The concluding statement from the Oromo community at the Park Hyatt Grand Hotel was a gracious “thank you, Australia.” This was after the more than six hours endurance of the heavy rain, chilling cold of Melbourne’s winter and chanting slogans against the Oromo People’s Democratic Organisation (OPDO) delegates that altered our pitches. The OPDO’s were sent by the Ethiopian government to destabilize a peaceful society which has been granted rights to live and prosper in a multicultural society by a sovereign state. Their main aim was purely to threaten the harmony that Oromo’s enjoy in Diaspora and continue to work to intensify human rights violations back home. They had been sent here to broker deals with entrepreneurs and well-heeled individuals to invest back home at the cost of illegally displacing peasant farmers and indigenous land owners.Diaspora Community ensures Ethiopian delegates meeting is called off