TPLF luminaries defect to the US; infighting appears to intensify

September 9, 2013 (Ethiopian Review) — Arkebe Equbay, a one-time rising star of the Tigrai Peoples Liberation Front  and former mayor of Addis Ababa, has fled to the United States seeking asylum, according to reliable sources.  Also defecting is Getachew Equbay, Arkebe’s brother and former executive of Mesfin Engineering.  The brothers are said to have escaped along with their families.

According to Wikileaks, in 2008, the  majority of TPLF leadership had voted for Arkebe to lead the politburo.  Arkebe is said to have wisely chosen not to antagonize Meles.  Arkebe was nevertheless unceremoniously purged from the politburo by the vindictive former prime minister two years later.

Just last year, Arkebe was thought to be the heir apparent to the throne following the demise of former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.

Unconfirmed reports are also circulating about the defection of many frightened TPLF biggies who refused to return home after traveling to the US.

 –Ethiopian Review

Demonstration in Norway on September 14, 2013

The Oromo Youth Movement in Norway, together with Oromo nationalists has finished its preparation to hold demonstration on Saturday September 14, 2013

Place: From Oslo Central Station to Parliament
Time: 13:00-16:00

The Object of the demonstration,

• Condemning the cold blooded massacre of our people by TPLF/EPRDF federal police in Kofale town, Arsi Zone of Oromia Region.
• Call for a Reversal of Racial and Politically Motivated Sentences of the Oromo university students by the TPLF/ EPRDF.
• Condemning the escalating human rights violation, Land grabbing and the ethnic cleansing of the Oromos by Leyu Police of the EPDRF in Harage
• Mourning candle Program for the death of the Oromo activist Engineer Tesfahun Chamada in Kaliti Prison in a horrible & inhuman torturing by the Ethiopian government.

We call for all Oromo and the supporters of Oromo to join us on this historical event.

Contacts:

Email : Oromofirst.Oromiya@gmail.com
Tel. +4794724502/ +4746723604

A prisoner of conscience’s call for sanctions against Ethiopia

European aid has transformed my country’s economy but also props up one-party rule. Let EU donors give us democracy.

Eskinder Nega

September 7, 2013 (The Guardian) — To Ethiopia‘s archaic left, which dominates the ruling party, the new euphemism for the west is neoliberal. Compared to the jargon of bygones days – imperialists – when Lenin and Mao were still in vogue, neoliberal sounds decidedly wimpy. But this hardly matters to Ethiopia’s ruling party. What it seeks is a bogeyman to tamp down rising expectations for multiparty democracy.

To this end, plying nationalist sentiment is the easy option. And so, we get a tale of heroes and villains in which there is a defender of national ethos, honor and economic growth (inevitably, the ruling party), and a foreign horde bent on subversion, domination and economic exploitation (infallibly, the west: the neoliberals).

In this narrative, Ethiopia’s recent economic growth, amidst a global slump, is ascribed to the stability afforded by one-party rule, as in China – and not, as many experts are prone to point out, the generosity of donor countries. Hence the paradox of well-intentioned European money promoting Chinese interests in one of the more important economies in Africa.

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama’s fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economics would suffer catastrophically. The theatrical blustering of the Ethiopian government notwithstanding, donor countries have a make-or-break power over the Ethiopa’s prosperity.

Ethiopian women wait to cast their votes in May 2010. European election observers said that the election fell short of international standards. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP

And European aid has done wonderful things in Ethiopia. Despite the government’s ingratitude, we – the disenfranchised majority – are grateful and appreciative. We have improved access to schools, health facilities and roads because of donor benevolence. But an aid policy tied only to economic and social needs is only half complete; a comprehensive approach entails a linkage with politics.

Ideally, aid should have an impact on GDP growth. Ethiopia now ranks in the world’s top ten fastest-growing economies, the pride of Eurocrats. But aid should also increase trade between donor and recipient, as was the case with US aid to Europe under the Marshall Plan. By this measure, Europe has failed. Ethiopian trade with China has exploded, while stagnating or shrinking with Europe. Again, China wins without lifting a finger.

Aid should also strengthen democratic institutions. Here is where European donors’ policy falters dramatically. The unintended consequence of indifference to democratic accountability translates into the subsidy and reinforcement of tyranny. The time for reassessment has come.

After two decades of one-party rule, Ethiopia is visibly aching for change. Even the traditionally placid Sufi Muslim community is increasingly restless. There is clear danger of communal strife.

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

Sanctions need to be targeted – and the continuity of basic humanitarian aid without precondition is a moral necessity. But the EU should also impose travel bans on Ethiopian officials implicated in human rightsviolations.

We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations. The moral imperative is for Europe to align with the reform movement in Ethiopia. It is time to stand up for democracy.

–The Guardian

Displacement Follows Clashes On Kenya-Ethiopia Border

Inter-clan violence continues to cause death and destruction (file photo)

MOYALE, 6 September 2013 (IRIN) – Thousands of families remain displaced from the northern Kenya district of Moyale, close to the Ethiopian border, following the latest spate of clan violence, which has left at least two dozen dead since it broke out on 30 August.

Aid agencies say they have been unable to conduct a comprehensive assessment of humanitarian needs, essential for providing emergency assistance to populations in some of the district’s more volatile areas. 

Two days of inter-clan fighting among the Gabra, Burji and Borana communities saw houses torched, gunfire exchanged and business come to a standstill in the areas of Somare and Teti. The violence has since subsided, but tension remains high in the area.

Education officials say all 32 primary and secondary schools in Moyale remained closed on 2 September, as all both teachers and students remained displaced, too afraid of renewed violence to return home.

The violence is believed to be part of a series of revenge attacks that began when the Borana and Gabra clashed on 15 July, leaving one dead and three wounded.

Displaced

“More than 38,000 people from 6,381 households have been forced to leave their homes,” said the Kenya Red Cross Society’s (KRCS) Moyale coordinator, Stephen Bonaya, who noted that most of the displaced had crossed into Ethiopia, while others were staying with relatives in Moyale and the counties of Marsabit and Wajir.

He said scores of children, women and men were still separated from their families, while others were missing. “A team is helping families trace lost members and reunite them. At the moment, 60 families have been united,” he added.

According to Bonaya, displaced families are in urgent need of food assistance, shelter, drugs, water, cooking utensils, clothing and mosquito nets, among other things.

Moyale’s traders say the suspension of operations by transporters has led to a spike in food prices in the area.

“My lorry has been parked for a whole week now. I am afraid it could either be burnt or hijacked, and yet I am supposed to service a loan,” said Golicha, a truck owner.

Ismail Adan, a livestock trader and a transporter, said the prices of hiring and ferrying livestock by lorries doubled as a result of the clashes. “It’s not possible to make any profit from livestock trade. Animals at the market are too few and very expensive,” he said.

Seeking a solution

Historically, the regions’ communities – which straddle Kenya and Ethiopia – have fought over resources such as pasture and water for their livestock, butresearch by Tufts University and KRCS shows that the violence has recently become more deadly and communities and their leaders now seek to achieve control over these resources through the political system.

“The government is now in charge. Militia gangs from the warring communities have been flushed out [by the police and the army],” Marsabit County commissioner Isaiah Nakoru told IRIN. “Some have fled and crossed the border. We have arrested eight Ethiopians, two Kenya[ns]. The state is serious; nobody will escape punishment… Politicians responsible will not be spared.”

He added that preliminary investigations had established that “foreign militia” armed with mortars and bombs had fuelled the fighting.

People affected by the conflict say the intermittent violence will continue unless the government addresses the root causes, involving the warring communities and their leaders.

“This is a political problem. Neither Kenya’s entire military nor police can contain or end this problem. Arrest the politicians, involve all communities in the political process and share resources fairly,” said one Moyale resident, who preferred anonymity.

Former national assembly speaker Francis Ole Kaparo said a peaceful solution to the conflict needed to be found. “These communities must stop this bloody way of resolving disputes and share them [resources] or lose all anticipated benefits,” he told IRIN.

–IRIN

INTERVIEW WITH PROF. MEKURIA BULCHA PART ONE

Oromo 1st Atlanta,GA

OROMO FIRST

From home to anywhere …..

Meron Admasu

By Meron Admasu | September 4, 2013

The Ethiopian regime intensified the killing, imprisonment and persecution of the Ethiopian civilian population. Thousands of innocent people were forced to flee their homes and became refugees in the neighboring countries of Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, and all over the world.

The Ethiopian government has also actively pressed neighboring countries to abduct Ethiopian refugees. There have been evidences that refugees who have been forcefully returned to Ethiopia from neighboring countries have been persecuted upon return. The refugees had the history of facing torture, rape (women) and imprisonment on the basis of the imputed political views and membership in the other political parties. The case of Engineers Abebe and Chemeda, and numerous other cases, is a testimony to the fact that such action of returning and refugee – abductions are in violation of major regional and international human rights laws, treaties and refugee protocols.

Many Ethiopians are left with no other option than leaving the country; At least half of the more than 2.5 million refugees fleeing Ethiopia are Oromo.

The main reason Why Ethiopian people being refuge

The restrictions on freedom of expression and association through politically motivated trials and convictions of opposition political figures, activists, journalists, and bloggers, as well as increased restrictions on print media, no separation of state and religion in Ethiopia, problems included arbitrary killings; allegations of torture, beating, abuse, and mistreatment of detainees by security forces; reports of harsh and at times life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention; detention without charge and lengthy pretrial detention; a weak, overburdened judiciary subject to political influence; infringement on citizens’ privacy rights, including illegal searches; allegations of abuses in the implementation of the government’s “villagization” program; restrictions on academic freedom; restrictions on freedom of assembly, association, and movement; alleged interference in religious affairs; limits on citizens’ ability to change their government; police, administrative, and judicial corruption.

Most of Oromo people jailed and tortured on suspicion of belonging to Oromo political organizations. Without exception the refugees decided to leave Ethiopia only after being subjected to torture or imprisonment or after a close friend or family member had been killed or jailed “indefinitely”. Recently stepped up military action by the TPLF dominated junta has caused still more refugees to flee.

What ways do they use to migrate?

Many of them mistreatment, abuse, or torture among people who make the journey by smugglers boats in the process of this forced migration, many Ethiopians cry for being victims of illegal and inhuman organ trade (trafficking) in sinai and other dessert s. Quite many cry falling in the fierce Jaw of beasts while crossing jungles. Others risk their life crossing dangerous sea and ocean waves on worn out boats under the shadow of death; and many of them cry while capsizing to be buried under sea bed or becoming live preys for sharks.

Ethiopia government security forces have been actively abducting refugees and Asylum seekers in third countries such as Djibouti, Somaliland and Kenya.

After years in refugee camps many Ethiopian refugees are able to reach the different county through the assistance of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United States government.

There have been evidences that refugees who have been forcefully returned to Ethiopia from neighboring countries have been persecuted upon return returning mandated and non – mandated refugees without trying them in a court of law in the country providing asylum and convicting them has posed credible dangers to the lives of those forcefully returned.

What happen during migration?

Ethiopian migrants tell of torture and rape in Yemen the Ethiopian teenager survived a treacherous boat journey being smuggled across the Red Sea. But on reaching Yemen was kidnapped and driven at gunpoint to a mud brick house. They got beaten and they raped them at gunpoint. The women get raped and the men are burned. They break bones take people’s eyes out.

Our sisters living in Middle East and Arab countries are crying under the shackle of modern slavery; being denied their wage for the harsh labor work they are subjected for. Some become victim of boiled oil by their employers and cry bearing life threatening burns and scars on their face and bodies. As if these are not enough to bear on their weak shoulder, many of young girls are being raped without their consent and become hopeless to get any legal protection or justice.

–Meron Admasu

Human rights group says sentencing of 21 Oromos in Ethiopia’s court is politically motivated

August 18, 2013 at 9:48 am · Gadaa.com

The following is an Urgent Action statement from the Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA). HRLHA is a nonpolitical organization (with the UN Economic and Social Council – (ECOSOC) Consultative Status), which attempts to challenge abuses of human rights of the people of various nations and nationalities in the Horn of Africa.

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HRLHA – Calls for Reversal of Racially and Politically Motivated Sentences

August 15, 2013

Press Release

The Federal High Court of Ethiopia sentenced 21 Oromo Nationals (most of whom are university students) to as much as 2-8 years in prison on 7^th August, 2013. The report HRLHA received indicates that all of them have spent about three years pending trials on alleged charges of collaborating with the opposition organization of the Oromo Liberation Front with the intention of committing terrorist crimes. According to information obtained by HRLHA through its correspondents, most of the defendants were very young Oromo students picked up at different times from different universities and colleges in the regional state of Oromia and other parts of the country.

Photos: Three of the Sentenced Oromo Students

The HRLHA has learnt that most of the 21 Oromo defendants did not even have acquaintance of each other, let alone collectively committing terrorist crimes, as they were brought together from different universities in the country and met each other in the jail. According to some legal experts, the fact that the charges were mere fabrications aimed at imposing punishments intended for political intimidation has made it difficult for the accused to defend themselves. However, by blatantly acting as a political tool of the ruling party, the court handed down the guilty verdict on the Oromo nationals without taking into consideration some evidences that the defendants attempted to present to defend themselves against the charges. There are more concerns that, particularly five of the twenty one defendants, who were charged with additional and separate article (criminal code, Article 241, “Attack on the Political or Territorial Integrity of the State”) from the sixteen others, might face very harsh punishments.

Although this verdict did not come as a surprise, as it is not the first of its kind, it has enormously added to the accumulation of partiality, injustice and unfairness of the justice system, raising further concerns among the human rights groups, and defenders of justice and equality including the HRLHA.

The twenty one alleged convicts are:

No	Name	Year of sentence	University	Sex
1	Dachassa Wirtu Mosisa	8	Haromaya	M
2	Ebissa Ratessa	8	Ambo	M
3	Getu Saketa Roro	8	Finfine (Addis Ababa)	M
4	Diribsa Damte Jote	8	Finfine(Addis Ababa)	M
5	Adamu Shiferra	8	Finfine (Addis Ababa)	M
6	Sena Merera	3	Arba Minch	M
7	Silashi Sori	3	Haromaya	M
8	Abdisa Gudeta	3 1/4	Mada Walabu	M
9	Miressa H/Yesus	3	Finfine (College student)	M
10	Abdi Dereje	4	Wallega	M
11	Deme Zerhun	4	Finfine (College Student)	M
12	Alemayehu Regassa	3	Hawasa	M
13	Shafi Said	3	Jimma	M
14	Dagim Bekele	3	Adama	M
13	Lami Jirata	4	Teacher (Finfine)	M
14	Birhanu Imiru	4	Teacher(Kotobe Coolege)	M
15	Alemu Teshome Jirata	3	Journalist (Finfine)	M
16	Shashe Said	3	_	F
17	Getachew Abera	3	Wallaga (Shambu)	M
18	Dereje Getu	3	-	M
19	Jirenya Dessalegn	3	_	M
20	Lemi Wegga	4	Teacher	M
21	Alemu Teshome	3	_	M

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa calls up on the Ethiopian Government to reverse this unfair verdict, and unconditionally release the prisoners. It also calls up on all local, regional, and international activists of justice and human rights defenders to jointly raise their voices against such racial partialities and injustices so that the Ethiopian Government refrain from inappropriately using the justice system as a weapon of punishment and intimidation for political gains.

Ethiopia: The Continuing of Deaths and Displacements in Eastern Oromia

July 16, 2013

Public: for immediate Release

In a development relating to HRLHA URGENT ACTION, May 7, 2013, ” Ethiopia: Loss of Lives and Displacement Due to Border Dispute  in Eastern Ethiopia”

http://humanrightsleague.com/2013/05/ethiopia-loss-of-lives-and-displacement-due-to-border-dispute-in-eastern-ethiopia/

HRLHA has learnt that three innocent civilians have been killed and two others wounded in eastern Oromia’s Regional State, in Ethiopia in a violence that involved the Federal Government’s special force known as LIYYU POLICE. According to HRLHA informants, the three dead victims of this most recent attack by the federal Liyyu Police/Special Police that took place in the early morning of July 7, 2013 in the Gaara-Wallo area in Qumbi District of Eastern Hararge Province in Eastern Ethiopia were:

1. Mr. Ibrahim Henno, 38,
2. Mr. Mahammed Musa, 26
3. Mr. Mohammed Yusuf , 27

The two wounded victims of this same violent action were Mr. Nuredin Ismael (age 25) and Mr. Ali Mohammed (age 27). HRLHA has confirmed that both Mr. Nuredin and Mr. Ali have since been being treated at the Hiwot Fana Hospital in the city of Harar. More shocking was that the bodies of the three dead victims were eaten by hyenas, because there was nobody around to pick and burry; as the whole village was deserted when the villagers were forced by the armed federal forces to leave the area. According to HRLHA correspondents and other sources, the forced eviction has been taking place in the name of alleged border dispute between the two neighbouring states of Oromia and Ogaden; although the Ogadenis have reiterated that they have not made a land claim along the border. The victims claim that the forced displacements that have been going on for over eight months were always accompanied by dispossessions, lootings, and confiscations of properties.

            The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa once again urges the Ethiopian Federal Government and the Regional Government of Oromia to discharge their responsibilities of ensuring the safety and stability of citizens by taking immediate actions of interference to bring the violence to end, and facilitate the return of the displaced Oromos back to their homes. It also calls upon all local, regional and international diplomatic and human rights organizations to impose necessary pressures on both the federal and regional governments so that they refrain from committing irresponsible actions against their own citizens for the purpose of political gains

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

• Please send appeals to the Ethiopian Government and its concerned officials as swiftly as possible, in English or Amharic, mentioning to refrain from committing irresponsible actions against their own citizens
• to bring to justice those members  of “LIYYU POLICE”  Police who committed crimes against innocent civilians

APPEALS TO:

• His Excellency: Mr. Hailemariam Dessalegn – Prime Minister of Ethiopia

P.O.Box – 1031 , Addis Ababa

Telephone – +251 155 20 44; +251 111 32 41

Fax – +251 155 20 30 , +251 1552020

• His Excellency  Alemayehu Atomsa

 Oromiya National Regional State President Office  

Telephone –   0115510455

• Office of the Ministry  of Justice

PO Box 1370, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Fax: +251 11 5517775; +251 11 5520874 Email: ministry-justice@telecom.net.et

CC

• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

United Nations Office at Geneva 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Fax: + 41 22 917 9022 (particularly for urgent matters) E-mail: tb-petitions@ohchr.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• African Commission on Human and Peoples‘ Rights (ACHPR)

48 Kairaba Avenue, P.O.Box 673, Banjul, The Gambia.

Tel: (220) 4392 962 , 4372070, 4377721 – 23 Fax: (220) 4390 764

E-mail: achpr@achpr.org

• U.S. Department of State

Tom Fcansky – Foreign Affairs Officer

Email;-TOfcansky@aol.com>Washington, D.C. 20037

Tel: +1-202-261-8009

Fax: +1-202-261-8197

• Amnesty International – London

            Clairy Beston

Telephone: +44-20-74135500

Fax number: +44-20-79561157

Email;- TGibson@amnesty.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Human Rights Watch

Filix Horn/ Leslie Lefkow

	lefkowl@hrw.org; rawlenb@hrw.org

Tel: +1-212-290-4700 , Fax:+1-212-736-1300 Email: hrwnyc@hrw.org

Ethiopia: The Government is accountable for the death of a political prisoner at an Ethiopian Jail

 HRLHA Statement

August 26, 2013

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa strongly condemns the atrocious torture and inhuman treatment by the Ethiopian government against its citizens and hold it accountable for the   death of a political prisoner and prisoner of conscience Engineer Tesfahun Chemeda on August 24, 2013 in Kaliti prison.

                                                                                                                                    Tesfahun Chemeda

HRLHA informants confirmed that Engineer Chemed died in Kaliti Penitentiary due to the severe torture inflicted on him while he was in different detentions centers from 2007 until the day he died. We also protest the fact that he was denied medical treatment by the government.

Engeener Tesfahun Chemeda, an Oromo national, was handed over by Kenyan authorities to Ethiopian Security agents in April 2007 from where he had granted a refugee status from UNHCR in Kenya after he had fled to Kenya to escape persecution by the EPRDF government of Ethiopia.

Engineer Tasfahun Chemeda was one of the 15 Oromo nationals   who was sentenced to life in prison in 2010 by the Ethiopian court  (http://humanrightsleague.com/2010/07/a-call-for-the-reversal-of-the-racial-politically-motivated-and-discriminatory-sentence-by-a-court-in-ethiopia/ for his activism and political beliefs that were different from the ruling EPRDF government of Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Government is accountable for

1. Torturing Mr. Chemeda in prison, thereby violating the 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, an agreement which Ethiopia signed and ratified in 1994

2. For denying Engineer Tesfahun medical treatment, violating the rights of prisoners which are clearly stated in international law and International covenants on civil and political rights article 10(1) “. All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person”. and  Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Rights of Persons Held in Custody and Convicted Prisoners article 21 (1) “All persons held in custody and persons imprisoned upon conviction and sentencing have the right to treatments respecting their human dignity”.

By handing over the Oromo refugees and others, the Kenyan Government is also breaching its obligations under international treaties as well as customary laws.

1. Under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1465 U.N.T.S. 185,) the Kenyan Government has the obligation not to return a person to a place where they will face torture or ill-treatment.
2.  Article 3 of the Convention against Torture provides: No state party shall expel, return (“refouler”) or extradite a person to another state where there are substantial grounds to believe that they would be in danger of being subjected to torture.

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa calls upon the Ethiopian authorities to immediately carry out an independent investigation into Engineer Tesfahun’s death, including whether torture played a part in his death, and disclose to the public anyone found responsible and bring that person to justice. The HRLHA also calls upon the Western political allies of the TPLF/EPRDF Government of Ethiopia to exert pressures so that it is forced to turn around and start working on the genuine democratization of the country, halting the systematic elimination of citizens who demand basic rights and fundamental freedoms,

Finally we extend our condolences to Tesfahun’s  family and friends in their time of grief as well as all Ethiopians who have been falsely accused, illegally detained or wrongly killed at the hands of a brutal and hypocritical regime. Engineer Tesfahun is just one of thousands of victims of the EPRDF government’s campaign of violence, repression and efforts to curtail basic freedoms and fundamental rights of Ethiopians at all costs.

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Malkaa Caffee: Dubbadhu Qaallittii! (Oromo-Oromia) - Jaal Tasfahuun Camadaa

Hin Du'u Kayyoon koo!!

HAWAASTI OROMOO GOOTICHA OROMOO, INJ TASFAHUUN CAMADAA FI ILMAAN OROMOO WAYYAANEEN AJJEEFAMAN YAADATAN

(Madda Oduu ABO/MOA/ Melbourne, Fulbaana 2, 2013) Konyaan ABO Victoria gooticha Oromoo mana hidhaa Wayyaanee keessatti ajjeefame, Injinar Tasfaahuun Camadaa, ilaalchisuun sagantaa yaadannoo mata duree “Oromiyaaf Haa Dubbannu” jedhu jalatti qopheesse; hawaasa Oromoo magaalaa Melbourne  waliin marii gaggeeffate.

Sagantaa yaadannoo fi marii hawaasaa Fulbaana 1, 2013 waaree booda Galma Scientology magaalaa Melbourne keessatti gaggeeffame irratti gooticha Oromoo mana hidhaa wayyaanee keessatti ajjeefame, Inj.Tasfahuun Camadaa dabalatee, ilmaan Oromoo haala, yeroo fi bakkoota adda addaatti wareegaman yaadachiisuun ture.

Yaadannoo gaggeeffametti aansuun Ob. Bantii Oliiqaa Dura Taa’aan konyaa ABO kan VIC hirmaattota marichaa waamicha yeroo gabaabaa kana keessatti taasifame kabajanii miidhaan ummata keessanii isin quuqee asitti argamuu keessaniif hedduu galatoomaa erga jedhanii booda akeekni marichaa ibsaniiru.

Ob Bantiin akka ibsanitti akeekne sagantichaa ajjeefamuu goota Oromoo Injinar Tasfaahuun Camadaa, akkasumas Ummata Oromoo dhiyeenya kana Kofalee, Aniyyaa, Boorana, Karrayyuu, Walloo, Wallaga bahaa fi dhiyaatti, walumaagalatti guutuu Oromiyaa keessatti gahaa jiru balaaleffachuu dha.

“Kanuma waliin miidhaa, dararaa fi roorroo ummata keenya biyya keessaa fi kanneen  baqatanii biyyoota ollaatti bahan irra gahaa jiru attamiin akka falmachuu qabnu, nuti warri biyya nagaa fi bilisa keessa jirru maal gochuu dandeenya? Attamii fi yoom??  kan jedhu irratti marii gaggeeffannee sagnataa hojii fuula duraa waliin akeekkachuuf,” jedhaniiru.

Miidhaa fi roorroo ummata Oromoo irra gahaa jiru ilaalchisuun kanneen raga bahan keessaa mana hidhaa Wayyaanee keessa Injinar Tasfaahun Camadaa waliin turtee dhiyeenya kana kan baate, Addee Lalisoo Wadaajoo akka ibsitetti roorro fi dararaa Ummata Oromoo irra gahaa jiru hedduu ulfaataa fi hamaa dha. “Miidhaa gahaa jiru jechootan ittiin ibsu hin qabu, hedduu hamaa fi sukkaneessaa dha,” kan jette Ad Laliseen, “haata’uutii hidhamtooti Oromoo hundi isaanii jajjaboo, abjuu boru wareegama ilmaan Oromoon ni bilisoomna jedhu abjootu malee hidhamtoota laafanii haamlee wal laaffisan argee hin beeku,” jechuun jabina hidhaa fi dararaa keessatti illee qaban addeessitee jirti.

“Addatti ammoo Tasfaahuun Camaadaa nama hunda keenya jajjabeessu, haamlee keenya haaromsu,“ Jabaadhaa! Kanas Irraa aanna, ni moonaa!” jedhee carraa nu arge hundatti nu jajjabeessuu, haamlee keenya eeguuf jedhee  miidhaa fi dararaa isarra gahaa ture takkaa nama hin dubbanne, garuu ammoo amma mana murtii waliin nu geessaa turanitti dararaa irraa gahaa tureen miidhamni guddaan qaama isaa irraa akka mul’achaa ture, qobaatti baasanii kutaa dukkanaatti waan galchaniif galmee himannaa keenyaa Tasfaahun Camadaa waamamu illee nu waliin mana murtii akka hin dhaqne waan godhaniif haaromsa qalbiin keenya isa irraa argataa turre otoo dheebonnuu ani hiikamee ijoollee fi maatii koo dheebodhetti yommuun dabalamu gootichi Oromoo Iinjinar Tasfaahuun du’uu isaa yommuun dhagahu gadda guddaatu natti dhagahame jechuun raga baatee jirti.

“Gumaa gootota keenyaa kan baafnu, abdii fi hawwii wareegamtootaa fi hidhamtoota keenyaa kudhaammannee harka wal qabannee tokko ta’uun sirna wayyaanee cabsinee bilisummaa keenya yoo dhugoomse qofa,” kan jette Ad Laliseen, “sabni keenya maal gochuu akka qabuu fi danda’u waliin maryatee umurii sirna garboomsaa waan gabaabsu irratti bobba’uu qaba,” jechuun dhaamtee jirti.

Biyya Sudaan baqattummaan otuu jiraatuu ukkaamsamee mootummaa Wayyaaneetti dabarfamee kannamuun mana hidhaa maa’ikalaawwi keessatti dararamaa kan ture Ob. Fayisal Mahaammad gama isaatiin raga bahummaa kenne keessatti  hidhaa fi hiraarsaan ulfaataan biyya keessaa fi biyya ollaa keessatti gahaa akka jiru mirkaneesse.

“Biyyuma Sudaan keessatti ji’a afuriif erga nu hidhanii booda harka, miilla fi ija keenya nu hidhanii karaa Matammaa Mootummaa Itoophiyaatti nu darbatame ; sana boodan Tasfaahun Camadaa fa’aa Maa’ikalaawiitti arge,” kan jedhe Ob Fayisal, “dararaan mana hidhaatti ilmaan Oromoo irra gahu yaadachuunuu mata isaatiinuu waan nama dhukkubsuuf jechaan ibsuun natti ulfaata,,” jedhee jira.

“Haa ta’u malee hidhamtoonni Oromoo akkuma Obboleettiin koo Laliseen jettee takkaa hamlee kutatanii hin beekan,” kan jedhe Ob Fayisal, yeroo mana hidhaa san keessaa bilisaan isa gadhiisan dhaamsa Tasfaahuun isatti hime deebisee ummataaf ibsee jira.

“Warri har’a shororkeessitoota jedhanii hidhanii nu dararaa jiran kaleessa “Wanbadee” jedhamanii waamamaa akka turan haa yaadannu, Barri ni dabartii, Haqaa fi mirga keenya falmachuu irratti haa Jabaannu!” akka jedhe kan hime Ob Fayisal, gumaa gootowwan keenyaa baasuuf dhaamsa nuuf dhaamanii darban qalbeeffannee Wayyaanee qawween malee aangoo gadhiisuuf hin jirreef garaa laafuu dhiifnee tokkummaan dhaaba qabnu ABO fi WBO  haa jabeeffannu jechuun dhaamaniiru.

Qindeessaa Gurmuu Tumsa Oromoo kan Australia Ob. Maaramaa Quufii:  marii kana irratti dhiittaa mirga dhala namaa Ummata Oromoo irra gahaa turee fi jiru addunyaan akka beekee ummata Oromoof gurra kennu hojiilee jajjabduu hojjachaa akka jiru ibsan.

Ibsootaa fi odeeffannooleen OSGAn mootummoota Addunyaa fi “NGO” mootummaa Itophiyaa irratti dhiibbaa gochuu danda’an maraaf dabarsaa turee jiru hedduu ta’an illee har’a hunda kan caalu ragaa ijaa Addee Lalisee fi ob. Fayisal nuuf ibsan arganneerra. Miidhaa fi dararaa, roorroo fi Cunqursaa Ummata Oromoo irra gahaa turee fi jiru ibsuuf ragaan kana caala barbaadamu hin jiru.

Cunqursaa, gabrumma, dararaa fi rorroo ummata Oromoo irra gahaa jiru, hunduu miidhaadha. Akka sabaatti yoo ilaallu kan hunda caala nu dhukkubsu alagaan qee keenya irratti nutty roorrisuudha. Roorro kana hambisuuf Sabummaa keenya haa jabeeffannu, Oromummaa keenya ijaaruu irratti haa jabaannu! jechuun dhaamaniiru.

ABO bakka bu’uun marii kana irratti argamuun miidhaa fi dararaa, ajjeechaa fi roorroo Ummata Oromoo irra gahaa jiru kana qolachuuf hojiilee jajjaboo ABO hojjataa turee fi jiru kan ibsan MGS ABO fi gaafatamaan BBOA Ob. Gaashuu Lammeessaa turan.

Ibsa isaanii kana keessatti diddaa Ummatni Oromoo Habashoota irratti bara Minilikii kaasee agarsiisaa ture; Diddaa gaggeeffamaa turee fi jiru kana keessatti wareegamni gootowwanii fi hayyoota Oromoo hedduu akka ta’e yaadachiisan. Ficiloota Ummanno Oromoo bifa fi haala adda addaatiin gaggeessaa ture qindeessee Jaarmayaa Siyaasaa ititaatti kan jijjiire ABO, guyyaa hundeeffame irraa kaasee qabsoo hidhannoo, siyaasaa fi kan dipilomaasii qindeessee wareegama gurgurdaan injifannoolee cuccululuqoof duubatti deebi’uu hin dandeenye galmeesseera.

Qabsoon keenya jabaataa deemuu irraa diinni keenya Wayyaaneen yaaddoo guddaa waan qabduuf Ummata Oromoo Abdii kutachiisuuf miidhaan geessisaa jirtuus hedduu jabaachaa akka jirus ABO raga qabu irraa sirriitti hubata.

Akkuma fakkeenyaatti Wagguma tokkicha kana keessatti ABOtti hidhata qabdu sababa jedhu itti moggaafamee barattoonni Oromoo hidhaman kan galmeen dhaabaa beeku 497, Barsiiftonni 362, Qonnaan Bultoonni, hojjsttoonni, kanneen jiruu dhuunfaan jiraatan 1,757 akka ta’an ibsuun, lakkoofsi kun kan caasaan dhaabaa quba qabaatee gabaasee fi dhaabni ibsa itti baase qofa akka ta’e, baadiyyaalee Oromiyaa keessatti ajjeechaa, reebichaa fi hidhaa Ummata oromoo irra gahu ammoo lakkoofne akka bira gahuu hin dandeenye, kanneen hojii irraa har’aman, baruumsa irraa ari’amanis baayyina isaanii irraa as irratti akka hi ibsamne addeessan.

Kanuma waliin jedhan Ob. Gaashuun hordoftoonni Amantii Musiliimaa guyyaa guyyaan FF keessatti mirgi amantii isaanii akka kabajamuuf hiriira bahanii gaafachaa jiru, hoggantoota isaanii malee kan hidhame hin jiru, Habashoonni guutuu biyyaatti hiriira Mormii gaggeessaa jiru, kan isaan hidhu hin jiru.

Isilaamoonni Oromoo Asaasaa irratti, Kofalee irratti Wallo irratti, Anfilloo irratti hiriira bahu jedhamee waan yaadame qofaaf maaliif rasaasaan simataman? Yakki Ummata Oromoo Aniyyaa irra gahe, kan Karrayyuu irra gahe, kan Boorana irra gahe lakkofnee kan keessaa baanu hin ta’u.

ABO miidhaa fi dararaa kana hunda hambisuun kan danda’amu hojii fi qabsoodhaan jedhee qabsoo hidhannoo, siyaasaa fi kan dipilomaasii qindeessuun yeroo kamuu caala jabaatee hojjataa jira. Miidhaa Ummata keenya irra gahaa jiru raga guutuu waliin ibsoota adda akka dhaabaatti bahutti qabsiisee addunyaa fi Ummata Oromoo beeksisaa jira. Kun qofti gahaa miti. Mirtiin isaa Ummata Oromoo harka jira. Gabrummaa baadhee bara baraan hidhii xuuxuu ykn Sirna Wayyaanee hundeen buqqisuuf hojii ABO hojjataa jiru tumsee himneessuun galii QBO dhiyeessuu keessaa qooda fudhachuu fi dhiisuu kan jedhu murteeffachuun, kan Ummata Oromooti. Ummatni Oromoo of gaafachuu qaba jedhaniiru.

Marii kana irratti walaloon Qaallitti dubbadhu jedhu miidhaa fi dararaa akkasumas ajjeechaa mana hidhaa Qaallittii keessatti gaggeeffamaa turee fi jiru qalbeeffachiisu dargaggoo Aluulaa Moosisaan dhiyaate qalbii hawaasaa kan harkise ture.

Hirmaattota irraas yaadonni bilchaataa fi ijaaraan dhiyaatan ABO dhugumatti qabsootti akka jiru nu caala diinni raga bahaa jira. Qabsicha keessaa ala of baafnee ususuu dhiifnee ABO jabeessuu qabna. Hojiileen akka hawaasaatti hojjannu amma Jaarmayaa siyaasaa jabaa hin qabaannetti bilisummaan hawwinuun nu hin gahu.

Kanaaf dhaaba qabnu ABO, Waraana guddaa qabnu WBO jabeessuuf haa murteeffannu;

Hidhannoon keenya guddaan tokkummaa keenya. Hidhannoo keenya kana jabeeffachuun qaawwa diinni ittiin nu seenu hunda cufachuu qabna. Ijaaramuu, Oromummaan wal jaalachuu, wal guddisuu, wal jala deemuu, wal amantaa keenya haa gabbifannu,

Sagalee Ummata keenyaa haa dhageessifnu, sagalee Ummataa fi qabsoo keenyaa ol kaasuuf hawaasa Oromoo addunyaa guutuu keessa faffacaanee jiraannu qindoomina akka qabaannuuf akka irratti hojjatamu;

“Media” jabaa kan Oromoo fi Oromummaa irratti hojjatu haa horannu, hogeeyyonni hojii kana qindeessuu irratti, hawaasni Oromoo bal’aan ammoo waan danda’u gumaachuuf akka of qopheessinu

Kana booda laafina keenya irratti dhiifnee jabina keenya irratti akka xiyyeeffannu! Fi kkf dhimmoota jajjaboo QBO humneessan dhiyeessuun qaamota dhimmi ilaalutti akeekuun haamlee fi fuula xiiqii gumaa gootowwan keenyaa baasuuf gahee koo nan bahadha jedhu agarsiisuun milkiin goolabameera.