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Dookumantarii gabaaban kun deemsa Bulchiinsa Sirna Gadaa Gujii irratti xiyyeeffatame hojjetame DhRTVO’n Guraandhala 20 bara 2008 (akka lakkofsa Ethiopiatti) qilleensarra oole.
Prime Minster Hailemariam Desalegn blamed “anti-peace forces” for the trouble
(BBC News) — Ethiopia’s prime minster has apologised for the death and destruction caused by protests in the Oromia region.
But Hailemariam Desalegn, addressing parliament in the capital, Addis Ababa, said “anti-peace forces” were responsible for the violence.
He said that the government needs to listen to the grievances of the people.
Oromia has been hit by months of unrest, in which 200 people have reportedly died – a number disputed by the government.
The authorities deny that security forces have been involved in a violent crackdown.
The protests began over government plans to expand the capital’s administrative control into the Oromia region, which have since been dropped.
Why Ethiopia is making a historic ‘master plan’ U-turn
The government later dropped the plan, but protesters dismissed the decision as “too little too late”.
Oromia is Ethiopia’s largest region and the Oromo people, who make up a third of Ethiopia’s population, have complained of historic economic and political marginalisation.
Mr Hailemariam told parliament that “anti-peace forces… in a bid to divert the people’s legitimate questions… have inflicted losses on human lives and government and private property”.
But according to messages on the ministry of foreign affairs Twitter feed, the prime minster admitted the problems in Oromia “are direct results of unresponsiveness and unemployment”.
He added that the government recognises the need to address grievances and said it “unreservedly apologises to our people for what happened”.
However, the government “will intensify their decisive actions against the anti-peace forces,” he said.
Press Release
In protest against the violent crackdown on protesters in Oromia and in solidarity with the courageous Oromo people who are defending their rights in the face of brutal acts perpetrated by the Ethiopian government, Oromo communities in North America and global Oromo Diaspora will hold protests in several cities on March 11, 2016.
In North America, protest rallies will take place in Washington, DC., Maryland and Virginia; Los Angeles, California; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Lansing, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; Syracuse, New York; Phoenix, Arizona; Raleigh, North Carolina; Toronto, Canada and other cities.
In Europe, rallies will take place in Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; Rome, Italy; Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; Paris, France; London, United Kingdom; and Berne, Switzerland.
Some communities and faith groups participate in fasting and prayers, and all community members plan to write petitions and call the offices of their representatives to raise Oromo issues.
This is a new. Oromo communities in Diaspora are energized, and stand united with their relatives in Oromia.
Oromo Communities’ Association in North America
March 11, 2016
In North America, protest rallies took place in Washington, DC., Maryland and Virginia; Los Angeles, California; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Lansing, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; Syracuse, New York; Phoenix, Arizona; Raleigh, North Carolina; Toronto, Canada and other cities.
In Europe, rallies took place in Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; Rome, Italy; Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; Paris, France; London, United Kingdom; and Berne, Switzerland.
March 11, 2916
Diaspora #Oromoprotests in support of #Oromoprotests back home and against the ongoing genocide by the the TPLF dictatorial thugs administration of Ethiopia.
Germany.
#OromoProtests
Global solidarity Rally happening now infront of Swiss parliament in Switzerland
(SBO/VOL – Bitootessa 11,2016) #BilisummaaOromoo- (10.03.2016, #XumuraGarbummaa, Oromiyaa) Diddaa fi mormii Oromoon jeequmsa keessa kan seene OPDOn dabaree isaa, miseensota sadarkaa adda addaa irra jiran gaggaragalchuutti jira. Yeroo ammaa kanatti karaa koreen qindeestuu Godinaalee fi kaabinee Naannoo Oromiyaa qorannoo gaggeessaa jiran. Qorannoo kanas Bitootessa 10, 2016 jechuun guyyaa har’a xumuru jedhamee egama.
Qorannoon kun gaaffii uummataa gara gaaffii bulchinsa gaaritti micciruuf hojjacha ajiru. Haala kanas gaggeessitoota bakka tokko irra bakka biratti jijjiruuf hojjachaa jiru; yoo kana gochuu baatan gooftoliin isaanis ni dheekkamu. Kana sirnaan hubachuun barbaachisaa dha.
OPDOn akeeka Tigiree dhugoomsuu fi bara garbummaa ummata Oromoo irratti dheeressuuf waadaa ergamtummaa raawwachaa jirti. Kana namuu hubatee tarkaanfii fashalsaa fudhatuu qaba.
Guyyaa kaleessaa 01/07/2008 A.L.H #Magaalaa_Amboo keessatti naannoo #Kaafteeriyaa_Swiit jedhamutti #dhuka’aan dhowuu isaatiin humni agaazii naasuu guddaa keessa akka jirtu ibsame. Odeeffannoon biroo ammoo Waajira Zoonii G.L.Sh irratii darbatame kan jedhus jira ….. addaan baafannee odeeffannoo dabalataan walitti deebina. Uummatas shakkiidhaan mana hidhaatti guuranii ugguraa jiru ! Bakki swiit kaaffee kunis #Waajjira_Poolisii Magaalaa Amboo irraa tilmaamaan fageenya meetira 50 irratti argama ! Dhuka’aa kanaanis poolisootarra miidhaan akka qaqqabes dubbatamaa jira !
#Protestsforfreedom Nur mosque in Piyaasaa Addis Abeba after Jum’a prayers. Demand the release of their committee members, no interferences in religious affairs and to stop killing the peaceful protesters.
March 11, 2016
Global #Oromoprotests in support of #Oromoprotests back home and against the ongoing genocide on the Oromo people in Ethiopia.
Oslo, Norway
(Ibsa ABO irraa kenname)
Ummatni Oromoo guddichii fi kabajamaa fincila xumura gabrummaa marraa kanaa ji’oota afuriif osoo addaan hin citiin adeemsiseen, ummatoota biroo irraa jibbiinsa homaatuu akka hin qabaatiin, mirga isaaf uumamaa fi seera addunyaan deggaramu akka falmatu tahuu, kabajamuun mirga ummatoota cunqurfamoo maraa irraa dantaa fi fedha qabaatuu haala hin mammsiisneen addunyaa mara, addatti ammoo ummatootni Itophiyaa akka hubatan taasisee jira. Fincila adeemaa jiru kana keessatti namusaa fi bilchinni ummatni Oromoo agarsiises kan dinqisiifamu dha. Murannoon ummataa fi addatti dargaggootni Oromoo agarsiisan seenaa Itophaa keessatti kan mul’atee hin beekne tahuu irraa lammiilee Oromoo hundaa fi kanneen nagaaf dhaabbatan hunda boonse. Kanneen hundi walitti eda’amuun haqa qabaatuu hubachiisanii mararfannoo argamsiiseefii duree oduu addunyaa tahuu danda’eera.
Diinni Ummatootaa fincila ummatni Oromoo karaa nagaa eegale qixa biraa qabsiisuu fi maqaa xureessuuf farra nagaa akka tahetti dhiheessuuf yaaliin godhe ummatoota Itophiyaa hundaa fi alagoota sirnichaafuu waaheloota tahan biratti dhara tahuun hubatamee fudhatama hin argatiin hafe. Gaaffii ummatootaa ajjeechaa gara jabinaa, reebicha jumulaa fi humnaan ukkaamsuu kan aadaa godhate mootummaan Wayyaanee fincila ummata Oromoo amantiin walitti hidhuun ummatoota biratti akka jibbamu taasisuuf yaaliin godhes deggeraa hin argtne.
Waan taheef haqa haaluu dhaan kan biraatti quba qabuun kan hin baasne tahuu kan hubate mootummaan Wayyaanee lolaa labsee Komand Postiidhaan gaggeessuu murteesse dagatee yeroo ammaa badiin paartii aangoo irra jiruu bira tahuu ifatti parlamaa maqaaf tolfatan irratti labsuu jalqabee jira.
Mootummaan Wayyaanee kan har’a gahe gaaffiilee ummataa humnaan ukkaamsuu dhaan, ummatoota gidduu garaa garummaa uumuun akka waliin hin qabsooofne taasisuu dhaan tahuun haqa hundi beekuu fi hubatu dha.
Har’a garuu ummatootni shira diinaa irratti dammaquu irraa haa gahu! Jechuun mirga isaaniif falmuu irratti argamu. Bara baraan abdii tasa hin guutamneen sobamaa hin jiraannuu murteeffatanii roga arfan biyyattii keessatti diddaa hin bitamnu finiinsuu irratti argaman.
Bitootessa 10, 2016 haasaa H/Maariyam Dessaalenyi mana marii federaalaaf dhageessise keessatti rakkoolee Itophiyaa keessatti mul’ataniif gaafatamaan mootummaa fi paartii isaan durfamu tahuu amanee jira. Ummatni dammaqinsaan mootummaa dursuu irraa gaaffii kaasuuf deebii kennuu akka hin danda’iin ibse. Kana malees akka kanaan duraa gateetti ummatootatti ol bahanii saamaa jiraachuu fi akka silmiitti dhiiga isaa xuuxaa jiraachuun kan hin danda’amne tahuu lallabeera. Furmaatni rakkoo bakka hundatti mul’ataa jiruus “bulchiinsa gaarii diriirsuu” danda’uu dha jechuun akeeke.
Ummatootni Itophiyaa dammaqoo fi kan isaaniif tahu kan beekan tahuu yeroo addaa kan agarsiisan tahuu reef qalbifatuun H/Maariyaam kan ajaa’ibu dha. Filannoo haala ulfaataa jalatti adeemsifamaa turan keessatti ummatni sagalee isaatiin marroo tokkoo ol kuffisuu kan haalu Wayyaanee qofa. Kanneen sagalee keenyatu hatame jechuun sagalee mormii dhageessisan guyyaa saafaa dhibbootan rashanuun aangoo isaa tikfate malee filamuun akka hin tahiin Wayyaaneen beekaa wallaalu iyyuu ummatootni humnaan aangoo irratti cichuu EPRDF tolchanii beeku. Kana waliin sochiin ummatni Oromoo bara 1991 irraa eegalee itti jiru mootummaan Wayyaanee farra dimokraasii fi nagaa tahuu kan saaxile dha.
Ummatni Oromoo mirgi isaa akka kabajamuuf gaaffii karaa nagaa dhiheessaa tureef deebiin gama Wayyaanee humnaan ukkkamsuu qofa tahe. Ajjeechaa, hidhaa, reebichaa fi doorsisaan ukkaamsuu dhaan har’a gahame. Har’a garuu kun hundi ummata Oromoo jilbeenfachiisaa hin jiru. Shororkeessaa fi farra nagaa jedhanii yakka doorsisaa tarrifamuunis ummatni Oromoo kan hin jilbeeffanne tahuun ifa tahaa jira. Ummata Oromoo fi ABO adda baasuuf yaaluunis of gowwomsuu malee faaydaa homaatuu akka hin argamsiisiin ummatni Oromoo hiriira nagaa bahaa jiru keessatti walleelee fi dhaadannoolee dhageessisuun, alaabaa qabatee bahuun mirkaneessuu irratti argama. ABOn shororkeessaa osoo hin taane falmaa mirga isaa tahuu dhageessisuun shira diinaa harkatti doomsaa jira.
Har’a ummatni Oromoo kan ajjeefamaa fi hidhaatti guuramaa jiruuf mirga isaa beekee akka kabajamuuf gaafatuu irratti. Heera biyyaa irratti hundaa’uun mirgi isaa akka guutamuuf waan nagana gaafateef akka bineensaatti adamfama. Wayyaaneen hin bitamnu jedhee bittaa abbaa irrummaa waan mormeef kumootaan hidhaatti guurame. OPDOn jarmayaa Wayyaaneen tolfatee tohatee ergatuu fi bakka bu’aa Wayyaanee ti malee ummata Oromoo bakka bu’uu hin dandeessu, ofiin of bulchuu qabna jedhee waan mirga isaaf falmateef irratti roorrisama.
Rakkoon Itophiyaa hudhee qabeef sababni sirana Wayyaanee ti. Kan itti gaafatamus sirna Wayyaanee qofa. Bulchiinsa gaarii argamsiisuu kan hanqate sirna Wayyaaneen diriirfame. Sirni farra dimokraasii, fashistiin hanga bakka hin kaafamnettis bulchiinsi gaarii ni argamaan hin eegamu. Dhaga’uu didan malee ummatni Oromoo “Wayyaaneen hin bitamnu!” ,“OPDOn nuhi hin bulchu!” kan jedhaa turee fi jiru kanaafi.
Mootummaan ummatoota dhaggeeffatuu hin beekne kun rakkoo har’aaf furmaatni akeekaa jiru biyyatti gara haala irra hammaataa fi jeequmsaatti geessa. Oromiyaa godinaalee 8-tti qooduun bulchiinsa waraanaa Saamooraa Yunusiin durfamu jala galchuun bulchiinsa gaarii fi nagaa hin argamsiisu. Mootummaa dimokraatawaa ofiin jechaa jiru kun bulchiinsa waraanaa Oromiyaa keessatti diriirsuun haala jiru daran hammeessa malee hin furu.
Oromiyaan bittaadhaaf Ministera Ittisa Biyyatti kennamtee walgahii gaafa 04/03/2016 Jeneral Samoora Younus gaggeesseeen Kawonsila Waraanaa fakkessaaf Oromoon tokko illee keessa hin jirre aramaan gadii labsee jira.
Kawonsilii Waraanaa Wayyaanee
| 1 | Jeneral Samooraa Yuunus | Ajajaa Waliigalaa (Tigiree) |
| 2 | Leftenant Jeneral Yonaannis G/Masqal | Ajajaa Opireshinii (Tigiree) |
| 3 | Mejer Jeneral Ibrahim Abduljaliil | Gaafatamaa Lojistiki (Tigiree) |
For Amharic Version click HERE
The Macha-Tulama Cooperative and Development Association (MTA) would like to announce that on March 19, 2016, it will be hosting a benefit concert featuring famous Oromo artists, namely, Hacaaluu Hundessa, Jambo Jote, Tuujii Mudde, Abdi Nuressa, and Dawite Mekonnen. It will take place at the Fillmore Silver Spring Concert Hall, a nationally renowned venue in the Washington, DC area. This benefit concert is a fundraiser particularly focused on providing much needed financial assistance to the Oromo victims of state violence and their families.
During these past couple of years since the student protests began in 2014, Oromo individuals and communities across North America and Europe have been financially contributing to the MTA to assist Oromo victims of state violence. Since Fall 2014 to present, MTA has sent over $60,000 to Oromos in Oromia, Kenya, Egypt, and the Middle East. These funds were sent to assist families of the deceased, rehabilitate the injured, support those in prison to get legal counsel, medical expenses, and general assistance with food and shelter. Now, MTA is appealing to all Oromos in the Diaspora to continue contributing more funds and to attend the Oromo Benefit Concert so that more Oromo victims can be reached and assisted.
MTA’s very founding and history is rooted in supporting and mobilizing the Oromo people to solve their political, cultural and economic problems. The unrelenting subjugation in the 1960s by the Ethiopian government of the Oromo people, forced a few Oromo individuals who worked within Ethiopian government institutions (such as schools, the parliament, the military, and the administration), and Oromo merchants started to think about ways of improving the well-being of the Oromo and protecting their rights and liberties. During its founding days, the association had two main objectives. The first was the establishment of schools and health clinics and the construction of roads in Oromia. The second was the construction of churches and mosques and the provision of financial and legal assistance for disabled and unemployed persons. These objectives expanded exponentially to create the current role of the MTA, which is helping Oromo victims of state violence from every walk of life, in every way possible.
In 1963 and 1964, the core of Oromo nationalists, including Haile-Mariam Gamada, a lawyer, and Alemu Qixxeesa, a retired colonel, and others joined their small self-help associations together to form the MTA. The emergence of General Taddasa Biru and Captain Mamo Mezemir as its prominent leaders increased the reputation of the association. The creation of this self-help association and the development of Oromo national leadership marked the modern rise of Oromo nationalism. Throughout those decades to recent years, MTA carried out relief activities such as financially supporting those without housing or work, providing legal assistance to unjustly imprisoned Oromos, helping college students, and even paying transportation costs for individuals who could not afford it. The MTA USA was formed after the banning MTA in Oromia by the Ethiopian government in 2011 to continue the objectives of the association with the support of the entire Oromo Diaspora. The sense of nationalism that MTA was founded on is the revolutionary Oromo flame that would eventually ignite across Oromia, although it would take decades to reach its current level.
Today, as Oromo youth, their parents, farmers, teachers, and all continue to sacrifice their precious lives to demand their rights and liberate their nation, the Oromo Diaspora have moral and historical obligations to stand with their heroines and heroes and to support them by any means. We must stand with our people and support them during this time of horror and darkness so that they can reach the light. Please come to the MTA-hosted benefit concert and join us in supporting our Oromo brothers and sisters in our collective struggle for our rights, human dignity and self-determination.
If you are not able to attend the benefit concert, you can show solidarity and support in other ways:
If you would like to send a donation on behalf of your organization to this event, to show our appreciation, your organization’s name and donation amount will be acknowledged on stage the night of the benefit concert.
Dr. Asafa Jalata
Board Chairman, Macha-Tulama Association
Yaa qeerroo, yaa qeerroo, dheeradhu umurii!!
Seenadha hojjattaa, akka abboota durii.
Seenadha hojjattaa, akka abboota durii.
Toftaafi tarsiimoo hunda isaa jijjiirtee,
Warra abdii kutellee hamilee isaa kaaftee,
Qabsoo sabboontotaa dhiigan haaromstee,
Si duukaa buunerraa, onneen murteessinee,
Oromummaa keenyatti sirriitti amannee,
Akkaa eenyuyyuu gad hin taane sirriitti yaadannee,
Wal jajjabeessinaa gaaraa fi dakaa kaanee!
Of bilisoomsinaa sirriitti lolannee!!
Yaa qeerroo, atuu kana beektaa,
Yaa qeerroo, waan hunda xiinxaltaa,
Riqicha nuu taatee, kan darbee fi kan dhufu walitti ceessiftaa,
Tokkummaan nu kaaftee kunoo, nu lolchiiftaa,
Yaa qeerroo, yaa qeerroo, kana atuu argitee,
Yartuun tokko tokkoo numa keessaa yaatee
Numa keessaa baatee,
Gunamtee nu gantee,
Badhaadhina keenyaa warra diinaaf laattee,
Ilmaan Abbaa Gadaa nu badadeessitee,
Dachee keenya irraa dhaantee nu hariitee,
Kan kadhannee hin beeknee kadhataa nu taasfitee,
Guyyaadhuma saafaa daa’ima harka duwwaa rasaasan reebsiftee,
Dubartii keenya ulfaa, ulfa faana ajjeechiftee,
Dhala ilmaan Oromoo nu duguuguf kaatee.
Bookee nutti taatee,
Dhiiga keenya xuuxxee,
Buusaa nu qabsiiftee,
Maatii keenya fixxee.
Dhugaan keenya kunoo, Waaqa bira gayee,
Booyicha haadha dhaltee hundumaa dhagayee,
Imimmaan ishii argee murtee isaa dabarsee,
Warra gantuu, gooftotuma isaaniitiin, akuma Goobanaatti, isaan salphisiisee,
Akka jalaa baatee, akka baasanii isaa darbatan taasisee.
Yaa qeerroo, Yaa qeerroo,
Yeroon keenya gayee sirriitti haa lolannuu,
Garbummaa bara hedduu kana caala hin baannuu,
Otoo biyya qabnuu keessaa hin baqannuu,
Jeennata keessatti gadadoomnee hin bulluu,
Bilisummaa keenyaf, warra hin kaanes kaasii,
Diinarratti haa duulluu!!
Yaa qeerroo, Yaa qeerroo,
Sinbirris ni waccii, indaanqon ni iyyitii,
Dukkanaayee hin hafuu,
Bakkalchis bayeeraa biiftun bayaati jirtii,
Oromoon tokkomnee akka kanniisattii,
Diinni gatantartee, kufuuf qophooftertii,
Maraanmartoon qabee ofirra nanaannoftii,
Waan qabattu dhabdee oomacha dafaqxii,
Akkanumatti lollaa, dubbatti hin deebinuu,
Alaabaa isa keenyaa biyyarra haa dhaabbannuu!!
Alaabaa isa keenyaa biyyarra haa dhaabbannuu!!
Aaloo ijoollee keenyaa lollee haa baafannuu,
Akka wal hin qoqqoodne,
Akka lammata eenyufuu hin gowwoomne,
Kakuu oromummaa Waaqayyo fuulduratti waliif haa kakannu!
Kakuu oromummaa Waaqayyo fuulduratti waliif haa kakannu!
Yaa qeerroo, yaa qeerroo, dheeradhu umurii!!
Seenadha hojjattaa, akka abboota durii.
Yaa qeerroo, yaa qeerroo, Yaa qeerroo, yaa qeerroo,
Guula qofa mitii Waaqnis si eebbisaa,
Lammiin sitti amana bilisummaa isaa.
Yaa qeerroo, yaa qeerroo, dheeradhu umurii!!
Seenadha hojjattaa, akka abboota durii.
Seenadha hojjattaa, akka abboota durii.
Waanjoo isa ulfaataa, aada lammii udhe hundaa nurraa furii!
Aada lammii udhe hundaa nurraa furi!
Aada seenaa udhe hundaa nurraa furi!
Fincilli xumura garbummaa Bitootessa 11/2016 Yeroo ammaa kana magaalaa Naqatee keessatti mormii jabaatu godhamaa jira.
Mormiin kunis baratootaan kan itti fufe yemmuu ta,u yeroo ammaa kanas dhaadannoowwaan jajjaboon dhaga,amaa jira.Dhaadanoowwan kunis Oromiyaan humna waraanaan buluun haa dhaabbatu,Lubbuun lammii keenya darbeef ,dhiiga dhangala,eef mootummaan itti gaafatamuu qaba ,kan jedhuu fi Qabsaa,onni oromoo mana hidhaa jiran hatatamaan akka gad lakkifaman kan jedhu yeroo ta,u Yeroo ammaa kanas fincilli kun daran jabaachuun gara manneen barnootaa naannoo sanaatti haala nama hawatuun finiinaa jira Yeroo ammaa mana barnootaa kanneen akka Calallaaqi, Biiftuu Naqtee akkasumas mana barumsaa kibbaa wachaa mikaael fi Aaskii kaneen jedhaman keessatti jabaatee itti fufee jira.Mootummaan faashistii wayyaanees fincila kanaan kan riffannaa guddaa keessa seenuun uummata goolaa jiraachuu maddeen keenya achirraa arganne eerraniiru.
By Duresso Maati
A FOLLOW-UP – “IYYA BILISUMMAA!” (Ayyaantuu.com 2-14-16)
The fire of resistance in Oromia is still flickering and very much alive over three months after it was first ignited at Gincii in November 2015. The TPLF minority regime is responding to the legitimate and peaceful protests with bullets, clubs, tortures, and arbitrary detentions under appallingly inhuman conditions. Death toll has climbed to well over 400 so far The detainees are estimated to be over 35000 across Oromia since November alone. The cruelty with which the tyrant regime deals with the protest knows no bounds and the victims include a long list of children under ten-year old, elders over 80, and multiple members of families. One of the latest victims on 2-27-16 is a 7-month pregnant housewife and a mother of six children in Arsi who was riddled with five bullets by TPLF’s “Agazi” special force in cold blood at her home while on her knees begging to spare her children’s and her own lives. The gruesome and revolting picture of a naked corps of a woman with protruding belly riddled with bullets as briefly shared by Ayyaantuu.net is not only an iconic symbol of the diabolical nature of the TPLF regime that descended upon the Oromo nation but also is a defining act of barbarism that depicts TPLF as an evil curse to humanity at large. It is regrettable if Ayyaantuu removed the image for good. The one matching gruesome image the picture of the dead pregnant Oromo woman evokes in human history is the picture captured in Vietnam of the naked little girl in agony from napalm gas attack. That picture marked the beginning of the end of war in Vietnam. It will be a shame to humanity in general and the Oromo in particular if TPLF is allowed to get away with this abhorrent atrocity on a defenseless pregnant mother under her own roof and in front of her little children.
The declared military siege is not only in Oromia region. It is a war on Oromummaa as the pain being inflicted is felt by every Oromo national anywhere in the world. If the battle with a regime that intends to impose perpetual domination and plunder of Oromo resources at the expense of the economic welfare and national dignity of the nation knows no boundaries, the collective struggle against such naked oppression and humiliation should also be global. The crucial question that lingers in every Oromo’s mind in Diaspora is how to define the role of Oromo in Diaspora and what needs to be done to live up to it. This is a brutal war between unequal foes: the Oromo has a clear numerical advantage but lacks sufficient organizational preparedness to defend itself in the circumstance that a minority group (less than 7% of the population) targets the largest ethnic group (40%) for perpetual tyranny and naked plunder.. The crucial resource the movement relies on is its unflinching faith in Oromummaa. The TPLF regime’s numerical limitation in terms of its power base is offset by the abundant resources and guns at its disposal. “IYYA BILISUMMAA!” is just a voice among the many that try to pin point some concrete course of actions that could help the nation pull itself out of this shameful national tragedy in a shortest time possible. It ia a voice among the many voices that pleads for a collective focus on the enhancement of the nation’s organizational capacity to end perpetual tyranny under Abyssinian occupation force. The cry to scrutinize and implement the forwarded concrete courses of action is loud and clear. The public response, so far, is deafeningly mute. One factor for the inaction could be the deeply entrenched tradition of a tendency to embrace constructive ideas and leave them to “others” to follow up on and implement. But who do we think those “others” are and what are our shares of responsibility as individuals?? When everybody counts on everybody else to do the footwork, nothing can be accomplished. The other major factor could be the equally unproductive tendency to give undue precedence to one’s group affiliation than to the larger cause the group claims to stand for. Some seem to overlook the basic fact that organizations are formed as a means to attain a specific end and are only tools to serve the purpose they are intended for. They are not ends in themselves and are not meant to be viewed as idols for blind worship. Some appear to be so engrossed with their personal passion for the groups they affiliate with or individuals they admire and view them as sacrosanct beyond any form of reproach or fallibility. They voluntarily shut themselves off from considering objective assessments of human failures or from seeking alternative routes to the intended end. That is a problem that needs to be addressed. At this critical moment in the history of the nation, the one and only priority need to be how to pull our ideas and resources together and stand up in unison to overcome the tragedy imposed on us by the TPLF regime. Intended or not, any other consideration that conflicts with the primary call of the day amounts to compliance with the status quo. Nor is it the right time to sit idle and expect the challenges we encounter will go away by themselves. We can’t wait for knocks at our doors by UPS or DHL to deliver a package of freedom. That will never happen. We either earn it or we don’t deserve it!!!
The short- and long-term consequences of allowing the on-going movement to die out due, partially, to our inaction are too dire to risk.
This article is in response to some private suggestions to elaborate on the proposed actions as narrated in “IYYA BILISUMMAA!’. I try to address the first two proposals: one is a call for the establishment of Global Oromo Communities Association and the second is on national Oromo conference.
GLOBAL ASSOCIATION: the main aim of Oromo Community Associations (OCA)
is to promote and satisfy the socio-economic needs of their members irrespective of the members’ creed, gender, or political affiliations. They thrive to serve as bridges to the cultural roots of Oromummaa and nurture the identity, language, values, and other traits of being an Oromo. They attend to the needs of the younger generations to keep in touch with their root and identity. Ideally, community associations are non-partisan and attempts to add group political agendas to the mix tend to poison the atmosphere and compromise healthy relationships among the members. It tends to weaken than strengthen the associations. Thus, it is important to protect associations from succumbing into being an extended arm of a political group specially when there are multiple political groups vying for using associations as a platform to advance their partisan agendas. The proposal assumes OCA’s focus on satisfying the common social and economic needs of their members to the extent their resource capabilities permit. The proposal is to enhance the role of OCAs’ capabilities to satisfy their noble goals through creating a global net work by getting organized first on state levels and move on to establish continental body to eventually form an international union. This is stipulated to greatly strengthen the resource capabilities and allows all to share ideas and resources in times of relative peace. It provides more efficient forum/channel to coordinate activities in times of major collective crisis. Campaigns to realize a given goal gets better attention when addressed by a wide-based community than by local associations. There already are on-going efforts to realize this goal. This call is only to accelerate it in view of the urgency due to the current national crisis we find ourselves in.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE: This proposal is based on the appreciation that the current Oromo resistance movement is not a consequence of a deliberate and planned agenda of any given Oromo group but is a spontaneous eruption of accumulated grievances over the years. The movement heavily relied on the opportunities advances in communication technology rendered it. Oromummaa being the primary factor, the verbal and visual media coverage of events on the ground and the encouraging news that Oromoes around the globe rallied behind the protests seem to be the second most important driving force behind its sustenance. In this sense, one may call it a media-driven revolution. The campaign being staged lately to portray the movement as being engineered by invisible hands is a shameless claim to obscure our inherent organizational deficiency and lull the Oromo public into inaction. This is part of the usual familiar make-believe tactics to sustain false hopes that recognize a potent force that can’t prove its existence in any meaningful way. It is self-evident that the Oromo in Diaspora made successful and commendable efforts to publicize the legitimate cause of the resistance and to expose the brutal nature of the TPLF occupation force. These are achievements coordinated by OCAs, Oromo NGOs, Oromo media outlets, religious groups, Oromo associations, and individual activists. Commendable and lofty as they are, these achievements in themselves are not adequate enough to sustainably nurture the movement and help it advance to a higher phase. A vacuum is created due to a yawning gap between the evident popular resolve to do away with tyranny under TPLF bandits and the equally evident lack of a universally accepted leadership body capable enough to shoulder the enormous task of guiding and empowering the movement. Oromo nationals in Diaspora need to ACT to fill the vacuum in a shortest possible time. The call for a national conference is the first step towards seeking ways of filling this gap. The crucial plea of the day both from home and abroad is the quest for a single voice representing the voiceless Oromoes under siege. The primary aim of the conference will be to establish a capable body to a) be a life line to the movement and b) explore lasting solution to Oromo organizational problems. It shall serve as a single point of contact in matters of representing, coordinating, planning, and executing the supports to the movement. Other ad-hoc committees may be formed to handle urgent tasks like fund-raising, establishing secure cyber discussion forum, documentation, and public relations. PR’s tasks may include formulating immediate demands like the release of prisoners, re-admission of expelled students over the years, withdrawal of the trigger-happy Agazi and Federal forces from Oromia, compensations for victims of Woyane forces, full account of mining operations in Oromia by the exploiter Al Amoudi and others, etc. Such demands carry more weight and are given more attention when uniformly echoed everywhere as one voice. The details as to when, where, and how such conference can be conducted is subject to discussions and proposals. But the urgency to do it as soon as possible can’t be over emphasized..
Why one body and one voice at this time?
I humbly appeal to everybody concerned to take these and other issues seriously and refine them for implementations.
The Oromo in Diaspora is being challenged by circumstances to re-evaluate the established habits of thought on how the nation fairs in terms of its organizational capabilities. It needs to master the courage to look into new venues if it finds old strategies obsolete and unproductive. The challenges we encounter loom larger than our allegiances to a given political group or our reverence for individuals. Such allegiances and reverences need not deter any one from seeking immediate solutions to our current troubles based on these proposals as those individuals can as well pursue internal courses of action to smoothen up the bumps, if suspected, on the path of their respective organizations to enable them move in pace with the demands of the day. Oromo movement in general can be back on track in a shorter time than we think if our efforts focus on the struggle as its only center-piece and do what we can to support it. In this critical time of trials and tribulations, whatever each of us does is like a drop of rain which feeds the rivers that join to make the oceans. It shouldn’t be too much to ask everyone to be just a drop to unite and grow into an ocean.
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1. IYYA BILISUMMAA!
‘They’re leaving farmers without anywhere to go’
By Erika Stark
Members of Calgary’s Oromo community rallied in front of MP Kent Hehr’s office on Friday. (Colin Hall/CBC)
Calgary, Canda(CBC News) — About 100 people rallied in front of Calgary MP Kent Hehr’s office Friday morning to protest police crackdowns in Ethiopia over plans to requisition farmland in the African country.
It was to support dozens of university students who protested in Ethiopia’s capital on Tuesday, demanding an end to police crackdowns that followed months of demonstrations over plans to requisition farmland in the country’s Oromia region late last year.
Protesters held signs and waved flags outside of Hehr’s Calgary office. (Colin Hall/CBC)
The government wanted to develop farmland around the capital, Addis Ababa, and its plan triggered some of the worst civil unrest for a decade, with rights groups and U.S.-based dissidents saying as many as 200 people may have been killed.
In Calgary, Gilcha Mohammed, the chairman of the Oromo Community Association of Alberta, called on the Canadian government to pressure Ethiopian authorities.
“We’re all taxpaying Canadian citizens and we want our government to send a strong message to the Ethiopian government that they can’t continue killing and arresting peaceful protestors,” said Mohammed, speaking above the shouts of the protesters gathered outside Hehr’s Calgary office.
Protesters were crossing their arms during the rally. (Colin Hall/CBC)
“They are confiscating thousands of hectares of land. There’s about 3 million farmers that have been displaced. They’re leaving farmers without anywhere to go and that’s why we’re here.”
Protesters in Calgary marched down the street holding Canadian flags and the flag for the Oromia region.
Ethiopia has long been one of the world’s poorest nations but has industrialized rapidly in the past decade and now boasts double-digit growth. However, reallocating land is a thorny issue for Ethiopians, many of whom are subsistence farmers.
Authorities scrapped the land scheme in January, but sporadic demonstrations persist.
This woman lays down in a form of protest. (Colin Hall/CBC)
Mohammed said Canada should use its influence to encourage a peaceful resolution.
“Canada is a major contributor of foreign aid to Ethiopia and it has a lot of influence over the Ethiopian government,” he said. “We just want Canada to put pressure on the Ethiopian government and even cut that aid if necessary.”
Mohammed said Hehr’s office agreed to meet with the group after the rally.
“We got a good response so far,” he said.
By Katie McKellar
Geleta Fite crosses his arms in protest as members of Utah’s Oromo community rally for human rights in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 11, 2016. Ravell Call, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY (Deseret News ) — Holding signs depicting bloodied victims of the violence that has erupted in the Oromia region of Ethiopia over the past several months, Utah’s Oromo community rallied Friday in front of the federal building.
The group is demanding U.S. help in bringing justice to their friends and families living in Ethiopia, where government forces have killed hundreds of peaceful protesters opposing the annexation of the country’s capital Addis Abada into surrounding towns.
SummaryUtah Oromo community members rallied in front of Salt Lake’s federal building Friday to demand U.S. help in bringing justice to their friends and families living in Ethiopia, where government forces have killed hundreds of peaceful protestors.
“We’re here today to protest the killings taking place in every corner of Oromia and to bring that violation of human rights to the government of the United States so that the United States can make some pressure to stop the killing,” said Geleta Fite, who came to the U.S. in 2013. But his family, he said, remains in Ethiopia.
“We will not sit back until we see some change and we see some justice for the murdered,” he said.
Fite joined several dozen other Oromo community members to deliver letters to Utah’s U.S. senators, demanding that the United States “condemn the brutal acts of the Ethiopian government and ensure these acts stop immediately,” the letter states.
Among its requests, the group urged the U.S. to advise its business community to limit spending in Ethiopia until the violence ends and pressure the Ethiopian government to establish an independent investigation into the killings.
The Human Rights Watch has said that there have been “almost daily accounts of killings and arbitrary arrests” since the beginning of the year as Ethiopian forces have suppressed peaceful protests in a government crackdown.
The Associated Press has reported that the protests were led by students who opposed what they believed to be a government plan to expand the capital, which would ultimately lead to the displacement of thousands of families and farmers. The Ethiopian government has denied the protestors’ claims, saying it only seeks to link Addis Ababa with nearby towns.
In January, after the deadly protests erupted, the AP reported Ethiopian officials canceled plans to integrate the capital with surrounding communities. However, the Human Rights Watch has said the bloody crackdown has continued, after the plan’s cancellation did not halt protests.
“This is genocide,” said Genemo Bedaso, chairman of the Utah Oromo Community. “We appeal for America to stop it. They have the power.”
Bedaso and Fite tried to meet with Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Mike Lee on Friday to deliver their group’s letter. The senators were not available, but staff members accepted the letters. Hatch’s spokeswoman, Heather Barney, said the letter will be relayed to the senator in Washington.
“Sen. Hatch is always responsive to his constituents’ concerns and has directed staff to meet with them,” she said. “He’s very concerned about the problems that they’re sketching out and he’s happy to listen.”
The European Parliament adopted a resolution in January to condemn the peaceful protest killings, call for an investigation of the violence, and demand immediate release of arrested Oromo activists.
Talile Morrell and other members of Utah’s Oromo community rally for human rights in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 11, 2016. (Ravell Call, Deseret News)
Fatiya Musa crosses her arms in protest as members of Utah’s Oromo community rally for human rights in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 11, 2016. (Ravell Call, Deseret News)
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A group is marching today in downtown Saskatoon to draw attention to violence against the Oromo people in Ethiopia.
SASKATOON,SK–People protesting the treatment of Oromo protestors in Ethiopia gather and march at city hall in Saskatoon, Friday, March 11, 2016. Part of the protest included a mock display of treatment of protesters. (GREG PENDER/ SASKATOON STARPHOENIX) GREG PENDER/SASKATOON STARPHOENIX
(Saskatoon Star Phoenix) — Ethiopian government forces killed more than 80 people in protests in the country’s Oromia region.
Ethiopia’s prime minister apologized this week for the deaths resulting from the anti-government protests in the Oromia region but accused the protesters of being responsible.
The group, called the Saskatoon Oromo Self-Help Association Corporation, marched downtown and protested outside of City Hall.
“There has been rampage violence and and reckless mass murder of the Oromo people by the country’s militarily armed police forces and security agents,” the group said in a press release.
The group is “appalled” by the treatment of the Oromo people in Ethiopia.
Associated Press files.
People protesting the treatment of Oromo protestors in Ethiopia gather and march at city hall in Saskatoon, Friday, March 11, 2016. Part of the protest included a mock display of treatment of protesters. (GREG PENDER/ SASKATOON STARPHOENIX)
By Getachew Ch. Nadhabaasaa (Membership: Gadaa Meelbaa)
Oromo people’s understanding of peace and reconciliation [araara fi nagaa (nagayaa)] is not part by part or piece by piece. They understand peace and reconciliation as a symmetric adaptation of conflict resolution to the whole part of conflicting groups’ behavioural activities. And, therefore, the Oromo belief of peace asserts the prevalence of tolerance relationship among conflicting parties’ diverse interests for common advantage. The interests could be reconciled and be able to live together in harmony or could go apart from each other agreeing on the irreconcilability of those basic differences.
[Read also Addis Ababa/Lyon City to City Cooperation]
In order to defend nagaa biyyaa (peace of the nation/country) the Oromo people, in their history of peace management, promptly work and sort out the root causes that disturb their peaceful way of life. Thus, pre-colonial Gadaa Oromo society had devised constructive reconciliation methods (mala araara) at various levels, based on the seriousness of the conflicts in order for peace and stability to prevail over chaos and turmoil.
This piece of information focuses on how a serious murder case could be deterred before it escalates to a tit-for-tat. The killing could be premeditated (contrived beforehand), or committed accidentally or happened in self-defence. Whatsoever it is, however, murder case is a disruptive serious crime which can divide the cohesiveness of the people, who view each other as one family, into two or more hostile branches. Therefore, the seriousness of the conflict requires pre-emptive action and precautious intervention of the hayyuus before it begins to spread the virus of irreversible hostility. In this case, the Abbaa Seeraa of the Gadaa system, together with other Gadaa hayyuu magistrates, bear pre-eminent obligation to bring the case for araara. Hence, for this particular burning issue, the use of the long-sustained seera Gumaa Oromo is indispensible.
For hayyuu Oromos, it is not so difficult to reconcile and bring peace back on to its right track within the Oromo communities. It is not so difficult, because the purposive goal and fundamental value of seera gumaa Oromoo is equally shared by all Oromo families of nation, regardless of their geographic distributions in the Horn of Africa.
Not surprisingly, however, basic differences continue to exist between Abyssinian authoritarian (=Habashas) institution and the Oromo democratic institution in establishing common understanding, particularly on the positive power of peace. That, the Habashas, in their ‘very good’ part of authoritarian history do neither have their own seera gumaa for making peace nor do they have positive feelings to use other peoples’ traditional experiences of conflict resolution methods.
What is Seera Gumaa Oromoo?
Seera Gumaa is Oromo people’s long-continued conventional body of rules of blood compensation for making and restoring peace. It enforces and reinforces the killer/murderer (the offender) to pay symbolic balance of compensation (in former times in kind, for example heads of cattle, nowadays in cash) to the nearest relatives of the person one had killed (victim). When the killer is influenced and enforced to pay compensation, members of the victim’s clan, the lineage group in particular, are solemnly appeased to accept the compensation for peace. They accept the peace not only for themselves but for those biologically and socially interconnected Oromo clans, who are not localised but dispersed all over the Horn of Africa.
Seera gumaa Oromoo also stipulates mechanisms that can deter potential threats of conflict escalation to perpetual retaliation. As an institution, it lays fundamental rules governing behavioural activities to be followed, that the Oromos are timely urged to follow and work on it for reconciliation (araara).Both parties, the offenders as gumaa payers, and the defenders as gumaa receivers, are governed by the rules and procedures of Seera Tumaa Oromoo (in this case seera gumaa) in restoring peace. It is an impressive institution, in its intensity, very ideal to the Oromo people of the Horn of Africa that crowns the positive rule of peace.
Procedures of Conducting Gumaa for Peace
The process of conducting gumaa for peace essentially requires the involvement of three important bodies (in some cases four)
1. The Hayyuus: Magistrates of the Gadaa System
The hayyuus are the ones who are acting on behave of peace (nagaa/nagayaa) of the nation at large. They are peace-makers who take initiative and start a go between two feuding parties for peace. They are not for jaarsumma who would work as fact finders and read the final verdict. They are working on the discernible existing facts. They exert their cumulative knowledge, wisdom, patience and effort to defuse the vibrating tension before its explosion to retaliation. The hayyuus are the ones who can revitalise the ailing peace of the nation to normal life.
The Power of Oromo Sacred Objects
The hayyuus are accompanied by Oromos’ powerful sacred objects. Among them: Kallacha, Caaccuu, Alangee, Cokoo (ritual spear) inherited from past ancestors, and bridled horses (cancala/luugama). These are indispensable sacred objects, carried by appropriate persons that accompany the hayyuus whenever they go to the victim’s village for peace. The sacred power for araara is essentially believed to have been encapsulated in these millennium old Oromo sacred objects. They persist to exist and continue to offer their sacred services in cleaning the polluted peace of the people despite condemnation to extinction by foreign-injected elements against their sacredness.
2. Clan members of the killer (an offender)
These are groups of gumaa payers and peace givers. It is not only the individual who has committed the murder whose hand is believed to be full of blood. The action he has taken against the life of the man is also believed to have contaminated hands of his clan members. They are the ones who bear primary obligation to clean the spoiled hands of their brother (direct committer of the crime) and themselves, too
3. Clan members of the victim (a defender)
These are gumaa receivers, peace accepters and restorers. It is viewed as if members of the victim’s clan are also killed. As a reason, they may raise their spears against the killers for revenge if they are not instantly intervened and deterred by the reconciling power of the hayyuus.
Preliminary Requisites
The gumaa norms of conduct for reconciliation require the defender’s party (victim’s family/clan) to accept the appeasement of the hayyuus for araara (reconciliation).It requires patience and wisdom of knowledge on the part of the hayuus to persuade them, in particular, those near relatives of the victim’s paternal lineage. It may not be an easy task to get their consent at initial stages. However, since they cannot be above the conventionally agreed upon norms of the society, they ultimately come to comply with the rules of the institution in exchange for symbolic compensation.
The victim’s family (clan) cannot ask the hayyuus to fix either the maximum or the minimum amount of compensation they accept or reject, nor do they appeal to their “foes” for compensation. Its procedural activities are regulated as enshrouded in the seeraa gumaa Oromoo tradition for peace. It is neither for punishment nor a debate of a win-to-win solution.
Members of the killer’s clan, if they are truly in need of peace, may urgently appeal to the hayyuus to undertake the gumma peace process. They, members of the killer’s clan, by themselves, cannot directly go to the families of the victim and appeal to them for peace; or acknowledge the man’s offensive action against life. They do not even directly look at their faces, especially at members of the victim’s paternal lineage. They have to strictly control their feet not to trespass upon the areas where lineage members of the victims are living. Failure to strictly follow these custom-regulated rules can thwart the beginning of the peace process, leave alone to come to reconciliation.
The Buyyaa Ceremony: The Final Chapter of the Peace Process
By holding what is known as the buyyaa ceremony, the gumaa reconciliation process will be coming to an end, which will be held at meadow where abundant green grasses, trees and a river that flows throughout the year are available. On this day, the payment of blood compensation, as decided by the hayyuus in light of seera gumaa, will be officially announced and handed to the nearest relative of the deceased (killed) person. If it is committed in self-defence or happened by accident, the amount will be less than the intent one. The killer’s clan cannot ask the hayyuus for revision. What the hayyuus could do is to ask the victim’s clan (gumaa receivers) to reduce for them certain amounts which is, in most cases, acceptable.
In the process of gumaa payment for peace, the other important point to be stressed is that, the killer is totally deprived of paying, even a single cent, out of his handhuuraa (private property), even if he is a millionaire. He is enforced to solicit for contribution tying his hands with chain. The chain shows the impurity (pollution) of his hands, contaminated by the pure blood of the man he had deliberately or desperately a cause to spill. He is now begging other innocents to help him clean his “xurii” (=dirty) out of his hands.
It is on this ceremony, that the killer(s) is officially presented to the public. In areas where the Waataa communities are living among the Oromos, the man is brought to the ceremony by Waataa ritual leader, the guardian of Waataa’s sacred object called botowaa. Until this day comes; the man stays under Waataa’s full protection. No one dares to attack him or molests him as far as he is under Waataa’s protection.
At this place, a ram is immolated whose meat is left only for birds of prey. The killer and the victim’s near relative will go to the house of the killer, sit side by side and sleep together at night. An exultant woman, with honey full of sour gourd, receives them at the gate. An uncastrated steer is immolated at the gate. At night, they sleep together. Their toes are tied to each other by a piece of intestine from the immolated steer. In the morning one of the killer’s sisters cuts the intestine from their toes with a sharp edge of a spear. The End!
The buyyaa ceremony celebrates the true face of gumaa for the restoration of peace, deterring and liquidating all possibilities of retaliatory vengeances. It ushers the termination of looking each other as “foes” (blood feuds) or seeking for revenge. It signifies the return of peace to its equinoctial position. It radiates a luminous peace to all members of the community at large.
Do Abyssinians (Habashas) have Gumaa for Peace or Gumaa for Revenge?
“In a society like Abyssinians (Ethiopians) where aggression, expansion, violence, banditry and retaliatory vengeance are dictatorially and imperially institutionalised, there is no place for the growth of socially chartered institutions that can manage peace for the wellbeing of the citizens. The kings, regional warlords, and emperors are believed to have an ascribed status in giving a divinely-fetched decision, be it punishment or amnesty. They are well tilted to a magical wand of war and aggression strategists as righteous advisers instead of eschewing such advisers as devils of peace”
The apex of the incumbent Ethiopian regime is full of individuals from the northern tip of Tigray, culturally akin to the Amhara people. How do they understand “peace”? Do they have an indigenous institution, like Seera Gumaa Oromo that can control serious crimes like murder case and prepares the society for araara (peace)? Herein sleeps and wakes up the problem. The Oromos, as briefly illustrated above, possess an indigenous mechanism that can deter and resolve conflicts like murder before they step onto retaliatory stage. In the case of the Habashas, vendetta (biqqela) is a long-sustained behavioural institution that seeks vengeance on the killer (offender). It is unstoppable tit-for-tat, carried on for generations without peace solution.
Today, the Ethiopian regime, led by Tigirean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), Arsenals of Tigray, continues to follow the oldest Axumite’s model of defiling peoples’ peace way life. It is destabilising the natural order of the region. Right now, in the name of keeping peace, it is committed to conduct blatant war of genocide against the Oromos, ignoring their earnest demand for peace. It has declared martial law and put Oromiyaa, under military rule[2] ,to fight what the regime’s Communication Minister, Ato Getachew Reda, said, “Satanic temptation”. Ato Getachew’s unambiguous conclusion is no peace to the devils, or with the “devils”. [3]
This is not a new phraseology uniquely expressed by Ato Getachew Reda. He inherited the “holy diction” from his forefathers who continue to depict any resistance against their barbaric actions as guided by Satan.[4] In 1991, too, when all Oromos unanimously adopted to use “qubee”, Latin alphabet, the Ato Getachews’ were calling qubee the “devil (satanic) script”.[5]
In fact, this regime, since it came to power in 1991 through coup d’état, has not stopped, even for a single day; killing, torturing, maiming, imprisoning and terrorising the Oromos. Its current palpable action seems to have gone beyond reconciliation with or without compensation. What is shocking is, this regime, instead of addressing peoples’ basic demands and finding amicable solution, is committed to escalating the problem by further deploying its killing squads. In such away, the regime in Addis Ababa is rudely pushing the Oromo people towards unending blood feud, which is in sharp contrast to Oromos’ long-continued seera gumaa for peace.
How Can One Reconcile?
When egalitarianism versus authoritarianism, democracy versus autocracy, electoral versus dictatorial, participatory versus conspiracy, openness versus secretiveness how can reconciliation for harmony be construed between these extremist behavioural institutions? These are issues most Ethiopianist elites do not want to address down to their bottom roots. Whenever they face these types of questions, they switch on their vocal cords to vibrate melodies of moral science: “tegaabtenaal, tewaaldenaal, aand hizb nen” etc.
Yes, tegaabtenaal, tewaaldenaal because it is a natural phenomenon to any human being to mix; biologically, socially or psychologically. But, as the last 150 years of experience attested to us, the beautiful melodies of our ‘moral scientists’ could not be changed to supernatural force or a magic wand that can eradicate the deep-rooted problems of the “andinnet”. They are no more able to mend the widening rift of the “aandinnet” unless a new phase of the “science of melodies” is searched for and applied on.
“In fact, the conflict between the northern autocratic-authoritarian societies of Abyssinia (officially extended to Empire of Ethiopia in 1889) and the southern egalitarian societies like the Oromos is not the conflict between individuals’ physical characters. The conflict has been stretching over centuries between those antagonistically organised behavioural institutions of the authoritarian northerners and the egalitarian southerners.[6]
On individual or societal basis, there is no problem of mixing with one other. But as long as these individuals or societies are not able to harmonise or compromise their behavioural differences, the only mono approaches to “aandinnet, aand hizb” cannot be the “Seera Gumaa” of the Oromo people to compensate them. It can neither persuade the Oromos nor enforce them to accept blood compensation for their daily murdered sons, daughters, fathers, mothers and relatives. If at all the “Jaarsa Oromoos” accept the out-dated Abyssinian morality as a valid “moral science”, it is very far from maintaining sustainable integrity in the region.
We often hear when some Oromos are asking the regime to stop killing the Oromos and withdraw its agazi squads from Oromiyaa towns and villages. They are also asking the killer to pay compensation to the families of the Oromos it is killing. In principle, these are legitimate question. However, regarding Oromos’ demand for gumaa, as victims of the killer aggressive regime, in light of Seera Gumaa Oromo tradition for blood compensation is a deviation. It is an abrogation of Oromos’ conventional charter. How can a family whose children are massacred (killed) by an enemy asks the enemy (the murderer) to pay him gumaa? According to Seera Gummaa Oromoo, true peace can only be crowned when the killer’s party takes self-initiative for reconciliation and ready to pay blood compensation to the victim’s family.
One may ask for what the Oromos call “beenyaa”, which is, compensation paid for damaged or looted properties. Beenyaa can also be asked for minor injuries inflicted on certain parts of the man’s body. Now, when Oromos are asking the killer ‘Arsenals of Tigray’ to pay them gumaa, are they reducing Arsenals’ murderous crime to beenyaa or not? How do they understand it? Startlingly, the demand for ‘beenyaa’ is also ignored by the Arsenals.
Arsenals of TPLF Tigray, implementers of the Ghost’s vision
Ato Kuma Demeksa (aka,Taye T/Haimanot) Mayor of Addis Ababa, representing TPLF Arsenals of Tigray and H.J. Laferriere, Deputy Mayor of Grand Lyon, representing France, are signing joint implementation of the so-called Addis Ababa Master Plan whose actual intention is to complete Oromo genocidal master plan.
If the killer Arsenal of Tigray wants to have sustainable peace with the Oromo people, it has to come to the Oromos through Oromo people’s code of conduct. Oromo hayyuus or Jaarsaas must strictly follow these codes and observe Oromo social taboos if they are to give priority to nagaa Oromoo.
If the killing regime does not honestly ask the Oromo family of nation as a whole for reconciliation, it attests its commitment to total destruction. This could reinforce Oromos’ resistance capacity, which could lead them to unending blood feud between members of the murderer Ethiopian regime and the Oromo family of nation as a whole, even if their seera gumaa does not allow them to wish a blood-for-blood compensation.
They are committing war of genocide (Oromocide) in Oromo land, not in Tigray land. Hence, the matter should be resettled according to the law of the Oromos in hayyuu Oromiyaa assembly of justice. The bill is in the hands of the killers, Arsenals of TPLF-Tigray of the Ethiopian regime, to pay for it if it is for peace. Hayyuu Oromos or Jaarsa Oromos must strictly follow Oromo people’s code of conduct and observe their social taboos if they are to give priority to nagaa Oromoo.
[1] In this context “ Seera Gumaa Oromoo” is used to describe Oromo people’s ritualised act of making peace between two or more feuds. Semantically the word “gumaa” can have dual meaning which is not the objective of this article to deal with. As Oromos do have varieties of local customs, there could be variation from region to region, from clan to clan. However, Seera Gumaa Oromoo is fundamentally shared by all Oromos regardless of their regions or clan affiliation.
[2] https://www.oromiamedia.org/2016/02/26/oduu-amma-nu-gahebreaking-news-gur-26-2016/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Zcqw6eung
[4] See also John Markakis;Ethiopia: Anatomy of A Traditional Polity. Clarendon Press,Oxford, 1974, P.32
[5] Read Thomas Zitelmann; The Return of the Devil Tone——-. In: Cushitic and Omotic Languages. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium. Berlin, 17-19, 1994 Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Köln PP.289-298
[6] http://oromiatimes.org/2014/06/29/
SEENAA Y.G(2005)
Seenaa boonsaa har’a qaamaa qalbiin keessatti qooda fudhachaa ykn ijaan argaa jirru osoo arginuu, kan kaleessaa qofaan of ceepha’uun ykn boonuun yeroon isaa kan irra kutee fakkaata. Wareegamaa fi gootummaan abbootii fi haadhoolii keenyaa , gootummaa ijoollee isaanii ykn dhaloota haar’aan lubbuu godhatee jira. Har’a ykn sa’a kanatti Seenaa boonsaa dubbannee fixuu hin dandeenye, Biyya keessatti guyyuu dalagamaa jira. Seenaan har’aa akka kaleessaa warruma qaroome ykn dammaqoo ta’aniin qofaa waan gaggeeffamtu ta’aa hin jirtu. Ummata Oromoo mucaa garaa keessa jirtuu kaasee, hanga maanguddootti/Beerranitti wareegamnii qaqqaaliin guyyuu kafalamaa jira. Wareegama kana yeroon itti faarsinuu fi kabajaa kenninuuf gama hundaan kan eegalamee fakkaata. Wareegamni har’aa kabajaa argatee waan wareegamni kun kafalamaa jiruuf bakka laannee yoo waliin hin tarkaanfatiin, kasaaraa ol aanaatu mudata. Wareegama kana keessaa qooda fudhachuu dhiisuun badii tokkoffaa yennaa ta’uu, bu’aa wareegama kanaa simachuu dhiisanii kachachaluun badii ol aanaa lammaffaadha. Qabxii kana irratti yeroo biraa itti deebina.
Sochiin qeerroo fi qabsaa’oota Oromoo har’a sadarkaa eenyullee duubatti deebisuu hin dandeenye irra ga’uu ,diina haadi hanga morma seentutti hin amannee fi haada mormatti seenee jiru laaffifachuuf tattaafataa jiruun ifatti amanamee jira. Carraan Siyaasaa fi Biyya Itoophiyaa jedhamtuu guutummaatti harka Ilmaan Oromoo irratti kufee jira. Carraa kana dantaa ofiin yoo sharafuuf deemne, lammaffaa akka hin kaaneetti cabnee hafna. Yoo dantaa dhunfaa fi waan adda addaan laaffisuu dhiifne ammoo, hiree nu harka seentetti dhimma baanee yeroon bu’aa wareegama ijoollee keenyaan, of irra tarree carraa hiree murteeffannaa saboota cunqurfamoof laannu fagoo miti.kana hundaa gochuuf dhalli Oromoo Addunyaa kana irra lubbuun jiru hundi qooda beekumsaa fi dandeetti isaa qindeeffatee waliin socha’uu akka qabu waan nu akeeku waa hedduun nutti dhufaa jiraa of haa qopheessinuun dhaamsa walii galaa katabbi kiyya har’aatii. Qabxiilee hiree Ummata keenyaa fi Ummatoota cunqurfamoo wareegama ijoollee keenyaan as dhihaachaa jiru firii akka godhatuuf dursummaa siyaasaa keenya jabeeffachuuf sochiin yoo hin eegalamiin dadhabiina keenya ta’uu hubannee, amma waan hojjachuu qabnuu waliif dhaamuun murteessaa ta’aa.yaada mata duree adda addaa jalatti kaasu kana bal’ifachuun mirga abbaati.
Ibsa dhaloota Boonsaa irraa mormii tokko illee hin qabu. Inumaa deeggaruu qofaa osoo hin taanee, soda isaanii ifatti baasuun barbaada. Dhaloota bilchaataa akkasii Ummati kun argachuu isaatti galatan qaba. warra dhaloota kana qaree asiin ga’ees kabajaa guddaan qabaaf. Seenaan kanaa yeroon itti dubbatamu ni dhufa.
1;1 = Kaayyoon dhaloota har’aa hiree murteeffannaa Ummata isaanii mirkaneessuu ta’uu ifatti ibsatan. Qabsaa’oota waggaa dheeraa tokko tokko yennaan ilaaluu, waa hedduun xiinxalee of keessatti kolfaa jira. Fedhiin namootaa golgaan deemaa ture ifatti ba’uuf waan dhihaateef. Qabsaa’oonni qabsoo kana hundeessanii fi har’allee bakka dhugaa jiran akkuma jiran, kan har’allee ana malee jedhan jiraachuun dhugaa. Qabsaa’oonni Ummata dursuuf hojjatan, UMMATA irra dhiibbaa bulchanii waan barbaadanitti geessuu odoo hin taanee, hiree ummataa kana dhugeessanii fedhii Ummataa kabajuudha. Kun haqadha. Faallaa kanaa, har’allee wareegamuma ijoollee kanaa faarsaa deeggartoota saammatee boriif waa yaaduus jira. Kanneen bu’aa ummata isaanii warra hojjataniif kabajaa malu kennuu irra , namuma dhuunfaaf sagalee boruu irra hin deebi’amnee laatanii afarsaa jiranis ni jiru. kun hundi yaaddoo qeerrooti. Ummata carraa siyaasaa Biyya tokko murteessuuf wareegama baasaa jiru irraa kun waan hin eegamne. Kanaaf daddaffiin of sirreessuu qabna.
1;2 = dhaabbileen siyaasaa Oromoo har’a akkas wal irraa fagaatanii jiran, wareegamni ijoollee isaanii firii argatee wayyaaneen yoo kufee , sirna Biyyatti deebisanii ijaaranii hiree murteeffannaa sabootaa mirkaneessuuf qooda amma wareegama keenyaa yoo hin baasiin, bakka yaannee ga’uu akka hin dandeenye beekamaa. Maarree dhaaboonni siyaasaa Oromoo akkuma bittinnaa’nii jiranitti, carraa siyaasaa Biyya tokko qajeelchuu keessatti qooda hangamii gumaachuu dandeenya jedhanii yaadanii beekuu ? bakkaa fi yeroo murteessaa sanatti walii isaanii gidduu rakkoo jiru furatumoo , waan ijoo sadarkaa Biyyaa jiru irratti hojjatu ? wayyaaneen kufnaan humni jiru kanuma Oromoo qofaa ta’uu isaa qofa odoo hin taanee, wareegama ijoollee keenyaan ga’ee nuuf maluu argachuuf akkas facaanee ni ta’aa ? sodaan qeerroo kanadha.
1;3 = Qabsaa’oonni Oromoo wareegamni isaanii inni adda duraa, ummata isaanii dammaqiinsa har’a argaa jirru argatanii mirga isaaniif akka falman taasisuudha. Kan isaan umurii guutuu itti ifaajjaniif kunoo firiin isaa mul’ataa jira. kanatti maaliif gammaduu dhaban ? dhaaboonni siyaasaa Oromoo hundi isaanii hiree murteeffannaa Ummata isaaniif qabsaa’aa fi qabseessaa jiraatan. Kunoo kunis milkiin goolabamuuf belbelaa jira . har’a maaliif waan kana irraa duubatti harkifatan? Hiree tokkicha irratti waliif ta’uu maa dadhaban ? amma kun waa mul’isuuf deema ? yeroon isaa gaafa ga’uu deebii itti laanna.
1;4 = Dhaabbileen siyaasaa Oromoo Biyya keessaa fi alaa baatii 2n kana keessa ibsa waliin hojjachuun ala furmaati akka hin jirre waliif dhaamuun ibsa adda addaa baasaniiru. Ibsoonni kun ibsa diinoota keenyaa yeroo bitachuuf baasan irraa adda ta’uu qabaa jedheen amana. Ibsoonni kun maaliif hojiin mul’atuu dadhaban ? dhaaboonni kun waamicha waliin ni kabajuu ? wal dhaggeeffachuun dhibee walirraa fagaatanii akka jiraatan kan teesisee atu beekamuu, amma akkamittin walitti dhufuu akka danda’an eeggachuun rakkoodha. Maaliif beektoonni walaba ta’an ykn maanguddoonni wal ijaaranii waan kanaaf furmaata hin soqan ? aadaa qabnaa jechuun qofti eessaan nama ga’a ?
1:5 = Seenaan bara 1991 har’allee haala itti dabalamuuf deemuu ni jira. Yeroo sana waan jiru fiixa baasuuf qophiin hin jiru kan jedhu. Har’awoo ? sodaan qeerroo fi qabsaa’oota dhugaa kanadha. Waamichi isaanii inni haqa qabeessii kana sirreessuufillee ta’uun hubatamuu qaba. dhimmi Ummataa gadi yoo nu hin qabiin, akka wal dhaggeeffannu yoo nu hin taasisiin , dantaa dhuunfaallee yoo hin dursiin , waan dubbannuu akkamiin milkeeffanna ? dhaaboonni Siyaasaa Oromoo Biyya sana dursanii nageenya waaraa buusuuf wixinee hatattamaa baafachuun barbaachisaa qofaa osoo hin taanee, murteessaadha.
Dadhabiina ofii gadi fageessanii dirree kana irratti baasuun bu’aa hin qabu. Kan tarrifaman kun garuu yaaddoo hunda keenyaati. Yaadi kun garuu furmaata hatattamaa barbaada. Furmaati hatattamaa hin argamu taanaan garuu, dhalootii har’aa dhiigaan mirga Ummata Oromoo dhugeessuuf qarqara ga’ee jiru, waan hundaaf dandeettii fi beekumsa akka itti qaban dhaammachaa jiran. Kan isaan ijaarees, kan wareegama waliin kafalees shakkii malee of harkaa qaban. Dhaamsa xumuraa ani qabu garuu , dhaaboonni Siyaasaa Oromoo hundinuu hatattamaan walitti dhufanii, hiree murteeffannaa Ummata Oromoo milkeessuu qofaaf ykn hiree murteeffannaa Ummatootaa maal ta’aa ? qofa irratti odoo hin taanee, sirna bifa kamiitu Biyyattii sana keessatti umamuuf taa’uuf, Itoophiyaan jiraattees dhiistees, waan kun nagaan akka xumuramuuf adeemsa siyaasaa hojjatachuu qaban. Taa’aanii Biyya sana irratti marii gaggeessuu qaban. Bifa tasgabbaa’aan waan hin gaggeeffamne hundi deemee deemee nu miidhuu mala. Dhumaatii bara baraan hin qabbanoofne kaasuu danda’a. kanaaf dursanii waan ta’uu qabu irratti ejjannoo isaanii waliif ibsuu qofaa atu hin taanee, dursummaa siyaasa itti aanuu fudhachuuf of qopheessuu qaban. Abshaalummaan habashootaa kan cabuu danda’uu, yoo dursanii argaman qofaadha waan ta’eef.
Wayyaanee waliin nuuti warra gumaati. Ibsi qaama kamiitu nuuf furmaata hin fidu. Wareegama ijoollee keenyaaf kabajaa qabaannaan, waan ijoolleen keenya itti wareegamaniif milkaa’uu qaba. qaamni kamuu wareegama ijoollee kanaan daldaluu hin danda’u. wayyaaneen kana booda dhiiga ijoollee kanaa irratti shira qabsoo Oromoo diiguu gaggeessuu dandeessi. Dhaabbilee adda qooddee waamuun araaraaf haa haasofnuu, warra kana godhee seeratti dhiheessinaa jettee tapha fokkisaa eegaluu dandeessi. Kanaaf waan nuu maluuf qophaa’uun dansaadha. Ibsoonni fi imimmaan naachaan nu gawwamsuun waggoota 140 oliif nu miidheera. Kanaaf ibsi mummichi ministirootaa wayyaanee isa dhugaa ta’uu hin danda’u. isa dhugaa kan taasisu har’llee wareegama kafaluun mirkaneessina. Karaan amma ammaatti adeemamee kufaatii sirnichaa dhugoomsaa jira. Kana jabeessuu fi toftaalee itti aanan qopheessuu fi isa qopheessan hojiin argisiisuu qofaatu murteessaadha. Wayyaaneen irree keenya atu itti hadhaawu liqimsiisuuf wareegama waa maraa itti jabeessuudha. Wareegamni kafallee hedduudha. Lubbuu namaati. Yoo duubatti deebine kana dacha baasuu dandeenyaa jabaachuu qofaatu wayyaanee cabsa. wayyaaneen gonkumaa marii fi tolaan waa gooti jechuun gawwumaadha. Mariis ta’uu waan fedhe gaggeeffamu sochiin jiru dhaabbachuu hin qabu. Dingdee Itoophiyaa irra Dingadee dhuunfaa wayyaanootaatu ibidda miila jalaa itti ta’aatii kana irratti hojjachuun murteesssaadha.
Wareegamni dantaa keenyaaf jennee baafnuu bifa hedduu qaba. dantaa keenyaatti kan nu butu hundatti dhimma ba’uun yeroo isaatii. Karaan wayyaanee nuuf laafiisuu fi kuffisu hundatti dhimma ba’uun dansaadha. Qalbiin Oromoo kamuu har’a haalaan bal’achuu qaba. keessattu dhimma keenya addunyaatti dhageesisuu fi dhageetti argachuuf dhalli Oromoo miidiyaa addunyaa kana irra jiru hundatti dhimma ba’uu qaba. ebaluun miidiyaa akkasii irratti mul’atee atu hin taanee, maal dubbateedhaan haa tilmaamnuun. Dhimma Oromoo fi qabsoo oromoof kan dubbatu yoo ta’ee rakkoo waan qabu miti. kanaaf qabsoo kana furgaasuuf qaama kamuu keessa seenanii dhimma itti ba’uuf yaaluun barbaachisaadha. bakka hundaa humna qabaachuu qabna. Wayyaaneen iccittii kamuu akka hin qabaannee taasisuu fi baayyee abshaalummaan tarkaanfachuun fardiidha. Gama biraan saboota nu marsanii jiran bifa kamiinu diina biraa akka nutti hin taaneef, akka nuuf tolutii ijaaruu fi qindeeffachuu qabna. Diinaaf humna yoo ta’an nuuf rakkoo ta’aa waan ta’eef.
GALATOOMAA !!!!!!!!!
HORAA BULAA !!!!!!!!!!
Oromiyaan bilisoomte.
alaabaan Oromoo bifa kanaan yeroo ammaa Oromiyaa keessa bilisaan fannifamaa jira. Viivaa qeerroo biyyaa abdii saba Oromoo nuuf jiraadhaa.
Kan itti gammade like haa godhu
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#OromoProtests Sirkanan Ahmed, one of our most active social media campaigners, during yesterday’s solidarity rally in Calgary Canada. Like her page to get regular update about Oromo and Oromia related events.
Photo of the Day, March 11, 2016
#OromoProtests– (12.03.2016, #EndSlavery, Oromia) This is Oromo Global Solidarity rally in Milan, Italy March 11, 2016.
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#BilisummaaOromoo, (12.03.2016, #XumuraGarbummaa, Oromiyaa) Kun hiriira gamtaa Oromoo kan deeggarsa diddaa Oromoo biyya Italy magaalaa Milan keessatti kaleessa gaggeeffame.
#OromoProtests -(12.03.2016, #EndSlavery, Oromia) Residents of rural villages marching towards Dadar town, East Hararge March 12, 2016
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Ummanni araddaalee baadiyyaa bifa kanaan gara magaalaa Dadar,( Harargee Bahaa) hiriiraaf yaa’aa jira
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#BilisummaaOromoo-(12.03.2016, #XumuraGarbummaa, Oromiyaa) Oromiyaa Kibbaa Godina Gujii Aanaa Liiban ganda Simintoo keessatti saamichi lafaa abbootii qabeenyaa 38 ta’aniin saamamaa jira.Allaa Muuddin Araddaa jilaa “Dooyyoo” keessaa lafa heektara1050 fudhatee Elfooraa itti base. Abbootin qabeenyaa kun Oromoon tokko keessa kan hin jirre too ta’u tokkoon tokkoo isaanii yoo xiqqaate heektara 27 qabu. Uummanni aanaa Liiban gochaa kana balaaleffachuun Bosona kan seene. Godinuma kanaa Barattoonni mana Barnootaa Bulbul guutummaan guututti kan cufame yoo tau’u Barattoonni naannicha dhiisanii Gara Bosonaatti nama’anii jiru. Sababuma kanaan Barsiisaa Liiban Kanaa qabamee hidhamee jira. Aanicha keessa jaarsa fi jaartii malee namni kaan Bosona seenee jira.
“የንግግር ነጻነትን በማረጋግጥና ዲሞክራሲያዊ እርምጃዎችን በማጎልበት የኢትዮጵያ መንግስት ቀደም ሲል የወሰዳቸውን አዎንታዊ እርምጃዎች እንዲያጠናክ እያሳሰብን፤ በነጻ ድምጾች ላይ የሚፈጸመው አፈና ይህን መሰሉን አዎንታዊ እርምጃ ማደናቀፍ ብቻ ሳይሆን፤ የልማትና የምጣኔ ሃብት እድገትንም የሚገታ መሆኑን መጠቆም እንፈልጋለን።” የዩናይትድ ስቴትስ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚንስቴር።
ዋሽንግተን ዲሲ —
በኢትዮጵያ በፕሬስ ነጻነት ላይ የሚደረገው ገደብና የጸረ ሽብር ሕጉን በመጠቀም መንግስት በጋዜጠኞች፥በመብት ተሟጋቾችና በተቃዋሚዎች ላይ የሚያደርገው ጫና የሚያሳስባት መሆኑን ዩናይትድ ስቴትስ አስታወቀች።
በእስር ላይ የሚገኙት የቀድሞው የጋምቤላ አስተዳዳሪ እንዲለቀቁና በኢትዮጵያ የዜጎች መሠረታዊ መብቶችእንዲከበሩ በመጠየቅ አምስት የዩናይትድ ስቴትስ ምክር ቤት አባላት ከትላንት በስቲያ ለፕሬዝዳንት ባራክ ኦባማየጻፉትን ደብዳቤ ተንተርሶ ለቀረቡ ጥያቄዎች በሰጠው ምላሽ ነው፤ የዩናይትድ ስቴትስ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚንስቴር ይህንያለው።
በሌላ ተያያዥ ዜና፤ የኢትዮጵያ መንግስት በኦሮምያ ክልል በሰላማዊ ሰልፈኞች ላይ የወሰደው የኃይል ዕርምጃአሳስቦናል፤ ሲሉ አንዲት የመካከለኛው ምዕራብ ዩናይትድ ስቴትሷ የሜነሶታ ክፍለ ግዛት የምክር ቤት አባል ለግዛቲቱሸንጎ ባቀረቡት ረቂቅ አመልክተዋል።
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Dhamsaa kanaa Hatatamaan wallin gahaa dirqamaa Oromummaa dha!
Godinaa Harargee bahee Aanaa Grawaattii Wayyaneen Darggagootta Oromoo 500 caalan manaa hidhaa fi sharaa CARE Ethiopia keessattii hidhee dararaare garaa Hursootii dabrsuu dhaaf halaa duree mejefatee konkolaata 8 qopheffatanii halkaan walkaa keessaa Dargaaggoo keenyaa achii gesuu dhaaf qophii akkaa xumuurrataan ittii dhaqabbaamerra.
Kanaaf ummanii keenyaa kan nannawaa Saan jirtaan ilmaan keessaniis Dargaggoo oromoo dafaa dhaqabbaa dirmadhaa malo isiin jedhaa arifadhaa ergaa koo kanaa wallin gahaa adraa.
Qabsoon keenyaa ittii fufaa.
Let the world know!
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#OromoProtests FXG Wallaggaa Yuunibarsiitiitti Ka’e Daran Daran Jabaatee Aanga’oota Wayyaanee Dhiphisaa Jira.
Bitootessa 12,2016
Sochii Qeerroon afaan qawwee dura jabaatee dhaabbatee godhaa jiru akkasuma kallattii arfaniin bulguu nama nyaataa gidduu dhaabbatee gochaa jiru murna bichuu warra Kaabaa TPLFn irriba dhowwaa jiraachuun hundaaf ifaadha.Keessattu Bulguu nama nyaataaf osoo hin jilbeenfanne harka qullaa qalamaaf barruulee qabatee gaaffii Mirga abbaa biyyummaasaa jabatee falmuurraa osoo duuba hin jenne akkasuma addatti sodaaf naasuu malee ofiin of bulchuu kan lallabataa jiru akkasuma kan beelaaf dheebuu damdamatee qorra aduu osoo hin jenne mirga uummatichaa falmuuf gammojjii baddaan bahaa jiru ABO nu haa bulchu jechuun warraqsi Qeerroon eegale gama Uummataanis daran finiinfamaa jiraachuu,Sochii kanas qabbaneessuu akka hin dandeenye hubachuun Aanga’onni biyyattii gama sossobbiin adeemaa jiraachuu oduuf ibsa gidduu kana ba’aa jirurraa nii hubatama.
Haaluma kanaan Qeerroon Yuunibarsiitii Wallaggaa falmasaa jabeessuun barnootallee dhaabee jiraachuu Uummati Magaalattiis obsa foxachuu keessa tare Qeerroowwansaa cina dhaabbachaa jiraachuu tajaajila geejibaas dhaabee falmatti deebi’uun kan Rifaasise yoo ta’u.Injifannolee hedduun keessatti galmaa’anii kan darban akkasuma galmaa’aa jiraachuu ifa godha oduun galgala kana nu dhaqqabde Injifannoolee moorichaa keessatti galmaa’aa jiran keessaa Basaastota gufuu ta’uun danqaa jiran hanga polisa moorichaatti tarkaanfii barsiisoo kennaa jiraachuu,jaallatanis jibbanis beeksisa har’a baasan kan akka barnootatti deebinuuf barreeffamte yoo ilaallu Afaan keenya Afaan Oromootiin akkasumas Afaan English qofaan beeksisa dhoobaa turan.Haa ta’uu malee ammas murannoof kutannoo barataan moorichaa qabu “guutummaan guututti hanga mirga abbaa biyyummaa keenya Mirkaneeffannutti Afaan keenyaanis kan hormaatiinis baaftan murannoo keenya dubaa deebisuu hin danda’u” akka jechaa jiran oduun nu dhaqabee ifa godha
FXG Itti fufa
Injifannoon dhiigaan nii dhufa
Abbaa Urjii irraa
Qabsoon bilisummaa tan arraantana xiqqaa fii guddaa lammii Oromiyaa fudhatte baroota afurtam dura haala kanaan faallaa keessa turte. Yaroon san, gaafa sirni gabrummaa Habashaa Oromummaa fii aadaa hooda lammii teenyaa awwaalee, hidda sirna bulchiinsa isaa hawaasa keenya keessatti akkaan jabeeffate. Haala san injifachuuf biyya keessaa fii alattiis qabsoo cimtuu tu godhame. Wareegamni kafalamees guddaa dha.
Oromummaa diinni awwaale qabrii keessaa baasuuf qabsoo baroota afurtam dura biyya alaa keessatti godhamte keessaa tan biyya Jabuutii-tti gaggeeffamte seenaa qabsoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa keessatti qooda ol’aanaa qabdi. Jabuutiin, gaafasii fii arraas, biyya warri mootummaa Xoophiyaa bulchan gunaa adda-addaa tiin dantaa siyaasaa isaanii keessatti tiiyfatani. Kanarraan kan ka’e, gama Embaasii isaanii malees, karaa namoota mootummaa Jabuutii keessaa gunaan dhunfataniin, miidhaan namoota fedhii isaanii dura dhaabbatan irratti fidan guddoo. Nama barbaadan hamma biyyatti deebisiisuu takka aangoo qaban. Haala akkasii keessatti, Oromoonni fedhii diinaa tan gaafasii irratti fincilanii maalummaa isaanii ifatti beeysisuun hawwii jaraa hoongeessuurraatti bobbahan, akkuma Qabsaawota qabsoo bilisummaa ganamaatti, seena-qabeessota.
Haala armaa olii kanaan, Oromoota maalummaa isaanii tiif qabsoo godhaniin Oromummaa biyya Jabuutii keessatti utubuun, seenaa qabsoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa tan biyya alaa keessatti galmeeffamuu qaban keessaa tokko Mahammad Husseeni. Mohammed Husseen abbaa isaa Husseen Alii fii haadha isaa Aashaa Imar irraa Baha Oromiyaa, Godinaa Humbannaa Aanaa Kombolchaa Araddaa Dirree Xayyaaraa Ganda Tuulaatti, Onkololeessa 05, bara 1952, dhalate.
Mohammad, barnoota amantii Islaamaa barachuuf xiqqeenyaan qe’eerraa sossoohee, odoo miila gandarraa fageessuu, bara 1971 keessa, haboo isaa waliin magaalaa Jabuutii seene. Haalli biyyaa isa fudhatee achumaan achi qubatee, lammii biyya isaa barbaadee waaheleeffate. Waahiloota kanaa waliin jam’aatummaan barcaaf odoo walitti yaa’anuu sab-boonummaan dhunfatamuu jalqabe. Bara 1973 irraa kaasee haasoyni barcaa gubbaa dhibdee Oromoo tii fii Oromummaan dhunfatamte. Akkaasiin, bara 1977, gaafa Jabuutiin gabrummaa Faransaayii jalaa bilisoomtu, isaaniis, dhiibba dooginyoo Habashaa kan maqaa waldaya hawaasa Xoophiyaa tiin dhaabbate jalaa if walabeessuun, maqaa Caayaa Oromoo tiin mootumma biratti if galmeessan.
Caayaan Oromoo magaalaa Jabuutii akka hin-jaaramne godhuurratti mootummaan Xoophiyaa heddu qabsooyte. Akkuma Wayyaanee ammaatti, Oromoota yaroo sanitti biyya Jabuutii keessa jiran dhibdee mudachuuf jiraataniin doorsisan. San malees, gunaan bittineessuuf ijibbaatan. Haala kanarraan kan ka’e, warri abuura Caayaa Oromoo magaalaa Jabuutiirratti miseensummaa isaanii ifatti beeysisan, nama kudha sadihi qofa turan. Isaan keessaa tokko Mahammad Husseeni. Kanneen hafan, Abuubakar Khaalos, Yuusuf Ibraahim Daawud, Hassanee Galmoo, Aadamee Yuusuf (Dhaga Affeel), Yaaqubee, Ibrahim Khaliilee, Ahmad Shaakh Usmaan Qawwee, Abdulmajiid Raaree, Muumee (Qaxii), Abdalla (Yaquulii), Bakharee fii Abdusalaam Yuusufi.
Gama biraa tiin, Mahammed, ogummaa makaanikummaa makiinaa tan akka biyya san seeneen barateen, jireenya achii tolfatee, bara 1976 keessa, Aadde Aminaa Yuusuf waliin bultii jaarratte. Baruma kana, lola Soomaalee fii mootummaa Xoophiyaa jiddutti dhalatee fii haala sossoohinsa qabsoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaarraa kan ka’e, Oromoota biyyarraa baqatanii Jabuutii seenuu jalqabaniif, Mahammad, haadha warraa waliin, Oromoota waan qabaniin lammii isaanii bira dhaabbatan keessaa tokko. Mohammadii fii Aaminaas, waan dandayaniin nama isaanii gargaaruu malees, Oromoota manaa fii mooraa isaanii baqattootaaf banan irraa tahan. Biyya oowwi isii azaaba adunyaarraa, tan bishaan xaasaan gurgurmu keessatti, nyaataa fii dhugaatii malees tin’isin hamilee kan sab isaanii tiif laatan sanmmuu baqqattoota fuul-durri dukkanaa meeqaantam sabachiise. Gargaarsa kanarratti dabaluun, Mahammad, qabsoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa tiif, gama Caayaa tii fii dhunfaaniis qooda guddaa laate.
Mahammad, bara 1984 keessa, jiruu if dura tarkaanfachiisuuf, warraa waliin, Jabuutiirraa Bahara Diimaa ceehee Sa’uudii seene. Akka achi dhaqeen, sab-boonota Riyaad keessatti maqaa Tokkummaa Hojjattoota Oromoota Riyaad, (THOR)-n, gurmaawan irraa tokko tahuun, qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo gargaarutti seene. San malees, daawwii dammaqiinsaa tan dhaabni THOR miseensaa fii Oromoota iddoo biraa tiif qopheessaa turerraa qooda fudhachuun dirqama sab-boonummaa fiixa baasutti seene. Odoo haala saniin jiruu, Sa’uudii keessa turuu irraa hegereen itti mul’achuu diddee, bara 1986 keessa, warraa waliin, Xaaliyaan seene. Roomattiis, sab-boonota Jabuutii fii Riyaaditti waliin qabsaawaa turan waliin wal-arkatanii, Tokkummaa Oromoota Roomaa dhaabuun seenaa, aadaa fii qabsoo Oromoo gabbisutti seene.
Isaa san keessa ture, walakkaa bara 1978 hiree qubsuma biyya Kanadaa arkatee, warraa waliin, Torontoo seene. Guyyaa Torontoo seenerraa kaasee miseensa Tokkummaa Oromoo Ameerikaa Bitaa Damee Ontaariyoo tahuun, gumaacha qabsoo bilisummaa tiif godhaa ture, keessaa huu, tan aadaa Oromoo guddisuu fii agarsiisuu irratti if qusannaa malee bobbahutti seene. Faaruu fii weedduulee Mahammad dooyaarratti wallisaa turee keessaa kanneen armaa gadi warra yaroo hunda afaanii hin baane.
Ka’aa qeeyroon Dargaggoon biyyaa
Yaa humna warraaqsaa shamarran aayyaa
Qabsoof hidhadhaa yaa ilmaan biyyaa
Bahaa Dhihaa kaabaa kibbaa
Isin yaamtii biiyti abbaa
Yaa ilmaan koo nadhaqqabaa
Salphinarraa ol na qabaa
Haala armaa olii kanaan, Mahammad Husseen, sossooha qabsoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa tan biyyoota alaa keessatti nama seena-qabeessa tahe. Seenaa wal’aansoo ganamaa tan ummanni keenya maalummaa isaanii beeysisuuf biyya Jabuutii, Sa’uudii, Xaaliyaanii fii Kanadaa keessatti godhaa turan irraa qooda fudhachuun gumaanni qabsoof laate himamtee hin dhumtu.
Mohammed qaama malees nama haalaa fii amalaan ulfaataa, sab-boonaa fii murataa dha. Mahammad arjaa qabeenya isaa qabsoorraa if duuba hin kaayyatini. Mahammad nama obboleeyyan afur waliin dhalate. Garuu isaan biraa fagaatee nama Oromoota arku hunda obboleessaa fii obboleettii godhatee jaalalaa fii kabajaan nama waliin jiraachaa bahe. Duuba, dhibdee yaroo gabaadu keessatti isa mudditeen ji’a afran dabran rakkachaa bahee, warra lamadaa, Aadde Fooziyaa Mahaamed-rraa ilmaan reefu arkate, Obsan, Boonaa fii Boonsan waliin odoo taphatee hin quufin, bitooteessa 11, bara 2016, biyya Kanadaa magaalaa Kaalgarii keessatti boqote.
Rabbiin Jannatul-Furdoosiin isa haa qananiyu!
Oromiyaan bilisummaa isii hawwaafii bahe ni bilisoomti!
Bitooteessa 12, 2016
Abbaa Urjii
By Habtamu Dugo
Protesters raising crossed hands at the March 11 rally at the US State Department in Washington DC. Photo by Habtamu Dugo
March 11 was an international day of collective action for the global Oromo community, which protested the killings of over 400 Oromo civilians, injuries of more than 4000 civilians, jailing of thousands of civilians, and the rape of hundreds of women and girls in Oromia, Ethiopia.
The rallies that took place in dozens of cities across the free world had two things in common: brining the atrocities committed against Oromo civilians to the attention of their respective governments and elected leaders, and to demand them to apply maximum pressure on the Ethiopian government to end the killings and the military rule in Oromia. The rallies also aimed at publicizing the Oromo desire for self-government, freedom, justice and democracy.
The transnational Oromo diaspora staged effectively coordinated rallies in cities worldwide, including in Washington DC, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Los Angeles, Lansing, Seattle, Syracuse, Phoenix, Raleigh, Calgary, Toronto, Winnipeg, London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Rome, Oslo, Stockholm, Berne, Melbourne, Riyadh and other cities. In their slogans, media interviews and prepared statements, the demonstrators brought the mass killings and other human rights abuses to the attention of the international community.
The rally in Washington DC was organized to “protest the Ethiopian government genocidal war in Oromia, Ethiopia,” according to a joint press release from five civil society groups, which helped organize it.
“Ethiopia’s TPLF regime is killing, injuring, jailing and disappearing Oromo students, youth and farmers who have been demonstrating peacefully for four months now. The demonstration in front of the White House and the State Department today aims at calling on the US Government to exert utmost pressure on the Ethiopian government to stop the extra-judicial killings of the Oromo people and to end the martial law in Oromia,” said Dr. Desta Yabessa, President of the Oromo Community Organization and head of the organizing committee.
Participants of the D.C. rally numbering over 1200 gave up a workday and came crossing state lines from states as far as Massachusetts and Ohio sometimes driving 7-8 hours in order to bring the plight of the Oromo people to the attention of the US government.
Many of marchers lost family members to the atrocities in Oromia and they were determined to deliver their messages to the United States government to act to avert the unfolding calamity in Oromia.
“I came from Boston to protest the massacre of our children, and the removal of our farmers from their ancestral lands,” Sinke said. She continued, “Children and adults are killed daily and we want the American government to hear us and do something. My niece, a mother of two, fell and died while running after soldiers who were whisking away her husband. The father is now in jail and the mother died so the children are left without an adult to care for them.”
In addition to attending rallies to be in global solidarity with protesters in Oromia, many came because they felt anguished by the loss of immediate family members to the massive state-led violence unfolding across Oromia.
A source who preferred to be anonymous told me that she lost her brother and she was here to demand justice for her brother and to be a voice for many others in Oromia who are losing brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers every day.
Women demonstrators said that their fellow women (including pregnant and nursing women) and girls have been killed and raped by the army in their homes and schools.
“The Tigrean Liberation Front ruling Ethiopia killed a seven-month pregnant woman. As a woman I felt the pain inflected on women of Oromia and I came from Ohio to bring this atrocity to the attention of the US government. The regime is massacring and injuring university students who are hope for the future of our nation. We pay tax so we came to the White House to ask America to help us,” stated a lady from Ohio.
Demonstrators believe that foreign aid helps fund the regime’s genocidal campaigns in Oromia and other regions of Ethiopia. In Washington DC and in dozens of cities around the world, demonstrators asked their governments to put utmost pressure on the Ethiopian government to yield to popular demands. One of the ways they thought the international community would pressure the totalitarian regime of Ethiopia is by ending foreign assistance to the regime, which is estimated at $3.8 billion, more than half of the yearly national budget of the Ethiopian government. They also see conditioning human rights on respect for human rights and democracy as a way of ensuring end to one-party dominance and blanket repressions. Foreign aid to Ethiopia means that tax-payers are funding the purchase of guns and bullets that are being used to commit these atrocities.
A press release for the rally in Washington DC read, “…A Rwandan type of genocide is being waged by the TPLF government against the Oromo people. While such kind of genocide war is being waged against the Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian government receives $3 billion in aid each year from Western countries specifically from the US government. Donors claim that the dictatorial regime is on the road to democracy, but the reality on the ground is far from the stated claim.”
It remains to be seen if the international community takes any live-saving actions.
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Habtamu Dugo is a US-based professor and independent journalist and he can be contacted at hab.dugo@gmail.com
