SILENCE AND PAIN: ETHIOPIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD IN THE OGADEN

Martin Plaut  | January 31, 2014

Introduction

The Ogaden is Ethiopia’s dark, dirty secret. It is far from prying international eyes, where almost anything can be done to anyone the government does not like.

The Ogaden was conquered and forcibly incorporated into Ethiopia by Emperor Menelik II in the last quarter of the 19th century. Its Somali speaking, almost exclusively Muslim community, never really accepted an Ethiopian identity. In 1977 it was the scene of an international conflict, as Somali President Siad Barre attempted to wrest the region from Ethiopia. The Soviet Union poured arms and Cuban troops into Ethiopia and the invasion was halted. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has been fighting the Ethiopian government since 1995, and local people have been caught up in the conflict.

The Ethiopian authorities have sealed off the region to international journalists.

As Human Rights Watch wrote as early as 2008: “The Ethiopian government’s reaction to reports of abuses in 2007 has been to deny the allegations, disparage the sources, and actively restrict or control access to the region by journalists, human rights groups, and aid organizations (including by expelling the International Committee of the Red Cross in July 2007)”. [See Annex below] When two Swedes, Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, entered the Ogaden with the ONLF in July 2011 they were captured. The two men were sentenced to 11 years in jail and only freed in September 2012, after appeals for clemency.[1]

As Human Rights reported:[2]

“Ethiopian troops have forcibly displaced entire rural communities, ordering villagers to leave their homes within a few days or witness their houses being burnt down and their possessions destroyed—and risk death. Over the past year, Human Rights Watch has documented the execution of more than 150 individuals, many of them in demonstration killings, with Ethiopian soldiers singling out relatives of suspected ONLF members, or making apparently arbitrary judgments that individuals complaining to soldiers or resisting their orders are ONLF supporters.”

Since 2008 few reliable reports have been published. The UN Commissioner for  Human Rights has received submissions from time to time – some of them detailed and well sourced.[3] But they have received little international media attention.

A terrible silence has descended over the Ogaden.

In recent weeks I have been contacted by Ogadenis living in exile, who have begun to send me information. These testimonies cannot be independently verified, but since the alternative is not to speak about the human rights violations that are almost certainly taking place, I have decided to publish them.

The testimonies come at the same time as the mysterious disappearance of two senior ONLF negotiators from Nairobi.[4] The two men – Sulub Ahmed and Ali Hussein were members of the ONLF negotiation team that was in Nairobi for a proposed third round of talks with the Ethiopian government. They disappeared from a restaurant by men in three cars – the ONLF believes they were abducted by Kenyan and Ethiopian security forces and possibly taken by force into Ethiopia. The ONLF say this is the second time the Ethiopians have abducted and killed negotiators – the last time it happened in 1989.[5]

The story of Balidhuure

Balidhuure village, 150 kilometres South-East of the city of Harar, has been the scene of repeated atrocities carried out by Ethiopian security forces.  The village, which is home to about 1,500 people, lives on its goat, sheep and camels. This is a dry semi-desert region, with low bushes providing what fodder the animals need.  It should be a peaceful rural scene, but this is a region living in fear.  Ethiopian troops patrol the villages and have bases in the main towns.  Over the past 5 years repeated atrocities have been inflicted on local people, who are accused of supporting the liberation movement, the Ogaden National Liberation Front. This is the testimony of Captain Hassan Mohammed Abdi, who has since fled from the country. It offers a rare glimpse into an area from which all independent journalists have been banned, and from which international aid agencies are banned.

The Liyu Police – brutal arm of the Ethiopian state

Repression in the Ogaden is mainly carried out by the notorious Liyu Police; this is a locally recruited force that has been widely condemned for the repressive methods that it uses.

This is how the force is described by Human Rights Watch:[6]

“Ethiopian authorities created the Liyu (“special” in Amharic) police in the Somali region in 2007 when an armed conflict between the insurgent Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the government escalated. By 2008 the Liyu police became a prominent counterinsurgency force recruited and led by the regional security chief at that time, Abdi Mohammed Omar (known as “Abdi Illey”), who is now the president of Somali Regional State.

The Liyu police have been implicated in numerous serious abuses against civilians throughout the Somali region in the context of counterinsurgency operations. The legal status of the force is unclear, but credible sources have informed Human Rights Watch that members have received training, uniforms, arms, and salaries from the Ethiopian government via the regional authorities.”

In January 2013 it was reported that the Liyu police numbered between 10,000 and 14,000. The force was accused of numerous human rights abuses and summary executions.[7] The Guardian newspaper reported that it had seen an internal British government document, from the Department for International Development, indicating that there were plans to spend £13m–15m of aid money on the force as part of a five year “peace-building” programme. The report was denied by the British government, which said all funding would go via United Nations agencies and not through the Ethiopian authorities.[8]

 Despite these assurances concern about the behaviour of the Liyu police remains. The testimony below and the reports of atrocities carried out in recent weeks indicate these are well placed.

 Testimony of Captain Hassan Mohammed Abdi aka Hassan Afo, a former member of the Liyu Police, who was active with the force in Degehbur Province. June 2012.

“In Balidhuure village (Eastern Degehbur Province) located in between Gurdumi and Koore, a Liyu police unit that left from Aware and commanded by Major Kidinbir rounded up and finally driven away most of the people that lived in the area. Among them was a disabled man who walks with a stick named Ina-Yul-yul or the son of Yul-yul. Not far from the village of Balidhuure, the handicapped man, Ina-Yul-yul could not continue walking. One of the Liyu policemen noticed this and he informed Major Kidinbir by radio. Major Kidinbir said, “He can’t walk? Then kill him where he is at right now.” That’s how Ina-Yulyul was shot and killed. He was killed because of one of his brothers was among the ONLF fighters.”

Reports of human rights atrocities committed in the Ogaden Region over the previous month.

25/12/13: In Guna’gado district of Degahbur province, at least 25 civilians were  detained and 25,000 Ethiopian birr was stolen from them

5/1/14:  In Gasaangas in Hamara district 5 civilians are unlawfully detained. They were: Hassan Geday, Hassan Nour Moalim Ibrahim, Rukiya Moalim Ibraahin, Anbiya Sheikh Mohammed and Nafis.

5/1/14:  In Dhuhun a girl named, Halimo Duulane was detained .

10/1/14: In  Eastern Iimay, Fadumo Wacdi Ahmed, Sa’ada Hassan and Gordo Abdi God were detained by the Ethiopian Security Forces.

10/1/14,In Guna’gado, Mohammed Isse Gu’had was tortured, detained and his 11 camels were stolen.

3/1/14: Hamuud-ka, in Fiq Province, the security forces detained Mohammed Ibrahim.

5/1/14:  Ya’hob Village in Fiq Province, the security forced killed in a cold-blood Abdullahi Lo’bari in cold blood and injured Ahmed Hassan Awl.

5/1/14: Hamaro in Nogob Province, the security forces detained several people : Mohammed Abdi Rahman Omar, Abdirahman Bade, Ta’kal Yousouf and Ina-Barud.

Annex

Amnesty International on Ethiopia’s Ogaden region[9]

In September, the government and the ONLF briefly entered into peace talks with a view to ending the two-decade long conflict in the Somali region. However, the talks stalled in October. The army, and its proxy militia, the Liyu police, faced repeated allegations of human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, extrajudicial executions, and rape. Torture and other ill-treatment of detainees were widely reported. None of the allegations was investigated and access to the region remained severely restricted. In June, UN employee Abdirahman Sheikh Hassan was found guilty of terrorism offences over alleged links to the ONLF, and sentenced to seven years and eight months’ imprisonment. He was arrested in July 2011 after negotiating with the ONLF over the release of two abducted UN World Food Programme workers.

Human Rights Watch on Ethiopia’s Ogaden region

ETHIOPIA: UPR SUBMISSION SEPTEMBER 2013 [10]

November 14, 2013

Ethiopia’s human rights situation since 2009 has been marked by a harsh intolerance for any criticism of government actions and a sharp decline in freedoms of expression and association. Critics of government policy continue to be subjected to harassment, arbitrary detention, and politically motivated prosecutions. Two repressive laws passed in 2009—the Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO law) and the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation—have been used to decimate independent media and civil society organizations.

Political space has also constricted as the ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has consolidated control, the EPRDF officially won 99.6% of the votes in the 2010 parliamentary elections after intimidating political opponents, restricting media, and ensuring political support through its control of access to government services and other resources. Over the past five years most legitimate political avenues for peaceful protest have been shut down and opposition leaders, civil society activists, and independent journalists have been jailed or forced to flee…

…Lack of Accountability for Abuses by Security Forces

Ethiopian security forces have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law in at least three separate armed conflict situations over the past decade: in the Somali Region in 2007, in Somalia between 2006 and 2008, and in Gambella in 2003 and 2004.  Human Rights Watch concluded that abuses committed by Ethiopian forces in Somalia amounted to war crimes, and that abuses committed in Somali Region and Gambella amounted to crimes against humanity.

The Ethiopian government routinely dismisses serious allegations of human rights abuses as unreliable or politically motivated. On a handful of occasions, the authorities have established investigations into large-scale abuses, including after allegations of crimes against humanity in Gambella in 2003, the post-election violence in 2005, and in response to a Human Rights Watch report documenting war crimes in the Ogaden area of Somali Regional State in 2007. The inquiry into post-election violence was the most credible initiative, but after the members of the inquiry concluded that police used excessive force against protesters, killing up to 200 people, the inquiry’s findings were altered and the authors of the report were threatened and fled Ethiopia. The 2008 inquiry into events in the Ogaden failed to meet basic standards of credibility and failed to find any evidence of serious abuses by Ethiopian security forces.

Ethiopia rejected recommendations during the 2009 UPR to investigate human rights abuses committed by security forces in the Somali Region.

Human Rights Watch Report June 2008

Summary[11]

 Tens of thousands of ethnic Somali civilians living in eastern Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State are experiencing serious abuses and a looming humanitarian crisis in the context of a little-known conflict between the Ethiopian government and an Ethiopian Somali rebel movement. The situation is critical. Since mid-2007, thousands of people have fled, seeking refuge in neighboring Somalia and Kenya from widespread Ethiopian military attacks on civilians and villages that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

For those who remain in the war-affected area, continuing abuses by both rebels and Ethiopian troops pose a direct threat to their survival and create a pervasive culture of fear. The Ethiopian military campaign of forced relocations and destruction of villages reduced in early 2008 compared to its peak in mid-2007, but other abuses— including arbitrary detentions, torture, and mistreatment in detention—are continuing. These are combining with severe restrictions on movement and commercial trade, minimal access to independent relief assistance, a worsening drought, and rising food prices to create a highly vulnerable population at risk of humanitarian disaster.

Although the conflict has been simmering for years with intermittent allegations of abuses, it took on dramatic new momentum after the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) attacked a Chinese-run oil installation in Somali Region in April 2007, killing more than 70 Chinese and Ethiopian civilians. The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) government, led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, responded by launching a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in the five zones of Somali Region primarily affected by the conflict: Fiiq, Korahe, Gode, Wardheer, and Dhagahbur. In these zones the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have deliberately and repeatedly attacked civilian populations in an effort to root out the insurgency.

Ethiopian troops have forcibly displaced entire rural communities, ordering villagers to leave their homes within a few days or witness their houses being burnt down and their possessions destroyed—and risk death. Over the past year, Human Rights Watch has documented the execution of more than 150 individuals, many of them in demonstration killings, with Ethiopian soldiers singling out relatives of suspected ONLF members, or making apparently arbitrary judgments that individuals complaining to soldiers or resisting their orders are ONLF supporters.

These executions have sometimes involved strangulation, after which their bodies are left lying in the open as a warning, for villagers to bury. The information confirmed by Human Rights Watch is only a glimpse of what is taking place—real figures are likely to be higher.

Mass detentions without any judicial oversight are routine. Hundreds—and possibly thousands—of individuals have been arrested and held in military barracks, sometimes multiple times, where they have been tortured, raped, and assaulted. Confiscation of livestock (the main asset among the largely pastoralist population), restrictions on access to water, food, and other essential commodities, and obstruction of commercial traffic and humanitarian assistance have been used as weapons in an economic war aimed at cutting off ONLF supplies and collectively punishing communities that are suspected of supporting the rebels.

These crimes are being committed with total impunity, on the thinnest of pretexts.

They are generating a perception in the area that simply being an ethnic Somali—and particularly a member of the Ogaadeeni clan which constitutes the backbone of the ONLF—is enough to render a person suspect in the eyes of the national government.

As one young man told Human Rights Watch, “Anyone with a bowl of water is suspected of supplying the ONLF.” Ethiopian military personnel who ordered or participated in attacks on civilians should be held responsible for war crimes. Senior military and civilian officials who knew or should have known of such crimes but took no action may be criminally liable as a matter of command responsibility. The widespread and apparently systematic nature of the attacks on villages throughout Somali Region is strong evidence that the killings, torture, rape, and forced displacement are also crimes against humanity for which the Ethiopian government bears ultimate responsibility.

The ONLF

The ONLF has also been responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law (the laws of war). These include the summary execution of dozens of Chinese and Ethiopian civilians in the context of its April 2007 attack on the oil installation, the ONLF practice of killing suspected government collaborators, and the indiscriminate mining of roads used by government convoys. Those who ordered or carried out such acts are responsible for war crimes. Many civilians feel trapped with no refuge from ONLF pressure or the abuses by Ethiopian troops.

The Ethiopian government has repeatedly dismissed or minimized concerns about the human rights and humanitarian situation in Somali Region. It often claims, particularly to the international audience, that insecurity in the region is the work of Eritrean-backed “terrorists” seeking to destabilize Ethiopia. There is no question that the political dynamics in Somali Region intertwine with regional dynamics and are influenced by the continuing hostility between Eritrea and Ethiopia as well as events in neighboring Somalia. The application of terrorist rhetoric to the internal conflict with the ONLF, however, appears designed mainly to attract support from the United States as part of the “war on terror.” It does not justify violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.

The government faces complex challenges in Somali Region. The ONLF, which claims to be seeking self-determination for the region, represents only a segment of the divided Ethiopian Somali community. There are legitimate fears that the escalating conflict across the border in Somalia could spill into Ethiopia. The authorities face difficult questions on how to best establish the rule of law in a remote, poverty stricken region largely inhabited by pastoralists who have little knowledge of or confidence in state institutions that have long neglected them. Instead of addressing these challenges in good faith with efforts to build institutions and accountability to support the rule of law and reduce the appeal of armed groups, the government has implemented violent repression, echoing the response to the region of previous Ethiopian administrations. The Ethiopian government’s reaction to reports of abuses in 2007 has been to deny the allegations, disparage the sources, and actively restrict or control access to the  region by journalists, human rights groups, and aid organizations (including by expelling the International Committee of the Red Cross in July 2007).

Due to increasing alarm over humanitarian conditions, particularly malnutrition rates among children, the UN and some nongovernmental organizations were permitted to expand humanitarian programs in parts of the region in late 2007, a small positive step. However these operations have been limited to certain geographic areas, are vulnerable to constant government threats and harassment, are sometimes unable to operate with sufficient independence from government control, and have no protection mandate or capacity to respond to the attacks on civilians which remain the biggest priority for many affected communities.

The Ethiopian government’s politicized manipulation of humanitarian operations, particularly food distribution, plus the continued restrictions on commercial traffic and trade are creating a situation that—in combination with the drought produced by failed rains—could quickly slip into catastrophe.

The Ethiopian government should take urgent action to ensure that the needs of vulnerable civilians in Somali Region are prioritized, including in emergency appeals. Yet due to government obstruction and restrictions on access to conflict-affected zones, humanitarian agencies cannot even conduct the independent nutritional assessments needed to fully assess the scale and formulate a proper response to the potential crisis.

The international response to the situation ranges from insipid to disingenuous. Western governments, including the US, UK, and European Union, which  cumulatively provide almost US$2 billion of aid to Ethiopia every year and rely on the Ethiopian government as a key ally in a volatile region, have sent a number of delegations to the region but have refrained from even mild public concern, much less criticism. The US government, which is a staunch Ethiopian ally—particularly in counter-terrorism efforts—and has probably the greatest leverage of any of the donor governments, has minimized and possibly actively ignored internal concerns and reporting on the situation.

Instead of maintaining the complicity of silence, donor governments should start using their leverage to insist on three sets of immediate actions in Somali Region.

First, both the Ethiopian government and the ONLF should support full, unhindered and immediate access to the region for independent aid organizations, the media, and human rights groups, and the government should lift restrictions on commercial trade and civilian and livestock movement, including across the border with Somaliland. Implementing this recommendation would have an immediate positive effect on civilian access to water and grazing for their livestock, food, and local markets and could mitigate the impending food crisis. Humanitarian organizations should also have immediate, unimpeded access to conduct independent nutritional surveys in all affected areas and properly monitor food distribution to ensure it is not diverted.

Second, the Ethiopian government should immediately issue clear public orders to the armed forces and all other security agencies in Somali Region to cease abuses of civilians, including the military’s forced relocations, extrajudicial executions, mass detentions, and mistreatment of detainees. The ONLF should also cease killings of civilians, including government officials, desist from the indiscriminate use of mines along key roads in Somali Region and publicly commit to abide by international humanitarian law.

Third, Ethiopian authorities should establish an independent commission of inquiry to investigate the allegations of abuses by all parties to the conflict and begin short and long-term efforts to ensure accountability for abuses by government security forces in Somali Region and elsewhere, including judicial and security sector reforms.

Oromoon karaa filannoo nagaan angoo qabate habashota waliin jirachuu ni danda’aa?

Amajjii 30, 2014

Kutaa 1ffaa

By Miliyon Taddesse

Miliyon Taddesse

Barreffamni koo kun gaaffii  lama of keessaa qabdi tokkooffan Oromoon biyya Itophiyaa jedhamtu keessatti karaa filannoo nagaan mo’atee wayyaanee angoo irraa busee angoo qabachuu ni danda’a? Lammaffaan ammo Oromoon biyya Tiphiyama jedhamtu kana keessaatti ilmaan habashotaa waliin ta’ee enyummaa fi mirgii isaa kabajamee  jiraachuu ni danda? Kan jedhu dha.

Garaa qaama barrefamakotti gaafan seenu,akkuma beekamu Ummatni Oromoo akkuma saboota addunyaa kana irratti argamanitti, ummata seenaa of danda’ee, biyya sarara daangaa beekamaa qabu, aadaa, afaan, duudha fi qora-qalbi sabbummaa kan barootaa kumaatamaan lakkaawwaman kuufachaa dhufe kan qabuu fi seenaa bulchiinsa fi aadaa siyaasaa adunyaa kanaaf bu’ura dimokiraasi kan ta’ee, sirna gadaa kan qabu akka turee seenaan jiruu ragaa ni ba’a. Haa ta’u malee garuu ummatnii Oromoo akka nagaan hin jiraanne bara minilik humnaan biyya isaa weraree lafaafi qabenyaa isaa irra fudhatee enyuummaa Oromoo kan Amaraatti akka jijjiramu taasisee kasee senaan, afaani fi Aadaan Oromoo yeroo yerootti babadaafi cunqurfaamaa kan dhufee yoo ta’uu Ammalee jijjiirama bifaa fi maqaa yoo  ta’ee malee ittuma fufee jira,Barota dheraa darban kessa eegdoota sirna kiyoo gabroonfatoota Amaaraara (warren saba Oromoo human Amaaromsan), waggota 22 as ammo egdota sirna kiyoo Itoophiyaa kan ta’an  hogganoota Wayyaaneetiin warranni Oromoo balessuu ittuma jira. Fuldurattii kun Oromoo irraa ni dhaba hin dhabbatuu waluumaan ilaalla. Waanin kaasuu barbaadu garuu akka kiyyattii, gitni bittaa garee lamaan kun bifa isaanituu adda adda malee isaan Oromoof tokkuma, sabaabni isaas sirni kiyyoo gabrummaan ummata  Oromoo  fi Oromiyaa irratti dirriirfame kuni dantaa gita bittuu Habashotaa kan walii gala kan eeguu fi tiksuu malee dantaa Oromoo kan eguu fi tiksu miti. Sirni gittota bittaa Habashaa lammeenu sirna aadaafi Afaan Oromoo jibbuu  garuu sirnaa qabeenya  ummata Oromoo jaallatu fi saamuu dhan jiraachuf barbaadu dha. Waldhabiin gittota lammanii kun Oromiyaa irratti ool aantumaa gartumaa siyaasaa qabaachuuf irraan kan ka’ee altokko tokko wal moormu, yeroo Oromoon jabbaate tokko ta’ee ka’uu garuu lammen isaanu  oromorratti ka’uuf tokkumma umuu. Kanaaf ammo raga kan ta’uu seenaa walhubannoo fi waliigalteen Miniliki fi Yohaannis kan Dirree Boruu ni himaa.

Warren Habashaa egaa har’as boris kan isaan irratti yeroo hunda walii galan kessa; sab-boonnumaan oromo akka hin dagagnee gochuu innis: aadaa, seenaa, afaan duudhaa fi waan Oromoo saboota biro irraa adda isa godhuu akka lafa hin qabannee gochuu, fedhii isaa fi qabeenya biyya isaa irrattii mataa isaan ajajaa akka hin taane, sabni Oromoo  bilisa ta’ee waan kiyya kan jedhu hunda akka mataa isaatiin ajaju hin dandenye godhu dha. Kanaaf Warreen habashaa kalessas, har’as, gara fuldurattis ummata Oromoo fi  enyumaa saba Oromoo adunyaa kana irraa dhabamsisuudhaan maalummaa isaa fi seenaa isaa Irranfatee habashaa fakkaatee, ofitti qaana’ee, enyumma isaa dhisee isaan akka habashummaa akka enyummasaa jedhee himatu barbaadu. Kaayyoon isaanii hojii abbootiin isaanii  jalqaban dhuggoomsuu fi fiixa baasuuf, sabni Oromoo akka Itoophiyuummaa fi enyummaa Itoophiya akka mallattoo isaatti fudhatee faalla seenaa isaa dhaabatu godhanii tursiisudhaaf akka ta’ee jala murre kan hundi kenyaa hubanne dha. Rakkoon ummatni Oromoo eega kiyyoo garbrummaa warra  Habashaa jalatti kufe kaasee irra ga’ee; ajjechaa, biyya isaa gadhisee baqaa deemuun bakka baqaatti du’uu,senaan Oromoo inni dhugaan senaa sobaa kan isanitiin dibamuu fi laaqamuu,qabenyaan saamamauu, beela, gadadoo, tuffatamu, akka gad antummaatti ilalamuu, dhiphinaa, salphinaa fi dhumiinsaa dha. Hangaa yonaa garuu Oromoon rakko kana jalaa ba’uuf hin dandeenye sababiin isaas haallii siyaasa Oromoos ta’ee kan Impaayera Itophiyaa hedduun walxaxaa fi kaan umrii wayyaanee dheressuf  mija’aa ta’ee argamaa jiraachu dha. Walxaxaa kan isa taasisaa jiruu keesaa tokko dhabotni siyaasaa Oromoo gara garaaraa yeroo yerootti bakka adda addaatti dhaabbachuun walii isaanii fi ofii isaanii giddutti akkasumas  warren Habashotaa tayitaarra jiranis ta’ee taytaarra ba’uuf deeman giddutti falammii deemsisaa jiran irraan kan ka’e dha. Humni TPLF jarmiyootni siyaasa Oromoofi warren biro isa morman waldura dhaabbannoo isaan walii isaanii giduutti geggeesaniif haala mijaawaa uumaafi jirachuu hubateraa. Toftaan kunis Oromoon akka  cimee isa dura hindhaabaneef aanjaa uumaafi jirachuu hubataniruu. Haga humnooti Oromoo siyaasaa wayyanee kana morman kun humna isaanii wal-irratti fixanitti wayyaneen umrii bullchiinsa sukkanessaa isaa taakkuu tokko fi lama achi butata jira. Wayyanootni ofii isaanii rakkoo waal gidduttii ha qabaatanillee malee rakkoo isaanii dabarsaanii qamaa biraattii hin kennaanii kun ammo toftaa fuula duratti isaan ademsisuuf ykn  butuuf isaan qopheessa, haalas ni mijessafi. Warrii Amaaraas akkasuma qaawwaa argameen Oromoon akka waldiguu fi qabsoon sirnaa abbotii isaanii deebisuuf gaggessaa jiraan akka cimu hala mijataa ummachaa waan jiran fakkaata.

Rakkoo guddaan fulduratti Oromorratti gabrumma dheressuuf haala mijataa umuuf jiruu keessa inni tokkoo jarmiyotnii Oromoo ilaalchaa walirraa fagaatee horachaa deemuu fi Oromoo yadaan walirraa fagaassaa deemuu isaaniiti. Kana keessaa tokkoo Oromootnii qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo irraa adda ba’aanii kayyoo bilisummaa kan lubbuun ilmaan Oromoo hedduun irraatti dhumee dubatti dhiisanii  Itopiyaa dimokrattoftee umna jedhanii warren humnaa Oromoo bakkaa hedduutti digan umamaa dhufuu isaaniti.

Ani akka shammarree Oromoo tokkootti yeroon yaaduu, jaarmiyotni  amma biyya Itophia keessatti warren Habashaa waliin taanee sirna warraaqsa dimokrasi dhuga dhabnee Oromoo angessinee Habashoota waliin taanee  jiranna jedhani maqaa adda adda dhan of moggaasani qabsoo bilisumma Oromo irra achii ba’anii of gurmessun bu’aa isaan gara fuldurattii fidan  jira jedhee waan  natti  mul’atu hin jiru. Daranuu sammuu dargaggotaa fi qabsa’ota Oromoo ballessuufi  tokkumma  ilmaan Oromoo diigu, lafeefi dhigaa qabsa’oota Oromoo bilisummaa Oromoof jechaa caccabee fi dhangala’ee akkanumaan  dirree irratti hambisuu male faydaa ka bira Oromoof  ni qabataa jedhees hin yaadu . Biyyi Impayera Itophia jedhamtu kellessas har’as boris Oromoof mana hidha, mana saamichaa fi mana enyummaa Oromoo balleessu malee mana Oromoo ijaaru miti. Kun waanuma duris ta’ee ammas umrii keenya kana keessattii hubachaa dhufne  dha. Hara’as jalqabarratti dhihenyuma kana kessattii waan bay’ee arga waan jirru dha.

Mee qaphxiiwwan adda addaa kaasuun barbaada.

Qabxii 1ffaan ka’uu qabuu wayyanee karaa filannoo nagaan angoo irraa busuun ni danda’amaa?

Kana ilalchisee; akka anii mataa kiyyaan yaadutti yoo jaarmiyotni amma kara  maqa Oromoon gurma’ani biyya galuun Ithiopia dimokratessuf  jecha Wayyanee kara nagaan  qawwee malee qabsoofne angoo irra busnee Oromoo garaa angoo qabsisuutti fidnaa jechuun wan tasa yaadamuu hin qabnee dha. Kana ammo akka ragaattii waggottan hedduu kana keeessatti addunyaan marti kan hubatedha, nutis hundi keenya waan argaa jiruu dha. FKN yoo fudhanne, waggottan darbaan keessattii warren qabso bilisumma Oromo abaaranii biyya keessatti gurma’anii filannoo irratti hirmaachuun qabsoo kara nagaa gaggessa jiran irraa barachuu hin dandeenyu taanaan kun rakkoo adda bira akka qabnuu agarsiisa. Numaaf galuu didee malee Malasa Zanaa haala tuffii of keessaa qabuun  durumaanuu ifatti labsataniruu. Akka Malasaa Zenaa utuu hin du’iin dura dubbatettii; qabsoo lafeefi dhignii ilmaan Tigray hedduun itti dhangala’ee karaa filannoon fudhanna jechuun waan hin yadamnee jedhee turee. Ammas kanumaa nutti agarsisaa jiru.

Obboo Bulchaa Dammaqsaa yoo fudhanne ilaallee waa bayyee irraa baranna. Jalqaba Obboo Bulchaan dhaaba qabsoo bilisumma abaarudhaan sirni federalisimi ummata Oromoof ga’a dha sirna kanaan  olitti Oromoof waan biraa hin barbaachisu jechuun biyyatti debi’anii qabso filanno eegalani. Yero amma garu sadarkaa Obbo Bulchaa Dammaqsa irra jiran baruuf hundi keenyaa waan gaffii nu kasisu miti. Kara nagaan falmatanii motummaa Wayyanee angoo irra fudhachuun akkasumas mirga ilmaan Oromoo biyya Itophia keessatti kabachisuun akka hin danda’amne hubatani harkaa fi milaa  sassaabbatani ta’uuf murti irra ga’ani jiru. Yeroo darbaan kana keessattis Obboo Bulchaan kan falmii gaggeessaa turaan Wayyanee qofaa waliin hin turree warren tokkumma Itophiyaa jedhanii kessa isaanitti summii Oromoo fixuu baatanii maqaa tokkummaatiin socho’aa turan walinis turee, kunimmoo sababoota maalirraan ka’anii akka ta’ee garaa boodaatti ibsufan yaala.

Dr. Marara Guddinas yoo fudhannee jalqaba barreeffama isaatiin dhaba OLF abaaruun  jalqabani, ummata Oromoof kan barbaachisu sirnuma amma biyya Itophia keessa sabota biraa waliin jiraachuu ta’ee garuu sirnaa federalizimii dhugaa ta’uu qaba  jedhani qabsoo filannoon Wayyanee mo’atani Oromoo angoo qabsisuu egalani. Haata’u malee qabsoo Dr. Mararanis ta’ee deggartotni isaan gaggeessaa turaniin bu’aan isaan fidan waa takka hin jiru. Kan Dr. Mararaan amma jechaa jiranis filannoon dorgomani motumma Wayyane angoo irraa fudhachuun waan hin yadamneefi filannodhuma irratti hirmachuun bu’aa akka hin qabnee fi Oromoo bilisa basuuf toftaan adda biraa yoo umamee malee akka filannodhaan hin danda’amne haasaa isaanii keessatti  yeroo adda addaattii ibsa akka ture argineerra. Dabalataaniss Dr Mararaan yeroo adda addaattii barreeffamota isanii irraattii sochiin warren Wayyaness dabalattee warren Habashaa enyummaa Oromo balleessuuf deeman waan ummata Oromoo garaa haala fokkisaatti adeemsisuu akka ta’ee ibsaa turaniruu. Waluuma gala garu bu’aan filannoon kara nagaa Oromoof argamsisee  hidhafi ajjeecha hojirra ari’amuu ilmaan Oromo malee bu’a tarkanfataa fide hin qabu. Waan nama gaddisiisu keessaa qabsoo kara nagaa jedhamee gaggeffama ture kessattii kan midhamaa ta’ee warren gaggessitota osoo hin ta’iin miseensotaafi deeggartota warren jala jiraan ture. Sababiin isaas motummaan Wayyane toftaan itti fayyadame gaggeessitoota warren addunyaan isaan bektu dhabamsisuu osoo hin ta’iin deggartotafi miseensota isan jala jiran qulqullessudhaan gaggeessitotaa qofaa isaanii mataa gubbaarratti hambisun dhaba isaani lamshessu ture. Kun ammo Wayyaaneef fixa ba’insaa argamsiseera. Yeroo amma miseensotni fi deggartotni dhaba kana heddun shorerkessittuu jedhanii maqaa sobaa itti maxxansanii mana hidha kessattii darararamaa jiru, kan hidhaa irra hafe Bulcha dammaqsafi Dr. Mararaa akkasumas darbe darbee namotni xiqqon hafani ta’u danda’a. Kan hoji isaa irra ar’iame akkasumas kaan Wayyaanee fi OPDOn wabii jireenyaa dhabsiisuun darara jirtu ammo lakkoofsaan heddu dha. Ammas wanti gara fulduratti jaarmiyoota siyaasaa Oromoo kan akka haaratti  ijaaramaani fi  ijaaramaa jiran   kana eggatu kana irraan adda natti hin fakkatu. Dr. Nagasoo yoo fudhanne ilaallees waan bay’ee irraa baraanna. Innis Dr. Nagaasoon ergaa angoo presidantummaa Wayyanee dhitanii ba’anii kaasee sochii qabsoo kara nagaan Wayyanee angoo irra busuu gaggeessaa turaniruu. Dabalatan ammoo Dr. Nagaasoon Oromoo irraa achii ba’anii dhabota Habashaa  warreen summii Oromoo balleessu of keessatti bataananii maqaa tokkuumma umattota Itophiyatiin socho’an waliin ta’anii sochirra turaniiru, yeroo amma garuu isan walinillee hojjechuu  waan hin dandenyeef dhaba isaniis gadi lakkisanii qabsoon biyya Itophiyaa keessatti gaggeffamu na ga’aa jedhani ba’aniruu. Kunis sababoota waan heduu of keessatti qabaata gara boodaatti itti dhufna. Ammas wanti gara fulduratti jaarmiyoota Oromoo yeroo  amma akka haarawaatti  bakka sagaltamii sagalittiijaaramaa bu’aa isaan busuu danda’ani humnaa fi tokkumma Oromoo addaan cicciruu malee bu’aa adda biraa waan fidan tasuma natti hin mul’atu. Sababiin isaas kayyoon dhaabota kana kayyoodhuma motumma Wayyane waliin wali galte umudhaan sabota biro waliin ta’uun kara nagan falmani mo’achuun sirna warraqsa federalizimi  wal fakkata umuudha waan ta’eef. Haala waggota hedduu kana keessa  hubanneerran kan ka’e Wayyane kara nagan falmani ango irra molquun mirga Oromoo kabachisna jedhanii yaaduun abjuu guyyaa keessa abjotamu natti fakkata.

Qaphxiwwaan warren kan ammo kutaa 2ffaan itti fufaa. Galatoma!

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Oromian ni bilisoomti!!

The Marks of Aannolee, Azulee and Chalanqoo/Calanqoo Cannot be Erased from the Memory of Oromo Generations

sted: Amajjii/January 29, 2014 · Finfinne Tribune | Gadaa.com | Comments

By Leenjiso Horo* | January 2014

The marks of Aannolee, Azulee and Chalanqoo cannot be erased from the memory of successive Oromo generations and from the history of the Oromo people. These marks are incorporated into our collective memory. For this, centuries may pass, generations may come and go, but the crimes of Abyssinia – the mutilation of breasts of women and girls, and of the right hands of men and boys at Aannolee, and the mass massacres at Azulee and Chalanqoo will not be erased – will never be diminished, and never be forgotten.

Menelik II’s mutilation of breasts of women and girls, and of hands of men and boys is the first one in warfare throughout written history – from antiquity to modern times, unless proven to the contrary. Those who support Menelik’s genocide at Aannolee, Azulee & Calanqoo as a “holy war” or as a war of “reunification of Ethiopia” should hold full entitlement to it.

During the campaign of colonization of the south in the late nineteenth-century, king Menelik II of Abyssinia exterminated the Oromo population by 50%, Kaficho by 75%, Gimira by 80% and Madii by over 90% (according to Radio Simbirtuu’s interview with Prof. Mekuria Bulcha, 19 December 2013, Part 2). These are genocides of highest proportions. The basic argument of the Abyssinian genocide deniers has, however, remained the same as always: “it never happened; the term ‘genocide’ does not apply; it is a ‘reunification of Ethiopia’.” Recently, the tactics of the deniers of Menelik II’s genocide has been shifted from “reunification of Ethiopia” to “holy war.”

Abyssinians always avoid public discourse of the genocide at Aannolee, Azulee and Chalanqoo – believing that sooner or later, in the course of time, that generation would pass from the scene, and their children would become acculturated and assimilated in the Abyssinian way of life and Abyssinian political thought, and then the issue of genocide dies out and will be forgotten. However, what the Abyssinians forgot or failed to understand – is that the genocide at Aannolee, Azulee and Chalanqoo shapes not only the outlook of the immediate victims of the generation of the time, but also of subsequent generations of the future. It is very important for the descendants of the perpetrators, i.e. the deniers of the genocide on Oromo – to engage introspection to face and learn from their own history. It is time for the Nafxanyaas – the deniers of genocide to ask themselves a question as to how that gross mass genocide could have occurred, instead of denying it and trying to maintain a false righteous self-image.

The Abyssinians are unable or unwilling to deal with the truth. They have always refused to recognize the crimes committed against the peoples of the south, Oromo included, as genocide. Instead, they elevated it to the level of a “holy war/qidus xorrinnat,” then took pride in it – identified with it; enthusiastically embraced it; glorified and glamorized it. This campaign is in support of their political and religious elites, scholars, governments, institutions, and individuals – those who have been preaching the genocide committed against Oromos and the south as a “reunification of Ethiopia.”

The New and Present Genocide on Oromo, and Tigrayans’ Attempt to Deny It
Today, the Tigrayan regime is behind the discussion of the past genocide to divert attention from itself while it is committing genocide itself more dangerous than that of the past ones. It has undertaken open and total war campaign against the Oromo people. It is vitally important, therefore, that we should focus our attention on current genocide the Tigrayan regime is committing while, at the same time, reminding ourselves of the genocide that the Amhara regime of Menelik II committed a century ago. The Amharas have been denying the genocide against the Oromo and other southern peoples that their regime of Menelik II committed, and now the Tigrayans are also denying the genocide that their regime is committing.

The Amharas are simply dancing and singing to the ghost of Menelik II, but they do not possess the means and capabilities to commit anther genocide. Today, it is the Tigrayan regime led by TPLF that is committing genocidal mass murders against the Oromo people; it is this regime that possesses the means and capabilities to commit genocide. Its means are the army, paramilitary unit, the police force, the special police or Liyyuupolice, secret state agents, death squads, the bureaucratic and judicial systems. All of these are already fully utilized for this purpose.

The sudden descend of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) upon Oromiyaa in 1991 set in a rapid motion a process to eliminate any opposition to its rule that culminate in the arrests, tortures and killings. Then, since 1992, it has been carrying out systematic, methodical, pre-planned, and centrally-organized genocidal mass murders against the Oromo people. Meles Zenawi was the notorious architect and organizer of the policy of the genocide on Oromo with his culprits and other thousands of perpetrators of genocide – who are still implementing his policy after his death. His brutality against the Oromo people has surpassed that of all his predecessors combined. His regime has erected concentration camps across Oromiyaa; camps, such as Hursoo, Bilaattee, Dhidheessaa, Zuwaay, and Qalittii, are the well known ones. But, numerous other clandestine prison cells, where the victims are eliminated, have been established across the empire. The regime has openly undertaken a major Oromiyaa-wide persecutions of Oromos. Hence, ordinary people, for the first time, being rounded up and sent to these clandestine centers for interrogations through torture. In the torture, few survived and many perished.

The pattern of destruction has been repeated over and over in different parts of Oromiyaa. Many of these repetitive destruction are far from the major cities; such repetition are a centrally design one. Further, a reward structure is set in place. That reward is geared towards those who implement the policy. The regional governors and officials, who refuses to carry out orders to annihilate the Oromo, are summarily replaced as disloyal and OLF agents. Community leaders are arrested and persecuted. Many women, children, and elderly run into forests and deserts to escape slaughters. Today, the Oromo people are in violent historical moment. They are the target of the Tigrayan regime for physical exterminations and forcible removal from their lands. Hundreds of thousands have been killed; millions have been forced out from their lands; and their lands haven been sold or leased to local and multinational land-grabbers.

The Tigrayan regime has fully undertaken the implementation of the policy of Oromo exterminations since 1992. The Amhara genocidal deniers are fully subscribed to this policy. In the Tigrayan regime’s jails, millions of Oromos perished as the result of starvation, diseases, the harsh environments, and physical exterminations.

We are the nation of heroes, heroines and victims. We were the victims of genocide yesterday, and we are the victims of genocide today. Yesterday, we were victims of genocide under Amhara successive regimes, and today, we are victims of genocide under the Tigrayan regime. Indeed, we are a wounded and bled nation in our country by another nation – the Abyssinian nation.

We oftentimes say, never again to genocide in Oromiyaa. We say, the seeds of Aannolee, Azulee and Chalanqoo must not be allowed to sprout again in Oromiyaa. And yet, it has already sprouted; violence is again around us; violence of genocide is still consuming our people. Menelik’s genocide at Aannolee, Azulee and Chalanqoo is reconstructed and renewed by Meles Zenawi, and implemented Oromiyaa wide. Hence, the past genocide has now become the present new genocide. Hence, the dead Oromo are still dead; more are still dying; expropriated Oromoland is still expropriated; the pillaging of Oromiyaa is at its height, and the colonized Oromiyaa is still colonized.

The Way Forward
The way forward is Oromo nationalists’ unity and the fight against occupation. For this, it is important to rebuild the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) as a superior mighty force, both in quantity and quality, to protect the population and secure liberation. This enables the nation to drive out the Tigrayan regime and establish the independent Democratic Republic of Oromiyaa. Again, it is vitally important to remove Menelik’s statue from Oromiyaa, and establish the National Memorial Day of the Genocide on Oromo for the victims of Aannolee, Azulee and Chalanqoo. This National Memorial Day of the Genocide on Oromo should be established and observed annually while we are still fighting for independence. The date and the month must be different from the Oromo Martyrs’ Day/Guyyaa Gootoota Oromoo.

No one escapes from the history of one’s people. For this, we should and must not allow the past to rest and to be forgotten. Every generation must teach the succeeding generation about the past history, their heroes and heroines. The past, the present as well as the future belong to the succeeding generations. Each new generation hold the entitlement of the past and the present. For this, the establishment of the National Memorial Day of the Genocide on Oromo is the order of the day that the marks of Aannolee, Azulee and Chalanqoo cannot be erased from the memory of successive Oromo generations.

Oromiyaa Shall Be Free!

* Leenjiso Horo can be reached at tguyyoo@yahoo.com

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Menelik's II "a Letter from the grave"

AYYAANI WBO BARA 2014 BIYYA UK MILKIIN XUMURAME

majjii 28, 2014

Ayyanni kun gaafa Amajjii 25, 2014 biyya UK, magaalaa London keessatti kabajame ayyana kana irratti kan hirmaata miseensota ABO, deggartootaa fi hawaasa Oromoo biyya UK magala adda adda irraa  heddumminaan dhufan ture.

Kabajaan ayyana kanaa kan eegale manguddoo fi ibsa gabaabaa I/G ABO kutaa UK, Obbo barsiisaa Guutamaa kennanii ture. Itti annasee, Obbo Xahaa Abdii, MGS ABO, seenaa guyyaa WBO bal’inaan ibsaniiru. Itti annansee miseensotni WBO kabajamoon- J/ Lalisee Roobaa, J/ Obsaa Milkeessaa fi J/ Fayisaa (Mul’is) wal duraa duubaan muuxannoo WBO fi aarsaa qabsoon hidhannoo feessisu dhiheessuu dhan dargaggoo fi shammarran hamileessanii jiru.

J/ Abdii Raggaasaa, mataan Damee Waraana Bilisummaa Oromoo, karaa bilbilaa irratti qooda fudhataniiru. Bara 2013 keessaa sagantaalee WBOn baafatee fi tarkaanfiilee fudhataman; injifannoo WBO galmeesse ibsuu dhan waan qabatamaatti WBOn diina waliin falmii godhaa jiru addeessaniiru. Sochiin WBO goddinalee Oromiyaa mara keessaa fi handhuura Oromiyaa, magaalaa Finifinnee, keessatti tarkaanfiileen fudhataman diinaaf raffanna guddaa yeroo tahu, ummata oromoof abdii guddaa akka kenne ibsaniiru. Wagga dhufu keessa WBOn daran jabaatee hanga bilisummaan Oromoo fi walabummaan Oromiyaa dhugoomutti akka itti fufu hubachiisanii, Kanaaf ummatni Oromoo deeggarsa isaa daran akka jabeessu hubachiisan.

Itti annee Obbo Siifan Midhaqisaa, ilaalcha dhaaba siyaasaa alaatti, akka gaazexxeessaa tokkootti sochii qeerroo fi WBO biyya keessaatti godhamaa jiruuf maal akka fakkatuu fi hangama akka diina rifachiise ragaa bahaniiru. Sagantaan addatti WBOf qophaawe shamarran Oromoo London kennaa aaddaa (special surprise gift) qopheessuu dhan WBOf kennaniiru; jaalala WBO qabanii fi fedhii deeggarsa bilisummaa Oromoof qaban ibsaniiru. Sagantaa caal baasii fi tinnisaa ta’ee ummatni Oromoo biyyaa UK maalla guddaa WBOf gummachaniru.

Dhuma irratti ibsa ejjennoo armaa gadii bafatuun ayyanni WBO bara 2014 milkii, injifannoo fi hamilee guutuun kabajame.

IBSA EJENNO

Nuti misensonni ABO, deggartoonni fi hawaasi Oromoo biyya UK magaala adda adda irra ayyaana guyya WBO kabajachuuf wal geenye haala keessa dabarree fi itti deemaa jirru gadi fageenyaa fi bal’inan irraatti mari’anne jirra.

Haala yeeo amma ilaalchise

Yeeron amma keessa jirru, gama tokkon yeero mootummaan abba irree TPLFn durfamu sodaa ummata Oromoof qabu irra  ummaticha addatti akka diina innikkatti fudhata ajjeesaa, qe’ee isaa irraa arii’aa, seera ala; yaakka tokko malee mana hidhaatti dararama  ulfaataa dhala namaaf hin-malle irran geessisaa, baratoota qaroa fi egeree Oromoof bu’aa buusuu danada’u jedhaman ajjeesaa hidhaa, barumsaa irraa ar’aa,  kaan ammoo  qabsoo irra fageessuuf  doorsisaa jiru. Kana malees  humnoonni duran angoo irra turan ammas angootti ol-ba’uuf shira ifa  fi lafa jalaan nurraatti xaxaa jiraan keessa jirra.

Gama biraan ammo qabsoon ummata Oromoo daran dagaagaa tarkaannifin WBO daran jabaachaa, dammaqinsi fi gurmuun Oromoo dabalaa, qabsoon ummata Oromoo fi ummatoota cunqurfamoo biyyatti daran dhageetti argachaa, keessi mootumma Wayyanee daran tasgabbii dhabga, boora’aa adeemaa jira, Qeerroon Oromoo, murannoo dhan mootummaa amma funyaanitti hidhate dura dhaabachaa fi qabsoo saba isaaniitiif wareegama kamiyyuu baasuuf qophi ta’u mirkaneessaa jiran.

Halleen armaan olitti ka’faman gadi fageenyaan erga irraatti mar’annea booda nuti misensonni ABO, degartootnii fi hawaasi Oromoo biyya UK  ibsa ejjennoo armaan gadi baafanne jirra:

1. Haala rakkisa fi ulfaata ta’e keessatti mootummaa amma funyanii itti hidhate, afaan qawween ummata keenya irratti roorrisaa jiru dhabamsiisuf fi dararaa jarra tokko-ol ummata keenya irra ture hundeen buqqisuuf qabsoo hidhannoo ABOn gageeffamaa jiru keessatti qooda ol’anaa gochaa kan jiru, WBO ni mararffanna, muranno fi injifannoo WBO tiin godhamaa jiru ni dinqisiifanna, waan dandeenyun  bira ni dhaabbanna.
2. Sochi baratooni Oromoo QEERRON haraka du’uwwa mootumma amma funyanitti hidhate dura dabatanii falama mirga ummata Oromoof gocha jiran ni dinqisifanna, itti boonnas. Fincila didda gabrummaa bifa adda addatiin  biyya keessaa fi alatti adeemsifamaa  jiru ni deggarra, qooda keenyas ni gumaachina.
3. Moora qabsoo Oromoo jabeessun galma hawwamu shafisiisu keessatti haala gurmuu fi wal-hubannoo dhaabota siyaasaa Oromoo fi hawasa Oromoo murtessaa ta’uu beekne nutis  kara kenya waan nurraa eegamu ni gumaachina.
4. Qabsoo ummata tokko keessati qoodni shamarranni fi dargaggoo bakka guddaa qabaachuu beekne haala shamarran fi dargaggoota   Oromoo jabeessinuu fi ijaarru irratti ni hojjenna.
5. Sadarkaan qabsoon Oromoo irra ga’e hirriba kan isaan dho’wwe diinnonni qabasoo Oromoo ammayyuu qabsa’ota Oromoo addan babasuuf carraqii gochaa akka jiran ni hubanna; duras ni dhaabbanna. Ummatni Oromoos bakka jiru akka sochi diinotaa kana dura dhabatu fi sochi isaanis damaqinsan hordofu fi fashalsiisu dhaamsa keenya dabarfanna.
6. Mootumma TPLF bu’ureffama isa irra ka’e mootumman kun kara naga a’ango ni lakkisa jedhanii yaaduun kan hin-danda’amne ta’u isa ni hubanna. Kanaafis dhaabota kara nagaa ni qabsofna jedhaniif haalli ammaan dura isaan mudate ragaa quubsaa dha. Biyya ol-antumman seeraa kessaatti hin-kabajamne, manni murtii bilisa hin taane; biyya komishinni filannoo walaba ta’e fi meeshaan sab-quunnamti mootumma abba-irrettin dhunfatame jiru keessaatti filannoo walabaa gaggeessun tasa akka hin danda’amne irra deddbi’e waan mul’ataa tureef filannoo sobaa maqa ummatootatiin ammas mootummaan abban irree aangoo irra ittiin turuus  bara dhuftu ni deemsifama jedhamu kana irras Oromoon bu’an inni argatu tokkoyyu akka hin-jirre beeke filmaata dharaa kana haala ittin dura dhaabbattu irraati ammumaan akka yaadnu waamicha keenya dabarfanna.
7. Qabsoo haqaa ummatni keenya adeemsisaa jiru, akka firoota horatu gochuu keessatti hubannoo hawaasaa fi mootummaan biyya UK caalatti ol-kaasuaf ni hojjenna, deggarsa barbaachisu ummata keenyaaf akka godhan qabsoo haqa ummata keenya cinaa akka hiriirani gochuu irratti ni hojjenna.
8. Duula farren ummata Oromoo fi cunqurfamoo biyyatti,  amma ille Minilikiin farasaa jiraniin madaa ummata keenya utuu hin-qoorin ammas deeb’ani nutti bubu’a jiran ni balaleffanna.
9. Maqaa investmenti jedhamuun dacheen Oromoo samaamun, Oromoon dachee isa irra buqifamuun, bosonnii fi garreen ibiddaan  barbadeeffamuun; lageen keenya summaa’un hattattamaan akka dhaabbatu ni gaafanna. Ogeeyyiin Oromos bakka jiran hundatti dhimma kana irraatti daran akka hojettan dhaamsa lammumma dabarfanna.
10. Dhaabni kallacha qabsoo Oromoo, Addi Bilisumma Oromo, halla amma keessa jirru; haala fuula keenya dura  as adeema jiruu  fi haala amma dura nu mudatani irraa muuxxannoo argame irraatti hunda’udhan xiinxala jabaa akka godhu jabeesinee gaafacha nutis akka miseensota dhaabaa, yookan hawasaa akkasumas akka nam-tokkootti bakka jirru hundatti murannoon hojechuun waan dandeenyu hunda gumachuuf BO kara dandeenyu hundan deggarsa lammumma nurra eegamu baasuuf waada keenya ni haromfanna.

Injifannoo Ummata Oromoof!

Gadaan gadaa bilsummaa ti!

Miseensota ABO, Degertoota fi Hawasa Oromoo biyya UK

Kaleessa WBO Hidhannoo Guutuu Waliin Hiriirsanii Karaa Baalee Ganan; Har’a Ammoo Suufii fi Saamsoonaayitaan Karaa Boolee Galan

Posted: Amajjii/January 25, 2014 · Finfinne Tribune | Gadaa.com | Comments

‘Waraabessi Biyya Isa Hin beekne Dhaqee Kaldhoo Naa Afaa Jedhe’
(Argan Beeko*)

Mammaaksi akka mata duree barruu kanaatti dhihaate kun dubbii warra ODF ibsuuf karaa gabaabsa. Murni namoota yeroo adda addaatti badii adda addaa raaw’atanii ABO keessaa ari’aman yookiis fottoqanii bahan irraa walitti dhufe kun, daandii faallaa fedhii ummata Oromoo irratti kan argamu tahuun isaa amma hundaafuu ifee jira. Namoonni baay’een dhalachuu murna kanaa waggaa tokko qofatti gabaabsanii hubachuu malu. Haa tahu malee murni kun akka murnaatti dhalachuuf kan karaa eegale waggaa jaha dura. ODF jechuun murna ‘Jijjiirama’ jedhamee bara 2008 keessa ABO irraa fottoqe irraa dhalate. Murna kana gochaa fi kaayyoo isaa irraa ka’uun namoonni baay’een ‘Micciirama’ jedhuuni. Ani garuu barruun kun arrabsoo karaa irraa akka hin fakkaanneef jecha maquma isaan moggaafataniin ‘Jijjiirama’ jedhee waamuun filadhe.

Ofii ka’umsii fi seenaan gabaabaan murna kanaa maal fakkaata? Eessaa ka’ee eessatti deemaa jira? Gaaffiilee deebii kanaa gabaabsee ibsuufan tattaafadha. Mataan murna amma ODF jedhamuu kun, Obbo Leencoo Lataa, gaafa Jijjiiramni labsamu suduudaan harka keessaa qabaachuu haa mormatan malee, duubaan garuu mahaandisa fottoqiinsa gaafasii tahuun qooda hogganummaa akka bahachaa turan warra dhimma kanaaf keessummaa hin tahin biratti beekamaa dha. Itti aanaan ODF har’aa, Dr. Diimaa Nagawoo ammoo, gorsaa (advisor) murna Jijjiiramaa tahanii labsamuun ifaan ifatti (officially) hojjechaa turan. Maqaa ‘bu’uressitoota ABO’ fi ‘hogganoota gameeyyii’ jedhamutti dhimma bahuun jarri kun lamaan ummata Oromoo afaanfajjessuuf karaan deemaa turanii fi deemaa jiran gaddisiisaa qofa osoo hin taane qaanfachiisaa dha. Haasawa yeroo adda addaatti miidiyaalee diinaa kan akka ESAT irratti bahanii haasawaniin kabajaa ummatni Oromoo isaaniif qabaachaa ture of irraa mulqanii of salphisan. Gaaffii bilisummaa ummata Oromoo, kan qabsaayonni kuma kudhanootaan itti wareegaman salphisanii fi gara dabarsanii ‘gaaffii ambummaa’ (citizenship)tti gad xiqqeessan. Kana qofaanuu hin dhaabbanne. ‘Nuti takkaa bilisummaa Oromoo gaafannee hin beeknu, gaafa ABO bu’uressinus Oromiyaa bilisoomsuu waan jedhamu yaadnee hin beeknu’ jedhani. Kanaanis Habashoota waan gammachiisaniif ESAT irratti baay’ee harki rukutameef. Oromoon garuu bakka jiruu ‘Safuu!’ jedhee isaan taajjabe.

Jara kana lamaanii gaditti kan argaman Obbo Leencoo Baatii fi Obbo Hasan Huseen hoo eenyu? Jarri kun lamaan ammoo warra ifatti labsatee maqaa ‘Jijjiirama’ jedhuun bara 2008 irraa qabee ABO diiguu irratti bobba’e.  Warra ummata Oromoo fayyaaleyyii hedduu afaanfajjeessuun Menneapolis irratti harka rukuchiifatani. Jarri kun warra ifaan ifatti ‘’Shanee ABO gaafatama irraa ariinee jirra; Kana booda ABOn Shanee Gumiitiin hogganamtu hin jirtu’’ jedhee ummata Oromoo sobe. Yakka qabsoo Oromoo fi dhaaba kallacha qabsoo Oromoo, ABO irratti dalagan kana jalaa of baasuuf jechas murna fottoqxummaadhaan ‘Jijjiirama’ jedhanii jaarratan sana irratti Kamaal Galchuu akka hayyu-dureetti muudan. (Akka afaan isaanii gaafasiitti ‘dura deemaa’ jedhamaa akka ture hin dagatamu). Kamaal akka bolola aangoo qabu waan beekaniif badii ofii dalagan hunda namtichatti haqachuuf jecha gowwoomsanii maqaaf of dura kaa’ani. ‘Hoggansa Kamaal’ jalatti yakka dirree qabsoo fi hawaasa Oromoo biyya adda addaa keessatti raaw’atameefis nuti itti hin gaafatamnu, nuti keessaa hin qabnu jedhanii Kamaalii fi warra isa waliin turetti haqachuuf tattaafatan.

Kamaal Galchuu Hagayya bara 2006 keessa gaafa qaamaan ABOtti makamu nama nagaa qabu, kan Oromummaaf laalatu akka ture warri isatti dhihoo ture ragaa bahaaf. ABOnis murannoo Oromummaa isaa kana laalee akka qabsoo Oromoo furgaasuu keessatti qooda ogummaa waraanaa bahatu haala aanjessuufiif jecha gara miseensa Hogganummaa (Gumii Sabaatti) ol guddise. Tarkaanfiin toltuuf godhame kun garuu osoo oolee hin bulin hammeenyaaf gumaameche. Kamaal ABO seenee ji’oota muraasa keessa Obbo Hasan, Obbo Leencoo fi fakkaatota isaanii kanneen hoggas waliin shubbisaa turaniin micciiramee daandii haqaa kan irbuu itti seeneef irraa jal’ifame. Kamaal daldaltoota siyaasaa kana lamaaniin dogoggorfamee naamusa dhaabaatiin ala deemee yakkoota gurguddootti cuuphame. Qajeelfamaa fi barsiisa namoota maqaa dhawaman lamaanii fi fakkaatota isaanii jala deemuu filatee Hayyu Duree dhaabichaa tuffatee qajeelfamas irraa fudhachuu dide. Kana birayyuu dabree qabsaayota ABO gidduutti walitti bu’iinsi hamaan akka dhalatuu fi keessumattuu waraana gaafas ajaja isaa jala ture keessatti dhiigni ilmaan Oromoo tokkummaa qabsaayotaaf lallabaniidhaa akka bishaaniitti akka dhangala’u tarkaanfii fudhachiise. Yakka gaddisiisaa kana hunda duubaan kan ture ammoo warruma har’a ODF jedhee gilindisaa jiru kana akka ta’e yaadachiisuu feesisa.

Yakkoota waraanaa gaafas murna ‘Jijjiirama’ jedhamuun raaw’ataman keessaa kan akka malee hamaa fi yoomuu seenaan hin irraanfanne Zoonii Kibbaa keessatti ta’e. Ijoollee Oromoo bilisummaa Oromoof jecha irbuu waliin seentee, dhagaa waliin boraafattee, diina ishii irratti qiyyaafattee jirtu gosummaa fi ilaalchaan qoqqoodanii walitti diran. Ijoolleen Oromoo afaan qawwee ishii diina irraa buqqiftee walirratti akka deebiftu taasisan. Kanaanis qabsaayonni Oromoo diina ajjeessuuf manaa bahan wal galaatafanii irbaata allaatii wal taasisan. Yakki warri ‘Jijjiiramaa’ sun (Kan Leencoo Baatii fi Hasan Huseeniin hogganamu) zoonii sanatti raaw’achiise kana qofas miti. Itti Aanaa Dura Deemaa isaanii kan ture Lichoo Bukraa ilmaan Oromoo diina kuffisanii kufuuf irbuu seenanii dirree qabsoo irratti argaman dhibbootaan hiriirsee Wayyaaneetti galche. Qawwee qabsaayota Oromoo kan gumaata qaalii sabboontota Oromoo biyya alaa fi biyya keessaatiin horatamte walitti qabanii Wayyaaneef galii godhan. Kunis isaan hanqatee miidiyaa Wayyaanee irratti bahanii hanga dandeettii isaanii ABO ummata biratti jibbamsiisuuf xibaaran. Arraata Wayyaanee tahanii olola farra QBO oofani. Kanuma waliinis miseensotaa fi deeggartoota ABO cichoo tahan bakka addaa addaa irraa qabsiisanii hiisisani. Kanaanis Wayyaanee biraa fuula bitachuuf haa dhama’an malee Wayyaaneen garuu torbaan tokko lama eega dheebuu ololaa ittiin bahattee booda akka xaasaa cabaatti lafatti darbite. Amma wayta kana namni haaturuutii hantuutninuu bakka jiranitti isaan hin fuunfattu.

Yeroo kun hundi tahu ‘Jijjiiramni’ isaanii, kan hoggansa isaa jalatti yakki kun hundi qabsoo Oromoo irratti raaw’atame, guyyaa tokko illee gadi bahee ummata Oromoo dhiifama hin gaafanne.  Waraana Oromoo nama isaanii lammaffaa (Lichoo Bukraa)tiin dirqisiifamee Wayyaaneetti gane ilaalchisee ummata Oromoof ibsa kennan hin qabani. Oromoo tuffatan. Akkuma Adoolessa bara 2008 keessa qabsaayota fayyaaleyyii hanga tokko dogoggorsanii harka rukuchiifatan sanatti, baruma baraan Oromoo gowwoomsuutu danda’ama jedhanii saba guddaa kana tuffatani. Tarkaanfiin ganiinsaa taasifame sun qooda fudhannoo fi itti amantaa isaaniin alatti akka hin raaw’atamin kan ragaa bahu tokko isa kana. Yakki raaw’atame kun garaa ummata Oromoo akka laalesse wayta hubatan, Leencoo Baatii fi Hasan Huseen gaafatama kana jalaa of baasuuf jecha namicha akka afiishalootti of dura kaa’an (Kamaal Galchuu) qeequu fi hamachuu hojii godhatan. Kamaalis akkuma isaan isa barsiisanitti qajeelfama isaanii fudhachuu dide. Dabaree isaa miseensummaa fi hogganummaa ‘Jijjiiramaa’ keessaa isaan ari’eyyu. Nama akka meeshaatti itti dhimma bahuuf moggaafatanii turantu fuula itti naanneffatee isaan salphise.

Qaanyii isaanii kana garuu ifatti baasanii dubbachuu mannaa, faana dabarsuuf jecha falaasama bishaan hin fuuneen Oromoo gowwoomsuuf tattaafatan. Maqaa ‘araara’ jedhuun ammas ABO gowwoomsanii harkatti galfachuudhaan kaayyoo dhaaba kana hiikkachiisanii Wayyaaneetti galchuuf qaban dhugoomfachuuf hojjechuu faashina haaraa godhatan. Sana duras taanaan ABO irraa fottoqanii murna ‘Jijjiirama’ jedhamu bixxiluuf wanni isaan dirqes, akka ofii barbaadanitti dhaabicha dhunfatanii diinatti oofuuf hiree dhowwatamuu isaanii ture. Projektiin maqaa ‘Jijjiirama’ jedhuun ABO dhabamsiisuuf eegalame yoo milkaawuu didu, warri fedhii kanaan wal fakkaatu wal suufanii projektii isaanii kan namni irraa bitu dhabame haaromfachuuf ammas arreedan. Warri hogganummaa ‘Jijjiiramaa’tiin yakka gurguddaa qabsoo Oromoo irratti raaw’ate sun, karaa maraan kasaaraa mudatan. Miseensota ABO fi sabboontonni Oromoo fayyaaleyyiin kan gaafas jaraan afaafajjeeffamanii turan osoo hin turin dhugaa fi soba adda baafatanii isaan ganani.  Bakki itti dahatan tokkichi bobaa Obbo Leencoo Lataa tahe. ‘’Wal fakkaattiin wal barbaaddi’’ jedha mitii ree Oromoon?

Obbo Leencoo Lataa fi Dr. Diimaa Nagawoo ABO harkatti galfatanii akka fedha isaaniitti dhaabicha hiikkachiisanii harka wayyaaneetti galchuuf jecha eega hojjechuu eegalanii waggaa 15 caalee jira. Sun milkaawuufii dinnaan maqaa ‘’Manguddummaa Araaraa’’ jedhuun akka ofii barbaadanitti jara reefuu maqaa dhoofne kana mataa ABO irratti irroomsuuf ijibbaatan. Kunis cichoomina hogganoota haqaatiin harkatti fashale. Akkasitti ABO irraa gaafa abdii muratan yakkamtoonni kaleessaa fi har’aa bakka jiranii wal barbaadanii maqaa ODF jedhuun of labsan. ‘Jijjiirama’ kaleessa gatatetu ‘ODF’ jedhamee booda keessa as bahe. ‘Jijjiirama’ Kamaal Galchuu kaleessa akkuma dhalateen gatate sanaa fi ‘Jijjiirama/ODF’ jara Leencoo har’aa kana wanni adda taasisu waanuma tokko qofa. ‘Jijjiiramni’ Kamaal Nafxanyoota kan waaqeffatu (Amhara-worship) yoo tahu, ‘Jijjiiramni/ODF’ jara Leencoo ammoo Wayyaanee-TPLFiin kan waaqeffatu (Tigray-worship)tahuu isaa ti. Lamaanuu Oromoon akka saba guddaatti miila lamaan of danda’ee dhaabbachuun egeree mataa isaa akka tolfatuuf osoo hin taane, maxxantuu fi ergamtuu Habashootaa tahee akka jiraatu hawwu.

Murni Kamaal hangamuu Habashoota gammachiisee harka haa rukuchiifatu malee Oromoo biraa guutummaatti waan tufameef battalumatti seenaa tahee darbame. Kan jara amma shubbisaa jiruus hiree Kamaal faa mudatan irraa adda hin jiru. Obbo Leencoo Lataa gaaffii fi deebii miidiyaa Oromoo tokko waliin amma dura geggeessan keessatti “Gaafa Amaarri yookiis Tigireen na faarsuu baay’isan rakkoo wayiitu jira jechuu dha.” jedhanii turan. Egaa har’a kunoo Oromoo osoo hin taane Amaaraa fi Tigireetu adeemsa ODF faarsaa jira. ‘Oromiyaa gananii Itoophiyummaa fudhataniiru’ jechuun lamaanuu gammadanii dabaree dabaree harka dhawaafii jirani. ‘Qubee fi alaabaa ABO sanas of irraa dhiisaatii sirriitti nu fakkaadhaa’ jedhaniis warri Amaaraa dhaamsa itti ergataa bahani. Tigiroonni aangoo irra jiran ammoo lammummaa biyya lamaatiin isin hin simannu, passport keessan isin irraa guurree isin simanna, jedhanii waadaa naqsiifataniin. Kunis harka kennannaa haal-duree tokko malee(unconditional surrender) tahuu isaa ti.

Yeroo dhihootii as waa’ee adeemsa ODF irratti odeessi haaraan bal’inaan kan gabaafamaa jirus marsaalee Oromoo irratti osoo hin taane marsaalee Habashaa kan akka Zehabesha.com, Ethiomedia.com, Ethiopianreview.com faa irratti. Kun kan agarsiisu yaaddoon Obbo Leencoo dhugoomaa jiraachuu isaa ti. Akkuma jedhanitti yoo isaanii galeef, jara (ODF)fi ummata Oromoo gidduu rakkoon guddaan akka jiru mul’isaa jira. Ammatti Habashaa Amaariffa dubbatuu mannaa Habashaa Tigiriffa dubbatu filachuun homaa garaagarummaa hin qabu. Habashaan Habashaadhuma. Oromoon ammoo Habashaa lamaan keessaa kamiinuu waliin firoomas tahee hariiroo qabsoo hin qabu. Haleellaa jarri lamaan isarraan gahaa jiran wal tahee of irraa qolachaa jira sabni Oromoo. Keessumattuu dargaggoon Oromoo eenyummaa saba isaa fi sadarkaa qabsoon isaa irra gahe sirriitti wayta diinatti agarsiisuu danda’e keessatti argamna. Oromoon akka Oromootti irree tokko tahee biyya isaa Oromiyaa irratti abbaa tahuu fedha malee, Amaara filatee Tigiree kan balaaleffatu yookiis, Tigiree firoomfatee Amaara kan jibbu akka hin taane diinota isaatti himaa jira!

Ofii warri ODF Wayyaaneetti galuuf sababni keeyyatan maal faa dha? Dhuguma akka afaaniin himatanitti ‘karaa nagaan qabsaayanii Wayyaanee kuffisanii Oromoo bilisoomsuu’ dha moo kaayyoo dhokataa biraa qabu? Yoo karaa nagaan Wayyaanee irratti qabsaayuuf kan garaa irraa yaadan taheef maaliif waggaa 23 booda har’a reef murtee kana irra gahani? Hireen isaanii hoo maal tahuuf deema? Kutaan lammaffaan barruu kanaa torbaan dhufu dhihaatu gaaffiilee kanaa fi kana fakkaataniif deebii gahaa qabaata.

Injifannoo Ummata Oromoof!

* Argan Beeko: argaanbeeko@gmail.com