Urgent Appeal from Oromo Refugees in Cairo, Egypt

Warm greetnigs to all Oromos around the world!

As you might heard, since March 27, 2016, we Oromo refugees in Cairo, Egypt including women and children as well as healthy and sick have been protesting the slow processing and unfair rejection of refugee cases by UNHCR. We have occupied the UNHCR’s gate over the last week, however, the organization has never met our demands yet.
The saddest thing is, while our nation in Oromia are suffering under the brutal Ethiopian government, being discriminated as Oromo, almost a similar thing is happening to us in our asylum seeking country, Egypt. The UNHCR Cairo Branch Office has refused to give us a deserved attention particularly over the last 5 months, during which time the atrocities against the Oromos in Ethiopia are growing to the bitter end in connection with the ongoing popular Oromo protests across Oromia. Despite the reluctance of the UNHCR to our fair request, we have insisted on occupy the gate until we receive a deserved response from the organization.

Most of the Oromo refugees in Egypt are engaged in labour works with little daily and monthly basis wages to survive. During this essential protest for refugee rights, they all left their jobs behind with no income to feed themselves and their children.

Hence, we kindly request our Oromo compatriots in the diaspora to stand with us in two essential forms:

1. Urgent fundraising – Stand beside us with financial assistance to feed ourselves during the uncertain time we would spend in this occupy-UNHCR-gate protests.
   
2. Writing urgent appeal letters to concerned bodies – Oromo community associations, Oromo institutions like OSA and Oromo related Organizations in the diaspora, stand with us by writing urgent appeal letters to both the UNHCR-Egypt and the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva as well as to other concernd international bodies to influence them give us the deserved attention.
   

We will soon announce you our fundraising agents and their contact addresses around the world, so that you can simply contact them to help us.

Thank you in advance !

Kind Regards,
Assistance Coordinating Committee
Cairo, Egypt

Iyyata Dirmannaa Baqattoota Oromootiif

Duraan duursinee nagayaa fi fayyaa ummata Oromoo maraaf hawwina.

Akkuma beekkamu baqattoonni Oromoo biyya Masrii jiraatan dhiibbaa UNHCR baqataa Oromoo irratti godhaa jirtuun akka malee miidhamaa jirra. UNHCR-Egypt himata baqattummaa (case) Oromoof xiyyeefannaa dhorkachuu isaarraa nuti baqattoonni Oromoo biyya Masrii Bitootessa 27, bara 2016 irraa eegalee dubartootaa fi daa’imman dabalatee, dhibamaa fi fayyaa odoo hin jenne guutummaatti balbala UNHCR dura erga qubannee amma torbaan tokko geenyee jirra. Hanga ammaatti aduu fi qorra osoo hinja’in gara-kutannaadhaan balbala san duratti gallee jirra tahu illee, iyyata keenyaaf kan gurra gahaa kennaa jiru hin argamne.

Wanni daranuu nama gaddisiisu ammoo, yeroo ummanni Oromoo biyya keessatti mootummaa Itoophiyaatiin rakkoon ulfaataan irra gahaa jiru kanatti UNHCR damee Masrii dhimma baqattummaa Oromoof xiyyeefannaa waakkachuudhaan baqataa Oromoo hedduu kuffisaa jiraachuu isaa ti. Ji’oota shanan dabran kana wayta biyya keessatti tarkaanfiin hammeenyaa Oromoo irratti jabaatu, UNHCR Kaayiroo xiyyeeffannoo duraan nuu kennaa turteyyuu nurraa hir’isuun isii waan haalaan gaddisiisaa ti. Gaaffii mirga baqattummaa hanga ammaatti gaafachaa jirruuf deebii quufsaa nuuf hin laanne, inumaa baqataa keenya garmalee kuffisaa jirani. Nutis hanga gaaffiin keenya deebii haqaa hargatutti as irraa hin gallu jechuun hulaa waajjirichaa duratti qubannee aduuu guyyaa fi qorra halkaniitiin miidhamaa jirra.

Akkuma beekkamu jireenyi baqataa ulfaataa dha. Baqattoota Oromoo biyya Masrii keessaa muraasni gargaarsa qabaatullee, irra caalaan baqataa lubbuu ofii jiraachisuuf jecha hojii olmaya guyyaa kafaltii xiqqashoodhaan kan jiraatuudha. Amma wayta dhiibbaan mirga baqattummaa isaa irratti hammaatu kana ammoo, hojii olmaya guyyaa kan ittiin of jiraachisu san dhaabee hulaa UNHCR duratti waan galee falmachaa jiruuf galii ittiin of jiraachisu hin qabu. Kanaanis rakkoo nyaataa hamaaf saaxilamee argama.

Kanaafuu lammiif lammiitu hirkoo dha waan taheef hawaasni keenya biyyoota adda addaa jirtan gagaarsa bifa lamaa akka nuu gootan kabajaa Oromummaatiin isin gaafanna:

1. Gargaarsa dinaggee hatattamaa – Hawaasa keenya baqataa dirree irratti galee qoonqoodhaan miidhamaa jiruuf akka daftanii nuu dirmattan.
2. Xalayaa dhiibbaa gootu hatattamaa nuu barreessuu – Waldayoonni Oromoo biyyoota adda adddaa, jaarmayooleen Oromoo adda addaa kanneen akka OSA dabalatee, akkasumas, qaamonni maqaa Oromootiin jaaramtan kamuu xalayaa iyyannaa hatattamaa gara waajjira UNHCR-Egypt fi kan walii galaa Jenevaatti argamutti nuu barreessuudhaan akka dhiibbaa irratti nuu gootan kabajaan isin gaafanna.

Kanneen gargaarsa dinagdeetiin nu dhaqqabuuf qophooftan biyyoota adda addaatti bakka bu’oota dhimma kana irratti nu gargaaran maqaa fi teessoo isaanii dhihootti isin beeysifna.
Galanni keessan bilisummaa dha.
Namni walqabu rakkoo hinqabu ; nus wal malee waa hin qabnu.
Koree Qindeessituu Gargaarsaa,
Kaayiroo, Masrii