May 6, 2012 at 12:40 pm · Gadaa.com
By Fayyis Oromia*
As I tried to describe in my last opinion, the Oromo nation is in a national liberation struggle against the Abyssinian colonizers, who are supported by their handlers from both power players of the Eastern and the Western world. This fighting for freedom from the proxy colonial forces (from the Abyssinian ruling elites) is continuing in multiple forms: diplomatically, militarily and politically. In this globe, where politics gives more value to the principle of the survival of the fittest, because of the fact that only ‘might is right,’ there is no other alternative to empowering the Oromo people, if we are really serious about getting national bilisummaa/freedom from the oppressors and achieve national walabummaa/sovereignty to determine our destiny. One of the ways to strengthen our nation is by forging the necessary unity of purpose among all Oromian liberation forces. What is this unity of purpose, how can we define it operationally?
James Wilson once defined unity of purpose as the blending of primary and derivative responsibilities into a common pursuit. Alexander Hamilton said that securing such unity of purpose, coupled with the desire to make a difference, would generate the necessary energy to assure every nation’s liberty and stability. In effect, Wilson’s unity of purpose represents a central component of the American constitutional form. In the process of showing the importance of unity of purpose, he asserts that humanity is driven forward by the tension between those, who upon viewing order, create disorder, and those, who upon viewing disorder, create order. In a conflict between these two diametrically opposite forces, unity of purpose can help those who want to create order/unity to have an essential victory over those who do the opposite. To indicate the very importance of such unity, the current president of the UNO also once told to the African leaders in certain AU leaders’ submit: “through unity of purpose, I believe there is no limit to what we can achieve.”
From these important sentences said by the above prominent personalities, we can see how relevant the national or supra-national unity of purpose is. Oromo nationalists, who are conscious about the importance of such unity, already started to describe this unity of purpose as ‘tokkummaa for bilisummaa’ = unity for national freedom. The main thing, which the Oromo freedom fighters now desperately need to be successful is such unity of purpose. We know that unity comes before victory even in a dictionary. That means, we need to have the necessary blending of primary and derivative responsibilities of our freedom fighters into a common pursuit of bilisummaa Oromo and walabummaa Oromia. This blending into a common pursuit through such unity of purpose, coupled with the desire of our people to make a difference, would generate the necessary energy to assure the stability and strength of the Oromo national liberation bloc. The strength of the Oromo national liberation movement is up to now challenged by the principle put well by Wilson that ‘humanity is driven forward by the tension between those, who upon viewing order, create disorder, and those, who upon viewing disorder, create order.’
These two forces are also present in the Oromo national liberation struggle. There are Oromo nationalists who do their best in ‘creating order/unity upon viewing disorder/disunity,’ and we do observe forces from the enemy camp trying to create disorder/division upon viewing order in the Oromo national liberation camp. The aims of the two opposing movements are, of course, antagonistic because of the fact that those, who strive to create unity upon viewing division in the Oromo national liberation camp, do try to strengthen the Oromo freedom fighters, whereas those, who attempt to create division upon viewing unity, want to weaken the struggle. If these two forces can be differentiated well at least by the Oromo polity, then Oromo nationalists can consciously work on supporting the forces of tokkummaa for bilisummaa in order to empower the Oromian national liberation camp against the Abyssinian colonization/domination camp, i.e. against the giant evil, which could develop to be such a big oppressor because of the massive support it gets from those who formed and are keeping the Ethiopian empire as an instrument designed to serve their own interest in the Horn region.
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