Xalayaa seenaa dhugaa ibsu moo kan Oromummaa diiguuf qophaaye dha?
Abdii Boruutiin | Caamsaa 26, 2013
Mata duree kanaan barreeffama kana akkan dhiyeessu kan na taasise, akka tasaa xalayaa Afaan Amaaraatiin barreessame tokko argee dubbisuu kiyya dha. Xalayichi kun kan barreessame nama maqaan isaa Dr. Fiqree Tolasaa Jigsaa (Afaan Amaaraarraa qubeetti jijjiireen barreesse) jedhamuun yoo ta’u, kan itti ergamuuf qophaaye yookaanis itti ergame? ammoo hogganaa jaarmayaa dhiyoo kana dhalatee, Adda Diimookraatawa Oromoo (ADO) Dr. Bayyaan Asobaa ti. Xalayaa kana akka PDFtti barruu kana wajjin waanan dhiyeessef, warri Afaan Amaaraa dubbisuu danda’an qabiyyee xalayichaa gutuu isaa arguu ni danda’u. Akka naaf galetti, qabiyyee inni guddaan xalayichaa seenaa saba ykn uummata Oromoo haaraa, kan duraan dhagayamee hin beekne kan ibsu yoo ta’u, kaayyoon isaa garuu bu’aalee qabsoon bilisummaa Oromoo (QBOn) hanga har’aatti argamsiisee gaafii keessa galchuudhaan tarii akka diigaman waan mul’isu fakkaata. Read more…
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Oromo Freedom from What and for What
By Mekuria Bulcha | November 9, 2012
Part 2*
A Struggle for the Right to Life
A Fight for a Life worthy of Human Beings
Despite stubborn and sustained resistance, the [Abyssinian] invasion [of the Oromo] was successful, because up to this point, the Oromo were not a united, unified nation. The fact of colonization continues, to this day, to be played down or denied—and this despite the fact that all the forms of loss of autonomy associated with colonization were present, in just the same way as if colonization by a European power had occurred (Christian Scherrer, in Scherrer & Bulcha, 2002: 27) Read more…
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Remarks With Ethiopian Foreign Minister Adhanom Tedros After Their Meeting
Remarks
John Kerry
Secretary of State
Secretary of State
African Union Headquarters
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
May 25, 2013
SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. It’s my privilege to be here at this special celebration of the 50th anniversary of the African Union and its predecessor organization. And I’m very, very pleased to have just met with Prime Minister Hailemariam, and I’m happy to be here with the Foreign Minister Tedros who we have met previously and had a chance to talk. And I think there are several key components of our relationship that I want to highlight. Read more…
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Obituary: Dr Sheik Mohammed Rashad Kabir-Abdullee
May 25, 2013 (Gulele Post) — Dr Shek Muhammad Rashad ( full name: Muhammad Rashad Kabir Abdulle Mummayyaa Carcar ) was born in 1934, in Eastern Oromia, Carcar Laga Arba, in a village called Jarjare. He was born to an ordinary Oromo peasant parents. Young Muhammad Rashad began his academic career when he joined his father’s informal Madarasa. His father, Kabir Abdulle, was an Islamic scholar and the imam of the local mosque. Soon after, he was sent to attend further Islamic studies at Carcar and Harar ulamas. Because Muhammadrashad was one of the top achievers of his time, he was again sent to Saudi Arabia for higher education. Upon completion of his short-term studies, he was went to Palestine in 1950 where he completed his secondary school. In 1951, he received a scholarship from Syria where he received his BA in Islamic and Linguistic studies from the University of FATHGUL-ISLAMI. In 1957, he won full scholarship to attend a post graduate program at Al Azhar University’s ( the oldest and biggest university in the Islamic world) in Egypt. He graduated top of his class and was awarded the National Medal of Achievement from the then president of Egypt, Jamal Abdulnasr in 1963. Read more…
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Female role in the Oromo liberation camp?
May 25, 2013
Note: if any one has picture collection of these heroines, please email us at oromia@ayyaantuu.com
Saartu Yusouf joined the OLF [Oromo Liberation Army] in 1976, and fought in several battles as a regular guerrilla. In 1977 when the two armies of Ethiopia and Somalia were fighting over Eastern Oromia, and when the Ethiopian army was fleeing in disarray, an ABO-OLF united ambushed them and asked them to give themselves up. Saartuu was one of the combatants who was sent to talk to the retreating Ethiopian army unity. When they refused to give in and fighting started, Saartuu was among the Oromo combatants who was killed on the battlefield. Although Saartuu herself fell, the much-needed armaments they captured from the Ethiopian army helped the armed struggle. Read more…
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Duulaa Oromoo irratti Adda Biraan Gaggeeffamaa jiru
Caamsaa 25, 2013
Baha Oromiyaatti Liyyuu poolisi kan jedhaman wayyaanen bobbaaftee uummata oromoo dararaa jiraachuun ammaaf ifaadha. Waan akana fakkaatu dhiyoo tana jiddu galeessa oromiyaa Aanaa Fantaallee karrayyuutti Waraana addaa liyyuu poolis jedhamu dhalattoota Amaaraa qofarraa jaarame daangaa oromiyaa fi naannoo amaaraa jidduu qubsiisee ture. Uummanni akkuma poolisa mootummaatti hubachaa ture. Naannoo kanatti lola bara minilik irraa eegalee hanga ammaa hin dhumin tu oromoof amaara jidduutti guyyaa guyyaan deema. Humni waraanaa kun yeroo saboonni kun lamaan wal lolan oromoota tooftaa /ogummaa/ waraanaa hin qabne yeroo hundaa haxxeedhan fixaa jiru. Maqaa waldaa dargaggoota Aanaa minjaar jedhuun waraana biraa qaamni kun ijaaree oromoota lolaan lafarraa buqqisanii bakka Eddoo guddoo jedhamu qubsiisan. Bisaan jallisiidhaan mootummaan naannoo oromiyaa baase, uummata fayyadamuu dhoorkanii waraanni kun irra qubatee daldala hoolaa fi oomisha kuduraaf muduraa bal’inaan deemsisaa jiran. Mooraa leenjii waraanaa bal’aa fi mul’ataa ta’e bananii dargaggoota Amaaraa leenjisaa jiru. Read more…
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ULFO: The Escalation of War of Ethnic Cleansing on the Oromo People.
ULFO Press Release | May 24, 2013
The current ruling party of Ethiopia has intensified yet again its war of ethnic cleaning on the Oromo people. Lately, it has targeted Oromo communities in Eastern Hararge. The communities directly affected in the recent campaign include those who live in the districts of Anniyyaa, Jaarsoo, and Mi’eesoo.
This latest incident of ethnic cleansing that is being perpetrated against the Oromos in Eastern Hararge zone is a continuation of a grand design of the TPLF-led regime of Ethiopia to undercut the demographic weight of the Oromo and the territorial expanse of Oromiya. This design, one which its leaders in many occasions in such a blatant bravado have spoken about, is framed to fulfill its long-term political and economic objectives. Read more…
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Meles Zenawi’s Failed Tactics Used to Win Amhara Elite’s Support
By Dany Gaaraa | May 24, 2013
My observation on Meles’s failed tactics that he used to try to soften the Amhara opposition to his/Tigrean rule of the Ethiopian Empire:
Failed Tactic # 1: Meles all of a sudden started talking about the so-called “3000 years of Ethiopia history.” Until 2005, TPLF media and its puppy dog OPDO used to mention Ethiopia’s history as only 100 years, that is, since the Menelik invasion. After 2005 election, Meles, in the interviews he gave to one of the media, unashamedly said that Ethiopia has more than 3000 years history. The Amhara elites seemed pleased with the gesture but remained sceptical doubting it as just another fad. For the Amhara elites Meles was the only Ethiopia leader (oops! didn’t they say he can’t be Ethiopia’s leader) who oversaw and helped the secession of Eritrea and made Ethiopia land locked. They vowed not to forgive him until they ‘feast on his flesh as raw meat’ (oh god! this folks love tire siga even that of Meles’s flesh especially his “brainy” brain) so that his body parts will only come out as human excrement sent down the toilet. They hoped his body will never be buried on sacred Ethiopian soil. Unfortunately, his body rested in the most sacred of places with pomp and ceremony. Did we all hear that the entire Ethiopia, even the Amhara elites had wept and cried after his death? In reality, it was all too obvious that Amhara elites like all other Ethiopians would have liked Meles put to the gallows for his war crimes, nonetheless they are relieved that the monster had gone. Read more…
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Seife Nebelbal Radio and Raadiyoo Simbirtuu
| Seife Nebelbal Radio Interviews Qeerroo and Dr. Shigux Geleta | Simbirtuu 23-05-2013 |
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Shirri Habashootni nurratti xaxan yoomuma nuuf gala laata?
Abdii Boruutiin | Caamsaa 24, 2013
Habashootni, tokkummaa ilmaan Oromoo laaffisuuf, qabsoo bilisummaa saba Oromoo dadhabsiisuuf yoo danda’an sirumaa dhabamsiisuuf halkanii guyyaa shira nurrtti hojjechaa akka turani fi jiran seenaatu ragaa ta’a. Kun dhugaa waliigalaa waan ta’eef, diinarraa wanti biraas waan hin eegamneef, nama hin dinqu. Kan nama gaddisiisu garuu beeknees ta’ee otuu hin beekin; hubannees ta’ee otuu hin hubatin shira diinaa kanaaf qaawwa uumuu, balbala banuu, meeshaa ta’uu, kanaaf of saaxiluu, kan dabrerraa barchuu dadhabuu keenya dha. “Namni yoo quba tokko nama biraatti qabu, qubni sadeen isumatti akka garagalan hin hubatu” akkuma jedhamu, hubannoon kan jalqabu bakkeen ykn iddoon (position) quba sadeenii kun yoo beekamee dha. Wantin jechuu barbaade, dadhabbii keenya otuu hin hubatin yookaanis dhokfachaa Habashaatti quba qabuun gahaa miti. Yoon akkana jedhu ammoo diinatti hin xiyyeeffannu jechuu otuu hin taane, gabaabumatti mee dura haala keenya haa hubannuu jechuun barbaade. Read more…
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Ethiopian Federal Police Assist in the Ethnic Cleansing of East Hararge Zone, Oromiya
By Jilcha Hamid
May 23, 203 (Gulele Post) — It has been 5 months since the Liyu Police, security forces in the Somali Region entered the Oromiya region1, expelling the local Oromiya regional administration in the town of Mino and raising the flag of the Somali regional state. Since entering the town of Mino in January of 2013 (and prior to that) their harassment, looting sprees and killings perpetrated against of the Oromo inhabitants of Mayyu Mulluqe county have been reported by numerous sources in the county. It was also reported in a previous article on the Gulelepost2 that there had been no response from officials of the Oromiya Regional state in Finfinne and Adama. Similar appeals made to the Federal Police did not receive any response from the Federal government. Federal Police in the vicinity of Mayyu county made no effort to resolve the issue or protect the civilians from the harassment and killings carried out by the Liyu Police. On the contrary, sources in the region say that they have continued to transport arms to the Liyu Police bases in Oromiya. Up to 37 civilians, including women and elders have been reportedly killed by the militia. Up to 20 000 inhabitants have fled into neighbouring counties such as Burqa. Read more…
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Ethiopia: Amnesty International – Annual Report 2013
May 23, 2013 (Amnesty International) –The state stifled freedom of expression, severely restricting the activities of the independent media, political opposition parties and human rights organizations. Dissent was not tolerated in any sphere. The authorities imprisoned actual and perceived opponents of the government. Peaceful protests were suppressed. Arbitrary arrests and detention were common, and torture and other ill-treatment in detention centres were rife. Forced evictions were reported on a vast scale around the country.
Background
In August, the authorities announced the death of Prime Minister Zenawi, who had ruled Ethiopia for 21 years. Hailemariam Desalegn was appointed as his successor, and three deputy prime ministers were appointed to include representation of all ethnic-based parties in the ruling coalition. Read more…
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Ethiopia: Food prices squeezing poor people and driving social change by stealth
May 23, 2013 (Relief Web) — A new era of high and volatile food prices go beyond affecting what people can afford to eat and are causing life-changing shifts in society, experts warn today.
The report, Squeezed*, reveals a global snap-shot of how the failure of wages to keep pace with five years of food price rises is putting a strain on families, communities and society, including increased levels of domestic violence and alcohol and drug abuse. Roles and social needs are changing as women who once remained at home are entering the job market and agricultural jobs are being abandoned for more lucrative jobs in an attempt to afford higher food prices.
The research is from international development agency Oxfam and research charity the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and is the first of four annual reports which will assess the wider implications of high food prices and volatility in 23 urban and rural communities in ten countries: Bolivia, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Indonesia and Vietnam. Read more…
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