Ibsa ABO

Manneen hidhaa ilmaan Oromoo Oromummaa isaaniitiin yakkamuu fi gaaffii mirgaa gaafatuu irraa humnoota TPLF/wayyaaneetiin ukkaamsamanii keessatti gidirfaman keessaa tokko mana hidhaa Qilinxoo ti. Mana hidhaa ilmaan Oromoo fi dhalattoota saboota cunqurfamoo biroo dabalatee hidhamtoonni kumootaan lakkaawaman itti ugguraman kana keessatti balaa ibiddaa Fulbaana 3 bara 2016 gaheen miidhaan akkaan gaddisiisaan dhaqqabeera.

Gubachuu mana hidhaa Qilinxootiin wal qabatee hanga ammaatti ragaa argameen hidhamtoonni ibiddaan gubatanii lafeen isaanii argame namoota 7, kanneen balaa kana jalaa lubbuu baafachuuf odoo yaalanii loltoota murna Faashistii TPLF/wayyaaneetiin rasaasni itti roobsamee ajjeefaman namoota 10 oggaa tahan kanneen miidhaa ulfaataaf saaxilamanii hospitaalota adda addaa seenan biroon hedduu tahuu irraa ammaaf lakkoofsi miidhamtoota waliigalaa hin baramne.

Balaa ibiddaa kanaan manni hidhaa Qilinxoo guutummaatti barbadaawee, hidhamtoonni achi keessa turan kanneen balaa ibiddaa fi ajjeechaa suukanneessaa loltoota Wayyaaneetiin raaw’atame kana irraa lubbuudhaan hafan gara manneen hidhaa Zuwaay fi Awaash-arbaatti kan dabarfaman oggaa tahu, walumaagalatti miidhaan dhaqqabe kan olitti ibsame akka caalu amanna.

Addi Bilisummaa Oromoo, miidhaan kana fakkaatu hidhamtoota kumootaan lakkaawaman kan eegumsa akkaan jabaa (High Security) jala jiran mudachuu isaatiin gaddaa fi aariin itti dhagahame ol’aanaa tahuu ibsaa, miidhaa dhaqqabe kanaaf mootummaan Wayyaanee itti gaafatama jalaa kan hin baane tahuus hubachiisa.

ABOn maatii fi firoottan hidhamtoota mana hidhaa Qilinxoo keessatti haala hamaa kana mudatanii, akkasumas Ummata bal’aa Oromoo fi Ummatoota cunqurfamoo biroo waliin gadda ulfaataa kana kan qooddatu tahuu ibsa.

Maayii irratti ajjeechaa fi gidiraa suukanneessaa maddi isaa imaammata diinummaa murna TPLF/wayyaanee tahe kan bifa gara garaatiinii fi dhaabbattummaadhaan ilmaan Oromoo fi ilmaan Ummatoota cunqurfamoo biroo mudachaa jiru kanaaf furmaatni tokkichi filmaata hin qabne, Fincila Xumura Gabrummaa (FXG) wareegama feesisu hundaa baasanii daran finiinsuu fi Sochii Qabsoo Bilisummaa kan waliigalaatti bifa hundaan gumaachuudhaan sirna gabrummaatti xumura gochuu tahuu gadi jabeessinee yaadachiisna.

Injifannoo Ummata Oromoof!
Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo
Fulbaana 04, 2016

#OromoProtests- This is Oromia! the torture Oromo students in Dire Dawa University.

#oromoprotests Partial list of Oromos that have been killed as a result of Excessive force by Ethiopian Government armed forces during Peacful demonstration on August 6,2016, Oromia, Ethiopia .(updated 4

September 2016)
Nr Name Sex Age Zone Locality Killed by

This is martyr Samia Ahmed Hassen who was killed in Awaday, East Hararge by Agazi forces on 6 August 2016

1 Abbuu Muummee M 17 Arsii Ticho Agazi
2 Abdallaa Mohammed M – East Harageh Qobo Agazi
3 Abda Jiloo M 24 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
4 Abdaa Hasanoo M 31 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
5 Abdii Daawud M – East Harageh Kombolcha Police
6 Abdii Jamal Suraa M 27 Arsii Heraroo Agazi
7 Abdallaa Kadir M 26 Arsii Baalee Roobee Agazi
8 Abdisaa Gamachu M 23 West Arsii Shashamane Agazi
9 Abdisaa Tolaa M 19 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
10 Abdoo Tolaa Dibaba M 20 Arsii Dheraa Agazi
11 Abdulsalam Milkeessaa M – East Harageh Qarsa Agazi
12 Abdunasir Ture Xulloo M 24 Baalee Waabee Agazi
13 Abdurraa Caabii M 26 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
14 Abduu Rashaad M 19 Baalee Waabee Agazi
15 Abdusalam Ahme/shekko M – East Harageh Haroo Maayaa Police
16 Abdushakuur Dhaqqabaa M – East Harageh Awadayi Agazi
17 Afandii Mohammed M – East Harageh Haroo Maayaa Agazi
18 Ahmed Aman M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
19 Ahmed Girboo M – East Harageh Quubsaa Agazi
20 Ahmed Hakim H.Heddo M West Arsi Adaba Agazi
21 Ahmed Hussein M 25 West Arsii Qore Agazi
22 Ahmed Rahiman Umaro M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
23 Ahmed Rauf Amana M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
24 Aliyyii Jaqon Hasen M 19 Arsii Gobessoo Agazi
25 Aliyyoo Said Aloo M 22 West Arsii Hajee Agazi
26 Alii Simboo M 26 West Arsii Shashamane Agazi
27 Amaan Bilbiltu Tolaa M 28 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
28 Amaan Kamal Usman M 57 Arsii Sagure Agazi
29 Amin Aburroo Turee M 30 Arsii Seeruu Agazi
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30 Amir Zeynu Awal M 19 Arsii seeruu Agazi
31 Awwal Tolaa Dibabaa M 20 West Arsii Adaba Agazi
32 A.Ra’uf Sh/Hasen M – West Arsii Adaba Agazi
33 A. Razaq Mahamed M – West Arsii Adaba Agazi
34 Amanu’el Girmaa M – East Wollega Naqamtee Boordii Agazi
35 Awol Haji Bulina M 14 West Arsii Dodola Agazi
36 Awwal Amaan M 32 Baalee Diinshoo Agazi
37 Awwal Kadir Mohammed M 25 Arsii Bayimaa Qeransaa Agazi
38 Awwal Kadir M 18 Arsii Sagure Agazi
39 Awwal Kadir Usman M 45 Arsii Boqoji Agazi
40 Awwaluu Kadir M 12 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
41 Bahaar Abdii M – East Harageh Qobo Agazi
42 Biraanuu Rabbirraa M – East Wollega Giddaa Ayyanaa Police
43 Buxoo Mohammed M – west Hargeh Asbot Police
44 Dassaalee Guddataa M – West Harageh Hirnaa Police
45 Eliyas Teshome M – West Shawa Bakkoo Police
46 Faahmii kadir F – East Harageh Adellee Police
47 Farahan Mohammed M – Harar Harar Police
48 Falmataa Hajii Dibuu M 15 Arsii Agazi
49 Firaol Ogina M – East Wollega Najo Police
50 Gabii Nabii M 25 Arsii Muneessaa Agazi
51 Dr.Gebeyehu Jalata M – East Wollega Nakemet Agazi
52 Hadhaa Shammee F – East Harageh Awadayi Agazi
53 Hasan Dirrii Adam M 29 Arsii Shirka Agazi
54 Heydar Ture M 27 Arsii Habee Agazi
55 Heeydar Umar Aman M 38 Arsii Chobeessaa Agazi
56 Huseen Abdo Hajii M 25 Arsii Hayyoo Agazi
57 Huseen Hajii M 25 West Arsi Asasa Agazi
58 Huseen Tashii M 25 Arsii Ticho qeransaa Agazi
59 Huseen Amaan M 30 West Arsii Kofale Agazi
60 Hora Fajiso M – East Shawa Adami Agazi
61 Ibsaa Ibrahim Muummee M – East Harageh Awadayi Agazi
62 Ibsaa Ibrooshe M – Dire Dhawaa Dire Dahawaa Agazi
63 Ibsaa Jamal M 23 West Arsii Kofalee Agazi
64 Ibrahim Jamal M 22 Arsii Zuway Agazi
65 Idiris Kade M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
66 Jamal Abdallaa M – West Harageh Hirnaa Agazi
67 Jamal Dirmamoo M 18 Hamdoo Agazi
68 Jamal Haruun M – West Harageh Hirnaa Agazi
69 Jamal Hasen M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
70 Jamal Mohammed M – East Harargeh Awadayi Agazi
71 Kadijaa Ahmad F 20 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
72 Kadir Abdurhamaan M – East Harageh Awadayi Agazi
73 Kadir Mohaammed M – East Hargeh Awadayi Agazi
74 Kamal Abdulqadiir M 26 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
75 Kamal Kadir Adam M 18 Hurufaa Agazi
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76 Keeyruu Awwal Said M 20 West Arsii Adaba Agazi
77 Kidane Garoma M – Kake Police
78 Maammee Saala Huseen M 30 Habee Police
79 Mahaadii Usman M – East Harageh Dhangaggoo Police
80 Mahmuush Biraanuu M – Waliso Walisoo Police
81 Melese Teshome M – East Wollega Naqamtee 05 Agazi
82 Misraa Kamal F 18 Arsi Ajee Agazi
83 Mohammed Abdellaa M 30 Baalee Dinshoo Agazi
84 Mohammed Adam M 22 West Arsii Kofale Agazi
85 Mohammed Husen Hebo M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
86 Mohammed Ibroo M – West Harageh Hirnaa Police
87 Mohamed Isma’el M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
88 Mohammed Sanii Siraj M 27 Baalee Roobee Agazi
89 Mohammed Yuyyaa M – East Harageh Awadayi Agazi
90 Muhammed Adam Ali M 22 West Arsii Dodola Agazi
91 Muhamed Hasan Dawano M 31 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
92 Muhamed Kade M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
93 Muhamed Sa’id M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
94 Sh/Muhamed Said M 40 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
95 Muktar Ibrahim M – West Arsii Adaba Agazi
96 Munir Abdoo Nashaa M 20 Arsii Seeruu Agazi
97 Mustafa Yuna M – West Arsii Adaba Agazi
98 Musxafaa Muhamednur M West Wollega Gimbii Police
99 Musxafaa Sadiq M 19 Arsii Diksiisa Agazi
100 Naasiruu Adam M – West Harageh Asaboot Agazi
101 Nasiroo Abdallaa M 25 West Arsii Kofale Agazi
102 Naasir Huseen Aloo M 20 Baalee Dooyyoo Agazi
103 Nuuraddin Nasha Adam M 22 Baalee Baalee Agazi
104 Qaasim Mohammed M 21 Arsii Edoo Agazi
105 Rashid Indris M – East Harageh Awadayi Agazi
106 Saamiyaa Ahmed F – East Harageh Awadayi Agazi
107 Saladhiin Shakiim M – East Harageh Qobo Agazi
108 Sardaa M – West Shewa Mogor Police
109 Seeyfaddiin Aman Kadir M 19 Arsii Shirka Agazi
110 Shamsi Qaadii Tolaa M 28 Arsii Zuway Agazi
111 Sufiyaan Aminoo M 30 West Arsii Nagallee Agazi
112 Seyifu Husen M West Arsii Adaba Agazi
113 Seeyfuu Isadiir Aloo M 27 Arsii Sagure Agazi
114 Sisay Birru Tolaa M West Arsii Dodola Agazi
115 Taarikuu Dabalaa M – East Wollega Naqamte Agazi
116 Taganee Mulatu Kennaa M 20 West Arsii Shashamanee Agazi
117 Tajudin Kadiro M West Arsii Adaabbaa Agazi
118 Tamaam Tolaa Biluu M 30 West Arsii Shashamane Agazi
119 Tarii Huseen Mohammed M 32 Arsii Roobee Agazi
120 Tolaa Abdii Kenna M 20 Arsii Dheraa Agazi
121 Tolaa Waariyoo M 28 Arsii Ticho Agazi

122 Tolasaa Girma Argaa M 22 West Arsii Shashamanee Agazi
123 Tolasa Wakjira M – East Wollega Leeqa Dullacha Agazi
124 Tolchaa Nasir Filmo M 25 Arsii Seeruu Agazi
125 Tunaa Mammaa Hamid M 35 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
126 Turaa Argoo M 18 Arsii Ticho Agazi
127 Umar Abdo Adam M 20 Arsii Gobessoo Agazi
128 Usman Xasallaa M 29 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
129 Wakjira Terefa M – East Wollega Leeqa Dullacha Police
130 Yasiin Waliyyii M 16 West Arsi Dodolaa Agazi
131 Zeeytunaa Abdi Jilo F 17 Arsii Seeroftaa Agazi
132 Zeynaba Mohammed F 22 Baalee Dinshoo Agazi
133 Zeyaad Aliyyii Suraa M 22 West Arsii Asasa Agazi
134 Ziidan Mohammed M 18 Arsii Edoo Agazi .

For full report click partial-list-of-oromos-that-have-been-killed-as-a-result-of-excessive-force-by-ethiopian-government-armed-forces-aug-2106

(Qeerroo) — Manni Hidhaa Wayyaanee Beekamaa fi guddichi kan Hayyootni qaroo uummata Oromoo ta’an keessaatti argamaan Ibiddaan gubachuu fi Wayyaaneen hidhamtoota Ibiddaa jalaa of baasuuf socho’an irratti dhukaasaa ba’uun lubbuun ilmaan Oromoo fi saboota cunqurfamoo akka wareegamee fi madaa’uun midhamanii hospitala galanii jiraatuu median dubbattee jirti.Kanneen Wareegamanis ta’ee kanneen Madaa’aan yeroof maqaan addaa hin baafamiin jira, kanaafuu bakka Argamnuu Hundatti biyyaa keessaafi alatti Sochiin Warraaqsaa Biyyoolessaa Oromiyaa FXG n Daran Jabaatee akka itti Fufuu Qeerroon Bilisummaa Oromoo Ummata Oromoo fi Jaarmiyaalee Qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo hundaaf Waamichaa Ariifachiisaa Dabarseeraa!!

1. Hayyootni Qaroo Uummata Keenyaa Essaa jiruu? Hidhamtootni Oromoo Hundii Mana Hidhaa Qilinxoo keessatti Argamaan Uummataa fi Maatii isaanitti Argisiifamuu qabu!! Badii tokko malee hidhamanii dararama waan jiraniif gaaffii tokko malee akka Hiikamaniif warraaqsaa gaggeessina !!
2. Kanneen Wareegaman, madoo ta’an maqaa isaanii waliin ifaa ta’uu qaba!! Kanneen madoo ta’an maatii fi uummatni akka waldhannatuuf nuuf haakennaman!
3. Mootummaan wayyaanee yakka duguuginsa sanyii balleessuu ummata Oromoo irratti rawwataa jiruuf aangoo gadhiisuun seeraatti haa dhiyaatu!!
4. Gaaffii mirga Abbaa biyyummaa kan bilisummaa ummata Oromoofi Walabummaa Oromiyaaf Deebii hanga Gonfannutti Warraaqsaa irraa duubatti hin jennu!! Gochi wayyaanee warraqsatti daranuu kan nu jabeessuudha!!
5. Dhaabni Ergamtuu Wayyaanee EPRDF /TPLF taate OPDOn Oromiyaa keessaa diigamuu qabdi, Oromiyaan bulcha jettee dubbatuu fi Oromiyaa keessaa socho’uu dhaabuu qabdii, Yeroo bulchiinsii naannoo Amaaraa aantummaa uummataa isaa argisiisaa jirutti OPDOn uummata keenyaa ajjeesaa waan jirtuuf bulchiinsii OPDO Oromiyaa irraa dhaabbachuu qaba. Sabboontootni ilmaan Oromoo OPDO keessatti argamtan gara uummataatti makamuun Warraaqsaa Biyyoolessaa Oromiyaa FXG Akka jabeessuun dirqama lamummaa keessaan akka baatan!!
6. Daandiin konkolaataa bakka hundatti cufamuu qaba, kanfaltiin gibiraa fi buusiin taksii kamuu dhaabbachuu qaba, duulli gabaa lagachuufi qabeenyaa ofii gabaa laguu Jabaatee itti fufuu qaba!!
7. Mootummaan Cee’umsaa kan ABO fi dhaabbilee Siyaasaa Bilisummaa saba isaaniif socho’an hammate atattamaan akka hundaa’uu fi mirgii fi bilisummaan uummata Oromoofi saboota cunqurfamoo akka kabajamuuf warraaqsaa wal irraa hin citnee gaggeessina!!
8. Tarkaanfiiwwaan qabeenyaa aangawoota wayyaanee fi ergamtoota Wayyaanee barbadeessuu, qabeenyaa investeroota wayyaanee lafa ofii irraa barbadeessuun lafa ofii dhuunfachuun itti fufuu qaba, Waajjiraalee OPDO keessa jiru hundi barbadaa’uu qaba!!

INJIFANNOON UUMMATA OROMOOromiyaaOF!!

Former Mogadishu mayor, Ahmed Mohamud Tarsan

Mogadishu (Radio Dalsan) — Former Mogadishu mayor who is contesting for Presidential candidate has promised to expel Ethiopian envoy from Somalia if elected President.

Speaking to the members of his party during vote hunting mission Ahmed Mohamud Tarsan has said Ethiopia is always working towards the destruction of Somali people and therefore cannot be peacemaker.

“ They killed my brother and many other innocent civilians in Mogadishu, he said.

`I will kick their envoy out during my first day in office,` he said.

Justice and unity party leader criticized how Ethiopian envoy named General Gabre is dictating Somali politics for Somali leaders.

“Hiran and Middle Shabelle people should reject the Ethiopian interference in the administration.

He added that the government failed in the establishing just regional administration for them,

Tarsan was among Somali leaders opposed to the intervention of Ethiopian troops to Somalia in 2006.

‹‹በኢትዮጵያ ሕግን ያልተከተለ እስርና እንግልት ሊቆም ይገባል›› በኢትዮጵያ የአሜሪካ ተሰናባች አምባሳደር

Patricia M. Haslach, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia

(Ethiopian Reporter) — በኢትዮጵያ የአሜሪካ ተሰናባቿ አምባሳደር ፓትሪሺያ ሐስላክ፣ በኢትዮጵያ አሁን ያለው ሁኔታ እንደሚያሳስባቸውና መንግሥት የሁሉንም ድምፅ የመስማትና ተጠያቂ የመሆን ግዴታ እንዳለበት ገለጹ፡፡

የሥራ ዘመናቸውን ያጠናቀቁት አምባሳደር ፓትሪሺያ ለኤምባሲው ሠራተኞች ባደረጉት የመሰናበቻ ንግግር፣ ‹‹መልዕክታችን ግልጽ እንደሆነ ሊታወቅ ይገባል፡፡ ኢትዮጵያ እንድትለማና ስኬታማ እንድትሆን የሚፈልግ ሁሉ፣ ኢትዮጵያ ጠንካራ የምትሆነው ሁሉም ድምፆች ተደማጭና መንግሥትም ለሁሉም ተጠያቂ ሲሆን እንደሆነ ሊገነዘብ ይገባል፡፡ በኢትዮጵያ ሕግን ያልተከተለ እስርና እንግልት ሊቆም ይገባል፤›› ብለዋል፡፡

በቅርቡ እየተከሰቱ ያሉ ሁኔታዎች የኢትዮጵያ ሕዝብና መንግሥት እስካሁን ያደረጓቸውን መሻሻሎች የማስተጓጐል አቅም ያላቸው በመሆናቸው፣ ሥጋት እንደገባቸው ገልጸዋል፡፡

‹‹የኤምባሲውን ሠራተኞች ጨምሮ በኢትዮጵያ ፍርኃትና ሥጋት እንዳለ አውቃለሁ፡፡ በተለያየ ደረጃ የሚገኙ የመንግሥት ባለሥልጣናት በሕገ መንግሥቱ የተረጋገጡትን ዴሞክራሲያዊና ሰብዓዊ መብቶች፣ እንዲሁም የሕግ የበላይነትን እንዲያከብሩ የኢትዮጵያ መንግሥትን እንጠይቃለን፤›› ብለዋል፡፡

በቅርቡ ለመንግሥት ሚዲያዎች በወቅታዊ ጉዳዮች ላይ መግለጫ የሰጡት ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር ኃይለ ማርያም ደሳለኝ በተቃራኒው፣ ‹‹ይህች አገር ትፈርሳለች ብለው የሚሰጉ የኢሕአዴግን ባህሪ የማያውቁ ናቸው፡፡ በአለት ላይ የፀና የፌዴራሊዝም ሥርዓት ነው ያለው፤›› ማለታቸው ይታወሳል፡፡

Breaking: Ethiopian regime puts limits on the amount of money ppl could withdraw from their own accounts at CBE. In Gimbi, limit is set 2000 Via Girma Gutema

Ethiopia government admit deaths during prison fire

(BBC News) — Ethiopia’s government has acknowledged that there has been some loss of life and injuries after a fire broke out on Saturday at the maximum security Qilinto jail in the capital, Addis Ababa.

The jail is home to some political prisoners.

On Sunday there were reports of intense gunfire and local media said there were about 20 deaths.

A government statement, reported on the state broadcaster, did not specify the numbers dead or injured.

Neither did it mention the cause of the fire, which some have said was started deliberately by people who wanted to escape.

Ethiopia has been hit by anti-government protests in several parts of the country, by some of its largest ethnic groups.

#Hubachiisa. Via Beknan Rabira.
Wanti beekuu qabnu, hidhamtootni Oromoo keesumaayyuu manneen hidhaa gurguddaa akka Qilinxoo, Maayikalaawii, Qalittiif Zuwaay jiran, kanneen haalaan qabsaawoo ta’aniif mootummaan ummata Oromoo guututti nu harkaa baasu danda’u jedhee sodaatu, akkasumas barattoota qaqqalii Oromoo barnootaaf qabsoonis adda durummaa qaban, yunivarsitileef kolleejjiwwan garagaraa irraa qabaman. Kanneen haluma mijataa argatanii osoo baratanii xumuranii gootota akka Baqqalaa Garbaa faa gadi hin taane. Caalus danda’u, ilmi kan abbaa caalee. Kanaafuu gaafa mana hidhaas ta’ee alatti gaaga’amni lubbuu Oromoota hangasii irra gahu kanuma hogganoota qofa gaafannee callisuu hin qabnu. Kaleessa mana hidhaa qilinxoo keessatti lubbuun ilmaan Oromoo baate tilmaamuun nama dhiba. Yooma tarii hogganootni kuni nagaa ta’aniyyuu adaraa ilmaan Oromoo hafaniifis haa iyyinuu. Lubbuun rabbi birattis takkuma wali hin caaltu. Maatiin wereegamtootaaf hidhamtoota isaaniif deebiif falma wal fakkaataa nurraa eega. Hidhamtootni Oromoo kamiiyyuu ajjeefamuu hin qaban. Dhiigni jigeef lammiin abiddaan hidhaa keessatti kanuma Oromooti.

#OromoProtests Baankiin Daldalaa Itiyoophiyaa, Damee Dambi-Doolloo mormii shiftoota Wayyaanee irratti adeemsifamaa jiruun walqabatee guyyaa har’aa maamiltoota horii isaanii baafachuu barbaadaniin haala fakkiiwwan kanneen irraa mul’atuun waan dhiphateef karra isaa cufatee maamiltoota gad dhowwaa jira.
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Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Dambi-Doolloo Branch closes its gets after having been overwhelmed by clients demanding to withdraw their own money, which is linked to protests targeting TPLF bandits. Via Etana Habte

Ergaa qeerroo Magaalaa Dambi Doolloo:

“Kanaan dura Mana Nyaataa Oliitii jedhamu qabeenyummaan isaa kan Obbo Uukkaa kan ta’e warra loltoota shiftaa Wayyaanee agazii jedhamanii dhiiga keenya dhangalaa, lubbuu keenya baasaa jiran nurratti qallabuu akka dhaabu, namni danda’ameefis akka nurraa gorsu/ifatu akeekkachiifnee turre. Obbo Uukkaan garuu maaldhibdee fi tuffii guddaadhaan ergaa keenya homaattuu utuu hin lakkoofne warra gumaa nurratti qallabuu ittifufaniiru. Gochi Obbo Uukkaa kun immoo akkuma fakkii kana irraa agartan qabatamaadha. Guyyaa saafaa diinota keenya olgalchanii mana isaanii keessatti nurratti qallabaa jiru. Gochi isaanii kun ergaa ifa ta’e nuuf dabarseera: Obbo Uukkaan yeroo itti lubbu-nyaattonni Wayyaanee uummata Oromoo irratti lola bananii jiran yeroo murteessaa kana keessatti diinummaa uummata irraa dhalataniif qaban ifatti himatanii firooma diinaota uummata Oromoo waliin qaban mirkaneeffataniiru. Uummanni Magaalaa Dambi-Doolloo fi naannawaa ishees guyyaa akeekkachiifni dhumaa kun maxxanfame irraa eeegalee guyyoota shan gidduutti Obbo Uukkaan gocha diinummaa kana irraa hindeebi’an taanaan abbaan qabeenyaa mana nyaataa kun akkuma loltoota agaazii akka diinaatti akka lakkaa’u hubachiisuu barbaanna. Kanaaf Obbo Uukkaan carraa dhumaa isaaniif kenname kanatti fayyadamuudhaan guyyoota shaman itti aanan kana keessatti gocha isaanii irraa deebi’uudhaan gartummaa uummata Oromoof qaban agarsiisu jennee abdanna. Kana ta’uu baannaan garuu Obbo Uukkaanis ta’e maatii fi firoonni isaanii akeekkachiisi keenya kun isa dhumaa ta’uu nuuf hubatanii rakkini bifa kamiinuu Obbo Uukkaa, fi qabeenya isaanii irra ga’uuf itti gaafatamni kanauma mataa isaanii akka ta’ee fi utuu beekanii filatanii akka itti seenan ta’uu akeekkachiifna.” Via Girma Gutema

#Concert strike #QeerrooBilisummaa Taaddalaa Gammachuu Koonsertii Bara Haaraa Habashaan simachuuf Erbee raasaa jirtu kanarratti Artistoota Oromoo bakka bu’uun Ayyaana kana irratti kan hirmaatu ta’uu kunoo Habashaan Foddaa Televizyiinii Waayyaadneetiin alalaasaa jirti. -Maarree Weellisaan kun yoo Dhiigni Oromummaa kan isa quuqu fi of-keessaa qabu ta’e, Lafeen Ilmaan Oromoo Abiddaan boba’ee odoo Cilee uffachaa jiruu fi Rasaasa Wayyaanee qallabamaa jiranuu, Reeffa keenya irratti Foollee dhiichisa taanan Uummata Oromoo waliin Yeroo dhumaaf adda bahuun kan dhumatuuf ta’uu #QeerroonBilisummaa cimsinee akeekkachiisna. Yoo akkuma Geetaachoo Hayilamaariyaam gantummaa isaa ifaan mul’ise malee akka beeku Share gochuun dhaqqabsiisaa!! -Artistiin Qabeenya Uummataati malee kan Sirna kufuuf reeqqisaa jirtu miti. -Wareegamtoota keenya Biyyeen itti haa salphattu!! -Gumaa isaanii ni baafanna!! -Ni milkoofna ni injifanna!! -Qeerroo jabaadhu!! Via Chala Abate

Dr. Tsegaye Ararsa

(Horn Spiegel ) — Over the last 10 months, widespread protests in Oromia National Regional State, and later in Amhara National Regional State, have been unsettling the ruling party of Ethiopia- EPRDF. Independent reports indicated that security forces claimed the life of over 500 demonstrators, injured thousands, and detained tens of thousands. The regime refused UN’s call for international investigation into the killings, according to reports. The protesters have used different tactics of demonstration, from going to the streets to stay-at-home protests and now to boycott selling and buying goods during the holiday season. Merga Yonas of Horn Spiegel talk to Tsegaye R. Ararssa*, a legal expert and Oromo academic who is active in the protest, on the objective of the boycott and its implications. He also briefly touched upon changes of protest tactics from the street to stay-at-home.

HS- A call for business and trade boycotting from 6^th to 12^th of September has been going on for more than a week now. What is it all about?

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Building on its gains so far, the Oromo protests movement is entering a new phase. The unrelenting killing and brutal repression of the regime continues unabated. This is calling for a change of tactics. Accordingly, the Oromo protests is now calling for a week long, nation-wide boycott of markets and trade activities in this holiday season (of Ethiopian new year and Eid el-Arafaa). The week chosen for this campaign is a week of intense economic activities in Ethiopia. The campaign targets the economic power of the system by disrupting, through boycott, of all business and trade activities in Oromia including Finfinnee.

HS- What are the aim of boycotting business and trade?

By boycotting the market and all trade exchanges for a week, this boycott campaign aims at crippling the economy of the regime.Thiswill also demonstrate that it is Oromia and the Oromo that shoulder the heavy brunt of the country’s economy. It will also help distinguish between businesses that stand with the people’s demand for social justice and those that stand in support of the terrorist regime.

The objective of this campaign is to weaken the regime’s capacity to oppress the people by crippling its economy. As we all know, this is a holiday season. It’s a season of New Year celebration and of Eid -AL Arafaa. No one needs a reminder that the year that is coming to an end, 2008 EC, the year of trial and tribulation for the Oromo people. It has been a year of intense and bitter struggle. It has also been a year of huge sacrifices made in defense of our rights and in resisting a terrorist regime and it’s killing machine.

For Oromos and other oppressed peoples in Ethiopia, the year was no ordinary year. This holiday season therefore is not a holiday season like any other. It is not one in which we spend time just enjoying ourselves, having fun, and being merry. It is a season of remembering our fallen heroes, our martyrs, and all those who are in pain from injuries, those who are in the regime’s military detention centers and prisons, those whose whereabouts is unknown, those who grieve because they lost loved ones into the struggle. It is a week of quietly consulting with each other about the future of our struggle and ways of strategizing for the inevitable victory.

HS- What are the measures this boycotting expected to take?

During this holiday season, we shall take the following measures:

1. Our farmers shall refrain from the usual act of providing the following products/items and/or commodities that are in demand for the holiday season: A. Grains (xaafii, barley, wheat, etc); B. Honey, coffee, butter, and other dairy products; C. Cattle (sheep, goats, bulls, heifers, etc) D. Poultry products (chicken, eggs) E. Others. Households are advised to purchase food items that form part of basic necessities (such as salt, flours, etc) in time, preferably in the week before Pagume 1.
2. Our business people and our traders shall refrain from delivering the above mentioned items to the markets of big cities such as Finfinnee and to the consumers thereof.
3. Any business person and/or trader who violates this call for boycott shall be taken to be standing with the TPLF regime. As such, their activities shall be interrupted. Their travels to and from the cities shall be disrupted.
4. During this week, all Oromos, urban and rural alike, shall not be spending any money or time by going to restaurants, cafes, bars, places of buying and chewing chat (manabarcaa). Everyone shall be staying at home–with family, friends, relatives and neighbors–remembering our martyrs and deliberating on tactics and strategies for the effectiveness of our struggle in the days to come. They may also choose to spend time in their chosen places of worship (churches, mosques, temples, etc) to pray and meditate, to consult and reckon with fellow travelers of their faith.

Other measures will also be taken to communicate the central message of the protest and theboycott to the people. These acts will be acts of resistance in ordinary places, in the daily lives of the people. Our young people are now adept at mainstreaming resistance in the every day lives of our people. The details of the activities will reveal themselves in all their variety once the boycott kicks off. In the end, the story of this protest will form part of the story of the everyday life of political resistance in Oromia.

HS- There are people who argue that the week-long business and trade boycotting might have a big heat on poor farmers and if they don’t sell and buy commodities they leave their children to starvation. How do you see such argument?

Yes, that is a legitimate fear expressed by critics. The starting premise of this boycott, as long expounded by the eminent Bekele Gerba, is that through our daily contribution to the economy, we are literally funding the killing machine the TPLF is using to kill our children. Oromia is in a state of war. Military rule is enforced. Every day innocent Oromos get killed for no reason. Every day, innocent Oromos get arrested, tortured, raped, and otherwise violated. Every day, every Oromo village is cowed into silence under the occupying forces of surveillance. Every human activity is under heavy security control. Arbitrary body fris king is ubiquitous. Oromos are hounded in urban areas such as Addis Ababa and are sent to jail for no reason. Sudden ID checks are done routinely in Addis Ababa and if you have an Oromo name, you are arrested and no one will know your whereabouts. The security forces that arrest them often ask what the young people are doing in Addis while they are Oromos. This suggests that there is a de facto pass law that bans Oromos from their city, Addis Ababa. This is apartheid without the name.

These things should make it clear to you that Oromia is a war zone as is Amhara since July. This is no normal time. This is not a time when trade and making money is a priority for our people. That’s why we say that these are desperate times that demand desperate measures. The boycott is no ordinary measure. It is not an easy sacrifice our people. But when the life of a whole population is at stake, when the life of a whole generation is being stolen by the regime before our own eyes, these temporary economic sacrifices mean little. Our households may lose potential gain for now but the economic system that feeds this monstrous regime is attacked from within–and that is their reward. I am encouraged by the acts of our people in some cities such as Naqamt who are literally withdrawing all the money from the banks. This will soon run down the financial fuel that sustains the regime. This is what needs to be considered. In addition, the boycott is also a communicative action. We are saying NO to the regime in yet another form. In this sense, you can think of it as a form of political expression that is being done by ordinary households in the ordinary spaces of our political lives. By making the resistance a household matter, we now make the movement an entirely social affair, allowing every individual to take part both materially and communicatively. That’s how I see it.

HS- How do you see the current political situation in the country, particularly after the grand demo in Oromia and other demonstration in Amhara region?

The Grand Oromia Rally of 6 August 2016 was the culmination of a nine months’ long protest in Oromia. The Oromo protest was at first against the injustice of arbitrary eviction from one’s land and consequent dispossession and displacement of the Oromos. Ignited in November 2015 by the regime’s decision to implement the Addis Ababa Master Plan in spite of a deadly clash over it since April 2014, the Oromo Protest had rendered Oromia completely ungovernable to the regime. As a result, the regime was forced to impose a military rule in Oromia thereby ruling Oromia by an “Anti-Terrorist Task Force” of the federal government chaired by the Chief of Staff under the Federal Prime Minister. During this time, the civilian administration of the Oromia National Regional State was suspended and the Regional Government, typified by its President, Muktar Kedir, existed only in name. This was of course done unconstitutionally—with no Federal Intervention Order, or Emergency Declaration, or no reference to any constitutional-legal norm for justification. During this time, there was a killing of over 500 peaceful protestors, maiming of thousands, mass arrest of tens of thousands (including Oromo political and moral leaders such as Bekele Gerba), and forced disappearance of thousands. And yet the resistance was resilient throughout the year.

The resilience of the Oromo Protest seems to have inspired a similar resistance movement in other parts of the country such as the Welkayit District of the Tigray Region; a district that long resisted their forced incorporation into the Tigray since the 1990s. The “Welkayit Amhara Identity” campaign group has been taking the constitutional legal route to assert their Amhara identity and to seek constitutional redress for the discrimination, political exclusion/marginalization, and cultural domination and erasure they claim to have suffered after the incorporation. It is to be noted that for over 640 years prior to 1991, the Welkayit have been recognized as Amhara and were part of the Amhara cultural category rather than a Tigrian one. Persecuted in their own district, some of the members of the Coordinating Committee of the Wekayit Amhara Identity Campaign were at times operating from Gonder town of the Amhara National Regional State when the Tigray Regional Police and Security (with the support of the Federal Security Forces) sought to kidnap, arrest, and abduct them to Tigray in Mid-July this year. Outraged by this act of the Tigray security forces, the people of Gondar fought back in protest. Later a massive demonstration was staged in Gondar to protest this and also to project a long simmering rage against what they perceived as the regime’s discriminatory treatment of the entire Amhara population. This soon flared up to become the Amhara Protest and spread to Debre Tabor, Bahr Dar, Debre  Marqos, and the towns and districts surrounding these major Amhara cities.

While this was raging, the Oromo Protests rose to a new high on August 6 when a national peaceful protest rally, called the Grand Oromia Rally by its organizers, was staged in over 220 cities in Oromia,including Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa, all at the same time. This rally showed an enhanced sense of solidarity with the Amhara Protests (which had also showed a gesture of solidarity to the Oromo Protests earlier on).

This rally encouraged the protest in Amhara region and the two protests quickly started to echo and reinforce each other’s outrage against the repressive and terrorist practices of the regime. Owing to the regime’s military approach to respond to all political demands (and the consequent mass killings, maiming, arrests, kidnappings, tortures, and disrespect of their national identities) in both regions, these hitherto rival groups started to feel united in their rage against injustice and started to synchronize their movements in such a way that they madethe entire country ungovernable to the regime. This in turn has pushed the regime to the brink of collapse.

The current political situation has become volatile as a result. Things are fast changing. And developments have become increasingly unpredictable. International ‘patrons’ of the regime have also finally started to express serious concerns and are calling on the regime to allow the United Nations to investigate the massive human rights abuses in the Oromia region in particular.

Currently, Global Solidarity rallies are raging across the globe especially in major cities where there are Oromo and Amhara diaspora groups. From the look of it, the regime seems to have lost its strong grip over the country. The two regions (which constitute over 70 % of the country) are already ungovernable. Basic public and social services have long broken down in Oromia. Many localities are virtually taken over by protestors. There is every indication that the regime’s end is very much in view. It seems to me that it is time for politicians (especially those who are in opposition) to start working towards a peaceful democratic transition to a just political order where every political aspiration is pursued and achieved only through a consensual, peaceful, and democratic political processes.

HS- How do you see the stay-at-home demo, and transport disruption for three days in Gonder?

I think this is a commendable non-violent form of resistance. It not only shows complete rejection of the regime by the people but also blunts the regime’s false narrative that the protests were violent. The Stay-at-home protest is an indication of the increasing maturation of civil disobedience in Ethiopia. However, it needs to be supported by other forms of resistance, for otherwise, it is only a matter of time until the regime goes door-to-door to hunt down people and force them into prisons (as they are doing in Oromia).

HS- Why the Ethiopian government does not want to let UN investigators?

Well, the regime is still in denial of the injustice its policies have resulted in and the atrocities it has meted out on the civilian population especially of Oromia. It is used to killing and abusing people with impunity and does not know how to do things accountably and transparently. In my view, this rejection of accountability is rather characteristic of the regime. It is perhaps the first indication to the international community of the completely undemocratic and irresponsible nature of the regime. But to the vast majority of the Ethiopian public, and certainly to almost all of the Oromo public—who know from experience that this as an utterly brutal ethnocratic regime decidedly rigged in favor of the Tigryan hegemony in Ethiopia with no tradition of accountability and transparency–this doesn’t come as a news. The people have endured (and were mostly victimized by) a quarter century of perversion of justice and shameless deployment of institutions of governance (including courts, legislators, electoral and human rights commissions) for purposes of repression of the peoples’ voices and justifying the regime’s privileging and imposition of Tigryan hegemony on the population of the entire country.

Opening up of the regime to the UN investigation will expose these untold atrocities that the world had turned a deaf ear to thus far. To the more discerning observers of the international community (e.g., Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the CERD, the UN Committee of Experts on the Right to Life and Extra-Judicial Killings, PEN International, etc), this rejection of accountability through opening up to investigation by the UN forms a long established pattern of closure of the regime to international and national democratic scrutiny.

HS- Although the western governments are well informed about the killing of protesters, why do they keep on giving support to the regime?

They keep supporting the regime, firstly, because the Westcurrently prioritizes security interests to interests to promote human rights and democracy. As you know, the regime in Ethiopia is invoked as a “key strategic ally” of the West in its ‘war against terrorism’. Of course, this is not true as the regime has been benefitting from Western financial aid, technological support, and technical assistance in wreaking havoc in the entire Horn and Great Lakes region. In my view, the Western support of the regime (which they know is clearly undemocratic, if not out rightly anti-democratic) is the very cause of the state terrorism we observe in the region. This is of course unsustainable in the longer term as it has increasingly left the region more and more unstable and increasingly more volatile than it was in 1991.

Secondly, the West is now cautioned against intervention in the third world because of the disasters they faced in Somalia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. It is the age of self-doubt in the international stage now. And there is a palpable hesitation to intervene in the name of human rights, democracy, justice, and peace. This paradigm of self-doubt which counsels them against intervention makes them acquiesce in the status quo despite the atrocities, especially when regimes can somehow manage to get away with.

Thirdly, Ethiopia, as important as it is geo-politically and strategically, is not too well-endowed with wealth to attract the economic interests of Western capitalism. They see “nothing much in it” for them to stake their diplomatic and political voice therein.

HS-What are ways forward for the demonstrators? Where do you see the country in the coming years? What are you recommendation to the officials?

The demonstrators are voices of resistance. They are voices seeking justice. They are truly the voices of suffering. The Protestors are victims of one of the most brutal regimes the world has ever seen. They are victims of a terrorist regime. As such, they have put up an incredibly successful peaceful resistance that has restored agency to them and has crippled the regime’s capacity to control and oppress as it has so far. They are doing this at a great cost—and there is little one can say in terms of what they have to do. If anything, they only need to remain resilient, persistent, and stand their ground until the regime is gone. They also need to remain committed to horizontal peace, especially in relation to other groups and other political formations. Other opposition political forces, especially those that subscribe to armed struggle, need to support this civil resistance of the protestors by protecting them from the military reprisals of the regime (if need be militarily).

The country finds itself in a difficult trajectory. The contradictions that have long been left unresolved in the country are now threatening the very existence of the state in its modern iteration. However, the protests and the inevitable collapse of this regime also offers an opening for reconstruction of the state on a consensual, just, fair, democratic, and peaceful foundation. There seems to be a real possibility now to address the age-old structural injustice embedded in the state and its limitations to empower peoples trapped in the unjust configuration of the modern Ethiopian state. In the coming couple of years, I hope to see a negotiation of transition to a fair system, a system in which we will see an all-inclusive deliberation over the future, a carefully negotiated and legitimate transitional justice (where the regime will be held accountable for the violence and the injustice it meted out on the peoples of the country and the social wounds among various sectors of society are healed), a legitimate constitutional democracy is put in place, unjust relations of the past are publicly acknowledged and rectified, victims are restored, and just peace is established at last. Above all, I hope to see a system in which people are heard, a system in which ordinary people, the humble and the lowly, find their political voice and get properly heard. This protest, above all, was a demand for voice, a demand to be heard.

The officials have only to desist from their violence. They need to wake up from the state of denial they seem to be in. They need to realize that people’s voice matters. They need to realize that people are saying “Enough is enough!” So, the first thing for them to do is to stop the violence. They should release all the political prisoners they have unjustly—and illegally—arrested and detained for the last 25 years. If they can, they should start to take political responsibility and start to open themselves to the voice of the people and the various political formations that they have thus far repressed or sidelined so that they become part of the solution to the problems they have created. Knowing TPLF, and from the way their officials are behaving in recent days, I sincerely doubt that they will take political responsibility and start to negotiate a future in which they become part of the solution to the historic problems they have created so far. It seems to me that a more organized force needs to step in and remove them from office by force if, as every indication suggests now, they are bent on continuing with their brutal acts taken to terrorize the people into silence.

Any last words?

As indicated above, these are tough times. Tough times demand tough measures commensurate to our challenges. This campaign week, because it is holiday week, is a time of heavy economic activity in the country. The campaign’s modest goal is to hit hard on the economic activity of the week by a simple act of boycotting the wanton consumption and provision of products needed thereof. This is done in order to weaken the regime’s economic power deployed to repress our people. It is also done to identify businesses and traders that side with the people’s just causes and those that stand in support of the regime’s imperative of killing and brutal repression. We call upon all other justice-loving people to join our people in this campaign. We will also call upon them to understand, to pay attention, to bear witness, and to respond to this appeal to conscience.

The suffering public shall triumph.

Justice shall prevail.

*Tsegaye R. Ararssa is a Melbourne -based legal scholar closely following the developments in Ethiopia.

Mahlet Fasil

(Addis Standard) — In a disturbing e-mail message received by Addis Standard, an eyewitness who said he was on guard the morning of Saturday Sep 3, says that armed prison guards were indiscriminately shooting at prisoners” most of whom were running “frantically to extinguish the fire” that broke at Ethiopia’s notorious prison ward known as Qilinto, in Aqaqi, on the outskirts south of the capital.

The government has not released the extent of the fire, not the cause of it, but several social media accounts allege the death toll reaching above 20.

Until this morning families of prisoners who want to know the safety of their loved ones are not allowed to pass the Tirunesh Beijing Hospital, located at about three km before the prison.   Some families said the prison administration told them information on the safety and whereabouts of the prisoners will only be available on Wednesday this week.

In the e-mail, the person who also attached his work ID but said he wishes to remain anonymous wrote many prisoners were “kept at gun point” from approaching the area where the fire was destroying parts of the prison in the “southern end of the ward.” “I have seen about five prisoners gunned down in the spot by armed security guards from two different towers during the first 20 minutes only,” the email said. It added: “unarmed guards at the gate, including myself, were told by the prison admiration to instruct family members who were already at the gate and who came to visit their loved ones to return back.”

The maximum security prison is administered by the Addis Abeba Prison administration but since Saturday morning the “federal army has taken over the security and most of the prison guards, including myself, are not allowed inside since then.”

The fire broke at around 8:10 AM in the morning and lasted a good “two hours” before the fire brigade from the Addis Abeba Fire and Emergency Prevention and Rescue Agency arrived at the scene.  The state-affiliated news portal FBC reported that three firefighters were treated at a hospital for smoke related breathing problems while it maintained only one person was killed in the accident.

However, in the email received by Addis Standard, the security guard revealed that he has helped “18 bodies being taken out of the prison in the late afternoon. As far as I know none of the dead were due to the fire. They all died of gunshot wounds.”

Abusive prison

Qilinto is known for the harsh treatment of its prisoners, many of who are prisoners of conscious including the prominent opposition leader Bekele Gerba, secretary general of the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), and 21 others with him facing charges of terrorism.  It is also where Yonatan Tesfaye, the young senior opposition Blue Party member, and prominent rights activist is held.

Recently Bekele Gerba and others with him were mobilizing activists from their cell by sending letters which were secretly smuggled out of the maximum security prison. One such letter called for peaceful resistance as part of the ongoing #AmharaProtests and #OromoProtests and asked supporters of the protests to shave their heads and wear black, to which supporters responded in numbers.

Three days after the tragic incident exact figures of causalities (both death and injuries, as well as property damages) are still hard to come by. The prison itself is not accessible to anyone and is being guarded by heavily armed federal police officers who are also conducting rigorous searching of residents living nearby.

Eyewitnesses say the remaining prisoners were taken on Saturday afternoon to Ziway prison, located some 200km south of the capital. However, due to the inaccessibility of the prison and unavailability of official information, Addis Standard is unable to verify both the e-mailed information and other eyewitness accounts.

US Ambassador Samantha Power speaks in South Sudan on 4 September 2016, after the UN Security Council delegation draws a consent from the Transitional Government of Nation Unity to deploy a 4,000-strong regional protection force to improve security in and around the capital, Juba. UN Photo/UNMI

JUBA, South Sudan (Fox News) –  The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says her country has raised “grave concerns” about what it calls excessive use of force against protesters in Ethiopia.

Ambassador Samantha Power spoke to reporters late Sunday as the U.N. Security Council ended a visit to South Sudan. It moves on to Ethiopia on Monday for talks with African Union officials.

Power called the violence in Ethiopia “extremely serious” and called for a transparent and independent investigation. She said the U.S. has asked the government to allow people to protest peacefully.

Ethiopia has seen months of sometimes deadly protests calling for wider freedoms, while the government has been accused of killings, beatings and internet blockages.

The AU last week for the first time expressed concern about the recent unrest in its host country.

Abbaa Urjii tiin  

Qabsoon bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa, arra sadarkaa if duuba hin-deebinee fii abdachiisaa geeysee jirti. Dhuma bara 2015 irraa kaasee hamma yoonaatti, lammiin Bahaa-Dhihaa fii Kaabaa-Kibbaan mirga isaanii tiif anaannata bira dabranii xiqqaa fii guddaan dhiiraa fii dhalaan wareegamaa, caphaa, dhiigaa jiran. Wayyaaneen, warra waraana Dargiirraa boojitee fii abbootii garaa kanneen ummata Oromiyaarratti muuddeen irreen aangorra jiraachuuf ijibaanni godhaa jirtu guyyuma-guyyaan bu’ura dhabaa jira.

Qabsoo bilisummaa tan arra xiqqaa fii guddaa lammii Oromiyaa Bahaa-Dhihaa fii Kaabaa-Kibbaan, “bilisummaa ykn du’a!” jachisiisaa, Wayyaanee dhaabaa-dhaabbata waakkachaa jirtu bu’ureesuuratti qabsaawaan qoonni isaa hundaa ol tahe Elemoo Qilxuu ti.

Elemo, arra, gaafa ummanni Hiddii Lolaa keessaa “Burraayyuun teenya”! ja’an, warri Gincii “dhiiga nama keenyaa kan Aaw-Wadaayitti dhangala’e ni baafanna!” ja’an, haala kanaa fiis, xiqqaa guddaan – dhalaa dhiiraan, diina ibidda itti harutti, harka duwwaa deeman, odoo hin taane, gaafa haalli kanaan faallaa, gaafa ummanni Oromoo ifii fii waliis wallaalanii dukkana keessa turan “akki kuni isaaniin hin malle” jachuun, jiruu sadoo tan keeysa ture dhiisee, maatii isaa biyya alagaa keessatti gatee, qaanqee qabsoo hidhannoo bilisummaa qabsiisuuf nama Adanirraa biyya seene.

Maqaan warri Elemoof moggaasan Hassani. Akka aadaa hawaasa Baha Oromiyaatti maqaan buruja ykn haala dhalataa ykn dhalattuu laaluun moggaafama. Maqaan afaan Arabaa kan haala san hordofuun Elemoof moggaafame, hiikkaa sadii qaba. Isaaniis, Bareedaa, Gaarii ykn Tolaa fii, Nama rakkataa ykn dhimma kabajamaa tahe gargaaru kan ja’u. Namni akkuma dhalateen haalli armaa olii irraa calaqqise kuni, Abraahim Umarii fii Aashaa Aammad irraa Baha Oromiyaa, Godinaa Bareentumaa Konyaa Gaara Mul’ataa, Aanaa Qarsaa, Ganda Galaan kan Raaree Bululoo keessatti arkamutti, toora bara 1936 keessa dhalate.

Elemo akka barnoota Amantii Islaamaa kan ganda itti dhalatetti barsiifamu xumureen, dabalataaf odoo daddeemuu, toora bara 1956-aa magaalaa Diree Dhawaa seene. Akka achi dhaqeen, jaalalti magaalaa Dirree Dhawaa qoma seentee, darasummaa mana bahee fiin adda baaftee, if keessatti qubsuma murteeffachiifte. Jireenyaaf, dukkaana nama Haaji Umeerii ja’amu, kan meeshaa adda addaa alarraa fidee jimlaa fii takkeen gurgurutti mindaawe.

Elemo, faxinummaa waa barachuu biratti naamusaa fii amanamummaan yaroo gabaabduu keessatti onnee Haajii seene. Akka magaalaa baree, hawaasaa fii amala biyyaa tiin wal fudhateen, eega hujii isaa raawwate booda, galgala-galgala, uffata adda-addaa, kopheelee fii faaya dubartii, Haajirraa fuudhee dukkaannan irra daddeemee jimlatti gurguruun mataa isaa tiif waa jalaa buufachuu jalqabe. Abbootiin dukkaannanii, kanneen Elemo irra daddeemee meeshaa itti gurguru, akka wal-baraa dhufaniin, akkuma Haajitti, haalaa fii amala isaa jaalatanii, daldala isaanii tiin barbaadutti seenan. Haalli kuni, Elemoof, hammaa fii miyoota gurguru baayyiseef. Heddominni gurguraa bu’aa jalaa arkatu fijaa dukkaana keeysa oolee horu caal’chisaa dhufe. Hoggaa kana, yaroo dukkaana keessa hojjatu xiqqeeysaa tan daldala ifii isaarratti bobbahuu dheereeysaa deeme.

Gama biraa tiin, Elemo, gaafa magaalaa Dirree Dhawaa qubaterraa kaasee, daldala malees, karaa raadiyoo fii gaazeexoota afaan Arabaa tiin haala siyaasaa adunyaa, keessaa huu, kan sossooha bilisummaa kan yaroo sanitti biyyoota Afrikaa fii Laatiin Ameerikaa keessatti gaggeeffamaa jiru, akkaan hordofuu jalqabe. Haalli kuni, yaroo hiriyoota waliin wal-arkuu fii barcaaf taa’u, akka nama qamahutti, muka jimaa if dura qaqqabaa, hunda caalaa waanuma qabsoo bilisummaa qofa haasawuu isa jaalchiise. Hoggaa hiriyoonni oduu dubartoota tiin wal booharsan, haala rifeensaa, tafaa fii guntutaan bareedina dubartii madaalan, Elemo, seenaa Jamiilaa Buuheerd, qabsooytuu biyya Algeeriyaa tan yaroo sanitti oduun isii raadiyoo fii gaazexaalee adunyaa dhunfate odeeysuun, bareedinaa fii dhiira gammachiisuun alattiis, dubartoonni, qabsoo bilisummaa tii fiis qooda guddaa gumaachuu akka dandayan haasawaa ture.

Bayyanoota akkanaa tan qaburraa ka’uun, bara 1962 keessa yaroo kaa’imman Oromoo naannoo Dirree Dhawaatti sossooha aadaa tiin hawaasa dammaysuuf gurmaawuu jalqaban, sossoohinsi afaanii fii aadaa eenyummaa beeysisuu qofatti kan hin dhaabbanne tahuu warra jalqabaan hubatan keeysaa tokko Elemo tahe. Haala kanaa fiis, hoogganota kaa’immanii, keessaa huu Abuubakar Muussaa waliin, qunnamtii addaa horuun hawwisoolee Afran Qalloo diinaggee fii yaadaan tin’isaa ture.

Elemo baadiyyaarraa magaala Dirree Dhawaatti godaanee qabeenyaan if dandayaa dhufullee, amaloota badoo magaalaan guddoon qabduun in hawadamne. Jimaa fii sijaaraan namoota daadda isaa biratti faaya tureeniinillee isa fudhachuu hin dandeenye. Toliinsa haalaa fii amalaa biratti, hojjataa haraaraa fii araadarraa qulqullaawe tahuun, Elemo, hawaasa guddaa bira kutee, Haaji Umeerii malees, naaduraa sooreeyyii magaalaa kanneen meeshaa jimlatti irraa bituu, warra akka Hassan Foorsaa fii Saalim Abuubakar Ba-Mihdaar jala naqe. Hundinuu, daldala isaanii bira taranii, shamarraan isaanii tiin warra kajeelu tahan. Haaluma kanaan, warri Baa-Mahdar, daldala isaanii kan Adan jiruuf isa qaadhimatanii, Dirree Dhawaa irraa akka gamas sossoohu amansiisan. Akkasiin, walakkaa bara 1963, karaa Adan sossoohe.

Akka Adan dhaqee biyya bareeniis, warra achi geeysaniif hojjachaa, akkuma Dirree Dhawaatti, seedata dhunfaa cinatti ooffachuu jalqabuun, daldaloota biyya sanii tii fii kanneen biyyaa dhufanitti miyoota barbaadamoo gurgurutti seene. Haala kanaan, daldalli isaa yaroo gabaabduu keessatti toleefii mindooma namaa jalaa if baase. Akka qabeenyi walitti kuufameefiin, achumaa bitee achitti gurguruu mannaa, Taaywaan, iddoo warri inni irraa bitu meeshaa irraa fidanitti sossoohuu jalqabe. Adanirraa Taaywaanitti bobbahuun, yaroo gabaabduu keessatti, Elemo, sooreeysa beekkamaa, akkuma hiikkaa maqaa isaatti, nama if bira dabree rakkataa gargaaru godhe.

Yaroo Elemo Adan seene, biiyti bulchinsa Ingiliz jala turte. Elemo akka bubbulee biyya bareen, dargaggoota biyyaa kanneen dhaaba maqaa Adda Bilisummaa Ummataa, الجبهة القوميّة ykn National Liberation Front (NLF) ja’amuun gabroomsaa ifirraa kaasuuf qabsaawaa jiraniin wal fudhatee, yaadaa fii diinaggeen gargaarutti seene. Sadaasa 30, bara 1967, gaafa sossohinsi riphee loltummaa dhaaba armaa olii, gabrummaa Ingiliz buqqisee, biyya Bulchiinsa Ummata Yaman Dhidhimaa (People’s Republic of South Yemen) gonfachiise, akkuma warra biraatti, Elemo deeggaraa galmaawaa tahuun isaa ifatti beekkame.  Deeggaraa NLF tahuun, Elemo, Falasxiinota bilisummaa biyya isaanii tiif qabsaawan walii niis jaala godhe. Kaayoo qabsoo isaanii galiin gayuuf, walakkaa bara 1964, gaafa dhaaba PLO gurmeeyfatan irraa kaasee, gama waajjira isaanii kan Adaniin, diinaggeen gargaaruun, hariiroo jaallummaa waliin uummate. Isaan malees, Elemo, qabsaawota Adda Bilisummaa Eertiraa (ELF) kanneen yaroo san Adan keeysatti cimoo  turan waliiniis qunnamtii walitti dhaabbatte qabaachuun wal’aansoo isaanii hordofaa ture.

Gama biraa tiin, Yaroon Elemo Adan itti dhaqe, yaroo sossoohinsi qabsoo bilisummaa fii yaanni sirna siyaasaa wajji qabeenyaa kan maqaa Soshalizimiin beekkame hawaasa adunyaa itti dhunfatte. Yaroo sanitti, hawaassan adunyaa hedduu keeysatti, qabsaawonni haala armaa olii kanaan gabroomfataa alagaa malees cunqurfamaa fii saaminsa Abbootii Lafaa jalaa bahuuf wal’aansoo cimtuu godhaa turani. Akka yaadaa tiin sirni wajji qabeenyaa faallaa daldalaa fii sooroma dhunfaa ti. Haalli kuni, silaa, nama akka Elemoo kan qabeenyii amma walitti kuufamaafii jiru, kan makiinaan haarayni, reefu baate, mooraa keessa jaajjitu, kan harkisu hin turre. Garuu, Elemo, nama dantaa mataa isaa caalaa kan ummata bal’aaf irra hadooduu fii yaadu waan taheef, sirna kana qaamaa fii qalbiin fudhate. Kaayoo sirna kanaa fiixa baasuu fiis, akka Yaman Dhidhimaa bulchiinsa Ingilizii jalaa walaba taateen, dhaaba NLF jalatti, goblaa Markisizim keessatti galmaawee, kitaabban Shuu’ii dubbisuun dhorame. Seenaaleen qabsaawota akka Chee Guveeraa fii Ho Chi Miin niis sammuu fudhatanii yaroo hunda afanii bu’uu didan.

Elemo qabeenyaan sooromuu fii mootummaa biyyaa waliin hariiroo jaallummaa qabaachuun, ilmaan Oromoo kanneen haala adda-addaa tiin biyyaa bahanii achi seenan akkaan gargaare. Elemo, warra baqa dhufaniif dahoo tahe. Nyaataa fii dhugaatiin gargaaruu bira taree, hamma qubatanitti, mana isaa bira taree, kophatti iddoo galan horii isaa tiin kireeyseef. San malees, warra daldalaaf achi dhufan, kani duubbee isaanii hin-beeyne, miya isaa liqitti kennuuf jalqabe. Haalli isaa kuni, Elemo, rakkoo keessa galche. Walakkaa bara 1968-ii, namicha tokko kan miya irraa fuudhee achumaan biyyatti hafe irraa maallaqa isaa barbaada Finfinnee dhaqe. Namichi, miya liqiin irraa fuudheef horii isaa erguuf mannaa, Elemo hidhaaf qaadhime. Mootummaa Hayle Sillaasee tan warra dura dhaabbatu akka boombiitti ifirraa eegaa jirtutti, “Elemoo warra biyya alaa keessatti mootummaa dura dhaabbatan waliin nama jiru,” badii jattuun akka qabamee hidhamu godhe. Gama biraa tiin, namichi, durumaanuu tahe ja’amee, mootummaa Xoophiyaa irraa nama itti ergame ja’ama.

Dimshaashatti, gaaroominni, Elemo, goda itti hin qophaawin keessa naqe. Namichi bu’aa akka irraa arkatuuf miya liqiin kenneef, “Adan dhufuu ani hin dandayuu, sumaa tu narra wayyaa, ati as koottu. Noolii baaftu horii keetirratti ida’een siif kenna. Achumaanuu biyyaa fii haala daldala Finfinnee tiis laalta,” yaada ja’uun sobee, Shaggar fidee, illima qopheeyseef keessa naqe.

Qaruuteen mootummaa Hayle Sillaasee, Elemoo keeysaa waan beeku baasuuf, akkuma mana hidhaa ol naqataniin, uleen irra gattaa’an. Harkaa fii miila hidhanii, eessaa tu irra laalataan, akka nama uuda bishingaa tumuutti qaama mara cafaqan. Akkasitti, waan dhagayuu fedhan afaanii baasuu dadhabnaan, dumucoo carqii afaanitti takashanii, akka siilchoo waadanitti sibiila furdaa keessa loosaa tuman. Akka foon suguyyaatti, mataa isaa gadi rarraasanii fannisuun, hamma coraan irraa solloqee foon diimaan mul’atutti, faana keessa tuman. Afaan cancalanii tumuu fii akka foon suguyyaatti fannisanii garafuun, wahuu afaanii baasuu dadhabnaan, warri zaalla-gaaffii, “kuni nama humaa takkallee keeysa hin jirre,” murtii jatturra gayan.

Tumiinsarraa kan ka’e, faanti madooytee, Elemo ejjechuu dadhabee, mana fincaanii dhaquuf gargaarsa barbaade. Mana isaa oowwaa fii jiruu isaa mi’ooytuu keessaa, malaan yaamamee kana mudachuun haalaan garaa gube. Horii isaa barbaadaaf, mana hidhaa kan miila isaa tiin dhufee if naqe keeysaa bahuuf, horii biraa dhangalaasutti seene. Mootummaa gunaan aadaa isii taate jalaa maallaqaan if baasuuf, kan arke hundatte harka hiixaachuu jalqabe. Akkasiin maa-na-uumtetti, hidhaa ji’a jahaa booda, walabummaa horii isaa tiin bitatee, mana hidhaa keessaa bahee, Adanitti deebi’e.

Hidhaan mootummaa Habashaa Elemo haalaan jijjiirte. Eega Adanitti deebi’e, sammuun isaa waan dalagaa dhiiftee, gadadoo balleessaa takka malee biyya haadhaa fii abbaa isaa keessatti mudate, halkanii fii guyyaa, yaaduu irraa hara fudhachuu didde. Saba irraa dhalate, kan biyya isaa keessatti mirga tokkollee qabaachaa hinjirreef, humaa godhaa jiraachuu dhaba isaa tiif gaddi weerare. Haalli kuni, isa dhunfatee, fedhii dalagachuu keessatti laamsheesee, karaa fii haala qabsoo bilisummaa ummata Oromoo irraa qooda itti fudhatu qofa akka yaadu goodhe. Yaada isaa kana hujiirra oolchuuf, odoo iyyaafataa fii qorannoo godhuu, Kaa’imman Oromoo kanneen qabsoo bilisummaa jalqabuuf fedhii qaban biyyaa baqatanii Soomaaliyaa keessa jiraachuu dhagaye. Dhageeytii faana-dhawee akka mirkaneeyfateen, qunnamuuf karaa Maqdishoo barare. Achitti, Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa tii fii sab-boonota biroo kanneen wal’aansoo qabsoo bilisummaatiif qophii tahaniin walitti dhufe.

Elemo, Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa tii fii sab-boonota biroo kanneen fedhii qabsoo bilisummaa akka isaa qaban arkuun haalaan gammachiise. Nama qabsoo akka isaanii tiif murate, kan mootummaa Adan waliin jaallummaa qabu, kan qabsaawota Falaxiinii fii kanneen biroo waliiniis hariiroo qabuun walitti dhufuun, Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa faa keessattiis gammachuu daangaa hin qabne uumte. Hawwii qabsoo bilisummaa tan mootummaan Soomaalee keessatti ukkaamsitetti hafuurri deebi’eef. Marii godhaniin, akkaataa yaada isaanii if dura itti tarkaanfachiisanirratti mala tarrifatanii, Elemo hujii adda fudhatan fiixa baasuuf Adanitti deebi’e.

Ji’a sadii booda, haala sab-boononni soomaalee keessaa itti bahanii fii Adanitti leenjii tooftaa lolaa itti baratan qopheeysee, horii nooliif barbaachisu waliin sab-boonotatti deebi’e. Gabaasaa Elemorraa arkamtetti irkachuun, ji’a Abraashaa/Muddee 12, bara 1969, magaalaa Maqdishoo keessatti teeysuma dhooysatti gaggeeysaniin, qabsoo hidhannoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa jalqabuuf murteeyfatan. Ji’uma tana keesa, warra tooftaa lolaa barachuu irratti ramadaman, qaruutee Soomaalee jalaa mimmiliysaa, tokkoo-lamaan, dooniin bahara ceesisanii Adan naqan.

Elemoo fii sab-boononni Soomaalee irraa Adan dhufan, kanneen Yamanii fii biyyoota adda-addaa irraa itti dabalaman waliin, tooftaa lolaa barachuuf, moora leenjii Falasxiinotaa tan Adanitti arkamtu seenan. Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa, tooftaa lolaa biratti tan riphee loltummaa fii hoogganummaa akka baratuuf gama mooraa leenjii waraanaa tan Falsxiinoonni Suuriyaa keessaa qaban dhaqe. Akka barnoota barbaachisu fixateen, Adooleeysa 23, bara 1970, Adanitti deebi’e. Miyni waraanaa kan arkamee akka naannoo san dhufeen, warra leenjii barnoota lolaa fixatan keessaa qabsaawonni soddomii jaha, karaa Soomaaliyaa tiin Oromiyaa seenanii qabsoo hidhanoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa jalqabuuf, Onkololeessa 17, bara 1970, hoogganummaa Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa tiin, dooniin, Bahara Diimmaarra, Adanirraa karaa Soomaaliyaa sossoohan.

Qabsaawonni 36-n, seenaa qabsoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa keessatti Qeeyroo Ganamaatti beekkaman, gaafa biyyatti deebi’uuf murteeffatan, “hujii fii hariiroo biyyoota alaa keessatti jalqabamte isa caalaa kan fiixa baasu hin jiru,” murtii jattuun, Elemo odoo diduu, akka Adanitti hafu godhan. Qabsaawoni qabsoo hidhannoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa jalqabuuf, leenjii lolaa fudhatanii karaa biyyaa sossoohan, Soomaalee keessaan biyyatti hulluuquuf tattaaanni godhan milkooma dhabe.

Bahara Hindii, kan bitaa-mirgaa fii, gadii fii oliin isaa, kan irra daddeebi’u afanfaajjeessu, guyyaa aduu, halkan urjii hordofaa irra deemanii lafa garaa gayuun rakkisa. Haala kanaan, amniti doonii tan kiiloo-meetira dhibba lamaa fii shantamii olii, qabsaawota Qeeyroo Ganamaa, iddoo tilmaammatan irraa maysitee, halkan dukkana, malkaa Bulloo-har ja’amtu, tan Zeeylaa fii Barbaraa jidduu jirtu geeysite. Achitti, ganama, isaanii hirriibaa hin ka’in, waraana Soomaalee tiin marfamanii, eega dhukaasa walitti banan booda, malaan harka isaanii seenanii, mana hidhaa Man-Dheeraa ja’amutti darbaman.

Qabsaawonni Qeeyroo Ganamaa hidhamuun, Itti Gaafatama Dhimma Alaa tan duraan itti kennamterratti, dirqama waliigalaa, qonyee Elemoorratti dabalte. Elemo, ulfina dirqamaa tan haalli mudeen odoo hin baaragin, yaada qabsaawota Qeeyroo Ganamaa bakkaan gayuuf, hifaata malee warraaqutti seene. Dhimma kanaaf, dooginyoota (Bakka bu’oota) waajjiroota mootummoota Arabaa tii fii biyyoota qabsoo bilisummaa gargaaran waliin hariiroo uumuuf Iraaq, Kuweet, Ordon, Libnaan, Suuriyaa fii Misra keessa daddeeme.

Tattaafanni Elemoo, maqaa fii seenaa Oromoo gurra mootummoota hedduu naqe. Haaluma kanaaf, yaada “Laalcha Sadaffaa Adunyaa” ja’u babal’isuuf, walgayii bara 1973, ji’a Eblaa keessa, Koloneel Gadaafiin Liibiyaa keessatti qopheesserratti, akka qabsaawota bilisa baaftuu Oromootti afeerraan godhamteefii, jilaa waliin, Tirippoolii dhaqe. Teeysuma bakka bu’oonni dhaabota qabsoo bilisummaa biyyota Afrikaa, Aasiyaa, Oroppaa fii Ameerikaa Dhidhimaa irratti arkaman tanarratti, Elemoo fii jilli waliin dhaqan, qabsaawota achitti arkaman, seenaa Oromoo tii fii kaayoo qabsoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa tiin wal-barsiisan.

Elemo, haala armaa olii tiin, Oromoo fii dhibdee isii lammii fii mootummoota biyyoota alaa beeysisaa, karaa kaaniin, karoora Qeeyroo Ganamaa bakkaan gayuurratti qophii barbaachiftu-rratti bobbahe. Haala kanaa fiis, akka karaa ittiin biyya seenamu qoratanii fii caasaa saniif barbaachiftu diriirsaniif, qabsaawota dhimma kanaaf muratan, karaa adda-addaa tiin biyya naqe. Akka qophiin haala kanaaf barbaachiftu xumuramteen, fuula karaa biyyaa deebise. Dhimma kanaaf, Sadaasa 04, bara 1973, sab-boonota leenjii waraanaa fudhatan waliin, mana isaatti teeysuma qopheeyse. Qabsoo hidhannoo bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa jalqabuurratti marii godhaniin, warra kaayicha hujiirra oolchuu fedhan waliin biyya seenuu murteeyfatan.

Yaroo sanitti, Elemo, qabeenya gayaa malees, haadha warraa, Aammuun Umar, tan bareedina daawwatamee hin quufamneen faayamtee fii ilma isaa kan maqaa Kallachaa, Abdukariim, moggaaseef fii intala isaa Hanaan, tan reefu dhalatte, qabaachuu ture. Horii fii matii biratti, hoogganoota biyya Adan waliin jaallummaa qabuun, biyya san keessatti, jiruu nagayaa, sadoo fii qananiin jiraachuu isaaf salpha ture. Saniin alattiis, achuma jiraatee, maqaa qabsoo Oromoo tiin yaroo-yaroon biyyoota alagaa keessa daddeemuun jiruu isaa itti fufuu ni dandaya ture. Garuu, fedhiin bilisummaa tan onnee keeysaa belbeltu, sadoo fii qananii gatee, maatii isaa Rabbitti dhiisee, qabsoo hidhannoo jalqabuuf, karaa daggala Oromiyaa akka sossoohu goote. Akkasiin, qabsaawota waliin biyya seenuu murteeyfatan waliin, miya waraanaa hamma dooniin deemuun dandeeysu fe’anii, Arfaasa 06, bara 1973, Adanirraa ka’anii, qilleensaa fii dambalii hamilee cabsuu barbaaddu keessa hulluuqanii malkaa Asabitti tarkaanfatan. Achirraa, lafa ummata Affar keessa loohaanii hawaasa isaaniitti fullahan.

Elemo faan, odoo biyya hin seenin duratti, qabsoon bilisummaa ummata Oromiyaa, jalqabumaan, Oromoota nannoo adda-addaa akka haammattuu fii hooggana isii keessattiis martinuu akka if arkan godhuun barbaachisaa tahuu hubachuun, hoogganummaa isii falmachuurraa if qusatan. Yaada kana bu’ureeffachuun, akka biyya seenaniin, sab-boonota magaalaa Finfinnee keeysa jiran qunnaman. Arfaasaa 27, bara 1973, Finfinnee keeysatti sab-boonotaa garii waliin teeysuma godhaniin, yaada isaanii kana gayaniinii, hamma qabsaawonni naannoo adda-addaarraa keessatti heddommaatanuu isaan Wiirtuu Gola Qindoominaa (Central Coordinting Body) akka tahan murteeysan. Sanumaa waliin, bara lama keeysatti, Dirreen Qabsoo tan jabaatte keessatti, Walgayii Idilee tan hooggana if keeysaa filtu qophooysuurratti waliigalan.

San booda, Eleemoo fii Qabsaawonni, miya waraanaa kan fidatan iddo adda-addaatti dhooyfatanii, haalaa fii naannoo qubsumaa qorachuu irratti bobbahan. Qormaata yaroo xiqqoo boodaan, Gaara Gubbaa Qorichaa hundee godhatanii, Daloo ifii olitti laalaa, gadiin Galamso daawwachaa, Shaggariin, “kiiloo meetira dhibba lama qofa sirraa jirraa, nuu obsi,” ja’chuun, hidhannoo isaanii tan waraanni mootummaa hin qabneen hawaasa keessa daddeemaa dammaqiinsaa fii hamilee ummataa kakaasutti seenan. Gandi keessa bobbahan, kan itti aanuuf haala isaanii odoo hasaasuu, oduun isaanii yaroo takkatti lammii walgeeyse. Dhaadannoon isaanii tan, “ummanni keenya biyya isaanii keessatti, mirga abbaa biyyummaa mulqamanii, gabrummaan jiraachuun raawwachu qaba!” tan jattu, hawaasa Oromoo bira tartee, tan diinee seente. Nafxanyoonni naannoo Gubbaa Qorichaa dhunfatanii ummata keenya-rratti roorrisaa jiran yaroo tana dhagayan gurra isaanii amanuu dadhaban.

Mulaatuu Tamany tuni natti hin taatu je’e. Mulaatuun, nafxanyaa, lafa guddoo mootummaan ummatarraa fuutee badhaafterratti abbaa lafaa tahee, hawaasarratti roorrisaa ture. Lafa fardaan irra gulufee, fudhatee, irratti qanani’aa jiru, irreen tiiyfachuuf hamma funyaanitti hidhatee, bakka deemu mara ash’karoota hidhannoo qabaniin nama dabaalamaa deemu. Ilmi Temeny akkuma afaan isaatti, onnee horee, Caamsaa 01, bara 1974, guyyaa Isniinaa, jalee waliin, midhaan isaa fidachuuf, Har-diimi-tti ganame.

Qabsaawonni hammi tokko isaanii iddoo itti bobbahan irraa gala deeman, harroota gooroo jala dhunfatan halaalaa arkanii, itti achi deeman. Dargaan Mulaatuu kanneen alaa isa eegan, warra hidhannoon itti achi deemaa jiru agarraan, dhukaasa banan. Namicha dura Dimitfoor dhukaase, Qeeyroon Kilaashiin adda keessa dhooynaan, warri hafan harka samitti ol qabanii Mulaatuu dargaa malee hambisan. Qabsaawonni midhaan boolla torba, kan nafxanyichi harroota shantamiin fe’achuuf deemu, geejjibaa waliin manguddoo biyyaa harka kaayanii, Mulaatuu Waaqatti galchan.

Oduun haala Mulaatuu mudatee, Galamso qaxxaamurtee, Finfinnee baatee gurra mootummaa Habashaa seente. Hayle Sillaasee fii dooginyoonni isaa shororkaa biraa keessa jiraatanillee, tana gurraan dhagayuun taan daran yaachisee, hatattamaan humna daddaffii tan Faxnoo Daraashiitti beekamtu naannoo sanitti ergan. Faxnoon, nafxanyoota naannoo sanii waliin tahuun, manneen irra daddeemanii manguddoota, sheekkotii, daldaloota, barattootaa fii kaa’imman Galamsoo fii naannoo sanii kanaa-sanii malee, hidhatti guuran. Dargaggoonni, nafxanyoota akka saree maraattee Oromoota hidhuuf ganda keessa o’orihan jalaa jalaa miliquu dandayan, qabsaawota biratti jalaa baqatan. Guyyaa sanirraa kaasee, irreen qabsaawotaa cimaa dhufte. Ummanni keessa jiran gadaameysaa tahaniifii caasaan isaanii guddachaa, marsaan bal’achaa deemte. Gama kaaniin, wal’aansoon naannoo sanitti finiintee, lolli walitti dhaabbate. Nafxanyoonni baadiyyoota Gubbaa Qorichaa keessa jiran darsa guurratanii magaalatti godaanuu jalqaban. Baadiyyaan nagaya arkatte. Abbootiin biyyaa xixa nafxanyootaa irraa hara baafatan.

Odoo haalli akkanatti deemaa jiru, Waxabajii 28, bara 1974, Dargiin jaaramtee aangoo biyyaa Hayle Sillaaseerraa fudhatte. Akka barcuma tottolfatteen, rakkoolee biyyaa kanneen muddamsiisaa jiran caalaa, kan naannoo Gubbaa Qorichaatti nafxanyoota mudachaa jiruuf durummaa kennitee, miseensoota isii keeysaa, Koloneel Zallaqaa Bayyanaa naannoo sanitti ergite. Zallaqaan, nafxanyoota baaraga duuti Mulaatuu itti fidde keessaa baasuuf, irbuu seeneef. Ummata Galamsoo dirree magaalaa-tti walitti qabate. Loltootaan marsee, walakkaa dhaabbatee, “isin ummanni Galamsoo fii naannoo isii, shiftoota isin keessa daddeeman fiduu ykn dhabamuu keessaa tokko filadhaa,” jachuun doorsise. San booda, murna waraanaa kan Shaalaqaa Kaasaahun Alamaayyoo tiin hoogganamu, Galamsoo fii Gubbaa Qorichaa jidduu, Gooroo Khinteerii ja’amturra qubachiise.

Akeekni guddaan waraana achi qubachiisuu, ummata naannoo sanii anfariirsuun, qabsaawota isaan keessa jiranitti quba laachisiisuu fi. Ummataa fii qabsaawota duuydaa-garaa godhuufi. Jarri galii tana fiixa baasuuf, hidhannoo guutuun hawaasa keessa bobbahanii galuu jalqaban. Yaroo qarmaammee isaanii-rraa bahanii deebi’an mara, ummata zaalla-gaaffiin rakkuu, doorsisuu fii sodaachisuu hujii godhatan. San isaan hanqatee, gaafa kaan nama tokko galaafatan.

Guyyaa Faxnoon lubbuu nama Oromoo galaafatan, qabsaawonni Amaarota baadiyyaa keessa jiranitti dhaqanii hulaa dhadhawanii, qabsoon manaa bahaniif, tan hiyyeessa Amaaraa, kanneen hawaasa Oromoo keessa nagayaan jiraatan miidhuu akka in tahin mirkaneessaniif. Gochi Faxnoo isaanii fii Oromoota jiddutti garaa-garummaa uumuuf waan karoorfame tahuu beeysisuun, dhaamsaa waliin jaratti ergan. Dhaamsa Faxnoof barreessan irrattiis, akeeka deemaniif ifa baasaniif. Wal’aansoon itti jiran tan gabrummaa Habashaa ifirraa buqqisuu fii, tan abbaa biyyummaa ummata Oromoo mirkaneeysuu tahuu adeessaniif. Sanumarratti dabalanii, ummata nagaayaan jiraatan irratti ajjeechaa hojjatamu akka balaaleeffatan hubachiisan. Akkasumaa waliin, kana booda, yo nama Oromoo tokko ajjeesan, dhiiga gama kaanirraa dhangalauuf warri itti gaafatamu isaan taachaa beeysisan.

Shaalaqaan, yaroo Amaarota qabsaawonni itti erganiin wal-qunnamee, dhaamsa irraa dhagaye, tooftaan isaa jalaa fashaluu hubate. Yo ajjeechaa ummata Oromoo itti fufe, lubbuu Amaarotaa tan galaafatamuuf jiraattuuf itti gaafatamuu isaa arke. Haalli qabsaawotaa kuni hatattaamaan ugguramuu baannan, caalaa hammaachuun isa yaachisee, tarkaanfii isaan dhabamsiisuu tiif waraana isaa qopheessee, Birraa 05, bara 1974, guyyaa Kamisaa, subiin, Gooroo Khinteerii irraa gama raaree Xirrootti sossoose.

Qaruuteen qabsaawotaa sossooha waraana Kaasaahun arkanillee, akkuma aadaa isaaniitti, bobbahanii deebi’anitti waan fudhataniif, hordofuuf itti hin-rakkanne. Kaasaahuniis faana arraantanaa dhooyfachuuf, guyyoota hedduu kan humaa hin balleessin nagayaan, waraana isaa diiramaan bobbaasee deebisaa ture. Arra garuu, midhaan boqqolloo kan hojjaa namaa liqimsuun if dahaa, bakka duri-rra miila dheereeffate.

Waraanni diinaa shokomsaa malee mayra boqqoolloo keessa deemanillee, ilaaloo Qeeyroo jalaa dhokochuu hin-dandeenye. Sayliin Qeeyroo, warri akka hireetti naannoo san turan, akka odeessa arkataniin waraana Faxnoo afaan bahanii, isaanii quba hinqabne dhukaasa bakka takkaa tiin baareeysan. Waraanni diinaa dhokochuuf goda seenan dhaban. Shaalaqaan, zarraafii isaa tiif odoo yaroo hin arkatin, dachii fii samiin itti garagaggalan. Lolli akkaa fii bakka inni hin barbaadinitti itti jalqabamee, xiyyitii fii boombiin karaa hundaan itti xiixan.

Dhukaasni jalqabamnaan, Qeeyroon naannoo jiranirraa karaa sagaleen qawwee itti dhagayamtutti orihan. Waraana diina kan duruu afanfaajjawaa jiru, olii-gadiin, bitaa-mirgaan, itti dhukaasanii lafaan dhawutti seenan. Kaasaahunii fii waraanni isaa, ibidda qaban, ija cufatanii karaa arkan haru malee waan godhan wallaalan. Ummanni naannoo sanii yaroo qawween qabsaawotaa diinaa akka kubbaatti ol kaaftee lafatti gadi deebiftu, halaalaa mil’atanii dinqifachutti seenan.

Lolli ganama jalqabe, dafee raawwachuu dhiisee, lakkumaan, aduu waliin oowwutti seene. Ibiddi gooroo gubbaa itti roobu, baayyina waraana diinaa xiqqeeysaa dhufe. Haalli akka mooraa itti baheef tahuu dhabnaan, ajajaan waraana diinaa, kanneen mooratti hafan dhufanii akka gargaaraniif dirmachuu lallabate. Tanaa-tana jiddu mudaamuddii ol, bakka miilaa fii garaan Elemoo walitti jaajju, xiyyitiin diinaa takka dhuftee seente. Elemo dhawamuu isaa kan hubate yaroo humniti diinaa akkaa-gara dhabdee, dhukaasni gama isaanii tiin itti ol roobu qabbanaawe.

Waraanni mooratti hafan akka iyyannaa dhagayniin, dirmachuuf orihaa dhufanii waaheloota du’aa fii madaawuu irraa hafanitti hafuura lubbuu deebisanii, waliin, qabsaawotatti dhukaasuu jalqaban. Yoona, Elemo, qabsaawonni tokko-tokkoon suuta lola keessaa mimmiliqaa akka lubbuu boruuf baasan ajaje. Haala miliquu isaaniif aanjeeysuuf, ansoolaa deemmatuun irraa fiinxa dhoosee bakka dhiiyni irraa yaa’aa jirutti maree, dhagaa guddaa dahoo godhatee, waraana diinaatti dhukaasa banuuf  jilbiiffate. Qabasaawonni haala isaa kana arkan amrii isaa dura dhaabbachuun, biraa deemuu didan. Elemo garuu, isa caalaa kan arraaf lubbuu baafachuu qabu isaan taachaa itti hime. San malees, “manaa kaniin baheef qabsoo bilisummaa ummata kiyyaa fi. Haala kanaan du’uu caalaa wanni na gammachiisaa hin jiru. Qaanqee qabatte tana akka hin dhaamne godhuun dirqama isinirra jiru. Kanaaf, na dhiisaa deemaa. Ani hamma lubbuun na keeysa jirtu diina isinirraa hiin ittisa.” Jechuun bakka riphiserraa diinatti dhukaasuu jalqabe.

Waraanni Kaasaahuun, gama isaanii tiin, iddoo dhukaasni irraa itti as dhawamutti, xiyyitii malees madaafaa haraa, karaa maraan dooyatti ol yaa’an. Elemo bakka jilbiiffaterraa waaraana diinaa kanneen itti ol yaa’an hamma dandayu odoo lafaan dhawuu, sagaleen kilaash isaa callifte. Waraanni diinaa bakka irraa itti dhukaafamaa ture hoggaa gayan, ibiddi itti roobaa ture qaama adda bittinneessee, haabee nama itti dhukaasaa turee dhaban. Yaroo dilli kuni tahu, dachiin Xirroo maaltu na mudate jette. Samiin naannoo sanii waan jalatti deemaa jiru laaluu jibbite duumeeysa hagooggatte. Aduun kana hunda daawwachaa ooltee, Asrii, lubbuu Elemoo Qilxuu, jeeyna qabsoo bilisummaa Oromiyaa keessatti gita hin qabne, umrii soddomii saddeetitti fudhattee, Gaara Bubbee tiin gadi qaarte.

Oromiyaan ni bilisoomti!

By ANF

Crime: TPLF has been known by its criminal actions against human being. This is widely documents and demonstrated globally. Family of opposition parties, typically Women and Children, are denied to know whereabouts of their husband and fathers. An ignorant TPLF removed other ethnicity from prisoners guard and the TPLF’s Tigray shot and killed prisoners, and suffocated others in set fire. No human being who has normal thinking and healthy mind would fail to prioritize: first, extinguish the fire, and let other prisoners to escape from such fire calamities. The abnormal TPLF, on the other hand, shot prisoners who ran from fire. Shouldn’t TPLF have a mind even to prosecute later if necessary after the prisoners escape from fire catastrophes?

Ignorance: Neither developed nations lack knowledge nor short of information about the criminal behaviors and actions of TPLF.  Why those nations support and aids to TPLF? I read many about the developed nations stating on the TPLF action as “ concerns”, “serious concerns”, “independent investigation”, ‘closely monitoring and follow up” and so on! Is that means to wait until TPLF shot, kills, jails, torture, abuses people and control so then developed nations to remain as an alliance with TPLF or  to be alliance at later stage with protestors if normal people will win TPLF? Neither of those options shows responsibility of developed nations. The developed nations, though, at least can cease any support to the criminal TPLF and answer to the questions of people. People need freedom. People need self-governance. People need free from colonizers. People need peace and development.

Blame:  who would be taking blame of all damages caused by TPLF and ignored by developed nations? It has been evidenced as TPLF is ignorant to address people’s questions. Developed nations also ignored intentionally to take promote actions in addressing the issues. Rather developed nations repeatedly pronounced as alliance of “Ethiopia”. Does it mean an alliance of 6% of the population from where TPLF came and damaging people, or an alliance with the remaining 94% of population? We shall call again to developed nations to stop any funding and support to TPLF regime. We call developed nations to be an alliance with normal people who don’t damage other person.  We call developed nations to restrain TPLF criminals now. We call developed nations to support victims of TPLF.

Vengeance: It is human nature to take any means available in retaliation against illegal actions for survival and moral matters. There is no legal system in TPLF but fierce of bullets and fire, and abuses onto extended families.  We have concerns now that people locally to take extensive damages against TPLF properties, any investments, impose necessary economic sanction, close roads, and most likely will step on Tigray ethnic group wherever they live in that country.

 Defenders: Normal people can now have any reasonably shield of protection against TPLF and the TPLF’s relatives. Retribution likely will happen. People should call defection of military and law enforcement forces from TPLF regime. This force should be paid necessary incentives including transportation costs and accommodation while to defect from TPLF. This force must reunite with people to ensure safety of people. People should elect their own government starting at village level across the country; thereof, the whole is greater than the sum of its party. Those who lived abroad, go out now to march at presidential or Prime Minister Office of a country.

The prime minister of TPLF must resign now! He shouldn’t order military, kill people, and stand on dead people.

ANF, September 5, 2016

(cbc.ca) — His marathon run in the Rio Olympic games won him the silver medal. But his defiant protest at the finish line, he says, has earned him the enmity of the Ethiopian government. Feyisa Lilesa explains why he says he can’t go home again.

By AlJazeera

Human rights groups says Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 500 people and arrested thousands more in months of political unrest. The UN has called for the release of protesters it says were exercising their rights. The government says it will launch and investigation into police abuse many people haven’t been seen or heard of since their arrest.

Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reports.

A woman breastfeeds her malnourished child at the Halo health post in Halo village, a drought-stricken area in Oromia region in Ethiopia, January 31, 2016. REUTERS/Edmund Blair

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Political violence in Ethiopia has delayed the distribution of aid to four million people hit by drought and floods, including malnourished children, the United Nations said on Monday.

Anti-government protests over disputed provincial boundaries and allegations of human rights violations have riven Ethiopia’s north-central Amhara province and central Oromiya province over the past three months.

“The ongoing situation in Oromiya and Amhara has slowed down dispatches and distributions of targeted supplementary feeding commodities from the Government’s main warehouse in Nazareth, Oromiya,” the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest update.

“The situation also affects dispatches and distributions in Afar, as a large proportion of the commodities allocated to the region are dispatched from the WFP (World Food Programme) warehouse in Kombolcha, Amhara.”

Children under five and pregnant and nursing women with moderate acute malnutrition receive specialized nutritious foods for about six months, or until they return to health.

Those with life-threatening severe acute malnutrition were not affected, the U.N. said, as there were sufficient stocks in health posts.

Ethiopia was hit in 2015 by one of the worst droughts in decades, with 10 million requiring emergency aid, which ended when the spring rains arrived in March.

The rains have brought flooding, which has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, while others fled their homes due to communal conflict in Oromiya and Somali regions.

In June, Human Rights Watch said security forces killed at least 400 people in Oromiya protesting at government plans to allocate land surrounding the regional capital for development.

Authorities scrapped the scheme in January, but protests flared again over the continued detention of opposition demonstrators.

In Amhara, residents said police fired live bullets at demonstrators in August during protests in the city of Bahir Dar over the status of Wolkayt district, which protesters say was illegally incorporated into neighboring Tigray region.

The situation is improving and distributions are expected to be completed soon, the U.N. said.

By Denboba Natie, September 6, 2016,

File: Fichee-Chambalaalla, a New Year, festival celebration among the Sidama people

Since November 2015, the resistance of the Oromo nation has shaken the foundation of the incumbent brutal regime and it is fiercely continuing. The Amhara nation and the other regions have followed on the footsteps of the Oromo and are moving the current resistance to a solid stage. The authoritarian regime whose power has been maintained and consolidated with killing of tens of thousands unarmed civilians, incarcerating hundreds of thousands and totally suffocating freedom of expression and assembly has been seriously worried. The incumbent regime has lost it control as popular resistances gain momentum. The army and police of the country are increasingly joining popular resistances.

The regime uses various techniques and tactics to quash such resistances including committing mass executions. Over 800 civilians have been killed since November 2015 in Oromia and Amhara regions, about 700 in Oromia and the rest in Amhara. It also uses dirty tactics to divert the attentions of its subjects and that of the international community. When it wishes, it explodes bombs to allege opposition political parties although these have been repeatedly exposed by the WikiLeaks and the other Western intelligence groups. Although failed, still the TPLF’s barbaric regime blatantly continues with its hoodwinking strategies as the resistance engulfs the entire country. The country’s largest nations constituting at least 60-65% of the population, the Oromo and Amhara are literally on fire. The rest of the regions are following on their footsteps.

Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that the major part of notorious prison of Qilintto, at the outskirts of Finffinnee (Addis Ababa) has been engulfed by fire on the early hours of September 03, 2016. Various credible reports have confirmed that there have been series of suspicious activities before the days leading to the Qilntto prisons fire incident. For example, the Oromo and Amhara police personnel have been removed from the prison to be replaced by the loyalists ‘Agiazi’ commando groups (mainly composed of Tigreans specializing in summarily excusing civilians on all peaceful demonstrations) in particular the day before the prison fire. The later groups have been placed in all corners of the prisons at the key positions with their highly sophisticated snipper guns on the eve of the political prisoners’ prison has been set on fire. The shootings have been heard long before the fire has been started.

Any person with unaltered mind of his own understands that there are clear indications that there have been foul plays.

The Qilintto prison hosts prominent political prisoners such as the Oromo’s human rights defenders Bekele Gerba, Addisu Bulala, Dejene Xaaffa (Tafa); Berhanu Tekleyared, Lieutenant Masresha Sete of Amhara; Solomon Nayyu of Sidama…and the other thousands of political prisoners from all over the country. It has got 4 major zones and totally hosts over 3,100 political prisoners who are all alleged of plotting against the current government- although the evidences prove that they all have peacefully attempted to show their and their fellow countrymen’s and women’s political grievances. It has been confirmed that Zone 2 of the prison has been totally obliterated. Therefore, has been feared that the regime has deliberately incinerated such a high profile political prisoners as their whereabouts remains as their family members are unable to locate them to date.

Eye witnesses have confirmed that there has been continuous shooting for the periods of over 45 minutes on early stages of the fire by the aforementioned Agiazi commando groups as harrowing experiences of the prisoners becomes evident. Subsequently, the inner sources from various hospitals also reports that several dozens of shot dead bodies have been arrived covered with black bags, none of these with fire related death. The identities of the dead bodies are unknown but were all coded with numbers. The families of over 3,100 prisoners are totally distraught as they search for their loved ones to receive only beating and intimidation from TPLF’s prison officers.

The current incident isn’t a new. On previous occasions the regime has played such heinous games when it has set various prisons on fire to have an excuse to shoot and kill prisoners. In November 2006, the regime has summarily executed over 160 prisoners in Qalitti prison as the inmates were sleeping. In October 2015, the regime’s security forces have set fire on Gonder’s prison where over 24 inmates have been summarily executed by the regime’s forces; in Oromia and Ogadenia regions such inhumane actions of the TPLF’s regime against the prisoners remain a common practice.

The Sidama nation must join the current Oromo resistance!

In spite of such diabolic practices of the regime in power, the peoples of Ethiopia are adamantly and gallantly pushing forward with their struggle… following on the footsteps of the Oromo. The Sidama nation from the south is eagerly expected to show its strong muscle to the regime that has repeatedly undermined its rights to regional self-administration for the last 25 years. The Sidama nation has been subjugated with such denials in addition to other demands similar to the rest part of the country. Therefore, the Sidama nation is expected to be at the forefront of the current demand for the fundamental change in Ethiopian politics.

The current silence of the Sdiama nation whilst its brothers and sisters in Oromia are paying a heavy sacrifice with their lives is uncustomary and uncharacteristic! The nation’s intelligential must stop its silence to risk all for the freedom and liberty of their own nation whilst giving moral and political direction instead of hiding in their shells during the current upheaval. After all, the Sidama nation is more relegated than any other nations of Ethiopia. The nation’s eerie silence whilst its rights are gravely violated is utterly and totally unacceptable. Instead the nation must join its Oromo brothers and sisters without further delay! It must and should stand with its Oromo neighbors to join popular resistance to get rid of the regime that has commonly dehumanized, depersonalized, brutalized and humiliated the nation time and again and with the rest peoples of Ethiopia.

By Denboba Natie, September 6, 2016, (denbobanatie@yahoo.co.uk)

#OromoProtests
Godina Wallagga lixaa aanaa Gullisootti Tax lama qofatu oliif Gadi fiigaa jira.
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1.Obbo Tolii nama jedhamuudhaan. Toli, Hin dhiiftu taanaan Tarkaanfii Dhumaa siirratti utuu hin fudhatin Carraa siif laanneera. Ta’uu baannaan Qeerroon Karaa seedaa fi moggaa koobbaraa jirtan achitti nuuf eegaatii nuuf sirreessa!
2. Addunyaa Fiqaaduutiin, Addunyaan motorii namaan nama kan deddeebisu yommuu ta’u Shufeeriin Tax waan sodateef isatti kennee deddeebisisaa waan jiruuf atis Akka waan Goota taatee, ykn sodaa tokko hin qabneetti of fudhattee harkaa fuudhuunkee Gatii si baasisaa dhiisi!
dhiisuu baannaan atis taksittiinis iddootti galtii beekkadhu!

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“Dadar diddaa bitii fi gurgurtaa haala nama aja’ibsiisuun simattee jirti·Iddoon buufata jimaa daldalli jimaa itti rawwatamu kan akka hawaasa nannootti ‘kaamboo’ jedhamee beekkamu waan takkaa bittaafi gurgurtaanu itti hin gaggeefamiin fakkaatti·
Suqiileen cufamuu irraan kanka’een kaabinootni goodinaafi kanneen magaalaa Dadar manneen daldalaa irra deemuun yoo arra hin banne hayyama keessan fidaa jedhanii dorsisaniis ummanni diddaa isaa agarsiisaniiru·
Gara biraatiin ganama kana konkilaatan fe’uumsaa tokko magaalaa Dadarii gara magaalaa Goroo Guddoo nama fe’ee osoo deemuu arraddaa Qabsoo Tokkummaa keessatti tarkaanfi itti fudhatameen gara Dadaritti deebiteeti jirti·
Ammaan tana yeroon ergaa kana barreessaa jirutti Kabiinonni magaalaa Dadar ‘amplifier’ konkolaataa irratti baafatanii qaqqiisaati jiran·
Ganama kana yeroo isaan umnata agaaziidhaan dorsisannii manneen daldalaa akka bananuuf carraqan qerroon wacaafaan agazii fi lukkeen wayyaanee ofirraa deebisanii jiran, rasaasa tumaniis hin milkoifne·
Naggadooni tokko tokko kaneen suuqii bananii turanilleen yeroo muraasa booda cufanii jiran”· Via Naf-tanan Gaadullo

#OromoProtests– Warri Holotaas galfata hin nyaanne. Kunoo akkuma labsametti duula gabaa lagannaa isaanii gageessaa jiran.
sochiin gabaa lagachuu kun magaalaa Hoolataa keessatti
gageeffama jira.
Keessattuu suuqota, suupeermaarkeetota adda addaa, manneen huccuu hodhaa fi manneen rifeensoota itti ciratan hedduun isaanii cufamanii jiru.
Ummata keenya kutatoo duula kana gaggeessaa jiran irratti kaabinooti akeekkachiisa maxxansaa jiran; ummati garuu lagannaa isaa murannoon itti fufee jira.
Barreeffamni kaabineen manneen cuufaamanii jiran irratti maxxansaa jrtu immoo akkas jedha:
“Sababaa hin beekamnef tajajila waan kennuu didanif irratti cuufamera. ” jedha.  Via Dhábasá W. Gemelal

Odeeffannoo hataattamaa amma Finfinnee irraa ragaa waliin harkaa keenna seente… ከፊንፊኔ(አዲስ አበባ) አሁን ከማስረጃ ጋር የደረሰን መረጃ…

Namni bishaan fudhate hoomacha qabata akkuma jedhamu, OPDOn yeroo amma kana ijibbaata isa dhumaatiif hojjattoota mootummaa Biiroolee Oromiyaa hundumaa isaanii Waajjira Pirezidaantii Bulchiinsa mootummaa Naannoo Oromiyaatti walitti qabdee Qaammee tokko bara 2008 A.L.H.tti mariisisuuf yaalaa jirti. Ijoon marii isaanii haala sabni Oromoofi Amaaraa qabsoon woliisaanii utubuun woliin qabsa’a jiraaniifi sodaa ABO irraa qabanille guddaa akka ta’e barreeffama marii iccitiin harka keenna seenerraa hubachuun danda’ameera. OPDOn yeroo ammaa kanattis, qaanii tokko malee, dhaabni isaanii (OPDO)n mirga hiriira bahuu, mirga dimookiraasiifi dhala namaa, mirga gurmaa’uu, filachuufi mormuu faa kabachisiiseera jechuun dokumentii marii kanarratti soddaan ila dhiqatee barreessiteerti. Baasaa OPDO mee har’alle waan itti jirtu ilaalaa. Ana akka natti fakkaatuufi akka muuxannoo qabuttille, yaadonni OPDOn mariif dhiheessite kun, hojjattoota mootummaa Oromoo ta’an yeroo ammaa kana maal akka yaadaa jiraniifi sadarkaa yaadaa isaanii ittiin basaasuuf kan qophaa’e waan ta’eef, yeroo haasoftan of eeggannoo osoo taasisanee dansaa ta’a jechuun dhaamaaf.
ውሃ የወሰደ ሰው አረፋን ይይዛል እንደሚባለው ሁሉ፣በወደቁበት መንፈራፈር የወደ ፊት ግስጋሰ የመሰለው ኦህደድ (OPDO) ባሁኑ ጊዜ በኦሮሚያ ክልላዊ መንግስት ጽ/ቤት በፊንፊኔ ጳቁሜ 1, 2008 ዓ.ም ከጠዋት አንስቶ ሁሉንም የኦሮሚያ ቢሮዎች ሰራተኞችን ሰብሰቦ እጅ እጅ ያለውና የተለመደ፣ እንድሁም ጊዜ ያለፈበትና የውሸት የውይይት ሰነድ በማዘጋጀት ልያወያያቸው እየጣረ መሆኑን ምንጮቻችን ከሰነድ ጋራ መረጃውን አደርሰውናል። ከሰነዱ ላይ እንደተመልከትነው፣ ባሁኑ ጊዜ የኦሮሞና የአማራ የትግሉ ትጋፊ እንደያንቦቀቦቃቸው፣ እንድሁም ለኦነግ ያላቸው ከንቱ ፍራቻና ጥላቻ በሰነዱ ውስጥ ታይተዋል። በሚያሳፍር መልኩ በሰነድ ላይ ለኦሮሚያ ብሮዎች ሰራተኞች ለውይይት ከተያዙት ዋና ሃሳቦች ውስጥ ኦህደድ (OPDO) “የሰብአዊና የዲሞክራሲ መብቶች፣ የመሰብሰብና የመቃወም፣ የምርጫ መብቶችና ወዘተ ያሰከበረ እኔ ነኝ፣ ከኔ በስተቀር ሌላ ሰው ለኦሮሞ ህዝብ ልያስጠብቅ የሚችል የለም” በማለት በምስጥር በተላክልን ሰነድ ላይ አሰፍሯል። እኔ እንደሚመስለኝና ልምድም እንዳለኝ ከሆኔ፣ የኦሮሚያን የመንግስት ሰራተኞችን ለመሰለልና ልብ ትርታቸውን ለማዳመጥ የተዘጋጀ የውይይት መድረክ ሆኖ ስለታየኝ የውይይቱ ተሳታፊዎች ጥንቃቄ እንዲያደርጉም መልዕክተ ነው። Via Gadaa Araaraa

EDDO IRRA
Ummanni godina arsii lixaa Magaala EDDO Qabsoo wali galaa oromiyaa keessatti ta’a jiruu ergaa jalaqabee ka’ee Guyyaa tokko kani hin rafnee yoo ta’uu haalumaa kanani bu’aa bahii qabasoo k eessaatti wareegamatoota Qeeroo heduu kani dhabeef qaamaa midhamatoota heduu kani qabaduuf midhaa kana hundaa daneessee qabsoo ishee halkani guyyaa osoo hin jennee anmasii ittumaa jira ergaa sirnaa buluchisaa wayyannee kufisee ufiini ufii buluchuu egalee olee bulee jira wayyanneeni duwwaa achii keessaa deema oduu haa gurtuu malee magalaa kana irraa waani takka hin argatuu akka magalaa EDDOTTI KUNI Bilisumma guddadha ammasi haalumaa kanani Guyyaa har’aasi itti jirti akka Godinaa Arsii lixaa hundaafi kan aanaa dodolaa fincila ummanni oromoo gaggeesaruu keessatti gahee isaa kan bahaa tureef,hanga dhumaattii murtee oromoof oromiyaa gaggeessu kamuu keessatti duuba kan hin hafneefi adda durummaan kan hirmaattuu tahuu ishee qeerroof hawaasni naannoo hundi waada isaa haarawoomseera.kanumaa waliin walqabatee tarkaanfii fi diddaa ummanni guutu oromiyaa torbaan kanaa harra eegalee jalqabee bifaa boonsaadhaan mana ufi cuufatte,tokko malee,magaalaa ona fakkeessiteerti,magallii eddoo ajjeecha ilmaan ishee gaafa 6,7,2016fi oromoo hundarratti rawwateef gaddaa ishee yeroo ibsitu,gumaa jaraas oromoo guutu waliin baafachuuf qophiidha… Via Jaarraa Bilisummaa

#OromoProtests-Kun odeessa Qeerroo Giincii ti: “Har’aa eegaa akkuuma beekkaamu magaalan Giincii suuqiin hoteelli mana buna jabaana dabaalatee akkasuuma mooraan geejjiiboota konkoolata cufaa ooleera. simbiira karaarraatti hin argiitu. Giinciin gootummaa ishee ganaama maddaa FDG ishee akkaa kabaachiifteetti olteetti. Magaaleen xixiiqqoon magaala kana jalaa jirani kan akkaa Asgoori, DhagaaWucii, Gabaa Sambaata, Olonkoomi, fi Boddaa faa illee haaluma nama boonsuun qabsoo duulaa gabaa lagaanna isaani itti oolaani jiru; kana gurraa fi ija addunyaan nuuf gahaa!” Via Dhábasá W. Gemelal

#OromoProtests-Kun odeessa Qeerroo Jimmaa ti: “Godina Jimmaa aanaa Qarsaa magaalaa Sarbootti gabaa lagannaan daldaltoota tokko tokkoon hamma tokko hojii irra oolfamaa jira. Gazixeessootni TV Oromiyaa akka lagannaan hin deemsifamne fakkeessuun gabaasa qindeessaa akka jiranis irra gahameera.” Via Dhábasá W. Gemelal

#OromoProtests-Goototi Oromoo Dirree Incinnii duula gumaabaas kan lagannaa gabaa eegalanii jiru. Akka kanaan godina Sh/lixaatti jiraattoti magaalaa Dirree Incinnii guyyaa har’aa gabaa lagatanii jiru. Dirre Inciinii keessattis diddaa bittaa fi gurguurtaa hirmaachaa jiru; yeroo ammaa namni kamu suuqii fi kaaffee baanee hin jiru. Akkasumas konkoolatan tokko socho’aa hin jiru. Kabiinotni magaalitti keessa naanna’un ummata dirqiisaa jiru…garuu, ummati Dirree Incinnii hin sarmine…
otuu lammiin keenya ibiddaa fi rasaasaan mana hidhaa keessatti dhumaa jiranii callisuu hin dandeenyu!! Via Dhábasá W. Gemelal

በኢትዮጵያ የተከሰተው የባንኮች ቀውስ እና በኦሮሚያ ክልል የሚደረገው የገበያ ማቆም አድማ በታቀደለት መልኩ ተጀምሯል።

#OromoProtests-Arsii magaalaa Asaasaa keessatti gabaaan hin dhaabbane. Uummani karaattii bahee jira… Suuqiin takka hin banamne. Magaalan immoo Agaaziidhaan marfamtee jira. Ibsaan badee jira… bilbiili namoota hedduucuufaa dha. Via Dhábasá W. Gemelal

#OromoProtests HUBACHIISA Ummata magaala D/DOLLOF

“Akkuma beekamu diddaa uggura bitta fi gurgurta guyyaa har’a gutumma oroomiyaati akkuma gaggefama jiru magaala d/dollotis bifa nama aja’ibun diddan bitta fi gurgurta godhama jira.
Ha’tau malee,sochiin bitta fi gurgurta akkasumas sochiin geejiba guutuman guututi dhaabbatus ,sochiin ummani magaalicha mana gadi ba’e caluma jedhe olif gadi deema jiraachun dabbalota OPDO gammachise jira.
Kanaafuu,ummani kaayoo didda kana hojii irraa olchuuf ofifis gara mana isaati debi’un namoota wareegamani fi kannen mana hidhati afeelaman yaadacha ,adeemsa qabso itti fuufu irrati tasgabin walin hasa’a turu malee baayinan magaala kessa socho ‘u irraa akka ofqusattan isiinif dhaamna.”  Via Daraaraa Sabaa

#OromoProtests Haramaya is shut down
“Magaalaa naqamtee kessaatti sochii diddaa daldalaa ummanni waligalteen rawwi egaleeratti agazii kan ture mana nyaata Anjelloo bukedha kan qabu yaada ummataa mormuun bifa kanan hotela isaa gurgurachaa jira namni kun mormii isa darbe irratti ijoolle manasatti baqanaan mana basee rebsisuun isaa qabatamadha kanaaf yoo of hin qusatu tahee qerron leeqaa murtoo akka latuuf qophahameera.  Via Jawar Mohammed

#OromoProtests Report from West Arsi
“The whole West Arsi is under total lock-down. No Vehicles, No shopping, No Hotel, No Transportation.
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Last night, in Gadab Hasasa, Woqentara, kebele offices were burned .
Today there is the largest market in Hasasa. Till now, there is no single vehicle in bus station. No single business center is open.
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The Same in Shashamanne… only few people are in the main road.
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In Kofalee no single hotel or shop is open.
No vehicle in the main road, no transportation.
Almost no people is on the main road
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Serofta town in Dodala District : I received reports of road closures at multiple site.
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Dodala is under total shut down.” Via Jawar Mohammed

#OromoProtests WALISO
“Daldaalaan Magaala Walisoo nu boru ummata keenya faana jiranna Mootummaan ni darba jechuun guutummaan guutuutti jechuun ni danda’ama duula hojii lagachuu ummanni magaalaa walisoo fi Oromoo hundi godhu faana dhabbachuun guyyaa har’aa Hoteelotni hundii fi suuqotni hundi cufamaniiru,mana bunaa jabanaa tokko tokko fi suqii xixiqqoo tokko tokko malee.”  Via Moses Gada

#OromoProtests Oduu Walisoo irraa dhuftee guyyaa har’aa 06/09/2016 G/Sh/Ki/Lixaa Magaalaa walisoo keessattii sochiin qoqqobbii gabaa haala namattii toluun eegalee kan jiruu dha. Kana wabeeffachuun hoteellonnii bebbeekamoon magaalichaa keessatti argamaan kan akkaa Hoteela Rafeera Lakk. 01, Hoteela Liiban, Fi Hoteellii Fayyeeraa haala nama gammachiisuun guutummaatti kan cufamaan ta’uu isaa beekamee jira. Suuqiwwaan gar biroo illee akumaa labsii ba’een kan cufamaan ta’uun eegdonnii mootummaa waan dhufuuf dhiisuu wallaaluun magaala keessa akkumaa baran meeshaa isaani danqaratanii uummata gooluttii itti fufanii jiru. Inumaa mootummaan sodaa qabu irraa ka’uun kaleessaa galgalaa magaala keessaa deemuun meeshaa sagale guddistuu fayyadamuun uummannii akka mana daldala isaani hin cufne, mootummaan cina isaani illee akka dhaabbatu fakkeessuun labsaa turan. Haa ta’uu malee haalichi inumaa warra hin dhageenyee dhageessisuuf carraa guddaa banuu irra darbee, daldaaltotaa caalattii kan onnachiisee dha. Guyyoonni hafaniis kan itti fufuu ta’a. Garuu, caaffeen akka Leewwii fi Idgat yeroo ammaa kana banamanii tajaajilaa kennaa kan jiran waan ta’eef guyyoota itti aanuu kan hin cufnee yoo ta’ee tarkaanfiin qoqqoobbii Qeerroo Magaalaa Walisoon kan itti fudhatamuu ta’a. Via Ijaaraa Ifaa

#OromoProtrsts “Godina shawaa kibba lixaa magaala walisoo keessatii ummanni haala nama ajaa’ibuun tarkaanfii bittaaf gurgurtaa lagachuu akkasumas laganna geejibaa eegalee jiraa haa ta’u malee magaalan walisoo barii irraa ka’ee humna raayyaa ittisa biyaatin guutamtte jirtii geejiba magaala keessaa baajajii jarreen teessee lakkofsaa gabatee qabachaa jirtii kan baheef hin baanee! Osoodhuma kanaan jiruu GADHEEF HIN JILBBEEFANNU JEDHUU ILMAAN GARASUU DHUKII! Injjifannoon kan ummata oromootii!”” Via Daraaraa Sabaa

#OromoProtests Dhaamsa Qeerroo Magaalaa Naqamtee irraa dhuufte akkasi jettii:
Namati tola uumanii magaala naqamtee yeroo amma kana ganamaan konkoolaachiiftoonii,.. Baajaajii,miniibaasii,,…umani gutuumaan guutuuti sochii tokko godhaa hin jiru,Bravoo gootota uumataa keenyaa yeroon kun yeroo gaddaa kan wareegamtootaati malee yeroo bittaafi gurgurtaa miti hunduu ni qaqaba,wagga 25 guutuu joree jawwarree nu dabruu kan diidee sababii garbuumaa jala jiruufi,yeroo amma kana mana manaa keessaniti akka amantii keessaniiti waaqayyoon,uumaa keessan akka amantii kadhachuuti cimaa.yeroo amma pooliisoota, loltoota feederasla kora bitineesaafi saroota magaalatii qofatu asiif achii fiiga jira.Hundiinu balbalii cufaadha.Ni bilisoomna!!!  Via Oromo Sinbon

#FXG #QeerrooNews:- As the news comes from #Qeerro Bilisummaa Oromoo, the demonstration started at this time (1:30pm) in Naqemt western Oromia region . Road must be closed to save our Qeerro and people from attack by Agazi and to stop the reinforcement of Agazi.

#OromoProtests– Warri Amboo lagannaa gabaa eegalanii jiru. Sochiin ummataa fi Wayyaanee gidduu jiru mormii, diddaa fi amma immoo lagannaa babalísuun itti fufee jira.
Kunoo, waan Ambo fakkaatu laalaa..akkana godha ummanni Oromoo!
Warrii irra deemitee yoo tajajaila dhaabdanii ni hadabamitu jechaa turaani kunoo gadii ba’aatii “Asphaltii duwwaa “doowwadhaa jedhaan.
Kunoo Amboo biyya namnii keessa baqatee fakaati.konkolaatan tokko llee,tajajilii tokko llee ,kan wallagaa gara Finfineetti darbu tokkollee hin jiru.
Barrii bara bilisummaa nuuf haa ta’uu ! ! ! ! !  Via Dhábasá W. Gemelal

By: Anuradha Mittal

The past weeks have seen an escalation of ongoing protests across Ethiopia—including widespread acts of resistance like citizens shaving their heads in solidarity with jailed opposition leader Bekele Gerba and stay-at-home protests that have turned bustling cities into near ghost-towns. Despite the undeniable peacefulness of these actions, state violence and repression has continued. Earlier this month, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister authorized the National Defence Force to use “its full force to bring rule of law” in the country. Internet shut downs by the government have been used to silence critics. And,  Addis Standard reported, security forces have broken into the homes of those who are “staying in.”

Land Grabs: Genesis of Ethiopia Protests

While much of this has gone unreported by the international press, news of attacks against at least nine foreign-owned horticultural companies, including those from the Netherlands, Israel, Italy, India, and Belgium—did generate coverage. The attacks caused nearly $8 million in damages to one company alone, Esmeralda Flower Company. A statement released by Esmeralda suggests that many businesses—both local and internationally-owned—with ties to the Ethiopian government are targets. This is not a surprise given take over of lands in the name of promoting development, much against the will and consent of the local populations, generated these protests in late 2015, which are now manifesting themselves as a movement for democracy and freedom.

As discussed in a previous post, the United States has been noticeably silent with regard to recent protests. In early August, after nearly 100 protesters were gunned down by the Ethiopian security forces, the US Embassy in Ethiopia released a paltry statement with the absurd suggestion that protesters should engage in “constructive dialogue” with the government. Less than two weeks later, the State Department issued a travel advisory, but still failed to condemn government’s use of excessive force on the protestors and its role in the political upheaval on the ground.

The Government’s “Self-Defeating Tactics”

But then, on August 21st, US Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Tom Malinowski, released an op-ed, calling the abuses by government officials as “self-defeating tactics.” The strongly worded statement explains that the protests are “a manifestation of Ethiopian citizens’ expectation of more responsive governance and political pluralism” and that protesters are “exercising their right under Ethiopia’s constitution to express their views.” If that isn’t a strong enough endorsement of the protesters, Malinowski then rips apart the myth that the protests are being perpetuated by outside forces—a myth spread far and wide by the Ethiopian government itself.

“When thousands of people, in dozens of locations, in multiple regions come out on the streets to ask for a bigger say in the decisions that affect their lives, this cannot be dismissed as the handiwork of external enemies.”

President Barack Obama meets Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn during 2013 G8 Summit. Credit: Pete Souza, White House Photographer

The Obama Administration’s Responsibility

Last week, according to the Ethiopian government, 23 inmates at the high-security prison, Qilinto, died after a fire where anti-government protesters and political prisoners, including Bekele Gerba, Pastor Omot, Ethiopian Muslim leaders, and many others are being held. The identity of the dead prisoners has not been made public, while the fate of the political leaders remains unknown. At a grave time like this, the importance of a statement from the US government, cannot go understated. However, it is not enough. As the single largest country donor to Ethiopia, the US has huge power and influence in the country. Until recently, the Obama administration may have accepted the lack of democracy, muzzling of media and civil society, and widespread violations of human rights as the price to pay for ensuring stability and strong rule in a country that has been a critical ally in a highly unstable region. Recent developments may prove this to be a miscalculation as growing resentment against the regime’s abuses has ignited instability and violence in the country, with many fearing political unrest, as seen in neighbouring South Sudan and Somalia.

To date, silent complicity of the United States has signaled that violent repression on the part of the Ethiopian government is permissible. Time and time again, the Oakland Institute has called the US government out for not taking a stronger stance, asking how much blood must be shed before the US is willing to stand up for human rights and true development in Ethiopia.

With renewed calls for protests against the Ethiopian regime both within and outside the country gaining momentum, perhaps we are at a tipping point. Perhaps this will be the turning of the tide.

Anuradha Mittal is the Executive Director of the Oakland Institute.