Oromo & Ogaden Communities Protest Against Zenawi in Copenhagen

December 18, 2009 at 9:04 pm

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – DECEMBER 17: Protestors from Europe’s Oromo & Ogaden Communities demonstrate outside the UN climate change conference on December 17, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The group were demonstrating against Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi participating in the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference, claiming that he has one of the worst environmental records in the history of Ethiopia and that he has no respect for fundamental human rights.


The Union of Oromo Students in Europe (UOSE), the oldest Oromo students organization, was the organizer for the December 17, 2009 peaceful protest against Mr. Zenawi’s presence at the Copenhagen Summit. Mr. Zenawi has used the Summit, not to represent the interests of Africa, but to buy legitmacy for his corrupt and illegal government. For Mr. Zenawi, his mere presence at the Copenhagen Summit is a great success since he’s desperately in need of legitmacy; since his arrival in Europe earlier this week, he has created more chaos and has betrayed other African and developing world’s negotiators at the Summit.

The Oromo Farm Land Deals between the TPLF/EPRDF Tyrannical Regime and the Third Parties is Null and Void

Statement of the Oromo Liberation Front

As the Oromo Liberation Front has repeatedly stressed, the current Ethiopian regime has, since it came to

power in 1991, dispossessed, displaced, and disenfranchised tens of thousands of the Oromo people.

TPLF’s policies of dispossession and marginalization of the Oromo nation have remained at the root of

today’s underdevelopment and the spectacle of mass starvation that has been witnessed throughout

Oromia in recent years.

Now, the TPLF/EPRDF regime is doubling down on its policies of dispossession and disenfranchisement

of the Oromo people by engaging in an adventurous and even more reckless policy of leasing the Oromo

farmlands to third parties, both governments and private businesses, from Asia, Europe, and the Middle

East. It is worth noting that:

• The leases are being offered by the TPLF/EPRDF--a government that is not democratically

elected in a free and fair election. The Oromo nation, the true owner of the farmlands, is not a

party to the farmland transactions between the TLPF/EPRDF and the third parties. The local

Oromo populace is neither consulted nor compensated for giving up these lands;

• The leases are being offered on a long term basis, for a period of 40 to 99 years, and the third parties

are entering into these unconscionable business contracts with the objective of profit-making,

as well as securing food supply to their own citizens in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East through

exports from Ethiopia;

• The lease policy will undoubtedly further displace and impoverish the Oromo nation, forcing millions

of smallholder Oromo farmers to give up their land and work as laborers on these farmlands.

The policy will throw back many Oromos to the old days of the “Gabar” system, where peasants

toiled only to enrich the landlords, failing to eke out a decent living. The only difference is that,

this time, the landlords are coming from afar—from Asia, the Middle East, and possibly other corners

of the world.

• The medium to long-term negative ecological impact of the lease policy will be irreversible. The

flower farms in Oromia have already demonstrated just what to expect in terms of the ecological

and social disasters of unregulated, large scale commercial farming intended for exports-- the use

of chemical pesticides that are detrimental to the environment; pollution that causes a variety of

health problems for the local populace; and poor working conditions and lack of decent working

rights. The land lease policy will only further exacerbate these ecological and social ills throughout

Oromia.

The OLF unequivocally condemns this reckless land lease policy of the TPLF/EPRDF government,

which further disenfranchises and impoverishes the Oromo people. The land transaction between the

TPLF regime and the third parties displaces the rightful owners of the land—the Oromo people—

subjecting millions to further poverty, starvation, and death. As such, it is a crime against humanity.

The OLF warns the third parties to the Oromo land deals that their contracts are null and void as

far as the Oromo nation and the OLF are concerned. We stress that they are entering into these

contracts with a government that is not accountable to the people, a government that has continued

to trample on the human and political rights of the voiceless Oromo people. Indeed, we

consider them accomplices to the TPLF’s crime against humanity perpetrated against the

Oromo nation. We counsel the third parties to immediately cease and desist from participation

in the land deals and transactions.

To the Oromo people:

You have endured subjugation for more than hundred years under a succession of alien rules--

massacre and extra judicial killings, loss of freedom and dignity, political disenfranchisement,

violations of your fundamental human rights, and poverty and famine. The TPLF/EPRDF regime

is only a continuation of this rule, and the current Oromo farmland transaction between

the TPLF regime and third parties is a continuation of the serfdom you have been subjected to

for more than a hundred years.

Your oppression and disenfranchisement cannot stop on its own or at the mercy of the rulers.

We the Oromo people need to stand up and defend our land and dignity. We call upon you, the

Oromo people, to stand up in unison against the TPLF’s sell of the Oromo farmland. The national

liberation struggle shall continue until we win back our freedom and dignity, the right to

influence our destiny including on our vital assets such as land, and a decent chance at escaping

starvation and poverty.

Victory to the Oromo People!

The Oromo Liberation Front

November 29, 2009

Ibsa WBO ZK ABO Marsaa 2ffaa

Ibsa WBO ZK ABO marsaa 2ffaa.


Barruun tun gabaasa Itti-bahaa tarkaanfii/ejjennoo/yaamicha nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa ABO, QBO fi Saba Oromoof WBO ZK gaafa Onkololeessa 13, 2009 labse ture kan haga yoonaa, dhaabbii gareelee ABO sadeeni, wannneen hubataa dhufne, dhaamsa qabnu fi yaamicha waliigalaa hammata.



Gaafa Onkololeessa 13, 2009, humna dhaaba ABO kan ta’e Waraanni Bilisummaa Oromoo Zoonii ABO Kibba Oromiyaa (WBO ZK ABO) rakkinoota haga dabraa, yeroo dheeraaf furmaata dhabuu dhaan, dhaaba ummatni Oromoo hunda caalaa mararfatu ABO, naafisani argaman; akkasuma Qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo (QBO) gaadi’e jiru; dharraa Bilisummaa akkasuma dheebuu abbaa biyyummaa Saba kabajamaa Oromoo haalotni kun gara dhaaressuutti cesisaa dhufan; gama keennaan fala takkicha hafe jennee amannu-nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa waliigalaa qaama ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii ABO’ deegaruuf tarkaanfii seenaa rakkinoota mooraa ABO, QBO fi ummata Oromoo keessatti hin irraanfatamne jennee laallu akka kanaatti aanuutti fudhanne, labsuun keenna ni yaadatama.

Barruuleen sun;

• Ibsa WBO ZK - Xalayaa Lakk: 0001/ibsa-wbozk-abo/2009,

• Ejjennoo WBO ZK - Xalayaa Lakk: 0002/ejjenno-wbozk-abo/2009 fi

• Yaamicha waliigalaa – Xalayaa Lakk: 0003/yaamicha-wbozk-abo/2009 ture.

Ka’umsa tarkaanfii/murtii/ejjennoo deegarsa nagaa, araara fi tokkummaa akkasuma akeeka tarkaanfii WBO ZK Onkololeessa 13, 2009 fudhatame ture laalchise;

Dhibdeelee dhaaba teenna ABO keessatti yeroo adda addaatti uumamuun furmaata Heeraa fi Seerota dhaabichaan argatuun ijibaatame, diigamsa dhaabaa, qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo fi gurmuu Saba Oromoof hin malle dhalche argame faluu dhaaf, dirqama miseensummaan dhaabaa, Sabichaa, Kaayyoon itti irbuu seennee fi haalli yeroos nu ajaju bahatuu dhaaf, murtii fi ejjennoo fudhatuuf dirqamne turre.

Tarkaanfii deegarsa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa dhaaba ABO, QBO fi walumaa gala moonaa Oromoo tana yoo fudhannu, akka humna WBO ZK fi kanneen ejjennoo tana deegaran cufaatti, ofii keennaa rakkinoota jedhaman kanneen irraa qulqulloo of taasifnee, dhiba ofii qooda bifaa fi sadarkaa taheettu keessaa hin qabne tokko, akka furamuuf yaamicha goone jechuutti illeetti akka hin hubatamne namuu qaabsifna. Hundi keenna sadarkumaan, haga taheetti qaama rakkoo qabsoo, dhaabaa fi faca’u gurmuu sabichaa tahuu beekaa, kan hundaa akka nuufis waan keennatti, gamuma jirruun, dabre ammoo fuulota kamuuttu qaama furmaataa akkasuma hundi waliin tahuutti akka fuulleffannuuf, kun yaalii seenaa goone jennee laakka’anna.

Gama kaaniin, akkuma ‘nami wal yakku owwaachaa wal yakka’ jedhaniitti, tarkaanfi deegarsa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa fudhanne eebbifamaa kana jallisuuf qofaaf jecha, akka waan WBO ZK kun maanguddoo araaraaa gara biraa tahe of dhiheesseetti warri sababaa diddaa tokkoomuu qaban akeeka seenaa kana yakkuu fi yarsuufaa agarre. WBO ZK tarkaanfii fi ejjennoo fudhateen ‘gartuulee sadeen maqaa ABOn of yaaman cufti waliitti dhufuun haa araaramani’ jenne yaalii tokkummaa eegalame turre deegaruun jabeessine dhiheessine malee, ‘koottaa isin araarsinaa’ hin jenne!



Akkasuma, wallaachaan ykn ammoo gariin aadaa fi muuyxannumaa iyyuu itti qabaachu dhabuufaan tahu kan danda’e, akeeka nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa moonaa ABO, QBO fi Oromoo jidduutti daballe dhiheessine kanaa deebisani akka biraa illeetti jallisuu dhaan marsaalee internet gara garaatti fi marsaa marii paltalk jedhamu adda addaarrattis ‘bifa yaadaa’ fakkeessani afanfaji kanneen uumuu yaalan hin dhabamne. Akeeka nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa WBO ZK deegaruun babal’ise kanaa iyyuu akka gartuulee dhaan ‘harka waliitti kennadhaa’ jechuufaa, ‘dhiifama waliif tolchuu’ jechuufaatti, badiilee fi miidhama akkasuma hubama ABO, Zoonilee WBO, miseensota, hooggana, jaarmayicha, deegartootaa fi ummata Oromoo irraan falmaan akka malee dhaaba keessatti tatahe kun dhaqqabsiise ‘irraanfadha’ jennee dhiheessinefaatti kan hubatani, hubachiisuus yaaluunis hin hafne. Kun cufa sababootuma diddaa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa jenne laalla.

Eegaa, nuti akeekni tarkaanfi deegarsa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa WBO ZKn Onkololeessa 13, 2009, wal dhabbiilee dhaaba ABO keessatti deddeebi’ani mudatani, haga yoonaatti bifa kamiinuu furmaata argachuu dadhaban faluu qofa akka tahe ar’as irra deebine hubachiifanna.

Kana ammoo haalli diigamsaa, addaan deemuu, dhaabotni maqaa ABO himatan sadii ykn sanaa olii illee moggaasuun haga yoonaa argameef hiikkaa walumaagala dhibdeelee jiraniif fiduu waan dadhabaniif, roga biraa irraa yaali akka yaalii eegallu taane. Kanuma waliin akkuma murnummaan fala hin taane, murnii tokkoo illeen haga ammaatti jabaate jaarmayaa, hujii fi qabsoo waliigalaa fuula dura tarkaanfachiisuu dadhabu dhugaa diida jirtu tahurraa, haalli addaa fala addaa kan fedhu waan taheef, tarkaanfiin, murtii fi ejjennoo akkasuma yaamichi addaa sun barbaachise/barbaachisa jennee gaafas, ar’as amanna.

Dhaabni sadii kan maqaa tokko waliin qabu; kan laakofsa nama manuma tokko keessa waliin jiru wal saamuu qofaa karoora qabsoo sabaa godhate; hujiin fardeeffamu wal balleessuun maqaa ABO dhaaluu callaa; fi qabsoon himatamu kan morka hin dhumnnee, matoomi jiru kan ‘kabajaa’ namootaa, tuutaa fi kkf qofa waardiyu; dorgommi walirraa aanu qofa akeekkattuu; fi haala galiin qabsoo bilisummaa sabaa xurii akkanaan bakka bu’e; kaan kaan balleessee ofiif ‘maqaa’ qofaa fi ‘wakkiilummaa qabsoo’ dhaaluu callaa tahe argamu kana hifanne, quufne, jibbine, balaaleffanne, nu gahe!

Kun nuu, WBO ZKf kanaan booda karaa miti! qabsoo miti! dhaabaa miti! hujis miti! Karoora qabsoo galii sabaa dhugoomsuu miti!.....badii dha! Yakka-yakkaarraatti ida’achuu dha! Nuti gama keennaan haalaa fi deemsa akkanaa kana hunda dhaareffannee, humaa keessaa dhabnee dhiifne, namuu akka dhiisuuf miseensummaa fi Oromummaan lallabne. Harkii caalaan humna gartuulee ABO sadeeni, hooggana isaanii dabalate garuu amma illee, ar’aa illee, achuma, bakkuma sana jiraatu agarra. Kana guddoo taajjabne, gaddines jennaan! Haala kanaan kan injifatamu Oromoo dhuma, dhumarratti kan moo’us diinuma tarsimoo qofa jennee amma illee dhaamnaaf.

Kan barbaannu, gara qabsoo sabaatti of-deebisuu gartuulee dhaaba ABO sadeen; rakkinoota dhaaba ABO keessaan diiguu bira dabre QBO fi gurmuu saba Oromoo facaasaa jiru kanneen ariitiin fala (itti waliif galamu) lafa kaa’uu dhaan; gara dhaaba ABO, jaarmaya isaa, qabsichaa fi guruu miseensotaa akkasuma sabaa waalt’essuun; dheebuu saba Oromoo tan taatee Bilisummaa Ummata Oromoo fi Walaabummaa Oromiyaa dhugoomsuutti cufti keenna waliin tokko taane, waliin ol-ka’uu dhaan mirkeessuuf waliin hojjatuu ti.

‘ABO 3n’ yaamicha Onko. 13, 2009 WBO ZK tolchineefiitti owwaachuu laalchise;

WBO ZK tarkaanfi deegarsa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaaf fudhate akka gama dhaabaa adda babbahe kamuunuu waliitti hidhamee hin laalamneef, murtii fi ejjennoon akeeka kanaaf fudhate taatuu fi hanqattuus, fudhatamtuu fi didamtuus, faarfamtuu fi balaaleffatamtu illee, WBO ZK dhuma akka maqeeffattuuf jecha ajaja ‘ABO sadeeni’ kamuu jalaa bilisa of taasisuu ifaatti ibsinee turre.

Akkasumas, akeekni nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaan yaamne hundaaf qixxee akka tahuuf, milkeessuuf gami kamuu akka wal qixa itti tahuuf, marii, haasawaa fi kanarratti illee waliitti deddeebisuu maluuf waraana zoonii tanaa biraatti gartuu kamuu nuti kan wal hin caalcifnee fi carraan isaani nu biraatti wal qixxee akka taate ibsaa fi ejjennoon labsanne, addeessine jira. WBO ZK gama kamiifuu kan hin baabsine tahuunis kakuu humna dirree akkuma ture amma illee tahe jira. Akkasuma ergaa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa yaamnee ammoo, kanneen yaamicha kanaaf owwaatan kamuu waliin dubbachuuf banaa akka taane, banaatti kan wal marihannuu fi waan gama kamuu irraa dhagahamu akka walii keennaa fi Oromoota hundumaa beeksifnu imaammataa fi dhaamannoo keenna.

ABO 3n’ jechuun gartuulee ABO Shanee Gumii (ShG ABO), Qaama Cehumsaa (QC ABO) fi Koree Yeroo (KY ABO/Jijjiirama) wal duraa duubaan ibsoota babaasaniin tarkaanfii deegarsa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa WBO ZK fudhate kan deegaran tahuu, akka kanaan gadiitti beeksifatani turan. Kunis, akkuma wal-duraa duubummaa ibsa baasaniitiin;

i) Shanee Gumii (ShG-ABO), ShG GS ABOn – Gaafa Onkololeessa 20, 2009.

ii) Qaama Cehumsaa (QC-ABO), KHGn – Lak.111/ABO/09, Onko.26, 2009.

iii) Koree Yeroo (KY-ABO), WKYn – Gaafa Sadaasa 07, 2009.

Cunfaadhaan, gartuuleen ABO sadan oliitti tarrifaman kamuu, ibsoota wal duraa duubaan baasaniin; Tarkaanfii, murtii, ejjennoo fi yaamicha nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa WBO ZK dhiheesse kan deegaran, fudhatani fi milkeessuuf hojjattan tahuu isaani beeksisani turan. Kun eegaa waan barruuleen ibsoota dhihaatani hammatan ture.

Barruuleen ibsoota kanneen fi qabiyyeelee isaani akkuma marsaalee oduu afaan Oromoo gara gara irraatti naafamani turan, marsaalee (websites) gartuulee kanneenirratti ammaa illee argamu.

Deebisaalee fi ejjennoo gartuulee ‘ABO 3niiin marii WBO ZK suduudaan itti dhiheesseef laatame.

Deebisaa fi hafuura qaama araaraaf uf-dhiheesse ture kan ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii ABO’ eegne dhabuun yaadda’aa dhufurraa gaafa Sadaasaa 15, 2009, karaa koree dhimma qunamtiif WBO ZK bakka buufate, Koree Takkaarrii, dhaamsaa fi ergaan bifa barruun suduudaan matoota ‘ABO 3niif’teessoo isaani e-mail dhaan ergamefi ture. Xayalaan matoota ABO 3niif WBO ZKn mariif ergame, guyyaan ergamee fi dhaamsi hammate tokkichuma ture.

(Barruun dhaamsaa fi ergaa akkasuma marii karaa matoota jaarmayoota isaanii ABO 3nf ergame ture sun xalayaa ibsaa kanaan waliitti maxxanfame gara jalaatti argama.)



Dhaamsa, ergaa fi marii suduudaan hoggana ABO 3niifuu ergine turre kanaaf, akka deebisaa/ejjennootti QC-ABO ibsa sirnaa baasee nuun gahe jira. Mataa jaarmayichaan (D/T QC ABO), ammoo hiree arganneen itti fufne qaamaanis ejjennaa qaban irraa dhagahuuf carraa dabalataas arganne turre. KY-ABO/Jijjiirami bifa ibsaan osoo hin taane, barruu dhaamsotaan, dabalee bilbilaan karaa qaama hooggana jaarmayichaa olaanoo keessaa ejjennaa isaanii qabsiifatani jiru. ShG ABO karaa mataa jaarmayichaa (HD GS ABO) dhaamsa bilbilaan, dabalee karaa miseensa hoggana gartuu sanaa kan fuula jirruutti argamuutiin hiree qaamaan wal arguu taheen ejjennaa isaani qabsiifatani jiran.

Haa thu malee guutummaa deebisaalee fi ejjennoolee dhihaatan kanneeni, barruu tanaan labsuuf mirga, kabajaa, naamusa qunnamtii fi safuu Oromummaa illee jaarmayoota/jaallan hooggana isaani kanneeni kamuu eeguufiif jecha deebisaalee/haasawa nuuf dhihataniif fi ejjennaa ABOn 3n ergatan laalchise waan ibsa sirnaan nutti dhufe illee dabalate, dhaamsotaa fi haasawa gama kamuu waliin goone keessaa haguma ibsa kanaaf barbaachisu qofa, bifa isaan kamuu hin addaatti miineen (warra waan akka malee nuuf deebisan illee dabalate, of biraatti qabuun, ofiif ittiin miidhamu filachaa), cuunfaa dhumaa ejjennoolee dhiheessu filatu dursinee hubachiifna.

Tahus sadarkaa kanaatti hubannaaf akka toluuf dhaabbiin gartuuleen ABO 3niitu ibsoota barruu dhaan akka oliitti odeessuu yaalleetti tarkaanfi WBO ZK deegaruu isaanii ittiin beeksisani turani fi ejjennoon deebisaalee xalayaa suduudaan marii WBO ZK gaafa Sadaasaa 15, 2009 matoota jaarmayaalee kanneeniif ergineen dhiheessan kan wal hin fudhanne tahu akka kanaatti aanuutti wal duraa duubaan gabaafna.

i) Shanee Gumii ABO

Gabaabumaatti, dhimma rakkoo ABO keessatti dhalate, miidhaa geessifame jedhan fi akkaataa furmaataa laalchise dubbii qaami ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii’tti waan kennatameef, sanuma eegataa akka jiranii fi sanumaan xumura dubbii tanaa eegu kan filatan tahu isaani. Tarkaanfiin WBO ZK ammoo akka daandii araaraa gara biraa ykn WBOn ZK maanguddummaaf akka biraatti of dhiheesseetti hubatani illee waan jiruuf, daanduma jalqabaa (‘bu’ureessitootaa…) sana dursuu fi itti bahaa sanaa kan eegan himatan. Kanuma waliin gartuulee maqaa ABO qaban lamaan hafan laalchise KY-ABO waliin karaa qaama ‘bu’ureessitootaa…’ gaaddisi beellamame akka jiru. QC ABO waliin ammoo suduudaan gaaddisa qaama araaraa ‘bu’ureessitootaa….n’ alaatti wal haasawaa akka jiran. Yaaddoo tarii qaami araaraa ‘bu’ureessitootaa’ kun dirqama isaani bahuu hanqatuu ykn karaa isaani gartuun biraa dubbii waliin fixachuu laafisu ykn hanqachuu malu itti dhiheessineef ammoo ejjennaan qaban-yeroo haga qaama araaraa kana dubbiin tun gaafattu cufa laatuufiin (yeroo hangamu yo tahe!) waan itti buufatan dhagahu akka fedhan, hanqatu ammoo hangamu turu, gaafa tokko ofii isaaniiti (ShG) akka jaarmayaatti ibsa ijibaataafaa akka baafatanfaa ejjennoo isaani thu qabsiifatan. Ibsi Onko. 20, 2009 baasan ammoo akkas hin jedhu.

Tarkaanfi nagaa fi araaraa WBO ZK fudhateef ammoo suduudaan itti fufaniakka jaarmayaa ShG qofatti/kophaatti zoonicha waliin haasawuun xumuratu akka fedhan dhiheeffatan.

ii) Qaama Cehumsaa ABO

Sadarkaa duraatti, haasawa mataa jaarmayaa kanaa irraa qaamaan hubanneen, tarkaanfiin WBO ZK fudhate seenaa qabeessa tahu isaa, dhaamsa, ergaa fi mariin suduudaan Sadaasaa 15, 2009 Qorbituu Takkaarriin hooggana isaanittii ergame isaan biraatti fudhatama kan qabuu fi ijibaata rakkoo dhaaba ABOf akkasuma QBOf kan tahu jechuutti dabalee, falli jiru sanuma tahu isa akka amanan, milkeessuufis gama isaaniin waan malu/danda’ameef cufa godhuuf qophii tahu mirkaneessan.

Haa tahu malee ibsi qaama hoggana KJQBO-QC ABO Washington DC irraa ajaja mataa dhaabichaan qophaa’e gaafa 19/11/2009 nutti ergame akkas hin jedhu.

Kan ibsichi addeessu, tarkaanfiin WBO ZK deegarama tahu isaa, QC ABO akkuma WBO kanaatti ammoo dursee iyyuu dhuma bara dabreetti yaamicha fakkaataa godhe akka turee fi suduudaan gartuuleen ABO akka waliin dubbatuun furmaataan hojjatan dhiheese akka jiru.

Jaarmayootni ABO lamaan hafa yaamicha isaani kanaatti waan owwaataniif fi mariin waliin waan eegalameef, itti bahaa mariilee kanneeni booda, keessattu yo milkaa’u hanqatan tarii yaada WBO ZK kanaatti deebi’u akka malan, walumaa gala deemsa araaraa itti jiran irratti waan irraa gahanis yero yeroon kan WBO ZK beeksisan tahu ibsatan.

iii) KY ABO (Jijjiirama)

Barruu ibsaa tarkaanfii WBO ZK laalchise baasani fi ejjennoon suduudaan dhiheeffatan akkasuma kan wal hin simannee dha.

Ejjennoon suduudaa cunfaadhaa;

Yaada moonaa qabsoo Oromoo tokkoomsuu fi gaaddisa tokko jalatti deebisuu jedhu Adoolessa 1, 2008 irraa kaasee irratti hojjataa akka turan. Hujiin kun akka imaammataatti kan labsatan tahu isaa. Imaammann qaban kunis Sadaasa 8, 2008 jaarmotaa fi gurmuulee Oromoo jaha (6), maqaa ABO qabanii fi hin qabnellee dabalatee, hundaaf xalayaa barreessuun sirneeffamu isaa.

Deebii jaarmotaa fi gurmuuleen adda addaa kennan irra dhaabbatuu dhaan hujii eegaluu isaanii, marii waggaa tokkoon booda jaarmotaa fi gurmuuleen shan (5) Onkoloolessa 31, 2009 walitti makamuun tokkooman jiran jedhan.

Kanuma waliin mariin qaamoota ABO waliin godhamus eegalamee sadarkaa adda addaa irra jiraachuu. Fknf haasaan KY ABO fi QC ABO waliin gidduu-galummaa maanguddummaa kamiin alaatti eegalame sadarkaa xumura irra jiraachu isaa.

Araarri ‘bu'ureessitotaa fi buleeyyii ABO’ kan dhiyaate jedhan erga KY ABO yaamicha isaa dabarsitee hujitti seenteen duuba tahu isaa. Qaamota hooggana ABO sadiihiif xalayaan ‘bu’ureessitoiotaa fi buuleyyiin’ barreessan KY ABO fi ShG ABOn yoo fudhatama argatu, QC ABOn fudhatama akka dhabe ture.

Mangudgummaa ‘bu'ureessitotaa fi buleeyyii ABO’ tin mariin marraa tokko KY ABO fi ShG ABO giddutti ta'ee, kan marraa 2ffaa dhihootti tahuuf akka jiru.

Akka yaada xalayaa Qorbaa takkaarrii itti ergame itti hubatanne jedhaniitti, kan WBO ZK gaafata jiru araaraa haarayatti eegaluu, akkasuma WBO ZK akka qaama araaraa gara biratti of dhiheesseefaa akka tahe. Deebisaan/gorsii/yaanno/ejjennoon sanaaf qaban ammoo yaadni marii araaraa KYn eegalame jiru deeggarsa dabalataa WBO ZK illee irraa argatee akka fiixa bahu gochuu qofa jedhan.

Rakkoo kanaaf fala kan ta'u jedhanii laalan, zooniin ajaja dhaabaa (KY ABO) jalatti deebi'uun marii/yaalii araaraa KYn hunda dursee iyyuu eegalame fudhannee waliin fiixa baasuuf hojjachuu fi kkf.

Waliigalaatti haalota gartuulee ‘ABO 3n’ irraa calaqisuun hubatame

• Idileetti, akka gartuulee fi jaarmayaalee sadaniittu nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa jedhame fedhurratti wal fakkeennan ibsatu,

• QC ABO fi KY ABO tokkummaa fakkaataa (gara garaatti) bara dabree keessa akka jaarmayaatti yaamani turan milkeessuuf, karuma isaani itti fufani dhiibuu filatu. KY ABO daandii marii tokkummaa eegalan milkeessuuf warri hafe akka isaan waliin dhaabbatuun irraa wayyaa dhiheeffatu. QC ABO yaamicha isaani kan karaa qabate jiru waan irraa gahu baruuf ammaaf sanuma eegu filatu.

• QC ABO araaraa, tokkummaa fi maanguddummaa jiddu-galummaa qaama ‘bu’ureessitoota fi buuleyyiin’ geeggeffamuutti hin amanu, irra illee hin hirmaanne/hin hirmaatus..

• ShG ABO fi KY ABO jidd-galummaa bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyiitiin’ waliitti haasawuu fudhatani turan. Tahu iyyuu, haga ammaatti marroo tokko qofa akka haasawani fi kan lammeessoo fuula dura isaan jira jedhu. Lameenuu akka jaarmayaa fi hogganaatti suduudaan waliitti siquu ykn haasawuuf hedduu addaan fagoo jiran, fedhii akkasiitis ammaatti hin qaban.

• ShG ABO hoogganaa fi jaarmayaa QC ABO waliin suduudaan haasawuun waan tokko irraa gahu akka malan himatu. KY ABO fi QC ABO illeen akkasuma sadarkaa waliin xumurachuu irraa gahaa jiraachu himatu.

• ShG ABO fi KY ABO ofiif waliin nagaa bu’uudhaa fi waliitti araaramuuf (suduudaanis tahe qaama araaraa jidduu taa’uu kamuu keessaan), waliitti dhufuu osoo hin taane, isaan kamuu gara garaatti WBO ZK akka suduudaan isaaniitti deebi’u gara garaatti barbaadan, gaafatan.

• ShG ABO fi KY ABO jidd-galummaa qaama ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyiin’ waliitti haasawuuf yaamicha qaama kanaan godhame tureef owwaatanii uyyuu, lameenuu, waltajjii sanaan waliin fixachuuf walirrattis tahe, maanguddummaa sanarratti abdii hin qaban.

• Sababoota adda addaa tarrisaniif, karaa waltajjii jaarrrummaa qaama araaraa (‘bu’ureessitoota fi buuleyyii’) kanaan, rakkini ABO kun furame, tokkummaan hawwamu dhufuu isaa, harkii caalaan hooggana gartuulee ABO, miseensotaa isaanii fi deegartootni gartuulee kanneen jala hiriiran amanti hin qaban.

• WBO ZK kun tarii nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaan gaafate hanqaturraa fi/ykn haaluma rakkina gara garaa dirree qabsootti beekaman adda addaa irraa, akkasuma tura keessa abdii kutatuu dhaan gara faca’uufaatti deeminna ‘abdii’ jedhuun, akkuma kanneen haala akkasii keessaa waa eegataa jiran dhagahaman/mumul’atan, kan haala akkasii mudatu keessatti humna ‘masaanuu’ jedhamu diqqaa cinaa sanaa qabaatu abdatan (kan amma nama itti leejjifatuun dabalatuuf fiffiigaa jiramu), ‘qaawaa’ humni guddichi ZK kun irraa ‘deemuun’ uumuu malu buufatuu dhaan, “qabsoo itti fufuu” kan tilmaamatanis hin dhabamne. Garuu Itti-bahaa yaamicha WBO ZK nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa irratti kan hirkatuu fi gaafa Ammajii 01, 2010tti gara taheetti kan mirkanaa’u, yoo tokkummaan hin jiraannee, sanaan achi qabsoon dhuga waan hin jiraanneef, fuula kanaatti maqaa hin jirreen, sana booda ummata Oromoo miidhuun kanaafuu akka hin jiraanne WBO ZK ammumaan hunda akeekkachiifna.

• Ilaalchaa fi ejjennoon goggodduun adda tahe ammaa illee gartuulee ShG ABO fi KY ABO jidduu caalaatti mul’ata. Laafaatti fi dhihoottis kan waliitti siquun hin eegamnes kanneen kana jidduu dha. Sababiin hundee haala kanaaf hubatame, addaan bahinsaa fi morkiin jiddu jirru yeroon isaas dhihoo fi ammaa illee oowwaa waan taheefaa fakkaata. Gartuun lameenu QC ABO waliin haasawuu fi yo tahe gara fixachuutti kan deemu maluuf adda addadummaa, morkaa fi falmiin QC ABO waliin gara garaattis isaan qaban isa turaa, kan qabbanaa’e jiruu fi dubbiin QC ABO baroota waan laaka’atee jiruuf kan hundaaf caalaatti haffallate fakkaataf. Falli gartuun lameen dubbiin jidduutti ammaa illee jabduu kun laalaa jiran keessaa haalli addaan jiraatu isaani kun akkuma kan QC ABO sanaatti baroota haga tokko itti fufe yo laaka’ate, dubbiin ofumaanu dhama fixachaa, barrii/haalotni biraa dubbii jidduu dulluumsaa deemuu fi qabaneeffatufaa waliif tilmaamu.

• Cuunfadhaan dhugaan jirtu garuu, harki caalaan gartuulee ABO jiran kanaa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa jedhame idileetti kan fedhan tahu himatani illee, bifa, akkaataa, yeroo fi haala dureelee gartuu isaaniif caalmaatti bu’aa qabaatu qofaan kan itti seenan akka haala dureelee ifaatti hundaatti hin himamneetti gra garaatti qabu. Warra waliin nagaa bu’an, waliitti araaramanii fi waliin tokkoomanis ulaagaa mataa isaani kaayyatuu dhaan kan filatan fakkaatu. Araaraa fi tokkummaa maanguddummaan ykn gartuulee sadan jiran keessaan kaaniin ykn WBO ZKn dhihaatu osoo hin taane, yaamichaa, sagantaa fi qophii ofii isaaniitiin dhufu gartuuleen harkii wayyaan barbaadu. Itti yaamamuu fi kaan irraan dhufu irra, tokkummaa ofiif yaamaniin, abbaa itti tahani, maqaas itti fudhatani tartiibuma isaaniitiin, ariiriitii tokkoon maleetti geeggeffatu/geeggeffamu kan filatu fakkaatu..



Yaamicha waliigalaa

Hoogganootni gartuulee ABO sadeen ammaas akka yaadota morkaa fi matoomaa moonaa QBO fi ABO diige kana irraa deebitani, gara ofiifi tokkoomtani, dhaabaa ABO, QBO fi ummata Oromoo waliin tokkoomsitaniitti akka ariitiin deebitan ammaas irraa deebinee isin gaafanna.



Dhaamsa qabnu

1. Faarulee, ergaalee, dhaamsa/dhaamannoo, murannoo, dhaadannoolee tokkummaa ABO/Oromoo fi kkf suduudaan walgahii waliigalaa dhihii dirreetti baklka takkaatti geeggeffateen muraatotaa fi buttaaleen WBO ZK akkasuma jaallan fi ilmaan Oromoo gamtaan; Hogganaa fi miseensota gartuulee ABO sadaniif, ummata Oromoof fi Zoonilee WBO hfan akkasuma miseensota WBOf fi kkftuuf qopheessani dhaammatan bifa DVD dhaan suduudaan karaa caasalee isaanii fuula jirruutti argamaniin ABO 3niif erguu gabaafna. Ummata bal’aas karaa waltajjiilee fi walgahiilee gara garaan gahuuniin karoorfame jira.

2. Hogganootni jaarmayaa gartuulee ABO sadeen, ergaa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa dhihaateetti akkuma ibsootni jaarmayoota keessani jaqaba addeesse tureetti dhugaan kan itti-amantan taate, gareen jirtan kamuu guyyaa ar’aa irraa kaasee qaama hooggana sadarkaa olii keessaa namoota lama-lama (2:2), bakka buufachuun zoonii WBO Kibbaatti akka ergattan isin afeerra. Hiree sanaan ejjennoo nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa hawwame irratti jaarmayaa fi hogganni keessan qabdan akka humna waraana keessaniitti ibsattani fi dhaabbii akasuma dheebuu nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa ABO, QBO fi Sanba Oromoo WBO ZK kun qabu ofumaafu akka hubattaniif kunoo isin yaamne. Jilli keessan gaafa Mudde 15, 2009tti dirree WBO sana akka dhaqqabu dhaamanna. Haala kan milkeessuuf Qorbituu Takkaarrii waliin akka wal quba qabaatan ammuma irraa dhaamanna.

3. WBO fi dirreen qabsoo dhaaba ABOn heeraan eessattuu utubamee fi saaqame kamuu haga Kayyoo fi jaarmayaa isaa hin ganiniitti humna qabsoo bilisummaa Sabaa Oromoo ti. WBO ZK fi Dirreen/Zooniin WBO Kibba Oromiyaas qaama seenaa QBO dhaaba ABOn utubamee, diriifamee fi hogganamaa as gahee dha. Gartuuleen ABO sadeenu akka jaarmayaa fi hoogganaattis ar’aaf addadummas qabaatan dhaabaa fi jaarmayaa ABO ti. Waan taheef, WBO ZK rakkoo dhaaba ABO naafifte akka furmaata argatu qofaaf tarkaanfii dhiibbaa waan fudhateef jireenna dhabuu ykn jireennaan doorsifamuurraa, gartuuleen ABO sadeenjiran kun kamuu, ammumaan gaaffii fi kadhaan maleetti qabeenna qabsoo qabdaniin akka dirmattaniif irra deebine yaadachiifna.

4. Miseensoti dhaaba ABO, deegartooni dhaabichaa/qabsichaa, maanguddooti Oromoo, hayyooti Oromoo, sabboontotaa fi Ka’imani akkasuma haawwan Oromoo tarkaanfii nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa ABO, QBO fi Ummata Oromoo dhugoosuuf WBO ZK gaafa Onk. 13, 2009 fudhate kana milkaa’uu fi hanqatuun isaa isiniifis dhimma keessan tahu yaadachiifna. Kanaaf itti dhiheennaan akka hordoftanii fi milkeessuufis bira dhaabbattan gaafanna.

5. Amma illee taanaan guyyaan ayyaana WBO kan Ammajii 01, 2010 guyyaa itti bahaan tarkaanfii nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa waliigalaa WBO ZK yaame kun dhugoomuu fi hanqatuu isaa itti gabaafamu waan taheef, gartuulee ABOs, miseensonni, deegartootaa fi ummati Oromoo sanaa asiitti hamtuu oolchuuf waan irraa eegamu cufa akka tolchitan irraa deebine dhaamanna.

6. Nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaan WBO ZK dhaaba isaa ABO, qabsaawota waliigalaa fi Oromoo akka sabaatti dhiheesseef kun sababoota seenaan hin fudhatamne gara garaan kan hanqatuu fi didamu yo tahe, WBO ZK iyannaa fi himannaa isaa yeroo beellameen achiitti gara ummata Oromootti, aadaa sirna Gadaatti fi Waldaa Machaa fi Tuulamaatti kan dhiheeffatu tahu ammumaan hundaatti dabarfanna.

Injifannoo Ummata Oromoof!



WBO ZK ABO

Sadaasa 29, 2009.



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IBSA WBO ZK

Jibbaata qaama ‘Bu’ureessitootaa fi Buuleyyii ABO’ abbooma araaraaf qabanne turree beeksifna.



Nuti Waraannii Bilisummaa Oromoo (WBO ZK ABO), gaafa Onkololeessa 13, 2009 tarkaanfii deegarsa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa moonaa dhaaba teenna ABO, QBO fi ummata Oromoo keessatti akka bu’uuf fudhachuu labsanne turre, “Tarkaanfii deegarsa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa moonaa ABO, QBO fi ummata Oromoo” jennee moggaasuun ni yaadatama.

Ergaa falli takkichi ABO, QBO fi ummata Oromoo baasuu fi daandiin furmaataa takkittiin hafte nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa tahu bal’inaan xiinxala, gamaaggamaa fi daawwannaa haalaa irraa hubannee, ejjennoo itti fudhachuu murteeffatu ibsanne turre. Humni waraanaa dhaabaa kun, kanneen haga ammaatti falli rakkoo dhaaba ABO, QBO fi waliigaltee Saba keennaa hubeef akeeka akka qabaatu addeessine akkanaatti daawwatan fi hawwi fakkaataa qabaatani nuun duraatti argaman soquutti kaane.

Maqaa guurmuu ABO fafaca’e araarsuuf akka qaamaatti waliitti dhufuun, ijaaramu labsatani kan haga yeroosiitti dhagahame, miseensota ABO fi maanguddoota dhaabaa akkasuma Oromoo kan ta’an warra ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii ABO’ jechuu dhaan utubamee, yaalii gartuulee ABO sadeen waliitti fiduuf hujiitti bobbaa’uun medialee iraa dhagahame ture irraatti waliif galle.

Ibsi qaama kanarraa walakkeessa Muddee 2008, teessuma isaa jalqabaa Washington DC, USAtti geeggeffatuu beeksisani turan, kan koppiin barruu ibsa sanaa gaafasuma dirree qabsoo dhaqqabee ture. Utubamu qaama araraa kanaa fi akeekni isaas haasawa karaa bakka bu’oota qaamichaa mediyaalee adduunyaa gugurdoo garii irratti yeroo sana dabres gurra miseensota waraana keenna bu’e ture.

Haalota akkanaatin WBO ZKf qaama ‘bu’uureessitootaa fi buuleyyii ABO’ kana ka’umsa taasifachuutti dabalee, hawwii akka zoonii WBOtti dhugoomsuuf ijibaata godhuu muranne kan nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa, akka yaalii haga yeroo tarkaanfiin jedhame kun fudhatamu sanaatti qaama maanguddumaa rakkina moonaa ABO, QBO fi Oromoo kanaaf of gad baase kana deegaruuf tarkaanfiin hadhooftuun WBO ZKn onkololessa 13, 2009 labsame sun fudhatame ture.

“Tarkaanfi deegarsa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa…………..” kan jenne moggaafanneefis, yaalii eebbifamaa fi kabajamaa jennee amannu kan qaamni maanguddoota teennaa kun eegalu labsatani turan sana tumsuu, waa’elchuufi, deegaruu, kalchuufi, milkeessuuf dhiibbaa barbaachisu godhuu dha ture akeekaa fi fardominni tarkaanfi Onkololeessaa sun.

Yaalii bu’ureessotootaa fi gameeyyii kana laalchisee, haalotni murtii akkanaa irraa gahu WBO ZK dirqisiise keessaa, hubannaan fardii tokko qofa ammaaf ibsanna.

Kunis, haala murnooti ABO sadeen araarsuuf qaamni kun Oromummaa fi miseensummaan of utube itti dhihaate jiru, kaan yeroo waltajjii karaa sanaan dhihaatuun himame didu, gariin ammoo maanguddummaa jedhme maqumaaf fudhatu ibsataa, haala dureelee adda addaa kaa’uun, araaraa jedhame laalchise akka ofiif itti barbaadan qofaatti deemuu filatuu, bakkaa fi yeroo beellama waliitti dhufeennaaf gaafataman takkaan harkisuu ykn hanqisuu akkasuma dabre ammoo qabbaneeffamuufaan suuta-suutaan araarrii deemee dhumarratti akka danqamu malufaa yaaddoon bira geenne turre.

Duuba nuti, hiree takkicha nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa tana hanqachuu dhowwuuf, yaalii maanguddootaa furmaataaf taati jennee amanne sana milkeessuuf gumaachuuf jecha, tarkaanfiin WBO ZK tun, bifa gartuulee ABO jiran sadan dhiibbaa irratti godhuutiin, akkasuma miseensotaa fi ummata Oromoo karaa waraana isaa akka mararfatani fala dhihaate kana waliin dhugoomsuuf waliin dhaabbannuuf ejjennoon waraana zoonicha sun barbaachise ture.

Haga danda’amuutti ammoo akeeka falli biraan hin baafne jennee amannu kana milkeessuuf gumaachuuf Humni WBO ZK kun akka dhaabaa fi qabsoo laalchisee nuufis rakkinoota hunda waliin keessa seenne kanneeni fi furmaatni hiree akkanaan argamu malu/argmu qabus, nufis dhimmaa keenna jechuu dhaan, armaa achi ammoo qaama furmaataa tahuutti gumaachuu akka qabnu, kanaaf ammoo dhiibbaa malu hundarratti wal fakkeennaan godhuu dhaan dhaabaa fi Oromoo wahiitti baasuuf akkaanaan hirmaannaa jennee kan itti seenne turre tahu ammaas hubannaaf akkasuma seenaaf jecha kunoo irraa deebibee uf-ibsina.

Asirratti garuu, hiree tanaan Oromtichaa fi Oromtittii cufa wanni yaadachiifnu malee bira dabaruu hin dandeenne fardiin tokkoottu jira.

Innis, WBO ZK tarkaanfii nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa moonaa ABO, QBO fi Ummata Oromoof Onkol. 13, 2009 fudhate kanaa wareegama seenaa keessatti miseensummaa ABO fi Oromummaan yoomi illee laakka’achuu itti fufnu baasu keenna. Kun ammoo wareegama balaa bifootaa fi sadarkaa adda addaa ulfaatoo tahan kan haga dhiiga ilmaan Oromoo zoonii waraanaa kana keessatti dhangalaasuufaa dhaqqabe, kan wal dhabbii fi dabre ammoo addaan babbahinsi dhaaba ABO keessatti deddeebi’ee wal duraa duubaan baroota dhufaa dabraa akka dirreetti nu mudatuu isaa seenaan galmeessee dabreetti kan ida’amuu dha.



Ar’aas tarkaanfii kanaan eegaa, balaa beelaa/qoonqoo, dheebuu, daaraa, tajaajila fayyaa dhabuu, tarii hiree hundaan itti duulamufaa, kophxeeffamuu fi dabre ammoo diina tarsimoon addaatti aggaamatamu, biyyoiota ollaa fi adduunyaa illeen haala iggitii hin qabne kana keessatti miidhamufaa hireen akka nu muddu qalbii fi onnee Oromoo keessatti akka galmama’u dabarfanna. Walumaa gala dirmannaas tahe, iggiti bifa kamiituu dhabuufaan (akkuma ammaa iyyuu miidhamne hin dandamatin), akka miidhamu dandeennu osuma beeknu, ABO, QBO fi saba keenna Oromoo dandamachiisuuf jecha, nu dhalootii Oromoo goleelee Oromiyaa hunda keessaa Oromummaaf owwaannee ABO jalaatti waraana taane asiitti waliin haga yoonaatti hedduun nu mudate argamne, ammaas jaallummaa isii kaleessaa sanaan, wal qabanne waliin hamtuu fi toltu dhufu hunda waliin eegachaa jirraachuu keenna hunda yaadachiifna.

Dhiiga, lafee fi lubbuu jaallan keennaa hedduu irraa tarkaanfanne nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa yaamuu keenna hunda ammoo akka dhaadannoo jannoomaatti ol kaafne Oromoo dhageessisuu barbaanna.

Haa tahu malee, maanguddootni araaraa fi tokkummaa ABO isaanumti yaaman, labsani fi sanumaaf utubamuu miseensota ABO akkasuma Oromoo beeksisani turan kun haga ammaatti deegarsaa fi wareegama WBO ZKf akkasuma hiree nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaaf laanneef owwaachuu hanqatu isaani Oromoo beeksifna. WBO ZK Oromummaa, jaallummaa, miseensummaan fi wareegamaan qaama kanaa fi akeeka irratti of labsan kana (nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa moonaa ABO) deegaruu, tumsuufi, kalchuufi fi akka dhugoomuuf, araaraaf ejjennoo fudhachuun owwaannee, hoggana, dhaaba, miseensota, deegartoota ABO fi sabuma keenna araarsu akkasuma tokkoomsuuf akkanaan fudhanne irratti nu jalaa diduu ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii’ kanaa guddoo kan itti gaddinee fi taajjabne tahu hunda hubachiifanna!

WBO ZK ibsa, ejjennoo fi yaamichaa gaafa Onko. 13, 2009 baaseen akkuma jiruutti dubbii egeree ABO, QBO fi Oromoo, qaama ‘bu’ureessitoota fi gameeyyii’ kanaatti kennate ture. Tartibaa fi akkaataa nagaa fi araarrii ABO fi QBO keessattis bu’uuf qaama nagaa kanaan ibsa isaanii jalqabaa sanaan dhihaates akkuma jiruutti fudhachuuf illee ibsanne turre.

Kanuma waliin yeroof, haga nagaa fi araarri hawwame kun bu’utti, dhimmota waraanaa fi zoonii dhaabaa tana laalan bebbeekamoo gara garaafis akkasuma qaama maanguddootaa kanaatti of-kenne turre. Kana jechuun fakkeenanaf, nagayummaa fi egeree waraanaa fi zoonii WBO kana hagasiifuu, gaaddisa jaarrummaa qaama ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii’ abbooma dubbiif qabanne kanaatti dabarsine laannee jechufaa laala.

Akeeka nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa kana irrattis akka waraana dhaabaa tokkootti,akkasuma akka zoonii WBOtti, akka humna ABO fi miseensota dhaabaa tanaatti, akkasuma akka gurmuu ilmaan Saba Oromoo tokkootti, akka yaada akkaataa araaraa kanarratti illee qabnu achumaan qaama ‘bu’ureessitootaa’ kanaaf eeruun keenna hin hanqanne. WBO ZK kanuma cufaafuu qaami ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyiin’ kun deebisaa nuuf laatuu qofa sooo hin taane, qaamaanu akka nutti dhufuun fardii itti tahe yaamicha gaafas labsamerratti addeeffame jira. Ammajiin 01, 2010 ammoo beellama dhumaa yaamichi nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa nus itti dabalanne kun fi, akkanaan haga tokko yaaliin karaa qaama ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii’ akka hameessa rimayaatti Oromoon eegattu kun takkaan milkaa’u fi/ykn ammoo hanqatu isaa Oromoof gabaafamu beellamanne ture. Qaamni kabajamaan araaraa nuti abboomaa dubbii fi iggitiif qabanne kun kanuma cufarraan nurraa, akkasuma Oromoo irraa hafu isaa ibsanna.

Amma yeroo gara baatii tokkoo fi wadhakkaan duubaatti kunoo maanguddoota qaama araaraaf of-labsuun dhagahame irraa osoo humaa hin dhagahin ar’a geenne. WBO ZK, haala moonaa ABO, QBO fi Oromoo hujii godhate haga danda’amuufiitti hordofaa waan jiruuf, ololootaa fi odeessii karaa sirnaan hin mirkanoofne gara garaa nu gahan, haga dhumaatti qaamni araaraa kun kan nurraa hafuuf jiru tahu waan yaaddofneef, ibsa gaafa Onkol. 13, 2009 hundaaf labsame kanaatti darree, xalayoota itti fufa yaamichaa, yaadachiisa abbooma dubbii tanaa fi of-qabaabsisuu marroo lama xalayoota (Lakk: 0004/xal-wbozk-abo/2009, Lakk: 0006/xal-wbozk-abo/2009)n, suduudaan karaa Idd Buutuu qaama kanaa teessoo e-mail isaaniin itti ergine turre.

Xalayoota kanneen keessaatti akeeka, akkaataa, barbaachisummaa tarkaanfii WBO ZK fi maaliif akka abboomaaf qaama isaani qabanne akkasuma yaalii isaanii deegarre fi kkf bal’inaan akka kanaa oliitti barruu lameeniinu yaadachifne turre.

Sanuma waliin danqaalee/balaa akka dirree fi humna waraanaa qabsoo bilisummaa tokkootti haala akkanaa keessatti nu gaadaa jiru bal’inumaan yaadachiisuu itti fufne turre.

Irra keennee, gartuuleen ABO sadeenu wal duraa duubaan tarkaanfii deegarsa nagaa fi araaraa WBO ZK fudhate kana laalchisee ibsa deegarsa jaarmayaa isaanii baasuu eegalan itti dhaamne. Kun hujii isaan itti utubamani turanu kan jabeessu, shaffisuu fi dhiibbaan akeekkanne ammoo haga tokko firii mul’isuu isaa akka hubbatan jenne.

Gartuulee ABO sadani fi tarkaanfii deegarsa nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa qaama maanquddummaa kana tumsuuf dhihaate jidduu ammoo akka nuti suduudaan gaartuulee ABO jiran kanan waliitti haasawuu itti hin fufneef, abbooma dubbiif qabanne jiraatuutti kan of-hubannu isaan (qaama bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii) kana akka tahanis qaabsifne. Eegaa qaama jaarrummaa kana dhaburraa kanaafu akka itti gartuulee ABO sadaniitti callifnu ykn itti fufne ibsoota baasan irratti gartuu kamuunuu waliin waa jennuutti dhibaa’uu keenna beeksifne, qaamni araaraa ulfataan kun ariitiin haga gaafa 15/11/2009tti beellama maayyii qabneefi barruun itti dhaamannee turrus achumaan dhabne hafne.

Duuba, akka humna WBO ZK fi jaallan heddu tarkaanfii kana deegaraniitti ammaa illee sababoota seenaan waliitti hidhatu hedduuf jecha, akkasuma armaa achiitti yeroon kan nagaa, araaraa fi tokkummaa waan jenne labsinee, nuti ammaa illee miseensota jaallan fi manguddoota qaama ‘bu’ureessitootaa f buuleyyii’ kanaaf akka nam-tokkeelee isaaniitti kabajaan qabnu ulfaataa dha.

Osuma isaan lubbuun jiranu haalli ABO fi QBO sadarkaa kana dhufuu mudatuu isaa akkuma jaallan hafne hundaa kan qeeqnu tahuu illee, yaaliin dhumarratti araaraaf eegalan mataan isaatu, kan milkaa’u fi milkaa’u dhiisuus, qaamaa fi namoota qaamicha keessatti miseensummaa qabaniif kan kabajaa ida’u jenna. Haa tahu malee durii abbootiin teena ‘barcumaa ulfinaa abbaatti of jalaan deemmata’ jechuu illee yaadachiifna.

Nuti gabaabumaatti haala kanaan amma kan jennu; qaamni araaraaf ofumaan dhihaate kun, maanguddootaa fi jaallan ulfaatoon keenna kun, ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi gameeyyiin’ ABO kun, harkii caalaan qaama hoogganaa garii sadarkaa olaanaa turan fi jaallan umriin illee hedduu keenanaf abbaa fi haadhaa illee tahuutti ilaallu kukkun, hujii seeraan, seenaa fi aadaa illeen eebbifamaa eegalan, kan wareegamaan deegarre bakka dhowwani akka jiran guduunfine. Akka qaama isaaniittis tahe akkuma jaallaniitti illee ykn akkuma ilmaan Oromootti illee “galata dhaabaa” illee nuuf hin deebifne! “Tarkaanfiin teessan fala caalaa falfalaa, lakkisaaf nuuf hin taane” illeen silaa deebisuma ture.



Waan isaan dhibe nutti dhaamuun silaa wal nu hin dhabsiisu. Yoma hin taanee fi hin barbaachisu jedhani illee akka qaama araara harkaa qabu tokkoottu, “tarkaanfii tana kaasaa” nuun jechuufaatti irra Oromoof karaadha. Calleessii akkasii keessafuu qaama namoota qabnu ulfaatoo akkasii irraa hin midhaagne. Nus Oromoo dha, miseensota ABO ti, akkasuma cinaacha seenaa qabsoo tanaa tahu waliin, dubbii akka nagaa fi araaraa sadarkaa ABO, QBO fi tokkummaa Oromoo akkasi irratti hagas cufa wal sablisuu akkanaa keessattu isaan irraa hin eegne turre. Seeraa fi seenaa akkasuma aadaa dhalootaan waliitti qabnu nutti waakkatuu kana nutti yoomi illee gaddaa fi golgolaan olaanan qaabanna jennaan.

Abbooma dubbii qaama kanaatti kennatuu Onko. 13, 2009 labsa baafne turre suniin qola nu taasisuun, gaaddisuma silaa aadaan illee waliin qabnuun, aada-maleen nu darbatuu qaama araaraa (bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii ABO) kanuma waliin hubachiifanna. Haa tahu malee aada-maleen aadaa nuuf hin taatuu jenna.

Waan taheef, gama keennaan akka WBO ZK ABOtti jibbaata qaama araaraa kan ‘bu’ureessitootaa fi buuleyyii’ kana Oromummaan hunda beeksifna. Sadarkaa WBO ZKtti ar’aan achi gaaddisni achiin eegannu akka hin jirree labsanna.

Jecha qaama araaraa kana laalchise afaaniitti nu hafe ammoo aadaa dhalootaan waliin qabnu ykn waliif qabaachuu qabnu, kan bifa jaarmayaas yo hafeef seera namoomaa fi seenaaf ol keeyyachuu keenna Isaanii fi Oromootti dhaamanna.

Injifannoo Ummata Oromoof!



WBO ZK ABO

Sadaasaa 29, 2009



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Remembering the 2005 Peaceful Revolt Against Subjugation in Oromia

By Daandii Qajeelaa




This week Oromo nationalists in Oromia and around the globe commemorate the popular student uprising known as the Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa (meaning the “Revolt Against Subjugation”) that suddenly broke out on November 09, 2005 following the failed 2005 Ethiopian election in which the Oromo was denied any meaningful representation. The popular revolt started on November 09, 2005 following a call by the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) to Oromo students and the entire Oromo people to peacefully oppose the government and bring to the forefront the demands of democracy, justice, and most importantly, the realization of the right of the Oromo people to self-determination. Below are the chronology of the events related to the 2005 “Revolt Against Subjugation” that began with brutal killings of unarmed students in Ambo High School, Western Shoa zone, Ambo town.







Two of the students shot dead in Ambo on 9 November 2005 (Photo from OSG Report No. 42)



1. November 09, 2005: Students of Ambo High School staged a peaceful demonstration. At least five students were reported killed(1), including students Jagama Badhane and Kabbada Badhassa, and a younger female student, and the police killed at least two more(2) at a protest rally in response to Jagama’s death (The Reporter, 13 November, 2005). The Sunday Times (November 10) reported 17 others were wounded. The Reporter also reported demonstrations, school closures and loss of lives in Ambo, Wollega, Adama (Nazareth), Woliso, Guder, Gedo and Haromaya; the funeral of Jagama was attended by 50,000 people, which was also a sign of protest against the regime. The same day, students of Jimma zone, Qarsaa district (woreda), Qarsaa Tolii Elementary School reportedly staged a peaceful demonstration in which they marched on the streets of the town in large numbers denouncing the regime, and openly and loudly demanding their support for the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) to come and take over the governance of Oromia.



2. November 10, 2005: In response to the OLF’s call for revolt and outraged by the killings at Ambo High School, students of Biiftuu Ghmbi High School, Western Wollega zone staged a peaceful demonstration. The school was surrounded by the police force of the regime and several students were taken to jail. The same day students of several high schools, such as Xuqur Hincinnii, Gedo, Bako, Jajjii, Nekemte (Eastern Wollega), Shambu (Eastern Wollega), Kofale (Arsi), Shashamanne (Eastern Shoa) and many others, staged demonstration. Hundreds of students were beaten and arrested.



3. November 11, 2005: The student protests continued(3) in Jimma, Ambo (3rd day), Shashemenie, Haromaya (3rd day), Aweday, Ciroo, Dembidollo, Ghimbi (2nd day), Asela, Diredawa, Galamso, Badesa, Awaday, Bako, Warra Jarso, Innango (West Wollega) and Mojo. The entire public had joined the protests, especially in Haromaya, Awaday, and Ciroo. About 100 were rounded up by the police in Ciroo. Civilians in Mojo prevented the police from taking several students to prison.



4. November 15, 2005: The student protests continued(4) all over Oromia. Some of the protests that had been been reported to be staged between November 12 – 15, 2005 include: Bishooftuu, Haroomaya University, Machaaraa, Miicataa, Harooreysaa, Miliqaayee, Gaadullaan, Nekemte, and Gidda Kiramu. By November 15, all schools of Western Shoa zone had been reported closed by the authorities of the regime.



5. November 16, 2005: Four students were killed when peaceful protesters were fired upon in Qore (Arsi zone). Local residents reacted with more protests, and another six were shot dead (OSG Report No. 42).



6. November 17, 2005: In response to the Qore killings of November 16 (above), students in Kofale (Arsi zone), Negelle, and Kuraya staged large demonstrations. The same day 5,000 Oromo students at universities in Gonder, Bahar Dar amd Mekele were beginning hunger strike in protest against the killings of Oromo students and the harassment of Gonder students under the pretext of investigating the burning of houses there (OSG Report No. 42).



7. November 18, 2005: Student protests continued in Hirna (Hararge) for a week, with nine more students and other residents, including a mentally-disabled person, being thrown into the detention camp there. Many of those detained had been injured by beatings. The same day, farmers around Hirna refused to attend a government meeting, and students and residents of Ciroo blocked roads to the town on another continued protest (OSG Report No. 42).



8. November 19, 2005: Student demonstrations continued in Gindhiir (Bale zone). At around 8:30pm, the police shot a young boy. This had caused much tension in this and neighboring towns. As a result, a nearby town, Dalloo Sabroo remained under siege by heavily-armed government forces for several days. Residents were harassed, and their movements within the town were heavily restricted. The same day, it was reported that all schools in and around Kofalee (Arsii zone) remained closed since the uprising was ignited in early November. Extensive campaign of arrests had been unleashed in both the town of Kofalee and its surroundings. Eyewitnesses had reported that people were jammed into small cells and tortured daily.



9. November 20, 2005: Discomforted by the continued uprising of the Oromo people in Harargee zone, Mr. Minaase W. Georgis, the then President of Oromia, arrived at the city of Sakina, in Daroolabu district (Harargee). When the news of his arrival was leaked, Oromo people quickly gathered in the thousands and staged a demonstration, chanting and demanding implementation of Article 39 of the Ethiopian Constitution and an immediate release of members of Macha and Tulama Self-Help Organization, and voicing their support for the OLF, and rejecting Minaase W. Giorgis as President of Oromia. Minaase immediately turned around and left the area without meeting anyone. Embarrassed by this development, the local OPDO’s later embarked on indiscriminately harassing the residents. Their attempt to murder a resident named Diitaa Ahmad Muummee failed, but Diitaa was wounded slightly by a bullet shot by an OPDO envoy. It was reported that the OPDO had demanded that Diitaa pay for the lost bullet, reminiscent of the Derg regime (OSG Report No. 42).



10. November 21, 2005: Students of Roobee Teachers’ Training College and surrounding schools (Bale zone) staged a demonstration. The same day, Oromo people residing along the main road leading from Roobee to Finifnee (Addis Ababa) expressed their protest by blocking the main highway using boulders and rocks. In retaliation, the police was ordered to arrest anyone seen outdoor after 9:00pm. The police had been conducting 24-hour surveillance around residences of individuals suspected of sympathizing with the OLF (OSG Report No. 42).



11. November 22, 2005: Oromos residing along the main road linking Finifinee and Western Oromia closed the artery highway at a place called Asgorii (Western Wollega). Demonstrators gathered at the blockage and chanted slogans denouncing the Meles regime. The Ethiopian police was dispatched to the area to disperse the demonstrators who courageously resisted the police for several hours.



12. November 23, 2005: Students of Daaloo Elementary School (Hararge) protested on the street burning the OPDO flag and waving the OLF flag.



13. November 24, 2005: The residents of Shambuu (Eastern Wollega zone) protested by closing the main road leading to Baakkoo, thereby cutting the main line to and from the city (OSG Report No. 42).



14. November 25, 2005: Oromo students at the Jimma Teachers’ College(5) staged a peaceful demonstration. The Federal police attacked and injured several students while arresting 24 others. The same day, students of Galamso intensified the protest which they already began on November 11 (Oromia Times – November 30, 2005).



15. November 29, 2005: Oromo students in Jaldu district of Western Shawaa zone(6) staged a peaceful demonstration. As usual, the Ethiopian police attacked the protesters killing 2 students, Habtaamuu Bayyataa and Fiqaaduu, on the spot, critically injuring two more (one named Nurressaa Katamaa Xaafaa), and also wounding several others. One policeman had been reported hurt during this demonstration. There had been extensive campaign of arrests in this district in both the city and the countryside. All schools in Jalduu remain closed since the uprising began. At the same time, similar protests continued in neighboring districts of Geedoo and Haratoo (OLF – December 05, 2005).



16. December 7, 2005: Classes at Jimma University had been stopped starting from December 7, 2005 because of clashes between Oromo and Tigrean students, leading to several arrests (The Reporter – December 11, 2005).



17. December 8, 2005: Students of Mendi district (Woreda) staged a massive demonstration which lasted all day during which 12 high school students were injured in clashes with the police (The Reporter – December 11, 2005).



18. December 13, 2005: Oromo students of Ziway, Eastern Shoa zone, demonstrated(7) against the regime. The students later clashed with the police; two students and one police were severely wounded. Five other students have been abducted by the regime’s forces (Seife Nebelbal – December 16, 2005).



19. December 18, 2005: The Reporter wrote that students at Jimma University were refusing to resume classes because the police and the army were still on campus.



20. December 21, 2005: The private weekly Tikusat(8) reported that six students died and six others were injured and sent to hospital when students blocked a road in Mendi [Kiltu Kara] to help prisoners, heading to an unknown destination, escape. Members of the military forces that were driving behind the truck which carried the prisoners opened fire and killed six students. The newspaper also reported the arrests of several Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement members in Nejo, Wollega.



21. December 26, 2005: Hundreds of people from the towns of Mendi and Gimbi, Wallega, were rounded up and taken to the Senkele Police Training Center in Ambo. Special forces surrounded the towns after the residents started holding protest rallies demanding the removal of Meles Zenawi and Juneidi Sado (Ethiopian Review – December 26, 2005).



22. December 27, 2005: Dagim Wenchif(9) reported two killings in student demonstrations in Boji Chekorsa, Wollega, and the arrests of several elders and youth in Gimbi. The youth were taken to the Didhessa concentration camp.



23. December 28, 2005: Tomar(10), a private weekly newspaper, reported the arrest of four businessmen in Dembi Dollo, Wollega, Yonas Gelan, Fekade Shibeshi, Kassahun Kitla and Belay Yadeta, and that those who were arrested from Dembi Dollo, Anfilo, Mughi and Gimbi were detained at the Senkele police training camp. The same day, parliamentarians representing the Oromo people petitioned the House Speaker to discuss mass arrests in the State of Oromia, the paper reported.



24. December 30, 2005: VOA(11) reported the closure of three high schools in Nekemte, Wollega, following student arrests and the killings of four students in Wollega that week. The police admitted over 300 arrests to VOA.



25. January 20, 2006: All schools in the following towns had been reported closed due to the continued student protests and extended popular uprisings: Ambo, Tikur-Incini, Dembi Dollo, Gimbi, Qoree, Biyo Karaba, Asasa, Kofale, Gedo, Bako, Sarbo, Shashamane, Nekemte, Lalo Asabi, Jimma, Machara, Finca’a, Kombolcha, Xullo, Dhangago, Ciro, Oliqa Dingilu, Qelam, Haro Maya, Doba, Ginir, Habro, Matufi Darimu, Dire Dawa, Galamso, Badesa, Asabot, Bedeno, Mi’esso, Bordode, Mandi, Daro Labu, Gadulo, Gololcha, Calanqo, Awaday, Bate, Kara-Mile, Harar, Qobbo, Langey, Masala, Awash, Didhessa, Guttin, Haro Sabu and Gibe (OSG Report No. 42).



The above selectively reported incidents are few of the widespread popular unrest in the entire Oromia – East, West, South and North – that was ignited on November 09, 2005 and had continued for nearly two years. Tens of thousands of students, farmers, teachers, businessmen, and all sectors of the society have been jailed, tortured, disappeared, and killed in broad daylight and in prison cells. While the international media generally ignored this long-lived and massive popular unrest, and unimaginable human rights abuse and loss of life, some humanitarian organizations, such as the Amnesty International, the Human Rights Watch, the Oromia Support Group, have shaded light to a small part of the uprisings, massive unrest, and brutal killings. On January 30, 2006, the Amnesty International in its issue (AI Index: AFR 25/002/2006) reported:



“… The 11 students named above are among several thousand school and college students from the Oromo ethnic group who have been detained in a series of anti-government demonstrations in different parts of the Oromia Region, in the capital, Addis Ababa, and in other towns. All those named above are detained incommunicado at a number of different locations, and are at risk of torture or ill-treatment. The arrests have taken place during a wave of student demonstrations which began on 9 November 2005. The demonstrations are still taking place in some areas. Most of those taking part were secondary school students, some of them children under 18 years old, but teachers, farmers, businesspeople and others have also been detained in connection with the demonstrations. Most demonstrations reportedly began peacefully but some police and demonstrators were injured, property was damaged and explosions were reported in some places. The demonstrations are said to have taken place after a call by the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), an armed opposition group, for demonstrations against the government. Demonstrators called, among other political demands, for the release of Oromo political prisoners, including officials of the Mecha Tulema Association, a long-established Oromo welfare association.” (emphasis mine)



The total number of those killed in cold-blood during and after the student demonstrations in Oromia remains unknown, or is simply under-reported, but it is believed to be several hundreds. The International Oromo Youth Association (IOYA)(12) reported on December 10, 2006 that “… in the years 2005-2006 alone, more than 500 students were killed by government’s security forces of which the record is available and widely reported by different media and human rights groups …” On February 15, 2006 (about 3 months after the protests first broke out), the OLF reported in a press release:



“… Since the last press briefing many school children, university students, the young and elderly have been killed, and disappeared while tens of thousands have been imprisoned where they routinely faced torture. According to reliable reports, more than 105 have been killed in different parts of Oromia while 232 have disappeared without trace. The recent cold-blood massacre of 22 innocent people in Guduru is a graphic example of the facts on the ground. Prisoners are being picked from detention centers during the night never to return either to their prison cells or to their relatives.” (emphasis mine)



The protests and peaceful demonstrations Oromo students are manifestations of the anger and frustration of the Oromo people against the current brutal regime in Ethiopia. It also shows that the Oromo people are still under a “hidden” and new form of subjugation. The current regime in power may think it has extinguished the popular fire (uprising) that was ignited in the entire Oromia by force. But, the student movements are reflections of the overall struggle of the Oromo people for democracy, justice and freedom. It will only stop when ALL the oppressors (those who are in power and those who intend to replace them) step down from power, and when the Oromo people freely determine their fate.



It is to be noted that the above report is focused only on the protests in Oromia, which broke out on November 09, 2005 and had continued on-and-off in the entire region for nearly two years. The time these protests started also coincides with the widely reported protest in Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) and several major cities organized by the then CUD (Coalition for Unity and Democracy) in which some 200 people have been brutally murdered and tens of thousands jailed. The massive popular unrest in Oromia and in the entire Ethiopia against the current brutal regime may now look subdued for several reasons, but it is actually a ticking bomb that can explode at any moment just as it exploded suddenly on November 09, 2005 following a call from OLF and the post-election protests called by the CUD. And when it does, it has the potential to put the entire Horn of African region in turmoil and political unrest.



References:

1. Oromia Support Group (OSG No. 42), Press Release No. 42, 2005 – 2006, Malvern, the UK.

2. The Reporter, November 13, 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

3. OSG No. 42

4. The World Prout Assembly, Kolkata, India. http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2005/12/oromo_tplf_anot.html

5. Oromia Times, November 30, 2005. http://oromiatimes.blogspot.com/2005/12/barattooti-oromoo-24-kollejjii.html

6. OLF Press Release, “Popular Oromo protests in 25th Day”, December 05, 2005.

7. Seife Nebelbal, December 16, 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

8. Tikusat, December 18, 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

9. Dagim Woncif, December 27, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

10. Tomar, December 28, 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

11. Radio Voice of America, Afan Oromo Service, Washington, D.C.

12. IOYA Press Release – Novemeber 10, 2006

Ethiopia: Land of silence and starvation

 A famine is growing across Ethiopia, but the government is clamping down on information - even ejecting aid agencies that could help bring aid for fear of provoking unrest and losing their grip on power

Geoffrey York

MEKI, ETHIOPIA — From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Nov. 06, 2009 6:11PM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009

On market day in the dusty town of Meki, the few cobs of corn sold by the hawkers are scrawny, pale, scabby and pockmarked. Yet the price of this meagre food has doubled since last year – because so many farmers have seen their corn harvests fail.

“We are between life and death,” says 50-year-old farmer Geda Shenu, who was forced to buy corn at Meki market after most of his crops failed in this year’s drought. He shows the empty weed-filled fields where he planted corn and beans, crops that never grew when the rains never came.

To survive, he is selling one of his two oxen and giving his family just two sparse meals a day. He and his neighbours have marched down to the local government office to sign a petition pleading for government help. “If we don’t get any aid, we will die,” he says. “How can we feed our children?”

It’s a story the Ethiopian government does not want told.

On the 25th anniversary of the famine that killed nearly a million Ethiopians in 1984, any talk of drought and hunger is still a highly sensitive issue in this impoverished country, subject to draconian controls by the government. Two regimes were toppled in the 1970s and 1990s because of discontent over famines, and the current regime is determined to avoid their fate.

Aid agencies that dare to speak out publicly, or even to allow a photo of a malnourished child at a feeding centre, can be punished or expelled from the country. Visas or work permits are often denied, projects can be delayed, and import approvals for vital equipment can be buried. Most relief agencies are prohibited from allowing visits by journalists or foreigners, except under strict government control.

After a disastrous series of crop failures, the number of Ethiopians needing emergency aid has jumped from 4.9 million to 6.2 million in the past 10 months. Yet most journalists are barred from travelling to the countryside to document the drought. Relief workers avoid any public comments about the rising malnutrition, and none will talk candidly to journalists except on condition of anonymity.

Another restriction is even more damaging: Foreign agencies are not permitted to do their own independent assessments of malnutrition this year. Instead, they must be accompanied by government officials in joint teams that are difficult and time-consuming to negotiate, delaying the response to regional emergencies.

Aid agencies have known since July that at least seven million people will need emergency aid in Ethiopia this year, based on detailed assessments across the country. But the government delayed the release of these figures, continuing to insist publicly that only 5.3 million people needed help.

Finally, after months of mystifying delays, the government announced in late October that 6.2 million people needed emergency aid – still below the true figure, and too late to trigger a large-scale fundraising effort this year. Another estimate is due to be released in mid-November, unless it too is delayed.

Why such heavy-handed controls from a government that is seen as a U.S. ally in the Horn of Africa, a country that is still viewed sympathetically by most of the world? One reason is the election scheduled for May. The long-ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, is keeping a tight grip on the vote. The last election, in 2005, was widely criticized for vote-rigging and fraud, and about 200 people were killed after the election when police fired on opposition protesters.

Since then, the government has strengthened its control of the country. Maoist-style neighbourhood committees watch over all activity in the villages, with informants appointed for every five families in some areas. Local elections in 2008 were so carefully managed that the opposition ended up with only a tiny handful of the three million seats.

But nobody expects the controls to disappear after the May election. The ruling party has always been sensitive about any questioning of its ability to feed the country. Its own rise to power in 1991 was largely a result of the famines of the 1980s. And it knows that the long reign of Emperor Haile Selassie was brought crashing down after the globally televised images of the 1974 famine.

Relief agencies say it is harder to make a global appeal for help for Ethiopia when the official estimates are politicized, minimized and delayed. By the time the 2009 appeal was released in late October, only two months were left in the year.

“This year’s fight is over,” said an aid worker at one of the biggest agencies. “The children who were at risk of death in the summer have died by now.”

In some of the hardest-hit regions, foreign relief agencies have extremely limited access. Their movements are tightly controlled, partly because of military operations against rebel groups in the Somali region. Several of the biggest international agencies were expelled from the region or withdrew under pressure in 2007 and 2008.

In another region, Tigray, aid agencies are heavily restricted, because Tigray is the traditional base of the ruling EPRDF. “It’s a black spot, because it’s supposed to be a model of success,” one aid worker says. “When people are starving, the information doesn’t get out.”

The government is widely suspected of using the foreign aid shipments to reward its supporters. Up to 20 per cent of the aid is “lost” before it reaches the neediest people, but the diverted sacks of food are often noticed at military barracks, according to one aid worker.

When Ethiopia is hit by cholera outbreaks, as often happens, the government prefers to call it acute watery diarrhea because it dislikes the bad publicity that cholera attracts. The latest cholera outbreak, which began in August, has sickened thousands of people, but the government called it AWD and minimized the numbers. When the true numbers finally surfaced in a United Nations document, the government was so furious that it suspended its co-operation meetings with the relief agencies for a month.

In fear of government punishment, many agencies fall into self-censorship. “There’s a whole layer of anxiety that we’re all operating under,” one veteran worker said. “The obsession with control has been even stronger than last year.”

Some Western diplomats argue that the government’s euphemisms and public evasions are unimportant because the accurate assessment data is known internally to the key agencies that supply emergency aid to Ethiopia. Compared with many other African countries, they say, Ethiopia is relatively efficient in distributing aid and is introducing good programs to expand health care and food delivery in rural regions.

But others say the government’s sensitivities and restrictions are hampering the world’s response to Ethiopia’s emergencies, delaying the flow of crucial aid for months.

“If you delay the life-saving response, lives don’t get saved,” one relief worker says. “People get weaker and less productive. And the response is a short-term band-aid. If you recognize a situation earlier, the response can reduce the chances of needing emergency aid in the future.”

Another aid worker is even more blunt. “The government is locked into a cycle of very significant denial,” he said. “It’s playing with millions of lives.”

Ethiopia has been hit by a series of crop failures and droughts since 2007, and the cumulative effect is taking a heavy toll. In addition to the 6.2 million who are officially deemed to need emergency aid, another 7 million are already getting food aid because they are chronically vulnerable to food shortages, meaning that Fully one-sixth of Ethiopia’s 80 million people are on food aid.

The global recession, meanwhile, is making it harder to raise funds from international donors. Canada has given $54-million to the Ethiopian relief effort this year, but the overall level of global donations is far below what is needed. As a result, the food rations for most Ethiopian recipients are barely half of the needed level.

But instead of redoubling its efforts to seek help, Ethiopia is tightening its controls as the 2010 election approaches. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi repeatedly denies that Ethiopia has a food crisis and accuses the “food aid industry” and the “lords of poverty” of deliberately inflating the number of Ethiopians who need aid.

Relief agencies give troubling accounts of how their work is becoming more difficult. One agency was forced to halt its food distribution for three months in one region because the government was unhappy with a local media article.

Another agency tried to offer help after a massive blaze destroyed 20 homes in an Addis Ababa shantytown this week. At first welcomed by firefighters, the agency was abruptly ordered to leave when security agents arrived on the scene. “Even for something that was so obviously a disaster, where we could have helped, there was suspicion and distance,” a worker said.

Most foreign journalists are prohibited from travelling outside Addis Ababa, the capital. The Globe and Mail twice applied for permission to visit rural regions, but both applications were rejected. In the end I had to travel without permission, at the risk of arrest if I was discovered.

When I asked a government official why I was barred from reporting in rural districts, he said too many journalists were too interested in the drought, which he said was entirely due to climate change and had nothing to do with the government.

The very few journalists who do obtain permission to visit a feeding centre are accompanied by a government “minder” at all times. Feeding-centre staff are sometimes interrogated by security agents after they talk to foreign journalists, making them fearful of saying anything.

The government maintains a “black list” of foreign correspondents who are deemed unfriendly to the regime, and some have been expelled, refused entry, or detained at the Addis Ababa airport when they arrive. Several Ethiopian journalists who work for foreign media have fled the country for fear of punishment.

The Ethiopian government, using technology from its new economic partners in China, has blocked many websites that criticize the government, including those of Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists. The same Chinese technology is allowing the authorities to monitor e-mails and cellphones, making relief agencies and journalists nervous about government eavesdropping on their conversations.

Back in the drought-stricken Meki region, a farmer named Gudeta Beriso points to a field of withered corn stalks, surrounded by empty fields. “In the old days, all of this was covered by corn,” he said.

“Now you don’t see anything. The fields are just rubbish. We haven’t had a good crop for two years. We are worried about the future. We are shouting for help.”

Commemorating November 09, 2005: The Day “Revolt against Subjugation” was lit in Oromia.

By Daandii Qajeelaa, November 11, 2009



This week Oromo nationalists in Oromia and around the globe commemorate the popular student uprising known as Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa (meaning “Revolt Against Subjugation”) that suddenly broke out on November 09, 2005 following the failed Ethiopian election of 2005 in which the Oromo was denied any meaningful representation. The popular revolt started on November 09, 2005 following a call by the OLF to Oromo students and entire Oromo people to peacefully oppose the government and bring to the forefront the demands of democracy, justice, and most importantly, the realization of the right of the Oromo people to self-determination. Below are the chronology of the events related to the 2005 “Revolt against Subjugation” that begun with a brutal killing of high school unarmed students in Ambo High School, Western Shoa zone, Ambo town.

1. November 09, 2005. Students of Ambo High school staged a peaceful demonstration. At least five students were reported killed, including students Jagama Badhane and Kabbada Badhassa and a younger female student and police killed at least two more when shooting in response to protests at Jagama’s death (Reporter, 13 November, 2005). The Sunday Times (November 10) reported 17 others were wounded. Reporter also reported demonstrations, school closures and loss of lives in Ambo, Wollega, Adama (Nazareth), Woliso, Guder, Gedo and Haromaya and that the funeral of Jagama was attended by 50,000 people, which was also a sign of protest against the regime. The same day, students of Jimma zone, Qarsaa district (woreda), and Qarsaa Tolii elementary school reportedly staged a peaceful demonstration in which they marched on the streets of the town in large numbers denouncing the regime and openly and loudly demanding their support for the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) to come and take over the governance of Oromia.



Jagama Badhane and Kabada Badhassa, two of the students shot dead in Ambo on 9 November 2005 (Photo from OSG report No. 42)



2. November 10, 2005. In response to the OLF’s call for revolt and outraged by the killings of Ambo high school, students of Biiftuu Ghmbi High School, Western Wollega zone staged a peaceful demonstration. The school was surrounded by the police force of the regime and several students were taken to jail. The same day students of several high schools of Western Shoa zone such as Xuqur Hincinnii, Gedo, Bako, Jajjii, Nekemte (Eastern Wollega), Shambu (Eastern Wollega), Kofale (Arsi), Shashamanne (Eastern Shoa), many other places staged demonstration. Hundreds of students beaten and arrested.

3. Nov. 11, 2005: Student protest continue in Jimma, Ambo (3rd day), Shashemenie, Haromaya (3rd day), Aweday, Ciroo, Dembidollo, Ghimbi (2nd day), Asela, Diredawa, Galamso, Badesa, Awaday, Bako, Warra Jarso, Innango (West Wollega) and Mojo. The entire public has joined the protests especially in Haromaya, Awaday, and Ciroo. About 100 were rounded up by police in Ciroo. Civilians in Mojo prevented police from taking several students to prison.

4. Nov 15, 2005: The student protests continue all over Oromia: Some of the protests that have been reported between November 12 – 15, 2005 are: Bishooftuu, Haroomaya University, Machaaraa, Miicataa, Harooreysaa, Miliqaayee, Gaadullaan, Nekemte, and Gidda Kiramu. By November 15, all schools of Western Shoa zone have been reported closed by the authorities of the regime.

5. Nov 16, 2005. Four students were killed when peaceful protestors were fired upon in Qore (Arsi zone). Local residents reacted with more protests and another six were shot dead (OSG report No. 42).

6. Nov 17, 2005. In response to the Qore killings of November 16 (above), students in Kofale (Arsi zone), Negelle, and Kuraya, staged large demonstrations. The same day 5000 Oromo students at universities in Gonder, Bahar Dar amd Mekele were beginning hunger strike in protest, against killings of Oromo students and the harassment of Gonder students under the pretext of investigating the burning of houses there (OSG report No. 42).

7. Nov. 18, 2005. Student protests continued in Hirna (Hararge), continued for that week, with nine more students and other residents, including a mentally disabled person, being added to those in the detention camp there. Many of those detained have been injured by beatings. The same day, farmers around Hirna refused to attend a government meeting and students and residents of Ciroo blocked roads to the town on another continued protest (OSG report No. 42).



8. Nov 19, 2005. Student demonstrations continued in Gindhiir (Bale zone). At around 8:30 pm, the police shot a young boy. This has caused much tension in this and neighboring towns. As a result, a nearby town, Dalloo Sabroo remained under siege by heavily armed government forces for several days. Residents are harassed and their movement within the town is heavily restricted. The same day it was reported that all schools in and around Kofalee (Arsii zone) remain closed since the uprising was ignited in early November. Extensive campaign of arrest has been unleashed in both the town of Kofalee and its surroundings. Eyewitnesses have reported that people are jammed into small cells and tortured daily.

9. Nov 20, 2005: Discomforted by the continued uprising of the Oromo people in Harargee zone Mr. Minaase W. Georgis, the then President of Oromia arrived at the city of Sakina, in Daroolabu district (Harargee). When the news of his arrival was leaked, Oromo people quickly gathered in the thousands and staged a demonstration, chanting and demanding implementation of article 39 of the Ethiopian constitution, demanding an immediate release of members of Macha and Tulama Self-help Organization, voicing their support for the OLF, and rejecting Minaase W. Giorgis as President of Oromia. Minaase immediately turned around and left the area without meeting anyone. Embarrassed by this development, the local OPDOs later embarked on indiscriminately harassing the residents. Their attempt to murder a resident named Diitaa Ahmad Muummee failed, but Diitaa was wounded slightly by a bullet shot by an OPDO envoy. It was reported that the OPDO has demanded that Diitaa pay for the lost bullet, reminiscent of the Derg regime (OSG report No. 42).

10. Nov 21, 2005. Students of Roobee Teacher’s Training College and surrounding schools (Bale zone) staged a demonstration. The same day Oromo people residing along the main road leading Roobee to Finifnee (Addis Ababa) expressed their protest by blocking the main highway using boulders and rocks. In retaliation, the police was ordered to arrest anyone seen outdoor after 9:00 pm. The police have been conducting 24 hour surveillance around residences of individuals suspected of sympathizing with the OLF (OSG report No. 42).

11. Nov 22, 2005. Oromos residing along the main road linking Finifinee and Western Oromia closed the artery highway at a place called Asgorii (Western Wollega). Demonstrators gathered at the blockage chanted slogans denouncing the Meles regime. The Ethiopian police was dispatched to the area to disperse the demonstrators who courageously resisted the police for several hours.

12. Nov 23, 2005: Students of Daaloo elementary school (Hararge) protested on the street burning OPDO flag and waving OLF flag.

13. Nov. 24, 2005. The residents of Shambuu (Eastern Wollega zone) protested by closing the main road leading to Baakkoo, thereby cutting the main line to and from the city (OSG report No. 42).

14. Nov. 25, 2005: Oromo students at the Jimma Teacher’s College staged peaceful demonstration. The Federal police attacked and injured several students while arresting 24 others. The same day, students of Galamso intensified the protest which they already begun on November 11 (Oromia Times, Nov. 30, 2005).

15. Nov. 29, 2005. Oromo students in Jaldu district of Western Shawaa zone staged a peaceful demonstration. As usual, the Ethiopian police attacked the protestors killing 2 students, Habtaamuu Bayyataa and Fiqaaduu on the spot, critically injuring two more, Nurressaa Katamaa Xaafaa, and also wounding several others. One policeman has been reported hurt during this demonstration. There has been extensive campaign of arrest in this district in both the city and the countryside. All schools in Jalduu remain closed since the uprising began. At the same time similar protests continued in neighboring districts of Geedoo and Haratoo (OLF Dec. 05, 2005).

16. Dec. 7, 2005. Classes at Jimma University had been stopped starting from December 7, 2005 because of clashes between Oromo and Tigrean students, leading to several arrests (Reporter Dec. 11).

17. Dec. 8, 2005. Students of Mendi district (Woreda) staged a massive demonstration which lasted all day during which 12 high school students were injured in clashes with police (Reporter, 11 December, 2005).

18. Dec. 13, 2005. Oromo students of Ziway, Eastern Shoa zone, demonstrate against the regime. The students later clashed with the police who tried to stop them in which two students and one police were severely wounded. Five other students have been abducted by the regime’s forces (Seife Nebelbal, 16 December, 2005).

19. Dec. 18, 2005. The Reporter wrote that students at Jimma University were refusing to resume classes because police and army were still on campus.

20. Dec 21, 2005. The private weekly Tikusa reported that six students died and six others were injured and sent to hospital when students blocked a road in Mendi [Kiltu Kara] to help prisoners heading to an unknown destination escape. Members of the military forces that were driving behind the truck which carried the prisoners opened fire and killed six students. The newspaper also reported the arrests of several Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement members in Nejo, Wollega.

21. Dec. 26, 2005. Hundreds of people from the towns of Mendi and Gimbi, Wallega, were rounded up and taken to Senkele Police Training Center in Ambo. Special Forces surrounded the towns after the residents started holding protest rallies demanding the removal of Meles Zenawi and Juneidi Sado. (Ethiopian Review, 26 December, 2005).

22. Dec. 27, 2005. Dagim Wenchi reported two killings in student demonstrations in Boji Chekorsa, Wollega, and the arrests of several elders and youth in Gimbi. The youth were taken to Didhessa concentration camp.

23. Dec. 28, 2005. Toma reported the arrest of four businessmen in Dembi Dollo, Wollega, Yonas Gelan, Fekade Shibeshi, Kassahun Kitla and Belay Yadeta, and that those who were arrested from Dembi Dollo, Anfilo, Mughi and Gimbi were detained in Senkele police training camp. The same day ‘Parliamentarians representing the Oromo people have petitioned the House Speaker to discuss mass arrests in Oromia State’ the paper reported.

24. Dec. 30, 2005. VOA reported the closure of the three high schools in Nekemte, Wollega, following student arrests and the killing of four students in Wollega that week. Police admitted over 300 arrests to VOA.

25. Jan. 20, 2006. All schools in the following towns have been reported closed due to continued students protest and extended popular uprising: Ambo, Tikur-Incini, Dembi Dollo, Gimbi, Qoree, Biyo Karaba, Asasa, Kofale, Gedo, Bako, Sarbo, Shashamane, Nekemte, Lalo Asabi, Jimma, Machara, Finca’a, Kombolcha, Xullo, Dhangago, Ciro, Oliqa Dingilu, Qelam, Haro Maya, Doba, Ginir, Habro, Matufi Darimu, Dire Dawa, Galamso, Badesa, Asabot, Bedeno, Mi’esso, Bordode, Mandi, Daro Labu, Gadulo, Gololcha, Calanqo, Awaday, Bate, Kara-Mile, Harar, Qobbo, Langey, Masala, Awash, Didhessa, Guttin, Haro Sabu and Gibe (OSG report No. 42).



The above selectively reported incidents are few of the widespread popular unrest in the entire Oromia, East, West, South, and North, which was ignited on November 09, 2005 and continued for nearly two years. Tens of thousands of students, farmers, teachers, businessmen, and all sectors of the society have been jailed, tortured, disappeared, and killed in broad day light and in prison cells. While international media stands generally ignored this long-lived and massive popular unrest and unimaginable human rights abuse and loss of life, some humanitarian organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oromia Support Group, have shaded light to a small part of the uprisings, massive unrests, and brutal killings. On January 30, 2006, Amnesty International in its issue (AI Index: AFR 25/002/2006) reported:



“…The 11 students named above are among several thousand school and college students from the Oromo ethnic group who have been detained in a series of anti-government demonstrations in different parts of the Oromia Region, in the capital, Addis Ababa, and in other towns. All those named above are detained incommunicado at a number of different locations, and are at risk of torture or ill-treatment. The arrests have taken place during a wave of student demonstrations which began on 9 November 2005. The demonstrations are still taking place in some areas. Most of those taking part were secondary school students, some of them children under 18 years old, but teachers, farmers, businesspeople and others have also been detained in connection with the demonstrations. Most demonstrations reportedly began peacefully but some police and demonstrators were injured, property was damaged and explosions were reported in some places. The demonstrations are said to have taken place after a call by the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), an armed opposition group, for demonstrations against the government. Demonstrators called, among other political demands, for the release of Oromo political prisoners, including officials of the Mecha Tulema Association, a long-established Oromo welfare association (emphasis mine).”



The total number of those killed in cold blood during and after the student demonstrations in Oromia remains unknown or simply under reported, but is believed to be several hundreds. The International Oromo Youth Associatio (IOYA) reported on December 10, 2006 that “…in the years 2005- 2006 alone, more than 500 students were killed by government’s security forces of which the record is available and widely reported by different media and human rights groups..”. On February 15, 2006 (about 3 months after the protests first broke out) the OLF reported in a press release:



“...Since the last press briefing many school children, university students, the young and elderly have been killed, and disappeared while tens of thousands have been imprisoned where they routinely faced torture. According to reliable reports, more than 105 have been killed in different parts of Oromia while 232 have disappeared without trace. The recent cold-blood massacre of 22 innocent people in Guduru is a graphic example of the facts on the ground. Prisoners are being picked from detention centers during the night never to return either to their prison cells or to their relatives (emphasis mine).”



The protests and peaceful demonstrations Oromo students are a manifestation of the anger and frustration of the Oromo people against the current brutal regime in Ethiopia. It also shows that the Oromo people are still under a “hidden” and new form of subjugation. The current regime in power may think it has relinquished the popular fire (uprising) that was ignited in the entire Oromia by force. But the student movements are reflections of the overall struggle of the Oromo people for democracy, justice and freedom. It will only stop when ALL the oppressors (those who are on power and those who intend to replace them) are gone from the Oromian soil for good and the Oromo people freely determine their fate.



It is to be noted that the above report is focused only on the protests in Oromia which broke out on November 09, 2005 and continued on-and-off in the entire region for nearly two years. The time these protest started also coincides with the widely reported protest in Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) and several major cities organized by the then CUD (Coalition for Unity and Democracy) in which some 200 people have been brutally murdered and tens of thousands jailed. The massive popular unrests in Oromia and in the entire Ethiopia against the current brutal regime may now look subdued for several reasons, but it is actually a ticking bomb that can explode at any moment just as it exploded suddenly on November 09, 2005 following a call from OLF and the post-election protests called by the CUD. And when it does, it has the potential to wash away the oppressors and their collaborators.

References:

1. Oromia Support Group (OSG No. 42), Press Release No. 42, 2005 – 2006, Malvern, UK. http://oromo.org/osg/pr42.htm#Oromo_student_demonstrations,_killings_and_arrests

2. Reporter, November 13, 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

3. OSG No. 42

4. The World Prout Assembly, Kolkata, India. http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2005/12/oromo_tplf_anot.html

5. Oromia Times, Nov. 30, 2005. http://oromiatimes.blogspot.com/2005/12/barattooti-oromoo-24-kollejjii.html

6. OLF Press Release, “Popular Oromo protests in 25th day”, Dec. 05, 2005.

7. Seife Nebelbal, December 16, 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

8. Tikusat, December 18, 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

9. Dagim Woncif, Dec. 27, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

10. Tomar, Dec. 28, 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

11. Radio Voice of America, Afan Oromo Service, Washington, D.C.

12. IOYA Press Release - Novemeber 10, 2006

Sagantaan Wayyanee "The Diaspora - Affaris" hojiirra oolaa jiraachuu isaa hubattanii laata?

Melesii f i Buchulloonni isaa erga dheerinni umrii isanii kan murtooftu laffinaa fi dhabamuu jarmoota Oromoo kessahuu ABO ta’uu isaa erga hubatan barri isaa bubbulee jira. Dhugaa kana wayyaneen walii ishii keessatti haa haasoftuu malee amma waraqaa/ Xalayaa sadarkaa ministeera maqaa “Diaspora –Affairs” jedhuun dhaabbame baaftutti ifatti dubbattee hin beektuu ture.

Xalayaan suni waa heddu kan of kessaa qabu ta’us , ijoon isaa Jarmolee Oromoo kan Hawaasaas dabalatee kanneen biyya ambaa jiran hunda isaanii tu keessa seenuu dhan akka wal nyaatan godhuun akka diigaman goduu irratti karoora isaani kan sirritti ibsu ture. Hojii kanafis kanneen qaadhimaman namoota boloola angoo fi dolaarri ija isaanii jaamse yoo tahu isaan kana barbaadani bituu dhan akka keessa hojjetan godhuu dha.

Amma ammaatti rakkinoota jaamolee Oromoo wal-gidduuttis ta’ee keessa isaanitti qaban namni manifesto wayyanee kana waliin walitti qabee laale hin turre. Ammas nama rational ta’ee ofumaafuu ofiif adda baafachuu dhaf haala kana caalatti qorachuun adda baafachuuf yaaluuf malee, dimshaashumatti yoo laalamu waanuma propaganda biraatif darbatame fakkachuun ni mala.

Kuni hundi maal jechuuf:

Rakkinni erga mooraa qabsoo Oromoo kessatti uumamee yeroon isaa bubbulaa dha. Kan duraa ABO kessatti Dirre Bahatti calqabame. Saanaan booda yeroo sadi, Gumii, QC fi amma moo gaartuu jijjirama jedhu ta’uu isaa kan namuu quba qabuu dha. Kanaan alattiis namoonni yeroo adda addaa dhaaba kanarra bahan maqolee adda addaa baafachuu dhan kanneen chabba tolfataniis baayyee dha.

Haala ammaa maaltu adda ta’sise ree?
Jaarmoleen kuni hunduu akka dhaabatti wal yaa morman fi walii galuu haabatan malee amma tokko keessa isaniitti sabatiinsa inuma qabatuu turan. Hojjetanis hojjechuu baatanis.

Hara garuu maqaa jaarmaya tokkootin jaarmaya Oromoo kan jedhaman hundi ciniinamaa dhiigfamaa jiru. Jijjiiramni Mooraa qabsoo Oromoo keessatti ta’aa jiru kuni fooyoomina otuu hin taanejijjiirama diigmayaa ta’uu isaa qabxiilee kanaan gaditti tarrefaman laalaato isinumti murteessaa

Murni Jijjiirama ofiin jattu kan duraatif ABO diiguu yaalte sanirraa dhaladhe jette, itti aansuu dhan AWO bakka lamatti foxoqsite, GBUO irra namoota amma tokko irra foxoqsite, Tokkichuumaa keessa namooota amma tokko baafatte, fi ULFO walumaa galattu diigne jatte. Adda tokkummaa jechuu dhan jarmaya kijibaa kan bakka tokko gahuu hin dandenye, kan garuu wayyaaneef kunoo hojjenne jira nama jechisiisu tokko labsuuf erga biqilli naqamee bubbulee amma farsoon isaa unamuuf ABO taanee koree dhaabbane jachaa jiru. Koreen ganna gannaan dhaabbattu maal akka taate sichi arguuf teenya. Kan hunda irra nama dinqu yakkamtoonni hundi walitti qabamuun walibaqiinsa dhaabootaa labsuu isaani ti. Walitti baqiinsa namoota dhaabbooni adda addaa ofirraa tufe moo, dhugumatti walitti baqiinsa dhaabootaati kan jadu ifatti mul’ataa dha. Wanni ifaa tahe bubuutuu dhaaboota keessaa baasani otuu dhaabichi jiruu tokkummaa ummanne jachuun soba, sammuu ummata Oromoo maqaa tokkummaan jaamsuuf yaaluu fi ergaa wayyaanee golgaa tokkummaan guutuu malee hikkaa biro hin qabu.

Tokkummaan Oromoon barbaaddu tokkummaa bubuutuu namootaa osoo hin tahiin tokkummaa qabsaawoota Oromoo, kanneen qabsoo tana bakkaan gahuu dandayan tahuu isaa gadi fageessani xiinxaluu dhabuu qofa otuu hin tahiin otuu beekkanu fakkeessuun ummata sobuu fi ergaa dhooysaa bakkaan gahuu tahuu isaa walumaa galatti ummata Oromoo fi keessaa qabsaawoota Oromoof ifa raasaa jiru.

Wan fe’ee yaa ta’u, kabajaa/integrity dhuma Oromoof jedhaati wan kana sirnaan xiinxalani laaluu fi adeemsa dhaaboota Oromoo keessatti shororkaa fi laafina uumaa jiru kana hubachuun barbaachisa taya. Nagummaa mooraa qabsoo fi hulluuyxuu ergamtoota Wayyaanee irraa moraa qabsoo tiyfachuun murteessaa dha. Tookummaan dhaaba tokko waliin ta’u kan miseensa dhaaba sanaa yoo xinaate keessa 1/5 ille hin ammanne maal jedhama? FIDOn otuu jiru, kanneen achi keessaa badii adda addaan tarkaanfiin irratti fudhatame ofitti fiduun, GBUO otuu jiruu kanneen achi keessaa arhaman ofiiti fiduun, AWOn otuu jiruu, kanneen hidhata Wayyaanee qabachuun dhaabicha keessaa arihaman fudhatani tokkummaa uumna jachuun akka ani ilaalutti tokkummaa otuu hin taane akkuma jachaa ture, hawwi fi fedhii diigumsa dhaaboota Oromoo bakkaan gahuuf kan tahe jadha.

Gara biraan kanneenuma Jijjiirama ABO jadhan akkuma amma dhaaboota Oromoo diigaa jiranitti ABO diiguuf yaalani dadhabnaan nuutu ABO dha jadhanii heeraa fi seera bira tara seeruma dhaabni tokko itti dhaabbatuu fi addaan deemu tokkollee haala hin qabneen miseensota wayya baafi hoggana heeraa filame dhiisani akka waan ABOn Minneapolistti dhaabatee wahitti magaalaa sanitti of labsan.

Eegaa adeemsa kana yoo ilaallu, wanni ammallee hojjatamaa jiru adeemsuma sana kan hordofe tahuu isaa ifa bahe. Kuniis danayan dhaaboota kana micciruun fedii wayyaanee lafa jalaan hujjii irra oolchu dadhabamu ammo akka andaaqootti ririfani suutuma dadhabsiisuu fi diiguu kan jadhu. Kanas Ibsoota dhaaboonni kun basan dubbisuun ragaa qabatamaa dha. Amma kan dhagayaa jirru ammo noonni dhaabota irraa ririfaman nutti dabalamn jadhanii labsuu irra tokko taane hogganaas fillanne jachaa jiru. Dhaabooni miseensota dabalachaa deemuun waan namuuf ifa tahee otuu tahee jiru, namoota qubaan lakkaawaman miseenomsani tkkummaa raaboota jachuu waan raajii ti. Fedhii fi hawwii sammuun irrataa tahe garsiisa jedha.

Eenyummaa/Personality namootaa walitti baqiinsa ilmaan Oromoo caalattu wal nyaachisuuf deemu kana kessa jiran silaa osoon tokko tokkoo isaani isinff tarresse nan jaalladha. Hedduuun isaa interview Obbo Afron radio Minnesota irratti kenne sana fakkaata. Garuu hamma tokko fakkeenyaaf tuquun barbaachisaa waan taheef, seenaa dhumaaf namoota diigmaya jaarmaa kana keessatti qooda fudhatan hamma tokko yaa ilaallu: Tokkoffaa: Amaan Kadir dabballummaa dargii irraa gara ABO dhufee gandummaa achi keessatti babal’isuu malee takkaa lolee nama hin beeyne. Dhukkuba yeroo hunda nama himatee maayyii irratti finfnnee irraa Kenya seenee achin biyya alagaa kana dhufe. Eegaa kana jiddutti haddaa seenaa isaa yoo himan waan namatti hin tollle waan taheef bira tarra. Garuu biyya alagaa kanas dhufee xalayaa dhaaboota Amaaraa waliin maqaa ABO dhaan mallatesse kan dhaaba keessaa arihame dha. Oloolli inni ofaa ture garuu otuu hin dhaabbatiin warra AWO dhaabe keessaa tokko. Diinaan waliin hidhata waan qabuuf ULFO keessa erga seene, ULFo diiguu irratti hamma AWOn of keessaa ariite amma ABO jala hiriira jachuun mataa isaan deemee baqutti nama diigamayaa fi daba yaaduu malee bu’aan inni oromoof buuse hin jirre dha.

Lammaffaa: Ahmed (Afroo) – nama biyya alaa kana hamma bahutti oromummaa isaattu hin ammane tokko ture. Erga biyya alagaa kana bahe, Tokkummaa Barattoota Oromoo Europe keessatti yeroo gabaabaaf qooda fudhate. Achuma keessa otuu jiru Nagasoo Gidaadaa waliin Somali dhaquun Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaan biyya alatti bakka bu’aa nu godhi jadhanii gaafatani harkaatti didame. Achii deebinaa Nagaasoon duraanu shira wayyaaneef kan akkas godhe waan taheef yeroo biyyatti galu inni achumaa qabsaawoota irratti oloola otuu ofuu Odaa Bultum Murna harar kan jadhu fi akeekni isaa Ethiopia Demokrati taate dhaabu kan jadhu dhaabani oliif gad kaachaa ture. Sana booda akkuma tahetti gaafa sanitti IFLO amma FIDO dhatti miseensoome otuu achi keessa jiru akkuma baratetti Amaan faa waliin ULFO diiguuf otuu shira xaxuu FIDO keessaa arihame dha. Gaaffii deebisaa (interview) inni dhaluu tana Radio Hawaasa Oromoo Minneapolis keessa jiruuf kenne irraa namni kun nama akkam akka tahe barachuun hedduu salphaa dha jannee bira kunna. Garuu amma ammo dhaaba sagantaa hin qabne kan takkaa oromoon hin dhagayin dhaaba Murti Guutoo jadhu dhaabbane jadhee waanuma tahe ibsuu nama dadhabe dha.

Kan sadaffaa Ibsaa Nagawoo – inni kun nama Dariif hojjachaa quba namatti laachaa ture. Biyya Djiboutitti baqatee, osoo mana saboontittii oromoo takkaa maqaa oromoon qubatee jiruu, intaloo hadha manaa ulfeesse, sabab asniin balaan irratti buute dha. Erga biyya alatti dhokatee bahellee takkaa intala isaatu nama hin gargaarini. Yaa ta’u biyya alaa kana erga bahe boota takka ABO, takka Gumii tahee otuu jiruu shirri isaan hojjachaa jiran itti damaqame nama arihame tahuu isaa ibsa GBUO baase ifa godhee jira. Egaa kana kan tuquu barbaadeef hammam tahha namoonni kun dhaabina sabatiinsa qqabu tokko akka hin qabnee fi fedhii isaani jala deeman kanneen Qabsoo oromoo gururachuuf yaalaii fi fulduraas irraa of hin qusanne ta’uu garsiisuuf qofa. Kanneen biro yoo barbaachisaa tahe fulduraaf takka takkaan yaaluu fi kanneenuma amma akka fakkenaytti kaafne kanaas dubbii isaani babalisani saaxiluun ni dandayama.

Tokkummaan ilamman Ormoo gidduu dha wanuma irratti wal falamani hin qabu. Kan nama dinqu tokkummaan kun garuu jacha bakkaa fi akka maletti hiikkamaa jiru tahuu fi diinnan ummata oromoo yeroo adda addaatti – ammallee dabalatee kan dhimma itti bahaa jiran tahuu isaati. Ummanni Oromoo saba tokko dhiiga tokko hiree tokko kan qabu tahuu isaa ilmaan Oromoo iddoo dhalootaa fi amantii osoo hin filatin bakka takkatti lolanii kufani kufisaa turanii fi jiran, akkasumas ummanni Oromoo bakka takkatti bira dhaabbachuun mana hidhaa keessatti guuramuu, dararamuu fi ajjeefamuun tokkummaa Oromoon qabdu kanaaf ragaa guddaa dha. Kana tokkummaan Oromoo maalirratti akka hundaawe ibsuuf qofa tuqe malee fakkiilee tarrisuun ni dandayama. Kan dubbatamaa jiru tokkummaa jaarmolee Oromoo yoo tahe garuu akkasitti ibsamuu fi hubatamu waan qabu. Hawwii fi fe’ii kanneen qabsoon Ormoo tarii kanaan sakaalamee laata jedhan hundaanu hawwatamuu dha. Garuu, Jarmayaan nama kaleessa mooraa diinaa kessa bahee dhufeen hogganamu, bifa kanaan yoo jaarmolee Oromoo hunda ciniinuufi dhiigsu callisanii “lakki Tokkummaa Oromoo tif Gaarii dha jechuun” hojii sanirra hirmaachuu dhan ala hin ta’u. Kara birootiin ammoo dogoggora tokkummaa jacha jadhu sana ifatti mul’isa.

Kun tokkummaa namoota yaadan gargar jirra jadhanii fedhiin ammo tokko tahanii jiranu malee kan Oromoo hin calaqqisu. Warri jijjiirama jachuun as bahan kun akkuma ofii ABO diiguuf bara dheeraa hojjatani itti milkaawuu dhabuun amma of gadi baasani dhaaboota biro diiguuf yaaluun seenaa qabsoo ummata Oromoo keessatti asxaa gurraacha tokko kan dhiisu tahuu beekkamaa dha. Gandummaan wal gurmeessuu jalqabani Oromoo hundi itti damaqnaan tokkummaa sobaa fi sagantaa diigumsaa kana hafarsaa jiru.

Sagantaa diigomsaa kana faarsuun osoo gargalchani hin ilaaliin kanneen barreessa jiran hunduu boru seenadhuma galmee kessanii yoo gara galatanii laaltan maaluma ofiiin jettuu laata. Kanneen kaleessa ilmaan Oromoo Wayyaanee waliin fixaa turan, kanneen ummanni oromoo yaatahu jachuun qabsotti dabalamani of baraaran jadhee eeggachaa ture arra gochuma diinummaa sanitti yeroo bobahan cal’isani laaluun doggora qabsaawoota hawwii kanaan ofitti fidan hojjatan irra caalu tahuu hubatamuu qaba.

Kanneen gartuu kana waliin haaluma adda addaatif ijjettanii jirtan yoo boruun jiraate tajjabdiii seenaa boruu keessa sof baasaa. Jijjiiramuun waraaqsaa foyinaaf malee diigmayaa fi moti. Jireenyi ilmi namaatu jijjiirama guyya guyyaati. Jijjiirama evolutionary ta’e dhaadheessuun of booda nama deebisu dha. Sadarkaa qabsoon oromoo irra jirtu irraa kaafne fuunduratti akkamitti deemnaa irratti hojjachuun kan sabboonoota hundaa ti. Kanneen sadarkaa amma jirru kanarraa tapha joolleen fuuldura tarkaanfachuu otuu hin tahiin; bakkuma jirrutti dhiinnu fi diinatti gallu nu taasisuuf toftaa addaa wayyaaneen saganteefame kana dammaqiinsaan ofirraa eeguufi dura dhaabbachuun murteessaa fi waan yeroon gaafatu jedha.

Maqaa tokkumaan Oromoo sobuun hin dandayamu!

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