Dec 27, 2012 (QOL) The Ethiopian Empire uses pseudo negotiations and peace talks as a sabotaging tactical weapon to divide and weaken the struggle for libration.

Ethiopia is a cancerous criminal empire illegally occupying Oromia, Ogadeniya and other forcefully incorporated peoples in to the empire. Fully backed by the west and USA, this brutal illegitimate empire has carried out massive.

Killings, gang raping and inflicted unspeakable pain, sorrow, humiliation and robbery for several decades. Since the bloody conquest and consequent colonization of independent nations by the Ethiopian Empire with the help of western powers, this empire has used all forms violence without any reservation to maintain its military occupation of Oromia and Ogadeniya

The empire has committed all types of crimes and genocide against these illegally and violently incorporated nations, and still solely depends on violence and military might in controlling these nation by using satellite surrogate political party made up of politically ignorant and opportunists group who would do everything to full their belly and secure symbolic rank at the cost of the blood of their own people.

The empire employed a tactic of political zigzag in its foreign policy and heavily depends on great powers (Europe, USA, and even China) who have vested economic and geo-political interest in the region. While effectively serving the interest of great powers in the region especially of USA, Ethiopian empire remained anti-Somalia. It has done everything in its power to destabilize Somalia, repetitively invaded and carried out massive killings

and humiliation in Somalia. Heavily backed by the USA and other great powers, the empire of Ethiopia prevented any meaningful peace initiative in Somalia for substantial amount of time. And yet, it represents a significant threat to Somalia’s sovereignty and wellbeing of Somali nation. Through different means and mask, it managed to maintain its illegal presence on the soil of Somalia. The empire is also illegally occupying Eritrean territory and has rejected legally binding decision of the International Court of Justice after the deadly border war.

When it comes to the libration movements, the regime in Ethiopia also uses systemic tactic to divide and weaken the Libration movements through pseudo negotiations, and bribing of few opportunist traitors who are willing to sell out their own peoples. The recent disgusting and outrageous defection of Abdinur Abdullahi Farah, a central committee member of and deputy head of public relations for the Ogaden National Liberation Front, represents tactical engagement of the Ethiopian empire in dividing and fracturing Libration Movements struggling for freedom. This is a well-known sabotaging tactic of the Ethiopian empire whenever it faces crisis or wishes to systematically weaken a struggle for libration.

While constantly terrorizing and committing barbaric cruelty against illegally occupied civilians, the Ethiopian empire has employed extensive sabotaging tactic against both Oromo libration Front and Ogaden National Libration Front by assassinating their capable leaders, and bribing dismissed high ranking officials of these parties like that of Farah, and Abbabiya Abbaa Jobir who were the head of the OLF’s foreign affairs department. When he was dismissed from his rank, just like Farah, Abbabiya Abbaa Jobir also deserted to the empire.

Though the desertion of such malicious traitors of dismissed high ranking individual would neither affect the movements nor the struggle, I argue that these Libration movements needs to avoid such childish game with this Empire. It should always be known that, as Dr. Martin Luther Kingrightly pointed out ‘Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed’. Be it the republic of Eritrea or south Sudan have not been freely or voluntarily awarded their sovereignty by their respective occupiers, it was only after paying that ultimate price in their bitter struggle for liberation that they managed to regain their sovereignty and dignity. It wasn’t a generous voluntary offer.

Both OLF and ONLF should make no mistake in this regard for it is impossible and moreover catastrophic to neither engage in such gambling of pseudo negotiations intended to sabotage them, nor await achieving libration voluntarily. Leave of being fooled into counterproductive pseudo peace talks with Ethiopian empire, it is structurally fiasco to consider peace talks to democratize an empire, formed and sustained by force, and has been a prison house of nations for more than a century. Hoping so is tantamount to attempting to decorate a prison house in order to achieve oneself freedom.

Therefore, these Libration movements should not be fooled or tricked by this empire and its international supporters, rather stick to their faith and aspiration of freeing their nation suffering under Ethiopian political slavery, and avoid any catastrophic risks like that of the Tamil Tigers who were fooled through pseudo negotiations, and were finally exterminated by the Sri Lankan army.

Kedir Sheika is an independent East African political analyst, human rights & Democracy activist based in Norwey, and can be reached at abdushona@yahoo.com