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FINFINNETRIBUNE | Vol. 01 | No. 01 | March 2013 | Bitootessa 2013 PRINT-ON-DEMAND NEWSLETTER PAGE 10 FINFINNEE: A Persistent Story of Expropriation, Humiliation and Displacement PART ONE By Prof. MEKURIABULCHA* Malardalen University The first version of this article was published under the title Greater Addis Ababa in the Making: Stop Them, or Keep Quiet and Perish in 2003. The sub-title is added now. My main aim then was to awaken the Oromo to a tragedy which was in the making in connection to the decision, made by the Ethiopian regime, regarding the status of Finfinnee as the capital city of Oromia. I am republishing the article for readers’ reflection in relation to the problems the Oromo students at Finfinnee/Addis Ababa University are facing at this moment. The demands made by the editor of Gadaa.com recently agree with the suggestions I made back in December 2003, when I wrote the first version of the article as a commentary in support of the Macca-Tuulama Association’s protest against the decision of the Ethiopian regime to evict Oromo institutions from Finfinnee and relocate them in Adama, a town about 100km south of the city. The first version of the article was published in both English and Afaan Oromoo on December 6, 2003, and also broadcast on Oromo radio stations. A copy of the article was also included as a background document in a petition submitted to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on 13 January 2005 by delegates representing the Oromo Studies Association (OSA), and the Oromo Communities in North America and Europe. Some changes are made in this version in order to update it. Following the 2005 elections in which the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) lost its seats and a ‘mandate’ to rule the capital city to the opposition, the late PM of Ethiopia, Mr. Meles Zenawi, made an opportunistic turn and withdrew the decision of making Adama the capital city of Oromia evicting Oromo institutions from Finfinnee, which hitherto had been the capital city of both Oromia and Ethiopia. The aim was to win Oromo support. Although the decision to end Finfinnee’s status as the capital city of Oromia was aborted, the problems which were raised in 2003 have remained, not only unresolved, but some of them have even been exacerbated. The eviction of the Oromo from the city’s surroundings has continued and thousands of Oromo families have been displaced to open space for the expanding city. Thus, the expropriation of Oromo property, which started about 120 years ago, has continued and is extended by the present regime to other districts around Finfinnee in all directions. The regime is building “Greater Addis Ababa” displacing the Oromo population. As the cause and consequences of the recent clash between Oromo and Tigrayan students indicates, the Oromo are still being provoked, denigrated and persecuted by the oppressive regime that will displace them from their city. The eviction of the Oromo from the city’s surroundings has continued and thousands of Oromo families have been displaced to open space for the expanding city. Thus, the expropriation of Oromo property, which started about 120 years ago, has continued and is extended by the present regime to other districts around Finfinnee in all directions. The regime is building “Greater Addis Ababa” displacing the Oromo population. As the cause and consequences of the recent clash between Oromo and Tigrayan students indicates, the Oromo are still being provoked, denigrated and persecuted by the oppressive regime that will displace them from their city. Introduction On November 30, 2003, the Macca- Tuulama Association (MTA), an Oromo mass organization with its headquarters in Addis Ababa since the early 1960s, released a statement opposing the on-going eviction of Oromo institutions from Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) and the planned separation of the city from the regional state of Oromia. The forced removal of Oromo institutions was planned and implemented by the current government of Ethiopia. The MTA indicated that the city of Addis Ababa, called Finfinnee by its indigenous inhabitants, is a historical homeland of the Oromo people and argued that the Ethiopian government’s plan to forcibly evacuate Oromo institutions and the offices of the regional government of Oromia is, not only illegal, but a criminal act planned to undermine the cultural rights of about 600,000 Oromos (or 20 per cent of Finfinnee’s population which, according to Central Statistical Agency was 2,980,000 in 2011) and to eventually evict many of them from the city. The association maintained that this is an act of ethnic cleansing, violating, not only the UN Convention on Human and Peoples Rights, but also the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia of 1994, which provides that “The special interest of the State of Oromia in Addis Ababa, regarding provision of social services or the utilisation of natural resources and other similar matters, as well as joint administrative matters arising from the location of Addis Ababa within the State of Oromia, shall be respected.” (Article 49/5) When I wrote the first version of this commentary in 2003, my intention was not to narrate the history of Finfinnee/ Addis Ababa but to comment on the appeal made by the Macca-Tuulama Association to the international community to help them stop the Ethiopian government’s plan to uproot them and other Oromo institutions from Finfinnee. Although three episodes I have described below and the historical documents cited support the claims which the association made to Finfinnee on behalf of the Oromo nation, my intention to investigate the events which occurred in the past was not to argue that city belongs (or should belong) only to its indigenous population, but to reveal the impunity with which generations of Abyssinian leaders have treated the Oromo in their homeland, in this case in their city, Finfinnee. As I have argued in 2003, although appealing to the international community for moral, legal and material support is the right thing to do when violation of their basic rights occurs, that alone is not going to protect the Oromo from the violence of the Ethiopian ruling elites because they seem to be obsessed with the idea of dispossessing and uprooting, or as in the case of the present attack on the Oromo students at Finfinnee University, humiliating their subjects. Persistent struggle is needed in order to end the impunity with which the Oromo are treated in their city and homeland. Fredrick Douglass, the famous anti-slavery African American once said that: "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Although Fredrick Douglass’s words were about the injustice of slavery in America in the past, they have a lot of relevance for the Oromo situation. The Oromo should make sacrifices, more than ever before, in order to stop this outrageous violation of their rights, or follow the fate of many indigenous peoples who were unable to protect themselves and have now become extinct. Having said that, I will proceed with the discussion of the different historical episodes leading to the eviction of the Oromo from Finfinnee. I. Amhara Predators Raid Finfinnee: 1843 Ethiopian history books tell us that the Amharic-speaking community of Menz started to expand from its mountain stronghold in the early eighteenth century to become the Abyssinian rulers of Shawa at the time of Sahle Sellasie (r.1813 to 1847). In 1843 Sahle Sellasie went on one of the predatory raids, he usually conducted twice and often three times a year, into the Tuulama Oromo territory bordering on kingdom of Shawa. Major W. C. Harris, who was sent on a diplomatic mission to Shawa leading a British delegation and followed Sahle Sellasie on several of his raiding expeditions against the Oromo during the 18 months he stayed in the country, reported what he witnessed in his book The Highlands of Aethiopia (1844, Vols. I-III). Harris depicted vividly what he saw while following Sahle Selassie on his many raiding expeditions against the Oromo. One of these expeditions took place 180 years ago in December, 1843 against Finfinnee, a cluster of prosperous Oromo villages with rich farm lands and numerous life-giving springs and wooded valleys. The quotations in this paper are from Vol. II (p. 185-198) of Harris’ book. What he wrote was corroborated by Johann L. Krapf (Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours, 1858, 1968) who was in Shawa during the same period. Harris saw Finfinnee from a hill as the Amhara forces descended on it. He called the vast and thickly populated plain lying at the foot of the Entotto hills “the very picture of peace and plenty.” He wrote, "Hundreds of cattle grazed in tempting herds over the flowery meads [meadows]. Unconscious of danger, the unarmed husbandman [herdsman] pursued his peaceful occupation in the field; his wife and children carolled blithely over their ordinary household avocations; and the ascending sun shone bright on smiling valleys, which, long before his going down, were left tenanted [occupied] only by the wolf and the vulture." Harris noted that, after conferring for a while with an Orthodox priest acting as his father confessor, Sahle Sellasie ordered the expectant army to “carry fire and sword through the land.” What followed was exactly what the king ordered his forces to do. "Rolling on like the mighty waves of the ocean, down poured the Amhára host among the rich glades and rural hamlets, at the heels of the flying inhabitants—tramping underfoot the fields of the ripening corn, in parts half reaped, and sweeping before them the vast herds of cattle which grazed untended in every direction. When far beyond the range of vision, their destructive progress was still marked by the red flames that burst forth in turn from the thatched roofs of each village; and the havoc committed many miles to the right by the division of Abagáz Maretch, who was advancing parallel to the main body, and had been reinforced by the detachment under Ayto Shishigo, became equally manifest in numerous columns of white smoke, towering upwards to the azure firmament in rapid succession." Having indicated the utmost satisfaction expressed in Sahle Sellasie’s eyes while watching the progress of his forces who “poured impetuously down the steep side of the mountain and swept across the level plain,” the British envoy continues to describe the magnificent view over the country that was devoured by sword and fire. The “beautifully secluded valley of Finfinni, which, in addition to … high cultivation, and snug hamlets”, he wrote, “boast a large share of natural beauty. Meadows of the richest green turf, sparkling clear rivulets leaping down in sequestered cascades, with shady groves of the most magnificent Afaan Aadaa Seenaa The above statue is a sample design for the Oromo hero Gen. Taaddasaa Birruu in a proposed Oromo Culture and History Heritage Park in Finfinnee. It was designed by a Gadaa.com contributor. juniper lining the slopes, and waving their moss-grown branches above cheerful groups of circular wigwams, surrounded by implements of agriculture, proclaimed a district which had long escaped the hand of wrath.” And as the troops “performed their bloody work” and the air became dark with the smoke coming from scores of burning Oromo villages, "The luckless inhabitants, taken quite by surprise, had barely time to abandon their property, and fly [flee] for their lives to the fastness of Entotto … The spear of the warrior searched every bush for the hunted foe. Women and girls were torn from their hiding to be hurried into helpless captivity Old men and young were indiscriminately slain and mutilated among the fields and groves; flocks and herds were driven off in triumph, and house after house was sacked and consigned to the flames … Whole groups and families were surrounded and speared within the walled courted yards, which were strewed with the bodies of the slain. [Those] who betook themselves to the open plain were pursued and hunted down like wild beasts; children of three and four years of age, who had been placed in the trees with the hope that they might escape observation, were included in the inexorable massacre, and pitilessly shot among the branches. In the course of two hours the division left the desolated valley laden with spoil, and carrying with them numbers of wailing females and mutilated orphan children, together with the barbarous trophies that had been stripped from the mangled bodies of their murdered victims." To Continue on the Next Edition of FINFINNETRIBUNE * Mekuria Bulcha, PhD and Professor of Sociology, is an author of widely read books and articles. His new book, Contours of the Emergent and Ancient Oromo Nation, is published in 2011. He was also the founder and publisher of The Oromo Commentary (1990-1999). He is an active member of the OLF and has served in the different branches of the national movement since the 1970s.
FINFINNETRIBUNE | Vol. 01 | No. 01 | March 2013 | Bitootessa 2013 PRINT-ON-DEMAND NEWSLETTER Oromiyaa, Oromiyaa! AARIFALIITIIN Radio Sagalee Oromiyaa (RSO) Yaa Badhaatuu biyyaa Fuulgubbeen kee faayaa Keeysi kee ziqeeya Si jaalanna, si faarfanna Nu ilmaan kee siin boonna. Biyya too Oromiyaa Manaacihaa biyyaa Ati nutti-n-goomtu Hedduu si jaalanna Jaalala siin maltu Sirratti dhalannee Sirraahi soorannee unannee guddanne Sirratti ababnee beekkoomsaas qabaanne Yoomuu Si-n-dagannu Nu Si-n-irraanfannu ABDIIBORUUTIIN aboruu@gmail.com Tokkummaa tokkummaa yaa ilmaan Oromoo tokkummaa, ... jedhanii artistoonni keenya yoo weellisan; Tokkummaan humna! jedhamee yoo dhaadatamu; tokummaan barbaachisaa qofaa otuu hin taane murteessaa dhas jedhamee yoo dubbatamu fi barreeffamu ... yeroo baay’ee ni dhaga’ama ykn ni argama. Haa ta’u malee, hiika dhaamsa kanaa Oromootni hunduu ni hubatu jechuun nama rakkisa. Kanuma wajjin walqabatee, mee gaafiilee tokko tokkon kaasa: Oromoon tokkummaa dhabe moo maaliif tokkummaan faarsama? Oromoon tokkummaa maaliiti dhabe? Tokkummaa maaliis qaba? Tokkummaa akkamiitu barbaachisaa dha? Tokkummaa akkamiitu humna cimaa uumee, injifannoo fida? fi kkf kaasuu fi deebii isaaniis argachuun hiika “tokkummaa” hubachuuf nama gargaara. Uummata bal’aa kana akka Oromoo dhiisii, uummatni kamiiyyuu uumaadhaan garaagarummaa qabaachuun seeruma uumaa ti. Garaagarummaan kunis kan amantii, ilaalchaa fi kan naannoo itti dhalatnii guddatanii fi kkf ta’uu danda’a. Haa ta’u malee, Afaan tokko dubbachuun, aadaa fi seenaa tokko qabaachuun akka tokko ta’an nama taasisa. Karaa uummata ykn saba Oromootiin yoo ilaalle, eenyummaan keenya “Oromummaan” tokko nu godha. Inni kun kan waloo ti; kan hafan hunduu waan dhuunfaa ti. Waan walootiif dursa yoo kennine, tokkummaa qabna jechuu dandeenya. Yoo kan waloo “Oromummaa” daganne; yoo isa kana duubatti hanbisne fi waan birootiif dursa kennine, tokkummaa qabna jechuun rakkisaa ta’a. Tokkummaa uumuu yoo barbaadnellee kun Oromummaarratti yoo hin hundoofne, tokkummaan uumnu kun tokkummaa dhugaa ta’uu hin danda’u. Oromiyaa Oromiyaa Yaa bareedduu tiyya Rabbii si badhaasee si godhe addayyaa Tuqaa tee –n- dandeenyu ilmaan kee martinuu Haqa nurraa qabdu yoomuu hindagannu Oromiyaa Oromiyaa Yaa badhatuu biyyaa Hundee jiruu tiyyaa Siifin jira ani halkaniifi guyyaa Rabbii siRabbii si bareeche Garayyuun si tolchee Keeysaa fi ala kankee hunda si miidheeyse Garaa kee nyaq godhee albudaan badhaasee Biqiltuu adda addaa sirratti magarsee Mukkeen garagaraa si gubbaa uffisee Bineeyyii fi beeyladaa sirra bobobbaasee Laggeen babbalaqoo si keeysaa maddisee Si gubbaa lolaasee dheebuu ittiin baasee Masnoo gagabbisee jiruu abdachise Alhamdulillaahi janna Galata galfanna Ajaa’iba Rabbii dachii tee gabbina Bilqltuu adda addaa achirraa arganna Garii soora; ittiini jiraanna Garii qorsa; ittiin wal’aanamna Garii u’urgaawoo; ittiin urgeeyfanna; ittiin shashaqanna Kudraafi mudraa garii maqaan dhawa Mimi’awoo qaama kenyaaf dawaa Tokkummaa Tokkummaa Yoo Jennu, Hiika fi Kaayyoo Isaa Hubannaa? Gaafiilee armaan olitti ka’anitti deebi’uudhaaf, akka yaada fi ilaalcha kiyyaatitti, Oromoon waan isa tokkoomsu qaba; kunis eenyummaa isaa ti; Oromummaa dha. Garuu, waan inni kun dagatamuuf; waan inni kun dursa hin arganneef; yoo inni kun duubatti hafe ammoo tokkummaa jiruuyyuu waan laaffisuuf jecha tokkummaan faarsama malee, Oromoon dhalootaan tokkummaa dhabeetii miti. Karaa biraatiin yoo ilaalame garuu, garaagarummaa ayidoolojiirraa kan maddu, garaagarummaan ilaalcha siyaasaa uummata keenya jidduutti waan mul’atuuf, kun garaagarummaa kaayyoo fi/ ykn galii akka qabaatan taasisa. Kun ammoo tokkummaa dhabuuf sababa ta’a. Garaagarummaa kaayyoo fi/ykn galii qabaachuun tokkummaa dhabamsiisa ykn tokkummaa jiru akka laafu taasisa jechuu dha. Asirra dhaabbadhee yoon ilaalu, Oromootni hunduu tokkummaa kaayyoo fi galii qabsoo isaanii waan qaban natti hin fakkaatu. Otuu tokkummaan kaayyoo fi/ykn galii jiraatee, har’a mooraa QBO keessatti ilaalchi siyaasaa karaa lamaan hin mul’atu ture. Itoophiyaa diimookraatessuu fi Oromiyaa walaboomsuu kan jedhan kun gargara bahanii hin mul’atan turan jechuu dha. Asirratti wantin dubbistoota hubachiisuu barbaadu, eessarratti tokkummaan akka dhabamu ibsuuf malee, kaayyoo fi galii kamtu akka isaaf tolu kan murteeffatu uummata Oromoo bal’aa dha. Kaayyoo fi/ykn galii gara garaa qabaachuun tokkummaa Oromoo hin dhabamsiisu jedhanii warri yaadan hin dhabamne. Haa ta’u malee, garaagarummaan akkanaa kun diinaaf qaawwa waan uumuuf, tokkummaa keenya ni gaaga’a jedheen amana. Gaafiilee: Tokkummaa akkamiitu barbaachisaa dha? fi Tokkummaa akkamiitu humna cimaa uumee, injifannoo fida? kan jedhaniif, tokkummaan nu barbaachisu tokkummaa dhugaa, kan humna cimaa fi abdachiisaa uumee; diina barbadeessee, injifannoo argamsiisu “tokkummaa eenyummaarratti hundaaye, kan kaayyoo tokkoof uumamu tokkummaa Oromummaa” ti. Gabaabumatti, tokkummaan Oromummaa bu’ura hin godhanne tokkummaa wabii qabu ta’uu hin danda’u jechuu dha. Kanaaf, yoo Oromummaadhaaf dursa hin kennine; yoo kan waloo dhiisnee waan dhuunfaatiif dursa kan kenninu ta’e, tokkummaa dhugaa kan hundee cimaa qabu uumuun baay’ee rakkisaa ta’a. Akka yaada fi ilaalcha kiyyaatittti, tokkummaan faarsamu kan ulaagaa kana guutu ta’uu qaba. Karaa tokkoon amantii fi naannoodhaan walqoqqoodaa; karaa biraatiin garuu tokkummaa faarsuun bu’aa hin qabu. Yoo akkanatti kan yaadnu fi dalagnu ta’e, diina keenyaaf meeshaa taana malee, uummata keenyaaf yookaanis qabsoo bilisummaa keenyaatiif bu’aa argamsiisuu hin dandeenyu. Mee asirratti fakeenya tokkon kaasa. Har’a uummatni musiliimaa, mirgi amantii isaanii akka kabajamu kunoo waggaa tokkoo ol sochii cimaa godhaa jiru. Gaafiin isaanii kun ammaaf gaafii mirga amantii haa ta’u malee, booda gara gaafii eenyummaatti cewuun isaa hin oolu. Kanaaf, uummatni Oromoo kan amantii biroo hordofan tokkummaa Oromummaa uumuuf; diina waloo injifachuuf; uummata musiliimaaf tumsa ta’uun barbaachisaa qofaa otuu hin taane, dirqamallee ta’uu qaba jedheen yaada. Akkuman kanaa olitti tuqee dabre fi yeroo adda addaas barruulee kiyya keessatti ibsuu yaale, mooraa QBO keessatti yaadni karaa lamaa yookaanis kaayyoon lama ifatti akka mul’atanii dha. Isaan lamaan kunis Itoophiyaa diimookraatessinee; kana keessatti mirgi Oromoo akka kabajamu taasisna warra jedhani fi warra bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaa galii booddee godhatanii dha. Kaayyoo fi/ ykn galiin kun ifa ta’ee bakkee lamatti haa bahu malee, jaarmayootni Oromoo, kan kaayyoo walfakkaataa qaban, garuu Boqqolloo, mishingaa, Qamadii fi garbuu esoo fii dagussa Baaqilaa, daangullee, shumburaa, fasooliyaa Baaqil, dubbaafi ujuree Shunkurtaa, baharoo, qullubbiifi qaccee Kaaroot, hiddiimiifi fujuul Lakkawamee –n- dhumu Wanni magarsitu dachiin Oromiyaa Mataan hin dhukkubin qotee bulaa Kenya Yaa abbaa oomishaa masnoo lafa tenyaa ammallee gara garatti hiramanii jiru. Gaafiin asirratti ka’u fi kan namaa hin galle garuu: Warri kaayyoo walfakkaataa qaban maaliif “tokkummaa kaayyoo” hin uumne? kan jedhu ta’a. Warri bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaa galii kaayyoo isaanii godhatan, xinnaatullee gara walhubannootti deemaa jiru. Walittibaqanii jaarmayaa tokko jalatti ijaaramuun yeroodhaaf yoo hin danda’aminillee galii barbaadan sana gawuuf tumsa waliif ta’uuf waan yaadan fakkaatu. Gama warra Itoophiyaa diimookraatessuutiin yoo ilaalame garuu, waa baay’eetu gaafii keessa galaa jira. Jaarmayootni Oromoo kan garee kana keessa jiran, kaayyoo walfakkaataa qabaatanillee tokkummaa kaayyoo uumuun hafee, adeemsuma isaaniirrattuu waan wal hubatan natti hin fakkaatu. Yoo tooftaa fi tarsiimoo adda addaa qabaatanis, hanga kaayyoo walfakkaataa qabaatanitti, adeemsa isaaniirratti tumsa waliif ta’uun akka yaadaatti silaa ni danda’ama ture. Ammaaf wanti mul’atu garuu hin jiru. Dhugaa dubbachuudhaaf, yoo dhuguma humna uumanii karaa kanaan uummata Oromoo gabrummaa jalaa baasuu kan danda’an ta’e, ani akka nama tokkootti warra Itoophiyaa diimookraatessina jedhanirraa rakkoo hin qabu. Karaa itti amananii fi danda’aniin qabsaa’anii; injifannoolee QBOn hanga har’aatti argamsiise hundaa tiksanii; uummata keenyaaf jijjiirama biroo kan fidan yoo ta’e, akka ilma Oromootti, ani jara kanaaf kabaja Obbolummaan qabaaf. Wantin ani shakku garuu, Habashoota wajjin hojjetanii injifannoo biroo argamsiisuu dha. Asirratti dubbii tokkon yaadadha. Nama tokkotu otuu hin beekin nama meeshaa isaa hate wajjin meeshaa jalaa bade barbaadaa otuu jiruu; namni biraa tokko akkana jedhaan: “Yaa namtichoo kan meeshaa kee si jalaa hatee dhokse si wajjin barbaadaa waan jiruuf, meeshaa barbaaddu kana argachuu hin dandeessu” jedhaan. PAGE 11 Aax, muzaa fi zeytuna Ambaa, barquuqii fi burtukana Tuffaaha, afandii ykn Mandarina eeynabaas ni qabnaa Waa xiqqoon dubadha mee waa’ee bineensaa Beekamaas ni qabnaa oromiyaa keeysaa Kanneen akka Yayyii ,Lencafii, Qeyransaa Biyya cufaa dhufaa marti dawii isaa Wennii fi Qalamee kan akka Jaldeesaa Arba, Sattawwaafi Harree diida keeysaa Waan hedduutu jira biyya tenya keeysaa Hundumti isaatu nama hinaafsisaa Tanaaf ciisa dhabee diinni ija baasaa Ilmaan oromiyaa mee na caqasaa Tuni kunoo dhaamsaa Akkaan jajjabesaa Oromiyaa tiysaa Sagalee Oromiyaatiif ILAA FI ILAAMEE Uummatni Oromoo Habashootaan gabroonfatamee bilisummaa fi abbaabiyyummaa isaa dhabe. Erga gabrummaa kana jalatti kufee kaasee waan dhabe sana deebisee argachuuf qabsaa’aa jira. Egaa, dhugaan kana ta’ee otuu jiruu, akkuma namtichi nama meeshaa isaa hate wajjin barbaadee argachuu hin dandeenye sanaa, Oromootni Habashoota wajjin hojjetanii; waan barbaadan sana argachuun ni danda’amaa laata? Kanaaf, tokkummaan kaayyoos barbaachisaa yoo ta’ellee, warra kaayyoo walfakkaataa qaban (ilmaan abbaa fi haadha tokkoo) waliin mooraa ofii keessatti tokkummaa kaayyoo uumuutu sirrii natti fakkaata. Tumsi alaa barbaachisaa yoo ta’ellee, dura tokkummaa mooraa ofii jabeessuutu wabii ta’uu danda’a. Humna ofii otuu hin jabeessin, humna alagaa wajjin hojjechuun booda liqimsamuu ta’a. Dhumarratti, jaarmayootni keenya, kaayyoo kamiiyyuu haa ta’u, kan kaayyoo fi galii walfakkaataa qaban, tokkummaa Oromummaa kan hundaa hammatu ijaaruun yookaanis walittibaqanii jaarmayaa tokko jalatti ijaaramuun yoo hin danda’amne, tokkummaa kaayyoo uumanii; kaayyoo qaban sana galii hawwamutti geessuuf tumsa waliif ta’uun; walirratti duuluu dhaabanii diina waloorratti irree tokkoon duuluun; mooraa keenya keessatti nagaa fi tasgabbii buusuun dirqama Oromummaa akka ta’u hubachuu qabu. Tokkummaa, tokkummaa jedhaniituma dubbachuurra hiika fi kaayyoo isaas beekuun ykn hubachuun murteessaa dha. Waanuma barameef, tokkummaan humna! jedhanii dhaadachuurra, tokkummaan dhugaa ijaaramee akka humna jabaa uumu ciminaan irratti hojjechuun injifannoof ofqopheessuu dha.
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