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Sorry, Lencho can’t speak Amharic
By Tizibt Ayele
Lencho Leta, one of the founders and old timers of the Oromo Liberation Front, was on ESAT a couple of days ago. That is not news for me. What was news for me was his refusal to be interviewed in Amharic.
At a time when the Oromo Liberation Front has proven nothing but dismal failure, he refused to communicate in Amharic but preferred to speak in English. I understand that it was his choice. But at the same time leaders have to prove their worth with smart approach in politics. Amharic is just a language, a tool of communication. Those who speak any languages for that matter have more advantages to reach out to many more people than those who are monolingual.
English has spread throughout the world not because of a commandment from God. The English, the French, the Portuguese and the Spaniards were colonizers and slave traders who imposed their language and culture across the world. This is a terrible part of history but it was over long ago. There is nothing wrong with English, French, Spanish or Portuguese despite the history behind them. On the flip sides of the languages we see the fact that the languages have managed to become lingua franca in parts of the world. If anyone refuses to speak and write in English due to this historical fact, the act will have no harm on English speaking people, who are not just from England. But it reduces the protesters capability to communicate with so many people across the globe.
Amharic has no more or less value than English or Oromiffa. As an Oromo-Amhara, I speak both Amharic and Oromiffa. To be honest, I have neither respect nor disdain for both languages. They are just languages. For that matter, as a multilingual individual I also speak English and Spanish which has given me an edge to survive in exile.
As far as I know, Lencho Leta speaks fluent Amharic. He has been interviewed on the Voice of America Amharic service a few times. His refusal to give interview in Amharic is disgraceful, given the fact that ESAT broadcast to Ethiopia is in Amharic. If a small political message is more important than the ability to communicate ones message beyond the ethnic and cultural fault lines that some are deliberately using to divide people, Lencho seems to be a pathetic loser.
There is a legitimate historical grievance that need to be addressed in our country. Instead of addressing this historical grievance, the TPLF has been imposing a more sinister system that resembles nothing but Apartheid. In order to defeat the divisive regime, people of Ethiopia need unifying leaders that are willing to communicate with us all, the oppressed people of Ethiopia, irrespective of our linguistic and cultural differences.
The oppressed people of Ethiopia have always been the majority. We have to know our enemies. They have always been a handful of people. Surely, Lencho will also understand this fact.
I do not see what is the kicking ans shouting is all about? he has the right to speak in any language he wants. And the reporter has the right not to interview him. You can't force any one to talk in a certain languages just because you want them to.
Lencho chose to speak in English on a TV station that purposefully chose to transmit in Amharic only in a country where Oromo speakers make the largest single language group. Despite our repeated efforts to change their policy to reflect the country they purportedly target, our demand has fallen on deaf ears. ESAT will not have Oromo viewers. This is the case and understandably, Amharas are disturbed that he did not speak in their language. Lencho did what all Oromos are doing when faced with the same situation. Respect means you respect my language if you want me to repect yours. No more no less.
Dear Tizibt
I utterly agree with your notion of why he doesnot speak.Not because he is unable,indeed he is a fluent and elequent speaker of Amharic but to display his disrespect to the language.Palpably,it is not the language Amharic that is disparaged but the speaker himself.Honestly speaking I have a special regard to Lencho Leta among the OLF leaders.But intolerant of his refusal to speak in Amharic.I will not repeat what Tizbit has succinctly stated.I agree with what Tizibt said.
Hope Lencho will speak in Amharic in his second interview when ESAT is back on air.I know ESAT will be on air soon.
Mr.Lencho be astute politicians !
Mr Lencho,
“One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.” …. and “To have another language is to possess a second soul” as the quotation goes. ….
Actually, I don’t think you do not know this fact, the truth is that you and your friends in the OLF leadership are doing business, as EPLF’s Isayas and TPLF’ Meles and few friends had/have been doing business. The children of Ethiopia paid/and are still paying the price…
Two mistakes happened.
1- ESATwas wrong to interview this guy. As long as OLF is not an Ethiopian, including Lencho, must not have a right to talk about Ethiopia. What we expect from ESAT is something positive that develops Ethiopa. All programs should direct to the development of Ethiopia not the destruction of the country.
2. We do not tolerate to listen enemies agenda through ESAT.
3. This is the time to make a big line, mark between Ethiopia and its enenmies like tribal organizations.
4. Many fooloish people still have illusions that working with tribal landlords will bring something positive to the strugle of the country. Which is not true. They work for themselves by foolonig us.
5. This is the time for unity
Look what is happening around us. Uganda, Kenys, Tanzania, Brundi and Rwanda are going to be a united country starting from 2012. Now they have already opened their borders to all the people of the above countries to move freely and work anywhere they like. No taxation between them. Universities are united under one aim and goal, and administrations.
Whereas in our side Meles and the tribal organizations are dividing the country in to Gossa, neged and Zer instead of uniting us for development.
Therefore, all Ethiopians who believes in unity and progress , get united for a big, unique strugle against tribalists and deviders like OLF, Woyane, including arena tigray, and all tribal organizations fighting for parliamentary sits.
There should not be seen any tribal org. inside or outside. Those who are inside are the same like OLF, and Woyane as long as the believe in tribes, as long as they bring tribal issues as a political agenda. Speaking my tribal language doesn’t bring to me bread or money. The country will be great when the people work hard, educated, united and become healthy. The outcome of demaracting tribal boundary will be chaos, backwardness and being like Somalia, where they are devided into Clan – Sefer. You are known there not by being a Somaly, but by being a member of you tiny tribe. This is a disaster.
Unite all,
Long live Ethiopian OROMKEMBAHADYA Region ( Oromya region of Woyane which is not a region of Oromos, but originally it was a region of Kembata and Hadia.
Down with tribal landlord.
Long live Ethiopia
How well educated and how enriched wisdom he,Lencho has or has had, has been measured by his disrespect not only for the language,Amharic but also for broader Amharic speaking citizens in Ethiopia and as well as accross the global communities.We are and he too is sure that he would have been better expressed and well understood his thought and openion,if he had been wise enough and knowledgabel about what he is speaking or talking about had he had communicated in the languagage he is fluent and knowledgabe.
Frankly speaking,Lecho has had a problem for which he is not honest about to himself,firstly;why he failed to ask himself this:What is the purpose of being multilingual? Once upon a time,Isaias refused to give an interview in Amharic;so now did Lencho.May be Lecho is better educated and more wise than Isaias because he atleast spoke about democracy and compromise;but,Lecho must realized that speaking different kinds of languages would help to expand and broaden knowledge and social skill.
You see,there is no or there wasn't a problem with the listeners,at all;the problem is/was with Lecho.First and foremost,Lencho must bring himself out with a good mind-set and/or a good attitude and explain or give reason why he dislikes to speak to the listeners in Amharic and/or also suppliment it with a genuine request to translate the english language he spoke into other languages so that more listeners would give him a respect through listening to what he is talking about.So whose fault was that?
Can he learn in the future by taking the mistake he made as a learning experience? If he is not a good example,then who would take him as a rolemodel for the present and future generation?
YOUR MAJESTY,ATO LENCHO
you are old for this politics, it is very late to you…
kilkil,
How did you know that there was no problem from listeners when you did not even know the complaint of Oromos? You are living in the early 19th century mentality, my friend. You are burying your head in the sand like the ostrich. Lencho did what every Oromo politician would have done. Amharas speak in their language on Oromo media outlets. You either learn our language or we do not give a hoot to your language. Can you understand what the right for self detrmination means?
The more you push us to speeak your language the more we refuse to accept it. Where do guys live. We have said for several years we do not have any respect for those people who killed, robbed and displaced our for fathers. Period. We do not need you. We are self sufficient. However, based on mutual respect we are ready to live with in the same country. Otherwise wait and see.
Some of the commenters seem to be extrimists. What we need to do is bury the past and make Ethiopia a better place for all. All nations have gone through wars, colonialism, domination, subjugation…do you know any nation whose history was clean. None. We need to fight for the future together to bury inequality and subjugation. Weyane is repeating the apartheid system. So we need to bury it together. Let us do that first in stead of blaming the past which has nothing to do with us….the oppressed people of Ethiopia!
Why do you people expect Oromo in general and Leencoo in particular respect your language for 30 minutes in the interview, whereas you and your ESAT disrespected 40 million Oromo by refusing to speak and transmit in Afaan Oromo during the 24h/d talk and transmision? Is this not the double standard you learned from your masters, the West?
Dear Tizibt,
you seem to live and move still at the first level of the political evolution in the empire you cry for. Obbo Leencoo is one of the very few Oromo nationalists, who has completed the Oromo political evolution, which is real and true:
- the first level of the evolution is that of those who do support the unitary Abyssinian colonial empire. They do deny the existence of Oromia, but cry only about imiye Ethiopia.
- the second level of those, who do claim to be Oromo and believe in the existence of Oromia, but do accept and adore Abyssinian rule over the occupied Oromia.
- the third level of those, who do claim to be Oromo and demand Oromian autonomy at least within Ethiopian union.
- the fourth level of those, who do claim the unconditional Oromian independence in a form of an independent Gadaa Repubic, disregarding the possibility for a union of independent nations.
- the fifth level of those searching to foster the Oromian union, i.e. a union of independent nations in the Horn for common economical benefit, which brings all Oromo in the Horn together.
Otherwise, why do you people expect Oromo in general and Leencoo in particular respect your language for 30 minutes in the interview, whereas you and your ESAT disrespected 40 million Oromo by refusing to speak and transmit in Afaan Oromo during the 24h/d talk and transmision? Is this not the double standard you learned from your masters, the West?
Lencho is irrelevant and myopic. He is not capable of thinking strategically. He and his likes are not going to move the struggle of the Oromo one inch further unless they broaden their agenda to include the interests of other Ethiopians who are suffering under the yoke of the Woyane regime. If he were a wise politician, he would have chosen to speak in a language which would have enabled him the largest audience in Ethiopia and beyond which in this case would have been Amharic. But he is too narrow minded for that.
Kilkil,
The problem must be from yourself. If you can't understand English, you better listen to the reporter who was also acting as a translator.
There are millions of individuals who speak English;but why did Mr.Lencho chose to speak in English when he knows the very few speak English in Ethiopia.Say,for instance,Mr.Lencho lives in Finland and some day,if he comes accross a tug in the street of Finland and is thrown all sorts of derogatoy things on his face,will he go to his appartment and take off all the garments he put on and come out and stand on the balcony naked and say,I will never speak finish anymore? Will he or will he not.Whose problem is this;imagine?
The first task of Mr. Lencho must have been,asking,reasking,thinking,rethinking and ask: Who are my listeners and will it be the locals or those who native language is English.Well,is this the listeners’ problem;yuo be the juge!
Mr.Lencho can not be or will not be pationate about the people when he dislikes their language.Being multilingual is both advantageous and make one likeable by all;if Mr.Lencho dislikes Amharic,how could he then be taken seriously and listened to patiently?
Clearly,there wasn’t any problem with the listeners because they did not take him personal.What good things Mr.Lencho spoke that would make him unforgettable and memorable by the listeners?
Helo Freinds,
The most important is the message, not the language he used. I do believe that Mr. Lenco respect not only the language but also the right of others. And, he chose the language more comfortable to convey his message. We fight on pity things.
Once, Ogaden representative were told to make conversation in Amharic. They don't use Amharic very often. They either use English or Somali language. For somebody, who often use Somali or English, blaming him for not using Amharic is a pity. why he struggle with another language when he can better convey his message with Somali or English. Good to know Amharic language, but criticizing somebody for not using Amharic is a shame/mistake. Is this disrespecting Amharic speakers??. I don't think so. Please, you guys open your eyes and look at what is going on in your neighbors.
Ato Abebe,
I do not believe you understood what Lenco was taking about. He was not against unity of Ethiopia. He even said he is determined to fight for the true unity of the people of Ethiopia. He wanted the unity has to pre-defined. It is not the unity you and you neftegna friends want. Your sense of unity is one Ethiopia, one religion (Orthodox Christianity), one language (Amharic). This is not going to work. We do not want live under subjugation. What part of this you guys do not understand? We say no to any sort of domination. We say yes to any sort of negotiated unity. It does not matter whether you call him “dirty” or clean. We have been hearing this kind of insults from you NEFTEGNA relative for the past 100 years. Now please get it to you … head. If you do not understand the word no though luck.
It obviously shows how this old man's thinking. I wouldn have been proud of him if he where to speak in oromoffia. But his colonial mentality let him choose english.He ,since 1991 or it could be since his adult hood is debating to be or not to an Ethiopian. No wonder why OLF failled miserably.It was lead by narrow minded people like Lencho.
Abe,
You know the English adage “think before you speak”. It is a cliché but works fine. How do expect Lenco to speak in Afan Oromo When the interviewer does not? Gee, use your brain if you have one.
Hi Abebe,
I am sure that you will gradually change your mind regarding Lencho and others. The day, Amhara elites started to dominate all others with the help of European weapons that the day the collapse of the empire begun. I have never heard a society in this planet that is ready to serve the interest of other society at the expense of theirs'. When a French man interviewed, he would prefer to use French even when he knows English, and English man also prefers to use English, when he knows French. No complain for using English or French. For people from backward country like Ethiopia, if you don't use Amharic, interpretation is nothing but you hate Amharic and Amharic speakers. how pity.
By the way, how many times in your life you tried to learn the language of other ethnic groups in Ethiopia???. You were told by your family and others that others should know Amharic, keep this thinking until you die, you will see the fate of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is infected with ethnic cancer. it is less likely to recover from it, you can only extend the time. Competition between ethnic groups will continue for ever as long as we live together. Eventually, this (will) results in deep rooted hatrage.
Dear Mr Lencho
I just want to make the following comment on your interview. As most of your audiece are Ethiopians (Oromo, Tigre, Amhara, Gurage etc) it would have better to tell us in Oromofia rather than english. By the way Language is just a means of communication. You should know better. At you age why not you become a force for good. to reconcile our people ethiopia before you leave the plant earth. Since the student movement you and the rest of your generation did one thing i.e. killing each other. You still want to keep us killing each other while you live your life. What a pity.
If you speak in Amharic what is a big deal?
It is very sad to interview Lencho in first place. He has brought disgrace on our people who sacrificed ther precious lives in saving Ethiopia from fascists, Ethiopia is the Land of the Oromos as well as others. The interview itself is an insult to Oromos. How he could liberate 40% of the population: Oromos are not minority. Oromos need democracy, rule of law, real developement. Lench even could be the leader of Ethiopia, if he would have not been foolish.
ESAT, please next time find real and genuine Oromo Ethiopians without inferiorit complex.
Thank you
It is very sad Lencho appeared on this Neftegna TV for interview. This guys never learn. They will never behave like civilized humans. They always cry for Emoiye Ethiopia. They want you to wear an Amhara mask. Otherwise you are an enemy.They have any respect for Oromos at all. The best thing to do is ignore them and fight until we liberate ourselves from this backward thinkers.
Gunuine Oromos to them are those who accepted the Abesha Dominance. Lencho is not one of those. He liberated himself a long time ago. We will follow his foot steps.
I really felt the same when I saw the program on you tube. However I dont really blame the guy as that is his stance and it seems that he hates to speak amharic and it is his own right.
The real problem is that even before solving the problem of jamming and even before standing in its two feet the ESAT people gave a chance for such a controversial guy go on the air . I sometimes think that the only fact that we havent overtrown woyane is that we really are not tough enough towards the real facts. and the real fact is the following
There are people like this guy who will never change towards their hatrade to a unified ethiopia. If any one wants them to get changed , for me, that guy does not know anything. It is just in their blood that they hate a unified ethiopia and most painfuly they think that Ethiopia means Amahara and it is not possible to change them. Period . Or at least in our age. forget them and focus on those guys who can unify us all.
So ESAT please focus on overcoming the jamming issue and try to provide a more useful person the air to transmit the message of freedom and democracy . Forget such dirty people. I dont care what they think as I know that they have been unsuccessful in that for an age greater than mine.
Gentle readers;Mr.Lencho,somehow avoided the question related to the 2010 fraudlent election through which EPRDF maintaied its grip on Ethiopians for the next five years;Indeed, Mr. Lencho was respectfully asked about his openion on the faulty victory our common enemy claimed on 2010 election;alas,Mr.Lencho took a wrong detour and digressed from issues of millions of Ethiopians and the world community took them very seriously.Well,the political brain of Mr.Lencho is not in a good shape.Of course,it is upto and the choice of Mr.Lencho to either be hit by the enemy's train or to hold hand-in-hand with fellow millions of Ethiopians both at home and abroad and remove the stubbern enemy from the surface of Ethiopia and build Ethiopia for the btterment of the current generation,us,and the future generation as well.We stand for the nity of of Ethiopia can not be compromised.
I think ESAT should have refused to air such a contemptious behaviour. What did ESAT got out of that? Who is this man? A dead man belonging to dead orginzation. such 11th century people are irrelevant to today's ethiopia:they opted to be irrelevat and an insult to the very people they say they "fight for"? I wonder why ESAT is interested to revive him and make it as if it is alive, relevant, around and kicking! Is this the right man to talk about election? On what grounds? experience? expertise?
It was much better had he been given the interview in Affan Oromo and translated it to Amharic instead of English. Yet, am not surprised ! What do you expect from Issias's running dog and from a former Derg's "red terror" participant? Lecho is wanted for killing a generation in collaboration with Mengestu Hilemariam. In fact, he was also Meles's puppet until he quarell with woyane in power sharing. So, it is irrrelevant wether a criminal speaks in Amharic or in Englisjh or in Affan Oromo for that matter.
Hey Guys,
It is not about the language. You can express yourself using any language including Chiness. But if you use the language as a tool for division and destruction then that is the point.
One of the means to divide people for tribalists is Language. They know people have different languages among them. Therefore Dividers – (Inside and outside) use language, tribe, religion and area as a tool to separate and divide people. So Lencho and OLF use language to divide the people of Ethiopia. Unless the people are divided they can’t achieve what they are dreaming. This is not only in Ethiopia but all over the poor countries in the world.
Call for all – Get out yourself from this backward sentiment and focus on the 21st century thinking.
Do not even discuss this type of issue forever. Let this be the last discusiion for unity lovers . Let the deviders and landlords enjoy with it.
East Africa is getting into one big country – wheras dividers try and dream to dismantle big Ethiopia into 40 tiny countries. Shame on stoneage primitive people.
Long live All Ethiopians including Ethiopian Oromos.
Tyrant Meles Zenawi humilated the top leaders of OLF were part of the TPLF government initially; they were forced pack up and exit Ethiopia. The OLF fighters were deceived to gather at a location where they disarmed without resistance. This happened while Meles and Isaias were budies.
Thus the OLF leaders brought eternal shame to the gallant Oromo people distinguished for their bravery in the Battle of Adwa. So opportunist leaders like Lencho Leta begging for resources in the imperialist world do not represent Oromo-Ethiopians like me who have a stake in a united, democratic and prosperous Ethiopia that we are going to build..
OPLF is on the verge of dying and waht remains of it is totally subservient to Isaias Afeworqui who is globally isolated.
Tyrant Meles Zenawi humilated the top leaders of OLF who were part of the TPLF government initially; they were forced pack up and exit Ethiopia. The OLF fighters were deceived to gather at a location where they disarmed without resistance. This happened while Meles and Isaias were budies.
Thus the OLF leaders brought eternal shame to the gallant Oromo people distinguished for their bravery in the Battle of Adwa. So opportunist leaders like Lencho Leta begging for resources in the imperialist world do not represent Oromo-Ethiopians like me who have a stake in a united, democratic and prosperous Ethiopia that we are going to build..
OPLF is on the verge of dying and waht remains of it is totally subservient to Isaias Afeworqui who is globally isolated.
I read that most listeners and supporters of ESAT are Amharas who thought that they have found a TV station to hoodwink the Ethiopian people. That is what this discussion shoiws us. I admire Lenco to appear on ESAT and show in a way that no body intended that it is an AMHARIC ONLY channel. It is called exploitation of language to divide the Ethiopian people. I have watched and participated in Ethiopian poltics for quite a long time and know where ESAT is going to end. It will end in the dish after most of coughed up your hard-earned money to suuport it. Neftegna mentality is so screwed to understand 1 +1= 2. How do they expect the Oromo people support their agenda at this age when it has all the necessary ingredients to advance their cause. Do Neftegnas believe that Oromois are stupid enough just to trust them? Lenco exposed them by challenging their arrangement. I know there are Woyanes masquarading as Neftegna commentators here as well. No one in the right mind would challenge the desire of the Oromo people if they want to maintain their Ethiopia in tact. There is a point I agree with some of the commentators. Lencoo nbrought this redicule upon himslef and the Oromo people by his actions of 1992. He is the reason why Neftegnas are making fun of us. He and his clique had all the opportunity and the means and the popular support to take the struggle to the next level. He was visionless and duped by the CIA. We are still struggling to come off of that loss. We will recover and the outcome will not be what Neftegnas nor Woyanes are hoping for.
Most importantly,Mr.Lencho did not tell the truth.Mr.Lencho is walking carrying a full loaded brain of those who brainwashed and later recruited him to be used as nothing but a tool of propaganda and distruction;he was used then tossed away for good or for bad;it is true.
Is there a chance for him to come back matured and sensible? Yes,there is.That is waht a leader does and should be.It meanse embrase being an Ethiopian,being tough,and being tough to fight our common enemy tooth and nail;that is what we mean.
By design or as a way of seeking publicity and promoting the continued suffering of the Ethiopian people, Lencho Leta and the old guard within the OLF have found it suitable to play the art of maximising hostitlities. Oromos have been the victims of these elitist ventures and there is no system to stop the likes of Lencho from propogating the poison from the safe haven and a holiday trip to the land of Meles Zenawi's tyranny.
One way to cut this recycling is to deprive the militants the air of self-seeking publicity.
Why should anyone interview people like Lencho Leta on the current and future solutions as they are yester-year politicians?
Why not focus on those who have something positive to say(Daud Ibsssa, General Kamel Gelchu, Aba-Biya AbaJobir…)?
I attach an exchange in the Ethiopians-Forum:
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From: Biri Yaya
To: ethiopians-forum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 1 August, 2010 17:22:22
Subject: [Ethiopians-Forum] Fw: WHY INTERVIEW THE DISCREDITED LENCHO LETA IN ENGLISH WHEN YOU CAN HAVE IN AMHARIC FROM THE REFORMIST WING OF
WHY INTERVIEW THE DISCREDITED LENCHO LETA IN ENGLISH WHEN YOU CAN HAVE IN AMHARIC FROM THE REFORMIST WING OF
OLF?
LENCHO LETA/OLF'S MILITANT WING
http://addisvoice.com/2010/07/28/lecho/
GENERAL KAMEL GELCHU-OLF'S REFORMIST WING
http://bilisummaa.com/btapha/games/files/jerman-0...
HE ABA-BIYA ABA-JOBIR
http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?blog=17&titl...
OTHERS
http://ethioforum.org/wp/archives/317
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I don't want to write worst than this out of respect for Addis voice website. Otherwise, I could say, this Lencho is feeble minded with no brain of his own. What does he want? If he doesn't want to be an Ethiopian, that is fine. He can stay in Norway, France, London, Menosota, etc. Or he can go back where his grand parents came from before Immam Mohamme/Gragn Mohammed. It could be to Bantusta, Puntland, Kenya, etc.. if they acept him. But Ethiopia remains undivided, united and one nation. If he wants to know the truth, the land what is now occupied by the Oromos were belong to the ancient Ethiopians (Argoba, Gafat, Inaria, Gangaro, Keffecho, Wolayeta, Sidama, etc.) before Immam Mohammed destroyed the centeral government at the end of 15th Century. I don't want to generalize the whole humble Oromos because of this jerk/looser, Lencho. By the way, Lencho participated in the infamous, "Red Terror" against humanity during Dereg. Then, he was Woyane until they (OLF) chased them out in 1993. Today, he is Shabia's puppet with no brain of his own. At least people could have been respect him had he been function in his own brain/idea. He even copy the word "Nefetegna" from Shabia and Woyane to discredit Amhara. What a moron ! Any way, Leave Ethiopia and go back where you came from. We are really sick & tired of this animal/KEBET ! Lame Bora !
I wonder what the ESAT people are trying to conveyu to the Ethiopian people by presenting Lencho's interview. Are they are saying that the break up opf Ethiopia is legitimate?
As to the language badly spoken English is nom substitute for Amharic and probably Oromifa.
It seems to mee ESAT has lost its dicrection and is trying to be evrything for everybody. Pity.
I really appreciate Ato or Emmet Tizibt for this fantastic piece of writing. Let him/her continue exposing the follies of foolish people who are singing the same dull song for nearly a century. A foolish, if stubbornly foolish by birth, cannot change the gear of foolishness until death. Otherwise, especially at this conjuncture of history on which compromise is utterly needed to come out of the hellish quagmire created by the Woyanne’s divide and rule system, leave alone lencho, who has ‘a long experience in politics’, other new politicians even should choose the best viable way of struggle if they really want their people to be free of oppression.
By the way lencho has a history of dismantling the “Empire” if his whims are to stay at bay. He can’t learn from other Ethiopian Oromos who have made up their mind to struggle the common enemy together with other Ethiopians. lencho could learn from Dr Negaso, from Siye, from Dr Berhanu, from Bertukan MIDEKSA et al. But lencho, let me repeat his name lencho can’t learn any lesson, for he is naturally adamant and he is there for special mission of carrying out Mr devil’s mission along with his brothers and sisters in the meles’ block, meles’ bloc, I repeat. It is because they are not sane human beings that I purposely write their names in the lower case.
netsanet zegeye,
That is not your real name. If you dare Lenco Letta, come out of your pen name and then we can talk. Dirt, stone head,
Dear boona,
Do you know the saying: " When you open your mouth your brain is visible." Our mouth is there for two things; to speak the truth and to eat or drink. But not to vomit whatever we have inside to whatever people we would like to smear their relatively good deeds. In principle and naturally as well, I don't want to insult people, if I do I would probably be the first in throwing 'smartest' insults that your little brain could ever bear. But I strongly believe that one has to grow upwards like many of the plants we know on Earth, not like a carrot whose growth is downwards, though it is natural and for purpose, not to be the menace of other plants, in fact. People like you and lencho are naturally victimized by mental retardation not to accept the reality, or rather you and your likes are here in this world to serve as a token and at times as an instrument or tool of evil thinking and malicious activities, when and if you get the chance. What a pity. Some financial problems can be solved with the help of friends; health problems can be assisted by traditional or modern 'holy waters' and medication or if the worst comes , depending on the laws of countries, they may be helped by euthanasia. But the worst disease to humanity is psychosomatic illness from which millions of people in the world are suffering pitiably like you and lencho. Sorry for my proper wordings.
About my assumed name, don't be in a hurry. You will see my real name in the near future when you and your likes will have learnt the best lesson history offers to each of us. And I don't think your 'name' – boona is your real name. And after all, it is not the name we have that matters, it is the gray matter that matters a lot. We are not expected to carry out a duel via the internet. Are we? Try to be a sensible person. Think of not yesterday, there is also tomorrow. You are lucky enough to own the so called 'human brain' on condition you use it wisely and free of vengeance. I also would like to advise you to know your EQ and adjust your emotions according to the time we are in, not of the time our wise illiterate forefathers lived in a relatively peaceful co-existence. Your likes who claim to have modern "education" are the cancers of our people. Well you must know how a cancer is treated if there is no one viable option. Be human. Be Godly. Be kind. Think the good side of life. Think of the one world ahead of all humanity. Never narrow down yourself to an abyss of deep gorge. Avoid myopic outlook, it exposes for further psychiatric problems. Be apologetic. Be forgiving. Be a moral being, for you are by far a great creature than any other ordinary member of the planet. Run out of the camp of Satanic bloc while you have the time now. You may not have time later. Speak what you know, not necessarily what you have heard of the non constructive hear-says. You have the right to be or to do or to have anything you like, at the same time know that there is also a reward and/or a punishment accordingly. Non-RSVP, if you could.
Well, no one can force the man to speak Amharic. Obviously he is trying to make a statement and had I been the interviewer, I would have started it off like this:
Ato Lencho, as you know this is an Ethiopian network and broadcast. You speak Amharic very well and have held interviews in Amharic in the past. What is the message you want to send by refusing to be interviewed in Amharic?
His answer, whatever it might have been, would have put him on the spot for viewers to judge.
Walle,Really? That you will be ready in everything necessary to save Ethiopia? Funny, the old Ethiopia doesn’t even exist anymore. Eritrea has left the empire for good. Where were you then? I guess you didn’t have the gut back then. Instead of working to find the solution which could be accepted by all nations, you spread you ignorance on the internet. I am pretty sure you will be ready in the cyber war but you won’t be ready for anything else… The Timkitegnaas time has passed and will never come back..
dawaa, it is good to chat freely. There is an Amharic saying which literally means: " If a person has hidden himself/herself intentionally, s/he can't listen to the voice calling him/her". So to whatever degree we earnestly shout, you dawaa and boona or your coach father lencho and the like, I do believe so,are not ready to give attention because you are willingly deafening your ears not to hear anything Ethiopian rather than your own echo. It is like crying in the wilderness like John the Baptist, not 'john the psychotic lion (lencho)' . I hope you will have time to reconsider your inside. Please, bene mot yihunbachihu- memote tekmo baygodachihum/godto baytekmachihum- lezich tinish hiwot dha wogenachinin enasbewuna yenetsanet ayyer enditenfis enagizew woim bians anmekignew. You see, we can win stupidity though we may not win poverty easily.
mr lencho
how can we start to talk as you repeatedly plead if we refuse to communicate in the language we all understand. amharic is ethiopias official language under the very constitution you(olf) participated and its also the language esat is using in its programs. its also a language you are very fluent at. so even if you have other language choise why not use it for the above reasons instead of a much foreign language for you and the listners that includes oromos. by the way a lot happened in the past, but what is his view regarding what took place since 1995 and ethiopias newly ethnic based federal system has been instituted. did it get better, worse or the same. the interviewer should have asked him that.
Do you know that the new generation Oromos do not even speak Amharic.. And if you really say it is a tool of communication, why are you so concerned this much as long as his answers are translated to Amharic. Some of you even say ESAT was wrong to interview Lecnhoo Letaa for refusing to accept Ethiopianity and not speaking Amharic.. Lencho spoke the majority of Oromos view to the country. So your comments justifies that ESAT is only for the Amharas hence Oromos can’t be welcomes to your network…I say Lencho Leta was wrong to do an interview with you bunch of Timkitegnaas who are buried in the past. It is sad that you people do not get it and will never get it.. It is you guys who destroyed the country from the beginning. Oromos are neither the creator nor owner of Ethiopa. As my dear Lencho, said Ethiopia has never been ONE.. The country was kept intact by force. The country need to be recreated for the Oromos to feel ownership of the country. I am just glad you guy do not have space moving forward..
Ato Tizibt and et al.,
Why you hate to even listen to Oromiffa, leave alone showing interest to learn?? So why you get surprised and dare to write a lot for nothing if any Oromo person refuse to speak Amharic??
What you will gonna say when the majority of Oromo will stop speaking 'Amaharic' in very near future?? Don't you aware of the current situation in the country? The new generations, which are working to their max. capacity to liberate OPDO in particular and 'others' in general, have no interest to learn Amharic, and I would say they even hate beyond the way you (and some one like you with … mind) hate to listen to Oromo's language!! Don't you know in most of our Universities, students from different corner of the country are almost not communicating since (1) I already said … (2) even if they can speak Amharic, they don't want to communicate in Amharic due to many reasons, which is mainly due to people like you, (3) they are doing their home work to bring Oromo's language to the level it has to be, and hence wish to see while someone like you face to learn and speak the language that they hate before!! So this might be a very new thing for you who are leaving in the Western world, but almost close to the end (i.e. some are almost start to count 'A' 'B' 'Ch' …back-home).
The last thing I would say, this day the 'extrimist' are growing at an exponential rate in every aspects. In our case, they majority of Ormomos' are getting to that side due to people like you!! So any single bad or negative thing towards Oromo people, esp. here on the media, are adding ten-folds of neutral Oromos' to the extremist side!! So it's up to you and others in your path to stop such useless stuffs and look for peace and development or continue with that and in very short time set and see the unresolvable challenges and difficulties!!
Selam!
In that case,the decision is Mr.Lencho's choice that he would make after he shakes off the dirt that he has been covered with. From what the listeners observed,Mr.Lencho had really got mad on simple and elementry question that he was asked.He was neither able to control his emotion nor gave the right answers.
At one point he was so emotional that, not only he contradicted himself, he got upset by the simple question he was asked.Mr.Lencho has spent his life on unfeasable and unattainable goals now that he told listeners he can speak their lnguage.He,funlly describe our homeland as he wanted and as he instructed by loaded brain he carried throughout his life.Is he a boy who plays with fire?
Or is he a chicken every pot cooked in? He just disappeared in great disappointment from Ethiopians with a look of disgust.
Thank you, Nersanet Zegeye. Your name & your statement said it all. I don’t have any thing to say/add to these morons other than advising them to read their historry (not from Cherulli an Italian Colonizer or from Asmerom Legesse a well known Ethiopian enemy and Shabia’s cadre). A liitle hint will be Yelema Dressa or Jaga Makello, if they want to learn the truth. Otherwise, let them go hell ! No more disscusion with enemy. We will be ready in every thing necessary to save Ethiopia.
Leencho and anyone else has the right to speak any language they can, or for that matter not to speak at all. Some of the commentators here just do not get it.
The writer of the artcle recognises this right. Good for him. He asks if it was wise or astute for Leench to speak in English. Good question. I wish Leencho spoke in Oromifa and got translated to Amharic. But, perhaps ESAT was unable to find a person who can do the translation. I do not know.
But, Leencho by speaking in English has done something that he probably did not intend. Some of the comments such as that by Enna and Walle indicate that the Abysinian camp is full of extremists. Enna for example talks about unity, but does not mind instigating conflict between the Oromo and other peoples of Ethiopia, but stil expects us to believe that he is against tribalism. What a fool racist.
Dear Dawaa, I am a student of language by the way. I can speak nearly five languages, needless to mention in fact here. I beautifully understand that the value of a language is as equal asy the sweater you have donned. Let me repeat this please: The value of a language[any language for that matter] equivalent to the cup you drank your this morning. The sweater gets worn out, the cup gets broken or out out of use one day in its life. Then, why are we bickering in trivial stuffs? Why don't we do more productive ones? Did you have the chance to choose between Amharic and Oromiffa or English or Menderin or German…? If I had a chance, I would choose English and I would choose one of the Scandinavian countries as my citizenship. It may be natural to love what you have but not as the expense of hating that of the others' including the people. What do the people in Arsi, in Gonder, in Harer, … know about our litigious arguments based on 'mine is better than yours' futile point?
Ato [ Mr or Obbo or Don or Signor or Lala or Ayte or Teyshew...] Leencho Leta, understandably and from the point of view of Ethiopians, is Ethiopian who had been raised by the missionaries in Wollega in the good old days when we used to pass through the same tunnel of happiness or atrocity. I personally dislike the intention he refused to talk in the language millions of Ethiopians would understand better. Frankly speaking no citizen of this planet can convince any one as why he used English except that he wanted to offend some. In my case why not in the language of the Aborigines of Australia, I don't care in whatever language he speaks. We Ethiopins cackle here above just to express our feeling that we need a person that cures our wounds not a person(persons) that widen and exacerbate the wounds created by strategists for their own strategic political and economic interests. You and I will never get any advantage if we go on quarreling for ever rather we remain losers while those we engineered the cleavage stay strong, laughing and sneering at us and appreciating the mechanisms that have made us all stupid to the extent of accepting our death willingly.
As a final opinion in this piece, if Leencho spoke in Oromiffa, I wouldn't have any grudge on my behalf. That is our language, the language of all Ethiopians. We have about 82 languages all together. Oromifa is one spoken by over a 40% of the population of the country. But we should also understand why a language is selected to serve as an official language; it is not by emotions or by decree or by the wish of the ruling class. If that was the case now the working language or whatever you call it, of Ethiopia would have been Tigrigna. Dear Dawaa and other compatriots of mine, relive me we are one though we might have some problems. And it must be our responsibility to get rid of the alleged problems to which we are not the sources for their emergence. Let's change the gear of history. Let's use our energy for positive outcomes. Let's not waste our potential in instigating clashes and pyrrhic destruction among our people. Our people had enough of them. With love, sorry to what I might have offended you here above.
Netsanet Zegeyj,
Lenchoo advocated for unity based on equal rights, respect, and citizenship But look at you guys, you complain about why he didn’t speak in Amharic and throw malicious words at him which are also offensive to the Oromos. If he had spoken in Oromifaa, I am pretty sure you would still complain about.. Also, ESAT is a bunch of Timikitegnaas, so where are they going to find someone who can translate for them to Amharic. Lenchoo laid out the optimum solution for the country but your “Ethiopia Weyem Mot” ideology has blinded your eyes to not able to see the truth.. Keep making your usual hateful and arrogant comments and you will see where that is going to take us…