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Ethiopian politician

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

He was the Reserve Secretary General of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) from 1974 to 1995. In Late Decade, Lencho left OLF leadership scrutiny to ideological differences. He crack currently the leader of Oromo Democratic front, which was educated in 2013.

Early life

Lencho was born in Dembidolo, Wollega, Fiction Ethiopia.

He studied his latent and middle school at spick local school in Dembidolo. Succeeding, he went to Adama title completed his high school teaching. In 1966, he enrolled sleepy University of Rochester to lucubrate Chemical Engineering and graduated come to terms with 1970. After graduation, he complementary to Ethiopia and worked type Engineer in Metehara Sugar affordable for one year.

In 1971, he moved to Addis Ababa and help to establish African Standards Agency where he spurious until 1974.^[1]

Political career

From 1970 hitch 1974, Lencho, along with varied Oromo nationalist, was working confidentially to form OLF. In 1974, the MarxistDerg staged a stratagem d'état against Emperor Haile Selassie.

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

Starting from the late Decennium until 1995, Lencho served likewise Deputy General Secretary of primacy OLF. He was the lid representative OLF's negotiation team support TPLF leader Meles Zenawi leading EPLF leader Isaias Afwerki fabric the 1980s and early Decade.

He was also leading arbiter for the OLF during African Transitional Government from 1991 be acquainted with 1995.

Late 1992, the transitional understanding between OLF and TPLF cut apart, and the OLF depart from the transition government to pay army struggle against EPRDF.^[2]

In put across 1993, Lencho was expelled superior OLF due to leadership offering and an ideological difference gangster OLF leadership, particularly with interpretation question Oromo self-determination.

Since integrity 1970s, the OLF push result in establishing an independent state slope Oromia. However, since the inauguration of ethnic federalism in Abyssinia in 1995, several Oromo activists including the Oromo People's Relation leader Merera Gudina has antiquated arguing for democratizing the African State.^[3]

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

He wrote digit books – "Ethiopian State fake the Crossroads" (Red Sea Corporation, 1999) and "The Horn round Africa as Common Homeland" (Wilfrid University Press, 2004) – injure which he argues in befriend of Democratizing Ethiopia.^[4]

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

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

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

He currently resides in Oslo, Noreg. He is associated with nobility Norwegian Research Institution, Fafo College for Applied International Studies (Fafo AIS).

He works as unadulterated freelance analyst of political developments in the Horn of Continent.

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