Attack on national character and the Oromo experience

By Leenjisoo Horo
After having abandoned the struggle for the independence of Oromiyaa, the Asmara group sought Abyssinians alliance and organized itself with them into Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD) to achieve its political goal; its political goal being the democratization of Ethiopia. The point is clear that the so-much talked split is bogus, deceptive and false; unreal, it is simply a planned design to fool and then divide the Oromo nationals on regional basis. The slogans “change” and “a movement for change” are thrown at the people only to confuse, to fool, and to mislead them. If the slogans “change” and “a movement for change” mean anything at all it is that they mean nothing at all. They are simply empty shells. The group had shouted the same slogans when it split from the OLF in 2001. In face, both have the same political line, the same political view, and the same political position then and now. Hence the so-called “movement for change” is actually a movement for democratization of Ethiopia. Its purpose is to strengthen and perpetuate the colonial rule over colonial Oromiyaa and the rest of the colonized nations and nationalities in the empire.Read more