There is nothing wrong speaking in afan Ormo. Amharic happen to be the official language that everyone can communicate with regardless. If you don’t like to hear Amharic spoken in meetings that everyone commonly communicate with regardless of where and when, don’t be there. No one put a gun on your head. People are fighting over which language should be used to communicate with one another while Woyane is robbing and killing wherever is against them. Stop this madness and do what is necessary to get rid of the common enemy.

What is wrong if the people of Oromia demand politician-wannabees to at least speak the Oromo language when seeking their vote?

In a way, this writer’s political views as expressed in this article are more dangerous than those of the TPLF despite its genocidal dictatorship.

Currently in Ethiopia every region’s official language is its own and not Amharic.

Stop this garbage.

Change the official language of Ethiopia (what ever this means now days) to English if you want. Amhara people don’t care and are certainly not holing you back.

If you want to attack Minilik, Hailesilase or Mengistu go back in time and attack them. Leave us out of it.

Amhara people no more want to be in a union where they are deemed the enemy and attacked for no reason than just for being Amhara.

Respect is mutual.

This kind of mob is what the Woyanes are commonly doing in order to prolong their life in power. Just to comment on a couple of things:

1. As clearly said, whatever pretext they have used, the mob is a well organized political activity against the opposition party. So, it has nothing to do with the question of Ethnic Federalism, a question that needs to be addressed in its own right.

2. It is wrong to consider ethnic federalism, with Afan Oromo as the only official language of Oromia, as if it is instituted by TPLF. We need to understand that it is one of the achievements of the struggle of the Oromo People led by OLF. This is something we can not change it. We should not deny the rights of the people of Oromia to be served in their own language.

Depending on how we behave, this may not mean that one should be an Oromo to work in the state of Oromia. The only requirement could be that an office bearer in the state must be able to speak, read and write Afan Oromo. Among the many reasons and advantages, it is appropriate and fair to require an official to work in the language of the people, instead of forcing millions to bear the cost of using translators in order to communicate with an official who uses a different language.

This does not mean also that people can not speak or use other language. The Oromos do well understand the rights of other people to use whatever language they want in activities that are not related to the state, like UDJ can conduct meetings in Amharic or Tigrigna or Guragigna.

So, good Ethiopian men and women, it is always good to try to do something to save Ethiopia, but we need to be careful not to waste our time thinking the wrong way and doing the wrong thing.

May God Save Ethiopia

You have none to threaten except yourself!

Menelik’s, Haile Sellassie’s and Mengistu’s dictatorships were Amara ethinic minority dictatorship. Pure and simple.

Now we are suffering from ethinic Tigre minority dictatorship.

Currently we are discussing if we can demicratize that Amara and tigre ethnic ridden dictatorship in to some kind of a pluralistic domecratic state where the langauages, cultures, resources, power relationships are restructured to reflect the ethnich, cultural and linguistcic, etc.diversities.

But of course you will say back to Immiyye Ethiopia of Menelik and Haile Sellassie, where amharic is the empire’s language and power to amara elits or death. No one need to be fooled by such cunning foxes. :)

Corrupt Nagasso Gidada and Siyye Abraha are only opportunist power mongering creatures with no regrad for justice and nominal equalities, not to talk of any democracy.

I am not an oromo and I am for Ethiopian unity but not for such fake and vain conflict ridden unity that completely disregards the languages and cultures of the majority and tries to impose minority languuage by all means possible, thereby perpetuating the same old conflict and the same old poverty and wretchedness.

If the whole issue is only about speaking in Oromo language and opening an official meeting in Oromia according to the Oromo tradition why can’t these trouble makers just do that and even get their message better through to the people?

Sure me to wouldn’t like if a group of former disgraced propagandists just drop in to Amara city and start a major official meeting in Oromo language with out any regard to local culture and local language, especially during this time of linguistic, cultural and power relationship sensitivities.

I respect Amara language as much as I respect Oromo language, as a result of which I wish both equal and fair justice with in the prevailing context.

When people not only protest for their rights but even fight for it, calling it Thugs is tantamount to Haile Sellassie’s, Mengistu’s and now Wayane’s bad mouthing of opposion movements and calling them all as “Shiftas.” Only Wayane is more Thugish than Nagasso, siye and company. :)