Roorroo Wayyaanee Sarmuu Diduun Diddaa Dargaggooti Oromoo Godina Jimmaa Dhageessifatan ,Kutaa 2ffaa(Part 2)

Dargaggoonni Oromoo godina dhihaa fi barattooti Oromoo Yuuniversitii Jimmaa Onkoloolessa 13,2013 Ayyaana Irreechaa sababa godhachuun mootummaa Wayyaanee ummata Oromoo hacuucee bulchaa jiru irratti mormii dhageessisanii turan.Mormiin dargaggoonni Oromoo kaasan Wayyaanee haalaan dhiphisuun barattoota 12 hidhanii turan,kanneen keessaa hidhamuu barattoota Oromoo ilaalchisee  poolisoota Fedraalaa fi naannoo Oromiyaa jidduutti wal dhabbiin sababaa dhalateef jecha barattooti 9 battala gadhiifamanii turan. Kanas ta’u diddaan Qeerroo hanga ammaatti yeroo irraa yeroon kan itti fufe ta’uun ni beekama. Gabaasaa isaa wal jalaa boodaan dhiheessina.

Diddaan Qeerroo Bilisummaa kun kan dargaggoonni Kibba Africa baroota 1990 ta dura diddaa gaggeessuun faaruu fi wallee warraaqsaan roorroo uumata isaanii irra jiru dhageessifachaa qabsoo godhan waliin wal fakkaata.

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Saudi Arabia: Extreme Brutality against migrants From Ethiopia

From Ethiopia

HRLHA Appeal and Urgent Action

November 13, 2013

For Immediate Release

Honorable ABDULLAH bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia;

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques

Riyadh, Royal Court: 1-488-2222, Jeddah: 2-665-4233

Taif: 2-736-5200, Makkah: 2-823-4111, Madinah: 4-857-2500

His Majesty King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz,

Upon the expiration of the three months extended deadline for migrant workers to renew their residency and employment status ( November 4, 2013), thousands of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia most of whom believed to be from Ethiopia were apprehended in various regions of the Kingdom by Ministry of Labor inspection squads formed for this purpose under the pretext of flushing out workers who violate rules regarding work and residency permits.

The most victimized of the raids to flush out illegal workers were the free visa holder migrant workers of Ethiopian Origins. ‘Free visa’ holders are considered among the most exploited, lowest paid and abused workforce in Saudi Arabia. The sponsor, who keeps the worker’s passport and other travel documents with him/her, plays a crucial role in the worker’s life. All dealings with the government such as renewal of ‘iqama’ or residency permit are through the sponsor. Sources from the capital city, Riyadh, reported that among the total of 28000 surrounded migrants , authorities detained around 16,500 migrant workers in the first four days (November 5 – 9, 2013) in a nationwide crackdown across seven provinces The Saudi officials confirmed that among the seven provinces nearly half of the migrants were arrested near the southern border with Yemen and in Mecca where some Muslims stay on illegally after their pilgrimage.

Though the police officials in the capital city claim that the security forces killed the African migrant worker in el-Manhoufa because he and others tried to resist arrest, the information from the migrants and from the publicly released video confirmed that the three Ethiopians killed were murdered by the brutal action of police. Among the victims was Umere Abdurahiman Ali , 24 an Oromo national from Ethiopia who was gunned down on November 5.

–For Full Appeal click HRLHA Appeal and Urgent Action

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Ob. Jawar Mohammed on the Ongoing Assaults on Immigrants in the Gulf States … “We Must Take Back Our Homeland to End the Oromo National Homelessness”

From Ob. Jawar Mohammed’s Facebook page …

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“We could ask foreign powers and do-gooders to throw us blankets to survive the cold, and leftover food to get by. But, we will still be back to the same destitution the next day or the one after. The only and lasting solution to this humiliating national homelessness is to take back our homeland. “
- Ob. Jawar Mohammed on how to end the Oromo national homelessness (i.e. the global Oromo refugee crisis)

The savage mobocratic attack on our people in Saudi Arabia is the culmination of the horrific stories of abuses we have been hearing over the last several years. From Alem Dachasa’s heartwrenching death in Lebanon in 2012 to the weekly news of maids killed by their employers in almost all Gulf countries to the mass-scale attacks perpetrated by the Saudi police and mobs, we are observing a worsening of the situation for our people in the region.

There appears to be three factors at play leading to this escalation. First, particularly in the Saudi case, instead of taking responsibilities for the extravagant waste of resources and unproductive economic policies that have resulted in the growing rate of unemployment, the Saudi government and media have been spreading blames on migrants taking away jobs. Consequently, the Saudi public has come to associate their economic hardship with ‘invasion of foreigners’ as their media like to frame the issue. Second, due to oppressive regimes that rule through exclusivist and exploitative economic conditions, the number of our refugees crossing the Red Sea has skyrocketed. The UNCHR reports show that between 100,000-120,000 refugees enter Yemen every year. Most, if not all, of these refugees aim their final destination to be Saudi Arabia. Third, that part of the world is still stuck in medieval racist views. Even before the latest xenophobic campaigns, they have been known for being cruel towards African migrants, particularly. I have heard endless tales of horrific racist rants and physical attacks against maids and laborers by their employers, the police and ordinary folks on the street. In fact, I can attest from experience that even the ‘most enlightened’ of them: diplomats, businessmen, students and princes still have a shockingly Darwinian view of humanity. The racism in that part of the world cannot be denied or excused. Its ugly face and nasty brutality are out there in full display. The latest racist outburst is nothing but a public display of what they have been subjecting our brothers and sisters in seclusion in their houses.

I anticipate each of these three factors to get worse in the near future. The social and political upheaval in the region following the Arab Spring, and the expected downward spiral of the economy are likely to further fuel xenophobia as regimes will continue to rely on externalizing internal these problems to remain in power. Sadly, I cannot foresee lots of practical solutions. For instance, the humanitarian approach(advocacy and refugee service type) is unlikely to work because the Saudis just do not have room for civil societies. A person I know tried to set up a shelter for the battered maids, but he spent over a year trying to get some sort of permit to no avail. One official actually told him in plain language that they had no law for such a permit. He then decided to host some of the worst affected in house he rented. An employer of one of the battered women, the very person who brutalized her, found out the place after extracting confession by torturing her friend. He then brought the police, which raided the place, arrested the Good Samaritan, returned some of the women to their tormenting employers and deported the rest. Even during the latest crisis, an elderly person who has lived there for over 40 years and supposedly well known to the authorities, went to appeal to the government to stop the violence. Instead of heeding to his plea, he was beaten up by the officials, arrested and awaiting deportation (despite having all the legal papers).

The other alternative, and perhaps more effective way, of helping them would have been the diplomatic channel. After the beheading of an Indonesian woman few years back, Jakarta responded strongly by threatening to severe economic and political ties. The Saudis gave in to the pressure, releasing hundreds of Indonesians from detentions. During the recent attack on migrants, Indonesians are said to be the least affected. However, when we come to the Ethiopian government, we are observing a reaction that borders endorsing the Saudi policy of mass violence. The foreign ministry and its diplomats downplayed the severity by blaming on social media’s exaggeration; they even tried to justify the crackdown saying the targets are only illegal immigrants. Notwithstanding the fact that the attack did not make such differentiation, whether they went there legally or illegally, a government has a solemn duty to stand up and defend its citizens, particularly when they come under attack by foreigners. Then, why is the Ethiopian government cozying up to the Saudis instead of siding with the victims?

This could be attributed to multitude of factors. First, over last year, the relationship between the Ethiopian regime and the Saudi-based immigrants has deteriorated. Triggered by the protest over violations of religious freedom, the immigrant community stood firm against the regime – refusing to buy and disrupting the so-called Abbay Bond sell. Hence, it’s understandable that the regime has little love for them. In fact, the regime stands to benefit from destabilization of such resourceful and near-to-home Diaspora that is increasingly falling into the opposition’s side. This is what’s consular officers have been signaling to elders who went to speak with them. Second, we shall recall the report that the Ethiopian rulers have reached an agreement with the Saudi government to send 45,000 maids ‘legally.’ Hence, the displacement of the rebellious ‘illegals’ will make room for the new ones who – because they will be recruited, vetted monitored by the regime’s agencies while in Saudi – are less likely to stand against it.

Finally, the vast majority of these brutalized refugees are Oromos (it is estimated that over half a million Oromo refugees reside in the Gulf States). The severity of the refugee crisis the Oromo nation is facing — from North Africa to South Africa, Kenya and the Middle East — is indicative of the severity of the repression and exploitation going on in our country. The past colonizers reduced our people to servitude. Back then, our people at least remained on their land even though they were robbed of most of their production. Today, our people are dispossessed of even that plot of land as the occupiers are giving it to their own and selling it to foreigners. Millions are internally displaced and have become urban squatters. Hundreds of thousands flee every year to escape political persecution and save their family from starvation by risking certain death while crossing the Red Sea and the African deserts. Put simply, as a nation, we have become homeless. No amount of humanitarian outreach and lobbying foreign charity can solve this problem for us. We could ask foreign powers and do-gooders to throw us blankets to survive the cold, and leftover food to get by. But, we will still be back to the same destitution the next day or the one after. The only and lasting solution to this humiliating national homelessness is to take back our homeland. This fact must sink.

- Ob. Jawar Mohammed

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Oromos in Ethiopia: Oromoia Students Movement and the Current Trends of Oromo Youths and Intellectuals (Dejene Abdissa Janna)

Disproportionately Torturing of Oromos in Ethiopia: Oromoia Students Movement and the Current Trends of Oromo Youths and Intellectuals

A paper presented on the commemorate of  the popular student uprising known as the Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa (Revolt Against Subjugation), 10th November,2013

By: Dejene Abdissa Janna

Frankfurt,Germany

Introduction

This term paper  highlights only  the tip of many challenges about what happens in Maekalwi and other torture prisons since many Oromos who end up in Ethiopia’s torture prisons barely survive to tell the stories, as in the case of the recent victimer Engineer Tesfahun Chemeda  and thousands of others who died from barbaric acts of torture inflicted up on them for purposes of extracting information and for many other reasons, including for terrorizing the victims and making them spectacles of violence to discourage other actually or potentially strong  Oromos (October , 2013 Oromo Press).

It’s not new or surprising that Ethiopia is party to many treaties and conventions on torture and human rights violations. What is surprising is the lack of will among the so-called international community to disinvest from Ethiopia or to enforce regional and international laws to end the kind of torture that singles out members of a single ethnic group.

Reports can expose injustice and making headlines can make us happy temporarily, but as long as they are not followed-up by international or regional actions, they just raise our hopes and disappoint us more, but we still need them so the stories of those people who have paid heavy prices are not lost in vain. We wait hopefully for actions to follow words while also reinvigorating our will and ability to come forward and tell these crucial stories (Human Rights Watch, 2013).

 Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa (Revolt Against Subjugation)

The popular student uprising known as the Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa (meaning the “Revolt Against Subjugation”) was suddenly broke out on November 09, 2005 following the failed 2005 Ethiopian election in which the Oromo was denied any meaningful representation. The popular revolt started on November 09, 2005 following a call by the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) to Oromo students and the entire Oromo people to peacefully oppose the government and bring to the forefront the demands of democracy, justice, and most importantly, the realization of the right of the Oromo people to self-determination (The Reporter, 13 November, 2005).

The Conditions of Oromo Prisoners and Tourturing in Prison Centers

Today, there are more than 30,000 Oromos jailed and being torturing in Ethiopian prison centers being suspected of Oromo Liberation Front members and supporters.

Prominent Oromo individuals, scholars, civil servants, businessmen/women, teachers and students, farmers are being murdered, detained, kidnapped, displaced and harassed for no crime committed. According to Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition  (2010/2011 cited in Ayyaantuu.com, 2011), Ethiopia contributes 47.8 percent of the world’s torture survivors who flee to the U.S.,making Ethiopia the number one country in Africa and the world with the most numerous torture survivors of the 13 countries listed. Regional human rights abusers such as Eritrea and Sudan contribute 6.5 and 2.2 percent respectively. Of the 47.8 percent torture survivors from Ethiopia, the overwhelming majority who have come forward and testified are Oromo survivors.

The TPLF-led regime mainly targets the Oromo people and oromia because of their economic resources and political resistance. Because the Oromo occupy Ethiopia’s richest areas and cover nearly half of the population of Ethiopia, they are seen as the greatest threat to the present Tigrean-led government. Subsequently, any indigenous Oromo organizations and independent Medias have been closed by the government. In an effort to destroy all peaceful Oromo movements and institutions in Ethiopia, the TPLF regime attacked all Oromo civil society members and Medias including the famous Mecha Tulema association, the OFDM and Jimma Times and Urji newspapers. We should not forget what the Macca Tulama members and oromo Journalists and activists have suffered for the last 21 years under TPLF and we always remember their peaceful struggle for justice of Oromo people in Ethiopia(Human Rights Watch, 2013: 34).

Now a days, the Oromo people can’t live in their own country and on their own land ; they are unable to cultivate, trade, produce and study in peace and freedom, the natural resources of the Oromo people and its land and minerals are on sale to foreign investors , and leaving all Oromos and our country Oromia in poverty, sadly Productive Oromo youngsters and innovative minds are being dragged to prisons and several thousands  are forced to exiles in fear of persecution, speaking for justice as an oromo  is entirely seen as an act of  terrorism in today’s Ethiopia ( Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa,2013).

Genocide of Oromo Intellectuals

Being educated can be a risky business in Ethiopia especially if you are from ethnic group of Oromo. Students and teachers, are often among the most politically active elements of society, and are frequent victims of human rights violations including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrest, and denial of freedom of association and expression. The present Ethiopian leaders (TPLF) have targeted the academic community of Oromos now a days and this can be stated as genocide based on article 2 of 1948 UN convention on genocide.

According to international conventions, genocide is the planned destruction of any economic, political or a social group. Such kind organized destruction of Oromo nationalists, Oromo Medias, journalists and the whole leaderships are characterized as genocide.

Article 2 of 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishmentof the Crime of Genocide states as follow:

“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Oromo refugees and asylum seekers who escaped such gross human right violation and dispersed to neighboring countries like Kenya, Somaliland and Djibouti are being abducted and forcefully sent back to Ethiopia by the request of TPLF security agents who are working crossing the border in Kenya, Somaliland and Djibouti . The TPLF security forces hunting down prominent oromos by crossing the international border to take them back to Ethiopia and locking them in prison for the rest of their lives- or killing them, as a number of international Human right organizations repeatedly witnessed in their recent reports, those who sent back to Ethiopia were being tortured, sentenced and murdered in Ethiopian prison.

The recent detaintion of Engineer Tesfahun Chemeda  in the kalliti prison center, held in solitary confinement, with no access to medical treatment and severe beatings for nearly two years which resulted in his death in August 2013 in such inhuman way is witnessing the continuity of TPLF government targeting and hunting down of highly qualified Oromo elites and nationalists as wild animals.

Therefore, this all systematic genocidal war waged on the Oromo people  needs an urgent solution  and needs an urgent intervention from all sectors of the Oromo society , oromo political organizations ,oromo nationalists and oromo activists  to stand up together and fire up the struggle to bring an end to this era of darkness and genocidal in Oromia.

Options for Oromo youths and intellectuals now a day

A. Being tourturing in prison center       B. Being eaten by wild animals while fleeing

C. Sinking in ocean than sinking in prison center

D. Too sad underage children (voice of the voiceless) in prison center instead of schooling

Oromia Shall Liberate!!

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Oromo Mini Documentary from Oromo activist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOCkf8VtJjM&sns=fb

Wallagga Qeellam Keessatti Guyyaan FDG Sadaaasi 9,2013‏ Kabajame

Sadaasa 13,2013 D.Doolloo

Yaadannoo Sadaasa 9 FDG yeroo 8ffaa oromiyaa keessatti kabajamaa ture ammas haalota ho’aadhaan bakka adda addaa irratti kabajamaa turuu isaa gabaasota Qeerroo adda addaa irraa kan nu gahaa jiruudha.

Madda gabaasaa Qeerroo Qellem Wallaggaa irraa addeessuun Magaalaa Dimbi Doolloi fi aanaalee godinoota kanneen jalatti argaman ifatti aanaa Anfiilloo,Qeebbee, Daallee Waabaraa,Sayyoo,fi mana barumsa Qellem,Beezii fi Oliiqaa Dingil keessatti haala ho’aadhaan kabajamee akka oole gabaasaan isaa addeessa. Guyyaa kabajaa kana irratti wareegamtootaa qabsoo bilisummaa oromoof lubbuu isaanii dabarsan yaadannoo guddaa gochuudhaan barruulee uummata oromoos yaadachiisuu fi suurawwan adda addaa kaasuudhaan wal yaadachiisuuun kabajanii oolaniiru,dabalataan ammoo huyyaa kana hojiin addaan bakkoota kanneen irratti dalagamanii jiran uummata oromoof waamichi qabsoo tahee jira, mirga ofii falmachuun nama hin yakkisiisu,dhugaadhaafis miidhamuun boruu lammii ofii biratti galata guddaa argachuutu jira jechuudhaan barruu adda addaa raabsanii jiru. Akkasuma abbootii qabeenyaa Oromoo godina kana keessa jiraniif waamichi qabsoo oromoo addaan tahe ejira,gumaatni garagaraa maatiwwan dhuunfaa irraa qabsoo oromoof kan tahee jiruudha,kunis gumaacha qarshii,tajaajila tolaa kan akka geejjibaaf malu konkolaataan Qeerro qabsoo irra jiruuf baasii horii tokko malee yoomiyyuu bakkaa bakkatti sochoosuu dirqama lammuummaa ni baana jedhuun waadaa yeroo seenaniidha,

Guyyaama kana sadaada 9 sababeessuudhaan qooda shamarraniii qabsoo irratti gahee ofii bahuu irratti harmootin sabboonummaa qabanii fi shamarran Oromoo magaalaa Dambi Doolloo Hoteela Abbunash keessatti wal gahuudhaan sa’a gabaabaaf ibsa ejjennoo baafatanii jiru.

-Nuti sharamarran oromoo godina Qellem magaalaa Dambi Doollo keessa jiraannu bilisummaa saba keenyaa fi walabummaa biyya keenyaaf wareegama barbaachisu gochuuf boodatti hin jennu,

-Qabsoo Bilisummaa Oromoo gumaacha tahu deggersa qabsoof waan qabnu irraa baatii baatiidhaan buusi qabnuun ni dhaabbanna.

-Miidhaa uummata keenyaa ilaallee yoomiyyuu hin callisnu hanga mootummaa abbaa hirree mootummaa wayyaanee hiddaan buqqisnutti tokkummaan hiriiruu keenya waadaa seenerra.

-Afaan,Adaa fi Seenaa saba bal’aa saba oromoo babal’isuuf waan barbachisu hunda ni baafna,ni bal’ifanna,jennee murtoo keenyas dabarsina.

Jedhuun maadhee Guddattuu jedhu jalatti of ijaaruudhaan shamarran magaalaa Dambi Doolloo sadaasa 9 kabajuudhaan sodaa fi shakkii tokko malee qabsootti hiriiruu isaanii waliin Gabaasaan Qeerroo G/Qellem addeessa. Waraabbii qabnu akka kuusatti kan of biratti qabnu irraa kan hafe ykn kuusaa CD fi filashiitin kan dhaamnu irraa kan hafe toora interneetaa maagaal kana keessatti waan hin qabneef nu hoofkalchaa dhaammanna jedhu.

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Lubbuun Biyyatti Galuu Qofa Feena

Jaallannee Gammadaa

Sadaasa 13, 2013, WASHINGTON, DC (VOA Afaan Oromoo) — Hokkarri Saa’udii Arabiyaa keessatti lammiwwan biyya alaa irratti qiyyaafate hammaachuu isaa irraan kan ka’e biyya ofiitti deebi’uuf carraaqaa kan jiran ta’uus hatattamaan kan milka’uu hin taane jedhu kanneen yaaddoo guddaa keessatti kufanii jiran.

Feedhiin galmaa’aatii biyya irraa dhuftaniitti isin deebifana jechuun eega nu galmeessanii booda lafa guyyaa ho’isaa nama gubuu halkan qorri isaa nama kotteessutti geessanii nu gatan jedhu kanneen raadiyoon sagalee Amerikaa haasoofsisee.

Humnaan gudeeddii hamaa dubartootaa fi shamarran irratti rawwatame dheessuun kanneen biyya ofiitti deebi’uuf harka kennataniis du’aa fi jireenya gidduu jirra jedhu.

Dubartoonni ulfaa kanneen da’anii baatii lama hin guunne akkasumas ijoollee kan qaban gaaga’ama kana keessa jiru. Gama kaaniin Embaasiin Itiyoophiyaa Riyaad jiru kan humnii ehamee maraan carraaqqii gochaa jiru akka itti fufeera jiru ibseera

Embaasiin kun Polisoota saa’uudii wajjin ta’uun lammiwwan Itiyoophiyaa lafa jiraaniitti dhaqqabuuf irratti hojjachaa kan jiran ta’u kan ibsan Obbo Ahmaad Xalahaa
Obsaan eeggatanii gara biyya ofiitti nagaan deebi’uun akkaan barbaachisaa ta’uu hubachisan.  Hokkara Saa’udii keessatti giddu kana uumameen waluumaa gala lammiwwan Itiyoophiyaa sadii ajjefamuu Obbo Ahmaad ibsanii jiru.

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