Barataa Sabboonaa Oromoo Yuuniversitii Gondar Keessatti Oromummaan Yakkamee Wareega Kafale.

November 30, 2013By Qeerrooin Oduu/NewsLeave a comment

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Bara Dhaloota isaa:-Fulbaana 1/1983 A.L.H tti.

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Barataan kun akkuma ibsuuf yaalletti barataa Yuuniversitii Gondar,Marketing waggaa 3ffaa kan baratu barri inni yuuniversitii kana seene 2004/2012 yoo tahu kan xumuru waggaa kana 2006/2013 dha. Akkuma beekamu barataan kun guyyaa sadaasa 24/2013barattoota garee isaa department Marketing kan tahan barattoota 60 ol kan tahan waliin bakka Daashan Biiraa jedhamutti yeroo afeerraa godhatanii turani. Haata’u malee afeerraa qaban booda galgala keessaa sa’a 9:00 PM bakka itti afeerraa taasofatan kana irraa gara mooratti kan deebi’an yoo tahu barattootni oromoo addatti wal foo’uudhaan sirboota qabsoo kan dhageessisaa daandii gubbaa irra deemantu ture. Barattootni habashaa ammo iyya garmaleetiin naannoo jeequudhaan namoota daandii irra socho’an ille humnatti gargaaramuudhaan reebuudhaan socho’a akka turaniidha. Tahus barattootni oromoo sirboota qabsoo dhageessisaa daandii irraa yoo socho’an barattootni habashaa kunneen ammo iyyaa hedduu nama rifaasisuun jeequmsa uumanillee boroo Daashan Biiraa bakka bishaan Qahaa jedhamu ce’uudhaan ganda 18 akka gahaniin hidhattoota wayyaanee daandii irratti bobbahan irratti rukuttaa eegalan,hidhattootni wayyaanee kunis ilmaan habashaa jeequmsa uuman kana irratti kan xiyyeefatan osoo hin taanee barattoota oromoo sirba qabsoo dhageessisan kana irratti kan guddaa xiyyeefatanii fi warra ABO(ONEG) faarsu jechuudhaan dhukaasa irratti banana.Barataa adda duree tahee faaruu qabsoo oromoo dhageessisaa  ture barataa Anteneeh Asfawuu jedhamu kana irratti kallattumaan dugda isaa irra rasaasaan reebuudhaan barattoota isa waliin jiranis tamsaasani.Rukutamuun mucaa kanaa galgaluma guyyaa kanaa sa’a 9:30 PM irrattiidha.Kallattuma rasaasaan rukutameen gara Hospitaala mooraa yuuniversitii Gondaritti fudhatani, Hospitaala kanatti yaalamee maal irra akka jirullee dadhabamnaan gara Hospitaala Minilikitti geessani.Barataan kuni Hospitaala kanatti kan lubbuudhaan darbe yoo tahu guyyaa itti aanu Sadaasa 25 barataa du’e kanaan wal qabsiisanii barataan mooraa addatti ammo barattootni oromoo yuuniversitii kanatti argaman hunduu walii galatti baayinni isaanii 3000-4000 kan tahan daandii Hospitaala geessu irratti hiriira bahuudhaan “WE NEED FREEDOM” kan jedhu dhageessisaa turaniiru.

Akkasuma baratooti du’a sabboonticha Oromoo kanaan wal qabsiisee aarii fi dheekkamsa guddaa itti kaasuu irraan akkasumas gaaffii Oromoof deebiin qaama mootummaa irraa dhabamuun wal qabatee qabeenyaa mooraa yuuniversitii sanii kan mancaasan yoo tahu hanga har’aatti ilmaan Oromoo mooraa sana keessatti argamu barataas tahe,barumsa dhaabee, hojjetaas tahe hojii isaa dhaabee,barsiisaa mooraa saniis kan tahe Oromoon barsiisa dhaabee akka jiru yoo tahu ilmaan Habashootaa garuu barumsa isaanii deebi’anii akka jiranii fi tooftaan guyyaa kana uumames ilmaanuma Oromoo tooftaa hin beekamneen ficcisiisuu ture jedha maddi gabaasaa kanaa. Ilmaan Oromoo akkanatti dhiigi dhangala’ee hin hafu, guyyaa eeggata! barumsi nutti  hafee mirga saba keenyaa falmachuuf qabsoo itti fufna  jedhanii barattootni Oromoo hunduu barumsa malee akka jiran gabaasaan addeessa.

Injifannoon Uummata Oromoof!

Mootummaan Wayyaanee Baha Oromiyaa Godina Harargee Bahaa Aanaa Midaagaa Keessatti uummata Sumaalee fi Oromoo walitti Buusaa Jira

Mootummaan Wayyaanee Baha Oromiyaa Godina Harargee Bahaa Aanaa Midaagaa Keessatti uummata Sumaalee fi Oromoo walitti Buusaa Jira

Sadaasa/November 30, 2013 · Gadaa.com

(Qeerroo.org – Sadaasa 29, 2013 – Gabaasa Qeerroo Dirree Daawa) – Wayyaaneen TPLF tooftaa biyya goolu kanneen itti dhimma bahu keessaa tokko sabaa fi sablammiiwwan biyyattii walitti buusuun tokkummaa uummata Impaayera Itoophiyaa keessaa diiguu dha. Haala kana milkeessuuf uummata nagaa walitti buusaa kan ture Baha Oromoo uummata Oromoo fi Sumaalee walitti buusuuf lafa Oromiyaa irraa kutuun uummata Sumaalee qubachiisaa jira. Uummatni Oromoo naannoo daangaa kanaa jiraatan lafti kun keenya jedhanis waraana kumaatamaan bobbaasuun uummata Oromoo irratti miidhaa daangaa hin qabne gaggeessaa jira. Mootummaan wayyaanee yeroo dheeraaf poolisoota federaalaa “Liyyuu Haayil” jedhaman bobbaasuun uummata Oromoo ficcisiisaa turuun isaa ni yaadatama. Shira mootummaa wayyaanee kanaan dammaquun uummatni nagaa waraan akka waliin jiraatu, daangaa Oromiyaa kabajsiisuuf ammoo wareegama barbaachisaa kaffaluu irraa uummatni Oromoo duuba akka hin deebine qeerroon baha Oromiyaa gabaasee jira.

Uummatni Oromoo Godina Gujii saaminsa warqee fi maqaa magaala Nagallee Booranaa gara Nagallee duwwaatti jijjiiramu dura gamtaan dhaabbate

November 28, 2013By Qeerrooin Oduu/NewsLeave a comment

Sadaasa 29,2013 Finfinnee

Saminsi qabeenya Oromoo akka dhaabbatu jechuun uummatni Oromoo Godina Gujii aanaa Saba booruu ganda qeenxachaa diddaa kaase. Mootummaan wayyaanee saaminsa Warqee aanaa kanaa gaggeessa kan ture nurraa haa dhaabu jechuun uummatni gamtaan dura dhaabbatee jira. Waraanni wayyaanee rasaasa dhukaasuun diddaa uummataa saaminsa warqee ilaalchisuun gaggeeffamu dura dhaabbachuuf yaalus uummatni gamtaan sochii waraanaa fashalsee jira.
Haaluma wal fakkaatuun jala deemtotni mootummaa wayyaanee maqaa magaala Nagallee Booranaa jedhamaa ture Booranaa kan jedhu hin barbaachisu kanaaf magaala Nagallee duwwaa haa tahu jechuun murtii dabarsanis uummatni Boorana kan jedhu uummata Oromoo waan ibsuuf haqamuu hin qabu jechuun diddaa dhageessisuu irratti argamu.

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Sadaasa/November 26, 2013 · Gadaa.com

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Siyaasa ammayyaa keessatti ilaa fi ilaameen bakka guddaa qaba. ilaa fi ilaameen garaagarummaa siyaasaa jiru bifa bilchinaa fi beekumsa qabuun waliif keessummeessuuf daandii guddinaa ti. Siyaasa ammayyaa keessatti ilaachi amantaa siyaasaa tokko duwwaan jiraachuu hin danda’u. ilaalchi siyaasaa bifa gara garaan ibsamu jiraachuun isaa dirqama ta’a. haala mooraa siyaasa Oromoos yoo ilaalle kanaan ala miti. Ilaalchi siyaasaa yeroo tokko bakka guddaa qabaachaa ture haala naannoo fi guddina siyaasaa keessatti sarara biraa qabaachuu ni mala. Ykn ho’ina qabaachaa ture hirdhisuu ni mala. Kun sochii (dynamism) siyaasaa ti.

Jecha karaa biraatiin siyaasi waltajii tokko irratti eddu beekamaa fi nama kakaasaa ture, waltajii biraa keessatti ho’inni (tempo) isaa ni qabana’a. kana jechuun ilaalchi siyaasaa sun dadhabe ykn bade jechuu miti. Waltajjiin qabsoo keessatti gaggeessan jijjiramaa waanta dhufeef hooggana adeemsa siyaasaa ture muuxeffachiisu ykn waltajjii yeroo wajjin wal simsiisu gaafachaa jira jechuu dha. hooggana roga hundaa gaafatu haalli siyaasaa gaafachaa jira jechuu dha. hoogganni bifa kanaan qabsoo sabaa dursu, yeroo hunda harka isaa injifannootu jira. hooggana kan kaleessaa irraa baratee, waltajii ardhaa hoogganu, kan boruuf ta’u bu’uura kaahu  qabaachuun qabsoof murteessaa dha.

Hoogganni kan kaleessaa irraa baratee, waltajjii hardhaa beekee, kan boruuf bu’uura tolchu ammoo, yoo hooggansa isaa keessatti ykn dhaaba siyaasaa isaa keessatti ilaalchi ilaa fi ilaameen bakka qabaatee dha. yoo hooggana garaa garummaa siyaasaa jiru, madda rakkoo otoo hin taane madda jabeenyaati jedhee amanu yoo ta’ee dha. kanaaf hoogganni garaa garummaa siyaasaatti amanu bilisaan yaada, bilisummaa qaba, bilisummaa sabaa fi biyyaa dhugoomsa. Hoogganni garaa garummaa siyaasaatti hin amanne ofiifis bilisummaa hin qabu, qabsoo sabaas galii bilisummaan gaha jedhamee hin yaadamu. Sababni isaa qabsoon siyaasaa yeroo hunda dirree garaagarummaan siyaasaa baldhaan keessa jiru keessatti deemama waan ta’eef. Hoogganni kana hubate yeroo hunda danboobaa fi yaadaa bilchaataa nama amansiisu of harkaa qaba. miiraa fi jibbiinsaan qabsoo gaggeessuu ykn hoogganuu irra bilchinaa fi beekumsaan qabsoo sabaa gara galma isaatti geessa. Kanaaf hoogganni keenya garaa garummaan siyaasaa yeroo kamuu kan baduu hin dandeenye ta’uu isaa beekee toftaa ilaa fi ilaameetti dhimma bahuun murteessaa dha.

Haala kanaan yoo qabsoo Oromoo ilaalle waanta eddu irraa barachuu fi irraa hubachuu ni dandeenya. Garaa garummaan siyaasaa mooraa qabsoo Oromoo keessa jiraachuun isaa badii tokko illee hin qabu. badii ta’ee kan jiru ilaa fi ilaameen dhabamuu isaa ti. Ilaa fi ilaameen jiraannaan garaa garummaa jiru gara dhiphisuu fi walii kabajuutti deemama. Garaa garummaa siyaasaa qaban yeroo hunda babaldhisuu fi isa faarsuun yeroo fixuu irra, dhimmoota waloodhaan qaban walitti hirkisanii diina irratti fuulleffachuu fida. Mooraan qabsoo Oromoo ilaa fi ilaalee gabbifachuun galma ga’iinsa qabsoo sabaatiif murteessaa dha.

Dhaabbilee siyaasa Oromoo yoo ilaalle, amma mataa walitti jabaatan diina waloo irratti mataa jabaachuu isaanii nan shakka. Akka hubannoo kiyyaatti diina irra wal irratti duuluutu yeroo qabsoo Oromoo fixee jira. hooggannis ta’ee deeggaraan qabsoo haala kana jijjiruu irra dhimmoota garaa garummaa dhaabbilee siyaasaa gidduu jiru hafarsuun yeroo keenya fixnee jirra. Kun ammoo eessaanuu akka nugahaa hin jirre akka gaariitti nama ija banatee ilaaleef ifa gala dha. wal kabajuu fi ulfina waliif kennuun Oromoon akka aadaatti qabu, hooggantoota siyaasa Oromoo biratti waanta haphachaa dhufe fakkaata. Ilaa fi ilaameen hookkara walirratti kaasuu irraa nama baraara. Dubbii bilchinaan ilaaluuf karaa bana. Daandii qajeeloo qabsoon Oromoo qabaachuu qabdu irratti mari’achuuf haala mijeessa. Kaayyoo dhaabbileen siyaasaa qaban akka gaariitti xiinxalanii akka ilaalaniif yeroo kenna. Ilaalcha tokkummaa fi oromummaa gabbisa. Hunda caala ammoo galii siyaasaa dhaabbilee Oromoo akka galma gahuuf haala mijuu uuma. Kanaaf ilaa fi ilaameen yeroo hunda meeshaa beekumsaa fi bilchinaa ti.

As irratti ilaa fi ilaamee  gabbifachuun kaayyoo dhaabbataniif nama jalaa haqanqaala jedhanii namooti yaadan jiraachuu malu. Kun ilaalcha kaayyoo isaaniif amanamoo ta’uu isaanii hin muldhisu. Faallaa kanaa kaayyoo isaaniif xichoomina dhabuu isaan muldhisa. Namni kaayyoo isaa irratti amantaa qabuu fi bilchinaa fi beekumsaan roga siyaasaa ilaalu, akkamitti kaayyoo isaa galma gahuu akka qabu, waltajjii ykn meesdhaa ilaa fi ilaameedhaan gingilchee sabni (Oromoon) akka hubatu taasisa. Anqinoota kaayyoo keessa jiran yoo jiraatan ifati yeroon sirreessuuf isa gargaara. Kanaaf waltajiin ilaa fi ilaalee kan sodaatamu ykn kan irraa qoollifatamu otoo hin taane, meeshaa jabinaa ti. Kana of amansiisuun beekumsa.

Siyaasa jibbiinsaa fi karaa cabeen haayaasu jedhanii oofan tarii, garee xiqqoo ykn murna siyaasaa amma tokko yeroof waanta fayyadu itti fakkaachuu mala. Adeemsa keessa garuu murna ilaalcha kanaan masakamuu miidhaa deema. Bilisa ta’anii dhimma bilisummaa yaaduun murteessaa dha. namni bilisummaa ilaalchaa fi amilee hin qabne yeroo hunda jibbiinsa siyaasaa oofuutu dursa qabaaf. Kun ammoo siyaasa ilma namaa otoo hin taane, siyaasa bineensotaa ti.

Kanaaf ilaa fi ilaamee mooraa qabsoo Oromoo keessatti gabbisuuf beektota Oromoo fi jaarsotii Oromoo bilisaan yaadan dhaggeeffachuu fi gorsa irraa fudhachuun murteessaa dha. hanqinoota fedhas qabaatu beektota keenyaa fi angafoota qabsoo kabajuu fi waanta keessa darbanii fi egeree sabaaf nama akeekan garaa qulqulluun dhaggeefachuu ykn irraa fudhachuun beekumsa. Qabsoo siyaasaa keessatti barumsi kan argamu moora leenjii dabballee siyaasaa keessatti duwwaa otoo hin taane, duree qabsoo warri turan jaarsoliin mana barumsaa guddaa dha. umurii isaanii irraa waantota amtuus gaariis irraa barachuun ni danda’ama. Waanta keessa darban waltajjii siyaasaa keessa jiran wajjin walqabsiisanii dhimma qabsoof oolchuun hooggana qabsoo amma jiruu gaafata.

Kanaaf ilaa fi ilaalee gabbifachuun kabajaa fi ulfina hoogganoota siyaasaatti hora. Irra caala qabsoon akka finiintu haala mijeessa. Gufuu qabsoo keessaa kaasuuf malaa fi karaa salphaa dha. tokkummaa ilmaan Oromoo jabeessuuf meeshaa guddaa dha.

Dhumma irratti kanan jechuu barbaadu, bishaan malkaa keessa yaa’u, gidduu isaa dhakaan gurguddaan jireetee, isati bu’ee walitti wacuu fi iyyus bifa kamiinuu bo’oo isaa gadi dhiisee wal irraa hin fagaatu. Bakka dhagaachi hin jirre yeroo gahu, dura waanta walitti iyyaa tureef bishaanummaa isaa dhiisee wal irraa hin dheensu. Sirumaa sagalee qabbaneeffatee wal utubuudhaan garba guddaa ta’ee dhakaacha guddicha sagalee  fi waca tokko malee liqimsa. Dhaabbileen siyaasa Oromoos yoo diina hin taaneen ala garaagarummaa fedhe iyyuu yoo qabaatan oromummaa balleessuuf ni dhama’u jedhee hin yaadu. Oromummaan waanta hundaa oli. Gufuu garaagarummaa siyaasa keenyaa ilaa fi ilaameedhaan furachuun beekumsa.  Dhaabbileen siyaasa Oromoo siyaasa jibbiinsaa fi karaa cabeen haa yaasu jedhu keessaa bahanii daandii ilaa fi ilaameetiin waliif tumsa ta’uu qabu. kana akka hin goone kan fedha qabu wayyaanee duwwaa dha. ilma Oromoo ta’ee, dhimma sabaaf  kan hojatu kamuu adeemsa kana ni morma jedhee hin yaadu. Dhaabbilee fi jaarmoleen hawaasa Oromoo daandii walakkaa deemanii oromummaa jabeessuuf dhama’uu qabu. tokkummaan keenya jabaatu malee akka amma jirrutti dhaabbileen siyaasa kamuu kaayyoo dhaabbateef galmaan ni gaha jedhee hin yaadu. Gufuun guddaan tokkummaa keenya dhabuu dha. kun yeroo hunda irra deddebi’amee lalabameera. Garuu dhaga’uuf qophii ta’uu dhabuun keenya diina biratti nutuffachiisee jira. ilaa fi ilaamee gabbafachuu dadhabuun keenya lageen, bosona, galaana, gammoojjii fi biyyoota ambaa keessatti reenfii fi gidiraan dhala Oromoo akka jabaatu ta’ee jira. qaaniin kana caalu hin jiru. Amma haalli keessa jirru nama sammuu bilisa ta’ee yaaduuf qaanii dha. kanaaf dhimma dhuunfaa, garee fi murnaa boodatti dhiifnee dhimma oromummaa keenyaaf dursa kennuu qabna.

Laga utaalanii irra ce’uuf tarkkaanfii lama sadii duubatti deebi’anii itti fiiganii utaalanii irra ce’u. rakkoo keenya irra aanuuf hooggana siyaasaa Oromoos ta’ee lammiin kamuu dhimma garee isaa boruuf bulfatee dhimma sabaa dursa kenuun murteessaa dha. kanaaf fuunduratti fiiguuf ilaalcha ilaa fi ilaameedhaan dhimma dhuunfaa boruuf bulfannee waantota walitti nufiduu danda’an irratti haa hojjannu.

Diddaan Barattoota Oromoo Yuunivarsiitii Gondar Haalaan Jabaatee Barataan Oromoo Tokko Loltoota Wayyaaneen Ajjeefamee Kaan Ammoo Hedduminaan Hidhaa Seenan.

November 26, 2013By Qeerrooin Oduu/NewsLeave a comment

Sadaasa 26,2013 Gabaasa Qeerroo Yuni Gondar

Gaaffii mirgaa Oromoo fi addattis lafti Oromoo gurguramuu fi barattooti Yuuniversitiilee adda addaa irraa hidhamuun haadhabatu jechuun barattooti Oromoo diiddaa kaasuun wal qabatee Mootummaan Wayyaanee ilmaan Oromoo keessumaa ammoo barattoota Oromoo hidhaa fi ajjeesaa kan as gehe ammas ittuma fufuun Yuunivarsiitii Gondar keessatti barataa Oromoo ajjeesuu irraan eegalee heddumminaan hiraaresee hidhaatti naqaa jira. Barataan Oromoo Anteeneh jedhamu   barataa FBE marketing tahee waggaa sadaffaa baratu yakka tokko malee mooraa Yuunivarsiitii Gonder keessatti ajjeefamee jira. Barattootni Oromoo gumaa ilma keenyaa ni baafna jechuun diddaa dhageessisuu irratti argamu. Mooraan Yuunivarsiitii Gondaris diddaa kanaan guutamtee mootummaan Wayyaanee TPLF waraana hedduumminaan bobbaasuun dhiphina keessa galee jira.

Waraanni TPLF Yuuniversitichatti bobba’uun barattoota irratti rasaasa dhukaasuun diddaa dura dhaabbachaa jira. Wayyaaneen barattoota ajjeesaa, rasaasaan rukkutaa fi hidhaa as gahe itti fufuun gara jabinaan raawwachuu irraa diddaan jabaatee itti fufee jira. Haala kanaan Sadaasa 25,2013 barattoota Oromoo diddaa gaggeesitan sababa jedhuun hedduu hiraarsaanii kanneen diddicha qindeessitan jedhaman ammo nama 3 fi kanneen kaan hedduun gara mana hidhaa hin beekamneetti ukkaamsee fudhate,kanneen kunis:-

1. Barataa Taarikuu Tolosaa veternary waggaa 4ffaa
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Kanneen jedhaman dabalatee barattootni hedduun mana hidhaatti ukkaamsamanii jiran. Barattooti Oromoo Yuuniversitii Goonder keessatti argaman kaanis  Ilmaan Oromoo martis iyya  keenya akka nuu dhageessan jechuun dabarfatanii jiru.

Gama kaaniin barattooti Oromoo mooraa Yuuniverstii keessaa bahanii magaala keessa deemuu fi afaan Oromoon haasawaa daandii irra deemuun sadarkaa sodaachisaa ta’etti yakka ta’ee akka jiru gabaasi nu gahe addeessa.

Germany’s Oromo Nationals and Other Nationals Protest Killings of Immigrants in Saudi Arabia

Germany’s Oromo Nationals and Other Nationals Protest Killings of Immigrants in Saudi Arabia

Sadaasa/November 24, 2013 · Gadaa.com

A protest demonstration, organized by the Union of Oromo Students in Germany (UOSG) in collaboration with the Oromo Community in Hessen and the Oromo Community in Munich, strongly condemned the mass killings, torturing and brutal treatments and rapes by some Saudi citizens and security forces. The protest took place on 21 November 2013 in front of the Saudi Arabia consulate in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; the rally was attended by more than 60 people. Members of the Union of Oromo Students and other Oromo nationals from all parts of Germany chanted such slogans as: “Stop Killing Innocent Immigrants!”, “Free Our Brothers and Sisters!”, “Stop killing Our Sisters and Brothers!”, “Stop the Rape!”, “Enough is Enough!”

The call for the demonstration, including our demand letter, has already been sent to different organizations and diplomatic missions operating in Germany, including the City Administration of Frankfurt, Amnesty International, EU and the Human Right Watch.

The main aims of the demonstration were: 
1. To demand the government of Saudi Arabia to stop inhuman act against Oromo and other national immigrants immediately;
2. To call for the police and security officers, who committed crimes against innocent civilians by using excessive force, be brought to justice;
3. To demand the government of Saudi Arabia to adhere to international conventions on the protection of the rights of all immigrants and members of their families;
4. To inform the population in Germany about the situation of the Oromo and other nationals in Saudi Arabia.

At the end of the event, Mr. Abdella Mohammed, as a representative of the organizers, made a closing speech highly acknowledging the active participation of the attendants. The participants responded pledging to continue our protests and struggle till the freedom of our people is achieved.

Racism and Hate Running Through the Streets: Ethiopian Migrants Victimized in Saudi Arabia

by GRAHAM PEEBLES

November 23, 2013 (Counter Punch) — In the last 10 days persecution of Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia has escalated. Men and women are forced from their homes by mobs of civilians and dragged through the streets of Riyadh and Jeddah. Distressing videos of Ethiopian men being mercilessly beaten, kicked and punched have circulated the Internet and triggered worldwide protests by members of the Ethiopian diaspora as well as outraged civilians in Ethiopia. Women report being raped, many repeatedly, by vigilantes and Saudi police. Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT), has received reports of fifty deaths and states that thousands living with or without visas have been detained awaiting repatriation. Imprisoned, many relay experiences of torture and violent beatings.

Earlier this year the Saudi authorities announced plans to purge the kingdom of illegal migrants. In July, King Abdullah extended the deadline for them to “regularize their residency and employment status [from 3 rd July] to November 4th. Obtain the correct visa documentation, or risk arrest, imprisonment and/or repatriation. On 6th November, Inter Press Service (IPS) reports, Saudi police, “rounded up more than 4,000 illegal foreign workers at the start of a nationwide crackdown,“ undertaken in an attempt (the authorities say), to reduce the 12% unemployment rate “creating more jobs for locals”.

Leading up to the “crackdown” many visa-less migrants left the country: nearly a million Bangladeshis, Indians, Filipinos, Nepalis, Pakistanis and Yemenis are estimated to have left the country in the past three months. More than 30,000 Yemenis have reportedly crossed to their home country in the past two weeks,” and around 23,000 Ethiopian men and women have “surrendered to Saudi authorities” [BBC].

The police and civilian vigilante gangs are victimizing Ethiopian migrants, residing with and without visas; the “crackdown” has provided the police and certain sectors of the civilian population with an excuse to attack Ethiopians. Press TV reports that “Saudi police killed three Ethiopian migrant workers in the impoverished neighborhood of Manfuhah in the capital, Riyadh, where thousands of African workers, mostly Ethiopians, were waiting for buses to take them to deportation centers.” Hundreds have been arrested and report being tortured: “we are kept in a concentration camp, we do not get enough food and drink, when we defend our sisters from being raped, they beat and kill us,” a migrant named Kedir, told ESAT TV. Women seeking refuge within the Ethiopian consulate tell of being abducted from the building by Saudi men and raped. ESAT, reports that several thousand migrants have been transported by trucks to unknown destinations outside the cities.

Whilst the repatriation of illegal migrants is lawful, the Saudi authorities do not have the right to act violently; beating, torturing and raping vulnerable, frightened people: people, who wish simply to work in order to support their families. The abuse that has overflowed from the homes where domestic workers are employed onto the streets of the capital reflects the wide-ranging abuse suffered by migrant workers of all nationalities in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Gulf States.

Trail of Abuse

This explosion of state sponsored violence against Ethiopians highlights the plight of thousands of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia. They tell of physical, sexual and psychological abuse at the hands of employers, agents and family members. The draconian Kafala sponsorship system, (which grants ownership of migrants to their sponsor), together with poor or non-existent labour laws, endemic racism and gender prejudice, creates an environment in which extreme mistreatment has become commonplace in the oil-rich kingdom.

There are over nine million migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, that’s 30% of the population. They come from poor backgrounds in Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Indonesia and Ethiopia and make up “more than half the work force. The country would grind to an embarrassing stand still without their daily toil. “Many suffer multiple abuses and labor exploitation [including withholding of wages, excessive working hours and confinement], sometimes amounting to slavery-like conditions”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) states.

The level of abuse of domestic workers is hard to judge: their isolation combined with total control exerted by employers, together with government indifference, means the vast majority of cases go unreported. Until August this year there was no law covering domestic abuse. Legislation has been passed: however, the authorities, HRW reports “are yet to make clear which agencies will police the new law…without effective mechanisms to punish domestic abuse, this law is merely ink on paper.” All pressure needs to be exerted on the rulers of Saudi Arabia to ensure the law is implemented and enforced so victims of domestic violence feel it is safe to come forward.

Ethiopian Governments Negligence

Whilst thousands of its nationals are detained, beaten, killed and raped, the Ethiopian government hangs its negligent head in silence in Addis Ababa, does not act to protect or swiftly repatriate their nationals, and criminalises those protesting in Addis Ababa against the Saudi actions.

Although freedom to protest is enshrined within the Ethiopian constitution (a liberal minded, largely ignored document written by the incumbent party), dissent and public demonstrations, if not publicly outlawed, are actively discouraged by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regime. In response to the brutal treatment meted out by the Saudi police and gangs of vigilantes in Riyadh and Jeddah, outraged civilians in Addis Ababa staged a protest outside the Saudi Embassy, only to be confronted by their own police force, wielding batons and beating demonstrators. Al Jazeera reports that police “arrested dozens of people outside the Saudi embassy [in Addis Ababa] in a crackdown on demonstrators protesting against targeted attacks on Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia.” A senior member of The Blue Party, Getaneh Balcha was one of over 100 people arrested for peacefully protesting.

The government’s justification, rolled out to defend yet another suppressive response to a democratic display, was to assert that the protest “was an illegal demonstration, they had not got a permit from the appropriate office”: petty bureaucratic nonsense, hiding the undemocratic truth that the government does not want public protests of any kind on the streets of its cities: effectively, freedom of assembly is banned in Ethiopia. The protestors, he said, “were fomenting anti-Arab sentiments here among Ethiopians.” Given the brutal treatment of Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia, anger and anti-Saudi sentiment (not anti Arab) is, one would imagine understandable, and should be shared by the Ethiopian government.

The people of Ethiopia are living under a duplicitous highly repressive regime. The EPRDF consistently demonstrates it’s total indifference to the needs and human rights of the people. Freedom of expression, political dissent and public assembly is denied by a regime that is committing a plethora f human rights violations in various parts of the country, atrocities constituting in certain regions crimes against humanity. In fact, according to Genocide Watch, the Ethiopian government is committing genocide in the Somali region, as well as on the “Anuak, Oromo and Omo” ethnic groups (or tribes).Freedom of expression, political dissent and public assembly is denied by a regime that is committing a plethora f human rights violations in various parts of the country, atrocities constituting in certain regions crimes against humanity.

The recent appalling events in Saudi Arabia have brought thousands of impassioned Ethiopians living inside the country and overseas onto the streets. This powerful worldwide action presents a tremendous opportunity for the people to unite, to demand their rights through peaceful demonstrations and to call with one voice for change within their beloved country. The time to act is now, as a wise man has rightly said, “nothing happens by itself, man must act and implement his will”.

Godaantota Biyyoota Ambaa Keessatti Balaa Mudataniif Kan Itti Gaafatamu Sirnuma Biyyan Bulcha Ofiin Jedhu Wayyaanee ti

Sadaasa 21, 2013 (oromoliberationfront.org) – Ilmaan Oromoo fi sabaa fi sablammoota biroo biyya keessatti hojjetatanii guddachuu dadhabuu irraa baruma baraan biyyoota ollaa fi fagootti godaanu. Kana keessatti lakkoofsi ilmaan Oromoo haalaan guddaa dha. Irra guddaan isaanii karaa seeraan alaatiin biyyoota ollaatti godaanu. Biyyoota ollaa irrattis dhiibbaa sirna Wayyaaneetiin nageenya dhowwatamanii fagaatanii deemuuf jecha balaawwan rifaasisaa adda addaa mudatu. Haala kanaan baqattoonni Oromoo fi saboota biroo Sudan, Somalia, Somali Land, Punt Land, Djibouti, Kenya, Suudaan Kibbaa, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar, Masr, Libya fi Afriikaa Kibbaatti faa godaananii argaman kumoota dhibbootaan herregamu.

Godaantonni kun gariin isaanii rakkoo siyaasaatiif biyya jaalatan irraa baqatan. Gariinis biyya keessatti dalagatanii guddachuuf, of jiraachisanii fira ofiis gargaaruuf hiree dhowwatamanii, cunqursaa bifa adda addaan hiraafamanii carraa hojii wayyaa barbaachaaf jecha biyyaa bahan. Biyya isaanii keessatti nagadanii, qotatanii yookiis ogummaa qaban birootiin hojjetanii akka hin guddanne sirna aangoo irra jirutu gufuu itti tahe. Wayyaaneen ilmaan biyyaa siyaasaa mootummaa irraa walaba tahanii hojjetatanii buluu barbaadaniin dirqamatti miseensa paartii kootii taatan malee jedhee doorsisa. Warra kana dide sababa itti barbaadee carraa dalagaa itti cufa. Warra qotatu gatii xaahoo fi sanyii filatamaa dhowwata, yookiis garmalee gatii itti qaalessa. Warra nagadu eehama daldalaa irraa fudhatee qarshii kuma hangas kafaltu malee hin argattu ittiin jedha. Warra baankii irraa horii liqeeffatee daldalatti seenuu barbaaduun dura waraqaa miseensummaa paartii keenyaa fidi ittiin jedha. Haloonni akkasii kun ilmaan biyyaa biyya abbaa isaanii irratti hojjetanii guddachuu fi biyyas guddisuu mannaa hiyyuummaa fi cunqursaa jalaa baqachuuf qalbiin isaanii akka godaansa yaadu taasise. Lakkoofsi namoota Itoophiyaa irraa gara biyyoota adda addaatti godaananii kan biyyoota ollaa keenyaa kamiiyyuu caalaa kan guddatee argameef dhiibbaa mootummaa kana fakkaatu irraati yoo jedhame dhugaa irraa fagaachuu hin tahu.

Ilmaan biyyaa kun hanga lammii Itoophiyaa jedhamanitti, bakka gahan maratti nageenya isaanii hordofee mootummoota biyya itti godaanan sanii waliin tahee tika taasisuufiin kan irra ture, mootummaa aangoo siyaasaa Itoophiyaa harkaa qabu. Mootummaan Wayyaanee TPLF garuu, faallaa kanaan, baqattootni kun marti bakka gahan maratti balaa dhala namaatiif hin malle akka mudatan gochisuu keessaa qooda qabaate. Yeroo adda addaatti wayta ilmaan biyyaa biyya hojiif jecha itti godaanan keessatti ajjeefamanii daandii irratti gataman, dhiigni isaanii akka dhiiga sareetti dhangala’u, kun maaliif tahe jedhee wayta itti gaafate hin qabu. Shamarran hojjetanii guddachuuf jecha biyyoota Arabaa gara garaatti godaanan yeroo hedduu haala kanaan ajjeefamu. Yookiis salphina namummaa isaanii irra gahe obsuu dadhabanii darbii (building) gubbaa irraa of gadhiisanii du’u. Waggaa tokko dura intalli Oromoo Alam Dachaasaa jedhamtu daandii magaalaa Beeyruut keessatti warra biyyaatiin reebamtee yoo ajjeefamtu kan agarsiisu viidiyoon tokko you tube irratti gadhiifamee ture. Alam wayta ilmaan Arabaa gara jabeeyyiin namummaa ishii salphisanii uffata irraa baasanii qullaa lafa irra harkisanii itti taphatan, embaasiin Wayyaanee magaalaa sana keessa jiru akka dhaqqabuuf yoo waywaattu viidiyoo san irratti ni dhagahama ture. Kan nama raaju ammoo, bakki hammeenyi kana fakkaatu lammii Oromoo tana irratti raaw’atame, bakka embaasiin Wayyaanee argamu irraa fageenya meetiroota dhibba lamaan tokko hin caalle irratti ture. Sirni Wayyaanee dubbii tana irratti mootummaa biyya sanii waan gaafate hin qabu.

Dhihoo kana akkuma dhagahamaa jiru, godaantota Itoophiyaa irraa deemanii Saudi Arabia keessa turan irratti ammas tarkaanfiin farra dhala namummaa suukaneessaan torbaanotaaf walitti aansee raaw’atamaa jira. Kana keessatti yoo xiqqaate lubbuun godaantota sadii reebicha irra gaheen dabree jira. Poolisoonni Saudi dargaggoota biyya isaanii waliin tahuun lammiilee Itoophiyaa irraa achi godaanan reebuu, saamuu fi dhalaalee humnaan qabatanii gudeeduudhaan salphisan. Kunis oduu ololaa osoo hin taane qabatamaan viidiyootti warabamee interneeta irratti faca’ee jira. Kun hundi yemmuu tahu, sirni Wayyaanee kan lammiiwwan ajjeefamaa fi salphifamaa jiran biyya isaa irraa tahan afaan guutee yoo gochaa kana balaaleffatu hin dhagahamne.

Mootummoonni akka Indooneeshiyaa fi Filippiins kan lammiileen isaanii haala wal fakkaatuun Saudi keessaa ari’aman hoggasuma ibsa baasanii mootummaa Saudi balaaleffatan. Dirmannaa lammiilee biyya isaaniif qaban agarsiisan. Mootummaan wayyaanee garuu tarkaanfii fakkaataa fudhachuun haa turuutii, inumaa gochaa mootummaa Saudi kan deeggaru tahuu isaa ragaa ofirratti bahe. Salphina lammiilee biyya isaa irra gahee addunyaa gaddisiisee jiruuf gurra hin qabaanne. Isaaf kan gatii qabu investeroota Saudiitti lafa gurguratee akka dhunfaatti duroomuu dha malee kabajaa ilmaan biyyaaf quuqamee dubbachuu miti. Ilmaan biyyaa biyya ofii keessatti hojjetanii akka hin guddanne danqee, lafa isaan gadhiisanii godaanan warra achitti isaan ajjeesaa jirutti gurgurata, yoo fedhes tola kennaaf. Kun mallattoo sirna farra ummatoota bulchaan jira ofiin jedhuu akka tahe ifa galaa dha.

Balaan du’aa fi salphina wal fakkaataa biyyoota akka Suudaan, Yaman, Jabuutii, Soomaalii Laand, Puunt Laand, Keeniyaa fi kan kana fakkaatan keessatti yeroo dheeraa duraa qabee godaantota ilmaan biyyaa, keessumattuu dhalattoota Oromoo irra gahaa ture kan himamee dhumuu miti. Yeroo kun hundi tahu ammoo mootummaan Wayyaanee mootummoota biyya sanii waliin tahee godaantota kana rukuchiisuu, hiisisuu, biyyatti dabarsee zaliiluu irraa kan hafe lammiiwwan kiyyatu miidhame jedhee wayta dirmateef hin qabu.

Walumaa galatti balaa godaantota Oromoo fi sabaa fi sablammoota biroo biyya ambaa keessatti irra gahaa jiruuf kan itti gaafatamu mootummoota alagaa sana qofa osoo hin taane hangafummaatti sirna Wayyaanee mataa isaa ti. Sababa hedduuf itti gaafatama: Jalqaba dubbii, biyya keessaa dhiibee godaansisuu isaaf itti gaafatama. Lammaffaa, godaantonni kun bakka gahanitti mirgi isaanii akka eegamu irratti hojjechuu dhabuuf itti gaafatama. Sadaffaa, bakka itti godaananitti mirgi namummaa isaanii yoo salphifamu dafee sagalee dhageessisee tarkaanfii malu fudhachuu hanqatuu isaaf itti gaafatama.

Hunda caalaatti garuu akka isaan biyya ofii irratti hojjetanii hin guddanne tooftaadhaan dhiibee godaansisuutu yakka olaanaa dha. Lammiileen kun biyya isaanii gadhiisanii akka hin deemneef hiree hojii siyaasaa irraa walaba tahe aanjessuuniif qooda isaa ture. Lammiileen hundinuu naannoo naannoo isaanii keessatti mirga hojjetanii guddachuu kan dhiibbaa kamiyyuu irraa walaba tahe argachuu qabu ture. Wayyaaneen mirga abbaa biyyummaa isaanii san irraa fudhate. Fakkeenyaaf lammiileen Oromoo Oromiyaa keessatti leecalloo (resources)  umamaa jirutti dhimma bahanii hojjetanii guddachu danda’u ture. Omisha bunaa, jimaa, midhaanii, albuudaa; horsiisa loonii, lukkuu, bushaalee, kotte duudaa; akkasumas tajaajila hawaasaa (civil service) caasaa mootummaa fi mit-mootummaa keessatti dhiibbaa siyaasaa tokkoon maleetti bobba’anii ofis tahee biyya isaanii guddisuu danda’u ture. Daldala irrattis akkasuma. Mootummaan Wayyaanee garuu hireelee kana mara lammiilee jalaa fudhatee godaansaaf isaan dhiibe. Maqaa investerummaatiin dabballootaa fi basaastota isaa maallaqa miiliyoonota fe’achiisee kaaba irraa bobbaasee Oromiyaa fi  naannoolee biroo keessatti dalagaa lammiileen silaa dalagatanii ittiin jiraatan humna qawween jalaa fudhachiisa. Kan caalaatti nama suukanneessu ammoo, godaantota Saudii jiran irra guddaa mallaqatti gurguratuun kan achitti guuraa bahe Wayyaanee mataa isaa ti. Godaantonni haala kanaan biyyoota ambaa keessatti balaa lubbuu isaanii irra gahaa jiruuf kan itti gaafatamu qaama kamiinuu caalaatti Wayyaanee dha kan jennuufis kanumaafi.

Eega sababni rakkoo kanaa mootummaa Wayyaanee mataa isaa tahee, furmaanni rakkoo kanaas sirna Wayyaanee kan biyya ofii irratti hojjetanii guddachuu nama dhowwaa jiru kana irratti gamtaadhaan qabsaayuun mirga ofii kabajchiisuu qofa. Rakkoon godaantota kanaa gubbaan isaa yoo laalamu rakkoo dinagdeeti haa jedhamu malee, hundeen isaa inni guddaan dhiibbaa siyaasaa akka tahe beekamee furmaata siyaasaa argachuu qaba. Godaantonni Oromoo fi kan biroo biyyoota ollaa fi Baha Giddu Galeessaa keessatti hojii barbaachaaf bobba’anii ajjeefaman, reebaman, qaamaa hir’atan, hidhamanii fi humnaan qabamanii biyyatti deebifaman hundi wanni wal gaafachuu qabanis isa kana. Oromiyaa irratti gariin hojjetee yoo millionaire tahu, ani maaliifan hojjedhee bayyanachuu dadhabe? Maaliifan godaantummaaf saaxilamee salphifame? gaaffii jedhu of gaafatanii deebii isaa irras gahuun furmaata taha. Deebiin isaas ifaa dha. Kan biyya abbaa isaanii magartuu fi gabbattuu san irraa tooftaadhaan dhiibee isaan godaansisee ofii saamee ittiin sooromaa jiru dabballoota Wayyaanee ti. Kun homaa shakkii hin qabu. Haala kana jijjiiruuf biyya ofiitti deebi’anii qindaawanii qabsaayuun furmaata waa maraa taha!

Furmaata maayyiif qabsaawuun rakkoo fakkaataa deddeebi’ee biyyoota ambaa keessatti mul’atu kana irra aanuuf gargaara. Ummatni Oromoo ala jirus sagalee kanneen hiraarfamanii tahuun iyyachaafii qabsoo isaa finiinsuu qofaan rakkina kanatti xumura gochuun akka danda’amu hubatee socho’uun dirqama.

Injifannoo Ummata Oromoof!

Infoo Deeskii ABO

Sadaasa 20, 2013

OSA and Oromo Community Associations in NA: Open Letter to Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Re: Oromo Immigrants in Saudi Arabia

OSA and Oromo Community Associations in NA: Open Letter to Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Re: Oromo Immigrants in Saudi Arabia

Sadaasa/November 21, 2013 · Gadaa.com

The following open letter was written by the Oromo Studies Association (OSA) and nearly half a dozen Oromo Community Associations in North America (NA) to Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia regarding the current state of Oromo immigrants in Saudi Arabia.

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Date: November 20, 2013
Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz,
Minister of Interior,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
PO Box 11134
Riyadh – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Your Excellency,
We, the Oromo community associations in North America and the Oromo Studies Association, write this letter in relation to the situation in the kingdom of immigrant workers, refugees, and asylum seekers from Ethiopia, specifically concerning the Oromo people from Ethiopia. We heard and observed with disbelief and a profound sense of grief the awful news coming from Saudi Arabia. The graphic images and videos of indiscriminate beatings of defenseless immigrant workers, ostensibly at the hands of Saudi Arabian law enforcement officials and vigilantes, has clearly shocked and enraged us. Law enforcement officials have randomly rounded up, kept tens of thousands of the immigrants in concentration camp-type facilities, and deported many thousands more to Ethiopia without regard to individual cases and needs.
We cannot establish with certainty which party is responsible for the inhumane treatment of Ethiopian immigrants in your country. Notwithstanding the evidence of the images, we find it difficult to accept that the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condones or sanctions the dehumanizing treatment of human beings, whether they are legal or illegal. Regardless, the indiscriminate and wanton acts of cruelty perpetrated against our compatriots in Saudi Arabia have violated all boundaries of human decency and respect for human dignity.
The Oromo communities in North America are alarmed by the saga of refugees resulting from the rush and cruel measures taken by the law enforcement officials of your country. As human beings, we cannot avoid having a sense of fellow feeling when other human beings are subjected to indescribable suffering. In our view, the heavy-handed approach fails to take into account that all members of the human family are entitled to some inalienable and fundamental rights, including those your government has categorized wholesale as “illegal” and “unwanted.” Worse yet, the approach does not solve the fundamental socio-economic problems Saudi Arabia is trying to resolve in spite the high human toll it causes. We believe that your government does not endorse acts of indiscriminate violence being meted out on any human being. Even those who are found guilty of violating the laws of your country deserve a measure of respect and lawful treatment.
Your Excellency,
While we have sympathy for all Ethiopians who have been subjected to untold suffering, we like to call your attention to the unique case of Oromo immigrants in your country who are lumped together with all Ethiopians and subjected to arbitrary measures. The Oromo people, the single largest nation in the Horn of Africa, constitute about 40 percent of the population of Ethiopia. They are also found in Kenya and Somalia in significant numbers. In Ethiopia, despite their numeric superiority, the Oromo have always been treated as a minority group, perpetually subjected to political, economic, and cultural depredations and dispossession. It is no wonder a large chunk of the refugees from Ethiopia in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia come from the Oromo nation. Although we know that the majority of the refugees in the Kingdom are migrant domestic workers looking for better opportunities, we like to bring to your attention that the vast majority of the Oromo in your country are refugees and asylum seekers who fled political and religious persecutions in Ethiopia.

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My Essay is upon Oromoland

By Gutama Tarafo
( Delivered to the Lovedale Literary Society,  October 1897)
Mr Chairman and Members,
In Oromoland many things are different from South African things. The people are different, and the country itself is different from this country. First of all, I want to speak about the climate of the country. Perhaps many of you won’t believe about the climate, because none of you have been there, except those that came from there. But you read in the books of Geography, and those books say the climate is very hot. I can tell you the climate is not all very hot. But it is quite true that the southern part of the country is exceedingly hot, because there are no mountains there. The upper country is much cooler than Cape Colony, although it is near the Equator, because there are many high mountains near Abyssinia. There are no lakes in Oromoland. But there are many small rivers. The largest river is the River Abaye, that is, I think, the Blue Nile. Also the Hawash River runs through the north of Oromoland and falls into the Blue Nile, at the West of Abyssinia. There are many other rivers, whose names I forget.
Now I shall tell you about the marriage customs. I heard George Tyamzashe’s paper about Kaffir marriages.2 He said when the Kaffirs are going to get married, they buy their wives.  Ithink you remember when Jacob wanted to marry, he worked for fourteen years, and then he got those two wives. Well, that is not the way of marrying people in our country. When a man want to marry a girl, first he goes and speaks with her parents, and then if her parents agree with him, he will take her, but if not he will leave her. The Oromo people are quite different from the people of South Africa. They are different in dressing. The Oromo people never wear red blankets, as the Kaffirs do. Rich people wear short trousers and a fine mantle of cloth, and poor people wear the same clothes as the Arabs. The women wear a fine skin dress and no one of you could tell the difference between that skin and cloth. The houses are not the same as those here. The Oromo huts are four or five times bigger than these Kaffir huts. I may say the Oromo house has got two storeys. In the upper storey they keep corn and other things; but in the lower one the people sleep. There are two rooms in the lower storey, one is where the mother of the house does her work and the other one is for sleeping and eating.
There are many kinds of grain, as wheat, barley, maize, and bishinga, that is Kaffir-corn, also pumpkins, potatoes, and other things like potatoes, beans, coffee, peas, bananas, also cabbages and tobacco and many other things which I can’t name in English. There is plenty of honey. The people don’t keep bees as in this country. They hang a kind of basket made of reeds high on a tree. When the honey is ready, the people climb the tree, and get the honey. They sell it in the markets, of these there are many. Oromos never eat wild animals. They don’t eat pigs in northern Oromoland; and they don’t eat any kind of birds; and few people eat fowls or eggs. But there are some tribes that live among the Oromos, that eat nearly everything. The Oromo people are rich in cattle and corn. Some of them have farms for cattle, and some for corn.
The Oromos are not lazy people. The men never allow their wives to go and build the housefor them, and they won’t allow them to go and labour in the fields all day for food, while theysit down in their huts and smoke their long pipes. The women there do not work like that but they only work in the house while their husbands till the ground. The Oromos are not lazy people in working. Don’t think because you saw these boys, that all the Oromos are like them. If you go there, then you will know what work is. The Oromos do not waste their money on tobacco and in buying pipes about one foot long. They won’t do that. What they do is this. They get up early in the morning, and they take their breakfast without washing their face, and then they take their bullocks and their yokes, and go to plough the ground. They never return again till the sunset.
The bullocks in Oromoland are very big, much bigger than those in South Africa, as high as a horse. The yokes are nearly like those used in this country. It is a custom to train one of the oxen to guard the Kraal [dalla?] and they sharpen its horns to fight. It does no work but just keeps the kraal. The kraals in Oromoland are bigger than those here, but are made of bushes too. Many people’s cattle go into one kraal. Nearly every cow or ox has a name, and they like  very much to eat salt. There are blacksmiths who make the ploughs, long narrow ploughs, and only two oxen draw them.
There are many forests in Oromoland. In these forests there are many dangerous things, worst of all are robbers that hunt for small boys and girls, and also for big people to kill them, and when they kill anyone, there is a great feast, because he has killed a man or a beast. There are lots of wild animals in Oromoland, such as elephants, lions, leopards, wild bucks or antelopes and many others too. There are many snakes, a very big hairy one, the boa constrictor, the python, the egg-eater, the horned snake, water snakes, and others. Especially the pythons are troublesome.
The Oromo horses are just the same as the Arab horses; they all look like race horses. The Oromos are heathens in religion. They worship a big tree, and in the mountains. They obey just as the king tells them, and the rule is if a person breaks the king’s commandment, he is taken to the market and punished, by being beaten, or sold as a slave. Each part of the country has got a king or a chief of its own. For instance, let us take the Jimma country. That country has got a king or a cheif [sic] of its own. These Kings always want to fight each other, and everyone wants to be the greatest of all the kings. If he conquers one of these kings, first of all he asks for a tax; and if that king won’t pay it, he just comes and destroys him. Sometime that king wants about 200 oxen or he wants some horses, and the other king has to give, because if he won’t he knows that his life will be taken from him, and what he has too.
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This essay is taken from  dissertation  by  Sandra Carolyn Teresa Rowoldt Shell, titled  ”From slavery to freedom:the Oromo slave children of Lovedale ,prosopography and profile”. Republished here after changing some terms in consideration of sensitivity to non academic general public.  The full desertation containing the  original essay and the full dissertation can be accessed here.

Barattooti Oromoo Yuuniversitii Hawaasaa Guyyaa FDG Sadaasa 9 Sirna Howwaan Kabajatan.

November 19, 2013By Qeerrooin Oduu/NewsLeave a comment

Sadaasa  20,2013 Gabaasa QB-Hawaasaa

Yaadannoon FDG Sadaasa 9,2013 Yunivarsiitii Hawaasaa Kampaasii Awaadaatti sadaasa 17,2013 haala hoo’an yaadatamee oole.

Qeerroon Yunivarsiitii Hawaasaa kampaasii Awaadaa Oromoota jiraattota magaalaa Yirgaalam waliin ta’uun mooraa yuunivarsiitichaatin alatti haala hoo’an sagantaa isaanii dabarsanii jiru.

Tartiibni qophii sagantichaa akka itti aanutti qindaa’ee jira;

-Hirmaattota sagantichaatu iddoo qabate

-Mana keessaa qeerroon tokko olka’uun akkas jedhee saganticha jalqabsiise” kuun sagalee qeerroo oromoo yuunivarsiitii hawaasati amma sagantaan keenya jalqabee jira”

-Sagantaa dungoo qabsiifannaatu raawwatame

-Sagantichi eebba namoota sadiin baname

-Hundumtuu lafa taa’uu olka’eet gootota Oromoo osoo hadhaa qabsoo dhandhamanuu dirree irratti hafaniif daqiiqaa sadihii yaadannoo sammuu taasisan

-Haasawa baniinsa sagantichaatu taasifame walitti qabaa qeerroo yuunivarsiitichaa kan ta’e jaal Sabboonaa Roobatiin

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Gatii fi gumaa Oromoota ajjeefamanii kan baastu Wayyaanee dha

Sadaasa/November 18, 2013 ·

(Oromedia, 17 Sadaasa 2013) Miidhaa fi roorroon ilmaan Oromoo irra gayaa jiru kan fala argachuu dnada’u yoo ummati oromoo hundee miidhaa fi roorro sanaa ofirraa kaase ta’uun heddumminaan haasayamaa jira.

Haata’uutii, mala dhibdeen Oromoo kun ittiin furmaata argatuu danda’u irratti karaa fi tooftaa waloo akeekuun heddumminaan ibsamaa hin jru.

Oromedian akka waltajjii Oromoo addaddaa irratti argamee hubatetti, oromonni biyyoota garaa garaa keessa qubatanii jiran haala Oromoo fi Oromiyaan keessatti argaman irratti yaaddoo olaanaa ibsachaa jiran.

Yaadota torbaa kana keessa karaa addaddaa walitti qabame irraa akka hubachuun dnada’ametti, yeroo ammaa kana biyya keessattis, biyya baqannaa keessattis miidhaa fi roorroon jajjabduun ilmaan Oromoo irra gahaa jira.

“Hundeen roorroo kanaa srina garboonfannaa leellisuudha,” kan jedhan yaada kennitooti kunneen roorroo san ofiraa buqqisuun furmaata isa duraa ti jechuun fala isaa ilee walumaan akeekanii jiru.

Yeroo ammaa kana biyyoota akka Sa’ud-Arabiyaa, Yaman, Masirii, Jubuitii fi kkf keessatti miidhaa fi roorroo ilmaan Oromoo irra gahaa jiru kan maddisiisan keessaa kan duraa, sirn Habashaa biyya oromiyaa humnaan qabatee ta’uu akan ibsan maanguddoon Oromoo tokko immoo, Gatii fi gumaa namoota keenyaa kan baasu, Wayyaanee dha,” jedhaniiru.

Ammas falli keenya, tokkichi “ABO jabeessuun mirga abbaa biyyummaa keenya mirkaneeffachuu dha, “ kan jette baqattuun Oromoo biyya Yaman keessa karaa email nuuf barreessite akka ibsitetti, ajjeechaan biyyoota ollaa fi Araabaa keessatti Oromoota irra gahaa jiru itti fufiinsa miidhaa fi roorroo biyya keessaa ta’uu illee dabaltee ibsitee jirti.

“Kan biyyaa nu baasa jiru, roorroo dha,” kan jedhe barataan Oromoo, biyya Keeniyaa keessa qubatee jiru immoo akraa skype akka nuuf ibsetti, “biyya keessattis roorroon nutti jira; biyya alaattis yoo bane nurra dhaabbacha ahin jiru,kanaaf falli jiru “Ba’aa kana xiqqeessuuf gara biyya ollaatti baqachuun cinattis, Mootummaan Oromoo jabaa akka dubbatuuf marxifannee hojjachuu qabna” jedhee jira.

“Amma falli jiru, kan nuuf dubbatu argachuu dha; kan roorroo nurraa ittisu magarfachuu yookana guddifachuu dha.” Kan jedhe gaazexeessaan Oromoo tokko immoo, “Falli qabnu, ABO jabeessuu dha; WBO jabeessuu dha; hidhannoo keeya jabeeffachuu dha; Biyya keenya humnaan nurraa fudhatame, humnaan deebifachuutti bobba’uudha; imimmaan keenya kan qoorus gaafas callaa dha,” jechuun dhaamsa jabaa ilmaan Oromoof dabarsee jira.

Disappearances of Oromo Nationals by The Ethiopian Government: November 2012 to November 2013

Qeerroo’s Annual Report

November 17, 2013

The current Ethiopian government has continued widespread mass arrests, unlawful killings, and disappearances of innocent civilians its citizens over the last 21 or so years. Among the communities highly affected by such repression and oppression of the regime, the Oromo people is probably rated as number 1. Oromos have been unable to live in their country in peace since they fell under the rule of the current minority Ethiopian regime. This report partially captures the list of Oromos who have been unlawfully arrested, killed, or disappeared over a period of one year from November 2012 to November 2013, compiled by the National Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy (NYMFD) aka Qeerroo. The report is by no means a comprehensive account of the actual number of people arrested, killed, and disappeared. It is rather a tiny fraction of what actually happened in Oromia and in the country at large. As it is very difficult to move in the country and compile reports because the government denies access to information, this report is only the widely known cases that were taken from Qeerroo website as it was reported over a period of one year.

As is known the National Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy (NYMFD) aka Qeerroo was formed in 2011 by Oromo Youth to ignite the so called “Revolt Against Subjugation” (aka Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa) in Oromia with the objective of averting the repression of Oromo nationals by the Ethiopian authorities through civil disobedience.

List of Oromos fired from their job in Western Shoa Ejere district ( November 11-2012)

1. Girma Ararsa, health professional
2. Abbaba Gidira, health professional
3. Dhaqqaba Tafarra, health professional

List of Oromo students dismissed from Madda Walabu University, November 15, 2012.

1. Abdissa Degefa
2. Beniyam Geremu
3. Dagim Yitagezu
4. Jirenya Nemomsa
5. Yared Argata
6. Wako Wariyo
7. Liben Gelalcha

Student Abdi Bilisumma was thrown into jail for having this name (“Abdi Bilisumma” means “hope of Freedom”), November 25, 2012

–For Full Report:

•      English Version
•      Amharic Version