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		<title>By: merisaw</title>
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		<dc:creator>merisaw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the main reason why olf has failed and will never succeed to win the mind of the oromo people that it claims to bring freedom to is becouse of the bleive that the oromian entertain for decades. first the majority of the oromo peple have suspcsion on the freedom fighter themselves . second the oromians have been couched to beleive that bigger ethiopia is better and more secure. third , oromians are not gamblers in other word not risk takers . stability and normality is the way to go for oromians unlike the northerners.fourth , most oromian farmrs own larger number of herds and vast farm lands compared to amara or tigrayan farmrs. leaving their comfort zone for poletical or idiological reason such as independence is not that apealing to most. fith and last most oromian never beleive that even they succeed and win their independence, sustainable and long lasting peace will not be possible becouse of the northern war like mentality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the main reason why olf has failed and will never succeed to win the mind of the oromo people that it claims to bring freedom to is becouse of the bleive that the oromian entertain for decades. first the majority of the oromo peple have suspcsion on the freedom fighter themselves . second the oromians have been couched to beleive that bigger ethiopia is better and more secure. third , oromians are not gamblers in other word not risk takers . stability and normality is the way to go for oromians unlike the northerners.fourth , most oromian farmrs own larger number of herds and vast farm lands compared to amara or tigrayan farmrs. leaving their comfort zone for poletical or idiological reason such as independence is not that apealing to most. fith and last most oromian never beleive that even they succeed and win their independence, sustainable and long lasting peace will not be possible becouse of the northern war like mentality.</p>
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		<title>By: td</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Think as Ethiopin!Think global!!Ignorance leads to darkness!!</description>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think OLF has rich supporter and resources. However, I also think OLF has some difficulties on how to utilize its resources wisely. I hope they have learned or will learn from the past to move forward effectively. The article is the writer opinion without support and the writer has  the right to say the way he understood  while the fact is completely the opposite.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think OLF has rich supporter and resources. However, I also think OLF has some difficulties on how to utilize its resources wisely. I hope they have learned or will learn from the past to move forward effectively. The article is the writer opinion without support and the writer has  the right to say the way he understood  while the fact is completely the opposite.</p>
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		<title>By: Gabra</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gabra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To #22 and 32 (Hundahore and Daandi)

You are making the proclamation even more vivid and worse.  First all, even by your description of an Oromo, I excelled that.  I can go back 12 generation on my father&#039;s side and not find any Amhara sounding name.  On mother&#039;s side, it would not be too hard even for any existing OLF leader to declare she is all and &#039;pure&#039; Oromo.  I have been around you folks for decades and saw you stumbling from one foul move to another.  You guys were telling me and million others that you have the biggest guns aimed and cocked at Dedebit hooligans behind the might mountain near Addis(Finfine) when thousands of abandoned fighters were being rounded up into concentration camps.  Now you are talking about &#039;Habesha Cancer Cells&#039;.  What is next?  &#039;Orthodox Cancer Cells&#039;?  I hope you keep your mouth shut and let other think you are stuttering horses.  That is why I  rebuked you guys and your &#039;OLF&#039; which I supported whole-heartedly for decades.  You keep doing what you are best at doing:  Keep telling fabricated stories about my Oromo people and how they were(are) &#039;Germans of Africa&#039; to naive and history deficient Americans in Minnesota. May be they will carve out a section of some wilderness in Minnesota where you can call it &#039;Re-Oromia&#039; with its glory of Gada system.  I wish you guys were not even born.  You have made my proud Oromo people sick.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To #22 and 32 (Hundahore and Daandi)</p>
<p>You are making the proclamation even more vivid and worse.  First all, even by your description of an Oromo, I excelled that.  I can go back 12 generation on my father&#8217;s side and not find any Amhara sounding name.  On mother&#8217;s side, it would not be too hard even for any existing OLF leader to declare she is all and &#8216;pure&#8217; Oromo.  I have been around you folks for decades and saw you stumbling from one foul move to another.  You guys were telling me and million others that you have the biggest guns aimed and cocked at Dedebit hooligans behind the might mountain near Addis(Finfine) when thousands of abandoned fighters were being rounded up into concentration camps.  Now you are talking about &#8216;Habesha Cancer Cells&#8217;.  What is next?  &#8216;Orthodox Cancer Cells&#8217;?  I hope you keep your mouth shut and let other think you are stuttering horses.  That is why I  rebuked you guys and your &#8216;OLF&#8217; which I supported whole-heartedly for decades.  You keep doing what you are best at doing:  Keep telling fabricated stories about my Oromo people and how they were(are) &#8216;Germans of Africa&#8217; to naive and history deficient Americans in Minnesota. May be they will carve out a section of some wilderness in Minnesota where you can call it &#8216;Re-Oromia&#8217; with its glory of Gada system.  I wish you guys were not even born.  You have made my proud Oromo people sick.</p>
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		<title>By: Derege</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71584</link>
		<dc:creator>Derege</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think The writer is courageous and mature enough to understand the principles of democracy. So your advice to the olf arogancence who can not understand democracy and feasiblity of the illusiosn oromo independance. 

Yes OLF think diffrent and be realistic</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think The writer is courageous and mature enough to understand the principles of democracy. So your advice to the olf arogancence who can not understand democracy and feasiblity of the illusiosn oromo independance. </p>
<p>Yes OLF think diffrent and be realistic</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who are Oromos? My father&#039;s father is from Adwa and sekota.His mother is from Menze.My mother&#039;s father is Oromo,her mother is Amara.I am Amara,Oromo and Tegre.Forget your OLF and join the rest of Ethiopians and fight for real Democracy. If we were fighting for one Ethiopia we would not see Mengistu and Melesse.After the king was deposed we would have free Ethiopia.We would have 7 elections,once every 5 years.Ethiopia would be the most democratic country in Africa.Illitrate/educated/selfish/narrow minded children of Ethiopia crushed that country.You haven&#039;t learned from you mistakes.You are still fighting to kill those poor people.I don&#039;t have hope from any political parties or individuals.Let The Mighty God take care of my Beloved country.Amen</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who are Oromos? My father&#8217;s father is from Adwa and sekota.His mother is from Menze.My mother&#8217;s father is Oromo,her mother is Amara.I am Amara,Oromo and Tegre.Forget your OLF and join the rest of Ethiopians and fight for real Democracy. If we were fighting for one Ethiopia we would not see Mengistu and Melesse.After the king was deposed we would have free Ethiopia.We would have 7 elections,once every 5 years.Ethiopia would be the most democratic country in Africa.Illitrate/educated/selfish/narrow minded children of Ethiopia crushed that country.You haven&#8217;t learned from you mistakes.You are still fighting to kill those poor people.I don&#8217;t have hope from any political parties or individuals.Let The Mighty God take care of my Beloved country.Amen</p>
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		<title>By: TadesseH</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71559</link>
		<dc:creator>TadesseH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gadaa says,

&quot;If a theory does not explain a fact or facts, it is a limitation of the theory and it is not due to the observed fact. Oromos are not struggling just to prove a theory or not beacuse of a theory or take advantage of a theory.&quot;

How right when you are talking about the Oromo people. The limitations of the theories fabricated by the so called ellites(OLF) are not only evident but also disastrous. So are those who fabricate another theory to oppose it. All in all, things just don&#039;t add up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gadaa says,</p>
<p>&#8220;If a theory does not explain a fact or facts, it is a limitation of the theory and it is not due to the observed fact. Oromos are not struggling just to prove a theory or not beacuse of a theory or take advantage of a theory.&#8221;</p>
<p>How right when you are talking about the Oromo people. The limitations of the theories fabricated by the so called ellites(OLF) are not only evident but also disastrous. So are those who fabricate another theory to oppose it. All in all, things just don&#8217;t add up.</p>
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		<title>By: Focus</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71555</link>
		<dc:creator>Focus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We should not lose sight of fighting our common enemy which is strong, very divisive, West backed as it is now. Some writings that may or may not be genuine but provocative should not distract us from our main goal of removing the Tigray Elites. To tell you the truth we are very far very far away from winning Woyane. I do not know how fiercely we would fight each other if we were close to victory. Fox: the making of nations had never been fair or humane every where. The victorious made nations through killings, massacres, destruction of the weak and such. The powerful eat the powerless (survival of the fittest). No matter how unfair its original formation may be the point now should be how to make the present nation fair and democratic for all. Remember how Australia or United State etc were formed. 

What ever had happened to Oromos, Afars, Muslims etc happened. We may remember it rather than denying it but that can not and should not be a foundation for the present Ethiopia formation. The Native Americans or Australians can not claim America or Australia. At the same time the Old Ethiopia is gone and our new Ethiopia has to be formed based on equality, democracy and mutual respect and mutual benefit. One country, one people, one religion, one language, one ideology etc philosophy is over.

Please some good or rubbish but decoying articles must not get us to lose our calm reasoning and take stands and arguments that will polarize us rather than pull us closer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We should not lose sight of fighting our common enemy which is strong, very divisive, West backed as it is now. Some writings that may or may not be genuine but provocative should not distract us from our main goal of removing the Tigray Elites. To tell you the truth we are very far very far away from winning Woyane. I do not know how fiercely we would fight each other if we were close to victory. Fox: the making of nations had never been fair or humane every where. The victorious made nations through killings, massacres, destruction of the weak and such. The powerful eat the powerless (survival of the fittest). No matter how unfair its original formation may be the point now should be how to make the present nation fair and democratic for all. Remember how Australia or United State etc were formed. </p>
<p>What ever had happened to Oromos, Afars, Muslims etc happened. We may remember it rather than denying it but that can not and should not be a foundation for the present Ethiopia formation. The Native Americans or Australians can not claim America or Australia. At the same time the Old Ethiopia is gone and our new Ethiopia has to be formed based on equality, democracy and mutual respect and mutual benefit. One country, one people, one religion, one language, one ideology etc philosophy is over.</p>
<p>Please some good or rubbish but decoying articles must not get us to lose our calm reasoning and take stands and arguments that will polarize us rather than pull us closer.</p>
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		<title>By: Solomon</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71554</link>
		<dc:creator>Solomon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you Prof. I think nothing is wrong to think big. I know separation has never been and will never be the goal of the majority Oromo people. We are not living the past, we learn from it and shape the future. As a majority group in the country, if you think big, the power is at your hand without firing a single bullet. But, good luck if your former friends the woyanes will allow a free election. 
Please, revenge and extremism are things of the past for a civilized people. Stand with all Ethiopian people for a common goal. Get rid of dictatorship for good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Prof. I think nothing is wrong to think big. I know separation has never been and will never be the goal of the majority Oromo people. We are not living the past, we learn from it and shape the future. As a majority group in the country, if you think big, the power is at your hand without firing a single bullet. But, good luck if your former friends the woyanes will allow a free election.<br />
Please, revenge and extremism are things of the past for a civilized people. Stand with all Ethiopian people for a common goal. Get rid of dictatorship for good.</p>
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		<title>By: gillo</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71553</link>
		<dc:creator>gillo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Roba, Tolosa what is wrong about learning the truth? Tolsa , &quot; mark my word&quot;unfortunately you left a paper trail for your folks to laugh at you after decades . You even lack the Aba Dulla and Kumas intelligence. Keep reading....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Roba, Tolosa what is wrong about learning the truth? Tolsa , &#8221; mark my word&#8221;unfortunately you left a paper trail for your folks to laugh at you after decades . You even lack the Aba Dulla and Kumas intelligence. Keep reading&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Gadaa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gadaa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Theories develop arond facts to explain facts. Theories are bound to change based on facts to fit the facts but facts are just facts and they do not just change to fit theories. If a theory does not explain a fact or facts, it is a limitation of the theory and it is not due to the observed fact. Oromos are not struggling just to prove a theory or not beacuse of a theory or take advantage of a theory. What is driving the Oromos to the life and death struggle is the misery and brutal repression they are forced to find themselves in. The brutal repression by successive regimes in Ethiopia assisted by their foreign backers is the dyanmics that propels and perpetuates the Oromo struggle for freedom, democracy and justice. It is not what Stalin said or did not say. Instead of talking how we end such barbaric brutal repression and lay a strong foundation for the Unity of the Ethiopian people, we are just talking trash about a theory and whether or not a struggle fits into that theory. Let us move on and discuss our problems and try to figure out how we can resolve it based on our unique circumstances. The Oromo struggle is about human life, the basic human rights, freedom, justice and democracy and not about the luxury of fitting it into a theory. I respect and admire Prof. Mesay but I beg to differ on this point.
Thanks and happy new year.
Gadaa</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Theories develop arond facts to explain facts. Theories are bound to change based on facts to fit the facts but facts are just facts and they do not just change to fit theories. If a theory does not explain a fact or facts, it is a limitation of the theory and it is not due to the observed fact. Oromos are not struggling just to prove a theory or not beacuse of a theory or take advantage of a theory. What is driving the Oromos to the life and death struggle is the misery and brutal repression they are forced to find themselves in. The brutal repression by successive regimes in Ethiopia assisted by their foreign backers is the dyanmics that propels and perpetuates the Oromo struggle for freedom, democracy and justice. It is not what Stalin said or did not say. Instead of talking how we end such barbaric brutal repression and lay a strong foundation for the Unity of the Ethiopian people, we are just talking trash about a theory and whether or not a struggle fits into that theory. Let us move on and discuss our problems and try to figure out how we can resolve it based on our unique circumstances. The Oromo struggle is about human life, the basic human rights, freedom, justice and democracy and not about the luxury of fitting it into a theory. I respect and admire Prof. Mesay but I beg to differ on this point.<br />
Thanks and happy new year.<br />
Gadaa</p>
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		<title>By: Daandii Qajeelaa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daandii Qajeelaa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gabra (#22),

Read carefully what Hundahore wrote before shouting &quot;O Lord!!!&quot;. He didn&#039;t say &quot;Amhara Cancer cells&quot; or &quot;Tigre Cancer cells&quot;. He said quote &quot;the invading Abesha elites are the same to cancer cells&quot;. Can you see the difference? If you are an ordinary Ahmara, this is not for you. If you are one of the &quot;invading Habasha elites&quot; or have the same mentality as their, then this is for you. Gabbah yene geta?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gabra (#22),</p>
<p>Read carefully what Hundahore wrote before shouting &#8220;O Lord!!!&#8221;. He didn&#8217;t say &#8220;Amhara Cancer cells&#8221; or &#8220;Tigre Cancer cells&#8221;. He said quote &#8220;the invading Abesha elites are the same to cancer cells&#8221;. Can you see the difference? If you are an ordinary Ahmara, this is not for you. If you are one of the &#8220;invading Habasha elites&#8221; or have the same mentality as their, then this is for you. Gabbah yene geta?</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Oromo people were, are now and will always be free in the global village</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Oromo people were, are now and will always be free in the global village</p>
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		<title>By: Tolera</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71537</link>
		<dc:creator>Tolera</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Messay Kebede, keep on writing please! This is blessing in disguise for those of us gave up on your Emiyee Ethiopia.
The more you and the Amhara elites show their true identity, the faster for the empire to crumble. Thank you Dr. Kebede</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Messay Kebede, keep on writing please! This is blessing in disguise for those of us gave up on your Emiyee Ethiopia.<br />
The more you and the Amhara elites show their true identity, the faster for the empire to crumble. Thank you Dr. Kebede</p>
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		<title>By: non-oromo</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71536</link>
		<dc:creator>non-oromo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don`t disrespect the Oromo people.Gebrewahid,Monkeys will fly before your prayers are answered.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don`t disrespect the Oromo people.Gebrewahid,Monkeys will fly before your prayers are answered.</p>
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		<title>By: Hundahore</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71534</link>
		<dc:creator>Hundahore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aite Gabra,
you are just fooling only yourself! First of all, I am not the autor of the article I posted. It is written by Ob Fayyis Oromia. I just quoted. Secondly Ob Fayyis also wrote the following pre-emptively to tacle with people like you:
&quot;That is why the normal simple Amhara and Tegaru individuals living in Oromia being integrated and respecting the culture, language and other rights of Oromos including the political right to self-determination are not to be considered as cancer cells to be rejected and removed.&quot;

He differentiated the malignant cancer cells (autoritative Abesha elites like you who are in Oromia just to destroy the culture, language and social fabric of Oromos) from the  benign, normal and simple Abesha individuals living in Oromia being integrated and respecting the right of Oromos. You see, he is very intelligent to anticipate that people like you could use his assertion against Oromos. Other wise, it is clear to see that you are one of the flies or rabid dogs aka Weyane cadres, who just jumped on the dirty thing you thought to find aka Amhara-Oromo conflict. Eat your heart out, these two BIG nations will never again fight each other for the benefit of you and your boss Aite Meles.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aite Gabra,<br />
you are just fooling only yourself! First of all, I am not the autor of the article I posted. It is written by Ob Fayyis Oromia. I just quoted. Secondly Ob Fayyis also wrote the following pre-emptively to tacle with people like you:<br />
&#8220;That is why the normal simple Amhara and Tegaru individuals living in Oromia being integrated and respecting the culture, language and other rights of Oromos including the political right to self-determination are not to be considered as cancer cells to be rejected and removed.&#8221;</p>
<p>He differentiated the malignant cancer cells (autoritative Abesha elites like you who are in Oromia just to destroy the culture, language and social fabric of Oromos) from the  benign, normal and simple Abesha individuals living in Oromia being integrated and respecting the right of Oromos. You see, he is very intelligent to anticipate that people like you could use his assertion against Oromos. Other wise, it is clear to see that you are one of the flies or rabid dogs aka Weyane cadres, who just jumped on the dirty thing you thought to find aka Amhara-Oromo conflict. Eat your heart out, these two BIG nations will never again fight each other for the benefit of you and your boss Aite Meles.</p>
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		<title>By: kebede</title>
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		<dc:creator>kebede</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mr.kebede you do not know anything for yourself. are you professor realy?are you teaching your orthodox bible or Amhara languge?do not cry you are coming to an end to die.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mr.kebede you do not know anything for yourself. are you professor realy?are you teaching your orthodox bible or Amhara languge?do not cry you are coming to an end to die.</p>
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		<title>By: teshite</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71529</link>
		<dc:creator>teshite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>messy
what are are you talking about?whether you like or not oromo people shall be free.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>messy<br />
what are are you talking about?whether you like or not oromo people shall be free.</p>
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		<title>By: Galasa Habasha</title>
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		<dc:creator>Galasa Habasha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Messay will never get it

His writing has no validity or deep thought just on the surface scribbling:  Here is a couple.  he simultaneously kind of belittle the great people and appeal to them to democratize Emiyee Ethiopia.

To begin with the Oromos never said no to peace by the way it takes two tangle and it is well documented that the Oromos are the people of “nagaan”.  Above all how the Oromos can work for peace and democracy when the same people Oromos have to make peace with put them in jail? It is silly that blaming the victim- the Oromos.  

It is only right that to fight back as Oromos (first Oromos for Oromos only), when successive Abyssinian ruler excluded Oromos from any meaningful power sharing  because you are Oromos – speak Afaan Oromo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Messay will never get it</p>
<p>His writing has no validity or deep thought just on the surface scribbling:  Here is a couple.  he simultaneously kind of belittle the great people and appeal to them to democratize Emiyee Ethiopia.</p>
<p>To begin with the Oromos never said no to peace by the way it takes two tangle and it is well documented that the Oromos are the people of “nagaan”.  Above all how the Oromos can work for peace and democracy when the same people Oromos have to make peace with put them in jail? It is silly that blaming the victim- the Oromos.  </p>
<p>It is only right that to fight back as Oromos (first Oromos for Oromos only), when successive Abyssinian ruler excluded Oromos from any meaningful power sharing  because you are Oromos – speak Afaan Oromo.</p>
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		<title>By: Galasa Habasha</title>
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		<dc:creator>Galasa Habasha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have posted the facts and the truth about Messay Kebede. This guy always tries to lecture Oromos about their destiny and political strategies. 

The sad thing in the process of his essays and comments from the readers is the role of Ethiopian Review. If you are really genuine about your journalism and the political process in the Ethiopi9na Empire please don&#039;t delete or block comments and messages that don’t go inline with the political thoughts and dreams for your ideal Ethiopia. My comments was posted yesterday and deleted few hours after the posting. I see that the Ethiopian Review doesn’t entertain any comment if it is different from the interest of the older Ethiopian political thought.

It is sad for those who believe that the owners of Ethiopian Review are genuine political thinkers. It is foolishness to accept you as the spoke media of all groups in Ethiopia. You have never deviated or departed from your 1970s disastrous political line.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have posted the facts and the truth about Messay Kebede. This guy always tries to lecture Oromos about their destiny and political strategies. </p>
<p>The sad thing in the process of his essays and comments from the readers is the role of Ethiopian Review. If you are really genuine about your journalism and the political process in the Ethiopi9na Empire please don&#8217;t delete or block comments and messages that don’t go inline with the political thoughts and dreams for your ideal Ethiopia. My comments was posted yesterday and deleted few hours after the posting. I see that the Ethiopian Review doesn’t entertain any comment if it is different from the interest of the older Ethiopian political thought.</p>
<p>It is sad for those who believe that the owners of Ethiopian Review are genuine political thinkers. It is foolishness to accept you as the spoke media of all groups in Ethiopia. You have never deviated or departed from your 1970s disastrous political line.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr. Kebede,
I respect your point of view about OLF&#039;s struggle to materialize the cause it was out deliver. I disagree with the theme of your argument that it is OLF&#039;s ideology not other factors that crippled the organization. Just for your information, OLF&#039;s political program does not and has never stated that OLF fights for secession of Oromiya, because OLF cannot make a political choice for the Oromo people. Instead, it creates a ground for the people to choose what type of political arrangement they want. That is called national self-determination. I am sure you know that, this is one of fundamental human rights, short of that we are creating a totalitarian system where unity is put together by force instead of choice and harmony. 
Another point I want to make is that, yes there were factions that dissented from OLF, but that doesn&#039;t mean OLF is dead. I want to warn you here that, just because someone writes about a current state of any organization it doesn&#039;t mean he or she knows the inner workings of the organization and there fore can claim it is dead or alive. Jawar is no different. Since I know Jawar, I know how much he knows about OLF. First of all, Jawar can not and will not represent OLF, but he has the right to write about it. One thing that is true is Jawar is closer to the current regime and its stooges in Ethiopia than he is to OLF or the cause of Oromo struggle. The intent of Jawar&#039;s writing is really not to create awareness, it is rather to foment more divisions for what ever motive he has. This is not the first time that Jawar does this. You can imagine what type of concerned Oromo nationalist in diaspora who regularly writes about Oromo struggle and yet freely travel to Ethiopia, with “friends in high places&quot; in the current Ethiopian Government. Therefore, I just warn you to take Jawar&#039;s intentions and claims with a grain of salt. 
Thanks, 
Jara.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Kebede,<br />
I respect your point of view about OLF&#8217;s struggle to materialize the cause it was out deliver. I disagree with the theme of your argument that it is OLF&#8217;s ideology not other factors that crippled the organization. Just for your information, OLF&#8217;s political program does not and has never stated that OLF fights for secession of Oromiya, because OLF cannot make a political choice for the Oromo people. Instead, it creates a ground for the people to choose what type of political arrangement they want. That is called national self-determination. I am sure you know that, this is one of fundamental human rights, short of that we are creating a totalitarian system where unity is put together by force instead of choice and harmony.<br />
Another point I want to make is that, yes there were factions that dissented from OLF, but that doesn&#8217;t mean OLF is dead. I want to warn you here that, just because someone writes about a current state of any organization it doesn&#8217;t mean he or she knows the inner workings of the organization and there fore can claim it is dead or alive. Jawar is no different. Since I know Jawar, I know how much he knows about OLF. First of all, Jawar can not and will not represent OLF, but he has the right to write about it. One thing that is true is Jawar is closer to the current regime and its stooges in Ethiopia than he is to OLF or the cause of Oromo struggle. The intent of Jawar&#8217;s writing is really not to create awareness, it is rather to foment more divisions for what ever motive he has. This is not the first time that Jawar does this. You can imagine what type of concerned Oromo nationalist in diaspora who regularly writes about Oromo struggle and yet freely travel to Ethiopia, with “friends in high places&#8221; in the current Ethiopian Government. Therefore, I just warn you to take Jawar&#8217;s intentions and claims with a grain of salt.<br />
Thanks,<br />
Jara.</p>
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		<title>By: Gabra</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71519</link>
		<dc:creator>Gabra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I want everyone to pay attention to this section in which Hundahore wrote: &quot;Looking at the empire/region as an animal body, rather than as a garden, the invading Abesha elites are the same to cancer cells, which do leave their own organ to invade and destroy other neighboring tissues and organs of a body. What the elites of the two Abyssinians hitherto did on Oromos and other nations in the region is such a cancerous invasion&quot;.  The solution now to the Oromo question is chemo and radiation by which means all Amhara and other nationalities who dare to come and live in that Utopia territory of the Greater Oromo Nation will be fumigated and expurgated dead not alive so that they don&#039;t come back.  Folk!!! What do you do if you want virtual remission of a once malignant cancer?  You go the source and around the area it is located and kill all these cancerous cells.  This has more than attributes of ruthless fascism and barbarism.  This is a typical OLF and similar other narrow nationalist agenda for decades now. Always contradictory and immaterial. This was not Taddesse Biru&#039;s or even Wako Gutto’s or Yisiaks&#039;s agenda.   Now you all know why Oromos like me (millions others) are reluctant to accept or even outright against to what these pseudo intellectuals around OLF have been lambasting in vain for sometime.  Amhara cancer cells? Tigre cancer cells? Somali cancer cells? Afar cancer cells?  Orthodox Christian cancer cells? Sidama cancer cells? Shangul cancer cells? O&#039; Lord!!! All these nationalities have encroached &#039;Oromia&#039; territory more than once in the last 400 hundred years.  And their lives should be sniffed out.  Why?  They are cancer cells!!! This sends chills in any peace-loving human being&#039;s spine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I want everyone to pay attention to this section in which Hundahore wrote: &#8220;Looking at the empire/region as an animal body, rather than as a garden, the invading Abesha elites are the same to cancer cells, which do leave their own organ to invade and destroy other neighboring tissues and organs of a body. What the elites of the two Abyssinians hitherto did on Oromos and other nations in the region is such a cancerous invasion&#8221;.  The solution now to the Oromo question is chemo and radiation by which means all Amhara and other nationalities who dare to come and live in that Utopia territory of the Greater Oromo Nation will be fumigated and expurgated dead not alive so that they don&#8217;t come back.  Folk!!! What do you do if you want virtual remission of a once malignant cancer?  You go the source and around the area it is located and kill all these cancerous cells.  This has more than attributes of ruthless fascism and barbarism.  This is a typical OLF and similar other narrow nationalist agenda for decades now. Always contradictory and immaterial. This was not Taddesse Biru&#8217;s or even Wako Gutto’s or Yisiaks&#8217;s agenda.   Now you all know why Oromos like me (millions others) are reluctant to accept or even outright against to what these pseudo intellectuals around OLF have been lambasting in vain for sometime.  Amhara cancer cells? Tigre cancer cells? Somali cancer cells? Afar cancer cells?  Orthodox Christian cancer cells? Sidama cancer cells? Shangul cancer cells? O&#8217; Lord!!! All these nationalities have encroached &#8216;Oromia&#8217; territory more than once in the last 400 hundred years.  And their lives should be sniffed out.  Why?  They are cancer cells!!! This sends chills in any peace-loving human being&#8217;s spine.</p>
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		<title>By: Gutu</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10787/comment-page-1#comment-71514</link>
		<dc:creator>Gutu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dr. Messay

You are the one, the only and couragious who defend civilized thinking,

Good on you, keep it up, few oromo fanatics will disappear by the end of the day, We oromo&#039;s are ethiopians as long as our right is respected.

Bye for now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Messay</p>
<p>You are the one, the only and couragious who defend civilized thinking,</p>
<p>Good on you, keep it up, few oromo fanatics will disappear by the end of the day, We oromo&#8217;s are ethiopians as long as our right is respected.</p>
<p>Bye for now.</p>
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		<title>By: GebreWahid</title>
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		<dc:creator>GebreWahid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let Tewodros II rise in Ethiopia. 
That will be the ultimate solution. Because the tribalists could not use good out of Kilil Oromo administration. They are not able to exercise Gada-system within their territories that is demarcated by the current government.
They did drive out people, displace them, confisicate their property, burn villages.
They incite unnecessary conflict and attack innocent people that live peacefully inside their Kilil.
By the way why has the GUDIFECHa culture evaporated? where has the tolerance has gone?
The Oromos are tested in their Kilil administration how they handle people in Nazret, Debrezeit, Modjo,etc that are different from their ethnical
background. 
The administration of Oromia Kilil is encompassed with officials with narrow ethnic sentiments and that had served the Derg-regime as Cadres, who were persecuting people as the man deported from US(Negeo) was doing.
In spite of this the Oromos have got the privileges within the Meles regime. One can say The current regime in Ethiopia is a coalition TPLF &amp; OPDO. 

So I wish for Ethiopia another Tewodros II that brings law and order within the Nation like Kaiser Wilhel II, German leadership.
 
With this primitive and barbaric thought you never achieve your goal(Kaayoo)in which the majority of Oromos do not agree with. The EPRDF give them chance to paticipate in the nation building of Ethiopia under Meles leadership by acknowlediging their right as an Oromo Kilil state. It is a lame excuse to insult the Meles regime in this respect.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let Tewodros II rise in Ethiopia.<br />
That will be the ultimate solution. Because the tribalists could not use good out of Kilil Oromo administration. They are not able to exercise Gada-system within their territories that is demarcated by the current government.<br />
They did drive out people, displace them, confisicate their property, burn villages.<br />
They incite unnecessary conflict and attack innocent people that live peacefully inside their Kilil.<br />
By the way why has the GUDIFECHa culture evaporated? where has the tolerance has gone?<br />
The Oromos are tested in their Kilil administration how they handle people in Nazret, Debrezeit, Modjo,etc that are different from their ethnical<br />
background.<br />
The administration of Oromia Kilil is encompassed with officials with narrow ethnic sentiments and that had served the Derg-regime as Cadres, who were persecuting people as the man deported from US(Negeo) was doing.<br />
In spite of this the Oromos have got the privileges within the Meles regime. One can say The current regime in Ethiopia is a coalition TPLF &amp; OPDO. </p>
<p>So I wish for Ethiopia another Tewodros II that brings law and order within the Nation like Kaiser Wilhel II, German leadership.</p>
<p>With this primitive and barbaric thought you never achieve your goal(Kaayoo)in which the majority of Oromos do not agree with. The EPRDF give them chance to paticipate in the nation building of Ethiopia under Meles leadership by acknowlediging their right as an Oromo Kilil state. It is a lame excuse to insult the Meles regime in this respect.</p>
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		<title>By: Roba</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roba</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks to TPLF, the Ethiopia you know is dead, finished, long gone, never to come back. The question is are you ready to build new Ethiopia on equality and mutual respect with orhters particularly Oromos? or you push us to the limit with your intolerant and arrogant behavior? think straight as you are running out of time, you may be a learned man Messay Kebede but your arrogance and chauvinism has no place in today’s world or in today’s Ethiopia and believe me it is just a matter of time but Oromo will never take second class citizen position any more. The world is moved on and the Oromo too. But, you are trapped some where some how at Stone Age thinking where one is superior and the other is inferior due to some kind of arbitrary reason. It is only when I think of you and the amhara elite I always say-TPLF is a progressive government deserve to rule for the next 100 years. Do you have any idea how you’re idea stinks now?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to TPLF, the Ethiopia you know is dead, finished, long gone, never to come back. The question is are you ready to build new Ethiopia on equality and mutual respect with orhters particularly Oromos? or you push us to the limit with your intolerant and arrogant behavior? think straight as you are running out of time, you may be a learned man Messay Kebede but your arrogance and chauvinism has no place in today’s world or in today’s Ethiopia and believe me it is just a matter of time but Oromo will never take second class citizen position any more. The world is moved on and the Oromo too. But, you are trapped some where some how at Stone Age thinking where one is superior and the other is inferior due to some kind of arbitrary reason. It is only when I think of you and the amhara elite I always say-TPLF is a progressive government deserve to rule for the next 100 years. Do you have any idea how you’re idea stinks now?</p>
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