By Ibsaa Guutama  | Gubirmans

Oromo protesters in Karsa town, West Arsi Zone, Oromia state, on 16 February 2016Oromo activists

By Ibsaa Guutama  | Gubirmans

People’s power

Ezekiel Gebissa, Special to Addis Standard

(Addis Standard) — In his ground breaking study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, the Swedish Nobel-laureate economist Gunnar Myrdal described America’s race problem as a vicious cycle in which whites oppressed blacks and then blamed their alleged poor performance as the reason for their oppression. The way to break this cycle, Myrdal suggested, was to disprove whites’ preconceived notions by extending to blacks the promise of the “American creed.” Once African-Americans started to demand that the principles of liberty, equality, justice and fair treatment of all citizens inherent in the US Constitution be extended to them, change started to occur. Myrdal himself was surprised at the speed with which the rampart of discrimination began to crumble, beginning with the Supreme Court outlawing of school segregation in 1954.

The Oromo national movement currently faces a similar dilemma. Is the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (EPRDF) an instrument that can be used for pursuing the right of self-determination or a feeble document that should belong to the dust bin of history? Some Oromo leaders assert the “Wayane constitution” should not be given any credence of authority as a legal instrument. Others, such as Tsegaye Ararssa of the University of Melbourne argue that the constitution should be treated as a basis for “engaging our opponents on their own terms just as African-Americans did in their own struggle against racism.”

To be sure, there is a clear justification and an emotional satisfaction in condemning a constitution that has thus far been used by the ruling party as an instrument for perpetrating crimes against the political opposition. However, it sounds conceptually dissonant to defend the Oromo Protests of 2014-16 as “constitutional” while cavalierly dismissing the very basis of their constitutionality. In insisting that constitutional rights and the federal arrangement be respected, Oromo protesters became defenders of the constitution against a government that with impunity violated the political, economic, and equality rights that are formally protected in that document.

In this article, following Tsegaye, I argue that the art of politics for the Oromo at this point is foregoing the emotional satisfaction of calling for a grand military victory over the “Wayane” and accepting instead specific measures that are likely to produce tangible and lasting results.

There are compelling reasons for this. At no other time in Ethiopia’s political history has a nonviolent transition to democracy been more desirable and achievable.  Additionally, at no other time in the past have Ethiopians viewed the Oromo as a force for democratizing the Ethiopian empire-state. The vicious cycle of uprooting an old system and replacing it with an “ideal” system has only produced abstract benefits and tangible harm for the Oromo and other Ethiopians. The Oromo Protests have unambiguously demonstrated that the nonviolent method is the more effective means for ushering in a democratic polity. Finally, the central demand of the Oromo national movement as articulated in the political program of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) was achieved when the right to self-determination became part of the 1995 Ethiopian Constitution. For Oromo nationalists, therefore, the FDRE Constitution, with all its shortcomings, can and should be deployed as an instrument that confers legality on the historic and yet unfulfilled demands of the Oromo and others. Not to use it would amount to disavowing one’s own victory.

Graduated victories

Since the early twentieth century, the Oromo have been regarded by those who hold power in Ethiopia as a negative force that must be politically excluded, marginalized and sequestered away from that center of power. This politicalmodus operandus came into effect in 1916 when a palace putsch removed Lij Iyasu from the Ethiopian throne. To be sure, the young prince’s actions, incorporating the people of the periphery and introducing reform measures designed to overcome the legacies of repression, exploitation, and religious conflicts created by Menelik’s conquests, were quite visionary and progressive for the time. However, the elite of the political center could not fathom the scion of a Muslim Oromo from Wallo sitting on the throne of the Semitic-Christian Empire. By removing Iyasu, the ruling class instituted a ruling pattern of exclusion and marginalization of the Oromo and Muslims from the political center.  Incidentally, this time was when ethnic politics was introduced to the political arena, not 1991, as is widely perceived.

One of the conspirators, Tafari Mekonnen, used the opportunity of Iyasu’s ouster to inaugurate an era of an absolutist regime in which ultimate power was concentrated in his hands. Under the imperial regime (r.1930-74) more Oromo land was confiscated and transferred to private holding, Afaan Oromo was denigrated and effectively banished from the public sphere, and the promotion of self-rule was rendered a treasonable crime. The regime emphasized assimilation of the Oromo and eliminated the remaining pockets of local autonomy that even Menelik had tolerated. This modus operadus of marginalization and domination was unleashed full force against the Oromo under the imperial regime. The repression helped to stimulate the creation of the Matcha Tulama Association, the OLF and the Bale Rebellion.

The 1974 revolution implemented measures that dealt a mortal blow to the economic base of the infrastructure of marginalization and domination. The Land Reform Act of 1975, written essentially by Oromo intellectuals, among others, in effect, “liberated” Oromo tenants from the oppressive grip of settler-landlords; and the use of Afaan Oromooin the media, in addition to recognition of Muslim holidays as national, chipped away at the most potent assimilationist vehicle for Amhara cultural domination.

After 1978 the policies of the earlier phase were replaced by measures that directly aimed at  combating Oromo nationalism, beginning with villagization in Harege, resettlement projects in Western Oromia, imprisonment and persecution of Oromo intellectuals and military deployment in areas where Oromo guerrillas operated.  In a way, the actions of the Derg regime ended up bolstering the OLF’s armed struggle against it.

The collapse of the Derg regime in 1991 coincided with a maturation of the Oromo national struggle.  The Oromo question, long disregarded as an inconsequential and meaningless cause in Ethiopia, entered into the international arena. The representatives of Oromo organizations fought for and literally put Oromia on the map, liberated the Oromo language from the shackles of the Geez alphabet, and elevated the issue of the right to self-determination to such prominence that its rejection as a constitutional provision was not an option. It is incontrovertible that Oromo nationalists have influenced the political process that led to the drafting of the current Ethiopian constitution. The question at this time is whether this constitution should be rejected or should be embraced and deployed as a political instrument.

An Oromo dilemma

In the current political dispensation, when politics is organized along ethnic lines, the Oromo have two dilemmas. The first is their awkward positioning in the body politic. Historically, the Amhara and Tigray elites have taken turns to dominate the political and economic center. Only these groups have been presumed to be legitimate contenders and holders of power at the center. It appears that the international community has accepted this presumption, too.  The smaller nationalities of the physical and political periphery are often assumed to be co-opted by the winning side.

The Oromo do not fit this scheme. They are too large a nation to be co-opted as are the smaller nationalities. They are also too large to contend for power with the larger nations without imposing a specter of utter domination simply because of their demographic size. For both the Amhara and Tigrayan elites, keeping the Oromo out of this space and out of contention for power has been their shared goal even when only one of them has achieved supremacy. The smaller nationalities also dread the political center being turned over to the Oromo out of fear that the Oromo will overwhelm them politically. Their strategy has been to temporize in tumultuous times and side with the winner of the political contest. Not fitting into this scheme, the Oromo always lived in a subliminal political status within Ethiopia.

The second dilemma concerns the Oromo positioning vis-à-vis the political center and periphery. In the current situation the Tigrayan elite don’t project themselves as the dominant group. Their political posture is that of a “champion” of the oppressed nationalities, the agent of change that actually resolved the nationalities’ question through a liberal democratic constitution and a federal arrangement.  They claim the following: that only the Tigrayans can at the same time dominate the center while acting on behalf of the periphery; that the Amhara elite cannot reasonably occupy the political periphery as oppressed and excluded group; that the Oromo cannot occupy the center because their demographic status intimidates all the other nations and nationalities.

But the Oromo cannot be treated as one of the smaller nationalities of the political periphery because they are viewed by the smaller nations as already co-opted into the center, this by virtue of the fact that they have occupied the geographic center historically.

Until they resolve their political positioning in the Ethiopian body politic, the Oromo will therefore continue to be in the ambiguous limbo of not being either integrated into the center or effectively relegated into the periphery. Meanwhile the increasing harsh attempts by the center to keep the Oromo relegated to the periphery are failing and causing a crisis of the state. From the Oromo perspective, the solution is now apparent in the discourse that is already underway among the Oromo. This relates to the discourse that is based in history and being promoted aggressively to push back on the notion that the Oromo are ‘newcomers’ or ‘outsiders’ to Ethiopia. This is now a prevalent discourse that the Oromo are Cushites who have lived in the Horn of Africa region since time immemorial. This has profound political implications as it nullifies the insidious narrative of the past that has so far been used by dominant groups to keep the Oromo on the political periphery.

The peripheralization of the Oromo has not been entirely the work of the Abyssinian elite. Oromo nationalists have tended to claim the political periphery in order to stress the narrative of their historical conquest and subsequent subjugation. Without denying that history, it is also historically accurate and politically sensible that the Oromo reach back and embrace their demographic positioning as a nation surrounded by Cushitic-speaking peoples: the Afar, Somali, Sidama, Gedeo, Konso, Hadiya, Kambata, Agaw and many more. I argue that the Oromo must reject the political project that relegates them to the periphery and instead step into and claim their position as a major actor in the political center. That will mean the Oromo make common cause with Ethiopian Cushites and act a unifier with all Ethiopians in their common aspirations for genuine democratization, sustainable development and sustained peace, and human rights for all citizens in a new Ethiopia.

I recognize some will say that this proposition is not a new proposal. I agree.  It is a position long held by the OLF, but for some reason has in time drifted into oblivion.  In a testimony of April 8, 1992 before the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Taha A. Abdi, member of the OLF Central Committee, asserted that the fall of the Derg created “an opportunity to democratize, transform and create a new Ethiopia in which the equal enjoyment of civil, economic and political rights of all the people are assured, where freedom of expression and religion are guaranteed and above all in which the supremacy of the rule of law will be established. … There is no alternative to the democratization of Ethiopia.” Leenco Lata, former deputy secretary general of the OLF, has written a whole book explaining why democratization is the only viable recourse for both the Oromo and other peoples of Ethiopia. In The Ethiopian State at the Crossroads: Decolonization & Democratization or Disintegration he asserts that, without genuine democratization and federalization, the Ethiopian state cannot escape another round of bloodbath and likely disintegration.

This position is not a matter of politicians seeking expediency. In his “Ethiopia: Missed Opportunities for Peaceful Democratic Process,” Mohammed Hassen had stated: “As an optimist who believes in the unity of free people in a free country, I have an undying dream that one day the Oromo, the Amhara, and Tigrai, and other peoples of Ethiopia will be able to establish a democratic federal system. To me only a genuine federal arrangement offers a better prospect for the future of Ethiopia.” Mohammed also states that only democratization could transform the Ethiopian state from one dominated by one ethnic group into a state of all citizens.

In this regard, Oromo politicians and academics are not alone. John Markakis puts it in starkest terms when he argues that Ethiopia cannot survive as a state if the political center refuses to integrate the peripheries into the Ethiopian political economy. In Ethiopia: the Last Two Frontiers, he advocates democratization that reaches across the marginalization and peripheralization of the Oromo and other peoples of Ethiopia.

The issue here is that only the Oromo can cross both the political and physical frontiers to establish a genuine federal structure and thereby democratize Ethiopia.  Failing to do so is to return to the backward-looking vision of the old center. As Markakis sums it up “return to … a centralized state under center control … can only be imposed on the periphery with greater exertion and force than ever. If this were to happen, it would condemn yet another generation of Ethiopians to authoritarian rule and civil strife …”

The Oromo should take a page from the experience of African-Americans and insist that the promises of the existing constitution be honored. This will make the Oromo question less esoteric and more in line with the internationally recognized demand for human rights. Some, as always, would state that the Ethiopian system would never allow the Oromo to become leaders.  That is of course the point of this article.  The Oromo shouldn’t wait until the Ethiopians will ‘let’ them into the corridors of power.  They must use constitutional means to claim that access and gain that leadership.

ED’s Note: Ezekiel Gebissa is a Professor of History and African Studies at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. He can be reached at egebissa@kettering.edu

‪#‎Cat‬ Fighting Between Ethiopia And Eritrea Ambassador On Kenya TV, Its Really shame to call this two dictators messengers a diplomat, Our message for this two pupperts from both side Non Of Oromo Issue Is Your Business Get Lost With Your Two Dictators Regime!

#‎OromoProtests‬– (17.06.2016, ‪#‎FreeOromia‬, Australia) This is also another protests against Wayyanee delegation in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The Struggle continues.
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Diddaa fi mormiin jila Wayyaanee irratti gaggeeffamu itti fufee jira. Kun Australia, kutaa Tasmania, Airport Hobart, kan ergamtoota Wayyaanee mudaatee dha.

Mooraa Jimmaa Yuunibarsiitiitti Himatni Barattotarratti Banamee Ture Gama Lamaanuu Fashalaa’e
Waxabajji 17,2016
Yeroo darbe barattoota Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa Himata Sobaa Karaa lamaan akka irratti banamee ture gabaasuun keenya nii yaadatama.
Himata kanaan Barattoota sagal kan moorichi “qabeenyaa balleessitan, daawwitii cabsitan” jechuun waan sobaa uumuun barattoota sagal himachuu akkasuma ragaa sobaa irratti qindeessuun badii qarshii Kuma Afurtama(40,000) oliin gama biran Bulchinsi magaalicha “Hirira seeraan alaa magaalatti bobbatanii magaalaa jeequmsaaf qopheessitan”jechuun barattoota afur mooraa Kitoo furdisaa(Technological science) fi mooraa guddaarraa himatamaa kan turan Yoo ta’u.
Guyyoota muraasa darban dura warra sagalii manni murtii bilisa baasee jira.Warreen bilisa bahaan kanarratti
Kaleessa barattoota moorichii erga manni murtii bilisa baasee akeekkachiisaan mooraan maqaa isaanii dhoobee jira.Kunis himanni sun himata haqaa akka hin taane manni murtii ilaalee barattoota baasee erga jedhe,Murtii fudhachuun waan ulfaatuuf so daachisuuf akkeekkachiisaan moorichi maqaa isaanii baasee jira
Gama barattoota afur mooraa guddaarraa akkasuma Kitoo ykn Technological science irraa barattoota afur Bulchiinsi magaalaa sobaan himate raagolii jechuun namootanni dhiyeeffate barattoota sana maqaan illee addaan baasuuf mooraa isaanii addaan baasuu da dhabuun Raagolii Sobdootaa qaaniif hojii isaanii duraa saaxilurra darbee dhugaa barattoota sanaa ifa baasuun har’a manni murtii ganama sa’a 10:00 irratti himatasaanii dhugaa akka hin taane mirkaneeffachuun bilisa baasuun gadi lakkisee jira.Kun murtoo mana murtii osoo hin taane dhugaan of dhoksuurra dhootee afaan raagolee wal fakkachuu dhabuurran wayyaanota qaanessitee jirti.
Barattoota Bilisa bahaniif akkasuma Barattoota Yuunibarsichaan baga gammaddan jennaan
Oromiyaan Dhiiga Keenyaan Nii Bilisoomti

(BBC News) — The migration crisis in Europe has thrust Eritrea under the spotlight. Last year, more people fled to Europe from this small, secretive nation than from any other African country. The BBC’s Mary Harper has gained rare access.

One of the first people I meet in Eritrea is a young woman who tells me she has never visited her country before.

Her family fled during the 30-year war for independence from Ethiopia.

She was born in a refugee camp in Sudan and her family was later granted asylum in the US.

“I decided to come here to stay.

“I work in a hospital. The Eritrea I am living in is not the one I hear about in the news.”

Over cappuccinos and delicately iced cakes in the pavement cafes of the capital, Asmara, I meet a few others like her – highly educated Eritreans who have chosen to return from abroad to live and work, both in government institutions and private businesses.

I am free to speak to whoever I want and there are no government minders with me.

There is a strong cafe culture in Eritrea

Some older people have come to retire.

I visit one old man in an elegant villa, splashed with the pinks and purples of bougainvillea flowers, in what was the “European quarter” of Asmara during Italian colonial days.

An elderly woman, who used to live in Germany, lives in a far simpler home.

Like many Eritreans, she enjoys evening strolls along the city’s wide avenues, lined with date palms.

Thousands of others come to Eritrea for their holidays. They are known as “summer butterflies”.

Eritrea held massive celebrations for its 25th anniversary

This is not what I was expecting.

Human rights groups, the Eritrean opposition and media reports often portray Eritrea as a terrifying place that everybody wants to run away from, that is fast becoming empty of its youth.

Not everything is straightforward for those who come and go. Rights groups say a 2% “diaspora tax” is a way of controlling Eritreans who live abroad. They say only those who pay are given visas and access to other consular services.

Automatic asylum

Members of the diaspora have foreign passports so they can leave when they want.

People with Eritrean passports cannot leave legally without an exit visa, which is difficult to obtain. Plenty are going illegally, crossing the border and risking their lives in the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea before they reach Europe.

Human rights groups say they are fleeing because of forced indefinite conscription, enslavement, torture, and mass imprisonment, sometimes in underground shipping containers.

Such reports have helped Eritreans obtain almost automatic asylum in many European countries, although there are moves to make this more difficult.

Eritreans on the move

• In 2015, more Eritreans crossed illegally via the Central Mediterranean than any other nationality.
• They made up 25% of this route’s total migrants in 2015.
• In 2011, 659 Eritreans were recorded on this route. By 2015, it had leapt to 38,791.

Source: Frontex: (European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union)

A United Nations-appointed Commission of Inquiry says “crimes against humanity have been committed in a widespread and systematic manner” for the past 25 years.

The allegations are denied by the Eritrean government, and described as “laughable” by its Head of Political Affairs, Yemane Gebreab.

“There is no basis to the claims. Everyone who knows anything about Eritrea, including European governments, will tell you this is rubbish.”

Western and other diplomats based in Asmara tell me the Commission of Inquiry’s report is “unhelpful” and does not reflect accurately the current situation in Eritrea.

They say the country is authoritarian, but describe as “absurd” descriptions in the media and elsewhere of Eritrea as “Africa’s North Korea”.

An international human rights worker I meet outside the country says an estimated 30% of people who claim to be Eritrean for asylum purposes actually come from Ethiopia.

I’m told others are Sudanese.

Some Ethiopians and Sudanese share languages, physical characteristics and cultures with Eritreans, and it is significantly easier to obtain asylum as an Eritrean.

‘No war, no peace’

In spice markets, on rugged, terraced hillsides and in orderly queues for red buses, I meet Eritreans who do want to leave.

Many say they feel trapped in national service, which they have to enter once they have completed their education.

Human rights groups say some Eritreans are forced into national service indefinitely

The majority are given civilian duties, such as teaching or working in a ministry.

They say they have little or no choice as to what role they are assigned or to which part of the country they are sent.

The worst part, they say, is that they have no idea for how long they will be in national service.

I meet men who have served for nine, 10, 12 years.

Officials tell me national service is essential because Eritrea is in a state of “no war, no peace” with its giant neighbour, Ethiopia, against whom it fought an as yet unresolved border war from 1998-2000.

Others have different reasons for wanting to leave.

Many complain about the economy.

Some want to join family members or dream of furthering their education.

“I want to study engineering in the US,” says one woman.

Students in their last year of school do military training as well as academic work

Some seem attracted by the glossy images of the West they see on the dozens of TV channels available.

Satellite dishes are like a disease in Eritrea; they are dotted on the roofs of houses in poor urban areas, on huts in villages.

I meet a group of young people who are determined to stay and push for reform from within.

“We need change and we will try to fight from the inside,” one tells me. “I want to be free”.

Another says: “We are afraid of our government. There are spies everywhere and we do not know who are they are.”

Losing its youth

Others tell me they love Eritrea and want to help develop their 25-year-old country.

“Eritrea is criticised for having no democracy, no parliament, no constitution, no independent media,” says one young man in a late-night bar, as he sips local Asmara beer straight from the brown, thick-glassed bottle.

“But what is the point of elections in Africa? They lead to ethnic divisions and violence.”

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Many supplement the low pay of national service by doing other jobs.

Some only have to do their national service jobs in the afternoons, or for two days a week.

They spend the rest of time working in shops, as taxi drivers, for foreign embassies and privately-run factories.

The government is in the process of increasing the amount of money people receive when they are in service.

“We want young people to stay,” says Mr Yemane, “Eritrea does everything it can to create opportunities for them, such as free education.”

In a recent speech, President Isaias Afwerki said the West was deliberately trying to weaken Eritrea by encouraging the population to leave with its generous asylum policies.

Dressed in khaki, this tall, tough-looking man, with a big black bushy moustache, said the West was sabotaging the economy, “with the aim of creating poverty and starvation to instigate crisis”.

But now, after years of international isolation, Eritrea and the outside world are slowly opening up to each other.

Eritrea’s president says the West’s generous asylum polices are weakening the country

Eritrea is making more friends in the Arab world.

This is partly because of the war in nearby Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is fighting Houthi rebels.

Eritrea’s Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh Mohammed, told me one member of the coalition, the United Arab Emirates, was using ‘”logistical facilities at the port and airport” in the southern city of Assab.

The migration crisis has also acted as a catalyst for closer engagement, this time with Europe. Eritrea does not want to lose its youth, and Europe would prefer them not to come knocking at its doors.

By JACEY FORTIN

Since protests erupted in the Oromia region seven months ago, more than 400 people, almost all civilians, have died, according to a Human Rights Watch report.

GINCHI, Ethiopia (New York Times)  — In a grassy field, a group of would-be 12th graders kills time under the midday sun.

No one is going to school anymore, out of fear. In a town crawling with federal and local police officers, even talking in a large group can be dangerous, the young men say.

Seven months ago, protests erupted here in Oromia, a vast region in central Ethiopia that surrounds the capital, Addis Ababa, on all sides.

Since then, more than 400 people have died, with thousands wounded and tens of thousands arrested in a campaign marked by the “lethal force” of the Ethiopian security forces, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. Nearly all of those killed were civilians, it found.

“Many of those interviewed for this report described the scale of the crackdown as unprecedented in their communities,” the group said.

Getachew Reda, an Ethiopian government spokesman, called the figures baseless but acknowledged that scores of lives had been lost.

“The government regrets the fact that people were killed, because these were avoidable deaths,” he said. “But we believe in many parts of Oromia region, where the protests were quite common, security forces conducted themselves in a very professional and responsible manner.”

Ethiopia has claimed double-digit economic growth rates over the past decade. But the demonstrators argue that members of the Oromo ethnic group, Ethiopia’s largest, were increasingly marginalized as the government displaced small farmers, suppressed local languages and leased communal land to outside investors — all in pursuit of its singular vision for state-led development.

“Our rights were being abused, and we are the owners of this region,” said L.B., 20, a student in Ginchi who would not give his full name for fear of reprisal by the government. “We are only demanding our rights.”

Tensions between Oromia residents and the federal government are not new to Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country. But this outbreak of violence is particularly bad. Demonstrations have erupted in cities and small towns across the region, and security agents stand accused of responding with reckless, often fatal violence.

It all started here in Ginchi last November, when, citizens say, the government sought to clear space for foreign investors by cutting down trees in a nearby forest and taking over a patch of land that children used to play soccer.

When local high school students protested in the streets, L.B. and his classmates said, police officers responded quickly with gunshots, tear gas and arrests. Demonstrations spread quickly to the nearby city of Ambo, and then across the region. They continued in Ginchi, too, where students gathered in December to march in the streets once again.

That time, the young men said, security agents shot indiscriminately into the crowd, hitting three men. One got a bullet to the hip, they said. Another was wounded in the arm. And their classmate Aschalew Warku, 20, was shot in the head.

In the Human Rights Watch report, Mr. Aschalew is No. 75 on a list of 314 fatalities across the region over the last seven months. Dozens of unnamed others have died in the unrest as well, the report estimates.

The government spokesman, Mr. Getachew, countered with numbers from the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, which reported this month that 173 people had died during the Oromia protests and concluded that the police had responded proportionally.

Felix Horne, the researcher who wrote the Human Rights Watch report, voiced “serious concerns” about the commission’s impartiality.

“To suggest that the shooting of protesters was a proportionate use of force seriously undermines their credibility as an independent institution,” he said.

The protesters have seen at least one of their demands met. A so-called master plan to link Addis Ababa with neighboring towns in Oromia, which protesters saw as an incursion into Oromo territory, was canceled in January. The government has also met with residents and leaders to discuss their concerns.

But many activists say that their ultimate goals, which now include justice in the wake of brutal clampdowns, have not been achieved.

In Shashemene, a town in central Oromia, a 17-year-old student who asked to be identified only by his first initial, M., said that what had begun as a movement for basic rights had been reduced to a struggle to escape persecution by Ethiopia’s security agents.

“They are eager to traumatize us and kill us, and we don’t know how to overcome that,” he said, adding that he had lost two family members in the unrest and had been injured twice by baton-wielding police officers.

Protesting now, he said, would be too risky.

The young men who live in Ginchi feel the same, L.B. said.

“These protests brought the end of the master plan, and we stopped them from cutting down trees in our forest,” he said. “But that doesn’t change the fact that people are still getting arrested all the time.”

By Aaron Maasho

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian security forces killed more than 400 people in their bid to quell protests that wracked the Horn of Africa country’s vast Oromiya province since November, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

Plans to allocate farmland in Ethiopia’s largest region surrounding the capital for development sparked fierce demonstrations in November and spread for months, in the country’s worst unrest in over a decade.

Ethiopia has long been one of the world’s poorest nations but has taken impressive strides to industrialise its agrarian economy in recent years. However, reallocating land is a thorny issue in the country of 90 million people whose majority are subsistence farmers.

Authorities scrapped the land scheme in January, but protests and arrests continued.

The government rejected the findings of the report, saying there was no evidence to back up the death toll it cited.

In the 61-page report, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Addis Ababa deployed its military and used live ammunition for crowd control repeatedly as the protests spread, “often with little and no warning”.

The watchdog said tens of thousands have also been arrested during the crackdown, whose scale was described as unprecedented by witnesses in the report titled “Such a Brutal Crackdown: Killings and Arrests in Response to Ethiopia’s Oromo Protests”.

“The government should immediately free those wrongfully detained, support a credible, independent investigation, and hold security force members accountable for abuses,” said Leslie Lefkow, the watchdog’s deputy Africa director.

Government spokesman Getachew Reda said HRW had “plucked its numbers from thin air”, adding a domestic rights watchdog had carried out its own report. That body tallied 173 deaths.

“Even one person is one person too many. The government regrets the fact that people are killed because these were avoidable deaths,” he said at a press conference on Tuesday.

“But we believe in many parts of Oromiya where the protests were quite common, security forces conducted themselves in a very professional and responsible manner.”

The protests were a rare expression of dissent in a country where police are feared as heavy-handed and the government is seen as repressive.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has said his administration would address grievances in the Oromiya region and has blamed rebel groups for stoking violence

Tigist Gammee

Faayilii – Humnoota mootummaa Itoophiyaa mormii Oromiyaa irratti

WASHINGTON, DC (VOA Afaan Oromoo) — Gabaasnii Hiwumanan Raayitis Waach (HRW) fi koomishiniin Mirga Dhala nama Itoophiyaa, mormiin Oromiyaa irratti midhaa gahe, akkasumaas lakkoofsa namoota ajjeefamanii fi hidhamanii himuu iratti adda adummaa guddaa qaban.

Ministirri dhimmoota koominikeeshinii Itoophiyaa, obboo Getachoo Raddaa, “dhabni lamaan ammuma techoon wajjira saanii walirraa fagaatan gabaasni isaanis addaan fagaata,” jedhee, gaafi fi deebii gabaasa Raadiyo Ameerikaa, Heenook Samagzaabeerwajjin godheen. Getaachoon, Hiwuman Raaytis Waach akkataan itti waan jiru irratti daddabalee dhiheessu duris ammas fudhatama akka hin qabne dubata.

HRW irrammoo qorataa Itoophiyaa fi Eertiraa han ta’e Fiilix Hoorn, “Koomishiiniin Mirga Dhala Namaa Itoophiyaa tarkaanfiin humnoota mootummaatin fudhatame madalawaa dha jechuudhaa waan isaa dandeechise hin beeknu” jedhee, baratoota roorroo fi rakkiina qaban karaa nagahaa dhageechisifachuu dha karaatti bahan irratti humnoonni mootummaa dhukaasa kalattiidhan irratti banuun madalawwaa wan ta’e miti jedha.

Mormii Oromiyaatin wal-qabatee dhimmota HRW irratti xiyyeeffate keessaa han biraan, hidhamuu weelistoota, gazeexeessotaa fi hoggantootaf miseensota paartii siyaasaa mormiituu kessumattu kan Kongressi Federaalii Oromooti.

Karaa birratin ,mootummaan Itoophiyaa namoota qulqulluu morii Oromiyaa irratti lubun isaanii badee gadda itti dhagahamu ibsee maatii isaanii jajjabeessuu fi gumaa kaffaluufiidha waadaa galuun isaa hin yadatama. Qorataan HRW dubbisne garuu, maatii ijoolleen jalaa du’an baayyee dubisuu isaanii fi motummaan waan kanaa akka isaan hin qunnamne itti himuu dubbata.

Haala Oromiyaa amma akkamitti ibista jennanin, Fiilix “ammas haa xinnatu malee mormmin jira” jedhee yeroo amma kana Oromiyaa keessa sodaa guddaan jiraachuun isa hima. Dabaluudhaanis, “Kuni bu’aa tarkaanfii gara jabinaa mootummaan fudhateeti” han jedhu qorataan HRW kun, Oromiyaan ammas to’annaa human waraanaa jala jiraachuu ishii mirkaneessa.

Gabaasnni HRW biyyoonni alaa mootummaa Itiyoophiyaa kara adda addaatin qarqaaran yeroo humnoonni nageenya mootummaa Oromiyaa keessatti dhiiga nama hedduu dhangalaasan callisanii guddina Itiyoophiyaa dhaadhesan,jedhee, guddina biyyattin akka guddattu hoo barbaadan duramirggi namaa akka kabajamuu, keessaattu mirga dubbachuu fi warri miidhame haqa akka argatan dhibbaa gahaa gochuutu irraa eegama jedha.

#‎OromoProtests‬ Mootummaan wayyaanee lafa mana itti ijaarrattan isinii kennina jechuun hojjattoota mootummaa sossobachaa kan jirtu yoo ta’uu hojjattoonnis dambiin kun kan humna keennan walin ginne jechaa jiru ja’an! !

Odeessa Qeerroo Waxabajii 18/2016

FXG Shaggar lixaa magaala Amboo fi Gindabarat keessatti har’a Qeerroodhaan itti fufee jira. guyyoota muraasa dura Wayyaanee humna Finfinnee gara Shaggar lixaa shakkii qabduun gara Gindabarat fi Gincii irra qubachiistee turte. Qeerroon godina Shaggar lixaa sodaa humna waraana wayaaneef bakka hin laannee guyyaa har’a waxabajii FXG itti fufuudhaan tarkaanfii fi dhaadannoo dhageesisuudhaan FXG itti fufuun Qeerroon kan gabaaseedhaa.

Akka maddeen keenya Qeerroon godina Shaggar lixaa addeessutti magaala Ambotti har’a ganama irraa kaasee daandinis cufaa ture Qeerroon dhuunfatee sirbota qabsoo dhageesisuu fi asii achi socho’uudhaan dhaadannoo dhageesisaaa tureera. Gara sa’a boodatti wayyaaneen sochii Qeerroo magaala Ambootti feshelessuuf humna poolisii qabdutti dhimma baatee Qeerroo dura dhaabbachuuf yaalii taasiste tarkaanfii Qeerroon poolisoota irratti fudhateen poolisii Wayyaanee mgaala Amboo keessaa baasuudhaan sirbota qabsoo fi dhaadannoo garagaraa dhageesissaa oolaniiru.

Odeessa Qeerroo gabaafame waliin

• OROMIYAAN KAN OROMOOTI
• ABBAAN BIYYUMMAA OROMOODHAAN HAA MIRKANAA’U
• ABBAAN BIYYAA ABO DHA!
• BILISUMMAA FI WALABUMMAAN DEEBII QANSOO KEENYAATI
• QABSOON GARA WAYYAANEE MALEE GARA ERTIRAA MITI
• ILMAAN OROMOO WARAANA WAYYAANEE KEESSA JIRTAN HIN GOWOMINAA DU’AAFIS HIN OF HIN WAREEGINAA UUMMATA KEESSANIIF DHAABBADHAA
• RASAASNI DUUBATTI NUN DEEBISU
• HIDHAAN HIIKA HIN TAHU
• WAYYAANEEN SAAMTUUDHA OFIRRA KAASNA

Jechuudhaan dhaadannoo dhageesisaa oolaniiru.

Waxabajjii 17-18/2016 Godina Horroo Guduruu Wallaggaa Aanaa Abbaay Coommaan Suuluula Warshaa Sukkaaraa Finca’aa Fi Mana Barusuu Suuluulaa Finca’aatti Warraaqsii FXG Bifa Adda Ta’een Dhoofame Alaabaan ABO Fajjiin Qabsoo Bilisummaa Oromoos Ol Qabamee Dhaabamuun Ibsame Jira.

Goototni uummatni Oromoo hojjettootni warshaa Sukkaaraa Fincaa’aa ,goototni barattootni Oromoo Mana barumsaa Suluulaa Fincaa’aa sadarkaa 1ffaa kutaa 1ffaa hanga kutaa 8ffaatti jiran warraaqsaa FXG finiinsuun alaabaa ABO mooraa mana barumsichaa keessa dhaabbachuun sa’aa 4:OO oliif fajjiin qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo alaabaan ABO dhaabbate tureera. Sochiin warraaqsaa kun mooraa warshaa sukkaraa fincaa’aa keessattis daran jabaachuun dargaggootni jiraattootni Oromoo hojii dhabdootni naannoo warshaa Sukkaaraa fincaa’aa waliin walitti dhufuun warraaqsaa FXG daran finiinsuun gabaafame. Sababaa guddaan Warraaqsaa FXG kanaaf adda ta’ee Mootummaan abbaa irree wayyaanee hojjettoota haaraa warshaa sukkaaraa Fincaa’aaf namootaa naannoo Oromiyaa fi Oromoo hin ta’a’iin 40 fidee warshaa Sukkaaraa Fincaa’aa keessatti qacare midaa guddaan akka tajaajilaniifi basaastummaa fi shira dalagaa jiraataan kan taasifame yoo ta’uu, Uummatni Oromoo fi dargaggootni Oromoo Warshaa Suluulaa Finca’aatti argamanii fi Uummatni jiraattootni naannoo warshaa dargaggootni keenyaa hedduun barnoota sadarkaa digirii fi diplomaan eebbifamanii hojii dhabaa ta’anii utuu jiranii nanoota hin baratnee fi kashalabboota naannoo biro irraa finadanii uummatarratti ramaduun hacuuccaa guddaa fi roorroo mootummaan abbaa irree nurratti raawwachaa jirudha jechuun Furmaatni uummatni keenya qabu warraaqsaa keenyaa gama hundaan jabeessuu mirga abbaa biyyummaa keenyaa kabachiisuuf Warraaqsii FXG itti fufuu qabna jechuun warraaqsaa dhoosuun shira diinaa dura dhaabbatan. Mootummaan abbaa irrees akkuma amala isaa humna waraanaa agaazii uummatarratti bobbaasuun uummata goolaa jiraachuun ibsame jira.
Injifannoon uummata Oromoof!!

DHAAMSA ARIIFACHIISAA SHAASHAMANNEE IRRAA
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Kutaa Sikkoo fi mandoo magaalaa Shashamanneetti farreen qabsoo Oromoo mootummaan ijaaramanii Oromoota irratti tarkaanffii ajjechaa fudhachaa akka jiran Oromoonni magaalaa Shaashamannee fi handaara magaalaa kanatti argamtan quba qabdu.Kan ajjeessu eenyummaan isaa beekamuu baatus sabaa fi sablammoota walitti buusuuf gama mootummaatiin gurmaa’ee kan qindaa’e ta’uu ni beektu.Kan ittiin ajjeesan dhukaasanii osoo hin taane albee fi meeshaalee waraanaa sagalee hin qabneen.

Lafti galgaloofnaan Oromoo ta’ee gonkumaa magaalaa kana keessa socho’uun lubbuu ofii dabarsanii kennuu ta’eera. Kan ajjefamu Oromoo kan ajjeesu diina.Hamma ammaatti turtii torbaan lamaa keessatti yoo xiqqaate lubbuun Oromoota shanii/5/ dabarteerti.Oromoonni sadeet/8 / hospitaalota akka Shaashamannee,Hawaasaa fi Finfinneetti yaalamaa jiru.Lubbuun baraaramuuf du’uun isaanii yaaddoo keessa galeera. Kanaafuu;

1. Poolisiin Oromiyaa yeroo gabaabduu keessatti qaama wanta kana raawwataa jiru sakattaatanii ummataaf akka dhiyeessitan isin dirqaamsiifna.
2. QEERROON magaalaa Shaashamannee qaama gurmaa’ee ummata fixaa jiru kana gurmuu teessan cimsuun akka too’anna jala oolchitan waamichi hatattama isiniif godhameera.
3. Jiraattonni, Maanguddoonni, Abbootiin Qabeenyaa,Daldaltoonnii,Barattoonnii fi Qaamoleen hawaasaa kamiiyyuu waan kana dammaqinnaan hordofuu qabdu.
4. Bulchiinsi Magaalaa Shaashamanne qaama gurmeessitee albee fi meeshaa sagalee hin qabne hidhaachiiftee ummatatti bobbaasteef lubbuu namoota du’anii fi du’uuf jiraaniif itti gaafatama kan fudhatu mataa kee akka ta’e hin dagatin.
5. Bulchiinsi Godina Arsii Lixa osoo teessoon kee magaalaa san keessa ta’ee jiru gocha kana hamma ammaatti adda baasuu dhabuun kee itti gaafatama jalaa akka si hin baafne beekadhu. Akkasumaas qaamonni bulchiinsaa magaalaa kana keessa jirtan gocha kana yoo daandii hin qabsiifne taatan taa’aa nu eeggadhaa.
6. Ilmaan SIKKOO fi MANDOOtiif;Hamtuu tana dhagahaa jirtu,hamma qaamni bulchiinsaa furmaata itti kennutti gochaaleen akkana magaalota naannawa kana kan akka Nageellee Arsitti babaldhataa waan jiruuf waan naannawa keessanitti ta’aa jiru dammaqinaan akka hordoftan.

Walumaagalatti ajjeechaan daandii jijjiiratee kutaalee Oromiyaa hundatti babaldhachuuf waan qiyyeeffame fakkaata.Akkuma duraan namaa fi qabeenyaa keenna tiksaa turretti ammas keessan wal beekuu fi wal eeguun dirqama. HUBACHIISA;Qaamoleen mootummaa qaama mootummaan gurmeessee ummata ficisiisaa jiru kana yeroo gabaabatti yoo ummataaf hin dhiyeessinee nuti ilmaan Oromooti miti. Yeroo gabaabduu keessatti FDG kan tarkaanffii fi haleellaa qaamolee utubduu mootummaa barbadeessuu akka isiniifi qabeenya keessan liqimsu hin shakkinaa.

‪#‎OromoProtests‬-(18.06.2016, ‪#‎FreeOromia‬, Oromia) Komishiniin polisii Oromiyaa (KPO) Ob ZelalemJamaanee ofi biratti fuudhee torchii gochaa jira.
Zalalem Jamaane akka hidhameen gara waajjira Poolisii Sabbatatti geeffamee hidhaa jala ture.
Yeroo ammaa kana immoo ajaja hogganoota TPLFn gara Komishinii polisii Oromiyaa geeffamee dararama ajira.
Yeroo ammaa kanatti firris ta’ee abukaatoon isa argaa hin jiran.
KPO kan naannoo Saarisitti geessuu naannoo Agoonaa Siniimaatti argamu keessatti qaamolee Feederaalatiin dararamaa jira.
Miseensa hoji raawwachiiftuu OPDO fi hogganaa Waajjira Qonnaa kan ture; Zalaalam Jamaanee, Waxabajjii 9, 2016 magaalaa Bishooftuu keessaa qabamuun hidhamee ture.

1- የደሕንነት ቢሮ መርማሪ ግድያ = 2- ዲና ሙፍቲ ድንቁርና እና አደርባይነት ክፉ እርግማን ነው።
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Minilik Salsawi (ምንሊክ ሳልሳዊ) – ሁለት ኣስገራሚ ጉዳዮች ባለፉት ሁለት ቀናት ሰምተናል ኣይተናል ኣንዱ በኣዲስ ኣበባ ደህንነት ቢሮ ውስጥ በኣሮጌ ኣይሮፕላን ማረፊያ አቅራቢያ በሚገኘው የምድር ለምድር እስር ቤት ውስጥ በተማረረ እስረኛ ባልተጠበቀ ሁኔታ የተገደለው የደህንነቱ መርማሪ ኪሮስ ሃብተማርያም ኣረጋይ ሲሆን ሁለተኛው ደግሞ ድንቁርና እና ኣደርባይነት የተጠናወተው በኬንያ ቴሌቭዥን ላይ የተላለፈው የኢትዮጵያና የኤርትራ አምባሳደሮች መወናጨፍ ነው፥ ስለ ኤርትራው ኣምባሳደር ባይመለከተኝም በኢትዮጵያ ስም ግን የሚነግደው አምባሳደር ግን ምን ያህል ዶንቆሮ እና ኣደርባይ መሆኑን ማሳየቱ የወያኔን ኣገዛዝ ጸረ ኢትዮጵያ አቋም ቁልጭ ኣድርጎ ያሳያል።

SEENAA  Y.G   (2005)!! kutaa 2ffaa

Sochiin Qeerroo fi Qarree Ummata Biyya keessaa fi alaa akka waliin dhaabbatan taasiise, Gama tokkon Imaanaa abbootii isaanii dhaaluu isaanii kan mirkaneessu ta’uu hubachuu feesisa. Imaanaa keessan nu bira ga’eeraa jechuu isaaniiti. Humna Tokkummaa Oromoo addunyaatti argisiisuun, wayyaanee, humnoota alaa fi jala deemtoota, akkasumas, Qabsoon osoo alaa hin gallee wal unkuranii fi ka’uumsa isaanii dagatanii arraba dheerrefataniif, akeekkachiisa dhaabbii isaanii akka ilaalan kan taasiisudha. Yeroo kanatti sochiin faallaa kanaa taasifamu hundumtuu, bu’aa Ummatichaaf yaadamee gaggeeffamu mitii. Qeerroon ykn Ummati Biyya keessaa aarsaa lubbuu bakka bu’aa hin  qabnee kafalamaa osoo jiruu, adeemsi  rakasaa bifa kamiiyyuu, hololaan ykn nuutuu beekaadhaan, yk dubbiin nu qofaaf galtee jirtii jedhanii kanneen lafa dhiphisaniif, Afaan Oromoon sirbaa dhiichiisa habashaan dafquun waggaa 40f bu’aa tokkollee akka hin argamsiifnee qalbifadhaa jechuun alaa waan itti himamu hin jiru. Haa ta’uutii, Namoonni akkasii maalif hojii boonsaa irraa dheessanii, hojii mandaraa keessatti of laaquu? jennee gaaffii yoo kaafnee, barruu kiyya kutaa tokkoffaa eegale keessaa deebii quunsaa argattu. Har’as qabxiilee hafan tarriseen dubbii xumuraan lafa kaa’uu barbaada. Kutaa 1ffaa keessatti,   1. DHIIGAAN OROMOO TA’UU:-       2. OROMUMMAA:-    3. SABBOONUMMAA:-  4. WAREEGAMA:-hanga tokko iaalleerra. Qabxiilee nu hafanitti ceenee ergaa barruu kanaatti deebina.

4. WALABUMMAA :-

Walabummaan Wareegamaan argamti. Qabsoo Ummata tokko keessatti sadarkaa wareegama barbaachisu kafaluu irra ga’uuf bu’aa ba’ii hedduu qabdi. Wareegama kafaluu irra ga’uun murteeffachuu jechuudha. Wareegama barbaachisuu waan barbaachisuuf oolchinaan, Walabummaan Biyyaa fi Bilisummaan Ummataa waan hin oollee. Qabsoo ummata kanaa hundeessuu irraa hanga har’aatti cichanii waliin kan jiran fi Qeerroon har’aa seenaa gootootaa dhiiga isaan mirkaneessn, mirga Ummata isaanii fi mirga Umamaan Ummati isaanii qabutti iggitii gochuuf hanga wareegamaatti waan murteeffataniif qofaadha. Wareegamaaf dhaabbachuu jechuun Ummata ofiif lubbuu , qabeenyaa, yeroo kkf ofirra caalichisanii warruma isaan abaarullee dabalatee dabarsani kennu jechuudha malee, dantaa borii herreeggatanii akka hin socha’iin mirkaneessa. Walabummaa hegaree isaanii bira ga’uuf Wareegama baasu. Gammachuu walabummaa keessaaf hundeen wareegamaaf of qopheessuudha. Nuuti har’a Walabummaa Biyyaa fi Bilisummaa Ummata keenyaa keessa hin jirru. Wareegamatti amannaan garuu walabummaan harka keenya keessa jirti. Waan Walabummaa keessaa saammachuuf jecha, ykn soorummaa wayyaanee ilaalanii gamanumaa of qopheessuuf na argaa na argaa jechuun, wareegamatti amanuu jechuu miti. wareegamni hololaa hin jiru. wareegamni hangafoota qabsoo abaaruun baafamu hin jiru. wareegamni arrabaa hin jiru. Walabummaan wareegama dhugaan qofaa argama. Walabummaan wareegama irratti hundofti. Sabboonummaa fi Oromummaan wareegama dheessituu, bakka kabajaa irraa salphinaatti nama konkolaaachifti. Karaa dhugaa Namoota hedduutu eegala. Kan xumuru garuu muraasa kan jedhamuuf kanaafi. Kan Seenaan ol kaaftee, abbichi ammoo salphinatti kan of darbuu kanumaafi.

5. OROMOO :-

Oromoo Mirga guutuu qabu ta’uuf gatii walabummaa baasuu gaafata.  Nuuti gaafa Biyya keenya mirkaneeffannee Oromoo abbaa Dhibbaa taana. Kun adeemsa keessa jira. Warra cabsituu fi Sabboonummaan kiraabaataan of mul’isuu ykn xiinxalaa ta’uutti ibsatan,, kaartaa Oromiyaa amma tokko ibsiitu, Afaan Oromoo Afaan Hojii fi barnootaa ta’uu, Ummata aadaa fi seenaa mataa isaa ta’uu fi kunis Faayila dhaabbata Mootummaa keessatti banameefii jiraachuu qabsoon kan argamee itti hin fakkaatu. Ijoolleen daa’imman ilmaan isaanii ta’an Dhiigaan wareegama kafalanii baatiilee muraasa keessatti dhimma ummata isaanii ajaandaa addunyaa taasiisan kana holola facebookii irratti wal hammacaniin madaaluu barbaadu. Kun ammoo wallaalummaa isa hangafaati. Nama boruu wareegama ijoollee kanaan Oromoo ofiin jechuuf taa’uu, wareegama kana waa hanqisu irraa of qusachuu qaba. kun Oromoo hanqisuuma.

Yaada walii galaa !!!!!!!!!!!

Dhiigaan Oromoo ta’uun Oromummaa hin ibsu. dhiigaan Oromoo ta’anii, amalaa fi aadaan Habashaa ykn kaa biroo ta’uun of hanqisuudha. Afaan Amaaraan yaadaa Afaan Oromoon dubbachuun Afaan wal keessa makuu fi dubbii wal keessa makutti nu geessa. Amala habashaan hammacamaa , ani Oromoodha ofiin jechuun dhiigaan ta’uu keenya qofaa mirkaneessa. Yaadoota kanneentuu ganda namaa nama dhaaba. Kan ofii dhiifnee kan halgaa akka dhaadheessinu nu taasisa. Kanatu fira irra diina waliin dhaabbannee dhiiga ofii akka ajjeefnu nu taasisa. Kanatu kabajaa wal nu dhawwisiisa. Kanatu mirga sharafamaatti akka amannu nu taasiisa. Oromummaan ulaagaa mataa isaa qaba.  Oromummaan aadaa ofii beekanii ittin buluudha. Waan ummati ofii qabuuf ulfina kennuudha. Oromummaan afaan ofii qulqulleeffachuudha. Oromummaan garuu mirga dhumaa goonfachuu miti. aadaa fi seenaa, duudhaa saba ofii gaggeeffachaa, Afaan Ofiinis hojjachaa kkf raawwachaa Gabrummaan ni jirti. Isa amma wayyaaneen raawwataa jirtu. Yeroo hedduu Oromummaan kun of dhaadhessuutti nu fiiksiiti. Oromummaan Biyya osoo hin qabaannee kanneen hafaniin jiraachuudhaa jedhanii deebii ofii laannaan, Oromummaan deebitee gabrummaaf daboo baatii.

Waan Oromummaan qabdu tikifachuuf sabboonummaatti ce’uu gaafata. Sabboonummaan Oromummaa caalaa murannoo of keessaa qabdi. Sabboonummaatu dhaloota har’aa wareegama barbaachisuu kafalanii Ummata isaanii walboomsuuf akka murteeffatan taasisee. Maaliif jennaan dhalooti kun Dhiigaan Oromoo ta’uu, Oromummaa qabaachuu fi sabboonummaa irra tarkaanfatanii wareegamaaf kan isaan hiriirsee, waan tarrifne kana keessa dabranii waan guddataniifii. Dhiiga isaanii keessa jira. Oromoo keessa jiraatan. Oromumman guddatan. Sabboonummaadhaan dhaabbatan. Aadaa fi seenaa xiqqaattus ittuma guddatan. Oromummaa fi sabboonummaa dubbisanii hin argannee. Dhimma ummata isaanii qoratanii gabaa irra oolchuu keessaa hin araggnne. Akkuma warra qabsoo keessa cichee har’aan ga’ee, keessuma jiraatanii wareegamatti amanan.

Sabboonummaan namoota hedduu dogoggorsitee, akka of dhiibanii fi xiinxalaa jedhanii akka of dhaaban isaan taasisu kun, sabboonummaa sobaa wareegama hedduu sodaatudha. Sabboonummaa dhugaan seenaa kaleessaa hin abaaru. Wareegama kamuu hin busheessu. Dantaa isaa ilaallatee tokko abaaree tokko hin faarsu. Abbaa abaaree ilma hin jaju. Sabboonummaan akkasii kan facebookii irraati. Sabboonummaan dhugaa obbolaa bakka lama hin dhaabuu. Sabbonummaan dhiigaan Oromoo ta’uu irraa utaaleema ol ba’uu barbaadu, amma midhaan gaadiduu jalatti guddateeti. Hojjaatu ykn arrabatu dheerata. Yeroo isaa malee ol dheerata. Yeroo gadi deebi’uu garuu kan yeroo guddatee irra ariifata. Guddachuu irra kufaatii isaatti jabaata. Oromummaan sabboonummaa dhugaa hin qabnee, waltajjii fi miidiyaa irratti lallabuun beekamuuf yaaluun tokko. Sabboonummaa dhugaan wareegamaan goolabamti. Sabboonaa fi Boonuu adda baafachuu qabna. Oromummaan boonuun sabboonummaa ta’uu dhiisuu danda’a. Sabboonummaan Alaabaa uffachuu ykn uffata aadaa uffachuun ibsama miti. kun tokko ta’uu mala. Sabboonummaan dhugaa wareegama gama hundaa baasuuf of qopheessuudha. Haasaa irra ykn of tuulummaa irra hojiin of argisiisuu yaaluudha. Sabboonummaa dhugaan, badii kaleessaa barachuu irraa madda. Badii kaleessaa suduudaanis ta’ee karaa biraa irra deebi’uun gonkumaa hin ibsamu. Oromummaanis seenaa dabree xureessuun gonkumaa hin ibsamu. Sabboonummaan hojiitti amanuudha. Sabboonummaan waan qabsoo saba kanaaf fayyadu hundaa itti fayyadamuuf yaaluudha. Obsa qabaachuudha. Sabboonummaan qoodamuu fi nama dhuunfaan jibban sadarkaa Ummataatti akka jibbamuuf itti duuluu of keessaa hin qabu. Sabboonummaan siyaasaan bilchaachuu of keessaa qaba. laga marqaa jennaan  ijoolleen boojjitoo fudhattee yaateen tokko miti. kabajaa mataa isaa qaba. ana qofaatu beekaa hin jedhu. Oromummaa dhugaan egaa, waan sabboonummaa keessaa kana hanga tokko guuttatanii sabboonummaan masakamanii of kennanii hojjachudha.

Wareegamaaf of qopheessuun isa gara fuula duraa qofaa yaaduudha. Dantaa ummataa qofaa dursuudha. Hololaa fi jette jettee waggaa 25 irraa waan argannee hin qabnuu jedhanii murteeffachuudha. Namni wareegamatti amanee qabsoo saba isaa rakkoo irraa tikisa. Wareegamaaf of laachuun kan kaleessaa abaaruu fi sukkuumuuf yaaluun furmaata hin jedhu. Sochii Biyya keessaa addunyaan raajeffattee kun, mirga ofii mirkaneessuuf wareegamni waa maraa barbaachisaadhaa jedhanii murteeffachuu irraa dhufaa. Kana gochuu dhabanii waan dubbisaniin sammuu fi qalbii of dhiitessinaan umurii guutuu wal abaaraa jiraachuu hordofsiisa. Har’a adii ta’aanii boruu gurraachaa ta’uuf yaaluudha. Dhaabbii dhabuu fi salphachuu hordofsiisa. Wareegama haqaa ijoollee kanaa booda Walabummaatu jira . kun shakkii hin qabu.

QALBEEFFADHAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Har’aa Tokkummaan humnaa jechuu bira tarree, Humna tokkummaa argisiisaa jirra. Dhiigaan Oromuu ta’uu qofti bu’aa akka hin qabnee OPDO fi kachachaltoota irraa barannee jirra. Sabboonummaan wareegamaan hin utubamnee, Sabboonummaan ykn Oromummaan wareegamaan hin iggitamnee bubbultee akka nama salphiftuu fi Ummata madessituu gantoota diinatti of laatanii fi warra hololaa irraa barannee jirra. Qabsoon Oromoo Bilisummaa Oromoo fi Walabummaa Oromiyaatti tarkaanfachuuf, Ummata miliyoona 40 taana jennu kana keessaa miliyoona 1 kan wareegamatti murteeffate irratti yoo hojjannee , galii barbaannuu akka mirkaneeffannu shakkii hin qabu. Kan wareegamatti amanee muratee hiriirfatanii , diinas ta’ee Gufuu qabsoo ormoo kan ta’ee qalqulleessanii Abbaa Biyyummaa Oromoo mirkaneessun ni danda’ama. Oromoon kan sabboonummaan isa dhiiteessee ana malee jedhuu dhiisee, Oromummaa akka arraba re’ee nama iyyisiisuu dhiisee, sabboonummaa wareegama sodaatuus of keessaa qulqulleessee, injifannoon wareegama booda isa jedhuu qofa isa jedhu hiriirfatee qabsoo finiinsuun fardiidha.

Ertiraan kan Bilisoomtee warra wareegamatti amanan hiriirsiteeti.Afriikaan Kibbaa Walabummaa har’aaf kan ga’an murtii dhumaa Dargaggoonni wareegamanii Biyya isaaniif dabarsuutti amananiinii. Filitsixeemoonni qarqara walabummaa irra dhaabbatanii kan jiran warra wareegamaaf of qopheessaniini. Biyyoonni hundi walabummaan isaanii wareegama irratti ijaarame. Seenaan addunyaa kana dhugeessa. Kanneen sagal galagalaniin Biyyi walaboomte gonkuaa hin jirtu. har’a warra wareegamatti amanan qofaa dhaggeeffanee waliin hiriiruu nu barbaachisa. kana jechuun Qabsaa’oota qabsootti of laatan maraa fi Qeerroo seenaa haaraa galmeesisu waliin hiriiruun jechuudha. Arrabni oduu baree Utubaatti asaasaa akkuma jedhamu warra hololaa fi jette jetteef dhalatan dhiifnee, warri wareegamaaf of qopheessee waan eegalamee finiinsuutu furmaata jedheen amana. Qabxiilee kana wallaaluun eessa akka jiran wallaaluudha. Eessa akka jiran wallaaluun, Salphoo Soqolattee saqoolaa gargaarutti nama geessa.beektii beektii jennaan……..isa jedhanitti nama faala. Dhalooti kaleessaa wareegamatti amanee Qabsoo kana Utubee qabee waliin jira. Dhalooti Gadaa isaanii 40 boodaas, Wareegamatti amanee seenaa hojjachaa jira. Inni kana gidduutii sirbuu , sirbi isaa lubbuu wareegamee fi wareegamaa jiru irratti haa ta’uu, wareegamaaf kan isa qopheessuu haa ta’uu, Sirba wareegama faarsuu haa ta’uu ……. Wallaaluu kan mul’iisuu dalagaa isaati. Kabajamee ka’ee salphachu isaa adda baafachuu dhabuu isaatii. Humna akkasiitu qabsoo dhaalaan habjuudha. Kan Qabsoo dhaaluu akka qabnuu boonnee dubbachuu dandeenya. QEERROO FI QARREE !!!!!! HORAA BULAA !!!

OROMUMMAA -> SABBOONUMMAA -> WAREEGAMA -> WALABUMMAA -> OROMOO – kutaa 1ffaa

By Tazabi

Qatari peace keeping troops near Assab

(Durame) — SAUDI worried about the recent incident and also mobilization of heavy Ethiopian weaponry along ethio-eritrean border, asked ethiopia not to engage with Eritrean army along ASSAB front and Ethiopia complied.

The situation on other front’s namely Zalmbesa and Tserona and badme is very tense and both sides are mobilizing heavy weaponry and any slight miscalculation from either side could trigger a full scale war.

Many TPLF centreal committee members are opposing the move to engage eritrea in a full scale war at this time citing the fact that Eprdf government doesn’t have the required support from Ethiopians to mobilize the nation. In a strange move, Oromo and Amharas members of Eprdf are voicing support the war to get TPLF stuck between a rock and hard place. TPLF is fully aware that Eprdf is heavily infiltrated and it doesn’t consult the rest of Eprdf member parties on anything. Eprdf is eroded from within by slipper cells of G7 and OLF. If the war started now, it will be strictly a tigray vs eritrea war.
Tigrayan elites who sensed this unfortunate scenario now turning 180 degrees and advocating for war of attrition in contrast to their known agitation for TPLF to march toward Asmara!

war of attrition wouldn’t be their Forte either,Eritreans coind the war of attrition military doctrine during their 30 years war of attrition with Soviet Union supported mighty Derg army and came out as victorious! And, war of attrition, would give enough time to the mushrooming Ethiopian armed rebels to recruit and expand their activities to all corners of the country.

The June 12 2016 incident has thought TPLF not to believe it’s own propoganda that Eritrean army is weak and disarray and can’t stand Ethiopia’s offensives.

Tplf soon might attempt to restore the false hope it managed to instill on its diehard supporters that it is invicble and eritrwan army is weakened by sanction and defections by launching “moral restoring” attack and accompany it with fabricated drama of portraying eritrwan refugees in tigrayn camps as prisoners of war and so on! TPLF army is forcing Tigrayans on border area to move to safe areas and it is preparing for “lightening strike” and on the other side eritrea is solidifying it’s fortification and more likely TPLF will fail in its attempt to cone up with quick victory to prove that it is viable force.
The risk with this kind of gamble is that if it looses, it will risk of lossing it’s credibility of its handlers mainly US administration.

TPLF might try to convince Americans to support its war against Eritrea by threatening that it might reduce its contribution in Somalia in order to redeploy it’s army on Eritrea front, however if it pulled that card against US, then it might risk it’s only card that is garnering it Washington’s support for its role in a war against terrorism. TPLF will stretch thin and loose in all fronts. If US administration sensed that weakness,as usual it might start blowing wih the wind and support eritrea and Ethiopian opposition groups. For TPLF, neither a war of attrition nor a full scale war will take itself out of the quagmire it inserted itself..the oromo students protest will continue to a new level and other nations will also follow suit.

Bereket’s assessment of Eprdf is right on the money! In his latest presentation to the front’s bigwigs, bereket warned that unless Eprdf undergoes a radical reform, it will destroy itself from within….to late for radical reform. tplf is now hated from inside and Eritrea also seems poised to launch its counter attack to claim it’s territory and it’s place in horn of Africa and Redsea strategic place.

Milkessa Hayiluu irraa

Namni Woyyaaneef lola dhakee dhumni isaa kana.

Akkuma baayyeen keessan hubattan yeroon fi barri amma keessa jirru kun haala heddu walxaxaa, qaxxaamuraa fi jijjiiramaa keessa jiraachuun keenyi hunda keenyaaf ifa galaa natti fakkaata. Haala ulfaataa fi jijjiiramaa ta’e kana immoo gara ofii keenya feenutti jijjiiruuf gara bilisummaa keenyaatti geessuuf kan beekumsa, dandeettii, humnaa fi hiree seenaa kan itti qabu isin dargaggoo Oromoo (Qeerroo Oromoo) Oromiyaa keessa jirtanii ti.

Seenaan qabsoo ummata Oromoo bara dheeraa suuta adeemee deemee dhufee harra irra gahee hiree ummata bal’aa Oromoo harka keessan galchee akka jiru waan hubattanii dursitani beektanii dirqama seenaan isinitti keenne kana bakkaan galiidhaan gahuuf qabsoo hadhooftuu harka qullaa keessan morma diina jalatti diina waliin kookkee walqabaa akka jirtan diinnis firris ni beeka. Haata’uutii jireenyi gabrummaa, ummata bilisummaa hin qabnee bifa kamiinuu taanaan ulfaataa fi gadadoo akka ta’e ifaadha.

Mootummaan garboomfattuus ummata hiyyoomsitee dinagdeetiin gadachitee ofii gaditti qabdee gara barbaaddetti micciirtee bulchuuf imaammata ishee isa tookooffaa akka ta’e beekamaa dha.Haala bifa kanaan yeroo ammaa kanatti Wayaaneen Dargaggoo Oromoo akka waliigalaatti hojii dhabdee fi hiyoomaa deegaa gootee raawwatteen booda amma kunoo hojiin isiniif arge koottaa Loltuu naaf ta’aatii Qoraan ta’aatii naaf gubadhaa. Nuti ilmaan Tigree moo isin duuba dhaabbannee isin ajajaa abiddatti isin oofna jechaan jiru. Yaa ilmaan qeerroo Oromoo, hammam illee jireenyi isinitti hammaattee jireenya gadadoo keessa jiraattan illee duula fi waaraana isin hin ilaallanne keessa seentanii Loltuu diina keessanii kan Wayaanee taatanii cunqursaa fi bittaa Wayaanee of irra tursuuf abidda waraanaa wayaaneen qopheessitee itti isin afeeraa jirtu kana keessatti tasa gonkumaa akka hin hirmaanne dhaamsa lammuummaa fi Oromummaa ti.

Ammaan booda bara dhaaloota qube kana keessatti lammiin Oromoo Dargaggoon Oromoo tokko Wayaaneef loltuu ta’ee qawwee baatee diina isaaf ittisa waraanaa ta’uun qaanii fi salphina qofa utuu hin taane kan seenaan illee bor dhiifama isaaf hin goone ta’u isaa hubatamuu qaba. Qeerroon Oromoo carraa qaawwa mijataa qabsoo bilisummaa isaaf tolu hundaa itti dhimma bahuudhaan qabsoo finiinsee yeroon inni diina isaa wayaanee of irraa buqqisee furmaata waaraa tokko akka isaaf tolutti fi gara isaaf tolutti fiduun yeroon isaa barri isaa amma male, barri itti Dargaggoon Oromoo habashootaaf loltuu ta’ee maqaa Itoophummaatiin qawwee baatee habashootaaf lolu barri isaa darbeera, tooftaan kun amma dargaggoo Oromoo qaroo birattii waan fudhatama qabu miti.

Warri tari jireenyi isinitti hammaattee Loltuu Wayaaneef ta’uu kan of yaaddan yoo jiraattaniif seenaa isa fagoo dhiisaatii isuma as dhihoo hogganoota OPDO warra turanii fi jireenya ilmaan Oromoo warra amma waraana wayaane keessa jiranii ilaaluun qofa barmoota guddaa fi hubannaa gahaa tokko isiniif kenna jedheetan amana. Kanaaf yaa Dargaggoo Oromoo murannoodhaan tokkummaadhaan bilisummaa keessanii fi birmadummaa Oromiyaaf qabsaawaa male Wayaaneef Loltuu taatanii obboleessa keessanitti qawwee akka hin dhokasne. Loltummaa bakka isiniin hin ilaallanne keessatti loltuu diinaa hin ta’iinaan dhaamsa koo isa maayiti. Qeerroon Oromoo harka walqabatee tokkummaadhaan Wayaanee yoo lole Oromiyaan ni bilisoomti, Hiyyummaa, hojii dhabdummaan fi gadadummaan ilmaan Oromoo irraa ni dhabama.

Shabaab claims to kill dozens of Ethiopian troops in southern Somalia

(The Long War Journal) — Al Shabaab, al Qaeda’s official branch in Somalia, claims to have ambushed and killed more than 60 Ethiopian troops in southern Somalia last week. The claim has not yet been independently confirmed by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), and the Ethiopian government has yet to release a statement about the attack.

The statement from Shabaab’s media office, which has been translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, says that the “highly successful ambush carried out by a company of Mujahideen fighters from the ‘Sheikh Abu Zubayr Battalion’ began on Thursday (June 11) afternoon.” The battalion identified in the statement is named after the former emir of Al Shabaab, who was killed in a US drone strike last year.

The jihadist group continues by saying that the unit destroyed 13 vehicles and killed dozens of soldiers in the Ethiopian convoy after “mowing them down with machine guns.” Shabaab claims that this ambush caused many in the Ethiopian ranks to retreat, leaving behind military hardware and “many of their comrades.”

When the Ethiopian contingent sent reinforcements to the area the next morning, Shabaab said that it targeted the convoy “with a martyrdom operation,” or suicide bombing. The jihadists claimed to have destroyed many more vehicles and killed several more Ethiopian troops in this attack. The spokesman ended the statement by saying, “This military feat against the foot soldiers of the Western crusaders serves as another poignant reminder to the disbelieving armies that the cost of invading Muslims lands is indeed bloody.”

Photos released by the jihadist group, many of which are too graphic to be published by The Long War Journal, show several burning vehicles, dozens of captured weapons, and the bodies of many Ethiopian troops.

It was also reported that Shabaab closed the main road between Mogadishu, the Somali capital, and Baidoa, where these attacks took place. A Shabaab official reportedly told Reuters that its forces “made the road impassable.” In doing so, the jihadists blocked any aid or extra reinforcements from reaching the area.

The attack on Ethiopian troops took place days before the al Qaeda branch attacked a Kenyan military base near the Somali border. The assault was repulsed and 11 militants were killed. One fighter who was killed was identified as British national Thomas Evans. Evans, who went by Abdul Hakim, originally said that he had joined the jihadist group back in 2012, according to his mother.

According to the BBC, “at least 50 British citizens are believed to have joined al Shabaab.” Kenyan authorities have also issued a $100,000 reward for the capture of a German national. The German, Andreas Martin Muller, is also said to have taken part in the attack on the Kenyan military base.

Caucasian fighters in the jihadist group have been increasingly featured in recent Shabaab propaganda from Kenya. In a video released in March showing the 2014 Mpeketoni attack in Kenya, several can be seen throughout the footage. In another released earlier this month, the same jihadists can be seen again in one scene of the video. Thomas Evans is thought to have been featured in one or both of these releases.

While the current media focus is on the Islamic State’s spectacular gains in both Iraq and Syria, Shabaab and its predecessor, the Islamic Courts Union, have controlled extensive areas of Somalia, including major cities, several times since 2006. Even today, Shabaab controls large portions of the countryside in southern and central Somalia, and still runs some towns and cities. An African Union offensive by forces from Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia, and Kenya has managed to drive Shabaab from the major cities of Mogadishu and Kismayo, but four years after the start of that operation and another last year, Shabaab still controls vast portions of the country.

Shabaab also retains the ability to mount attacks in Somalia and neighboring countries. In February, Shabaab was able to penetrate security in a heavily guarded area of Mogadishu and kill several members of the Somali government in a suicide assault.  In April, the jihadist group killed 147 people in an attack on a university in northeastern Kenya, which followed the deadly Westgate mall attack in 2013. Last year, the jihadist group was also able to mount a suicide attack in Djibouti, which killed one Turkish national.

The Tigray people’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is now a hollow shell with no national or Tigray agenda, which failed even to fulfill its initial agenda. It only exists in name to benefit a handful in the name of Tigray.

By Amanuel Biedemariam

(Tesfanews) — In 1998-2000, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) unleashed a deadly war against the people of Eritrea under the pretext of a boarder dispute. Soon thereafter it was evident that the agenda was and remains regime change and access to sea for greater (Abay) Tigray.

However, after over 120,000 Ethiopian and 19,000 Eritrean deaths, regime change by military force is unattainable. As a result these agendas have now taken various forms. The minority genocidal TPLF regime is consistently attempting to topple the government of Eritrea with the help of Washington.

These include unjustifiable illegal sanctions, attempt to isolate Eritrea, economic strangulations, intimidation of Diaspora Eritreans to stop supporting their government, attempts to stop the mining industry from taking-off and the sabotages are endless.

The first sanction that Ambassador Susan Rice pushed and passed in Christmas of 2009-2010 was arms embargo designed to tie the hands of Eritrea so the TPLF can have its way against Eritrea and failed. Since, in collaboration with the TPLF, the Obama administration has declared war on Eritrea’s youth and campaigned to ensure youth flight en-mass. On a speech at the Clinton foundation September 25, 2012, President Barack Obama said,

“I recently renewed sanctions on some of the worst abusers, including North Korea and Eritrea. We’re partnering with groups that help women and children escape from the grip of their abusers. We’re helping other countries step up their own efforts. And we’re seeing results. More nations have passed and more are enforcing modern anti-trafficking laws.”

This message was the green light Eritrean youth received as enticement to leave their country. The main objective of this message was to ensure Eritrean youth vacate the country in order to deny Eritrea her defense and work force.

Unfortunately, this was a call the entire world heard. As a result, millions from the region and other parts of the world were also enticed to seek refugee claiming to be Eritreans creating massive human waves through Mediterranean to Europe and other places.

Today, Washington is using the very youth flight that they encouraged to seek indictment against the leaders of Eritrea in the International Criminal Court (ICC), claiming that the youth flight is a result of systemic repression amounting to crimes against humanity. The so called Commission of Inquiry on Human rights on Eritrea (COI) is therefore formulated to make the case.

The arms embargo is to deny Eritrea the arms necessary for self–defense. And targeting youth and the leadership is designed to takeaway Eritrea’s human resources that can defend the nation. This is yet another regime change attempt by exploiting the international court system that is specifically designed to topple African leaders not in line with western agendas.

The Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) found the bogus COI findings as an opportunity and tried to exploit and unleashed a military attack to a) to divert attention from internal pressures and, b) to demonize Eritrea.

The TPLF believed that it can create a momentum against Eritrea by claiming that Eritrea waged war to divert attention from the findings of the COI.

TPLF is DEAD

In 1991, after the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front ousted Mengistu Hailemariam, the late Meles Zenawi became the Prime Minister of Ethiopia with the help of Eritrea.

At the time, the TPLF’s main agenda was greater Tigray or Abay Tigray. Ruling Ethiopia was not part of their calculus. However, to ensure that Ethiopia remains intact Eritrean authorities pushed the TPLF to play a national role.

This development was the beginning of the end for TPLF organization for three reasons:

>> By taking over Ethiopia, the TPLF was forced to shift from an organization that fought to liberate Tigray into becoming the leadership core of Ethiopia. This move forced the TPLF to partly abandon their Tigray cause.

>> TPLF’s increasing partnership with international multinational corporations and its reliance on various business ventures that it uses to control the nation has turned the core TPLF leadership into business personalities that are distant to the cause that propelled them to power and ultimately to financial gains.

>> The above two developments have turned the TPLF organization into a business organization that all involved see as a way to gain financial advantages. Doing revolutionary work, defending a nation from the trenches and sacrificing self for greater good have lost meaning for the veteran TPLF.

As a result, the former TPLF fighters are not on the trenches in Badme and places like Tsorona. They have vacated these fields altogether and those that remain are in military leadership positions. Almost all of the Ethiopian forces are comprised of other Ethnic groups and they are not committed to the TPLF agenda.

Key

The points above clearly show that the Tigray people’s Liberation Front is now a hollow shell that failed to fulfill its agenda. TPLF is an organization that can no longer nurture its base. Moreover, the TPLF has no national or Tigray agenda and therefore finished as an organization. It only exists in name to benefit a handful in the name of Tigray. And after the death of tyrant Meles Zenawi the identity crisis of the TPLF has reached new heights. The TPLF is increasingly loosing control and in disarray. The internal divisions are now public knowledge.

The latest propaganda of war is, therefore, a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the mounting internal pressures. To assure the international donors that the TPLF is still committed, capable and working hard to ensure the Eritrea regime change agenda on behalf of the west; to kill Eritrea’s economic developments, deter investors from coming into Eritrea and change the momentum.

The military campaign, therefore, had no national agenda behind it and as a result the blowback is killing the TPLF.

Ethiopians are condemning the aggression and signing petitions against the findings of the COI to protest against yet another international injustice on Africans. And importantly, because Ethiopians have come to conclude that the COI is ultimately designed against them. Ethiopians have seen the double standard that ignores the true crimes against humanity being perpetrated regularly by the TPLF which include genocides all over Ethiopia that the regime commits with impunity to ensure its survival.

Another important point from all these developments is the facts that in 1998-2000 when the TPLF waged war it managed to falsely garner the support of the majority of Ethiopia.

Today, the table is turned as majority of Ethiopia is working to topple the minority regime and willing to do it in partnership with Eritrea. Even the people of Tigray are arming against the TPLF, a prelude to ultimate doom.

Furthermore, the TPLF’s major investment in Ethiopia is in Oromia and with the uprising, the people of Oromia have made it clear that the TPLF can no longer loot their riches. To protect its investment the TPLF killed innocent Oromos en-mass. This has created irreparable damage. As a result Oromia is lifting arms against the TPLF.

The TPLF has done this in Gambella, Ogaden, Showa, Afar and all over Ethiopia.

The problem with this scenario is that the situation in Ethiopia is no longer predictable. If the status quo remains it will enhance the-risk for division and ultimately civil chaos. The Ogaden and Oromia can opt for Article 39 which can spiral to endless cycles of uncertainty.

Conclusion

The regime is completely disconnected from Ethiopia, from its original ideals and base. The only support it counts on is the support and alms it gets from the international community.

These are the last days of a dying regime that is ready to abandon ship with the millions they stole from the mouths of poor Ethiopian children. The TPLF looted Ethiopia in the name of Tigray and at the expense of the people in Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Eritrea and in the name of Africa.

The TPLF has failed. Today, Weyane or TPLF is enemy number ONE for Ethiopia and the region. It is therefore imperative to ensure its demise for the future of the region.

The TPLF has used the name Tigray extensively. This can pin the people of Tigray against the rest of Ethiopia. Hence, is incumbent upon the people of Tigray to see the damages that the TPLF has caused and join-in the efforts to rid Ethiopia and the region from the TPLF.

The Orma are semi-nomadic herders who live in the semi-arid bushlands of south-eastern Kenya. They are the southernmost representatives of the once powerful Oromo nation of Ethiopia and Northern Kenya. They are related to the Borana and other Oromo groups.

Some Orma had moved into the Tana area by 1850. Johan Krapf, the first Protestant missionary to Kenya, came with a desire to visit the “Galla.” This older term, which refers to all the Oromo groups, is seen in some sources for the Orma.

In the late 19th century the Orma were forced by Ogaadeen (Ogaden) Somali to migrate farther south into Kenya. They are at home now along the river, from the rich delta area of the lower Tana to the drier western Tana area. They live near the river in the dry season, and move further inland to the west in the rainy season.

A group of about 15,000 called Munyoyaya or Munyo speak the Orma language and are included by some sources in the population for the Orma. The Munyoyaya are fishers. Both the Orma proper and the Munyoyaya are Muslims.

History:
Before 1500, the Oromo-speaking peoples began migrating south from the northeastern highlands of Ethiopia, spreading gradually to the area north of Mt. Kenya and down the River Tana to the coast. These were cattle and camel herders, who raided more settled peoples as they migrated or ranged through various territories. The Orma were in approximately their current settlement areas by 1900.

They have come into increasing conflict with the neighboring Pokomo people.1 The Pokomo are farmers or fishers who live along the Tana River and depend on the river and its flooding cycles for the irrigation of their crops. The Orma are herders and need access to the river to water their herds Since 2001, there have been violent clashes and revenge raids between the two ethnic communities.2 Modern weapons have increased the number of fatalities and injuries in recent years over past conflicts.3

Drought conditions are always a threat also. In 2007, some relief was felt by Kenya from the long drought that had devastated crop production and thinned cattle herds. Conflicts with the Wardei people also continued after the drought condition had improved in October 2007.

The Wardei are a small ethnic group living in part of the Tana River District where the Orma live.4 The Wardei are also mainly pastoralists and live in the drier scrublands of the region, similar to the Orma. They, like the Orma and Munyoyaya, are Muslims. On the other hand, the Pokomo are Christians and more modern and more educated.5

Women traditionally are considered less important, even though they build the houses and take them down for tansportation when the group moves inland in the rainy season. Reports on the Tana River Water Project plans and goals indicate that the main beneficiaries of the project will be the women’s groups and public institutions, like schools, clinics and churches.

A 2006 report on this project by the Kenya Water for Health Organization (KWAHO) stated that a marked change had already occured in the status and attitude toward women, as they have been empowered in various ways by the benefits brought by the water project. The report indicated that the skills gained from training by KWAHO, giving women a greater say in directing the course of their life. There is a move towards greater finaincial independence for women.

The 2006 report also indicated that progress in coordiating the water project implementation has been limited by the ethnic conflicts in the region.6

Language:
The Orma language is an Eastern Cushite language of the Oromo family. Orma is similar to Borana-Arsi-Guji (also called Borana), but not mutually intelligible. Some Western Orma also understand Borana. Nearer the coast many speak Swahili.

Customs:
Cattle are central to the Orma culture. Herding is their only means of survival; they keep goats and sheep alongside their cattle. Cattle are paid as bride price from the groom’s family. They are also slaughtered at weddings and funerals. All of life focuses on the welfare of the cattle.

Meat is the main food, supplemented with milk and blood, though now some Orma also eat maize, rice, beans and tea. The arid climate of the upper Tana region is too dry to support agriculture, so the Orma there have no vegetables in their diet.

The Orma live in round houses which consist of a wooden framework covered with woven mats and grass. The women build these houses. When people move with the herds, the house is dismantled and put on a pack animal along with the household goods. A larger version of the houses are built for people who live in permanent villages.

Special ceremonies surround the birth of children. After a woman gives birth, the baby is dedicated at 7 days of age. The woman stays secluded for a total of 40 days. There is a feast with the other women in the village and the baby is dedicated again. The ceremony ends with the women dancing.

The expectations and demands of the encroaching technological modern life has led to cultural challenges. Government leaders foster modern education for the youth. This conflicts with the pastoral and traditional expectaton of Orma children to tend the herds. The children’s lack of control over the herds in the current situation has led to further clashes with their Pokomo neighbors. It is proposed that educating Orma and Pokomo children together will build peace and future friendship.

Religion:
The Orma are 99.9% Muslim. They converted to Islam starting three or four generations ago. They observe all the rites and festivals of Islam.

Christianity:
Johan Krapf, the first Christian missionary in Kenya, came to Kenya to reach the Oromo (Galla) peoples. There has been some effort by Africa Inland Church missionaries off and on since 1960. Finally concerted efforts by AIC began around 1980. The missionaries requested help from Bible Translation and Literacy to develop literature for evangelism and discipleship as well as Bible translation. Translation is under way but no scripture portions have been produced.

Gabra [‘Oromo’] Cultural Night in Nairobi (Kenya) | Nov. 14, 2015

People always think that the people who are good at things and talented just had it easy. They were born with it.

Icciitii wayyaanee B. Gen/Hayluu Gonfaa saaxile keessaa muraasa.
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1.Hospitaalli magaalaa Maqaleetti ijaarame qaama dhala namaa keessattuu kan raayyaa ittisaa filee “export” gochaa jiraachuu.
Akka Gen/Hayluun jedhanitti Tigiraayi keessatti waggaa tokko keessatti yoo xiqqate miseensota raayyaa ittisa biyyattii 1000 tuu dhukkuba adda addaa qofaa du’a. Reeffi kun hundi qaamni isaanii filamee biyya alaatti gurguramaa jira.
2.Maatii raayyaa ittisa mishinii(ergama) UN dhaaf bobbaafamanii du’aniif UN’n beenyaa tokkoo tokkoon nama dhu’eef $1,000,000 ykn qar. 22,000,000 kaffala. Qarshii kana garuu maatii wareegamtootaa utuu hintaane generaalota TPLF tuu addaan qooddata.
3.Mootummaan Tigree waraanni Ethio-Eritira akka badus akka ho’us hin barbaadu. Sababini isaas:
a, baajanni waggaa raayyaa ittisaa qar. biliyoona 20-30 dabalata bajata kanaan naannoo Tigiraayitu ittiin misooma, achitti waan dhangala’uuf.
b, Raayyaan ittisaa humnasaatiin hojii misooma naannichaa hojjechaa waan jiruuf
c, Daldaltoonniifi kontiraakteroonni naannichaa gabaa argataniin faayidaa guddaa argataa waan jiraniif.
4.Generaalonni TPLF qajeelcha ajajaa muummichaan (muummicha minstiraan) utuu hintaane waan sammuun isaanii ajaje qofa akka hojjetan. Kanaafuu yakka kamuu yoo dalagan akka itti hin gaafatamneefi ajaaan muummichaa (H/Maariyaam) kan hinbeekne ta’uu isaa saaxilaniiru.

‪#‎OromoProtests‬ Namoonni maqaan isaanii armaan gaditti tarreeffaman kun Godina Sh/K/Lixaatti aanaa Ammayyaa ergamaan wayyanee bulchaa ganda Harroojjii Ejersa Nadhii kan ta’e addunyaa magarsaa erga hiisisee ji’a 6 ol lakkoofsisanii jiru. Mirga wabiis murtiis dhabanii mana hidhaa ejersaa kan walisoo jiru keessatti hafanii jiru.
Maqaa, umurii fi hojiin isaanii kana:
1.shallamaa dirbabaa birru-umri-67-q/bulaa
2.urgeessaa ibsataa shorroo-um-57-q/bulaa
3.indaalaa tafarraa banabbaruu-um-70-q/bulaa
4.isheetuu tasammaa shallamaa -um.25-q/bulaa
5.tasfaayee warqinaa gurraachoo-um-48-q/bulaa
6.geetaachoo rafeeraa ukaa-um-28-q/bulaa
7.bareechaa galataa gargaaraa-um-19-q/bulaa
8.dajanee raffisaa baqqalaa-um-27-q/bulaa
9.warqituu asnaaqaa dassaaleny-dubarti-um-30-q/bulaa
10.tsaggaayee mitikkuu tsaggaa-um-55-q/bulaa
11.baqqalaa lateeraa gaaddisaa-um-35-q/bulaa
12.bulloo shallamaa qurus-um-45-q/bulaa
13.balaachoo naggasuu caalchisaa-um-22-q/bulaa
14.alamaayyoo dabbabaa jootee-um-40-q/bulaa
15.shantamaa abarraa gannatii -um-50-q/bulaa

Namoonni ragaa sobaa irratti bahaaa jiran:
1.addunyaa magarsaa-bulchaa gandichaa
2.bulloo adam
3.lateeraa caalchisaa
4.waaqjiraa naggasaa
5.dirribsaa tarreessaa-bulchinsafi nageenya gandichaa
6.biraanee shimallis-haadha manaa addunyaa bulchaa gandichaa via

Shashamannee Shororkaa Wayyaaneetiin miidhamaa jirti
Abbichuu Hawwaasni nuuf haa baru post taasisi
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Magaalaa Shashamannew keessa jiraachaan ture, Jiraachaan jiras, Garuu Abbichu Haalli gidduu tanaa Qaaquun nama surura,Halkan dukkana Uffatanii Dargaggoo jabduu tana lafu naqaa bulan,Torbee tana keessattille Namoota Torba Ajjeesaanii jiran,Eenyuun akka ajjeefaman hin beekamu,Ani gama tiyyaan Magaalattii gadi lakkisi na godha,Mootummaan Waraabeessi tun dukkana daheeffattee nu daguugaa jirti,Hawwaasi Shashamannee wal harkaa fuudhani tanuma qaaqaa jiran,Jiraachuu molqamuun keenya aarii guddaa nu seensisaa jira,Uummatille hedduu aaraa jira Magaalattii keessatti halli tunillee hin sirreefamu taanan Qeerroo Shaashee Tarkaanfii mataa teenya Fudhacuuf jenna.teessattu gochiin dheengadda Hiriyaakoo osoo salataa bahuu Ajjeechaa gara jabeessi irra gahe nagalle na dhorkee jira, Nuti Amantiin teenyallee mootummaa cinatti akka sarbamaa jiru argaa jirra,Barri nuti teenyee ofirratti ilaallu hafe jira. Hawwaasa Oromoo Shaashee jiruun Osoo dhalli teessan Dhoksaan duutuu teessanii nurratti akka hin ilaalle ittin nuu gahi

Kun Dargagoo Haarun Hajjiit kan guyyaa Jumaata , Waxabajjii 17, 2016, Magaalaa Shashamanet qaamota hin beekamneen ajeefame

Kun Dastaa Kadir Gammadaa Oromoota humna hin beekkamneen torba darbe kana keessa Shaashamanneetti ajjeefaman keessaa tokko.

Odeessa Mana Barumsaa Qopha’ina Amboo Barattoota achiirraa argameen

Odeeffannoon Amma Nu Gahe Akka Ibsutti Barataan Natural Saayinsii Tamasgan Jedhamu Qondaala Wayyaaneetiin Rukutamee Dhiigni Afaaniif Funyaaniin Bahuu Isaafi Akkasumas Mormii Fi Fincala Guyyaa Lamaa Booda Gaaffiin Barattootaa Fudhatama Argachuun Isaa Himameera! Dabalataan Barattoonni M/b Qophaa’inaa Amboo Barnootawwan Qarmaata Biyyoolessaa Irratti Hin Dhufneen Kanneen Akka IT, Drawingii Fi Kkf Nu Hin Cinqiinaa Gaaffiin Jedhu Barattoota Biraa Ka’uunsaa Fi Gaafichi Fudhatama Argachuun Isaas Himamee Jira.Haala Kanaan Qeerroon Magaalaa Amboo Mootummaa Wayyaanee Raasaa Jiru! Qeerroon Oromiyaas Haala Kanaan Finciluu Qabu Jechuun Dhaamsa Dhaamanii Jiru Qeerroon Magaalaa Amboo!

Genocide by TPLF security forces + Cholera disease + Hunger in Oromia !!