Oromia Shall Be Free!

Final Press Release: The Founding of Peoples’ Alliance oor

Freedom and Democracy (PAFD)

October 23, 2015 Ethiopia, Oromia

Delegates of Benishangul People’s Liberation Movement (BPLM), Gambella People’s Liberation

Movement (GPLM), Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), Oromo Liberation Front (OLF)

and Sidama National Liberation Front (SNLF) met in Oslo, Norway from 22 October to 23

October 2015 to lay the foundation of political alliance between the peoples in Ethiopia and have

formed the Peoples Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (PAFD).

The PAFD will create an opportunity for all peoples in Ethiopia to co-create a transitional political

order that is based on the consent of all peoples, where the outmoded hegemonic culture of a

single group dominating the rest is dismantled and a new just political order is established, where

the respect of the right to self-determination is genuinely granted to all.

PAFD will conduct diplomatic, advocacy, information and other campaigns to change the current

undemocratic political culture and oppressive system in Ethiopia.

PAFD will have a Governing Council (GC) composed of representatives of the political leadership

of the founding organisations and members representing the civil societies of the respective

communities.

The Governing Council will elect an Executive Committee (EC), a chairperson and two vicechairpersons

that rotate yearly among the organization members. The Executive Committee will

be the standing committee and will have the bureaus of diplomacy, organization, finance,

information and others.

PAFD call upon all peoples in Ethiopia to join the alliance and support it in order to end the

suffering and dehumanization of all peoples in Ethiopia by the current government. PAFD call

upon the regional and international communities, to play a positive role in diffusing this looming

danger by supporting the peoples in Ethiopia rather than the illegitimate government before it is

too late.

Finally, PAFD call upon the current government in Ethiopia to refrain from all acts of violence,

respect human rights, obey the rule of law, and commit to peaceful and democratic resolution of

political conflicts.

Issued by PAFD

Oslo, Norway

October 23, 2015

Contacts

PAFD22102015@gmail.com

1. ONLF +447940624477;

2. OLF +4797357264;

3. GPLM +12042185988;

4. SNLF +44 7984480752;

5. BPLM +2917296477

Declaration of the establishment of the Peoples’ Alliance for Freedom

and Democracy (PAFD)

The Benishangul People’s Liberation Movement (BPLM), Gambela People’s Liberation

Movement (GPLM), Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), Oromo Liberation Front

(OLF) and Sidama National Liberation Front (SNLF):

Considering the grave injustices and oppression perpetrated by the current regime in Ethiopia

Concerned by the massive propaganda campaign undertaken by the Ethiopian government

intended to deceive the peoples in Ethiopia and the international community in order to legitimise

and continue its dictatorial and repressive rule;

Cognizant of the need for a united effort among the oppressed peoples in Ethiopia to put an end

to the unremitting cruel repression perpetrated by successive and current regimes of the empire;

Taking into account the current lack of political vision by some opposition groups in Ethiopia to

embrace the political and social changes that Ethiopia has undergone over the last fifty years, as

the result of the heavy prices paid by the nations in Ethiopia for the right of self-determination

and rejecting their archaic adherence to political precepts no longer tenable in the 21 century

such as negating the rights of nations in Ethiopia to self-determination;

Categorically stating that our people, who fought and still continue fighting with their blood

against successive oppressive regimes in Ethiopia, will never give up on the fruits of their

struggle and allow reversal of their historic gains for the right of self-determination;

Have formed the Peoples Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (PAFD), which will foster the

favorable conditions that will bring an opportunity for all the peoples in Ethiopia to co-create a

political order that will practically allow all to exercise genuine democratic rights including the

right to self-determination;

Therefore the Peoples’ Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (PAFD) will:

1. Strive through the peoples’ power to dismantle the outmoded hegemonic culture of a single group

dominating the rest and will establish and a new, just political order.

2. Establish a Political Order that derive its legal authority through effective, democratically elected organs

and legal processes that are based on a pluralist consensus and genuine universal suffrage where

relationships are established through impartial and authentic exercise of self-determination where both

individual and people’s rights are fully respected.

3. Endeavour to achieve a peaceful and orderly transfer of power to the peoples in Ethiopia by engaging

representatives of all the different nations, nationalities and other stakeholders committed to genuine

democracy in Ethiopia.

4. Guarantee that all changes, arrangements and configurations that are intended to end the recurrent conflicts

in Ethiopia must be based on the will and consent of each and every nation and nationality in the Ethiopian

empire state;

Finally, the PAFD calls on all concerned parties, including the current government of Ethiopia,

the representatives of all nations and nationalities in Ethiopia with the facilitation of the

international community to seize this opportunity and hold a comprehensive conference to create

a broader roadmap to thereby resolve the enormous problems confronting the Ethiopian Empire

state.

PAFD also calls the international community to respect the wishes, desires and rights of all the

nations and nationalities in Ethiopia in their engagments and understand that all status quo is

untenable, and a recipe for a simmering disaster that will end in castarophe unless remedied in

opportune time.

Peoples Alliance for Freedom and Democracy

Oslo, Norway

October 23, 2015

Contacts

PAFD email: PAFD22102015@gmail.com

Members Telephones

1. ONLF +447940624477

2. OLF +4797357264

3. GPLM +12042185988

4. SNLF +44 7984480752

5. BPLM +291729647