Every Oromo: A Leader in the Oromia Liberation Struggle (Part IV)

By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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[ Posted On: 2008-09-08 ]

In three previous articles ('A Transcendental Approach to the Need for Oromo Leadership – Part I' http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/72787 / 'A Transcendental Approach to the Need for Oromo Leadership – Part II / http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/72897 – A Transcendental Approach to the Need for Oromo Leadership – Part III / http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/73014), I focused on the weaknesses of the traditional political leadership, and I deployed an effort of identification of the Oromo Nation in 2008. Then, I expanded on foe identification, demonstrating that throughout centuries the Amhara Abyssinians have been the undisputed enemy of the Oromo Nation at the local – regional level.

Furthermore, I stressed the point that the Oromos have also been the victims of indirect colonialism, as the English urged the Abyssinians to expand at the prejudice of the Oromos and other Kushitic African nations, because of their open, democratic – and therefore impenetrable – sociopolitical sy6stems (Gadaa in the case of the Oromos).

Finally, I underscored the need to establish a differentiation among the colonial powers in an analysis of the colonial attitude and policy at both, the physical and the socio-behavioural – cultural levels. I concluded that, for the Oromos, Italy was (and was correctly considered as) a more 'preferable' provisory foreign ruler than the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians. I also affirmed that the Anglo - French colonial establishment has been the real arch-enemy of the Oromo Nation.

With all this in mind, I will proceed now in the main part of this series of articles in which I intend to emphasize that today's Oromos do not need to spend time in describing possible wrongdoings of this liberation front or that movement for independence, do not need to waste time for pertinent or impertinent observations on the various Oromo leaders' inconsistencies and eventual compromises, and do not need to wait from them anything in the future.

Relying on few or – even worse – one leader is essentially anti-Oromo, as it contradicts the responsibility in which every Gadaa member – of any age – is vested. Within democratic systems like Gadaa, it is important to always bear in mind that out of a 100-person group, 99 members have to carry out 99% of the total work, and nothing less than that.

In Gadaa, there is no – there cannot be a – leader from whom people await their 'salvation'; one (1) member of a 100-person group delivers 1% of the total work - eventually the hierarchically top 1% of the work, but that is all.

Expectations that someone else (be he'she the leader or the king) will deliver the bulk of the work, hopes that a miraculously capacitated person will do it almost all, and anticipations that without communal effort few leaders will get it done, are all genuinely anti-Oromo attitudes, concepts and approaches.

It's rather preferable that the Oromos forget them as soon as possible.

There will never be an Oromo leader to bring liberation and national independence to the Oromo Nation.

There will be many millions of Oromo leaders who will make it happen, and only thanks to them, Oromia will emerge again – and soon!

Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity – GOLA

If one views today's Oromo political leadership, one will be amazed by the existence of a huge number of leaders and the little, minimal, infinitesimal work done. The following questions will illuminate this critical ascertainment.

Question 1 - Has ever a comprehensive, analytical list of Human Rights violations been established to classify – per type of activity – all the diverse oppressive policies carried out against the Oromo Nation?

Question 2 - Has ever a repertory been established to enlist in chronological order all oppressive acts carried out against the Oromos on daily basis?

Question 3 - Has anybody written down analytically all the aspects of the cultural genocide perpetrated against the Oromos by the successive (monarchical, pro-communist, and pseudo-republican) Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian regimes?

Question 4 - - Has anybody presented a complete catalogue of every Abyssinian act that consists in desecration of the land of Oromia, involving the illegal building of Abyssinian churches, the prohibition of religious acts related to the Oromo religion (Waaqeffannaa), the profanation of holy shrines and holy places throughout Oromia, and other similar practices?

Question 5 - Has anybody compiled an analytical directory of the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian anti-Oromo literature, plus a separate index of acts related to the dictatorial, tyrannical imposition of the aforementioned literature by the Abyssinian state (fallaciously called 'Ethiopia')? It is clear that the directory should involve every historical falsification compiled by the racist and criminal Abyssinians and printed in school books and manuals for the primary and secondary education (either written in Amharic, Tigrinya, Afaan Oromo, Af Somali or Qafar af), magazines, reviews, newspapers, and books or presented in radio and TV programs.

Question 6 - Has anybody composed a list of Amharic and Tigrinya texts (selected among the aforementioned literature) that demonstrate (beyond the simple falsification level) the existence of a racist, anti-Oromo hatred among the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians, and the subsequent systematic elaboration of purposefully adjusted historical falsification, geared to serve the evil target? One can expect several thousands of pages to be collected like that out of already existing literature– only to be duly submitted to the UN and the UNESCO.

Question 7 - Has anybody composed the Atlas of Amhara and Tigray atrocities as narrated by every single Oromo who lived a dreadful life experience in the form of violation of his/her Civil and/or Human Rights? What does it matter if this opus would necessitate more than 1000000 pages to be printed? Would this testimony be much less than all similar documents accumulated by tyrannized Jews in Nazi Germany?

Question 8 - Has any Oromo resistance 'elite' - around past and present Oromo leaders - worked in order to diffuse all the aforementioned documentation (assuming it is produced, of course!) to all governments, administrations, embassies, political parties, deputies, senators, international organizations, NGOs, cultural associations, academies, universities, colleges, unions of authors and intellectuals, educational and religious institutions, heads of municipalities, financial institutions and sizeable corporations of the world?

Recording the oppression, the odium, the barbarism, the inhumanity and the bestiality of the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians, and diffusing the data, may constitute one axis of activities, but there is more than that to be done! One should therefore proceed through following questions.

Question 9 - Has anyone recorded the Oral Oromo Literature, the traditions, the narrations, the songs, the historical records, and the memoirs of the elders? Here, I do not mean academic recording for further ethnographical research; I simply stress the need of just writing down in Afaan Oromo what risks being lost with the disappearance of the elder generations. Records should encompass narratives about traditional professional activities (written down as performed on annual basis), social events and circumstances, private life dealings and actions, popular wisdom (proverbs, sayings, admonitions, and narratives), all types of prose and poetry, songs and dances, traditional beliefs and interpretations of natural, social and personal phenomena, description of traditions and customs.

Questions 10 - Has anybody collected memoirs of Oromo resistance and fight among simple people who participated in various phases of the Oromo efforts for national liberation? At this very moment, there are still alive a few Oromos, who may have lived as young children and/or adolescents at the times of Abba Jifar II (died 1932), and even more numerous Oromos who may remember details from the days of Abba Jofir (died in the 60s).

Every act related to the last Oromo kings should be recorded as kept in the memories of Oromo elders who are still alive. The memoirs of the Oromo Elders should be recorded in hundreds of volumes. With the emergence of the Internet, all the material can be available online with minimal cost (if compared to what would be needed in a printing house). Useless to add here that this great work, if carried out, is – for all the Oromos – millions of times more important than the disreputable Amhara forgery of Kebra Negast.

Question 11 - Have any Oromos, fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Hindi and other languages, undertaken translation projects for material related to the aforementioned questions 10, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1?

Question 12 - Have any Oromos, fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and other languages, undertaken dictionary projects in the languages they are fluent in?

Question 13 - Have any Oromos undertaken a much needed anti-Amhara Monophysitic Abyssinian campaign at the Internet level, and more particularly at the level of Wikipedia where irrelevant, ignorant, and miserable forgers of Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian origin insist on diffusing a fallacious presentation of all entries related to 'Abyssinia', 'Ethiopia', 'Oromo', 'Amhara', 'Ethiopian History', etc., etc., etc.?

Question 14 - Has any Oromo resistance 'elite' - around past and present Oromo leaders - worked in order to diffuse all the aforementioned (questions 9, 10, 11 and 13) documentation (assuming it is produced, of course!) to all governments, administrations, embassies, political parties, deputies, senators, international organizations, NGOs, cultural associations, academies, universities, colleges, unions of authors and intellectuals, educational and religious institutions, heads of municipalities, financial institutions and sizeable corporations in the world?

Question 15 - Has any Oromo resistance 'elite' around past and present Oromo leaders worked in order to help establish 10000 (ten thousand) websites of purely Oromo content? Am I exaggerating? Certainly not! If an Oromo does not believe that it is of vital importance for all the Oromos to launch for instance an independent website www.moti.com (where one would analyze - in Afaan Oromo and 10 international languages - the principles, the ideals the concepts of the Oromo royalty, its co-existence with Gadaa system, its dependence on Waaqeffannaa, its role as the beacon of Oromo noblesse, and the History of the Oromo Kingdoms, with maps), then certainly this Oromo will probably forget his Oromoness sooner or later.

Some Figures to Be First Considered and Then Reversed by All the Oromos

Most probably all the Oromos have heard about the Palestinians; another people, in another continent, in another occupied land. A people who already got a shadowy international recognition, not yet a seat in the UN Assembly General.

I do not want to establish parallels, suggest interpretative approaches or even discuss the 'Palestinian issue'. I want only to make a comparison between my search efforts in Google today.

For an estimated population of 10.5 million Palestinians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people), which means less than one third (1/3) of the entire Oromo population (erratically, malignantly and vindictively reduced to just 26 million people by the criminal Amhara forgers who wrote the filthy, false and disreputable article of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromo_people, although it oscillates between 32 and 35 million people, according to several trustworthy calculations), my Google search brought the following results:

Palestine 59.900.000 references
Oromia 174000 references

Palestinian 33.700.000 references
Oromo 3.460.000 references

Palestinians 10.600.000 references
Oromos 46200 references

I don't know what your conclusions may be (spend some time, checking Google as number of references), but mine are direct, fast and clear: Oromia will not become independent under similar circumstances.

Not a single Oromo can possibly accommodate himself/herself with this dire reality – which can and will be reversed in order to let Oromia emerge among the world's great nations (leaving aside the barbaric tiny Amhara state with less than 14 million people – contrarily to the filthy, false and disreputable article of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amhara_people that makes of them a bubble of 23 million).

Polarization on the 15 Questions

It is sure that many among the aforementioned questions concern non-political issues, at least if we use the term 'political' stricto sensu. This would make several people ponder whether it is necessary for a liberation front and resistance movements to encompass issues of cultural, educational, academic, intellectual, artistic, and religious order. They could eventually be right.

However, allover the world the interconnectedness between the strictly political and the cultural (including the educational, the religious, the academic, the intellectual, the artistic, and the religious) elements becomes stronger and stronger.

Bastard 'Ethiopia' - the World's Most Racist and Most Evil Theory

Even more so for the Oromos, as the political – economic tyranny to which they have been exposed is merely a reflection of cultural, educational, academic, intellectual, artistic, and religious tyranny, because the racist Amharas target the historical existence, the cultural integrity, and the national continuity of the Oromos, whom they want to absorb into the – worst than Hitler's plans for the World Jewry – monstrous and bastard fabrication of the non-existing notion of 'Ethiopia', the world's most racist and most evil theory.

As it can be easily understood, the fact that a nation is not politically independent does not necessarily imply that their historical existence, cultural integrity, and national continuity are targeted. The Flemish are part of Belgium but their existence is not threatened.

This is not the same with the Oromos. Consequently, a sizeable part of the Oromo National Liberation Struggle will be fought on cultural, educational, academic, intellectual, artistic, and religious grounds.

Biyya Oromo Independent – Whose Work Is It?

Others may contend that the scope of the aforementioned 15 questions is so wide that only an independent state, the Kushitic Republic of Oromo Ethiopia, could possibly offer a creditable support for these projects. I would call this approach as the hypnosis of the highly suggestible, the hallucination of the greatly gullible, and the lethargy of the commendably coward.

There will never be a chance for an independent Biyya Oromo to come to exist if the aforementioned projects are not undertaken.

Please do not misread me; I say 'undertaken', not 'completed'. On the other hand, I have to stress that I did not say that an independent Biyya Oromo will come to exist, only through these projects; there has to be clandestine movement, manifestations, riots, attacks on military camps, an entire revolution. But the aforementioned projects consist in an indispensable phase of preparatory work. They set the strong foundations on which the national independence struggle will be placed, involving military clashes between Oromo rebels and the regular army of tribal Amhara and Tigray gangsters.

Finally, some will maintain that the various Oromo liberation fronts, resistance movements and political parties, even if they wanted, could not possibly hire the employees needed to carry out this wide range of groundbreaking endeavours. They are right; the only able to undertake this momentous effort are the Oromos in their entirety.

Oromia will be liberated by them, and only partly the credit will go to the liberation fronts, the resistance movements and the political parties. There are millions of Oromos who need no money, no salary and no reward to engage themselves in the most noble effort for the Oromia Independence and Renaissance. Their recompense will be the new great African state, the Kushitic Republic of Oromo Ethiopia.

To reach this destination any Oromo who wants to contribute to the great effort must have ready his mind, his culture, his background, his body, as well as the time and the money he can spend; the latter will be of minor importance.

The vehicle to take the Oromos to the Independent Biyya Oromo is called Gola, which means 'section' in Afaan Oromo; it will stand in English as the initials for 'Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity'.

How the GOLA will be incepted, how they will function, and how they will keep Amhara intruders faraway we will discuss in forthcoming series of articles.

Note -- For the liberation of Oromia, the Oromos can rely only on themselves, which means only they – in their totality – will be the possibly successful leaders. Oromo dancers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oromiatimes/158985118/

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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