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Sochii Bilisummaa Oromoo fi Jaarmota Bilisummaa | Oromo Liberation Movement and Liberation Organizations

By Ibsaa Guutamaa | Amajjii 27, 2015

Oromiyaan ammayyuu qabaa jala jirti. Oromoon hardhallee lafa saanii, qabeenya sanii, mirga nam tokkee, mirga ummataa fi birmadummaa saanii akka sarbamanitt jiru. Aadaan, dudhaan, afaannii fi eenyumaan saanii dimshaashumatt akka lamuu seenaa keessatt sabummaa hin himannef haqamaa turani. Jeequmsa 1960ootaaf kaasaa kan tahan tuqaalee kana turani. Caalatt badaa kan ta’e, ummata tokko tahun saanii fakkeessaaf erga barameefiillee, qoteebulaa lafa saa irraa buqqisanii “investor

” sabgidduu fi naannaa kan lafaaf bishaan haddhaan faalanii fi bosona fanfana malee cagadanitt gurgrachuun ariitii guddaaan gaggeeffamaa jirachuu dha.

Gootonni Oromoo Salaaleetti Seenaa Agarii Tulluu Haaromsan, Gootummaanis Wareegaman.

Suurri argaa jirtan kun GOOTOTA ilmaan Oromoo roorroon hammaannan Wayyaanee fuuldura gootummaa dhaan falmaa dhaabbatanii utuu lolanii kanneen harka diinaatti gaafa kufan wayyaaneen gochaa suukaneessaa akkanaatiin uummata yaamtee raawwii akkasii jiilchaf ilmaan Oromoo kanneen irratti raawwatte. Oromoo diina isaa ajjeessaa, falmaa du’uun ykn wareegamuun kabajaa guddaa dha. Bakki gochaan fashitii Wayyaanee kun itti raawwatame godina SALAALEE, aanaa Darraatti baatii dabre gaafa 09/12/2014 ture.

Sababiin gootonno Oromoo kunneen itti bosona seenaniifis roorroo warri ergamtuu wayyaanee OPDO, dabballoota aanaa saniitirraa irra gahaa ture waan dadhaabaniif jiraachuus waan dadhhabaniif tahuutu gabaafama. Maqaan gooticha kanaa KATAMAA WUBETUU kan jedhamu erga dhiirummaasaa fi gootummaasaa loltoota wayyaanee 4 fi foolisoota hedduu galaafatee booda harka diinaatti kufuudhaan gaafa guyyaa 09\12\2014, aanaa Darraa, magaalaa Gondo Masqaal irratti wayyaaneen gochaa gara jabummaatiin uummata keenya jiilchuu fi sodaachisuuf hiriyaa isaa walin fannifte.

UK government accused of sponsoring human rights abuses in Ethiopia

International Consortium for Investigative Journalists | Washington, DC, January 2015.

Anuak children in Gorom Refugee Camp in South Sudan. Many Anuak fled Ethiopia during a government relocation campaign called “villagization”. Photo: Andreea Campeanu/ICIJ.
Leaked Report Says World Bank Violated Own Rules in Ethiopia

A development project funded by the UK government and run by the World Bank could be facilitating a violent resettlement program

in Ethiopia that has been dogged by allegations of forced displacement, physical assaults and rape, a leaked report suggests.

Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) is the primary sponsor of the World Bank’s foreign aid initiative, supposedly set up to improve basic health, education and public services in Ethiopia. It has attracted over £388 million in UK taxpayer’s money to date.

According to a leaked report, obtained by the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists, the seemingly benign aid program is facilitating a controversial resettlement scheme driven by the Ethiopian government.

‘Ethiopia’s media crackdown is bad news for Africa’

Without a free press in Addis Ababa, Africans are being locked out of the important decisions being made in their de facto capital, writes Simon Allison

“Ethiopia’s media should be playing a crucial role in the May elections, but instead many journalists fear that their next article could get them thrown in jail.”

January 23, 2015 (The Guardian) — It’s not easy being a journalist in Ethiopia. In fact, it’s nearly impossible, according to a new 76-page Human Rights Watch report that documents the scale of the state’s censorship apparatus. As a journalist, it makes for highly disturbing reading.

“Ethiopia’s media should be playing a crucial role in the May elections, but instead many journalists fear that their next article could get them thrown in jail.”

The authors of the report spoke to 70 Ethiopian journalists, many in exile, who painted a dismal picture of the state of Ethiopian media. The government exerts control in many different ways – some subtle, some quite the opposite.

Legal, Policy Reforms Crucial Prior to May Elections

January 22, 2015, Nairobi (Human Rights Watch) – The Ethiopian government’s systematic repression of independent media has created a bleak landscape for free expression ahead of the May 2015 general elections, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In the past year, six privately owned publications closed after government harassment; at least 22 journalists, bloggers, and publishers were criminally charged, and more than 30 journalists fled the country in fear of being arrested under repressive laws.

The 76-page report, “‘Journalism is Not a Crime’: Violations of Media Freedom in Ethiopia,” details how the Ethiopian government has curtailed independent reporting since 2010. Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 70 current and exiled journalists between May 2013 and December 2014, and found patterns of government abuses against journalists that resulted in 19 being imprisoned for exercising their right to free expression, and that have forced at least 60 others into exile since 2010.

“Ethiopia’s government has systematically assaulted the country’s independent voices, treating the media as a threat rather than a valued source of information and analysis,” said Leslie Lefkow, deputy Africa director. “Ethiopia’s media should be playing a crucial role in the May elections, but instead many journalists fear that their next article could get them thrown in jail.”

Woyane Sentences Three Britons to Jail on Terrorism Charges

Note: Is this true or false? You judge from Woyanes’s past performance.

Two Britons have been jailed in Ethiopia over terrorism

January 15, 2014 (Bloomberg) — An Ethiopian court sentenced three British citizens to prison after finding them guilty of trying to establish Islamic rule in the country through acts of “terrorism,” according to a Justice Ministry official.

Ali Adorus was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in Ethiopian prison, while Somalia-born Mohammed Ahmed and Ahmed Elmi were each given jail terms of four years and eight months, Fekadu Tsega, coordinator of the federal center of prosecution, said by phone yesterday from the capital, Addis Ababa.

“They were accused of trying to unconstitutionally change the government and introduce Islamic government in Ethiopia by terrorism,” he said.

Afrikaa Kibbaa Keessatti Guyyaan WBO Sirna Howwaan Kabajame

Amajjii 13, 2015

Bakka bu,oonni jaarmayaa ABO Kutaa Afrikaa Kibbaa konyaalee garaagaraa kan akka Konyaa Cape town,Konyaa Mpumalanga,Konyaa Gauteng fi Konyaa Zulu Nata irraa irratti argamuun dhaamsa fi yaada isaanii kan QBO gabbisuu fi jabeeysu dabarfatan.

Sagantaan Teenya akkuma Aadaa teenyaa Eebba manguddootaatiin eegallee Yaadannoo Qabsaawoota QBO irratti wareegamanii fi Faaruu Alaabaa,

Ibsa Dhaabaa fii seenaa Guyyaa WBO fi Amajjii,Maalif akka kabajuun barbaachisee fi yoom akka eegale,
Draamaa Haala yeroo ammaa mootummaa Abbaa irree wayyaaneetiin Ummata oromoo irratti geggeeyfamaa jiru agarsiisu,

Agarsiisa WBO fi QEERROO bakkuma jirrutti akka Draamaattii Qopheessine agarsiisuu fi Gumaacha Addaa gaafachuun tinnisa WBOf argamsiisuu fi Caalbaasiin wal booharsuutu ture.

Vestnes, Norway (Jan. 16, 2015): Rally Protesting Human Rights Violations Against Oromo by Ethiopian Govt.

Sad News: Five Oromo refugees die on the Sudanese-Libya border

Report by Boruu Barraaqaa | January 18, 2015

Dungujee Ittanaa (from her facebook profile)

According to a close source, five Oromo refugees have reportedly died and other wounded after they just crossed the border into Libya. The report didn’t identify the exact date and time of the accident, but confirmed that it happened in the last week.

More than half a dozen Oromo refugees were carried on the back of an old Toyota pickup owned by human traffickers when the accident happened. The car was heading from Khartoum to Tripoli, crossing the dangerous Sahara Desert with the haphazard fast speed.

The reason that caused the accident was also said to be driving with the highest speed in attempt to escape from the border police.

The source identified Dunguje Itana, a sister of Feven Itana, a famous spiritual (Christian) singer in Afan Oromo was one of the victims. Dunguje, who was a businesswoman and had her own house in Finfine had gotten her house being demolished by government forces under the pretext of ‘illegally built house’, said the report.

She was left with no compensation for her demolished house, moreover, previously she had been experienced prolonged persecution by government militias in Finfinnee due to her allegiance to being OLF supporter, added the report.

Vestnes, Norway (Jan. 16, 2015): Rally Protesting Human Rights Violations Against Oromo by Ethiopian Govt

Calling for Demonstration in Vestnes, NORWAY, Against the HUMAN Rights Violations Committed against the Oromo People by Ethiopian Government

Oromos who live in Vestnes and its surrounding in Norway have scheduled to hold a peaceful demonstration on Friday, January 16, 2015, at 13:00-15:00 against the Ethiopian dictatorial regime’s human rights violations against the Oromo people.

The objectives of the demonstration are:-
– To call on the world pressure the Ethiopian government to release all Oromo political prisoners
– To condemn the brutal killings, arrests, tortures, displacements undertaken by the Ethiopian regime on the Oromos people
– To call on donors to stop their SUPPORT

for the Ethiopian dictator regime

We welcome all Oromo and Friends of Oromo will JOIN

this demonstration

For more INFORMATION

, call: 40988462 or e-mail: kiyu29@GMAIL

.com

MINNEAPOLIS MAY SOON GET A COMMEMORATIVE OROMO STREET

JANUARY

10, 2015 OPride) — The Minneapolis City PLANNING

Commission will hold a public hearing on Jan. 12 to decide on Council Member Abdi Warsame’s APPLICATION

for commemorative street names along the city’s Cedar riverside area. Warsame’s proposal calls for 4th Street South between Cedar Avenue and 15th Avenue South to be named “Oromo Street,” and for the stretch between 6th Street and Cedar Avenue to 15th avenue South to be called “Somali Street.”

The hearing is scheduled to take place at 4:30 p.m in Room 317 City Hall, 350 S 5th street in Minneapolis, Minn. The proposal is backed by the city’s Department of Public Works and the Department of Community Planning and Economic Development, according to the Commission’s website. The Commission’s decisions are FINAL

unless appealed.

For a city that boasts the largest population of both Oromo and Somali immigrants, such recognition would be a welcome development. The Cedar Riverside neighborhood is jokingly called little Mogadishu because of its large Somali residents while Minnesota is widely known as “Little Oromia” among Oromos. HOME

to the largest Somali population in the U.S., Minnesota has an estimated 40,000 Oromos. The Oromo are THE SINGLE

largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, constituting nearly half of the country’s 94 million population.

Widespread Repression: State Terrorism in Ogaden, Ethiopia

By GRAHAM PEEBLES

January 9, 2015 (CounterPunch) — Ethiopia is being hailed as a shining example of African economic growth. Principle donors and devotees of the International Monetary FUND

/World Bank development model (an imposed ideological vision which measures all things in terms of a nations GDP) see the country as an island of potential prosperity and stability within a region of failed states and violent conflict. “Economic performance in recent years has been strong, with economic growth averaging in double-digits since 2004,”states the IMF country report. The economic model (a hybrid of western capitalism and Chinese control) adopted by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) government is a centralised system that denies democracy – consultation and participation in “development plans” is unheard of – ignores and violates human rights.

Labsa Tokkoomuu ABO fi KY – ABO

Amajjii 9, 2015

Yeroo ammaa haalli hamaan ummanni keenya biyya isaa Oromiyaa keessatti mudachaa jiru himamee kan hin dhumne tahuus haala sukaneessa akka tahe beekamaa dha. Ummanni Oromoo biyya isaa keessatti mirga abbaa biyyummaa dhaabee, lafaa fi qabeenyi isaa akka malee saamamee, badii takkan maletti hidhamaa fi ajjeefamaa jira. Ajjeechaan jumulaa ummata Oromoo irratti mootummaa TPLF (EPDRF)n tooftaa dhoksaan raawatamaa jira. Barattoonni Oromoo waan gaaffii mirgaa gaafataniif, mana barnoota sadarkaa adda addaatti fi universitooata keeysatti rasaasan ajeefamaa fi hidhamanii gochaan garajabinaa ilma namaarratti hin raawwatamne irratti hojjatamaa jira.

Kanneen hidhaa diinaa jalaa miliqan barnootarraa arihamuu fi biyyoota ollaa keessatti alloolamuurraa bilisa tahuu hin dendeenye. Miidhaa fi darara ar’aan tana ummata keenya akka ummataatti irratti raawwachaa jiraniin alatti Oromiyaa qircachuu/ciranii hiratuudhaan balleessuuf saganteefatani jiru. Kana malees, Oromummaa sammuu Oromoo keessaa haquudhaaf tattaaffii godhamaa jirtu ofirraa faccisuudhaa fi mirgaa fi eenyummaa Oromoof caalaatti wabii tahuudhaaf maloottan jiran keessaa malli inni tokko Oromoon akka sabaatti; jaarmoonni siyaasaa Oromoo fi Oromummaa akka dhaabaa fi gurmuutti wal tahuudhaan diina innikkaa dura dhaabbatuun tarkaanfii murteessaa fudhachuun barbaachisaa dha.

The people pushed out of Ethiopia’s fertile farmland

By Matthew Newsome

January 6, 2015 (BBC) — The construction of a huge dam in Ethiopia and the introduction of large-scale agricultural businesses has been controversial – finding out what LOCAL PEOPLE think can be hard, but with the help of a bottle of rum nothing is impossible.

After WAITING

several weeks for letters of permission from various Ethiopian ministries, I BEGIN

my road trip into the country’s southern lowlands.

I WANT TO

investigate the government’s controversial plan to take over vast swathes of ancestral land, home to around 100,000 indigenous pastoralists, and turn it into a major centre for commercial agriculture, where foreign agribusinesses and government plantations would raise CASH

crops such as sugar and palm oil.

After driving 800km (497 miles) over two days through Ethiopia’s lush highlands I begin my descent into the lower Omo valley. Here, where palaeontologists have discovered some of the oldest human remains on earth, some ancient ways of life cling on.

January 6, 2015

Since the March-April 2014 crackdowns against the peaceful Oromo protesters who have protested against the Ethiopian Federal Government’s plan of annexation of 36 small Oromia towns to the CAPITAL

city of Addis Ababa under the pretext of the “Addis Ababa Integrated Plan”, thousands of Oromo nationals from all walks of life from all corners of Oromia regional state including Wollo Oromo’s in Amhara regional state have been detained or imprisoned. Some have disappeared and many have been murdered by a special commando group called “the Agiazi force”. The “The Agiazi” force is still chasing down and arresting Oromo nationals who participated in the March-April, 2014 peaceful protests. Fearing the persecution of the Ethiopian government, hundreds of students did not return to the universities, colleges and high schools; most of them have left for the neighboring states of Somaliland and Puntiland of Somalia where they remain at high risk for their safety. Wollo Oromos who are living in Ahmara regional state of Oromia special Zone are also among the victims of the EPRDF government. Hundreds of Wollo Oromos have been detained because of their connection with the peaceful protests of March-April 2014. The EPRDF government has detained many Oromo nationals in Wollo Oromia special Zone under the pretext of being members or supporters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), as prisoners’ voices from Dessie/Wollo prison have revealed.

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