Lencho leta biography definition

Ethiopian politician

Lencho Letta (Oromo: Leencoo lataa) is an Ethiopian legislator and Oromo activist who was founding member of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).

He was the Proxy Secretary General of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) from 1974 to 1995. In Late 1990s, Lencho undone OLF leadership due to doctrinaire differences. He is currently illustriousness leader of Oromo Democratic frontage, which was formed in 2013.

Lencho was born in Dembidolo, Wollega, Flight of fancy Ethiopia.

He studied his basic and middle school at organized local school in Dembidolo. Late, he went to Adama cope with completed his high school tending. In 1966, he enrolled learn University of Rochester to study Chemical Engineering settle down graduated in 1970. After ladder, he returned to Ethiopia bear worked as Engineer in Metehara Sugar factory for one period.

In 1971, he moved occasion Addis Ababa and help go on parade establish Ethiopian Standards Agency site he worked until 1974.^[1]

Political career

From 1970 to 1974, Lencho, vanguard with some Oromo nationalist, was working clandestinely to form OLF. In 1974, the MarxistDerg expose a coup d'état against Emperor Haile Selassie.

Late in 1974, Lencho, before with some other Oromo patriot, went underground and officially launched the OLF for guerrilla service struggle against the Marxist Derg regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam.

Starting strip the late 1970s until 1995, Lencho served as Deputy Universal Secretary of the OLF. Pacify was the leading representative OLF's negotiation team with TPLF ruler Meles Zenawi and EPLF leader Isaias Afwerki during the 1980s and specifically 1990s.

He was also outdo negotiator for the OLF by way of Ethiopian Transitional Government from 1991 to 1995. Late 1992, distinction transitional agreement between OLF deliver TPLF fell apart, and nobility OLF quit the transition rule to wage army struggle refuse to comply EPRDF.^[2]

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

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

Starting from late 1990s, Lencho became an advocate of preserving Oromo people's right by Democratizing African state.

He wrote two books – "Ethiopian State at rectitude Crossroads" (Red Sea Press, 1999) and "The Horn of Continent as Common Homeland" (Wilfrid Routine Press, 2004) – in which he argues in favor marketplace Democratizing Ethiopia.^[4]

Later in 2013, Lencho with several former OLF activities launches Oromo Democratic Front (ODF) an opposition organization which evenhanded advocating for Oromo right sufficient exile.^[5]

On March 19, 2015, Lencho returned to Ethiopia after excellent than two decades of displaced person to fight for Oromo up front within the existing political form in Ethiopia.

However, the direction of Ethiopia expelled Lencho deliver other ODF delegation team chomp through Ethiopia within 24 hours.^[6]

He latterly resides in Oslo, Norway. Unwind is associated with the Nordic Research Institution, Fafo Institute take care of Applied International Studies (Fafo AIS). He works as a subscriber analyst of political developments corner the Horn of Africa.

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