluu hin danda’u. kan caalaatti nama raaju, Ummati Oromoo hangamuu jabiina qalbii fi yaadaa qabaatuu illee, rakkoo keessaa fi alaan dhaaba irra rakkoon gara garaa wayita dhaqqabu, dhaaba karaa qabsoo Bilisummaa itti argisiise KUDHAAMA isaa taasifatee abdachaa jiraachuu isaatii. Kan dagachuun nu irra hin jirree, hatattamaan adeemsa Ummataa kanaan wal qixxeessanii Ummata kana galii barbaadamutti yoo hin qajeelchiin yk hin dursiin, tarii Ummati kun obsa isaa fixatee, waa xiqqoon mirga isaa kabachiisuuf sochiin taasisu babal’ataa deemee yoo abbaa dhabe, deebi’ee isa miidhu akka danda’u hubachuun dansaadha.( Asi irratti ragaa tokko kaa’uun barbaada.)
Bara 2000 keessa sochii Barattoota Oromoo haala qindaa’een eegalame, wayyaanee irriiba dhabsiisee turun hin dagatamu. Yeroo sochii sanaa Dargaggoonni Booranaa fi Gujii Maanguddootaaf yaada tokko kaasanii turan. “amma yoomitti akkasittin jiraanna ? hireen keenya nu harka jirti malee , halgaa harka hin jirtu, maaliif asumaa achi haxoofnee dachee isaanii irratti wal hin gaafannu ? Ilmaan Oromoo kana hojiin argisiisuu dadhabnaa ? Oromootti nu labsaa miidhaa kana of irraa dhaabnaa !” jedhaniin. Maanguddoonni mari’atanii kan jedhaniin, “Qaamni socha’uuf Mataan jiraachuu qabaa obsaa ” jedhaniin. Dargaggoonni yeroo sanatti mormanii turan. Garuu yaada nama bulee dhaga’uun aadaa dha jedhanii , diina qe’ee keessa isaan yaa’u odoo arganii callisan.
2. ABOn, KUDHAAMA UMMATA OROMOOTI !
Haqa kana kan hin hubatiin , kan Ummata kanaaf kabajaa hin qabaatiin qofaadha. ABO Ummata irraa adda baasuuf, sochiin gama hundaan hin taasifamiin hin jiru. Akkuman duratti kaase, “ABOn KUDHAAMA UMMATA OROMOO” ta’uu isaatiin, firaa fi diinoonni keenya, dogoggora seenanii jiru. Dogoggorri kun walii-lama ta’uu danda’a. Diinni , KUDHAAMII kun , kan fakkeessaatti fudhachuu irraa, ummata harkaa fudhachuu ykn isa irraa adda baasu yennaa yaalu, firri ammo, KUDHAAMI sun dhugaa ta’utti beekaaf, harkaa butee kan isaa taasisu keessa dogoggoran . hojii fafaas dalagan. Diinni kudhaama fakkeessi akka hin taane kan raga ba’ee, waggaa 22 ifaajjii taasise milkaa’uu dhabuu qofaan odoo hin taane, ABO maqaa gooleessaan galmee ASHABBAARII keessa galchuuf wayita tattaafatee fi Ummatichi daranu itti cimu irraatti .
Nuutis hanguma qalbiin nu yaaddun, ABOn , KUDHAAMA UMMATA OROMOO ta’u isaatti amanuu irraa , waan fedhii keenyaa raawwachuuf jecha, warra qabsoo Oromoo bu’ureessee dhaabichi hojjatus dhiisuus gaggeessaa jiran odoma beekanu, Kudhaama kana butuuf jecha, dandii salphinaa meeqa kan seenan, ammallee halgaaf jecha dandii salphinaa kana keessa kan gangalatan ni jiru. Kun qalbii ummata kanaa tuffachuu irraa madda. Ummata kana qalbii cabsinee, ammuma iji nu ilaaltu yaaduu irraa , maqaa seenaan meeqa itti galmaa’e har’a lafaa kaanee, akka huccuu keenyaa butannee fiigu yaanna. Kun keessa Ummata ofii walaalu irraa madda. Ummata haala kanaan gawwamsinee diina jala hiriirsina jechuun mataa isaa badii guddaadha.
Kanaaf , adeemsa bu’aan tokkollee hin argamsiifne kana irraa barachuun barbaachisaadha. Ummata ofii burjaajeessuu yaaluun , ummata ofiif yaadu miti. Addatti hawaasi Biyya alaa jiru , dogoggora kana sirreessuuf adda durummaan irratti hojjachuu qaba. Beektoonnis kana irratti hojjatanii waan ummata qalbii hirsiisuuf hojjatamu dura dhaabbachuu qaban. Seenaa Oromoo kan dubbannu ykn katabnu yoo taane, seenaa qabsoo Oromoo karaa irraa yennaa maqsifamu beektoonnis ta’u ummati callisee ilaalu hin qabu. Waan ifatti maqaa isaan daldalamu argaa callisuun ummata kanaaf yaadus miti. Abbaan fedhe maqaa baafatee haa gurmaa’u. garuu maqaa wal saamanii hojii manaa diinni nu kennu hojii irra oolachuu keessaa ba’uu qabna. Kana irratti yaadaa fi ejjannaa tokkoo qabaachuu qabna. Maqaa ABO saammachuuf qabsoo eegalle , kan jedhu yoo jiraate fayyummaa hin qabaatu. Kan fayyummaa hin qabne waliin kan fiigus , fayyaa hin qabu . fayyaa dhabuun kan abbaa ta’ee , warra fayyaa dhabeen ummati kun hiraaruun yakka . yakka seenaan nama hin dhifne. Kana gochuu keenyaan ammo , mammaaksa “MANNI GOGAA WARAABEESSAAN IJAARAMEE,,,,” dhugaa ta’uu amanu qabna.
3.ILAALCHAAN ADDA TA’UUN, OROMUMMAAN ADDA TA’UU MITI !
Mooraa qabsoo Oromoo keessatti ykn Ilaalchi siyaasa Oromoo keessa jiru , ani ilaalcha lama caalaa ni jiraata jedhee hin yaadu. Walabummaa Oromiyaa fi Bilisummaa Ummata Oromoo kan jedhuu fi Itoophiyaa Dimokiraatofte keessa jiraachuu dandenya kan jedhu. Lameen kana irratti kan murtee dhumaa laatu, UMMATA OROMOO qofaadha. Yaadi kun lameen kan milkaa’uu danda’an keessa yk fedhii Ummatichaa akka gaaritti hubachuu irraati. Waan hubachuu qabnu garuu , Inni walabummaa Oromiyaa jedhu, carraa Ummatoota Oromiyaa keessa jiraatanii dukkaneessuu akka hin taane wayita hubachiisan, warri Itoophiyaa Dimokiraatoofte keessa jiraachuu dandeenya jedhanis, mirga Ummata Oromoo dhiibanii milkeessuu akka hin dandeenye waliif amanun barbaachisaa ta’a.
Ilaalchi kun lameen hangamu garaagarummaa qabaatan, OROMUMMAA wal irraa mulquu hin qaban. Jibbi diinaaf qabnu fi waliif qabnu hedduu wal irraa fagaata natti fakkaata. Kaleessa adda baanee wal gaarreeffannee , wal salphifnee, ……. Waan irraa arganne qabanaa ? yeroos miira kamiinu haa kaanu, ni ta’a jennee kan eegallee ta’eeraa ? kana yaadachuu qabna. Kana har’a wal irraa fagaates, boruu yerootu walitti fida. Diinni hojii manaa nu kaa’ee kana irra tarkaanfannee dachaa isaa yaannee , isa injifachuu qabna. Abshalummaan keenya hedduu dabaluu qabna.
Jibba Ilaalcha irraa maddu hundumaa wal irraa kaafnee diinatti achi deebisuun, shirri diinni gama hundaan adda nu baasee umurii isaa dheereffachuuf tattaafatutti bishaan naqnee, kaleessa irra akka waliif jirru diinatti mul’isuun waan yeroon nu gaafattuudha. Keessattu , Biyyoota alaatti walirraa fagaachuu mul’ataa jiru kana dhaabamsiisuuf , ani akkasii jedhee kan utaalu waliin utaaluu irraa of qusatanii , waan deemamuuf dura hubatanii , lakkii dhaabbadhu jechuu qabu malee , yeroo hundaa akka dikee bishaan irraa ta’anii, ummata ofii taajjabsiisuun dhaabbachuu qaba. Kana malees beektoonnis ta’an kanneen hafan hundumtuu qabsoon kun na ilaallata jedhanii , yoo xiqqaate yaada laachuu irraa dhaabbachuu hin qaban.
Gaaffii Ummata kanaa gama hundaan dhageesisuuf , miseensa qofaaf dirqama kennuun hin taatu. Miidhaa saba ofii dhageesisuuf Oromummaan ga’aadha. dhimma keenya irratti wal tumsuun waan hundaan olitti kabajaa sabummaa nu goonfachiisa. Dallansuun, maal na dhibeen, dhimma isaanitiin kkf hundi deebi’anii nu miidhaa jiran malee, waan nu fayyadan hin qaban. Mooraa qabsoo Oromoo jabeessuuf, rakkoo jiru xiqqeessun gaaffii jalqabaa ta’a. kun ammo nama dhuufaa irraa eegala. Amma hundumtuu kan yaade irratti hojjachuu qabu, diinni qaawwaa nu gidduutti uume akkamiin cufachuu dandeenya ? isa jedgu irrattidha. Diinni shiroota ittin adda nu baasan beekanii dursanii argamuudha. Wal jibbiinsa diinni nu hawwuu sana lafa kaa’anii , yeroo rakkoo waliin jiraachuu argisiisu qaban. Sochiin OSAn gochaa jiru kana , gama hundaan babal’isanii , dhimma keenya dhaaba qofa irraa eegu odoo hin taane bakka jirrutti irratti hojjannee , diina keenya qaanfachiisuu qabna.
Kana irratti kan hubachuun nu barbaachiisu, rakkoo keenya cufachuuf yaadi ka’ee kun, mooraa diinaa keessa gangalachaa maqaa Oromoon, dantaa diinaa kanneen raawwachiisan hammachuu akka hin dandeenyedha. Kan kaleessaa irraa barachuun keenya keessa keenyaaf malee diina waliin waan nu baraaru hin qabu waan ta’eef.MANNI GOGAA WARAABEESSAAN IJAARAMEE……kutaa 2ffaan itti fufa.
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A Response to Dr. Fikre Tolossa (Tolassa)

By Dr. Beyan H. Asoba | May 30, 2013
Dear Dr. Fikre Tolossa/Tolassa,   Xalayaa Dr. Asobaaf katabame
What do you expect from such thinker
This is from the end of Fikre’s letter. Is Fikre in this century? Click Xalayaa Dr. Asobaaf katabame 
I was travelling when the open letter your addressed to me appeared on a number of websites and was thus not in the position to respond sooner. In this response, I will address only those aspects of your open letter that personally concern me. The Oromo Democratic Front will have to respond on the general content of your writing.
Dear Dr. Fikre,
Let me start my comment by making a brief observation on how you spell your last name. I checked as many of your published works as possible and they are all signed by Fikre Tolossa. That is how your name appears on your University of Bremen dissertation of 1983 and numerous subsequent publications.  And it is also how you spell your name on your Facebook. To my knowledge, it is only in the open letter addressed to me that you not only spelled your name as Fikre Tolassa but also added apparently your grandfather’s name, Jigsa.
Let us leave Jigsa alone and allow him to continue lurking in the shadows, where you usually place him, and focus on Tolossa/Tolassa that more commonly appears after your first name. Tolossa could ostensibly be construed as a derivative of the Amharic word “tolo.”  And I know for sure that Tolassa is a derivative of the Oromo word “tola.” Consequently, by spelling your name in two different ways, you appear to evince two contrasting identities. If by doing so you wish to sit on the Amhara/Oromo identity fence, all I can say is “suit yourself!” I fully respect your right to call yourself whatever you want and to proclaim any identity you choose.
My question is: Why could you not accord me the same right? My name is not Bayyanaa Suba. I have never spelled my name in any other way than Beyan Asoba. I would not have recognized that this new name actually refers to me if it were not used in context of commenting on the Oromo Democratic Front, of which I am a member. Obviously, you took the liberty to attribute another name to me in order to serve your political objective.
Only creators have the right to name the object of their creation. For example, auto-makers give specific names to their various brands just as parents name their children. Unfortunately, for us, the sons and daughters of the Oromo nation, suffering the indignity of being re-named by Chauvinists has been a very common and bitter experience. Our very national name (Oromo) was erased from public records and replaced by another one along with a bundle of pejorative connotations associated with it. Even pupils used to be coerced by their teachers to dump the names originally given to them by their parents and to assume a new in order to start the process of qualifying as an Ethiopian.
It is this practice of demanding that individuals need to first die as Oromos, Sidamas, Walayitas, Kambatas, Hadiyas, etc. in order to be reborn as Ethiopians that sits at the heart of the political contestation in that country. And so long as being an Oromo and an Ethiopian are made incompatible, we have no choice but to either reject your Itophiyawinnet or suffer the imposed self-abnegation.
I want to make one thing perfectly clear to you and your likes. The days when Oromos had to endure self-abnegation are over and shall never return. We have rejected the Itophiyawinnet that is the antithesis of being an Oromo and shall continue to do so as long as this antithetical relationship is maintained. The choice is yours and your likes’. You either accept us with our identity and other rights fully respected or you kiss goodbye to your much vaunted Itophiyawinnet and Ethiopian unity. Can you not see that there is something immoral in trying to build Ethiopian unity on graves of Oromos, Sidamas, Walayitas, Kambatas, Hadiyas, etc .? Why do you refuse to recognize that this aspiration is ultimately counterproductive?  I only hope that this irrational, immoral and ultimately destructive aspiration would give way to a more sober and fair articulation of an Ethiopian identity that is as an amalgam of the identities of the various nations inhabiting its territorial space.
Finally, I would like you to know that this is the last time I will comment on this very painful issue.
Beyan H. Asoba
5/29/13