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you who demonstrated to show your protest
opposing the oromo forced displacement
what a shocking news?chocking news
oh generation is killed with live ammunition
youth;< qeerro'/is oromo offspring
which will grow in time
the nation cannot have a grace
Th nation cannot have a grace
there will be no growth or development
but the government is playing with youth's blood
they saw they our unity was not strengthened
we were disrespected by the  minor group
The master plan was just a strategy
of cleansing the oromo
Not meant to support oromo
The dangerous target towers the farmer
The extension of the past suppression
The youth opposing day and night
We will never allow Oromia to fall apart
History will always remember Qeerro all that time.

We feel so grief and sorrow
We wipe full of tears
But what the use
If you could not stop injustice now
If we couldn't fight persecution
If we never stand for justice


Alas! oh my prides
My future and my roots
Oh "Qeerroo" support Oromia
Deep sorrow for the fallen martyrs
For those who Tamped with bullets

Never cry for me Mamma
Don't stop me Papa, i set my step to For humanity
We know it hurts than anything
To die for the mere who you are

Rather let me along the justice
Lead the vision which my colleagues died for
We stand up together
Lets stand for the vision,
Resume the vision the have fallen for!!

France: Migrants, Asylum Seekers Abused and Destitute

January 20, 2015, Paris (HRW) – Asylum seekers and migrants living in destitution in the port city of Calais experience harassment and abuse at the hands of French police, Human Rights Watch said today. The abuses described to Human Rights Watch include beatings and attacks with pepper spray as the migrants and asylum seekers walked in the street or hid in trucks in the hope of traveling to the United Kingdom.

Several thousand asylum seekers and migrants, most from Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, are living in makeshift camps or in the streets in Calais. Some said that their treatment by police, a lack of housing for asylum seekers, and delays in the French asylum system had deterred them from seeking asylum inFrance.
“Asylum seekers and migrants shouldn’t have to face police violence in France, and no one who applies for asylum should be left to live in the street,” said Izza Leghtas, Western Europe researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Providing adequate reception conditions and humane treatment for asylum seekers isn’t only a matter of meeting legal obligations, it is also the right thing to do to help end the limbo for many asylum seekers in Calais.”

In November and December 2014, Human Rights Watch spoke with 44 asylum seekers and migrants in Calais, including 3 children. Most interviews were conducted in groups. The migrants and asylum seekers described what appear to be routine abuses by police officers when they tried to hide in trucks or as they walked in the town.

Nineteen, including two of the children, said police had abused them at least once, including beatings. Eight had visible broken limbs or other injuries, which they alleged were caused by police in Calais and surrounding areas. Twenty one, including two children, said police had sprayed them with pepper spray.

In November, the outgoing local police chief, speaking to reporters, denied allegations of abuse. In a meeting with Human Rights Watch on December 16, officials in the interior minister’s office said they were unaware of reports of police violence against migrants and asylum seekers in Calais but would investigate if allegations were based on “precise facts.” On January 14, the prefect of the Pas-de-Calais department denied any unjustified use of force by police against migrants in Calais.

France faces a crisis of inadequate accommodation for asylum seekers. Currently only a third of those who seek asylum across France are provided with accommodation in reception centers for asylum seekers. As of December 2013, 15,000 asylum seekers were on a waiting list for a place in a reception center and fewer than a third of asylum seekers entitled to accommodation were housed in such centers. The average waiting period was 12 months. A bill before parliament aims to speed up asylum procedures and increase available accommodation in reception centers for asylum seekers across the country.

While there have been asylum seekers and migrants in Calais for over a decade, due to its proximity to the UK by rail and sea, the numbers have sharply risen since the spring of 2014. On January 14, Denis Robin, the prefect of the Pas-de-Calais department, told Human Rights Watch there were about 2,300 asylum seekers and migrants in the Calais area. As of mid-December, local nongovernmental organizations estimated that 200 women and young children were living in camps and that 50 women and young children were in a center run by a local organization.

Most migrants and asylum seekers in Calais have no shelter from the cold and the rain, no access to sanitation, and very limited access to running water. Many depend on food provided by local organizations and volunteers.

The response of the French government to the poor living conditions in Calais has been inadequate and slow, though. The interior minister announced in November that a day center would be made available to provide showers, meals, and legal assistance for 1,500 asylum seekers and migrants by January. But as of January 15, only limited facilities were available on the site until April. Overnight accommodation will not be available until March and will be limited to 100 women and young children.

The government is funding an organization to run a warehouse in Calais in which migrants can sleep for the night, which must open when the temperature is minus 5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit) or less. The authorities have discretion to keep the shelter open even when the temperature is above minus 5 degrees Celsius. The warehouse opened on December 26 and closed on January 2, and reopened on January 14 because of high winds in the region. On January 5, the organization that runs the warehouse informed Human Rights Watch that it had a maximum capacity of 500 places, one third of the 1,500 places promised by the government. Denis Robin told Human Rights Watch that if necessary the capacity could be increased to the 1,500 places promised by the government, but renovation works would be necessary. A similar facility was available in previous years, but with a capacity limited to 120 places.

French government officials informed Human Rights Watch in December and January that steps had been taken to register and process asylum claims promptly. They said that asylum applications had significantly increased in 2014, that 422 places in reception centers had been offered to asylum applicants from Calais, and that 500 additional places had been made available in reception centers outside Calais to accommodate those who claim asylum in Calais, although it is unclear how those places will be allocated and when they will all become available.

While these steps are an improvement, the situation remains dire for many migrants and asylum seekers and the new facilities are very basic. The French government needs to intensify its efforts to ensure that all asylum seekers—including those covered by the Dublin Regulation—are provided with accommodation without delay as EU law requires, Human Rights Watch said. The government should consider making the emergency shelter available independently of the temperature, and ensure there are sufficient places for all undocumented migrants who are sleeping in the open.

The French government should also immediately investigate reports of police abuse against asylum seekers and migrants in Calais and hold anyone found responsible for abuse to account. The government should issue clear guidance to police officers clarifying the prohibition of unjustified and disproportionate use of force, including pepper spray.

“The French government should put a stop to any police abuse and honor its commitment to promptly provide housing to asylum seekers,” Leghtas said. “A lasting solution to the crisis in Calais is long overdue.”

Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Calais
Asylum seekers and migrants have been living in makeshift camps and on the street in the Calais area since the French government closed a center run by the Red Cross in Sangatte, near Calais, in 2002. The center had a capacity of 700 people, but accommodated up to 2,000 and was labeled by the French and UK governments as a pull factor for undocumented migrants seeking to enter the UK.

Hundreds were evicted by the authorities in September 2009. The number of asylum seekers and migrants then decreased to about 200, but in the summer of 2014, numbers increased again, with people fleeing from conflict and repression in Sudan, Syria, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. Hundreds were evicted from makeshift camps in Calais in May and July 2014, in most cases without any adequate alternative accommodation being provided.

Most asylum seekers and migrants Human Rights Watch interviewed said they had arrived in Europe through Italy, but that they did not stay there due to poor reception conditions.

The EU’s Dublin Regulation allows EU countries to send asylum seekers back to the first EU country they entered, where they are identified by their fingerprints in an EU-wide database. Many asylum seekers in Calais told Human Rights Watch they avoided providing their fingerprints in Italy or France.

An asylum seeker’s preference for seeking protection in one country over another has no bearing on the validity of their asylum claim.

Reports of Police Abuse
Rosa, 25, who said she was from Eritrea, told Human Rights Watch that on November 14, police officers beat her up when they found her in a truck on the highway. As with others interviewed, she is identified only by her first name, for her protection. The first names of some interviewees were changed at their request.

“The police checked the truck and found me,” she said. “I said, ‘Please help me,’ but they beat me and I collapsed outside the truck. They kicked me on the ground.” Rosa said she lost consciousness and woke up in the hospital’s emergency room. When Human Rights Watch interviewed her on November 25 in a Calais hospital where she had had an operation on her right leg, she said she expected to spend six more weeks in the hospital. Human Rights Watch was unable to verify the cause of her injury.

Salamou, 28, from Eritrea, said that three police officers beat him near a gas station on the evening of November 25.

“I was walking, normal,” he said. “Four policemen got out of their van and beat me with their boots and with a baton. After they beat me a policeman put a torch on me and laughed at me. ‘Just help me,’ I said, but he laughed. They kicked me on the ground, just like a dog.” When Human Rights Watch interviewed Salamou, the day after he said he was beaten by police, he had visible injuries on his nose.

“There are good police and bad police,” said Ahmed Ibrahim, a 17-year-old asylum seeker from Sudan living in a makeshift camp in Calais. He told Human Rights Watch that two policemen had kicked him as he emerged from an empty car, where he and three men were sitting for shelter from the rain. “I wanted to claim asylum here but with this violence, I’d rather they send me back to Sudan. I won’t stay in France. They [the police] hit you, people throw eggs at you. I got a bad image of France.”

Mohammad, 32, from Sudan, said he was walking in the street at midday on November 2 when a police officer beat him on the back with a baton. “I ran and I fell into a hole,” he said. “The police called an ambulance. I spent 20 days in the hospital, my arm was broken in three places.” He had a cast on his arm at the time of the interview.

On December 3, “Aziz,” a 29-year-old from Afghanistan, said police officers had beaten him three days earlier.

“I was in the street using Wi-Fi on my phone at about 11 p.m.,” he said. “When they [police officers] came, I started to run, they pushed me down to the ground… One policeman pushed me, I was down on the ground, they sprayed me [with pepper spray] and when I looked back they beat me. There was blood from my face, under my eye and nose and knee. I didn’t see anything because they first sprayed me then they beat me on my legs, all over my body.” A Human Rights Watch researcher saw traces of injuries on Aziz’s face, and holes in his pants’ knees, which he said were from being pushed and beaten on the ground.

Aziz said police officers had also beaten him 20 days earlier when they found him hiding in a truck on the highway. “They beat me with their hands, punched me on my face, my nose was bleeding. [They beat me] with a stick on my body, then they took me out from the lorry and said ‘Go! Go to the jungle!’” The jungle is a reference to the largest of the makeshift camps where the asylum seekers take shelter.

On November 26, Kader, a 24-year-old from Ethiopia, told Human Rights Watch in the emergency waiting room at a Calais hospital: “I was on the road, on my bike, yesterday at 5 p.m. A white police van with a blue line [which corresponds to the description of a van belonging to the French riot police] stopped. Five policemen got out, one of them pushed me on the shoulder and I fell on my right arm. He kicked me, then sprayed my face.” When a Human Rights Watch researcher met Kader a week later, his arm was in a resin cast and in a sling, fashioned from a scarf.

The French authorities claim that pepper spray is only used to deter large groups from climbing onto trucks. But migrants said it was used in other situations as well. Mohammad, 26, from Sudan, said: “They [the police] spray you like you’re an insect. It’s happened to all of us in the street.”

Souhail, 20, from Iran, said: “Three times police sprayed me when I was in the truck. I was alone. The three times were about a month ago. Police officers opened the door and before saying anything they sprayed my face, I couldn’t see anything and twice they punched me with their boots and hands.”

Lina, 25, from Eritrea, said she had fallen off the steep edge of the highway near the largest camp in Calais when police officers sprayed her face as she tried to get into a truck with a group. “We wanted to go in [the truck], the police came, they said ‘Go! Go!’ and sprayed in my eyes, I fell down,” she said.

In a media interview on November 30, Thierry Alonso, the outgoing director of public safety for the Pas-de-Calais department and chief of police in the Calais area, denied any abuse by law enforcement officials against migrants. He claimed that “whatever the accusations against the police and gendarmes” working under his authority, “everything that can be said is unfounded. There have been no injured and there has been no violence against the migrants.”

In a meeting with Human Rights Watch on December 16, the interior minister’s adviser on policing said that “No police violence is tolerated” and that, while he was not aware of reports of police abuse against migrants and asylum seekers in Calais, any allegations based on precise facts would be investigated.

On January 14, Denis Robin, the prefect of the Pas-de-Calais department, told Human Rights Watch that while there were injured migrants in Calais, their injuries were sustained during attempts to cross over to the UK or inflicted by other migrants. He denied that any were due to excessive and unjustified use of force by police.

Excessive and unjustified use of force by police is prohibited under French criminal law, and a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), both of which France is a party to. Under the United Nations (UN) Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, law enforcement officials, in carrying out their duty, may use force “only if other means remain ineffective or without any promise of achieving the intended result.” If the lawful use of force is unavoidable, law enforcement officials must exercise restraint and not use any more force than is proportionate to achieve a legitimate objective such as protecting personal safety.

Inadequate Living Conditions

Lack of Shelter, Water, and Sanitation
In November and December, Human Rights Watch visited four makeshift camps in Calais and a group of asylum seekers living in the street. Hundreds of people, including women and very young children, were sleeping in tents, on mattresses outside, with little or no shelter from the cold. During Human Rights Watch’s visit, temperatures were as low as 1 degree Celsius [34 degree Fahrenheit] during the day.

None of the camps have sanitation and access to water is limited. People collect water from the nearest water source. One camp has a water source, but people in the other places had to walk between 300 meters and 2 kilometers to find water.

Local groups estimate that 800 to 900 people live in the largest camp, consisting of two sites near each other referred to locally as “the jungle.” One is on the site of a chemical plant and includes an indoor sports hall where more than 100 people sleep in tents or on the floor. The other site is in a wood nearby. Local groups estimate that 200 women and children, including small children, live in those two camps.

Until a day center partially opened on January 15, local charities provided one daily meal to around 700 asylum seekers and migrants in the city center. For many, it is their only meal of the day and they have to walk there and then wait in line in the cold to receive the food. The new center is 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) away from one of the large makeshift camps in Calais. The mayor of Calais has banned the distribution of meals in places other than the new center, though one of the charities said they would provide meals to people living in that camp twice per week.

The most common concerns cited by people living in the camps were the cold and the lack of access to sanitation. The humanitarian organization Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) provides showers once a week in two camps and to women and children living in the largest camp, with a capacity of 20 to 25 showers per visit.

Zeinab, a 23-year-old woman from Ethiopia living with her husband in the largest camp, told Human Rights Watch that she washes outside with a plastic sheet around her. “More than food, not having a bathroom is a bigger problem,” she said.

Isabelle Bruand, coordinator for Médecins du Monde in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, described the living conditions for asylum seekers and migrants in Calais as “unacceptable and catastrophic.” Bruand listed skin problems such as scabies, stomach aches and headaches due to insufficient food, breathing problems due to humidity, back problems and toothaches as direct or indirect consequences of these living conditions.

Unwillingness to Apply for Asylum in France
The majority of those Human Rights Watch interviewed said they wanted to apply for asylum, but many said they did not do so in France because of a lack of accommodation for asylum seekers, as well as police abuse and hostility from some sections of the local population. Some also mentioned the length of the asylum procedure as a deterrent.

The ordinary asylum application procedure in France takes over two years. The bill before parliament aims to reduce this period to nine months.

Abdallah, 21, from Sudan, told Human Rights Watch on December 3 that he had been living in the largest makeshift camp in Calais for four months.

“I have friends who gave their fingerprints four months ago and they’re living with us in the ‘jungle.’ So I’d rather try and go to the UK,” he said. “Life is very, very hard. There are problems with everything: the bathroom, one meal a day is provided by [the local charity] Salam, sometimes we get help from people here and we’re thankful but it’s not what we expected.”

“People who gave their fingerprints [in France] are staying here with us,” said Nasr-Eddin, a 30 year-old from Sudan living in a camp in Calais. “I would apply for asylum but the problem is accommodation, the cold, food.”

“Ashraf,” a 25 year old asylum seeker from Sudan also living in a camp, said: “We don’t have a place to wash, to pray. France is good but it [the asylum process] takes time. Where do you sleep, eat? I would apply for asylum in France but there’s no place to stay.”

Mohammad Moussa, a 27-year-old asylum seeker from Sudan living in a camp in Calais, said: “People know life in the UK is hard and expensive. France is much better. But here you’re under the rain, in the cold, you get sick. In the UK, I’ll get accommodation and the asylum process will be quicker.”

Salamou, the Eritrean man beaten by police, said he had planned to apply for asylum in France, but that after he was beaten by police he changed his mind and was trying to go to the UK.

Inadequate Response from the French Government
In November, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve made an announcement about the opening of a day center—where meals will be provided outside—for 1,500 asylum seekers and migrants in Calais, saying it would open in January. But only limited facilities—food, water, toilets, and mobile phone charging—were available on the site as of January 15. The complete site with 60 showers and access to legal assistance will not open until April. The site will include separate shelters, with 20 showers, to accommodate 100 women and young children full time, although this facility will not open until March 20. According to the Prefect and to an advisor at the Ministry of Housing this facility could potentially be expanded to accommodate more vulnerable persons if needed. Men will continue to be without shelter during the night.

Under article 13 of the European Union directive of January 27, 2003, laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers (the reception directive), EU member states must provide “material reception conditions to ensure a standard of living adequate for the health of applicants and capable of ensuring their subsistence.”

Under French law, asylum seekers are entitled to accommodation in a state reception center (centre d’accueil pour les demandeurs d’asile, CADA), where they also receive social and administrative support while their asylum claim is processed.

Parliament in November approved 500 more places in reception centers in various parts of France to accommodate asylum seekers from Calais.

On December 3, the prefect—government representative—in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region announced that a warehouse would be made available for up to 1,500 migrants in Calais on nights when the temperature is minus 5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit) or less. The warehouse opened on December 26 but it was closed on January 2 when the temperature rose. It reopened on January 14 because of high winds in the Calais region. The organization which runs the warehouse told Human Rights Watch on January 5 that it has a maximum capacity of 500 places.

The French government should comply with its obligations under the EU reception directive and immediately provide accommodation to all asylum applicants while their claims are processed, including those who indicate an intention to seek asylum. The government should also work with humanitarian and nongovernmental groups to help arrange emergency accommodation for any undocumented migrant without shelter in Calais, particularly during the winter months.

Source: Human Rights Watch

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Oromummaa Isaanii Qofaan Yakkamuun Barattooti Oromoo Kolleejjii Barsiisota Jimmaa 17 Qondaalota Wayyaanee fi Bulchitoota Mooraan Akeekachiisi Yeroo Itti Kennamu 8 Ammoo Tohannaa Jala Jiru

January 14, 2015By Qeerrooin Oduu/NewsLeave a comment

Gabaasa Qeerroo Jimmaa

Amajjii13,2015 Sabboontootni barattootni Oromoo Koolleejjii Barsiisota Jimmaa Oromummaa isaanii qofaan yakkamuun mootummaa Abbaa Irree Wayyaanee EPRDF/OPDO’shororkeeffama jiru. Mooraan Dhaabbilee barnoota olanoo biyyattis mooraa Siyaasaa fi Waraanatti jijjirama jira.

Mootummaan abbaa irree Wayyaanee torbee darbee keessa sabboontota Kadhmamtoota barsiisota Oromoo Koolleejjii barsiisota Jimmaa irraa Leenjii barsiisummaa fudhacha jiran kanneen waggaa 3ffaa barachaa jiranii fi eebbfamtoota ta’ani yeroo amm piraaktikeemiidhaf bobbaafamani jiran irratti shira guddaa xaxaa jiraachuun barattoota Oromo homaa baalleessa tokko ilee hin qabneen isin yakkamtoota mootummaa keenya irratti fincila gaggeessa jirtu jechuun Barattootni Oromoo 18 dabballootaa Wayyaaneef ergamanii bulanii fi hogganaa koolleejji barsiisota Jimmaan doorsifaman, ergamtootni sirnichaa fi dhaaba jalee Wayyaaneef ergamanii kanneen ilmaan Oromoo akka hin baratneef barnoota irraa ugguraman gochaa jiran keessa Abbaa Zinaab hogganaa koollejjii barsiisota Jimmaa fi dabballee human tikaa Wayyaanee nama Taarikuu jedhamu wal ta’uun ilmaan Oromo akka hin baratneef maqaa Wallee Warraaqsaa sirbuun ABO f WBO faarsitan, Sirboota qabsoo Sirbitan, mootummaa keenyaa irratti wallee warraqsa sirbuun uummata kakasaa jirtu  jedhuun barattoota Oromo dararuu irraatti argamu barattootni Oromo haala kanaan dararama jiranii fi barnoota irraas ni arii’amtu jechuun dorsfaman:

1,Barataa Muktaar Hamdii

2,Barataa Rabbirraa Geexee

3,Barattuu Hawwii Guutuu

4,Barataa Magaarsaa Gobaanaa

5,barataa Fayyisaa Mijanaa

6,baraaa Zufaan Adafaaris

7,barataa Abbabaa kumsaa

8,barataa Guddisaa Bongaasee

9,barattuu Jalaannee Guddataa

10,barataa Mustaafaa Huseen

11,barataa Zawudee Qadidaa

12,barataa Amiin Wadoo

13,barattuu Maraartuu Geetuu

14,barataa Qanaanisaa Dhaabaa

15,barattuu Yetnabbarsh Mallasaa

16, barataa Tasfaayee Dajanee

17,barataa Buziyee kannen keessatti argaman ilmaan Oromoo dabballoota ergamtoota wayyaaneen dorsifamuun barnoota isanii irra ugguramaa jiranii fi kanneen dabbaloota wayyaaneen shorokeeffamaa jiran ta’uu n hubachiifna.

Kuni utuu kanaan Jiruu ergamtootni Wyyaanee kun ittuma fufuun barattoota Oromoo 8 irratti xiyyeeffannaa addaa gochuun Amajjii 13/2015 beeksisaa irratti basuun barattoota Oromo mooraa koolleejjii barsiisota Jimmaa Biiroo hogganaa kollajjichaatti waamuun doorsisaa jiraachuun bira ga’ame jira. Barattootni Oromoo haala kanaan dararama jiran keessa:

1. Barataa Tokkummaa Hundee mummee Herreegaa waggaa 3ffaa
2. Barataa Gulummaa Lammaa mummee  Afaan Ingiliffaa waggaa 2ffaa
3. Barataa Ababaa Gudee  mummee biology waggaa 3ffaa
4. Barataa Asaffaa dhugumaa mummee Keemistirii waggaa 3ffaa
5. Barataa Taaddalaa Taarikuu muummee Herregaa waggaa 2ffaa
6. Barataa Abarraa Dheeressaa mummee Herreegaa waggaa 3ffaa
7. Barataa Qaqqabaa Humneessaa mummee herreegaa wagga 3ffaa
8. Brataa Sabboonaa Awwaqii mummee Herreegaa waggaa 3ffa kanneen baratan addatti basuun doorsifni fi shororkeessi Oromoo ta’uu qofan irratti gaggeeffama jira.

Gochaa diinummaa kana fi uggura barattoota Oromoo irratti rawwatamaa jiru kanaan walqabatee FDG dhoofamuuf akka jiru  Qeerroon Bilisummaa Oromoo hubachiisuun, Barattootni oromoo Oromummaan Yakkamuu fi Doorsifamun gootummadha,gootni biyyaaf falmata, dhugaaf dubbata ilmaan Oromoo walduukaa dhaabbachuun shiraa fi shororkeessuummaa wayyaanee dura haa dhaabbannu jechuun dhaams dabarse.

Hating woyane only by thought will not lead us to freedom

By Firehiwot Guluma Tezera | January 13, 2015

There is no doubt that the biggest aspiration of Oromo nationals (both those living abroad and those at home under the colonial regime of Woyane in their native land) is acquiring freedom. To be free of over hundred years of an outsider rule and seeing the light of freedom is the wish of the young, and adult men and women Oromos. The one question everybody talks about and asks oneself is ‘when is it that I get out of my enemy’s rule and get my freedom?’ ‘When is it that I get away from the killings, imprisonments, tortures and looting of the ruthless Woyane and live in my native land peacefully and wealthy?’ This is the wish of Oromos who have fled the imprisonments and tortures of Woyane and those still living under the daily persecutions of Woyane.

The Oromo people: those who live in Oromiyaa and forced to flee their native land by the Habesha rulers of yesterday and the current Woyane regime — the enemy Woyane that came to their land and disturbing their peace life; the enemy that is plundering their possessions; the enemy that has colonized them forcefully on their own land and carrying out summary executions; the enemy that has forced their children to drop out of school to keep them incompetent; the enemy that has taken their rich land away and selling it away — it is obvious that the Oromo people despise and don’t want to see this enemy.

Today, when asked, any Oromo will tell you that, for the Oromo, living under the TPLF regime even for a single day is a humiliating thing. They will tell you that, for a population of this size, to live in their native land under the persecutions of Woyane is humiliating with no match. They are fed up and angry, and talk with resentments about the killings, imprisonments, tortures and plunders against the Oromo people. The one thing we must ask is: Is our anger towards Woyane and the previous Habesha regimes only by talking or by action?

We can’t evaluate ourselves by any indicator if we keep asking ourselves this question. The enemy is working day and night to rule over us through force. The enemy is plundering our nation, and killing and torturing our heroes. We only want to live in freedom, but are unwilling to contribute what is expected from us. The others only despise, scold, and swear at our enemy. We consider that converting our feeling for our enemy INTO ACTION is the obligation of the few fighters and heroes who are genuinely struggling — not just the few, but all must act in union. This is a wrong assumption that will help our enemies to rule over us longer. Even though we are people who have everything, this wrong assumption has helped Woyane to rule over us for 23 years by imprisoning, looting, killing and torturing us. Even for the future, if don’t change this wrong assumption and struggle with actions in unison for our rights, the rule of Woyane will, no doubt, will continue.

To solve the problems facing us today and get our freedom, every Oromo, who has escaped and still escaping the persecutions ofWoyane and the previous regimes, should also remember the various problems they face in asylum-seekers camps. While living in a country who has given them refuge, they must be there to help those living under the rule of Woyane. They must not forget their people even for a second. Only talking about the suffering endured by them and their people will not suffice. The big Oromo people – who are still languishing under the brutal rule of Woyane in their own land – should speak up and show their dissatisfaction with actions.

So every Oromo – adult, the young, the elderly, men and women, those with knowledge by their knowledge, the rich by donations andthe strong by their  strength should stand with Oromo Liberation front (OLF) which is struggling to liberate the great Oromo people, and should struggle though actions not only by talking.

Labsa Tokkoomuu ABO fi KY – ABO

Amajjii 9, 2015

Yeroo ammaa haalli hamaan ummanni keenya biyya isaa Oromiyaa keessatti mudachaa jiru himamee kan hin dhumne tahuus haala sukaneessa akka tahe beekamaa dha. Ummanni Oromoo biyya isaa keessatti mirga abbaa biyyummaa dhaabee, lafaa fi qabeenyi isaa akka malee saamamee, badii takkan maletti hidhamaa fi ajjeefamaa jira. Ajjeechaan jumulaa ummata Oromoo irratti mootummaa TPLF (EPDRF)n tooftaa dhoksaan raawatamaa jira. Barattoonni Oromoo waan gaaffii mirgaa gaafataniif, mana barnoota sadarkaa adda addaatti fi universitooata keeysatti rasaasan ajeefamaa fi hidhamanii gochaan garajabinaa ilma namaarratti hin raawwatamne irratti hojjatamaa jira.

Kanneen hidhaa diinaa jalaa miliqan barnootarraa arihamuu fi biyyoota ollaa keessatti alloolamuurraa bilisa tahuu hin dendeenye. Miidhaa fi darara ar’aan tana ummata keenya akka ummataatti irratti raawwachaa jiraniin alatti Oromiyaa qircachuu/ciranii hiratuudhaan balleessuuf saganteefatani jiru. Kana malees, Oromummaa sammuu Oromoo keessaa haquudhaaf tattaaffii godhamaa jirtu ofirraa faccisuudhaa fi mirgaa fi eenyummaa Oromoof caalaatti wabii tahuudhaaf maloottan jiran keessaa malli inni tokko Oromoon akka sabaatti; jaarmoonni siyaasaa Oromoo fi Oromummaa akka dhaabaa fi gurmuutti wal tahuudhaan diina innikkaa dura dhaabbatuun tarkaanfii murteessaa fudhachuun barbaachisaa dha.

Waan taheef, marii Araaraa fi Tokkummaa ABO fi Koree Yeroo ABO (KY-ABO) gidduutti waggaa lamaa oliif deemaa turte xumura itti godhuun tokkummaadhaan akka dhaaba tokkootti sochoo’uf murtii irra geenyee jirra. Dhaaba keenya ABO jalatti miseensota, hoogganoota, fi qabeenya keenya akkasuma beekkomsaa fi dandeettii teenya walitti dabaluudhaan caasaa tokkicha jalatti Qabsoo Bilisummaa Oromoo tan ABOn gegeeffamtu akka qaama tokkootti finiinusuuf tokkoomne jirra. Jaarmayootiin tokkooman kun sagantaa, heeraa fi seera ABOtti buluu fi hujiirra oolchuuf akka jabeenyaan hojatan mirkaneessanii jiru. Mariin tokkoomuuf godhamaa ture kun yeroo hamma tokko fixullee ABO fi KY – ABO bara haaraya Amajjii 1, 2015, waliigaltee jaarmayoota kanaa haala abdii fi hamilee qabuun mallatteessudhan xumuramuu isaa miseensota, deeggartootaa fi ummata Oromoo yeroo beeksisan gammachuu guddaadhani.

Mormii fi waldhabbii yaadaa nu jidutti dhalatteen adda bahuun keenya ummata Oromoo fi firoottan isaa yeroo gadisiisu, diinotii fi farreen QBO warra tahan akka itti gammadan tasiseeti ture. Arra ammoo walii galtee fi tokkoomuun jaarmayoota keenyaa ummata Oromoo kan gamchiisu yoo tahu, diinottii fi warreen farra QBO tahan akka gaddisiisu beekamaadha. Rakkina QBO mudate irra aanuuf jaarmayoota fi gurmuu qabsaawotaa kanneen kaayoo Bilisummaa Ummata Oromoo fi walabummaa Oromiyatti amanan walitti deebi’uun mooraan QBO jabeessuun barbaachisaa waan taheef, waliigalteen kun moraa qabsoo itichuuf tattaaffii godhamaa jiru keessaa qooda guddaa qaba janna. Ummatni Oromoo fi deggertoonni QBOtis fiixa bahiinsa walii galtee araaramuu fi tokkomuu ABO kana karaa hundaan akka cinaa dhaabbatan waamicha keenya dabarsina.

Haaluma kanaan, moraa QBO caalaatti itichuuf mariin dhaabootaa fi murnoota waliin deemaa jiru itti fufiinsaan akka xumura argatu gama keenyaan waan nurraa barbaachisu gochuuf waada keenya irra deebinee haaroomsina. Jaarmayoonni moraa Qabsoo Bilisummaa itichuuf fedhii fi hawwii qaban martuu gama isaaniitiinis akka waan barbaachisuu hunda godhani yaada eebifamaa kana milkeessuuf hojjattan waamicha goona.

Miseensoota, deegartoota fi ummanni keenya hundi moraa QBO itichuun akeeka ABO tahuu fi mareen kun barbaachisaa akka tahe hubachuun, akeeka kana dhugoomsuu irratti waan barbaachisu hunda akka gootan waamicha keenya isiniif dabarsina. Akkasuma walii galtee ammaa kanas mikeessuu fi hojiitti hiikuuf obsaan, garaa-bal’ina fi gamnummaan akka sochootan yaadachiifna.

Injifannoo Ummata Oromoof!
Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo (ABO)
KY – ABO

ETHIOPIA: Oromo Voices from Ethiopia Prisons

HRLHA Urgent Action

January 6, 2015

Since the March-April 2014 crackdowns against the peaceful Oromo protesters who have protested against the Ethiopian Federal Government’s plan of annexation of 36 small Oromia towns to the capital city of Addis Ababa under the pretext of the “Addis Ababa Integrated Plan”, thousands of Oromo nationals from all walks of life from all corners of Oromia regional state including Wollo Oromo’s in Amhara regional state have been detained or imprisoned. Some have disappeared and many have been murdered by a special commando group called “the Agiazi force”. The “The Agiazi” force is still chasing down and arresting Oromo nationals who participated in the March-April, 2014 peaceful protests. Fearing the persecution of the Ethiopian government, hundreds of students did not return to the universities, colleges and high schools; most of them have left for the neighboring states of Somaliland and Puntiland of Somalia where they remain at high risk for their safety. Wollo Oromos who are living in Ahmara regional state of Oromia special Zone are also among the victims of the EPRDF government. Hundreds of Wollo Oromos have been detained because of their connection with the peaceful protests of March-April 2014. The EPRDF government has detained many Oromo nationals in Wollo Oromia special Zone under the pretext of being members or supporters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), as prisoners’ voices from Dessie/Wollo prison have revealed.

From among the many Oromos who were picked from different districts and places from Wollo Oromia special Zone in Amhara regional state in April 2014, the HRLHA reporter in the area has received a document which shows that 26 Oromo prisoners pleaded to the South Wollo High Court that they were illegally detained first in Kamise town military camp for 36 days, Kombolcha town Police Station for 27 Days, and Dessie city higher 5 Police Station for 10 days- places where they were severely tortured and then transferred to Dessie Prison in July 2014. According to the document, they were picked up from three different districts and different places by federal police and severely beaten and tortured at different military camps and police stations and their belongings including cash and mobile telephones were taken by their torturers. In their appeal letter to the South Wollo high court they demanded

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HRLHA Holds Public Meetings with Oromo Community Members

January 1, 2015

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) held, over the past three weeks, public meetings with members of Oromo Communities in four cities of Canada and discussed human rights issues in the Horn of Africa in general and in Ethiopia in Particular. The Oromo communities involved were those of Toronto/Ontario, Edmonton & Calgary/Alberta and Winnipeg/Manitoba; and the major topic of discussion at all the four public meetings was the unabated gross human rights violations by the different regimes of the Ethiopian Government for over a century, with particular focus on what have been happening in the past twenty years under the current TPLF/EPRDF government.

Toronto:

The public gathering in Toronto was held on December 13, 2014 at the office of Oromo Canadian community Association. At the gathering, HRLHA Executive Director Mr. Garoma B. Wakessa explained in his presentation “the gross and Systematic violations of human rights against Oromo nation and other nationals in Ethiopia in the past and at present” by different governments that ruled the country. Extra judicial killings, mass arrests and detentions, kidnappings and disappearances, and tortures under the present government in particular have been discussed in details.

Besides, Mr. Tesfaye Dheressa Kumsa, Director of Investigations and Dissemination with HRLHA, who did a presentation on “Land Grabs and Evictions as a Cultural Genocide”, explained how forced displacements of the Oromos and others from their farm lands and the resultant detachments and disconnections from traditional rural lives have been causing destructions of precious cultural assets, values, and wisdoms from which the societies have been benefiting generation after generation.

The HRLHA presenters explained that they are working with other civil society organizations to bring the perpetrators to justice and urged all human rights advocates to stand together in this regard.

Edmonton and Calgary:

On December 20 and 21, 2014, similar public meetings were held in Edmonton and Calgary/Alberta respectively, and many Oroms participated and discussed human rights violation issues in Oromia and Other  regions in Ethiopia.

At the gathering, HRLHA Executive Director Mr. Garoma B. Wakessa presented “the gross and Systematic violations of human rights against Oromo nation and other nationals in Ethiopia in the past and at present”  by different governments that ruled the country.

Extra judicial killings, mass arrests and detentions, kidnappings and disappearances, and tortures under the present government in particular have been discussed in details. The participants have actively participated in discussion by giving their perspectives on the continuous gross human right violations by EPRDF government of Ethiopia against Oromo young generation in particular. At the end of the meeting, the consensus has been reached that the perpetrators should be brought to justice for genocide they had committed and also Oromos must pay all necessary sacrifices to resist the evil action of the EPRDF Government to save Oromo nation from more victimizing.

Winnipeg/Manitoba:

On Dec 27, similar meeting was held in Winnipeg/Manitoba and many Oromos participated and discussed human rights violation issues in Oromia and Other regions in Ethiopia.

Winnipeg

Extra judicial killings, mass arrests and detentions, kidnappings and disappearances, and tortures under the present government in particular have been discussed in details. After many hours’ explanations and discussions on genocide the EPRDF government has committed against Oromo nationals and others, the consensus has been reached that the perpetrators should be brought to justice for genocide they had committed and also Oromos must pay all necessary sacrifices to resist the evil action of the EPRDF Government to save Oromo nation from more victimizing.

During the discussions at four meetings held, it has been concluded that, by committing such well documented human atrocity, the Ethiopian government has violated the constitution of the land, regional, and International human rights treaties it has signed and ratified. The continued gross human right violations in Oromia, Ogadenian and Gambela regions in the past twenty three years by the EPRDF Government were/are intentionally committed genocides and crimes against humanity. For its deliberate actions of killings, torturing and disappearing its citizens, the EPRDF Government should be accountable. For the heinous human atrocity of EPRDF government against Oromo, Ogaden and Gambela people there are credible documents and proofs to hold the EPRDF Government accountable for its criminal actions and to bring the perpetrators to justice. The participants raised several questions on the possibilities of bringing the government to justice and all possibilities were explained by the presenters.

Finally Oromo participants of the four meetings thanked all HRLHA members for their commitment of defending human rights and promised to support HRLHA financially to make the organization stronger. HRLHA chapter organization was created during the meetings to help the organization’s more involvement in the communities.