Thanks to the OLF, Abyssinian Empire is Pregnant of Oromia and/or Oropia!

The 150 years old Abyssinian empire has got pregnant by the very potent OLF about 50 years ago. Now this mother Empire is carrying a baby (babies) in her womb. Yet not known is, whether the fetus is Oromia or Oropia (Oromumma led Ethiopia) or twin of the two. Now, Oromo people are divided in to three based on our wish regarding the baby to be born in near future. Some nationalists want to see an independent Oromia, certain of them wish to have the twin and Few are striving to transform the hitherto Amapia (Amaranet dominated Ethiopia). That is why the three visions in Oromo community are said to be an integrative Oropia, birth of federal union (the twin) and an independent Oromia. Which baby do you prefer to see:  Oropia or Oromia or the twin? Sure is that Abyssinian empire is in a delivery room to give birth to one of the three possibilities!

Actually an independence is what minority nation at periphery seeks, a federal union is what minority people at the center choose and an integration is vision of majority over all the country. The first one is kaayyoo ganama (first version of the vision), which Oromo nationalists raised as we were very insecure. The second is kaayyoo guyyaa (second version) which we are now prefering after being a bit secured. The third one is kaayyoo galgala (third version), which we will opt in the future, when we will be not only secure, but also confident enough never to lose the gains we had! So, fighting for an independence was past (white) struggle, opting for a union is present (red) movement and striving for an integration will be future (black) politics of Oromo people.

I do now think that Oromo liberation movement has two wings and the backbone as three important positions, fr inom where it is fighting the enemy. One wing wants to transform the whole Ethiopia, name the country as Oromia if necessary and promote Afaan Oromo to federal language of the country, but disregards self-rule of Oromo national area. The backbone wants to establish an independent Oromia, which will have an influential position in whole region of the Horn. Another wing wants to liberate Oromia within Oropian union and make it be a leading nation-state of the whole country. These three parts of Oromo liberation movement are now trying to harmonize their moves against our common current enemy. Accordingly, we do now find Oromo national liberation movement in the whole spectrum of opposition parties and liberation fronts against the oppressive regime. Surprisingly, there is no organization on the ground to represent the whole national liberation movement coordinating and accommodating all the three parts. This reality persuades us to think that Oromo liberation in one of the three forms is inevitable, and the possible future three types of our sovereignty are not as such disadvantageous for Oromo people.

The three parts of our liberation movement are results of the three approaches Oromo nationals do have towards our history. As once written on Gadaa.com, it seems that we are treating our history in three dimensions: (1) as only common proud history of Oromia and Abyssinia, such as the Adwa battle; (2) as only conflicting parallel history of Oromia and Abyssinia, such as the Minilik invasion and the so-called Oromo expansion; (3) as both common proud history and conflicting parallel history of Oromia and Abyssinia. Now, we do see that consequences of the above three approaches are the three possible destinies regarding future Oromia’s sovereignty. If we want to achieve our freedom efficiently, despite these different views, we have to firstly try to fight together for our common freedom from the Abyssinianist elites’ system of domination, and then settle to choose one of the three types of sovereignty based on the version of Oromo history we respectively do have in mind. It is clear that:

– the Leencoo group, who tends to accept both the common proud part and the conflicting parallel part of our history, opt for liberation in Anglican model. The English people liberated themselves from 360 years rule of the Roman empire, forged England as an autonomous region and united it with neighboring others to form the United Kingdom; they also used English as working language of the Kingdom. Can’t Oromia, being autonomous and free from alien forces, be united with the neighboring autonomous regions to forge a United Kush (Ethiopia), similar to that of the United Kingdom and promote Afaan Oromo to a working national language?

– the Galassa group, who believe in the conflicting parallel history, prefer liberation in Russian style. Russian elites dismantled Soviet union and established Russian federation, which uses Russian national language. The federation still does have an influence on its neighboring nations, because of its economic and military strength. Does this way of dismantling Abyssinian empire and fostering the highly wished independent Oromia to have further influence over other liberated neighboring countries more advantageous than the other two types of sovereignty?

– the Fidaa movement, who believes in only the common proud history, tend to choose liberation of Oromia in the Indian type. The Hindi people liberated themselves together with all nations and nationalities in their region and named the whole country as India, made Hindi the working language of Indian federation and, of course, divided the national area of Hindi into multiple federal regions. Why not Oromo people liberate the whole nations and nationalities in the empire, change the GYR (Green-Yellow-Red) flag to the BRW (Black-Red-White), promote Afaan Oromo to working language of the federation and call the whole country Oromia or Oropia, if necessary,  with the historical local Odaa’s (Odaa-Bisil, -Bulluqi, -Bultum, -Gaarres, -Makodi, -Nabee and -Roobaa) being the future separate federal regions of the country?

All Oromo nationals are entitled to choose what we do believe is the best for our nation. What matters, at last, is, of course, voice of Oromo majority. I think Oromia’s self-rule and/or Oropia’s shared rule should be agenda of Oromo people, in contrast to the federation or separation goal of Tigrayan elites. Interestingly, the three Abyssinianist groups (elites of Amara, Tigrai and Eritrea) have got only one dictatorial option respectively in their political struggle: Amhara elites still can only sing about the Indian-type for they know that Amarinya has got the privilege to be federal language of the empire; Eritrean elites, as minority at periphery, were so insecure to live within Ethiopia so that they had only the alternative of separation (Russian-style); Tigrayan elites can neither have the language privilege to opt for Indian-type nor the capacity to live alone as an independent nation in order to choose Russian-style, so they do stick to Anglican-model. But, the Oromo being majority in the whole country, can play all the three democratic cards (Anglican-model, Russian-style and Indian-type) as long as rule of game in the country will be freedom and democracy. So, let Oromo people use our advantage and struggle with all pro-freedom and pro-democracy forces of the empire against the incumbent to come to position of voting for one of these three options we do have.

As far as I am concerned, all the three ways are not harmful, but the decision must be made by the politically-conscious Oromo polity and Oromo public per referendum, when the time comes. This short essay is a bitter pill I wanted to present to Oromo foes, who are nowadays delighted by observing division of Oromo liberation movement into three. For their information, the movement has got in its pocket, from the very beginning, only one goal of freedom, which, at the same time, can be interpreted as three types of post-freedom sovereignty, and it plays with these three cards of sovereignty based on the objective reality it is in, i.e. according to the “here and now” of the situations! This way or that way, thanks to the potent father OLF, the fertile mother Abyssinian empire is pregnant  Oromia and/or Oropia. It is only the matter of time to see the delivery. May Waaqa give us the necessary patience to wait and see!

Galatooma!

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