By Firehiwot Guluma Tezera | March 2015
I don’t think that there exists anyone who does not know the intent Oromos had started the national struggle. The intent is to liberate Oromia. This aspiration of over one-hundred years brought together in 1992 Oromos who had been disorganized by lies and propaganda of their enemies, and resulted in the raising of the OROMO FLAG for the first time in the largest city of OROMIA, FINFINNE. It is this initial goal that had made the Oromo nation, which had been separated by Abyssinian rulers into eleven Ethiopian imperial provinces, to realize that they had have the same intention. The previous derogatory names of “Gaallaa” and “Qottuu” for the Oromo were replaced by the correct name OROMO. AFAN OROMO – the language which had been the target of the smear campaign by irresponsible Habeshas who claimed that the language was not suitable for the media and who struggled for over one-hundred years to make it extinct and to make it illegal for the Oromos to use their own language – also became a language of instruction and work in Oromia. Oromos – who, according to their enemies, do not have land and came from the ocean – became recognized with a map,OROMIA, that they live and own the land in the previously eleven imperial provinces within Ethiopia. Many Oromos realized that they were Oromos, and the name Ethiopia was forced on them. If our initial aim of Oromos was to democratize Ethiopia, maybe today, most of us would have called ourselves with the name forced upon us – “Ethiopiyawi,” and we may never enjoy the benefits, mentioned above, that our initial goal has partly achieved.
Even if the struggle takes a long time and has a slow pace, it is only when we stick to the initial goal and struggle that we can be successful and gain respect of the Oromo people. In the history of liberation struggle, it is common that the struggle of the people proceeds slowly at times, but eventually, it will end up in success, thus the slow pace is not particular to the struggle of the Oromo people only. Sometimes, this slowdown happens in a liberation struggle, i.e. when weaknesses and disagreements occur, a strong leadership should come out of it. But, in the struggle of the Oromos, when we come out of such disagreements and slowdowns, it results in a weaker leadership with policies that weaken the struggle – this phenomenon is shocking and questionable.
The Oromo people should be aware of this new weakened leadership with failed policies — policies which have failed to liberate Oromos from the slavery of over one-hundred years, and the slavery imposed on it through Gobana Daacee, and they should make sure that such mistakes do not happen again. I don’t think that the Oromo people will benefit from the struggle of those people who claim that they are struggling to democratize Ethiopia. It will be an act that the Oromos will disapprove, and they will regret it. It is clear that their struggle will result in us losing the benefits listed above that we have got by the blood of the sons and the daughters of Oromo. Those Habeshas, who work with the Oromos and who say they are struggling to democratize Ethiopia, think like their forefathers: a nation with one language, one religion, one culture and everybody assimilates to be an Amhara. These Habeshas claim, on their media, that such name as Oromia does not exist.
So the Oromo people say that we must be vigilant. Oromo has not given up and consented to the idea of Habeshas even though they think so. We, Oromos, resist the idea to democratize Ethiopia first. Before Ethiopia democratizes, Oromia shall be liberated. As long as we have the gun and people who wish to liberate Oromia, we will not give in to Habeshas.
FIGHTERS MAY PASS, BUT THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!
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