Ato Abay Tsehay On the Master plan again

Ato Abay Tsehay has confirmed that his government has lied the Oromo peoples and the international community. The Masterplan was not canceled rather kept asi…
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Saphaloo Kadiir irraa

“Qaamaa hir’uu tahuus onneen dhugaa,
Na keessa jirti akkamittiin taa’ee muuga,
Gamni namaa barayyu hin fudhatu shira,
Aniis qabsoon haada gabrummaan cira”
Je’e kunoo atleetiin Oromoo gootichi,
Harkasaa caase xumuramnaan fiigichi,

Rio, Brazil (BBC News) — Ethiopian Paralympic runner Tamiru Demisse crossed his arms above his head in a political protest as he went over the finish line in Rio.

Tamiru came in second in his 1500m T13 race for visually impaired runners.

The gesture echoed the one made by compatriot Feyisa Lilesa at the end of the Olympic marathon.

It refers to protesters from the Oromo ethnic group in Ethiopia who have been involved in months of demonstrations as they demand greater political rights.

Feyisa is now in the United States after saying it was not safe for him to return home.

Tamiru’s 1500m race was also notable for the fact that the top three runners, Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka, Tamiru and Kenya’s Henry Kirwa, all ran times faster than the winner of the Olympic 1500m race.

እባካችሁ ይህ መልዕክት ለአዲስ አበባ ነዋሪዎች ይተላለፍ። ዛሬ ጠዋት ሊነጋጋ ሲል በጠቅላይ ሚኒስቴሩ ፅሕፈት ቤት አካባቢ ከወትሮ ለየት ያለ እንቅስቃሴዎች ነበሩ ቁጥራቸው ወደ አስር የሚሆኑ ታንኮች እና በጣም ከባባድ መሳርያዎችን የጫኑ ተሽከርካሪዎች በዛ ያሉ ወታደሮችን እና ቁጥራቸው 8 የሚሆኑ V8 ተሽከርካሪዎች ጋር በፍጥነት ተከታትለው ወደ ላይኛው ቤተመንግስት ሲገቡ ነበር። ለሊቱን በሙሉም ከፍተኛ የወታደር ማዕርግ ያላቸው ሰዎች በመከላከያ ጊቢ ውስጥ ከፍተኛ ጭቅጭቅ የነበረበት ስብሰባም ሲያካሂዱ ማደራቸዉም ተሰምቷል ምን አልባትም የመንግስት ግልበጣ በወታደሩ ሳይደረግ አይቀርም ለማንኛም መረጃ ያላችሁ እባካችሁ ለህዝቡ አካፍሉ
እናመሰግናለን

#OromoProtests-Mana hidhaa Maa’ikalaawii keessatti poolisoonni oromoo hojii eegumsa mana hidhichaa irratti mindeeffamanii hojjechaa turan kan Biqilaa fi Darajjee je’aman ji’a Adoolessa irraa kaasee hidhamanii achumatti dararaan cimaan irra ga’aa jiraachuu hidhamtootni achii bahan himan. poolisiin Sintaayyoo je’amu immoo yeruma kana miliquu himan. Via Dhábasá W. Gemelal

#OromoProtests “Arra Qeerroon magaala Awwaday Salaata iida saanirrati Waan ajaaiba galmeessite Dirree iidaarrati Alaabaan Xoopiyaatifi oromiyaatiis Akka hin fannifamne dhorkuudhan ammaas xaaxaaqirra eegale hanga bulchaatti akka ol ka.ee hin dubbane agaaziin takka akka hin seenne dhoorkuudhaan sabboonumma ifii garsiistee diina rifachiiftee jirti….Injifannon Ummata Oromoof…” Via Naf-tanan Gaadullo

#OromoProtests UPDATES IN Amboo
“Guyyaa 7ffaan ykn xumura duula lagannaa hojii
Amboo keessatti kana fakkaata
1. Geejjibni guutummaan guutuutti hin jiru.
2. Suuqiwwaanii fi hoteelotni balbalaa manaa dhiisaatii, balballi dallaa manaayyuu hin banamne.
3. Poolisootni oromiyaa baayyinaan hin mullatan
4. Agaaziin olii fi gadi fiiddee namoota walitti qabamanii taa’an ykn dhaabatan reebuun ni mullata.
Egaa akka gudunfaatti waanin jechuu fedhu….
ani amboo keessa hojiifin dhufe malee dhalataa achii miti.
utuu handhuurrikoo asitti awwaalame taee baayyeen gammada.
iddoon akkas walii galuufi wayyaanneetti mata dhukkubbii guddaa tae biyya kana keessa jiraa laata???
garuu guddinni magaalattii baayyee booddeetti hafeera. egaa dhaamsi ani diaspooraa oromootiif qabu gaafa bilisoomne dhuftanii magaalattii kana akka misoomsitan gamanumaan waamicha isiniif goona.
Qabsoon itti fufa…
wayyaanneen amma kufa…
bilisummaan amma dhufa….” Via Naf-tanan Gaadullo

#OromoProtests
“Qeerroon magaalaa Ciroo yeroo bulchaan bulchiinsa godina harargee lixaa Jamaal Nuree ayyaana iida irratti soba isaa biifuu eegalu bifa kanaan ol ka’ani mormii isaanii dhageesisuun qaanyeesani kijiba isaa osoo hin xumuratin jidduti kute akka taa’u godhanii jiran” Via Saphaloo Kadiir

AKEEKKACHIISA, Hatattamaa Qeerroo bilisummaa Oromoo Magaalaa Naqamtee irraa:
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Namni Maqaan isaa Siraabizuu Mollaa jedhamu lamummaan isaa Amaara kan ta’e magaalaa naqamtee keesaa
Baankii Daldalaa Itiyoophiyaa, Distiriktii Naqamteetti Maanaajera ta’uun kan hojjechaa jiruudha. Namni kun yeroo sabni keenya diddaa bittaa-gurgurtaa eegalee irraa kaasee Magaalaa naqamtee fi naannoo ishee keessa dirqama alagaan itti kenne hojiirra oolchuuf jecha diinaaf utubaa ta’ee waliif gadi adeemuudhaan hojjetoonni isa jala jiran hojii akka seenaniif doorsisaa ba’e.
Tarii mootummaan wayyaanee dhiibbaa irraan geenyaan dirqamafudhatee oliif gadi jeeqamaa akka tures hojii isaafi
dorsisni inni uummata magaalaa naqamtee irratti raawwachaa tureen bira ga’amee jira.
Yakkamaan itti fufuudhaanis qabsoo oromoo gufachiisuuf jecha boqonnaa malee halkaniif guyyaa diinaaf amanamuudhaan ilmaan oromoo ajeesisaa fi hiisisaa akka jiru eeruu arganneen baramee jira.
Amma immoo keessuma ba’ee hojiin isaa kanaan dura hojjechaa ture itti xinaannan humnoota nageenyaa fi agaazoota waliin ta’uudhaan ilmaan Oromoo quuqqaan sabni isaanii itti dhaga’amu addaan baasee hojii isaanii waliin hidhata bifa qabuun doorsisuu ittifufee jira.
Sababa kana irraan kan ka’e kallattiidhaan qabsoo saba keenyaa gufachiisuuf akka inni hojjetaa jirus baramee jira. Via Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo

#oromoprotest

#DIRE_DAWA and #Harayamaya_university

BARATTOOTA HAQNI JALAA JALLATEE MANNEEN HIDHAA DIRRE DAWAA KEESSATTI RIRRIITAMAA JIRAN

(SBO/VOL – Fulbaana 12, 2016) Mootummaan wayyaanee jijjiiraman fida jechuun yaada ummataa warraaqsa irraa gara dabarsuuf olola ijibbaataa ololaa jira.

Akka karoora diinaatti baatii tokko kanaaf waan jijjiirama fidan fakkeessanii ololuun yaada ummataa rarraasuuf yaaluu dha.

The Oromo Community Organization of Washington DC is hosting a massive Oromo peaceful protest organized by all Oromo Community Organizations in North America, which will be held on September 29, 2016 in Washington DC to condemn the authoritarian and repressive Ethiopian government.

As we all know, the Ethiopian government has intensified the use of force in an extremely violent situation to control political discontents in Oromia. Its military and security forces are brutally killing, detaining, and kidnapping innocent Oromo of all ages to deny the long overdue Oromo demands. The regime’s violence has now expanded to other regions including Amhara region. The recent Qilinto incident, believed to be a drama staged by Ethiopian government, was to deliberately attack prisoners of conscience; and it should be condemned with strongest terms.

Therefore, the Oromo Community Organization of Washington DC is asking all Oromo in Washington Metropolitan DC area to be part of this historic peaceful rally on 29 September 2016, which will be held in front of the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. State Department, the World Bank, and the White House. In order to facilitate the event, the OCO is also asking for volunteers to take part in various committees of the demonstration including transportation services.

The Oromo Community Organization of Washington DC

Taammanaa Bitimaa irraa

Biyyee biyya
Biyyee biyyii
Biyyee irraa tolfamnee
Biyya irratti dhalannee
Biyyii taphachaa irratti guddannee
Biyya faarfachaa irratti walbarree
Jireenya ilmoo namaa irratti agarre.

Kunoo raajiin bayee, nurraa fudhatani
Otoo lubbuun jirruu, hunda nu dhaalani
Otoo lubbuun jirruu, jiraa nu awwaalani
“Biyyi keessan keenya”, jedhanii!

Haqa ilmoo namaa nurraa fudhatanii
Nammuu keenyallee nurraa mulqatanii
Biyyeen teenya summiidhaan faalamtee
Leecalloon teenya alagaan saamamtee
Biyyi keenya manneen hidhaatiin sararamee
Isa keessatti dhalli keenya waxalamee
Sabni keenya funcaan takaalamee
Waggaa 140 guutuu yeeyyiin dararame.

Biyyi biyyee teenya
Lafti lafee keenya
Gonkumaa hin kennamu beenyaa
Dacheen awwaala keenyaa!

Biyyeen biyya keenya
Lafti lafee teenya
Biyyi haayyoo teenya
Garaa-shiitii kan baanee
Harma-shii hodhaawoo guddanne
Jaalala-shiitinoo muddamnee!

Biyyi biyyee-dhaa
Lafti lafee-dhaa
Abadan lachuu
Bakka-bu’aa hin qabu!

Biyyeen teenya Oromoo-dha
Lafeen teenya Oromiyaa-dha
Hin kabalamuu, hin caccabsamu
Lakkii, eenyunuu hin qabatamu!

Biyyeen teenya aannani
Biyyi keenyasoo damma
Lafti teenya buna, buna
Addunyaa badhaafnee, kunoo isa unaa!

Biyyeen teenya Odaa
Biyyi keenya Gadaa
Lafti keenya dhadhaa
Lafeen teenya Siiqqee-dha
Odaan hin muramu
Gadaan hin tuqamu
Siiqqeen hin kutamu
Finfinnee finna-a hin kennamu!

Karaan keenya qabsoo-dha
Galmi keenya bilisummaa-dha
Bullukkoon keenya dimokiraasii-dha
Sabbanni keenya namummaa-dha!

Gaachanni keenya tokkummaa
Marcumni keenya Oromummaa
Asxaan teenya obbolummaa
Diinni keenya sanyummaa!

Kakuu-dha; laguu-dha
Lafti keenya hin fudhatamu
Lafeen teenya hin caccabsamu
Namummaan keenya hin sarbamu!

Lafee teenyaan harmee teenya olkaafna
Dhiiga keenyaan Oromiyaa teenya ijaarra
Dafqa keenyaan aadaa-afaan keenya jifaarra
Walqixxummaan ilmoo namaa gonfanna
Walbarsiisaa, kabajaan walgorfanna
Obbolummaan addunyaa tana sholqanna!

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By Chalaine Chang

Frustrations among Oromo refugees from Ethiopia stranded in Egypt over long waits for their claims to be processed by the U.N. refugee agency and the high rate of rejection have recently mounted to horrifying extremes.

A Oromo woman, the largest ethnic group of Ethiopia, stands in front of her home. Rod Waddington/Wikimedia Commons

CAIRO (News Deeply) – On July 21, Getu Ayana, a 26-year-old Oromo asylum seeker self-immolated in front of the city’s United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) office. Asli Nure, another refugee from the Ethiopian ethnic group, ran towards Getu in a panic. She too was soon engulfed in flames. Both were rushed to hospital, but had already sustained third-degree burns over 60 and 40 percent of their bodies, respectively. Nure died five days later, and on July 31, Ayana too.

UNHCR closed its doors for three days. The issuing of refugee status determination (RSD) decisions resumed normally once it was reopened, but the decisions for Ethiopian asylum seekers were suspended for an extra week.

A group of 40 Oromo asylum seekers, including Ayana and Nure, had been camping outside the UNHCR offices for four months at that point. According to the witnesses who camped alongside the pair, the self-immolation was the culmination of months of frustration. Ayana and Nure acted because of what fellow demonstrators claim are the long wait times for refugee status determination (RSD) interviews and the high rate of rejection for Oromos in Egypt.

The night before the incident, the group decided that if there were any more rejections they would take some sort of action. “If we go back to our country, all we can expect is jail and torture. Rather than return back to Ethiopia to die, we decided it would be better for us to die here,” said Abdo, a teacher from Ethiopia’s Oromia state.

Thirty-three of the 40 agreed to self-immolate. “On the Wednesday evening, we collected money to buy a container of gas,” said Jafar Umar Mohammed, a farmer from Oromia. Ayana went ahead – but the others say they may follow if the UNHCR does not address their concerns.

Sophia Ibrahim Sani, a single mother of four, was one of the few that didn’t agree to self-immolate, but she echoed a similar sense of desperation. “If I didn’t have my children here depending on me, I would have participated as well. If you have problems and there are no solutions, it’s better to die,” she said. Demonstrations against the allegedly long wait times and rejection rate began on March 27, when nearly 300 Oromos gathered in protest outside UNHCR.

“UNHCR staff held a series of meetings with community leaders to address the complaints of the community,” said Elizabeth Tan, theUNHCR regional representative in Egypt. “After two weeks of intensive discussions, UNHCR reached an agreement with the community on a number of issues,” she said. While the majority of protestors dispersed by April 11, around 40 remained, camping outside the offices.

“The Oromo community leaders told us to go home. But where should we go? We don’t have a home, we don’t have anywhere to go,” explained Abdo. Mufti, a young shopkeeper from Oromia, said that while squatting on the site was originally an act of protest, it also became a necessity for those with no other housing options. “We told the community leaders many times we don’t have a house and that we have security problems,” he said.

He said he is afraid to run into the smugglers that brought him into Egypt. “I owe them money, money I don’t have, and they’ve already attacked me once in the streets,” said Mufti.

Sani said she too had security issues when she lived in Arab al-Maadi, a densely populated neighborhood in Cairo where most Oromos live. “Egyptian teenagers would chase my daughters and throw stones or shards of glass at them,” she said. According to both Mufti and Sani, attacks on refugees in Egypt are frequent, especially on ones from African countries. When they try to report problems to Egyptian police, they are often ignored.

Though the Oromos make up the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, their culture has long been repressed by successive Ethiopian governments. “I was a teacher of Afan-Oromo, English and Amhara in a preparatory school. The government accused me of teaching the students Oromo culture and opposition politics. Because of this, I was arrested repeatedly,” said Abdo.

Sani said that between 2005 and 2013, she was detained twice – once for three years and the second time for 18 months. She was accused of having links to the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), a common pretense used by the Ethiopian government to carry out arbitrary arrests and detentions of Oromos. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), “tens of thousands have been targeted for arbitrary detention, torture, and other abuses, even when there is no evidence linking them to the OLF.”

The HRW report states that between November 2015 and June 2016, over 400 protesters are estimated to have been killed in Oromia. Those protests initially began to oppose the expansion of Addis Ababa. While the plan was shelved, further grievances with the government’s grip over power and repressive tactics have returned to the fore in recent months. By August, protests spread throughout Oromia and into the Amhara region, with the government responding harshly, leaving nearly another 100 protesters dead.

“Since I’ve been living here, each week they hand out around 40 rejection letters, and maybe one acceptance for Oromos,” said Abdo. Tan said that negative RSD decisions for Oromos have increased between 2014 and 2016. But she noted, “RSD decisions are based on asylum seekers’ individual claims and UNHCR uses country of origin information approved by UNHCR HQ to help assess the individual claims.”

“The waiting period between registration and RSD interviews is often lengthy because of UNHCR’s lack of capacity,” said Tan. She noted that UNHCR has reduced RSD processing from 28 to 16 months, but added that the majority of the decisions being issued now are from cases filed in 2013 and 2014.

The majority of asylum seekers entering Egypt come from Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Iraq. As of July 30, 184,116 refugees and asylum seekers have registered withUNHCR in Egypt. Between July 2015 and July 2016, the number of Ethiopian (including Oromo and Amhara) asylum seekers and refugees alone has nearly doubled from 5,518 to 10,288.

According to Tan, emergency housing and financial assistance in Egypt are provided for the most vulnerable newcomers. However she noted, “Only between 15 and 35 percent of refugees and asylum seekers are provided with financial assistance, and the levels of assistance are inadequate to sustain a basic standard of living. This low level is due to the insufficient funding levels for refugee programs in Egypt.”

Refugees in Egypt often find themselves caught between personal and financial insecurity. Employment opportunities for refugees in Egypt are slim and financial assistance very limited. This makes access to housing, medical treatment and basics difficult. Oromo refugees bear a particularly heavy toll due to such dearth of support.

Ilma Saba (PhD)

I saw youtube video of Ethiopians’ demonstration in collaboration with Oromo activists. The demonstration was held in Washington DC on 08 Sep 2016 with the aim to drag down the flying flag attributed to TPLF and uncover the evil acts behind the flag of the dictatorial regime in Ethiopian empire. In due course, I saw one person named Gamachis who was supposed to give remarks in Afaan Oromo. Meanwhile, another actor on the demonstration hibernating behind Gamachis was wrapping him with Habesha flag. The person insisting on Gamachis to wear and chant Habesha flag is, no doubt, an Habesha who wants to see his flag embraced by Oromo. The Habesha person constantly checks the flag on the shoulder of that Oromo person. It was mandatory for Gamachis to carry that flag while his comment is progressing. Nevertheless, that Habesha person didn’t show up himself rising Oromo flag if he really wanted to reflect solidarity between Oromo and Habesha.

Here is the inference of that day’s demonstration drama and the reality of aspiration of Habesha for “solidarity” with Oromo. The effort of that Habesha person to force Gamachis wear the Habesha flag has far reaching inherent implication. The act reminds me the very fact of Habesha interest to hide Oromo identity under their supremacy and that they only want to manipulate Oromo as their messenger toward their goal. They think that Oromo can only be their ally as long he/she holds their flag on shoulder (accept their supremacy) be it willingly otherwise forcefully. In doing so, they deceive us to lick their venom coated with honey as stated in their proverb: hulum befiker new. The fact that rogue Habesha person smiles while he was covering Gamchis’s identity reflect what they are saying “love”  and the constant check of the flag on Gamchis’s shoulder reflect that it is willy-nilly for the Oromo to accept Habesha identify in order to be considered their ally. The fact that Gamachis was struggling to get away with the flag and the act of the rogue Habesha person suffice as an evidence of my thought.

Consequently, both actors were telling us (viewers in general and the Oromo in particular) that Oromo can be trustworthy stakeholder to Habesha if only endorse the goal behind the flag: one colonial Habesha regime in Ethiopian empire. Habesha is not expected to fly Oromo flag because they are struggling to re-gain the hegemony which re-assures that they remain master and Oromo as their colonial subjects. If Oromo could continue to chant its own flag, they think that is fatal to their ultimatum of keeping the empire intact. Habesha think, Oromo’s equality with Habesha would be sin against their Godly government. Hello Habesha: remember Oromo have our defined interest and our own unique position as different from yours when it comes to the fate of the Ethiopian empire. Also keep in mind that, leave alone between, even within: we Oromo are serious when it comes to addressing the issue of flying flag and its implication. Indeed, we have no shoulder (tolerance) to carry any flag that don’t historically belong to Oromo nation! You better stop requiring Oromo: to be called Habesha when we give you smiling face for possible compromise to be named Oromo Ethiopian or to carry your flag when we call for common benefits of collaboration against the current tyranny.

Let me clearly say, perhaps, on behalf of that person forced to carry the Habesha flag: green, yellow and red color with or without star, lion and/or other emblems it used to contain. The cooperation of the presumed Oromo person with Habesha to show up on the demonstration is welcomed by me. On the other hand, the most important purpose of that Oromo’s accompany on the demonstration is not to regain the lost colonial power symbolized by that flag. Habesha should always keep in mind that the mystery of our (Oromo’s) hate and struggle against the goal of that tricolor Ethiopian flag is not as such necessarily limited to its former emblem or the present star. We want to do away with its objective of sewing of the tricolor garment to reflect that people were brought under consolidated colonial power by force! That is the truth!

The tragedy of the drama on that demonstration also reminded me the usual Habesha’s act of propaganda: one in which they try to pool out some who might be member of their organization and yet bearing Oromo name in that person’s genealogy to eco him/her as if he/she is Oromo representing the need of Oromo nation. By presence of such person around Habesha or in the so called their Ethiopian political organization, they want to spare on us that we need to praise their organization as if belong us, too. Habesha politicians and elites please understand that the interest of Oromo nation and its hero fighters for freedom of equality is in no way about individual person or its needs! Learn, learn, learn and know that we refused and are fighting inequitable colonial governing system of Habesha (the TPLF’s & its predecessors’). Likewise, in no way we dare to neither praise a person nor struggle to retaliate individual!

Oppressed peoples of Ethiopian empire are struggling to regain their deprived right to free choice whether to be administrated under one umbrella of democratic and just government or not. A willy-nilly type of unity under the name Ethiopian never worked and is not gonna work, too. I hope you are seeing the fractures of what Habesha regime’s unity used to be claimed in the course of maintaining Ethiopian empire by the method of such as political marriage and dismissal of identity of the subject people. Contrary to that claim, you may note the confusion of descendants’ as a victim of the past colonial regime’s wrong policy. Clearly, the parents of such descendants (so-called mixed blood) were subject to the then politically motivated marriage and now their offspring calculating their blood level in search of their true identity. The only case I know addressing blood level is important is for animals for the purpose of breeding. In case of inheritance of human being, kinship is either paternal as in Oromo (that is also why Oromo says: biyya abbaa koo) or matriarchy. l it is up to the person to define his/her lineage which way but never damp that burden on others who were resisting that kind of mess. So, If I were Habesha, I will never be on that road again to bury the identity of other nations and nationalities but learn from historical mistake and move forward on the road to equality, freedom and long lasting unity. Only true dedication wins heartedly collaboration and purposeful togetherness!

Hence, it is not that you tell us your blood proportion, Oromo name somewhere in your heritage nor an attempt to get Oromo picture flying your flag that makes us cooperate with you. In that line Oromo could be smarter to easily make it happen, if need be. I am afraid to tell you that, however, by virtue of our difference in the psychological feelings, we easily get to misunderstand each other’s political interest. Based on your psychology or inherent nature find yourself where you belong: silent or shout, doer or talker, fighter or lobber, fatherland or motherland, paternal or maternal, etc. I know Oromo possess characters of the first entries of the contrasting alternatives I mentioned. I wish you should not belong to the second traits in each contracting entries. I will understand your choice when action speaks louder than words!

Therefore, if you guys are prodemocracy and equality and are demanding true unity approved by peoples’ will, refrain from such evil acts of forcing someone to wear or dress your identity (flag) or whatever domination of that sort. I hope readers will join me in the validity of analysis of the visual data (video) so that understands that my aim is not about something else but surfacing the bitter and yet ugly truth hidden in the tactical call for collaboration. For related reading.  The Amhara Identity: Resurgence From Tactical Self-hide or Manifestation of TPLF Oppressive Policy? How do Amhara Elites Might Verify the Evolvement?

IBSA WALGAHII KOREE HOJII RAAWWACHIIFTUU ABO

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KHR–ABO walgahii isaa dhaabbataa Fulbaana 1 irraa kaasee hanga Fulbaana 11, bara 2016tti gaggeeffachuun, gabaasaa dameelee dhageeffatee rakkoolee mumul’ataniif furmaataa fi qajeelfama eega akeekeen booda, haala qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaa, haala mootummaa faashistii Wayyaanee, haala sochiilee farra-faashistii wayyaanee; kan naannoo ummata Amaaraa (Gondor, Goojjamii fi Walqaayit) keessatti adeemaa jiru, haala sochii ummata Konsoo fi Majangir, Gambeellaa, Sidaamaa, Benshaangul, Ogaadeen, haala Gaanfa Afrikaa fi Afrikaa guutummaatti , haala addunyaa fi kallattiin ammoo, haala sochii qabsoo bilisummaa fi walabummaa Oromiyaa waliin waan wal qabate, dhimma dippilomaasii Oromoo ilaalchiisee, gadii fageenyaan gilgaaluu fi xiinxaluun murtiilee kanaa gadii dabarsuun walgahii isaa milkiin xumuree jira.

UMMATA BAL’AA OROMOO

Jalqaba uumamuu Impaayeera Itoophiyaa irraa kaasee hanga hardhaatti ummatni Oromoo: jimlaan ajjeeffamuu (sanyii duguuggaa), eenyumaan isaa haalamuu, hidhamuu, gidirfamuu, saamamuu fi biyya isaa irraa humnaan ari’amuu irraa kan hafe faayidaan Oromoon sirna Impaayeerummaa humnaan uumame kana keessatti argate kana jedhamee kan herregamu tokkoo illeen hin jiru.

Adeemsa seenaa dukkanaawaa kana jijjiiruuf, ilmaan Oromoo bakka buusuun hin danda’amne kanneen miliyoona baay’een lakkaawaman bilisummaa fi walabummaa saba goota kanaaf jecha lubbuu isaanii bakka bu’aa hin qabne dabarsanii kennaniiru. Addi Bilisummaa Oromoo (ABOnis), ilmaan Oromoo seenaa gootummaa kana dhaalaniin kan bu’ureeffameefi, warreegama sabni Oromoo Jaarraa tokkoo fi walakkaaf baasaa jiru kanatti firii gochuufi. ABOn, qabsoo hadhooftuu wareegama hedduu baasiste geggeesseen hardhaan tana, sagantaan ABO ummata Oromootiin tinnifame, dhibdeelee ykn rakkoolee: siyaasaa, diinagdee, hawaasummaa, aadaa fi dhiitama mirga dhala namummaa Impaayera Itoophiyaa jalatti ittiin eelaa fuudhe ykn gidirfametti furmaata waaraa kan argamsiisuu dha. Kana dhugoomsuufis ummatni Oromoo Kaabaa Kibbatti, Bahaa Lixattii fi handhuura Oromiyaa keessatti sagalee fi ilaalcha siyaasaa tokkoon diina faashistummaan isaa ammaan dura bifa kanaan mul’atee hin beekne dura dhaabatee FDG gara Fincila Xumura Gabrummaatti tarkaanfachiise. Kunis sodaa injifatuun gootummaa abbootii isaa irraa dhaalen diinatti rifaatuu hamaa naqeen qabsoo isaa ittisa irraa gara haleelaatti ceesisee jira.

ABOn, gootummaa fi tokkummaa sabni Oromoo harka qullaa, karoora fi sagantaa lafa kaawwate irratti irkatuun Fincila Xumura Gabrummaa (FXG) walitti fufiinsaan ji’oota 11f adeemsiisaa jiru ni dinqisiifata. FXG kanaan, bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaa bakkaan gahuuf, tiksituu Impaayerichaa kan ta’e mootummaa faashistii Wayyaanee fi sirna impaayerichi irratti ijaarames hundeen buqqisuun murteessaa dha.

Kunis ummata bilisoomeen, referendum walabaa fi bilisa ta’e irratti mirga hiree murteeffannaa saba Oromoo mirkaneessuun taha. Waan taheef KHR-ABO kanaan ala furmaatni biroo akka hin jirre sirriiti hubatee fi waliifis dhaamee, FXG kana toftaa hidhannoo fi hidhannoo maleettis dhimma bahuun kan duraanii caalaatti akka finiinsu waamicha hatattamaa dhiheessa. Mootummaan faashistii Wayyaanee kun kufee mirgi ummata Oromoo haga mirkanaahutti hoogganummaa haga ammaatti kenne caalaa cimsee akka itti fufu ABO’n irbuu isaa irra deebi’ee haaromsa.

WBO, HOGGANOOTA , QONDAALOTA, MISEENSOTA FI DEGGERTOOTA ABO MARAAF

Miseensota WBO, Hogganootni, qondaalotni, miseensootni fi deeggartootni ABO qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaa keessatti adda duree ta’uun haalota rakkisoo keessatti wareegama qaqqaalii baasaa as gahuun kanuma beekamu dha. Sadarkaa har’a qabsoon irra gahee fi sabni keenya keessa jiruu, of kenniinsa keenya ol kaafnee qabsoo galiin gahuuf yoom iyyuu caalatti diinna keenya awwaaluudhaan aangoo siyaasaa Oromoo mirkanneesuuf bakka jirutti mootummaa faashiistii Wayyaanee haleeluu irratti akka bobbaanu waliif dhaamna.

MOOTUMMAA FAASHISTII WAYYAANEE FI ERGAMTOOTA SIRNICHAA ILAALCHISEE.

Mootummaa faashiistii Wayyaanee fi ergamtoota Wayyaanee kan ta’an Hoogganootni OPDO kan sadarkaa federaalaa fi mootummaa naannoo Oromiyaa irra guddaan isaanii, jijjiirraa fakkeessaa xixiqqaa, kan akka Afaan Oromoo Afaan Finfinnee godhuu, Oromoota naannoo Finfinnee irraa humnaan buqqa’aniif mana kennuuf labsa adda addaa baasuu dhaan, ummata humnaan hiriira baasuuf karoora qaban. Kun gaaffii bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaaf gonkumaa deebii tahuu waan hin dandeenyeef, karoora kana duubaan shirri jirus ummata Oromoo afanfaajjessanii fincila xumura gabrummaa dura dhaabbachuun sirna gabroomfataa Wayyaanee ummata Oromoo irra tursiisuu fi amanamummaa sirnichaaf qaban ittiin mul’ifatuuf murteeffatuu mirkaneessa.

Miseensoota OPDO kanneen sanyii duguuggaan saba isaanii itti dhagahamuun sabni isaanii akka hin miidhamne hojjachaa turanii fi hojjachaas jiran ni dinqisiifata. Ummatni Oromoo shira hoggannoota OPDO fi gooftolii isaanii kan summii dammaan dibame fakkatuu olitti kaa’ame kanaan akka hin dagamne yaadachiisaa, karoora mootummaan faashiistii TPLF baafate kana fashalsiisuu dhaan, amna gara bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaatti godhaa jiru kana cichoominaa fi shaffisaan itti fufee xumura akka itti godhu ABO’n gadi jabeessee dhaama. Kana waliin Oromoota badii isaanii irraa barachuu hanqatuun lammii isaanii irratti yakka raawwataa jiranis ABO’n akeekkachiisa.

ILMAAN OROMOO WARAANA MOOTUMMAA WAYYAANEE KEESSA JIRANII FI HOJJATTOOTA MOOTUMMAA SADARKAA HUNDAA.

Akkuma dhalli Oromoo hundi beekuu fi hubatutti, sanyii duguuggaan saba Oromoo irratti eega labsame yeroon isaa bubbulee ti jira. Hardhaan tana, lubbuun dhala Oromoo, kan Wayyaanoti aggammii itti shaakalan ta’ee jira.

Haalli kun ammoo, kan dhala Oromoo hunda irriba fi jireenya dhorku ta’uu qaba. Waan ta’eefis, ilmaan Oromoo kan waraana Wayyaanee keessa jirtani fi kanneen caasaa mootummaa sadarkaa Federaalaa fi mootummaa naannoo Oromiyaa keessa hojjettan of gurmeessuu fi wal gurmeessuun qabsoo sabi keessan bilisummaaf geggeessaa jiru waan dandeessan hundaan akka cinaa dhaabbatan ABO’n yaamicha lammummaa dhiheessa. Yoo itti gaafatama kana hin baane garuu, fuula duraatti komii saba Oromoofi gaafatama seenaa jalaa akka isin hin baafne ammumaa isiin yaadachiisuun dirqama jennee amana. Hardhaan tana, qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaa bira yoo hin dhaabbanne, yeroon ummata ofii waliin dhaabatanis yoommi laata? gaafii jedhuus deebbisuun dirqama keessan akka ta’e jala muruun ABOn isiin hubachiisna.

DHAABOTA SIYAASAA ITOOPHIYAA ILAALCHISEE.

ABOn humnoota siyaasaa Impaayeera Itoophiyaa, kanneen farra mootummaa faashiistii TPLF ta’an mara qabsoo isaan lafarratti gochaa jiran ni kabaja. Kanneen hiree murteeffannaa ummatoota Impaayericha keessa jiran akka akeekaatti kabajuuf murteeffatan ammoo ABOn bifa addaatiin ilaala. Kanaafis,Tumsi Bilisummaa fi Dimookiraasii Ummattootaa (PAFD) ijaarame. Haaluma kana irratti hirkachuun, dhaabootiin siyaasaa biyyattii keessatti bifa mul’ataan lafarratti hojiin beekaman sagantaa siyaasaa walii waliif kabajuun, diinna waloo kan ta’e mooutmmaa faashistii Wayyaanee irratti xiyyeeffatuun mootummaa gara jabinni isaa daangaa hin qabne kana aangoo irraa waliin akka kaafnu irraa deebi’ee yaamicha isaa haaromsa.

MISEENSOTA FI DEGGERTOOTA SABABA ADDAATIIN CAASAA ALA JIRANIIF.

Qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaa bakkaan gahuuf amni hafe xiqqaa ta’us, dirqamni yeroo amma nu irraa eegamu ulfaataa dha. Haala ammaa keessatti, dirqama fuuldura keenya jiru injifatnoon xumuruuf, dirmannaa ABO’n barbaadu godhuu irraa kan if nama qusachiisuu sababi kamuu jiraachuu hin malle. Haalli keessa jirru, haala jiraachuu ykn dhabamuu keessaa filachuu ti. Dhabama irraa saba keenya oolchinee rakkoo dhuunfaa qabnu furachuun gamnummaa ta’uu hubatuun, miseensotni fi deggertootni arma dura ABO keessaa sababaa adda addaatin bahan, hatattamaan dhaabatti akka deebi’an ABO’n yaamicha lammummaa fi biyyummaa isaaniif dabarsa.

DHAABOTA SIYAASAA OROMOO WALABA TA’AN ILAALCHISEE.

Mootummaa faashiistii gabroomfataa Wayyaanee Oromiyaa irraa buqqisuun, bilisummaa fi nagaa waaraa ummata Oromoof argamsiisuuf, humna namaa fi qabeenyaa ummata Oromoo tokkoomsuun murteessaa ta’uu isaatti amanuun, dhaabota siyaasaa Oromoo walaba ta’an gidduutti waliigaltee fi walhubannoo irra gahuun ni yaadatama. Waliigaltee fi walhubannoon kun akka hojiitti hikamuuf, bakka bu’oota dhaabota kanaa irraa koreen ijaaramte, Koree qindeesituun Jaarmayooli Bilisummaa fi Walabummaa Oromiyaa (KQ-JBWO) waliigaltee kana hojiitti hikuu fi hojii irratti akka milkooftuuf ABO qooda irraa eggamu akka gumaachu mirkanneessa.

SOCHII NAANNOO UMMATA AMAHARAA (Gondor, Gojamii fi Walqaayt) ILAALCHISEE.

Sochiin farra mootummaa faashiisti Wayyaanee ummatni Amahaaraa naannoo Gondorii fi Gojjamitti geggeessaa jiru, sochii mirgaa ta’uu ABO’n ni amana. Haa ta’u malee, mootummaan Wayyaanee karaa irraa maqfame malee gaaffiin kun deebii argachuu hin danda’u. Waan ta’eef, kallattii hundaan mootummaa Wayyaanee jilbeenfachiisuuf ciminaan akka irratti hojjetamuu qabu ABO’n yaadachiisaa, ajjeechaa, hidhaa fi gidirfamuu ummata naannoo Amaaraa irratti faashiistoota Wayyaaneetin gaggeeffamaa jiru gadii faggeenyaan balaaleeffata. Saaminsa fi eenyummaa isaanii haquuf gochaa mootummaan faashistii Wayyaanee irratti raawwataa jiru mormuun, qabsoo sabni Koonsoo fi Majangir geggeessaa jiru, ummatni Oromoo fi dhaabni isaa ABOn ni dhinqisifata; biras ni dhaabbata. Qabsoon sabni Konsoo fi Majangar gaggeessaa jiran, qabsoo haqaatis jedhe amana. Itti dabalees: ajjeechaa jumlaa, hidhaa fi gidirsaa saba Konsoo fi Majangar irra gahaa jiru ABOn cimsee balaaleeffata.

HAWAASA OROMOO BIYYA ALAA JIRAN ILAALCHISEE.

Mirgi abbaa biyyummaa isaa sarbamuu, nagayaan jiraachuu dadhabuu irraa hawaasini Oromoo biyya alaa jiraatu kan baqattummaaf isa saaxile hubatuu dhaan biyya isaa deebifatuun murteessaa ta’uu amanee qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyaaf tinnisa gochaa har’a gahe. ABOn gumaacha kanaan duraa dinqisiifataa, qabsicha injifatnoon guduunfuuf ammoo dirqama addaa haalli yeroo ammaa gaafatu bahuuf hawaasni keenya ala jiru gumaacha qabsoo dachaa dachaan akka ol kaasu Koreen Hojii Raawwachiiftuu ABO jabeesee waamicha dabarsa.

YAKKA SANYI DUGUUGGAA (genocide) MOOTUMMAA WAYYAANEE GAGGEEFFAMAA JIRU ILAALCHISEE.

Mootummaa faashiistiin TPLF mootummoota impaayeericha keessatti kana dura mumul’atan hunda caalaa gara jabinaan kan guutame ta’uu isaa kan hojiin agarsiisaa jiru ta’uu dhaabootni mirga dhala namaaf dhaabatan hundi raga itti bahaa jiran. Sanyii duguuggaan kallattiin kan saba Oromoo irratti qiyyeefatame ta’uu, hojii faashiistootni TPLF kan ji’oota 11 ilaaluu fi tarkaanfii isaannii xinxaluun gahaa dha. Sanyyi duguuggaan kun ummatoota naannoo Gambellaa, Beenshangul, Sidaamaa, Ogaden, fi ummata Konsoo fi Majangar irrattis bal’inaan kan gaggeeffamaa turee fi jiru dha. As kaluu kana ammoo ajjeechaan jumlaa kan saba Amaaraa irratti dabalataan xiyyeeffatame gadi bahuun raga dabalataa ti jennee ammana. Waan ta’eefis, ajjeechaa suukanneessaa adeemsifamaa jiru kana gareen walaba ta’ee qoratee mootummoota gamtoomanii fi dhadacha mana heera addunyaaf (ICC) akka dhiheeffamu ABOn jabeesee hawaasaa addunyaa mara gaafata

Kanuma waliin, dhaaboota mirga dhala namaaf dhaabatan,,kanneen sanyii duguuginsi Oromoo fi saboota biroo irratti geggeeffamaa jiru yakka ta’uu hubatanii iyyaannaa dabarsaa jiran ABOn dinqisifataa fi galateeffataa hojii eebbifamaa kana cimsanii akka itti fufan gaafata.

Injifannoo Ummata Oromoof !!!
KHR-ABO
Fulbaana 12, 2016

Long-distance runner who won silver for Ethiopia at Olympic Games in Rio wants “superiority of one ethnic group to end”.

By Kate Woodsome

Lilesa says he understands why some people call him a hero [Diego Azubel/EPA]

For Feyisa Lilesa, the Oromo marathoner who won a silver medal for Ethiopia at the Rio Olympics, his thoughts go to friends and family dying and disappearing in anti-government protests.

Lilesa grew up running 7km to school and back in his home state of Oromia, the protest epicentre, and it is hard for him to forget where he came from.

Ethiopia protests: Fire and gunshots reported at jail

“Even when I practised, personally my legs were running but my mind was also racing, preoccupied by the suffering all around me,” he told Al Jazeera’s The Stream through a translator Monday in Washington, DC.

“All this has been on my mind for a very, very long time.”

‘Ethiopian police killed hundreds of protesters’

Oromo youth tired of being Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group yet treated like second-class citizens, have been protesting for nearly a year.

They began when the government floated a plan to expand the capital into land worked by Oromo farmers, then continued after security forces used live bullets to tamp down the unrest.

Lilesa says his wife’s brother went missing in one of the protests, and his friend died in a suspicious fire at a prison where opposition figures were held.

On track for the Olympics, the 26-year-old knew he could not show support in the streets, but he could bring the Oromo cause to an even bigger stage.

“As soon as I was selected for the Rio Olympic team, I decided if I won and got a good result, I wanted to use that opportunity to raise awareness and the voice of my people.”

Lilesa says he did not share his plans with his family because he did not want to worry them. They would have to find out when the rest of the world did.

Ethiopia protests: Opposition wants prisoners freed

As he neared the finish line in the men’s marathon event on August 21 in Rio, Lilesa crossed his wrists in an “X” above his head, a sign of Oromo solidarity.

“I knew this was being live broadcast around the world, and I wanted to show that the protests in Ethiopia were peaceful just like my sign was,” he recalls.

“As I was looking to the left and to the right, the place is a stadium with people in the stands, and they thought this was just a sign of celebration, winning the silver and celebrating.”

UN demands probe of Ethiopia protest killings

Lilesa says Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge, who won the gold, asked what he was doing and then said he was sorry Lilesa had been carrying such stress.

The stress has only increased.

After his race, Lilesa told the press his government would kill him if he returned home, a claim Getachew Reda, Ethiopia’s communications minister, laughed off.

“He’s making a big fuss out of nothing,” Reda told Al Jazeera by telephone from Addis Ababa on Sunday, the Ethiopian New Year.

“I think that wasn’t good thinking, but he’s entitled to do whatever he wants to do.”

Lilesa wants to explore his options in the US.

He stayed in Brazil two and a half weeks after the Olympics ended, waiting for a US visa for people with extraordinary skills or abilities.

It came with unusual speed.

WATCH: Are Ethiopia’s Oromo being violently repressed?

He is now in Washington where he kicked off a media blitz on Monday wearing a slim black suit with white piping, his hair in a medium-length afro.

He is telling the press he is not seeking asylum, that he will spend the next few months training out West where the altitude is higher, while he figures out what his best for him and his family.

In a sit-down interview with Al Jazeera, he relied on a translator to express the grief he feels being separated from his wife, five-year-old daughter and three-year-old son.

“Every time I call my wife, they want to know when I’m coming. They ask me, ‘What are you up to, when are you coming home?’ This makes me emotional inside, so even when I call on Skype, I have to fight back tears.”

The Oromo, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, allege systematic persecution [Wolfgang Kumm/ EPA]

The irony, he says, is that growing up poor, working on a farm, living far from school, is what grooms the best runners.

“The kind of living environment that leads people into running is not the kind of comfortable living they have right now.”

But the environment still is not what Lilesa wants for his son and daughter, or any other Oromo child growing up in Ethiopia.

He looks to the US, an ally of Ethiopia, as a better example of what his country could be.

OPINION: The ‘Ethiopia rising’ narrative and the Oromo protests

“I heard Obama making a statement when there were children in killed in America by gun violence and he cried on the national TV. That’s the kind of government you have. But on the other side in Ethiopia, we have a government that is killing its own people, children as young as nine years old,” Lilesa said.

“The freedoms Americans enjoy here, and the kind of government they have, that’s what the American government should be pushing Ethiopia to do.”

Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group ‘marginalised’

US President Obama got flak last year when he praised Ethiopia for its “democratically elected” government after the ruling party won 100 percent of parliamentary seats.

Even Getachew Reda, the Ethiopian minister, told Al Jazeera’s The Stream he is “not particularly proud” of that statistic.

Reda considers his government a work in progress and insists “some officials will have to be removed for having failed their people”.

The assurance do not impress Lilesa, who says he does not trust Reda or anyone else in the Ethiopian government.

What it would take to bring him home, he says, is real change.

“I want the superiority of one ethnic group to end. If everyone does not have equal power, their different political, religious views respected, in the future, there will not be sustainable peace in the country.”

With a temporary US visa, and an unknown future, little seems sustainable for the runner right now.

But he is an endurance athlete, familiar with the long game.

His hero, after all, is Oromo marathoner Abebe Bikila, who won the gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics while running bare foot.

Lilesa says he does not consider himself a hero, but he understands why some people call him that.

“They carry around a deep wound, and when a doctor touches a wound, it makes you feel better. I sort of rubbed their wounds.”

Source: Al Jazeera

(SBO Fulbaana 13, 2016) — Godina Lixa Shaggar Gidduugaleessaa Oromiyaa Aanaa Adaa’aa Bargaa Mogoritti Warraaqsii biyyoolessaa Oromiyaa FXG daran jabaachuun itti fufe. Mogoor keessatti

1. Sababa Sochıı duulaa gabaa lagachuu fı uggura dinagdee buusuu torbee tokkoof gaggeeffameen manneen daldalaa fi suuqiiwwaan cufamanii turan banamaa yeroo jirachuun walqabatee waraanni Agaazii Uummata irratti reebicha hamaa gaggeessuun jumlaan mana hidhaatti guuraa jira.
2. Hoojjettootni Warshaa Simintoo DANGOTE hojii guutummaatti dhaabuun diddaa isaanii kan itti fufani jiran yoo ta’uu qondaalotni wayyaanee aangawootni warshichaa fi abbaa qabenyummaa isaa waayila wayyaanee lammii Naajeeriyaa kan ta’ee kasaaraa guddaaf saaxilamee waan jiruuf warshicha banuuf illee fedhii kan hin qabnee ta’uu argisiisee jira Yeroo ammaa kana hojjattootni warshichaa guutummaan mooraa warshichaa keessa dhaabbatanii argamu. Qeerroon Mogoor qindeessıtootnı sochii warraaqsaa FXG sochii Warraaqsaa keenyaa roga hundan hanga wayyaaneen Oromiyaa gadhiiftee baatutti itti fufa jechuun dhaamsa dabarsan!!
   

Injifannoon Uummata Oromoof!!

ODUU AMMEE/HO’AA/

Magaalaa Naqamteetti qaamoleen Mootummaa manneen daldalaa fi buufatni konkolaataa akka hojii hin jalqabne dhorkaman.

Sababaa isaa yemmuu gaafatamanis ” Warri isin dhaabsise dhufee isin haa jalqabsiisu!!
Amma immoo dabareen keenya waan ta’eef hin hojjettan !!”jechaa jiru.

#oromorevolution Oduun ammaa gara miidiyaa adda addaan dhaga’amaa jiruu akka ibsutii ;wayyaneen garee sadiitti hiramtee jedhamaa jiraa.
Kanumaan walqabatee qondaali Wayyaane kan ta’ee #Sibaat Nagaas hidhameera jedhuu.
Kaleessaa galgalaa naannoo Masaraa mootummaa Ethiopiatti tasgabiin kan dhabameef Agaaziin oliif gaddi fiiga buluu isaani himaama jiraa.

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warrii biyyaa keessaa fi Alaa hunduu oduu kana duuka akka buutan siniif dhaamu barbaana.
Duuti Mallasiif kufaatin mootummaa Wayyaane walfakkachuu hin oolu kanaaf keessaa isaanitti waldhabdeen akkas yoo jiraate ,duuka bu’uuf dubbiiin gara kamiitti akka deema jirtuu baruun gaariidha. Via Moses Gada

#OromoProtests Flares up in Yaye Gulale, Salale
“godinaa shaawa kaabaa Aanaa yayyaa gullaallee keessaatti lolii diddaa gabruuma guyyaa gutuu gaggeeffama olee jiraa.qilleensaraa olichaa mee kun raggaa gutuu waliin kan jirudha”

By Matthew Tempest | EurActiv.com

The market in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, photographed in February 2016, where rights groups say on 7 August at least 30 people where shot dead by security forces.

(EurActiv) — The Ethiopian government has hit back after the international outcry over the rising death toll from protests in the country, blaming “outside forces” for fomenting the trouble.

More than 500 people have now been killed since November 2015, according to Human Rights Watch and other activist bodies, and several thousand detained – largely following protests by the Oromia and Amhara people.

It has also raised questions in the EU, where Ethiopia is one of the largest recipients of development aid, and also a beneficiary of the bloc’s new Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, aimed at mitigating migration flows from Africa.

Now Addis Ababa has hit back, admitting “bystanders” had died during the protests, and that the government had blocked internet access, but claiming “a group of people living inside and outside of the country” were behind the protests.

That seems to be a reference to the Ethiopian diaspora, concentrated in the US, who have often complained they are the subject of bugging by the government in Addis.

State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Taye Atske-Selassie admitted that “the government has accepted most of the issues of concerns that broke out in different parts of the country as consequences of bad governance, unemployment and the likes.”

And – in a rare mea culpa from the authoritarian government in Addis Ababa – the minister admitted, “The government’s response to the public concern was also very sluggish.”

The escalating death toll this week saw some 13 NGOs write an open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council, complaining of the government’s brutal suppression of what – they say – were largely peaceful protests.

The letter – signed by Amnesty International, the Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Human Rights Project, FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), Reporters Without Borders and others – state that at three separate protests in August alone, 100, 30 and 70 demonstrators were killed.

Yesterday (12 September), another Ethiopian Olympic athlete, this time the paralympic runner Tamiru Demisse, made the ‘arms crossed over the head’ gesture symbolising the Oromo people – echoing that of compatriot Feyisa Lilesa, who is now in the US, believed to be seeking political asylum.

Last week, the European Commission was pressed on whether funds from its new flagship Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, aimed at mitigating the roots causes of irregular migration, could be reviewed or even suspended in the wake of the situation.

A Commission spokesman stressed that monies from the ETF were channelled only through NGOs and aid bodies, not directly to the government in Addis Ababa.

NO EMERGENCY TRUST FUND MONEY GOES TO ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT, COMMISSION STRESSES No monies from the EU’s flagship Emergency Trust Fund (ETF) for Africa goes to the Ethiopian government or its agencies, the Commission stressed yesterday (6 September), as human rights groups say more than 400 people have been killed in clashes with the government.  EurActiv.com

Taye said he had explained the government’s version of events to various foreign ambassadors in the Ethiopian capital.

However, he added that “the facts on the ground have ignited discontent and they are taken over by the subjective views and agendas of a group of people living inside and outside of the country”.

He later returned to the theme, saying “In a country like Ethiopia, where its rapid economic growth has impressed the world, the recent clashes have a negative implication to the achievements made [sic].

“In this regard, the government has to be more active and responsive to respond to the public’s demand.

But he warned, “It should not let outsider forces interfere in the internal matters of the country. In other words, the facts on the ground which resulted in public discontent should not be taken over by subjective agendas of outside forces.”

Taye confirmed he had briefed ambassadors in Ethiopia. However he rejected a call for outside, independent, investigation into the deaths.

He also described the shutting down of parts of the domestic internet within Ethiopia as a “hard choice” but “an immediate solution to protect youth from communicating with those extremist groups.”

The government in Addis Ababa – in power since it overthrew the Marxist Derg regime in 1991 – is largely comprised of the Tigray tribal grouping.

People of the Oromia and Amhara regions complain their voices are unheard by the centralised government. Protests against the forced expansion of the capital into the Oromia region forced the project to be largely dropped.

Felix Horn, Africa expert at Human Rights Watch, has previously written that expat Ethiopian groups in both Europe and the US were targeted by the government.

He said, “Ethiopians living in the UK, the US, Norway, and Switzerland are among those known to have been targeted with Addis Ababa’s spyware.

“The European Commission should lead efforts to regulate the export of such [EU-developed] technology to governments with poor human rights records.”

As he crossed the finish line in Rio, Ethiopian marathoner Feyisa Lilesa made a statement of protest, honoring the plight of his people back home. Now fearing retribution for him and his family, Feyisa continues to speak out, despite an uncertain future. (Erin Patrick O’Connor, Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)

Published on Apr 4, 2016

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It was an honor to meet a true Ethiopian Hero. Truly honored to meet my hero my beloved brother Feyisa Lilesa.

Thank you for the sacrifices you made for all of us. Never met someone so inspiring and motivating like him.

I enjoyed listening to Feyisa Lilesa speaking Live at press conference in Washington DC about the oppression in Ethiopia.

I am proud to let him know that the people of his generation do not take him for granted, and we honor him for giving us the hero that he is.