Another winds of war between two OLF factions is blowing in the form of litigation in USA courts over the use of OLF name, logo and flag and is threatening to, once again, waste Oromo time, money and energy. Shanee’s (AKA The Dawud Ibsaa Group or the Asmara Group) sabre-rattling against TA-OLF (AKA the Dhugaasaa Bakakkoo Group or the QC Group) should be worrisome to all patriotic Oromos, to say the least, and could, indeed, end in a court room showdown.
It is to be recalled that, in July 2007, the Shanee Group of OLF took the TA-OLF group to a Minnesota court over the use of the OLF name, logo and flag. The lawsuit alleged that TA-OLF violated “Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act” and that it interfered with the Shanee Group’s “prospective economic advantage” by using the OLF name, logo and flag - (Read Here).
In August 2007, after two court appearances, the court dismissed the Shanee lawsuit without prejudice. In other words, while the Shanee case was dismissed for the time being, they were allowed to re-file if they so wished.
Undeterred by the dismissal and bent on winning the case, the Shanee Group re-filled and launched a second lawsuit over the same issue in September of the same year. After 14 months in the court system and after $50,000.00 (by a conservative estimate) of Oromo hard earned money was squandered on both sides to prosecute and defend this ridiculous charge, the court decided in favor of the defendant and awarded TA-OLF cost and disbursements which the Shanee Group was forced to pay up.
In dismissing the case in November 2008, the judge observed:
“The OLF began in Ethiopia in 1973 with the objective of establishing an independent [state of] Oromia for the Oromo people. Some individual Defendants have been members of the OLF since its inception in 1973. Beginning in 1999 and through approximately 2001, the OLF members began disputing the methods of accomplishing their mission. In 2001, the [Plaintiff or the Asmara Group] OLF began supporting the policy of recognizing the Ethiopian government. There were members who did not agree with this policy. The Plaintiffs continued operating under the name OLF in Minnesota (“Plaintiff OLF”). The Defendants rejected the authority of the [Plaintiff or the Asmara Group] OLF, but also continued operating under the name OLF in Minnesota (“Defendant OLF”)” - (Read Here).
In regards to the flag under dispute, the Shanee complaint asked TA-OLF to cease using the flag. However, Shanee members summoned for deposition (question and answer sessions between a possible witness and attorney of opposing side) all asserted that the flag is a national symbol and not just OLF’s which prompted the judge to observe:
“The OLF uses a flag. It is disputed whether the symbol on the flag was created for, and solely represents, the OLF or whether it is a symbol used by the Oromo people regardless of their affiliation with the OLF.”
With that, the judge dismissed the case for the second time and ordered Shanee to pay cost and disbursements to TA-OLF.
If you thought this would be the end of this madness, think again.
It is to be recalled that, in July 2007, the Shanee Group of OLF took the TA-OLF group to a Minnesota court over the use of the OLF name, logo and flag. The lawsuit alleged that TA-OLF violated “Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act” and that it interfered with the Shanee Group’s “prospective economic advantage” by using the OLF name, logo and flag - (Read Here).
In August 2007, after two court appearances, the court dismissed the Shanee lawsuit without prejudice. In other words, while the Shanee case was dismissed for the time being, they were allowed to re-file if they so wished.
Undeterred by the dismissal and bent on winning the case, the Shanee Group re-filled and launched a second lawsuit over the same issue in September of the same year. After 14 months in the court system and after $50,000.00 (by a conservative estimate) of Oromo hard earned money was squandered on both sides to prosecute and defend this ridiculous charge, the court decided in favor of the defendant and awarded TA-OLF cost and disbursements which the Shanee Group was forced to pay up.
In dismissing the case in November 2008, the judge observed:
“The OLF began in Ethiopia in 1973 with the objective of establishing an independent [state of] Oromia for the Oromo people. Some individual Defendants have been members of the OLF since its inception in 1973. Beginning in 1999 and through approximately 2001, the OLF members began disputing the methods of accomplishing their mission. In 2001, the [Plaintiff or the Asmara Group] OLF began supporting the policy of recognizing the Ethiopian government. There were members who did not agree with this policy. The Plaintiffs continued operating under the name OLF in Minnesota (“Plaintiff OLF”). The Defendants rejected the authority of the [Plaintiff or the Asmara Group] OLF, but also continued operating under the name OLF in Minnesota (“Defendant OLF”)” - (Read Here).
In regards to the flag under dispute, the Shanee complaint asked TA-OLF to cease using the flag. However, Shanee members summoned for deposition (question and answer sessions between a possible witness and attorney of opposing side) all asserted that the flag is a national symbol and not just OLF’s which prompted the judge to observe:
“The OLF uses a flag. It is disputed whether the symbol on the flag was created for, and solely represents, the OLF or whether it is a symbol used by the Oromo people regardless of their affiliation with the OLF.”
With that, the judge dismissed the case for the second time and ordered Shanee to pay cost and disbursements to TA-OLF.
If you thought this would be the end of this madness, think again.
The Shanee Group took over three years to prepare for another possible court battle. Having learned from their previous two failures that the courts are not likely to consider this dispute a commercial one, the Shanee Group went about preparing the ground work for the next battle.
On Nov. 17, 2008, a mere nine days after losing the case for the second time, the Shanee group applied to the US Patents & Trademarks Office (USPTO) to register the OLF name and logo in the Advertising, Business & Retail Services category - (Read Here).
Having succeeded in registering the OLF logo with the USPTO as Advertising, Business & Retail Services logo in June 2009, Shanee has now put TA-OLF on notice. In a letter written on Dec. 15, 2011 - (Read Here) - Shanee has accused TA-OLF of infringing on Shanee’s copy right and trade mark privileges. The letter asked TA-OLF to desist from further using the OLF “logo, flag and other materials.” Soon after, Shanee also issued a statement today on its web site (Read Here), warning the use of OLF name and logo by any other group but itself would be illegal and immoral thereby threatening lawsuit(s) against TA-OLF and perhaps also the Kemal Gelchu group of OLF.
If history is any guide, and from what we already know about the TA-OLF group, it seems unlikely that they will even dignify this letter with a response much less desisting from using what they consider rightfully belongs to the oromo people and their fallen comrades who paid the ultimate sacrifice with their lives to free their people and realize an independent state of Oromia. Given TA-OLF’s attitude towards the OLF name, flag and logo, it seems inevitable that another (third) round of litigation will be launched by Shanee with the inevitable consequence of squandering tens of thousands Oromo hard earned money on American lawyers once again.
Why?
Why would Shanee spend Oromo hard earned money that can be put to a better use, say to take Meles Zenawi to World Court rather than targeting another Oromo group? Or even use the money to maintain their Washington DC office for which they were unable to afford rental fee and therefore downgraded to a smaller office recently? Why not use the money to help our refugee brothers and sisters suffering around the world or our brethren dying of famine in Oromia? While NGOs and benevolent governments feed our starving people, why would an Oromo group (Shanee) purportedly struggling for Oromo freedom waste thousands of dollars on a dispute which will not advance an inch, but retard, the Oromo struggle?
It is no secret that the Oromo camp is fragmented, disunited and disorganized as it is. Nationalist Oromos everywhere are demanding unity based on clarity of purpose for the struggle. Having given up on their leaders, they are beginning to organize grass root Oromo unity movements. For Shanee to threaten a lawsuit at this particular time, after having lost twice before on the same issue – would be to pour gasoline on fire and frustrate the call for unity.
A Call to Action
This blogger continues to appeal to the Shanee Group in general and Obbo Dawud Ibsaa in particular, as he had done during the first and second Shanee Lawsuits, to stop this madness.
Obbo Dawud: What you are engaged in is an inter-Oromo political fight for the hearts and minds of the Oromo people. The Oromo people and them alone can and should render the final verdict as to which group deserves to call itself the OLF or not. Given time, one of you factions will die a natural death from lack of support from the Oromo people or thrive because of it. No amount of positive verdict from a foreign court will earn you Oromo love and support or acceptance from them. In fact, what you are doing is sending the wrong message to the Oromo. And that message seems to be that you lack confidence in the Oromo people’s ability to render this verdict which prompts you to appeal to foreign courts for help. I urge you to reflect on your group’s actions, the adverse reactions it can generate and their overall impact on the Oromo struggle.
This blogger calls on all Oromo compatriots, particularly Shanee members and Oromo elders everywhere, to do everything they can to stop Shanee from wasting money they collect in the name of Oromo struggle on something that will not advance the Oromo struggle one inch.
This blogger explicitly calls on Oromo elders to not turn a blind eye to this madness this time around, as they did in the two previous litigations where they chose to silently watch from the sideline while the Oromo movement was made a laughing stock of the world as a result of Shanee intiated litigations.
Related articles:
OLF Legal Woes
The Asmara Group Lawsuit Dismissed Without Prejudice
Nuro Dedefo Defebds the Asmara group's lawsuit
The Asmara Group of OLF Takes TA-OLF Back to Minnesota Court
Have your say!
On Nov. 17, 2008, a mere nine days after losing the case for the second time, the Shanee group applied to the US Patents & Trademarks Office (USPTO) to register the OLF name and logo in the Advertising, Business & Retail Services category - (Read Here).
Having succeeded in registering the OLF logo with the USPTO as Advertising, Business & Retail Services logo in June 2009, Shanee has now put TA-OLF on notice. In a letter written on Dec. 15, 2011 - (Read Here) - Shanee has accused TA-OLF of infringing on Shanee’s copy right and trade mark privileges. The letter asked TA-OLF to desist from further using the OLF “logo, flag and other materials.” Soon after, Shanee also issued a statement today on its web site (Read Here), warning the use of OLF name and logo by any other group but itself would be illegal and immoral thereby threatening lawsuit(s) against TA-OLF and perhaps also the Kemal Gelchu group of OLF.
If history is any guide, and from what we already know about the TA-OLF group, it seems unlikely that they will even dignify this letter with a response much less desisting from using what they consider rightfully belongs to the oromo people and their fallen comrades who paid the ultimate sacrifice with their lives to free their people and realize an independent state of Oromia. Given TA-OLF’s attitude towards the OLF name, flag and logo, it seems inevitable that another (third) round of litigation will be launched by Shanee with the inevitable consequence of squandering tens of thousands Oromo hard earned money on American lawyers once again.
Why?
Why would Shanee spend Oromo hard earned money that can be put to a better use, say to take Meles Zenawi to World Court rather than targeting another Oromo group? Or even use the money to maintain their Washington DC office for which they were unable to afford rental fee and therefore downgraded to a smaller office recently? Why not use the money to help our refugee brothers and sisters suffering around the world or our brethren dying of famine in Oromia? While NGOs and benevolent governments feed our starving people, why would an Oromo group (Shanee) purportedly struggling for Oromo freedom waste thousands of dollars on a dispute which will not advance an inch, but retard, the Oromo struggle?
It is no secret that the Oromo camp is fragmented, disunited and disorganized as it is. Nationalist Oromos everywhere are demanding unity based on clarity of purpose for the struggle. Having given up on their leaders, they are beginning to organize grass root Oromo unity movements. For Shanee to threaten a lawsuit at this particular time, after having lost twice before on the same issue – would be to pour gasoline on fire and frustrate the call for unity.
A Call to Action
This blogger continues to appeal to the Shanee Group in general and Obbo Dawud Ibsaa in particular, as he had done during the first and second Shanee Lawsuits, to stop this madness.
Obbo Dawud: What you are engaged in is an inter-Oromo political fight for the hearts and minds of the Oromo people. The Oromo people and them alone can and should render the final verdict as to which group deserves to call itself the OLF or not. Given time, one of you factions will die a natural death from lack of support from the Oromo people or thrive because of it. No amount of positive verdict from a foreign court will earn you Oromo love and support or acceptance from them. In fact, what you are doing is sending the wrong message to the Oromo. And that message seems to be that you lack confidence in the Oromo people’s ability to render this verdict which prompts you to appeal to foreign courts for help. I urge you to reflect on your group’s actions, the adverse reactions it can generate and their overall impact on the Oromo struggle.
This blogger calls on all Oromo compatriots, particularly Shanee members and Oromo elders everywhere, to do everything they can to stop Shanee from wasting money they collect in the name of Oromo struggle on something that will not advance the Oromo struggle one inch.
This blogger explicitly calls on Oromo elders to not turn a blind eye to this madness this time around, as they did in the two previous litigations where they chose to silently watch from the sideline while the Oromo movement was made a laughing stock of the world as a result of Shanee intiated litigations.
Related articles:
OLF Legal Woes
The Asmara Group Lawsuit Dismissed Without Prejudice
Nuro Dedefo Defebds the Asmara group's lawsuit
The Asmara Group of OLF Takes TA-OLF Back to Minnesota Court
Have your say!
70 comments:
Well said Blogger.I most definetly agree with you on this one. This is unconscionable both from Oromo unity and Oromo scarce resources perspective. If advancing the Oromo cause is not in your power at this time, I would counsel you (OLF factions) all (no, in fact, I demand from you)to at least refrain from pulling it backward.
Nagayaan.
A timely article I would have loved to see would be "The confusion by illegal ownership of the Oromo land (land grab) should be stopped". Not the illegal use of the OLF name and logo. What are the logo and the name for if the organization is in the virtue of collapse? The organization is in the virtue of collapse when it stops working towards the goal it set for itself and focuses on negative energy and distraction.
The woyyanes should sit back and relax; their job is getting done by robots.
Hello our OLF-leaders,
I think OLF is beyond any group or faction; no one can exclusively claim the name; it is simply the symbol of the Oromo national liberation struggle. Leave alone the factions which separate from the “main OLF group”, even non-organized individuals feel to be part of the OLF in a struggle against the enemy of the Oromo nation. We like it or not, we do have only ONE liberation front, the OLF, to which we all genuine Oromo freedom fighters belong and can claim the name.
Let’s forget about our arrab-torbee regarding walabummaa Oromia, but we surely will have in the future the five Gadaa-parties (we can call them as the noble SHANEE), who can have the respective five types of walabummaa described below as their respective vision in order to realize their choice after getting our bilisummaa. For instance, the Gadaa practiced in the Borana community uses the following different sets of names for the five Gadaa-parties: 1. Birmajii 2. Duuloo 3. Melba 4. Muudana 5. Roobale!
That means, we do now need ONLY one liberation front, of course the OLF, in order to compell our enemy and to come to bilisummaa. After achieving our bilisummaa, the five Gadaa-parties can compete for power and for the implementation of their prefered types of walabummaa. For instance:
- Birmajii can choose ‘Oromian Confederation’, i.e the confederation of free nations in the region being in union with Oromia as its prefered type of walabummaa.
- Duuloo can have ‘Oromian Killil Federation’, the federation of autonomous nations in the region being united with free Oromia.
- Melba prefering an ‘Oromian Independence’ disregarding any sort of union with the other nations in the region.
- Muudana can persue the goal of ‘Oromian Gosa Federation’ prefering the historical Odaa’s of the different gosa Oromo (Odaa-Bisil, Bulluqi, Bultum, Gaarres, Makkodi, Nabe and Rooba) as the elements of the federation, replacing the whole Oromia which is an entity in Killil Federation.
- Roobale can opt for an ‘Oromian Centeralism’, i.e transforming the whole region in to an Oromonized centeral government, in which Afaan Oromo will be the melting-language (working language), replacing Amharinya.
Yaa rabbii, maqa ABO maqaa daldalaa gootanii jarana? Starbucks ta’e jechudha bari.
Nama maqa isaa gabaa baasee ABOn jabaatee mana isaa keessa gadi haa baasu, haa darbatu
Waan qaanyii, waan bada.
Warra patent itti baafaten baana
Thank you blogger for your analysis. The OLF name and logo belongs to the millions of Oromos -supporters and members of OLF. It belongs to the heroes who sacrficied their live, it belongs to oromo political priosners, it belongs to those who eaten by hyna, it belongs to those oromo refugees in different part of the world. Shane has aleardy abondend the oroginal program of OLF on which the name, flag and the logo was based and hence has no moral ground to claim it.
using OLF logo for commercial purpose is a crime against the oromo strugle.
Shane just commited a political sucide.
Fighter-Jet,
I don not believe you have any idea of the subject under discussion. You better leave the issue for genuine Oromo citizens who have the vested interest of their Nation. As one can understand from your writings, you dwell under that retarded strategy of guarding the unity of the colonial entity known as "Ethiopia".
At the face value, yes, you pretend to be against the present colonial rulers. But you turn around and advocate endlessly to collaborate with their cousins, who are/were main group who depopulated the Nation of Oromia, and colonized our Nation by using the most inhumane,and barbaric methods.
What a pathetic venture!!!!
The legal venues in the USA were not meant to be the venue for manipulation for Shanee. But it is explained as follows: .... "A court is a form of tribunal, often a governmental institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law.[1] In both common law and civil law legal systems, courts are the central means for dispute resolution, and it is generally understood that all persons have an ability to bring their claims before a court. Similarly, the rights of those accused of a crime include the right to present a defense before a court"......
I am sure that the abuses of the Shanee group of this legal institution will eventually hold them accountable.
WOWO WE are good at fighting each other keep up the fight so our enemy can relax.
The anti Fighter-Jet Anonymous,
to understand Fighter-Jet in particular and the OLF in general, you need to born again. The Oromo liberation movement, specially the OLF has got the five visions of the five Gadaa-parties when it comes to the type ot walabummaa Oromia as described, but they are ONE with ONLY one Kaayyoo regarding bilisummaa Oromo from your fascist and racist Gujile! Is this irritating for you???
Dear Mr. Jet,
Can I plead with you not to mix up things. You are a perfect distraction. The issue at hand is not the type of struggle or whether the Oromo need a jet or not. Do you think the Dawd Ibsa's faction should stop their evil acts of destroying the future of Oromo?
I pray for you that you somehow recover from your obessional disease.
Dear readers,
This is the blogger. I would like to inform you that I am forced to remove some comments as the same person is posting the same or very similar messages over and over a again. Besides reapeatedly posting the same text, this person has, on many occassions, tried to divert dicussion from the topic at hand by introducing irrelevant issues. By so doing, this person has become an obstacle to cicilized and organized discussion.
I appeal to owr brother/sister tp cease and dessist from such actions.
Thanks You.
Argan Beekan
Now it is up to ALL the Oromo nationalists to play the three cards raised in the article in order to get rid of the fascist and racist Gujile: the card of ‘Nation based Federation’ now entertained by the OFDM, OLF-J, OPC and OPDO; the card of an ‘Independent Gadaa Oromia’ still used by the OLF-Q, OLF-S, ONLF and ULFO; as well as the card played by the Oromo nationalists in the AEUP, EPRP, G-7 and UDJ!
The endless conflict regarding the type of walabummaa Oromia we, the Oromo nation, will have in the future is still haunting us. The current move of the OLF-JJ to explicetly announce to accept a 'federal republic of Ethiopia' is the case in point. I think this move is not different from the imlicit acceptance of the same type of federalism by the OLF-SG in 1991 and as Ob Daud formed AFD together with Habesha forces in 2006. The OLF-QC had the same intention in heart as Ob Galaasa tried to build alliance with Ethiopian forces in Asmara around 1998. The only conflict we saw between QC and SG as AFD was formed was based on the fact that QC was excluded; and now the conflict we do see between JJ and SG is based on the reality that SG feels to be excluded from the process.
This conflict has nothing to do with the ideology regarding walabummaa Oromia I mentioned above. The RF-Model (Russian Federaion model) of walabummaa, i.e 'Oromian Independence', remains to be the CORE of the Kaayyoo-Oromo, as the Kaayyoo of the middle body of our Fighter-Jet (Oromo liberation movement). The UK-Model (United Kingdom model) walabummaa, which is 'Oromian Ethiopia' or genuine nation-based Ethiopian federation, where Oromia and Afaan Oromo will play a centeral role, can be considered as a move to the left wing of the Fighter-Jet and it is not less beneficial than the core Kayyoo. The US-Model (United States model), i.e 'Orominized Ethiopia', the region-based Ethiopian federation, in which the historical Oromian regions (Bisil, Bulluqi, Bultum, Garress, Makkodi, Nabe and Rooba) as well as Afaan Oromo will dominate the union, is like opting for the right wing of the Fighter-Jet, again this move is not disadvantageous as we usually used to think.
For me, these three Kaayyoo's can be symbolized by the circular Abbaa-Gadaa's tricolor: the inner circle, the white ring, being the core Kaayyoo (Oromian independence), the middle circle (the red one) is the more beneficial Kaayyoo (Oromian Ethiopia) and last but not least, the outer circle (the black) is the most beneficial Kaayyoo (Orominized Ethiopia). That is why, I do tend to think that the conflict between Oromo liberation forces regarding the type of walabummaa Oromia is artificial. Let's be wise and coordinate the three parts of our liberation movement (left wing, middle body and right wing) against the currently tormenting fascist and racist Gujile in order to achieve bilisummaa Oromo and then allow the Oromo public to decide on the type of walabummaa Oromia per referendum. Haa jabaannu!!
"Neither do they have moral ground to do that since they failed to score anything towards
the achievement of the goals of the organization, let alone proving the remaining majority
wrong by outperforming them. Had that been the case they could have justified their
illegal divisive acts by the end achievement."
Speaking of achievement and performance, shane has nothing much to show as their original work but they are good at one thing. Stealing others work and performance and make it their own.
Case in point is "Gaara Suffii: The Killing Mountain – Lest We Forget!" a high quality article and original work of this blogger. Shanee took this article from this blog and put it on their website without a reference to the source - this blog. This is called plagiarism.
According to Merriam-Webster plagiarize is " to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source.
This is exactly what shanee did.
There are many examples from back home and here in diasporas which could be provided to highlight their habit of stealing intellectual property of others.
It is not just immoral but against the low to engage in such a conduct.
Taking this opportunity I encourage the bloger to get the record straight on this matter.
The article I was talking about is this http://oromoaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/03/gaara-suffii-killing-mountain-lest-we.html
You ain't seen nothing yet. Expect further embarrassment. One should only bet on the moral consciousness of the people rather than ideological and especially political organizations. I mean, look what happened to the Tigrays that supported TPLF. You do see, that, don't you? All the *LFs have no baring in today's globalized world of technology. Leave this sort of 'struggle' to those that don't even know how to properly type or create an email account. In other words, these are dinosaurs fighting in the past.
In 2012, I hope to read original and contemporary views from you mate.
"He who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones"
To anonymous before me, you shouldn't critisize ohters on not knowing how to open e-mail account. Look at you. You can't even convey your message clearly.
To Anonymouse before me,
Whose fault is it that you lack comprehension skills?
The problem is your luck of writting skills, most importantly, the fact that you are not aware of it.
Wayyoo, Oromoo fi Oromiyaa!!! Kan harkaa nu qabu kan biraati, nuyi immoo "TRADE NAME" jennee maqaa irratti wal qabanne, safuu. Yaanni biroo kan dhiyaate immoo "ABO" maqaa biyyoolessa QBO ti malee kan qaama tokkoo miti kan jedhu.Dhugaadha seena QBO keessatti ABOn iddoo ol'aanaa qaba. Ni beekamaas. Kana jechuun inni kaleessa fottoqee, kan boru fottoqu marti maqaa tokko qabatee qabsaaya jechuudhaa? Sila bu'urri keenya rakkoo Oromoo fi Oromiyaati moo fedhinnaa dhunfaa ykn ergaa biroo duubaa qabana? Ilmi namaa mara irratti waliigaluu dhiisuu ni mala.Keenya immoo adda. Gurguddoo dhiifnee xixinnoo irratti wal fixaa jirra. Akkuma barbaade haa tayu qaamni adda addaa maqaa tokkoon addunyaa kana irra hin jiraatu. Dhimma sabaa irrattiis taphatuu natti fakkata. Akka nama tokkoo ani kan murteessu inni fincilee irraa baye maqaa biroo baafatuun dirqama jedhee murteessa. Ummanni Oromoos salphina akkasii otuu arguu callisuu irra dhimma isaatiif jedhee dura dhaabatuu kan qabu natti fakkaata.
Galatoomaa!!!
Yaa obboleessoo/oboleetti kanaa olii.
Shaneetuu Maqaa fii logo ABO trade
mark godhanne jirraa nu malee namnni itti inbu'in jecha jira bari.
Dhugadha kan harka nu qabu waan birotii, silaa QBO jabessanii uumata keenya garbumma jala baasutu dhaabolee Oromoo irra eegama ture. Sun akka intaneef warra dhaboolee Oromo hojii biran
harka hidhaa jiru silaa balalefatte gaari ture, silaa waluman balalefanna turre.
"TRADE NAME" jennee maqaa irratti wal qabanne" kan jettu yaa obolessoo, kan trade name jedhee baafate shanee dha. Yoo inhubanne ta'e irra deb'ii waraqa shanee baafte website saanii/keesanii irra dubisi.
Kan fincile irra bayee ati jettu eenyuu yaa obbo Anonymous gubba kana.
Kan fincilee, warra kaayyoo dhaabicha irra bahee dha. Kan objective dhabichii ittin dhaltee dide waan biratti darbedha. Warra ethiopia demokrateessuu yaalla bilisumma Oromo kana dadhabne jedhe murtefatetu fincilee irra bahee malee warri kayyoo ganamatti hafee attamiin fincila.
Isaan manuma ganama keessatti qabichi dhalate keessa jiru. Warra mana jijirate, warra kaayyoo jijirate, warra biyya gadhiisee habashatti galeen maqa kana dhiisa jedhii. Yoo maqa haara basuu rakkatanii immo waruma itti galaniin waamu danda'u. Kuno warri waliin mana jijiratan warra akka jijirama ifatti of baasanii jiru isini amma yoomitti dhokattu?
Wayyoo, wayyoo, ani badee, ani badee. Waan isin jecha turtantu ga'e yaa jarana. Kuno jijiramni sagantaa adda bilisumma Oromo jijirtee. Iyyaa, iyya dabarsa, kaaniis utu itti itti infufiin dafa walitti kotta yaa warra dhugaan bilisumma Oromof dhaabatu. Tokko ta'a bilisumma Oromotti nu yaasa.
Dawud Ibsa is a mad dog in Asmara,he is not doing nothing or not allowing people to do. He like to say every thing no. He is a major obstacle to lack of success in OLF. He is very blind he do not see sigificane of other people,this is realy madness. OLF logo and flag is not his business' trade mark. This guy he lack self confidence,motivation and every thing to liberate himself let alone oromo nation.
Dawud Ibsa is a mad dog in Asmara,he is not doing nothing or not allowing people to do. He like to say every thing no. He is a major obstacle to lack of success in OLF. He is very blind he do not see sigificane of other people,this is realy madness. OLF logo and flag is not his business' trade mark. This guy he lack self confidence,motivation and every thing to liberate himself let alone oromo nation.
Hi the blogger,
The flag, logo does not belong to the Oromo people. When and where on the earth did the oromo people decide on this matter. It belongs to the OLF, until and when the ormo people get the chance to choose its flag. So the factions have the right to fight for it. That is the only way of establishing identity among them selves.
Hi Anonmous,
To many Oromos icnluding the shanee mambers per their deposition, the flag and logo represents the Oromo people. That is what the blogger is talking about here "However, Shanee members summoned for deposition (question and answer sessions between a possible witness and attorney of opposing side) all asserted that the flag is a national symbol and not just OLF’s".
If you disagree with this you are disagreeing with above mentioned sector of the society not the blogger.
You said "the factions have the right to fight for it". Are you saying this is the only and useful way to fight for their identity?
Do you belive winning or losing the case in forign court will gurantee the heart and mind of Oromos back home or in diaspora.
You don't do things just because you can or you have the right to do it.
A reosnable person should ask him/herself the question.
Is it worth it?
Hi Anonymous,
Yes the OLF asserts both the flag and the logo represents the Oromo people. That is the OLF's view. I myself love it and is in my possession. But to declare that it belongs to the Oromo people in the court of law, you need to prove that the Oromo people have voted on it or have it in their constitution. Until that it officially belongs to the OLF/the faction that truly represents the OLF.
Anonymous,
I agree "it officially belongs to the OLF/the faction that truly represents the OLF". It belongs to true and oroingal OLF with the original ajenda not the water down version.
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Please Stop removing comments that you don't like. It's just so unprofessional ! You put yourself out there, people have the right to say watever they want, deal with it! Kan amma sagalee namaa akkanatti ukkaamsuu barbaaddu silaa biyyafaa qabaannee akkam nu gootu ? scary, isn't it ?
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