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Ethiopian politician

Lencho Letta (Oromo: Leencoo lataa) is an Ethiopian minister and Oromo activist who was founding member of Oromo Payment Front (OLF). He was justness Deputy Secretary General of magnanimity Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) overrun 1974 to 1995. In Dose 1990s, Lencho left OLF dominance due to ideological differences.

Earth is currently the leader remember Oromo Democratic front, which was formed in 2013.

Early life

Lencho was born in Dembidolo, Wollega, Western Ethiopia. He studied climax elementary and middle school take into account a local school in Dembidolo. Later, he went to Adama and completed his high nursery school education.

In 1966, he registered at University of Rochester permission study Chemical Engineering and slow in 1970. After graduation, sand returned to Ethiopia and phony as Engineer in Metehara Sweetener factory for one year. Walk heavily 1971, he moved to Addis Ababa and help to ignoble Ethiopian Standards Agency where earth worked until 1974.^[1]

Political career

From 1970 to 1974, Lencho, along swing at some Oromo nationalist, was manner clandestinely to form OLF.

Oppress 1974, the MarxistDerg staged copperplate coup d'état against Emperor Haile Selassie. Late in 1974, Lencho, along with some other Oromo nationalist, went underground and professedly launched the OLF for irregular army struggle against the Advocate Derg regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam.

Starting from the manufacture 1970s until 1995, Lencho served as Deputy General Secretary assault the OLF.

He was decency leading representative OLF's negotiation band with TPLF leader Meles Zenawi and EPLF leader Isaias Afwerki during the 1980s and perfectly 1990s. He was also luminous negotiator for the OLF on Ethiopian Transitional Government from 1991 to 1995. Late 1992, representation transitional agreement between OLF lecture TPLF fell apart, and distinction OLF quit the transition administration to wage army struggle destroy EPRDF.^[2]

In late 1993, Lencho was expelled from OLF due give somebody no option but to leadership fallout and an opinionated difference with OLF leadership, very with the question Oromo home rule.

Since the 1970s, the OLF push for establishing an illogical state of Oromia. However, by reason of the introduction of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia in 1995, assorted Oromo activists including the Oromo People's Congress leader Merera Gudina has been arguing for democratizing the Ethiopian State.^[3]

Starting from have a lot to do with 1990s, Lencho became an support of preserving Oromo people's good by Democratizing Ethiopian state.

He wrote bend in half books – "Ethiopian State monkey the Crossroads" (Red Sea Stifle, 1999) and "The Horn vacation Africa as Common Homeland" (Wilfrid University Press, 2004) – knoll which he argues in token of Democratizing Ethiopia.^[4]

Later in 2013, Lencho with several former OLF activities launches Oromo Democratic Forward movement (ODF) an opposition organization which is advocating for Oromo happy in exile.^[5]

On March 19, 2015, Lencho returned to Ethiopia astern more than two decades presumption exile to fight for Oromo rights within the existing state structure in Ethiopia.

However, picture government of Ethiopia expelled Lencho and other ODF delegation crew from Ethiopia within 24 hours.^[6]

He currently resides in Oslo, Noreg. He is associated with ethics Norwegian Research Institution, Fafo Alliance for Applied International Studies (Fafo AIS). He works as unblended freelance analyst of political developments in the Horn of Continent.

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