By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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In five earlier articles titled ‘Overwhelming Oromo Reaction Against CIA-planned Amharization of OSA: No to Racist Ethiopianist Dogma‘, ‘CIA Sponsored Amhara Smiley Gangsters to Subvert Oppressed Oromos in Fake, Failed State of Ethiopia‘, ‘Committed to Continuing the Ethiopian Genocides, Berhanu Nega Has No Place in an Oromo Conference‘ ‘Keep Terrorist Berhanu Nega Out of OSA Conference & Put a Tombstone on Fake Ethiopia, Oromos Demand‘, and ‘Oromos Reject the CIA-Imposed Invitation of Freemason, Zionist Ambassador Shinn in OSA Conference‘, I expanded on a subject of the utmost concern for the subjugated and persecuted nation of the Oromos, namely the improper and deceitful invitation of the Freemason, Zionist Ambassador David Shinn and his the Amhara slave and political instrument, the Ethiopianist politician Berhanu Nega, in the Oromo Studies Association (OSA) annual conference.

The invitation of the two fellows straightforwardly and gravely contradicts the declared Mission Statement of the OSA (see below), because as a scholarly and academic institution, this association should not get involved in politics, international relations, and diplomacy, let alone colonial strategies of Anti-African and Anti-Oromo nature.

It is essential in this regard to clarify that the possible good intentions of the majority of the members of the OSA are not questioned, but matter very little indeed, as an entire plot is being worked out on the Oromo front ? of which they are unaware and have therefore fallen into the well prepared trap, by opening their door to the members of the Anti-Oromo conniving group.

Use of Oromo Naïve Renegades

Of course, without the perfect utilization of some vicious persons, who are real renegades of the Oromo Nation and high traitors of the worst sort, the Freemason, Zionist ambassador David Shinn would have failed to effectively implement his Anti-Oromo plan’s first target, namely to be offered an invitation in the OSA Annual Conference.

These individuals, acting on the basis of personal materialistic interests, are able to transvest all the monstrously Anti-Oromo plans and plots of the Freemason, Zionist ambassador David Shinn into “suitably productive projects about”, “benevolent advices for”, “remarkable, new strategies toward”, “smart, fresh plans of” and “soft political approaches to” a better, democratic, socio-political conditions, and socio-economic progress in “Ethiopia,”

Flattered because of fake compliments expressed by their “interlocutors” (who are effectively their manipulators, masters and superiors),

Enthused with the fake promises made to them by their “interlocutors”,

Motivated with the henceforth ensuing assumptions of a great academic and political career ‘back home’, which are due to the aforementioned fake promises,

Steered unsuspectingly by their “interlocutors”, who communicated to them only a tiny part of their real projects for which only they utilize them,

Piloted unconsciously by their “interlocutors” like soulless automatons for political plans that look plausibly positive but will never be materialized,

Utilized by their “interlocutors” in order to bring about a change that will not lead to what they imagine but to another situation, which will turn worse for the entire Nation of the Oromos, and

Identified by their own deceitful “interlocutors” as disposable material for targets which remain hermetically unknown to them, ….. these individuals, namely the likes of Beyan Asoba and Jawar Siraj, are:

•   biased, because of the substantial material benefit involved,

•   untrustworthy, because the subordination of Oromia’s National Interest to their own, really execrable and at the same time highly imaginative, personal interests

•   unreliable, because of their readiness to promote and defend anything demanded by their boss, in spite of the Un-Oromo and Anti-Oromo character of the directives given to them

•   devious because they fail to detect the Un-Oromo and Anti-Oromo character of the directives given to them due to their blindness, passion and inebriation

•   disloyal, because of their inebriation for the (promised or assumed) personal success, socio-professional ascension, and political rise, which eliminates inside their minds and hearts the quintessence of Oromia, and

•   catastrophic, because of their ignorance of the real plans and projects of their own “interlocutors” and masters.

With the aforementioned, I don’t imply that the said individuals and their bribed allies, who remain hidden until they get mobilized when the Freemason, Zionist ambassador snaps his finger, know David Shinn personally. The labyrinthine corridors of the Washington political prostitution are numerous. Different contacts have been established with different Oromos, who will be activated according to the needs of the plan and the directives that will be given to them ? an orchestration that they naively ignore.

Evidently, not all of the Oromos, who have been contacted, proved to be as weak, as cynical, and as immoral as the above mentioned individuals; many among them rejected to cooperate with the US administration, and refused to yield.

Admittedly, one must not under-estimate the formidable power of persuasion that our world’s Babylon has acquired; the Freemasonic, Zionist regime of Washington, Paris and London controls a very wide range of means that would astound any impoverished, destitute, isolated African refugee who from the natural beauty and admirable authenticity of his village reaches at last the gigantic, inhuman and corrupt urban centers of America. Integrity is not an easy affair indeed.

One should have the mental power of a Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic philosopher, to reject America as an inhuman trash, and thus prefer Moyale to Los Angeles.

Analyzing Intentions, Purposes and Changes

Of course, the tools of deception used by the US colonial establishment against the selected, unsuspicious, but fooled and greedy, Oromo individuals, are soft, and involve an outstanding effort of seduction, addiction and inebriation. This means that the individuals exposed to the ominous contact with the evilness of the US administrative machine ceased to be normal human beings, let alone Oromo natives, and kept ever since acting like drug users. They are totally unable to think rationally, evaluate independently, and stand critically to the ideas and the schemes that are aptly submitted to them by their masters.

If you consider anyone like Beyan Asoba and Jawar Siraj as a normal, free-thinking, and integer being, you commit a disastrous misjudgment and a lethal error; they are not. They are mentally impotent, intellectually captured, and psychologically unbalanced persons because their emotional mechanism has been incarcerated in the seduction narratives and the subsequent intoxication process to which they have been unresistingly exposed.

The calamitous colonial mechanism of selection, seduction and inebriation of useful but expendable individuals does not occur against Oromos only, as one can easily assess; selected natives from every country have been and are being victimized in this way only to abuse their nation’s, ethno-religious group’s or country’s interests. This is the typical mechanism of colonial control, conquest and subjugation of the world. I have to specify that at this level I am not referring to any type of Freemasonic initiation which can eventually be offered to this type of easily ‘bought up’ individuals – only to aggravate their case and subsequently their impact on their own nation, ethno-religious group or country.

To the aforementioned analysis, some unconvinced individuals may oppose the fact that one cannot know what happens and what is discussed when two (or more) people meet separately from the rest. This is may look true and logical, but as a matter of fact, it consists in an argument for mentally impotent people who simply want to remain as ignorant and as naïve as it is convenient for them to be. This approach has effectively its own limits.

First and foremost, one can examine the reason for, and the purpose of, the contact, the meeting, and the deliberations between two otherwise unrelated persons. What can an Oromo refugee, who may have got naturalized American, possibly have in common with an American administrative employee or diplomat?

- Nothing!

America may be a good subterfuge for a persecuted individual originating from an indigenous nation somewhere in Asia, Africa, Latin America or even Europe, but so are many other countries as well.

I have no reason to think that, under general and proportional criteria, my Oromo friends here in Cairo are less happy with their present life than my Oromo friends in Europe with theirs.

But this consideration is momentary, and pertains to a limited period of time. Beyond that terminus, the real, inherent, interest for one refugee’s own country comes to surface. If the reception country monopolizes the former refugee’s interest, this signifies oblivion; few people can enter this category.

This means that an Oromo refugee naturalized American has nothing to discuss about Oromia with any representative of the country that perpetuates and promotes the colonial plans of Anglo-French Freemasonry, which have already cost the life of many dozens of millions of people throughout Africa.

Only an ignorant mind would imagine possible for the American administration to deliver anything positive to a subjugated African nation. The conclusion is that any meeting between a US-resident Oromo and any representative of the US administration is improper, erroneous and even malicious, due to the evident, total divergence of interests. Of course, if a US-resident Oromo makes of his / her US naturalization the top moment of his / her life, then the meeting is normal, but then the Oromo is a renegade, who works for another country against his own ? subjugated ? nation. This is correctly called an African Quisling.

Second, one can examine the result of a similar contact or meeting; although the subjects of the deliberation may be covered by a veil of mystery, the difference in the actions, reactions, discourses, purposes, and public stance of the two (or more) parts of the meeting can be a strong indication of the issues discussed and the decisions taken.

Finally, even if one assumes that there was never a contact and that a meeting never took place, one can make the equation between one person’s plans and another individual’s sudden changes, unjustified political proposals, and nationally detrimental suggestions.

The Turning Point: Identity

There is one key issue which is the litmus paper of all secretive meetings and contacts, and of sudden changes and amendments: the Identity as felt, conceived and expressed by a member of an indigenous and subjugated nation as the most valuable, inherent element of his personality, life, and political action.

If an individual, author, intellectual, political activist or academic disregards, relativizes, diminishes or belittles his subjugated nation’s Identity, or if he attempts to condition it on any other property, occurrence or factor, this automatically testifies to a secretive contact, a corrupt practice, and a hidden act of high treason.

There is no (and there cannot be any) politicization of the National Identity shared among the members of a subjugated and persecuted nation. This is as absolute and as integral as the phenomenon of Life itself, because there cannot be Life without Identity under any circumstances whatsoever.

This does not concern of course fake states and multinational entities whereby the concept of national identity is totally artificial and absolutely fabricated.

The bypassing of the National Identity of an indigenous nation is the Colonial Sacrilege par excellence; without a political effort toward this direction, the evil forces of Colonialism can resort only to tyranny, persecution, and genocide.

The trickery used to allow the colonial structures to survive according to the criminal, Anglo-French Freemasonic interests is the ‘politicization’ game. You can call it ‘soft strategy’, if you want, ‘corrosion politics’ or ‘epitome of corruption’, but it’s the same. It is the instrument through which the subjugated nations, against whom the same colonial powers undertook every effort of destruction and subjugation over the past 300 years, are going to be corroded from inside and thus extinct once forever.

Wherever any type of attack is made by an Oromo native against the Oromo Identity, and its incommensurable, inexorable and therefore undisputed and determinant role in shaping Oromo intellectual, social and political decision making, you can be sure that you have to deal with an act of grave immorality, national apostasy, and political prostitution.

A Vicious Attack Against the Oromo Identity by Jawar Siraj

I will be offering now a perfect example of this type of ‘soft attack’ against the soul of the Oromo Nation. You can find it in the July 2010 Newsletter of the Oromo Studies Association; I have to state immediately that it does not express the official position of the association. In fact, it is the abstract submitted by Jawar Siraj ahead of his speech in the Annual Conference under the impressive and meaningful title “Reexamining Identity Politics: Searching for alternatives ways of advancing human security, liberty and prosperity in Horn of Africa,” The abstract reads as per below:

“The modern African politics, particularly that of our region, has been marred by one group using primordial connection as power base, to be able to impose its will on the “other,” As a response, identity has also been the preferred, if not sole, by which “other” have been galvanizing and mobilizing resistances against exclusion, exploitation and marginalization. The use of identity as strategy to advance political agenda has often succeeded in bringing regime changes, but it has not solved the fundamental political problems faced by African societies. While power has changed hand from elites of one group to the other, identity politics has failed to bring human security, social stability and sustainable economic development to vast majority of the mass in whose name struggles have been waged.

This paper attempts to address the following question. 1) Why did identity become the primary source of political mobilization 2) Why did it fail to bring sustainable change? 3) Are there realistic and alternative forms of political mobilization?”

Through the aforementioned, you can understand that this individual ? due to extraordinary material interest involved ? intends to sell out the Oromo Identity as an “old fashioned” strategy which was “improperly used” by the “wrong people”!

Disreputable attempt of the Washington D.C. political prostitution! Nothing more!

Diminishing the Oromo Identity to a ludicrous caricature, Jawar Siraj, as the embodiment of the Washington D.C. ‘soft strategy’ and global desecration, solemnly announces that Identity “has not solved the fundamental political problems faced by African societies”!

What a mendacious and criminal assertion!

Who ever imagined that Identity exists in order to “solve” political problems?

Who told the corrupt and inane Jawar Siraj that any political problem can possibly be “fundamental” when Identity issues are raised?

Politics is an inexistent, an infinitesimal matter whenever and wherever compared to Identity. Either Jawar Siraj accepts this and tears down the ridiculous announcement of his treacherous speech or he defames the millions of Oromos who have been massacred over the past 150 years because of the UK / US-supported Abyssinian bestiality that his discourse is prepared to serve.

Not a single Oromo died for “fundamental political problems” because for not a single Oromo Jawar Siraj’s personal delusions could possibly be “fundamental,”

All the millions of Oromos, who have been indiscriminately massacred over the past 150 years, died for the Identity that they held as sacred but the shameless Jawar Siraj wants so passionately to sell out to his friend, the Freemason, Zionist ambassador David Shinn, the Oromos’ worst enemy.

In a forthcoming article, I will reveal what is unknown to the naïve traitor Jawar Siraj: what Ambassador David Shinn and the US establishment intend to do against the Oromos, after they benefit from Jawar Siraj’s sellout of the Oromo Identity.

Here, I add the OSA Mission Statement which clearly demonstrates that the academic institution became the target of multileveled blackmail and was forced to contravene their mission and principles by extending improper invitations to the ambitious Amhara butcher-to-be Berhanu Nega and the Freemason, Zionist ambassador David Shinn for whose sake Jawar Siraj prepared his ominous speech.

Oromo Studies Association – Our Mission

The Oromo Studies Association (OSA) is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary, nonprofit organization, established by Oromo and non-Oromo scholars to promote studies on and relevant to the Oromo people. OSA is an international academic organization committed to the study and documentation of Oromo history and culture. It was established by scholars who were concerned about the lack of adequate knowledge about the Oromo people.

The Oromo Studies Association has the following objectives:

•   Develop and promote serious scholarship on the history, economy, culture, health, education, politics, law, and social welfare of the Oromo people.

•   Promote critical thinking and well-rounded intellectual life among scholars of the Oromo studies.

•   Provide a forum for Oromo scholars to cooperate and support each other.

•   Provide the opportunity and mechanisms for non-Oromo scholars to actively participate in the development of scholarship about the Oromo people.

•   Identify and solicit resources and research funds for scholarly works for Oromo Studies.

To achieve these goals, OSA organizes annual conferences and publishes proceedings and journals. The annual OSA conferences are usually preceded and accompanied by a burst of new energy, vitality, and a new hope for increased scholarship on Oromo Studies. The regular publications of the annual conference proceedings and the Journal of Oromo Studies have been critical instruments in the production and dissemination of knowledge about the Oromo. Scholars have been aiming at exposing the crude nature, inner workings, and consequences of the Abyssinian colonialism, its ideological underpinnings, and the mechanisms with which the Abyssinian elite and their foreign supporters have distorted Oromo history and undermined Oromo civilization. In the short period of time since its creation, OSA has created a solid foundation for the development of Oromo scholarship and dissemination of a more accurate and reliable knowledge base about the Oromo people.

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In five earlier articles titled “Opposition Party Offices Closed in Fake Ethiopia Elections, MP Dr. Jigi Demekssa Reveals,” “MP Dr. G. Jigi Demekssa Calls US, EU: Support to Fake Ethiopia Contradicts All Democratic Ideals,” “There Are No Elections but Real War in Ethiopia Today, Denounces MP Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa,” “MP Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa: Task of Every Oromo is the Elimination of the Abyssinians from Oromia” and “Sudan and the Oromo Nation are the Natural Allies against the Abyssinian TPLF Ethiopianist Tyranny,” I published the previous parts of an interview that I was honoured to have with the leading Oromo parliamentarian, Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa. With the present article, I complete the publication of Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa’s interview.

Dr. Demekssa was forced to leave his country and fight from abroad for freedom, liberation, national independence and secession of Oromia. Dr. Demekssa’s revelations should become a matter of utmost concern for international bodies, governments, statesmen and politicians, diplomats and intellectuals, journalists and Human Rights activists worldwide.

The forthcoming electoral fraud in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) is a Shame for the Mankind in its entirety. Reaction must be taken in order to hold responsible and accountable the perpetrators of the electoral fraud, who are also charged with the most odious Crime against the Mankind: the diffusion of the racist theory of Ethiopianism, the falsehood of an Ethiopian nation within which they intentionally attempt to exterminate once forever more than 15 different African nations with great past and noble traditions.

Interview with Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa — Part 6
OFDM Executive Committee Member
Head of the Political and Organizational Dept.
MP for Ethiopian Federal Parliament
Chairman of Oromo Parliamentarians Council

25.   What are the major issues in today’s Oromia? Economy? Human Rights? Environment? Development?

The Oromian economy is currently fully controlled by Males Zenawi and his adviser Nuwy Gbra Ab and their subservient puppets, the Minster of Finance Ahmed Sufian and the Minister of Industry and Trade Girma Biru. These are all TPLF gang members and have absolutely no idea about the socioeconomic realities that prevail in Occupied Oromia.

The Oromia land-grabbing is today the most preoccupying matter for all the Oromos because sizeable lots of fertile land are being sold for 100 years to Indian, Saudis, Sudanese, Europeans and other businessmen. Oromia’s surface totals more than 350000 km2, but the precipitated rhythm of these illegal and absolutely invalid transactions consists in an unprecedented phenomenon in Eastern Africa. I will give you now some examples.

Bangalore-based Karuturi Global Ltd., which is currently leasing more than 300,000 hectares (765,000 acres) of local land, sold out an area larger than the entire Luxembourg (ca. 2600 km2) for only 15 birr (US $ 1.18) per hectare per year.

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, has “bought” and currently “owns” a land lot of 20,000 m2 near the town Bishoftu (Debre Zeit) in Occupied Oromia.

Last year, Ismael Omar Guelleh, the president of Djibouti, “bought” a land lot of 10000 m2 in Bishoftu in order to have a house built there, and more recently he “bought” another 30000 m2 in Bale for agricultural purposes — all in Occupied Oromia.

Furthermore, his woman, Khadra Mohammed, the first lady of Djibouti, “bought” a land lot of 20 hectares in Sebeta (Oromia) in order to set up a flower farm.

The National Bank of Egypt announced that during this year they will buy a land lot of 20000 hectares to invest in agriculture.

It is noteworthy that no less than 240 Saudi companies have applied and got the governmental license for investment in agriculture. Some of these companies have started investing and operating; in their totality, the Saudi investment companies are expected to invest US $2.5 billion in these projects for which a sizeable part of Oromian land has been unlawfully sold to them.

A German company has been working for some time in bio-fuel project that involved an area of ca. 13000 hectares.

Another German entrepreneur has been recently allocated an area of ca. 150000 ha for livestock project.

Notorious for his support to the racist TPLF dictator Meles Zenawi, the Ethio-Saudi entrepreneur Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi Al Amoudi acquired many vast pieces of land in various parts of Occupied Oromia, notably in the periphery of Finfinnee, in the zones Arsi, Gurji (more than half the area) and Bale, and in the West Wellega district of Mansibu.
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Last year, in the first months, the TPLF Mafia lords sold unofficially to personal friends and acquaintances areas totalling 607760 hectares — all in Occupied Oromia.

According to recommendations made by specialists and experts, the disproportionate sales of Oromian land at incredibly low fake prices, which occur without involving preconditions and special agreements, can end up in irreparable disasters.

•   – Land deals must be assessed in the light of the often complex overall package they are part of, including commitments on investment, infrastructure development and employment — the “land grab” emphasized by some media is only part of the equation;

•   – Land leases, rather than purchases, are predominant in Africa, and host country governments tend to play a key role in allocating them;

•   – Land fees and other monetary transfers are generally small (for instance, three dollars to $ 12 per hectare per year in Mali and Ethiopia), not least due to the difficulty of setting land prices in absence of well-established formal land markets;

•   – Host country benefits are mainly seen in the form of investor commitments on investment levels, employment creation and infrastructure development

•   – Although the structure of current land deals suggests that these commitments may be difficult to enforce.

More analytically: http://www.inwent.org/ez/articles/155062/index.en.shtml
(an in-depth analysis by Lorenzo Cotula and Sonja Vermeulen)

For all of us, the Oromo Nation who are the undisputed proprietary of all these land lots, as well as of the territory of Occupied Oromia, the aforementioned — and similar, past or future — transactions of the undemocratic, totalitarian TPLF government are illegal and absolutely void. The unlawful foreign and Abyssinian owners will certainly lose their monies in this shameful affair, because the transactions will be cancelled. They cannot deal with a tyrant and illegal tenant of our land.

26.   How happy are you with the stance of the Europeans, statesmen, politicians, academia, and intellectuals toward the grave violations of Human Rights in Abyssinia?

Western countries have created fake colonial borders which caused a real political volcano in many African countries across the continent. Until we finally change these colonial borders, the political volcano will continue erupting every now and then, producing genocides, massacres, atrocities and all sorts of calamities.

It is essential to note that the problems between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Rwanda and Burundi have not in fact been created by these two nations, but they are the direct result of the colonization, and the unlawful, immoral and shameful relationship established between the former colonizers and their proxies, today’s fake leaders who are forced to rule tyrannically and within unacceptable and impossible borders that by themselves generate troubles because they represent nothing. Due to the colonialism and its side effects, the Oromo Nation does not have a most deserved position among the UN General Assembly members, but has disappeared, divided among Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.

For Western politicians and diplomats, guys like Meles Zenawi, who are ready always to disregard and undermine the interests of diverse subjugated nations and disrespect the interests of the entire African continent, are useful and functional; that’s why they praise them so much. The Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change is an example; the shameful, catastrophic and utterly Anti-African positions supported by the Tigray Mafia lord Meles Zenawi fully exposed his corrupted personality.
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Even in the 21st century, the Western countries failed to demonstrate a genuine interest in the democratization of African countries that they condemned to undeserved tyrannies in the first place. I have shaped the idea that they must imagine that Democracy, Freedom, National Independence and Progress are ideals and concepts good only for themselves, not the rest. When it comes to Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania, the Western governments are interested only generating conflicts, wars and destruction. That is paranoid and inhuman.

27.   What could they do in your opinion?

Ethiopia is indeed a land of silence and human rights violations, as I said in a Complaint Statement that I submitted to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Africa Department. The world community has forgotten all our appeals, and today the Oromos are among the voiceless nations at the margin of the international society. I can use the description I made for the HRW to specify what the Western countries could do:

“Meles Zenawi has killed tens of thousands of innocent Oromos and other nations in Ethiopia. Meles is much more brutal than Omar Al Bashir of Sudan, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Milosevic of Yugoslavia, and Idi Amin Dada of Uganda. The difference is he wants to play a different card at different time to show as if he is Western-friendly. He is the most silent killer ever. While we expect him in the Hague, the support European power’s definitely discourage the struggle for justice and democratic reformation in Africa and else where.

Innocent Oromo individuals are being killed in cold blood and denied the honor to get normal burial, some of the dead are left in the forest for hyenas and wild beasts to feast on them. This is what happened in Ciro town in Western Hararge two years ago, the Gara Suufi massacre.

Oromo students who staged for peace protests against the injustice being committed against their people were beaten severely, denied their graduation certificate, dismissed from school and shot dead in the school compound – for no crime committed until today.

There are more than 40000 Oromo political prisoners in Ethiopia, most of them were tortured, shot dead or disabled forever in the same prisons. Oromo intellectuals, business men, farmers and civil servants are detained, tortured and humiliated in a way which can be related to systematic eradication of this big nation.

The most shocking tragedy of this regime is that elected parliamentarians and members of other political parties were subjected to executions and other acts of inhumane treatment. For instance, Mr. Adane was an elected member of the Ethiopian parliament representing the Oromo Peoples Congress Party (OPC). A week after the election of May 2005 a police shot and killed Mr. Adane in Arsi Negele town.

Oromo refugees in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Kenya are under unprecedented suffering after fleeing their land, deported in contrary to international convention, and persecuted for the last 18 years of TPLF regime. In Somalia (Bossaso), 65 Oromos were brutally murdered and more than 100 others were injured in this incident. Among international news outlets, Reuters reported that at least 20 were killed and over 100 were injured. Some other sources have also reported that about 250 homes have been burned. Back in November 06, 2007, 10 Oromo refugees were reported to have been executed in their apartment in Nairobi, Kenya, and killed others are punished by death sentence.

As a way to stay on power, the TPLF regime is putting different ethnic groups against each other almost continuously everywhere in Ethiopia, a land known by tolerance and coexistence for centuries is getting the vice-versa reality. As example, I can mention the Benishangul Gumuz civil war against civil Oromo natives which caused thousands of victims”.

These are few examples of the Human Rights violations being committed against the Oromo Nation and ignored by world community. The Western countries can do everything that it takes to put an end to this situation.

Oromo Parliamentarians: 13 MP’s have been forced to exile, but the world community, including the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), keep silent. The Western countries can stop their silence and act according to the ideals that they have long declared as theirs.

I therefore ask again the World Community to make high pressure on Meles Zenawi and force him to stop these evildoings. I call the World Community to respond to all these tragedies, according their solemnly declared humanitarian and democratic principles.

In parallel, I also call the Oromo Diaspora and all Oromo freedom fighters to underscore that starting by Monday a new face of our struggle for National Liberation must begin and all the Oromo leaders must come to the front of this national struggle. All the Oromos who belong to fronts, movements and parties must be mobilized at all levels for this struggle. Every division must stop now and forever. We need to deploy the best coordinated effort at all levels, political and diplomatic, military and socioeconomic; the struggle for the National Liberation of Oromia must become our only concern, and the action must prevail over theoretical talking. Oromia shall be free!

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In four articles titled “Opposition Party Offices Closed in Fake Ethiopia Elections, MP Dr. Jigi Demekssa Reveals,” “MP Dr. G. Jigi Demekssa Calls US, EU: Support to Fake Ethiopia Contradicts All Democratic Ideals,” “There Are No Elections but Real War in Ethiopia Today, Denounces MP Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa,” and “MP Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa: Task of Every Oromo is the Elimination of the Abyssinians from Oromia,” I published several parts of an interview that I was honoured to have with the leading Oromo parliamentarian, Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa. In the present article, I publish the fifth part of Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa’s interview which will be completed with the next article.

Dr. Demekssa was forced to leave his country and fight from abroad for freedom, liberation, national independence and secession of Oromia. Dr. Demekssa’s revelations should become a matter of utmost concern for international bodies, governments, statesmen and politicians, diplomats and intellectuals, journalists and Human Rights activists worldwide.

The forthcoming electoral fraud in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) is a Shame for the Mankind in its entirety. Reaction must be taken in order to hold responsible and accountable the perpetrators of the electoral fraud, who are also charged with the most odious Crime against the Mankind: the diffusion of the racist theory of Ethiopianism, the falsehood of an Ethiopian nation within which they intentionally attempt to exterminate once forever more than 15 different African nations with great past and noble traditions.

Interview with Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa — Part 5
OFDM Executive Committee Member
Head of the Political and Organizational Dept.
MP for Ethiopian Federal Parliament
Chairman of Oromo Parliamentarians Council

21.   Do you expect developments in the Sudan (South, Darfur, Kordofan, etc.) to affect Abyssinia?

Yes, any change in the Sudan can affect or exercise pressure or influence on Ethiopia; unfortunately, the Sudanese government has failed so far to realize the secret cooperation between the US, EU governments, and the racist Abyssinian tyranny, which poses a major threat for Sudan’s existence, and consists in a real conspiracy for the outright majority of the East African peoples and ethno-religious groups.

More precisely, to give you an example, at the moment, the TPLF regime has been involved in the South Sudan, acting as an agent for the US, and providing training, logistic and political support to groups that want to secede from Khartoum and offer South Sudan’s rich natural resources to Western companies, multinationals and conglomerates. The criminal Tigray Mafia that rules the colonial state of Ethiopia plans to extract some profit in the process.

Despite the fact, the Sudanese government has not reacted as it should in order to protect the Sudan’s national interests. Sudan could effectively and irreversibly outmanoeuvre the US, EU and Ethiopian machination and energetically demolish Ethiopia by offering great support to the OLF.

In fact, the Oromo Nation and the peoples of Sudan share a common Hamitic — Kushitic History, Culture, and above all, socioeconomic and political interests of the utmost importance.

Contrarily, neither the peoples of Sudan nor the Oromos and the other Hamitic — Kushitic or Nilo-Saharan peoples of the Ethiopian colonial tyranny have anything in common with the outcast Abyssinian tribes who — with the help of the colonial France and England — expanded in the late 19th century at the detriment of so many nations and ethno-religious groups.

Quite unfortunately, and despite the existing common need for cooperation and concert between Khartoum and the Oromo political leadership, the government of Sudan has properly speaking sold the Oromo Nation to the enemy of all the African nations in the name of the present, delusional stability and sustainable development that several intruders portrayed to the Khartoum authorities as real, thus deceiving the Sudanese.

Without freedom and liberation of the Oromos and without the emergence of an independent “Kushitic Republic of Oromo Ethiopia,” there will never be peace, stability and sustainability in the wider Horn of Africa region. This reality must be made understood to the Western governments that have caused so many troubles to the entire African continent.

22.   Do you expect developments in Kenya (collapse of the governmental alliance) to affect Abyssinia?

The government of Kenya is a most corrupted authority; to judge upon its nature, there is not much difference between them; for PNU and ODM, what is at stake is neither constitutional nor political differences, but their respective leaders’ personal financial interests and their greed for money which leads them to corruption.

If you remember, after the last election and the subsequent death of thousands of people, what counted in the agreement for the coalition government were not the real hot issues, namely the people who lost their lives, Kenya’s possible democratization or the equitable socioeconomic development of the country, but about the different ministerial positions and the resources one can control from each of them.

People all over the world imagine Kenya is a peaceful country in East Africa, but there hasn’t been any significant development there because of the corruption. If at a certain moment the ODM decided to leave, this could lead to the breakdown of the coalition government. There would be a major political and constitutional crisis of course, but still Kibaki’s government would continue ruling the country.

Bonaya Adhi Godana (born September 2, 1952, in Dukana, Kenya and murdered April 10, 2006, in an air crash in Marsabit, Kenya) was Kenya’s foreign minister from January 1998 until 2001. From 2002 till his death in 2006, he was the deputy leader of the opposition KANU party. Except him, 13 other influential persons, doctors, generals and MP’s were also killed in that air crash. President Kibaki’s Party of National Unity announced that it “would continue ruling as if nothing happened”. According to different sources, the air crash was machinated by the Ethiopian and Kenyan security forces in close cooperation in order to eliminate the well educated, smart, and politically highly influential Oromos from the Kenyan government. The cause of the air crash was never really investigated by third parties that would issue an objective and impartial report. In Kenya, the corruption has become an inherent part of the culture starting from the presidential palace and reaching the small shop keepers.

23.   Do you expect developments in Somalia (rise of the Shabaab in the South) to affect Abyssinia?

The Somali Shabaab and other groups do not have any relations with the racist and tyrannical Tigray administration of Ethiopia. The Somalis have been without government for ca. 20 years; their struggle to re-establish a national government in Somalia is absolutely rightful because every country and every nation have the right to form their own parliament, government and other institutions. In this case, the US and the Abyssinian dictator Zenawi wanted to put in place a puppet government to serve their interests and catastrophic plans for the entire region. The fake transitional federal government (TFG) of Somalia cannot bring any positive result for the brave Somali nation.

24.   Do you expect developments in Eritrea (War with Abyssinia or Djibouti) to affect Abyssinia?

For Eritrea, a war with Djibouti is unnecessary; it can trigger regional destabilization and cause great damage for all the countries in the area, not just for one. The Abyssinian dictator Zenawi carried out a provocative propaganda for the dispute between Eritrea and Djibouti. The Eritrean government is not made of fools who want to trigger a war with Djibouti. Sometimes, the conflicts are due to external machinations and countries are pushed to war by the third parties, as it happened in the case of the First Gulf War between Iraq and Kuwait. This is an unnecessary development that leads to impasse and disaster. Similar disputes and developments in the Horn of Africa region are promoted by lobbies and establishments that deploy every effort to divert and cancel the rightful struggle of the region tyrannized nations for freedom and national liberation. If unpredicted developments happen, we will be in front of a totally different situation.

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   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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In three articles published over the last few days under the title “Opposition Party Offices Closed in Fake Ethiopia Elections, MP Dr. Jigi Demekssa Reveals,” “MP Dr. G. Jigi Demekssa Calls US, EU: Support to Fake Ethiopia Contradicts All Democratic Ideals,” and “There Are No Elections but Real War in Ethiopia Today, Denounces MP Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa,” I published the early parts of an interview that I was honoured to have with the leading Oromo parliamentarian, Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa. In the present article, I publish the fourth part of Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa’s interview which will be completed in several forthcoming articles.

Dr. Demekssa was forced to leave his country and fight from abroad for freedom, liberation, national independence and secession of Oromia. Dr. Demekssa’s revelations should become a matter of utmost concern for international bodies, governments, statesmen and politicians, diplomats and intellectuals, journalists and Human Rights activists worldwide.

The forthcoming electoral fraud in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) is a Shame for the Mankind in its entirety. Reaction must be taken in order to hold responsible and accountable the perpetrators of the electoral fraud, who are also charged with the most odious Crime against the Mankind: the diffusion of the racist theory of Ethiopianism, the falsehood of an Ethiopian nation within which they intentionally attempt to exterminate once forever more than 15 different African nations with great past and noble traditions.

Interview with Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa — Part 4
OFDM Executive Committee Member
Head of the Political and Organizational Dept.
MP for Ethiopian Federal Parliament
Chairman of Oromo Parliamentarians Council

17.   What should be the first concern for the Oromo opposition after the electoral fraud?

All the opposition parties must defend the voice of the Oromo people. In the 2005 election, when the people and the students started protesting against the electoral fraud and took to the streets, most of the leaders did not support the protesters, as it happened in Kenya or Zimbabwe. Worse, the renowned Carter Center that had sent observers announced that the election was fair; similarly, EU governments approved of this falsehood, with the only honourable exception of the European Parliament Deputy, Ms. Ana Gomes, the EU election mission head.

The 2010 election results are already known. What is left is to announce the margin of victory that the ruling party will decide to attribute to themselves in an effort to fully please their local and — mainly — foreign financiers.

As I am in continuous contact with my electoral basis and Oromos from any remote location in Occupied Oromia, I can share with you my data and my understanding of the situation. Throughout Oromia, 99% of the people are ready to give their support to the opposition parties. Similar is the situation in every other annexed territory and land, in Ogaden, in the Afar land, in Benishangul, and in the South. Tyrannized people throughout Abyssinia are also ready to defend their political volition by all means if the oppositions leaders are now ready to stand by their people up to the end.

Even without the support of the international community, the oppressed people of Ethiopia can oppose and turn down any governmental action taken against them. All the tyrannized people and their leaders must therefore be ready for all types of reaction.

18.   Do you believe the Oromo opposition can offer a reliable alternative to the subjugated Oromo Nation?

This is our last chance to bring forth an alternative and to produce a fundamental change in the country, to put an end to the present situation and to make the freedom of every nation respected throughout Ethiopia. People throughout the colonial empire, and their leaders must be fully aware that the Ethiopianist gang around Meles Zenawi is not ready to proceed with the democratization of the country. This is so because any step toward democratization would automatically significant loss of power, financial benefits and security for this race-based gang. It is an illusion to imagine that the Tigray Mafia gang may be ready to lose (on annual basis) an income totalling billions of dollars, which is due to illegal monopolies guaranteed only by means of totalitarian power.

As far as the Oromo opposition parties are concerned, at this very moment, the possibilities are certainly limited, but if we all persist and demonstrate total commitment to our goal, we can open the path toward freedom and liberation, and in the process get support from abroad.

19.   If not, what should they do in order to gain in terms of credibility and effectiveness?

We must fight; we must engage a frontal battle against TPLF. For all of us, the tyrannized nation of the Oromos, the only solution is to fight for our freedom and oppose all of our enemies. We have human resources, millions of people ready to liberate Oromia, so the gun we will get from our enemies themselves!

The most important point is to stop being fair about anything, to stop being the nation that pays sacrifices, to stop being a nation living under conditions of double slavery.

We are the only to liberate ourselves; a nation cannot be liberated by another nation, except to face another type of slavery. Real freedom is obtained only through total commitment to liberation — and this must be demonstrated by the suffering nation — not others.

I would also like to add that those who live on Earth without freedom will certainly fail to find peace in the Hereafter.

Last year, I was in Atlanta, US, and I had the opportunity to deliberate with many of our leaders and intellectuals; I strongly recommended to them that we all Oromos have to be ready to sacrifice ourselves first, and thus give our youth the best example of how our National Liberation can be achieved. I find this far better than blaming one another for the wasted time that left our Nation without freedom.

Either in Occupied Oromia or abroad, my suggestion was only one, and it has never changed; every Oromo must eliminate all the occupants who are on the holy soil of our fatherland. Every Oromo has the national task to carry out whatever bravery it takes to physically eliminate every illegal occupant of our country.

The only way to liberate Oromia is the participation of the entire Nation in an overwhelming effort to make the physical presence of every Abyssinian occupant of Oromia leave our country or die.

The dynamics of this effort will be thunderous; few will start and soon all the rest will follow in precipitation.

This is the only path to Freedom: if every Oromo decides to eliminate — by any means and without caring for the consequences — one Abyssinian illegal occupant of our fatherland, our freedom and national liberation will be a dream come true. This happened in every country when the liberation struggle reached a culmination and brought forth the most desired result, the National Self-determination.

20.   How do you evaluate the role of the Oromo Diaspora in the fight against Oromia’s occupation? Are you happy with it? What else would you suggest in this regard?

Today, the condition in which the Oromo Diaspora is found, and the actions that they undertake are for me more troublesome that the TPLF evildoings. Most of them deem correct to open a website and thence engage in interminable discussions and debates that damage the Oromo struggle and unity.

I have never encountered a similar situation back in Occupied Oromia; there we don’t know and cannot understand this sort of attitude. We are all One in our fight against the Ethiopianist regime of TPLF; there is no difference and there can’t be any division among us. Religion and clan matter not in Oromia. I still remember that back in 2006, Oromos of any faith and denomination, Muslims, Waaqeffataa and Christians prayed together in the same hall, in the same building.

At the time, the Abyssinian TPLF rulers were shocked because of the Oromo unity, and machinated an evil scheme to divide the Oromos as pr religion and clan in order to further exploit Oromia’s natural resources and extend the illegal occupation of our land. I must admit that, although the TPLF machinations failed totally throughout Occupied Oromia, they proved to be quite successful among the Oromo Diaspora. I can interpret this sad phenomenon in a way; as one can easily understand the Oromo Diaspora is constituted out of people who do not suffer anymore in the societies where they have been integrated, mainly in America, Europe, and Australia. Because of the rather relaxed life they enjoy, they fail to remember the situation they had lived in when back in Occupied Oromia, and they do not feel the extent of the Oromos’ suffering and the difficulties of the life in Occupied Oromia. I would however like to close this issue for the time being, and I would rather suggest to discuss this point after we liberate Oromia from our enemy.

I believe it is part of the national duty for the Oromo Diaspora to stop blaming the different Oromo organizations, movements and liberation fronts, as well as their leaders. Every Oromo, from any organization, from any position in a movement, did something positive for our struggle and truly nobody deserves the severe criticism and the extreme deprecation that I have at times noticed — with great sadness. All of them are ready to bring forth the changes that are needed, and the Oromo liberation depends on these changes whereto the Diaspora must contribute as well.

In addition, I believe that the Oromo Diaspora must realize that they have to make sacrifices, and give money, time and even their lives for the Freedom and the Liberation of our country.

It is absolutely unacceptable — and worse, it is totally un-Oromo and anti-Oromo — to see people ready to easily put the blame on many others, but unable to contribute to our national struggle even a tiny amount of money, let’s say US $ 10. This sort of people must stop immediately their tactics, useless and intentional criticism that generate an unnecessary environment helpful only to the enemies of the Oromo Nation. And any person who hasn’t slept even one night in the forest for our struggle for Oromia’s freedom is not entitled to open mouth criticism.

Our community back in Occupied Oromia and the Oromo Diaspora must reorganize and restructure themselves to fully and effectively adapt themselves to the needs of our liberation struggle and get prepared to undertake all it takes to physically eliminate or remove the last Abyssinian invader from the soil of Oromia.

My last suggestion in this regard is a recommendation to those Oromos from the Diaspora to read the articles published by Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, and in particular the following, which is posted on our website: “Oromo Action Plan for the Liberation of Oromia and the Destruction of Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia)“. 1

Note 1: I want to express personally my gratitude to Dr. Demekssa for his recommendation of my article; to me these words have greater value than all the prizes and the awards a scholar can have in this world. — Dr. Muhamamd Shamsaddin Megalommatis

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   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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In two earlier articles published under the title “Opposition Party Offices Closed in Fake Ethiopia Elections, MP Dr. Jigi Demekssa Reveals,” and “MP Dr. G. Jigi Demekssa Calls US, EU: Support to Fake Ethiopia Contradicts All Democratic Ideals,” I published the first two parts of an interview that I was honoured to have with the leading Oromo parliamentarian, Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa. In the present article, I publish the third part of Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa’s interview which will be extended over several parts.

Dr. Demekssa was forced to leave his country and fight from abroad for freedom, liberation, national independence and secession of Oromia. Dr. Demekssa’s revelations should become a matter of utmost concern for international bodies, governments, statesmen and politicians, diplomats and intellectuals, journalists and Human Rights activists worldwide.

The forthcoming electoral fraud in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) is a Shame for the Mankind in its entirety. Reaction must be taken in order to hold responsible and accountable the perpetrators of the electoral fraud, who are also charged with the most odious Crime against the Mankind: the diffusion of the racist theory of Ethiopianism, the falsehood of an Ethiopian nation within which they intentionally attempt to exterminate once forever more than 15 different African nations with great past and noble traditions.

Interview with Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa — Part 2
OFDM Executive Committee Member
Head of the Political and Organizational Dept.
MP for Ethiopian Federal Parliament
Chairman of Oromo Parliamentarians Council

14.   Would you briefly express your viewpoint on all major political formations (parties, liberation movements) of the Oromo political life?

All Oromo political parties have contributed to the Oromo national struggle; mainly the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has been the organization that generated in the Oromo heart the belief that national liberation can be achieved. Its reputation proved to be wider than that of an average political party, and reached nation-wide appreciation and consideration.

But the Cause that led to the formation of the OLF, and the political mission that the great organization fixed for themselves goes far beyond the personal ambitions of one political leader or an ordinary political party. It is therefore a movement of national liberation, and as such it must function.

Every Oromo household has sacrificed at least one person’s life in this great struggle. The entire nation demonstrated absolute concern, total commitment and wholehearted devotion in supporting the national liberation struggle in every sense. We have learnt, and we are still learning from our mistakes.

All the types of socioeconomic, cultural, ideological, military and political struggle proved to be a true university for all of us, and we all thus clearly mirrored ourselves onto the National Oromo Soul, found our identity and specified the stages of our struggle.

Due to the totalitarian nature of the Abyssinian colonial regime, no one was allowed to teach Oromo history, culture, literature, religion and above all, Identity. Our Life and struggle taught us everything, and proved to be our real instructors.

It would be untrue and unjust to deny the historical fact that all the Oromos have supported the struggle for freedom and national liberation and worked effectively and efficiently in the path leading to Oromia’s National Independence and Self-Independence which will undoubtedly be a dream come true tomorrow.

There have been political parties, leaders and members who preferred to get engaged in the peaceful struggle for Oromia’s progress and ultimate liberation; they viewed this as amore realistic option or path, and in this no one should judge them as imperatively wrong. When it comes to a matter of the utmost significance, there can eventually be more than one option. They must however understand now that the TPLF-led regime is not ready to lose or even share its power peacefully. That’s why I believe that they should rather opt for an effective balance in their programs and view their contribution to the national struggle in more than just one manner.

At this point, I would like to draw the attention of international bodies, democratic governments, intellectuals, activists, mass media and every person concerned with the injustices done in Occupied Oromia that, in the population census undertaken by the dictatorial TPLF administration, the number of the Oromo natives throughout the country has been minimized almost by half.

The real, total number of the Oromo population, according to my own sources, the experts on whom I rely and their special calculations, slightly exceeds 50 million people; and I am referring only to Ethiopia, not Kenya.

There are several reasons for which the TPLF administration altered the census data and hid the correct figures; the fake reality about the subjugated nations that the TPLF administration want to publicize worldwide is only a minor reason.

The census alteration pertains also to the false proportions of Muslims, Christians, and other religions’ followers in Ethiopia that the CIA demands the TPLF administration to provide them with, in order to facilitate the confusion that the US administration has to diffuse in the Congress and the Senate before further pursuing their pro-Ethiopian policies.

Furthermore, the census alteration helps the TPLF administration adjust the federal budget to the false data, and thus allot more subsidies and grants to the Tigray region where they almost all originate from.

For similar situations, a greater consensus is evidently needed. In my interview offered to Eritrea TV 2006, I called all East African liberation fronts and movements to come together, deliberate on all issues that are common to all of us, and make a consensus about our future by forming one umbrella organization — front and widening the scope of our struggle. This would bring us closer to the establishment of an independent Kushitic Oromo state in the Horn of Africa, and along with us, other Kushitic nations would also enjoy freedom and progress in their liberated lands. I think that recently the OLF has engaged in a similar project and I truly I hope we will succeed in this.

15.   Many anticipate an electoral fraud and victory for the Tigray-controlled, governmental party; what do you estimate?

The 2010 election already finished before stating. If the main opposition party candidates are killed by TPLF gangsters in the daylight, how can possibly other candidates decide to participate in the election?

I would also ask you this: how can people get the right to vote for the opposition parties?

In the Abyssinian colonial state that is fallaciously named Ethiopia, there are no fair, honest and unbiased police forces. There are no independent and impartial judges. There are no free, unprejudiced, independent and fair-minded journalists and mass media. There is total absence of well-structured, capable and transparent institutions to monitor and criticize the sociopolitical events, denounce wrongdoings, and effectively protect the public interest and the rights of the unprivileged and the needy.

It is well known that race-based, TPLF agents with full support of the state can kill, and have actually killed, several opposition candidates; who could therefore possibly be ready to take the risk and present himself as a candidate of the opposition — or even vote for the opposition candidates?

It may be unknown to the rest of the world, because the world mass media systematically hide the truth and the reality which currently prevails throughout the country, but it is plainly known in Ethiopia that the race-based TPLF cadres have already warned at the local level both, candidates and voters, not to try to vote against the ruling party because this attempt would have grave consequences for them. Loss of land, property, children or one’s own life are some of the threats hinted at by the TPLF cadres.

At this very moment, the leaders and the members of OFDM are being targeted. As an example, I can mention Ms. Obse Abera Dirirsa, from my constituency Manasibu of the Kilitu Kara district, who was elected to the Oromia Parliament in 2005, when I was elected to the Federal Parliament. For the 2010 election, Ms. Dirirsa was nominated as candidate for the Federal Parliament to replace me. However, she was forced to exile by the extremely brutal and very menacing security forces, Similarly, my party secretary, Mr. Bekale Jirata, was also forced to exile because of the incessant harassment and grave persecution that he was met with.

I can narrate to you thousands of cases in order to clearly demonstrate that the TPLF fake elections of May 23, 2010 finished before they take place.

The criminal gangster, who impersonates the prime minister of a member state of the UN, Meles Zenawi, is not ready to lose or even share his absolute power; his words addressed to the outright majority of the country are not highly publicized abroad, but I can certainly translate for you some of his utterances.

Meles Zenawi says:   ”the group who want the power must go the forest and fight to achieve power”.

The parody of elections that will take place in Abyssinia next Sunday constitute pure wastage of money and time; quite unfortunately and quite tragically, they also constituted a terrible loss of human life, How could it be otherwise?

Meles Zenawi was a guerrilla fighter who never struggled for democracy, never spoke of democracy, and never considered the option to rule a country democratically. His fight was due to his personal and tribal thirst for power and money, not for Freedom, Liberation, Democracy and Prosperity — either of the other subjugated nations of Abyssinia or his own. Human Rights, Civil Rights, Democracy, Humanity, and Civilization are merely a joke for Meles Zenawi.

16.   What should be the Oromos’ stance toward Zenawi’s electoral parody? Abstention? Participation? Demonstrations?

This issue depends of course on the cost that can bring forth the fundamental change that we all passionately desire. Abstention, participation or demonstration will not bring that change, election already finished 2009. I personally had the opportunity to take many lessons from my participation in the 2005 election, another fake event and shameful parody. My physical presence in the parliament was the reason for an incredible shock and unexpected landing to down-to-earth reality.

For me, if a parliament is like the Ethiopian Parliament, there is absolutely no need for it to exist, and it is better — for an oppressed nation — to know that officially only an one party parliament and government are acceptable (as it was at the times of the third world communist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam). The reason I say this is that in the Ethiopian Parliament you can’t bring any change or improvement; even worse, you can’t say a single word. The parody of 2010 election in Ethiopia is necessary only in order to ensure that USAID money and support will be granted to the TPLF tyranny over the years ahead.

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