Soraa Halakee
WASHINGTON,DC — Perzdaantiin Afrikaa Kibbaa ka durii,Nelson Maandellaa nama addunyaan waan hedduun faarsitu.
Akka xiinxalyaan siyaasaa Jawaar Mohaammad yuniversitii New York jedhetti ammoo wannii Maandellaa jaalataniif “nama kana nama bilisummaa sabaatii fi ummata isaatiif falmeen jaalatama…jaarmiyaa paartii Afrikaa Kibbaa ,ANC jijjiiree paartii ummataa godhee.Ummatii cunqurfamoon addunyaa ammoo isa akka fkn laalan.”
Akka Jawaaritti wanti Maandellaa biyya alaatti akkana jaalataniif bara Maandeellaa hidhaa bahe sunitti:
“Oggaa innii qabsoo san injifannoon irra aanee mana hidhaatii bahu san sodaan guddaan… ummata isaa sun qabatee ummata adii biyya san jiru biyya sanii hari’uu, biiluu bahuu dandahaa sodaa jettutti jira..sun ammoo hin taane.”
Dubbii tana araaraan fixuutti akka Maandellaan jaalatamu tolche.Gama kaaniin ammoo Maandellaan gaafa leenjii waraanaatiif Finfinnee dhufe jeneraalii waraanaa bara sunii Taaddasaa Birruu jalatti leenjifame.
Itti gaafatamtootii waraana Oromoo ta bara 1960s keessaa tun Jeneraal Taaddasaa Birruu, Koloneel Fiqaaduu Waakkanneetii,Kumaalaa Fiqaaduu Dibaabaatii fi Kumaalaa Guutaa Dinqaa faan Perz.Maandellaa leenjisanii nagaa isaallee eegaa bahe.haga Maandellaan Finfinnee jiru sunitti leenjisaa waan hedduun gargaaraa bahan.
Kumaalaa Guutaa Dinqaa akka Maandellaa ijjeesu sobamulee “sobamuu didee lubbu Maandeellaa oolche.”
Gaafa Maandeellaan leenjii fixatee Afrikaa Kibbaatti deebihullee kumaalaa Guutaan shugguxii tokkoo fi rasaasa 200 Maandellaa kenne.Jennaan Maandellaan poolisiin itti dhufnaan shugguxii sun gatee ammallee horii guddaan barbaaduutti jiran.
Gama kaaniin ammoo dhaabi fiilmii Amerikaa baasu Holly Woodii fi ka Afrikaa Kibbaalleen seenaa Maandellaafaa shugguxi Maandellaa ta baddee fi seenaa Oromoota isa waliin turanii irralleetti wa hojjachuutti jira.
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Monday, December 9, 2013
Mourning the Departure of Freedom Icon and African Hero Nelson Mandela While Celebrating His Achievements
Press Release, December 9, 2013
We, the Board of Directors and Staff members of the Human Rights League of Horn of Africa (HRLHA), would like to express that we are deeply saddened by the passing away of our African hero and freedom icon Mr. Nelson Mandela, also known as Madiba especially among his funs and lovers. It is everyone’s belief that this icon of freedom, although he is peacefully departing, has left behind an everlasting legacies of hope for the better future, perseverance in the struggle for equality, justice and dignity for all human beings as well as forgiveness. We could say that not only the South Africans but also the rest of African and other global communities are better off because of his priceless sacrifices, democratic achievements, spirits of hope, forgiveness, peace, harmony, and overall human dignity. HRLHA believes that those of us at all ages and generations who are staying behind are expected to take lessons from his legacies and carry on the torch of freedom that this freedom icon has ignited from where he has left it, and make Africa a much better place where political differences are settled through roundtable discussions, negotiations, and reconciliations, and policies are framed based on respect for human rights.
As the biography of Madiba clearly shows, he stood firm for the equal rights of all people. For that stance, he stood unyielding and he was charged with treason by the apartheid South African government, spending 27 years of his life in prison. Madiba, among other things, is always remembered for forgiving those who extra-judiciary imprisoned him and inhumanly treated along with other South Africans, despite being forced to spend this many years in harsh prison conditions. Madiba forgave those who not only punished him without a crime, but also who categorized hundreds of thousands of other fellow South Africans as subhuman and condemned them down to destitution and all forms of socio-economic crises by dispossessing and detaching them from natural resources such as land. We the leadership of HRLHA see that Madiba lived and departed as a hero and a great leader. As a hero, he stood up for human dignity and equality; and, as a result, he paid unparalleled sacrifices. When he was elected as a president, he made tremendous efforts to deliver justice for all and as an “angel” he promoted reconciliation between the people who were extremely divided based on racial and colour differences. He forgave those who cruelly treated him and his fellow South Africans for refusing to accept racial discrimination and subordination. Madiba’s achievements during most of his lifetime left a clear message for the people of Africa and the world – that all human beings are equal. In his life and departure, Madiba taught especially the younger generation about the need for perseverance, hope and forgiveness.
The causes of instability in Africa and in the world in most cases have political differences that generate from racial motives. In one of his famous speeches, Mandela said, “no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” Promoting racial, cultural, or national superiority or simply advancing a monolithic view is contrary to human rights principles; and always instigates violence and instability. In its turn, violence and instability consume our human and natural resources; and hinder us from achieving our potential. The African and world communities need to follow the lessons from of our hero – Madiba- and focus on teaching our children as to how to unlearn the views that they have learned- and to refute racial, cultural, and/or national superiority theories and practices.
Instability that has been ravaging the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Uganda) is driven by theories of racial, cultural, national, and clan superiority. For example, the Ethiopian land leasing policy also referred to as a land-grab, which has evicted thousands of people from their homes, is driven by the longstanding colonial concept of terra-nullius – the land belonging to no one. All political prisoners in Ethiopia and the refugees in the neighboring Horn of African countries who fled that country and, some of them perishing in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Ocean and the Sahara and Sinai deserts are all those who have been conditioned by the racial superiority theories of the ruling Tigrian regime. All political prisoners who are languishing in torturous prisons of Ethiopia did nothing wrong except that they asked for the respect of their individual and collective rights, and those of others.
In the past and present in darkness in the tropical forests of Africa, people oriented themselves by the “star” in the sky – Venus – Bakalcha. Mandela, the freedom icon, has established the norm by which African and global leaders should function. Just as the planet Venus has shone and given directions for millions of years, the life of this freedom icon should guide present and future African leaders. Democracy, human rights, social justice and reconciliation should be the motto and the leading ideology. Using this opportunity, we call upon the peoples in the Horn of Africa, especially the youth, to harness the ideas and ideologies for which the freedom icon – Madiba stood and challenge ideas and ideologies that are contrary to the principles of human rights, social justice and equality.
We would like to end this note with the wise words of Nelson Mandela, who said, “I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man”. Let us celebrate the legacy of the freedom icon by detesting all forms of racism – whether or not it is based on skin color, culture or religion; and stand up firmly and strongly for human rights, human dignity, and equality.
Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA)
Duuli duguugiisa shanyii kan qaccee dhaloota Oromoo fuulleeyfate ammaas bifa haarayaan geggeeyfamaati jira
Duuli duguugiisa shanyii kan qaccee dhaloota Oromoo fuulleeyfate ammaas bifa haarayaan geggeeyfamaati jira. Weerarri Wayyaaneen karoorsite kuni akeekni saa Oromoo buqqaasanii onafii qubsuma malee hambisuu, idda saa hortee Soomalii qubachiisanii lafa Oromoo Soomaaleeysuu dha. Kana dhugoomsuufis humna addaa kan “Liyyuu Pooliis” je’amuufi hidhattoota naannoo Soomaliitu Ona Qumbii fi Mayyuu qubsuma Oromoo Anniyyaa keessatti bobbaafame. Dhimma kanaratti Oduufii ibsa ballaa Obbo Abduljalil Abdella fi Obbo Said Mohamed Ali RSO irraa taasisaan, Himata jirattoni lafa sani Aadde Jaallannee Gammadaa waliin taasisan linkii armaan gadi irra qulucaa dhageefadha. Balaa Wayyaaneen ummata Oromoorratti geggeessaa jirtu dhaabuu fi Oromoos gaaga’amarraa eewaluuf maal gochuu dandeenya?
1. Ilmaan Oromoo biyya qubatanii jiraatanirraa Xalayaa balaaleeffannoo barreessanii gara waajjiroota kanatti aananii erguu: Waajjira Mirga Namoomaa kan Mootummoota Waltahanii (UN Human Rights Office), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, US President, EU.
2. Ilmaan Oromoo bakka jiranitti maqaa hawaasa isaaiitiin walyaamanii walgahanii marihatanii hiriira sagalee saanii ittiin dhageeysisan qopheessuu
3. Mediyaan Oromoo hundinuu sagantaa hubannoo ummataa cimsan qabaachuu; haga rakkoon tuni furmaata argattuus itti fufuu. Kuni Manneen Paltalk Oromootis ni dabalata.
4. Hayyoonni, Beektoonni Oromoo barruulee dhimma kana fuulleeffatanii duguugmaya qaccee dhalootaa garanaan geggeeffamaa jiru saaxilan afaannan gurguddaa addunyaatii barreessuu; dokumentarii qopheessanii tamsaasuu, conference marii qopheessuu
5. Artistoonni Oromoo aartii dhimma kana ibsu qopheessuu (wallee baasuu, walaloo, diraamaa, qopheessuu; postaroota maxxansiisuu
6. Jaarmayoonni Amantii (Masgidoota fi Bataskaanoota) hundatti Waaq kadhachuu
7. Ummata lafa isarraa buqqa’e, Maatii qabeenyi isaanii saamame, gubameefii namoonni irraa wareegaman hatattamaatin dhaqabuu.
Tarkaanfiilee kana fudhannee balaa hawaasa Oromoorratti bargaafate kana faccisuufi hanqisuuf haa tattaafannu.
Arif Ali
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The man who taught Mandela to be a soldier
General Tadesse Birru gave a pistol to Nelson Mandela as he returned to South Africa
In July 1962, Col Fekadu Wakene taught South African political activist Nelson Mandela the tricks of guerrilla warfare - including how to plant explosives before slipping quietly away into the night.
Mr Mandela was in Ethiopia, learning how to be the commander-in-chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe - the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC).
The group had announced its arrival at the end of 1961 by blowing-up electricity pylons in various places in South Africa.
Then on 11 January 1962, Mr Mandela had secretly, and illegally, slipped out of South Africa.
His mission was to meet as many African political leaders as possible and garner assistance for the ANC, including money and training for its military wing.
And to be moulded into a soldier himself.
During this trip, he visited Ethiopia twice and left a deep impression on those who met him during his stay in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
'Made others laugh'
"Nelson Mandela was a very strong and resilient student, and he took instruction well and was really very likeable," Col Fekadu said.
"You couldn't help but love him."
Col Fekadu said Mr Mandela was a good student
Col Fekadu was a corporal when he trained Mr Mandela. He was a member of a specialist police force - the riot battalion - based in the suburbs of Kolfe, in barracks which are still used today.
He remembers a "happy, cheerful person" who "concentrated on the task in hand".
"He was polite, always happy and you never saw him lose his temper," he said.
"He laughed easily and made others laugh as well."
Col Fekadu says he was responsible for training Mr Mandela in sabotage and demolitions and how to stage hit-and-run attacks.
The day's theory lessons were put into practice during night-time exercises.
Mr Mandela was a good student, hardworking and physically strong - but sometimes too robust and too enthusiastic for his own good, the colonel recalls.
"Physically he was very strong and well-built. But sometimes during the training he would get ahead of himself.
"And while his intentions were good, that could also be dangerous, and sometimes we had to restrain him a bit for safety reasons."
Col Fekadu had been told to train Mr Mandela by his commanding officer, General Tadesse Birru, the assistant police commissioner who had played a key role in crushing an attempt at the end of 1960 to overthrow Emperor Haile Selassie. He was later executed by the Derg regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam.
Back in 1962, Col Fekadu did not realise the significance of the South African politician he had been instructed to turn into a soldier.
"All we knew was that he was our guest from abroad and that he would spend some time with us," he said.
"Everything was kept very secret. We were kept in the dark."
Mr Mandela was in Ethiopia at the invitation of the emperor, an ardent supporter of Africa's decolonisation and African unity.
At the time, Ethiopia had one of the strongest armed forces on the continent.
Its troops were part of the UN peacekeeping operation during the Congo crisis in 1960 and a decade earlier Ethiopian soldiers had fought in the Korean war.
And the emperor had invited many other African liberation struggle fighters to be trained on Ethiopian soil.
As well as learning how to commit acts of sabotage, Mr Mandela's military training also included briefings on military science, how to run an army and how to use a gun.
He was also taken on long treks carrying his knapsack, rifle and ammunition.
This was one of Mr Mandela's favourite activities during his military training, and he writes about it with affection in his Long Walk to Freedom autobiography: "During these marches I got a sense of the landscape, which was very beautiful... people used wooden ploughs and lived on a very simple diet supplemented by home-brewed beer. Their existence was similar to the life in rural South Africa."
'Talkative'
Mr Mandela's presence in Addis Ababa was supposed to be top secret. But physically he stood out.
He was much taller and broader than most of the police cadets.
And, as well as going on fatigue marches through the countryside, he would exercise out in the open in the grounds of the barracks.
One person who took a particular interest in the tall stranger in his midst was Tesfaye Abebe, who was working in Kolfe as the head of the battalion's music and drama department.
He recalls Mr Mandela running around a big field in the compound - which today doubles up as a running track and a parade ground.
"He would do squats and jumping jacks. He followed that exercise routine religiously every morning."
A curious Mr Tesfaye snatched conversations with Mr Mandela when he and his trainer came into the canteen for lunch.
"Security was quite tight and we weren't really allowed to approach him."
But, he says, Mr Mandela was "very friendly and talkative" and explained apartheid to him and how the ANC intended to fight it with guerrilla warfare and political activism.
On a couple of occasions, the police band - in which Mr Tesfaye was the pianist - played for Mr Mandela in the officer's club.
"He really enjoyed that. He was really happy when we played for him."
Mr Mandela's military training in Ethiopia was supposed to last six months - but after only two weeks he was called back to South Africa by the ANC.
He had already spent seven months out of the country - and he was needed back home.
As Mr Mandela left Ethiopia, Gen Tadesse presented him with a pistol and 200 rounds of ammunition - a gun that is thought to be buried somewhere on Lillesleaf Farm, where in 1963 other ANC leaders were arrested and sentenced to life alongside Mr Mandela in the famous Rivionia trial.
Mr Mandela himself had been arrested on 5 August 1962 - for leaving the country illegally , shortly after his return from his trip around Africa - and still in the military fatigues in which he had been trained in Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia accused of stoking Moyale clashes
Ethiopia accused of stoking Moyale clashes. Dec 08 2013 01:15 pm
December 9, 2013, Nairobi, Kenya (Standard) — MPs Ali Rasso (Saku), Roba Duba ( Moyale) and Mohamud Ali, a former Moyale MP, Sunday claimed Ethiopia was using its military and local militias to hunt down Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) rebels.
Rasso, a former Kenya army colonel, alleged that about 400 militiamen fighting the OLF in Kenya were behind the anarchy in Moyale.
The leaders blamed the attackers for the burning of more than 100 houses in Butiye and Moyale town. Rasso said a gang in full military uniform went on a torching-spree of houses that belonged to senior Borana personalities.
Among the houses burnt on Saturday morning included that of Butiye Ward Representaive Golicha Galgalo and former MPs, Guyo Halake Liban and Mohammed Galgalo.
‘‘ Moyale was deserted on Friday afternoon and the whole of Saturday. Even the fighters retreated. But some people in military uniform were all over burning houses and killing all those in sight,’’ said Rasso.
The MP claimed the Kenya Defence Forces, deployed to stop the inter-clan clashes, was collaborating with the Ethiopian military and the militias.
He claimed a detachment of Kenya Army based at Odha has an Ethiopian military liaison officer by the name Kiross. “The Ethiopian government has always had a liaison officer at Odha. This man Kiross is their liaison officer and he is the one,” Rasso claimed.
“‘The Kenyan government in collaboration with the Ethiopian government kicked out the OLF in Moyale in 2010, but the Ethiopians were told by the county government officials that the rebels are still there,’’ said the MP.
Marsabit County Commissioner, Isaiah Nakoru refuted claims that KDF was working with their counterparts from Ethiopia but added that his office had received complaints that fighters in military uniform were sighted in Moyale on Friday and Saturday.
“We are investigating about armed people in military gear who were seen in battle in Moyale. But the report we have so far is that militias were behind the burning of the houses,” said Mr Nakoru.
The administrator added that both the protagonists—the Gabra and Burji on one side and the Borana on the other, are backed by their kinsmen from Ethiopia.
Both Kenya and Ethipoia, he added have deployed soldiers along their common border to ensure that no militiamen cross into Kenya. But both countries have also ensured that those seeking refuge are given a safe haven.
That, however, is restricted to the main crossing border point at Moyale. According to sources outside the Government, 17 people were killed between Friday and Saturday, bringing the death toll to 27 in the past one week.
An estimated 70,000 Moyale Central residents have sought refuge in Ethiopia as Kenya Army moved into the volatile border town with armoured vehicles and helicopter gunships.
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