An Advice for Revolutionary Ogadenis

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis January 22, 2008

In an earlier article under the title ´An Advice for Revolutionary Oromos´ (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/49843), I underscored the great importance of the interconnection of the Oromo Liberation movements, parties, organizations, and associations with other liberation movements of other oppressed nations in Abyssinia, Sudan, Algeria and other parts of the world (from Scotland, Catalonia, and the Bask land to the Aramaeans, the Baluchis and the Tibetans). This should happen at the level of information, knowledge, contact, experience exchange, and coordination of the struggle for independence.

What is good for the Oromos certainly helps the Ogadenis; but is it enough? I would say it is indispensable for the Ogadenis to heavily interact and cooperate with other oppressed and tyrannized nations allover the world, but there is more to deploy as effort.

An assessment of the globally prevailing conditions of political life and social practice is also important. This is particularly important for the Ogadeni Diaspora.

Is the Western World a Paradise?

It is only normal that Ogadenis living in Switzerland, Finland, England and the States make the mistake to momentarily idealize the conditions of social environment and political life. Certainly, there cannot be any comparison between the Hell of Abyssinia (a tyrannical, anachronistic, barbaric and heinous state without Civil Society, without the slightest notion of Freedom, and without any respect for the basic concepts of Democracy and Human Rights) and the European and American democracies.

In terms of Education, Culture, Economy, Social Development, and Political Life, Europe and America are a Paradise if compared with Abyssinia, fallaciously re-baptized ´Ethiopia´, and more particularly Ogaden, an illegally annexed land from where the Neo-Nazi Abyssinians intentionally attempted for more than five decades to extract the natural resources and to exterminate the historical and rightful inhabitants, the Ogadenis.