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December 7, 2015
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”Finfinnee/Addis Abeba Master Plan” is annexation of Oromo land and annihilation of Oromo identity in Finfinnee and its environs

We members of the Oromoo community in Sweden, Gurmuu Oromoo, would like to bring to the attention of international community the suffering of Oromo people who are continuously being deprived of their internationally recognized human rights by the tyranny regime in Ethiopia.

Violating its own constitution, the TPLF regime is trying to maneuver and implement “Finfinnee Master Plan” despite of the overwhelming rejection by the Oromo people. The forced eviction of Oromos from their ancestral land such as Finfinnee started by the Emperor Menelik II is now underway at a high rate by TPLF, the current successor of Abbysinian oppressive regimes. More and more Oromo villages, towns and farmland surrounding Finfinnee are being taken away by TPLF government and sold to new comers leading to complete destruction of the livelihood of the evicted Oromos.

The TPLF regime is working day and night to fundamentally change the demography in these targeted Oromo areas and facilitate its evil plan of destroying Oromo villages, cultures, and livelihood. What happens to those evicted Oromos is no concern for the TPLF regime.  Moreover, this tranny regime has set preconditions to change the original Oromo names of these villages and towns and erase any trace of Oromo connection to these areas. This is what has been practiced by previous Abbysinian regimes.

The TPLF regime is trying to misguide the international community as if the government has achieved high economic development while most of the people suffer from extreme poverty and hunger. In reality, the main sources of this claimed development is obtained by selling out the confiscated Oromo land surrounding Finfinnee and other places at extremely high prices while Oromo farmers are suffering of poverty and exposed to hunger. Oromo people all over the world, especially Oromo school children in Ethiopia, are protesting peacefully against such harassment. However, the regime is killing and torturing these protesters and terrorizing the Oromo people all over Oromia. The current protest since end of November 2015 is the continuation of protest against ‘Finfinnee Master Plan’ started in April 2014, when more than 79 Oromos, mostly youths, were killed and several hundred Oromos were arrested and mistreated. The persecution continues unabated and getting more and more sophisticated, brutal and widespread as we write this paper.

We express our deep concern and anger regarding this unacceptable suffering of Oromo people in general and killing of peaceful school children. The Regime must refrain from this barbaric act, immediately cancel the implementation of unaccepted ‘Finfinnee Master Plan’ and stop evicting Oromo farmers from their land.

We appeal to the international community, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and governments to deliver appropriate leverage on the Ethiopian/TPLF regime to heed to the democratic and humanitarian request of the Oromo people as well as other oppressed people in Ethiopia and refrain from the heinous scheme of reducing the Oromo population to minority in order to have easy control over Oromo resources and force Oromo youths to migrate or remain in poverty.

We demand all-round liberation to the Oromo people and all oppressed people in Ethiopia!

Gurmuu-Oromo Community in Sweden (December 4, 2015)

How TPLF clings on to power

Susan Rice Laughed at EPRDF’s 100% Win (VIDEO)

TESFANEWSJULY 25, RICE, VOTE RIGGING

Good afternoon, everybody. I brought a special guest to discuss with you the President’s upcoming trip to Africa. Susan Rice is the President’s National Security Advisor. She has her own extensive personal experience in dealing with policy in Africa, and she obviously will be accompanying the President on that trip…

Question: Can you speak a little bit more broadly to the security concerns on this trip? Are they higher than normal for a presidential trip, given the countries that he’s visiting and the situation like this? And also, to just follow up on what Christi was saying, does the President consider the presidents of Kenya and Ethiopia democratically-electedPresidents?

Susan Rice: First of all, you mean — okay, let me come to the second one. The short answer is, on the security side, Isaac, I think I should refer you to Secret Service for any detailed questions. But obviously we wouldn’t be taking this trip if we thought that security conditions precluded us doing so. But it is important to note that Kenya in particular — Ethiopia less recently — has been the victim of terrorism, primarily perpetrated by al-Shabaab.

We are very concerned for the people of Kenya and for the region, that this threat remains a real one. And that’s why we’ve cooperated so actively not only with the African Union force in Somalia, which is countering al-Shabaab, but also in a bilateral way with the government of Kenya, the government of Ethiopia, and Uganda and others in the region that have experienced the threat from al-Shabaab.

So it’s something that obviously, given their history and given the strong counter terrorism cooperation we have with the countries in the region, that we take seriously.

The democrat role — first of all, yes, I think we would say that the President of Kenya was democratically elected. That was a competitive process. I think the Prime Minister of Ethiopia was just elected with 100 percent of the vote, which I think suggests, as we have stated in our public statements, some concern for the integrity of the electoral process — at least if not in the outcomes then in some of the mechanisms that supported the process, the freedom for the opposition to campaign.

Question: So is that — but does he think that that was a democratic election?

Susan Rice: Absolutely — 100 percent (WTF… Laughter … Laughter and a good Laughter)

#OromoProtests :- Ethiopia investigating deaths of tens of Oromo protestors

#OromoProtests :- Ethiopia investigating deaths of tens of Oromo protestors

ETHIOPIA- BREAKING The military has officially taken over Oromia

high ranking military, intelligence and federal police officers held emergency security meeting with President of Oromia, Muktar Kedir, at his office located in Addis Ababa. The meeting was chaired by General Asefa Abiyu,Commissioner of Federal Police and Muktar Kedir, President of Oromia. In attendance were mostly military officers above the rank of Colonel and commanders of federal police.
Intelligence Officers presented analysis and assessment of security situation in Oromia, which concluded the civilian leadership has failed to contain the situation hence the matter is now a national security crisis. They proposed the military formally take over security operations in the region. Accordingly Oromia has been subdivided into eight ( 8) military regions ( wetderawi ketena) each to be led by military generals. Civilian administration is cooperate and report to the commanding generals. The generals are to report to a command post which includes chief of armed forces, intelligence and federal police. Oromo generals strongly opposed the decision but no one heard them.
This is an official coup d’etat against civilian leaders in Oromia and perhaps the first step towards staging one at federal level. Stay tune for more details about which generals are put in charge and analysis of how this impacts the ongoing conflict.
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MN Oromos decry human rights violations in Ethiopia, say violence continues

IssuesDoualy Xaykaothao · Minneapolis · Feb 26, 2016

The Ethiopian government may have backed off its planned capital expansion after deadly protests last fall, but ethnic Oromo in Minnesota say violence and arrests continue. Here, people mourn the death of an alleged protester shot dead by Ethiopian forces. Zacharias Abubeker | AFP | Getty Images 2015

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The Ethiopian government may have backed off its planned expansion of the capital after deadly protests last fall, but ethnic Oromo in Minnesota say violence and arrests continue.

On Thursday, members of the community — around 40,000 Oromo people live in the state — came together for a daylong forum in Minneapolis to discuss the human rights violations in the East African nation.

• Previously: Minnesota Oromo community decries violence in Ethiopia

In the last few months, clashes between state security forces and students in the Oromo region of Ethiopia have been deadly. Activists say more than 200 people have been killed, but Human Rights Watch said it couldn't verify the number. And it's unclear how many Oromos, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, have been arrested and imprisoned.

Teshite Wako Doualy Xaykaothao | MPR News

Teshite Wako, president of Oromo Community of Minnesota, said Oromo people are being targeted.

"By the name of development, and investments in the country, Oromos are evicted from their land, and students started to protest against that, and the response they got was to be killed," Wako said.

Ethiopia's prime minister said he regretted the loss of life during November's demonstrations, and since then the government has ceased its plan to develop beyond the capital. However, daily killings and arrests have continued, said Wako.

"It's an urgent matter that we need to pay attention to," he said. "We would like, really, for genocide not to happen in our country. We are not against developments, investments, but what we are against is developments and investments that marginalize our people."

Among those featured at the forum was Anuradha Mittal, executive director of The Oakland Institute, who spoke about human rights violations that her California nonprofit has been reporting about in Ethiopia since 2007.

Anuradha Mittal Doualy Xaykaothao | MPR News

"What is horrifying is a very systematic violation of human rights toward all communities that are not in political power," she said. "This is based on so-called development schemes, which will result in the renaissance state of Africa, grand highways, the largest dam. But all of those schemes are being carried out through land-grabbing, taking away farmlands of communities without their consent, without compensation."

Mittal added that when people protest, as young students apparently attempted to in November, there's violence.

"They've been tortured, they've been intimidated, arrested, there's no rule of law," Mittal said. "There's a complete misuse of the anti-terrorism law, which has become a tool to lock up people (and) not have them face charges for years. It is shameful for us to keep quiet."

When President Barack Obama visited Ethiopia last year, he reportedly discussed greater business developments with officials, as well as human rights in the state. But Oromo Minnesotans say that's not enough and many are urging Obama to help the Oromo before he leaves office.

Massive rally in Canada against Ethiopian govt’s response to Oromo Protesters

Posted: Amajjii/January 31, 2016 · Finfinne Tribune | Gadaa.com | Comments

Oromo and other Canadians held a massive rally on January 29, 2016, in the capital, Ottawa, to bring to the attention of the Canadian government the human rights violations of the Ethiopian government against peacefully protesting Oromos in the Federal State of Oromia in Ethiopia.

Since mid November 2015, the Ethiopian government has killed, maimed and arrested hundreds and thousands of Oromo students, farmers and civil servants – including children – for peacefully protesting against the Tigrean-dominated Federal government’s plan to take away millions of hectares of land of Oromo farmers and give them to the regime’s favored individuals posing as “investors.” The government had been able to disguise its plan of dispossession of the Oromo as “development” for several years; however, the Master Plan that the government released for Addis Ababa and the Surrounding towns in Oromia in April 2014 finally uncovered the true intentions of the massive land-grabbing campaigns of the Federal government. All over Oromia, Oromo farmers are evicted and thrown out like garbage while Tigrean “investors” are given the land for “development.” In Oromia, “development” (or the Afan Oromo word for it – misooma) has become synonymous with dispossession, evictions and disempowerment of the Oromo farmer in particular, and the Oromo public in general. Today, as a result of the Tigrean-dominated Federal government’s “development” plan, millions of Oromos have become homeless, internally-displaced persons and refugees, and have been reduced to day-laborers on their own country. It is this ethnically-biased development plan of the Tigrean-dominated Ethiopian government that Oromo students, farmers and civil servants have been protesting against since mid November 2015. For these peaceful protests, the Ethiopian government’s response has been bullets, bullets, bullets and handcuffs: more than 160 Oromo persons were killed, more than 2,000 Oromo persons were wounded and more than 35,000 Oromo persons have been imprisoned over the last two months alone. The Federal government has dispatched its Agazi paramilitary force as well as the regular armed units of the country’s Defense Forces to the State of Oromia to crush its own citizens, who are peacefully protesting against the ethnically-biased development plan.

The following are video reports of the rally in Ottawa, Canada, by Lagatafo Studio and TVOMT.

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Hiriira Morm  ii    Oromiyaa Irratti Himata      Mootummaa Itoophiyaatii fi Deebii ABO

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• Mallaskaachoo Ammahaa

• Tigist Gammee

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Toleeraa Adabaa (Bitaa) fi Getachoo Raddaa 

WASHINGTON, DC — 

Gabaasni sagalee kunooti (4:33)

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‪#‎OromoProtests‬ BREAKING The military has officially taken over Oromia

Today high ranking military, intelligence and federal police officers held emergency security meeting with President of Oromia, Muktar Kedir, at his office located in Addis Ababa. The meeting was chaired by General Asefa Abiyu,Commissioner of Federal Police and Muktar Kedir, President of Oromia. In attendance were mostly military officers above the rank of Colonel and commanders of federal police.

Intelligence Officers presented analysis and assessment of security situation in Oromia, which concluded the civilian leadership has failed to contain the situation hence the matter is now a national security crisis. They proposed the military formally take over security operations in the region. Accordingly Oromia has been subdivided into eight ( 8) military regions ( wetderawi ketena) each to be led by military generals. Civilian administration is cooperate and report to the commanding generals. The generals are to report to a command post which includes chief of armed forces, intelligence and federal police. Oromo generals strongly opposed the decision but no one heard them.

This is an official coup d'etat against civilian leaders in Oromia and perhaps the first step towards staging one at federal level. Stay tune for more details about which generals are put in charge and analysis of how this impacts the ongoing conflict.

Hailemariam Threatened to Crush Protesters in Oromia

Published: Feb 25, 2016 Filed under: Ethiopian News Politics - 17,717 Views

Ethiopia’s prime minister has threatened to crush secessionist forces accused of stoking protests in the Oromia region, where security forces have reportedly killed hundreds of demonstrators. Protests began in Oromia—home to the Oromo ethnic group—in November 2015 over plans to expand the territory of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Oromo farmers raised concerns that increasing the size of the city would lead to forced evictions and loss of arable land.

The plans were dropped in January, but the protests continued and around 200 people have been killed so far, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) released on Monday. The Ethiopian embassy in London told Newsweek that the HRW report is not credible and is based on “malicious statements, false accusations and unsubstantiated allegations from opposition propaganda materials.”

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said on state television that “destructive forces” in Oromia, backed by neighboring Eritrea, “are on a mission to subvert the system and change the government,” the BBC reported on Wednesday. “The government has realized there is need to take a decisive action based on law,” said Desalegn. Eritrea fought a war with neighboring Ethiopia over the country’s borders between 1998 and 2000, resulting in the deaths of around 100,000 people but only minor border changes.

The Oromo are the majority ethnic group in Ethiopia, making up 25 million of the country’s total population of 74 million at the last census in 2007. Oromos have clashed with the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) before: An October 2014 report by Amnesty International said that at least 5,000 Oromo were arrested between 2011 and 2014 on the basis of suspected opposition to the government.
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Image: Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, pictured at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 30, has said that secessionist movements in the Oromia region will not be tolerated.Tiksa Negeri/Reuters