Dictatorship in the Making! PP

PM Abiy Ahmed just removed Defense Minister Lemma Megersa, Tayiba Hasan, and Milkeessa Midaksa – individuals who played a decisive role in the struggle that paved the way for Abiy’s premiership, from the ruling party. Lemma Megersa literally put Abiy first & Abiy turned against Lemma shortly after assuming power and long before Lemma knew what was going on.

Teyiba Hassan is one of the first OPDO's to have spoken against the regime in no uncertain terms. I still remember her address when she visited Oromos displaced from the Somali region.

Shortly after assuming power, Abiy used his newfound power, the yes-men within the then OPDO, and the rent that comes with state power to marginalize individuals he saw as a threat to his vision of resurrecting the inglorious reactionary feudal state and his ambition to become, well, the 7th King. In fact, while telling the public that Lemma is "the brother who leads him in secret", he was working to render him irrelevant.

This PM is so delusional and spiteful that his grandiosity and messiah complex, along with his neo-neftegna enablers, now represent the greatest danger to the future of the Ethiopian state. He is full of certitude (considerably religious) but zero sense of history, and the resilience of structural forces. The country is already tethering on the brink and it is only a matter of time before it plunges into its depths. #justice

How has the name #Qeerroo been used politically ?

How has the name #Qeerroo been used politically and what makes it difficult to understand who #Qeerroo is in today's context?

1. # Qeerroo (natural and original name)

2. # QeerrooGanamaa (political name of the first youth movement that joined the OLF in the early 1970s

3. #FDG (Revolt against subjugation and oppressive regime organized by young people (mainly high school and university students who were actively involved under the leadership of the OLF in 2004/5 _2007)

4. # QeerrooBilisummaaOromo (Oromo youth movement for Freedom and Democracy organized and mobilized by the OLF from 2011 to today).

So many similar names have been used during the #OromoProtests to divide the Oromo youth movement.

The name #Qeerroo or #QeerrooOromoo, sometimes promoted by activists and sometimes by those in power (intentionally to destroy the power of #QeerrooBilisummaaOromo by using different names such as;- #Qeerroo, #QeerrooOromoo, #QeerrooHaaromsa #QeerrooNagayaa and lately in 2017, #Foollee). The reason for naming #Foollee was: - 1) Innocent people, especially those who campaigned for the #Gadaa system and worked hard to restore the weakened #Gadaa system, and 2. The regime and its supporters use this name highly with the evil intention to divide and eliminate the well-organized  #QeerrooBilisummaaOromoo and the spirit of #Oromummaa, #Oromonationalism and Oromo unity. Some of us asked them to refrain from such a wrong policy that would go against the interests of the Oromo nation, but no one listened to us. The grave mistakes they made would be condemned and remembered by the generation to come.

But a few months later, the 'state mafia'- Abiy Ahmed began to divide Oromos and declared #Commandpost over more than 8 zones in western Oromia and southern Oromia. These (activists and their followers) people failed to condemn the power abuse of their "reformist" government. With so much evidence on social media and brutal acts against our people, they hesitated to condemn #Abiy's evil deeds and never said a word about it. We told them that one day the enemy would come to them and that when the time came they could not get anywhere and it was time to speak for our voiceless people.

They did not care, they tried to convince the public that it was the people or the freedom fighter's crime and not the regime's mistake to destroy the peasants' livelihoods and killing people who spoke against the government.

Abiy soldiers murdered innocent people, raped mothers and daughters in their homes and robbed families. At the same time, the truth was distorted by these guys, or their silence had a considerable impact on our people in these critical moments; instead, they preached to our people to be patient for a while, if not their actions against the regime would bring failure 'reform.'