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Relations with Neighboring Governments should Focus on Positive Impacts for Citizens.
\nOLF Statement on Ethiopian and Eritrean New Military Pact<\/p>\n
The relationship between Ethiopia and Eritrea has passed through ups and downs. It has
\nharbored one of the deadliest wars in which millions have lost their lives, economies devastated,
\nand social fabrics damaged. Thirty-Year War of Eritrean liberation, the 1998-2000 so-called
\n\u201cborder conflict\u201d, and the 2020-2022 Tigray War are the best examples. The suffering and human
\nrights abuses that the world recorded in Tigray yesterday resulted from ill-framed relations. The
\nculture that makes war the only option to resolve incompatibilities should change for good.
\nOLF commends the peaceful resolution of the Tigray War and always encourages all parties to
\nengage in constructive dialogue for enduring peace. OLF also strongly underscores that the end
\nof one war should not lead to the beginning of another.
\nOn 3 April 2023, delegates of Eritrean army generals and senior officials led by General Abraha
\nKasa, head of Eritrean National Security Agency visited Ethiopia. Eritrean Official Yemane
\nG.Meskel reported that “the central purpose of the current visit is to further consolidate the ties
\nof military cooperation between the two countries”. While it is legitimate for countries to
\nconsolidate cooperation on any common concern, it is also clear that the military cooperation
\nbetween Ethiopia and Eritrean has divulged the Ethiopian peoples and exacerbated misery in
\nTigray and Oromia. In Oromia, we have earlier warned that the Eritrean involvement, in alliance
\nwith the Ethiopian Army, in the war against the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) could only increase
\nhuman suffering and would not produce any positive results at all. That is what happened in
\nOromia in the last four years.
\nIt is a pity that the two countries\u2019 military cooperation again overshadowed other burning issues.
\nPeople of both countries are currently suffering from deprivation, hunger, displacement, lack of
\ngood governance, corruption and all forms of human insecurities. Sensible governments give
\npriorities to these burning issues than forming a new military pact for further devastation.
\nOur credible sources indicate that the top military leaders agreed to launch a new military assault
\nwith a “scorched earth policy” as a major military tactic to “wipe out” OLA from Oromia. Top
\nmilitary leaders such as Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, Major General Abebawu Tadese and Colonel
\nEmail: olfheadoffice@gmail.com www.oromoliberationfront.org
\nTesfaye Ayaleu from the Ethiopian side and Major General Romadan Awliya, Brigadier General
\nHadish Ephrem and General Fissehie from the Eritrean side were given this responsibility. The
\nOLF strongly condemns continued Eritrean involvement against the struggle of the Oromo
\nPeople for freedom, democracy and justice.
\nIt is also bewildering to note that the words and actions of the government of Ethiopia is self\u0002contradictory. The statements from the Prime Minster Dr Abiy Ahmed and the Oromia Regional
\nPresident Mr Shemelis Abdisa, on the federal parliament and regional council meetings, gives
\nthe impression that the government is taking action to resolve the war in Oromia peacefully. But
\nthe current military pact with Eritrea is a preparation for all-out military attack in Oromia.
\nOnce again, the OLF would like to remind the Oromo people and the rest of the Ethiopian
\npeoples that any unwarranted and hasty engagement with an external force against people they
\nclaim as their citizen, like the one that happened in Tigray, must be opposed and condemned.
\nWe also like to bring to the international community\u2019s attention that another military buildup
\nand coalition between Ethiopia and Eritrea against innocent and defenseless people will create
\nanother round of human suffering. The international community should use any leverage
\npossible to abate it. Peace and security are the only mechanisms that guarantee the international
\ncommunity\u2019s development assistance.
\nVictory to the masses!
\nOromo Liberation Front
\nApril 06, 2023
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