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ዳውድ ኢብሳ: አንጋፋ ታጋይ እና የኦነግ መሪ
ትውልዱ ሆሮ ጉዱሩ ሲሆን ከአራት ኪሎ ዩንቨርስቲ በስታትስቲክስ ተመርቋል በተማሪዎች እንቅስቃሴ ወቅት ደርግ ለሁለት አመታት አሰሮ ፈትቶት ነበር ከእስር ሲለቀቅ ወደ ኦነግ የትጥቅ ትግል ገባ ። ኦነግ በ1968 ሃያ ስምንት ማእከላዊ ኮሚቴ ስመረጥ ይህ ሰው አንዱ በመሆን ተመረጠ ፡፡ ወቅቱ 1971 ነው ኦነግ ትግሉን በምእራብ ኢትዮጵያ ለማሰፋፋት ሲወስን ዳውድ ኢብሳ እና የኦቦ ሌንጮ ለታ ወንድም አባ ጫላ ለታ ዋናና ምክትል ሆነው የምእራቡን ትግል እንዲመሩ ተመድበው በጥቅሉ 17 የሰው ሀይል በመያዝ በሱዳን በኩል አቋረጠው ወለጋ ቤጊና ጊዳሚ አከባቢ እንቅሰቃሴ ይጀምራሉ፡፡
ደርግ ይህን የኦነግ የምእራብ እንቅስቃሴ ለማፈን ትኩረት ሰጥቶ ማጥናት ይጀምራል፡፡ በወቅቱ የጊዳሚ ወረዳ አሰተዳዳሪ ሂካ መሳዲ እና የወለጋ ክ/ሀገር አሰተዳዳሪ ንጉሴ ፋንታ የኦነግን የትግል ጅማሮ ለማጨናገፍ አንድ መላ ይዘይዳሉ፡፡ በጃሌ ዳውድ ኢብሳ ይመሩ ከነበሩት 16 ታጋዮች የአንዱ ወንድም ዘካሪያስ ሾሮ ይባላል፡፡
.የጊዳሚ ወረዳ አስተዳዳሪ ደነበረው ሂካ መሳዲ ዘካርያስን ጠርቶ እንዲህ የሚል ግዳጅ ይሰጠዋል። ወንድምህንና ጓደኞቹን ቤትህ እራት ትጋብዛቸዋለህ የምንሰጥህን መርዝ ደግሞ ምግቡ ውስጥ ትጨምርና ታበላቸዋለህ፡፡ ይህን የማትፈጽም ከሆነ ከእነ ቤተሰብህ ትገደላለህ! ከብትህ ይዘረፋል! መሬትህን ታጣለህ! ዘርህ ከምድረ ገጽ ይጠፋል…..”
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ዘካሪያስ ግዴታ ሆኖበት እንደ ተሰማማ የደህንነቱ ሪፖርት ላይ ተጠቅሷል፡፡” ወንድሜንስ እንዴት ብዬ እገላለው…” ብሎ አቅማምቶ ነበር፡፡ የተሰጠው ምላሽም “….እንግዲያውስ ከቻልክ ወንድምህን ለይተህ እንዳይበላ አድርገው፡፡ ካልተቻለ ግን አብሮ ይሙት! ወንድምህ አገር ሊያጠፋ የተቀጠረ ከሃዲ ነው” በማለት በግልጽ ይነግሩታ፡፡
..ይህ ዝግጅት ከተደረገ ቦሀላ የገበሬ ልብስ የለበሱ ወታደሮች በአከባቢው አድፈጠው ዘካርያስ ሾሮ እንዳያመልጥ ይጠብቁት ነበር፡፡ ምግብ ውሰጥ የሚጨመር መረዝ ከአዲሰ አበባ ተልኮ በንጉሴ ፋንታ በኩል ለሂካ መሳዲ ተሰጠ፡፡ሂካ መሳዲ ለዘካርያስ አሰረከበው፡፡
…በንጉሴ ፋንታ ትእዛዝ የተገዛው ሙክት ከተላከ ቦሀላ ዘካርያስ ለወንድሙና ለጓደኞቹ የራት ግብዣ ጥሪ እንዲላክላቸው ተደረገ፡፡ ቀጥሎም በጉ ታርዶ ጥሩ ምግብ አዘጋጀ፡፡ በዚያን ሰሞን 17ቱየኦነግ ታጋዮች ለሁለት ተከፍለው ነበር የሚንቀሳቀሱት፡፡ አባ ጫላ ዘጠኝ ራሱን ሆኖ በሌላ አቅጣጫ ይንቀሳቀሰ ነበር፡፡ ዳውድ ኢብሳ የሚመራት ቲም የዘካርያስን የራት ግብዣ ተቀብለው ማምሻው ላይ በገበታው ዙሪያ ተገኙ፡፡
በሰአቱም ዘካርያስ ወንድሙን ለይቶ ለማሰቀረት ሳይቻለው ቀረ፡፡ “…አንተ ቆይ ቦሃላ ትበላለህ ..”ቢለውም ወንድሙ አሻፈረኝ ብሎ ለገበታው ቀረበ፡፡ ወንድሙና ጓደኞቹ በመረዝ የተለውሰውን ምግብ ሲበሉ ዘካርያስ የጎጆውን ምሰሶ ተደግፎ በትካዜ እና በሰቆቃ ይመለከታቸው ነበር፡፡
ዳውድ ኢብሳ ከምግቡ ትንሽ ቀማምሶ ደጅ ጥበቃ ላይ የነበረው ጓደኛቸውን ለመተካት ገበታውን ትቶ ወደ ደጅ ወጣ፡፡ ሌሎች የተመረዘውን ምግብ መብላቱን ቀጠሉ ነገር ግን ብዙም ሳይቆዩ መላ ሰውነታቸው እንደ እሳት እያቃጠላቸው እየጮሁ ይወድቁ ጀመረ፡፡
ዘካርያስ የታናሽ ወንድሙን ሬሳ እጁ ላይ ታቀፈ፡፡ ዳውድ በወቅቱ ብዙም የተመገበ ባይሆንም ከመመረዝ አላመለጠም፡፡ በጥበቃው ላይ እያለ ሰውነቱ ሲቃጠልበት መመረዛቸው ስለገባው በፍጥነት ቅጠላ ቅጠልና አፈር እየቃመ ውሃ በብዛት ጠጣበት፡፡ ደግሞ ደጋግሞ አሰታወከ፡፡ሆኖም ከመውደቅ አልዳነም፡፡ራሱን ስቶ እንደ ጓደኞቹ ከዘካርያስ ጓሮ ወደቀ፡፡ የገበሬ ልብስ ለብሰው በአከባቢው አድፍጠው ውጤቱን ይጠብቁ የነበሩ ወታደሮች በተያዘላቸው ቀጠሮ ዘካርያስ ቤት ሲደረሱ ሰባቱ ታጋዮች ሞተው ዳውድ ኢብሳ ግን ነፍሱን እንደሳተ አገኙት፡፡
ዳውድነን ይዘው ወደ ደምቢዶሎ ከነፉ፡፡ የኦነግን ሚስጥር ከእሱ ለማግኘት ፍላጎት ሰለ ነበራቸው ፈጣን ህክምና ሰጥተው ህይውቱን አተረፉት፡፡ ቀጥሎም ከደምቢ ዶሎ ወደ ነቀምት አዘዋውረውት ተጨማሪ ህክምና ሰጡት፡፡
ነቀምት ላይ ትንሽእንዳገገመ ወደ እስር ቤት በመውሰድ ገልብጠው ይገርፉት ጀመር፡፡ በወቅቱ ስለ ሁኔታው የተገኘው ማስረጃ የወለጋው የደህንነት ሪፖርት እንደሚገልጸው አሉ የተባሉትን የምርመራ እርምጃዎችን
የተጠቀሙበት ቢሆንም ከዳውድ ኢብሳ አንደበት አንዳችም ሚሰጢር ሊያገኙ አልቻሉም፡፡ሲያቅታቸው ወደ አዲሰ አበባ ወደ ማእከላዊ ላኩት፡፡
እዚያም በቤንዚንና በቆሻሻ ውሃ የሞላ በርሜል ውሰጥ እየደፈቁ መረመሩት፡፡ ለመሞት ዝግጁ ሰለ ነበር አንዳችም የተነፈሰው ነገር የለም፡፡ደግመው ደጋግመው ማእከላዊና አለም በቃኝ እያመላለሱ በተለያዪ ማሰቃያ ሰልቶች እንደ መረመሩት የደህንነቱ መ/ቤት ሰነድ በዝርዝር ያብራራል፡፡
ዳውድ ኢብሳ! በአለም በቃኝ አምስት አመታት ታሰረ፡፡ በሂደትም ከመላመድ ብዛት ጠባቂ የነበረውን ፖሊስ ማሳመን ቻለ። ለህክምና ሲወጡም ከሁለት ባልደረቦቹ ጋር ከሆስፒታል አምልጦ ወለጋ ገባ፡፡
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የቤንሻጉል ጫካዎችን በማቋረጥ ዳግም ኦነግ ከአለበት ቦታ ለመድረሰ የሁለት ሳምንት የሌሊት ጉዞ አድርጓል፡፡ እሱ መርዝ በልቶ ሲማረክ ምእራብ ወለጋ ጫካ ውሰጥ የቀሩት አባጫላ ለታ እና ዘጠኝ ጓደኞቹ ከአንድ ብርጌድ በላይ ሰራዊት ሆነው ነበር የጠበቁት፡፡ የመሪያቸውን በህወይት መመለስ ማመን ያልቻሉት ታጋዮች በታላቅ ደሰታ ተቀበሉት!!
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ይህ ተአምር ከሞት_የተረፈ_በብልጠቱ_ከደርግ_እስር_ቤት ያመለጠው ሰው የዛሬው_ የኦነግ_ ሊቀመንበር_ ጃሌ_ ዳውድ_ኢብሳ_ነው ፡፡ ዳውድ ኢብሳ ባመነበት የትግል መንገድ ለኦሮሞ ህዝብ ህልውና ሲል ሲታገል እና ሲያታግል እድሜው የጨረሰ ጀግና ነው ። ታሪክ ታሪክ ነው እና የምናውቀውን አጋራናችሁ ።
POLITICALLY PROVOKED MASS ARREST BY THE ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT WORSENING THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) RISK IN ETHIOPIA
By Adane W. Shana
(Oromia, April 25, 2020) The Human Rights Watch and The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) expressed their deep concern over the potential outbreak of a notorious deadly disease, Coronavirus (COVID-19) at Ethiopian prisons.
Several political prisoners are confined in Federal concentration camps and police stations in different parts of the country including the Capital and surroundings, Ambo, Nekemte, Kelem in Western, Chiro, galamso, Deder and Boset in the Eastern, Gondor in NorthernEthiopia. Moreover, Elzabeth Kebede attorney at law and journalists including Desu Dula, Wako Nole and YayesewShimelis were detained from the capital city, Addis Ababa. CPJ and the Amnesty International condemned the arrest of the journalists in the country and requested for immediate release of all political detainees.
At this moment, when the whole world is fighting against the common enemy, COVID-19, politically motivated mass arrests, kidnappings and harassment of members and supporters of Oposition Political Organizations, civic society members and journalists by the Ethiopian government military must be condemned by the World Health Organization, UN Human Rights Council and the world at large. Because of the overcrowded and squalid prisons at the detention centers, the spread of COVID-19 in the detonators and make the control of the disease difficult later on.
As whole know, infectious diseases in prisons are a serious public health problem, inmates are crammed into small prison cells with many others, particularly in Ethiopia. Even in facilities that aren’t deemed overcrowded, there is inadequate nutrition, and poor sanitation where detainees in concentration camps suffer from health problems, putting them at particular risk of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to inform this situation, the Ethiopian Diaspora community condemned through serious demonstrations all over the world. Among them, the Diaspora community of Canada condemned the situation in the country and shown solidarity by organized large demonstration in the capital city of Canada, Ottawa on February 16, 2020.
Therefore, this is to impose to stop brutalities being perpetrated by the government security force against the civil society, members and supporters of political opposition parties. In addition, we insist on unconditionally release of all arbitrarily detained journalists, officials, members and supporters of opposition political parties to stop the potential spread of this pandemic COVID-19.
WIFE SHEDS LIGHT ON HUSBAND’S ORDEAL IN SECURITY CRACK DOWN
The handcuffed picture of Abdo Abajobir caused a social media uproar yesterday
(Oromia, April 25/2020) – The wife of a man whose handcuffed picture provoked the ire of many on Ethiopian social media spoke to the BBC Afaan Oromo that “he was beaten” before being escorted to a police station.
The picture of Abdo Abajobir, an employee of Oromia education Bureau in Jimma Zone, Cherkosa Wereda, surrounded by heavily armed special forces of the regional state caused a social media uproar yesterday, with prominent Oromo politician/activist Jawar Mohammed calling it security forces’ attempt of “restoration of fear through terror.” The picture was taken last Wednesday.
According to his wife Jamila Abaraya, the armed security forces “surrounded our residence at around 5:30 PM, breached the door and went in. They then handcuffed him and took him away while beating him.”
“It is hard to describe what has taken place; it looked like they were there to film a movie not to arrest one individual; our compound was flooded with the police,” said Jamila. The police have also searched the house of Abdo Abajobir, a father of three and a resident of the same wereda. According to his wife, he belongs to no political party. “If someone is not following the political line of the wereda, he is considered as belonging to the opposition,” she said.
Other residents of the werea also told the BBC Afaan Oromo that more houses were searched and more people were arrested on the same day. Arabu Khalifa, another resident, said. “We are not members of any of the political parties. We are proud of our identities; we sympathize for people but they accuse us of having relations with the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Arabu said.
The security forces have said that they were searching for “various weapons and a roadmap to kill people inside Abdo Abajobir,” his wife said. “They told him there were weapons in our residence and that they will not leave without taking them. He told them they can ‘demolish the house if you wish to and search; you will not find anything,’” Jamila quoted her husband as saying.
Security forces have found no weapons but plastic toy guns the kids were playing with and one history book, which they took with them, according to her. “They could have summoned him with an invitation letter, but instead they handcuffed him like a bandit and took him to a detention facility where there are many people,” she said and expressed her fears that her husband could be exposed to the COVID-19.
She said that since his arrest yesterday, her husband has not been given chances to speak to the police. The BBC Afaan Oromo said its attempts to speak with the wereda administration and wereda scrutiny officials and were to no avail. AS
Ergaa ummata waanti narratti ta’e ifa sinii hin taaneef
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1.Dhihoo kana warri bulchiinsa sirna durii leellisaniifi jijjiirama kana booda warri dhalatan kanneen akka itiyoo 360 namoota adda addaatti fayyadamuun anaafi ummata Oromoo irratti duulli isaan banan itti fufee jira.
2.Kayyoon maqa balleessi kanaas maqaa gaariin ani qabu irratti dhoqqee dibuun lammilee itophiyaa birratti, keessattuu warra afaan amaaraa dubbatan birratti summii dibuun,gaaffii ummata Oromoo galagalchuun akka waan nuti itophiyaa jigsinee biyya biraa ijaaruuf deemnutti oddeessun,Zaranyaaf abba dabaree maqaa jedhu kennuun warreen afaan amaaraa dubbatan biratti shakkii uumuun fudhatama dhabsiisuuf shira hin milkoofne gochuudha.
3.Dana’oon,Zaranyaafi warri shiraan beekamu kun kana duras namoota akka koo biyya isaanii jaalataniifi walqixxummaa leellisan irratti duula sobaa banuun gaaffii ummatni Ertiraa Federeeshina gaafatan “nuti lafa malee ummata isaa hin barbaannu ” jechuudhaan ummata dhiibanii Itophiyaa qarqara bishaanii akka isheen hin qabaanne godhaniiru.
Ummata Tigraay jibbanii TPLF uumaniiru,Ummata Oromoof barumsi afaan amaaraatiin kennamu qaba jechuun Jeneraal Taaddasaa Birruufi gaggeesitoota Macaaf Tuulamaa ajjeesuun ABO dhalaniiru. Tokkummaafi walqixxummaa ummata Itophiyaaf qabsooftuu jechuunis kaneen akka Hayilee Fidaa fi Sannaay Likefaa nyaatanii Dargii uumaniiru. Ogadeen,Sidaamaaf Gaambeellafi bakka adda addaatti yakkaaf badii hojjataniin tokkummaa biyyaa irratti waan hin irraanfatamne dalaganiiru.
4. Gaggeessummaa ummata Oromootiin jijjiramni Itophiyaa keessatti gaaffiin walqixummaafi haqaa deebii argachuu yoo baate haala amma jirtuun gara waraana wal waliinitti yoo galte Itophiyaan akka diigamtu lammiileen hunduu ni beeku.
Ani jijjiirama kana kanan deegaruufi namni biraas akka deegaru kanin gorsuuf balaa kana hambisuun biyya hundaaf taatu ijaaruufi.
5.Faallaa kanaan bara Dargiif TPLF Awurooppafi Ameerikaa warri turanifi leellistoota sirna bulchiinsa durii kan ta’an Itophiyaa dimokraatawaa taate osoo hin taane sirna Hayilasilasee boolla kaasuun ummata Itophiyaa 80% afaan amaaraa hin dubbanne dirqiin afaan tokko aadaa tokko deebisanii ijaaruudha.
6.Warri shiraaf Zaranyummaa isaaniin beekaman kun abjuu isaanii milkeessuuf kaardii Amaaraaf Itophiyaa wal jala jijjiruun taphatu. Karaa tokkoon abukaatoo ummata amaaraa fakkachuun ummata Itophiyaa kaanirra keessattu ummata Oromoo irra adda baasuun Amaarri dhiitameera sirba jettu sirbaa,naannoo Amaaraatti maqaa,hojiifi sirbi isaanii kanuma.
7.karaa biraatiin Oromiyaa(Finfinnee)gaafa dhufan immo tokkummaa Itophiyaatti kan amanan fakkaachuun lammiilee afaan amaaraa dubbatan goyyomsuuf Itophiyaa ykn du’a jechuun boo’u.
Kanarra darbuunis amala gaararra isaanii dhoksuuf Finfinnee dabalatee Harariifi kibba Itophiyaatti maqaalee adda addaa fayyadamuun akka kottee duudaa itti duuluun qabeenya isaanii nyaachuun ummata Itophiyaa kaan waliin akka inni walii hin galle gochuun itti fayyadamu.
9. Kanaafidha Afaan Oromoo akkuma Afaan Amaaraa afaan hojii federaalaa hata’u,walqixxummaan sabaaf sablammii haakabajamu waan jennuuf lammiilee Oromoo Itophiyaa warra abba dabaree,Zaranyaa jechuun maqaa isaanii isa sirrii nuuf kennuuf kan fiigan.
10. Yeroo ammaas duulli jibbaafi maqa baleessiin anaratti baname Kaayoon isaa namoota ilaalcha akka koo qaban miidhuu,biyya afaan tokko aadaa tokko amantii tokko qabdu(Assimilationist) ijaarra jechuun abjuu biraa keessa galaniiru.
11.Ani ummata Oromoo birattis ta’e lammiilee Itophiyaa kaan biratti maqaa gaariin ani qabu kan ijaarame waggoota bayeef tokkummaas gaaffii haqa Oromoo karaa ifaafi dhugaa ta’een ibsaa waanin tureefi.
12.Maqaa koo inni gaariin maalaqa ummata ykn dhiiga namaatiin kan laaqame miti
II/ Modeela lola fi karaa ittiin mo’iinsa isaanii
13.Waan 3 jedheen barreeffama koo xumura.
Namoonni shiraan beekaman kun Itophiyaa keessatti walqixxummaa fi haqni akka hin jiraanne waraana karaa sadiin gaggeessaa akka jiran beekuun barbaachisaadha.
14. Keessattuu waraana kana keessatti diinni inni guddaan ummata Oromoo waan ta’eef waranoota sadan armaan gadii mo’uuf sabaaf sablammii walqixxummaan amanan ijaaruun Itophiyaa haaraa ijaruuf qopha’uu qaba.
15. Namoonni kun biyya aadaa,afaan,amantii tokko qabdu ijaaruuf ifatti waraanni isaan banan isaan kana.
15.1. Inni jalqabaa lammiilee Itophiyaa walqixxummatti amanan,gaggeesitoota jijjiiramaa,aktivistootafi abbootii qabeenyaa keessattuu ummata Oromoof sidaamaa kallattiin miidhuu (direct violence ) karaa isa jalqabaaf filatamaadha. Duulli anarratti banames qaama waraana isa kanaati.kayoo3Kanaaf akka isaan gargaaru miidiyaalee maqa baleessiif sobaa 100 ol banataniiru.
Duuti naannoo Oromiyaa,Amaaraaf sidaamaatti ta’es qaama karoora kanaati.
15.2. Waraanni inni lammaffaa tokkumaaf walqixxummaa Itophiyaa irratti kan hojjatan keessattuu Oromoo, Somaalee fi Sidaamaa fi kkf irratti lola ijaarsa (structural war ) banuudha.
Ummanni Itophiyaa keessattu ummatni jijjirama kana fide ummatni Oromoo waanti baruu qabu Dargiif TPLF dhufanii haadeeman malee birookrasiin,ijaarsi magaalaa,ijaarsi dhabbilee amantii,ijaarsi ikoonomii,ijaarsi aadaa,ijaarsi miidiyaalee ammas kan yero Hayilesillaaseeti.
Jijjiirama kana booda jarri kun yeroo Dargiif TPLF jiru bakka itti dhokatanii ka’aa jiru. Humna biyyaafi biyya alaa jiru walitti fiduun ijaarsa sirna Hayilasilasee ACTIVE gochuuf (structural war ) bananiiru.
15.3 waraanni inni sadaffaan lammiilee Itophiyaa tokkummaaf walqixxummaa leellisuun (progressive) ta’an irratti waraana aadaa banuudha (Cultural war).
Fakkeenyaaf namni afaan amaaraa dubbatu lammii Itophiyaaf ammaya’a akka ta’e kaan immoo kan afaan oromoo ykn afaan saba biraa dubbatu zaranyaaf boodatti hafaa akka ta’e godhanii sammuu irratti hojjachuu.
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16. Torban tokkoof kaan immoo waggoottan lamaan darbaniif duulli narratti baname rakko dhuunfaa narraa qabatanii miti. Isaan kun qaxaramtootafi loltoota jara kanaa waan ta’aniifi, duulli kunis anaratti qofa osoo hin taane qamoolee tokkumaafi walqixxummaa leellisan hundarattidha.
Kaayyoo Wareegamtoota Keenyaa Galmaan Ni Geenya!
Guyyaa Gootota Wareegamtoota Oromoo Ilaalchisee ibsa ABO irraa kenname.
(A4O, Ebla 15, 2020) Gootota Wareegamtoota Oromoo ti. Guyyaan kun Gootota qabsaawota keenya kanneen Bilisummaa Saba keenyaa mirkaneessuudhaaf dabarsanii of kennan/wareegaman kan itti yaadannee oolluu dha. Akeekni kabajaa fi yaadannoo guyyaa kanaa, injifannoo fi mirgoota wareegama isaaniitiin gonfanne tikfachuu fi Kaayyoo isaan (Goototni Wareegamtootni keenya) wareegamaniif itti fufnee guutummaatti galmaan gahuudhaaf Waadaa/Irbuu qabsoo haaromsachuu dha.
Guyyaan Gootota Wareegamtoota Oromoo (GGWO) kan bara kanaa sababoota gara garaatiin kanneen amma duraa hunda irraa addummaa ni qaba. Sababootni kunneenis: Ebli 15, 2020 waggaa 40ffaa wareegamni ulfaataan Shinniigaa kan Ebla 15, bara 1980 (kan seenaa Guyyaa kanaatiif sababa tahe sun) itti mudatee tahuu isaa, Ayyaana GGWO kan bara kanaa yeroo fi haalli keessatti kabajannu yeroo Golfaan hamaan Vaayiresii Koroonaa Addunyaa keenya girgireessaa jirutti tahuu fi hunda caalaa ammoo, haalli amma keessa jirru qabsoo Ummata keenyaa kan wareegama qaalii Gootota keenyaatiin boqonnaa injifannoo ol’aanaa keessa
seenee jiru duubatti deebisuudhaan Qabsoo Bilisummaa Saba keenyaa Galma isaa hanqisuu fi wareegama Gootota keenyaas gatii malee hambisuuf dabni siyaasaa farreenii fi diinota Qabsoo Saba keenyaatiin xaxamu kan yeroo kamuu caalaa sadarkaa ol’aanaa yeroo itti dhaqqabee jirutti tahuu isaa ti.
Kaayyoon Qabsoo Bilisummaa Saba keenyaa kan wareegama qaalii fi ulfaataa Gootota keenyaa gaafate sun, Sabni Oromoo biyya ofii irratti Bilisummaa guutuu gonfatee dhiibbaa tokko malee hiree isaa akka ofiin murteeffatu dandeessisuu dha. Qabsoo hadhaawaa fi wareegama qaalii Gootota keenyaatiin waggoota 2 dura siyaasa biyya kanaa keessatti jijjiiramni abdachiisaan mul’atee ture. Jijjiirama abdachiisaa ture kan bu’aa/gatii wareegama Gootota keenyaa tahuutti amannu sana irra dhaabbatamee Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo fi Paartii Itoophiyaa bulchaa ture gidduutti waltahiinsa godhameenis ABOn Hooggana isaa Ol’aanaa Finfinneetti deebise. Bu’uurri waltahiinsa sanaa qabsoon ABOn gaggeessu qabsoo haqaa mirga Ummataa kabajsiisuu tahuu isaa fi gama kaaniin ammoo karaan bulchitootni Itoophiyaa hordofaa turan farra dimokiraasii tahuun amanamee irraa deebi’uudhaan, kana booda humnootni siyaasaa hundi bilisa tahanii karaa nagaa akeeka siyaasaa ofii Ummatatti dhiheeffachuudhaan murtii Ummataaf abboomamuuf wal hubannoo irra gahamuu ture.
Har’a waadaan sun hangam takka kabajame? Gama eenyuutiin maaltu hanqate? Abdiin sun sadarkaa maalii irra jira? waan jedhu Ummata keenyatti himuun waan feesisu nutti hin fakkaatu. Waan ija isaa duratti tahaa jiru waan arguuf. Har’a miseensota Hooggana Ol’aanaa ABO akka J/Abdii Raggaasaa fi MGS fi qondaalota Dhaabichaa hedduu dabalatee deggertootni ABO fi qabsaawotni Oromoo biroo kan mirga Saba kanaa kabajsiisuuf wareegama baasaa turan kumootaan sababa gahaa fi murtii seeraa malee hidhaa keessa jiru. Mirga Sabni Oromoo wareegama qaalii Gootota isaatiin gonfate kan akka Oromiyaa, Afaan Oromoo, … kkf. sharafuuf (duubatti deebisuuf) shira hedduutu xaxamaa jira. Kun waan Sabni keenya xiyyeeffannoo addaatiin hordofuu fi irratti qabsaawee irra aanuu qabu dha.
Egaan, Ebla 15 (Guyyaa Gootota Wareegamtoota Oromoo) kan bara kanaa oggaa kabajannu haala akkanaa keessa jiraachuu keenya hubachuu fi akkamiin haala kana irra aanna? gaaffii jettu sammuu keenyatti qabachuudhaan tahuu qaba jenna.
Gama biraatiin, Sababaa dhibee Vaayiresii Koroonaa irraa kan ka’e, Guyyaa Yaadannoo Wareegamtoota keenyaa kan bara kanaa (Ebla 15, 2020) guutuu Addunyaa irratti (biyya keessaa fi biyyoota alaattis) akka baroota dabranii lakkoofsa namaa hedduudhaan walitti dhufnee sirna how’aa gara garaatiin miidhagsinee kabajachuu haala nu dandeessisu keessa hin jirru. Dhibee Vaayiresii Koroonaa amma Addunyaa raasaa jiru tatamsa’ina isaa xiqqeessuuf namootni lakkoofsaan hedduu tahan bakka tokkotti akka walitti hin qabamne gochuun maloota Addunyaan itti dhimma bahaa jirtu keessaa tokko waan taheef. Haa tahu malee, haalli rakkisaa fi danqaan fedhes jiraatu Ayyaana Guyyaa Yaadannoo Gootota
Wareegamtoota keenyaa kabajannee isaan yaadannee ooluu nu hin hanqisu. Akkuma isaan Bilisummaa keenyaaf jireenya ofii wareegan, nutis isaaniin hoggayyuu yaadachaa, Kaayyoo isaanii kan tahe galma gahiinsa Qabsoo Bilisummaa Saba keenyaa akka mirkaneessinu waadaa qabsoo haaromfachuuf haala kamuu keessatti sirna yaadannoo Gootota Wareegamtoota keenyaa ni gaggeeffanna.
Kana waan taheef, Ayyaanni Yaadannoo Gootota Wareegamtoota keenyaa kan bara kanaa haala armaan gadiitiin (seeraa fi tartiiba of eeggannoo ittisa dhibee Koroonaa wajjin haala wal hin faallessineen) akka kabajamee oolu Addi Bilisummaa Oromoo miseensotaa fi deggertoota isaa dabalatee Ummata bal’aa Oromoo kan biyya keessaa fi biyyoota alaas jiraniif dhaamsa dabarsa:
1. Namni hundi bakka jirutti haala isaaf danda’ameen galgala jal-bultii guyyichaa (Ebla 14, 2020) Yaadannoo Gootota Wareegamtoota Keenyaaf dungoo qabsiisuu fi Faaruu Wareegamtootaa “Maal dhaamanii, Jaallewwan Qabsoof Kufanii …?” jedhu dhaggeeffachuu fi faarfachuudhaan yaadachuu.
2. Ebla 15, 2020tti ammoo nam-tokkeenis tahe maatiidhaan ykn murnaan, akkuma akka walitti dhihoo fi waliin jiramutti qophii feesisuu fi danda’amu taasisuudhaan, Kaayyoo Gootota Wareegamtoota keenyaa galmaan gahuuf ni gargaara jennee waan itti amannu kanneen armaan gadii fi kan biroos raaw’achuudhaan Guyyicha kabajatanii ooluu:
a) Suuraa Wareegamtootaa, Faaruu fi Dhaadannoo Qabsoo, Walaloo, Diraamaa … kkf. keessaa waan dandeenye qopheeffachuun wal afeeruu fi haasawa, tapha, marii
wareegamtoota keenya ittiin yaadannuu fi Kaayyoo isaanii fiixaan baasuuf waadaa keenya itti haaromsannu waliin qabaachuu,
b) Kaayyoon Qabsoo Goototni Wareegamtootni keenya lubbuu isaanii wareeganiif akka galma gahuuf kan gargaaru deggersa dinagdee (maallaqas tahe qabeenya biroo) gumaachuu dandeenyu malaa fi caasaa qabnuun gumaacha gochuu,
c) Dhibee balaafamaa yeroo ammaa Addunyaa kana raasaa jiru ilaalchisee odeeffannoo jiru, mala of eeggannoo irratti qajeelfama karaa Dhaabbattootaa fi ogeeyyota wal’aansa fayyaa (WHO, Oggeeyyota Wal’aansa Fayyaa Keenyaa fi kan biroo) irraan tamsa’an wal dhageessisuu fi wal irraa dhagahuun dhimma itti bahuu,
d) Kan biyya keessaa lammiilee keenya sababa gahaa fi balleessaa malee bakka adda addaatti hidhamanii jiran gaafachuu fi haala isaan itti gadi lakkifaman irratti qaamota mootummaa isaan hidhe dubbisuu fi dhiibbaa feesisu taasisuu,
e) Namoota dhibee Koroonaa kanaan qabaman seera of eeggannoo ittisa dhibee kanaa haala hordofeen gargaaruudhaan du’a irraa baraaruuf waan dandeenyu gochuu,
f) Sababa tatamsa’ina dhibee kanaatiin uggura sochii fi tajaajila adda addaa irra kaa’ameen namoota harka-qalleeyyii rakkinaaf saaxilaman seera of eeggannoo ittisa dhibee kanaa haala hordofeen gargaaruuf waan danda’amu gochuu,
g) Hanga haalli hamaa fi yaaddoon dhibee Vaayiresii Koroonaa kanaan uumame furmaata irra wayyaa argatutti haala hojii qabsoo, sochii fi qunnamtii keenyaa akkamiin qindeeffachuu akka dandeenyu mari’achuu fi qindeeffachuu,
Kanneen armaan olii fi kan biroo waan Kaayyoo Wareegamtoota keenyaa fiixaan baasuuf ni gargaara jennu hunda gochuudhaan guyyaa ulfaataa fi kabajamaa tahe, Ebla 15 Guyyaa Gootota Wareegamtoota Oromoo (GGWO) kabajannee haa oollu jenna.
Ulfinaa fi Yaadannoon Bara-baraa Wareegamtoota Keenyaaf !
Injifannoo Ummata Bal’aaf !
Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo
Ebla 11,2020
A Year on since a Historic Gaado Furra has Voiced Nation’s Grievance in the Sidama Capital; The Handover of the Power to the Nation Yet to Materialise.
By Denboba Natie, Edinburgh, Scotland
(A4O, April 09, 2020) On the early hours of April 09, 2019, the Sidama Women, girls, elderly ladies and grannies staged on a peaceful government’s response delay- demonstration in the Sidama capital, Hawassa. The scorching Hawassa sun didn’t deter them from their mission as the day has progressed. Perhaps it was the first in its kind and composition of the participants in the African soil, not only in Ethiopia. The estimated number of over one (1) million Sidama women and girls in their colourful Sidama costume came out of their entire Sidama districts to show their national grievances to the rulers. However, the PM surrounded by anti-Sidama unionist advisers didn’t say a single word about the Sidama women’s demonstration to this date demonstrating how much he belittles and hates the nation.
The Sidama women’s demonstration was initiated by these groups due to the delay in fixing the date for the Sidama referendum that guarantees the nation of its constitutional rights to a national regional statehood. Sadly, to date the cause Gaado Furra has echoed hasn’t been responded apart from running of the referendum on the 20th of November 2019 whose result was staggering 98.52% in favour of Sidama statehood.
The Sidama nation commemorates this an historic day in nation’s anti-oppression peaceful resistance history as significant milestone in Sidama’s female population contribution and in adding their signature in a traditionally patriarchal society. Their historic action has transcended traditional belief and seen above the traditional assumption on women’s assignment mainly as a household chores bearers.
The Sidama however traditionally asserts that Women are the foundation of the society; and believes without their presence the life and the society can’t continue to exist. Furthermore, historically, the Sidama women have got a very strong association known as ‘Yakiissa’ through which they had effectively defended their rights since time immemorial.
Historically, the Sidama nation has demanded its national rights to be restored since the nation has lost its political and economic power to the invading Abyssinian king, Minelik II’s army in late 1890s. Ever since the nation has been occupied- it has never silently rested and voluntarily allowed its rights to be crushed. Instead, the nation has challenged the successive Abyssinian rulers in different forms and shapes; and the quest has continued to this date.
Due to this quest tens of thousands of Sidama civilians were massacred by the successive Ethiopian rulers. Since the new PM, Dr Abiy Ahmed came to power in April 2018, over 212 Sidama civilians were executed and between 3000 and 3500 civilians were unlawfully arrested and remain in various prison cells throughout the country. Recently, some of those (Ejjeetto leaders) were released after unlawfully incarcerating them for 8 months since July 17, 2019 for no apparent and justifiable reasons. As we speak, there are several hundreds of Sidama politicians and activists commonly known as ‘Ejjeetto’ prisoners arrested in relation to these quests by the current regime in Sidama land and in Hosaena Zone, nearly 200km away from their families and the nation at large.
The Sidama nation is demanding these Sidama prisoners to be unconditionally released as the danger of Covid-19 looms. At the current climate, keeping the Sidama and the other prisoners in entire Ethiopia in their cells equates to sentencing them all to death penalty. The Sidama nation is urging the government to unconditionally release the Sidama, the Oromo and the rest prisoners in Ethiopia. The Sidama also urges the government to immediately handover the Sidama State power to the nation by desisting from joking on our nation. It is imperative to assert that, since the declaration of Sidama victory by the national election board post November 20, 2019 Sidama referendum, the Sidama national regional state (SNRS) must obtain its regional budget to fight poverty, and the current Covid-19 pandemic in addition to planning for its own priorities and objectives.
Finally, I propose April 09 to be honoured in respect of the Sidama women and girls. Therefore, it needs to be commemorated as a historic Sidama Women ‘Gaado Fuura’ day on yearly basis.
I Salute Your Bravery and inde
finability the Sidama Women and Girls!
Furra Gaadanonke Agaxxeommo’ne!!
Stay Safe by Staying Apart for Some time!
April 09, 2020- By Denboba Natie, Edinburgh, Scotland
Urgent Open Letter to The Ethiopian Government, the WHO and International Community
The Ethiopian Government should be part of the World Community in Fighting Against COVID-19 and Respecting Human Rights of the Citizens
Monday, April 06, 2020
We, Oromo Civic, Professional, and Faith-based organizations in Diaspora write this letter out of grave concern that COVID-19 might cause preventable loss of lives in Oromia and the whole of Ethiopia upon all political prisoners, temporarily displaced persons such as refugee and homeless peoples who are extremely vulnerable because of their unhealthy living conditions. We are also concerned by the damages that could be done by the movement of the military personnel and the continued deployment of the illegal command posts in several Oromia regions during this period of fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic. At this critical global health emergency, deployment of the military should be to contain the COVID-19, not to harass, kill, displace and plunder the citizens.
COVID-19 is unprecedented pandemic, and it exerts multifaceted threats. We have no cure or vaccination for this highly contagious disease. The only tool we have is prevention and mitigation. Prevention strategies are complex, and they take place at different levels and require coordinated efforts. This necessitates the government and the public to go extra miles. The WHO recommended prevention strategies are social distancing and personal hygiene. Social distancing means being two meters apart from each other, avoiding public meetings, and restricting travels. But the Ethiopian prisons are overcrowded with political prisoners and luck clean water. These conditions put the prisoners and the general public in unnecessary public health risks.
Moreover, the ruling Prosperity Party of Prime Minister Abiy is continuously holding public meetings and forcing people to attend in Oromia Regional State, in packed halls with thousands of people for political orientation. This is neglecting or prudently violating the global health guideline- one of which is social distancing. Such action is deliberately or negligently exposing the people to the deadly virus. This tantamount to genocide.
Ethiopia also has historical practices where the movement of soldiers unwittingly led to the spread of infectious diseases from one place to another and transmitted disease-causing agents. At this time, the Ethiopian army is deployed to several regions and is serving in the command posts.
For over a year, Western and Southern Oromia zones are under illegal command posts or martial law. The soldiers of the command posts are engaged in killings, imprisoning, and harassing civilians. In those regions, farming, businesses, schooling, and other activities are either entirely stopped or significantly disrupted, and the condition has subjected the people to live in poverty and malnutrition.
Poverty and food insecurity also make people vulnerable to infections. Hence, the illegal command post has created unhealthy social conditions and generated unnecessary risks to the transmission of COVID-19. From the zones ruled by the martial law and others, people who feared the atrocities of the Ethiopian security forces are massively fleeing from their homes to major cities. Many of them are now in cities and live in overcrowded housing or homeless. In the last twenty years in Finfinne/Addis Ababa area, the Oromo people have been evicted massively from their homes with little or no compensation, and many of them are now homeless.
Resulted from the Ethiopian government’s divide and rule policies, over two million Oromos have been evicted from their homes. Most of them live in overcrowded housing, and others are homeless. Homelessness and overcrowded housing are major risk factors for COVID-19. The Ethiopian public health action plans to contain the COVID-19 needs to include housing the homeless people and respecting human rights principles.
The widespread human rights violations are causing people to flee from their homes and displacing them locally and making them international refugees. The movement of the armed forces and the displacement of civilian populations are creating fertile grounds for the transmission of COVID-19 and putting the local and global communities at risk.
Breaking the chain of transmission of infections is possible only if we effectively communicate the risk of transmissions and preventive strategies. The significance of effective communication during emergency and epidemics are well known, and the WHO gives specific guidelines. During an emergency, the information should be delivered by the most trusted institution. Mixing politics and public health is counterproductive. However, in Ethiopia, politicians are mixing their party’s political agendas with health information. Some of the Ethiopian government political figures on their Facebook pages describe their political opponents as “the Coronavirus”. The political figures who openly use detestable languages also deliberately misinforms the public. Mixing politics and health education compounded with inaccurate messaging repeal those who do not adhere to party politics and make health education ineffective. At this critical juncture mixing politics and health education and giving misinformation is counterproductive. Health education should have primacy over political indoctrination.
COVID-19 does not discriminate between the supporters of different political parties, languages, religions, and ethnic-national-race groups. In such understanding, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire among all parties involved in armed conflict. We know that human rights violations, war, and armed conflict have exposed our people to famine and HIV/AIDS. We urge the Ethiopian government to settle the political differences with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) peacefully and focus on the common enemy-the the disease-causing agent. Evidence-based public health policy directions in prevention and mitigating COVID-19 suggest the need for coordinated and multilateral efforts. Highly credible sources suggest that holding back this deadly virus is on the hand of the public, and everyone need to play their parts. This necessitates the need to build the social, economic, political, and cultural capacities of a group of people and individuals. Developing these capacities requires advancing individuals and group rights and communities’ capacity to prevent and mitigate the problem.
We, therefore, urge the Ethiopian government to respect human rights principles, release political prisoners, remove the command posts and protect vulnerable population groups such refugees, those internally displaced, and homeless individuals from the spread of COVID-19. We call upon the Ethiopian government to immediately take the following critical public health measures:
- Release all political prisoners.
- Make prison cells are consistent with the WHO recommended social distancing principles.
- Lift the martial law in the Oromia Regional State because it hinders people from leading a healthy life and playing their role to contain and mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.
- Stop all forms of human rights violations because it kills the aspiration of people to understand and solve problems.
- Stop displacing people locally or making them international refugees,
- Stop armed conflict and settle political differences with the OLA by a peaceful means.
- Overcrowded housing and homelessness are the manifestations of the ill-planned policy, and the government needs to strive to correct those wrongs.
- Stop holding public political meetings, because most of them do not fulfill the principle of social spacing
- Stop harassing and threatening independent mass media, including Oromia Media Network and Oromia News Network and let information to freely flow in Oromia.
Respectfully,
Oromia Global Forum: A consortium of Oromo Civic, Professional and Faith-Based Organizations
Signatories:
Advocacy4Oromia
Bilal Oromo Dawa Center
Canaan Oromo Evangelical Church
Charismatic International Fellowship Church
Global Gumii Oromia
Global Oromo Advocacy Group
Global Waaqeffannaa Council
Horn of Africa Genocide Watch
Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa
International Oromo Women’s Organization
International Qeerroo Support Group
Mana Kiristaanaa Fayyisaa Addunyaa
Oromo Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
Oromo Communities’ Association of North America
Oromo Evangelical Lutheran Church of Washington DC Metropolitan Area
Oromo Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society
Oromo Human Rights and Relief Organization
Oromo Legacy, Leadership and Advocacy Association
Oromo Lutheran Church of Baltimore
Oromo Parliamentarians Council
Oromo Studies Association
Oromia Support Group
Tawfiq Islamic Center
Union of Oromo Communities in Canada
United Oromo Evangelical Church
Washington DC Metropolitan Oromo SDA Church
CC:
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
Director of World Health Organization (WHO)
Avenue Appia 20 1211, Geneva
Telephone: +41-22-7912111
World Health Organization – Regional Office for Africa
Cité du Djoué, P.O.Box 06 Brazzaville Republic of Congo
Telephone: +(47 241) 39402 Fax: +(47 241) 39503
Email: afrgocom@who.int CC: chaibf@who.int
harrism@who.int jasarevict@who.int
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
The US Department of State (USA)
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (UK) Minister for
Foreign Affairs (Sweden)
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway)
Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France)
Federal Foreign Office (Germany)
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS
UN Human Rights Council
Africa Union (AU)
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Council of Europe,
UN Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
MEDIA AND NEWS GROUPS
Oromia News Network
Oromia Media Network
Hegeree News Network
Radio Sagalee Walabummaa Oromiyaa
VOA Afaan Oromoo Program
BBC Afaan Oromo Program
Addis Standard
Aljazeera English
DW-Amharic
The Washington Post
New York Times
The Guardian
Reuters
Ethiopia: Release detained journalists and opposition politicians immediately
(Amnesty International, 7 April 2020, The Ethiopian authorities must immediately release two journalists from the Oromia News Network and three Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) officials who remain in custody a week after charges against them were dropped and the court ordered their release on 31 March.
The authorities must desist from this intimidation, harassment and arbitrary detention and immediately and unconditionally release these five individuals.
Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa
“The Ethiopian authorities continue to detain five people long after the court ordered their release. The authorities must desist from this intimidation, harassment and arbitrary detention and immediately and unconditionally release these five individuals,” said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa.
The five were charged with taking a photo at the Burayu police station, and for traffic offenses relating to an incident where a vehicle rammed into the back of the police car the arresting officers were using. The prosecutor later dropped the charges, stating none of the alleged acts were crimes under the country’s criminal law.
The police however continue to detain the individuals claiming there were irregularities with the names on their identification documents. However, they have not presented the five in court with any new charges.
The detained are Batir Filae, OLF Central Committee member; Gadaa Gabisa, OLF political officer; and Bilisuma Ararsa, OLF member. With them are Desu Dula, the Vice Director of the Oromia News Network (ONN) and Wako Nole, a journalist with the network.
For more information on the mounting harassment of OLF members and supporters, see links below.
Vendor killed after police attack opposition supporters in Oromia
Authorities crackdown on opposition supporters with mass arrests
Success requires the removal of an obstacle, and OPDO is an obstacle
(A4O, Opinion, 7 April 2020) Professor Asfaw Bayana’s article titled “I must abandon a false hope now” prompted me to contemplate the meaning of hope and further led me to conclude that our greatest hope comes not from the OPDO but from the knowledge that we shall win our freedom soon or later.
For centuries, believers had foretold that a savior who would redeem them from their sins and take them to a place called Heaven will come someday. Such a story represents the hope that people would rise from death and live forever.
Likewise, we pay tribute to all Oromian martyrs, to the suffered, to the jailed, to the tortured, to the exiled, and to those Qeerroos/Qarrees who are still falling at the battlefields being shot by Abiy Ahmed’s killing squads being guided by the hope that the vision of those genius Oromians who articulated the mission of the OLF will become true someday. This means we hope that someday, we are going to build free Oromia, a free state that will accommodate all the needs of its citizens.
To get there, we just have to believe that there are tremendous sources of hope beyond our enemies’ abilities, strength, and capacity.
I am certain that freedom is possible with surety hope for better governance, yea, a liberated country free enough even for our killers. But we must press forward with a steadfastness in our ability to free ourselves, having confidence in ourselves and enduring to the end.
The OPDO is a simple obstacle and removing an obstacle is part of the process of achieving any task. The reason that made the OPDO an obstacle to our freedom can be readily understood by looking at the situation that produced her in the first place. There was a larger global purpose behind the birth of the OPDO back in the 1990s and the same thing is true about the installation of Abiy Ahmed in power in 2018.
That means False Hope is trusting that the OPDO is going to respect the false promises she made just 2 years ago. What we need to know is that, if we act now, the desired freedom will be fulfilled in the future.
The OPDO has been fighting against the Oromians believing that our hopes and aspirations would bring them hopelessness. They understood that If the Oromo people are free, their Nafxanya parents will lose control over the power and economic advantages that they currently enjoy.
Contrary to their selfish reason however, we can still believe in ourselves, fully persuaded that our sheer struggle would help us reach our destination. To do so, we must constantly ask ourselves;
• What was the purpose for which the OLF was formed?
• What was the OLF goal?
• Why did all those Oromians were killed, jailed, exiled, tortured?
• Why do we expect fairness from the enemy spy who had been killing us for the past 27 years?
• What is the message we are sending to the youth by expecting democracy from the enemy?
• What is our responsibility in helping the Oromo youth understand the mission of the OLF?
As an Oromo intellectual, each of us can teach the Oromo youth that success requires the removal of an obstacle and the OPDO is an obstacle.
Hope is an Anchor of the Soul,
Liberation is our Goal!
Resolution: Conference of Oromo Civic, Professional and Faith-Based Organizations
(A4O, 28 March 2020) Whereas, the Oromo nation, Oromummaa and Oromia are being subjected to unprecedented repression by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE);
Whereas, the GoE engages in a deliberate destruction of Oromo nationalism, dismantling Oromia and reversing the victories our people achieved by heroic sacrifices of our sons and daughters;
Whereas, the GoE works in concert with neo-nafxayas who aspire to re impose their former oppressive and exploitative system;
Whereas, the GoE promotes division and conflict among the Oromo people along regional and religious lines as a strategy for its success;
Whereas, the GoE, having imposed illegal Command Posts on parts of Oromia, is subjecting the Oromo people to untold misery through military rule;
Whereas, the GoE has widened and deepened the killings, arbitrary arrests and beatings of the Oromo people;
Whereas, the GoE burns houses with families inside and granaries full of grain; and sets fire to farmlands and forests without concern for crops or wildlife;
Whereas, the GoE has deployed armed forces to continue hunting down and murder Oromo youth on a daily basis;
Whereas, the GoE continues to refuse to bring to justice those who committed ethnically motivated murders of Oromo students on the campuses of universities in the Amhara regional state,
Whereas, the GoE is not willing to provide any protection to those spared from the killings, but finds the flimsiest of excuses to suspend or dismiss Oromo students from universities;
Whereas, contrary to its promises a few months ago to widen the political space in the country, that the GoE has actually narrowed the space significantly by illegally arresting and/or causing disappearances of leaders and members of the opposition parties and by obstructing and hindering the contacts of opposition parties with their constituents;
Whereas, the GoE intimidates independent Oromo media outlets and imprisons their management and reporters for reporting the truth;
Whereas, the GoE is engaged in hunting down and arresting politically conscious Oromos for not supporting the ruling Prosperity Party of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed;
Whereas, the economic deprivation of Oromo people and robbery of the resources of Oromia by the GoE and its cronies have intensified;
Whereas, the GoE is leaving no stone unturned to demoralize and to force the Oromo nation to surrender and;
Deeply Concerned about the fate of the Oromo people and the survival of the Oromo as a nation and Oromia as land of the Oromo, if the current situation is allowed to persist;
Recognizing the need for the Oromo unity inside and outside the of country more than ever before in combating the ongoing difficult situation imposed upon our people;
We, Oromo Civic, Professional and Faith-Based Organizations, whose names are listed below and who share the aforementioned concerns about the situation of our people and our nation, having deliberated on wide-ranging issues pertaining to our people’s dire situation, and having successfully concluding our first conference from March 28-29, 2020;
We, hereby
1. Approve a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and pledge to work together to achieve our shared vision of advocating for the voiceless victims of injustices in Oromia and beyond;
2. Authorize and direct the coordinating committee, and the three others operational committees to lead our Advocacy, Information collection and dissemination, and Resource mobilization and organization efforts, to execute the MoU;
3. Strongly condemn and demand an immediate stop to the ongoing killings, arbitrary arrests, rapes and beating against the Oromo people by Ethiopia armed forces;
4. Demand the immediate lifting of the illegal and undeclared command posts and military rule imposed on Western and Southern parts of Oromia;
5. Call up on the Oromo diaspora to join us in condemning and actively opposing the ongoing repression against our people;
6. Call up on Oromo civic organizations whose names are not listed below to join us so that we can together defend our people’s rights;
7. Call up on all Oromo political organizations operating in Oromia to put their differences aside and unite in condemning the repressive policies of the GoE and, coordinate our people’s resistance to end the killings and arbitrary arrests being committed against our people;
8. Call up on all Zones of Oromia to come to the aid of their compatriots in other zones to once and for all uproot the GoE’s repressive policies which are the root causes of the poverty and misery of our people for there is strength in numbers;
9. Call up on all nations and nationalities in Ethiopia to condemn and actively oppose the killings and arbitrary arrests that the GoE is perpetrating against the Oromo and other peoples as all conflicts in one region can easily spread to their regions;
10. Call up on all organizations advocating for respect of human rights to inform the international community the untold human rights violations the Oromo people are subjected to by the GoE;
11. Remind the international community of its moral obligation and responsibility to speak up against, and to work to prevent the population exodus that is sure to ensue from the continued hunting down and killings of Oromo youth and the resulting forced migration and refugee problems;
12. Urge the international community to bring pressure to bear on the GoE to immediately stop the war it has declared on the Oromo people before the situation escalates into massive displacement, famine, civil war and genocide.
United we Stand!!
Oromo Civic, Professional and Faith-Based Organizations
1. Advocacy4Oromia
2. Bilal Oromo Dawa Center
3. Canaan Oromo Evangelical Church
4. Charismatic International Fellowship Church
5. Global Gumii Oromia
6. Global Oromo Advocacy Group
7. Global Waaqeffannaa Council
8. Horn of Africa Genocide Watch
9. Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa
10. International Oromo Women’s Organization
11. International Qeerroo Support Group
12. Mana Kiristaanaa Fayyisaa Addunyaa
13. Oromo Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
14. Oromo Communities’ Association of North America
15. Oromo Evangelical Lutheran Church of Washington DC Metropolitan Area
16. Oromo Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society
17. Oromo Human Rights and Relief Organization
18. Oromo Legacy, Leadership and Advocacy Association
19. Oromo Lutheran Church of Baltimore
20. Oromo Parliamentarians Council
21. Oromo Studies Association
22. Oromia Support Group
23. Tawfiq Islamic Center
24. Union of Oromo Communities in Canada
25. United Oromo Evangelical Church
26. Washington DC Metropolitan Oromo SDA Church
March 28, 2020
Advocacy for Oromia 