Dispossession, Annexation – TPLF’s Strategic Goal

April 28, 2014

Dispossession and annexation of land from the Oromo people and other people of Ethiopia is part of TPLF’s original play book or master plan. Once they changed their strategy from seceding from Ethiopia to ruling Ethiopia, they were determined to dispossess the Oromos of their ancestral land.

As everybody knows, the land policy in Ethiopia is that it does not belong to anybody but to the Ethiopian state. Who rules the Ethiopian state? -the TPLF regime rules it. In effect, they have made sure that all the land belongs to them and they have ascertained this legally. They have created this legal pretext to evict anybody they want.

Their focus has mainly been the Oromo farmers. Under the guise of development, they have displaced thousands of Oromo farmers without any compensation forcing them to become beggars or laborers on their own ancestral land.

FDG Gootota Barattoota Oromoon Qabate Itti Fufuun Har’as Yuuniversitii Wallagga Keessatti Haalaan Jabaate. Barattooti Oromoos Waraana Wayyaanee Agaazii Jedhamun Reebaman

Gabaasaa: Ebla 27/2012 FDG Gootota dargaggoota Barattoota Oromoo Yuunivarsiitii Wallaggaa jabaatee itti fufuun guyyaa har’aa Ebla 27,2014 falmaa jabaa keessa oolan.Goototni barattootni Oromoo gaaffii keenyaaf deebiin nuu kennamuu qaba jechuun guyyaa lammaffaa ganama irraa eegaluun dhaadannoo dhageesisa turanii jiru.

Shallamoo Immaanaa itti gaafatamaa humna tikaa Wayyaanee godina Jimmaa Dabalatee Qondaaloti Tikaa 5 Mooraa Yuuniversitii Jimmaa Keessatti Ramadaman. Gaaffiin Barattoota Oromoos Itti Fufe

Ebla 20/2014 Dargaggoonni Baratootni Oromoo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa gaaffii mirgaa karaa nagaa 

gaafataniif deebiin humna waraanaa fi poolisa federaalaan seeraan ala mooraa Yuuibarsiitii galchuun reebsisuu, humnaan doormii battoota cabsiisiisani galchuun hidhatti guursisuu ta’e.

Gaaffii Mirgaa Barattooti Oromoo Yuuniversitii Jimmaa Gaafataniif Deebiin Mootummaa EPREF Irraa Kenname Hidhaa fi Reebicha Ta’e.

Ebla 21,2014 Gabaasa  Qeerroo Jimmaa

Gaaffii Mirgaaf Deebii Hidhaa fi Ajjeechaa Keennuun aadaa Mootota Itiyophiyaati

1.  Barataa Abdii Turaa mummee Seeraa waggaa 5ffaa mooraa Main Cumpass irraa,
2. Barataa Moo’iiboon Baqqalaa , mummee health officer waggaa 2ffaa ”           ”
3. Barataa Leejjisaa Alamayyoo muummee  water and environmental resource engineering waggaa 3ffaa  mooraa Saayinsii fi Technology kittoo irraa
4. Barataa  keenediin Mummee Civili Engineering waggaa 3ffaa         ”                        ”
5. Barataa Darragaa Abdiisaa , mummee civil Engineering waggaa 3ffaa    ”’             ”’
6. Barataa  Dhabasaa Jaatamaa, mummee veterinary medicine waggaa 6ffaa mooraa Agriculture irraa.

The OLF Condemns the Acts of Ethnic Cleansing Perpetrated against the Oromo People by the TPLF-led Regime in Finfinnee (Addis Ababa)

oromoliberationfront.info | April 17, 2014

We are gravely concerned that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front-led (TPLF) regime has, once again, intensified its policy of cleansing the Oromo people from Finfinnee, the capital city of Oromia, and the surrounding districts.

The regime first created the so-called Oromia Special Zone in 2008 and since pursued a relentless systematic removal of the indigenous Oromo people from their ancestral land in the name of “land for investors”, with the sole purpose of forcefully usurping and controlling Oromo land and resource.

Qeerroo Yuuniversitii Adaamaa Gaaffii Mirgaa Kaasan Itti Fufuun Xalayaa Iyyatnoo Tamsaasan

ERGA CALLISUUN KEENYA NU TOLLEE

HAA FALMANNU NU WALII GALLEE!!

Jaallannee ,filannee miti!,callisanii buqqee tauu mannaa dubbatanii bubbee tauu wayya jedha Oromoon kaleessaa.Duula waliif waliin kaana jedhamu kan roorroon hiriyaa hin qabne shin mootummaa gabroomfataa habeshaa Oromoo irraatti gochaa ture, haa caaluu immoo yeroo amma kanatti gabrummaa gita hin qabne duula duguuggaa sanyii haalaa fi kallattii hin qabne tae jedhamee itti yaaddamee deemamaa jiru Oromoos taee diinni warreen alagaa karaa karaa isaatiin ifatti beeku.Haa tau malee beekuun Oromoof yeroo ammaa kanatti hiikaa hin qabu.shiraa fi danqaa diinni hirriba lagatee halkanii guyyaatti afarftu kanatti dammaqee humnaan diinaa cabsuu dandau hidhatee of qopheessutu irraa eegama.

International Oromo Youth Association – Press Release

April 14, 2014

The first International Oromo Youth Leadership Conference was organized in 2006. It resulted in the creation of the International Oromo Youth Association. Every summer since 2006, OYLC has brought together youth across the diaspora to discuss issues pertaining to Oromo communities and build leadership skills. The eighth annual conference was held on June 29th, 2013 at Augsburg College.

Kenya: Flagrant Violations of Human Rights against Asylum Seekers and Refugees

HRLHA Urgent Action

April 14, 2014

For Immediate Release

The Kenyan police and security agents have arbitrary arrested and detained around 6000 refugees who are originally from neighboring Horn of African countries; and have continued hunting for more, reported HRLHA reporter in Nairobi, Kenya on April 13, 2014.

Miseensonni ABO biyya Canada Konyaa Gadaa Bilisummaa Jiraatan Ummata Oromoo Dachii Isaa Irraa Buqa’u Ilaalchisanii Ibsa Morii Baasan!

QEE FI QABEENYAA, DHACHII HADHUURAA ISAARRAA UMMATA OROMOO BUQQISUUN

MIRGA UUMAMAAN UMMATNI OROMOO QABU SARBUU DHA.

Mootummootni

Habashaa/Itiyoophiyaa dhufee dabraan toftaa fi tarsiimoo sirna gabroofataa ykn koloneeffattummaa  isaa haala  addaa addaan  Oromiyaarratti  caasaa isaa diriirfatee ummata Oromoo qee fi qabeenya, irraa saamaa fi saamisisaa kaan Lubbuu ajjeessaa kaan godaansisaa, qee isaa keessatti jiruu fi jireenya  itti hadheessee,baroota dheeraaf,Ummatni Ormoo qee dhabilee ta`ee godaanaa akka jiraatuu fi baqattummaaf akka saaxilamu

Neglected Identity – A special Issue of Biftu Bari

Even though my story is not as compelling and thrilling as the story of “Chaltu as Helen”, I still find it amusing to see some Oromo’s introduce themselves in two characters. Perhaps you are wondering what I am referring to. Let me take you through. It was just this past Sunday I run into a beautiful young Oromo woman. Just after she walked in through the doors with her husband, she introduced herself to me with a typical Habesha name. I couldn’t pronounce her name but I introduced myself as well. With excitement on her face she told me her actual name was … (let just say typical Oromo name). Now, I am not in any way downgrading her for fallen short of stating her real name her Habesha friends, rather I was heartbroken and saddened by the fact this happen too often.

Mootummaan EPRDF, TPLFn hogganamu tahe jedhee walitti bu’iinsa saba Amaaraa fi saba Oromoo Gidduutti taasisaa jiraachuun beekame.

Gabaasa Qeerroo Sulultaa Ebla 11,2014

Gabaasaa Qeerroo godina Addaa Naannoo Finfinnee magaalaa Sulultaa irraa uummanni oromoo Ebla gaafa 10 .2014 walitti bu’iinsi uummata Oromoo fi Amaara jidduutti ta’een miidhaan namootaa fi qabeenya irra gahuu gabaasi nu gahe addeessa. Gabaasan maadhee iftuu Barii Sulultaa irraa akka addeessuun sababaan walitti bu’iinsa kanaa wal dorgommii magaalaa Bahardar irratti ta’en uummanni Amaaraa sanyii balfattummaa irraan ka’uun dargaggoota Oromoo wal dorgommii kubaaf jecha naannoo Amaaraa Bahirdar deeman arrabsuu fi reebicha Oromoota irraan gahan kan sababeeffate ta’uu beekama.

Yuniversitii Jimmaa keessatti qaanqeen FDG bifa qindawaan haaratti qabate! Barruun Habashooti ittiin Oromoo arrabsan guutummaatti gubate!

Gabaasa:Guyyaa har’aa Ebla 11/2014 Goototni Qeerroon Baratootni Oromoo Yuunibarsiitii Jimma FDG dhoowosan. Goottootni barattootni Qeerroon Oromoo Yuunibarsiitii Jimmaa haala qindaaaa fi bifa haarawaan qaanqee FDG qabsiisuun gaaffii kabajamuu mirga abbaa biyyummaa Oromoo,Gaaffii Magaalaan Finfinnee bulchiinsa Oromiyaa jala galuu qaba jedhuu fi Adeemsii Magaalaawan Oromiyaa Finfinnee fi Federala jala galchuuf mootummaan EPRDF hojjechaa jiru dhaabbachuu qaba kan jedhuu fi gocha sanyuummaa irratti hundaaeen barruu maxxansa ilmaan

Ethiopia: 2.7 Million People Facing Hunger

Why are Ethiopians starving Again? The answer rests on its successive autocratic rulers and tribalist leaders. Ethiopia today forced hundereds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples off their fertile lands to make way for foreign investors that came in to grow foodstuffs and bio-fuels for export. Having lost their land and their ability to produce their own food, the indigenous Peoples are being forced to become dependent on aid handouts.

April 10, 2014 (Tesfa News citing Addis Fortune – pro-government website)  ETHIOPIA  finds itself in critical need of food aid in order to feed 2.7 million people. This announcement comes not long after its leaders were upbeat, reporting a bumper harvest of231 million quintals of grain for the current fiscal year.

Two Sides to Ethiopia – the Plea for Press Freedom

                                                                                     BY JEAN-PAUL MARTHOZ | April 11, 2014

There are two Ethiopias. Or better said there are two narratives about Ethiopia.

On one side, there is the Ethiopia as celebrated by the international aid community and the European Union : a country which is growing fast and seriously fighting poverty, a country which wisely uses the considerable international assistance that it receives to channel it towards sustainable development.

On the other side there is the Ethiopia as criticized by press freedom and human rights groups. A country ruled by an authoritarian regime, the second largest jailer of journalists in Africa, a country which misuses laws on anti-terrorism and civil society regulation to chill speech and prevent journalists from doing their legitimate watchdog work.

Filannoon Bara 2007 Mallattoo Kufaatii A.D.W.U.I ti.

Galaanaa Alaanoos Irraa Godna Arsii

Addunyaa kana irratti wanti hundinuu dhuma qaba, yeroo fi iddoon

raawwii isaa gargar haata’u malee addunyaa kana irratti wanti osoo hin jijjiiramne barbaraan jiraachaa hafu hin jiru. Maatiin ijoollee horeen, mootummaan mootummootan , ji’oonni waggootan , yaadni dullooman ilaalcha haaraan, dukkanni ifaan, ifni dukkanaan, hiyyummaan dagaaginaan, dagaaginni hiyyummaan ,dimokiraasiin abbaa irreetin ,abbaan irree sirna dimokiraasitiin bakka walbuusaa ykn tokko isa kaanif iddoo gadi lakkisaa jiraata. Mootummoonni masaraa mootii itti ta’an keessatti reeffa isaanii arguu fedhan hundinuu abboota irreeti. Aangoo garmalee jaallachuun yoo abbaa irrummaa isaan ulfeessu, ummanni isaan geggeessan gama isaatin mootummaa dimokiraatawaa

Statement from the National Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy (aka Qeerroo Bilisummaa) on the Current Condition of the Oromo People Ethiopian Empire

April 2, 2014

The representatives of the National Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy (aka Qeerroo Bilisummaa) from different zones of Oromia have come together and convened for two days, April 1 and 2, 2014 and, after a thorough discussion, have deliberated the following resolution on the current condition of the Oromo people, the condition of Revolt Against Subjugation (Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa) spearheaded by Qeerroo Bilisummaa, and the political condition of the Ethiopian Empire.

Teff, Ethiopia’s nutritious grain

By Elaine Gordon,

April 9, 2014 (Washington Post) — Although teff has been a staple of traditional Ethiopian cooking for thousands of years, this gluten-free grain is quickly climbing to super-grain status in our country.

Teff is a gluten-free whole grain that, despite its size (about the size of a poppy seed), is mineral-rich and high in protein. In fact, the Whole Grains Council estimates that Ethiopians get about two-thirds of their dietary protein from teff. And long-distance runners from Ethiopia have credited their energy and health to the grain.

One serving of dry teff (a quarter-cup) offers 7 grams of protein, 4 grams of dietary fiber, 25 percent of your daily recommended magnesium, 20 percent of your daily iron and 10 percent of your daily calcium, Vitamin B6 and zinc.

Barattooti Oromoo Uni Adaamaa 20 ta’an Kabajaa Yaadatnoo Anooleef Osoo Deemanii Isin ABOn dha Sababa Jedhuun Hidhaman

Dargaggoonni seenaa dhugaa dhaale,kutannoo fi murannoo onnee irraa madden seenaa Oromoo irraa kanneen hubatnaa gahaa qaban ilmaan Bilisummaa Oromoo fi Walabummaa Oromiyaaf boqonnaa hin qabne   seenaan bu’ura hundaa ta’uu isaa warri adda durummaan beekaan Yaaddannoo wareeggamtoota haadhoo fi abboolee(Anoolee)f jecha Adaamarraa hanga Aanoleetti lafoo deemsa taasisaniin km 66 miilaan(lafoo) kanneen kabajaaf deeman 120 keessaa barattoota Oromoo 20 mootummaan Wayyaanee hidhaatti galche.

ETHIOPIA’S BORDERLESS CYBERESPIONAGE

by Felix Horne

Chinese- and European-made spyware is enabling Addis Ababa to silence dissent

April 8, 2014 (Al Jazeera) — I met Abdi (not his real name), a 32-year-old primary school teacher from Ethiopia’s Oromia region, last July while in Nairobi. Abdi had been arrested a year earlier in his hometown for organizing a protest against local government corruption. He was already under the eye of Ethiopian security officials because he refused to provide information on the activities of his students to local authorities.

Over the course of two weeks in detention, Abdi was repeatedly beaten and accused of belonging to the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which originated in nationalist movements fighting for increased autonomy in the 1960s. The Ethiopian government considers the OLF a terrorist organization and uses the threat of an armed struggle to justify repression of ordinary Oromos, who constitute Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group.

EU Holds Discussion on Ethiopian Human Rights Crisis in Ogaden and Kality Prison

By Ahmed Abdi

EU House of Parliament opened a hearing on the worsening Humanitarian and Human Rights crisis in the Ogaden region by the Ethiopian government

April 8, 2014 (Tesfa News) —  EUROPEAN Parliament opened hearing about the Ogaden Human Rights violations and the Ethiopian prisons in Addis Ababa. The hearing, which was invited to participate in the Ogaden whistle-blower, Abdullahi Hussein, and Swedish Journalist, Martin Schibbye, was held on April 2nd by the group the progressive Alliance of Socialist and Democrats in European Parliament and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

“Ethiopia is one of the largest humanitarian and development aid receiver yet these donations are used incorrectly and corruptly. Western governmental Organizations and Western Embassies to Addis Ababa ignored the stolen donations and humanitarian aid that are being used as a political tool by the Ethiopian regime, which is contrary to EU rules on the funding”, said Anna Gomes, MEP Head of international Unit party Socialist democrat.

Egypt presidential hopeful threatens to use force over Ethiopian dam

April 6, 2014 (WASHINGTON) – A potential candidate for the Egyptian presidency announced today that he will order the use of military force against Ethiopia if the latter does not suspend the construction of the Grand Renaissance dam.
In announcing his presidential bid at a press conference on Sunday, lawyer Mortada Mansour said that “water for Egypt is Egypt’s life”.

Lawyer and head of a renowned Egyptian soccer club Mortada Mansour speaks during a press conference in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on 6 April 2014 (AP)

“There” are signed international conventions … There are two agreements, one in 1929 and the other in 1959 to regulate water usage between Egypt and Sudan,” Mansour added.

The controversial figure, who was elected last week as head of Cairo’s Zamalek Club, accused Israel of standing behind the Ethiopian dam project and dismissed popular initiatives to resolve the dispute with Addis Ababa.

“There are international organisations that failed [to mediate] and Ethiopia stuck to its position. Just like they threatened to use their army, Egypt has an army. If Israel which is inciting Ethiopia learned a lesson from the Egyptian army in 1973 [war], you are threatening my life. I will not allow you to build your dam and block water from me and in the end famine occurs among the Egyptian people and we kill each other for a drop of water,” Mansour said.

Abusing Legitimate Refugees Is Violation of Human Rights and International Conventions

April 7, 2014

OLF statement regarding the Oromo refugees in Kenya

Citizens flee their own countries for different reasons. Some of the causes are short term incidents while others are long term, requiring radical solutions. Natural calamities like drought, flood, earthquake and the like; and man-made causes like civil war, economic and political crises can force people to flee their own countries. Everyone wants to return to one’s own country once the cause for the flight is solved. Of the huge number of the current refugee in the Horn of African countries the Oromo predominates. The majority of them fled their country for none other than a deep-rooted political crisis that cannot be solved overnight. They apparently began this flight, right after the conquest during the last century,to save their lives and human dignity. Thus the Oromos have managed to survive in all the neighbouring countries for a long time. The OLF likes to express its gratitude to the countries that had harboured these refugees for such a long time. However, some developments of the last two decades are worrisome.

AANOLEE: ‘A TRAGEDY ON WHICH ETHIOPIAN SOURCES ARE SILENT’

April 8, 2014 (OPride) – Hundreds of thousands gathered in Hetosa, Arsi zone of Oromia, the largest of Ethiopia’s nine federal states, for the unveiling of the Aanolee Cultural Center on April 6, 2014, local media reported.

The cultural center houses the Oromo Martyrs’ memorial monument, an ethnographic museum and a mural. Standing several inches on top of a tomb, the monument shows a severed hand stretched upward holding a women’s breast. It is erected as a tribute to the Arsi Oromo whose hands and breasts were mutilated by 19th century Ethiopian emperor Menelik II.

Located 150kms from the capital Addis Ababa, Aanolee is a site steeped in Oromo history. As Madda Walaabuu stood as the cradle and greatness of the Oromo, Aanolee came to represent it’s humiliation. For centuries, the Oromo were organized under an egalitarian Gadaa system. It was at Aanolee that power transfer took place among generations of Arsi Abba Gadaa leaders under Odaa Rooba, one of the five Gadaa Oromo assemblies.

Saving Oromia from the TPLF Gluttons

By HGoche | April 6, 2014

There are many Oromo Scholars, past and present who advocated the urgency of coordinating our multi-faceted struggle for liberation of Oromia before the TPLF gluttons consume Oromia’s resources. By resources, I mean Oromia’s natural and human resources.

TPLF is doing what is humanly possible to win the next election to continue pillaging what is left of Oromia and selling what they cannot gluttonize to anyone who can pay them the highest bid to fatten their overseas bank account, because deep-down TPLF leaders know very well their days in Oromia and the South will end one day. That day depends on how, we, the Oromos will over-come our petty differences and mobilize as one people. The TPLF gluttons also know that they can continue their destruction of Oromia as long they can disfranchise the Oromo Liberation movements Organization’s, as they did for the last twenty odd years, and it is up to each and every one of us to arrest their evil agendas and save our nation, Oromia.

Kenenisa Bekele wins Paris Marathon

Bekele breaks Paris course record with 2:05:03 on marathon debut

April 6, 2014 (IAAF) – The dream, said Kenenisa Bekele before the Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris, would be to break the world record on his marathon debut. His dreams may not have turned into reality at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race, but his triumph in a course record of 2:05:03 was far from a nightmare.

Having won global titles on the track outdoors and indoors, as well as on cross country, road running was the only area of distance running that Bekele had not yet conquered.

Now it looks as though he is well on his way to doing that.

Medrek has successfully held a public meeting in Hawassa

Seife Nebelbal Radio | April 4, 2014

Medrek has successfully held a public meeting in Hawassa on March 29 (Megabit 20, 2006 EC), which was organized with the objective of public discussion of its “Political Manifesto” issued last year.

The fate of the Oromo under the rising Amhara racism

by Rundassa Asheetee | April 4, 2014

The Habasha Dabtaras always talk about history as if we live in the past. But none of us live in the past, only in the present, though our present is in the hands of the Tigre tribe.

Yes, there is what we call “history”, yet, history doesn’t just happen on it’s own but it is made by people. As such, when we look back into history, we find that people who made our lives so challenging today are the Dabtaras who love to talk about history.

Interestingly, as much as the Habasha Dabtaras are caught up in the web of history, the majority of us live in a moment that alway make us hurry to meet our life’s obligations. This is true even for Finfinnee, the city where the beggars, the street girls, the thieves, the spies, the buses and taxis that cary millions people from Bakanisaa to Birbirrsaa, from Boolee to Laaftoo, from Laga Haree to Awaaree, from Dukam to Qaallitti, from Laga Xaafoo, to Qaban’aa, from Bulbula to Halaltu cross each other in a seemingly endless stream of chaos.

Haala Yeroo Ilaalchisee Ibsa Sochii Dargaggoota Biyyoolessaa Irraa Kenname

Haala Yeroo Ilaalchisee Ibsa Sochii Dargaggoota Biyyoolessaa Irraa kenname

(Qeerroo Bilisummaa)

Ebla 2,2014 Jimmaa

Bakka bu’oonni Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo godinoota adda addaa irraa walitti dhufuun Ebla 1 fi Ebla 2,2014 walgahii guyyaa lamaaf gaggeefatan irratti haala yeroo uummata Oromoo fi Qabsoo FDG bilisummaa Oromoo daran jabeessuu fi haala waliigala raafama siyaasa Impayeera biyyattii irratti marii bal’a gochuun ibsa armaan gadii dabarsee jira.