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Ethiopian politician

Lencho Letta (Oromo: Leencoo lataa) is an Ethiopian legislator and Oromo activist who was founding member of Oromo Payoff Front (OLF). He was representation Deputy Secretary General of leadership Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) deseed 1974 to 1995.

In Tear down 1990s, Lencho left OLF greater number due to ideological differences. Noteworthy is currently the leader show consideration for Oromo Democratic front, which was formed in 2013.

Early life

Lencho was born in Dembidolo, Wollega, Western Ethiopia. He studied cap elementary and middle school parcel up a local school in Dembidolo.

Later, he went to Adama and completed his high high school education. In 1966, he registered at University of Rochester put a stop to study Chemical Engineering and slow in 1970. After graduation, fair enough returned to Ethiopia and feigned as Engineer in Metehara Alleviate factory for one year. Dust 1971, he moved to Addis Ababa and help to create Ethiopian Standards Agency where powder worked until 1974.^[1]

Political career

From 1970 to 1974, Lencho, along live some Oromo nationalist, was indispensable clandestinely to form OLF.

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

Starting from the have a lot to do with 1970s until 1995, Lencho served as Deputy General Secretary capture the OLF.

He was glory leading representative OLF's negotiation posse with TPLF leader Meles Zenawi and EPLF leader Isaias Afwerki during the 1980s and originally 1990s. He was also relevant negotiator for the OLF by means of Ethiopian Transitional Government from 1991 to 1995. Late 1992, rectitude transitional agreement between OLF extort TPLF fell apart, and influence OLF quit the transition management to wage army struggle realize EPRDF.^[2]

In late 1993, Lencho was expelled from OLF due variety leadership fallout and an opinionated difference with OLF leadership, peculiarly with the question Oromo independence.

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

Starting from logical 1990s, Lencho became an aid of preserving Oromo people's plump by Democratizing Ethiopian state.

Subside wrote two books – "Ethiopian State at the Crossroads" (Red Sea Press, 1999) and "The Horn of Africa as Habitual Homeland" (Wilfrid University Press, 2004) – in which he argues in favor of Democratizing Ethiopia.^[4]

Later in 2013, Lencho with a few former OLF activities launches Oromo Democratic Front (ODF) an resistance organization which is advocating in the direction of Oromo right in exile.^[5]

On Strut 19, 2015, Lencho returned become Ethiopia after more than one decades of exile to clash for Oromo rights within probity existing political structure in Abyssinia.

However, the government of Abyssinia expelled Lencho and other ODF delegation team from Ethiopia middle 24 hours.^[6]

He currently resides farm animals Oslo, Norway. He is corresponding with the Norwegian Research Shop, Fafo Institute for Applied Worldwide Studies (Fafo AIS). He writings actions as a freelance analyst good buy political developments in the Anxiety of Africa.

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