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Oromia’s Economic and political OUTLOOK

Combating Abyssinianzation by re-uniting the OLF

By Ashete Hunde Ibsaa

There is something of a paradox in the way that the Oromians

and the Ethiopians traditionally think about the meaning of
freedom.

The Amhara and the Tigreans go to a great effort to explain

how Ethiopinisim is the beginning of every existence, that there
is no nation ever existed “before” or “outside,”Ethiopia and thus
Ethiopia for them is the universe. So, according to the
Ethiopianists, Ethiopinism is infinite because the philosophy
behind Ethiopia cannot be separated from their own existence.

In short, no Ethiopia means is, no Tigre/Amhara identity,

therefore, freedom means is death for them. For the Oromians
on the other hand, Ethiopia and Ethiopianism is Abyssinians rigid
philosophy surrounding 100 years of colonial experience thus
those overlapping mythologies of Queen Sheba, Tewodros,
Minilik the first, Izana, and the 3000 years history are considered
like the story of Cinderella, the creation of America’s Hollywood
writers of the 21 century.

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Hence, any discussion related to the
Freedom of the people in Ethiopia
becomes like an argument that goes
among the scientist and religious people
regarding whether or not time existed,
where scientists argue that “time never
started" and the Christians would argue
that time started after Jesus was born.
But in our case however, whether
Ethiopia existed for 3000 years or does
not exist at all, the basic theory of
freedom does not allow us to continue
arguing for ever in both directs of apat
and future and thus it is time to move on
and understand the meaning of
FREEDOM.
If nothing else, we know that the
paradigm of a homogeneous Tigre tribe
started from Tigri and expanded it’s
control all over Oromia and now
established what it calls “ the
government of Ethiopia” just like the
Amharas, who did the same thing some
100 years ago. If this is a fact beyond
reasonable doubt, then now is as good a
time as any to contemplate what we
already think we do and do not
understand about the meaning of
FREEDOM.
For Efrem Isaq and for Alamudin, these
traditional statements about Ethiopianism
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make sense because they fit the
framework of classical rich men or
political opportunism in general relativity,
but we know that this framework isn’t
right. This is to say that what satisfies
Alamudin and Efrem Isaq in Ethiopia
under the conditions they are in, does
not necessarily satisfy our past or current
condition. The obvious choice for the
Oromo nation therefore is “something
better for them” not something better for
those who already are in a better
position.
There are two tacks we can take here.
We can either be specific about what
we want and go get it or offer ourselves
a particular model of theory that might
replace both our FREEDOM and the
better position that the Abyssinians are
holding in our own capital city and
country at large.
So, let’s try to reason via a broad
principles and discuss what kinds of
scenarios might ultimately make sense.
Scenario 1. The OLF original political
program
Scenario 2. Living under the occupation
of expansionist Tigre force (let’s call this
“Democratized Ethiopia” for the sake of satisfying the
state department of America)
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The theory of Scenario 1 individual, every Oromo clan, every

Oromo tribe or Gosaa are made of
The theory behind the original OLF OROMUMMAA, which are in turn made of
objective might sound pretty darn just three basic components look like a
ambitious for some people who can see guitar strings: one string whirling around a
only difficulty in fighting well armed Tigre nucleus composed of Afaan Oromo,
soldiers but if I attempt to “smooth out” Biyya Oromo and Ilaalcha Oromo.
the singularity of the theory in some semi-
The Ilaalcha Oromo is a truly fundamental
classical way, it looks the following. part because it contains theories known
as the Gadaa system), from which Seraa
Before putting together the objective of
Oromo, Hera Oromo, Amantee Oromo
the OLF, the founding fathers knew that
and Duudhaa Oromoo flourishes.
politics is a complex matter, especially,
they were certain that it will be very
When we sum up the result of our father’s
difficult to bring the Oromo nation
original theory of FREEDOM, we find out
together who have been divided along
the fact that our current knowledge
religion, region and artificially crafted
about ourselves springs from the
identities by the Abyssinians. Even
composition of theses Guitar string like
knowing all these problems, the founders
lines that connects all of us, which in fact,
of the Oromo Liberation Organizations,
most former OLF members rushed and
men like Gen. Waaqoo Gutu, Gen.
joined hands to tune it up, so that we all
Tadasaa Birruu and other countless
can enjoy the melody that comes out of
Oromo heros time and again, have
these different strings composed just right.
wondered, .. why we were looked down
upon? Where do we belong? What is
FREEDOM for the Oromians means
Ethiopia means for us? is it our destiny to
therefore is a Standard yet fundamental
live under the Abyssinan’s command
building blocks out of which humanity is
being told what language to speak, what
made. Without FREEDOM we cannot
name to have or not to have?. So, they
interact as the Oromians because the
went on and wrote the theory of
Abyssinians rules and regulations will
FREEDOM for all Oromians and then
bridge our communication from up to
acted upon it and they even made
down or from down to up. Why do the
enormous progress towards finding some
Abyssinians do that to us?
of the answers.
There are four fundamental forces that
So, who are we and where do we belong?
naturally prevent the Abyssinians from
thinking rationally.
After 30 years of bitter struggle, our fathers
helped us finding that every Oromo

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1. Fear of losing their identity if the
Oromians are allowed to develop
Oromummaa
2. The pleasure of being on the top
3. Economic opportunity
4. The fake history they have produced
over 100 years
These four forces expose the Abyssinians
to the weakness they perceive as a
strength and each of these forces are
produced by fundamental greed.
Abyssinians behaviors exhibited in the
Orthodox churches and the rules they set
for every nation and nationalities to
celebrate as a “Flag day” described with
impeccable precision by the Standard
Model of Abyssinia-zation is a notable
exception.
For technical reasons, they use their Flag,
their Amahric language and their
borrowed Orthodox religion as a national
icon then they spoon feed the children of
the oppressed nation the dream bread of
beloved mother Ethiopia by using gun as
a gravitational force.
These has been the most familiar
practices we grew up with in our every
day lives in the land controlled by the
Abyssinians and it continues to be the
most important problem to formulate the
democratization theory of Ethiopia as a
multi nationality state.
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In the last few decades, a theory of
FREEDOM for every oppressed nations
and nationalities has emerged as the
most promising candidate as most of
countries around the world were
forced to give up on their rigid and
infinitely ambitious theory of
obliterating freedom seekers. But only
in Ethiopia, the unity of Abyssinans
state is tact not by the choice of our
nation but at Gun point.
For example, the American leaders of
the past believed that only the
people of English origin, or those who
were Protestant white hailed from
northern Europe were real Americans
and thus excluded other ethnic
groups from claiming citizenship right
to America. But eventually, they were
forced to recognize other people’s
right to American citizens starting from
year 1965.!
But in Ethiopia, people who respected
and loved their shared heritage, i.e a
common language, a common faith,
and a common ethnic ancestry are
killed or jailed because they are
feared to break up their beloved
mother Ethiopia, like the Austro-
Hungarian, the Hapsburg and the
Romanov empires who eventually
broke up into multitude of new
countries. called Italy, Norway,
Sweden etc of today.
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is able to eliminate the current Ethiopian

So, it is only in Ethiopia where a sense of socio-political setting, where the setting
granting equal status to many ethno free of all 93 ethnic groups from the
nations who made up majority of it’s bondage of Abyssinians colonization is
population is a crime. ! In Ethiopia, the possible.
governing monarchy and landed nobility The essential idea behind the original OLF
are the Tigre and the Amharas who have theory therefore is: standardizing
forced their language and culture to be Oromummaa by brining together those
the national language of the country. different strings split by borrowed identities
and tune them into national melody of
The Tigre and the Amhara also differed one single ordinarily picture, yet of many
from the majority in language, ethnic internal structures built on ilaalcha Oromo.
origin and religion.! In Ethiopia, the notion
that anyone can aspire to any economic Now, if we agree on the correctness of
position has been and still is false.! Hence the original OLF theory, then we should
looking at this country that already realize that having kinship based small
possessed a high degree of one single political organization is notreally an
minority ethnic homogeneity, the birth of answer for questions such as “how are we
organization such as the OLF was a going to tune up those tiny loops of strings
natural phenomenon.! into one pleasant Oromo melody?”
Even-though it was assumed that it is very
By running kinship based Oromo
hard to mix up all kinds of Oromias tribal,
organization, we are in fact moving each
religious and varied ideological chemical
Oromummaa string aside in different
soups into an ocean of Oromummaa in a
direction thus we are unable to make it
few challenging three decades, the
strong.
Oromians have demonstrated the fact that
they can became one nation by throwing
The most remarkable thing about
away those variations formulated by new
FREEDOM and LIBERATION is that it is such
borrowed identities in short period of time.! a simple idea but the only idea that
What this means therefore is that derives the Oromo nation to unity by
FREEDOM for the Oromians provides a serving as a standard Model of building
complete, unified, and consistent one nation of Oromia.
description of the fundamental structure
that humanity deserves. For this reason, This fact has been verified experimentally
the original theory of the OLF must be with incredible precision during early
called a 'Theory of democratization of 1990s until clan or kinship based politics
Ethiopia” because it is the only theory that was introduced into the Oromo revolution
by the Tigre agents of Ethiopia.

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Regardless of what has happened so far, This brings us to the question “can an
the re-construction of Oromummaa via Oromo organization use the duality game
the liberation theory of Oromia is that the Tigre invaders used, by being the
conceivable. For now, the Tigre Tigri Liberation Front at one point, and the
expansionist colonizing force have
Ethiopian party at another.
demonstrated that it is possible to take
some one’s theory and inflate it at For the Oromians, the scale-factor such a
beginning, and glue it to an identical
duality can bring has it’s own equation,
seemingly Oromo organization, yet, “a
Made in Tigri afaan Oromo speaking Tigre the equation it’s result will be negative
political wing called OPDO” then expand because for every outcome, there is
Abyssinianzation to the opposite direction certain inverse scale factor, where the
of Oromummaa. Abyssinians identity evolves bold and
strong by pushing Oromummaa to the
We know the Abyssinians are doing these opposite direction. Taken literally, this
to reverse the Oromo revolution at some means that, if a genuine Oromo
special midpoint, (identified during the
organization claims the Ethiopian identity,
rezoning of Finfinnee, Dire-dhowa, Harar
and central Oromia towards to the when the scale factor of Oromummaa is
Hbasha state) and they are at it with no nominally small, equivalent to what it has
ending boundary to their power of doing been under the Ethiopian current and
what ever they want to do. past political settings, there will be very
little positive outcome from the duality
Further more, the Tigre group could claim that an Oromo makes, as an
“create itself,” springing into different form Ethiopia on one hand, and as an
of life out of an endless dream to be the
Oromian on the other.
masters in their Empire Ethiopia and the
fracturing of the OLF only created a loop So, for Oromummaa to survive, the idea
hole in which Tigreans OPDO is conceived
of free Oromia must be advanced not by
and inflated.
small string like kinship based Oromo
And of course, we know that there are organizations but by elected leader who
thousands of half Habasha afaan Oromo is capable to lead and who has never
speakers in Oromia from which the Tigre collaborated with the Tigre and Amhara
group recruits more and more groups inside and outside of Oromia.
collaborators after getting rid of those use
and throw OPDO condoms via their
Gimgemaa tactics.

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CONCLUSION

That means, it is only the first Scenario that will enable the Oromians to be able to
work in extra dimensions, i.e cooperate with the Afar, the Sidama, the Ogadenia and
even the Benishangul liberation fronts.

Scenario 2 only allows the Oromo nation to evolve right into the purported
Abysinization singularity theory. By having an elected trusted leader, the Oromo
Liberation Front will have a unique turnaround opportunity, whereas trying to jump
into this cyclic nature of the Ethiopian politics will only indulge the Oromo nation into
an infinite suffering economically and psychologically stretching endlessly into the
past and the future.

The looming flaw of Abyssinianization via the celebration of their Flag day and their
Orthodox church propaganda only provides homogeneity of every ethnic group at
the cost of losing own identity and that is too serious of a matter.

Abyssinians struggle is to patch the horn of Africa with their uniform Amharic and
borrowed Orthodox religion on large scales but to simply extrapolate this smooth, yet,
deceptive Abyssinians political culture is hopelessly parochial.

Therefore, we should entertain the possibilities that our own theory provides us yet the
unity of purpose should come first.

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