Case studies to accompany Amnesty International report
‘Because I Am Oromo’: Sweeping Repression in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
October 2014
The Government of Ethiopia anticipates a high level of opposition in Oromia, andsigns of dissent are actively sought out and suppressed. People from all walks of
life are regularly arrested based solely on the suspicion that they do not support
the government, or conversely, that they support the Oromo Liberation Front
(OLF), the armed group in the region.
Below is a small sample of the testimonies documented by Amnesty International
in the course of conducting the research for ‘Because I Am Oromo’: Sweeping
Repression in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Many of those interviewed by
Amnesty International – students, teachers, writers and medical professionals,
among others – had their lives torn apart by repeated human rights violations over
many years.
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