(Qerroo News, Najjoo, June 01-2011). Uprising against oppression continued in West Wollegga towns of Nadjo, Jarso and Babbo. The uprising mobilised people in these towns were achieved remarkable victory that on other hand extremely frustrated the Woyane government authorities in the region.
The Nadjo town residents of county 01, 02, 03 and 04 abide by Oromo Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy call rioted against the government on May 23rd 2011. On the day people of the town rallied from every corner of the town, directed to the Woyane government authority offices, chucked down the government’s flag that broadly considered as the symbol of tyranny, and replaced by the Oromian flag, which well respected among the Oromo people as the symbol of freedom, for one day.
According to Qerro’s news source, in addition to raising up the Oromian flag the rally has been singing a revolutionary rhymes of ‘Ebbisa Addunya’, that advocates for freedom, by striking the slogan that advances the OLF (Oromo Liberation Front) and ‘Get Up Qerroo’ messages. Until the heavily armed Federal forces convoyed to the area to contain the rally became beyond control of the government authorities.
In similar cause, in Jarso district (Wollagga), the Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy, ‘Qerroo’ wing disposed of the government’s flag and replaced by the Oromian flag. No one had become brave enough to bring the flag down for a couple of days, until the Federal armed forces reinvaded the town.
Similarly, Qerroo news reported form adjacent district of Babbo has revealed that demonstration lobbied by the government authorities in favour if Blue Nile irrigation project advancement altered to violence. Accordingly the demonstration wrecked the government flag and evacuated the government authorities from the town.
Due to communication network channel disruption by the government reporters experienced difficulties to deliver the news to the public arena quickly as it to be practicable.
QEERROO 
———The Best Way to Foster an Effective Alliance or an Efficient Unity Against the Woyane———-
The only way forward for the Woyane victims (for the affected citizens and nations) in the Ethiopian empire is their unity of purpose to get rid of this fascist and racist regime. That means we need to deal specially with the Woyane’s best method to polarize, divide and fragmentize the opposition. We know that OLF’s way of struggle these days is very smart; it effectively tackled the Woyane’s method of destroying any opposition by dividing. It is becoming inclusive of all groups of Oromo nationalists with the vision to realize one of the three different forms of walabummaa Oromia/Ethiopia, for which they respectively want to vote, of course after achieving the common Oromo goal: bilisummaa Oromo. We do support all these Oromo nationalists, who are fighting for an Oromo freedom (bilisummaa) from Woyane’s fascism (garbummaa), knowing the fact that they wish to realize one of the following types of Oromia’s sovereignity (types of walabummaa):
– an independent Oromia of the ULFO (getting rid of Ethiopia),
– the Ethiopia-Oromia (Ethiopian union with Oromian autonomy) of the OFC, and
– an integrated/unitary Ethiopia to be led by the Oromo people and having Afaan Oromo as a federal working language as planned by the politically conscious Oromo nationalists in the UDJ (getting rid of Oromia).
Which type of the sovereignity will prevail in the future depends on the vote of the Oromo majority after achieving our bilisummaa by any means possible (through the armed struggle of the OLF and/or through the public uprising of an all-inclusive alliance and/or through the electroal struggle of the OFC). So, it is good that OLF now leads these moves of the politically conscious Oromo nationalists in different routes/ways towards the same kaayyoo of bilisummaa Oromo and then to the type of walabummaa Oromia/Ethiopia to be decided by the Oromo public majority.
To hinder this clever move of the OLF, the “smart” Woyanes are trying their best to preach an ‘unconditional independent Oromia’ and an ‘unconditional unitary Ethiopia’ at the same time, just for the sake of sowing a discord between the Amhara democratic forces and the Oromo liberation fronts so that the tsunami of the revolution, which is now almost coming up on their bosses in Finfinne palace, may be hindered; i.e to prevent the tsunami coming from the planned all-inclusive alliance. We like it or not, the spirit of AFD is on the process of resurrecting and reviving, which is really an excellent phenomen on development. Meles Zenawi’s political acrobat as well put by Gadaa.com in the following link will never prevent such an all-inclusive alliance from being a reality: http://gadaa.com/oduu/9059/2011/04/22/zenawis-ethiopia-hegemony-of-separatists-turned-article-39ers-turned-chauvinists/ . Interestingly Meles Zenawi has already dispatched his cadres in three directions (being camouflaged as independenists in the Ethno-nationalists’ camp of the Oromo, as killil-federalists in his Woyane camp of the Tegaru and as unitarists in the Ethio-nationalists’ camp of the Amhara):
– in Amhara forums and paltalks to preach a ‘unitary Ethiopia’ and to demonize the Ethno-nationalists, specially to blame the Ogaden and the Oromo liberation forces;
– in Tegaru forums and paltalks to act as the popes of ethnic federation (braging about §39) just in order to curse the Amhara unitarists as “chauvinists” and the Oromo independenists as “secessionists”;
– in Oromo forums and paltalks to function as hardliner supporters of an ‘indepnendent Oromia’ just to denigrate and to insult the Amhara camp.
At the moment, the card of the ‘Tigrean independence’, which Meles Zenawi used to preach as he was a rebel, has no more value, as long as Woyane is in power. Even if the Woyane cadres try to use this card, no one is scared of it; also the pro-unity Amharas do say: “go to hell and declare your independence”. This card of course will be important when Woyane starts to see that its power in Finfinne palace is in danger. Till then Woyane purposely advocates an unconditional ‘independent Oromia’ to the Oromo, so that the Oromo people be cornered only at this position, not to be flexible. Woyane knows very well that this position has got a lot of enemies (not only the unitarist Amhara, but also the Western regimes). With the same logic, Woyane preaches to the Amhara nationalists how important an unconditional ‘unitary Ethiopia’ is, because this position produces an enemity of all the oppressed nations in the Ethiopian empire, including the act of inducing the enemity of the Oromo, towards the Amhara. That means Woyane’s best cards now are these two diametrically opposite positions: an ‘unconditional independent Oromia’ and an ‘unconditional unitary Ethiopia’, of course beside its continous song about Woyane’s ethnic federation per force (about its de facto Tigrean hegemony).
Actually the flag, which Meles Zenawi carries in the first picture drawn by Gadaa.com, is the OLF-flag with the slogan “Oromia shall be free”. He already has hidden the “Abbay Tigrai” agenda and the “Tigrai shall be free” slogan behind his current Ethiopianist rhetoric. He is happy when the pro-”Oromia shall be free” Oromo nationals and the pro-”long live Ethiopia” Amhara groups do bark at each other and neutralize each other; that is why he promotes both the Ethiopian and the Oromian nationalisms and tries to control the two emotional communities, who he thinks are ready to be moblized when ever he wants. He tried to mobilize the emotional Amhara nationalists against OLF in the time between 1992 and 2005 and he attempted to moblize some Oromo nationals during the 2005 election and after that against the CUD of Amhara camp; now he again tries to mobilize the gullible part of the Amhara nationals using his Ethiopian nationalist slogan about Abbay River and Assab Port, of course to hinder them from cooperating with the Oromo nationalists during the upcoming revolution. To some extent he is successful; for instance, the fact that Oromo students are now revolting without any help from other students is the proof.
To counter this Meles Zenawi’s move towards the ‘right’ side of the political spectrum, his intention being just to make the Ethio-nationalists to rally behind himself, I think the ongoing cooperation between G-7, ONLF and OLF is a smart progress. They need to foster the necessary all-inclusive alliance based on the common denominators, ‘freedom and democracy’, so that we can build a true killil-federation (Oromian autonomy within Ethiopian union) after the demise of the regime. The independenist wing of the OLF and those in ULFO should be wise enough not to oppose this move. Now the arguement among the Oromo polity on: ‘independence vs union’ must stop. Even we don’t have to oppose the position of the pro-unitary Ethiopian forces as long as they fight against the brutal fascist Woyane.
So, the best anti-dote against the current Woyane’s move is that we do everything possible to make Woyane be insecure and if possible to lose power. The best instruments to achieve this are the imperative ‘tokkummaa of the Oromo liberation forces’ and the important ‘tumsa with the other democratic forces’. I am sure that the Oromo people do have nothing to lose by pushing in this form. Those Oromo nationals, who fear the possible comeback of the Amhara elites with the assimilationist feudal mentality to reverse the partially achieved Oromo’s right to self-adminstration, are simply unrealistic. So let’s fight together with all the anti-Woyane forces in order to achieve our national Oromo liberty with regional Ethiopian union.
I personally think that now we do have only one all-inclusive opposition against Woyane. This opposition camp has got the ‘left’ wing independenists like the ULFO, the ‘middle’ body unionists like those in EFDUF (medrek) as well as those with the spirit of AFD (the G-7, OLF and ONLF) and the ‘right’ wing integrationists like the AEUP and EPRP. Now, we are in the critical phase of the struggle where we need the cooperation and coordination of the move of all these three parts of the opposition against our common enemy (against the fascist and racist Woyane). That is why we all anti-Woyane political groups should stop our infighitng and start to target only the Woyane, so that we can forge a transitional governement based on the principles of freedom and democracy after the fall of this regime.
Nothing can save the political acrobatist Meles Zenawi, from the imminent and the upcoming revolution; that means the time is for a revolution. But we, the Oromo nationalists, do ask: where are the other students, while the Oromo students are revolting? Why are the Amhara students and the students from the other opressed nations still sleeping? Are they still the victims of Woyane’s divide and rule method? We actually must be able to say together: no more antagonizing the all-inclusive freedom fighters in favour of the Woyane fascist forces. It is clear that the Woyane fascists and racists survived by dividing, fragmentizing and polarizing both the Amhara integrationist camp and the Oromo independenist camp among themselves and between each other.
But now the question is: how long will both the Ethiopian nationalists’ camp of the Amhara and the Ethnic nationalists’ bloc of the Oromo allow the Woyane to play with them and how long do they give a chance for this mafia group to beat them turn by turn? Are they less intelligent than the Woyane not to outsmart this fascist and racist regime? Time will show us for how long Woyane will play the game of pure political acrobat, presenting itself (camouflaging) as either the Oromo independenist or as the only Ethiopian unionist (killil-federalist) or as the Amhara integrationist just to sow a discord among the opposition and make these different parts of the opposition to fight each other; actually the only true motive of Woyane is to keep the Tigrean hegemony at any cost. On the day that the Oromo nationalists start to make also the issue of an integrated Ethiopia as their own regional issue, of course beside an independent Oromia as the national issue, and on the day the Amhara nationals start to accept and respect Oromia’s right to exist, at least within an integrated Ethiopia, this day will be the day of a real demise for the fascist and racist Woyane regime.
Otherwise, we have to be able to differentiate Woyane political acrobatists from the genuine independenist Oromo, the unionist (federalist) South and the integrationist Amhara. To know this difference, what matters is not the position of their guts, but more the direction of their guns. Woyane cadres do direct their guns (verbal bullets) on pro-integration Amhara nationals and on pro-independence Oromo nationalists, whereas the genuine opposition from these two camps nowadays consequently and conciously try to direct their guns only on the currently tormenting enemy (the Woyane). Woyane cadres shoot continously at these genuine Amhara and Oromo groups, whereas the genuine pro-independence Oromo and the genuine pro-integration Amhara nationals do try to tolerate all the opposition political groups with their different tactics and strategies in struggling for freedom from Woyane’s fascism. So we just need to check the direction of their guns in order to differenitate the camouflaged Woyane cadres talking about an ‘independent Oromia’ and an ‘integrated Ethiopia’ from both the genuine opposition blocs advocating these two same agenda respectively.
What ever happens in the politics of that empire, sure is that Woyane cadres are doing everything under the sun to divide and weaken the opposition. It is up to us, the supporters of the opposition, to act against this move of the cadres. That is why we continously push for the imperative unity of those with similar ideology and for the optional alliance of all the anti-Woyane democrats. The opposition camp including the Oromo liberation movement should act together against the mafia group in Finfinne palace. For this to happen, the opposition groups need to agree on the rule of the game regarding the future arrangement: referendum or consensus or force.
The rule of the game against Woyane is clear. Woyane didn’t give any chance for either a referendum or a consensus. What remains then is a force as the only means to deal with Woyane; that means only civil disobedience, armed struggle and public uprising are the choice, not the usual ‘election game’. But the opposition should also find the suitable rule of the game in the post-Woyane future politics: either consensus or referendum, excluding force. Then they do have only the following two options:
– consensus on a middle ground for all; i.e on a ‘union of autonomous nations’ in the region/empire called Ethiopia or
– referendum on: an ‘independent nation like an independent Oromia’ VS a ‘union of autonomous nations in Ethiopia’ VS an ‘integration of the empire devoid of autonomous national areas like Oromia’
Force is only the last option for the opposition groups to settle the difference between each other, in case we will fail to agree on the above two noble ways (on consensus and referendum). If we must use force, then the result will be an ‘independence by force as in the case of Eritrea’, or a ‘union by force as it is now under Woyane’ or an ‘integration by force as it was under the Amhara rule in the past’. Now, the question to be answered is: are both the Oromo camp and the Amhara camp in a position to achieve their goal respectively by force? If the Oromo camp wants an Oromian independence in such a move by force, it must win not only the ruling Woyane, but also the opposing Amhara camp. If the Amharas want to impose an integration by force, they also need to win not only the ruling Woyane, but also the opposing Oromo camp.
I don’t think this is feasible for both camps in the near future; that is why both the Amhara camp and the Oromo camp must make a compromise/have a consensus, not to fight each other, but build an alliance to be a stronger force against Woyane to achieve their common goal according to the consensus, i.e to achieve freedom from Woyane’s fascism and a ‘union of autonomous nations’ as a compromise solution. Woyane cadres are now sensing that this possibility of an alliance between the Amhara camp and the Oromo bloc against their rule is approaching, that is why they are very busy to polarize, divide and fragmentize both camps.