Sabaa Himaa Bilisaa: 01/13/15

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

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.