Atlanta’s Oromo Community Protesting Against The Tyrant Ethiopian Government And Challenging Cnn To Cover The Ongoing Crisis!

Atlanta, Georgia, 15 May 2014 (OromoTV) – We the Oromo Community of Atlanta, Georgia gather at the CNN Headquarters to demand the Ethiopian government immediately halt all the senseless killings of innocent University students throughout Ethiopia. We ask CNN and its affiliates as trusted and reliable sources of media to launch a diligent and timely investigation on the current crisis in Ethiopia and draw attention to the indiscriminate killings of innocent students. Furthermore, we demand the Obama Administration unequivocally condemn the actions of the Ethiopian Government and urgently take action to end the massacre! Students are being murdered for peacefully protesting against the Addis Ababa Master Plan which would expand the capital city and annex land from farmers in the surrounding area. This planed annexation is in violation of United Nations and African Union Charters on Human Rights. According to reports from trusted sources, since April 25, 2014 as many as 100 civilians have been murdered by government forces. In addition 500 have been injured, while over 5000 students have been detained at unknown camps! Read more…

Executive Committee of Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC): Continue the Struggle Until the Addis Ababa Master Plan is Cancelled; Until a Neutral Inquiry Commission is Established for Justice; Until Political Prisoners are Freed

Executive Committee of Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC): Continue the Struggle Until the Addis Ababa Master Plan is Cancelled; Until a Neutral Inquiry Commission is Established for Justice; Until Political Prisoners are Freed

We want to appreciate the sacrifices of Oromo diaspora in holding demonstrations worldwide in solidarity with #OromoProtests. The Minnesota hunger strike should be the best model that all Oromo communities around the world should follow.

We appeal to all Oromos in the diaspora and at home to face the national challenge by taking the following actions:

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Weekend hunger strike staged at state Capitol for Oromo student relief

Weekend hunger strike staged at state Capitol for Oromo student relief

By John Brewer

“My people are getting killed in Ethiopia — mothers, fathers, children. That makes me cry,” said Samira Ahmed who wipes her eyes while listening to a speaker at a rally of the Oromo community in Minnesota at the state Capitol on Friday, May 9, 2014. (Pioneer Press: Jean Pieri)

May 13, 2014, MN (Twin Cities) — More than 100 people staged a four-day hunger strike on the front steps of the state Capitol over the weekend, drawing attention to Ethiopian government violence against Oromo students.

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OromoProtests FDG: Renewed Anti-Land-Grabbing Students Protests at Wallaggaa University. Four Oromo Students Reported Dead; Several Hundred Oromo Students Injured

OromoProtests FDG: Renewed Anti-Land-Grabbing Students Protests at Wallaggaa University. Four Oromo Students Reported Dead; Several Hundred Oromo Students Injured

May 14, 2014 (gadaa) — #OromoProtests FDG continued at Wallaggaa University in the Nekemte Campus on May 14, 2014 to demand that the Addis Ababa Master Plan be annulled, and to demand for the institutionalization of the Special Interests of Oromiyaa over Finfinnee per the Constitution. The Addis Ababa Master Plan is termed as the Master “Genocide” Plan by Oromo activists as it aims to evict millions of Oromo farmers around Addis Ababa (whose Oromo name is Finfinnee), and hand out the land to local and foreign land-grabbers – with the Chinese being main actors of the ongoing land-grabbing campaigns in Oromia/Ethiopia.

According to sources, three Oromo students were reported dead at the Wallaggaa University May 14,

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