Millions facing famine in Ethiopia as rains fail

International aid agencies fear that the levels of deaNET
th and starvation last seen 24 years ago, are set to return to the Horn of Africa. Paul Rodgers reports

Sunday, 30 August 2009

Women and children gather at a food distribution centre in Ethiopia's Oromiya region

Reuters

Women and children gather at a food distribution centre in Ethiopia's Oromiya region

Oduu Gaddaa: Jaal Mohammad Gammada Addunyaa irraa boqotani

Jaal Mohammad Gammada Addunyaa irraa boqotani

Jaal Mohaammad Gammadaa, biyya Oromiyatti, baha Oromiyaa magaalaa Shashamannetti bara 10/12/1954 dhalate. Barnoota isaa sadarka lammaffaa, ogummaa harkaatiin(technical school) fixate. Biyyaa America yeroo dhufellee Mount Hood Community College deemuun ogummaa welding baratee certificate argachuun ittin hojjataa ture.

Jaalli kun ogummaa qabuun tajaajilu callaa osoo hintaane bara 1991 yeroo ABO biyya gale namoota dhaaba kana jala hiriiruun halkanii guyyaa hojjataa ture keessaa tokko ture. Jaalli kun bara 1991 kaasee haga lubbuun isaa boqattutti miseensa ABO ture.
Bara 1998 - 2005 hucuuccaan diinaa itti hammaannaan maatii isaa biyyatti dhiisuun jiruu baqaa jiraachuuf dirqame. Biyyaa Kenya keessatti yeroma baqatummaa irra tureellee saba isaa tajaajiluuf yoomillee nama boqonnaa hin fudhane turee. keessattu yeroo adda addaa rakkoo baqqatoota Oromoo keessatti umaamu furuuf akka jaarsatti maanguddoo dabalatee furmataa fiduuf nama carraaqqii guddaa godhaa ture.

Hiree argatee biyyaa America haga seenellee hawwii saba isaati qabuuf asitillee magaalaa portland tti hawaasa Oromoo jabeessuun, fi ijaaruun carraa argamee maraan nama tattaafii godhaa turee. Jabinna inni muldhiseen hawaasn Oromoo magaalaa Portland president hawasaa Oromoo akka ta'u filateen. Yeroo hawaasa kana tajaajilaa ture, iddoo waltajii Oromoo(Oromo Cummunity center project) bituuf ummata gurmeessee hawwii kana fiixaa basuuf nama halkanii guyyaa xaaraa turee keessaa isa fakeenyaan waamamu turee. Bara 2009 yeroo filannoon hawaasa ta'e ammalee deebisan president hawaasa magaalaa Portland ta'ee filatamee ture.

Jaalli kun sabboonummaa caalaa nama saba isaa milkeessuuf hujiin tattaafataa ture. Baruma kanaalle kora Atlanata tti ta'e irratti argamuuf nama tikect xayyaaraa bitaatee deemuuf qophii irra osoo jiru dhibamee hospitaala Seene. Jaalli kun Hospitaala Oregon Health Science University keessatti yaalaataa turee guyyaa 08/25/2009 addunyaa kana irraa boqate.
Jaalli kun ijoolee afur kan qabu yoo ta'u, gadda nutti dhagayameef, sabboona tokko uf keessaa dhabuun kan nu gaddisiisee yoo ta'u, gadda kana namootiin isaa beekaniif, sabn isaa akka nu wajjin maatii isaa jajjabeessu dhaamsa gabaabaa kana dabarsina.

Waldaa hawaasa Oromoo Magaalaa portland /Portland Oromoo Comunity Association/

Reviving AFD (Alliance for Freedom and Democracy)!

Reviving AFD (Alliance for Freedom and Democracy)!

Fayyis Oromia

To get rid of the TPLF regime, there is no other way as an alternate to the reorganization of AFD! Now it seems there is a hint to do it. As I heared from an interview given by Ob Daud Ibsa in VOA Afaan Oromo programme, certain liberation fronts are working together as an alliance: OLF, ONLF, SLF, BPLM and GPLM. It is a good restart. Such an alliance is the only way for ward. MEDREK aka Forum for Democratic Dialog in Ethiopia, FDDE, at home and TIBIBIR aka AFD in diaspora and the cooperation and coordination of these two alliances is the best method to get rid of the dictatorial regime!!

It is clear that the above liberation movements do have no problem in finding a common ground to forge an alliance. They all do believe in the right of nations to self-determination, so that they take this as a precondition for fostering the alliance. The problem is when these freedom fighters try to make an alliance with democratic forces in diaspora such as G-7, EPPF, EPRP, TPDM and UEDF, who do want to have an unconditional Ethiopian unity as a precondition for the alliance. How is it possible to solve this problem? I tried to discuss with some people about this issue in forums and per e-mail. All concerned people believe in the necessity of such an alliance against TPLF regime, but they do differ on the precondition, which is required for the alliance. We can classify all of them in to two blocs. One bloc argues that accepting and respecting the right of nations to self-determination must be the precondition for the alliance, whereas the other bloc insists on the precondition to be unconditional Ethiopian unity. Let's look at the arguements of the two camps: the camp of self-determination and the camp of unconditional unity.

1) Those in the camp of unconditional unity like Prof Messay Kebede insist that unconditional Ethiopian unity is very mandatory for the alliance and even for the future union of nations we want to forge in the empire or region. Here is how Prof Messay argues:

"Far from promoting free union, the right to self-determination actually blocks it. It is when union becomes unconditional that it forces peoples to find a form of accommodation that suits them all. Here is an illustrative analogy: if two competing individuals decide to build a house together, their cooperation makes sense if the house becomes their common interest, that is, if both intend to live in the same house. However, if one of the partners is at the same time building another house, whatever partnership they had becomes so suspicious that it comes to an end. The right to self-determination cannot provide the common goal for a lasting union. Moreover, nobody is inclined to make serious concessions if the outcome is so precarious. It is when we decide to live in the same house, no matter what, that we would be inclined to better the house. While Stalin recognizes the right to secede, Rousseau maintains that a nation means an indivisible unity for only indivisibility creates a common goal. Obviously, a conditional unity is hardly able to produce a serious commitment to the idea of a lasting union.

The Stalinist approach has no historical foundation as nations did not emerge as a result of peoples exercising the right to self-determination. The politics of either lumping people together or splitting them apart according as they want or do not want to stay together is too artificial to be anything more than a manipulation of political elites. Instead, modern nations have come into being through inner movements smashing the oppressive structures of conquests and empires. With the exception of overseas colonial empires––whose difficulties to modernize relate to the absence of organized democratic movements in the pre-independence phase––the resolution to build a common house guaranteeing freedom and equality for all is the cornerstone of modern nation, not the right to secession.

Those who truly care about democracy and freedom must understand that the refusal of self-determination alone can bring about the changes that they hope. What the refusal means is that we make unity unconditional so that everything else becomes negotiable. But if the union is conditional, the blackmail of secession seriously jeopardizes the exercise of democratic rules. What is more, a union is formed without the equal alienation of rights since one of the partners reserves the right to secede. As Rousseau puts it, the condition of modern democracy is “the total alienation of each associate, together with all his rights, to the whole community; for, in the first place, as each gives himself absolutely, the conditions are the same for all; and, this being so, no one has any interest in making them burdensome to others” (The Social Contract). It is clear that the act by which a people join a political union is also the act by which it ceases to consider itself as a nation. It becomes part of an organic whole and its distinctive characteristics, such as language, religion, customs, etc., become regional expressions of a larger union. How the specificities integrate into the union is negotiable, and various forms of arrangement can ensure their protection. By contrast, union defined as a collection of autonomous nations is a Stalinist aberration and a contradiction in terms.

.......The best alternative is to renew the commitment to unconditional unity, thereby creating the conditions of a satisfactory solution for all. If the union is abiding, then serious talks can start on how to build the common house. ............I recommend the term “ethnic groups,” with the understanding that the Amhara and the Tigreans are no less ethnic groups than the Oromo, the Gurage, the Somali, etc. In so doing, we define Ethiopia as a multicultural nation rather than as a multinational state, a feature that requires a federal arrangement with large autonomy and self-rule. In this way, we avoid the present impasse without, however, sacrificing those rights necessary to realize the full equality of Ethiopia’s ethnic groups."

2) Those in the camp of self-determination like me argue that taking unconditional unity as a precondition is dictatorial and doesn't garantee a union as a long lasting a solution and it will be the perpetuation of the hitherto unification at gun point. Some of the points of view in this bloc, which are necessary to be mentioned here are:

To achieve the durable alliance of the two forces (pro-unconditional-unity forces and pro-self-determination forces) against TPLF, the two need to forge one common ground as a common goal. To be recommended as a common goal is: union of independent nations, for example independent Oromia in an integrated Ethiopia as a result of a self-determination of each nation. Till now, it was very difficult to get a common purpose on which the two forces could agree. Pro-self-determination forces argue that nations must be free from domination by any meanse and then build a union based on free will. The mistrust between the pro-unconditional-unity forces and the pro-self-determination forces is the God-given opportunity for TPLF, so that its regime is using to rule over the country as long as possible. Unless these two groups come to term and cooperate against Meles adminstration, all nations in the empire have to settle for the rule of the regime not only for few years, but for many decades to come. The two groups should agree on the common ground. Union of independent Amhara, Tigrai, Afar, Oromia, Ogadenia, Sidama, Gurage.....etc as a result of their respective self-determination and even the union including Eritrea, Djibouti, Somaliland, Puntland and Somalia (if they agree based on free will) is the noble cause for which all can fight together. Not accepting this model meanse unconditional separation of these independent nations as an alternative.

In 2006 pro-self-determination forces formed AFD together with some pro-unconditional-unity forces and with that they took away the very important instrument, which TPLF used to rule over Ethiopians aka designating pro-unconditiona-unity forces as centeralist chauvinists and pro-self-detrmination forces as narrow separatists, so that they be polarized and fight each other. Since then this instrument is dead and Meles' adminstration is under co-operated attack from both forces. The question yet to be answered is, what was the precondtion on which AFD was forged or was it fostered with out any precondition?

Further more there is difference between a unity and a union. Pro-unconditional-unity forces seem to support the first and pro-self-determination forces tend to accept the second, if it is the result of public verdict. The first is pre-modern, whereas the second is post-modern. In summary here is the difference between the pre-modern unity and the post-modern union. I don't remember his name, but certain British scholar classified countries in the world in to three: 1- pre-modern chaotic states like the artificial constructs/countries in Africa, such as the Ethiopian empire, which the Amhara pro-democracy forces seem to love, 2- modern nation-states like some mono-national-states in Asia and Latine America and 3- post-modern union of free nations like those in European union. So, the Amhara pro-democracy forces should see that African nations, including those in the empire, are kept as pre-modern due to the arrangement made by the European colonizers and this is still being perpetuated further by AU-dictators, who are dedicated not to change it. But we Africans need to leave the artificial nations like Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia and Kenya behind and forge the productive natural nation-states like Tigrai, Amhara, Afar, Oromia, Hausa, Yoruba, Somalia...etc in order to be transformed our selves from the present position (pre-modern), passing through the stage of modern status like an independent Oromia without a union, further to the post-modern situation like an independent Oromia in a union with neighbouring independent nations. This last status is the most beneficial one, which the Europeans them selves are enjoying now.

The two positions, i.e the position of the pro-unconditional-unity vs the position of the pro-self-determination (union based on free will) should be discussed and debated before attempting to forge an alliance against the ruling party. Even when nations give their vote to an independence within a union, then it will be mandatory to decide secondly on which type of federal arrangement is to be accepted as suitable. Pro-unconditional-unity forces like those in MEDREK believe that this can be decided by public verdict. Now the question to be directed to them is: can't they extend this philosophy they do apply for deciding on which type of federation, also to the arguement: independence within a union vs independence without a union? Doesn't this require self-determination of nations to decide on which type of sovereignity peoples can have? Can't they imagine that the public can also decide on this issue per a referendum? Doesn't their democracy rhetoric include this option? Can't they accept and live, if certain public decides for independence without a union? Or do they go to the forest and fight for the union they want to see?

Regarding the dictatorial unifiers who are advocating unconditional unity without the option for a public verdict, it should be known that they do take the freedom of the concerend public by advocating such dictatorial position. For example, when they say "be Ethiopia andinet lay anideraderim!", they are sending the message: you people either accept this andinet or we will deal with you. They don't say, we advocate for Ethiopian unity and then let the public decide. Their approach is arrogant, dictatorial and uncompromising! To such people, pro-self-determination forces also should say: "be Biheroch netsanet lay anideraderim". Now how can the two groups who do say "anideraderim" deal with each other democratically? The only solution will be a bullet, as it has been till now. Till now the pro-unconditional-unity dictatorial forces won for the last 150 years and they "united" us by force. The pro-self-determination forces call this as colonization, for it is not a union based on free will. Some people with similar dictatorial ideology ( e.g TPLF) do now want to continue the status quo at gun point. That is why pro-self-determination forces dare to say: such forces are not open for the lasting solution, but they are still the causes for the misery in the Horn region.

The question yet to be answered is again: do we see any possibility and any common denominator for an eventual alliance between the above mentioned two blocs against the ruling party? It is good to suggest again that the only common denominator is acceptance of a common strategical goal aka a union based on nations' right to self-determination. Now coming to the call for alliance, it will be the alliance of the two blocs, who can at least theoretically agree on establishing federal democratic Ethiopia per public verdict to decide firstly on the type of sovereignity: YES to a union vs NO to a union and then if the choice is YES, secondly to decide on the type of federation: language based federation vs geography based federation.

If rightly excercised, the genuine ethnic federalism based on free will is the good common ground for both the pro-unconditional-unity forces and the pro-self-determination forces. Therefore if the pro-unconditional-unity camp gives up its stand of having Ethiopian unity as a precondition for the possible alliance, the move of the two camps to struggle together for freedom and democracy in Ethiopia is very smart and timely. Yet the two blocs need to build a middle way compromise solution to their apparently irreconcilable goals. I think any alliance similar to AFD is the best way for both self-determination of nations and the democratization as well integration of the resulting union of nations in Ethiopia/Horn as a region (a national independence with in a regional union). The result will be independent nations in an integrated region (Ethiopia). This is not just a fancy, but a fact which can be realized.

I am personally against any sort of dictatorial unity and a supporter of a union of free nations based on free will. Any unity without public verdict will fail, take it only 1 year, about 10 years or as long as 100 years. That is why I do advocate for a lasting solution based on free will of all stakeholders, instead of the temporary hoyaa-hoyee of unity as a wishy-washy solution. MEDREK seems to have chosen unconditional-unity as a precondition, which will surely never persist long for it is not based on self-determination of peoples, but on pre-determination by only few elites. TIBIBIR aka revived AFD must be based on a solid ground and take self-determination rather than unconditional unity as the precondition! Last but not least the issue of self-determination of nations is not stalinisitc as Prof Messay and co try to discredit, but it is part and parcel of the UN charter in this 21st century modern politics

Ethiopia under fear and spies as ruling party uses poverty to recruit members (Daily Monitor/ Jimma Times)

Ethiopia under fear and spies as ruling party uses poverty to recruit members

Published 08/27/2009

World Bank (WB) officials advise top EPRDF leaders. The WB is one of the main supporters of the Meles Zenawi government.

• "With no one rushing it democratically, that (Mengistu) party was said to have had only 135,000 members, while militarily.... it kept the largest army in Africa. "
• "The Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front, EPRDF, has revised its belief in a small army when new realities developed all around. However, its most dramatic performance is the expansion of its party member base. Today it claims to have five million members"
• "Why don't you guys join the EPRDF?" He said. "I am a member because I don't want to spend a long time looking for job; I am a member because that is the only way I can study for my masters. If you are wise, you will do the same."
• "Now nearly every university student applies for membership, because the card is at least as important as the diploma and degree."
• "The recruits are organized in smaller groups called cells. The cell leaders give their members a Stassi-like order: report any misdemeanour you observe around you. This includes spying both on their party fellows and everybody else, although they are made to feel like they were not spying"
• "One of the purposes of member proliferation, he thinks, is to make everyone suspicious of the person near him, and create an environment of fear and passive obedience and acceptance. "

(By Ayenew Haileselassie, Daily Monitor)

Into a dreary and cold small Southern village in Kembata a young man was posted as a teacher in a local government school. Those were the dark days of fear under a Marxist military government. Everybody received the party newspaper, Serto Ader, and pretended that they loved it. At night this young teacher would keep himself warm burning the piles of this newspaper- of course that was a warmth to be enjoyed alone unless that teacher wanted to end up in a cold and scary prison. Back on vacation he would joke how the party doctrine kept him warm, and it was not a very funny joke. One would always wonder, "What if this young man forgot to burn the entire paper to ashes?" The fear was real in those days, one that concerned your life. After all, that regime had a bloody record in the Red Terror. There were many public security workers who spied on their compatriots. The one party leadership of the Workers Party of Ethiopia did not have to contend with another party to ascertain its hegemony, except the civil war that raged in the north. With no one rushing it democratically, that party was said to have had only 135,000 members, while militarily, where there was a more life and death contention, it kept the largest army in Africa. The teacher passed through that period and continued to witness the emergence of another hegemony in the 21st century Ethiopia, one that would stunt his career progress unless he submitted to it.

The Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front, EPRDF, has revised its belief in a small army when new realities developed all around. However, its most dramatic performance is the expansion of its party member base. Today it claims to have five million members, and it has intensified its effort to 'proselytize' more of the public. The main purpose is to avert a repetition of the 2005 election, which the opposition claimed to have won. The EPRDF, according to its own people quoted in a recent newspaper article, want to recruit enough college students and civil servants who will be baptised in revolutionary democracy enabling the party to deliver enough public goods which will lure the populace into loving it. In other words the EPRDF, after 20 years in power, seeks the legitimacy of winning in a truly free and fair election. But it wants to do it its own way. In the 2005 election the rulers of the country revealed how little they understood the electorate when they allowed almost a free election complete with a pre-election debate. They had dangerously exposed their soft underbelly and almost got it ripped apart.

Gebru Asrat, once a high level EPRDF member and president of Tigray Regional State, who has now become leader of an opposition party, Arena Tigray for Democracy and Sovereignty, says that the EPRDF strategy is to achieve the hegemony of Revolutionary Democracy and destroy every other political thinking. It also wants "to multiply its members by the millions and control the society." "Revolutionary democracy is misplaced and a misnomer," says Gebru. "It used to mean the exploitation of a capitalist system to eventually achieve socialism." It has been years since EPRDF dropped socialism and embraced the developmental state, a kind of government controlled capitalism. Now it wants its revolutionary democracy ideology to prevail in all social groups. It wants to have members from the guards to the managers and ministers as well as within family circles. It wants to ascertain that it alone will be the only opinion and decision maker, according to Gebru. He says that the EPRDF thinks that its ideology will ascertain such hegemony in 20 to 30 years, when revolutionary democracy will die naturally giving birth to liberal democracy, which, according to him, is a recipe for dictatorship.

"When that period is over, the leaders will be 80 years old and still in power," he said.

Two years ago, Gebru, says his old party set a target of having 2.6 million members in Tigray, about 60% of the population of the region.

"That is all adult population," he said.

And the adult population all over the country is targeted as potential member. One of the reasons the ruling party is working so hard to recruit more members is that most party members to whom they can give jobs have already been given jobs, according to one of the younger members who claims to have heard so during one of the trainings. That called for recruitment from among those in colleges, a move that worked to produce fake members by the thousands.

Opposition party leaders seem only slightly concerned about the EPRDF expansion, saying that it only served to undermine the ruling party itself. They see it as one segment of the ruling party's work to weaken them. The major problems for them, they say, are the continued harassment of their members and the decision to dry their financial resources. They can only receive contributions from Ethiopian passport holders and they must keep a record of all their contributors.

Dr Merera Gudina, a long time opposition leader now at the Union of Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) seems confident to win in a free and fair election, reminding that 400 out of he 600 soldiers who he said were brought to his constituency in the last election to vote for the ruling party representative had chosen to vote for him in stead.

The EPRDF recruiters say that the expansion is a three pronged approach covering colleges and universities, the civil service and MSE's (micro and small scale enterprises) separately. A lot of work has been done in the first two, while the work on the MSE's is just beginning. Nearly every student who is in college now and many of those who have just graduated are said to have rushed to membership. One thing the party has said openly: not everyone can study for a master's degree at government universities without its goodwill. This is bolstered by the recruiters who go around telling students, "let alone a second degree, you will not even find a job unless you are a member." Newer civil servants will almost all be party members; existing ones are lured to the party because that is almost the only way if they seek to hold higher office.

"If anything happened in the university compound, I am sure they will hear of it," said a university student.

By the quantity the party membership is rising so is the security network expanding at a scale that has never been matched by any other government in Ethiopia. Going back for comparison, the Stassi of the former East Germany (the GDR) is the single most important expansive and destructive network that emerges to the mind, although what is happening here is much milder. EPRDF's manner of recruitment relies on evangelists that go around preaching the gospel of revolutionary democracy. And you don't have to believe such a gospel, but you are made to believe that you have no choice.

"A stranger never comes to talk to you," said the university student. "It is always one of your friends." He always strained his young, collegiate mind debating the demerits of the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)- Ethiopia's ruling -er- front. They have been doing that in their dormitory very often. One day there were just three of them fighting it out, until a question that ended all debates came from one of them, who was already party member, although they had not known all the time.

"Why don't you guys join the EPRDF?" He said. "I am a member because I don't want to spend a long time looking for job; I am a member because that is the only way I can study for my masters. If you are wise, you will do the same. You do not have to believe in it. Think about it." Faced with the prospect of a prolonged spell of joblessness and the possibility of their first degree becoming their last as well, these two young men decided to join the party. The young rational mind had gone to work instantly. His brother who had a college diploma had been out of work for a number of years, while his friends followed the party road to employment in the fields of their training. His family earn very low incomes, and he does not want to add to the burden. Besides whenever he thought of his career, he had always thought of getting his second degree first.

"I was surprised," he said. "Nearly everyone in my class was there." Other sources, who are now "comfortably" employed, were coaxed into membership when they heard reports that earlier year graduates were struggling to find jobs. This lady, whose name, work and the college she attended will not be identified because she fears being traced, joined in the first semester of her last year. If she had waited till the second semester, her request to join the party would have been rejected. The benefit? She and all her friends now have jobs, while most of her seniors, the ones she knew, are still looking. Now nearly every university student applies for membership, because the card is at least as important as the diploma and degree.

She is mad within herself that she had to become a party member in order to get a job and unhappy that she had to prove her loyalty in more ways unacceptable to her in order to get her dream job; nevertheless, she does not regret that she has become a member. She would, otherwise, still be looking for a job.

New recruits are assigned to ethnic specific organizations with in the EPRDF: the Oromos would go to the OPDO, the Amharas to the ANDM, the Tigres to the TPLF, and those from the Southern regional state to SEPDF. The recruitment is not really so low cost as it seems in university campuses. The EPRDF has undertaken seven rounds of trainings, according to some of its cadres, involving thousands of people at a time. The lady who spoke on condition of untraceable anonymity said that her group that was taken to Zway for training involved 40 bus loads of people.

"We were all given four bottled waters a day, and the food was always meat," she said.

The meeting lasted 18 days, and she shakes her head as she thinks of the cost.

In a recent training for 7,500 teachers divided between Addis Abeba and Fiche town, the EPRDF had to pay the Addis Abeba participants 50 Br allowance per day, while those in Fiche had a budget of 70 Br per day for their food, water and accommodation expenses, although they received no cash. Each participant was given six books for the training on various topics: revolutionary democracy, EPRDF programme, initiating democratic struggle, capacity building strategy, urban and industry development, and education quality. These trainings also lasted 18 days.

Reports of the outcomes vary. A local paper recently reported that all participants in the Addis Abeba training and 90% in Fiche had filled the membership form. A cadre told this writer, however, that 45% of the participants in Fiche had rejected the call for membership, and most of them did not even take the six books with them, leaving behind a big litter.

The recruits are organized in smaller groups called cells. The cell leaders give their members a Stassi-like order: report any misdemeanour you observe around you. This includes spying both on their party fellows and everybody else, although they are made to feel like they were not spying. "If you see someone breaking a window pane, you have to report him, because he is a bad fellow." So a student had his membership repealed because he was spotted by other members while he jostled to enter first into the university cafeteria at meal time in order to get the best part of the stew. When Moslem students staged a demonstration against the decision of the Science Faculty of the Addis Ababa University not to allocate a worship site within the compound, Moslem EPRDF members allegedly gave away the plotters, who were taken away and ....

In the work place this could take place in different ways. People do not trust each other, even when they are all members, so they keep their mouths shut or they could find themselves being the issue of the next cell evaluation. Usually one person makes this mistake, and everybody else takes a lesson. They don't open up even when they think they knew each other well. At other times a member you do not know could come complaining about a service and demanding if had no right to be served unless he were a party member. Similarly someone impersonating a job applicant could come and ask if he needed to bring support letter from local government officials (meaning about his party activities). In both cases the civil servant must answer that both the service seeker and the job applicant are treated just like any other Ethiopian on the basis of right and merit.

During the 2005 election, the opposition parties, particularly the Coalition for Unity and Democracy, that had seemed close to stage a democratic coup, had reached a point where they could no longer hold secret meetings. What they said in secret was always disclosed in public particularly by an Amharic newspaper that stopped publication shortly after the election crisis was over. Some opposition party members say that there are now people with in them whom they suspect of being EPRDF moles, but they do not give them away for lack of evidence and for fear of repercussions - if they knew, they might end up being suspects, too. Gebru says that the ruling party constantly works to infiltrate his small and young party.

An EPRDF source, who talked to this writer looking around uneasily, said, "Why do you and I talk so carefully? Because we do not know who these people around us are." One of the purposes of member proliferation, he thinks, is to make everyone suspicious of the person near him, and create an environment of fear and passive obedience and acceptance.

Such information network is becoming established at universities, government offices and the general public, although the average person so far has no fear of dropping dead as a result of what he or she says. However, one has to be in such network in order to get, sometimes even keep, a job in the government hierarchy, particularly the kebeles, sub-city and city administrations. One brazen new member attached a copy of his membership ID (dubbed green card by the new members) with his CV when he applied for a job- it might have been a coincidence, but he got the job. Another man had to be pushed out of a job he kept for years. He took his case to the responsible person, one of the new generation of recruits. This responsible person was not satisfied with the reasons given for his dismissal and went to enquire and learned that the man was not a party person, and his position was not meant to be filled by someone like him.

Such criterion was applied when she and her team were recruiting several new employees. The recruiting committee interviewed all the applicants, reviewed their documents, and passed the list of the selected people to the manager. They bitterly discovered that people they had not interviewed were given the jobs; the manager did not keep the secret from them because they were all party colleagues. He said the people who were given the jobs were party members. But then that was how she got her job: she was applying everywhere, when she was informed that she had already been given an appropriate job where she was not looking.

Working party members in Addis Abeba say that they have five to six meetings every month related to the party; most take place in their work places (cell meetings). There are, however, two meetings that bring together several cells in each sub city. Nearly all of these meetings take place on normal working hours achieving party objectives at government expense. At the work place each cell member has specific activities; it could be recruiters or rapporteurs, etc. Their commitments are measured by how much they tell on their colleagues at cell meetings, how many new members they recruit, and how active they are during meetings. Such people can grow up to become executives.

In Addis Abeba, the kebele, sub-city and city administrations are not only firmly controlled by the party but all the staff are carrying out party work even though they are paid government salaries. The Administrations of all 99 kebeles each have 15 cabinet members and two counsellors (representing the youth and women's leagues)- all of them appointed by the ruling party. The two counsellors are officially there to do party job; they are given that name so that their salary will come from government coffers, according to one such person. Practically all 17 people are political appointees and they are doing party work all the time at government expense. There is plan to add three additional staff for each kebele. A new salary scale which is being considered will offer a salary of 2,600 Br (a 130 Br raise for some of the staff) plus 300 Br housing and mobile phone allowance. The chief executive officers earn 3000 Br salary plus allowance. At each of the 10 sub-cities five appointees earn a 3,600 Br salary and 400 Br allowance, while the chief executive earns a salary of 4,200 Br and 2,000 Br allowance. All of these people keep themselves as busy with party work as they do with their regular work- all on normal working hour and government pay.

Gebru Asrat adds to this saying that the Tigryan People's Liberation Front, TPLF, the dominant group in the EPRDF family, has only one office in Tigray because it actually uses government offices, employees, resources and budget to do its work.

One kebele appointee said that they recruit three directors for a school, and the most important criterion, more than education and experience, is the political credibility of the candidates.

"The reasoning is that the result that the people want shall be delivered under the leadership of EPRDF people," said this source.

This is where the teacher who taught in the south, the young lady who recently joined the civil service and the young university student all find themselves at odds with what is going on. The one finds himself in a depressing situation where his career has been called to a halt- no way up the executive ladder except through the ruling party.

"Getting an executive position is difficult," said the anonymous lady, too. "I have always wanted to become a ----. But in order to get that job, I will need, for example, to befriend people and encourage them to speak their heart, and report them if they say the wrong things about the party. So I have given up thinking about my dream job, because it will take a long time for things to change enough for me to be able to get it without party loyalty. I, like most of my friends, am keeping the membership because I have no choice. I am now looking for any job- any job- out of government." The party cadre looked uncomfortably at this writer and said, "I am not proud of what I do." The recent defection of Ermias Legesse, Bereket Simon's deputy at the Office for Government Communication Affairs, during a visit to the United States, is at least in part caused by this situation.

The university student had consulted his father before he made his choice, a choice which he has kept a secret.

"It is up to you to decide," the father told his son. "Don't just do anything that is against your conscience." With or without parental consultation thousands have made their choices. From the rank and file to the higher positions of authority the EPRDF is accumulating members that do not believe in its cause, members that want it to lose and get lost. In recent EPRDF gatherings for various groups, the ruling party has been trying to imbue its new members with the self-sacrificing commitment that the members of the Tigrian People's Liberation Front (TPLF) had displayed when they started fighting the derg regime in the 1970's.

By as much as the EPRDF is getting new members who consider their membership as pre-condition for job, it is also able to raise millions of Birr from the business community. The last election has, however, left evidences of the Front's inability to get the votes of even its members. It also had transpired that public admiration and love for EPRDF people (such as Arkebe Okubay) for public goods created did not translate into votes for the same person. One voter said at the time, "Arkebe is a good man, but he is EPRDF." EPRDF's recruiters unofficially consider higher education and government jobs as a reward for membership, while the new recruits, at least those that talked to this writer, consider it a price they are paying to earn their daily bread. Under this polarized interpretation of the same situation, will the ruling party sit and hope for the best, or will it do something outrageous to make sure that all its members voted for it?

That is yet to be seen, but Gebru does not see the ruling party benefiting out of this. Both Gebru and Merera say that the leadership of the ruling party involved the simultaneous use of its power, government resources and the security forces.

"They could rule any length of time," Gebru said. "Their life could be long under a situation where there is no coordinated opposition by the society. Finally the outcome is disaster. Look at what happened to Congo and Somalia when Mobutu and Ziad Barre went out of office." He expresses fear for what could happen when all the pent-up frustration and emotion is released one day, and adds, "That is why we say there has to be reconciliation in Ethiopia." The reconciliation issue has been raised since the beginning of the EPRDF government, but the leaders have always rejected it saying that nothing has happened that required reconciliation. Meanwhile the opposition leaders express faith that many of the new EPRDF recruits will vote for them in the next election.

The young civil servant wanted so much for things to change that she could barely hide her interest in the production of this article.

"Do you think what you write will make a difference?' "Yes." "Then you must write it quickly," she urged.

Source: Jimma Times

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Captured in Ethiopia: An American nightmare

A UW-Madison sophomore recounts her experience being detained and deported from her host country of Ethiopia.

By: Rory Linnane /The Daily Cardinal - August 26, 2009

Photo of Haramaya, where Rory stayed, photo courtesy samantha weintraub

A strong hand planted stiffly on my shoulder and sent shivers through my body, freezing every muscle as I stood on my host family’s front lawn in Ethiopia. I slowly turned as my eyes traveled up a large arm and over to the other arm, which was grasping an AK-47. I looked up at his face as he glanced back at two other armed men and his lips parted into a grin.

At this point I was halfway through a two-month summer trip to teach English in Haramaya, Ethiopia, through Learning Enterprises, a nonprofit student-run organization. Fourteen volunteers and a student program coordinator were staying with host families in eastern Ethiopia.

Capture

I was on my way to school with two other volunteers July 9 when I was stopped by the three armed men on my lawn. We later learned they worked for the Ethiopian National Intelligence Agency.

Photo: Rory in traditional dress with her host brother after his graduation from kindergarten

“You need to come with me to the police station for questioning, all of you,” the man who stopped me said.

“Why?” I demanded.

No response. Oh, right, I thought, authorities in Ethiopia don’t respond to that question. I learned it was dangerous to question their government. Any time I tried to discuss politics in a public place I was quickly hushed. As an American citizen on Ethiopian soil, I had no more rights than the Ethiopian people. A couple minutes after my foolish “why” question, we were flailing and yelling for help while the men shoved us into the back of a car.

Not knowing who was taking me or where I was going, the tears came abruptly like a kid in a grocery store who suddenly looks up to find she has lost her mother. My remaining dignity left with the breath stuttering out through my quivering mouth. I cried tears heavy with the universal fear felt by humans deprived of basic human rights. At that moment I felt perhaps the greatest connection with the Ethiopian people as I was forced to face what they struggle against every day.

Photo courtesy samantha weintraub, Photo of Rory and her students

In the next town over, we pulled into the police station where more volunteers from our program were waiting. We sat in the police office where we were watched fidgeting for hours before they told us that we were missing “a document” required for teaching in Ethiopia—a document to be discussed with officials in the capital 10 hours west, Addis Ababa. Commanded to pack all of our things for the trip to Addis, we concluded we probably wouldn’t be coming back to the town we had grown to call home.

Back at my host family’s house, trying to keep my eyes dry enough to pack my bags, I avoided looking anyone in the eyes. My efforts became futile when I opened the front pocket of my pack and found all the gifts I had planned to give my host family.

“Why are you crying?” the men asked me, laughing from behind their AK-47s.

“This is my family,” I whispered. “You are taking me from my family.”

Giving words to my emotions solidified them into a burning anger that replaced my fear and sadness. I thought of my students who waited hours on end for the chance to get into 50 minutes of class,before going home to help their family scrape up a living. They were certainly waiting at school for us now. And here was their government, ignorant and self-important, carting away free teachers and guarding us with 10 armed men in case we tried anything.

Detention

We drove all day toward Addis. In the morning we began requests for lunch that went unsatisfied, and in the afternoon we tried for dinner. Finally they gave in and we pulled over to a roadside shop. An official went to the shop and came back with a small pack of crackers for us all to split.

We kept driving into the night until we stopped at a hotel, still hours out of Addis. We were in a malaria zone. We asked to get our bug nets but were denied access to our bags. You’re not supposed to take malaria medication on an empty stomach, but I was getting bitten. I took my pill and just minutes later was keeling over. I spent the night without sleep, weak and dehydrated in the sticky lowland heat, dry-heaving over a hole in the ground overflowing with sewage, guarded by armed men with unknown objectives. The next morning we made it to the capital.

In Addis they took us straight to immigration. Again we were kept hungry, though this time we were advised to enjoy the “mental food” offered by the view from our holding room. Despite our waning energy, we kept our spirits up with songs, games and stories. Immigration officials interviewed us each individually. The officials gave each of us a different reason about what we were doing wrong in the country. My favorite was that we were “overknowledging” our students by challenging them in the classroom.

While we waited as a group during the interviews, we decided that no matter what happened, our primary goals were to stick together and to contact the U.S. embassy. We wrote the embassy’s number on skin covered by clothes and on small pieces of paper that we hoped we would be able to pass off to someone.

By the last few interviews, the officials became consistent in telling us that we had the wrong type of visa. Although airport staff told us to get tourist visas, these officials thought we needed business visas. That night they told us we had to leave the country the following day. If we had the cash on us to change our flights, we could do so; otherwise it was Ethiopian jail until our original flights left, which was a month later for me. We did not believe we had enough cash for all of us, but our goal to stick together remained intact.

Rescue

We spent that night under tight guard at a government hotel where we were still unable to contact the embassy, and the next day they drove us to the airport where we were held in a back room. After waiting all day, later that evening my blank stare at the wall was interrupted when a team of men entered the room and stated, “We are from the U.S. embassy. We are here to help you.” I bolted from my chair and smothered them in hugs and tears. The next hour was a flurry of phone calls home, information release forms and random expressions of glee.

A few hours later we were all on flights home, lessons learned. When traveling abroad it is important to be knowledgeable about the country and its government. While we were never given an official reason for our deportation, many of us believe it had to do with the ethnicity of the students we were teaching: Oromo.

Every Oromo person I talked to felt that the government actively oppresses the Oromo ethnic group as a means of maintaining power. The ruling party of Ethiopia, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, has proven it will go to great lengths to protect its power. After the 2005 national elections threatened the party’s majority in parliament, Ethiopians accused the party of intimidation at the polls and forging ballots. Hundreds were injured, killed or arrested.

In a country with such a paranoid and forceful government, we could have foreseen some trouble with serving the Oromo people without any sort of clearance from higher up. We also should have gone to the U.S. embassy as a group for information about risks and instruction on safety.

When you go to another country, you don’t take your rights with you. As romantic and adventurous as it sounds to spontaneously pack up and travel the globe, when you don’t do your homework, reality can be harsh.

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Opinion: How to make Amhara elites accept and respect self-determination! (By Fayyis Oromia)

How to make Amhara elites accept and respect self-determination!

By Fayyis Oromia*

Persuading Amhara elites to accept and respect Self-determination

Fayyis Oromia

It is clear that only Amhara elites and few Amharanized elites from other nations are against “ethnic” federalism and self-determination of nations. Genuine “ethnic” federalism is the compromise solution for all nations in the region to live together - achieving both national independence and regional integration. The position of Amhara elites regarding the federalism and self-determination made them to be not suitable to cooperate with the elites of other nations against TPLF regime. Amhara elites do prefer unconditional Ethiopian unity rather than self-determination as a precondition for the possible alliance to be forged between Amhara democratic forces and Oromo freedom fighters. Oromos tend to accept this precondition, only if Amhara elites also accept Oromos’ precondition aka making Afaan Oromo the only working language of the federation instead of Amharinya. Oromo elites make such a demand to make Amhara elites to notice how wrong is their cry for unity with Amharinya as the only federal language. Then, in a common house aka “NEW Ethiopia” they suggest to build, the working language must be only Afaan Oromo. Will they then stay to be pro Ethiopian unity and anti ethnicity, even if Amharinya will be demoted to only local language of Amhara region and if Afaan Oromo will be promoted to be the only working language of the Ethiopian federation? I am sure they will not! In case they will stay further to be pro-Ethiopianity and pro-unity as they seem to believe now, let’s then try this NEW version of Ethiopianity with Afaan Oromo instead of with Amharinya.

After reading about and observing the imposition of Amharinya at the cost of Afaan Oromo in the past one century, I just couldn’t help, but think about the main mistake Ob Minilik Caala (Aste Minilik, ”our colonizer”), Ob Qusee Dinagde, Ob. Gobena Daacee and so on did. The main mistake they did was making Amharinya the national language of the empire they did build. Being Oromos, if they could have managed to make Afaan Oromo the national language of Ethiopian empire, now we Oromos were not the ones to fight for self-determination. The whole Finfinne and other “modern” peoples in the empire would have spoken Afaan Oromo, the whole diaspora Ethiopians now would have used Afaan Oromo, even all would have claimed to be Ethiopian which is equivalent to be Oromo, not Amhara as it is now.

At present, for Amhara elites to come to their senses and comprehend why we did say so, let’s look at the following fact in short. Almost 99.9% Amharas nowadays think they are pro-Ethiopianity and anti-“ethnicity” and with that they do think that they do have moral upper-hand. For them to develop another view, let’s demote Amharinya to the local language of only Amhara region and promote Afaan Oromo to the federal language. Till now, just based on the fact that Amharinya being the federal language, they used to cry about Ethiopianity, which in essence means actually Amharanet for they know how Amharanization is still going on. When we change the role of the two languages, I am sure Oromos will start to sing about Ethiopianity, which will be equivalent to Oromummaa and, of course, they will denounce “ethnicity”. Then, Amharas will start to defend themselves from Oromonization and will denounce Ethiopianity with only Afaan Oromo as the federal language and they will be automatically pro-“ethnicity”. So, we can see how simple it is to be a moralist without understanding the mechanism behind all what we do believe.

Oromos just asked Amhara elites to accept Afaan Oromo as the only federal language to neutralize their attempt of maintaining and talking about Ethiopian unity with Amharinya as the only working language of the federation and, of course, with that making Amharanization process as something normal to be accepted and lived by all nations in the region. Few Amhara elites demand that the public decide on which language to be the working language of the federation/union. But to ask the public to decide on the type of language to be used as the federal language, we first need to ask the public what type of sovereignty they want to build: “YES to Union” or “NO to Union!” Why doesn’t the democracy of Amhara elites include this? Some of these elites accuse Oromos to have grudge against Minilik. The resentment of Oromos against Minilik is fact, but not only that, unfortunately almost all Amhara elites now want to perpetuate the same policy of Minilik with a pretext of Ethiopian unity. Furthermore, some Amhara elites cry foul about a possible Oromo hegemony just for the fact that Oromos are demanding Afaan Oromo be the federal language. Oromo elites, who make such a demand, are not actually promoters of Oromo hegemony. But just to show Amhara elites how the reverse of the effort to dominate Oromos further can be painful to them, Oromo elites say: “if Amhara elites want Ethiopian unity (one common house), then they should see also what it looks like to be under Oromo domination replacing their own domination”. In general, why do Amhara elites talk and preach democracy, whereas they do exclude the right of the public to decide on its destiny per referendum aka self-determination? If they must think democratically as they usually claim to do, then they need to think that there is no half-baked democracy!

Oromo elites do argue that the main conflict factor in the region is the language factor! If Amhara elites disagree with this premise, then let’s try it practically: let’s demote Amharinya to only Amhara region and promote Afaan Oromo to the language of the federation! Surely Oromos will then accept the unconditional unity, which Amhara elites do demand and they will denounce “ethnicity” as well even can reject the right of nations to self-determination! Hopefully, Amhara elites will be ready to influence all their relatives to learn Afaan Oromo without any objection. Then, Oromos would be very happy if Amharas prefer not to fight for self-determination, but only struggle for democracy, unity, justice, equality, peace and prosperity.

Looking back to the history and trying to judge the status quo, all elites of each nation do have their own interpretation. Preferable is to look into the future and ask the question: what options regarding a solution for the language conflict do we have if we want to live together?

- Union of independent nations based on self-determination, all nations having their own languages in their respective national areas and using English as international communication language
- Unity in a federated Ethiopia with Afaan Oromo as the only federal language
- Unity with English as the only federal language
- Unity with Afaan Oromo and Amharinya as federal languages and
- Unity with Amharinya as the only federal language (the status quo which should be changed by any means as far as Oromos are concerned)

The pro-democracy Amhara elites seem to prefer the fourth option. They also started to see that the fifth option is the failed project. Oromo elites do suggest the first option as the best solution. But, if Amhara elites reject self-determination of nations and persist to have unconditional Ethiopian unity, then let them test the second option so that they can understand what it means to be called “Ethiopian” in such a condition, which means in reality Oromian, in contrast to the status quo where Ethiopian means Amharian! If Amhara elites reject the second option, it is then expected from them as educated gentle people to have an empathy for Oromo elites, who are rejecting the fifth option, instead of vilifying such Oromo elites as “exclusionists” as they usually seem to say. Why should Oromo elites be exclusionists for the sake of demanding this role exchange of the two languages, whereas Amhara elites have been seen as inclusive while just propagating the exclusive fifth option? To avoid such language conflict, then of course, it is also possible to opt for the third option, which is the most pragmatic choice in the already globalized world.

It is natural to ask, why did TPLF prefer and promote Amharinya at the cost of Afaan Oromo in the last 18 years. The answer is clear: TPLF wants that the conflict between the two BIG nations continue, so that it can rule further easily. Just because of the language privilege they had, Amharas are still seen as oppressive by almost all oppressed nations in the empire including Oromos, even though Amharas, nowadays, are as oppressed and exploited as other nations by Meles’ regime. TPLF could have solved this language conflict between Amharinya and Afaan Oromo by making either both of them the working language of the federation or by limiting both of them to their respective states and making only English the working language of the federation. Now it seems that the TPLFites privilege Amharinya and cry about Ethiopianity as well about unity only as long as they do have lucrative power in Finfinne palace, whereas Amhara elites do the same as long as the do have this language privilege.

When we choose certain language as a common communication between different autonomous/independent nations, we need to consider its economical expediency and its international usage. Till now nations in the Ethiopian empire were obliged to learn Amharinya as the national language, because of the domination by Abyssinians (even including Tigreans who accepted Amharinya as the only federal language), who do endorse this language. It is clear why they do it, that is simply because of the political and economical advantage they do get. Here is one example to be taken in to consideration. Amharas usually cry for unconditional Ethiopian unity just for the reason that they know what an advantage they do have as far as Amharinya is the working language of the empire. Accordingly, they do oppose genuine “ethnic” federation just for it undermines their language domination.

The question to be asked by other nations now is: can the pro-democracy Amhara forces choose to settle for the alternative of using the language of all nations at their respective national areas or should Amharas be compelled to accept such a fact of allowing nations to use their respective languages as an alternative to Amhara elites’ refusal of recognizing a union based on self-determination? I know Weyanes will accept even an alternative of separation of nations to build their own independent states as soon as they sense that they may lose power in Finfinne palace.

To compel Amhara forces to accept a union based on the national self-determination, we just have to demote Amharinya to be used only in Amhara region and promote Afaan Oromo to be the federal language. Then, they will see that Ethiopianity will not be equivalent to Amharanet (as it is now), but it will be the same to Oromummaa. In such a scenario of Oromummaa being equivalent to Ethiopianity, Oromo freedom fighters will definitely start to be pro-Ethiopianity against “ethnicity” and then Amharas will begin to defend their identity by opting for self-determination of Amhara people, so that they support “ethnicity” and reject Ethiopianity aka Oromummaa. This way, Amhara elites can comprehend what it means to struggle for national independence with or without regional union.

The current attempt of Amhara elites to make both Afaan Oromo and Amharinya the national languages of Ethiopia, which they want to build in the future, is disadvantages for other smaller nations in the empire. Amhara elites opted to this alternative just to make Amharinya again be the language of all regions including Oromia, the option they don’t have now. As far as Oromos are concerned, Afaan Oromo being the federal working language is not bad, so long Amharinya will not be imposed on Oromia, but Amharinya should be the working language of only Amhara region and, of course, that of the federation besides Afaan Oromo.

For other nations in the empire, this may mean to learn four languages instead of the present only three. But I do argue that these nations need to learn only two languages: their own mother tongue and an international language aka English. Why should their children be obliged to learn Afaan Oromo and Amharinya and be stressed with additional useless languages, whereas Amhara children learn only Amharinya and English, so that being free from such stress. So my suggestion is that all children from all nations in the empire should have the privilege given to Amhara children: learn only their respective national language and an international language.

If Amhara elites come to their sense and learn to accept the common ground for all nations aka genuine “ethnic” federalism, it would have been very easy to forge an effective alliance of Amhara democratic forces and Oromo freedom fighters against the dictatorial TPLF regime. Just to clear the confusion produced by hitherto articles on similar topics, other names used for genuine “ethnic” federalism are: language-based federalism, internal self-determination, national independence with regional union, self rule with shared rule, national self determination with multi-national democracy, unity with liberty, union of independent nations, United States of Ethiopia, autonomous nations in federated Ethiopia, national independence in an integrated region (e.g independent Oromia in an integrated Ethiopia)… etc. In short, the best instrument to compel Amhara elites so that they accept and respect the compromise solution aka genuine “ethnic” federalism and to make them recognize the right of nations to self-determination is to demote Amharinya to be the local language and promote Afaan Oromo to be the federal language, i.e a transformation of the empire to a NEW Ethiopia with Afaan Oromo as the National Language!

*The Opinions of The author Do Not Necessarily Reflect The Opinions of OromiaTimes.

Yaamicha Walgahii Uummata Oromoota Washington DC fi Naannawa Jirtan Maraaf

Yaamicha Walgahii Uummata Oromoota Washington DC fi Naannawa Jirtan Maraaf

Haala Qabsoon Bilisummaa Oromoo keessa jiruu fi fulduree qabsoo kana ilaalchisee maree bal'aa Washington DC keessatti gaggeessuuf Addi Bilisummaa Oromoo ballama qabatee jira. Mareen kun kan ballamame Fulbaana/ September 5, 2009 yoo tahu Hayyu Dureen ABO Jaal Daawud Ibsaa walgahii kana irratti aragmuudhaan ibsaa fi marii garbaachisu gaggeessu.

Kanaafuu, haala QBO keessa jiru hubachuu qofaa osoo hin tahin haala qabsoon kun galmaan gahu irratti mari'achuu fi yaada kenuudhaan deeggersa qabsichi gaafatu gumaachuuf Fulbaana 5, 2009 waaree booddee galma Unification Church jedhamutti akka argamtu kabajaan afeeramtee jirta.

Guyyaa: Fulbaan/September 5, 2009

Teessoo:
Unification Church

1610 Colombia rd.NW

Washington DC 20009

Sa'aa 2:00 - 6:00 waaree booda ( 2pm - 7 pm )

IUOf!

Waajjira ABO Koonya Waashington DC irraa.

Mootuumaa Oromiyya Ijaaruun Dirqama (Dr Getachew Jigi Demekssa)

Mootuumaa Oromiyya Ijaaruun Dirqama

Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa

OSA confirence 2009



”OSAn Oromoo beektotaa gosa hunda of keessati amatee waan jiruuf rakko Oromoo hunda furuuf dandeeti waan qabuuf rakko kana keessa akka nu basuu dhamacha beektoon Oromoo hund ilee akka OSA cimnaa dhabatan ni gaafaadha”



Kabajamaa Dura ta’aa OSA DR Ababa Adunya
Kabajamtoota Miseensoota OSA
Kabajamtoota Keessummoota Hirmattoota,

Guyyaa Har’aa kana barreeffama Tokkummaan Mootuummaa Oromomiyyaa Bilisommtee Ijaaruun dirqama jedhu waltajjii kana irratti dhiheessuu fi rakkoo uummata Oromoo isin waliin mari’achuuf carraa naa kennameef maqaa uummata Oromoo fi GPOn qaama kaanaf galata dhiyeesuu barbaada.

Rakkoo Oromoo hundaa ni beektu, waggaa 20 ol qoorannoo fi xiinxala bala’a fi dheeraan dhihaachaa turuu anis nan dhagaa’a. Kanaafuu ani dhaamsaa fi furmaata maal goonu waan jedhu firemwork xiqqaa waliin dhiheessee yaada namoonni dhiheessan hundaa akka irratti mari’anun barbaada.

Uummatni Oromoo Gaanfa Afriikaa keessatti bilisummaa dhabee rakkoo dhala namaaf hin malle keessatti dararamaa jiru kun beektoota Oromoo irraa abdii guddaa Eegata. Oromoon bilisummaa aragtee biyya isaa irratti abbaa ta’ee beektoota isaa walin guddina biyyaa kara hunda fiduuf of amantan hojjetee jireenya isaa jijjiiruuf hawwii gudaan nu Eegachaa jira. Fedhii uummta kana fashalesuf diin waan hunda gochaa jira.

Ergaan koo inni guddan Wayyaaneen Qabsoo Bilisummaa fi Qabsoo siyaasaa hunda dabalatee fulaa isaa jijjiree gara waldhaabbdi Amanta, fi Gandatti akka jijjiramu gochuuf karoora ol’anatti qoophesun yeroo dheeraaf hojjeecha turan. Karoora isaan kana salphatti kan hojii irraa olchuu kan danda’aan Qabsoo Oromoo kessatti ta’ee jira. Uummani biyyati hundi qabsoo bilisumaa fi qabsoo mootuummaa jijjiru dhisaan wal dhaabdee amanta fi Gandan hunda’ee irratti akka xiyefatan godhame. Biyya keessatti saba fi sablamiin hundi lamumman utuu hin tanee, Amantan ykn Naannoon akka wal qoodan, akka wal loolan gocha jiru. Fknf wal dhaabdee amanta Iluabba Boraa, Arsi, Wallaga, Harargee kessatti deemsifame. Naannoon ammo Gujii fi Boorana, Somale fi Oromoo, Gumuzii fi Oromoo, Afari fi Oromoo, Amhara fi Oromoo kkf adeemsifama jira. Biyya ala fi dhaabbilee qabsa’oota keessatti ammo Nannoo fi Amanta akka baballatuu gochuun Di’aspora ala hundi fi dhaabbileen siyaasa huda gidutti digumsa geesisa jiru. Ijoolee Oromoo heddun immo erga diina kana utuu hin hubatiin rawwacha jiru. Waan kun asi irratti qoofa dubanee waan xumuruu mitti garu bakka geenye hundatti gocha kana hubachisun barbaachisadha.

Diinni Oromoo soba dhugaa fakkeessee odeessuun aanga’oota addunyaatti michoomee gargaarsaa fi deggersa argatee ittiin waggoota hedduuf nu garboonfate. Oromoon ammoo haqa qabu wal hubachiisee wal tumsuun rakkoo isaa Addunyaatti ibsachuu dadhabuun isaa nama gaddisiisa. Rakkoon kun kan irraa maddu wal tumsuu dhabuu, odeefannoo wal jijjiiruu dhabuu, caasaa adda addaa diriirfachuu ahanqachuu, miidiyaa fi qunnamtii cicciimaa uummachuu dhabuu, qunnamtii kanuma jirutti iyyuu fayyadamnee yakka diinaa saaxiluu irra olola wal irratti oofuun wal dhadhabsiisuu ta’e. Kottaa haa mari’annuu diina irratti ololuu moo of irratti ololuutu furmata? Yaada furmaataa maddisiisuu fi hojii qabatamaa hojjechuu dhiifnee waan nu diigu odeessuun hojii guddaa taatee jirti, rakkoon kan dubbatamuuf furmata barbaaduuf malee rakkoo odeessuu qofaan furmata ta’uu hin danda’u.

Paltookiin qabsoo akka gargaruuf yaadamee baname utuu dhaaba waggaa 40 diinni ittfayyadamee utuu diiguu fi uummata Oromoo facaasuu argaa jirra. Paaltoki keessaan diinni gugatee ilmaan abbaa tokkoo Oromoo kan wal nyaachisaa jiru, yamuu ta’uu miidiyaan kun faayidaa guddaa akkuma qabu ergaa diinaa dabarsuun illee balaa guddaa qabaachuu isaa hubannee hin jirru. Raadiyoo, TV, fi website dhaan kan odeessu rakkoo, hama, diiggaa, olola, yoo foyyee qabate wareegama qabsa’ootaa dhageenya. Oduun baqattootaa biyya keessaa fi biyya alaa, kan dhaabaa fi kan uummtaa rakkoo qoofa ta’ee jira. Beekaan keenya kan odeessu rakkoo, hogganni kan odeessu rakkoo! Gabaasa fi ergaan emailiin argannu hundaa rakkoo hima. Mariin godhamu waa’ee rakkoo, xumurri isaa rakkoo dabalataa fi diigumsaa ta’ee jira. Namni walga’ii deemu qoophaa’ee kan dhaqu diguu ykn hooggana balaleefachuuf malee yaada furmataa kan maddisiisu nama murasa ta’aa jira. Nama yaada furmataa haaraa maddisiisu illee inaaffaan yaada isaa dhaga’uu diduun rakkoo uummata hameessa jiru. Ummtaa keenyaaf fi hegeree Oromiyaaf yaadi dhiyataa turan hundi lafatti gatamanii rakkoon uummatichaa akka itti dheeratu taasifame. Dantaa sabaa fi uummataaf hojjechuun hafee dantaa murnaaf fedhii nam-tokkeef gugachuutu babala’te. Kanaaf adeemsa akkanaa asi irrati dhaabnee Dhaabbilee Oromoo hundi tokkummaan gara yaada furmataa fi hojii qabatama Tokkummaan Ummaanee Mootuummaa Oromomiyyaa Ijaaruun dirqama qabna jedha. Dhaamsi koo iini jalqabba kana, muranoo fi murtee keessantuu Oromoo hunda irraa barbadama. Wagga dhufuu utuu hin tanee deebi atatama barbaadna.

Waan ani dubadhu kana hin beektan jechuu koo miti garuu, gaaffii, haawwii fi feedhi bilisummaa uummatichi qabu fi hangan irraa quba qabu isiinti dhaamachun fedha. Kanaaf rakkoo uummata kanaa irratti xiyyefannoo gochuun akka irratti mari’annee furmaata barbadnuuf waanan gudunfadhee keessaa xiiqqoo dhiheessuu barbaada:-

1. Rakkoo waliigala fi yaakaa uummata keenyaa irra gahaa jiru.

Uummatni Oromoo Miliyoona 40n lakkaawamuu abba biyyuumaa isaa fi mirga hundaa molqamee, seera ittin bulmaataa qabu dhorkamee, qabeenya isaa irratti ormii abbaa itti ta’ee, misooma fi guddina biyyaa keessatti akka hin hirmanne taasifamee jira. Afaan fi aadaan Oromoo akka dhokatu taasifame, tokkummaan isaa diigamee, mirga uumamaan inni qabu irra molqame jira. Oromoo hidhun guyya hara’aa kana ilee daran haamata jira.
A. Mirga uummata Oromoo sarbamee fi dararama irra gahaa jiru;

Dhalli namaa mirga dhalootaa fi seeraan egamuufii qabu qaba. Uummatni Oromoo garuuu biyya isaa keessatti lammii lammafaa ta’uu gadi ta’ee seera addunyaa mirga bineensaa kunuunsuuf labsame illee dhabee jira. Jaarsa jaarti, dhalaa fi dhiraa, beekaa fi wallaalaa barataa fi qootatee bulaan hundi Oromoo ta’ee waan dhalate qoofaf cubbuu fi yakki biyya lafaa hundi irratti raawwatamaa jira.

Waan na namadeese keessaa tokko filannoo wayyaanee darbe irratti nammoota Qinjjit deggeran Finfinnee keessatti ajjeefaman 193 midiyaa fi uummata Addunyaa biratti yammuu iyyaatamuuf Oromiyaa keessatti wayta lubbuun Oromotaa 400 ol ta’u bade addunyaa jalaa dhokachuu isaa ti.

Mootummaan Ameerikaa goolessitoota/Terriorists/ ittiin lolla jeedhee meeshaa ammayaa fi Konkolaatota ammayaa inni waayyaneef kenne meeshaa ittiin uummata Oromoo fi uummatoota Gaanfa Afriikaa biroo ittiin fixan taasifame. Sirna dimookraasii ittiin ijaarra jechuun gargaarsa wayyaaneen mootummoota dhihaa irraa guurtu sochii dimookraasii ittiin hukkaamsuuf oolfame.

Bulchiinsi pirezidanti Buush diktaatora Ityoophiyyaan walii galee yakka barattootaa fi uummata Oromoo irratti raawwatamee ukkaamsee hambse. Ameeriikaan deggersa Diktaatora lubbuu kumatamaa fixaa jiru kanaaf gootu amma illee itti fuftee jirti. Fixiinsi lubbuu geggefamee:-

1. Fincila Diiddaa Garbumaan wal qabatee lubbuun barattootaa fi uummta nagaa dhume guyyaa tokko ifa ba’a,

2. Finfinnee Magaalaa guddittii Oromiyaa jijjiramuu mormachuun lubbuu bade, hiidhaa fi hojii irra ari’amuun;

3. Deggertoota ABO jedhamuun Godina Oromiyya hunda keessatti Oromootni dhoksaa fi ifatti dhuman Harargee (Gaara Sufi)tti kan dhuman dabalatee dhokatee hafe;

4. Filannoon wal qabatee Miseensoon WFDO fi OBK Oromiyya keessatti dhoksaadhan halkan guuramanii ajjeefaman fi guyyaa saafaa kan ajjeefaman manatu beeka;

5. Seena biyyati keessati Miseensoon Paarlaama 12 lammi Oromoo irra yeroo tokko dhibamani biyya ba’uun fi uumman kumoota heedun lakka’amu biyya ari’atamu ;

6. Uummtaa fi Uummata Amantaa fi Gosaan walitti naaquudhan walitti buu’iinsa dhalateen kan dhume kuma heduutti lakkaawama;

7. Seeran ala murte malee Oromo 40,000 mana hidhat darbtamu fi murte siyyassan Oromooti du’ii murta’uun isaa bor wayyaanee mal akka isaan eguu waan beekanf.

Mootummaan TPLF diimokiraasiin biyya Itoophiyaa keessatti akka hin hojjenne sababa inni ittisuuf hanga tokko isnii himuun barbaada:-

a. Mallas Zeenaawwii ‘Silent Killer’ fixiinsa sanyii hiriyaa hin qabne waan raawwatee jiruuf yoo tayitaa irra bu’e waan addunyaan kanaan dura hin beeknetu ifa ba’aa;

b. Mallas qabeenya biyyaattii harka 80% ol deggertoota isaa waliin dhuunfatee waan jiruuf gaafas kunis saaxilamee harkaa bahuuf deema. Waan ta’eef aangoo gadi dhiisuu hin barbaadu; Kubaniyan TPLF 1600 ol ta’uu malaqa biyya basa jiru ;

c. Sabaa fi sab-lamoota walitti buusuun lubbuu hedduu waan balleesseef gocha duguuginsa sanyiin gaafatamuun isaas waan hin oolle ta’uu waan beekuuf; Lammi biyyati keessa Oromoo qoofaa irra meshaa waraana hikachisun Oromoo ficisisan ;

d. Deggersa uummataa waan hin qabneef sirna diimokiraasiin filaannoon dhuggaa yoom illee akka jiraatu hin barbaadu;

e. Lammiiwwan ollaa keenyaa Somaalota sababa tokko malee daangaa ce’ee fixiinsa dhala namaa dalageef akka hin gaafatamneef taayitaa irraa bu’uu hin barbaadu;

Mallas Zeenaawwii fi TPLF filannoo bara 2005 irratti injifatamanii garuu humnaan aangoo irra turan. Uummatni akka isaan hin barbaanne filannoo kana irratti sirriitti itti agarsiise. Aanga’ooti addunyaa keessattuu USA fi UK murtii uummataa kana irra tarkaanfachuun deggersa isaan diktaatora kanaaf godhan nama gaddisiisa. Yakka dugguugaa sanyii dhala namaa irratti Itoophiyaa fi biyya ollaa keessatti raawwatame hundatti kan itti gaafatamu Mallas Zeenaawwii ti. Sababi isaas tarkaanfiin kami iyyuu biyyattii keessatti rawwatamu murtee Mallas malee waan hin rawwatamneef. Kana yammuu jennu namootni gochaan kun yakka ta’uu isaa utuu beekanii murtee kana raawwatan hundi gaafatama jalaa hin bahan.

B. Oromoon Misooma Dinagdee fi Hawaasummaa irraa ala ta’uu isaa;

Qabeenya Oromoo mootummaa Federaalaan guuramee galu keessaa illee Bajata deggersa Naannoo Oromiyaaf kennamu madaala kamiin iyyuu xiqqaa dha. Bajata waggaatti federaala irra Gargaarsa (subside) lammii Tigiraay tokkoof qarshiin 500 yeroo ramadamu lammii Oromoo tokkoof garuu waggaatti qarshii 70 hin guutu. Kana keessaa immoo Yeroon bajata gadi dhiusuu daangessuun erga yeroon darbee gadi dhisu, booda immoo hanqina humna raawwachiisu dhabiinsaan hojii irra oluu dadhabe jechuun Miliyoona hedduu bajata gubate jedhanii naannoo Tigraayitti ergu.

Bu’uura misoomaaf kan oolan karaan, ibsaan, telekomunikeshiniin, bishaan qulquluun, jaal’isiin, diirreen xiyyaaraa, Oromiyaa keessatti oduun malee qabatamaan hojjetame hin jiru. Qonnaan Oromiyaa keessaa Xaa’oo utuu biyyoon hin qoorataminii fi xaa’oo sadarkaa isaa hin egane dhaabbata daldalaa TPLFn gurguramu qotee bulaa Oromootti diriqiin itti gurguruun lafa Oromiyaya summii biyyoo balleessuuuf (Soil Acidity) akka saaxilamu godhanii jiru. Misooma qonnaa Oromiyyaa keessaa akka kanaan badee qootatee bulaan Oromoo seenaa isaa keessatti beela hin beekne belaaf saaxilamee jira.

Tigiraay keessatti karoorri Barnootaa, fayyaa, bishaan dhugatii uummata waliin ga’uuf midhaan nyaataan of danda’uu sagantaa addunyaa Miliyeniyeem bara 2015 xumuramuuf karoorfame mootummaan naannoo Tigraayiif waan hundaa guuteefii ammuma iyyuu xumramee jira. Kan Oromiyaa garuu hin egalamne yoon jedhe hin dogogorre, Miidiyaatti dubachuu fi waan NGO tokko tokko hojjetan jiraachuu ni mala garuu, Godina 17, Aanaalee 200 Gandoota 6200 ol ta’an keessatti manni barumsaa fi Kellaan fayyaa ganda hundaa wal ga’ee jedhame yoo gaafatame nami mirkaneesu hin jiru. Uummati 25,000 Buufata fayyaa tokko uummati 75,000 Hospitaala ammayyaa tokko argachuu qaba kan jedhuu karoorri kun Tigraayi keessatti malee Oromiyaa keessatti hin hojjenne. Jal’isiin Tigraay ganda hundaa keessatti humna mootora xixiqqaan qotee bulaan fayyadamuu Oromoof maaliif hin yaadamne. Horsiisee bulaan Oromoo bishaan dhabee horii isaa walin dhumaa jiru lammii sablammoota biraa hidhachiisanii itti bobbaasuun fixuun maaliif ?. Akasiin Oromoo baleessan Oromiyya dhufachuu yaalaa jiru.

Seera barnootaa fi kitaaba barnootaa jijjiruun barataan Oromoo seenaa naannoo isaa barachuu dhorkamee ol aantummaa Tigraayi fi waa’ee seenaa Aksuumii fi tokkummaa empaayera Itiyoophiyaa ijaaruu akka barataniif godhama jira. Kitaaba dabbalootna TPLF oogummanin barreessamanii fi Mana maxansaa wayyaanee Meegaatti maxansiifameetu qarshii milyoonaan lakkaawamu itti gurguratanii ol antummaa Tigray faarsuun ijoollee keenya ittiin sammuu doomsaa jiru. Oromummaa baleessan Ityoophiyyumma ijaraa jiru.

Lakkobsa Ummataa Oromoo dhoksudhan lakkobsaa dura turee irra ilee gadii hanqisan ka’uudha baajetaa haqa fi bu’uura misoomaa akka hin arganee goodhani jiru ;

Finfinneen irraa Oromiyyan Galii argachuu qabu seeran murta’ee waggoota 18 akka hin arganee TPLF dhorkamee jira OPDOn Oromoof qabsa’uuf dandeeti hin qabdu ;

Afaan Oromoo Afaan Biyyoleessa akka ta’uu falmaa WFDOn gegesa jiru TPLF harkati cufee jira. WFDO filaannoo bara 2010 ti lammi isaa bakka bu’ee wayyanee kan gafatuuf deemu Afaan Oromoo Afaan Biyyolessa ni ta’aa moo hin ta’uudha ? Deebiin TPLF fi OPDOn deebisan jireenya isaan murtessuf deema yoo dhuggan jirteef ?

Sagantaa TV afaan Oromoo qabsoo meeqaan argame hanguma ta’eefuu TV federaalaa irraa biyya alaatti tamsafamu STVO jedhanii guutummaatti sagantaa dhaaba maxxannee wayyaanee OPDO qofa dabarsutti jijjiiruun sana iyyuu biyya keessatti daanggeessan. Miseenstni Paarlaamaa illee uummta keenyaaf akka hin falmneef dhiibamnee biyyaa akka baanu taasifamne. Yeroo ammaa kana ammoo TPLF sagantaa hunda jijjiiree Sabaa fi Sab-lammii biyya sana keessaa balleesse Impaayeraa jaaruuf fiigaa jira. Labsii dhihoo kana baase keessatti Kitaaba Herregaa ala warri kaan akka jijjiiraman gochaa jiru, kana keessaa barreefami kan dura waa’ee mirga sabaa fi sablammii ibsan, seenaa uummataa fi aadaa fi afaan uummataa calaqqisan hunda jijjiruuf murteefatanii jiru. Yeroo ammaa kana Oromootni ala jirru seenaa Oromoo, qabeenya, fayyaa fi barnoota kan ilaaluun fuula hundaan barreessinee biyya akka galu taasisuu bannan dhalooti dhufu seenaa Tigraay qofa barachuuf dirqisiifamaa akka jiru hubachuu qabna.

C. Oromoon Qabeenya isaa guutumaatti TPLFn dhunfatamuu fi saamamuu ilaalchisee;

Oromoon maqaaa investimentiin lafa isaa saamame, uummati lafa isaa irra buqqa’e beenyaa madalawaa hin taaneen ari’amuu isaa caalaa abba qabeenyaa lafa isaa fudhatu biratti illee dursi keennameefii akka qacaramu hin taasifamne. Investeroonni lafa fudhatan, ashuura mootummaa naannoof galuu malu miliyoona hedduu hin kafalle, uummati keenya carraa mana barumsaa, buufata fayyaa kkf ykn investera irraa ykn mootummaa naannoo irraa argachuu qaban hin arganne. Waan jedhaa jiru kanaaf Kaaba Oromiyaa hanga Kibbaatti, Baha Oromiyaa hanga Dhihaatti fakeenya hedduu fi kubaaniyaa hedduu maqaa isaanii isnii dhiheessuu ni danda’ama.

Maqaa abbaa qabeenyaa (investerii) jajjabeessuu jedhuun ilmaan Tigraayi l Oromiyaa lafa qonnaa fi albudaa erga qoodatanii booda isa hafe froottan isaanii ykn hiryoota isaanii biyya alaa keessattuu biyyoota Arabbaatti gurgurachaa jiru. Namoota lammii biyyaa ta’an muraasa biyya alaa irraa kottaa lafa fudhaa jechuun lafuma Oromoo Oromootti gurgurachaa jiru. Tooftaa kanaanis siyaasaa isaanii akka deggeran hawwachaa jiru. Akka kanaan nammooti horii fi garaa isaanii jaallatan (money lovers) tokko tokko biyyatti galanii Wayyanneetti harka kennachaa jiru. Inveestimentii Ityoophiyaa dugda duuba dirqama hedduutu jira. Keessaahuu abbootii qabeenyaa Oromoo dirqama dachaatu irra jira. Maallaqa Ityoophiaya keessa galchee irratti abba ta’uu yoo barbade waan wayyanneen jettu fi dirqama isheen laattu hunda raawwachuu qaba. Kanaafuu Inveesteriin ykn abbaan qabeenyaa Oromoo biyya keessa jirus ta’e ala irraa Ityoophiyaatti galu hundi OPDO ta’uuf dirqama. Yeroo ammaa immoo qondaalota Mootummoota biyya adda addaa dabalatee maallaqa seeraa ala horatan lafti kennameefii Ityoophiyaa keessaatti investi gochaa jiru, warra kana keessaa Pirezidantii Djibutii, Pirezidaantii Sudaan, Keniyaa, Saudi Arabiya, biyyoota arabaa fi kan biroo hedduutu lafti Oromoiyaa akka badhaasaatti kennamaafii jira. Wayyaanoti lafa Oromootiin fira bitachaa jiru. Qabeenyan Oromoo TPLF hirachaa jiru fi maqa Investmentiin gurguraachaa jiru kun seera kamin iyuu haqa qabeesa waan hin tanef bor uummataa Oromoof waan deebi’uuf namoon fi dhaabbileen daldaalaa maqa inveestimentin qabeenya Oromoo samaama jiru kana keessati akka hin hirmane Gummin Paarlaamaa Oromoo balinan akeekachisa cima dabarse jira.

Yakki eenyummaa Oromoo balleessuuuf dalagamaa jiru saamichaa fi lafa isaa irraa buqqisuu kan caale ammoo xuriin waarshaa qilleensaa fi bishaan summeesu, xaa’oo qonnaa biyyoo summeesuu fi kan qonnaa abaaboo ykn daraaraa keessaa lafa Oromiyaa mancaasaa jiru lubbuu lammiiwwan keenyaa hedduu galafachuu irra dabree, hegere Oromoo fi biyya Oromoo balleessuuf ta’e jedhamee hojjetamaa jira. Kun ammuma dhaabbachuu baayyee yaaddessaa dha. Kan dhaabsisuun qaama qabsoo bilisummaa deemsisaa jirruu ti. Fakkeenyaaf lixa Wallgaa gutuumaa keessatti biyyoon xaa’oon summaa’ee uummati qonnaan bulu rakkoo guddaa keessa jira. Uummata lafti qonnaa isaa manca’e lubbuu isaa baraaruuf qonnaa naannoo bifa isaa jijjiiruun homisha midhaanii irraa gara bunaa, Urgooftuu horsiisa kannisaa fi kkf-tti jijjiruun dirqama. Eeenyu kana haa godhu? Yeroo bifaa qonnaa jijjiramuu kana keessa uummati akka hin beelofneef sagantaa gargarsaa (Safty Net) jedhamuu jalatti gurmeessuun jireenyi uummatichaa karaa mootummaa akka wabii argatu Paarlaamaan gaafatamaa turu gurri dhaga’u hin argane.Waan jennu kana hundaaf furmaati Walumaa gala mootummaa kana achi kaafnee uummati Oromoo aangoo politikaa harka isaa galfatee ofiin of bulchu malee saamicha, cunqursaa, gidiraa fi dhiphiin uummata keenya irraa hin dhaabbatu.

Sagantaa qabeenya uumamaa fi uummata Oromoo Oromiyaa keessaa balleessuu kana keessatti Bosonni Oromiyaa guutumaatti fkn. bosonni Baallee, Arsii, Gujii, Harargee, Iluu Abbabooraa, Wallagaa fi bakkoota biroo akka badu taasifamaa jira.Bineensotaa fi qabeenyi uumamaa biroos kana keessa dhabamaa jiru. Gocha lammiiwwan Oromoo fi qabeenya uumaa Oromiyaa mancaasuu kana saaxiiluun dhaabbilee miti- mootuummaa qabeenya kana baraaruuf hojjetan waliin sochii cimaan hatattamaan godhamuu qaba. Wayyaneen Hoji fi Ta’iitan biyyati ifaati Tigroota qoofan akka Oganamuu godhamee jira. Haaluma kana sochii biyyati Malas jaalati Minsterootan hojeetama ture bakka 5ti qoodani hundu Malas jala erga galanni booda malas jalati namoota lammi Tigiray tananti guyya guyyan akka gabbasan godhaman jiri. Yaaka Fixiinsaa Sanyi wayyanen Geesisuf deemtuuf of qopheesu. Sababi isaa Humni waraana biyyati ilmaan Tigiree qoofa ta’ee jira. Ajaajooti Waraana Ol’anannon biyyat hundi Tigree ta’ee jira, kanaafu furmata hatatamaaf qoophee addaa goochuu qabna. Gocha kana of irra facisuuf Oromoo qoopha’aa hin jiru. Kanaaf atataman jeequmsa dhaabbilee Oromoo giduu jiru kana dhaabnee, qabsoo gara diinati deebsu qabna.
2. Dhaabbillee siyaasaa Oromoo giddutti rakkoo mulatu

Dhaabbileen siyaasaa Oromoo walaba ta’an baay’achuu fi ijaramuun uummata Oromoof sodaa miti, caaraa dha malee, biyya keessaa fi biyya alaa dhaabbilee Oromoo jirachuun karaa hundaa bu’aa qaba, Garuu dhaabbilee heedumeesuun qoofa isaati bu’aa hin qabu. Dhaabbilee bayyachuun matan isaa malatoo wal shakuuti. Hawaasi biyya hin ijaarratin jiruu fi qabsootti jiruu fi diina tokkoo waliin qabu jaarmayaa siyaasaa baayyifate ilaalchaan yoo qoodame rakkoo qaba. Ammoo dhaabbileen Oromoo jiran baayyeen isaanii gandaa fi gosa irratti ijaaraman yoo ta’eef adeemsi akkanaa tokkummaa sabichaaf balaa qabaata. Hawaasi ilaalchaan qoqqoodame tokkummaan bilisummaa isaaf lolachuu irratti dhibdee qabaata. Inni biyya keessa jiruu rakkoo uummata keenya irra ga’uu iyyaachuun, eenyu uummata keenya irratti yaaka hojjetaa akka jiruu galmeesuun, saamiicha qabeenya Oromoo irratti geggeefamaa jiru eenyu akka hojjetuu fi kkf yaakoota uummata keenya irratti raawwatamaa jiran addunyaaaf kan gabaasan jiraachuun, galmee seenaa booriif ni gargara.

Waldaan Maccaa - Tullama fi Waqeefanaan dhorkamee qabeenyi isaa saamamee maqaa Oromoon qaami socho’u tokko illee dhabamee jeennaan maal goonu jechuun waggaa lama guutuu Jaarsoolii Oromoo fi Hayyuu Oromoo walitti waamuun marii’achisuu egalle. Lammii Oromoo ABO jedhamanii mana hiidhaa jiraniif biyya keessatti nami iyyatuuf, barattoota Oromoo eenyumaa Oromoof yunivarsiitii hundaa keessatti fincilaa jiraniif, kan akka dhaabbatti Oromoof iyyatuuf hin turre. Obbo Bulchaa Dammaqsaa dabalatee jaarsoolii duraan siyaassa keessa hin seennu jeedhanii turan rakkoo kana erga hubatanii booda dulluma keessa humna isaanii fi qabeenya isaanii hundaa utuu wal irra hin kutin falmii mirgaa irratti gummaachaa jiru. WFDOn Qabsoo egalee ja’aa lama keessati yaaka Mootuummaa TPLF ummataa fi hawassa adunyati biiratti saxiludhan wayyaneeti yaadoo ta’ee, Paarlamaa keessati mirga saba keenyaf falmachuu fi mootumma morormuunkana ummani keenya mootummaa diiduu fi irratti finciluu akka danda’uu barsifne jira. Guyya gaafa ijaramee kassee waregama lubu bayee bassa jira. WFDOn akka dhaabbile biirroo Degersa Di’aspora biyya ala irra dhabun isaa humna fi degerssa ummataa gutuu qabu akka itti hin fayadamne goodhe jira.

Dhaabbillee ala jiran immoo fuulaa tokkoon qabeenya xiqqoo jirtu itti gargaaramee humna jiru qabsoo irra akka oolfatutu barbaadama. Qabsoo bilisummaaf godhamuu keessatti dhaabbillee adda addaa jirachuun bu’aa isaa irra balaa isaatu heddumata. Qabsoo bilisummaa biyyootni gaggeessan Palastiin, Afganstan, Zmbabuwe, Angola, Somalee kkf akka ragaati dhiheesuun ni danda’ama. Tokkumaa Oromoo fi bilisummaan Oromoo kan hin hafnee ta’uu isaa qabsa’oon uni tokko jeedhan qabsoo irratti wareegaman seena tokkumaa Oromoo Diggan iaanin barreesan darban dhaaloon hara’aa harkan haquu yaala jiran. Ani waanan dubachuu fedhu waan gochuu qabnu irratti. Biyya tokko keessaatti dhaabbilleen siyaasaa yaada addaa addaa qabaatan jiraachuun diimokraasii dagaagsuuf, dorgommi babal’isuu fi hojii saffisiisuuf barbaachisaa dha. Qabsoo bilisummaa keesatti garuu humna namaa fi qabeenya muraasa jirtu tamsaasuu irra iyyuu gufuu walitti ta’uu fi iccitii baasuun diinaaf wal saaxiluu kkf balaa hedduu qaba.

Biyya Itiyoopiyaa keessatti filannoo bara 2005 irratti WFDO, KUO, OPDOn fi Oromoon dhunfaan dorgoman akka dhaabbilee Oromootti sagalee Oromoo gargar qoodanii bakka mursati kan injifataan horma turan. Fakkenyaaf Bushooftuu keessatti WFDO, KUO, OPDO fi Oromota dhuunfaa 9 ta’an fi Qinijjitit. Waligalatti namooti 13 dhihaatanii Oromoo harki 90 guddaan ol Oromoo filatee garuu sagaleen bakka 12 qoqqoodamaa waan tureef Oromooti dorgoman injifachuu hin dandeenye. Dhaabotiin Oromoo kana irraa barumsa argatanii hanga bilisummaa Oromoo dhugoomutti humna isaanii tokko taasisuun dirqama. Warri dhuguma bilisummaa Oromoo barbaadan tarree tokko irra dhaabbachuun barbaachisaa dha. Uummati kenyas kana barbaada. Dhaabbilee Oromoo lama biyya keessaa haal duree tokko malee akka isaan wal ta’an kan dirqisise uummata. Kanaafuu dhabbileen Mirga hiree of ofiin murteefachuu, feedhii Oromoo hunda fi dantaa uummatichaa irratti wal ta’uu qaban.

Dhaabbileen Oromoo Dadhaabina qaban siirfachu qabu insi, Humna ta’uu dadhabuu, Miseensa namusa fi hubanoo qabu horachuu fi to’aachuu dhabu, of gamagamu dhaabbu, seera dhablumaa fi namusaa dhabuun babalachuu, ecitiin egamu dhaabuun, hawwasaa ofi duka hirirsu dadhabuu, media isaan to’aachu dhabuu, hawwasaa akka qoodamu kara banu, rakko dhunfaa dhaabban wali qabsisu- rakko dhaabba hawwasan waliti hidhu, kana darbee rakkon kun hanga ini biyya galuti caalisan ilaaluu. Uummataa abbaa qabsoo ijoolee gootaa dhaalchee qabsooti irra wareegee wal dura dhaabuun dhaabba ni baleessa malee hin cimmisuu. Goochaan kun atataman siirachuu qaba. Dhaabbillee yaada ummataa kana hin fudhane, tokkummaa saba keenya tiksun qabsoo bilisummaa irrati kan hin xiyyefanee lammi Oromoo hundan balalefatamu qabu.

3. Rakko Diaspora (Hawwassa biyya ala) Keessaa jiru.

Hawaasaa ykn Diasporan biyya nagaa fi biyya demokraataawwa keessa jiratu Uummataa keessa ba’ee kan nagaa fi mirga dhaabee garbuma jalati jiratuu sana harka qabee rakkoo keessa basun dirqama lammummaati jeena. Garuu haali mullacha jiru kara hunda faalaa ta’ee jira. Waan hunda caalaa dursa kan argachuu qabu rakkoo Uummataa Oromoo fi Ormiyya walgalati. Miseensoon dhaabba kami iyuu waan hunda duraa rakkoo Uummataa isaanf dursa keenu qabu. Itti ansee dhimmaa dhaabba isaa isaan itti dabaluun dhimmaa Oogana ykn Miseensoota isaani irratti hojeechuu qabu. Sababi isaa Ogaani ni jijirama, dhaabbilee sadarka tokko irratti baduu ni mala, kan hin jijiramnee fi kan itti fufu lammii Oromootti inni iyuu tanan yoo xiyyeefannoo keenuuf banee balaa guddan mudaachuu mala. Kanaaf Diasporan ala jiru waan hunda caalaa Uummata irra dhaalatee biyya jiruu fi tokkummaa Oromoof dursa keenuu dhaabbilee Oromoo ilee tokkummaa isaan cimmsani bilisummaa Uummataa isaanf akka qabsa’aan dhibba gochuu qaba. Diasporan Oromoo rakkoo Uummataa isaa utuu beeku rakkoo xixiqoo dhaabbilee keessa jirtu afarsuun lammi isaa biyya keessa diinan du’aa jiru irratti falimachuu irra of qusachuun seena birratti akka nu gaafachisu beeku qaba. Lammin Birroo hagami akka isaan dhaabbilee isaan biyya keessa fi biyya ala irrati qabsa’aa jiranf tumsa, deggersa fi kabaja isaan wali qaban ijaan arga jira. Oromoo ilee of jalaa hirirsuf waan hunda goocha jira. Hawaassi ala jiru dhaabbile hidhanoon lola jiran akka deeggersi guddan barbaachisu beekee, dhaabbile biyya keessa kan kara nagaa qabsa’an ilee deggerssa isaan barbaachisu hunda goochuun dirqama. Biyya keessatis ta’ee boosoonatti qabsoon godhamuu deeggersa diaspora barbaachisa. Lammin Oromoo ala jiruu 200,000 socho’ee qabsoo bilisummaa yoo waan hunda deggeree bilisummaan keenya hin faagatuu. Deeggersa tokko ilee utuu hin godhin yoo namoota mursa irra bilisummaa egna tatee bilisummaan hawwii qoofa ta’uu malti. Diina irrati akka hiirira hin banee qaami nu dhorkuu yoo jiratee ergama diina qoofa. Qabsa’oota Oromoo kalleessa laga fi amantan utuu wal hin qoodiin wal birra dhabbatan, wal dukka beela’aan, waliin diina dura dhaabatani Oromuummaa isaaniif wareegaman kayyoo isaan bakkan ga’uun nu irra egama.

4. Fedhi, gaaffi fi dhammsi uummata Oromoo keessaa

Uummatni Oromoo erga garbofamee kaasee qabsoo irraa of qusatee hin beeku. Addunyaa kana irratti lammiin akka Oromoo bilisummaa isaaf hanga danda’ee qabsa’aa jira. Carraa isaa ta’ee baroota qabsoo bilisummaa geggeese hundaa keessa diinni isaa gargaarsa meeshaa fi tumsa biyya alaa yammuu argatan Oromoon argachuuf hin milkoofne malee loluu dhadhabee ykn sodaatee miti. Uummati Oromoo uummta goota. ABO illee rakkootu quunnamaa jira, yoo haqaan ilaallee rakkoo uummata Oromoo waggoota dheeraaf mudatant isas mudachaa jira malee loltuun Oromoo ykn qabsa’ootni Oromoo qabsoo laaffisanii miti. Lola ABOn geggese keessatti warri lubbuun jiran dubbachuu danda’u, Oromoon sodaa tokko malee wareegama hedduu akka kafale shakkii tokko malee dubachuu dandeenya. Qabsoon kun waggoota dheeraaf itti fufee kan jiru illee qabsoo haqaa fi wareegama qaqqaalii waan baaseef, fedhii fi gaaffiin uummata Oromoo waan hin deebi’in jiruuf.

Fedhi fi gaaffin uummata Oromoo gabaabaa fi ifaa dha, Bilisummaa fi Abba Biyyumaa isaa mirkaneesuu qofa. Ofiin of bulchuu barbaada. Sababi isaa immo mootumoota Itiyoophiyaa dhufaa darba itti wal jijjiiran waan garboofatanf. Mirga isaa irra ejjetan, Qabeenya isaa saaman. Abbaa biyyaa fi abbaa qabeenyaa keenya kan taanu, mirgi keenya eegamuu kan danda’u, afaanii fi aadaan keenya kan kabajamu yoo bilisoomnee ofiin of bulchuu dandeenye qofa dha. Kana mirkaneefachuuf immoo qabsoo ABO waggaa dheeraaf geggeessaa jira. Kaayyoon Adda bilisummaa Oromoo utuu gaaffii taayitaa ta’ee gaafa mootuummaan Dargii kufee mootumaa keessaa qooda fudhate taayitaa qooddatee sirna jiru keessatti hojjeta ture. Ykn immoo deggersa uummataa dhabee akkuma dhaabbilee biroo dhabama ture. Uummati kun dhaaba kana irraa utuu abdii hin kutatin kan duukaa cichee jiruuf kaayyoo haqaa waan inni hordofuu fi gaafiin uummata Oromoo deebii argachuu dhabuu irraa ti. Dhaabbilee Oromoo Bilisummaa Oromoo hin deggere kam iyyuu umuriin isaanii gabaabaa fi deggersa Uummataa kan hin qabne ta’uu isaanii qabatamaan mirkanaa’ee jira.

Uummatni Oromoo abba biyyaa akka ta’uuf Dhaabbilee Oromoo fi qabsa’oota Oromoo gumaachuun murteessaadha. Sababi isaa waan jaallannuuf ykn jibbinuuf utuu hin taane Oromoon ijjoollee isaa kan itti dhabee fi Qabsoo kana jiraachisuuf waan hundaan waan itti dhadhabeef. Qabsoo kana asiin ga’uuf fi addunyaatti beeksisuuf wareegama qaqqaalii hedduutu itti bahe. Kanaaf Qabsoon lubun heedun itti waregamee kana bakka ga’uun dirqama. Keesumati Madda qabsa’oota Oromoo hunda kan ta’ee ABO dhabota siyaasaa biro irraa adda kan godhu nam-tokkeen ykn namooti muraasi qofti dhunfatanii akka barbaadanitti oofuu kan hin danda’amne ta’uu isaa ti. Eenyuumaa keenyaa iyyuu kan nu barsise ABO ta’uu haaluu hin dandeenyu. ABO fi dhaabbilee Oromoo walaba mirgaa fi haqa saba isaaniif dhaabbatan wajjin marii gochuun, tokkummaan hojjatanii tokkummaa sabaa keenyaa eeguun gaafatama seenaa fi dirqama hamileetu irra jira. Tokkummaan hojjechuuf akka walii galus abdii guddaa qabna. Kanatu mootummaa Oromiyyaa ijaaruu nu dandeesisa. Qabsoon Oromoo Kaayyoo bala’aa fi Ummataa bala’aa irratti kan ijaarame waan ta’eef Oromoo hundi abdi utuu hin kutatin waggoota 40 qabsoo itti fufe jira. Biyya Oromoo fi Mootuummaa Oromiyya ijaru ala furmata birra hin jiree isiinti dhamatu.

Dhaamsi ummataa kana Diasporan, Hayyuun, walistoon, abbotii qabeenya Oromoo hundaan nu qaqaba nu diirmadha jecha jiru.

Dhaabbilee Oromoo ergaa Wayyaanee of duubaa hin qabne tokkummaan qabsoo geggessuu qabu, garuu farreen tokkummaa, loote seentota(infiltraters) wayyanee irraa of eeggachuu barbaachisa. Oromoon yeroo ammaa kana waan inni qabuu fi itti obsu tokkummaa isaa waan ta’eef dhaabbilee Oromoo tokkummaa uummatichaa eguun hunda irra murteesaa ta’uu isiin dhamatu. Diinni Oromoo qoodee biituuf karooraan waan hojjetuuf akka utuu hin beekin diinaaf karaa hin banne of eegannoo guddaa gochuun barbaachisaa dha. Fedhiin uummataa bilisummaa ta’uu isaa erga amannee bilisummaa dura wal qooduun bilisummaa barbaadamu hanqisuu akka danda’u hubachuun nama hin dhibu. Kanaa ala diina dhiisanii wal dura dhaabbachuun ajeechaa, reebicha fi samiicha fi wareeegama guumaa hin qabne baasuun Oromootti yeroo dararaa dheeresuu ta’uu isaa dhamatuu.

Humnaa fi qabeenya Oromoo diinni itti faayyadamaa jiru dantaa Oromoo fi bilisummaa keenyaaf itti fayyadamuu qabna. Amantaan mana Waqqaatti lubbuu keenyaa fayyisuuf lafa irratti illee lubbuu keenya salphattee rakkachaa jirtuuf nu qaqabuu qaba. Oromoon Musiliama, Kiristaana, Waqeeffataa hundi Oromummaa isaatti qixxee ajeefamaa jira. Kanaafuu amantaa fi lagan utuu wal hin qoodin wal bira dhaabbatee tokkumman bilisummaa uummata isaaf lolachuu qaba. Uummani bilisummaa hin qabne amantin isaa akka hin kabajamne kan waaqeeffatan yammuu bakka itti waaqeeffatan humnan irraa ari’amanii fi dhorkaman agarree mirkaneeffannee jirra. Walumagalati Oromoo biyya keessa kan barbaduu Tokkumma Oromoo, Bilisummaa Oromoo, Tokkummaa dhaabbilee siyyassa Oromoo hirmana lammi Oromoo hundan Abba Biyumma isaa deefachudha.
5. Maal gochuu akka qabnu fi yaada furmaataa

Bilisummaa ni barbana? Tokkummaa Oromoo cimmisu ni barbana? Erga kana ta’ee dhaabbileen Oromoo tokkummaa Uummaani Mootummaa Oromiyya ijaaruf rakkoon guddan hin jiru. Rakkoo kanaa olitti dubbane seenaaf ol kaa’uuf utuu hin taanee maal goonu jennee furmaata akka itti barbanuuf. Waan as dhufneefis fedhii uummata keenyaa ija itti gochuuf yaada wal jijiruu erga ta’ee hunda keenya wal irrati utuu hin tanee diina irrati qabsa’uuf hamurteefanuu. Rakkoo odeessuu qofa utuu hin taane gara hojiitti haa deemnu jennee wali gallaa taanaan fulaa hundaa humna Uummachuu, dirree lolaan, dirree siyaasaan, ijaarsaa fi hawaasaa hiriirsuun, quunnamtin, diplomaasii fi jaarmiyota mirga dhala namaaf falman ijaaruun, madda dinagdee uummachuu fi karaa hawaasummaanis, kara hunda socho’uu qabna. Walumaagalatti tokkummaa dhaabbilee Oromoo fi fedhi Uummataa Oromoo hunda kan ta’ee Mootummaa Oromiyaa hundeesuf jaarmiyaa fi dirree nu hojjechisuu danda’uu ijaaruun amma. Kun waan yeroon itti kennamu miti. Har’aa ykn bori ganama Oromiyyan yoo bilisoomtee Tarsiimo fi saganta kami irratti hojjena?. Kun dirqamaa Hayyuu Oromooti malee, Qabsa’aa dirree irraa jiru ykn Uummata siirna garbuma jala ture kana irra egun siir miti. Hundi keessan akka na hubaachaa jirtan abdiin qaba. Waan hin olle har’a itti yaaduun barbaachisaadha, hawaas Aaddunyaas taanan adeemsa keenyaaf qophi keenya ilaalee nu bira dhaabbata.Yoo nuti waan bu’aa fi hiika qabu hojjetaa hin jiru ta’e, ofii keenyaan dhimma keenya geggeeffachuu fi ofiin of bulchuuf dandeettii hin qabnu ta’e garuu waan nu bira dhaabbatuuf jiran natti hin fakkaatu. Buddeen nama quubsu Eelee irraatti beeku jedha mitii ree Oromoon. Biyya Oromoo fi mootummaa Oromiyaa ijaarra eenaa jennu mootummaa akkamii ijaaruuf demna. Sirna mootummaa akkamiitu seenaa, aadaa fi egeree Oromoof tolaa dha jennee bilchinaan yoo irraatti hin mari’atin, akkuma mootummoota Itiyoophiyaa heerota mootummoota biroo akka jirutti garagalchinee ittiin deemna yoo jenne dhibdee akka qabaatu asuma irraa beekuun gaarii dha. Mootummaan Oromiyaa ijaaramuu qaba jennee dubbannu mootummaa walaba ta’ee fi sirna dimokrasii irratti hundaa’e akka ta’u wal nu hin falamisiisu. Haa ta’u malee sirna dimokraasii amayya fi sirna ittiin bulmaataa Oromoo (sirna Gadaa) akkamiin wl simsiisuu dandeenya isaa jedhu irratti hayuun Oromoo balinan irrati hojeechuu qabu.

Uummati Oromoo bilisummaa barbaada kanaaf wayyaanee dura dhaabbatee wareegama kafalaa jira erga jennee fedhiin Oromoo bilisummaa ta’uu irratti walii gallee xumuraachuu qabna. Kana hunda gochuuf qabsoo wal irra hin cinee goone bilisumma keenya dhugomsudha. Kana booda akkuman bara 2006 TV Eritrea irrati dubadhe Oromiyyan akka biyyati Oolaa ishee kan barbadee waliin Federeshin ykn Konfederation Uummatootaa Gaanfa Afrika waliin hundeefachu ni dandesi jeedheen ture. Onga’oon Wayyaneen fi Eritrea immo kanuma xiinoo jaalisan isaan jalati federeshnin akka buulu nu barsiisu yalaa jiru. Namoon Oromoo fi Oromiyya maliif akka barbaadan waan beeknuuf, nama nu waliin jirachuu feedhu dura mirga keenya kabaju qabida ittin jenna.

Kanuma waliin mootummaan Oromiyaa ijaaramuu qaba ennaa jennu yaadi Mootummaan Oromiyaa ijaaramee jira jedhu (OPDOn) Uummtaa sobu yaalaa jira. Kanaaf mootummaan maqaa Oromoon Oromiyaan bulchaa jira jedhu mootummaa kittallayyoo wayyaanee ta’uu isaa iffati ibsuun barbaachisaa dha. Mootummaan suni ofiifuu mootummaa bilisa akka hin ta’in kan koloneeffataan achi kaawwate collaborator/kittillayyoo/ ta’uu isaa ragaan saba Oromoo caalee hin jiru. Mootummaa Oromiyya ijaarun nu hin barbaachisuu wari jeedhan yoo jiratan immo waara qabsoo hin egalin ykn waara qabsoo gurguratee qoofaa. Malee Uummani Oromoo Bilisummaa fi Mootummaa Oromiyya feedha.

Qabsoo kana furgaasuuf furmaati biraa dhaabbilee Oromoo tokko ta’uu qabu. Dhaabbileen Oromoo biyya keessaa wal ta’uun Uummata biyya keessaa gammachisee jira, kan biyya alaas wal ta’uu wan isaan dhorku hin jiru. Dhaabbilee siyaasaa kaayyoo adda addaa qaban silas tokko ta’uun hin salphatu. Kanneen kaayyoon isaanii wal fakkaatuu fi walitti dhihoo sababa isaan adda addaa deemaniif hin jiru. Fedhii murnaa fi ilaalcha siyaasaa xixiqqaan addaan qoodamuun kaayyoo bilisummaa isaa guddichaaf bakka kennuu dhabuu irraa adda miti.

Lubbuun Oromoo rasaasa wayyaanneen, wal dhabbii Uummtooa naannoon, xurii warshaa fi abaaboon dhumaa jiru, barattoota barumsa irraa ittifamaa jiran, ajeefamuu, ari’amuu, Oromummaa isaatiin yakkanii hojii dhorkachuu fi hojii irra ari’uu kun dhaabbachuu qaba. Rakkoon nutti heddumatu illee fedhii bilisummaa Uummatni keenya qabu guutuuf falmachuun dirqama. Biyyi keenya tokkoo, hireen keenya tokkoo, diinni keenya tokkoo waan ta’eef waan walii galuu nu dhorku hin jiru. Teenyee qabsaa’oota komachuu dhiifnee, lammii irratti wal irratti duuluu dhiifnee diina irratti duuluu Eegaluu qabna. Wal irratti barreessuu dhiifnee diina irratti barreesuu, lammii irrattii ololuu dhiifnee diina irrattii ololuu, wal irratti guufuu ta’uu dhiifnee diinatti guufuu haa taanu. Wal iyyaachuu dhiifnee waliif dirmaachuu murteefachuu qabna.

Kana gochuuf immoo furmaati maali ? Oromoo karaa hundaa fi dandeettii isaa hundaan wal gurmeessee waan tokko hojjechuu qaba. Bilisummaa fi biyya Oromoo ni barbaanna erga ta’ee humna tanee bilisummaaf lolu qabna. Warri waraanaa of duuba yaadu dhiisee gara fulaa duraatti akka bobba’uuf fi of duuba millaachuu, yaada’uu dhiisee murannoon fi abdiin lolaaf bobba’uu qaba. OSAn Giddugaleessa beektoota fi Hayuulle Oromoo hundati Jarmiyyan kun Oromoon rakko inni keessa jiru kana keessa basuuf humna isaa hundan tokkummaa fi bilisummaa isaa akka mirkana’uu hojeechuu qaba. OSG, ORA kkf irraas Oromoon abdii guddaa qaba, dhaabbileen mirga dhala namaaf falman biyya alaa fi biyya keessatti Oromoof falmachuu qabu.

Eegaa maaliif akka qabsoofnuu fi bilisomnee maal akka hojennu dursinee beekuu fi bu’uura kawachuun barbaachisaa qofa utuu hin taane dirqama. Addunyaan rakkoo Uummataa keenyaa kana hubannoo ga’aa hin qabu. Seenaa keenya sirna Habaasha jalatti awwalamee waan tureef seenaa keenya dukkana keessaa ifatti baasuun yakka nu irratti dalagame kana saaxiluu fi of ijaaruu qabna. Innis yeroon isaa amma. Humna taanee yoo ol baane malee bakka amma jirru kanatti ormi dhimma keenya hordofuuf waan rakkatu miti. Waraanaan, Siyaasaa, qabeenya hundaa horachuun, humna namaa fi qabeenya Oromiyaa hundaa fayyadamuun bilisummaa barbaannu argachuu qabna. Fedhii fi hawwii qofa utuu hin taane yammuu hojiin argsiifnu addunyaan ofuma isaatii nu gaafachuu egala. Kun ta’uu baannaan utuu miidhamuu keenya arganii cal’isu. Kanaaf furmati isaa kan nu ajeesaa nu samaa jiru of irra kaafnee angoo politikaa harka keenya galfachuu dha.

Walga’iin Oromoo bakka itti wal morminee addan baanu utuu hin tane bakka itti rakkoo Uummata keenyaa hubannee wal hubachiifnee, yaada furmaataa qabatamaa irratti mari’annee murtee dabarsiinee kaanu ta’uu qaba. Dhaabbilee, koreelee fi jaarmiyoti Miti-Mootumma Oromoo adda addaa yaada murtee kana akka hojii qabatamaatti hiikan karaa itti argsisutuu nu irraa eegama.

Dhaabotiin Oromoo gara garaa hojii qabatamaatti akka seenan fi warri miidiyaan wal irratti ololan akka dhaaban nuti illee olola dhaabbillee Oromoo diiguuf adeemsifamu dura dhabbachuuf qophii ta’uu keenya waadaa waliif haa galu. Yeroo Wayyaanneen Oromuumaa cabsaa jirtu kana keessatti ilmaan Oromoo immoo tokkummaa Oromoo tiksuuf dhaabbilee Oromoo wal dura dhabbatan walitti fiduudhaan seeraa fi heera Oromiyaa qopheesuudhaan fedhii Uummataa Oromoo irratti kan hundaa’e mootummaa Oromiyaa gadi dhabbuuf bu’uura kaa’uun dirqama.

Oromoon nama taa’ee namaa qequu fi komatuu utuu hin tanee ilmaa qabsa’ee waregma basee bilisomsuu barbada. Jarsaa hanga ijoleetti, Proffesara hanga walalatti Oromoon bilisumaaf haabobanu, Ogani Qabsoo cimman diree qabsoo irra argama malee Magaala Adunya keessa miti. Kanafuu diree qabsootti haasosonu, Oromiyya haa ijaruu. Kanaaf imoo tokkummaa fi wal amantaa cimmaa marii fi wal galtee irrati hunda’een har’aa Hayuuleen samuu Oromooti jedhamnuu miseensoon OSA waan Oromoo dandamachisuu danda’uu tokko murteefane deemuu qabna.

Dhaabbileen siyyassa Oromoo, Hayuuleen Oromoo fi bakka bu’oon haawwasa Oromoo Rakko biyya Oromiyya jiru fi haala Oromoo keessa jiru xiyyefannoo keessa galchuun haala dure tokko malee murtee atataman murteefachuu qaba,

1. Dhaabbilee siyyaassa Oromoo, hayuuleen Oromoo fi bakka bu’oon Oromoo argaman Tokkummaa tiksuu fi Bilisummaa Oromoo bakkan ga’uuf, Oromiyya Bilisoomtee ijaaruuf wal galuu qabna.

2. Dhaabbilee Siyyaasaa Oromoo fi maqaa Oromoon kan ijaaramee qami kami iyuu Olola biffa kami iyuu wal irrati akka hin deemsifne wal galuun, media qabsoo Oromoo, Dhaabbilee Oromoo fi qabsa’oota Oromoo irrati olola adeemsisu waliin akka hin dhaabanee fi wal tanee dura dhabachuuf wal galuu qabna.

3. Dhaabbilee Oromoo Tokkummaa Uummata keenya tiksun Oromiyya Bilisoomtee ijaaru wal galee dhaabbilee hunda mariiachifnee atataman wal galtee Ol’anaa goochuu fedha keenya fi qoophi ta’uu wali galuu qabna.

4. Mootummaa Oromiyyaa Ijaaruuf feedhi Uummataa Oromoo ta’uu hubanee dhaabbile Oromoo feedhi fi hawwii saba keenya bakkan ga’uuf diina irrati akka hojeetan jajabeesu qabna.

5. Dhaabbi maqaa Oromoon deemu kami iyuu qabsoo dhaabbile Oromooti guufu ta’uu fi olola kami iyuu irrati demsisu badi ta’uu hubatee, qabsoo fi olola diina Oromoo qoofa irrati akka adeemsisu hubachisuu danda’uu qabna.

6. Dhaabbile biyya keessa kara nagaa mootumma Ityoophiyya waliin waan hojeetanf hariroo yoo hin qabanu tanee ilee lammi keenya diinan ajeefama jiru dura kan birra ga’aan isaan waan ta’aanf haawwasi Oromoo ala fi biyya keessa jiru tumsa fi deggersa barbaachisu akka isaan godhu deggersa ni gona.

7. Haawasii Oromoo biyya keessa fi biyya ala jiran hojii haawasuma fi walgargarsa tokkumman akka hojeetan, rakko Oromoo irrati hirira ykn gargarsa gaafataman akka wal qoodumsa tokko malee akka hirmatan ta’ee, dhaabba Oromoo miseensaa ta’aanf immoo akkata dhaabbichaaf kakuu galani hoji dabalatan gargaruu mirga fi dirqama dhunfa nama sana egamuu qaba.

8. Dhaabbilee Oromoo Hariroo Oromoon biyya hoola fi Uummatoota Oromoo waliin jirachuuf deeman irrati imammataa ifaa ta’ee qabachuu qabu.

9. Dhaabbilee Oromoo Tarsimoo walo tokko hanga humatanti dhimma kana hordoof Dhaabbile siyyassa, Hayuuleen fi Hawassa Oromoo bakka hundati hirmana isaan akka godhan gochuun murtee tokko irra ga’uu qabna.

Weerarrii fi jeequmsi Malas Zenawi Uummata Oromoo, biyya Ityoophiyaa fi gutuumaa Gaanfaa Afrika irratti deemsisa jiru kun xumura kan argatuu Uummani Oromoo biyya Ityoophiyaa keessati abba biyya ta’ee nageenyaa amansisa fi tasgabbi yoo gadi dhaabbe qofaa. Uumman Gaanfa Afrika keessatti heedumnan beekamuu kun rakko isaa dhoksinee rakko biraf furmaata barbaduun of gowoomsudha. Ilmaan Tigraay immo humna waraanaa isaan Meeshaa amayaa fi nama isaani qoofaa ijaaran lammi keenya fixuuf qoophi xumuratan jiru. Amaa ilee namoon hedduun gaafi Oromoo ukamsaan diimokraasiidhan rakkon Ityoophiyaa furmaata argata jechuun guyyaa safaa nu sobu yaalu. Eritrean ilee rakko keessaa dabaretee utuu beektuu rakkoon Oromoo biyya Ityoophiyya keessatti hikamuu qaba gara jeedhuutti deema jirti. Guyyaa hara’a kan kana kaafneef weerara wayyanee balla Oromoo irratti godhamuf deemu kana of irra qoolachuu tokkon tokkon Oromoo waregama lubu dabalatee lammii isaa irratti gumachuuf akka of qoopheesun isin gaafachuu feedha. Rakkon keenyaa unumaa inis tokkummaa dhabuu, wal caabsuu keenyaa. Wayyaaneen kan sodatu tokkumma keenyaa malee qawee miti. Kanaaf immo haruma dhaabbilee Oromoo tokko ta’uu keenyaa yoo labsane waayyaanee akka moonu shaakii tokko hin qabu. Diimokraasiin Ityoophiyaa Oromof furmaata hin ta’uu jene Wareegama hunda kafalee Uummata keenyaa Bilisoomsuun Mootummaa Oromiyya ijaruu qoofa.

6. OSAn Rakkoo Uummataa Oromoo Kana Hiikkun Oromoo Salphina Irra Olchuu Qaba.

Uummati Oromoo OSA atamti ilaala? Oromoon hara’aa yamuu bakka bu’aa dhabbee harka Uummataa murasa keessa jiru kanati ani qaba kan jeedhu keessa OSAn isaa tokko. Dhaabbilee Oromoo waan isaan hojjechuu malan ilee kan barreesuf, wara Paarlamaa jiranf ilee seera Oromoof faayaduu kan qooratee qopheesuf OSA dha jedhen amana Uummani Oromoo. Gummin Paarlamaa Oromoo ilee OSAn furtuu rakko Oromootti jedha. Diinii ilee OSAn waan Oromoof malu hunda keessati Oromo Stratgisti Group jedhani amanu. OSAn hoo mali irra jira? Wal-dhabbdeen dhaabbilee Oromoo facaasaa jiru kun isin hayuu kana birrati ilee caalaqisee siyaasaa isiin sodaachisee Siyaasaa fi Koreenti fagooti jeetani mana cufatani moo? Oromoo salphina keessa basuuf caaraqaa jirtu?. Kan biyyaati adeema jiru isin ibsuu yaalen jira. Yamuu biyyaat kun hundii nama keenyaara gaa jiru asiti Diasporat amoo mal hojetaa jira? OSAnis maal hojeechuuf karoorfatee ture? Maal hojechuufis qopha'ee jira?, OSAns immo dhaabba siyaasaa miti garuu siyaasaa ala immo miti. Siyaasaan ala yoomi iyuu ta’uu hindanda’uu. Keessatu immo maqaa kana qabatee, Oromoo Uummataa biyya isaa fi mirga isaa molqamee qabsa’aa jiru irra kana dhaalatee jarmiyan OSA ani siyaasii Oromoo yoo na hin ilaalu jedhe dogogora. Wal dhaabdee dhaabbilee siyaasaa Oromoo siireesu danda’uu qaba. Wal dhabdee qooratee rakko hiikuun (Conflict resolution) hojii Ogeesootaf fi dirqama namoota beekumsa amayyaa qabaniti. Saayinsin Conflict hin qoorane, mirga fi haqa Uummataaf hin falmanee addunya irra hin jiru. Beekumsi fi hojjin qoorannoo hayyuu Oromoo yeroo kami iyuu caalaa hara’aa nu barbaachisaa. Gababatti OSAn Uummata isaaf waan hojjechuu qaba jeene yaanuu:-

1. Dhaabbilee Oromoo waggoota sagal (9) wal hirani diina dhisan wal irrati dula jiru. Bara darbee kassee amoo gara hawaasaatti ilee ce’ee nu facaasaa yamuu jiru kana furmaata mali itti yaane jira? Baruma barana wa’ee rakko tokkumma Oromoo odeesuu qoofa utuu hin tanee itti hojjene furmaata irra ga’uu qabna. Hawaasni fi haayyuu kan rakkina saba issa hin qoranee, hikufiis hin tatafane gati hin qabu jechuun barbaachisa nati fakkata. Qooranno geggesun hojii OSA yoo ta’ee ilee Faca’iinsa dhabbilee Oromoo giddituu dhalateen waldhaabdii gara Uummtati ce’aa jiru kana dhaabbuf furmaata barbaadun dirqama OSA ta’uu qaba akka miseensaa tokkotis akka jarmiyya tokkotis. Kanaaf Gummin Paarlamaa kan jenuu OSAan rakkina jarmiolee Oromoo keessa jiru kana hikuuf qormata tokko godhe, namas jarmoolees waliti waame waan kun akka balinan mari'atame hikkamuf hojii kana fudhatee akka itti fufu gaafadha.

2. Oromoon maal barbaada? Akkuman gararaati caaqaasu yaale Oromoo bilisummaa qoofaa akka barbaadu isinif mirkaneesun barbaada. Gaafiin nu fulldura jirus akkamiti bilisummaa kenya argana waan jedhu akka ta'e hubane Tarsimmo fi karoora Bilisummaa tartiba hojii qoorannoo irratti hunda’e Uummata keenya fi dhaabbilee keenyaf lafa ka’uun dirqama lammumatti. OSAn Uummataa isaa diinii meeqa irratti wal nyachaa jiru kana beekumsa fi dandeeti missensoota isaa hunda fayyadamee Oromoo abba biyya gochuun seena hara’aa bareesuu qaba.

3. Waan qoorannu hundi kan hojii irra oluu yoo Eenyumman Oromoo jiratee fi biyya Oromoo yoo ijaramee qofaa. Kun ta’uu banan ija qooranno keenya bakka itti hojii irra olchinu hin qabnu. Ga’een hayyuu Oromoo OSA jalatti gurma’aan irraa Eegamu hedduu dha. Ogeesotnii fi Hayyuun Oromoo hundi waan baraten wal gurmeesee Tarsiimoo (manefesto) Oromiyaa qopheesee dhiyeesuu qaba. Kun amma iyyuu wixinnen (framework) isaa lafa jira. Oromiyaan biyya akkamii ijara? Seeraa fi Heera attamiin haa bultu?; Paarlaamma akkamii haa qabattu? Sirna dinagdee/imaammata dinagdee/ akkamii haa qabattu? Saba fi sablami Oromoo waliin jirachuu malan irratti imammataa Oromiyya ifaa ta’ee lafaa qabachuu kan jedhu fi kkf: lafa qabaachuu qabna. Maqa Gummii Paarlaamaa Oromoo wixinne Tarsimoo Oromiyya barreefama fulla 200_300 ta’uu qopha’ee jira. Wixinne kan Ogeesi Oromoo hundi ogumma isaan jechun Ogeesi Seera, Barnootaa, Fayyaa, Qoonaa, Dinagidee, Hoora, Hawwasummaa, Seena, Aadda, Waraana, Bulchinsaa, Kunnunsa naannoo fi kkf OSA jalatti damee dameen gurma’ee dandeetti isaa muxannoo biyya hunda irra waliti fidee akka Oromiyyaf ta’uuti qoophefachuun amma.

Walumagalat Gumiin Paarlaamaa Oromoo Imanaa inni OSAti keenu, OSA fi dhaabbilee Oromoo hunda waliin hojjeechuun, Tokkummaa Oromoo tiksuun wal dukka hirirsu, Dhaabbilee Oromoo walti fiduun diina irratti akka xiyyeefatan gochuu, Tarsimoo Bilisummaa Oromoo bakkan ga’uu danda’uu qoopheefachuu, Manafeestoo Oromiyyan bilisoomtee itti hojjeetuu qoopheefachuun Motuummaa Oromiyaa ijaaruun dhimmota bodeeti hafan yoo ta’ee ilee bor utuu hin tanee har’aa murteefanee hojii irra olchuu qabna. Oromoon hara’aa dhaabba cimma fi tokkummaa Oromoo tikisuu ni danda’aa jeedhu keessaa OSAn isaa hangaafa. OSAn Oromoo beektotaa gosa hunda of keessati amatee waan jiruuf rakko Oromoo hunda furuuf dandeeti waan qabuuf rakko kana keessa akka nu basuu dhamacha beektoon Oromoo hund ilee akka OSA cimnaa dhabatan ni gaafaadha.

Hayyuun Oromoo kanneen qaanqee qabsoo bilisummaa qabsiisanii fi qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoof warri wareegama baasan, akkasumas nutis of barree akka mirga keenyaaf falmannu warri nu taasisan hundi maqaa Uummata Oromoon galatni keessan bilisummaa haa ta’uun jedha.

Injjifaannoon Uummataa Oromootiif!

Getachew Jigi Demekssa PhD
Dura ta’aa Gummi Paarlamaa Oromoo
Haggayyaa 1_2 /2009

Atlanta, Georgia usa