Oromo Demonstration Against The Dictatorial Regime in Ethiopia december...

Oromo Demonstration Against The Dictatorial Regime in Ethiopia december...

Calling for demonstration Namsos, Norway Human Rights Violations against Oromo

Oromos who live in Namsos, Norway and its surrounding, scheduled to hold a demonstration on Monday, December 22, 2014, at 13:00-15:00 against Ethiopian dictatorial Regime

The objectives of the demonstration are:-

-To support Amnesty International on its report 2014 ‘’ BECAUSE I AM OROMO¨

-To call the World to demands the release of all Oromo Political Prisoners

-To condemn the brutal killings, arrests, tortures, displaced exercise by the Ethiopian regime on innocent Oromo’s

-To call on donors to stop their support for the Ethiopian dictator regime

We welcome all Oromos and Friends of Oromo will join this demonstration

For more information call: 45589221 or 40988462

Ethiopia: Fuel Distribution Quandary Hits Nation

No more fuel.

December 15, 2014 (The Reporter – Pro-government website) — A day after the Ministry of Trade (MoT) declared a slight reduction in fuel retail price, fuel shortage has hit the nation including Addis Ababa and other major cities.

However, the government refuted the shortage claim and accused distributors for deliberately creating the crisis.

Earlier this week the MoT announced a new retail price for fuel. According to the price that was readjusted by the Ministry, the new retail price of ordinary benzene is 19.41 birr per liter while light diesel and kerosene are sold for 17.49 and 15.40, respectively. Similarly, light black diesel, heavy black diesel and plane fuel are sold 17.49, 15.14 and 19.43 birr per liter, respectively.

After the price cuts, the past few days saw long queues in different parts of Addis Ababa’s gas stations. Similarly, in Bahir Dar, Dire Dawa, Jimma and Adama towns only limited number of gas stations were delivering fuels for their customers.

According to witnesses from Bahir Dar, only two stations have been operating and were struggling hard to meet the demands of their customers.

Station goers speculated that the owners did not bring sufficient fuels for some days in fear of price cuts.

Meanwhile, a Bajaj driver from Dire Dawa told The Reporter that most vehicles were forced to sit idle on Thursday and Friday due to shortage of fuel in which he said that only two stations were working to cater to their customers needs as huge number of vehicles were waiting for hours to fill their tanks.

However, The Reporter learnt that Hawassa was not hit by the crisis unlike other towns of the Southern Nations and Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State and the rest of the country.

The fuel crisis has also affected some private schools in the Addis Ababa. The administration of one private school in the capital (name of the school has been withheld) posted on the school’s notice board a statement that read, “Since there is fuel shortage in the city and most of our students are not able to come on time. So we would like to announce that the school has been closed for today.”

This week the Addis Ababa City Administration Trade Bureau announced that it nullified some 11 gas stations’ trading permits that are accused for the current shortage of fuel in the capital.

In addition to nullifying trading permits, the Bureau is deliberating on what measures it can take against those who are deliberately delaying shipment till the price of oil is fixed.

According to the minister of state for Trade, Ali Siraj, the main problem is caused by multinational oil importing companies. The Ministry issued several cautionary messages to these companies stating that if they fail to rectify the error, they will be put out of the market.

Currently, there are 200 fuel trucks on the Port of Djibouti for the purpose of transporting fuel to Ethiopia in order to address the problem. In addition to this, companies are allowed to borrow fuel from companies with surplus.

Global oil price has fallen by more than 40 percent since June, when it was USD 115 a barrel. It is now below USD 70. This comes after nearly five years of stability. At a meeting in Vienna on November 27 the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which controls nearly 40 percent of the world market, failed to reach agreement on production curbs, sending the price tumbling. Also hard hit are oil-exporting countries such as Russia, Nigeria, Iran and Venezuela.

Source: The Reporter

Addis Master Plan completed, sent to local governments

Established to craft a plan that integrates Addis Ababa with the surrounding Oromia region, the Addis Ababa and Surrounding Oromia Special Zone Integrated Master Plan Project Office will come to the end of its mission at the end of the current Ethiopian year. The board of directors, which is led by Dirriba Kuma, mayor of the Addis Ababa city government and Abdullaziz Mohammad, vice president of Oromia regional state, decided to submit the finalized integrated plan by January, 2015.
The board of directors are also expected to announce the approval of designs prepared by the project office, as part of the master plan. These include developing a green economy and using city rivers for recreational purposes. They are also contemplating to launch the plan in the next two weeks. The plan will serve the capital and the special zones for the next 25 years. 
“By 2023, Addis Ababa and the surrounding Oromia will provide a safe and livable environment for their people and become Ethiopian’s hub to ensure the national vision of becoming a middle income county, Africas diplomatic capital and internationally competitive city” reads the mission statement of the master plan.
The plan’s purpose is to link Addis Ababa with special zones within 100km of the capital; economically and socially. These zones are administered under Oromia regional state.
“The aim of the project office was to prepare the integrated plan and pass it on to respective economic sectors, under the Addis Ababa city government and the Oromia regional state. Carrying the plan out will be the responsibility of local governments,” said Dawit Nigussie, Public Relation Head at the project office.
Hopes are that this will improve economic conditions in outlying areas. Currently, the integrated plan has introduced new industry zones in Sululta, Burayu-Menagesha, Adama, Sebeta, Gelan-Dukem, and Legetafo/Legedadi.

Sabboonaan Oromoo Barsiisaa Dirribii Nagaasaa Mootummaan Wayyaanee Waggaa Sadiif Manneen Hidhaa Ma’ikalawwii fi Qaallittii Keessatti Hidhee Dararaa Cimaa Irraan Gahaa Ture Irraa Dandamachuu Dadhabuun Har’a Wareegame

Gabaasa Oduu Gaddaa Mudde 9,2014 Sabboonaan Oromoo Barsiisaa Dirribii Nagaasaa daraaraa(torture)  guddaa mootummaan EPRDF/TPLF/n  irratti rawwataniin waggaa Sadii (3)oliif Mana hidhaa Wayyaanee Ma’ikalawwii fi Qaallittitti hidhamee dararama kan ture, darara ulfaataa irratti rawwatamaa tureen hakan Edaa hospital Geedootti lubbuun isaa Wareegame.

Sabboonaan Oromoo  Barsiisaa Dirriibii Nagaasaa barsiisaa M/B Geedoo Sadarkaa 2ffaa fi Qopha’inatti muummee barnoota Information Technology barsiisaa kan ture, Sochii warraqsaa dargaggootni Oromoo mirga abbaa biyyummaa Uummata Oromoo kabachisuuf gaggeessan keessatti ga’ee guddaa taphachaa kan turee fi sabboonaa Oromoo mirgii namummaa fi dimookiraasii uummata Oromoof kabajamuu qaba jechuun soda tokko malee gaaffii mirga abbaa biyyummaa finiinsa turedha.

Gootichi Oromoo barsiisaa Dirribii Nagaasaa bara 2010  carraa barnoota Mastersii argachuun Yuunibarsiitii Adaamaatti damee barnoota Information Technology tiin carraa barnoota Mastersii itti fufee barachuu utuu jiruu mootummaan abbaa irree Wayyaanee EPRDF/TPLF/OPDO’n humnoota tikaa isheen bara 2011 ukkamsuun FDG qindeessa jirta, sochii warraqsaa Qeerroo bilisummaa Oromoo qindeessaa jirta, ABO waliin hidhata guddaa qabda jechuun ukkamsuun mana hidhaa Wayyaanee gidduu galeessatti darbame humnoota tikaa Wayyaaneetiin daraara(Torture) guddaan waggaa tokkoo oliif  irratti fudhama turuu yeroo irraa gara yerootti gabaasaa turuun keenya ni yaadatama. Wayyaaneen  gooticha Oromoo barsiisaa Dirribii Nagaasaa waggaa tokkoo oliif maa’ikalawwiitti dararaa turuun, waggaa lamaa oliif immoo Mana hidhaa Qaallittiitti daraaraa turuun yeroo garaagaraa gabaasa kan turredha.

Mana hidha Qaallittittis haalan dararaa ulfaatan kan irratti gaggeeffama ture yoo ta’uu, dararama ulfaata irratti rawwatameen akka malee dhukkubsatee achii keessatti lubbuun isaa illee haala sodaachisaa irra turuu gabaasa turre, mootummaan Wayyaanee barsiisaa Dirribii Nagaasaa Waggaa Sadii(3) oliif erga dararaa turtee booda ganna darbe  Hagayyaa 2014 keessa mana hidhaa qaallitti irra kan gadi lakkise utuu inni du’aa fi jireenya giddutti dararama jiruu ta’uun beekamadha. Gootichi Oromoo barsiisaa Dirriibii Nagaasaa erga mana hidaa Wayyaanee irraa ba’ees guyyaa tokko boqonnaa hin argannee dararama waayyaneen irratti rawwatteen haala fayyuu hin dandeenyee fi yaaddessaa keessa turuun halkan edaa galgala Hospitalaa Geedootti lubbuun isaa Wareegamee jira.

Yeroo ammaa kana reeffii Gooticha Oromoo barsiisaa Dirriibii Nagaasaa ganda dhaloota isaa Aanaa Calliyaa Magaalaa Baabbichaa gara maatii isaatti  galee kan jiru yoo ta’uu, Sirni awwaalcha gooticha Oromoo barsiisaa Dirribii Nagaasaa guyyaa boruu Aanaa Calliyaa Magaalaa Baabbichatti kan gaggeeffamu yoo ta’u, sirna Awwacha isaa kana irratti argamuuf uummatni Oromoo, dargaggootni barattootni Oromoo fi barsiisotni Oromoo godinaalee Oromiyaa garagaraa fi dhaabbilee barnootaa garaagaraa irra gara kanatti adeemaa jiru, uummatni kumoota dhibbootan lakka’amuus guyyaa boruu magaalaa Baabbichaa irratti sirna gaggeessa gooticha Oromoo kanarratti akka argamuuf jiruu ta’uun haalaan eegamaa jira.

Mootummaan abbaa irree Wayyaanee yakka ofiin dhala Oromoo irratti dalage kanan soda guddaa keessa seenuun Magaalaa Amboo hanga Magaalaa Geedootti human waraanaa guddaa ramaduun magaalotni Amboo, Gudar, Tokkee Kutayyee, Baabbichaa, Geedoo, Ijaajjii fi Baallammiin waraanaan qabamtee jirti.

Haaluma kana ilaalchisuun   Hoggansii Qeerroo bilisummaa Oromoo dararaa ulfaataa gooticha Oromoo barsiisaa Dirribii Nagaasaa irratti rawwatamaa turee fi Wareegamuu gooticha kanaaf gaddaa ulfaataa itti dhagaa’amaa jiru dargaggoota Oromoofi uummata Oromoo hundaaf ibsaa jira. Bilisummaa uummata ofii kabachiisuuf warregamuun darqama qabsoo keessatti goota mudatu waan ta’eef saba ofiif wareegamuun gootummadha, barsiisaa Dirriibii Nagaasaa wareegama gootummaa baase, qabsa’aan ni kufa qabsoon itti fufa jechuun dhaamsa ilmaan Oromoo bakka jirtan hundaa sirna gaggeessa gooticha Oromoo kanarratti akka argamtan jechuun dhaamsa dabarsuun, kanneen fageenyii fi haalli isin hanqisee qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo goototni qaaliin irratti wareegamaa jiran galmaan geenyee bilisummaa keenyaa akka gonfannuuf FDGtti akka jabaattan jechuun dhaamasa gaddaa dabarsee jira. Gabaasaan sirna awwaalchaa fi Seenaa gooticha Oromoo barsiisaa Dirribii Nagaasaa kan itti fufuun isiniif ergamu ta’uu ni hubachiifna!!

Why the successive Ethiopian rulers target Oromo?

Why the successive Ethiopian rulers target Oromo?

Oromo people the largest indigenous Ethnic group in East Africa with a population of around 40 million in Ethiopia and also extending in to Kenya, parts of Somalia and Egypt. The Oromo’s are Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group and their language is the fourth most spoken in Africa (after Arabic, Hausa, and Swahili). Oromo is spoken over a geographically wide expanse. The other names of the language include, Afaan Oromo, Oromiffa and Oromo. But start to be marginalized and discriminated by successive Ethiopian government.

The Oromo people in Ethiopia have been subjugated by the Ethiopian rulers since the last quarter of 19^th century since then, the Oromo language was banned for use in education, the mass-media and public life. Afran orom was banned first during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, this time the Oromo language and speakers were privately and publicly ridiculed. The government did every thing in its power to ensure the domination of the Abyssinian language and cultures over the Oromo people and subsequently, during the communist regime that followed the Emperor’s overthrow. Since 1992, the ban has been lifted up and the language is used in the Oromia state with some restrictions.

All along, the successive Ethiopian regimes including the current regime have embarked on deliberate and systematic campaigns of misinformation about the Oromo people, their language and culture in order to sustain the subjugation of the Oromo people.

Why the successive Ethiopian rulers target Oromo?

The Tigrayan-led regime mainly targets the Oromo because of their economical resource and political resistance. According to the Oromia support Group “Because the Oromo occupy Ethiopia’s richest areas and comprise half of the population of Ethiopia, they are seen as the greatest threat to the present Tigrean-led government subsequently, any indigenous Oromo organization, including the Oromo Relief Association, has been closed and suppressed by the government. The standard reason given for detaining Oromo people is that they are suspected of supporting the OLF”

 Human right watch and Amnesty International others international media often expose the Oromo, are being ruthlessly targeted by the state based solely on their perceived opposition to the government. It added how Oromos have regularly subjected to arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention without charge, enforced disappearance, repeated torture and unlawful state killings as parts of the government’s incessant attempts to crush dissent.

”The Ethiopian government’s relentless crackdown on real or imagined dissent among the Oromo is sweeping its scale and often shocking in its brutality,” said Clair Beston, Amnesty international’s Ethiopia researcher. “This is apparently intended to warn, control or silence all signs of political disobedience in the region.” According to Amnesty International reports at lest 5,000 ethnic Oromos have been arrested between 2011 and 2014 based on their actual or suspected peaceful opposition to the government.

These include peaceful protesters, students, members of opposition political parties and people expressing their oromo cultureal heritage. In addition to these groups, people from all walks of life farmers, teachers, medical professionals, civil servants, singers, businesspeople, and countless others are regularly arrested in Oromia based only on the suspicion that they don’t support the government. Many are accused of ‘inciting others against the governmet. Family memebers of suspects have also been target by association based only on the suspicion they shared or ‘inherited their relative’s views or are arrested in place of their wanted relative.

Many of those arrested have been detained without charge for months or even years and subjected to repeated torture. Throughout the region, hundreds of people are detained in unofficial detention in military camps. Many are denied access to lawyers and family members. Dozens of those actual or suspected dissenters have been killed. The majority of those targeted are accused of supporting the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) the armed group in the region.

Source: Amnesty International Report published date 28, October 2014  

  Oromia support Group

  BBC NEWS 28, October 2014

  UCLA  Language Materials Project 

Gross Human right violations and destruction of oromo elites In Ethiopia

Gross Human right violations  and destruction of oromo  elites In Ethiopia

Today the Ethiopian government led by the Tigrayan regime have dominated cities and towns in Oromia and have segregated the oromo people both in urban and rural areas and have kept them under ¨Ethiopian political slavery ¨ by using the army ,modern weapon, the media , the telephone, the fax, the internet , and other communication and information apparatuses and network . Recently only  in the month of June Oromo  journalist are being falsely accused of providing information to diaspora news organizations like VOA, DW, Seif, Eri-TV (Oromo), Oromo Voice Radio and the newly inaugurated Oromia Media Network (OMN).
According to different sources and eye witness, 17 Oromo journalists of the Oromia Radio and Television Organization (ORTO) have been forced out of their jobs as of June 25, 2014.
The journalists say they have received no prior notices and learned of their fates on Wednesday morning (June 25, 2014) when the security at the gate prevented them from entering the station’s compound located in Adama.
Members of the management informed the journalists that they could not help them as the decision to terminate their employments and the list of names came from the federal government. According Human rights watch reports and other International Medias showed us the Ethiopia government spying on citizens' phone calls and Internet activity. It details how Ethiopia's ruling party intercepts cellphone communications and emails, censors websites and harasses opposition bloggers and Facebook users — all with the help of technology made in Germany, Italy, China and the UK.
Intercepted communications have been used to crack down on opposition party members, political dissidents, journalists and young members of the ethnic Oromo population.

In one instance, an unidentified Oromo man recounted what happened when he was arrested. The authorities knew everyone he had communicated with through his cellphone, and even described conversations he had with his friends and associates in detail.

"'If you are talking through this telephone, we record all conversations,'" the authorities told him, according to the Human right watch report.

Using political violence, the Tigrayan government has completely dominated and controlled the oromo and their resource. The Tigrayan government has denied them the freedom of expression and organization as well as access to the media and all forms of communications and information networkmo-journalists.