Tuesday, July 15, 2014

THE ADDIS ABABA MASTER PLAN IS A PLAN TO MASSACRE AND DISAPPEAR THE OROMO PEOPLE

By Yunus Abdellah Ali


Yunus Abdellah Ali
Yunus Abdellah
Why the Oromo students decided to sacrifice their life against AAMP of the brutal dictator government of Ethiopia? The AAMP is the core issue of the complete oromo struggle.So it is the question of life and death for the whole oromo population. Millions of oromo s have been massacred by the emperor Minilik, emperor Haileselase, Derg, and TPLF for more than 120 years. But our oromo elders paid their life, their bones, their blood to bring a lot of achievements in the oromo struggle,and they did it. We have achieved some of the fruit of our elders struggle. We have regained the name Oromia for our land, oromo for our people, Afaan Oromoo for our language, our culture, in general we have gained our identity by the blood of oromo freedom fighters with an unforgettable dream of regaining our unique system of governance the Gadaa system.
But recently we the qube generation is facing one of the biggest challenge ever in the middle road of journey to freedom,that is the Addis Ababa Master Plan (AAMP). This plan is the plan that will take all of our achieved rights by our past struggles. So the qube generation is decided to protest against this AAMP in many parts of the world especially in the Ethiopianuniversities and high schools .This protest is not simply a protest, it the question of life and death,we qube generation are not only protest against this illegal plan, but also we will defend our land from being sold even if we continue being killed by the brutal Ethiopian government.
The Oromia students protest is the life costing struggle for the question of life and death.
The dictator Ethiopian government is expanding Finfine , This means, the Weyanes want to expand from the center of Oromia and taking the the oromo land in to their federal territory.
The AAMP going to take away our rights we gained through our years struggle with the blood of oromo elders. So that this master plan obviously is not about investment but it is about disappearing of the oromo people.this master plan is targeted directly towards the struggle of the oromo people ,which affects the oromo people directly in a lot of ways.
The current federal language amharic will expand again,in other words the working language of Oromia is going to be amharic based on long term expansion.Once the late prime minister Meles said that he will eliminate the dominance of oromo population in terms of number and the land. That is why the TPLF government have massacred the oromo people in different parts of Oromia and now displacing thousands of oromo farmers from their land. As he already said, in long term, the oromo people will be weak financially, small in number with out unity, and will be eliminated . But we oromo youngsters know that we can’t let our land to to be sold to the investors or government based NGO s even if it costs us our lives.
The Ethiopian government has been displaced many oromo farmers in eastern shewa, western side of Finfine in the name investment. For example in Oromia region in the areas of Zuway , Holeta, and other places there are flower farming. That farm is toxic naturally. And release a lot of toxic chemicals in to the soil kills the soil nutrient for 100 years,so the oromo farmers around that area have died by drinking toxic water that flows from those toxic soil to the lakes and rivers around, the release of chemical dusts from the local industries to the river. Many industries in Oromia release such toxic fluids in to the river of oromo farmers using for drinking water.
In conclusion the Addis Ababa Master Plan is not planned for investment but for elimination of the oromo nation one of the nation in Africa. This master plan is a plan with a mission of hidden eradication of the oromo people identity and population with the progressive erosion of oromo resources, culture, politics, language, land ,people and others from every angle.
So that we Oromo people will struggle by protesting both inside and outside until the end, to cancel the Addis Ababa Master Plan(AAMP) at any costs.
OROMIA SHALL BE FREE.

Ethiopian man takes UK to court over resettlement policy

Thatched huts in the town of Kir in Gambella, Ethiopia (22 March 2012).
Villagers say they are being forcibly relocated from Ethiopia's Gambella region

A legal battle has been launched by an Ethiopian citizen who claims the UK has helped to fund a "brutal" resettlement programme in his country.
The man, who can only be referred to as "O", won permission to seek a judicial review at London's High Court.
He wants a ruling that the UK acted unlawfully by providing aid to Ethiopia without assessing its human rights record.
The UK government has denied funding the programme.
The case arises from Ethiopia's decision to resettle individuals from rural communities into new and larger "communes", known as the Commune Development Programme (CDP), in an attempt to reduce poverty.
'Violations'
In a report in 2012, the New York-based group, Human Rights Watch, said around 70,000 indigenous people from Ethiopia's Gambella region were being moved against their will to places lacking food, farmland, healthcare and schools.
The court ruled that "O" had an arguable case against the UK's secretary of state for international development that should go to a full hearing.
He alleged that he had fled to Kenya, leaving his family in Ethiopia, following "brutal treatment" in 2012 because of the CDP.
"The claimant alleges he is far from being alone in suffering in this way and refers to evidence gathered by human rights organisations and NGOs of widespread human rights abuses in Ethiopia in the context of the villagisation programme and otherwise," Justice Warby said.
"O" claims that UK money provided to the Ethiopian government "contributes to such violations".
The programme was currently in its third phase with a budget of some $870m (£510m) allocated until the end of January 2018.
A spokesman for the UK government's Department for International Development (DFID) denied it had ever funded Ethiopia's resettlement programmes.
"Our support to the Protection of Basic Services Programme is only used to provide essential services like healthcare, schooling, and clean water," the spokesman said.

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