The following is a statement from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).A United Struggle Against the Common Enemy Is Timely Question
It is a self-evident truth that all human beings and people are created free and equal. There are no people created to be enslaved. All human beings and people are endowed with freedom. Nonetheless, it is also a fact that our human world is full of contradictions and struggles. In our human societies, some are enriching themselves at the expense of the others. Some are deprived of liberty and livelihood and impoverished. Some are leading a life of extravagance while others are starving. Some are dignified and while others are humiliated. Some are being subjected to extinction to allow others to live. All these are happening to humanity due to human greed and selfishness. In our world, a struggle is continuously waged for the success of one people at the expense of and/or for the deprivation of the other people. The human greed and selfishness is also continuing to be the cause for war between nations and peoples, for poverty and starvation, disease and backwardness. Humanity, not only deserves a better relationship, but also is capable of establishing a relationship based on mutual interest and respect.
Whereas the Empire State of Ethiopia is known for its history of conquest, expansion and the resultant injustice, the Oromo people, and the other peoples with similar history and status as Oromo in Ethiopia, are known as peoples who are conquered, subjugated, dispossessed, exploited, oppressed, marginalized, and forcefully denied freedom and the right to self-determination. Political power obtained and maintained by the barrel of a gun, dictatorship, domination by minority ruling clique, deprivation of liberty to the great majority and gross violations of human rights, imprisonments and extra judicial and killings, forced migration, century old nonstop war, famine, diseases, poverty and backwardness are the marks of the successive regimes of Ethiopia. Particularly, under the incumbent TPLF rule, while all the peoples in Ethiopia are subjected to repression, unprecedented poverty, massive youth unemployment and galloping inflation and the unbearable cost of living, the ruling TPLF clique that came to power through the force of arms and is ruling by the force of arms is continuously denying this facts and shamelessly and ad nauseam about the fictions of “revolutionary democracy,” sham federalism, 11-15% yearly economic development. The TPLF leaders know no shame.
– Full Statement (OromoLiberationFront.org)
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