Advocacy for Oromia

On Saturday, December 12, 2015, media outlets reported that Gindeberet and Gindo joined Guliso (all in western Oromia) as freed localities in Oromia. It is to be remembered that, earlier this week, protesting citizens of Guliso dissolved what the protesters called the local go-between administration of the Tigrean-dominated Ethiopian Federal government. Another town named Babich has also been partially liberated by its citizens; however, to impose power through terror, the Ethiopian Federal police killed at least two Oromos in “execution style” from close range in front of the protesting crowd, according to reports (viewer discretion advised: photos of the executed Oromos attached here). The reports added that the dissolution of the local go-between administrations will have a strong cascading effect across Oromia in the coming days and weeks as the Oromo protests spread to every corner of Oromia.

Observers say the Tigrean-dominated Ethiopian government uses go-between individuals, whom are said to be coerced, corrupted and collected inside “People’s Democratic Organizations,” to indirectly exert its rule and extract resources from Oromia and other States in Ethiopia; accordingly, the go-between agent for the Oromo region (Oromia) is the “Oromo People’s Democratic Organization” (OPDO). These local go-between administrations have been instrumental in enabling the land-grabbing campaigns, including the Addis Ababa Master Plan, that are said to be taking place by the Ethiopian Federal government across Oromia, Gambella, Afar, Southern State, Benishangul and Ogadenia, among other Federal regions. Critics of this type of federal arrangement accuse the Tigrean ruling elites of taking away real self-rule power from the Federated regions; instead, they say, the Tigrean elites rule and extract resources through theirgo-between local agents at the peripheries. It is this long-denied real power of Oromo self-rule that has been apparently restored in Gindeberet, Gindo and Guliso over the last few days by the Oromo protesters, according to the reports.

Here are some photos and videos from the liberated localities of Gindeberet (Kachise), Ammayya (Gindo) and Ayira (Guliso); the moment has been ecstatic for the elderly, especially, who had dreamed of such a day of victory for Oromo self-rule throughout their lives.

#OromoProtests-Oromo activists @ Melbourne Oromo rally showing solidarity to #OromoProtests, one minute strong silence to remember those paying sacrifice for Oromo cause in Oromia, at Federation Square on 11 Dec 2015. — at Federation Square, Melbourne City.

By William Davison

-Government says four students died, 20 police officers injured
-Oromo students demonstrating over development plan for capital

Ethiopian police killed 10 Oromo students who were demonstrating peacefully over plans to integrate the capital, Addis Ababa, with surrounding towns in Oromia region in the past three weeks, an opposition leader said.
High-school and university students from across Ethiopia’s most-populous region are protesting to demand the government shelve a master plan for the city, said Bekele Nega, general secretary of the Oromo Federalist Congress.
“The protest is not as usual, they are not backing away,” he said by phone from Addis Ababa. “They are not willing to stop until the demands are met.” Authorities gave a lower number of fatalities.
Ethiopia, which the International Monetary Fund forecasts will have sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest-growing economy this year, is seeing tensions between its plans for rapid development and its constitution, which enshrines the right to ethnic self-administration. Oromo critics say the integration of the capital with surrounding towns amounts to annexation of the ethnic group’s territory as farmers will be evicted and the language and culture lost.
Integrated development will benefit Oromo residents of peripheral towns and there will be no changes to administrative boundaries, said Getachew Reda, Ethiopia’s communications minister.
Four students died and 20 police officers were injured when protesters became violent, including an attempt to take control of a police station in Toke Kutaye in West Shewa zone, Getachew said by phone from Gambella town on Wednesday.
‘False Claims’
“We know the protests are based on false claims by some political elements, but whatever the source of protest they should be done in a peaceful manner,” he said. “Generally security forces have been exercising significant restraint, but there were areas where they have been overwhelmed.”
Around 150 people have been injured and 550 arrested, although persistent demonstrating has led to the release of 140 detainees, Bekele said. A worker from the state-owned Fincha sugar factory was killed on Dec. 7 during a protest, he said. The Sugar Corp. is seeking further information on a reported incident at Fincha, which is in Horo Gudru Welega zone, spokesman Zemedkun Tekle said Wednesday by phone from Addis Ababa.
A student reported to have died at Haramaya University by falling from a window when police raided dormitories is recovering, Alemshet Teshoma, a university spokesman, said by phone from East Hararghe zone.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-10/ethiopian-opposition-say-10-oromo-students-killed-at-protests

Anthony Byrne

(A4O, 09 MUdde 2015) #OromoProtests list* those confirmed killed by Ethiopian police and paramilitary forces during the current protest.

*Compiled by Abiy Atomssa, 9 December 2015

By Hailu Goche

The Addis Abeba or FINFINE Master Plan is the Extension of Tigrian Colonialism over Oromia & MUST BE treated as an Existential threat to the existence of the Oromo Nation and People!
During the expansion of the Ethiopian Empire to the South ( Oromia & the Southern Nations) by Minilik Abyssinian army at the beginning of the 20th Century with the help of the then European powers, Tigrians were the foot-soldiers for the then invading Minilk army.
After defeating the Amhara hegemony in 1991, the interest of the TPLF rulers has been how to contain & then destroy Oromo Nationalism, which they saw as a threat to their dominance of the Empire state for the next century.
To help them contain and destroy Oromo Nationalism, the TPLF leaders created a Trojan horse PDO’s who speak Afaan Oromo from prisoners of war who were captured by TPLF & EPLF fighters during a war of Eritrean I & Greater Tigrai independence.
Since assuming power in 1991, TPLF gangsters have crafted a double-face Ethiopian Empire. The first facade of TPLF Ethiopia is created for internal consumption by adopting a federal structure to silence the Nations & Nationalities demand for genuine autonomy and administering their own internal affairs.
The second facade of TPLF Ethiopia has been presenting Ethiopia as a stable Country with double-digit economic growth in the troubled part of the Horn of Africa,
How ever, the glaring fact about TPLF Ethiopia since 1991 has been committing environmental, economic, political and human genocide on the Southern people, in particular on the Oromo people, which they see as a threat to their hegemony for the years to come.
In order to maintain their political grip on Oromia & the South, TPLF & Co. understood the need to dominate and control the economic power of the Empire. To this end, they disguised their evil tactic in the name of privatization & transferred major economic resources, including land, factories, Oromia towns & cities that generates much economic significance under their control in the name of federal administration.
The current Addis Abeba Master plan was hatched when the former TPLF rulers was alive, & OPDO was not aware of the secret Addis Abeba Master Plan. Indeed, the plan was secretly designed by the former TPLF ruler & top TPLF officials. Among the top OPDO officials, Kuma Damkasa & the current Oromia State president were the only two OPDO officials participated in its plan.
The Finfine Master plan was a plan designed to destroy the existence of the Oromia State by settling large number of Tigrians from the North by displacing the local Oromo population, & hence completely changing the demographic of the population. The end aim being to erase the question of the Oromo on Finfine, & destroying the viability of the Oromia State as a federal state.
There fore, the implementation of this evil master plan is not only displacing the lively-hood of the Oromos residing around Finfine but also to negate the existence and viability of the Oromo people, and hence must be treated as an existential threat to us a nation in that part of the world.

Oromia Shall Be Free!!