Partial list of Oromos mainly students that have been killed by Ethiopian regime police, security agents, Special and armed force during peaceful demonstration of last three months (updated stand. March. 2016)
Geeska Afrika:Oromia (Ethipoia): I prefer death to detention at Maeklawi: Bekele Gerba. #OromoProtests April 1, 2016
Posted by OromianEconomist in #OromoProtests, Africa, Baqqalaa Garbaa, Because I am Oromo, Ethiopia's Colonizing Structure and the Development Problems of People of Oromia, Oromia, Oromo.Tags: #OromoProtests, Africa, Bekele Gerba, Ethipoia: I prefer death to detention at Maeklawi: Bekele Gerba, Geeska Africa, Human rights, Oromia, Oromo, Systematic genocide against Oromo people
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NAIROBI (HAN) March 31. 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News- “I prefer death to detention at Maekelawi,” prominent opposition leader Bekele Gerba has told a court after enduring appalling conditions in one of the chambers of hell at the notorious Maekelawi Prison in the Ethiopian capital.
The prison cell is sardine-packed: 30 prisoners in a 10×10 meter area. Because it is too crowded, respiration coupled with body heat drips back onto the prisoners from the ceiling. No need to divulge details of the hell-on-earth place called “Maekelawi” prison, where prominent political prisoners from the recent protests in Oromia are being held.
The horrible conditions led Bekele and other top OFC leaders to lauch a hunger strike, and on the fifth day on Sunday, when most of them were in critical health conditions, a small change was introduced: the number of occupants in Bekele’s cell was cut down to 17. Better than before but still brutal.
According to OFC Deputy chairperson, Mulatu Gemechu, prominent Oromo individuals who are at Maekelawi are Bekele Gerba, Dejene Taffa, Desta Dinka, Gurmesa Ayano, Addisu Bulala, Dereje Merga and Alemu Abdisa
This small area was so crowded not only with the human occupants but also personal belongings as well as sanitation goodies for the occupants who are not allowed to get air except very short timeouts at dawn and dusk.
Political prisoners suffer not only for torture or life in extremely appalling prison conditions. They are also handed lengthy appointments so that they would break down psychologically. The court has adjourned the prisoners case for another 28 days.
In another development, Mulatu said an unprecedented crackdown on Oromo people was in full swing throughout Oromia, and the mass arrests came in despite Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn’s recent speech sounded promising for the suffering majority. However, on the ground, a brutal massive crackdown is under way as the following list shows:
1. Shashemene, Western Arsi – Close to 1200 people have been taken away as prisoners and no one knows their whereabouts.
2. Chiro, Western Hararghe – Between 800 to 1000 people were hauled away by nine trucks. No one knows their whereabouts.
3. Gujji Zone – 150 people taken away.
4. Ambo, Western Shoa – 103 people taken away
5. Gimbi, Western Wellega – 60 people were arrested and taken to an unknown destination.
6. Qelem, Wellega – 54 people taken away.
7. Horo Gudru, Wellega – 39 people were taken away in one night.
8. Burayu (near Addis) – Two individuals taken away to an unknown destination.
Though Ethiopia is hemmoraging from the political crisis, the government is trying to use the prevalent “drought and famine” as a cover to wipe out dissent in Oromia and beyond.
Read more at: http://geeskaafrika.com/2016/03/31/ethipoia-i-prefer-death-to-detention-at-maeklawi-bekele-gerba/
Oromia: #OromoProtests: Gabaasa Fincila Xumura Garbummaa (FXG) Oromiyaa 2016 (March) March 31, 2016
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Gincii, Amboo, Jalduu, Gudar, Giddaa Ayyaanaa, Mandii, Najjoo, Laaloo Assaabii, Jaarsoo, Gullisoo, Bojjii, Gujii, Dambi Doolloo, Gimbii, Naqamtee, Buraayyuu, sabbataa, Dirree Incinnii, Adaamaa, Harammayyaa, Mattuu, Baale (Robee), Madda Walabu, Walliisoo, Tulluu Boolloo, Sulultaa (Caancoo), Horroo Guduruu, Buuraayyuu, Dirree Dhawaa, Calanqoo, Ada’aa Bargaa, Baddannoo, Holootaa, Shaashee, Awaday (E. Harargee), Hara Qallo (Goro Dola, Gujii), Gaasaraa (Baalee), Bulee Hora, Jimmaa, Arjo, Heebantuu, Giddaa Ayyaanaa ,Kiiramuu, Ciroo, Dodolaa, Anfilloo (Mugii), Walqixxee, Diillaa, Bishooftuu, Finfinnee, Yuniversiitii Finfinnee, Geedoo, Asallaa, Shaambuu, Agaarfaa, Sibuu Siree, Kotobee, Wacaalee, Saalaalee, Machaaraa, Ammayyaa, Tokkee Kuttaayee, Innaangoo, Baabbichaa, Laaloo Qilee, Hiddii Lolaa, .Mugii, Arsi Nagallee, Baabbichaa, Shukutee, Baakkoo, Shukutee, Baakkoo, Jalduu, Gindoo, Buun’dho Beddellee, Grawwaa,Gaara Mul’ataa, Qarsaa, Qobboo (Dardar, Eastern Oromia), Sinaanaa (Baalee), Jimmaa Arjoo, Bojjii, Kombolcha, Aggaaroo,Tajji (Iluu), Qilxuu Kaarraa, Baabboo Gambel, Daawoo,Tulu Milki (Warra Jarso), Hirnaa, Xuulloo, Masalaa, Galamso, Bordode, Mi’esso, Waheel, Diggaa, Arjoo Guddattuu, Guraawa, waamaa Adaree, Shabee Somboo, Limmuu Saqaa, Amuruu (Agamsa), Daroo Labuu (Gaadulloo), Yaabelloo, Aliboo (Jaartee Jardagoo), Saasigga, Magaalaa Dafinoo, Dhumugaa, Daroo Labuu (Buraysaa) Begii (Kobor), Mardida Halo Guba (Daroo Labuu), Qassoo, Bonayyaa Boshee, Baalee (Dalloo Mannaa), Jimmaa Raaree (Magaalaa Gobaan), Nophaa (Iluu)……………
Gabaasa FDG Oromiyaa Sadaasa (November) 12, 13, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, Muddee (December) 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,14, 15, 16, 17/18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,28, 29,30, 31…. 2015
Amajii (January) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,14, 15, 16, 17,18,19, 20,21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,30, 31……2016
Guraandhala (February) 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8,9, 10,11,12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17,18,19, 20, 21,22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,29………… 2016
Bitootessa (March) 1, 2, 3,4, 5,6,7,8,9, 10, 11,12, 13,14,15, 16,17, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 2,28, 29, 30, 31 …………2016
#OromoProtests: International Community Alarmed as Ethiopia Crisis Worsens
Click here for #OromoProtests updates, 1st – 31st March, 2016
Click here for #OromoProtests updates, November 2015- February 29, 2016
Oromo protesters: ‘We are still on the streets because we want self-rule’
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oromo-protesters-we-are-still-streets-because-we-want-self-rule-1548661
No, we don’t have self-rule in Oromia state
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ethiopia-protesters-no-we-dont-have-self-rule-oromia-state-1551225
Das Berliner Missionswerk: Frieren Sie die Militärhilfe für Äthiopien ein, bis Äthiopien die Menschenrechte achtet!
https://oromianeconomist.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/das-berliner-missionswerk-frieren-sie-die-militarhilfe-fur-athiopien-ein-bis-athiopien-die-menschenrechte-achtet-oromoprotests/
Why Have Oromo People Been Clashing With The Ethiopian Government For So Long? http://www.afrizap.com/en/why-have-oromo-people-been-clashing-with-the-ethiopian-government-for-so-long
France 24: Focus: Anger among Ethiopia’s Oromo boils over.
https://youtu.be/75_q7dbpTjs
Ethiopia – #OromoProtests and Ethiopian Repression: Overview
https://oromianeconomist.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/ethiopia-oromoprotests-and-ethiopian-repression-overview/
Ethiopia’s Oromo people demand equal rights in protests
Largest ethnic group in Ethiopia continues to rally against the government despite crackdown.
Al Jazeera: HUMAN RIGHTS: #OromoProtests continue amid harsh crackdown
https://oromianeconomist.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/al-jazeera-human-rights-oromoprotests-continue-amid-harsh-crackdown/
FP: Dispatch: The Rotten Foundation of Ethiopia’s Economic Boom. #OromoProtests
Martial law in Oromia: The state is now under 8 military divisions controlled by Fascist TPLF warlords from Tigray.
#OromoProtests News: Portland Senators Jeffrey A Merkley & Ron Wyden write letter to Secretary of State John Kerry
Bloomberg Business: The Shadow Over Ethiopia’s Construction Boom. #OromoProtests, March 21, 2016
Collaborative Public Forum on#OromoProtests organized by Oromo Community of MN
OMN: Qophii Marii Haala yeroo irratti Manguddoota Oromoo waliin Taasifamee bitooteessa 17, 2016
Partial list of Oromos mainly students that have been killed by Ethiopian regime police, security agents, Special and armed force during peaceful demonstration of last three months (updated stand. March. 2016)
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ABC News: Right Group: Oromia: #OromoProtests: Ethiopia’s security forces carrying out serious rights abuses, killings and rapes in clashes with protesters in Oromia
https://oromianeconomist.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/abc-news-right-group-oromia-oromoprotests-ethiopias-security-forces-carrying-out-serious-rights-abuses-killings-and-rapes-in-clashes-with-protesters-in-oromia/
MARCH 15, 2016
UN Human Rights Council: General Debate under Item 4
Human Rights Crisis in Ethiopia
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/03/15/un-human-rights-council-general-debate-under-item-4
Oromo Protest Killings and Military Rule in Oromia Across the Globe
Oromoon qabsoo hanaga ammatti gaggeesseetiin ol, Qabsoo ijibbaataafi kan maayii tokko yoo tarkaanfachiise wareegama hanga ammaatti baasaa ture firii itti gochuun bilisummaa isaa nigoonfata!!
Hariiroo Jorgoon
Warraaqsi/siyaasaan ni dhalata, ni guddata, nidullooma nidu’a kan jedhamu mirkaneeffachuuf, dhalachuu Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoofi du’a EPRDF/TPLF wayyaanee hubachuun gahaadha. Siyaasaan EPRDF har’a dulloomuu bira taree du’ee tortoreera. Ammaa booda akkaataa deebi’ee ka’uu hindandeenyetti dhumateefii jira. Amma iddee hundatti sabni hundi wayyaanee xireeffateera. Qabsoon Oromoos ta’e kan saboota biraa ammaa booda ta’ullee waa’ee awwaalcha reeffa EPRDF/TPLF isa tortoree ajaawe kanaati. Awwaalchi TPLF kun ammoo fuula sadii qaba. Isaan kana keessaa inni sadarkaa duraa akka gaariitti raawwatameera. Amma sadarkaa lamatu hafa. “Ofiifuu duuti maaf of huuti?!…” akkuma jedhamu, duraan dursa TPLF kan wadaroo morma isheetti of keesse gaafa federaalizimii diigdee master pilaanii dirqamaan gaggeessuuf yaalte ture. Kun du’a ishee yemmuu ta’u. Qabeenyaan TPLF Oromiyaa keessa kallattii kamiinuu akka hinsossoone ta’e. Yeroo har’aa sanyiin TPLF Oromiyaa keessa socho’ee dalagatuu danda’u hinjiru. Kun ofdurallee kan yaadamu miti. Kanaaf Awwaalchi TPLF inni jalqabaa as irraa eegale. Amma yeroo har’aa TPLF fi sanyiin isaanii kan dalagachuu danda’an Finfinneefi naannawa biraa keessatti qofaadha. Naannawa biraa yeroo jennu tigraayiin dabalatee jechuudha. Oromoon qabsoo hanaga ammatti gaggeesseetiin ol
The Minisota state parliament held a moment of silence for those murdered in #Oromoprotests
OMN: Oduu Bit. 31, 2016
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/31/omn-oduu-bit-31-2016/
Magaala Kachisii keessatti guyya fi halkan waarani Waayanee diddaa uummata irraa itti ka’aa jiru dura dhaabbachuu dadhabuun humna dabalataa adda addaa gara aanaa kanaatti guru iyyuu irree uummataa mohachuu waan hin dandeenyeef cinqama guddaa keessa akka jiru beekame.
30/03/2016 halkaa alaaba Adda Bilisuma Oromoo ykn Oromiyaa lafaa gabaa qidamee keessatti mukaa ibsaa irratti bakkoota hedduutti fannifamee barruuleen warraaqsaa guutuu magaalaa keessatti raabsamuu fi maxxanfamuu irraa humni waraanaa about seene jechuun raafama keessa jiru.
Jirtoota magaalaa fi baadiyaa hundaa reebichaa dhalaa namaaf hin malle reebaa kan turan yoo ta’u,namooni hundi kan garaa keessa waan qabuf bartoota isaa gara mana barumsaa osoo hin erginii mana manasitti dhowee manneen barnootaas cufamanii jiru.
Guyyaa hara’aa immo bartoota fi jirtoota fi kanen mana magaala kireefatan hundi bartoota mana keessan kireessan jiran akka walga’ii qabatan dhiyaatan jechudhaa waarani magaala fi hidhatootni magaala fi baadiyaa mana mana irra deemudha ummata fi bartoota koota walga’ii deemaa jechudhaa dorsisaa kan turaa yoo ta’u,bartootnis jirtootnis namni tokko osoo hin ba’iin haafee jira.
Humni Liyyuu Haayil Jedhamu Wayyaanee Magaalaa Naqamtee Wareru Iyyuu Gootonni Qeerroon Yuniverstii Wallaggaa Galgala Kana FXG Itti Fufan!
Bitootessa 30,2016 Fincilli xumura garbummaa galgala kana Yuunversiitii Wallaggaa fi naannoo isheetti bifa haaraan dhohee jira.Dhaadannoo jajjaboon baratoota galgalaan mooraa fuula duraa dhaga,amaa jira .Baratoonni heeduminaan mooraa gad lakkisuun gara uummataatti baqachaa jiru.Poolisii Oromiyaa fi humni federaalaas halkan kana baratoota karaa nagaa gaaffi gaafatan irratti dhukaasa banuun baratoota goolaa jira.Baratoonni heedduunis yeroo ammaa kana mooraa yuunversiitichaa fuulduratti reebamaa jiru.
Gootonni Ummata Oromoo Godina Harargee Bahaa Fadiis FXG Itti Fufuun Kaabinooti Wayyaanee Marti Akka Magaalaa fi Aanaa Keessaa Gadhiisanii Bahan Gaafataa Jiru.
Haragee bahaa aanaa Fadisitti hawaasni, manguddoonni, dargaggoonni,hojjattoonni fi jiraattonni aanichaa marti obsa kan fixatan warraaqsa isaanii guyyaa kaleessaa irraa jalqabee haga arraatti , jechuunis guyyaa lamaaf 29/3/2016 fi 30/3/2016 ksan itti fufe yeroo ta’u, amma guutummaa guututti, bulchaa aanaa obbo Musxafaa Mahammad dabalatee kaabinoota hunda hojii irraa akka dhaabbatan taasifamanii jiru. Dabalataan, bakka bu’ummaan kanneen godina irraa warraaqsa kana dhaamsuuf kan argaman, namoonni maqaan isaanii 1. Xilaahun fi 2, Bushraa kanneen jedhaman haga namoota isiniif bakka buufnu koreen mari’annee xumurrutti bulchaa keessan kabajjanii hojiin haadeemu jedhanillee, garuu hawaani hin barbaannu jechuun mormanii jiran.
FXG Haalaan Jabaatee Magaalaan Naqamtee Humna Waraana Wayyaanee Liyyuu Haayilii ykn Qeybaahir Jedhamuun Weeraramtee Jirti.
Fincilli xumura garbummaa magaalaa naqamtee fi naannoo ishee keessatti guyyaa harraa Bitootessa 30,2016 kanas itti fufee oolee jira.Halkan halkanis magaalattii kessatti dhukaasni daran humna hin beekamneen akka bishaanii roobsamaa bulaa jira .fincilli kun daran jabaachuurraan kan ka,e humni liyyuu aayil yookiin qaybaahir warri jedhaman jedhaman guyyaa harraa kana magaalattii keessa makiinaa kan hayyundai qixqixii tokkoon magaalattii keessa naanna,uun uummata goolaa jiru.Uummata hidhuu ,reebuu fi mana uummataa olseenuun poolisiin oromiyaa fi humni federaalaan fattashuun daran jabaatee jira.Uummanni magaalattiis sodaa tokko malee fincila kana eenyuyyuu boodatti nun deebisu jechuun finiinsuu itti fufaniiru.
Ukkamsaaf Dararaan Uummata Baha Wallaggaa Sibuu Sireerratti Hammaate
Bitootessa 30,2016
Ajjeechaaf Hidhaan Oromiyaa bakkeewwan hedduutti guutummmaa guututti kan itti fufe.Moorummaan afaan qawweetti amanu gochasaarra duuba osoo hin jenne itti fufe.
Baha Wallaggaa Aanaa Sibuu Sireetti gochaawwan Ukkaamsaa Namoota Baay’inaan Afur taa’anirratti fidhatamee jira
Kanas maatiin Namoota hidhamanii guyyaa lamaaf mana hiraarsaa Magaalaa Siree keessatti argamutti deddeebiin hubachaa erga turanii
guyyaa muraasa gidduutti bakka buuteesaanii dhabnee yaaddoo guddaa keessa seenne jedhu Namoota kanneen
1,Obbo Mangistiu Tashoomaa
Obbo mangistuun abbaa ijoollee afurii yoo ta’u waggoota barataan biyyaa keessa hin heddummanne keessa barnootasaanii xumuruun Diploma nama of harka qaban taa’anillee eenyuummaasaaniif bakka guddaa waan laataniif akkasuma Hawwasaa nutti kakaasaa jirta sababa jedhuun waan ittiin baratanii ba’aniin Hawwaasa isaanii tajaajiluu hin dandeenye.Akkasuma yeroo gara yerootti ABO mana galchitee soorta sababa jedhuun dararaa jabaa irraan gahaa turani har’as gochi akkanaa namoota Akka Obbo Mangistuu heddurra ga’a jira Obbo Mangistuurraas dararaan osoo hin dhaabbatin maatiisaanirra ukkamfamanii jiru
2,Lataa Guuta
3,Badhaasaa Geetahuu
4,Tasfaa Dhaaba
Yoo ta’an eessa buutensaanii hanga ammaatti hin baramne.
Fincilli Xumura Gabrummaa Oromoo Magaalaa Asallaa Keessatti Bifa Addaan Itti Fufe,Namoonni Hedduus Waraana Wayyaaneen Qabamuun Hidhaman.
Bitootessa 30,2016 Sochiin FXG magaala Assaala keessatti ittii fufinsan gaggeffama jira Agaazii waarri jedhaman Barattota irraattii gocha hamma rawwaacha jiru Kaleessa Galgala Barattoonni Dhiira 108 fi Dhalaa 56 Qabuun Halkan Reebaa Bulanii Barattooti Shamarranii Baay’een Miidhamaniiru gargarsa wal’ansaa barbadu. Nama reebbuu malee namn Gargaru hin jiru nutis dhokkane jira Barsiisota Keessaas Namoonni Shan Hidhamaniiru Isaa Keessaa: B/sa Tufaa Fiiziksii Barsiisa Kaan Ammoo Maqaa isaanii akka Barreen Gabaasna
Godinaa Guujii Keessatti Namoonni Hedduun Hidhaman Jedhu Jiraattonni
VOA Afaan Oromoo, Bitootessa 29 bara 2016
Godinaa Guujii Aanaa hoogganaan Waajira Nageenyaa Aanaa Gooroo-Dolaa – Obbo Dirboo Jiloo garuu, “namoonni mana hidhaa jiran, kanneen jeeqama oofuu fi alaabaa Oromiyaa cicciruutti, akkasumas ujummoo bishaanii uummataa caccabsuutti shakkaman qofa.” Jedhu. Dhimmi ququlleeffamee akka gad-lakkisamuuf jiran illee dubbatu.
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/29/oduu-bitoteessa-282016/
#OromoProtests and the cruelty of fascist Ethiopia’s regime in Beddelle ,Iluu, Oromia, 29 March 2016.
Barattootni mana barumsa sadarqaa 2ffaa Beddellee amma sadarkaa dhumuurra jiru, Hospitaalli Beddellees bakka hirriirri itti ba’ame fakkaata. Magaalaa Beddelletti tarkanfii mootummaa boombii ukkaamsu fayyadamuun baratoota heddu akka miidhe ragaan nu ga’eera. maatiin boo’ee gadoodaa jira. barattootni ofwallaalanii, Doktoorotnis yaluun hanga isaan hanqatutti dadhabaa jiru
#OromoProtests at Fadis, Bokkoo town, East Hararghe, Oromia, 29 March 2016
http://https://youtu.be/Wxb5zhZvtRQ
#OromoProtests continues in Naqamtee March (Bitootessa) 28, 2016
Wallaggaa Bahaa Magaalaa Naqamtee keessatti FXGn Itti fufee jiraachuu Qeerroon gabaase
Fincilli xumura garbummaa kun manneen Barnootaa qophaa’ina Naqamtee,Daaloo fi mana barumsaa Biiftuu Naqamtee,Kibba Waachaa keessatti daran jabaachuun baratoonni barnoota dhiisanii, mooraa gad lakkisanii gara maatiitti deebi’anii galuu isaanii gabaasuun keenya ni yaadata.
Barattooti erga barnoota dhaabanii galanii guyyaa har’aa fxn magaalaa Naqamtee keessatti dhalachuun isaas beekameera
Sababni isaas,Barattoonni lakkoofsaan xinnoo ta’an kan hojii basaasaa hojjetaniif waraqaa eenyummaa addaa qopheessuun warri waraqaa eenyummaa kana hin fudhanne adabbiitu isin ilaallata jedhanii tokko shaneen magaalaa Naqamtee keessa deemanii barattotaa wayita basaasuutti ka’anitti barattoonni gamtaadhaan magaalaa keessaa itti yaa’uun basaastota waraqaa eenyummaa guurratanii barattoota basaasaa jiran arii’aniiru.
Battala kanatti lola cimaa magaalaa Naqamtee keessatti adeemsifame kanaan daandiin Naqamtee gara Finfinnee kan cufame yeroo ta’u, Barattoonni mana barumsaa Daaloo sagal humna waraanaan ukkaamfamaniiru
#OromoProtests at Asella Teachers College, 28 March 2016 and continues on 29 March 2016.
students at Asella Teachers Training College stage demonstration for the second day in the ray. They were joined by students of the preparatory school.
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/26/omn-oduu-bit-25-2016/
Gootonni Qeerroo Barattoota Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Irra Deebiin Sagaleesaanii Magaalaa Jimmaatti Taasisan
Bitootessa 26,2016
Afaan qawween dorsifamuun kan duuba hin deebifne barattoonni Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Mooraa Arfanirraa Wal ga’uun Walakkaa magaalaa Jimmaa Bakka City centre jedhamutti sagaleesaanii dhageessifataa oolaniiruAkkasuma waamicha eenyummaa guutummaa magaalattii keessa ka jiran ilmaan Oromoo maraaf taasisaniiru.Hirirri kun har’a sa’a ja’arraa eegaluu miidhamni tokkollee osoo barataarra hin ga’in goolabame Dhaamsa Uummata Oromoo Magaalaa Jimmaaf
- Nuti ilmaan Keessan osoo osin jirtanii dahoo dhokannee dhabnee yeroo gara yerootti dararaan nurra ga’a jiraachuu hubatanii,nu cina akka dhaabbattan sochiin eegalame hanga galma ga’utti waan itti fufuuf isinilleen nu cina dhaabbadhaa
- Gaaffiin Keenya gaaffii Uummata Oromooti malee gaaffii dhuunfaa miti.Kanaaf gaaffiin Oromoo dhiga Oromoo hunda akka ilaallatu hubachuu qabdu.
- Yeroo lammiin keessan baadiyyaa hanga magaalaatti gaaffii Abbaa biyyummaa gaafatutti calliftanii taa’uun bor seenaa jala akka hin baane nuuf hubadhaa jechuun dhaamsa Uummata Oromoo magaalattiif dhaamaniiru.
Kanuma waliin edaa Qeerroon Yuinibarsiitii Jimmaa mooraa Technology science waraqaa Qeerroo fii Alaabaa dhabatanii jiran Waraqaan Qeerroon tamsaafamaa Turan Dhaafannoowwan adda addaa.
Saamicha Warqee Albuudi Oromomiyaa Bakka Irraa Saamamu Wallagga Naannoo Warra Jirruu Jedhamu Keessatti Uummanni Oromoo Saamtota Irratti Tarkaanfii Fudhatan.
Bitootessa 26, 2016Saamicha Albuudaa Wayyaanee Uummata Keenya Naannoo godina Wallaggaa Lixaa Aanaa Najjoo Bulchiinsa Magaalaa Warra Jirruu Irratti Taasisaa Jirtu namoonni qomoon isaanii Tigiree ta,an yeroo ammaa kana albuuda warqee lafa keessaa saamuutti argamu.
Haaluma kanaan guyyaa gaafa Wiixataa irraa kaasuunis naannoo albuudaan ba,aa jiru kanatti walitti bu,iinsi uummataaf namoota albuudaa kana baasaa jiran gidduutti uumamuun dhaga’amee jira.
Sababa kanaan, mootummaan gabroonfataan gita bittaa TPLFn durfamu kun uummata nagaa naannoo sanaa irraatti dhukaasa banuun uummata goolaa jiraachuu fi hidhaa jiraachuun beekamee jira.Walitti bu’iinsa kana irratti tarkaanfii ummanni naannoo sanaa fudhateenis konkolaattonni heedduun maashiniin isaan ittiin warqee baasaa jiranis guutummaatti caccabanii hojiin ala ta’aniirum.
Fincila kanaan walqabatees, Barsiisonni fi Barattoonni akkasumas uummani naannoo sanaa heeduun isaanii gara mana adabaatti kanneen guuraman hedduu yeroo ta’an isaan keessaa muraasi maqaan nuqaqqabe:
1.Firaa’ol Nabiyyuu Barataa
2.Ifaa Takilee Barataa
3.Marsimoy Nabiyyuu Barataa
4.Takilee Caalii Qotisaan bulaa
5.Daagim Dasaaleny Barataa
6.Bengeree Adisuu Qotisaan bulaa
7.Imaanaa Asfaw Ogeessa maashina suphaa kanneen maqaan isaanii tarreeffame kun kanneen mana adabaa Najjoo keessatti dararaan humnaa olii irra ga,aa jiruudha. kanneen yeroo ammaa kana iddoo isaan itti hidhamanii hin beekamne immoo:
1.Sanbataa Tamasgeen Luba Waldaa MakaanaYesuus
2.Waannaa Tarreessaa B/saa
3.Eebbisaa Kooluu B/saa
4.Daanyee Asfaw Barataa .
5.Baacaa Dafaa Qotisaan bulaa dha namoonni kun humna tikaan ukkkaamfamanii achi buuteen isaanii dhabamuu odeessi WarraJirruu irraa nuqaqqabe beeksiseeraam
#OromoProtests @ Limmuu Kosaa, Ambuyyee town, Jimmaa, Oromia, 25 March 206
Gochi Mooraa Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Keessatti Waraana Waayyaanee Fudhatamaa Jiru Daran Jabaate.
Bitootessa 25,2016
Guutummaan Oromiyaa humna waraanaan buluu erga eegalte akkasuma mooraan barnootaa humna waraanaaf Shororkeessitoota Waayyaanneen buluu erga eegaltee ol ba’uuf gad ba’uun yaaddoo ta’us FXG ergasiyyuu hedduu jabaate akka jiru ragaan argaaf dhageetti qeerroo ga’adha
Tibba kanas Mooraa Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaatti sochiin Qeerroo hirriba kan dhowwate yeroo gara yerootti barattootaa nagaa karaarraa qabee mana hiraarsaa galchaa jirachuu akkasuma barataan lamaaf isaa oliin mooraa keessa akka hin teenye dhorkaa ka jiru yoo ta’u Barataa Fayyaa kan Maqaansaa Elero’i Fiqaaduu(Abdii) ka jedhamu sababa malee qabuun ukkamsee yeroo duraaf mana hiraarsaa Jimma Alaazar geessun achiis guyyaa muraasa booda gara Meentiinaa kanuma Jimma Magaalaa keessatti argamutti erga hidhanii boodaa,Sababa Oromoo ta’eef qofa hidhamtoota biraa halkan sa’a sagaliin baasanii dararaa guddaa irraan gahaa jiru.
Kana malees mootummaan Wayyaanee beeksisa barattoota Oromoo irratti baasee ture ammas irra deebi’ee kan biro baasuu fi gootota barattoota Oromoo doorsisaa akka jiru beekamee jira.
Iluun Waraana Wayyaaneetiin Marfamee jira. Wallagga Bahaa Aanaalee Hedduun Qeerroon Diina Baasee Dirree Bilisummaa Urgeesaa Jira
Bitootessa 25,2016 Akkuma beekamu godina Iluu Abbaa Booraatti FXG gaggeeffamaa jiru mootummaa haalaan yaaddeessee jira. Qindeessitootaa fi humni FXG boodaan hiriiree jiru akkasuma humni addaa biyya keessa seenee jira kana maleessa WBOn bosona karaa Gambeelan Iluu seene jechuunis waraanni komaandoo achitti ajaja fudhate bahaa jira.
Aanaan Hurumuu, Boorecha,Bachoo fi Baddallee, Mattuu fi Goree keessa humni WBO akka seenetti wayyaaneen maraataa jirti. Manni barumsaa sadarkaa 1ffaa irraa kaasee hanga qophaayinaatti sochiin jiru dhaadannoo WBO fi barruulleen warraqsaa halluu alaabaa fi loogoo Qeerroon machaa’een faca’ee jira. Ijoollee kaabinootaa fi deggertoota irrattis tarkaanfiin barattootaan fudhatama jira. Taphattootni naannoo Gambeelaa irraa dhufan gara FXGtti makaman. Bitooteessa 22 taphani kan gaggeeffame magaala Mattuutti taphattootni garee lachuu wal tahuudhaan waraana wayyaanee irratti fi konkolaataa wayyaanee irrattis tarkaanfii fudhatan dhukaasnis irratti dhuka’e.
Naannolee wallagga bahaa aanaalee Jimmaa Raaree, Jargadaa Jaartee, Guduruu, Ababoo Guduruu, Jimmaa Gannatii, Amuruuu fi Abbaa Coomman keessatti FXG itti fufuun humna diinaas magaalota keessaa uummanni baasaa jira karaanis cucuufamee alaabanis ol bahee aanaaleen kanneen dirree bilisummaa fakkaataa jirti.
Gabaasa Haala Hidhamtoota Ilmaan Oromoo Mooraa waraana wayyaanee Xoollayitti Guuramanii hidhama jiran ibsu
Bitootessaa 20-24,2016 Mootummaan Abbaa Irree EPRDF/TPLF/OPDO’ Duula_Duguuginsa_Sanyii_ (Genocide) kan yeroo kamiiyyuu Caalaa ulfaataa uummata Oromoo Irratti Jabeessuun ilmaan Oromoo 4600 olitti lakka’aman Waraana Agaaziin Uukkaamsee Mooraa_Leenjii_Waraanaa_fi_tikaa kan ta’ee Xollaayitti jumlaan guuree hidhee jiraachuu Odeessii qabatamaan mooraa waraana Xollaayi keessa bahee jiru mirkaneesse jira. Ilmaan Oromoo Godinaalee Oromiyaa hunda irra haalaa kanaan guuramuun yeroo amma kana bakka maatii fi Firootni isaanii illee arguu hin dandeenyeetti Mooraa_Waraanaa_Gammoojjii_Xoollaayi_kan_Godina_Jimmaa keessaatti argamuu keessatti waraanaan ukkamsee guuraa jira. Keessattuu Godinaalee_Oromiyaa_Lixaa_fi_Gidduu galeessa Oromiyaa fi Gama Godina Bahaa_Oromiyaa_Harargee_fi_Arsii irraa ilmaan Oromoo Manneen hidhaa sadarkaa Aanaa fi Godinaatti duraan hidhamanii turan jumlaan Waraanaan waraanaan dirqisiisee ukkaamsuun gara dabarfama jiru. Shirri ulfaataan Uummata Oromoo fi Oromiyaa irratti gaggeeffamaa jiruu kun Seenaa Aaddunyaa biyya lafaa kanaaf isa jalqabaa fi ulfaatadha. Odeffannoon qabatamaan Maddeen keenya Godina Lixa Shaggara Aanota garaagaraa irra nu qaqqabe akka ibsutti.
Aanaa Amboo irraa ilmaan Oromoo 125, Aanaa Ilfataa irraa ilmaan Oromoo 65, Aanaa Jalduu irraa ilmaan Oromoo 48, Aanaa Midaa Qanyii irraa ilmaan Oromoo 62, Aanota Tokkee Kuttaayee fi Gudar irraa ilmaan Oromoo 54 , Aanaa Gindabarat Abunaa fi Kaachiis irraa ilmaan Oromoo 87, Aanaa Giincii irraa ilmaan Oromoo 40,Aanaa Adaa’aa Bargaa fi Meettaa Roobii irraa ilmaan Oromoo 52, Aanaa Calliyaa fi Iluu Galaan irraa ilmaan Oromoo 36 dabalatee Godina Lixa Shaggar Amboo fi Naannoo ishee qofa irraa ilmaan Oromoo 760 olitti lakkaa’aman humna waraana Agaazii wayyaaneen Ukkanfamuun gara Mooraa Waraana Xollayitti geeffamani.
Godina Orroo Guduruu wallaggaa irraa ilmaan Oromoo human Agaaziin gara mooraa waraana wayyaaneetti ukkaanfamuun dabarfaman :
Aanaa Jartee Jardagaa irraa ilmaan Oromoo 38, Aanaa Amuuruu irraa ilmaan Oromoo 30,Aanaa Abbaayi coomaan irraa ilmaan Oromoo 18, Aanaa Hagamsa irraa ilmaan Oromoo 24, Aanaa Jimmaa Gannatii irraa ilmaan Oromoo kan barsiisotni keessatti argaman ilmaan Oromoo 14 Walumaa galatti ilmaan Oromoo 250 olitti lakkaa’aman human waraana Agaazii wayyaaneetiin ukkanfamuun gara mooraa waraana wayyaaneetti dabarfaman.
Godina Kibba Lixa Shaggar Walisoo fi Aanoota Godinichaa irraa ilmaan Oromoo 267 olitti lakkaa’aman waraana wayyaanee Agaaziin ukkaanfamuun ibsame jira.
Godina Bahaa Wallaggaa Magaalaa Neqemtee fi Aanotaa Godinichaa garaagaraa irraa walumaa galatti ilmaan Oromoo 650 olitti lakkaa’aman waraana Wayyaaneetiin ukkanfamuun gara mooraa waraana wayyaanee Xoollaayitti geeffamuun hidhamuun mirkanaa’era.
Godina Wallagga Lixaa fi Qeellaam Wallaggaa Aanoota garaagaraa irraa ilmaan Oromoo 450 Humna waraanaa Agaaziin ukkaanfamuun Gara Mooraa Waraana wayyaanee Xoollaayitti dabarfamani.
Godina Bahaa Oromiyaa Godina Harargee Lixaa,Harargee Bahaa ,Arsii Lixaa, fi Arsii Bahaa irraa Walumaa galatti Ilmaan Oromoo 870 Olitti lakka’aman humna waraanaa Agaaziin ukkaanfamuun gara Mooraa Waraana Wayyaanee Xoollaayitti akka hidhamanii jiran, hubatamee jira. Walumaa galatti ilmaan Oromoo 4600 olitti lakka’aman Godinaalee Oromiyaa hundaa irraa waraana wayyaaneen butamuun gara Mooraa Waraana Wayyaanee Xoollayi jedhamutti dabarfamuun ukkanfamanii akka hidhamanii jiran Odeessii qabatamaa Mooraa Waraana Wayyaanee Xoollayi irraa nu qaqqaba jiru ifa godhee jira. Fuldurattis haala ilmaan Oromoo Mooraa Waraana Wayyaanee Xoollaayitti argamu kanatti dabarfamanii hidhaman jala bu’uun hawaasa Oromoo fi Aaduntyaaf kan gabaafnu ta’a.
Goototni Barattootni Oromoo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Hiraarsaa Mootumman Wayyaanee Bulchiinsaa Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa waliin ta’uun Barattoota Oromoo 102 irratti beeksisa baasuun rawwachaa jiru.
Bitootessaa 24,2016 Warraaqsii Biyyoolessa Oromiyaa FXG Mooraa Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa keessatti karaa Nagaa fi Haaqaa gaaffiin mirga abbaa Biyyummaa deebii argachuu qaba jechuun itti fufuun wal qabatee Bulchinsii Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Waraana Mooraa Yuunibarsiitii Keessa Qubsiisuun Barattoota Oromoo reebuu, ukkaamsee hidhuu fi Madeessuu irra Darbeetorbee kana keessa qofaa Barattoota Oromoo 102 Olirratti beeksisaa maxxansuun , Gootota Barattoota Oromoo Waajjiraa poolisaa Mooraa Yuunibarsiitiicha keessa jirutti Waamuun Arii’uu fi Hidhuuf Qophii ta’uu itti himuun barattoota Oromoo kanaan yoo barbaadnees isin fixuun salphadha jechuun humnootni Tikaa Wayyaanee fi Ajajaan Poolisii Mooraa Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Kaliid Abbaa Tamaamii fi hoogantoota Waraana Wayyaaneen Dursnamuun ibasame jira. Barattootni Oromoo kuni Mooraa Yuunibarsitii Jimmaa Main Campus irraa Barattoota Oromoo 48 fi Mooraa Saayinsii fi Teekinooloojii Kittoo Furdisaa irraa immoo Barattoota Oromoo 54 irratti Beeksisa diinummaa Maxxansuun Yakki Shororkeessummaa qajeelfama waraana wayyaanee fi humnoota tikaa wayyaanee rawwatamuun ifa ta’ee jira. Yuubibarsiitii Jimmaa irraa barattootni Hedduunis humnoota tikaa fi waraanaan butamanii eessa buuteen isaanii kan hin beekamnee jiraachuu fi barattootni waraanaan reebamuun yakki ulfaataa ilmaan Oromoo irratti rawwatama jira. Rakkoowwaan akka Mooraa yuunibarsiitii Jimmaatti barattoota Oromoo irra qaqqabaa jiruu fi Hanga gochii duguuginsa Sanyii Uummata Oromoo waliigalaa irratti rawwatamaa jiruu sababeeffachuun Qeerroon barattootni Oromoo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Murtii dhumaa fi Waliigalaa dabarfatanii jiru!!
Murtii gabaabaa Barattoota Oromoo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa
1. Bulchiinsa waraanaa fi Shoroorkeessaa waraanaa Oromiyaa keessatti uummata keenya irratti gaggeeffamaa jiruu fi yakka duguuginsa Sanyii (genocide) mootummaan Wayyaanee uummata keenyaa fi nurratti gaggeessaa jiruu gadi jabeessuun ni balaaleffanna!!
2. Hiraarsaa fi dararaa Sammuu fi Qamaa (Psychological and physical torture) Bulchiinsii Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa ergama mootummaa abbaa irree hojii irra olchuuf jechaa barattoota Oromoo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa irratti rawwachaa jiruu fi yeroo amma kana immoo barattoota Oromoo 102 irratti beeksisaa baasuun dararaa qor-qalbii gaggeessa jiru gadi jabeessuun kan balaaleffannuu fi Bulchiinsii Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa fi humnootin tikaa fi Waraanaa yeroo kanatti Jimma irra qubatee jiruu itti gaafatamaa seenaa fi seeraa jalaa yakka isin hin baafnee dalagaa jiraachuu gadi jabeessuun hubachiisuun, gochaa diinummaa fi abbaa irruummaa mootummaa faashistii wayyaanee irra deeddeebiin ni balaaleffanna!!
3. Mootummaan wayyaanee hatattamaan ilmaan oromoo sababaa gaaffii mirgaa abbaa biyyummaaf ukkaamsee ariifatee gadi lakkisuu qaba, kanneen wareegamanii fi madaa’aniif gumaa kanfaluun qaamota aangawoota qajeelfama dabarsaan Hayileemriyaam Dassaleenyii , Abbayi Tsayee, Muktar Kadir, Aster Maammoo, Getachoo Radda, fi Ajajootni waraanaa fi tikaa wayyaanee Seeraatti dhiyaachuun itti gaafatamuu qabu!!
4. Waraanni Wayyaanee Oromiyaa keessa baafamuu qaba, bulchiinsii waraanaa kaafamee mootummaan wayyaanee aangoo uummata keenyaaf gadi lakkisuu qaba!!
5. Mootummaan Wayyaanee sadarkaa duraattii gaaffii mirga abbaa biyyummaaf deebii kennuu diduun Oromiyaa Bulchiinsa waraana jala galchee uummata keenya lafarra fixaa waan jiruu fi Bulchiinsii Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaas waraanaan hogganamuun barattoota Oromoo 102 Irratti Beeksisaa baasuun Shororkaa umaa Waan Jiruufi barattootni Oromoo hedduu Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa fi Yuunibarsiitoota Oromiyaa keessa jiran hundarraa ukkaanfamaa Waan jiraniifi Hoomaan Waraanaa Yuunibarsiitii keessa qubachuun dararaa humnaa olii barattoota Oromoo irraan ga’aa waan jiruuf Nuti Barattootni Oromoo Hundii yoo Mootummaan Wayyaanee Qabxiilee 1-5 kaasnee jirruu kanaaf furmaata atattamaa hin kennuu ta’ee guutummaatti Barnoota dhaabuun gara maatii keenyaatti deebii’uuf Murtii walii gala dabarfannee jirra!!
FXG Itti Fufee Daandiileen Konkolaataa Baadiyyaa Cufamaa Jiru. Irreen Uummata Oromoo Injifatnoo Goonfataa Jira.
Bitootessaa 25,2016 Waarraaqsii Biyyoolessaa Oromiyaa FXG, Jabaachuun daandiin Konkolaataa kibba Lixa Oromiyaa irraa Gara Finfinneetti seensisuu fi Gara Oromiyaatti baasuMagaalaa_sabbataa irratti Ganama irraa eegaluun cufamuun konkolaataan kamuu akka socho’uu hin dandeenyetti danqamee rakkoon guddaa wayyaanee mudachaa jira. uummanni Oromoo ajjeechaa fi Huulaa Hidhaa waraanni Agaazii rawwachaa jiruun sochii isaa irraa dhaabbachuu hin danda’u, Wareegamaa qaalii kanfaluun Injifannoo boonsaa of harkatti galchee jiruu kanas irratti dachaan wareegama malee duubatti kan irraa deebi’u akka hin taane hubachiise. 
Murtii uummatni Oromoo Magaalota addaa naannawaa Finfinneetti argamaan qeerroo waliin dabarfatan irraa mootummaan wayyaanee raafama caaluu keessa seenuun magaalaa Finfinnee eeggichaa waraanaa guddaa jala galchee kan jiruu fi Kellaawwaan Finfinnee irratti sakkatta’insa gaggeessa kana jiruu fi magaalaa Finfinnee keessatti namni Afaan Oromoo dubbatuu heddummataa dhufuu irraa Finfinneen ija Shakkii Guddaan ilaalama jiraachuun hubatame jira. Guyyaa Har’aa kanas Sakkatta’insi guddaan Daandii sabbataa Gara Finfinneetti seensisuu irratti guyyaa guutuu gaggeeffama jira.
Polisiin Fedaraalaa Dhalootaan Oromoo Ta’an ABOf Hojjettu Sababaa Jedhuun Yakka Adda Addaa Irratti Banuun Hojii Irraa Arihuu fi Dararaa Jabaan Mootummaa TPLFdhaan Irra Ga’aa Jira
Bitootessa 25,2016
Ukkamsaaf ajjeechaan obsa kan fixacachiise Uummata Oromoo rog,arfaniin diddaa jabaa dhageessisee Waayyaanee hirriba dhowurra darbee abdii kutannaa guddaa keessa galcheera.Akkasuma ajjeechaan waan duuba deebisu ukkamsaan waan abdii kutachiisu itti fakkachuun Waayyanonni Oromoo ukkamsuurratti fullefatanis mormiin daran babal’achuun lammii Oromoo kan ta’ee hunda sochoosaa jira Tibba kanas Folisoota Fedaraalaa kan magaalaa Finfinnee keessaa hojjetan dhalootaan Oromoo waan ta’aniif Qofa dararaan irra gahaa jiraachuu icciitiin achii baate ifa taasifti.Akkasuma sakatta’insa moobayilaaf Suuraa,Video,dabalatee hojiirraa ari’uuf dhoksaan ukkamsuun yaaddoo jiruu keessa nu galchaa jiraa jedhu Folisoonni hiriyoota danuu of biraa dhaban kunnin.Kanumaan wal qabatee amma ammaatti Foolisoota 23 ,nu biraa ukkamsanii bakki geessamaan hin baramne kanneen hafanimmoo carraan kun nu mudachuun dura jechuun tarkaanfii hojii dhaabuu Folisoota 34 hojii lakkisanii ba’ani Folisoota 56 ammoo hamma ammaatti hidhamanii jiru ,Ta’uyyuu kan yaaddoof muddama keessa nu galchee jiru Folisoota 23,sana ajjeesanii dhoksaan ka jedhutti shaakkaa jirraa.Walumaa gala kan Ukkamfaman,kan hidhaman,kan hojii lakkisa garee tokko qofaa keessa 113 ga’ee jira ta’us nu warra hafe gammoojjii Bilaatee jedhamtu keessatti nu ittisaa jiru akkasuma Nun Foolisoota dhalotaan Oromoo taanerraa Hidhata hikkatanii jiru jedha odeessi icciitiidhaan Foolisoota Fefaaralaarraa ba’ee Qeerroo dhaqabe.
OMN: Gabaasa Addaa Bitooteessa 24,2016
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/24/omn-gabaasa-addaa-bitooteessa-242016/
OMN: Oduu Bit. 24, 2016
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/24/omn-oduu-bit-24-2016/
Godina baha wallaggaa magaala Naqamtee, Giddaa Ayyaanaa fi Yuuniversitii Wallaggaa Keessatti Waraqaan Qeerroo Warraaqsaa Bittimfamee Jira. Magaala Naqamteetti Uummata Oromoo Maraaf Waamichi Tahe.
Bitootessa 24,2016
– Oromoon tokko kaaba fi kibaa fi bahaa fi lixaan ka’I wayyaanee
biyyaa baasi
– Abbummaan oromoo oromiyaadhaan haa mirkanooftu
– WBON duruma leenca bosonaati
– Nuti wayyaane hin beeknu ABO malee
– Tigreen saamtuu fi hattuudha
– OPDOn uummata oromoo bakka hin buutu
Jedhu waraqaan balaliituun warraaqsaa bittimfamee kan turee fi aanaa Giddaa Ayyaanatti barataa du’e sirna awwaalcha isaan wal qabsiisuudhaan FXGs guyyaama kana eegale kan ture har’as FXG aanaa kana keessatti jabaate jedhu. Qonnaan bulaan aanaa Giddaa Ayyaanaa hedduun ukkaamfamee jira. barattootni har’a daandii cufaniiru. Agaaziin aanicha keessa olii fi gadi fiigaa jirti. Magaalli Naqamtees dirree qabsoo taateetti hamma ammaatti waraanni wayyaanee itti wal jijjiiruudhaan magaalicha keessa qubatee jira.
Yunibarsiitiin Jimmaa Barattotarratti Beeksisa Baasuu Itti Fufe.
Bitootessa 24,2016
Gocha dhoksanii ukkamsuuf yeroo yerootti waan wal hin qabanneef badii tokko malee barattoota Oromoo arii’uun beekamtii kan qabu,har’as dogongora tokko malee mooraa guddaa keessatti barattoota Oromoo nama 29 irritti beksisa baasaa jiraachuu akkasuma Barattoota kanneen keessaa nama 3 dhoksaan ukkaamsisuuf akka jiru icciitiin isaan biraa baate ifa taasiftti kanas itti gaafatamummaan Kaalid Abbaa Tamaam akka dalagaa jiru oduun isaan biraa baate ifa taasifti.
Gama biraan Guyyaa kalee 23/3/2016 Yuunibarsiitii Walqixxee Damee Gunuureetti FXGn adeemsifame. Mooraa Gubuureetti fincila xumura garbummaa adeemsifame kanaan barattooti hedduun miidhamuufi,barattooti hedduun ukkaamfamuus Qeerroon moorichaa gabaasee jira
Yeroo ammaa kana to’annaan addatti barattoota Oromoo irratti adeemsifamaa kan jiruufi,barattoti hedduun mooricha gadhiisaa kan jiran humni waraanaas akka waan ofii itti baratuutti itti duudaa jiraachuun beekameera
OMN: Oduu Bit. 22, 2016
OMN: Qophii Addaa Bitooteessa 22, 2016
#OromoProtests, Alge High School, Iluu Abbaa Booraa, 22nd March 2016
#OromoProtests in Qobboo town, Hararghe, Eastern Oromia, 22nd March 2016
Qeerroon Godina Shaggar Lixaa Abuunaa Gindeberat Keessatti FXG Itti Fufanii Jiru
Guyyaa har’aa Bitootessa 22,2016 ganamaa irra egale hanga ammatti dhaaddannoo gargaaraa dhaggesisisaa kan ture yoo ta’u.ammaan kana immoo baratoota Sadarkaa 2ffaa fi qopha’iina mana barumsaa Kaachisitti kan jalaqabee barnooni bilisumaa booda jechudhaa dhaddanoo dhaggeesisisa kan olan mana barumsa Kachisii fuulduratti kan jalqabee yoo ta’udha.
University students who returned home for midterm paid a visit to family of Tolasa Dhufera, the 4th year electrical engineering student who was killed at Haromaya University in December.
Suurawwaan olitti mul’atan kun hirmaannaa BARATTOONNI Yuunivarsiitii ABUUNAA Gindabarat b/taa Tolasaa Dhufeeraa Electrical engineering waggaa 4ffaa Yuunivarsiitii Haramayaa keessatti baatii lamaan dura wareegameef maatiisaa bira deemuun gadda qabanii fi balaaleffannaa mootummaa wayyaanee ummata Oromoo irratti fudhataa jiru ibsuu isaanii mul’isa.
Bitootessa 22,2016 Godina Wallaggaa Magaalaa Jaarsoo fi Qeellam Ona Jimmaa Horroo Keessatti Loltooti Wayyaanee Uummata Jeeqaa Jiru.
Godina Wallaggaa Qellem ona Jimmaa Horroo irraa namootni 4 har’a bakka magaala irraa konkolaataa fi nama hin beekamneen fuudhamani eessa buuteen isaanii dhabameera.
1. Abdulkari Jamal
2. Hasan Jamal –Obboleessa Abdulkarim jaallan kun lamaan yeroodhaa yerootti kan hidhamaniidha.
3. Solomon Guricho
4. Barsiisaa Dimbaashaa Baqqalaa
Har’a Bitotessa 22/2016 har’a ganama irraa konkolaataa Wayyaanee hin beekamneen butamanii kan badan yoommuu tahu uummanni fi dargaggootni ijoolleen kun deebi’uu qabu jechunFXG kaase jira uummanni yeroo ammaa kana daandii cufee jira.
Kana malees Loltootii fi humni poolisa Wayyaanee TPLF Guyyaa har’aa sabboontota Oromoo 4 magaala Jaarsoo Wallaggaa keessaa qabanii hidhaanii jiru.
- Dasaleeny Alammayyoo
2 .Barsiisaa Husee
3.Hojeta Motummaa Jabbeessaa Tarreesaa
4.Girmaa
Kanneen jedhamanii fi kaanis keessatti argamu
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/24/omn-oduu-bit-23-2016/
Sagalee Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo (SQ) Bitootessa 23,2016
Walabummaa Oromiyaaf, Referendumiin Bilisa Ta’e Har’a Geggeeffamuu Qaba. Qiyyaafatnoo ummata Oromoo kan kaleessaa fi kan har’a.
Leelloo Sabaa Irraa
Sirna gabrummaa Habashootaa jaarraa 14ffaa irraa eegalee irratti diriirfame, ummatni Oromoo jaarraa 16ffaa keessaa wareegama: lubbuu, qabeenyaa, hawaasummaa fi qaamaa hagana hin jedhamne irratti baasee Oromiyaa keessaa buqqisuun bilisummaa isaa deebifatee: nagaa,badhaadhina fi gammachuun waggoota dhibba sadiif (hanga dhuma jaarraa 19ffaatti) jiraatee ture.
Waggoota dhibba sadiif, bilisummaa isaa tikfatee osuma jiraatu, Oromiyaa deebisanii gabroomfatuuf hooggana Minilikiin weerara Habashooti Oromoo fi Oromiyaa irratti bananis ummatni Oromoo of irraa ittisuuf wareegama lubbuu miliyoona shanii, kan qabeenyaa, qaamaa fi hawaasummaa hedduu eerga baasee booda meeshaa lolaatiin caalamee haa injifatamu malee bilisummaa isaa deebifatuuf ummatni kun haga har’aatti, itti fufee falmaa hadhooytuu geggeessaa jira.
Fincilli Oromoo Daawwee, kan Raayyaa, walabummaan jiraachuuf Western Oromo confederation, Oromoon walakkeessa, fi Baha Oromiyaa iyyatnoo isaan mootummoota Awurooppaatti galfatan, Fincilli Baalee, ijaaramuun waldaa Maccaa fi Tuulamaa fi ijaaramuun Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo, wareegama barbaachisu baasuun bilisummaa afaan qawweetiin habashootaan sarbame deebifachuuf : akeeka, fedhii, hawwii fi muratnoo ummatni Oromoo qabu itti fufee daranuu kan mirkaneesse ture. Dhaaba warraaqaa, qabsoo bilisummaa Oromiyaa kallachummaan hoogganu qabaachuun jala hiriiranii wareegama baasuun akeeka bilisummaa Oromiyaa bakkaan gahuuf muratnoon ummatni Oromoo bara Dargii irraa eegalee agarsiise, bilisa ta’ee jiraachuuf fedhii fi hawwii ummatni Oromoo qabu kan daranuu itti fufee dhugoomse ture. Dhaaba kana jala hiriiruudhaan wareegama qaqqaalii ummatni Oromoo haga har’aatti baasaa jiru , akeeki dhaaba kanaa, kan bilisummaa Oromiyaa, akeeka: haqaa fi dimookraatawaa, fedhii fi hawwii ummatni Oromoo jaarraa hedduuf qabaachaa ture guutu ta’uu shakkii tokko malee kan mirkaneessu dha.
Wareegama: lubbuu, qabeenyaa, qaamaa fi hawaasummaa hagana hin jedhamne baasuudhaan fincilli bilisummaa fi dimookraasii har’aan tana Oromiyaa guutuu keessatti qaama hawaasaa Oromiyaa guutuun deemsifamaa jirus itti fufee kan mirkaneessu, ummatni Oromoo bilisa ta’ee hiree isaa murteefachuun walaba ta’ee jiraachuuf dhuma jaarraa 19ffaa irraa eegalee :fedhii, hawwii fi akeeka dhaabbataa hin sharafamne kan abbootii isaa irraa dhaale bakkaan gahachuu akak barbaadu shakkii tokko malee itti fufee kan dhugoomsuu dha.
Waan kana ta’eef, karaa nagaa hiree isaa murteeffatee mootummaa walaba ijaarratuuf fedhii fi hawwii ummatni Oromoo jaarraa tokko oliif :walitti fufiinsaan, jabinaa fi cichoominaan wareegama hedduu irratti baasee ibsachaa jiru kana, biyyooti, mootoummooti, humnooti siyaasaa, jaarmooti addda addaa, nam-tokkeen adda addaa: seera uumaa, seera addunyaa, haqa, dimookraasii, mirga dhala namaa fi nagaatti amanan hundi deggeruudhaan, ummata Oromoof referandumiin akka hayyamamu dhiibbaa cimaa godhuu qaban. Ummatni Oromoos, akeeki isaa kan mirga hiree murteeffanaa referandamiin bakkaan akka gahatuuf, “Referandamiin Oromiyaaf Hara !, Kan kanaa gadii tasumaa hin barbaannu !” jechuun tokkummaa duraan argamee hin beekneen yeroo inni itti sagalee isaa dhageessisuu qabu hara’a.
Injifatnoon Ummata Oromoof !
Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo waliin fuulduratti !
#OromoProtests in Fitche town, North Shawa, Oromia, 23 March 2016
Bitootessa 23,2016 Godina Shawaa kaabaa magaala Fichee Salaalee keessatti barattoota mana barumsaa sadarkaa 2ffaa keessatti mormii isaani haala kaanan geggeessanii jiru.
FXG Godina Ilu Abbaa Booraa Magaalaa Algee fi Magaala Siboo Keessatti Gaggeefame.
#OromoProtests in Sibo town, Bure District, Ilu Ababor students walk out of class and stage a sit-in protest. The picture show district administrators trying to convince them to resume class.
Humni Waraana Waayyaanee Tarkaanfii Suukanneessa Uummata Lixa Oromiyaa Magaalaa Najjoo Irratti Fidhachaa Jira.
Bitootessa 23,2016
Gochasaarraa akka waan gabbeetti kan haasa’uu mootummaan Waayyaannee har’allee tarkaanfolee ajjeechaaf fuguuginsa sanyii osoo nurraaa hin dhaabiin jiraa jedhu jurattoonni Najjoo Akkasuma har’a FXG adeemsifaamaa jiruun miidhama da’immanrraan ga’aa akka jiru Qeerroon Najjoo dubbata mucaa ganna 11 kan kutaa 5ffaa baratu barataa Soorummaa Ashaalee har’a mana barumsaa Abdiisaa Aagaa keessatti itti seenuun miidhaa qaamaa cimaa irraan gahanii jiru.Mucaan hanga ammaatti dubbachuu akka hin dandeenyeef du’afillee shakkii guddaa keessa jiraachuu gabaasaan
keenya achii gabaaseera. Haalli Soorummaarra ga’e ittuu barattoota finiinsuun guyyaa har’aa
sa’atii kanatti manneen barnootaa Abdiisaa Agaa,Qophaaina Najjoo,Mana barumsaa sadarkaa tokkoffaa fi sadarkaa lammaaffaa Gaaddisa Odaa BBB hojiirra oolchuun dhaadannoowwaan
#Saamichiif duguuginsi sanyii Lammii keenyarraa haa dhabbatu
#Nuun dhimma bilisummaaf dubbanne dhahichiif Jimulli duuba nu hin deebisu
#gowwomsaa Wayyaanee hin fudhannu
#gumaa nama du’ee isa jirutu baasa
#gumaan hin nyaatamu gumaa gumaatu baasa
Jedhuun guutummaa magalatti raasaa jiru FXG hanga bilisummaatti itti fufa jedhaniiru.
Godina Wallaggaa Aanaa Laalloo Assaabii Irraa Barataan Kutaa 10ffaa Baratu Waraana Wayyaaneen Butame.
Bitootessa 23/2016 Barataan kutaa 10ffaa baratu Guutuu Birruu Waraana Wayyaaneen Butamee Bakka Bu’e Hin Beekamu.
Sochii Qeerroon kan waalii qabate Godina Wallaagga lixa Aanaa lalo Assabii mana barumsaa Inangoo sadarkaa lammaffaa kutaa 10 ffaa kan baraatu. Baraata Guutuu Birruu. Humnaa warraana biyyaa qabamee laafa in bu’e wallalame.Rabbii lubbuu isaa nuuf haa bararuu. Galmeen seena Oromoo sii waamtii.
Wallagga Magaalaa Naqamte Keessa Barruuleen Waamicha FXG Daran Tamsa’e.
Bitootessa 23/2016
Alaabaan Adda bilisummaa Oromoo(ABO) halkan edaa akka urjii magaalaa Naqamtee fi naannoo Yuunversiitii Wallaggaatti ifaa bulte.Barruulleen warraaksaas halkan edaa naannoo yuunvesiitii wallaggaatti rasbsamaa bulaniiru.yeroo ammaan kanas humni federaalaa guutummaan magaalaa naqamtee keessa ABO tu gale jechuun uummata nagaa doorsisaa jiru.naannoon yuunversiitii wallaggaas humna waraanaan marfamtee jirti.
Jimma Yuunibarsiitii Mooraa Guddaa(main campus) fi Mooraa FBtti Waraqaaleen Qeerroo Tamsa’an
Bitootessa 23,2016
Balaaleffannaan murna bichuu Waayyaanee Gootota Qeerroo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaatiin itti fufuun hoomaan Waraanaa Yuunibarsiitichatti galee osoo eeguu Gootummaa jabaadhaan mormii akkuma eegalanii jiran waraqaalee Qeerroo kan barreefamnisaa alabaa keenyaan faayamtee dhaadannoowwan ciccimoo of irraa qabdu rabsaamaa turan.Waraqaaleen kun mooraa FB keessattis haalaan dhoobameera.Akkasuma Alabaan ABO kalariin hojjetamee wal cinatti maxanfamaa tureDhaadannoolee wariqicharraa
#OPDO n ergamtuu Waayyaaneedha
#Waayyaaneen saamtuudha
#Gamtaaf Tokkummaa keenyaan bilisummaa nii gonfanna
#ABOn kallacha qabsoo Oromooti
ka jedhu yoo ta’u Alaabaan ABOs cinasaatti maxanfanfamaniiru
Qeerroo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaarraa
Sirna Awwalcha Barataa Girmaa Darajjee Ayyaanaarratti Mormiif Dhaadannoo Jajjaboon Barattoota Baha Wallagaa Giddaa Ayyaanaatiin Gaggeefamaa Oole
Bitootessa 22,2016Gochi murni bichuun Waayyaanee raawwachaa jirtu Uummata Oromoo arsee Finiinsee gara FXG tti kan geessaa jiru malee duuba akkaa hin deebifne hubatamaadha.Barataa Girmaa Darajjee Ayyaanaa reebichaa hamaa irraan ga’uun du’e jedhanii bosonatti gatuun kulkulfannaa nu keessa ka’anii ka darban shororkwessitoonni Waayyaanee.Gargaarsa uummati godheefiin bosona keessaa argamee hospitaalaa Naqamtee kan geeffame yoo ta’us,hospitaalli Naqamtee nuun ol waan ta’eef yaaluu hin dandeenyu erga jedhanii Gara finfinneetti referii ka barreessaan ta’uullee sa’atii sanatti Abbaan Barataa kanaa maallaqa of harkaa qabaachuu waan hin dandeenyeef Uummati haala ittiin Girmaa Lubbuusaa olfatan irratti osoo dubbatanii halkan Kaleessa Lubbuunsaa addunyaa kanarraa du’aan godaante.
Sirna awwaalcha Barataa Girmaa Darajjee kanarratti barataan Giddaa Ayyaanaa argamuun tilmamaan barattoonni 7000 olii kan tahan (baratonni sad 1 hangaa Kollejjii BLTO ttii ) barataa kan ta,ee hundii BBB jechuun kophee kararatti dhisanii ademsaa milaan sa,a 2:30 demmun barataa girmaa derejee ayanaa harkaa wayyanettii kan du,ee gaggeessan dhadannoo
#gumaa isa du’ee isa jirut baasa
#nuti hiriyyoonnikee gumaa nii baafna
#kan nu ajjeesu hin feenu
#nuti nagaa feena
#kan nagaa keenya sarbe hin dhiifnu wal irratti duuna
#barnoonni bilisummaa booda
#hanga gumaa baafnutti nuti hin barannu
#ABOn nu haa bulchu
#waayyaaneen nurraa haa galtu jechuun dhaadannoo gurguddaan gegesaniruu qabsa’an yoo du,ee qabsoon itti fufaa motumaa abba irren hin hoganamnu
FXG Itti Fufe! Barattooti Oromoo Waraana Agaazii Wayyaaneen Wareega Kafalaa Jiru.
Bitooteessa 23,2016
FXG Qeerroon Bilisummaa gaggeessaa jiru sadarkaa guddaatti ce’aa jira,haala kana keessatti gaaga’ama ulfaataan uummata keenya irra gahus qabsoon FXG itti fufee jira.
Suuraan kun sabboontuu fi barattuu Amartii Hinsarmuu jedhamti ganama kana 23/03/2016 mana barumsa ASK Nekemte keessatti rasaasa waraana Wayyaaneen Agaaziin mataa ishee ruktamte. Afaanii fi Funyaaniin dhiiga hedduutu mataashee keessas yaa’aa jira. Haala yaaddessaa keessa jirti.
Godina Jimmaa Magaalaa Limmuu Keessatti Diddaan Sirna Wayyaaneen Jabaatee Itti Fufe.
Marii Panalii gaafa Bitootessa 21/2016 kan gudina Jimmaa magaalaa Limmuu Gannat Obbo Amaanuu itti anaa bulchaa aanaa Limmuu Kossaa fi Obbo Shalamaa mariisifamaa ture irraatti mormiin abbotii qabeenyaa irraa ka’uun walgalicha gara mormiitti jijjiiree jira. Innis yeroo Bakka bu’aan qonnaa buna Horizon (investera Wayyaanee) yaada kennuuf maayikii fudhatutti hirmattonni itti iyyani. “Horozon hattuudha, abban qabeenyummaasaa kan sobaati,qabeemyichi kan abbootii keenyaati, bakka Horizon jirutti waliin hin maryannu” jechuun mormanii akka yaada hin kennine godhaniiru.
Geggessitoonni marichaas yaadni ummataa sirridha jechuun bakka bu’aa Horizon harkaa
mayikiin fudhameera. Kanaanis walqabatee ibsaa ballessuufi basaastota haaraa kan wayyanee gara magaalattiitti erganiiru. Dhimmi mormii Horizon dargaggoota dammaqoo irraa gara abbotii qabeenyaafi unmataatti seeneera.
Guyyaa Har’aa Bitootessa 22/2016 Wallagga Magaalaa Jaarsoo Keessatti Barruuleen Warraaqsaa Faca’aa Jira.
Guyyaa har’ as Bitootessa 22,2016 Godina Wallaggaa Lixaa anaa Jaarsoo keessattii Qeerroon magaalaa Jaarsoo waraqaa Qabsoo hangaa bilisummaattiu hin dhabaatu jedhuf….OPDON ummataa Oromoo bakka hin butuu …ummannii Keenya motummaa namaa nyaata wayyanneef gibiraa akkaa hin kafallee…fi hiidhaafi ajeechaan dubbattii nu hin deebisu jedhu.. gutummaa magaalaa Jaarsoof moraa manneen barnootaa akkasumas waajjiroota adda addaatti Qeerroon faccassuun jala deemtootaa wayyannee nasuu guddaa keessaa olchee jira..
Wallagga Magaalaa Naqamtee Keessatti FXG Daran Hammaate,Mootummaan Aara Gaazaa Dhukaatu Itti Dhimma Bahuun Barattoota Miidhaa Jiru.
Fincilli xumura garbummaa har’aa Bitootessa 22/2016 baratoota mana barumsaa qopha’inaa Naqamteen ,mana barumsaa biiftuu Naqamtee ,Aaskiifi mana barumsaa Waachaa Mikaa’l jedhamu keessatti finiinaa jira.
Baratoonni heedduun yeroo ammaa kana humna federaalaan reebamaa jiru naannoo hoteela Faanaatti.humni federaalaas baratoota karaa nagaan gaaffii mirgaa gaaffachaa jiran irratti aarra ija immimmaanessu yeroo ammaa kana irratti darbachuun baratoonni heedduun kukkufuun of wallaalanii gara Hoospitaala Naqamteetti guuramaa jiru.
Baratoota baayyinni isaanii hin beekamnes yeroo baqatanii mana uummataatti seenan humni federaalaas manuma uummataa keessaa gad guuramanii akka malee reebamaa jiraachuu Qeerroon gabaasa.
https://youtu.be/4P1uVMxXYEM
#OromoProtests at Ambo University Walisoo Campus, 21 March 2016
Oromo youth Girma Dereje Ayana, an 11th grade student in Gidda town, Gidda Ayana District, East Walaga. He was badly beaten up by Agazi (TPLF, Ethiopia’s regime fascist ) forces in his hometown and passed away in Naqamte Hospital on 21 March 2016.
Ammaa Kana Waraanni Agaazii Wayyaanee Magaala Finfinnee Alaa Keessaan Marsaa Jira.
Bitootessa 21,2016
Magaalli Finfinnee humna waraana agaaziitiin eegamaa jirti. Waraanni kun kutaa bulchiinsa magaalatti fi gandoota keessatti ramadamee
halkanii guyyaa uummata hiraarsaa jira. Keessattuu naannoo buufata Yuuniversitiiwwanii fi koollejjiwwan Finfinnee keessatti argamanitti
buufatee marsee jira humni kuni. Sochiin waraana mootummaa wayyaanee magaala Finfinneetti sodaa fi raafama mootummaa abbaa irree kan ka’een akka saree olii fi gadi kaataa jirti. FXG Finfinneetti ka’a kan jedhamu miirri sodaa guddaatu jira Finfinneen muddama keessa jirti.
Bitootessaa 21,2016 Warraaqsii FXG’ Haalaan Jabaachuun Uummatni Oromoo GodinaLexa_Shaggar_Amboo fi Godina Kibba_Lixa_Shaggar_Walisoo Kanfaltii Gibiraa fi buusiiwwaan Mootummaa Wayyaanee Nu ajjeesaa Jiruuf Hin kaffalluu jechuun Murtii fudhatee jiruu jabeessuun hojii irraa olchaa jira. Dura Taa’otni gandaa fi Milishootnis Nuti uummata Ni sodannaa, Uummata kana keessa Baanee kophaa jiraachuu hin dandeenyuu jechuun hojii ergama bulchiinsa wayyaanee OPDO dhaabbuun Uummatatti harka kennatani jiru. Waraanni Wayyaanee Konkolaataa poolisii Oromiyaa jeettuu qabachuun Gandoota Baadiyyaa Godinoota kanneenii keessa sodaa guddaan guutamee socho’aa jira.
Sochii Warraaqsaa Biyyoolessaa Oromiyaa Dhaabbachuu hin dandeenye kanaan kan hedduu raafamee jiruu mootummaan Wayyaanee Godina Lixa Shaggar Amboo fi Magaalaa Amboo ukkaamsuuf Waraanni Wayyaanee Yeroo irraa gara Yerootti Magaalaa Amboo fi aanoota Godinichaa Keessa Qubsiifamaa jira.Ilmaan Oromoo Waraana wayyaanee Keessatti argamanis diddaa isaanii tarkaanfiin argisiisuu egaalanii jiru.Magaalaan Amboo fi Walisoos Waraana Wayyaanee Guddaan Qabamtee jirti.
Godina Lixa Shaggar Amboo: Aanaa Aada’aa Bargaa Goototni uummatni Oromoo fi Barattootni Oromoo Ganda Caancoo Birrattee Lafa Gabaa Jimaataa jedhamtutti walgahuun Warraaqsaa FXG finiinsuun hiriira mormii sirna Wayyaanee taasisan.
Bitootessaa 20-21/2016 Godina Lixa Shaggar Amboo: Aanaa Aada’aa Bargaa Goototni uummatni Oromoo fi Barattootni Oromoo Ganda Caancoo Birrattee Lafa Gabaa Jimaataa jedhamtutti walgahuun Warraaqsaa FXG finiinsuun hiriira mormii dhageessisaa turan.
Dhaadannoowwan itti anaanu kana sagalee jabaan dhageessisan.
-Waraanaan hin bullu -Ilmaan oromoo hindhaman hatattamaan haa hiikaman
-Mootummaan lubbuu waraanaan balleesseef itti haa gaafatamu -Abbaan Biyyaa ABO’dha.
-Wayyaanee fi OPDO’n nu hin bulchitu jechuudhaan dhaadannoo dhageessisaa turan.
Waraanni wayyaanees akkuma amalasaa ummata mirga Isaafi dubbatu hidhuu fi dararuu irratti argamu. Aanaadhuma kana #Mogor keessattin kan argaman Barattootni Manneen Barnootaa #Mogor_Muka_Odaa sad.1ffaa, Reejjii sad.2ffaa fi ‘Mugher Cement Enterprise Community Senior Secondary School’tti torbee darbe irraa eegaluun mormii isaanii kan itti fufan tahuu ibsameera. Sababa kanaan waraanni Wayyaanee manneen barnootaa seenuudhaan barattoota jumlaan hidhuu fi dararaa jiraachuun beekame. Hawaasni Mogoris barattootaaf birmachuudhaan hanga ammaatti waraana Wayyaanee fuuldura dhaabachuu jiru. Haaluma walfakkaatuun Godinuma Shawaa Lixaa Meettaa Roobii keessatti guyyaa Jimaataa Barattootni Mana Barnootaa Qophaa’inaa Shinoo mormii jabaa dhageessisaa turan. Yeroo ammaas barattootni manneen barnootaa garaagaraaMeettaa Roobii fi Ada’aa Bargaa keessa jiran Barnootni Bilisummaan Booda jechuun ibsa ijjannoo baafatan guutummaan hojiitti hiikaniiru.
Barattooti Oromoo Yuniversitii Finfinnee Keessaa Loltoota TPLFn Qabaman 20 Mana Hidhaa Keessatti Gidirfamaa Jiraachuu Qeerroon Gabaase.
Bitootessa 21,2016/ Maqaaleen armaan gaditti tarreefaman kunniin gootota barattoota Yuunibarsiitii Finfinnee keessaa qabamanii yeroo ammaa kana mana hidhaa keessatti gidirfamaa jiranidha.
Qeerroon barattootni kunneen 49 ta’anii hidhamanii kan turan 20 mana hidhaa Wayyaanee keessatti kanneen hafani tahuu Qeerroon gabaasa. Jarreen kun xalayaa seeraa of harkatti qabachuun waraqaa dhaadannoo fi uffata adii kan nageenya mullisu uffachuun iimbaasii Ameerikaa fuulduratti sagalee diddaa isaanii waan dhageessisaniif qofa qabamanii hidhaman.
Dhaadannoon isaan dhageessisaa turanis;
- Mirga dhabuu uummata Oromoo
- Ajjeefamuu fi yuunibarsiitii irraa ari’amuun akka dhaabbatu
- Dachee fi qabeenya Oromiyaa harka duureyyii qonnaan bultoota irraa fonqolchuun kennuun akka dhaabbatu
- Kiraan lafaa olka’e qotee bulaa irraa akka dhaabbatu
- Beektonnii fi barattootni Oromoo mana hidhaatti gidirfamaa jiran akka hiikaman
- Digirii baatanii dhagaa baachuu fi soquun akka dhaabbatuu, walumaa galatti gidirfamnii fi cunqursaa lammii Oromoo irraa akka mulqamu sababa gaafataniif gidirfaamaa jiru.
Kan jedhu ture.
Yeroo ammaatti barattooti hidhaa keessatti gidiraa argaa jiran keessaa warra armaa gadii ta’uu Qeerroon gabaasa:-
| Lakk | Maqaa guutuu | Department |
| 1 | Sooressaa Damee | Enjiner 5th year |
| 2 | Bilisummaa Biraanuu | Economics 2nd year |
| 3 | Guddinaa Tasfaayee | Mgt 2nd year |
| 4 | Asheetuu Darajjee | Economics 2nd year |
| 5 | Dabalaa Fayisaa | English 4th year |
| 6 | Battee Lammii | Maths 2nd year |
| 7 | Alamuu Olaanii | Economics 2nd year |
| 8 | Gammachuu Kabbadaa | A/oromo 1st Year |
| 9 | Ahimed Mohaammed | Electrical enginer 5th year |
| 10 | Insarmuu Boggaalee | Acconting 3rd year |
| 11 | Ijjiguu Qabataa | Economics 2nd year |
| 12 | Shallamaa Gammachuu | Economics 2nd year |
| 13 | Gammachuu Haayiluu | >> |
| 14 | Marshaa Baayisaa | >> |
| 15 | Tasfaayee Geetuu | >> |
| 16 | Tarreessaa Ashakaa | >> |
| 17 | Tasfaayee Mokonnon | >> |
| 18 | Daani’eel Abdiisaa | chemistry |
| 19 | Guutaa Baayisaa | chemistry |
| 20 | Biraanuu Badhaadhaa | Adiministration |
Bitootessa 19,2016 “Abbaan Biyyaa ABO Dha” jedhu gootonni Qeerroo Godina Harargee Bahaa magaalaa Miidhagaa lolaa keessatti FXG Gaggeessaniin
Barattootni Wallagga Lixaa Magaalaa Najjoo Barumsa Dhaaban
Bitootessa 18,2016 /Wallagga lixaa magaalaa Najjootti kan argamu mana barattootni barumsaa sadarkaa 2ffaa “ kan hidhaman haa gadhifaman” jechuun barumsa dhaabanii jiru. Akkasma Boojjii Birmajiitti mana barumsa sadarkaa 1ffaatti barumsii dhaabbatee jira. Akka walii galaatti oromiyaa keesatti ibarumsi guutummaan guututti dhaabbatee jira.
Magaala Baddallee Godina Ilu Abbaa Boor Keessatti FXG Itti Fufe.
Bitootessa 18,2016/Godina Iluu_Abbaa_Booraa Magaalaa Baddalleetti warraaqsii FXG daran jabaachuun itti fufun guyyaa har’aa Goototni Barattootni Oromoo M/Barnootaa sadarkaa 1ffaa Qaanqaccoo Magaalaa Baddalleetti argamu keessatti alaabaa mootummaa Wayyaanee gubuudhaan sochii isaanii daran jabeessuun, waraana mootummaa jala dhaabbachaa jiru, Gabaasaan itti fufa!!
Bitootessa 18/2016 Godina Lixa Shaggar Amboo: Aanaa #Midaa_Qanyiitti warraaqsii FXG itti fufuun walqabatee Waraanni Wayyaanee Barattoota Oromoo M/B Baallammii sadarkaa 2ffaa fi qopha’inaa irratti Boombii dhoosuun #Yakki_waraanaa Barattoota Oromoo irratti raawwatame jira.
barattoota hedduu madeessuu fi hedduu immoo humna waraanaan ukkamsee hidhaatti guuraa jira, Aanaa Midaa qanyii Keessatti manneen barnoota sadarkaa 1ffaa hanga sadarkaa 2ffaa fi qopha’inatti jiran guutummaatta cufaman. guyyaa har’aa magaalaan Baallammii Waraana Wayyaaneen goolama jirti.
Salaalee Yuuniversitii Fiichee FXG Har’a Barattoota Oromoon Ka’e.
Bitootessa 18,2016/ Salaalee Fiichee Yuuniversitiitti barattootni har’a FXG gaggeessun nyaata lagatanii jiru. Barattootni mooraa kana gara FXGtti bahuuf sababa kan tahe kanaan dura kan beeknu nuti yuuniversiti Finfinnee jala turre yeroo darb miiidiyaan yoo dubbatu YUUNIVERSITII SALAALEE jechuudhaan dubbate nuti kan beeknu yuuniversitii Finfinnee jala jiraachuu miidiyaan kandubbatu akka Yuuniversitii of danda’aatti kun karaa ittiin uummanni mootummaa babal’inavbarnootaa irratti hojii hojjetaa jiruuf sammuun uummataas tasgabbaa’u akka waan uummanni kun bulchiinsa gaaritti lakkaawatuun gaaffii amma qabate jiru kana dhiisuutti yaaduu waan taheef sobuma wayyaneetti baanee mootummaa kana kuffisuu qabna jechuun FXGtti barattooni yuuniversitii kanaa barumsa dhaabanii jiru.
Godina Wallaggaa Qellem Ashii Keessaa Barsiisonni Oromoo Ta’an 3 Ukkaamfaman, Barataan Tokkos Rasaasa Waraana Wayyaaneen Rukutame
Bitootessa 18,2016/ Godina Qelle wallaggaa ona Anfilloo ganda Ashii jedhamutti guyyoota muraasa dura FXG uummata fi barattootaan ka’uu Weerroon gabaasee jira. Akka odeessa ammas Qeerroon gabaasee jiruttis humni agaazii jedhamu haga Dafinoo dhufuutti gandicha irra akka qubatee jiraaatuu fi uummatas hiraarsu dirqama fudhatee akka jiruu fi uummanni karaa irra deemuu hin danda’u manaas gadi ba’aa akka hin jirre kan gabaafamee fi barattootni fi barsiistoni hedduun kan ukkaamfamanii fi rasaasaan barattootni lama kan rukutama Qeerroon gabaasee jira.
Barsiisaa Jambar Xurunaa -barsiisaa sadarkaa 2ffaa kan tahe kan ganda Ashii Barsiisaa Baayisaa Kabbadee- Barsiisaa sadarkaa 2ffaa ganda Ashii
Barsiisaa Faantaa Mankar- sadarkaa 1ffaa kan barsiisu yoommu tahu Baratoota rasaasa wayyaaneen rukutaman keessaa Daawwit Tasfayee kan jedhamu miilla rukutamee amma Hospitaala Dambi Doollootti yaalamaa kan jiru tahuu Qeerroon gabaasee jira. Barattootni hedduunis ukkaamfamani jiru. Kun gabaasa Bitootessa 17/2016ti
Godina Addaa Finfinnee Buraayyuu Naannoo Ashowaa Meedaa Keessaa Ammallee Dachiin Ummata Oromoo Gurguramuu Itti Fufe.
Bitootessa 19,2016/ OPDOn ammallee lafa uummata Oromoo gircitee gurgurataa jiraachuun uummanaa fi abbaa lafaa qonnaan bulaa lafa gadhiiseen saaxilamee jira.
Suurraan asi irratti argamu kunneen godina addaa Finfinnee Buraayyuu naannoo Ashowaa Meedaa jedhamee waamamutti naannoo sun kan hojii guyyaa hojjetuun beekamu uummata Oromoo lafa isaa dhabe kan manni isaa ijaaramu abbooti tayitaa Wayyaanee fi Tigreeti OPDOn akkaataa kanaan lafa uummata Oromoo bakka hedduudhaa cirsiistee gurgurattee jirti naannoon kun harka alagatti kennamee abban lafaa lafa isaa dhabee rakkoo guyyaatiin saaxilamee jira uummanni Oromoo naannichaa jiru lafa isaa kana waliin tahe akka deeffatu waamichas daballee taasisna kanas dabalatee lafti naannichaa saamamee jiru suuraawwan waraabaman kan Qeerroon dhiyeessaa jiru hedduudha miidiyaa uumataatti haa bahuun dhaamsa goona.
Mootummaan Wayyaanee TPLF Bulchiisa Magaalaa Sabbataa Keessatti Kan Argamu Hoteela Fiqire Yohannis Jedhamu Kontoraata Fudhachuun Waraana Agaazii fi Poolisa Sooruu Jalqabe.
Bitootessa 19,2016/ Hotelli Fiqre Yohannis Bulchiifnni magaala Sabbataa kontiraata guutuu qabatee Agaazii fi polisii federalaa itti sooruun barattoota keenya reebsisaa hawaasa oromoo magaala kana hiraarsa jira. Jiraattota baayyee wajjiraa polisii sabataa irra hanga ma’ikalawiitti mannen hidha sadarkaan jiraan keessatti dararama jiru. Keesuma torban kana keessa barattoota mb.sad.2ffaa fi pp. sabbata haala sukkanneessa ta’een waajira opdo waliin walta’uun mankaraarsaa jiru.
Magaalaan Naqamtee Wallaggaa Hoomaa Waraana Wayyaaneen Weeraramtee Uummata Irratti Yakki Hojjetamu Daran Jabaatus FXG Itti Fufe.
Bitootessa 19,2016/ Magaalaan Naqamtee hoomaa waraanaan weerararamtee jirti.Humni federaalaa daran humna magaalatii ol baayyachuun uummata magaalaa naqamtee fi naannoo ishee doorsisuu,hidhuu fi mana uummataa irra deemuun manuma keessaa gad harkisanii baratoota fi uumata magaalaa kana irratti reebichi gara laafina hin qabne gidduu kana hammaachaa jiraachuu Qeerroon gabaasa. Akka Qeerroon gabaasetti meeshaan humna federaalaa kanaaf dabalataan akka naannoo kumsaa morodaallee dhufee seenee jiru maddeen keenya ibsanii jiru.Mana Adabaa Poolisii Godina Wallaggaa Magaalaa Gimbii Keessatti Sabboontoti Oromoo 60 Ol Dararaa Cimaan Irra Gahaa Jiraachuu Qeerroon Gabaase.
Bitootessa 19,2016/ Yeroo ammaa kanatti Ficila Xumura Gabrummaa waliin wal qabatee sabboontoti ilmaan Oromoo kumaatamaan manneen hidhaa beekamaa fi hin beekamiin hedduu keessatti guutuu Oromiyaa keessaa dararamaa jiru. Godina Wallaggaa magaalaa Gimbii keessattis Oromoota maatii fi hiriyyoota irraa dubbisa dhorkamanii yeroo ammaatti dararamaa jiran namoota 60 ol keessaa hammi tokko:-
- Solomon Mokonniin- Barreessaa KFO Godina W/Lixaa fi hojjetaa mootummaa
- Tafarii Baqqalaa – Damee ijaarsa KFO Godina W/Lixaa
- Girmaa Tamasgeen – Koree hoji raawwachiiftuu KFO G/W/Lixaa
- Yoseef Lammii – Kan filannoo darbe taajjaban
- B/saa Malkaamuu Taarikuu – Filannoo kan taajjaban
- B/saa Amanaa Gabbisaa – Kan filannoo taajjaban
- B/saa Caalaa Indaaluu- Barsiisaa Mana Barumsaa Adiveentistii Gimbii
- B/saa Alamuu Asaffaa – Barsiisaa Mana Barumsaa Adiveentistii Gimbii
- Obbo Kifiluu Daaqaa- Ogeessa Hospitaala Adiveentistii Gimbii
- Obbo Daggafaa Wayyeessa – Hojjetaa Mana Murtii G/W/Lixaa
- Obbo Balaay Taammanee – Hojjetaa Baankii Awwaash Gimbii
- Obbo Tasammaa Taliilaa – I/G/Waldaa walgargaarsaa Buusaa GonofaaWalumaa gala namootni 60 maatii waliin akka wal hin dubbisne dhorkamuun yeroo dararaa cimaa kan irra ga’aa jirudha.
#KonsoProtests continues, 18 March 2016
#OromoProtests 18 March 2016 in Iluu.
Bitootessa 18 bara 2016 Godina Iluu Abbaa Boora Aanaa Alleetti Mana barumsaa Onga Sadarkaa 2ffaa Qeerroo barattooni Oromoo sagalee isaani dhageessisa oolan.
Wayyaanot Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Qubatan Gocha Diinummaa Barattoota Oromorratti Raawwachuu Itti Fufan
Bitootessa 18,2016
Yeeroo gara yeerootti barattoota Oromoo adamsee afaan diinaa buusuun adda duree kan ta’e Mooraan Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa guuyyoota sadeen darbe keessa mooraa Techno keessa barattoota sadii gara mana hiraarsaa Qaallittitti akka dabarse nii yaadatama har’as Beeksisa barattootarratti baasaa akka jiru dhaga’amaa jira Gocha kana adda durummaan Raawwachaa kan jiran Kaalid abbaa Tamaam yoo ta’u miidhama barataarraan gahaa jiruuf itti gaafatamaa ta’uu hubachiifna.QeerrooYuunibarsiitii Jimmaarraa
Dhaamsa Hatattamaa Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo Irraa Kenname.
“Yeroo diddaa fi mormiin Oromoo gara fincilaa fi warraaqsaatti guddachaa adeemutti, waantota armaan gadii kunneen eeguu fi eeggachuun barbaachisaa dha.
1. Manneen sagadaa fi amantii, ardaalee amantii
2. Caasaalee hawaasummaa kan akka manneen barnootaa, manneen yaalaa, tajaajila buur-misoomaa,
3. Aadaa waliin jireenyaa fi walgargaarsaa
4. Qabeenya ummataa fi biyya Oromiyaa
5. Qabeenya uumamaa tiksuun barbaachisaa dha.
Qeerroon Bilisummaa Oromoo akka amanutti, ummati Oromoo lafaa fi qabeenya isaa abbootii qabeenyaan irraa fudhatame deebifachuuf mirga guutuu qaba. Caasaalee fi ijaarsota mootummaa garboonfataa ofirraa kaasuunis mirga ummataa ti.
Namoota mootummaatti hirkatanii ummata miidhan gorsuu fi karaatti deebisuun hojii keenya innikaa dha. Garuu, yoo gorsaa fi akeekkachiisa ummataaf gurra kennuu didan barumsa malchiisu kennuufiin barbaachisaa dha.
Kaayyoon keenya Bilisummaa Oromoo akka dhugoomuuf qooda keenya bahuu dha. Kaayyoo ummata Oromoo kana milkeesuuf waan kaayyoo saba keenyaa jabeessu irratti hojjachuu dha; gama kaaniin immoo waan hundee diinaa jabeessuciruu fi balleessun akka nagaa fi bilisummaan Oromoo dhugoomu hojjachuun akeeka keenya waan ta’eef jabaatee itti fufa!”
Godina Iluu Abbaa Booraa Aanaa Hurumuu Keessatti FXG Itti Fufuu Qeerroon Gabaase.
Bitootessa 17,2016, Iluu Abbaa Booraa aanaa Hurumuu ganda Soonxaa jedhamutti har’a FXG itti fufee ooleera. Uummata , qonnaan bulaa, barataa, hojjetaa mootummaa fi daldalaan jaarsaa fi jaartii utuu hin jennee gara FXGtti makamee jira. Dhaadannoo
– Oromiyaan ni bilisoomti
– Abbaan biyyaa oromoodha
– Tigree nurraa haa galtu
– Wayaaneen hattuudha
Jechuun guyyaa guutuu dhaadannoo dhageesisaa oolaniiru. Miseensa kora bittinneessaa keessa poolisiin lama humna uummataan madeeffamee hojiin ala tahee jira. konkolaataan aanichaa fi waajjirri ganda soonxaas ibiddaan gubatee jira.
Mootummaan Wayyaanee EPRDF/TPLF/ Bulchiinsa waraanaan Oromiyaa shororkeessa kan jiruu humna Waraanaa Uummata Oromoo irra qubsiisee jiruun duula hidhaa jumlaa gaggeessaa jiraachuu Qeerroon gabaase .
Gabaasa Qeerroo Bitootessa 17,2016
Mootummaan Wayyaanee EPRDF/TPLF/ Bulchiinsa waraanaan Oromiyaa shororkeessa kan jiruu humna Waraanaa Uummata Oromoo irra qubsiisee jiruun duula hidhaa jumlaa gaggeessaa jiraachuu Qeerroon gabaase .Warraaqsii FXG’ yakka waraanni rawwachaa jiruun dhaabbachuu hin dandeenye, daranuu jabaatee Oromoon bulchinsa waraana duradhaabbatee falmaa bilisummaa itti fufe jira.
Dulli hidhaa jumlaa kun Godinaalee Oromiyaa hundarratti gaggeeffamaa jira, Ilmaan oromoo umriidhaan illee utuu hin daangeffamiin daa’imman ganna 8 dabalatee hanga manguddoota ganna 85 olitti kan keessatti argaman godinaalee Oromiyaa cufa keessatti waraanaan dirqisiifamanii qabamuun manneen hidhaa, sadarkaa gandaa, Aanaa,Godina fi manneen Hidhaa biyyaatti beekamoo kanneen akka Maa’ikalawwii, Qilinxoo, Qaallittii, Ziwaay, Shawaa Roobiti kanneen jedhaman keessatti haala suukaneessa ta’een ilmaan Oromoo ukkanfamanii hidhamuun manni hidha wal haqatee jiraachuun Walqabatee. magaalaa #Finfinnee Keessatti ma’ikalawwiin waan bakka itti hidhan wal hanqatee jiruuf gara Wajjiraalee bulchiinsa magaalaa Finfinnee hundarraattii fi waajjiraalee Poolisii Magaalaa Finfinnee keessa jiru keessatti ilmaan Oromoo ukkaanfamaa jiraachuun ibsamee jira.
Bakki itti Oromoo hidhan waan wal hanqatee jiruuf Ilmaan Oromoo hedduun mooraa Waraanaa Xollaayi, Mooraa Waraanaa Magaalaa jimmaa keessa jiruu fi Dhidheessatti guuramanii hidhamani jiru. Waraanni wayyaanee Magaallota oromiyaa kanneen akka Amboo, Naqemtee, Gimbii, Gullisoo, Walisoo,Adaamaa, Shashamannee, Roobee Asallaa, Ciroo, Harammayyaa, Gujii, Yaabelloo keessatti Yakka saamichaa, dirqisiisanii gudeeduu, fi Halkan ilmaan Oromoo ukkamsuun gara dabarsuu irratti bobba’uun yakki waraanaa ulfaataan Oromiyaa keessatti jabaatee itti fufee jira.
Yakkiajjeechaa jumlaa(#genocide),hidhaa jumlaa fi dararaa fi shoroorkeessii waraana wayyaaneen ilmaan Oromoo irratt rawwatamaa jiru kun ilmaan Oromoo sirnicha keesatti sadarkaa waraanaa hanga hojjettoota siiviliitti jiran dachaan akka uummata isaanii cina dhaabbatanii fi sirnicha gananii keessa of baasuun lammii isaanii waliin falmatan godha jira. haaluma kanaan yeroo amma kanatti milishoota gandaa hanga poolisootaa fi kora bittinneessaa dabalatee ilmaan Oromoo caasaa waraana wayyaanee keessatti argamanitti rakkoon ulfaataan dhalachaa jira. Uummatni Oromoo mirga isaa fi bilisummaa dhugaa isaaf waan karaa nagaan falmateef akka malee ajjeefamuun, hidhamuu fi madeeffamuun sabaa fi sablamoota cunqurfamoo ollaa Oromiyaa ta’anii fi Oromiyaa keessa jiran illee kan warraaqsaatti galchee jiru ta’uun beekamadha. adeemsii kun immoo mootummaa wayyaanee kufaatii isa dhumaa fi ijibbaataan ga’ee waan qabee gadhiisuu wallaalee jira.
maqaa hidhamtoota Oromoo jamlaan aanaa ,Ganda, Godina, Oromiyaa fi dhaabbilee barnoota hundaa irraa waluma hidhamanii fi wareegamanii, madeeffamanii yeroo yeroon uummata addunyaaf tamsaasaa waan jirruuf bakka tokkotti gabaasa kana waliin kaa’uun gababbina yeroof malee kuusaa galmee qeerroo irratti save goonee jiraachuu isin hubachiifna.
Godina Hararge Lixaa Aanaa Habroo Magaalaa Defo Keessatti Daa’immaan Oromoo Karaatti Bahanii Wallee Warraaqsaa Wallisu.
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Godina Wallaggaa Lixaa Aanaa Jaarsoo Magaalaa Jaarsoo Keessatti Manneen Barnootaa Guutummaatti Cufaman,Kaabinooti Wayyaanee Irree Uummataan Adabamaa Jiru.
Bitootessa 17,2016, Godina Wallagga lixaa aanaa Jaarsoo magaala Jaarsotti barattootni Bitootessa 16 fi 17,2016 kaleessaa fi har’a mana barumsaadarkaa 1ffaa, 2ffaa fi qophaayinaa guutuummatti cufamee jiraatuu Qeerroon gabaasee jira.
Misensotaa fi kaabinee Wayyaanee irratti tarkaafiin fudhatamee jira. manneen jireenyaa milishootaas gubatee jira. Tarkaanfii uummtaa fi humna hin beekamneen poolisoonni Wayyaanee hedduun madeeffamanii jiru.FXG ona kanatti halkan kanas kan itti fufee jiruudha. Humni addaa magaala Najjoo irra buufatee jira jedhu jiraattootni magaala Najjoo.
FXG Godinaalee Oromiyaa Adda Addaa Keessatti Ta’een Ummannii fi Loltooti Wayyaanee Jidduu Falmaan Dhalatee Jira
Gabaasa Qeerroo Bitootessa 17,2016
Erga gaafa Bitootessa 15,2016 Irraa Kaasee FXG Godinaalee Oromiyaa Adda Addaa Keessatti Ta’een Ummannii fi Loltooti Wayyaanee Jidduu Falmaan Dhalatee Jira, Godinaalee kanneen akka:-
1. Iluu Abbaa Booraa keeysatti – magaala Mattuu, Hurumuu, Baddallee, Manneen barnootaas sadarkaa 1ffaa Burusa keeysatti argamu sadarkaa 2ffaa fi qophiyaaninaa Hurumuu fi kkf tti wayyaanen humna badii ishee ergaa jirti. Uummanni fi barattootni godina Iluu Abbaa Booraa FXG akkuma eegaletti akka itti fufu jajjabina fi murannoo dabarsaa jira.
2. Godina Horro Guduruu fi Baha wallaggatti aanaalee kan akka Jaargadaa Jarte,Jimmaa Raaree, Naqamte, yuuniversitii wallagaga fi manneen barnootaa kannen akka Jaargada Jarte sadarkaa 2ffaa mana kombolchaa sadarka 2ffaa, mana barumsaa Abaabo Guduru sada.1ffaa, 2ffaa fi qophaayinaatti wayyaane tarkaanfii dhumaa fudhanna jettee jirti. Barattootni fi uummanni godina wallaa bahaa fi horroo barattoota waliin hiriiruun FXG ammallee sodaa hidhaa fi ajjechaa malee itti fufee jira. Diinni tarkaanfii fudhachuun uummataaf haara miti bodatti hin deebinu akkam tahullee jechuun murteeffatee jira. Humni addaa oromiyaa keesa magaalota garagaraa qubatee jiru FXG uummata Oromoo dura dhaabbachuu hin dandeenye.
3. Wallagga Yuuniversitii dame Gimbiitti argamu barumsa dhaabanii jiru. BARATAAN WALLAGGA YUUNIVERSITII MAIN KAAMPAASI IRRAA DHABAME NUUF HAA DEEBI’U BARATAAN HIDHAME HAA GADHIIFAMU HUMNI WARAANA MOORAA KEESA BUUFATEE JIRU HAA BAHU KAN DUEEF GUMAA NUTU BAASA jechuun waraqaaleen mooraa yuuniversiii dame Gimbiitti bittimfamaa jira gidduu kana. Barataanis barumsa dhaabee mooraa keessa buufatee jira. Barattootn nyaata lagachuunis beekameera.
4. Adaamaa Yuuniversitiitti diinni barattoota irratti tarkaanfii suukkanneesaa fudhataa jira barataan moraa yuuniversiti Adaama harki guddan hidhamee jira kaan maati isaatti baqatee jira kan ukkaamfame hedduudha jedha qeeyron adaamaa. Waardiyaa fi poolisiin mooraa Yuuniversitii barattootni keenya utuu ukkaamfamanii hin ilaallu jechuun hojii gadhiisaa jiru waardiyaan humna diinaa mooraa seenaa jirutti karra cufe reebichaan miidhamee jira.
Akka walii galaatti dhaabbileen barnootaa oromiyaa keessa jiru humna diinatu dhuunfatee jira addatti humna addaa wayyaanee. Manni hidha Wayyaanes wal hankakee jira
– Hidhaan hiika hin tahu
– Bilisummaan keenya dhufeera
– Uummanni Oromoo gabrummaatti hin hafu
– Wayyaaneef kana booda dhumeera
– Mootummaan wayyaanee shororkeessadha
Jechuun baratootni fi Qeeyroon godinoota addaa oromiyaa keessa Buraayyuu, Laga Xaafoo, Sulultaa, Sabbataatti waraqaa bittimsaa jiru.
https://youtu.be/quq0nbaI_ns
https://youtu.be/AfxJtOPSqMc
#OromoProtests, Bitootessa 16 bara 2016: Iluu/A/ Booraa Aanaa Mattuu Ganda Aallee Buyaatti Uummanni Barataa Faana Mancaa fi Meeshaa Waraanaa Qabatee Ba’ee Kaabinoota Ari’ani.Ganda Barrooyiitti Dargaggoon Daandii Cufuun Mormii Ittifufani.Manneen Barnootaa Abdii Borii Fi Sad.2ffaa Mattuu Diddaa Dhageessisaa Oolani.Hurrumuutti Konkolaataan Kaabinee Guurtu Kan Biiroo Barnootaa Gubatee Poolisoonni Lama Garmalee Miidhamanii Hospitaala Galani.
#OromoProtests: Iluu ( 16 March 2016): Diddaa fi mormiin Oromoo godina I/A/Bora aanaa Hurrumuutti gguyyaa har’aa, Bitootessa 16 bara 2016 gaggeeffame. Diddaa fi mormii qeerroon fudhateen konkolaataan diinaa tokko barbadaayeera. wayyaaneen ergamtootashee (kaabinoota) godinarraa fe’attee ummata hiraarsuufi tamsaasuuf utuu deemtuu Hurrumuutti qeerroon dura dhaabbatee konkolaataan waajjiraa tokko daaraa taasiseera. Bifuma walfaakkaateen FXGn Aanaa Aallee (Goreettii) keessattis jabaatee itti fufee jira.
#OromoProtests (16 March 2016) continues in Jimma University technology Campus. Agazi has set fire to a dormitory in order to force barricaded students out. They are currently beating those students who escaped the fire and captured.
#Oromoprotests: Adaabbaa, Arsi, Oromia, March (Bitootessa ) 16, 2016
Oduu Ammaantana Bitootessa 16 bara 2016 Roobii Har’aa Goodina Arsii Lixaa Aanaa Adaabbaa Magaalaa Adaabbaa keeysatti Mormiin Cimaan Gaggeeyfamutti jira . Mootummaan masgida rukuutuun amantiwwan biroo walin walitti buusuuf deemaa jira .
Humni Woraana Poolisa fi Fedraalli Ormiyaa Konkolaataa Hedduun Magaalaa Dodolaarraa Gamasitti Akka Fe’amaaran Jiraattota Naannootirraa Odeeffannoon Nugahe Ibseera Magaalaan Adaabbaa Humna woraaniitiin Akka Guutamte Nidhagahama Sagaleen Dhukaasaas Baay’inaan Akka Dhagahamuu Odeeffannoon Nugaheeraa Miidhaan Hanga Ammaatti Dhaqqabe Nun Geenne Intarneenni Guutumaan Guututti Akkan Hujne Hubanneerra .
#OromoProtests-(16.03.2016, Oromia)This is Abbas Roobaa Bulloo a 16 years old student who was gunned down by Agazi soldiers in Adaba town, West Arsi, today March 16, 2016.
#OromoProtests in Adaabbaa, Arsi, Oromia, March 2016. This is Abbaas Roobaa Bulloo, 16 year old boy killed by fascist TPLF Agazi forces.
Kun Abbaas Roobaa Bulloo, kan waggaa 16 ti. Abbaas guyyaa har’aa Arsii Lixaa magaalaa Adaabbaa keessatti waraan Agaaziitiin ajjeefame.
Bitootessa 16,2016) Godina Harargee Lixaa fi Harargee Bahaatti magalota kannen akka Baddeessaa fi Aanaa Baabillee fi Calanqootti FXGn mootummaa abbaa irree wayyaanee akkuma raasetti itti fufeetu jira. Hidhaa fi ajjechaan kan irratti babal’ataa jiru Godina Lixa Harargee keessaa gochi diinaan raawwatamu hammaataa ta’ullee, ummatni keenya murteeffatee jira.
– Ajjechaa fi hidhaan boodatti nun deebisu
– Dhiigni dhangala’e akkasitti hin hafu; gumaa isaa BILISUMMAADHAAN baasna
– Hidhamtootni hamma bahanii fi hamma bilisummaa fi walabumma keenya
mirkaneessinutti qabson keenya itti fufa kan jedhu waraqaan gidduu kana bittimfamee jira.
Barataan kamuu hirmaannaa barumsaa dhaabee gara FXGtti fuula isaa guutummaatti deebisee kan jiru godina Harargee lamaanuutti jabeeffatee jira. Ummannis barattoota waliin dhaabbatee FXG galmaan gahuuf kutatee ka’ee jira.
Akka Oromiyaatti yeroo ammaa humni waraana wayyaanee kan qubatee jiruu fi konkolaataan daandiirraa dhagaa kaasu kan waraana magaalotaa fi dhaabbilee barnootaa yuuniversitiitti xiyyeeffatun socho’aa jiruu dha.
#BilisummaaOromoo-(16.03.2016, #XumuraGarbummaa, Oromiyaa) Godina addaa naannawaa finfinnee magaalaa sabbataa mana barumsa sadarkaa lammaffaa fi qophaa’inaa Sabbataatti ammaan tana ijoollee Oromootin FDG qabsiifame itti deemamaa jira.Humni waraana agaazii barattoota tumaa jira.
Barattooti garuu diddaa fi mormii isanaii jabeessanii jiru!
#OromoProtests-(16 March 2016, Shambuu, Oromia): These are students in Shambu ( Horo Guduru Walaga) continue with their protests.
#BilisummaaOromoo-(Bitootessa 16 bara 2016, Shambuu, Oromiyaa) Kun Diddaa Oromoo kan Bitootessa 16,2016 Barattootni mana barumsaa qophaa’ina Shaambuutiin gaggeessame. Barattooti kunneen diddaa fi mormii isaanii karaa nagaatiin gaggeessuun gaaffii abbaa biyyummaa Oromoo akka deeggarran mirkaneessan. Didda akana booda dhaadannoo addaddaa dhageessisuun mana barumsaa cufanii galanii jiru.
Barattooti hedduunis sababa Kanaan hidhaatti guuramaa jiru.
#OromoProtests continues in Malkaa Balloo, Harawaacaa town, Hararghe, Oromia, March 2016.
#OromoProtests mormii Guyyaa har’aa Bitooteesa 16 bara 2016 Harargee Bahaa Anaa Malkaa Balloo magaalaa Harawaacaa keessatti taasifame akkan fakkaata. Poolisootnii agaazii uummata reebaa jiran.
WASHINGTON, DC (VOA Afaan Oromoo) — Godina Arsii Anaa Muneesaa magaalaa Qarsaa keessatti barattonni mana barumsaa sadarkaa lammaffaa fi qophaa’inaa kibxata Bitooteessa 15 bara 2016 hiriira mormii gaggeessuun waraanni Agaazii qubatee jiru haa ba’uu, murtiin haqaa nuuf haaeegabuu, mirgii keenya haa eegamu jechuun gaafatanii jiran.Yeroo kanattis polisiin naannoo fi Federaalaa hiriirtoota diguuf reebaa fi Gaaza himiimaansuun gargaaramuu isaanii barattonni ibsanii jiru.Yeroo gabaabaa keessatti waraanni mootummaa seenee reebicha hamaa geesisuu isaa fi barattonni lakkofsaan torbaatamaa ol ta’an hidhamuu jiraattoota keessaas namoonniishan dararaa barattoota irratti gaggeffame bilbiila harkaan waraabdan jedhamuun hidhamuu isaanii ibsamee jira.
Itti gaafatamaan waajiira polisii aanaa Muneesaa inspeekter Tarreessaa Dheereessaa barattonni hangi tokko kaleessa jeequuf yaaluu isaanii ibsanii amma hunduu nagaa jedhan.Jiraattoota keessa shan karaa foddaa waajiira isaanii haala ture bilbila harka isaaniin waraabaa turan jechuun eega qabamanii booda gadhifamuu dubbatan. Lakkofsa barattoota hidhamanii kan hin ibsine aangawaan polisii kun hunduu gadhifamanii kudhan qoftii dhimmi isaanii seeraan qoratamaa jira jedhu.Mummichi ministeera Itiyoophiyaa Haayle Maariam Dassaaleny Oromiyaa keessatti dogoggorri hojjatamuu kan amanan ta’us kan dubbataa jiranii fi kan amma qabatamaan ta’a jiru faallaa waan ta’eef kan dubbatan sun soba jedhu barattonni.
Gama biraatiin, godinaa Wallaggaa Bahaa, aanaa Kiiramuu keessatti gara xumura torban dabree irra barsiisonni afurii fi dargaggoonni sadii humnoota poolisii aanichaan qabamanii achi-buuteen isaanii waan dhabameef jecha, Wixata dabre, Amajji 16, bara 2015 barattoonni manneen barnootaa magaalaa Kiiramuu keessa jiran marti hiriira bahuu isaanii dubbatu – barattoonni. Akka barattoonni jedhanitti, barsiisonni aanaa Kiiramuu keessaa qabamanii achi-buuteen isaanii dhabame: Lataa Asaffaa, Katamaa (Carraa) Nagaasaa, Dhaabaa Soorii fi nama magaalaa Haaroo tii barsiisu, kan Eliyaas jedhamu. Dargaggoonni hidhaman sadeen immoo, Anumaa Adabaa, Efreem Temesgeenii fi Habtaamuu Oliiqaa ti.
Humnoonni polisii aanaa Kiiramuu, barafttoota hiriira ba’anitti bobba’uudhaan reebanii, garii isaanii qabanii mana hidhaatti naqan – jedhan, barattoonni. Hiriirri geggeessame, ka jedhame akka quba hin qabne ka dubbatan – Itti-aanaa Itti-gaafatamaan dhimma nageenyaa aanaa Kiiramuu – Obbo Tseggaayee Oljirraa immoo, “barsiisota hidhaman jedhaman warri hidhe jiraachuu mala. Gama kiyyaan waanan beeku hin qabu. Dargaggoonni sadeen immoo dhuguma hidhamanii jiru. Ana tu dhimma isaanii hordofaa jira. Hattoota” jedhan.
Bitootessa 15,2016 Godina Wallaggaa anaa Jaarsootii bartonnii manaa barumsaa sadaka 2ffaa fi qopha’insaa jaarsoo mormii jabaa dhageessisa olanii jiru haalumaa kanan motummaan wayannee namoota hiidha jiru kane
en hiidhamaan
1, B\sa Adamuu Du
reessoo
2, Dasaleeny Alamayyoo
3, Jabeessaa
4,Gammee dargagonnii hedduun baqataanii jiru,
en hiidhamaan1, B\sa Adamuu Du
reessoo2, Dasaleeny Alamayyoo
3, Jabeessaa
4,Gammee dargagonnii hedduun baqataanii jiru,
#OromoProtests in
#OromoProtests: Buraayyuu, 15 March 2016, akkeekkachiisa
#OromoProtests 15/3/2016 alaabaa ABOtifii Dhaadannoolee warraaqsaa jajjabduu guyyaa arraa magaalaa burraayyuutti maxanfaman. viva viva Qeerroo bilisummaa Oromoo!!
March 14, 2016
Kaleessa mootummaan faashistoota TPLF Adama Yuuniversitii bifa kanaan cacabsuu fi gubuun barattoota Oromoo irratti gochaa Sheexxannummaa fi shorokeesumaa daangaa hin qabne raawwate. Maaltu maal ta’ee hanga ammaatti adda baafachuun hin danda’amne. Yakkii ilmaan Oromoo fi saboota biroo irratti hojjatame kan beekamu eega mootummaan kun kufeetti booda akka ta’uu mamii malee dha. Mootummaa badii fi sanyii duguugaan hiriyyaa hin qabne ta’uuf jiraata.
#OromoProtests in Kiramu, east Wallaggaa, Oromia, 15 March 2016
#OromoProtests Gotowwan barattoonni Kiiramu (east Wollega, March 15, 2016) FXG gaggeessaa olani!!
#FncilaXumuraGbrummaa
March 14, 2016
#Madda Odeeffannoo #Hangaasuu Bilisumaa Oromia Dha
odeefannoo haraa waliif dabarsa……………………………………..Qeerroo shawaa lixaa aanoolee Dandii(gincii), Jalduu, Gindabarat, Amboo, gudar, Gedo, Midaa Qanyi, Noonoo, Dirree incinnii, Ada’aa Bargaa, Bakoo fi Daanoo hojii haaraa wayaaneen to’achuu hin dandeenye in raawanna jedhu. keessattuu, hojetoonni motummaa hojii ni dhabnaa, guyyaa tokko sa’ati walfakatatti dandii guddaa aanaa keenyaa qaxamuruu irraa uffataa keenyaa qorraa fi firashii keenyaa afanee ciifna. kunis, hanga motummaan tplf aangoo gadii dhisuutti ykn gaffiin keenyaa heeraa motummaan mirkana’ee hanga deebi’utti itti fufa jedhu. agazii Osoo hin tanee magaziin iyyuu firashii keenyaa irraa nuu hin kasuu.
1. garuu, abbootiin qabeenyaa fi ummannii nyaata nuu dhiyessuun nuu gargaraa.
2. dargaggoonnii umuriin keessaan waggaa 15-50 tataan kamuu dhiraa dubartii osoo hin jedhiin nuu waliin karaa irraa ciccisuu nuu Barbara.
3. kun halkanii fi guyyaa osoo him jedhiin itti fufa. bilisummaan ummata bal’aaf
#OromoProtests Yeroo amma kanatti Godina Boraana keessatti OPDOn duute off amanu dadhabde bulchoota fi manajaroota ganda bobaasuun ulaaga offi bafaateen namoota adda bafaacha jirti. Kanaaf, off eegaa ha sochoonu.
Injiffannoon Ummata Oromoo Bal’aaf!!!
Fascist TPLF forces at Adama University, 14 March 2016
Amma Univeersitin Finfiinnee fi Adaamaa poolisiifi waranaan guutamtee argamtii
Fascist TPLFAgazi forces shooting #Oromprotsters in Babbile town, East Hararge, 5 March 2016
#OromoProtests#Happening_now Agazi soldiers firing on protesters in
Babbile town, East Hararge . Additional soldiers are seen speeding
towards that direction. March 15, 2016
Amma magaalaa baabbileetti Agaaziin dhukaasa uummatatti baneera.
Akkasumaa konkolaataawwan agaazii fe’an gara magaalattiitti seenaa jiru.
Godina Arsii Lixaa Aanaa Kofalee Ganda Ashkoo Keessatti Barruuleen Warraaqsaa Raabsamaa Oole.
Bitootessa 14,2015
Godina Arsii lixaa aanaa kofalee ganda Ashkoo keessatti kaleessa irraa kaasuun waraqaale dhaadannoo hedduun kan magaala keessa faca’ee jiru
– Uummanni oromoo Bilisummaa barbaada
– Ajjechaan uummata oromoo irra gahaa jiru haa dhaabbatu
– Gumaa barattoota keenyaa haa baafanu
– Mootummaan wayyaanee nun bulchin
– Qabeenyaa diinaa irratti tarkaanfii fudhachuu qabna
– Wayyaaanee aangoo irraa hanga buusnutti boodatti hin deebinu
– Oromiyaan haa bilisoomtu
– Wayyaaneen hattuudha uummanni qabeenya keessan eeggadhaa Kan jedhu warqaalen xixiqqaan bittimfamee jira. Shaashimannee
dabalatee waraqaan bittimfamaa jiraachuu Qeerroon gabaasee jira. Kaabinoonni fi ergamtootni diinaa magaalota keessaa miliqaa jiru humni
wayyaanee haala kana sodaatee meeshaa gurguddaadhaan godina arsii keessa buufataa jira.
Sakatta’insan Barattoota Rakkisuun Mooraa Guddicha Main Campus Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaatti Jaabaate
March 15, 2016
By QeerrooBitootessa 15,2016: Waan qabee gadi dhiisu kan dhabe humni diinaa Agaaziin guutummaa mooraa Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Kutaa lamaa wal qoodee qubsuma bakka lama taasifachuun kan jiru dararaa barattootaa itti fifee jira.Akkasuma Komaandara Moorichaa kan ta’e Kaalid Abbaa Tamaam wayiita kana icciita barataa dhabuun dhukkubbii kan itti ta’e haala barataa ittiin qabatu yoo dhabu shirrii sobaan yeroo barattootarratti ragaa funaannachaa jiru kanatti haala mooraa of sodaachurraan guutummaa Doormiirra deemsisee sakataasisaa jirachuu gabaasi Qeerroo ibsa.
March 15, 2016
By QeerrooBitootessa 15,2016: Waan qabee gadi dhiisu kan dhabe humni diinaa Agaaziin guutummaa mooraa Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Kutaa lamaa wal qoodee qubsuma bakka lama taasifachuun kan jiru dararaa barattootaa itti fifee jira.Akkasuma Komaandara Moorichaa kan ta’e Kaalid Abbaa Tamaam wayiita kana icciita barataa dhabuun dhukkubbii kan itti ta’e haala barataa ittiin qabatu yoo dhabu shirrii sobaan yeroo barattootarratti ragaa funaannachaa jiru kanatti haala mooraa of sodaachurraan guutummaa Doormiirra deemsisee sakataasisaa jirachuu gabaasi Qeerroo ibsa.
Oromia: Global Prayer Day for the Martyrs of #OromoProtests, 12 March 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdfYpBybTVg
#OromoProtests – Global Solidarity Rally, March 11, 2016
Oromia: #OromoProtests – 100 days of Public Protest March 8, 2016
https://oromianeconomist.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/oromia-oromoprotests-100-days-of-public-protest/
Africa On The Move: The Struggle of the Oromo People & Its Movement March 7, 2016
Newsweek: ETHIOPIA DETAINS JOURNALISTS COVERING #OROMOPROTESTS March 7, 2016
Ethiopia: Opinion – the ‘Special Interest’ Trickery
http://allafrica.com/stories/201603081120.html
Armed Conflict Location & Evnet Data Project: Real-time Analysis of Ethiopian Political Violence, March 2016
Concordia Students Raising Awareness for Oromo Struggle.
http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/concordia-students-raising-awareness-for-oromo-struggle
#OromoProtests: The Oromo Solidarity Project Concordia University, Montreal ( Canada) March 3, 2016
https://youtu.be/6_xsfscNp_U
http://https://youtu.be/6_xsfscNp_U
EYE ON AFRICA -The struggle of the Oromo people in Ethiopia. #OromoProtests http://f24.my/21XkGey
What do Oromo protests mean for Ethiopian unity?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35749065
‘Journalists in Ethiopia have for years faced obstacles to press freedom. Now, two ongoing news events — a drought in the Ethiopia’s eastern regions, and protests across the central Oromia region — have called for increased travel outside of the capital Addis Ababa, which has become difficult due to a high security presence.’ #OromoProtests
#OromoProtests: This is Dr. Jabessa Dhaba, a Vet. general practitioner who was working in Furda town, Bedeno district, E. Harerge zone. The regime arrested him in Bedeno accusing him of involvement in the #OromoProtests movement. His father, Ob. Dhaba Miressa, was also imprisoned two weeks ago for same reason.
“Dr Jabeeyssaa Dhaabaa jadhama Godina Harargee bahaa Aanaa Baddannoo magaalaa furdaa hoojata Sababa moormii dhihoo tana gageefameen harka keeysa qabda jadhanii mana hidhaa baddannootti hidhan. Abbaan isaa Dhaabaa Mirreessaa erga hidhame torbee lama”
Genocide in Ethiopia: Fascist Ethiopia’s Regime (TPLF) land robbery and its barbarism against Lower Omo Basin People. #OromoProtests #Africa
Konso People Protests the tyranny of fascist TPLF Ethiopia’s regime, 8 March 2016
#KonsoProtests- (08.03.2016, #EndSlavery, Oromia) The Konso people have been protesting over the last several months against land grab, demanding self-governing province and improvement in basic development. Last week, the regime arrested leader of their elders council. This led to eruption of protests on Saturday when farmers from various villages marched to the city. The city is currently under military control.
የኮንሶ ህዝብ የጀመረውን የአከላለል ጥያቄ ጋር በተያያዘ በህዝቡ ላይ በደቡብ ልዩ ኃይልና መከላከያ ሰራዊት እየደረሰ ያለው የአፈና ተግባር ተጠናክሮ ቀጥሏል፡፡ በዚሁ መሰረት በከተማው የሰፈረው ታጣቂ ከከተማዋ አጎራባች ቀበሌዎች እየዘመተ በህዝቡ የተዘጉ መንገዶችን ለማስከፈት በሚል በዜጎች ላይ በሚወስደው የኃይል እርምጃ በ- ደቤና ቀበሌ ገ/ማ አቶ ‹‹ሷይታ ጋራ ›› ህይወታቸው ያለፈ ሲሆን ወጣት ‹‹ ተስፋዬ ማሙሽ›› ከ -ከርታሌ ቀበሌ እግሩ ተሰብሮ በባህል ህክምና እየተደረገለት በካራት ከተማ የሚገኝ ሲሆን አንድ የ65 ዓመት አዛውንትም ተሰብረው ባሻ ጤና ጣቢያ ይገኛሉ፡፡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mATJd3Fkq0w
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mATJd3Fkq0w
#OromoProtests: This picture was taken neither in America nor Europe, but in Oromia, Nakamte Wallaggaa Univeristy, March 12, 2016
Guyyaa Har’aa Bitootessa 12,2016 Barruuleen warraaqsaa Yuniversitii Wallaggaa Keessatti Raabsamaa Jira.FXG Itti Fufe.
Bitootessa 12/2016 FXG Yuunversiitii Wallaggaa keessatti ittifufe.Guyyaa har,aa kanas baratoonni diddaa barnoonni bilisummaa booda jedhu dhaadannoo godhachuudhaan diddaa isaanii itti fufanii jiru.Duulli barnoota dhaabuu kun edda jalqabee gu har,aan guyyaa shanaffaa isaa yemmuu ta,u baratoonni hundus barnoota dhaabuun gara maatiitti akka imalaa jiran maddeen keenya achirraa arganne ifa godhu.Guyyaa hara,a kanas ganama irraa ka,uun waraqaan Qeerroo guutummaa yuunversiitichaa keessa raabsamaa waan ooleef yeroo ammaa kanas hoomaan waraanaa Guutummaan mooraa yuunversiitichaaf naannoon isaas hoomaa waraanaan dhuunfatamteetti.Keessumaa guyyaa har,aa kana baratoonni muraasni doormii keessatti hafanii waan jiraniif baratoota kanaanis yookaanmooraa gadhiisaa yookiinimmoo daree barnootaa seenaa baradhaa jechuun poolisoonnifederaalaa fi kan kaampaasichaa baratoota akkadoorsisaa jiranillee maddeen keenya eeraniiru.Mooraanis yeroo ammaa kanas qullaa taatee jirti .
Bitootessa 11 bara 2016 Godina Booranaa Aanaa Yaaballoo Ganda Aadee Galchaa Keessatti dargaggoonni maqaan isaan armaan gaditti tarreeffame mana Hidhaa Gandichaa keessaa humna ummataatiin baafaman.
2 Haroo Boruu
3 Dullacha Guyyoo
4 Guyyoo Duubaa
5 Areroo Dotii
Dargaggoonni kunneen sababa uummatni hiriira nagaa baheef hidhamanii turan. Ummati ilmaan isa ahidhaairraa baafachuun, akka ummati humna jabaa qabu mirkaneessan.
#OromoProtests, residents of rural villages marching towards Dadar town, East Hararge, Oromia 12 March 2016
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/12/omn-oduu-bit-11-2016/
#OromoProtests at Laga Harree School, Dirree, Eastern Oromia, 11 March 2016
Guyyaa Har’aa Bitootessa 10.2016: Godina Wallaggaa Anaa Jaarsoo Gandaa Haroo Biruu keessattii FXG bartoota mana barumsaa sadarkaa 1ffaa Gandichaaf ummaata waliin mormii jabaa dhageessisa jiru!
Haalumaa kanan ummannii Gadaa Gaarjoo Torbaan guyyaa har’aa Kaabinoota wayyannee kan walga’ii teesisu deeman qanneessuun nun marisistuu jechuun of irraa ari’aanii jiru!
Godina Iluu Abbaa Boratti aanaa alge magaala Algetti mana barumsaa qophaayinaa fi sadarkaa 2ffaa kan magaala suphee sadarkaa 2ffaanis barattootni waltahuudhaan kaleessa Bitootessa 9/2016 FXG guyyaa guutuu uummatallee ida’atani fininsa olan. Manneen jireenya kaabinoota fi milishoota irrattis tarkanfi fudhatanii jiru. Guyyaaa har’as barumsi dhabbate barattootni FXG bifa qinda’aadhaan gaggeessaa jiru uummannis deggeraa jira dhukaasni isaan irratti dhukaafamaa jiraatuu qeeyron nuuf
gabaasaa jira. qonan bulaan daandii cufee jira. magaalli Algee fi suphee humna diinaan toohatamtee jirti sagalen uumatas diina sodaachise jira.
OromoProtests (10March 2016):Diddaa fi mormii Oromoon jeequmsa keessa kan seene OPDOn dabaree isaa, miseensota sadarkaa adda addaa irra jiran gaggaragalchuutti jira. Yeroo ammaa kanatti karaa koreen qindeestuu Godinaalee fi kaabinee Naannoo Oromiyaa qorannoo gaggeessaa jiran. Qorannoo kanas Bitootessa 10, 2016 jechuun guyyaa har’a xumuru jedhamee egama.
Qorannoon kun gaaffii uummataa gara gaaffii bulchinsa gaaritti micciruuf hojjacha ajiru. Haala kanas gaggeessitoota bakka tokko irra bakka biratti jijjiruuf hojjachaa jiru; yoo kana gochuu baatan gooftoliin isaanis ni dheekkamu. Kana sirnaan hubachuun barbaachisaa dha.
OPDOn akeeka Tigiree dhugoomsuu fi bara garbummaa ummata Oromoo irratti dheeressuuf waadaa ergamtummaa raawwachaa jirti. Kana namuu hubatee tarkaanfii fashalsaa fudhatuu qaba.
#OromoProtests:Bitooteessaa 10,2016
Oduu haara ammaa magaalaa Buraayyuu nu qaqqabee
Sa’aa ammaa kanatti waraanni mootummaa wayyaanee, mana barumsaa qophaa’ina sadarkaa 2ffaa Burayyuu humna Poolisii Federaala fi waraana Agaazii itti naquun baratoota dhiiga dhangalaasa fi reeba jiraachun himamaa jira.
ammaa yoona baratoota meeqa irraa akka miidhan ga’ee hin beekamnee.
namooni gochaa kana rawwachisaa jiran keessaa ammi tokkoo maqaan isaan kan armaan gadiitti argamudha.
Asfaawu Takilee ,itti gaafatamaa Damee siyaasa OPDO kan magaala Buraayyuu
Abinati Fiqaadu namin jedhamus akka keessaa jiruu beekameera.
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/11/omn-oduu-bit-10-2016/
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/09/omn-oduu-bit-09-2016/
Godina Wallaggaa Aanota Adda Addaa Keessatti FXG Jabaatee Itti Fufe,Naqamte Keessatti Ammoo Barattooti Oromoo Rasaasa Loltoota Wayyaaneen Dhaanamaa Jiru.
Bitootessa 09,2016, Yuunivarsiitii Wallaggaa fi mana barnootaa qophaa’inaa keeysatti FXG jabaatee wayyaaneen tarkaanfii sukkaneessaa barattoota irratti fudhatte. FXG kun mana barnootaa qophaa’inaa, Koollejjii barsiisotaa fi Yuunivarsiitii keeysatti gamtaan eegale. Koollejjii barsiisotaa keeysattis wayyaaneen
tarkaanfii fudhatteen barataa Misgaanuu Masarat kan jedhamu wareegameera. Fincilli kun yuunivarsiitii keeysatti ol ka’ee walitti bu’insi olaanaan waraana agaazii fi baratoota oromoo gidduutii dhalate. Barattootni 20 ol tahanis madaa’ani. Isaan keeysaas
1. Barataa Tolosaa Guutuu
2. Barataa Alamuu Maaramaa
3. Barataa Maatiyoos Tufaa
4. Barattuu Sablee Taarikuu
5. Barataa Misgaanaa Addisuu
6. Barataa Addisuu Barasaa
7. Barataa Magarsaa Tasammaa
8. Barataa Taammiraat Zallaqaa
9. Barataa Yoonas Qana’aa
10. Barataa Saamu’eel Solomoon
11. Barataa Maarihuun Ammasaa
12. Barataa Girmaa Naadoo
13. Barataa Rooberaa Bal’inaa
14. Barataa Baayyuu Fayyisaa
15. Barataa Toleeraa Guutuu
16. Barataa Galaanaa Ibsaa
17. Barataa Sintaayyoo Alamaayyoo
18. Barataa Ayyaanaa Oljirraa
Kan jedhaman hospitaala Naqqamtee seenuudhaan waldhaansa yeroo argatanis miidhamni olaanaan irra gahe. Miidhamni xixiqqaan barattoota
30 ol tahan irrattis gaheera. Kana malees wayyaaneen wallaggaa lixaa keeysatti barattootaa fi uummata irratti rasaasa roobsite. Boojjii coqorsaa bakka jedhamuttis qeerroo oromoo Isayyas Gabayyoo jedhamu wayyaaneen rasaasaan ajeesuu qeerroon ona kanaa gabaaseera.
Har’a Bitootessa 09,2016 Humni Kora Bittinneessaa Jedhamu Waraanni Wayyaanee Heddumminaan Mooraa Yuniverstii Wallaggaa Weerare.
Guyyaa har,aa bitootessa 09,2016 ganama kana humni kora bitinneessaa jedhamu guutummaan guutuutti Yuunversiitii Wallaggaa fi naannoo ishee weeraree jira.
Humni kora bitinneessaa jedhamu kunis halkan edaa sababii ijoolleen doormii gadi lakkisanii gara magaalaatti imaluu jalqaban baratoonni heedduun immoo mooraamatti hafuun fincila daran finiinsuun mootummaa gabroonfataa wayyaanee boqonnaa dhorkaa bulanii jiru.Baratoonni mooriicha keessa jiranis kalleessa ganama irraa ka’uunishanga har,aa kanatti hunduu nyaata lagachuun diddaa isaanii agarsiisaa jiru. Yeroo ammaa kanas sababii isin humna degersaa yookiinimmoo ABO tu naannoo kana jira jechuurraan kan ka,e humni kora bittinneessaa akkasumas makalaakiyyaa warri jedhamanis heedduminaan mooraa yuunversiitichaa keessaa fi ala isaa guutummaan guutuutti dhuunfatanii jiru.Haaluma kanaan baratootaanis guyyaa har,aa kana ganama irraa ka,uun olseenuu malee gadi ba,uun hin danda,amu jechuun baratoota nagaa dhorkaa jiraachuun maddeen keenya ifa godhu.
OMN: Oduu Bit. 08, 2016
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/08/omn-oduu-bit-08-2016/
FXG Godinaalee Oromiyaa Hedduu Keessatti Itti Fufee Jira.
Bitootessa 8,2016 Dhaabbileen barnoota yuuniversitii fi koollejjin torbee kana waamicha barumsa dhaabuu irratti sochii taasisaa jira. torbanoota laman darban kana Yuuniversiitiin Finfinnee humna waraanaa eegamaa baate. Inni kunis soda jiru irraan kan ka’eedhani. Har’a barattootni Yuuniversitii kiiloo 6 tahan dhibbaan kan lakkaawaman FXG finiinsaa oolaniru. Korri bittinnesssaa Wayyaanees naannichatti kan argame ijumaan fincila barattootaa kana kan ilaalee dhiise tahuunis hubatame humni waraanaa wayyaanee FXG kan jabeessu malee tasgabbii wayyaaneen jettuus furmaata kan tahe miti. Galgala kana sa’a 10 irraa kaasee mooraan Yuuniversitii Finfnnee kiiloo 6 hudhaa waraana Wayyaanee jala jirti. Haluma kanaanis magaala Amboo keessatti waraqoonni magaala fi baadiyaa keessatti bittimfamaa jiru. Kaleessa Bitootessa 7/2016 irraa kaasudhan Amboo fi Miidaqanyitti waraqaaleen ergaa kanaa gadii ofirratti qabatee jiru bittimfamee jira.
– Lafti keenya maqaa Investimentiin saamame haa deebi’u ykn murtoo keenyan deeffanna
– Mannen hidhaa hunduu haa gubatana hidhamtootnis haa gadhifaman
– Galgala uummanni bakka jirutti daandiiwwan gurguddaa akka cufamu waamicha
– Qoqqobbii geejjibaa shufeeronni akka taasistan jabeessine isin beeksisna
– Hawaasni kamuu gibira mootummaa akka hin kaffalle
– Gabaan kana booda hin gaggeeffamu
– Manneen barnoota kamittu sirni baruu fi barsiisu haa dhaabbatu tokko baratee tokko hin taahin
– Hojjetaan mootummaa kanaan dura hojii gaggeessuu irratti qoqqoobbii haga eegamu hin taasifamne kanaan booda garuu hojjetaan
mootummaa kamuu tarkaanfii kanatti seenuu qaba.
Haaluma kanaan tarkaanfii fi FXG Amboo fi Miidaqany itti fufee jira. Humni ittisa biyyaa miidaqany keessa jiru dargaggoota irratti dhukaasa banuun ajjeesuun ammallee akka hin dhaabbanne qeerroon kan gabaasaa jiruudha.
#OromoProtests in Nophaa, Iluu Abbaa Booraa, 8 March 2016
Guyyaa Har’aa Bitootessa 8,2016 sa’a kanatti barattootni Yuuniversitii Finfinnnee dhibbaan lakkaawaman gara Embaasii Ameerikaa deemuun dhaadannoo dhageesisaa jiru, ammalle itti fufuudhaan naannoo gaar Inxooxxoo qabate qonnan bulaan gama Sulultaas bahuudhan daandi cufee mootummaa EPRDF hin barbaannu ofiin of bulchina, ABOn kallacha qabsoo keenyaati jechaa jiru.
Godina adda naannoo Lagaxaafottis qonan bulaan humna waraana karaa darabsu dhorkate jira. Yeroo amma kana yuuniversitiin Fifninnee kiiloo 4,5 fi 6 humna wayyaanetu dhokatee marsee jira. Barattootni barruu warraqsa guyyaama kana moora keesa facaassa jiran. FXG kunoo jabaatee hamam
dhufamtti itti fufe.
A professor sent me this text ” Today there are more students at Naqamte Hospital than at Walaga University Campus. The 49 you reported earlier are those injured just only at one dormitory building. They attacked 6 buildings and injured several hundreds. The attack began after every slept so it created stampede. I just visited the hospital. Because all the beds and even floors inside are filled with those injured, they are now treating students at building normally used for storage. This is horrible. I cannot live like this let alone teach.” Jawar Mohammed, 8 March 2016
1. Malkamuu urgessaa Ararsoo
2. Dasaleeny Tasfaa Galataa
3. Malasee Dukaam Booraa
4. Guddisaa Addisuu Bultumee
5. Badhaasaa Margaa Duressaa
6. Dastaa Fiqaaduu Aagaaa
7. Habtamuu Tasfayee Dajaan
8. Wakjiraa Aimee Araamee
9. Huseenkadiir Hussein
10. Lalisaa Raffisaa waktolee
11. Rattaa Baqqalaa Ayyanaaa
12. Yaasiin moloyee yusuf
13. Hambisaa yaaddaa walgahii
14. Tafarii Dalasaa Gedefaa
15. Gadaa Kumarraa Malkaa
16. Baayisaa Mosee Dhabaaa
17. Tasfayee Getuu
18. Biftuu Hirphoo
19. Kadiir huseen
20. Tasfayee Takkalee
21. Magarsaa Guddataa
22. Malkamuu Hundee
23. Fayeraa Bantii
24. Guutu Fufaa
25. Badhsaa HirkooIn the night Agazi soldiers raided student dormitories at Wallaga University injuring 49 students who are currently being treated at make shift hospital.
Guyyaa Har’aa, Dararaa Agaaziin barattoota Yuunibarsiitii Wallaggaa irratti fudhate
Bitootessa 8,2016 Yuunversiitii Wallaggaa keessatti fincilli daran jabaatee itti fufee jira.hanga ammaattis barattoonni 25 ta,an miidhamanii hoospitaala seenanii ciisaa jiru.kanneen hafanis heedduudha.Kanneen gara mana adabaatti guuramani jiranis naannoo baratoota 43 kan ta,an hidhamanii akka jiran maddeen keenya nu qaqqaban ifa godhu.Baratoota halkan edaa rukutamanii hoospitaala naqamtee keessatti wallanamaa jiran keessa kan ammaaf maqaan nu ga,e :
1. Guddisaa Addisuu barataa electrical enginering waggaa 1 ffaa
2.Habtaamuu Tesfaayyee barataa urbaan engineringii waggaa 3ffaa
3.Waaqjiraa Simee barataa fiiziksii waggaa3ffaa
4.Tesfaayee Geetuu barataa compiiter saayinsii waggaa 1ffaa
5.Badhaasaa Margaa barataa fiiziksi waggaa 2ffaa
6.Addisuu Dasaalee barataa compiiter saayinsii waggaa 2ffaa
7. Malasee Duukamo barataa aarbaan engineriing waggaa 4 ffaa
8.Toofik Abbaa Tamaam barataa electrikaal engineriing waggaa 1 ffaa
9.Rattaa Baqalee barataa fiizikssii waggaa 2 ffaa kanneen hafanis heedduudhaakkuma maqaan nu ga,een isiniin geenya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVLtH5a_2Qk&feature=youtu.be
Waraanni Wayyaanee Uummata Oromoo Nagaa Dhurkuun Wal Qabatee Tarkaanfiin Ummanni Osoo Hin Jaallatiin Waraana Of Irraa Ittisuutti Seene.
March 8, 2016 By Qeerroo, Oduu/News
Bitooteessa 7,2016 Godina Lixa Shaggar Amboo: AANAA MIDAA QANYIItti Waraanni Wayyaanee Maqaa Waraana ABOtu Uummata keessa galee nurratti fincilchiisaa jira jedhuun uummata Shororkeessuu itti fufuun guyyaa har’aa Waraanni wayyaanee hedhannoo isaa guutuu qabatee Aanaa Midaa Qanyii ganda Garaadoo kan qarqara Aanuunuutti argamtuu sakkatta’uuf sochii godhee Humni Ittisaa Uummata Oromoo(HIUO) uummata isaa irraa diina Ittisuuf tarkaanf uummataan walta’uun Diina uummata gooluuf adeemtuu irratti tarkaanfii Boombii irratti dhoosuun fudhateen Waraana wayyaanee madeessuun salphina guddaan akka baqaan of duuba deebituu gochuun sodaa hamaan of irra deebisuu danda’ee jira. Akkuma Waraanni Wayyaanee kun Rifatee Of irra deebi’een Uummatni walitti Yaa’uun ganda Garaadoo keessatti sirbaa olee, Waraanni Wayyaanee dirqamaan nu hin bulchuu nuti waraana mootummaa sanyiin nu duguuguu Obsa ittiin dhaggeeffannuu hin qabnu Waraanni Wayyaanee hatattamaan Aanaa Midaa Qanyii gadhiisee bahuu qaba jechuun dhaamsa dabarfatan, hanga galgala kanaatti illee Uummatni walitti yaa’ee sirba gootaa sirbaa jira. #OromoProtests continues
#OromoProtests – In Finfinne and other places, March 8, 2016
Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) University Students Have Began Renewed their Protests on March 8, 2016. As students protesting in front of US embassy, forcefully dispersed by by fascist TPLF ‘federal’ police.
Yeroo ammaa kana barattootni university Finfinnee fuula embassy America kan finfinneetti argamuu fuulduratti hiriira mormii gocha ajiru. Mootummaan Ameerikaa sirna garboonfattuu deeggaruu akka dhaabu gaaftaa jiran.
Kun kanan osoo jiruu humnooti Agaazii fi waraana wayyaanee dirmachuun barattoota bittinneessaa jiru; barattoota hedduus rebanii miidhaa irraan gahaniiru; kanneen ukkaamfamanis ni jiru. Diddaan itti fufee jira!!
Ethiopian Students Demand End to Police Crackdowns in Rare Protest in Front of the U.S. Embassy in Finfinne | #ወያኔ_ተነቃንቋል | #OromoProtests
THE NEW YORK TIMES/REUTERS) – ADDIS ABABA — Dozens of university students protested in Ethiopia’s capital on Tuesday, demanding an end to police crackdowns that followed months of demonstrations over plans to requisition farmland in the country’s Oromiya region late last year.
The government wanted to develop farmland around the capital, Addis Ababa, and its plan triggered some of the worst civil unrest for a decade, with rights groups and U.S.-based dissidents saying as many as 200 people may have been killed.
Officials suggest the figure is far lower but have not given a specific number.
Ethiopia has long been one of the world’s poorest nations but has industrialized rapidly in the past decade and now boasts double-digit growth. However, reallocating land is a thorny issue for Ethiopians, many of whom are subsistence farmers.
Authorities scrapped the land scheme in January, but sporadic demonstrations persist and, on Tuesday, students from Addis Ababa University marched in two groups toward the embassy of the United States, a major donor, holding signs that read “We are not terrorists. Stop killing Oromo people.”
Such protests are rare in a country where police are feared as heavy-handed and the government is seen as repressive.
A government spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has promised to address grievances in the Oromiya region and says he blames rebel groups for stoking violence.
Opponents blame harsh police tactics.
“The aim was to highlight the abuses carried out in the region,” one student told Reuters, saying he did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals.
“We waved white cloth to indicate that we were peaceful protesters. But police started beating us up,” he said.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said last month that protesters it spoke to and who had been detained after the outbreak of demonstrations in November had been subjected to severe beatings and never appeared before a judge.
The group said women suffered sexual assaults and mistreatment. It said one 18-year-old student was “given electric shocks to his feet”.
Officials dismissed the report as not worthy of comment.
(Editing by Edith Honan and Louise Ireland)
– Source: THE NEW YORK TIMES/REUTERS
Guyyaa hara’aa Adoolessa 7,2016 Godina Wallaggaa magaalaa kanneen akka Najjoo,Gimbii,Jaarsoo fi biroo keessatti abbootiin qabeenyaa konkolaataa isaanii bobbaa irraa dhaabuun sirna mootummaa Wayyaanee irraa diddaa qaban muldhisan.Qabsoon diinagdeen mootummicha irra gahu itti fufee jira.
Biitootessa 7,2016 Gootonni Qeerroon Bilisummaa Godina Booranaa Aanaa Yaaballoo Ganda Aadee Galchaa keessatti Ficila Xumura Gabrummaa haala jabaa ta’een itti fufuun mootummaa gabaroomfataa Wayyaanee mormaa oolan.
Godina Wallaggaa fi Shaggar Lixaa Keessatti FXG Haalaan Jabaatee Itti Fufee Oole.
Adoolessa/ Bitootessa 7,2016 Godina Wallaggaa Magaalaa Najjoo keessatti abiddi warraaqsaa Qeerroo Bilisummaan qabsiifame Wayyaanneen dhaamsuu dadhabdee rifannaa guddaa keessa galtee jirti.
Warraaqsi biyyoollessaa Qeerroo bilisummaan qabsiifame aammallee wayyaanee dhaamsuu dadhabuurraan kan ka,e uummata nagaa goollaa jirti.Godinuma kana jala kanneen jiran kanneen akka magaalaa warra jirruu fi Magaalaa Goorii keessattis Fxg bayyee jabaachuurraan kan ka’e qeerroon tarkaanfii boonsaa basaastotaa fi jala deemtota wayyaanee kan ta,an irratti tarkaanffii qabeenyaa qeerroon fudhateen manni barsiisaa girshaa kan jedhamuuf mana Dura ta’aa gandaa kan ta’e Gammachis Hodee jedhamu guutummaan guutuutti barbaddeesaniiru. Manni barnootaas edda addaan citee naannoo kudha afurii ta.e jira.Yeroo ammaa kanas mootummaaan wayyaanee fincila kanaan rifannaa keessa seenuun uummataaf baratootaan gara barnootaatti deebi’aa jechuun uummataan immoo ijoollee keessan dirqamaan akka mana barnootaatti ergitan jechuun uummatasf baratoota doorsisaa jiraachuu Qeerroon gababase.
Kana malees Godina Sahaggar Anaa ABUNAA Gindabaratti guyya kalleessa jechuu gaafaa guyya 27/6/08 halkaa keessaa sa’aa 2:30-4:00 tti waraqqaallee gargaaraa maxaansaa kan turee magaaala bakkee qalaxee keessatti ganamaaa isaa bartootni Anaa saan barnoota osoo deemaa jirni,bartoota fi jirtoota irratti reebichaa cimaa irran ga’aa kan ture humni garboonfaatan gara moormiitti jijjiramee ummani fi bartootni wali ta’an qabsoo cimaa irra kan jiran yoo ta’u.yero amma immo gibiraa mootuma kanafuluu didan jechudha ummata reebbaa kan jiranjdha.
Har’a Adoolessa 07,2016 Sa’aa Ammaa Kanatti Goototi Qeerroo Yuuniverstii Wallaggaa Waraana Wayyaanee Agaazii Waliin Wal Qabaa Jiru,FXG Haalaan jabaatee Itti Fufe
Finciilli xumura garbummaa gootota Qeerroo baratoota Yuunversiitii Wallaggaan ganama kanas bifa haaraan dhohee jira. Yeroo ammaa kanas baratoonni guutummaan guutuutti barnoota lagachuun barnoonni bilisummaa booda jedhaniidiina raasaa jiru.Galgala edaas akkuma beekamu Qeerroon yuunversiitii wallaggaa diddaa dhageesisaa turuun ni yaadatama
Haa ta,uyyuu malee mootummaan gabroonfataa baratoota nagaa irratti ol seenuun dhukaasa banuyyuu baratoonni kun sodaa tokko malee injifannoo boonsaa hojjetaniiru.Polisoota yuunversiitichaa dhagaadhumaan hariuun kaampasicha keessaa baasuun bosonatti galchuun injifannoo boonsaa galmeesisaniiru
Abootiin Qabeenyaa Oromoo Ta’an Diddaa Qoqobbii Diinagdee Mootummaa Wayyaanee Irratti Gaggeessan.
Adoolessa/ Bitootessa 7,2016 Godina Wallaggaa Lixaa Anaa Jaarsoottii Abboottiin qabeenya aniichaa..gochaa motummaa Wayyanee balaleeffachuun konkolachistoota waliin wal ta’uu…guyyaa har’aa konkolaatan keenyaa hin deemuu yoo jedhan konkolaachistonnis hin hin konkolaataa bobbaafnu jechuun konkolaatan tokko osoo hin deemiin hafee jira.
Diddaan Gootota Qeerroo Yuuniverstii Wallaggaa Har’as Itti Fufee Jira.
Bitootessa 07, 2016 Fincilli Xumra Gabrummaa gootota Qeerroo baratoota Yuunversiitii Wallaggaan ganama kanas bifa haaraan dhohee jira. Yeroo ammaa kanas baratoonni guutummaan guutuutti barnoota lagachuun barnoonni bilisummaa booda jedhanii diina raasaa jiru.
Galgala edaas akkuma beekamu Qeerroon Yuunversiitii Wallaggaa diddaa dhageesisaa turuun ni yaadatama .Haa ta,uyyuu malee mootummaan gabroonfataa baratoota nagaa irratti ol seenuun dhukaasa banuyyuu baratoonni kun sodaa tokko malee injifannoo boonsaa hojjetaniiru.Polisoota Yuunversiitichaa dhagaadhumaan hariuun kaampasicha keessaa baasuun bosonatti galchuun injifannoo boonsaa galmeesisaniiru.
Oromiyaan bulchiinsa waraanaa saddeet jalatti hiramtee haa jiraattu malee FXGn akka itti fufetti jira!
Gaabaasi Qeerroo giddu gala Oromiyaa Adaamaafi magaalaa guddittii lixa Oromiyaa Naqamtee irraa nuun ga’an akka ibsutti,fincilli sirna garboomfattootaa irratti taasisamu akka itti fufee jiru hubachiisa. Torban darbee kaasee hojjeettoonni mana murtii Oromiyaa waltajjii leenjii Wayyaaneetiif adaamaatti kan walitti qabanii jiran yeroo ta’u,waltajjii kana irratti Abbootii seeraa,abbootii alangaafi abukaatotatu hirmaachaa jira Waltajjii jimaata darbe geggeessame irratti madaalliin manneen murtii godinoota sadii kan geggeeffame yeroo ta’u,godinoonni kunis,Shaggar lixaa,Harargee bahaa fi Wallaggaa lixaa ta’uun ta’uun beekameera Ergamtoonni Wayyaanee godinoota kana sadan keessatti tarkaanfiin manneen murtii fudhatan laafadha yeroo jedhatti abbootiin seeraa fi hojjeettoonni mana murtii Oromiyaa irraa hojjetan marti akka dheekkaman beekameera, Akka fakkeenyaattis poolisiin Malkaamuu Mitikkuu kan Wallaggaa lixaa Najjootti nama ajjeesee gara bakka dhalootasaa utuu deemuu ajjeefameef mootummaan itti gaafatamuu qaba jedhan “nami lubbuu namaa seeraan ala baase kun to’annaa jala ooluu dhabuun wal ajjeechaa biraa kan fidu fi godinoota akka fakkenyaatti manneen murtii tarkaanfii uummatarratti fudhachuu dhabaniif komataman kun dhiibbaa siyaasaaf hojiisaa hojjechuu akka hin danda’in itti amanna silaa warri uummata nagaa irratti dhukaase yoona to’annaa seeraa jala jira”jechuun ammaa jalqabee poolisas ta’e nami dhuunfaa nami namni lubbuu namaa baasee seeratti dhiyaachuu dhabee uummata keessa jiruun hanqina bulchiinsa gaarii keessaa isa tokko jechuun komii isaanii haala wayyaanee afaan qabachiiseen dhiyeessuun isaanii beekameera.
Hirmaattonni wal tajjichaa yeroo dhiyootti komishiniin dhimma kana adda baasee namoota ajjeechaa seeraan alaa kana raawwatan seeratti akka dhiyaachuu qaban taasisu hundeeffamuu akka qabu gaafachuun,loogii siyaasaatiin namni lubbuu namaa baasee seeratti hin dhiyaanneef uummatichi tarkaanfii “gumaa baasuu”aadaadhaan qabu yoo irratti fudhateef seerri wabii lubbuu namaa deebisuu hinjiru kanaaf namoota kana seeratti dhiyeessuun furmaata filmaata biraa hin qabne jechuun akeekkachiisa jabaadhaan kaabinoota wayyaanee akka rifaasisan beekameera Waltajjiin qaamota manneen murtii Adaamaatti ta’amaa jiranii kun jimaata dhufu xumurama Gara dhiha Oromiyaa Naqamteetti yeroo ceenu,magaalaan Naqamatee ji’oota afrna darbanii kaastee jeeqxota kaabaatiin erga jeeqamutti kaatee ooltee bubbulaa akka jirtuufi kunis jiruufi jireenya oromiyaa guutuu akka ta’ee jiru beekamaadha Magaalattiitti halkan guutuu qaama hin beekamneen dhukaasi wal irraa hin cinne adeemsifamaa kan bulu yeroo ta’u guyyoota muraasa darbanii kaasee tajaajilli geejjibaa magaalattiitti akka addaan cite jirus beekamaadha Galgala kana geejjiba kan hin qabne Naqamteen sagaleen dhukaasaa akka irraa dhaga’amaa jirus madden baasaniiru.
Gabaasa Addaa Kabaja Hundeeffama Waggaa 2ffaa fi Tumsa OMN Melbourne(Bito.06,2016)
Tamsaasa Raadiyoo OMN (Bit. 6, 2016)
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/06/tamsaasa-raadiyoo-omn-bit-6-2016/
Tamsaasa Raadiyoo OMN (Bit. 5, 2016)
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/05/tamsaasa-raadiyoo-omn-bit-5-2016/
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/05/omn-amharic-news-march-5-2016/
Resistance against TPLF fascism Gidda Biqiri , Boji Choqorsa Distric, West Walaga March 3, 2016
Dhaamsa hidhamtooti siyaasaa Oromoo Manneen hidhaa Qaalittii, Qillinxoo fi Zuwaay keessa jiran
#OromoProtests Bitootessa 4 Bara 2016: Kun dhaamsa hidhamtooti siyaasaa Oromoo Manneen hidhaa Qaalittii, Qillinxoo fi Zuwaay keessa jiran haala yeroo amma Oromiyaa ilaalchisee ergatanii dha.
Nuti, otuu dirqama addaddaa irra jirruu harka diinaatti kufnee gatii olaanaa bilisummaa Oromoof baasaa jiraachuu keenya namuu kan hubatuudha. Yeroo biyyi keenyaa fi lammiin keenya alagaa gara laafina hin qabnee biyya abbaa isa akeessatti ajjeefamu biratti argamuu dhabuun keenya hedduu garaa nu nyaata. Goototi Oromoo kutatoo amma illee Bilisummaa Oromoof wareega ulfaataa baasaa jiran kumaatamaan bahaa akka jiran yeroo dhageenyutti immoo jajjabina guddaatu nutti dhagayama.
Ammas qabsoo keenya galmaan gahuuf namuu bakka jirutti kutannoon akka hirmaannaa isaa jabeessu yeroo dhaammannu:
- Haala yeroo amma kan qabsoon Oromoo irra jiru, biyya alaa fi keessaa qabsoo kana xumura itti gochuuf, qabeenya, qaaman fi wanta dandeessan hundaan akka dirmattan dhaammanna.
- Barattoota sad1ffaa hanga sad2ffaa, Barattoota koolejjii hanga University, Qotee bultoota fi Daldaltota, Hojjetoota mootummaa, poolisoota fi humni waraanaa kan meeshaa barachaa jirtanis ta’ee, milishaan gandaa osoo hin hafne FXG kana xumura itti gochuuf waan Oromoo tokko irraa barbaachisu akka gumaachitan isin gaafanna.
- Namni Oromoo tokko wareegama uummanni keenya kaffalaa jiru kana cinaa dhaabachuudhaan wayyaanee duula Oromoo irratti deddeebiin labsite kana buqqisuu qaban.
- Duula Wayyaanee Oromiyaa keessaa baasuudhaaf Qeerroon Oromoo daandii cufuudhaan, riqicha kutuudhaan akkasumas mala qabsooa ddaddaa baasuudhaan gaggeessaa jiru deeggaruun akka dirqama lamummaa keessan baatan issinii dhaamna.
- Wayyaaneen akkuma garboofattoota habaashaa darbanii Oromoo irratti hiidhaa, ajjeechaa, dhabamsisaa, saamicha dinagdee, saamicha qabeenyaa, saamicha lafaa gaggeessaa jirti. Kun immoo kan dhaabbatu, kutannee hojjachuu fi waadaa keenya kaleessaa haaromsuun FXG kana injifannoon akka goolabamu gochuun ta’a.
Kana waan ta’eef, haala kana hubattanii bakka nu bu’uun gahee keessan akka baatan dhaamsa kana haala ulfaataa keessatti isiniif dabarsine; imaanaa keenya kanas raawwachuun akka nu boonsitan immoo shakkii tokko illee hin qabaannu!!
Qabsaa’aan ni kufa! Qabsoon itti fufaa!
Injifannoo uummataa Oromoof!
Warraaqsa FXG Gootota Qeerroo Bilisummaa Godina Jimma Aana Limmuu Saqqaa Magaalaa Koma’i.
OMN: Oduu Bit. 04, 2016
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/05/omn-oduu-bit-04-2016/
OMN: Qophii addaa Bitooteessa 4,2016
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/04/omn-qophii-addaa-bitooteessa-42016/
Godina Lixa Shaggar Aanaa Midaa Qanyiitti diddaan Uummataa dhaabsiisuuf mootummaan abbaa irree Wayyaanee uummata irratti waraana bane jabeessuun Uummatarratti dhukaasaa jira, uummatnis mormii isaa itti jabaate jira.
Bitootessa 5,2016 ,Godina Lixa Shaggar Aanaa Midaa Qanyiitti Diddaan Uummataa Dhaabsiisuuf mootummaan abbaa irree Wayyaanee uummata irratti waraana bane jabeessuun Uummatarratti dhukaasaa jira.loltootni Wayyaanee afaan hin beeknee Magaalaa Baallaammii irra qubsiifamuun Qonnaan bultootaa fi sabboontoota Qeerroo dargaggoota Oromoo irratti tarkaanfii reebichaa fi humnaan ukkamsuun hidhaatti darba jiru, kanneen rukutamanii madeeffaman illee gara mana yaalaa utuun hin geeffamiin waraanaan dirqisifamani hidhaatti darbama jiran keessa
kanneen maqaan nu qaqqabee jiru:
1. Barataa Taarikuu Gusoo reebamee midhaa guddaan kan irra ga’e,
2. Barataa Eebbisaa Nagaasaa barataa 10ffaa waraanaan rebamee midhaa guddaan kan irra ga’ee jiruu fi mana yaalaa dhorkatame jiru.
3. Barataa Abdii Taarikuu reebichaa humna olii warananni abbaa isaa waliin irratti raawwate.
4. Obboo Taarikuu Baayisaa waraanaa wayyaaneen reebamee du’aa fi jireenya gidduu jira.
5. Barataa Gurmeessaa Cimdii waraanaan reebamee milla isaa irra akka malee madeeffamee kan jiru.
6. Barataa Sisay Lammeessa
7. Barataa Muldhisaa Taakkalaa
8. Barataa Geetuu Taakkalaa obbolaa laman
9. Barataa Iddoosaa Xuurii
10. Barataa Baay’ataa Mirreessaa kanneen jedhaman dabalatee yeroo amma kana ilmaan Oromoo 40 Aanaa Midaa Qanyii Magaalaa Baallaammii Wajjiraa Poolisii fi Buufata Waraanni Wayyaanee keessa qubatee jiru keessatti hidhamuun dararaan ulfaataan irra ga’aa jiraachuun madden keenya gabaasan.
YAADACHISA: Sirni gaggeessaa Sabboonaa daldalaa Oromoo dheengadda Waraana Wayyaanee uummatarratti banameen wareegamee Obboo Birhaanuu Xaafaa Baqqalaa abbaa ijoollee lama har’a Bakka dhaloota isaa Ganda Guddataa Gabaa Lagatti rawwata uummatni hedduminaan gara gaggeessa isatti socho’aa jira, Waraanni wayyaanee immoo ganamuma kanaan dhukaasa dhageesisuu egalanii jiru. Olmaa isaan walitti deebina.
Aanaa Midaa Qanyii gandoota akka Goosuu Wangee ,Baaroo Bidaaruu fi Guddataa Gabaa Lagaa dirree waraanaa fakkatee jira. Qonnaan bultootni
hedduun waraana wayyaaneen shoroorkeeffamaa jiru. Sagaalee dhukaasaa utuu wal irraa hin citiin waraanaa wayyaanee irraa guyyaa sadii dhukaafamaa jira.
Dr. Tasfaayee barsiisa College horsiise bulaa Oromia yaaballoo Humna tika Wayyaaneen ukkaamfame Eessa buuteen isaa dhabame”
Dr. Tesfayeen President Gumii Aadaa fi Afaan Oromoo (GAAO) Yuniversitii Hawasaa ta’uudhan kan tajaajila ture yoo ta’u Qabxii olaanadhan eebbifame garuu Sabbonummaa fi Oromumma isaatif qofa Hojii Mootumma dhorkame ture. Hawaasa isa barsiisee tajaajiluudhaf Hanga Ukkamfame achi buuteen isaa dhabametti dhaabbata NGO SOS Sahel, jedhamu irra gogummaa isaan osoo hojjetuu loltoota Wayyaaneen butamee hanga ammaa bakka buuteen isaa hin beekamu.
Humni Waraana Wayyaanee Agaaziin Daran Magaalaa Naqamteetti Dabalame
Bitootessa,4,2016 Kan abboota isaanirraa gocha duguggaa sanyii kan nurratti raawwachaa turan hanga har’atti nutti dhaadataa kajiran akkasuma aangoo dhiiga dhangalaasun argama jedhaanii kan amanan TPLF magaalaa Naaqamteetti yeroo darbe rakkoo geejibaaf Konkolaataa fe’isaa 3f n magaalatti kan seenan ta’uun nii aspartame Har’as Warraaqsi Uummatichaa naasuu muddama keessaa ba’uu hin dandeenye keessa kan galche Wayyaaneen Qawween akka waan tasgabeessituu Agaazii Oralii 3 dabalataan har’a magaalatti seensifteetti.sochiin uummataas guyyaa guyyaan akkuma jarri dabalamaa bultuu olitti cimaa jira.
FXG Kaleessa Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaatti Dhoheen Guutummaan Mooraaf Magaalaa Jimmaa Raafama Keessa Oolte
Bitootessa 4,2016
Uggurtotniif Shororkeessitoonni Waayyaanee kan mooraa Yuunibarsiitii keessa qubsuma godhatee jiru osoo itti hin yaadin sodaa tokko malee
Qeerroo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa mooraa guddaa(main cumpus) Kaleessa jechuun Bitootessa,3,2016 dhoheen guutummaan magaalattii rafama guddaa keessa oolte humni diinaa Agaazii magaalaa Jimmaa keessa Akkasuma irra jireessaan mooraa keessa hidhata guutuun socho’aa turan kan na Ajaibe Waanuma dirree lolaatti bobba’an fakkaatu qawwee Logomatanii konkolattota garaagaraa sadiin deemsisaanii har’aa.akkasuma guutummaa aanaalee Godinichaa hundatti raabsamanii tuuta tuutaan magaalaaf baadiyyaa Jimmaa marsaa turan Jimmaan guutummaan guutuutti humna humna Waraanaa diinaan marfamtee oolte Akkasuma barattoota Yuunibarsiitichaa kan ta’an namni 17mana hiraarsaa diinaa kan magalatti keessatti argamu(Meentiinaa) bakka jedhamutti dararaa guddaan irra gahaa jira.Barattota kanneen Odessa
1,Tolasaa Nagaasaa law waggaa 5ffaa
2,Biqilaa Guutaa statistics waggaa 2ffaa
3,Yoonas Giidoo computer waggaa 3ffaa
4,Saamuel computer waggaa 3ffaa
5,Ittaanaa Kennaa Computer waggaa 3ffaa mana hiraarsaa diinaatti Dhiira 14fi Shamarran 3 waliigala barattoota 17 dararaa akka jiran
oduun Qeerroon Yuunibarsitichaa dhagaa’amu ifoomsa kanneen hafan itti fufiinsaan gabaafna.
Waarraqsi FXG Har’a Yuunibarsiitii Wallaggaa Fi Magaalaa Naqamteetti Dabalate Dhohe Itti Fufe
Bitootessa 4,2026
Diiddaan Mootummaa abbaa Irree of irraa fonqolchuuf Yuunibarsitiitti dhohe osoo Jarri hin yaadiin Uummata Magaalatti dabalachuun shororkeessitoora Waayyaanee sodaa guddaa keessa galche.Kanas akka waan dhukaasaaf rasaasan dhaamsanii barataa barruuleef qalamaa malee homaa hin qabne irratti dhukasa jabaa dhukaafamaa tureen barataa hedduun madeeffamanii hospitaala jiru.kaansaanimmoo mana hiraarsaa galchanii gidiraa jabaa irraan gahaa jiru. Barattoota madeeffamanii yaalamaa jiran muraasa
1,Yoonas Qana’aa
2,Baayyuu Fayyisaa
3,Galaanaa Guutamaa
4,Magarsaa Tasammaa
5,Xarihun Ammasaa
6,Jaal’ataa Ofga’aa
7,Kuuchumaa Jiraataa
8,Seblee Taammiruu fi hospitaala Naqamtee keessa barataan yaalamaa jiran hedduudha maqaan akka nu ga’een isinii dhaamna Akkasuma baratotni baay’inaan 40tu hidhaan gidirfamaa jira maqaan ammaaf arganne
1,Balaayi Fiqaaduu barataa public administration waggaa 2ffaa
2,Lammeessaa Tasammaa turizim management waggaa 1ffaa fi barattoota hafan akka argannetti isiniin geenya waligalatti barataa afurtama
ta’an hidhaan gidiraa jala jiraachuu Qeerroon magaalaa Naqamtee ifomsa
Godina Wallagaa Aanaa Najjoo Magaalaa Warra Jirruu Keessatti FXG Gaggeefameen Sabboontoti Hedduun Hidhaman.
Bitootessa 04, 03’2016 Fxg ammas jabaachuun godina Wallaggaa lixaa aanaa Najjoo Bulchiinsa magaalaa warra jirruu keessatti jabaachuun guyyaa har’aa namoonni heeduun hidhamanii jiru. Hedduminaan kanneen hidhaman keessaa abbootii ijoolleedha. kanneen hidhaman keessaa:
1,Barsiisaa Waannaa Tarreessaa
2,Barsiisaa Eebbisaa Kooluu
3,Sanbataa Tamasgeen
4,Geeta’uu Tamasgeen Q/bulaa
5,Bultii Jaarraa Q/bulaa
6,Ayyaanaa Xurunaa barataa
7,Taammanee Uummataa Barataa
8,Imaanaa Qananii Q/bulaa
9,Bacaa Dafaa Q/bulaa
Mana hiraarsaa jaraa keessatti akka dararamaa jiran gabaasi Qeerroo
achii addeessa
Guyyaa har’aa adoolleessa 4’2016 fincilli xumura garbummaa haal ho,aan yeroo ammaa kana magaalaa Naqamtee keessaaa fi Yuuncersiitii Wallaggaa keessatti dhohuudhaan mootummaa faashistii Wayyaanee balaaleffachaa jiru.
Mootummaan wayyaannees riffannaa guddaa keessa seenuun yeroo ammaa kana hoomaa waraanaa uummata nagaa irratti bobbaasuun uummataafi baratoota irratti dhukaasa bannuun namoota baayyees miidhaa irraan ga.eera.Daandiin naqamtee irraa ka.uun gara finffinneetti deemsisus guutummaan guututti naannoo yuunvesiitii wallagga hora hadiyyaa jedhamu irratti cufameera.
የ20 ዓመት ወጣትና የዐሥረኛ ክፍል ተማሪ ሞቱማ ፈዬራ በታጣቂዎች መገደሉን ለቤተሰቡ ቅርበት እንዳላቸው የገለጹ ምንጮች ሲናገሩ፤የወረዳው መስተዳድር በበኩላቸው የሟቹን አስክሬን መመለከታቸን ተናገረው ‘በማን ተገደለ?’ ስለሚለው ግን የሚያውቁት ነገር እንደሌለ ገለፀዋል፡፡
ዋሽንግተን ዲሲ — ባለፈው ሣምንት ረቡዕ የካቲት 16 ቀን 2008 ዓ.ም ለሊት በምዕራብ ሸዋ ዞን ቶኬ ኩታዬ ወረዳ ጎሮሶሌ ከተማ ውስጥ ሞቱማ ፈዬራ የተባለ የ20 ዓመት ወጣትና የዐሥረኛ ክፍል ተማሪ በታጣቂዎች መገደሉን ለቤተሰቡ ቅርበት እንዳላቸው የገለጹ ምንጮች ለአሜሪካ ድምጽ ተናግረዋል፡፡
የወረዳው ፖሊሲ ኃላፊዎች ስለ ጉዳዩ የሚያውቁት ነገር እንደሌለ ሲናገሩ የወረዳው መስተዳድር በበኩላቸው የሟቹን አስክሬን መመለከታቸን ተናገረው ‘በማን ተገደለ?’ ስለሚለው ግን የሚያውቁት ነገር እንደሌለ ገለፀዋል፡፡
ጃለኔ ገመዳ ያጠናቀረቸውን ዘገባ ጽዮን ግርማ ታቀርበዋለች።
ዝርዝሩን ከተያያዘው ድምጽ ያድምጡ።
http://https://youtu.be/giUAF1p-b1A
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/03/omn-oduu-bit-03-2016/
#OromoProtests: Taxi and other drivers go on strike in Naqamte town, East Walaga March 4, 2016. They are demanding a the military withdraw from the city and halt the daily abuse.
No vehicle in Naqamte, East Wallagga March 4, 2014
Gootonni Naqamte Agaazin ummata fixxu mee dhuftee tajaajila geejjibaa haa kennituu jechaa jiran.
GABAASA QEERROO KIBBA OROMIYAA.
Hiriira Aanaa yaaballoo
Magaala yaaballoo qabsoo qeerrootiin dhuunfatamtee oolte, gabaan beeylada fi shaqaxaa cufameera, bake international livestock market hanga cufamee Hin banamne, gabaa kanatti yoo xiqqaate Wayyaaneen gaala 2000,loon 4000,re’ee hanga 10000 torbaaniin ummata irraa kara dillaala ishee kan saamtu amma jalaa hidhameera
Barattuu Xumme Jaarso
“ulee harka qabdu buusi, atis qawwee harka qabdu buusi “jettee agazi shimala mataat cabsite rasaasaan rukutamte yero amma hospitaala yaaballoo ciifti
Qeerroo Eelawayyee fi Qabso Ummata
Magaala kana keessa hidda diina ari’atani
Qabsoo itti fufaa jiru, akkuma iddoo bira gabaanis hinjiru
Barata Goolicha Kan FXG irraatti Tarkaanfiin Gara Jabeenya irratti Raawwate
FXG godina boorana Aanaa Areeroo
Mormii kanaan company Midrock kan badda Areeroo keessa Albuuda dhagaa babbareedaa ykn gemstone jedhamuufi ilinxo Ykn shekla qotatu birmannaa ummataafi qeerrootiin godaansifame
Oduu Ammee
Hiriira
“Godina boorana Aanaa Dirree Magaala Dubuluqitti Hiriirri diddaa garbummaa geggeeffamaa jira Dhukaasis Ummataa fi barattootat banamaa jira ragaa booda dhiyeessina”
#OromoProtests inin Dubluq town, Boranaa, Southern Oromia, March 03, 2016
Hiriira Godina Booranaa, Magaalaa Dubluq faa Keessaa fi Waa’ee Barataa Shawaa Lixaa, Magaalaa Gooroo Soolee Keessatti Ajjeesame, Jedhamee
VOA Afaan Oromoo, Bitootessaa 3, bara 2016
Hiriira Mormii Oromiyaa
Guutummaa sanaa fi aanaalee kaan keessatti humnoonni mootummaa federaalaa akka jiraattota, keessumaa dargaggoota reebaa fi hiraarsaa jiran illee dubbatan. Bulchaan magaalaa Shaakkisoo, Obbo Waddeessaa Waaqoo garuu, “kan aanaa keenya keessa jiru warruma aanaa bulchan gaafadhaa. Magaalaa ani bulchu, Shaakkisoo keessatti garuu guyyaa tokko illee mormiin ka’e hin jiru. Hiriirris hin geggeessamne, miidhaan humnoonni federaalaa raaw’atanis gonkumaa hin jiru.” jedhan.
Gama birana Godiina Shawaa Lixaa aanaa Tokkee Kutaayee magaalaa Gooroo Soolee keessatti gaafa Roobii Guraandhala 24 bara 2016 barataa kutaa kudhanii kan ture Mootummaa Fayyeeraa jedhamu humnootii waraana mootummaa Itiyoophiyaan ajjefamuu jiraattonni maatii isaatti dhiyeenya qaban ibsanii jiru.
Mootummaa Fayyeeraa, Barataa kutaa 10. Godina Shawaa Lixaa Aanaa Gooroo Sooleetti Guraandhala 24,2016 ajjeefame.
Itti gaafatamtoonni waajiira poolisii ka duraan achi turaniis ta’e kan haaraa muudaman waa’ee du’a barataa kanaa waan beeknu hin qabnu jedhu.Itti aanaa bulchaan magaalaa Gooroo Soolee Obbo Diroo Siiqaa, “walakkeessa halkanii booda yeroo lama dhukaasa dhageenyee eega turree booda yeroo lafti bari’u barataa Mootummaa Fayyeeraa ajjefamuu dhageenye. Sana booda deemnee lafa kufetti argine,” jedhii, eenyu akka ajjeese garuu akka hin beekne dubbatu.
Obbo Diroo Siiqaan, yeroo qorannaa gaggeessinetti, kanneen iddoo sana turan, “waraanni mootummaa mana cabsee erga seenee booda barataa Mootummaan dheessuuf yaalee rasaasaan iddoo lama rukutamuu isaa argiineerra jedhan” jedhanii ,”qorannaa poolisiin gaggeesse homaa akka hin agarre dubbatan bulchaan magaalaa Gooroo Soolee.
Bitootessaa 3/2016 Godina Lixa Shaggar Aanaa Midaa Qanyiitti Mootummaan Wayyaanee uummatarratti waraana banee jira.ilmaan Oromoo lama Wareegaman.
Bitootessaa 3/2016 Godina Lixa Shaggar Aanaa Midaa Qanyiitti Mootummaan Wayyaanee uummatarratti waraana banee jira.ilmaan Oromoo lama Wareegaman.Hidhattootni milishoota ta’an namootni 60 uffataa isaanii of irraa baasuun ibiddaan gubuun sirnicha ganuun uummata cina hiriiruu uummataaf mirkaneessan. halkan edaa guutuu Aanaa Midaa Qanyii gandoota baadiyyaa hedduu keessatti sagaleen dhukaasaa jabaan dhagaa’ama bulee, Dhukaasaa Waraanni uummata irratti godheen hanga ammaatti ilmaan Oromoo lama Wareegamuun hedduun madaa’uun dhaga’ame jira. maqaa namoota wareegamanii adda baasuun isiniif dhaamuuf jirra. Namni tokko Ganda Guddaataa Gabaa Lagaa irratti wareegamee jira. Network Midaa Qanyii irraa balleeffamee jira, halli gara sana jiruu gutummaatti waan waraanni baname waan fakkaatuuf hedduu yaaddessa ta’ee jira,guutummaa gabaasa kanaa fi maqaa ilmaan Oromoo maddeeffamanii fi Wareegamanii qabannee isinitti deebina.
Godina Kibba Lixa Shaggar Aanaalee Adda Addaa Keessatti Ummnni Gamtaan Ka’ee Loltoota Wayyaanee Dura Dhaabbataa Jira,Wareegamnis Irra Gaheera.
Bitootessa 3,2016, Godina kibba lixa Shaggar Aanaa Iluu gaafa guyyaa 2/3/16 galgala dargaggoo magaalaa Asgorii irraa qabuuf erga deemanii uummanni yaa’ee waliin nu fixxu malee fuutanii hin deemtan jechuun gachisiisanii magaalaa irraa baasanii ari’atan,guyyaa kalee garuu humna agaazii guddaa nannaa sanatti baasuun namoonni 40 ta’an ukkamsamaniiru
Kana malees Aanaa Tolee keessatti wayyaaneen waan qabduuf gadi dhiiftuu dhabdee ammaa immoo guyyaa kudhaniif gandarraa nama shan poolisiin oromiyaafi agaaziin sababa adda addaan socho’uu waan danda’aniif bakka buutanii hojjettu jedhanii leenjisu irratti argamu hidhattoota gandaan Charuu Nadhaa kan jedhamu March 2,2016 galgala rasaasaan qe’ee dhuma isaati rukutanii ammaa du’aa fi jireenya gidduu hospital Tululuboolloo irraa Waliso ti dabarfame jira. Charun kan rukutame bakka dhaloota isaa Aanaa Bachoo ganda Awash Bunee jedhamu keessatti yoo ta’uu inni hojjata Mootummaa aanaa wanchii ti hojjata.
Godina Wallaggaa aanaa Bojii Coqorsaa mana barumsaa Giddaa Biqiritti Keessatti FXG Jabaa Ta’e Gaggeefamaa Oole.
Bitootessa 03,2016 Godina Wallaggaa aanaa Bojii Coqorsaa mana barumsaa Giddaa Biqiritti mormii mudateen barattootni heedduun rasaasaan rukutamanii barataan Isaayaas Gabayyoo jedhamu immoo akkuma hospitaala Najjoo gaheen lubbuun darbeera. Barattootni rukutaman muraasni 1. Eebbaa Caalaa 2. Fiqiruu Yaadataa 3. Badhaasaa Fiqaaduu jedhamu.
#OromoProtests at Jimma University March 3, 2016
Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Raafama Guddaa Keessa Jirti
Bitootessa,3,2016
Gochi mootummaa shororkeessaa keessaattuu erga Uummata bal’a Oromootti Waraanaaf gocha diguuggaa sanyii raawwachuu eega Warraaqsi
uummata hudhee kan qabe yoo ta’u gabroonfattoota TPLF Itti xumura gochuuf sochiin Qeerroo rog-arfanirraa sodaaf raafama guddaa keessa galcheera
Haaluma kanaan diddaan Qeerroo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Har’a haaromfamee eegale kun guutummaa moorichaa jechuun humna diinaa mooraa sana keessaa raafama guddaa keessa galcheera.dhukaasii gurguddaan hamma magaalaa Jimmaa socio I sitti barataatti dhukaafamaa
jira.gurmuun Qeerroowwanii sodaa tokko malee dhaadannoo jajjaboo dhageesisaa jiru
_Humni waraanaa Oromiyaatti ramadame nuuf haa had-dhiisu
_mootummaa xinnaaf guddaa keenya ajjeesu nii balaaleffanna
_Gochi duguuggaa sanyii nurratti lallabame haa dhaabbatu
_Nuti abbaa qabna abbaankeenya ABOn nu haa bulchu
jechuun dhaadannoo jajjaboof walleewwan warraaqsaa gurguddaan akka itti fufetti jira wallee warraaqsaa tuuta Qeerroo irraa dhaga’amaa jiru
#Sifan lola Oromo narra hin gorttu
Siifan lola Yaa WBO narra hin gortu
Naannawaa Finfinnee Aanaa Sullultaa Keessatti Abbootiin Qabeenyaa Oromoo Ta’an Loltoota Wayyaaneen Dararamaa Jiru.
Bitootessa 03,2016 ,Naannawa Finfinnee Aanaa sulultaa keessatti mootummaa faashistii Wayyaanee abbootii qabeenyaa dhuunfaa konkolaataa qaban mana hidhaatti guuruun dararaa garaagaraa irraan gahaa jira.
Akkuma beekamu guyyoottan lamaan darbe konkolaachisttoonni magaalaa finfinnee mormii isaanii hojii dhaabuun dhageessisaa turaniin walqabatee mootumamaan wayyaanee raafama keessa galuun namoota konkolaataa qaban mana hidhaatti guuraa jiru.
1ffaa ob. Birhaanuu Taklee
2ffaa ob. Takkaalegn Mangistuu
3ffaa ob. Birhaanuu Addunyaa
4ffaa ob Salamoon Fayyisaa
5ffaa dar. Xilahuun Birhaanuu fi namoota bioo nam 12 dabalatee guyyaa harraa kana mana hidhaa Aanaa sulultaa magaala caancotti darbatamuun dararaan garaagaraa irratti raawwatamaa jira.
http://https://youtu.be/8u8cHNL7oN0
http://https://youtu.be/QyZh4aWb9Y8
Tamsaasa Raadiyoo OMN (Bitootessa 2, 2016)
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/02/tamsaasa-raadiyoo-omn-bitootessa-2-2016/
Finfinnee Har’a Rakkoo Geejibaan Uummanni Osoo Hin Jaallannee gara FXGtti seenee Jira
Magaalli Finfinnee har’a ganama irraa kasuudhan haala suuraa kana ibsuun bakka hundaatti mul’attee jirti. Geejjibni tajaajila dhaabuu irraan kan ka’e magaalaan FF haala kana keessa kan seente yoo tahuh humni waraana wayyaanee bakka jiruu bahee daandii guutee jira uummata eegaa jira. Uummanni lafa barii ganama sa’a 12 irraa kaasuun haala kana keessa jira. Bakka hedduuttis mormiin uummataa itti fufaa gaaffiin uummataa jiraattoota magaalaa Finfnnee keessaa hojjetoota dabalatee mootummaa mudduu irratti argamti. Godinoota addaa kanneen akka Sabbataa, Laga Xaafoo fi Sulultaa kanaan wal qabsiisuun uummanni gara FXGtti makamee jira. Magaalli finfinnee guutummaatti waraana wayyaanee fi poolisii Finfinneen dhuunfatamtee jirti.gabaasa addaaf waliin walitti deebina.
Fincila Barattoota Yuunibarsiitii Wallaggaa
Wallaggaa Yunversiitii keessatti fxg dhohee jira. Dhaadannoollee jajjaboo ta,anis dhaga,amaa jiru.Baratoonnis tokkummaadhaan ka,anii mootummaa faashistii wayyaanee balaaleffachaa jiru.Mootummaan wayyaane Fincila kanaan rifannaa guddaa keessa galuudhaan baratoota gaaffii mirgaa gaafachuuf ba,an irratti dhukaasa banuun baratoota haaduu madeesseera.Baratoonnis yeroo ammaan kana mooraa gadi lakkisuudhaan gara uummataatti baqachaa jiru.
GUYYAAN QOPHII TUMSA QEERROO BILISUMMAA KUTAA KANAADAA MAGAALAA KALGAARIITTI QOPHAA`E HIRMAANNAA UUMMATAAN HAALAAN MIIDHAGAAN TAASIFAME
Qophiin Tumsa Qeerroo Bilisummaa Kutaa Kanaadaa magaalaa Kalgaariitti Gurnaadhala 27/2016 Koree Qopheessitootaa Qeerroo Kalgaariitiin magaaala Kalgaariitti qophaa`ee haala miidhagaa fi seena qabeessaan geggeeffameera. Qophii kana Akkuma aadaa Oromootti Eebba maanguddootaan banamee. Itti aansuun Faaruun Alaabaa Oromoo farfatamee, Bakka Bu`aan Qeerroo Kalgaarii Dargaggoo Ifaa Asaanaa ummata Oromoo galma keessatti argamanin baga nagaan dhufatna jechuun erga simannaa godhaaniif Sagantaan duraa duubana akka itti fufu ibsan.
Koreen Qopheessitootaa Tumsa Qeerroo Kalgaarii Haalaa miidhagaa fi nama hawatuun uffata aadaa Oromoo fi Qomee Qeerroo Uffachuun waltajjiitti ba`uun Ummata Oromoof galataa fi kabajaa Guddaa waliin simannaa howwaa godhaniiruu.
Itti aansuun Itti gaafatamaan dhimma Qeerroo Biyyoolessaa Obbo Tashoomaa Dimee Bakka jiru irraa karaa Iskaayippiitiin Haala Hundeeffama Qeerroo, Akeekaa fi kaayyoo Qeerroon Bilisummaa ijaaramee fi yoom akka ijaarame, eessatti akka ijaarame, erga ijaaramee hanga ammaatti hojii Qeeroon Bilisummaa Biyya Abbaa isaanii Oromiyaa Weerara diinaa jala bilisa baasuuf Qabsoo FDG diina irratti Bara 2014 kaasanii hojjetaa turanii amma ammoo bifa haraan bara 2015 ji`a Sadaasaa keessa Qabsoon FDG eegalamee yeroo ammaa kana keessatti FXG tti jijjiiramee hojiilee Ji`a 4 kana keessaatti hojjetanii fi injifannoollee diina irratti galmeessan irmaatotaaf ibsaniiru. Akkasumas Qeerroon Biyyoolessaa sadarkaa Guutuu Addunyaatti erga ijaaramee Waggaa fi ji`a 2 keessaatti hojii ijaarsaa fi babal`isuu sochii Qeerroo Biyyoota 3ffaa fi biyyoota 2ffaa keesaatti deemaa jiru bal`inaan akka itti fufee jiru ibsa bal`aa ummata Oromoo walga`ii kana irratti irmaataniif ibsa kennaniiru.
Koreen Qeerroo Kalgaariis jalqaba Qeerroon yeroo hundeeffamu akkamitti akka ka`ee fi maaliraatti hundaaa`ee Qeerroon dhaabbatee, Diinni Biyya Abbaa keenyaa keessumatti Lafa Oromoo irratti waan Diinni gootee Ragaa qabatamaa fi mul`ataa ta`ee Viidiyoon Waan Qeerroon waraabee ol kaa`ee dhiyeessaniiru. Miidhaa fi Roorroo ummata keenya irraan diinni dhaqqabiisaa jiru kana dura dhaabbachuun Qeerroon Bilisummaas saba isaaf ittisaa fi Baamsii inni godhaa turee fi ammas tarkaanfii Qeerroon Fudhataa jirus Viidiyoon Ummataaf dhiyaateera.
Keessumatti Guyyaa ha`aa Gurnaadhala 27/2016 Ummatni Oromoo Kutaa Kanaadaa keessa Jiru Guyyaan inni Tumsaa fi tinisa Qeerroo Bilisummaaf gochuuf walitti dhufe kun Guyyaa Seena qabeesaa fi yoomuu yaadatamaa afudha jedhaniiru. sababni isaas Guraandhala 26/2016 Mootummaan Wayyaanee Bulguun Oromoo fi Oromiyaa Humna qawweetin buchuuf Bulciinsa Naannoo Oromiyaa diiguun Ajaja Waraanaa jala galchuun Ummata Oromoo fi Gutummaa Oromiyaa iratti lola labsuun ishee ni yaadatama. Ummatni Oromoo labsii Waraana ummata Oromoo irratti godhame kanaaf Naasuu fi sodaa tokko malee Ummata Keenya Biyya keessaa diinaan dhumaa, ajjeefamaa fi hidhamaa jiru bira ni dhaabbanna! Jechuun aantummaan Onnee guutun Qeerroo Bilisummaa fi Ummata Oromoo bira dhaabbachuu fi gargaarsa godhuuf Tumsaa fi dirmannaa qabsoo godhu isaaniif galata Guddaa qabdu jedhaniiru.
Ummatni Oromoo lola waraanaa Ilmaan Tigiraayii Wayyaaneen irrati labsame kana Gamtaa fi tokkummaan Sabni Oromoo kan biyya keessa fi biyya alaa jiru Diina Nu weeraraauuf Lola nurratti labse kana ofirraa qolachuu fi dura dhabbachuuf qophii ta`uu isaa tokkummaa fi gamtaan mul`see jira.
Ummatni Oromoos Yaada Wal ga`ii kana irratti kennataniin, Nuti sabni Oromoo nagaa barbaanna. Qee fi qabeenya keenya tikfannee biyya Abbaa keenyaa Oromiyaa keessaatti nagaa fi tasgabbiin jiraachuu barbaadna. Nuti Sabni Oromoo saba qee isaa fi ollaa isaafillee nagaa hawwudha.
Ammoo Mootummaatni Habshaa wagaga 150 ol ummata Oromoo qee isaatti ajjeesaa, hidhaa, qabeenya isaa saamaa biyya isaa irraa fudhachuun ummata Oromoo qee dhabilee godhanii Iyyoomsaa jiru.
Mootummaan wayyaanee ilmaan Tigiraayiin durfamu kun yeroo ammaa Oromiyaa irratti waraana labsee ummata Oromoo Dubartii garaa qabdu ykn Dubartii Ulfaa rasaasaan galaafatee ilmoo gaaratti lubbuu baasaa, haadhaa fi ilmoo rasaasaan bakka tokkotti galaafataa jira. Addunyaa kana irratti waan ilmi nama a hin raawwanne Wayyaanee Ummata Oromoo irratti raawwataa jirti. Kun gochaa Bineessummaa malee waan dhalti namaa raawwatuu miti jechuun balaalleffataniiru.
Hawwan Waggaa 60 fi maanguddoota wagaga 70 ajjeessaa jirti. Haadhaa fi ilmoo walirratti rasaasaan fixaa jirti. Daa`iman wagaga 4 fi 7 ajjeessaa jirti. kun ta`e jedhee Lola sanyii duguuggaa fi Ummata Oromoo lafarraa balleessuuf Akka Saganteeffatee hojjetaa jirti Gochaan wayayanee kun ragaa dha. Seenaafis kan dagatamuu miti. Kanaaf nuti Ummatni Oromoo biyya alaa jirru akka saba Oromootti Ummata keenya Ala jiraniif waamichi goodhuu fi dhaamsi lammummaa dabrsinu,
1. Ummatni Oromoo kan biyya alaa jirtan kan dhiigaan Oromoo taatan hundi keessan har`a yeroo ummatni keenya Biyya keessaa Lolli waraanaa irratti labsamee Waraanni irratti deema a jiru Nuti kan biyya alaa jrru ummata keenya dhumaa jiruuf Waan dandeenyuun dirmachuu qanna.
2. Dhaabilee siyaasaa Oromoo kan biyya keessaa fi biyya alaa jirtan Lola Wayyaaneen Ummata Oromoo irratti labsite kana Qolachuuf utuu oolee hin buliin gamtaa fi tokkummaa uumatanii daftanii Ummata Oromo keessaa fi alaan qindeessuun FXG kanaaf akka dirmatanii fi Qeerroo Bilisummaa waliin hiriiran akka gootanii fi ga`ee fi qooda Hoganuummaa fi ga`ee hogummaa fi dandeettii keessanii akka gumaachitan isniif dhaamna.
3. Ilmaan Oromoo kan biyya keessa jirtan nagaa fi qabbanaa qee fi mana keessan keessa jiraachuu hin dandeenye. Harka duwwaa Diina meeshaa waraanaa hanga fudhaaniitti hidhatee Lola isinirratti labse kana Gootummaan dura dhaabbataanii Bilisummaa saba keessanii fi walabummaa biyya keessaniif wareegama ulfataa baasaa jiratna Guddoo waan lammii boonsee dha! Diina Waaroo salphinaa aguuggachiise dha. Kanaaf Ammarraa kaaftanii Eeboo, Mancaa, Qottoo fi waraana qabdan hund a qabattanii kaatanii Diina Lola isinirratti labse kana akka ofirraa ittifatnii fi gootummaa Aabbootii keenya durii seenaa aarromsitan ininiif dhaamna.
4. Gootota Qeerroo Bilisummaa, Gootota Barattoota Oromoo, maanguddoo fi Hawwan Oromoo walumaa gala hawaasni Oromoo biyya keesaa tokkummaan Bilisummaa saba keensanii fi Walabummaa Biyya keessaniif wareegama hanga ammaa baaftan keessaatti gamtaa fi Tokkummaan waan hojjettaniif Diina injifattani. Tokkummaan saba Oromoo biyya keessaa Ummata Oromoo biyya aalaafis fakkii gaariid ta`uu qaba jenna.
Akkasumaa Ummatni keenya bakka jiruu Gamtaa fi tokkummaa saba Oromoo cimsatee Diina kana ofirraa kaasuuf bakka jirruutti waan dandeenyu akka Hojjennu waamicha lammummaa fi Oromummaa isniif goona.
5. Abdiif i Gaachana Ummata Oromoo WBO! yeroo ammaa Ummatni Oromoo dhumaa jira. Yeroon ati akeekaa fi kaayyoo kaleessa baatee fi irbuu saba keetii itti dhugoomsitu yeroon isa amma jenna. kanaaf WBO bakka jirtuu Ummata kee dhumaa jiruuf akka dhaqqabduuf jechuun kabajaan isin gafanna.
6. Ilmaan Oromoo kan humna waraana Wayyaanee keessa jiratn, humna Poolisa Oromiyaa, walumaa gala Hojjetaa Mootummaa kan taatan, Mootummaan wayyaanee Sirna bulchiinsa Oromiyaa diigdee Oromiyaa Bulchiinsa waraanaa jala galchuun ishee ummata Oromoo lafa irraa fixuuf akka ta`e ifaa dha. Egaa isinoo Motummaa saba keessan ajjeesaa, jiru kana waliin jiraattu moo? Qawwee baattan Gara diinaatti galagalchitu? Ummatni Oromoo akka ilmoo isaatti, akka qomoo isaatti Akka isin Saba keessan waliin iriirtanii Diina ummata keessa ajjeesaa jiru kana irraa ajjeeeftanii fi gummaa Qomoo keessanii baaftan isinirratti abdataa, saba keessan waliin Qabsoo FXG tti dabalamtanii Bilisummaa saba keessanii fi walabummaa biyya keessaniif akka waliin qabsoofnu waamicha keenya jabeessinee isniif dabarsina.
Xummuura irratti wal ga`ii kana irratti Miseensotni WBO duraanii , shammarran WBO, Nutis Qeerrummaa keenyaan QBOtti dabalamne. Qeerrummaa fi Qarrummaan humna Horiitoo akka qabuu fi waan fedhe godhuu akka danda`u ni beekna. Kanaaf Qeerroon Bilisummaa Kolonii fi Gabrummaa Ummata Oromoo irraa buqqisee bilisummaa Oromoo fi Oromiyaa akka mirkaneessu badii guutuu qabna! jechun dhaamsa Qeerroo Bilisummaaf dabrasanniiru. Guyyaa wal ga`ii kanaa galgala wallisoottotni Oromoo kabajamo fi jaallatamoon, Adam Haaruun, Callaa Carcar, Amartii Waarii, Elemoo Alii, Saaliyaa Saamii, Habtaamu Lamuu, Duulaa Adabaa irratti argamuun Galagala guutuu ummata Warraaqsaa fi kakaasaa turan.
Sabboontotni Oromoo Konyaa Albartaa, Edimeenten, Buruuksii fi Kalgaarii Baayyinaan tumsa Qeeroo Bilisummaa kana irratti argamuun Tumsa Dinagdee Guddaa Qeerroo Bilisummaaf gumaachaniiru.Tumsi kunis gara fuula duraatti jabaatee akka itti fufuu qabus dhaamaniiru.
Wal ga`iin Dhaamsa Qabsoo fi jajjabinaa Ummatni Oromoo waliif dhaamee fi Dhaamsa Jajjabainaa Qeerroo Bilisummaa bira haa dhabbaannu jedhuun! jedhu walitti dhaammachuun Xumuurameera.
OMN: Oduu Bitooteessa 1, 2016. #OromoProtests News, 1st March 2016
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/01/omn-oduu-gaggabaaboo-olmaya-oromiyaa-bitooteessa-1-2016/
https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/03/02/oduu-bitooteessa-1-2016/
http://https://youtu.be/LJ06q5c6qRU
OromoProtests 1 March 2016 continues in Gujii province of Oromia, Anna Sorraa district Me’ee Bokko town.
Bitootessa 1 bara 2016 mormiin mirga Abbaa Biyyuummaa Oromoo fi qabeenna Oromoo godina Gujii Aanaa Sorraa Magaala Me’ee Bokkotti itti fufee oolee jira. Hirirtooti karaa cufuun buufatalee woraanaa fi Pooliisii idilees guban barbadeessan jiru, qabeenna Sheikh Alamudin hedduunis gubatee jira.
#OromoProtests in Horro Guduru Wallagga, Amuru, Oromia, 1st March 2016
#OromoProtests Guyyaa har’aa 01/03 2016 Godina Horro Guduru Wallagga Aanaa Amuru mana barumsa sad 1sada 2 fi BLTO Mormii Issani har’a boda barumsa hin baranuu jechuudha debi’ani galaniruu. Mgaalaan Amuuruu tun bakkoota mormiin baatii afran darbaniif osoo addaan hin citin cichaan itti geggeeffamaa jiru keessaa tokko.
#OromoProtests continues across Oromia so is the killing. Today Agazi forces killed two brothers Teka Qabata & Boja Qabata in Shukute town, Jaldu district, West Shawa March 1, 2016. Jaldu district suffered one of the worst massacre during the first phase of the protest in December where the regime killed over 20 people people. May they join our martyrs in heaven.
Mormiin Oromoo golee Oromiyaa cufatti itti fufeet jira. Ajjeechaan Wayyaanetis akkasuma. Guyyaa hardhaa Shawaa Lixaa Aanaa Jalduu magaalaa Shukkutee keessatti obbolaa lama Takkaa Qaabataafi Bojaa Qaabataa rasaasa diinaatiin wareegamanii jiran. Waaqayyo wareegamtoota keenya biroo waliin jannataan haa qanananiisu
Godina Lixa Shaggar Magaalaa Aanaa Meettaa Roobii,Aada’aa Bargaa fi Mogooritti Warraaqsa Biyyoolessaa Oromiyaa Gaggeeffamaa Jiruun Walqabatee mootummaan wayyaanee kallattiidhaan Oromiyaa waraanaan bulchuuf waan murteesseef, Warraaqsii uummataa kallattii hundaan jabaatee jira, guyyaa har’aas tajaajillii geejjiba konkolaataa dhaabbatee jira. haaluma wal fakkaatuun Uummatni Oromoo jiraattootni Aanaa Meettaa Roobii, Adaa’aa Bargaa fi Mogoor taajajjilaa Geejjibaa konkolaataa dabalatee Omishnii qonnaa Midhaan Nyaataa, Midhaan zayitaa fi bu’aan Baadiyyaa irraa argamuu kamuu akka gabaan hin dhaabanneefi Magaalaa finfinneettis akka hin geeffamnee Murtii dabarfachuun, Gabaan Aanota kanneen keessatti guutummaatti akka dhaabbatu murteessan.
Godina Lixa Shaggar Magaalaa Ambootti Warraaqsa biyyoolessaa Oromiyaa Gaggeeffamaa jiruun Walqabatee mootummaan wayyaanee kallattiidhaan Oromiyaa waraanaan bulchuuf waan murteesseef Ummanni kallattii hundaan Diddaa Isaa FXG jabeessuun Guyyaa har’aa magaalaa Amboo keessatti taajajillii taksii fi baajajjii Guutummaatti dhaabbatee jira. Yeroo amma kana sochiin Geejjibaa dhaabatee jira.
#OromoProtests (1st March 2016) In Chalanqo, East Hararge, Oromia, young woman confronted TPLF fascist forces and told them to get lost when they tried to stop and search her.
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Gootummaa intla Oromoo intala murti guutoo tanaa laalaa mee.Suuraan tun ganama kana hararge baha magaalaa Calanqotti kaafamte. Oromtittiin tun Agaazii kararratti isii dhaabee sakatta’uu yaalee ‘ati dhiiraa quba nati ladhu mee ni gartaa jaaten!!
#OromoProtests (1st March 2016) in Awaallee, East Hararghe, Oromia
Bitooteessa 1, 2016 Godina Harargee Bahaa magaalaa Awallee gandaa amboo bakka janii hirriraa bahani mormii cimaatu geggeeffamaa jira..Alaabaa ABO fudhatanii dhaadannoo ajaa’ibaa dhageessisaa oolan.
#OromoProtests in Mana Sibuu, Bengu’aa village, 1st March 2016
#Oromoprotests, Bitooteessa 1, 2016 Lixaa wallagaa Aanaa Mana sibuu, Gaanda Bengu’aatti barattooti mana baruumsa sad. 1ffaa hiriira taasisaa oolan.
#OromoProtests (1st March 2016) in Qarsaa town. Oromo nationals Muraadii and Kadir Siraj Ahmed killed by fascist Agazi forces.
Qeeyroon Mrti-Guutoota Harargee fincila mirga abbaa biyyummaatiif taasiisaa jiran daran cimsani itti fufani jiran.
Mormii guyyaa arraa Godina Harargee Bahaa Aanaa Qarsaa magaalaa Qarsaatti jiraatootni qonnaan bultootni xiqqaa guddaan dhalaa fi dhiirrii tokkolleen osoo hin hafne hiriira gaggeeyfamerratti hirmaatani falmi cimaa gaggeeysaa oolan ammaas ittuma fufeeti.jira sabboontootni danuun wareegamaniru madaawanitu.
kanneen suuraa armaangaditi arkitan kin wareegamtoota keeysaa isaan suuraa saani arkanneedha.
Inni raasaasni irree isaatiin seente kun MURAADII ja’ama yeroodhaaf maqaan abbaa isaa hin beekkamne. Inni faashaan qaama guutuu hidhaa kun ammoo KADIR SIRAJ AHMAD dhalataa G/H/B/A qarsaatii; isaan lachuutuu mormii ganammee guyyaa arraa jachuuniis salaasaa, 1/03/2016 harka wayyaaneetiin wareegamanii gara fuula rabbii isaanii galan.
Wareegamtoota keenyaa waliin jannatatti itti haa tolu.
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IBTimes: Oromia: Ethiopia protesters: No, we don’t have self-rule in Oromia state. #OromoProtests March 31, 2016
Posted by OromianEconomist in #OromoProtests, Africa, Oromia, Oromo.Tags: #OromoProtests, 'BECAUSE I AM OROMO’: SWEEPING REPRESSION IN THE OROMIA, IBTimes UK, No, Oromia, Oromo, we don't have self-rule in Oromia state.
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By Ludovica Iaccino. March 30, 2016
UK (IBTimes) — Protesters and activists in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest state, have denied they have self-rule in the region, contrary to a governement’ statement given to IBTimes UK. Abiy Berhane, minister counsellor at the Ethiopian Embassy in London said earlier in March people already rule themselves in Oromia, they use Oromo as the official language, they have their own budget and a regional parliament that rules on all political, economic and social aspects.
Who are the Oromo people?
The Oromo people are Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group and their population amounts to more than 25 million (around 35% of Ethiopia’s total population).
Oromo people speak Afaan Oromoo, as well as Amharic, Tigrinya, Gurange and Omotic languages. They are mainly Christian and Muslim, while only 3% still follow the traditional religion based on the worshipping of the god, Waaq.
In 1973, Ethiopian Oromo created the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which stemmed from the discontent over a perceived marginalisation by the government and to fight the hegemony of the Amhara people, another large ethnic group in Ethiopia.
OLF – still active today – also calls for the self-determination of the Oromo people. It has been deemed as a terror organisation that carried out violent acts against people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. The group has always denied such allegations, claiming its mission is to terminate “a century of oppression” against the Oromos.
However, some Oromo people denied the claims made by the official. Activist, author and PhD candidate at London’s Soas University, Etana Habte, told IBTimes UK there is no self-rule in Oromia, where people do not trust the region’s ruling party coalition, Oromo Peoples’ Democratic Organization (OPDO).
“Opdo is an organisation of ex-war captives established by the TigrayanPeople’s Liberation Front (TPLF) inTigray in 1990, when the latter failed to co-opt the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF),” he alleged.
“Oromia’s regional council, Caffee Oromiyaa, has never had any history of independent decisions, it has been approving what is put on the table byTPLF. If Oromia has no self-rule, no regional council of itself, talking about budget and independent decisions is only a mere waste of time.”
Opdo has not responded to a request for comments on the allegations.
Climate of fear
Oromia has been rocked by the deadly protests that erupted in November 2015 against a government draft plan − later scrapped − that aimed to expand the boundaries of the capital Addis Ababa.
Activists claimed some 400 people, at least 200 according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), have been allegedly killed by security forces. The government denied the allegations of violence and claimed legitimate protestshave been infiltrated by people who aim to destabilise the country.
Although the government scrapped the plan, demonstrations are continuing, with peoplecalling for self-rule, the liberation of political prisoners, the end of what they perceive as “military regime” in the region and the cessation of an alleged crackdown by security forces on “peaceful and unarmed” demonstrators, mainly students and farmers.
“The regime is using new strategies to punish Oromia. Amenities have been cut in most urban centres, the regime has brought down all independent TVs and radio broadcasts from overseas, closed selected websites and social media websites. It is doing this in an attempt to breakdown the nerve centre of the protests,” Habte alleged.
“There is a serious climate of fear in the public and there is no guarantee that any person would come back home safely once they leave. This situation has convinced people that the state targets you simply because you are Oromo. Amnesty International’s report published in October 2014 titled, Because I am Oromo: Sweeping Repression In The Oromia Region Of Ethiopia, is an absolute representation of unfolding realities.”
Habte also denied protesters are seeking secession, although it is a right guaranteed by the constitution. He denied that the government started public consultations, contrary to what Berhane told IBTimes UK.
“People are heard time and again saying: ‘We don’t want to be ruled by a government who has killed our loved and respected ones’. It seems too late, but if the regime wants to solve the current crisis, it has to address it at a national level and with national representation.”
Read more at:- http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ethiopia-protesters-no-we-dont-have-self-rule-oromia-state-1551225
Das Berliner Missionswerk: Frieren Sie die Militärhilfe für Äthiopien ein, bis Äthiopien die Menschenrechte achtet! #OromoProtests March 30, 2016
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Freeze military and economic aid to Ethiopia until Ethiopia respects human rights!
– The Berlin Mission for the Horn of Africa
Frieren Sie die Militärhilfe für Äthiopien ein, bis Äthiopien die Menschenrechte achtet!
Das Berliner Missionswerk setzt sich seit den 1970er Jahren für Menschenrechte und Gerechtigkeit in Äthiopien ein. Was sich gegenwärtig in Oromia abspielt, dem Landesteil Äthiopiens, in dem das Missionswerk über langjährige Partner verfügt, wird durch die hiesigen Medien kaum berichtet und ist darum auch nur Wenigen bekannt.
Das hat den Beirat „Horn von Afrika“ der Berliner Mission, Anfang des Jahres dazu veranlasst Briefe an alle im Bundestag vertretenen Parteien zu schreiben. Worauf sie sehr zustimmende Antworten bekommen haben, mit Ausnahme vom Außenministerium und vom Ministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung.
Als weiteren Schritt wenden Sie sich nun mit einer Petition an die Öffentlichkeit. Die darin enthaltene Erklärung des Europäischen Parlaments lässt an Deutlichkeit nichts zu wünschen übrig und hoffen mit dieser Aktion dazu beizutragen, dass die Resolution in praktische Politik umgesetzt wird.
Die äthiopische Regierung setzt die Armee gegen friedliche Demonstranten ein. Mehr als 250 Menschen, die gegen Enteignungen und Vertreibungen sowie für die Selbstbestimmung Oromias demonstrierten, wurden bereits getötet. Das Parlament der Europäischen Union hat die äthiopische Regierung aufgefordert, die von ihr unterzeichnete UN-Charta der Menschenrechte zu wahren.
Sehr verehrte Frau Bundeskanzlerin Dr. Angela Merkel,
frieren Sie deshalb die Militär- und Budget-Hilfe für Äthiopien ein, bis die äthiopische Regierung die Menschenrechte, vor allem die Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit respektiert.Die äthiopische Regierung hat einen „Masterplan“ vorgelegt, der eine Ausweitung der Bundeshauptstadt Addis Abeba auf Kosten des Bundeslandes Oromia vorsieht. Er hat bereits zur gewaltsamen Vertreibung von Tausenden von Bauern und ihren Familien geführt und hätte bei konsequenter Umsetzung die faktische geographische Teilung Oromias zu Folge. Dieser Plan hat seit November 2015 in Oromia zu zahlreichen Protest-Demonstrationen geführt. Diese wurden von der äthiopischen Regierung unter Einsatz von Bundespolizei und Militär blutig niedergeschlagen. Mehr als 250 Menschen wurden getötet. Hunderte wurden verwundet, Tausende verhaftet – Jugendliche, Aktivisten, Journalisten, Intellektuelle, Oppositionspolitiker. Menschen riskieren ihr Leben, wenn sie gegen Vertreibungen, Enteignungen und gegen die gewaltsame Einschränkung der in der Verfassung verbrieften Versammlungs-, Demonstrations- und Meinungsfreiheit demonstrieren.
Das Europäische Parlament hat am 21. Januar 2016 in einer Resolution zur Lage in Äthiopien (2016/2520 RSP) die äthiopische Regierung dringend und unmissverständlich aufgefordert, die von ihr unterzeichneten Menschenrechtserklärungen und die eigene Verfassung der Demokratischen Bundesrepublik Äthiopien vom 8.Dezember 1994 zu respektieren und zu praktizieren, insbesondere die Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten, die Menschenrechte und die demokratischen Rechte.
Stattdessen hat die äthiopische Bundesregierung am 24.Februar 2016 alle kommunalen und regionalen Regierungen im Bundesland Oromia abgesetzt und die zivile Verwaltung durch das Militär ersetzt. Die Regierung Oromias ist faktisch machtlos und die föderale Verfassung Äthiopiens vollends außer Kraft gesetzt. Immer mehr, vor allem gut ausgebildete junge Leute verlieren die Hoffnung und verlassen das Land.
Deutschland unterstützt Äthiopien mit Militärhilfe und mit Haushaltszuschüssen. Die deutsche Bundesregierung unterstützt damit direkt die Unterdrückung der Oromo, den Krieg der äthiopischen Regierung gegen das eigene Volk, die Missachtung der Verfassung Äthiopiens und die vollständige Einschränkung der politischen Freiheiten und der Menschenrechte.
Mit dem Einfrieren der Militär- und Budget-Hilfen aus Deutschland und anderen Geberstaaten könnten wir die äthiopische Regierung zum Einlenken bewegen.
Der Beirat des Berliner Missionswerkes für das Horn von Afrika
- Pfr. i.R. Gerd Decke, Vorsitzender
- Pfr. Dr. Reinhard Kees, Geschäftsführer
Die Petition kann hier unterzeichnet werden.
http://www.pressenza.com/de/2016/03/frieren-sie-die-militaerhilfe-fuer-aethiopien-ein/
France 24: Focus: Anger among Ethiopia’s Oromo boils over. #OromoProtests March 30, 2016
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Focus: Anger among Ethiopia’s Oromo boils over
France 24, March 29, 2016
http://https://youtu.be/75_q7dbpTjs
In recent months, Ethiopia has seen its worst unrest in a decade. Members of Ethiopia’s Oromo ethnic group, which feels left out of the country’s booming economy, have taken to the streets in protest.
Protesters are calling for equal rights and an end to what they call corruption, land grabs and government oppression. Some Oromo families have been forced off their land, and the government refuses to officially recognise the Oromo language. The government has cracked down on the protests, and activists and human rights groups say over 200 people have been killed. FRANCE 24’s reporter spoke to the families of several victims.
Click on the video player above to watch FRANCE 24’s full report from Ethiopia.
Oromia: Petition Intended to Stop the Killings of Oromo Women and Children March 29, 2016
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Petition Intended to Stop the Killings of Oromo Women and Children
Begna Dugassa Ph.D; Email: begna.dugassa@gmail.com
We are saddened to the wide spread killings and imprisonments in Oromia. The killings and imprisonments are unjust and we believe that you are also saddened to the actions of the Ethiopian government security forces. The petition is planned to reach international organizations such as the UN and EU as well as countries that are providing financial assistance to Ethiopia i.e. the U.S.A, UK, Germany, France, Italia, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Holland and others. The message of the petition is: Stop the Ethiopian government from using the international financial aids to kill Oromo women & children. To make sure your voices are heard we encourage you to sign this petition.
What it takes to sign the petition?
It takes two easy steps. To sign the petition you simply go to the link below and click on the file. When you open the file, on the right corner you will see: SIGN THE PETITION. In the space provided you enter your name, email address and the country where you reside and hit enter. If other family members or friends want to sign the petition you have to wait until the first person is signed out from the link.
Who should sign the petition?
Anyone who disapproves the killing of Oromo women, children and others can sign. For this reason you need to share the information with your friends, family, community, church, mosque and Waqeefaata members. Make sure to share the link and the information among your coworkers, neighbors and school friends and ask them sign.
How many people need to sign?
We are thinking to collect 10,000 signatures. The bigger is the better.
The reasons for the petition are as follow:
Dear Global Citizens,
We are writing on behalf of Oromo women and children who are dying and suffering in the hands of the Ethiopian government security forces. The Ethiopian government led by the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), a former guerrilla army, only represents six percent of the Ethiopian population. However, Oromo people who are the single largest ethnic/national group and represent 45 to 50 percent of the people in Ethiopia are denied the right to freely determine their social, economic, political, cultural and environmental affairs. In the absence of Oromo leadership, the TPLF government implemented policies that evicted millions of Oromo farmers from their farms and left millions of women, and children in poverty and famine.
Oromo people are an egalitarian society. Before the incorporation of Oromia into the Ethiopian empire, the Oromo people were ruled by democratically elected leaders known asGada and Siiqee system. Siiqee is an Oromo women’s institution, organized to bring checks and balances in gender relations. Therefore, the Oromo people believe that under consecutive Ethiopian rulers, they have made backward social changes. Moving back from freely electing their leader (governed by democratically elected groups) and flourishing Siiqee institution (fostering gender equity) to languishing under dictatorial regimes that have no progressive social policy or agenda for women’s rights. When the Oromos demand for self-rule, they are demanding to freely develop their institutions i.e. Gadaa and Siiqee and using these institutions in solving their problems.
The consecutive Ethiopian minority rulers denied the Oromo people the right to freely determine their social, economic, political, cultural and environmental rights. Violation of such rights is responsible for the famine, poverty, child and maternal mortality, higher illiteracy, and lack of clean water in Oromia. At present, over 18 million Ethiopians, mainly Oromos, are facing starvation and dependence on food aid. Oromo women and children are dying prematurely from starvation and preventable diseases. Oromo women who witness this are determined to change the political system that is putting them at risk and they are actively participating in peaceful demonstrations.
More potent than the hunger, malnutrition and disease is the brutality of the TPLF government of Ethiopia. Since November 2015 the Ethiopian government security forces have been indiscriminately killing peaceful demonstrators. The Ethiopian government is stifling any news on its own brutality in the killing of peaceful Oromo demonstrators, women and children indiscriminately.
Although, the European Union, USA, Canada and many other humanitarian organizations have expressed concerns and condemned these acts of killing the Ethiopian government has upgraded its attack against the Oromo, taking it to the proportion to genocide. As of today, about 400 Oromos have been killed, including many children and pregnant women. Many thousands have been maimed and over 12, 000 are imprisoned and tortured. Women and children are among the maimed, imprisoned and tortured. In the meantime, the Ethiopian government is still benefiting from the financial and political supports provided to it by Western governments. Their tax payers’ money is used to support the government that kills women, children, elderly people, and peaceful Oromo citizens.
We are writing to ask you join us to stop the Ethiopian government from killing, imprisoning and torturing women, children and other sectors of the Oromo society. We ask you join us in signing this petition to make sure that the tax payers’ money sent to the Ethiopian government is not used to kill children and women. We are asking you to do so and further influence your respective governments on behalf of the defenseless Oromo children, women and elderly.
Sincerely
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Sirnee was shot dead merely for shielding her child from the shooting Ethiopian soldiers. She was an Oromo mother who died along with her child. Oromo women are taking the brunt of the brutal military repression against peaceful Oromo protestors demanding the respect of their constitutional rights. The Ethiopian totalitarian regime has turned its defense forces against its own citizens.
Soldiers are shooting indiscriminately, killing, maiming, imprisoning and torturing unarmed protestors. Since Oromo protests started in November 2015, over 400 peaceful protestors have been murdered, including many children and pregnant women. Oromia is a bloodbath. Four months into the protests, the brutal bestiality shows no sign of relenting.
Soldiers are breaking into homes and university dormitories, terrorizing and savagely raping women and students. They are gang raping girls as young as 12. Women are particularly targeted for rape to emasculate men and break the spirit of Oromo protestors. But you won’t hear much of this because the brutal regime has effectively stifled all voices of dissent. It is now muzzling journalists to shut down any news of its atrocity that could come out of that country.
We call on all global citizens with a passion for human rights and fundamental freedoms to help us stop this bestiality against Oromo women. Will you join us?
Ethiopia – #OromoProtests and Ethiopian Repression: Overview March 28, 2016
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Ethiopia – Oromo Protests and Ethiopian Repression: Overview
By Finfinne Tribune | Gadaa.com |Bitootessa/March 28, 2016
The current round of Oromo protests is a continuation of previous peaceful protests against the government’s illegal land grabbing. The Ethiopian government massacred over 78 university students in Ambo in 2014 but left their questions unanswered. The current protests ask the same unanswered questions but they also raise deeper grievances and longstanding issues of injustice, identity and fundamental human rights. They particularly focus on the brutalities of the last 25 years of totalitarian repression to which the international community has turned a blind eye.
Ethiopia and the World
Ethiopia is a darling of both the West and the East of the now unidentifiable Cold War divide. In the West, Ethiopia is praised for being a key ally in the war on terror and for hosting refugees. In the East and the Middle East, she is celebrated for opening up the country for land grabbing.
Both sides applaud Ethiopia for creating the fastest growing economy in Africa and for allowing their banks and companies access to land and investment for economic development.
What is hidden in the praise for hosting refugees is the mind-boggling number of refugees that Ethiopia herself produces by turning the country into a bloodbath for dissidents. What is hidden is that some of those who flee atrocity cannot make it to asylum or resettlement because the Ethiopian regime hunts them down and captures them, because they are eaten by wild animals, or because they drown in oceans and big seas in their desperate attempt to reach safety.
What is hidden in the praise for Ethiopia’s alliance against terrorism is the barbaric terrorism of the Ethiopian state itself. What is hidden is that Ethiopia uses its anti-terrorism proclamation as a weapon for silencing any form of dissent. What is hidden is that many thousands of innocent political opponents, journalists, artist, musicians and peaceful protestors are marked as terrorists and beaten, jailed, tortured, killed, or otherwise exiled.
What is drowned out in the applause of economic development is the staggering human cost of land grabbing and the brute bestiality of Ethiopian state terrorism to snuff out indigenous land claims. The savage massacre of thousands of innocent indigenous peoples in Gambella, Ogaden, Oromia, Tepi, and Wolkayet are only a few examples of genocidal ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity that the Ethiopian government commits in the name of development.
Social Engineering: Minoritizing the Majority
Ethiopia is an incredibly diverse multinational and multi-faith state of 100 million people. The Ethiopian government is admired for its bold attempt at ethnic federalism in order to address the controversial national question and foster democratic relations among its diverse polity.
What is hidden, however, is that the so-called ethnic federalism is a sham and the incredibly beautiful diversity is eclipsed by the totalitarian repression of a single-party dominated by a handful of elite, namely the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), from a minority national group from Tigray.
What is hidden is that this minority clique from Tigray clings on to power by pitting nations against nations, by muzzling free expression, and by jailing, killing and exiling its political opponents. What is hidden is that this repressive clique used iron fist over the last 25 years to entrench its exclusive empire. What is hidden is the extreme greed and lust for power that put a tight absolute control of the country in the hands of a few hand-picked TPLF members.
What is hidden is that Tigray, the nation from which the TPLF clique hails, makes only 6% of Ethiopia’s population but this clique takes exclusive absolute control over the politics, economy, military and media of the entire country. What is hidden is that Oromos constitute 90% of political prisoners while they are only 40% (close to 40 million) of Ethiopia’s population.
What is hidden is that the late Meles Zenawi, the architect of the current TPLF Empire, had vowed to destroy those he considered major threats, particularly the two most populous nations, Oromos and Ahmaras. He vowed to reduce Oromos to a minority because of their numerous population and their crucial demographic, geographic, and geopolitical centrality for the entire Horn of Africa region. As for Amharas, he vowed to break their dominance because he fostered vengeance against them for what he saw as their former ruling-elite chauvinism.
What is deeply hidden is that his policy of destruction is being carried out through the social engineering of mass evictions of people from ancestral lands, mass massacre of those who resist, permanent mass exile of those who manage to escape, mass incarceration and genocidal ethnic cleansing of those who remain. What is hidden is that fertile land from which indigenous peoples are massacred or illegally evicted without compensation is given to TPLF members or leased to foreign investors for some ridiculous 99 years. What is hidden is this silent TPLF take over, TPLF turning itself into a majority though social engineering and political vote-rigging.
What is not so hidden is that the shameless declaration of 100% election victory (read 0% dissent tolerance) in May 2015 by the cliquish ruling party is a suicidal pill at the culmination of its lust for power. What is not so hidden is that this victory is an utter failure incurred through merciless killing, jailing and harassment of people and broad-day robbery of their ballots. What is not hidden is that the 100% victory of 2015 is the grand finale of the 2005 election where this clique massacred over 200 opposition party protestors and robbed them of their election wins.
Troubling Impunity
One thing is deeply troubling: the TPLF clique is committing all the mind-boggling atrocities with utter impunity under the watching eyes of a world that fails to take any meaningful action to stop the carnage. What is troubling is that tyranny is rewarded as good governance, emboldening the regime to continue with its genocide and ethnic cleansing. What is troubling is Ethiopia’s economic development is celebrated even as its most vulnerable children are exposed to famine.
What has become obvious, however, is that all the praised economic development has not spared the cliquish regime from begging food aid for 20 million of its fellow citizens facing starvation. What is so obvious is that, although drought may be the result of El Nino and climate change, food scarcity is the result of the greedy clique gobbling up the wealth of the entire nation.
Impunity or not, the people seem to have discarded the regime. The peace-loving ordinary people of Ethiopia, people renowned for their strong forbearance and unlimited patience, have now run out of patience. These law-abiding people are confronted by a totalitarian clique that refuses to abide by any law, including its own constitution. The people have now said: enough is enough!
The peaceful protest triggered in the largest and most populous nation of Oromia is spreading to the entire country. People are turning its claim of 100% election victory inside out. They are demonstrating their overwhelming rejection.
Focus on Oromo Protests
March 12, 2016 marks exactly four months of the ongoing Oromo peaceful protests which started on November 12, 2015. The protests have rocked every corner of Oromia and they are spreading to other parts of Ethiopia. They started in response to the illegal land grabbing by the government, which left millions of indigenous Oromo farmers landless and homeless. This was in utter violation of their constitutional rights and fundamental human rights.
Primary and high school students, the children of the farmers who felt the pinch, started the peaceful protests which quickly engulfed the entire state of Oromia. Instead of listening to their legitimate grievances, however, the Ethiopian government responded by unleashing its military forces and mercilessly beating and killing unarmed peaceful protestors. Marking an entire nation as terrorist and turning its defence forces against its own citizens, the government dissolved civilian administration and imposed a martial law. The besieged state of Oromia is now ruled by eight of the country’s top war generals under the central command post of the Prime Minister.
Soldiers are now ravaging the Oromo communities. Over 450 peaceful protestors have been massacred, including many children and pregnant women. The death toll continues to rise as bodies are still being discovered in the ditches, forests and rivers. Mothers are killed while protecting their children. Elders as old as 80 are killed alongside children as young as 2. Many thousands are savagely beaten and maimed. Over 12, 000 are jailed and tortured. Mostly young students are being targeted. Soldiers are regularly breaking into university dormitories, beating students and raping young women. They are regularly breaking into private homes, beating men and raping women in front of their families. Girls as young as 12 are gang raped by soldiers.
The carnage continues today, four months into the protests. Ongoing appeals to donor nations resulted in some public condemnations of the atrocities but fell short of taking meaningful action. Sadly, western governments have pushed human rights and justice to the back burner, prioritizing security and the economy.
Please share this information with all who care about human lives and human rights. The claims made here are all documented in the accompanying Info Kit [pdf file] for your reference.
http://gadaa.com/oduu/31687/2016/03/28/ethiopia-oromo-protests-and-ethiopian-repression-overview/
“THE OROMO IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY”: INTERNATIONAL OROMO LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (IOLA) & OROMO STUDIES ASSOCIATION – 2016 MIDYEAR CONFERENCE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE), LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM March 27, 2016
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IOLA Mid-Year Conference London, 1 April, 2016
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Theme: The State of Rule of law, Human Rights and Democracy in Ethiopia
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Continuous efforts have been made to create a modern state and the legal basis that underpins its formation in Ethiopia for about one century. The adoption of the 1930 constitution and the 1955 revised constitution which is followed by series of law making attempts that produced half a dozen of codified laws over a space of 10 years in the mid twentieth century. The 1991 Transitional Charter and more importantly, the 1995 constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia could be taken as one of the most radical marking point and complete departure from the past in the legal and political history of Ethiopia. This new constitution brought about a new state formation and instituted the formation of nine Regional States with their respective state structures. Politicians and the academia fiercely debate on the legal and political implication of the rights of the nations and nationalities enshrined in this constitution.
IOLA seeks to reflect on the underlying reasons that necessitated the adoption of major legal documents that constitute today’s Ethiopia and to discuss the level of success of such legislative attempts. It would like to take the opportunity to reflect on the legacies of past and present constitutive moments.
Possible topics include, but not limited to:
– The power relationship between the Centre (Federal) and its constituting Regional Sates under the 1995 FDRE Constitution: theory and practice;
– The position of Oromia Regional State regarding the capital city (Addis Ababa or Finfinnee);
– Electoral politics in Ethiopia: the role of the opposition and civil society;
– Federalism as a solution for Self-determination of people/nations;
– The current state of law enforcement and justice systems in Ethiopia: comparative analysis to the rule of law and universal human rights norms;
– Freedom of the press and the media landscape in contemporary Ethiopia.
OSA’s Midyear Conference to stay in Europe | London will host the conference on April 2 & 3, 2016
The Oromo Studies Association’s (OSA’s) 2016 Midyear conference will take place at the London School of Economics (LSE) in London on April 2 and 3. The theme of the Conference will be “The Oromo in the Global Political Economy.” For the latest update, visitOromoStudies.org
OROMO STUDIES ASSOCIATION – 2016 MIDYEAR CONFERENCE
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE), LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
APRIL 2-3, 2016
http://www.oromostudies.org/blog/osa-to-hold-midyear-conference-at-lse
THEME: The Oromo in the Global Political Economy
The Oromo Studies Association invites paper abstracts and panel proposals for its 2016 midyear conference to be held at the London School of Economics (LSE) in collaboration with the LSE Africa Initiative.
The conference provides a platform for examining major changes, challenges and opportunities that impact the Oromo via the global political economy. The theme sets a broader context in which to examine the power dynamics and major actors and beneficiaries of global political economy in Ethiopia. We are also interested to examine how these dynamics and actors inform the questions of economic and political justice, history, law, leadership, and environmental challenges. Global trade, finance, and geopolitical interests over the last few decades seem to have shaped both inter-state relations and regional political economy. From the Oromo perspective, these subjects are critical to the process of mapping knowledge across multiple disciplines with a view to seeking direct global alliances and partnerships.
The event presents an opportunity to explore unique and exciting themes that will broaden understanding of the Oromo nation through research and dissemination of findings globally. With such a diverse range of interest focusing on the Oromo in global political economy, the famous London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) presents an excellent ideal academic environment for OSA’s midyear conference.
Themes of the conference include:
– The place of the Oromo in the geopolitics of the Horn;
– Federalism; Oromo land and property security: natural resource ownership;
– Economic justice, state/party-capitalism and conglomerates in Ethiopia;
– The ‘developmental state, constitution and constitutionalism
– China-Africa Trade Policy and Implication for the Oromo
– Global events/turning points in modern history & the Oromo, 1935/36, 1974, 1991)
– Imperial Ethiopia, local alliances and global connections;
– Finfinnee, Oromo hinterlands and the fate of Oromo national identity;
– Climate change and its impact on ecological health, sustainable development, renewable energy in Oromia;
– Historical wrongs and the pursuit of justice and reconciliation;
– Regional networks, alliances & political projects: the Oromo & the rest of the South
– Ethiopia’s counter-archives: narrative, memory, history
– The identity/alterity nexus in the Oromo-Ethiopia dualism
– The politics of othering and the othering of politics
– The next chapter in the political economy of Oromia and Ethiopia
Al Jazeera: Africa (Oromia): Ethiopia’s Oromo people demand equal rights in protests. #OromoProtests March 27, 2016
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Ethiopia’s Oromo people demand equal rights in protests
Largest ethnic group in Ethiopia continues to rally against the government despite crackdown.
https://youtu.be/TJOh1y7J72I
Wolonkomi, Ethiopia – Six-year-old Abi Turi and her nine-year-old brother Dereje have not been attending classes in Wolonkomi.
Their school was closed in January as the Ethiopian government began what its critics call a crackdown on protests by the Oromo, the country’s largest ethnic group.
It is uncertain how many people have died in clashes between security forces and protesters since November, when a series of demonstrations began.
Local estimates put the figure at between 80 and above 200. The New York-based Human Rights Watch has said that more than 200 people may have died in about six months, a figure the government denies.
“With regards to allegations from human rights groups or self-styled human rights protectors, the numbers they come with, the stories they often paint, are mostly plucked out thin air,” Getachew Reda, the information minister, told Al Jazeera.
Abi and Dereje’s mother was among those shot in January. She was hit by a bullet in the neck. Despite receiving medical treatment, she died of her wounds in March.
“The little girl cries and keeps asking where her mother is. We feel her pain,” said the children’s grandfather Kena Turi, a farmer. “The older one cried when his mother was shot and died, but now it seems he understands she’s gone.”
Oromo students began rallying to protest against a government plan they said was intended to expand the boundaries of Addis Ababa, the capital, into Oromia’s farmland.
Protests continue
Oromia is the country’s largest region, and many there believe the government did not want to redevelop services and roads, but that it was engaged in a landgrab.
Though the government shelved its “Integrated Development Master Plan” due to the tension, protests continued as the Oromo called for equal rights.
In February, another anti-government rally turned violent. Nagase Arasa, 15, and her eight-year-old brother Elias say they were shot in their legs while a demonstration happened near their home.
READ MORE: Oromo protests continue amid harsh crackdown
“I was in the back yard walking to the house when I was shot,” Nagase told Al Jazeera.
“My brother was in the house. I couldn’t walk I was bleeding. Then I was hit again when I was on the ground I felt the pain then my brother came to help me and he was shot too.”
Ethiopia has an ethnically-based federal system that gives a degree of self-rule to the Oromo people.
But the Oromo opposition, some of whose members have been detained, says the system has been corrupted by the ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front.
A ‘marginalised’ community
Merera Gudina, an Oromo politician, said that members of his community feel marginalised — excluded from cultural activities, discriminated against because of their different language, and not consulted in political or economic decisions.
With double-digit growth over the last decade, Ethiopia has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the majority of the Oromo remain poor.
“Until the Oromo’s get their proper place in this country I don’t think it [dissent] is going to go. The government wants to rule in the old way; people are resisting being ruled in the old way,” Gudina said.
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Reporting and recording human rights abuses is also risky, activists told Al Jazeera. Local and foreign journalists said attempts were made to intimidate them, with some detained.
Al Jazeera spoke with local reporters who said they were too afraid to even try and cover the issue.
“It’s very dangerous. Everybody is living in fear. They imprison people every day. People have disappeared. Doing this work is like selling my life,” a human rights activist told Al Jazeera, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Government rejects claims
Kumlachew Dagne, a human rights lawyer, said there was a need for “public forums and consultation for debates on public policy issues” to allow for different views to be heard. He added that the protesters who were injured or killed had not been armed.
“Many of those people were killed after the protests took place many of the people were shot in the back some were shot in the head, which shows that these people were not armed,” he said.
“They were peaceful demonstrators. That is consistent with reports we had from victims’ families.”
The government rejects such claims as exaggerated or fabricated.
“People, whether they are civilians or security officials who have been involved in an excessive use of force, will be held responsible,” Reda said.
He said the government would consult with the Oromo people and “address the underlying problems”.
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Oromia (Ethiopia): EU Raises Concern Over Unrest. #OromoProtests March 26, 2016
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(Oromia Press): EU Raises Concern Over Unrest
The European Union (EU) has once again voiced its concern over unrest that has been occurring in Ethiopia. In a media brief held at Desalegn Hotel on March 16, 2016, the EU expressed the need for dialogue to resolve the issues that escalated in Oromia Region and parts of Amhara Region.“We ask for more transparency – sharing information to know what is exactly happening there,” said Chantal Hebberecht (Amb.), Head of the EU delegation to Ethiopia.
The emerging conflict in Konsso, Southern Ethiopia was also raised. The delegation has already held discussion with the people from this specific area.
The press briefing also touched on the ongoing El Niño induced drought.
Al Jazeera: HUMAN RIGHTS: #OromoProtests continue amid harsh crackdown March 24, 2016
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HUMAN RIGHTS: #OromoProtests continue amid harsh crackdown
Protesters continue to clash with security forces in what has spiralled into Ethiopia’s largest unrest in decades.
Simona Foltyn | 24 Mar 2016 
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – At first sight, things seem to have returned to normality in the town of Ambo, 120 kilometres west of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Few uniformed security forces are visible on the streets. People seem to go about their daily lives as usual.
But speak to almost any resident and a different picture emerges.
“We are living in a violent kind of peace,” says an 18-year-old student, who does not want to reveal his name. Like many people interviewed for this story, he fears he might end up in jail, or worse, for speaking his mind.
Ambo is perhaps best known for two things: being Ethiopia’s most popular mineral water, and its university, often a hot spot for anti-government demonstrations. Such displays of public dissent earned the town a reputation as the bastion of opposition in a country where the ruling party and its allies took all 547 parliament seats in last year’s election.
When people took to the streets in nearby Ginchi in November last year to object about plans to requisition public land for an investment, residents in Ambo soon joined in. Demonstrations spread like wildfire across the vast Oromia region, feeding on decade-long frustrations over political and economic marginalisation.
As the protests intensified, so did accounts of police brutality amid what regime critics describe as a widespread and systematic government crackdown on opponents. Witnesses recount tales of killings, beatings and arbitrary arrests by an array of armed forces deployed to quell what had spiralled into Ethiopia’s worst civil unrest in a decade.
The heavy-handedness of the government has further spurred anger among the Oromo. Earlier in March, students from Addis Ababa University marched in protest towards the US embassy in the capital, demanding the end to police crackdowns.
Details of the crackdowns, mostly reported through social media and by activists, have been difficult to verify. Restrictions on movement have made independent investigations risky for human rights workers and journalists alike. Two foreign journalists and their translator were recently arrested for covering the protests.
The 18-year-old student in Ambo told Al Jazeera that he was shot in his hand when the military opened fire at the protesting crowd. Even though his hand is healing, he hasn’t returned to school in fear of intelligence officers, who are allegedly combing classrooms for those who took part in the protests.
“They are still looking for people and taking them to prison,” he said, trying to conceal the dressing on his hand to avoid attracting the attention of security personnel, who many think are roaming the streets in civilian clothing.
Silenced testimonies
Such testimonies stand in stark contrast from the image the country often presents to the outside world.
Ethiopia’s state-led development plan has resulted in double-digit growth, improvement of key socio-economic indicators and has helped attract billions inaid. The country is also an important security ally for Western governments in the volatile Horn of Africa.
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| The family of Girma Ragassa, aged 28, who was reportedly killed by security forces in Ambo. [Al Jazeera] |
It’s uncertain how many people have died in the clashes. Local observers put the figure at between 80 and above 200, while New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) estimates that well over 200 people may have lost their lives since November.
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More than a dozen police officers have also been killed in the unrest. Protesters stand accused of attacking public buildings and burning the houses of government officials.
The government has dismissed HRW’s death toll as an exaggeration, but has yet to provide its own estimate.
“We are already taking actions, except that we are not in a shouting match with the media or self-appointed human rights activists,” said Getachew Reda, Ethiopia’s minister of Information.
The government has accused radical elements of stoking the unrest but asserts that investigations into the heavy use of force are under way. Yet many Oromo say authorities have failed to take responsibility.
Four families of victims interviewed said no government officials had come to investigate the deaths of their loved ones.
“The only time any government officials come here is to spy on us,” said Worku Bayi, the father of one of the victims killed in the protests, 22-year-old Aschalew Worku.
After his death, authorities reportedly accused Aschalew of being a member of the Oromo Liberation Front, an exiled opposition movement that the ruling party has labelled a terrorist organisation.
Witnesses blame security forces for deliberately obstructing medical care for wounded protesters. Fitale Bulti, a resident of Ambo, watched her nephew bleed to death after he was allegedly shot by security forces.
“The police wouldn’t let us take him to the hospital,” said Bulti. “For over an hour we just stood there, watching his blood run down the street.” Her nephew, Ulfata Bulti, was only 12 years old.
Just across the street, Degeneh Shugi, 36, says he was stopped and beaten by security forces while on his way to work. Accused of participating in the protests, he was then taken to the police station along with 15 others, where he was held for four days. Degeneh’s mother, Derebe Yirga, who is a member of the Oromo Federalist Congress opposition party, reportedly remains in police custody.
Rights groups and opposition leaders allege that thousands have been arrested in the most recent crackdowns, a scale that is reminiscent of mass arrests of opposition members during the turbulent aftermath (PDF) of the 2005 elections.
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“There are several hundreds that have been detained from our party. But we don’t know for sure, as we have lost a lot of communication,” said Merera Gudina, chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress opposition party in an interview in Addis Ababa.
Gudina named five members of the party’s top leadership who have been held or placed under house arrests since protests began.
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| The expansion of the capital Addis Ababa into the surrounding Oromia region is what sparked protests in November last year [Al Jazeera] |
Al Jazeera contacted several officials in the Oromia regional government for comment, but was denied interviews amid rumours of internal reshuffling. Analysts and observers believe that the handling of the crisis has created a rift between the ruling TPLF, the lead party within the ruling collation, and its allied OPDO party, charged with governing Oromia.
The OPDO’s decision to halt a controversial “master plan” that governs the expansion of the capital into Oromia, which is what initially sparked protests, has failed to put an end to the crisis. Many Oromo demand genuine reforms and justice for those killed.
“The government said it would stop the master plan just to calm the people. But what we need is a lasting solution to this crisis,” said 23-year-old Gudisa Ragassa, the younger brother of another victim killed in Ambo.
“If the government can’t do that, they shouldn’t be in power.”
Martial law in Oromia: The state is now under 8 military divisions controlled by Fascist TPLF warlords from Tigray. March 23, 2016
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“It is because of the absence of self-rule that you see millions of farmers evicted and their land given to ruling party officials or foreign companies. The regime downplays the scale of questions raised as well as the scale of the lethal forces used.” – Habtamu Dugo, an exiled Oromo journalist and US-based professor
Ethiopia: Government says Oromia has self-rule but activists vow to continue protests
BY Ludovica Iaccino, IBT, March 23, 2016
People in Ethiopia’s Oromia state already have self-rule and protesters’ demands are already in place, an Ethiopian official told IBTimes UK. Abiy Berhane, minister counsellor at the Ethiopian embassy in London, made the comment as activists said they are still on the streets of Oromia calling for self-rule, the release of political prisoners and the end of military presence in the region.
Protests in Oromia began in November 2015 against a government draft plan to expand the boundaries of the capital Addis Ababa. Demonstrators, mainly from the Oromo ethnic group, argued the so-called “Addis Ababa master plan” would lead to forced evictions of Oromo farmers from their lands and would undermine the survival of the Oromo culture and language.
Who are the Oromo people?
The Oromo people are Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group and their population amounts to more than 25 million (around 35% of Ethiopia’s total population).
Oromo people speak Afaan Oromoo, as well as Amharic, Tigrinya, Gurange and Omotic languages. They are mainly Christian and Muslim, while only 3% still follow the traditional religion based on the worshipping of the god, Waaq.
In 1973, Ethiopian Oromo created the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which stemmed from the discontent over a perceived marginalisation by the government and to fight the hegemony of the Amhara people, another large ethnic group in Ethiopia.
OLF – still active today – also calls for the self-determination of the Oromo people. It has been deemed as a terror organisation that carried out violent acts against people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. The group has always denied such allegations, claiming its mission is to terminate “a century of oppression” against the Oromos.
The government scrapped the master plan following increasing agitation which activists claimed led to the death of some 400 people, at least 200 according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), released on 21 February.
The government denied the allegations of violence and claimed the death toll was much lower, but did not give a specific figure.
Berhane explained Ethiopian authorities conducted an assessment on the unrest and admitted they took slow steps in addressing people’s legitimate grievances. “Had these demands been addressed quickly and effectively, dissident groups would not have been able to infiltrate peaceful protesters and instigate violence,” he said.
“The government does not want to see any of its people die, even the death of one person is one is one too many. What the country needs first and foremost is peace. Inciting violence, creating division, coming up with horrific stories and posting those stories on social media does not help in any way.”
Earlier in March, Prime Minster Hailemariam Desalegn apologised for the deaths and destruction for which he blamed “anti-peace forces” that infiltrated demonstrations.
Self-rule already in place
Berhane claimed that people are ruling themselves in Oromia, where the official language is Oromo, people have their own regional parliament and run their own budget. “Political problems in Oromia and indeed in any other part of Ethiopia have been for the most part resolved. If there are any that are not resolved, the Constitution provides the mechanism for resolving them so there is no need for violent conflicts,” he said.
However, Oromo activists who spoke to IBTimes UK denied Oromo people have self-rule in the region, claiming that Oromia’s ruling party, Oromo Peoples’ Democratic Organization (OPDO), is an organisation of “ex-war captives” created by the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a political party in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
Activists also denied violent people infiltrated protests, and alleged the government iscracking down on peaceful and unarmed demonstrators, including pregnant women and children. They also claimed the government declared martial law in Oromia, which they say is now divided into eight military divisions controlled by “ethnic Tigrean generals”.
“It is because of the absence of self-rule that you see millions of farmers evicted and their land given to ruling party officials or foreign companies. The regime downplays the scale of questions raised as well as the scale of the lethal forces used,” Habtamu Dugo, an exiled Oromo journalist and US-based professor, said.
“Oromo are not able to elect their leaders in a free and fair election and the ruling party serves the interests of few ruling elites from the Tigray region. Although Afan Oromo is recognized on paper as a regional official language, people are demanding it to be made into one of the federal languages, since it is the most widely spoken language in Ethiopia.”
Dugo, also a member of the Board of Directors of the Oromo Studies Association, added that should alleged killings by security forces continue, Oromo people might start calling for secession, a right guaranteed by the Ethiopian constitution.
An Oromia-based activist who spoke to IBTimes UK on conditions of anoymity, denied the government of Oromia rules on its own budget. The source said: “While Oromia contributes 60% of Ethiopia’s GDP, OPDO has to accept 70% of its recurrent and capital budget from the TPLF-dominated federal governement.”
The source also alleged at least 40,000 Oromo people are currently imprisoned and many of them “had to suffer severe torture”.
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“There are so many problems facing the Oromo people… “But those who speak about it are getting arrested. Educated people, farmers, teachers, doctors — the government accuses them all of being part of the protests.”
The Rotten Foundation of Ethiopia’s Economic Boom
ADAMA, Ethiopia — For those who would speak frankly about politics in this landlocked East African country, the first challenge is to find a safe space.
But on a recent evening in Adama, a city in the heart of a region reeling from the largest protest movement Ethiopia has faced in decades, most people seemed at ease. University students poured out of the city’s main campus, spilling into claustrophobic bars and pool halls. Others crowded around a cluster of aging taxis, jostling for a quick ride home.
Though it is one of the largest cities in Oromia — where members of Ethiopia’s Oromo ethnic group have taken to the streets in recent months in unprecedented numbers to protest their political and economic marginalization — Adama has remained mostly quiet.
Hidden beneath the casual veneer of daily life, however, lurks a deep-seated suspicion of the government, which has built a massive surveillance apparatus and cracked down violently on its opponents
Hidden beneath the casual veneer of daily life, however, lurks a deep-seated suspicion of the government, which has built a massive surveillance apparatus and cracked down violently on its opponents.
Citizens feel they have to watch what they say, and where they say it. At the hangouts where crowds have gathered, a political statement might be overheard. Out on the sidewalks, government spies could be on patrol. Inside the university campus, security officials are on the lookout for suspicious behavior.
In a way, the recent unrest is rooted in Ethiopia’s rapid economic rise. The federal government claims to have notched double-digit GDP growth rates over the past decade, but its rigid, top-down approach to developing industry, and attracting foreign investment, has resulted in mass displacement and disrupted millions of lives. This, in turn, has heightened ethnic tensions that today threaten Ethiopia’s reputation for stability.
All across Oromia, government security forces have been struggling to control the spate of violent protests that erupted in November, partly in response to the government’s so-called master plan to coordinate development in Addis Ababa with nearby towns in Oromia, a sprawling central region that surrounds the capital on all sides. Like much of the country, the vast majority of Oromia is rural, home to small-scale farmers who feel left behind by the dazzling growth of Addis.
When this latest round of protests began last year, demonstrators seized on the master plan as symbolic of broader encroachments on Oromo autonomy. They also accused the government of taking land from Oromo farmers for little or no compensation, suppressing the Oromo language in schools, and unfairly redistributing the region’s natural resources.
In Adama, a 23-year-old engineering student, whose full name has been withheld for his safety, was initially reluctant to speak with this reporter for fear of reprisal. He relaxed only after he and some close friends sat down in a deserted cafe near campus, where a quiet woman brewing coffee over hot coals was the only person listening in.
“There are so many problems facing the Oromo people,” he said. “But those who speak about it are getting arrested. Educated people, farmers, teachers, doctors — the government accuses them all of being part of the protests.”
His caution was warranted. Less than two weeks later, a confrontation erupted at the university, reportedly in response to a small demonstration by students — though the details, as always, are hazy. One witness who asked not be named said he heard gunshots as security forces descended on the campus. Amid the confusion, at least two fires were sparked — one in the school’s backup generator.
“On campus, students already feared the armed forces,” said the witness, who is a student at the university. “Now, no one feels like they have any right to speak at all.”
Government security forces have been accused of exacerbating the crisis in Oromia by violently suppressing the protests. In a recent report, Human Rights Watch said it had “documented security forces firing into crowds of protesters with little or no warning, the arrests of students as young as 8, and the torture of protesters in detention.” The rights group said military and police forces have killed “several hundred peaceful protesters” since November.
Members of the Ethiopian diaspora have been equally vocal, taking to social media to call attention to alleged atrocities. Jawar Mohammed, who is based in Minnesota, is perhaps the most prominent online activist, manning a number of social media feeds featuring bloody photos of dead demonstrators and grainy videos of police brutality that have become hubs for Oromo diaspora members around the world. His Facebook page has amassed nearly a half million followers.
“We have freelancers embedded in pretty much every district across the country,” said Mohammed, who was born in Ethiopia but works abroad as the executive director of the Oromia Media Network, a news broadcaster whose satellite feed here has been repeatedly jammed by the Ethiopian government. “They infiltrate the system from top to bottom,” he said in a Skype interview.
How much of an impact social media activism has had on the actual protest movement is a matter of debate. In a country with limited Internet penetration, and where the sole government-owned telecommunications provider has the power to shut down signals and block opposition websites, online activists like Mohammed are necessarily limited in what they can do. According to the engineering student in Adama, people on the ground are driving the protests, and social media matters “only a little bit.”
Where online activists have succeeded is in channeling video and photographic evidence of abuses to the outside word
Where online activists have succeeded is in channeling video and photographic evidence of abuses to the outside word. But even this evidence is difficult to verify; several journalists, including this correspondent, have been detained by officials for attempting to report in some of the worst-affected areas.
There are also questions about the direction social media activists have steered the debate surrounding the protests. Comments by Mohammed’s passionate social media followers sometimes advocate violence against members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a political party from the northern region of Tigray that dominates the government’s security and intelligence agencies. And because he and other online activists are far from the front lines, some argue that their social media posts are ultimately a distraction. The student who witnessed the altercation at the university in Adama, for instance, said he agrees with Mohammed’s political analysis, but is concerned that the Facebook page has become a magnet for a dizzying array of viewpoints — about religion, regional politics, and ethnic strife — that make the movement more controversial than it needs to be.
Still, Mohammed has a clear strategy in mind. When it comes to human life, he advocates nonviolence. But he encourages demonstrators to block trade routes, destroy the property of companies that are seen as operating against Oromo interests, and avoid bringing crops to market in order to raise food prices.
Might such tactics be unethical during the worst drought Ethiopia has witnessed in decades, which has left 10.2 million people in need of emergency food aid? “Morally, yes,” Mohammed said. “Strategically, no.”
Officials have no time for these “activists on the other side of the Atlantic,” said government spokesman Getachew Reda. He claimed that agitators, some of whom have backing from Eritrea, Ethiopia’s archrival, have infiltrated the ranks of the protesters and are responsible for the current violence. The government security forces, by contrast, have generally handled the situation professionally, he said.
“We may have some bad apples,” Reda said. “Otherwise, the security apparatus that we have in this country is very much oriented towards serving the interests of the public.”
Amid this war of words, normal citizens are caught in the middle. In the quiet café in Adama, the engineering student spelled out a set of remarkably prosaic demands: He would like to see more Oromo professors at the university, for instance, and a fairer allocation of resources for the region. But, he said, he stays quiet for fear of Ethiopia’s pervasive security and intelligence apparatus.
“People don’t feel free,” he said. “We are all psychologically impacted.”
After two months of violent demonstrations, the government announced that it was scrapping the master plan. It wasn’t enough. Some protesters said they didn’t believe it had really been canceled. Others were motivated by grievances that run much deeper than any development scheme, citing marginalization stretching all the way back to the late 1800s, when the Ethiopian emperor Menelik II swept in from the north to expand Ethiopia’s borders and establish the capital city in Oromo lands.
On paper, today’s federal system is meant to ensure some measure of autonomy for all of the country’s ethnic groups, including the Oromos. The ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), is made up of four regional parties, including the TPLF and the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO). But the government lost some credibility in May, when the EPRDF and allied parties won every parliamentary seat in a national election. Though the OPDO holds more parliamentary seats than any other party, protesters say the party either cannot or will not challenge the dominance of the TPLF — and Oromos remain marginalized as a result.
Officials say they are trying to promote meaningful dialogue. “It is the government’s responsibility to make sure that people’s legitimate grievances are addressed properly,” Reda said. To that end, OPDO officials have convened meetings with concerned citizens across Oromia, and hundreds of low-level officials have been dismissed for corruption.
But the government has continued to lean on its powerful security apparatus, which has both enabled Ethiopia’s impressive, state-led economic development and imperiled it by bringing ethnic tensions to the fore. The ongoing protests in Oromia point to cracks in the facade, where citizens feel left out as the government pursues its uncompromising vision of modernization.
By continuing to crack down on demonstrators instead of listening to their demands, Ethiopia risks compromising the reputation for political stability that fueled its unprecedented decade of growth and foreign investment. In that way, the government may soon erode the very foundation of its own economic ambitions.
OPINION: TAKING OUR VOICE SERIOUSLY. #OromoProtests March 22, 2016
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OPINION: TAKING OUR VOICE SERIOUSLY
By Hailegabriel Gedecho, Addisstandard, 22nd March 2016
My starting point for this short reflection is my discomfort with friends and acquaintances who question (and dismiss) the morality of supporting (to use their pejorative expression‘mafafam’) Oromo Protests from overseas. As most of these critiques reside in Ethiopia (where public display of solidarity with Oromo Protests is meant risking torture, incarceration, and of course one’s life), the claim of immorality of Ethiopian diaspora showing solidarity with Oromo protesters may be interpreted as either a fear of tyranny or a disguised yearning for an Ethiopia where public display of resistance does not cost one’s freedom or life.
But there seems to be more to this argument than the fear or yearning that I alluded to above. If you push a bit further and ask why they are not themselves doing the support (if the morality of protests overseas is the issue as they claim), they end up telling you ‘order’ must be managed or Oromo Protests must first be reframed as ‘Ethiopia Protests’. So, for them, order (whatever that means) and fetishizing Ethiopia are the litmus tests of the morality of protests against the Ethiopian state. As a corollary, one can legitimately assume these people don’t care if the Ethiopian state kills, dispossess, disempowers, and denigrate Oromos as long as ‘order’ is maintained and fetish Ethiopia is thereby performed. In this piece, I will try to explain why, in many ways, the silence these resident Ethiopians seek from their overseas friends is ethically more troublesome than the solidarity (often expressed through social media outlets such as Facebook) that Ethiopians in overseas show to the victims of state terrorism in Ethiopia.
The participation of Ethiopians overseas in protests has more often involved social media activism. Although the effects of this social media activism cannot be contradicted, it is hardly the cause or the primary instigator of the Oromo Protests on the ground. In a country where internet access is limited to only less than 5% of the total population (the majority being Addis Abebans who are not apparently interested in the protest), the impact of social media activism in fuelling Oromo Protest is negligible, more so in rural Oromiya where we are witnessing the protest. Oromo Protest has its origin within Ethiopia and is related to developments there. The impossibility of the protesters’ demand to be expressed through other less explosive spaces of resistance and the eternally undemocratic and imperial nature of the Ethiopian state and its development model are its major contributors. The social media activism by the diaspora cannot be implicated in this, unless one wants to easily buy into the dull rhetoric of the Ethiopian government blaming every wrong on ‘external forces’.
Instead, complementing the voice of the subaltern in spaces where their participation is marginal (e.g. social media) is morally satisfying. As can be easily noticed, the social media is a space of its own dynamics. Though it can generally be open to all, there is every possibility that sympathisers of the violent Ethiopian state dominate the social media discussion of current affairs in the country. This makes the active complication of the suffocating state-sponsored discourses of developing, democratizing, and modernizing Ethiopia urgent. Those who perform their resistance on social media may at least vindicate the causes of the subaltern (such as the Oromo protesters) by exposing the state’s pretentiousness vis-à-vis its politically and economically marginal communities.
Of course, there is an additional reason why Ethiopians overseas should do the social media activism. Unlike their brothers and sisters at home (who are paying dearly for asking legitimate questions), Ethiopians overseas are removed from the immediate threat of state reprisal for echoing these questions. Although doing the easy thing in a virtual space cannot compensate for the pain suffered by victims of state terrorism, it is at least a blameless (as well as useful) thing than remaining silent about the injustices perpetrated by the Ethiopian state.
Another thing which seems to obsess the silent supporters of injustice relates to vocal diaspora activists and their increasing popularity. It is often argued resistance from afar is cowardice and meaningless. In their eyes, the brave is the one who dare to challenge the government from within. Admittedly, those who do their protest in Ethiopia are brave. But, their bravery cannot and should not be measured against the alleged spiritless-ness of vocal diaspora activists. In fact, numerous foreign-based Oromo protesters know what it means to challenge the Ethiopian state from home. They have experienced the brutality of the Ethiopian state for having done that.Their bodies and souls unalterably inscribe experiences of torture and other inhuman and degrading treatment under the Ethiopian state that rendered them homeless in the first place. Hence, they have every reason to fear the brutality of the evil state, least for having part of their family back at home. This fear is not illegitimate and cannot be ridiculed as cowardice, not least by sympathisers of the violent state who often rationalise their desire for status quo in terms of fear of the unknown post-Oromo protest future.
Interestingly, some admit the Ethiopian state has always (perhaps unsurprisingly) justified its excessive violence in terms of the ‘need to maintain order’. It is unclear how one can ethically and consistently claim the primacy of order (which assumes the sincerity of state’s monopoly of violence to supress any protest) as well as suggest that those who languish in Ethiopian prisons (as a result of their participation in creating ‘disorder’) are morally more righteous than runaways who make the talk from overseas.This is just like saying: ‘come and face the power of the ruthless state or don’t tarnish Ethiopia’s hard won image of stability and development by channelling the legitimate question raised by the people of Oromiya through social media outlets’. Local elites who do not want their privileged life disturbed and their demand for silence from their equally privileged friends abroad may be interpreted as a desire to normalize the violence the majority is living under in Ethiopia. If anything, the diaspora can contribute (as well as it does) in exposing the façade of development and stability that the Ethiopian state and its sympathisers deploy to invisibilize the multidimensional structural violence in the country. There is no wrong in siding with the powerless, even if that would ‘disturb’ the imperial peace of the privileged that charge the diaspora for the continued mess at home.
For me, this is not the time to worry about the good image of Ethiopia or the Oromoness of the protest. Whether the protest is framed as Ethiopian or Oromo protest it is irrelevant as long as what is at stake is an issue of social justice. Those who suspend their support to Oromo Protest because of its framing as “Oromo” cannot be more ethically wrong than this. If they sincerely believe Oromo questions are Ethiopian questions, they should have done the framing themselves and join the struggle under the banner ‘Ethiopia Protests’ instead of demanding the Oromos to reaffirm the primacy of Ethiopia (which they cannot for legitimate reasons) or wanting the likes of me (who is not an Oromo by the way) keeping silent about the plight of the Ethiopian subaltern.
I don’t understand why it is morally right to keep silent about injustices while at the same time complaining about the ‘disturbing voice’ of Ethiopians overseas that rightly believe they are supporting the cause of justice and channelling that voice to those who care to hear. Those who don’t care to hear can continue complaining about the disturbing voice. Should I worry for incidentally disturbing the privileged and the complicit in violence? No. Those who worry much are those who have something to lose (like the ruling EPRDF) or those who want the continuity of violence. And, they are the reasons why I should take my otherwise insignificant but disturbingly resistant voice seriously.
Ed’s note: Hailegabriel Gedecho former assistant professor at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. He now studies law at University of Melbourne, Australia
http://addisstandard.com/opinion-taking-our-voice-seriously/
Athletic Nation Report: Oromo athletes clinched victory for global titles in indoor Championships Portland 2016 March 22, 2016
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Oromo athlete Sifan Hassan claimed her first global title in women’s 1500m IAAF indoor Championships Portland 2016. On 19 March 2016, Saturday night, the 23-year-old seizing control of the women’s 1500m final with less than three laps to run and refusing to be passed thereafter to win in 4:04.96.
Hassan was followed by other Oromo athletes Dawit Seyaum and Gudaf Tsegay, who ran 4:04.96 and 4:05.71 respectively to round out the podium.
OMN in Afaan Oromoo interview with Siifan Hasan: Gaaffii fi Deebii gabaabaa Atileet Siifan Hasan Waliin Taasifame.(Bit.21,2016)
Oromo athlete Genzebe Dibaba cruised to victory and her third world indoor title, unchallenged, in 8:47.43 ahead of teammate Meseret Defar (8:54.26) and Shannon Rowbury (8:55.55).
WOMEN’S 3000M FINAL – IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS PORTLAND 2016.
Genzebe Dibaba gets a warm congratulatory kiss from her fan
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Oromo athlete Yomif Qajelchaa cruised to victory for the world indoor title in men’s 3000m, Portland 2016, 20 March 2016
The 18 year old, Oromo athlete Yomif Qajelchaa went to Eugene in 2014 and won the world junior 5000m title. Last year, he won over the same distance at the famed IAAF Diamond League meeting there and on 20 march 2016 he took the gold medal over 3000m at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.
Bloomberg Business: The Shadow Over Ethiopia’s Construction Boom. #OromoProtests March 21, 2016
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The Shadow Over Ethiopia’s Construction Boom
- Building glut seen fueling biggest political crisis in decade
- Fatal land protests near capital have raged since November
(Bloomberg business) — When Ethiopian farmer Mulugeta Mezemir ceded his land three years ago to property developers on the fringes of the expanding capital, Addis Ababa, he felt he had no choice.
A gated community with white picket fences and mock Roman pillars built by Country Club Developers now occupies the fields he tilled in Legetafo, Oromia region, after the 60-year-old said local government officials convinced him to accept an offer or face expropriation. He took the cash and vacated the land, which in Ethiopia is all state-owned.
“We were sad, but we thought at the time that they were going to take the land for free,” said Mulugeta, a father of 12, while feeding hay to cattle a few meters from foundations for the next phase of housing. “We thought it was better to take whatever they were paying.”
As Ethiopia, which the International Monetary Fund estimates saw 8.7 percent economic growth in the last fiscal year, undergoes a construction boom, complaints over evictions and unfair compensation have fomented the country’s most serious domestic political crisis in a decade.
Fatal Protests
In protests by the largest ethnic group, the Oromo, that began in November, security forces allegedly shot dead as many as 266 demonstrators, according to the Kenya-based Ethiopian Human Rights Project. The government says many people died, including security officers, without giving a toll. Foreign investors including Dangote Cement Plc had property damaged.
Ethiopian Communication Minister Getachew Reda said protesters were in part angry at “some crooked officials” who have been “lining their pockets by manipulating” land deals around the capital. Property developers CCD followed legal procedures, paid standard rates of compensation and employed many members of farmers’ families, according to Tedros Messele, a member of the company’s management team.
Cases such as Mulugeta’s have been a growing trend on the outskirts of the capital over the past two decades, said Nemera Mamo, an economist at Sussex University in England. No recent, independent studies have been conducted into how many people have been affected.
‘Beggars, Laborers’
“The booming construction industry has contributed to Addis Ababa’s rapid expansion that’s dispossessed many poor farmers and turned them into beggars and daily laborers,” Nemera said. “The Oromo protest movement opposes the mass eviction of poor farmers.”
Ethiopia’s state-heavy model seeks to industrialize the impoverished nation within a decade by improving infrastructure and combining investment with cheap labor, land and water to produce higher-value goods. Projects for what the IMF calls African’s fastest-growing economy include the continent’s largest hydropower dam, railways and the building of 700,000 low-cost apartments by 2020.
Construction accounted for more than half of all industry in the fiscal year that ended in July after it grew an annual 37 percent, according to National Bank of Ethiopia data. Industry comprised 15 percent of output.
Domestic Supply
Investors such as Diageo Plc, the world’s largest liquor maker, and Unilever Plc are tapping into the expansion by building Ethiopian facilities. Citizens of Africa’s second-most populous nation are using money earned there or abroad to build residences, malls and offices.
The ruling party hasn’t kept pace with the boom by improving governance and the ability of domestic manufacturers to supply the industry, said Tsedeke Yihune, who owns Flintstone Engineering, an Ethiopian contractor that’s built upmarket housing and African Union offices.
“Construction has not been used as it was supposed to, as a means of building domestic capacity, building good governance, as well as delivering the government’s development agenda,” Tsedeke said in an interview in the capital.
More than 70 percent of construction materials are imported, including cables, steel, ceramics, locks, furniture and electrical fittings, Tsedeke said. Ethiopia’s trade deficit increased by $3 billion to $14.5 billion last fiscal year.
Government Spending
Addis Ababa-based Orchid Business Group is another recipient of government capital spending, which the IMF says could double to almost $15 billion a year by 2020. Orchid’s projects include one with Italy’s Salini Impregilo SpA building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, said Hailealem Worku, the construction and engineering head.
Cement plants built by companies including Dangote have made Ethiopia self-sufficient in the material, while manufacturing incentives means glass, paint and steel factories will play a bigger role soon, Hailealem said.
The government wants to improve regulations and change attitudes so contractors boost their skills and ethics, Construction Minister Ambachew Mekonnen said in an interview. “The construction industry suffers from a lack of good governance,” he said.
In Legetafo, Mulugeta was paid 17 birr ($0.80) a square meter in compensation. Meanwhile, people were bidding as much as 355,555 birr per meter to rent land in Addis Ababa last year. Mulugeta used the 200,000 birr he received for the plot for expenses including renting more farmland. Two of his children now work as CCD cleaners, earning 40 birr a day.
“We are getting deeper into poverty,” he said.
Oromo: Ethiopia’s Construction Boom Marred by Evictions and Unrest
Oromia (#OromoProtests): Partial list of Oromos mainly students that have been killed by Ethiopian regime police, security agents, Special and armed force during peaceful demonstration of last three months (updated stand. March. 2016) March 18, 2016
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Partial list of Oromos mainly students that have been killed by Ethiopian regime police, security agents, Special and armed force during peaceful demonstration of last three months (updated stand. March. 2016)
Partial list of Oromos mainly students that have been killed by Ethiopian regime police, security agents, Special and armed force during peaceful demonstration of last three months (updated stand. March. 2016)
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#OromoProtests News: Portland Senators Jeffrey A Merkley & Ron Wyden write letter to Secretary of State John Kerry March 18, 2016
Posted by OromianEconomist in #OromoProtests, Africa, Oromia, Oromo.Tags: #OromoProtests, #OromoProtests News: Portland Senators Jeffrey A Merkley & Ron Wyden write letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Africa, Ethiopia, Global rally in solidarity with #Oromo students in Oromia, Oromia, Oromo
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Portland Senators Jeffrey A Merkley & Ron Wyden write letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging him to ensure resource given to Ethiopia are not just for purposes that undermine US long term interst. The also request the State Dept to provide account of killings, arrest and other human right abuse in response to #OromoProtests, and to identify persons responsible for committing these crimes. We are grateful to the Senators and the Oromo Community of Portland.
OMN: Collaborative public forum by Oromo Community of MN March 17, 2016
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UN Human Rights Council: General Debate under Item 4: Human Rights Crisis in Ethiopia March 15, 2016
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(HRW 15 March 2016) — A human rights crisis is taking place in Ethiopia. It has received little attention internationally but is the biggest political crisis to hit Ethiopia since the 2005 elections.
Protesters in Oromia region, Ethiopia, December 2015.
Since November 12, 2015, protesters across Ethiopia’s Oromia region have been risking their lives and liberty in the face of a brutal—and sometimes lethal–response from security forces. Soldiers and police have used deadly force and killed several hundred peaceful protesters. We understand that thousands of people have been detained in official and secret detention facilities. While there have been some incidents of violent clashes and some members of the security forces have also been killed, the vast majority of the protests have been peaceful.
The protests were triggered by the so-called Addis Ababa Master Plan, which envisioned expansion of Addis Ababa’s municipal boundary 20-fold. Protesters raised concerns that ethnic Oromos living in the area of that boundary expansion would be displaced from their farms. Ethnic Oromos, who make up approximately 35 percent of Ethiopia’s population, have long felt politically marginalized and culturally discriminated against by successive governments.
The government’s cancellation of the master plan in January came weeks too late for many protesters, who have seen too many killed and arbitrarily arrested. Over the four months of the protests, Human Rights Watch has documented security forces firing into crowds of protesters with little or no warning, the arrests of students as young as 8, and the torture of protesters in detention. Security forces have also arrested teachers, artists, political opposition leaders, and other influential Oromos who they believe are mobilizing protesters.
Since 2009, the Ethiopian government has systematically restricted independent media and civil society groups, both domestic and international. As a result, there has been limited reporting on the crackdown and inadequate international attention to this ongoing crisis. These restrictions make it difficult to verify the death toll and scale of the crackdown. It is clear, however, that the crackdown is putting Ethiopia on a very dangerous trajectory that could endanger its long term stability and progress.
Human Rights Watch urges the Council to raise concerns over the serious abuses taking place in Oromia. The Council should call on the Ethiopian government to cease using excessive force against protesters and release everyone arbitrarily detained. The Council should also support an independent investigation into the killings and other abuses. Any investigation should include sufficient levels of international involvement to ensure it is independent, credible, and impartial. Thank you.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/03/15/un-human-rights-council-general-debate-under-item-4
ABC News: Right Group:Oromia: #OromoProtests: Ethiopia’s security forces carrying out serious rights abuses, killings and rapes in clashes with protesters in Oromia March 15, 2016
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Group: Ethiopia Forces Kill, Rape in Clashes With Protesters
A rights group is accusing Ethiopia’s security forces of carrying out serious rights abuses during recent protests in the country’s Oromia region.
The Ethiopia-based Human Rights Council said Monday that it found evidence of extrajudicial killings, tortures, beatings, illegal detentions, forced disappearances and arson attacks during and after the protests.
In November, protests erupted in the Oromia region over a proposed plan to expand the municipal boundary of the capital, Addis Ababa, which some believed would lead to the displacement of farmers.
Authorities have since abandoned the plan but clashes continue. The Human Right Council said at least 103 people have been killed.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn recently told lawmakers he is “apologetic for the death and destruction” that happened during the protests.
http://www.robemedia.com/2016/03/14/group-ethiopia-forces-kill-rape-clashes-protesters/
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/ethiopian-troops-accused-of-executing-protesters-20160314
Oromo athlete Dejene Gezimu clinches victory in the 2016 Vitality Liverpool Half Marathon March 14, 2016
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Injifannoo ilma Oromoo! Baga gammanne! Baga gammaddan!
Leenconni imaan ilmaan Oromoo Bitootessa 13 bara 2016 fiigicha magaalaa liverpool Biyya UK irrati ta’ametti injifannoon galuun Alaaba keenya akkanatti addunyaa irratti ol nuf Qaban.
Athlete Dejene Gezimu has won the 2016 Vitality Liverpool Half Marathon and raised Oromo (athletic nation) national flag in the events.
The 22-year-old Oromo athlete, who has a string of other race wins under his belt, recorded a personal best for the half marathon with a time of 01:06:59 – averaging five minutes and seven seconds per mile.
He was 50 seconds faster than his nearest rival, Benjamin Douglas, who was runner-up.
The fastest woman to finish the 13.1-mile course, run in warm sunshine, was Michelle Nolan in a time of 01:20:20 – averaging 6 minutes and eight seconds per mile.
Meanwhile the winners in the 10 mile race were Connor McArdle, on a time of 58 minutes and 41 seconds, and Michelle King in 01:11:26.
Here are the top five male and female competitors in each of the races.
Men
1: Dejene Gezimu – 01:06:59
2: Benjamin Douglas – 01:07:49
3: Daniel Kestrel – 01:08:09
4: Richard Burney – 01:08:40
5: Nathan Kilcourse – 01:09:21
Women
1: Michelle Nolan – 01:20:20
2: Gemma Connolly – 01:21:25
3: Kirsty Longley – 01:22:18
4: Elissa Morris – 01:22:41
5: Charlotte Mason – 01:24:50
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http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/liverpool-half-marathon-2016-results-11032151
Oromia: Global Prayer Day for the Martyrs of #OromoProtests March 13, 2016
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Global Prayers Day for the Martyrs of #OromoProtests, 12 March 2016
March 12, 2016. Minnesota: Global Oromo Churches Prayer and Fasting for Oromo being killed by Wayane in Oromia.
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The Star Phoenix: #OromoProtests Global Rally: Large group protests the treatment of Oromo people in Ethiopia March 13, 2016
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Large group protests the treatment of Oromo people in Ethiopia
A group is marching today in downtown Saskatoon to draw attention to violence against the Oromo people in Ethiopia.
Ethiopian government forces killed more than 80 people in protests in the country’s Oromia region.
Ethiopia’s prime minister apologized this week for the deaths resulting from the anti-government protests in the Oromia region but accused the protesters of being responsible.
The group, called the Saskatoon Oromo Self-Help Association Corporation, marched downtown and protested outside of City Hall.
“There has been rampage violence and and reckless mass murder of the Oromo people by the country’s militarily armed police forces and security agents,” the group said in a press release.
The group is “appalled” by the treatment of the Oromo people in Ethiopia.
Associated Press files.
Deseret News: #OromoProtests Solidarity Rally: Utah Oromo community calls for U.S. pressure to end Ethiopia violence March 13, 2016
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Utah Oromo community calls for U.S. pressure to end Ethiopia violence
Geleta Fite crosses his arms in protest
as members of Utah’s Oromo community rally for human rights
in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 11, 2016.
SALT LAKE CITY — Holding signs depicting bloodied victims of the violence that has erupted in the Oromia region of Ethiopia over the past several months, Utah’s Oromo community rallied Friday in front of the federal building.
The group is demanding U.S. help in bringing justice to their friends and families living in Ethiopia, where government forces have killed hundreds of peaceful protesters opposing the annexation of the country’s capital Addis Abada into surrounding towns.
“We’re here today to protest the killings taking place in every corner of Oromia and to bring that violation of human rights to the government of the United States so that the United States can make some pressure to stop the killing,” said Geleta Fite, who came to the U.S. in 2013. But his family, he said, remains in Ethiopia.
“We will not sit back until we see some change and we see some justice for the murdered,” he said.
Fite joined several dozen other Oromo community members to deliver letters to Utah’s U.S. senators, demanding that the United States “condemn the brutal acts of the Ethiopian government and ensure these acts stop immediately,” the letter states.
Among its requests, the group urged the U.S. to advise its business community to limit spending in Ethiopia until the violence ends and pressure the Ethiopian government to establish an independent investigation into the killings.
The Human Rights Watch has said that there have been “almost daily accounts of killings and arbitrary arrests” since the beginning of the year as Ethiopian forces have suppressed peaceful protests in a government crackdown.
The Associated Press has reported that the protests were led by students who opposed what they believed to be a government plan to expand the capital, which would ultimately lead to the displacement of thousands of families and farmers. The Ethiopian government has denied the protestors’ claims, saying it only seeks to link Addis Ababa with nearby towns.
In January, after the deadly protests erupted, the AP reported Ethiopian officials canceled plans to integrate the capital with surrounding communities. However, the Human Rights Watch has said the bloody crackdown has continued, after the plan’s cancellation did not halt protests.
“This is genocide,” said Genemo Bedaso, chairman of the Utah Oromo Community. “We appeal for America to stop it. They have the power.”
Bedaso and Fite tried to meet with Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Mike Lee on Friday to deliver their group’s letter. The senators were not available, but staff members accepted the letters. Hatch’s spokeswoman, Heather Barney, said the letter will be relayed to the senator in Washington.
“Sen. Hatch is always responsive to his constituents’ concerns and has directed staff to meet with them,” she said. “He’s very concerned about the problems that they’re sketching out and he’s happy to listen.”
The European Parliament adopted a resolution in January to condemn the peaceful protest killings, call for an investigation of the violence, and demand immediate release of arrested Oromo activists.
CBC:#OromoProtests: Oromo community rallies in Calgary over police crackdowns in Oromia/ Ethiopia March 12, 2016
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Ethiopian community rallies in Calgary to protest police crackdowns in Oromia region
‘They’re leaving farmers without anywhere to go’
By Erika Stark, CBC News March 11, 2016
Members of Calgary’s Oromo community rallied in front of MP Kent Hehr’s office on Friday. (Colin Hall/CBC)
About 100 people rallied in front of Calgary MP Kent Hehr’s office Friday morning to protest police crackdowns in Ethiopia over plans to requisition farmland in the African country.
It was to support dozens of university students who protested in Ethiopia’s capital on Tuesday, demanding an end to police crackdowns that followed months of demonstrations over plans to requisition farmland in the country’s Oromia region late last year.
Protesters held signs and waved flags outside of Hehr’s Calgary office. (Colin Hall/CBC)
The government wanted to develop farmland around the capital, Addis Ababa, and its plan triggered some of the worst civil unrest for a decade, with rights groups and U.S.-based dissidents saying as many as 200 people may have been killed.
In Calgary, Gilcha Mohammed, the chairman of the Oromo Community Association of Alberta, called on the Canadian government to pressure Ethiopian authorities.
“We’re all taxpaying Canadian citizens and we want our government to send a strong message to the Ethiopian government that they can’t continue killing and arresting peaceful protestors,” said Mohammed, speaking above the shouts of the protesters gathered outside Hehr’s Calgary office.
Protesters were crossing their arms during the rally. (Colin Hall/CBC)
“They are confiscating thousands of hectares of land. There’s about 3 million farmers that have been displaced. They’re leaving farmers without anywhere to go and that’s why we’re here.”
Protesters in Calgary marched down the street holding Canadian flags and the flag for the Oromia region.
Ethiopia has long been one of the world’s poorest nations but has industrialized rapidly in the past decade and now boasts double-digit growth. However, reallocating land is a thorny issue for Ethiopians, many of whom are subsistence farmers.
Authorities scrapped the land scheme in January, but sporadic demonstrations persist.
This woman lays down in a form of protest. (Colin Hall/CBC)
Mohammed said Canada should use its influence to encourage a peaceful resolution.
“Canada is a major contributor of foreign aid to Ethiopia and it has a lot of influence over the Ethiopian government,” he said. “We just want Canada to put pressure on the Ethiopian government and even cut that aid if necessary.”
Mohammed said Hehr’s office agreed to meet with the group after the rally.
“We got a good response so far,” he said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ethiopia-calgary-kent-hehr-rally-1.3487777
International Business Times: Oromia:#OromoProtests: Oromo protesters: ‘We are still on the streets because we want self-rule’ March 10, 2016
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Oromo protesters: ‘We are still on the streets because we want self-rule’
By Ludovica Iaccino, March 10, 2016
UK (International Business Times) — Hundreds of people from Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest state, are still protesting on the streets calling for self-rule. An activist who spoke to IBTimes UK on condition of anonymity explained that Oromopeople, Ethiopia’s biggest ethnic group, were also protesting against the alleged violence carried out by security forces against demonstrators.
Protesters in Oromia first took to the streets in November 2015 to voice their dissent against a government draft plan that aimed to expand the boundaries of the capital Addis Ababa. They argued the so-called “Addis Ababa master plan” would lead to forced evictions of Oromo farmers who will lose their land and would undermine the survival of the Oromo culture and language.
Who are the Oromo people?
The Oromo people are Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group and their population amounts to more than 25 million (around 35% of Ethiopia’s total population). They originated in the Horn of Africa, where they are believed to have lived for millennia.
Oromo people speak Afaan Oromoo, as well as Amharic, Tigrinya, Gurange and Omotic languages. They are mainly Christian and Muslim, while only 3% still follow the traditional religion based on the worshipping of the god, Waaq.
In 1973, Ethiopian Oromo created the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which stemmed from the discontent over a perceived marginalisation by the government and to fight the hegemony of theAmhara people, another large ethnic group in Ethiopia.
OLF – still active today – also calls for the self-determination of the Oromo people. It has been deemed as a terror organisation that carried out violent acts against people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. The group hasalways denied such allegations, claiming its mission is to terminate “a century of oppression” against the Oromos.
The Ethiopian government scrapped the master plan following increasing agitation which activists claimed led to the death of at least 200 people.
However, Oromo people have continued their protest arguing, among other things, that they did not trust the authorities.
“The issue of the master plan was only an immediate cause,” a source close to the campaigners said. “The root causes are real demands for Oromo self-rule, democracy and rule of law, among others and the government has continued to respond violently.”
The activist also claimed that during student protests which occurred on 8 March, police allegedly arrested more than 50 people and injured many.
“Student protests occurred at some large universities including Addis Ababa University,Jima University and Wallaga University,” the source added.
“AtAddis Ababa , Oromo students demonstrated for the second round in front of the US embassy chanting ‘we are not terrorists, we are Oromo, stop the killings inOromia’. In Wallaga, government forces beat and injured many students. Hospital beds were overflowing with injured students and ambulances were prevented from taking victims to hospitals in other cities around that part of Oromia,” the source alleged.
Government dismisses allegations of violence
The Ethiopian embassy in London has not responded to a request for comment on the fresh allegations.
On 21 February, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report warning that at least 200 people had been killed with further arrests of Oromo protesters by security forces, including the military.
However, Ethiopia dismissed the allegations with an official telling IBTimes UK the HRW report was“abysmal propaganda.” The government claimed the death toll was much lower than 200 but did not give a specific figure. Protesters were also accused of trying to secede and create an independentOromia state.
An earlier statement by the Ethiopian embassy sent to IBTimes UK stated that the government engaged in public consultations which resulted in the decision to scrap the master plan. Authorities also launched an investigation to identify people behind “corrupt land acquisition practices”, loss of innocent lives and damage to private and public properties. The investigation has led to a number of arrests.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oromo-protesters-we-are-still-streets-because-we-want-self-rule-1548661
Gambella: My Father, Who Dared to Defend Land Rights March 10, 2016
Posted by OromianEconomist in Africa, Ethiopia's Colonizing Structure and the Development Problems of People of Oromia, Afar, Ogaden, Sidama, Southern Ethiopia and the Omo Valley, Ethnic Cleansing, Gambella, Land Grabs in Africa.Tags: Africa, endigenous people, Ethnic Cleansing in Gambella Region, Gambella, Genocide, Land grab in Oromia & Gambella, land grabs in Oromia and Gambella, My Father, Omo Valley, Who Dared to Defend Land Rights
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My Father, Who Dared to Defend Land Rights
Financial Times & Oakland Institute, 9 March 2016
Sir, Your Big Read article, “The billionaire’s farm” (March 2), captures well the ramifications of the takeover of land and natural resources on the most marginalised communities in Ethiopia, a destination for many of the foreign investors. The devastating impact is way too personal for some of us.
Okello Akway Ochalla, mentioned in the article, is my father. He was kidnapped and then renditioned to Ethiopia and has been languishing in jail for two years, charged as a terrorist. His crime being — having witnessed the massacre of his people in 2003 as the governor of Gambella, having had to flee the country since he feared for his own life, having been separated from his family — my sister and I spent half of our lives as refugees in Kenya, before coming to the US in 2013 — that he dared to advocate for the human rights of the people of Gambella and the Anuak community.
On March 7, a final verdict was expected in my father’s case and yet once again to break his spirit, the verdict has been postponed to April 6. The strongest evidence the court has against my father is his own confession. A confession obtained, as my father explained in his closing statement, “after being kidnapped and suffering in detention for more than three months without any defence lawyer and communication with anyone”. He added: “The defence statement was made to look as if it was voluntarily submitted to the court… at the time I was giving the statement to the police, I was in an environment where the police investigator had put the pistol on the table in front of me and I was being tortured.”
If anyone cares to read the evidence brought forward by the defence and my father’s closing argument, it is obvious that the crime committed by my father is one of dissent and that he has committed no terrorist activities. His dissent challenges the continued suffering of Anuak people and the theft of natural resources such as our land, rivers and forests, which is igniting social and political conflict. My father is no terrorist. A good man, a good father and a good leader, my father is a land rights defender!
In the light of the excellent coverage by the FT, my sincere hope is that big donors to Ethiopia, including the US, the UK and the World Bank, will reconsider the impact of this land rush on families such as mine and urge the Ethiopian government to release my father.
Obok Akway Ochalla
Spokane, WA, US
Oromia: #OromoProtests – 100 days of Public Protest March 8, 2016
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Oromo Protests – 100 days of Public Protest
By Ethiopia Human Rights Project, March 2016
Oromia, the largest regional State in the Ethiopian Federation, has been rocked by series of protests in the past 100 days since mid-November 2015. The protests began with the aim of having the proposed Master Plan of the capital, Addis Ababa, officially referred as the ‘Addis Ababa–Finfinne[1] Integrated Development Plan’ (‘Master Plan’) scrapped. The Master Plan was designed by Addis Ababa City Administration in collaboration with the government of Oromia Regional State and introduced early in 2014. The protestors opposed the Master Plan, which covers 1.1 million hectare of land (approximately twenty fold the current size of Addis Ababa), saying that its implementation will result in the eviction of millions of farmers and families from their land. The first protests against the Master Plan were held mainly by students of Oromia regional State in April/May/June 2014 which resulted in deaths, injuries and imprisonment of many people all over the state. The protests erupted again in November 2015 and continued up until now.
The ‘second round protests’, as it is called by activists, took wider area and longer time than its antecedent. Police brutality have reached its climax and deaths, injuries, mass arrest, kidnapping have tragically been reported in the State. In only the first hundred days of these protests, hundreds of towns and villages have witnessed mass incidents. In addition, death tolls have reportedly reached more than four hundred, thousands of people were injured and tens of thousands people were briefly arrested. Even though the Master Plan has been officially been scrapped by OPDO, ruling party in the regional State, on 13 January, 2016, fifty four days after the second round of the protest erupted, the third round of the protests have continued with a new momentum; what has started as an opposition to the Master Plan seems to end up looking for answers of political questions that have grown in the past two decades.
The Ethiopia Human Rights Project (EHRP) has actively followed the first 100 days of the protests and summarized the issues, causes, and the human rights violations perpetrated by government security forces in response to the protests in Oromia region. Click the next line to read the full report:-
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Africa On The Move: The Struggle of the Oromo People & Its Movement March 7, 2016
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(Blog Talk Radio) — Join “Africa On The Move,’ as we engage in a ‘live’ Pan-African discussion on ‘The Struggle of the Oromo Peoople & Its Movement.’ Members of the Oromo’s Movement will share their realities on what is happening to their people inside Ethiopia and Africa ….Why are there mass killings within their community? Come and join us today, Sunday, March 6, 2016, from 7 – 9 p.m. est., by dialing in at (323) 679-0841 or go online. the following invited gursts are: Mr. Daniel Dafa, Professor Asafia Jalata, Mrs. Lali Galan, Mr. Zel Negassa and Mr. Hakeem Landry. Blog Talk Radio
Press Release:The Foreign Correspondents’ Association of East Africa (FCAEA) is concerned about an escalation of the threat to press freedom in Ethiopia March 7, 2016
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Press Release: Foreign Correspondents’ Association of East Africa (FCAEA)
The Foreign Correspondents’ Association of East Africa (FCAEA) is concerned about an escalation of the threat to press freedom in Ethiopia after the recent 24-hour detention of two accredited journalists and their translator.
Journalists in Ethiopia have for years faced obstacles to press freedom. Now, two ongoing news events — a drought in the Ethiopia’s eastern regions, and protests across the central Oromia region — have called for increased travel outside of the capital Addis Ababa, which has become difficult due to a high security presence.
Arbitrary detentions, which typically last a few hours, were already a common impediment for accredited journalists in Ethiopia. But the recent 24-hour detention marks a worrying escalation.
William Davison, a correspondent for Bloomberg in Ethiopia; freelance journalist Jacey Fortin; and their translator were traveling in eastern Ethiopia on March 3rd when they were detained on the main road near Awash town, Afar region, at 12:40 p.m. by the Federal Police. Their phones and identification cards were taken during the arrest.
The three were escorted by Federal Police on a four-hour drive back to Addis Ababa. They were then briefly taken to an office of the security services, held overnight at a police station jail, and released around noon on March 4th. The authorities never offered a reason for the detention.
“Over the last five years, I have been detained multiple times in Ethiopia. I think reporting on certain topics has now become too risky because of the threat of detainment,” said Davison. “Until the government makes a genuine commitment to media freedom, it will be impossible for journalists to report safely with accuracy and integrity.”
The FCAEA is equally concerned about the dangers faced by translators, fixers and local journalists, who have no support from foreign embassies or international news organizations.
“Every time I’ve been detained while working in Ethiopia, I’ve felt that my translator has been most at risk,” said Fortin. “They are often asked to produce a media license like mine, despite the fact that such documentation is not available to translators.”
These threats are making reporting in Ethiopia increasingly difficult. We hope that dialogue with the relevant government agencies, including the security services, can begin to resolve the problem.
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Oromia: For development’s sake? Land grabbing and the Oromo People in Ethiopia March 6, 2016
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#OromoProtests: Oromo Refugees in South Africa letter to President Zuma of South Africa March 5, 2016
Posted by OromianEconomist in #OromoProtests, Africa, Africa Union, Oromia, Oromo.Tags: #OromoProtests, Ethiopia, Global rally in solidarity with #Oromo students in Oromia, Nelson Mandela and Taddasaa Birruu, Oromia, Oromo, Oromo Refugees in South Africa write letter to President Zuma of South Africa
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March 3, 2016
President Jacob Zuma
President of South Africa
Union Buildings
Private Bag X1000, Pretoria 0001
South Africa
Dear Honorable President Zuma:
On behalf of many Oromo refugees in South Africa, Oromo refugees all over the world and Oromos in Ethiopia who are experiencing severe and violent oppression under the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front, I congratulate the African National Congress, the People of South Africa and you on the 104th anniversary of the ANC.
Oromo is one of the largest and indigenous African groups on the continent and the largest single ethnic group in Ethiopia. During the nineteenth century, the country of Abyssinia was never colonized by any European power as happened to nations and regions across the rest of Africa. However, at that time, there was a struggle for power in Abyssinia. The King of Shewa (later Emperor Menelik II), in his pursuit of the imperial crown, saw an opportunity to augment his wealth, military power, and territorial domination by expropriating the lands of the Oromo people lying to the south of Abyssinia and directly or indirectly enslaving many Oromo children. He also imposed taxes on all Oromo slaves (almost all children) taken through his kingdom en route to the Arab slave markets across the Red Sea. In this way, Menelik II managed to bring the Oromo people to their knees by breaking their resistance, taking away their land, their livelihoods, and their children. The fall of the Oromo nation paved the way for the conquering of all the southern nations and nationalities including the expropriation of their lands to create the territory defined and known today as Ethiopia.
Since colonization by Menelik II, Oromo have suffered at the hands of successive Ethiopian rulers. A recent historical study has shown that a group of sixty-four liberated Oromo slave children arrived at Lovedale Institution in 1890 where they were cared for and educated. By 1910, one-third had returned home, one-third had died and one-third (23) chose to remain in South Africa. Among these was Bisho Jarsa, the grandmother of the late Dr. Alexander Neville, the renowned intellectual, educationalist, human rights activist and struggle hero.
When Menelik II was succeeded by Emperor Haile Selassie, conditions became even worse for the Oromo people and the other colonized nations and nationalities. It was under this regime that Oromos and others started to organize themselves clandestinely. The first Oromo civil organization called the Macha-Tullama Welfare Association was founded in 1960 by General Tadesse Biru and other Oromo nationals from a different part of the Oromia regions. The objective of the Macha-Tullama Welfare Association was to create awareness and lay the foundation for the Oromo liberation struggle. This civil organization was later banned by the regime of Hailie Selassie and General Tadesse Biru and others were jailed. Many members were killed and others forced to leave the country.
General Tadesse Biru was not only the founder of the Macha-Tullama Welfare Association but was also among the founding members of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). When the late President Nelson Mandela arrived in Ethiopia in 1962, General Tadesse Biru personally trained him in guerilla warfare.
The death of Haile Selassie and the rise of Mengistu Haile Mariam failed to bring about desired change, the change that the oppressed people had hoped for. Instead, the Soviet-backed group proved even worse, creating a one-party Communist state in 1975 under the name of Derg.Opposition political parties and civil organizations came under attack. The “red terror” under the Mengistu regime crushed all organizations and people who sought freedom, peace and democracy. Many people were treated in the barbaric and brutal manner (including the jailed General Tadesse Biru). Many Oromo sons and daughters were mercilessly murdered, their bodies tied to cars and dragged on the streets of Addis Ababa and other cities. Parents were forced to buy the bodies of their loved ones bodies in order to bury them.
Under the regime’s program of villagization, Oromo land was once again taken from them and given to settlers from the northern part of the Ethiopian empire, especially to the Amharas and Tigreans. The regime tried to stamp out the identity, language and culture of the Oromo people, replacing these, through a National Literacy Campaign, with the language and culture of the Habesha (the Amhara, Tigray and Gurage people).
After 17 years of iron-fist rule, the Derg regime was overthrown by three organizations namely the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front (ERDF) and the Eritrean People Liberation Front (EPLF).The above mentioned three main organizations formed the Transitional Government of Ethiopia under a Transitional Charter.
There was great of hope for the people of Ethiopia in general and the Oromo nation and other colonized nationalities in particular. The oppressed people of the empire envisaged that they would soon enjoy full democracy and that all human rights would be safe-guarded in terms of the right to self-determination as recognized internationally and enshrined in the UN charter. Article 39 of the Ethiopian Constitution, adopted in 1991, clearly indicates the right of self-determination up to secession: “Every nation, nationality or people in Ethiopia shall have the unrestricted right to self-determination up to secession.”
The EPRDF is presently in power and has enjoyed the support of the USA and western governments since the collapse Mengistu regime. The idea of democracy, the rule of law and constitutionalism never materialized as promised. The Article only worked for Eritreans and Oromo and others again subjected to the same inhuman treatment under this new Abyssinian ruler. The subjugation, marginalization and all kinds of oppression have been perpetuated systematically. The suffering of the oppressed people increased more than ever before. The non-functioning, ethnic-based federal system was instituted to deceive both international communities and people of the country. The EPRDF-TPLF, led by the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, dominated political and economic power in the empire. Eventually, the hopes of the oppressed people evaporated and peoples’ organizations like the OLF were forced to abandon their support for the Transitional Charter. With the support of western powers, the EPRDF cemented its domination. OLF members, sympathizers and Oromo people from all walks of life have been jailed, tortured, raped, dehumanized and killed. Even the lives of those who fled, seeking refuge in neighboring countries, were not spared. They have been hunted down by EPRDF agents with the co-operation of Ethiopian embassies in these territories. These embassies have played a huge role in assassinating Oromo refugees, as well as hijacking and secretly (or openly) taken back to Ethiopia. Those who were returned to Ethiopia in this way were either killed, are languishing in jail or have simply disappeared. This happened in Djibouti, Sudan, Somalia and especially Kenya. In Kenya, not only Oromo from Oromia were faced with cruelty but also, the indigenous Kenyan citizens of Oromo origin suffered equally. The co-operation between Ethiopian and Kenya security agencies has been very strong in destroying Oromo opposition and refugees. However, the above-mentioned inhumanities have never deterred the Oromo people from demanding their birth rights. On different occasions, the people have risen against the colonizers and have continued with their resistance.
Besides organized Oromo resistance and political activities among the Oromo in the diaspora, the people residing within the empire have risen against the brutal regime of Ethiopia since the 1995 election. The system imposed at that time was marred by irregularities and the people showed their dissatisfaction and disobedience to the TPLF regime. The Ethiopian security forces and the military responded with brutality in their attempts to crush these popular uprisings.
Elections in Ethiopia are not free and fair; they are held just for formality. Post-election, many have been killed, maimed and jailed. The irregularities of these so-called elections in the empire have raised concern inside and outside the country. Many human right organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have voiced their concern but these have only landed on deaf ears in the Ethiopian ruling party and among the international governments. Instead of pressuring the regime to desist from these irregularities, international donors have increased their material aid and support. Western funding has not been used for the purposes the donations were made. Instead of being used to support intended development programs, western aid has been used to crush opposition groups, inside the country and in the diaspora. Mostly, this external funding has been used to equip the regime’s security and military forces. The recent “election,” which reflected 100% support for the EPRDF, was another indication of dictatorship and undemocratic nature of TPLF regime. Currently, there is no one single elected opposition member of the Ethiopian Parliament. Surprisingly, this regime is enjoying legitimacy according to international countries and other African countries in general.
The most powerful tool that the EPRDF regime is using is self-crafted anti-terror law. This law overrides all laws in the country—including all human rights laws. The law is designed to silence all opposition parties, especially the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF).
Currently, the Ethiopian regime is busy changing its system of oppression. In the long and arduous struggle for freedom and democracy, Oromos and other colonized nations and nationalities have regained certain rights. These rights include the development of their culture and the right to use their languages, regaining of their geographical boundaries etc. When people try to hang on to the fragments of rights(which are the fruits of many sacrifices and struggling for more to the extent of self-determination), the EPRDF regime, on the contrary, is busy reversing these hard-won rights. This pull and push situation make Ethiopia hell on earth and the situation is worst of all in the Oromia region. Current action by the brutal EPRDF regime in the Oromia region includes:
- From the period of Transition, Oromos have been locked out of any powerful political positions, including surrogate organizations like the Oromo Peoples’ Democratic Organization (OPDO). Under the EPRDF, no Oromo nationals are allowed to hold any important portfolio. All key political positions are deliberately reserved for members of the TPLF.
- After war after devastating war with Mengistu H. Mariam, all regions ought to have experienced programs of rebuilding and development. However, development programs mainly focused on the Tigray region while other regions remained to suffer.
- Business opportunities have been given 100% to Tigray nationals. Other businessmen and women were totally illegalized, and imports and exports were reserved to Tigray son and daughters at the expense of others.
- The education system was modified to accommodate the children of the current regime, scholarships being based on proven loyalty to the regime. When it comes to job opportunities, getting a decent job is not done on merit but dependent on loyalty to the EPRDF. In order for one to get a job, he or she must be a member of the EPRDF. Oromo nationals must be members of the surrogate organization, the OPDO, to be considered for a position.
- In addition, to the above-mentioned marginalization and exploitation, basic human rights—like freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of assembly and freedom of expression—of all the colonized peoples were nullified. The ruling regime will not tolerate any individual or group of individuals speaking out against the regime unless these individuals or organizations support the mighty EPRDF forces. The only speech allowed is praise of the ruling regime and of the individuals within these circles. Those fundamental freedoms put on paper only to deceive western donor countries and international communities.
- Land-grabbing had its roots under Menelik II. The current regime is even more brutal. EPRDF is openly putting Oromo land on sale. Under the pretext of land for investors, land-grabbing reached an alarming level. Oromo farmers are losing their lands to the so-called investors, EPRDF officials are busy selling and sharing Oromo land. The farmers have not only lost their land but also their livelihood and have been reduced to begging on the streets of Addis Ababa.
- As if the already existing marginalization and exploitation were not enough, the current Addis Ababa Master Plan was introduced to expropriate more Oromo land and, once and for all, to disintegrate Oromia regional boundaries. The intention was not to develop Addis Ababa but to break Oromo national unity and put down the claim of Oromo to Addis Ababa (Finfinne)—the cities surrounded by the Oromia Region—as their capital.
- The current wave of Oromo resistance is to stop these unacceptable moves by Ethiopian colonizers which have targeted the very existence of the Oromo people and the Oromia Region. Many students (from primary school to university level), farmers and Oromo from all other walks of life in Oromia and in the diaspora have been openly objecting and demanding the cancelation of the Addis Ababa Master Plan. The ultimate goal is for the total freedom of Oromia from all kinds of subjugation. Oromos will continue to face unimaginable, inhumane, violent suppression and death at the hands of these colonizers unless some peace loving international communities act in time. Our nation is bleeding.
At this darkest moment, we humbly request you and your government to take timely action to save the Oromo nation and the other colonized nations and nationalities:
- The Oromo people stood by the ANC and the people of South Africa during your long and difficult struggle against the illegal and unjust apartheid regime.
- The Oromo people were part and parcel in fighting against the apartheid regime by giving material and technical support. In 1962, when Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela fled to Ethiopia, his personal trainer was patriot-martyr General Tadesse Biru. General Biru was the founding father of Oromo Liberation Front. While the late President Mandela lived to realize some of his dreams, General Tadesse was killed by the brutal Derg regime without seeing a free Oromia. Our humble request to you and your ANC-led government is to give attention to ending the suffering of the Oromo people.
- The ANC and the South African government have significant power and influence on the African political economy. Utilizing these influences through an organization like the African Union (AU), you and your government can put pressure on the current Ethiopian regime to stop all the atrocities they are currently committing against the unarmed Oromo masses. For the sake of peace, the Article 2 of AU charter should be by-passed. According to this particular article another African country cannot interfere in another country internal matter. What is happening in Ethiopia transcends being simply an internal matter.
- The current uprising of Oromo students is very similar to the 1976 Soweto Uprising. Unarmed Oromo students are falling like leaves by bullets fired by the EPRDF security forces. Primary school children as young as 8 years old have been killed. Mass arrest, torture, disappearance and rape have become daily occurrences. The current death toll has reached 178. This figure only indicates a smaller portion of the actual number of deaths. The number can be tripled but the absence of media freedom prevents such reporting. All educational institutions have become military camps and the teaching and learning process have been interrupted. While children of colonizers enjoy a normal learning environment, Oromo educational institutions have become a war front. We fear the Oromo people will be forced to produce an ignorant generation in the 21st Not only the Oromo people but the entire African continent cannot afford this. Your government can save us from this happening.
- It seems the international communities have turned their backs on the African continent in generally, and on the Oromo nation in particular. The west acts according to their own interest and we have many instances indicating how their self-interest comes first rather than human suffering. Many civil wars result from neglect such as this. If the current situation Ethiopia is neglected it will lead to fully-fledged civil war which will not only destabilize the empire but the entire region as well. We have no doubt that you and your government have the power to stop this from happening.
- You and the ANC-led government have experienced how failed governments eventually become the breeding ground for extremist groups and make life hell for all residents of that particular region. Refugees from these failed nations have fled as far as Europe and South Africa and have become a burden on the limited economic system. The stress on the economic system has brought about many xenophobic attacks. Solving the problem at source is preferable. This can only happen when a powerful government like South Africa can act.
- There are, at long last, some signs that the international community is beginning to listen and is taking note of the ongoing human rights violations being perpetrated by the Ethiopian authorities. For example, the mainstream international media are beginning to report on the most recent uprisings starting in November in which at 178 Oromo people have been killed.
- In addition, the US Department of State issued a statement on 14 January 2016 calling on the Ethiopian Government “to refrain from silencing dissent and to protect the constitutionally enshrined rights of all citizens, including the right to gather peacefully, to write, and to speak freely as voices of a diverse nation. We call for the release of those imprisoned for exercising their rights, such as political party leaders and journalists.”
- And, as recently as21 January 2016, the European Parliament approved an Official Resolution of the EU on the Situation in Ethiopia which “Strongly condemns the recent use of excessive force by the security forces in Oromia and in all Ethiopian regions and the increased number of cases of human rights violations; expresses its condolences to the families of the victims and urges the immediate release of all those jailed for exercising their rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression …The EU, as the single largest donor, should ensure that EU development assistance is not contributing to human rights violations in Ethiopia.”
We call on you, your South African government, African heads of states and the international community, local and international right organizations that can play positive roles to act before it is too late.
Thank you
Denge Garse (Oromo People Association)
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Oromia (#OromoProtests):The missing Oromo protesters join a long list of disappearances March 4, 2016
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The missing Oromo protesters join a long list of disappearances
By Hassen Hussein*, OPride
(Opride.com): Last week, I read an angry, anguished and daringly eloquent letter from ijoollee Jalduu, a young Oromo from the flashpoint town of Gindo in southwest Shawa, the epicenter of the still-ongoing popular resistance against the Ethiopian state.
Addressed to his countrymen — at home and abroad — the 25-page chronicle captures the depth of grievance animating today’s Oromo youth to revolt.
To a large extent, the writer dwelled on the transformation of the quarter-a-century-long indirect Tigrean rule to the current military occupation and the accompanying injustices. He also drew parallels between today’s events and emperor Menelik’s foray into the heartland of Oromo territory in the 1880s and the Italian occupation of Abyssinia in the 1930s.
There are many ways in which armies of occupation leave behind indelible marks. One is by their routine practice of snatching away — at night or broad daylight — young able-bodied men and women, some unconnected with the conflict, from their families. The luckiest of these families find their loved ones in some dingy prison or detention center. They may not have them back home again. But they take solace in their ability, however limited, to at least visit them. And the chances to sue, entreat, or pray for their release. Hearing about them, even in the form of rumors and urban legends, is a boon.
The luckier accidentally stumble upon or be alerted by neighbors or passerby to the dead, charred, mangled, mutilated, disfigured or leftover pieces and bits of the once healthy and beautiful bodies of their loved ones in the adjoining or distant ditches, forests, ravine, creek or parts sticking out from a mass grave. Lucky, because at least they get to bury them and get some closure. This does not mean the loss is any less tragic and painful as a mother wailing for her young son killed by the security forces in Olankomi chillingly stated, “they did not kill him. They have killed me.”
The unluckiest are those forever left in the dark, those who have to carry the heavy weight of the missing’s uncertain fate; those who are left with the overwhelming voids that no anguished memory can fill. Haunted by the forever wandering souls of the disappeared, future generations experience the loss—whether the story is told or the window into them is slammed shut.
Like a broken piece of glass, stories of the missing lodge themselves into the psyche stoking our historical memory. With every movement, the piece of glass shifts as if to remind us its presence. The families hold no public memorials and nurse the wound privately, allowing a void to live within them and sometimes it feels as if we also live within it—especially in times of distress such as the one we currently inhabit.
The trauma is the greatest when the missing happens to be a female relation. Growing up, I kept hearing the story of a great aunt snatched away by an unknown soldier in the service of Menelik’s army as it was making its way possibly from Anole and Azule to Calanqo through my mother’s birth village. Such stories are never complete and neither is mine. For example, I do not even know her name—having not asked. However, their incompleteness does not make such stories any less potent.
“Was she a fighter?” we would ask. “No, she was a young girl herding cattle ” my mother intoned.
“Where was her father?” we would ask. “A warrior, he believed a warrior’s code disallowed harming or taking children after an active battle is over” she would say.
“Did he try to get her back?” He did but unsuccessfully.
“Why did her mother not plead with the captors?” My mother answered, “She did, to no avail. The captors did not speak her language and nor she theirs.”
“Where did they take her?” “Nobody knew.”
“Nothing heard from her or about her ever since?”
“You ask too many questions, none,” which signaled it was time to move on to a different story or household or outdoor chore.
Ijoollee Jalduu’s haunting story prompted me to share a poem I wrote at a writers’ retreat in the thick of Minnesota’s famed winter in 2013. It is an ode to this great aunt and to my mother, an angel of a woman whose protective shield wards off dangers and unconditional love sustains, nourishes and keeps me alive to this day, a mother who experienced her share of the tragedies afflicting all mothers in times of civil unrest.
Today’s Oromo youth have more guts in responding to the cries of their mothers who have to deal with such unexplained and unexplainable losses, mothers who would forever be torn between whether to tell the story of their disappeared loved ones to their younger children and grandchildren.
I share this poem now in an attempt to situate the gushing new wounds of the Oromo in the context of our tortured history. The river of innocent young productive men and women disappearing in the hands of armies sent to quell civilians opposing unjust rule and occupation stubbornly continues to flow unbroken. And if we are to talk of a common future, we need to break the silence and end this vicious cycle of violence.
The notorious Agazi special forces unit is wreaking havoc throughout Oromia turning happy and peaceful rural villages into ghost towns. In its footsteps, it is condemning many mothers to lives of eternal anguish by taking away their precious young men and women to unknown destinations never to be seen or heard from again. The brutality is such that no self-respecting Ethiopian of any ideological bent, political orientation or ethnic background can and should remain unmoved. No organized state army should be allowed to terrorize anyone, let alone a huge chunk of society at will and with impunity, and hope to rule the vanquished talking as if its divine right to rule is affronted by our mere show of dissent. Silence towards such doubly insulting injustice is morally indefensible.
This is a human story of conflict. Many Ethiopian mothers have suffered the same unwarranted grief decade after decade. Most often than not, the perpetrators and their victims spoke no one language, literally and figuratively. The stories are told and retold not to open new wounds but to keep the memory of the disappeared alive and for some closure, which had eluded many a grieving Ethiopian mother, Oromo or otherwise, for generations.
An Ode to my Great Aunt
You stole my great aunt, so I know her only in fragments
In late night stories from my mother
When you dragged her away, after pillaging the village
Was it for a wife?
Or a lifelong joy toy, eternal symbol for your oomph and triumph over my forebears
Tell me; did you sap her youth and ditch her on the road to Calanqo?
Or smother her in a fit of martial anger to avenge a buddy’s passage to the underworld
A fart boasting to hide his fortuitous escape from Lenjiso’s righteous wrath in Anole
Only to be sent over the hill standing on great grandpa’s cliff path
Before he abandoned her doomed rescue; tell me soldier, I am speaking to you.
Or was it to desecrate the sacred land that resented your booted feet?
Tell me, I need to understand,
Did you hurl her off as war booty to your homeland, I know not where?
Or did you hand her over along with the loot to your emperor?
Tell me, how long before her spirit ceased to kick and scream against your unrelenting clutch?
Before it too slid below your iron-fitted feet soothing her into becoming one of them creatures
Falling in love with their captors dying from within to stay alive from outside
Or dead defiant to the bitter end.
Tell me, did you make her one of your many concubines to nurse and cure your manly wounds?
Please do tell me, with no language shared, did you sign or gesture to make her forget her folks or accept her forlorn fate?
Do tell me, did she bear you children, nephews and nieces I had not known?
Please tell me, did you baptize her into your religion?
To be welcomed as your captive companion into heaven
I hope you flame in hell, forever forsaken.
Then again, the fruits of your aggression
Might have been my transgressed kin
The open wound in my mother’s heart that hurt to day’s end.
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* Hassen Hussein teaches Leadership and Management courses at the Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, and can be reached at hxhuss10@smumn.edu
#OromoProtests: Liberty or Death: Oromos’ Determination to Fight for Freedom and Self-government March 3, 2016
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By Gachana Oromiya, Oromo Press, 2nd March 2016
Tigrean elites in charge of the Ethiopian regime fear us because they cannot defeat us. In equal measure, they fear that foreign donors will withdraw the aid that makes up half the country’s budget and pays for the slow genocide that we suffer.
Genocide need not manifest only in the bloody rapid mass murders of civilians as was seen in Rwanda. Genocide scholars acknowledge that genocide might masquerade as a slow elimination of a group by attrition. One dictionary defines attrition as, “a gradual process of wearing down, weakening or destroying something.” That is what the TPLF elites are doing to us.
Although the TPLF elites would like to get rid of the Oromo and other peoples of the South, they cannot achieve that goal quickly without global awareness of the international crime of genocide, the certain embarrassment, and the ensuing possible punishment. Concealed genocide by attrition provides sufficient cover so that foreign donors need not act on their dislike of the regime’s savagery.
So governing Tigrean elites cleverly camouflage their intent to destroy us, a key element of genocide, and whitewash the destructive acts themselves to imitate the poverty we suffer. The attempted theft of Finfinee by the pretext of government policy is only one more example of the theft of our land, our food and our heritage, and with it comes the kind of poverty that is close to death.
We have been so deprived of the basic needs of life that we have become one with the soil that covers our ancestors. We touch their bones with our kisses and weep for our children. We are close to heaven and our souls burn with the touch of God.
We say to the world, “We are not the cause of our own poverty. Open your eyes to the truth. Please stop funding our genocide.”
That time may be soon to come. In 2013 economics Professor William Easterly charged that the US and the UK were sending aid for foreign policy reasons and that, “The aid donors had to respond to the public embarrassment of supporting a ruler who shot down demonstrators and jailed the opposition.”
And in December of 2015, the UK Guardian reported that peaceful demonstrations against the master plan are being met with “excessive force and live ammunition.”
But although we suffer oppression, we will no longer accept the murders of our children. We no longer accept the military occupation of Oromia by TPLF Ethiopia regime. We received a report by an anonymous Oromo who told us, “We are sorry about the recent deaths of Oromo children, but as a result we are seeing the birth of freedom. Bloodied towns in … are now liberated from the enemy. This is a proud moment in our struggle”
He continued, “In the town of … government cabinet offices were burned down by the people.” Our people were brave in the and the contact is brave in the communication. Our comrades, unarmed, untrained and with families nearby are uniting and fighting for the stolen Oromo lands and stolen Oromo lives.
Our hero finishes, “Please, if we die, don’t be sorry for us. At this time, everyone has accepted that there will be spilled blood and deaths among us so that future generations of us will live in freedom. Be in peace. Oromiyaa shall be free.”
These words demanding freedom echo through the centuries from the American Founding Fathers. Patrick Henry asked in 1775, “What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Almighty God, I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
But the British army sent by the King of England had a very long journey for supplies and soldiers who were needed win a rebellion of colonists who were armed. Our genocidaires are armed, well supplied and funded by their foreign friends.
It’s our job, we of the diaspora, to keep the plight of our people visible to the global public, and to fund the demonstrators. When asked, we must give more than we can afford. We should remember that although we may not be shedding our Oromo blood, we must support our hero kin with Oromo treasure. We must teach our children about those who have fallen and about the country about to be born.
The time is here to act. Our homeland is burning. Our people are perishing. We are all joined in the knowledge of our history. Few of us would have left Oromiyaa of our own desire and we should never forget those we left behind.
Having suffered as a Nation for so long, we have God weeping with us. We need not watch quietly as the regime continues to commit genocide on our people. . The time is now.
DW NEWS: NGO highlights plight of Oromo in Ethiopia February 26, 2016
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Human Rights Watch says security forces are continuing to persecute members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo. Hundreds have allegedly been killed in recent protests over a government plan to expand the capital Addis Ababa into Oromo land.
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Oromia: Ethiopia: Govt Accused of Bloody Crackdown On #OromoProtests February 26, 2016
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Ethiopia: Govt Accused of Bloody Crackdown On Protesters
By All Africa and Al Jazzera, 22 February 2016
Ethiopian security forces are carrying out a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests in the country’s Oromia region and thousands of people are being held without charge, a human rights group has said.
The demonstrations began in November due to a government plan to expand the boundaries of Addis Ababa into Oromia, which surrounds the capital, raising fears among Oromo people that their farms would be expropriated.
Addis Ababa, which has accused the protesters of having links with “terror groups”, dropped the plan on January 12 and announced the situation in Oromia was largely under control.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), however, said the protests were continuing.
Ethiopia’s information minister, Getachew Reda, told Al Jazeera that he had not yet read the report and so could not comment on it.
HRW noted that researchers were unable to determine how many people have been killed or arrested because access to Oromia is restricted.
“[Ethiopian] activists allege that more than 200 people have been killed since November 12, 2015,” the rights group said.
In a previous document at the beginning of January, HRW reported at least 140 killings.
“Flooding Oromia with federal security forces shows the authorities’ broad disregard for peaceful protest by students, farmers, and other dissenters,” Leslie Lefkow, deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said on Monday.
“The government needs to rein in the security forces, free anyone being held wrongfully, and hold accountable soldiers and police who used excessive force,” Lefkow added.
The rights group called on the Ethiopian government to end excessive use of force by its security forces, free everyone detained arbitrarily, and conduct an independent investigation into killings and other security force abuses.
The Oromos are the largest ethnic group in the horn of Africa country.
Ethiopia: Oromo protests will continue unless government ceases ‘killings and torture’
Ethiopia’s crackdown on land protests ongoing – rights group
- Posted 22 Feb 2016 23:10
PROTEST CRACKDOWNS: BEYOND THE BODY COUNT
The Atlanta Black Star: The Ethiopian government is reportedly continuing its crackdown on the Oromo people February 24, 2016
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Human Rights Watch Reports Daily Killings As Ethiopian Government Continues Oromia Crackdown
February 23, 2016
Photo: Women mourn during the funeral ceremony of a primary school teacher who family members said was shot dead by military forces during protests in Oromia, Ethiopia in December 2015. (Reuters)
The Ethiopian government is reportedly continuing its crackdown on the Oromo people.
According to the New York-based Human Rights Watch, about 200 protesters have been killed in the latest government operation. Oromia, home to the Oromo people, is Ethiopia’s largest region. Demonstrations in the region broke out when the government attempted to clear a forest for an investment project. Protests escalated when the government decided to expand the borders of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, to incorporate surrounding towns in Oromia, according to The International Business Times.
Government forces have used heavy-handed tactics to squash the protests, including rounding up and detaining protesters, torture and even extra-judicial killings, according to The Atlanta Blackstar. Many of the early protests were led by students, but that has not stopped the violence from security forces.
“They walked into the compound and shot three students at point-blank range,” said a 17-year-old student in a Human Rights Watch report. “They were hit in the face and were dead.”
The IBT said there are almost daily reports of killings.
“Things have become considerably more violent in the last few days,” said Felix Horne, Horn of Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The government needs to back down and stop the brutal crackdown.”
It’s difficult to get accurate information about what’s going on because Ethiopia does not have a free media. Human Rights Watch says it is relying on information leaking out via social media posts. The foreign-based Oromo Media Network is also reporting on the situation. However, its signals have been jammed by the Ethiopian government. Government forces have also reportedly smashed OMN satellites and jailed people who have shown their broadcasts.
However, the Ethiopian government denies there is a problem and dismissed Human Rights Watch’s latest report.
Getachew Reda, Ethiopia’s communications minister, told the BBC the report was an “absolute lie” and questioned how Human Rights Watch could report on the situation from New York. He also blamed the latest violence on armed gangs “who are trying to stir up emotions in the public.”
According to The IBT, the European Parliament passed a January resolution condemning the government’s crackdown on largely peaceful protesters. However, the U.S. government has not criticized the Ethiopian government, and has called for dialogue. According to The IBT, Ethiopia received $580 million in aid from the U.S. in 2012. Additionally, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. government uses Ethiopian bases to fly drone missions against terrorists groups in Somalia.
Leslie Lefkow, deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said countries that donate money to Ethiopia should pressure the government to stop the killing.
“Ethiopia’s donor countries have responded tepidly, if at all, to the killing of scores of protesters in Oromia,” said Lefkow. “They should stop ignoring or downplaying this shocking brutality and call on the government to support an independent investigation into the killings and other abuses.”
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Shattering the “mythical portrait” of the oppressed Oromo people February 24, 2016
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Oppressed and marginalized people have a shared experience: their oppressors invent a “mythical portrait” of the oppressed . Through this “mythical portrait”, the oppressed is depicted as uncivilized, savage, lacking self-control, irrational, unable to govern themselves, dangerous to themselves and to those in their midst, etc. On the other hand, the oppressor invents the opposite “mythical portrait” for itself.
This ugly portrait of the oppressed creates a mythical basis to keep the oppressed in perpetual misery. It creates a sense of fear that separates one oppressed group from another. This “mythical portraits” also helps garner support for the oppressive system from its base and outside the base as it makes the system as guarantor of the societiy’s well-being.
The successive Ethiopian government, particularly in the last 25 years, have created Oromo-phobia by inventing a mythical portrait of the Oromo. Consequently, the emancipation of the Oromo from their oppression is seen as destabilizing to Ethiopia and detrimental to the very existence of non-Oromo people in Ethiopia. Such a portrait has worked so well in the last 25 years that even those who are marginalized under the current government are unable to align their common interest with the Oromo people. The oppressive minority regime creates conflicts between oppressed groups and then portrays itself as the only rational and arbiter, thereby deserving to rule the “barbaric” others. This machination of the Ethiopian government, however, seems to be falling apart recently.
Since the eruption of the current Oromo revolution (#OromoProtests), the oppressive Ethiopian government left no stone unturned to further distort the “mythical portrait” of the Oromo people. The Communication Minister Getachew Reda called the peaceful #OromoProtests “devils” that must be dealt with , and the Prime Minister threatened to take “merciless action” labeling the unarmed and peaceful protesters “terrorists”. Once this “mythical portrait” is created, they not only justify their actions but leaves them with no choice but to intensify the repression. That is exactly what the regime has been doing since Novermber 12, 2015. What they did not manage to do this time around is to incite inter-ethnic and inter-religion conflict- despite their best effort.
Why is the Ethiopian oppressive minority regime failing to incite conflict between Oromo and others, and to incite inter-faith conflict in this time of revolt? A lot of credit should go to the tactics employed by the #OromoProtests movement, and their pre-emptive outreach to all Ethiopians and their transparent revolution.
True to the Oromo culture, the elders gathered the revolutionary youth to undertake an Oath taking ceremony during which they promulgated:
- The minority groups living in Oromia should not be harmed/should be protected. They emphasized that no one but the regime is their enemy. They admonished the youth that if any one considers others as enemy because of their ethnicity, it will tarnish the good Oromo name and goes counter to the principle of Oromummaa (Oromoness)
- No properties should be damaged
- Any one who harms minorities and/or damage properties, is in violation of Oromo-norms and is considered enemy of the Oromo people and obstacle to the peaceful struggle against tyranny.
We have heard the same voice of reason during the early weeks of the protest in West Shewa. Obviously this expression of tolerance is not a culture that just emerged now; it’s centuries old culture that is simply captured on video at this historical time. I share this video with pride to other Ethiopians and I hope it gives them hope and understanding about the Oromo people.
The #OromoProtests movement is shattering the “mythical portrait” of the Oromo people and replacing it with a true portrait of the Oromo people that is loving, caring and welcoming. The time when the rest of Ethiopians and the Oromo people join hands in good faith is the beginning of the era for the true liberation of the multi-nation federation we call Ethiopia. There is hope and the #OromoProtests is the fountain of such hope.
UNPO: Oromo: Unity Found Between Oppressed Groups in Ethiopia February 23, 2016
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Oromo: Unity Found Between Oppressed Groups in Ethiopia
By UNPO, 22nd February 2016
The oppressive Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has found itself facing increasing anti-government protests over the last few years and months. More significantly, these protests have shown another trend, which has been the increased action taken jointly by oppressed groups, such as the peoples of Amhara and Oromia. This comes as a result of the continual violent suppression of opposition by state forces, oftentimes resulting in arbitrary arrests, injuries and even death. The recent increase in unified response, however, gives some hope for the future of democracy in the country.
Below is an article taken from DissidentVoice.org:
Division and fear are the age-old tools of tyrants; unity and peaceful coordinated action the most powerful weapons against them.
Frightened and downtrodden for so long, there are positive signs that the Ethiopian people are beginning to come together, – peacefully uniting in their anger at the ruling party – the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) — a paranoid brutal regime that suppresses the people, is guilty of wide-ranging human rights violations, and has systematically encouraged ethnic divisions and rivalries.
Anti-government protests have been growing over the last few years, and in recent months large-scale demonstrations have taken place throughout Oromia and also in Gondar, where university students have been demonstrating, demanding, academic rights, freedom, democracy and justice.
Tribal groups, particularly the peoples of Amhara and Oromia (the largest ethnic group – accounting for 35% of the population), have come together. Thousands have been marching, running, sitting, shouting and screaming.
Government slays Peaceful Protestors
The EPRDF’s response to the demonstrators’ democratic gall has been crudely predictable: brand protestors ‘anti-peace forces’ and terrorists, then shoot, arrest and imprison them.
Whilst Human Rights Watch (HRW) say security forces have killed at least 140 people, independent broadcaster ESAT news estimates the number to be over 200. The government, which human rights groups state authorised the police and military to use “excessive force, including…live ammunition against protesters, among them children as young as 12”, has so far admitted 22 fatalities.
ESAT reports at least1,500 have been injured and to date over 5,000 arrested (in Oromia alone), including Bekele Gerba, deputy chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), Oromia’s largest legally registered political party, and his son. Senior members of the OFC, as well as members of other opposition parties and their families, have also been imprisoned. Scores more people are harassed, their homes searched. Acting on behalf of an unaccountable government, security forces are “on a mission of wanton destruction of human lives and properties”.
State plan cancelled by protest
The under-reported protests in Gondar (in the Amhara region) were triggered by two separate, but related issues: government cession of an expanse of fertile land -– up to 1,600 square km, to Sudan under new demarcation proposals — and the widespread belief that state forces are responsible for a mass killing that took place in November 2015 against the people of Qimant. Leaders of The Gondar Union Association told ESAT news they believed the murders were “committed by TPLF [government] cadres, who then blamed it on the Amhara people to incite violence among the two groups.”
In Oromia, where protests began in April 2014 throughout the region, it was the government’s plan to expand the capital, Addis Ababa, on to agricultural land. Hundreds of smallholders would have been displaced, villages destroyed, livelihoods shattered. Following months of demonstrations the government has announced that the plan is to be scrapped. The official statement virtually dismissed the protestors’ opposition, claiming it was “based on a simple misunderstanding” created by a “lack of transparency”.
Activists reacted with derision to the government’s condescension, and vowed to continue protesting unless their longstanding grievances of political exclusion are addressed. Sit-ins and peaceful demonstrations have continued in various locations across Oromo, evoking more violence from the ruling party’s henchmen.
Oromo Rage
The Oromo people see the government’s violence as part of a systematic attempt to oppress and marginalise them. As Amnesty International (AI) states in its report ‘Because I am Oromo’: “Thousands of Oromo people have been subjected to unlawful killings, torture and enforced disappearance.” People without any political affiliation are arrested on suspicion that they do not support the government – “between 2011 and 2014, at least 5,000 Oromos have been arrested”. Amnesty asserts that recent regime violence was “the latest and bloodiest in a long pattern of suppression”. This description of government intimidation and brutality will sound familiar to most Ethiopians.
Whilst it was the ‘master-plan’ for Addis Ababa that brought thousands onto the streets, anger and discontent has been fermenting throughout the country for years. Feelings fuelled by restrictions on fundamental freedoms, and human rights violations, many of which can only be described as State Terrorism.
Power Hungry
The EPRDF have been in power for 25 long, and for many people, painful years. The ruling party was formed from the four armed groups that seized power in May 1991, including the now dominant Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
Despite the theatre of national “elections” being staged every five years since 1995, the EPRDF has never been elected. Last year’s sham saw them take all 547 parliamentary seats. In order to convince a suspicious, if largely indifferent watching world (the EU refused to send a team of observers to legitimise proceedings) one might have expected a token seat or two for an opposition party, but the government decided they could steal every one and get away with it, their arrogance confirming their guilt.
The Tigrean ethnic group makes up a mere 6% of the country’s 95 million population, but the TPLF (or Weyane as they are commonly called) and their cohorts dominate the government, the senior military, the judiciary, and, according to Genocide Watch, intend “to internally colonize the country”, a claim that the ethnic Somalis living in the Ogaden region, as well as . the people of Amhara and Oromia, all of whom are subjected to appalling levels of persecution, would agree with.
Undemocratic, repressive regime
The Government claims to adhere to democracy, but says the introduction of democratic principles will take time. ‘Outsiders’ (critics such as HRW, Amnesty International and the EU) ‘don’t understand’ the country: thus Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn pretends Ethiopia “is a fledgling democracy – a house in the making”.
Well, it is not a house being built on any recognizable democratic foundations: human rights, civil society, justice and freedom, for example. Indeed there is no evidence of democracy actual or potential on the government’s part in Ethiopia. On the contrary, despite a liberally-worded constitution, the ruling party tramples on human rights, uses violence and fear to suppress the people and governs in a highly centralised manner: Opposition parties are ignored, their leaders often imprisoned or forced to live abroad; the government, Amnesty International (AI) states, routinely uses “arbitrary arrest and detention, often without charge, to suppress suggestions of dissent in many parts of the country.”
The judiciary is a puppet, as is the “investigative branch of the police”, Amnesty records, making it impossible “to receive a fair hearing in politically motivated trials”, or any other case for that matter. Federal and regional security services operate with “near total impunity” and are “responsible for violations throughout the country, including…the use of excessive force, torture and extrajudicial executions.”
There is no media freedom; virtually all press, television and radio outlets are state-owned, as is the sole telecommunications company – allowing unfettered surveillance of the Internet. The only independent broadcaster is internationally based ESAT. The Government routinely blocks its satellite signal, and employee family members who live in Ethiopia are persecuted, imprisoned, their homes ransacked.
Journalists who challenge the government are intimidated, arrested or forced abroad. Ethiopia is the fourth most censored country in the world (after Eritrea, North Korea and Saudi Arabia) according to The Committee to Protect Journalists, and “the third worst jailer of journalists on the African continent”. The widely criticized, conveniently vague “2009 Anti-Terrorism Proclamation” – used to silence journalists – and “The Charities and Societies Proclamation”, make up the government’s principle legislative weapons of suppression, which are wielded without restraint.
The 99%
The vast majority of Ethiopian people – domestic and expatriate – are desperate for change, freedom, justice and adherence to human rights; liberties that the EPRDF have total contempt for. Their primary concern is manifestly holding on to power, generating wealth for themselves, and their cohorts, and ensuring no space for political debate, dissent or democratic development.
Without a functioning electoral system or independent media, and given government hostility to open dialogue with opposition parties and community activists, there are only two options available for the discontented majority. An armed uprising against the EPRDF – and there are many loud voices advocating this – or the more positive alternative: peaceful, consistent, well-organized activism, building on the huge demonstrations in Oromia and Gondar, uniting the people and driving an unstoppable momentum for change.
Ethiopia is a richly diverse country, composed of dozens of tribal groups speaking a variety of languages and dialects. Traditions and cultures may vary, but the needs and aspirations of the people are the same, as are their grievances and fears. Tolerance and understanding of differences, cooperation and shared objectives could build a powerful coalition, establishing a platform for true democracy to take root in a country that has never known it.
People can only be trapped under a cloak of suppression for so long. Eventually they must and will rise up. Throughout the world there is a movement for change: for freedom, justice and participatory democracy, in which the 99% have a voice. The recent demonstrations in Ethiopia show that the people are at last beginning to unite and are part of this collective cry.
Oromian Economist 
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