Brutality of the TPLF Regime Against the Oromo People – Statement from the Dallas/Fort-Worth Oromo Community

Brutality of the TPLF Regime Against the Oromo People – Statement from the Dallas/Fort-Worth Oromo Community

Posted: Caamsaa/May 9, 2014 · Gadaa.com

Statement from the Oromo Community of Dallas/Fort-Worth, Texas.

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We, the concerned Oromo community in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, unanimously condemn the actions taken by the TPLF regime of the Government of Ethiopia against the Oromo students who were peacefully demonstrating for the right of the Oromo being illegally evicted from their land around Finfine (Addis Ababa) due to the Master Plan of the TPLF Regime.  The TPLF turned the peaceful demonstration of our students into bloody scene in most parts of Oromia – chasing them around and killing them at will and forcing their families to stay at home under curfew so that they could not find their dead children and bury them, and also blocked them from contacting those who were wounded and needed help.

We join all of our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora in condemning the brutality of this evil regime against our brothers and sisters in Oromia, and we will do everything in our power to urgently assist them by every means necessary.

Even though similar actions have been committed against the Oromo people over the past hundred years by consecutive regimes of the Ethiopian empire, they have rarely or never reported to the world at large. Consequently, the TPLF regime has intensified its brutal action against Oromo students at present.  It also appears to us that there is no end in sight for the brutality against the Oromo people.  We ask all the Oromo people in the Diaspora to join hands, and help our people regardless our differences. This is our time, and we must be prepared to face it.

1. Freedom is not a gift to be presented on a silver platter; it must be taken by force. A general who lost contact with his base was once asked where he got all of his tools to win the war against his enemies. He answered, “I discovered how to get it from them, and they provided everything I needed and I used it against them,” he said. Everything the Oromo people need to be independent is right there in the country. We just must know how to get it, and use it against our enemies. Sacrifices are the order of the day that is the only road to freedom known to humanity.
2. We ask our Oromo media outlets to follow up the activities of the TPLF regime daily and report to the Oromo public and the world at large.
3. We propose a centralized command center with trusted leadership. In the meantime, we have to do our best to do what we can to help our people right now.
4. Since the Oromo farmers, Oromo students and their families, and the Oromo people in general are not treated as equal citizens of Ethiopia, we must start considering withholding taxes paid to the TPLF regime and its cronies who are forever marginalizing the Oromo people at all levels of government through their political systems and their jurisprudence.
5. Even if we demand that this regime free all political prisoners, they might free some of them, but can put them right back after a while as long as they are ruling the country; therefore, they have to go. We request that international community to send observers to investigate the situation in our country.
6. The Oromo people must resist government corruption, foster Oromo spring, promote awareness and protect protesters by all means available.
7. The Oromo people must recognize that this regime is engaged in genocide of wiping out the Oromo people out of Oromia; therefore, we must work for complete independence of the Oromo people with unison.
8. We demand that all religious leaders in our country and in the Diaspora to get actively involved in preventing the massacres of our students.
9. We demand all criminals in Ethiopia be brought to international courts.
10. We must create an Oromia government in exile until our independence.
11. We must create an Oromo Red Cross/Red Crescent society to take care of our wounded and help us in all kind of disasters.

Long live the Oromo people and Oromo students!