Those few men who told us that they represent the Oromo nation some 16 years ago are still around doing the same thing via their imposed set of immoral and stand less day to day changing political gambling mood. Since the day these few men started controlling the Oromo political stage, many nations around the world became independent nations.
While these few will never ever learn a thing from the realities we live in, more independent nations are continued emerging even in a once upon a time united Iraq as the Kurds and the Shiyats are very close to form their own free state leaving the Suni chauvinist in their own small village alone.
That means, the opposition of militarily strong Turkey to the freedom of the Kurds will never stop the Kurds from creating free Kurdistan state and the opposition of the Sunis will never stop the majority Shiyats from forming their own free state if they want to. It is obvious that Sunis hate the idea of free Shiyats and Kurds state because Sunis richness comes from the oil fields of the Shiyats and Kurds.
When the shame of failure we faced as a nation will remain to haunt us for centuries to come, we will remain lacking any influence in the political arena of the so called Ethiopia because of these few men who could not even control one small village before and after year 1991 while small Tigreans from the north were able to walk thousands kilometers freely deep into the heart of Oromia and now here they are sucking Oromia's natural resources thanks to our cowards who never have a courage beyond sniffing power leftovers from every succeeding Habasha powerful men.
Tucked in the warmth of illusionary power grid, our men in America still make few trips between European and some American cities to fund raise for their hotel and travel expenditures, yet, again they can't see future free Kurdistan or Shiyaits states and hence they still preach about the necessity of listening to the state department of America. In the mean time, our Suni like Tigrians work hard to develop their home-land Tigri just incase they had to go home when forced by another armed force. Many assumed that force to be us, the Oromians, yet, reality shows this time it will be the Gondares and another Tigre group who will probably come to power as opposed to the Brihanu Bayeh group from Gojam during the Derg era who controlled the entire country.
Blinded by the the 1970s organizational model they were acustomed to, our few men in America still sing their two lovely songs, one that is especially composed to flatter the Habashas and the second being composed to warm up Oromians saddened heart. Interesting enough, these men still dominate our political scene regardless of their incapable and tragic opposing views. They rarely stop there, because they have the audacity peculiar to the group) to equate Oromian's matter with their group interest forgetting that Oromia and group thinking can not co exist very well. In 1991 when they observed the entire nation of Oromia was roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, our men in America told their audience that they will chase these few Tigre boys away over night just by protesting the charter which they were the part of and took refugee via Bole and lucky Tigreans end up being Africa's millionaires just like that!
What distorted these men's thinking?
To answer this question, it is very important to ask why these few men are afraid of the White man. If we look deep into the minds of trained solders, we will find out the fact that a trained soldier will shot and kill any body with out asking any question once an order is given to him by his superiors. Like wise, most of us believe that God looks like a White man or Angels are White because we were taught to belive it. Now, if a child who's brain was so conditioned to the fact that it is a white man who will give liberty or deny, he or she will enjoy an implicit idea that guarantees him or her a bailout and thus his/her mind is insulated from allowing any other idea or thinking to sink in. As we can see, this insulation spurred our men to abandon any other available means to fight the Tigre colonialism. As a result, our supposedly liberators invested their security and every endeavors in the will of the big God like master America, thereby fueling the weakness of the organization they claim to lead the Oromian patriotism. This obviously provided men like David shinn a chance to help the Tige government more and more allowing the Tigreans to milk Oromia three times a day while forcing our men to wrongly associate themselves with QINIJIT of mythical "political cycle".
WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?
Unless and until we get these few individuals out of Oromo politics where they only create weakness after weakness, we will remain vulnerable to Tirgeans painful COLONIZATION. If we quietly watch these few men continue doing what they are doing today, we will continue plummeting deep into the shame we are currently in, of course the blame lies squarely right on our sholders. To day is year 2007 and Oromians motivation to do something about the Tigre colonization has gone down compared to year 1998 or year 2001. This is due to these few men's blind trust in the power of the American government to give away a power by taking it away from the Tigreans. Naive? Absolutely!.
America or Europeans did nothing good in Africa, though they were forced to help out many Latin America countries by the ideology Fidel Castro put forth to unite the Latinos against the united states of America in the past. That is why they were forced out of Africa at a gun point. For example, Nelson Mandela was in prison for 27 years but the state department of America did not offer democracy to Mandela and to the nation of south Africa nor they say a word to the TPLF murders who have killed more Oromians than the Derg under Mengistu.
It is true we have our own internal problems such as economic problems that may prevent people from reading or attending meetings but even that could have been improved should our few men in America never ignored Oromo communities cry for leadership. Here, it is important to recognize the fact that selfish individuals used the Oromo community to control the leaders of liberation organization. Most of them lied when they exadurated their organizational capacity to organize the community and even controlled Oromo political organization leaders by refusing to release funds collected from the said community members.
The consciousness level of many opportunists also another major problem for Oromo unity. Last year when Meles Zenawi announced the availability of power sit in his parliament for any one who wants it, we've seen how many people jumped on Meles Zenawi's political wagon.
ONA recalls the arguments made by those whom we thought were pro liberation yet who end up being mute opportunists. Greedy men who's cunning behavior is the focal point of Oromo weakness also play perhaps 60% of the wakening role. These kinds of people are those who never overcome their selfishness that is to glaring to ignore. Localist envy and jealousy and the infiltration of Tigre spies lives us under a brutal Tigre dictatorial rule and that may continue for many years to come unless nationalist Oromians use different form of struggle which requires the cleaning up task first.
So far, Oromo politics has lost Oromo-self regardless of this group or that group's negative attitude. It seems each Oromo political group copy each other's organizational style. Clearly, all of them pretend to be hardcore Oromo conservatives who uphold Oromo values and norms but the result shows either nothing or the opposite.
Rundassa Ashete Hunde
opsa@erda.net
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