We expect OLF to act accordingly
Oduu.com - September 3, 2007
A Statement by the Oromo Movement for Federalism and Ethiopian Unity
These days we are witnessing the renewed interest of leaders of both Ethiopia and Eritrea to talk about internal affairs of each other's countries for the reasons we are doomed to only speculate from distance and nothing beyond. Like it is on many other national issues at present, except their cronies, other Ethiopians can only be strangers to matters pertaining to their own country. However, different persons have tried to give different interpretations departing from their own perceptions though undercutting each other's constituencies in an effort to advance their respective own agendas appears to be a single point of concurrence.
Our interest today is not to get deep into digging what underlying reasons could be there behind this political somersault on both sides, but rather to request OLF to come forward and try to decipher the riddle for us that it seems to have found itself in as a result. We are putting this request because we consider OLF to be accountable to its wider constituency so long as it is the largest and the leading Oromo organization and on the pretext of whose name thousands of our people are being harassed today ...