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Press Release This would have been some thing that would have invited the helping hands. We respect the effort of UIC in its endeavor to provided Somali people with essential service such policing the streets, provide the public with clean water, schools, the functioning of courts, the rebirth of national defense, commerce, working hospitals and many other government duties to life. This would given relieve to governments in the region and would have convinced them to stretch helping hand of some sort as a gesture of human kindness, good neighborliness and well wish for the downtrodden Somali people instead of rushing to spill blood of a nation without adequate defense system. With this situation in the back ground the Front for Independence of Oromia (FIO) is extremely disturbed on how to defuse this chauvinist war of aggression against Somali people. This war that government of Ethiopia with the approval of its rubber stamp parliament has declared against the Somali Republic is nothing but the continuation of protracted war that has been going on since the collapse of the previous regime. Ethiopia has been conducting low grade skirmishes with different Somali warlords and also conducting commando raid against houses of prominent Oromos in exile in the past. This is a war mainly aimed at not bringing peace, stability, and prosperity to the war torn nation, and to the people of Ethiopia. On the contrary it is a naked aggression and war of chauvinism to impose the will of Ethiopian tyranny on the oppressed people.FIO believes that the prime victim of this war will not be only the people of Somalia but also the people of Oromia and the other neigbouring peoples. Secondly, the war against Somalia is an imperialistic war of aggression sponsored and supported by international militarists in the name of fighting terrorism. Unless this war is contained before it grew into a full scale hostility there is possibility of spilling over into the whole region by changing its form. This unbridled hostile behavior of Meles régime must be stopped as soon as possible. This war has nothing to do with the people in the colonial territory of Ethiopian empire as a whole and it is not a type of war that Oromo people and other colonized nations and nationalities must play part on the side of Meles regime. The one truth that none of us can hide is this war is also highly fueled by Ethiopia’s eternal phobia of the Oromo. It is true that we and Somalis share ancestral blood relation and strong cultural ties and Somalis have no means to white wash this natural bond that has been there before thousands of generations, and what ever happens to Somalis directly affect or dislocate the life of many million Oromos living along the boarder. To signal our position to the world we have no war to conduct on behalf of Ethiopian Empire. Thus the murderers Oromo of children, those who rape Oromo women, kill and imprison Oromo elites will not have our sympathy. The Oromo people’s historic responsibility and duty is not to participate in the war that is intended to castrate the Independence of their country. The only war that the Oromo takes part in is our effort to get off the hook of Ethiopian colonialism and nothing else. The war against Somalia would terribly displace large groups of Oromo especially those along the boarder with Somali inhabited area. Secondly this war would be a cause for over 7000 Oromo refugees in Somalia today to perish. Therefore, Front for Independence of Oromia is vehemently oppose this war not to take place. However, we would not shy from indicating that we would be historically obliged to defend the life of Oromo citizens while they are not party to any conflict such as this, where they are sheltered in refugee camps. Lastly we strongly support that the Somali people have every right to choose they path of development and administrative philosophy that assert rule of law in their country. Lastly, we call on Oromo people to concentrate on matters related to their future and unconditional independence of their country. We have no reason to die for Ethiopia.
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