Norway: Demonstration outside City Hall

We want justice for the Oromo people.

By Tina Alnes-Jørgensen | December 26, 2014

(HA) – Protestors shouts against the town hall: “We want justice for the Omoro people”.

Dagmawi Bitew have come to Hamar from Trondheim to demonstrate together with others Omoro. Among them are Roba Pawos that takes pictures of the demonstrators and their posters.

– There are about 40 million Oromo, and many of those being treated badly in Ethiopia. Leaders expanding towns at the expense of the population and the farmers who live there. They do not have homes, and are not being heard by the government, he said.

Several attempt to demonstrate in their home country, but was not well received says Pawlos.

– 17 students who demonstrated have been killed because they cried out, he says.

Because I am Oromo

At one of the signs says “because I’m Oromo”. That is why they demonstrate explains several of the protesters. They are not being heard in Ethiopia where injustice occurs, so now they cry in Hamar and other cities around the world. They appeal to including Norwegian authorities and say they have been well received by those who came out of the town hall.

On the banner they carry is the text (translated from English):

“We condemn the ongoing massacre of Ethiopian students, made by the Ethiopian regime. And the eviction of Oromo people from their homeland and areas by Finfine (Addis Ababa).

Arrested

On 27 August 2011, Olbana Lelis from “Oromo People’s Congress party” (OPC) arrested. Authorities have also arrested university teachers and others who are accused of belonging to Oromo, Amnesty on its website.

– This is a method authorities for silencing opposition leaders and troublemakers, says Amnesty.
This happened three years ago, after the Amnesty authorities have arrested as many as 5,000 to. Oromo is the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia.

Source: HA