Abdulkadir Gumi
August 30, 2007
Northern Kenya People ( Borana-Oromos) has continued to be a marginalized community where it has been ignored by politicians and developers in the rest of the country. Previously known as the Northern Frontier District, the North has been cut off from the rest of the country as it is inaccessible. Many promises have come to execute a Marshall Plan in Northern Kenya, but none been implimented . the Kenya government should ensure that roads that connect Northern Kenya with the rest of the country should be made allowing the inhabitants to develop a sustainable livestock economy such as that in Somaliland.disenfranchising Northern Kenya puts the rest of the country at a security risk.A few months ago, President Kibaki elevated the Isiolo Airport .from local airport to an international one,We argues that the President is not investing in developing the airport's infrastructure and that should not be only verbal promise without doing work on it to boost the economy of Northern Kenya.The report notes that Northern Kenya is known for its insecurity and endemic cattle rustling and inter-tribal and -clan clashes. These clashes encompass Moyale, Marsabit and Isiolo in Northern Kenya and other North eastern Region (NFD).
Since these two provinces are neglected geographically, economically and socially, the region is of little economic significance and to make ends meet, the pastoralist communities there keep large herds of cattle, goats, camels and donkeys. It is no surprise to hear people from that region venturing south say that they are “going to Kenya”. People so neglected must, indeed, find it hard to comprehend that they are part of this country. The livestock they keep has been their main cause of misery due to drought and the resultant inadequacy of water and grass. Depending on the location of the watering points and /or grazing areas, indigenous communities give very difficult conditions which may involve cash payments or payments in form of animals for water or grass. This results into violent activities, hence the intermittent skirmishes. Even though cattle rustling is a cultural practice since time immemorial - and is one of the mother cause of tribal and clan animosity -- political representation in Parliament and local councils have also precipitated and perpetuated skirmishes.
The principal causes of disputes over water and grazing rights, territorial aggrandisement and hegemonism, through the desire for political representation acquired a complicated and serious political dimension. We note that the communities in Northern and North Eastern Kenya see themselves as neglected and forgotten people, which in a way has fostered and inspired general lawlessness in the region. It recommends the Government take deliberate steps to open up the the region for economic and social development so that the communities in the region are not only developed economically and socially, but also, made to feel wanted.
All in all, the government should:- invest in water resources in the area in order to minimise undue competition of water during drought; stamp out banditry which leads to tribal animosity by keeping the Northern border under regular surveillance; improve marketing outlets for livestock to reduce overstocking and minimise pressure on water points and grazing areas and should improve communication especially road and telecommunication. What makes the situation even more serious is that the Isiolo-Moyale road was designed many years ago as part of the Trans-African Highway supposed to traverse the continent from south to north. Our neighbours, Tanzania to the south and Ethiopia to the north, long ago completed their portions.
It is Kenya which has been extremely laggard in the project. That probably reflects official thinking that development resources are best employed where there will be immediate and visible returns. So the trend has been to take these to areas which are already well-endowed. The need to open up neglected areas has never featured much as a development priority. Yet the benefits should be all too obvious. Such projects provide hitherto neglected areas with vast new opportunities.
Probably if the roads were better, the Judicial Commission could have visited the area and listened to, and documented the plight of the victims, as it did with other affected areas.
Northern Kenya population lives below the poverty line. Infrastructure is very poor; people live on average 25 km. from water sources and health clinics. The environment is extremely risky; last year a livestock disease killed 60% of the herd. Research on health, education and income sources is quite inadequate.
World Bank and IMF conditionality have focused on public sector reforms (privatisation of parastatals, civil service reform, reform of the judiciary); streamlining and prioritising public budgeting and expenditure (improved monitoring systems, the development of a realistic medium-term expenditure framework); and improved accountability (providing information on public investments, participation of the intended beneficiaries in all stages of the project cycle).
Much of this hardly touches people in Northern Kenya, or seems irrelevant to them. The government appears very distant. What people see is cuts in much needed social spending, increased taxation and many uncompleted donor projects. The winners from structural adjustment appear to be trans national corporations and some local businessmen (who have benefited from the lifting of price controls); the losers are smallholders, the rural landless, female-headed households, the urban poor and the pastoralists.
What is the role for Kenya Government in its policy toward these people and land in its dialogue? the members of parliament should make the voice of the poor heard, to monitor the implementation of policy changes, to monitor public expenditure, and to influence the design of micro policies. Perhaps most importantly: to run for changing the face of northern kenya.
Ethiopian Aggression in Kenya border and killing Kenyan citizen.
Very serious and ever increasing human right violation directed against the Oromo -Boorana Population in Kenya. Devastating effects of the Ethiopia Military action in northern Kenya border and its impacts on the social-economical situation for the oppressed people of northern Kenya under the pretext of hosting foreign rebels.The Daily human right violation and killings of Innocent Kenyan Boorana by Ethiopian security in northern Kenya towns and in Nairobi city. This act of aggression against Boorana must be condemned by all peace loving people of Kenya. It is very wonderful that foreign soldiers and security agents from Ethiopia can enter into Kenya easily and kill innocent Kenyan nationals. This has continued since colonial era but still Kenya allows this evil continues to be done against its people." The world need anger, the world often continues to allow evil because it is not angry enough.....Bede Jarre.
Northern Kenya people love peace and stability for themselves and for all Kenyans. Kenya is a beloved nation, the land of their birth, while Northern kenya people are lucking democratic, political, economical civil and citizenship rights.
Oromo-Boorana people occupy the northern Corridor; it is true that Boorana are part of larger Oromo who are majority of Ethiopia Nation. Boorana People of Kenya had a long suffering along Kenya-Ethiopia Territory. Unheard daily massacres that even pen can't write all the reports by human rights since 1990s.What is so wonderful and shocking is that Kenya Government had took decision with Ethiopian Government to get involved in Military action against Boorana People in Northern kenya and secret killing of Boranas by Ethiopian Spies under the pretex of supporting OLF. To add more injury on the heart of all Boorana and to make the matter worse.
Ethiopian is known to the world that they it is turning all Horn of Africa people in torn of fire and war. This military cooperation brings bad name to the long-standing democratic and pro-peace stature Kenya enjoys among its neighbors. It could leave an indelible scar between our brotherly peoples. Kenya has also been known of its neutral position on democracy and peace for it's and African people.
What still wonder me why Kenya shouldn't look at its future and future of its people and nation. Why does Kenya allow foreign country to changes its policy toward its citizen? Ethiopia is killing its citizens daily and likewise like Kenya to share the blood shade of innocent people. Logically speaking there is no time and place for Northern Kenya people Boorana to host foreign Rebels. OLF is no different from any other freedom fighters who were fighting for independence of there country like SPLA of Southern Sudan and MAU MAU of Kenya in colonial era, Kenya should understand that. The problem of Northern Kenya may confirm that Ethiopia don't like peace for whole Kenyan people. As they have manufactured tact's of beating one tribe against others.
We wonder why only northern Kenya is a place of Disasters and massacres. Is it only Northern Kenya where one tribe lives in different border? The example of Maasai Kenya and Tanzania, Somali Kenya and Somalia. Luo Kenya and Uganda and rest are living in peace. We are grieved to say that insecurity, poverty in northern Kenya was created by under-development, since colonial rules up to now. Kenya should learn from its neighbors? Kenya should learn how many Ethiopian refugees are in Kenya? How many of other nation? Do we like to join the record of refugee producing countries in the world? Kenya should remember the noble slogan of PEACE, LOVE and UNITY. Everyone knows that the name of democracy is widely known in Kenya than other African Countries, the current situation is evidence.
We can say similar things with regards to health, education, communication, and transport. No body is happy about the state of northern Kenya people and the developments. Boorana people everywhere are furious and frustrated about future of there people there is deep resentments for Ethiopian policies and involvements in Northern Kenya in particular.
To proceed.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
OPDO delegates chased away by Oromo youth in Minnesota
Source: oromoindex.com
On Saturday August 27, 2007, there was a secret meeting scheduled to take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The delegates of the "Oromian Regional Government" were supposed to speak at that meeting. Although the meeting was claimed to be public, there was no publicity or announcement prior to the meeting. In fact it was rumored that the meeting would take place on September 1st, 2007, which was the information released to mislead the public.
However, the cover of that highly secretive meeting was blown up when information leaked to Oromo youth activists on the evening of Friday, August 24. The youth rapidly transmitted the information and were well prepared to face the sellout delegates. The youth marched to the Hilton Hotel in Bloomington and waited for the "delegates" to arrive. After almost an hour, the "delegates" arrived led by Faisal Abrahim, an agent working for the "Diaspora Affairs" at the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington DC. He took the lead and introduced his guests and their ranks within the surrogate OPDO government. In the meantime, tension in the room was raising, any observer could read fear and confusion on the face of the "delegates." Especially the self-proclaimed vice president of Oromia Muktar Kedir was sweating bullets and staring blankly into the audience.
Before the delegates said a word, the youth asked permission to comment on the agenda of the meeting. However Faisal refused to allow such comments and instead called the security just as he would do against unarmed Oromo students in Oromia by calling Agazi commandos. This led to confrontation between the audience and the delegates. The police arrived but stayed aside because the youth explained to them the reason for the stand off which was legal action without violence. It was at this time that the so called delegates realized that they were the only members and supporters of OPDO in the room while the rest of the audience was there to confront them. The debate became heated to the level where Faisal was forced to resign from chairing the meeting and the youth activists took over the meeting. One young audience member told the delegates that just as they the delegates, were made to take order from Melles in Oromia, now they should not refuse to take order from the Oromo youth.
Scared by such development, the delegates ran out of the room. The youth followed them denouncing the OPDO and its master the TPLF. An attempt by the nervous dark suited delegates to attack a female member of the audience led to a brief moment of physical confrontation which resulted in the audience overpowering the delegates. The meeting was cancelled and the victorious Oromo youth showed their solidarity to their peers back home who are the subject of gross human rights violations by the wayanes and their surrogates. The latest information indicates that the humiliated delegates have cancelled their remaining tour to other states and have returned back to the country. It was noted that the so called Oromia V/ President Mukhtar was taken to Emergency Room at local hospital and all delegates had visible cuts and burses when they were departing to DC the next day.
One thing very obvious at that meeting was the absence of local OPDO members and sympathizers. The reason for their absence is that they didn’t want to be identified by the community due to fear of isolation. The most amazing of all is that just as they spy for the regime in Finfinne, they were also serving as double agents providing information against the delegates. This is an indicator of the nature of the relationships between the TPLF and its surrogates; a relationship based on mistrust and betrayal. This relationship is a positive development and advantageous to the camp of those who struggle for freedom, justice and democracy.
This heroic action of the Oromo youth in Minnesota should serve as an example for all those who oppose the regime in Ethiopia. It is crucial that we stop the regime’s agents from dividing the Diaspora in the name of investment while in fact the regime is engaged in gross human rights violations and looting of national resources.________Baker Ware, Freelance reporter, Minnesota Oromo Index News (OIN)
On Saturday August 27, 2007, there was a secret meeting scheduled to take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The delegates of the "Oromian Regional Government" were supposed to speak at that meeting. Although the meeting was claimed to be public, there was no publicity or announcement prior to the meeting. In fact it was rumored that the meeting would take place on September 1st, 2007, which was the information released to mislead the public.
However, the cover of that highly secretive meeting was blown up when information leaked to Oromo youth activists on the evening of Friday, August 24. The youth rapidly transmitted the information and were well prepared to face the sellout delegates. The youth marched to the Hilton Hotel in Bloomington and waited for the "delegates" to arrive. After almost an hour, the "delegates" arrived led by Faisal Abrahim, an agent working for the "Diaspora Affairs" at the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington DC. He took the lead and introduced his guests and their ranks within the surrogate OPDO government. In the meantime, tension in the room was raising, any observer could read fear and confusion on the face of the "delegates." Especially the self-proclaimed vice president of Oromia Muktar Kedir was sweating bullets and staring blankly into the audience.
Before the delegates said a word, the youth asked permission to comment on the agenda of the meeting. However Faisal refused to allow such comments and instead called the security just as he would do against unarmed Oromo students in Oromia by calling Agazi commandos. This led to confrontation between the audience and the delegates. The police arrived but stayed aside because the youth explained to them the reason for the stand off which was legal action without violence. It was at this time that the so called delegates realized that they were the only members and supporters of OPDO in the room while the rest of the audience was there to confront them. The debate became heated to the level where Faisal was forced to resign from chairing the meeting and the youth activists took over the meeting. One young audience member told the delegates that just as they the delegates, were made to take order from Melles in Oromia, now they should not refuse to take order from the Oromo youth.
Scared by such development, the delegates ran out of the room. The youth followed them denouncing the OPDO and its master the TPLF. An attempt by the nervous dark suited delegates to attack a female member of the audience led to a brief moment of physical confrontation which resulted in the audience overpowering the delegates. The meeting was cancelled and the victorious Oromo youth showed their solidarity to their peers back home who are the subject of gross human rights violations by the wayanes and their surrogates. The latest information indicates that the humiliated delegates have cancelled their remaining tour to other states and have returned back to the country. It was noted that the so called Oromia V/ President Mukhtar was taken to Emergency Room at local hospital and all delegates had visible cuts and burses when they were departing to DC the next day.
One thing very obvious at that meeting was the absence of local OPDO members and sympathizers. The reason for their absence is that they didn’t want to be identified by the community due to fear of isolation. The most amazing of all is that just as they spy for the regime in Finfinne, they were also serving as double agents providing information against the delegates. This is an indicator of the nature of the relationships between the TPLF and its surrogates; a relationship based on mistrust and betrayal. This relationship is a positive development and advantageous to the camp of those who struggle for freedom, justice and democracy.
This heroic action of the Oromo youth in Minnesota should serve as an example for all those who oppose the regime in Ethiopia. It is crucial that we stop the regime’s agents from dividing the Diaspora in the name of investment while in fact the regime is engaged in gross human rights violations and looting of national resources.________Baker Ware, Freelance reporter, Minnesota Oromo Index News (OIN)
Monday, August 27, 2007
Ethiopian: To Celebrate Millenium , Years of sorrow, years of shame Oppression against Oromo people
Abdulkadir Gumi
August 26, 2007
We are pained and indignant that Oromia the land of a great Oromo civilization of Gadaa system records as the place where the human right violation is practiced against the powerless and vulnerable people in Oromia . Tragically the power countries have ignored the cries of distress from Oromo people in Oromia and the oppression against them.
It was since 100 years ago that Oromo People were colonized by Abyssinian atrocities
The genocide and persecution unleashed against Oromo people and other ethnic group which was racially motivated, inhuman policy has had remarkable in the mind of all Oromo's, by doing that Ethiopia became the world’s latest sovereignty to attempt genocide as a way to solve its problems with a troublesome minority. Mercilessly conducted by ‘Ethiopian’ Dictators helps only the further radicalization of the peaceful and tolerant Oromia nation that for many long decades has been inhumanly oppressed within tyrannical Abyssinia. Oromos were never asked about their – most hateful and most inhuman – inclusion in the most repugnant African tyranny. The government of Ethiopia has directly and indirectly fostered conflict and bloodshed between Oromo, Amhara, Isaa, Degodia, Gedeo, Gabre and Sidama peoples. Ethiopian security forces have killed Oromo citizens residents of Ethiopia and Kenya .
However long the night, the dawn will break". --Oromo Proverb
August 26, 2007
We are pained and indignant that Oromia the land of a great Oromo civilization of Gadaa system records as the place where the human right violation is practiced against the powerless and vulnerable people in Oromia . Tragically the power countries have ignored the cries of distress from Oromo people in Oromia and the oppression against them.
It was since 100 years ago that Oromo People were colonized by Abyssinian atrocities
The genocide and persecution unleashed against Oromo people and other ethnic group which was racially motivated, inhuman policy has had remarkable in the mind of all Oromo's, by doing that Ethiopia became the world’s latest sovereignty to attempt genocide as a way to solve its problems with a troublesome minority. Mercilessly conducted by ‘Ethiopian’ Dictators helps only the further radicalization of the peaceful and tolerant Oromia nation that for many long decades has been inhumanly oppressed within tyrannical Abyssinia. Oromos were never asked about their – most hateful and most inhuman – inclusion in the most repugnant African tyranny. The government of Ethiopia has directly and indirectly fostered conflict and bloodshed between Oromo, Amhara, Isaa, Degodia, Gedeo, Gabre and Sidama peoples. Ethiopian security forces have killed Oromo citizens residents of Ethiopia and Kenya .
However long the night, the dawn will break". --Oromo Proverb
Details emerging from Oromo refugees everywhere in the world are disturbing, the stories we have are horrible and shocking to human conscience. The government of Ethiopian is intensifying its repressive action on Oromo of Ethiopia and in refugees, who have sought to exercise there cultural right.
Many Oromo nationalist , artist , Teachers , social workers from different association were gunned down or persecuted by TPLF thugs (government of Ethiopia) in all of Horn of Africa and even in refugee camps in the past years they become refugees and asylum seekers leaving the fruitful and wealthy country of Oromia . They were threatening their authority because they were Oromos and very popular in their home country , they only need democracy and Oromo rights to be implemented and article 39 of Ethiopian constitutation , those charismatic Oromo nationalist , teachers artists , social workers and student. Until now, no power asked Ethiopia over the genocide and crimes committed by Tigre and Amhara successive regime on Oromo people since long time. Many kind of evidence produced, those people were killed except that they were a proud Oromos. The irony of it all, they were killed and imprisoned in the heart of their home Oromia without any crime by an Alien invaders Tigre and Amhara people and there previous government . Yet, many people were killed just because they were suspected known to have never been involved or have any kind of connection with politics. there blood are not in vain.
Many more thousand if not millions of bright Oromians lost their life in the hand of TPLF government of Ethiopia. While as many languish throughout Ethiopian Empire jail. One day without a doubt, TPLF leaders have to answer for all the crimes they have been committing against the Oromo people. They will pay for it dearly.
"The world
Perhaps Prime Minister Males Zenawi knows very much that one day he will answer. knowing that Oromo's are AWAKING and They will fight for justice that they were killed for until the day million Oromo's will die in search of just peace.
What celebration and millennium is that of Ethiopia historically, I hope no Oromo's in Diaspora will put there feet or face Ethiopia to celebrate such bogus celebration. In doing that I think you have contributed in the Genocide against Oromo's throughout the decade of Oromo's.
Many Oromo nationalist , artist , Teachers , social workers from different association were gunned down or persecuted by TPLF thugs (government of Ethiopia) in all of Horn of Africa and even in refugee camps in the past years they become refugees and asylum seekers leaving the fruitful and wealthy country of Oromia . They were threatening their authority because they were Oromos and very popular in their home country , they only need democracy and Oromo rights to be implemented and article 39 of Ethiopian constitutation , those charismatic Oromo nationalist , teachers artists , social workers and student. Until now, no power asked Ethiopia over the genocide and crimes committed by Tigre and Amhara successive regime on Oromo people since long time. Many kind of evidence produced, those people were killed except that they were a proud Oromos. The irony of it all, they were killed and imprisoned in the heart of their home Oromia without any crime by an Alien invaders Tigre and Amhara people and there previous government . Yet, many people were killed just because they were suspected known to have never been involved or have any kind of connection with politics. there blood are not in vain.
Many more thousand if not millions of bright Oromians lost their life in the hand of TPLF government of Ethiopia. While as many languish throughout Ethiopian Empire jail. One day without a doubt, TPLF leaders have to answer for all the crimes they have been committing against the Oromo people. They will pay for it dearly.
"The world
Perhaps Prime Minister Males Zenawi knows very much that one day he will answer. knowing that Oromo's are AWAKING and They will fight for justice that they were killed for until the day million Oromo's will die in search of just peace.
What celebration and millennium is that of Ethiopia historically, I hope no Oromo's in Diaspora will put there feet or face Ethiopia to celebrate such bogus celebration. In doing that I think you have contributed in the Genocide against Oromo's throughout the decade of Oromo's.
Ethiopian Sidamas Reject Amhara / Tigray Abyssinian Tyranny
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
August 26, 2007
As Tigray tribal tyrant Meles Zenawi’s ailing regime entered in its last days, a great number of political heads and national liberation leaders of numerous oppressed peoples rise in the Horn of Africa region that gives these days the impression of an exploding volcano.
It is extremely urgent for the oppressed Ethiopian Kushitic peoples’ leaderships to definitely outmaneuver and irreversibly cancel the murderous and inhuman plans of the Kinijit Amharas, who – unable to repent and ask for forgiveness – dream of a comeback. Shamelessly masqueraded as ‘democrats’ and/or ‘liberals’, the Kinijit thugs are Africa’s most excruciating political fossils who want to drive Abyssinia from Meles Zenawi’s morgue back to its worst days in the Hell of Mengistu and Haile Selassie.
Ogaden is in revolt against Meles Zenawi’s Tigray thugs, who mercilessly kill whomever they meet in the streets of the towns and the villages of the long-tyrannized province of Abyssinia; Oromia is in uprising against the environmentally disastrous policies followed by the current tyrannical administration, and Dr. Negasso Gidada, Oromo and nominal ‘president’ of ‘Ethiopia’ admits the crimes perpetrated during his ridiculous tenure, therefore proving the impossibility of maintaining the present borders of and situation in the Abyssinian tyranny – comically re-baptized ‘Ethiopia’.
The abysmal hell of Abyssinia where numerous peoples have been peremptorily gathered, deprived of their properties and lands, massacred, terrorized and oppressed in the most inhuman ways is about to split to ten pieces, and all the oppressed peoples mobilize their forces to get rid of the Amhara pestilence that spread among them the Black Continent’s most appalling tyranny.
The Sidamas emerge now in the South, with a strong voice and even stronger determination to eradicate the foreign – alien presence and administration of the barbaric Amhara and Tigray rulers; they want to form a new, independent and genuine African Republic that will better reflect their democratic and egalitarian social ideals.
Among the leading personalities and political heads of the Great and Noble Sidama Nation is Mr. Kambata Xoola, an African Original who prospered in his studies, researches and endeavours in the United States. He represents what can be the best combination of Sidama Millennia Long Culture with Modern Science, Technology and Political Vision.
We are convinced that through a multipartite interview, the readers will understand better the multifaceted aspects of Inanity and Inhumanity that Africa’s most execrable tyranny, namely the Amhara – Tigray Abyssinian monarchical – communist and pseudo-federal regimes, applied mercilessly against the Sidama Nation.
Interview with Kambata Xoola, MSc, Chairman, Sidama National Liberation Organization (SNLO)- Part I
- How is the situation in Sidama land, 5 years after the terrible massacres perpetrated at Looqe?
- It has got worse!! The Sidama nationals are suffering in three major ways since the massacre. They include Political subjugation, Economic deprivation and Socio-Cultural domination. The nation is systematically suppressed and silenced by the regime’s security forces and its political cadres since the May 24, 2002’s Looqe massacre and, of course, prior to that since the TPLF took over political power.
Although there has been profound resistance since the May 24 massacre and the aftermaths of the May 15, 2005 highly rigged Ethiopian election that claimed lives of more than three hundred civilians and exposed millions to torture and extrajudicial arrests all over the empire, including Sidama region; the resistance is internally temporarily suppressed. The Sidama regional question is the centre of contention that didn’t get positive response to this date, and remains contentious!
Immediately after the May 24, 2002 massacre of innocent and non-combatant Sidama civilians by the security forces of Meles Zenawi regime, the resistance was fierce; especially by the Sidama intelligentsia and young Sidama University students. This has shaken the foundation of the regime in southern Ethiopia.
Sidama nation’s resistance compromised the position of the regime on various occasions, and obliged Meles Zenawi himself to go to the region to hoodwink some Sidama elders with usual lies and empty promises. Continued and strong resistance by the Sidama nation forced the TPLF leaders to devise another strategy; a strategy based on intimidation. The ultimate power given to inadequately trained and ill-mannered Sidama and southern regional political cadres made the lives of the Sidamas people utterly difficult. The Sidama people are brutalized by their own sons, who were handpicked and appointed simply to deceive Sidama people under the pretext of representation. This is the TPLF policy of indirect rule through the surrogates.
The uprooting of the Sidama people from their capital city and its vicinity already became effective. Those who have been forcibly uprooted from their ancestral lands have been left destitute without any protection, while those who are supposed to protect voiceless Sidama nationals are supporting rulers and their loyalists to takeover Sidama capital city (Awassa) and exploit their scarce resources. The said affiliates are trading by the name of Sidama nation by selling Sidama land for those who are capable of buying, i.e. ‘Abyssinians’ and their loyalists. The Sidama people can’t afford to buy land in Awassa simply because they have been systematically robbed and incapacitated for over a century.
The Sidama TPLF/EPRDF political cadres represent and protect the interests of Abyssinian rulers instead of standing for the Sidama people. They are neither capable of articulating the ambitious goals of the Abyssinian successive rulers, or the effects of the injustices and systematically imposed policies on the various nations and nationalities in the country. In particular, they are unable to understand the reason behind the fumigation of various nations and nationalities in South Ethiopia for simple reason of taming them for modern slavery. The cadres don’t have know-how and above all, courage to address Sidama’s national grievances in particular, and southern nations’ in general.
Therefore, these past years have been years of sufferings, hopelessness and frustration, ordeal, relentless mourning and abject poverty for the Sidama nation in particular, and for other systematically subjugated nations of Abyssinian Empire in general. Equally, these years have been a time of underground movement that is born out of continued injustices and brutal treatments. The political cadres and their federal and regional masters are getting richer by the bloods of innocents, whilst the wider society is suffering untold ordeal in the history of Sidama nation.
- Would you describe the basic social problems Sidamas are currently facing?
- The Sidama nation will soon face a serious socio-economic and politico-cultural tragedy, if several issues are not addressed on time; this will happen for three basic reasons. Firstly, there is no genuine political representation for the nation, which is nonetheless the fifth populous nation in Ethiopia following the Oromos, the Amharas, the Tigrays, and the Ogaden Somalis, according to the regime’s Central Statistical Authority population figures. Secondly, if there is no political representation with courageous and visionary leadership, the nation can’t economically prosper. Its intellectuals will not be able to create ideas and thoughts for their nation. There will not be any form of enthusiasm and conducive atmosphere for creativity. Its business community can’t have opportunity to do their best under occupation.
Thirdly, to do these, there need to be socio-cultural freedom and liberty. The nation needs to have ownership of its land, cultural heritage, political leadership and control over its resources to solve its social problems. Today, all these are non-existent in Sidama land.
Additionally, non-Abyssinian nations of the empire are made to feel inferior to their colonial masters although the Sidama nation hasn’t voluntarily surrendered its liberty and national integrity. However, due to their militarily upper hand, the Abyssinian successive regimes kept their pervasive, all rounded domination in the past century as it is today. Therefore, social problems in Sidama region are pretty intertwined with political, cultural and economic problems deliberately perpetrated by successive Abyssinian regimes.
- To what extent do traditional social systems survive today among the Sidamas?
- Culturally egalitarian nation of Sidama was obliged to give its way for the brutish and incompetent Abyssinian rule since it has fallen at the hands of Abyssinian colonizers. The Sidama nation’s socially accepted true ways of life and its egoistic derive are dramatically diminishing amongst young Sidamas - especially those who are primarily involved in protestant Christianity and those who are loyalists of the successive Abyssinian regimes. The socially accepted ways of life, ‘halaale’ is being destroyed and replaced with an alien culture which is the result of systematic subjugation of Sidama cultural heritage by the successive rulers. The colonizers regard Sidama ways of life uncivilized and backward.
However, the majority of the people in the nation in particular older people and highly educated groups of the society kept their belief and traditional ways of life intact despite relentless pressures. Sidama National Liberation Organization (SNLO) struggles and tirelessly works to preserve Sidama’s cultural heritage whilst adopting modern technology in such a way that both be integrated for the benefit of our society.
Note
The daily Sidama reality is not as idyllic as the Lake Awassa shores.
August 26, 2007
As Tigray tribal tyrant Meles Zenawi’s ailing regime entered in its last days, a great number of political heads and national liberation leaders of numerous oppressed peoples rise in the Horn of Africa region that gives these days the impression of an exploding volcano.
It is extremely urgent for the oppressed Ethiopian Kushitic peoples’ leaderships to definitely outmaneuver and irreversibly cancel the murderous and inhuman plans of the Kinijit Amharas, who – unable to repent and ask for forgiveness – dream of a comeback. Shamelessly masqueraded as ‘democrats’ and/or ‘liberals’, the Kinijit thugs are Africa’s most excruciating political fossils who want to drive Abyssinia from Meles Zenawi’s morgue back to its worst days in the Hell of Mengistu and Haile Selassie.
Ogaden is in revolt against Meles Zenawi’s Tigray thugs, who mercilessly kill whomever they meet in the streets of the towns and the villages of the long-tyrannized province of Abyssinia; Oromia is in uprising against the environmentally disastrous policies followed by the current tyrannical administration, and Dr. Negasso Gidada, Oromo and nominal ‘president’ of ‘Ethiopia’ admits the crimes perpetrated during his ridiculous tenure, therefore proving the impossibility of maintaining the present borders of and situation in the Abyssinian tyranny – comically re-baptized ‘Ethiopia’.
The abysmal hell of Abyssinia where numerous peoples have been peremptorily gathered, deprived of their properties and lands, massacred, terrorized and oppressed in the most inhuman ways is about to split to ten pieces, and all the oppressed peoples mobilize their forces to get rid of the Amhara pestilence that spread among them the Black Continent’s most appalling tyranny.
The Sidamas emerge now in the South, with a strong voice and even stronger determination to eradicate the foreign – alien presence and administration of the barbaric Amhara and Tigray rulers; they want to form a new, independent and genuine African Republic that will better reflect their democratic and egalitarian social ideals.
Among the leading personalities and political heads of the Great and Noble Sidama Nation is Mr. Kambata Xoola, an African Original who prospered in his studies, researches and endeavours in the United States. He represents what can be the best combination of Sidama Millennia Long Culture with Modern Science, Technology and Political Vision.
We are convinced that through a multipartite interview, the readers will understand better the multifaceted aspects of Inanity and Inhumanity that Africa’s most execrable tyranny, namely the Amhara – Tigray Abyssinian monarchical – communist and pseudo-federal regimes, applied mercilessly against the Sidama Nation.
Interview with Kambata Xoola, MSc, Chairman, Sidama National Liberation Organization (SNLO)- Part I
- How is the situation in Sidama land, 5 years after the terrible massacres perpetrated at Looqe?
- It has got worse!! The Sidama nationals are suffering in three major ways since the massacre. They include Political subjugation, Economic deprivation and Socio-Cultural domination. The nation is systematically suppressed and silenced by the regime’s security forces and its political cadres since the May 24, 2002’s Looqe massacre and, of course, prior to that since the TPLF took over political power.
Although there has been profound resistance since the May 24 massacre and the aftermaths of the May 15, 2005 highly rigged Ethiopian election that claimed lives of more than three hundred civilians and exposed millions to torture and extrajudicial arrests all over the empire, including Sidama region; the resistance is internally temporarily suppressed. The Sidama regional question is the centre of contention that didn’t get positive response to this date, and remains contentious!
Immediately after the May 24, 2002 massacre of innocent and non-combatant Sidama civilians by the security forces of Meles Zenawi regime, the resistance was fierce; especially by the Sidama intelligentsia and young Sidama University students. This has shaken the foundation of the regime in southern Ethiopia.
Sidama nation’s resistance compromised the position of the regime on various occasions, and obliged Meles Zenawi himself to go to the region to hoodwink some Sidama elders with usual lies and empty promises. Continued and strong resistance by the Sidama nation forced the TPLF leaders to devise another strategy; a strategy based on intimidation. The ultimate power given to inadequately trained and ill-mannered Sidama and southern regional political cadres made the lives of the Sidamas people utterly difficult. The Sidama people are brutalized by their own sons, who were handpicked and appointed simply to deceive Sidama people under the pretext of representation. This is the TPLF policy of indirect rule through the surrogates.
The uprooting of the Sidama people from their capital city and its vicinity already became effective. Those who have been forcibly uprooted from their ancestral lands have been left destitute without any protection, while those who are supposed to protect voiceless Sidama nationals are supporting rulers and their loyalists to takeover Sidama capital city (Awassa) and exploit their scarce resources. The said affiliates are trading by the name of Sidama nation by selling Sidama land for those who are capable of buying, i.e. ‘Abyssinians’ and their loyalists. The Sidama people can’t afford to buy land in Awassa simply because they have been systematically robbed and incapacitated for over a century.
The Sidama TPLF/EPRDF political cadres represent and protect the interests of Abyssinian rulers instead of standing for the Sidama people. They are neither capable of articulating the ambitious goals of the Abyssinian successive rulers, or the effects of the injustices and systematically imposed policies on the various nations and nationalities in the country. In particular, they are unable to understand the reason behind the fumigation of various nations and nationalities in South Ethiopia for simple reason of taming them for modern slavery. The cadres don’t have know-how and above all, courage to address Sidama’s national grievances in particular, and southern nations’ in general.
Therefore, these past years have been years of sufferings, hopelessness and frustration, ordeal, relentless mourning and abject poverty for the Sidama nation in particular, and for other systematically subjugated nations of Abyssinian Empire in general. Equally, these years have been a time of underground movement that is born out of continued injustices and brutal treatments. The political cadres and their federal and regional masters are getting richer by the bloods of innocents, whilst the wider society is suffering untold ordeal in the history of Sidama nation.
- Would you describe the basic social problems Sidamas are currently facing?
- The Sidama nation will soon face a serious socio-economic and politico-cultural tragedy, if several issues are not addressed on time; this will happen for three basic reasons. Firstly, there is no genuine political representation for the nation, which is nonetheless the fifth populous nation in Ethiopia following the Oromos, the Amharas, the Tigrays, and the Ogaden Somalis, according to the regime’s Central Statistical Authority population figures. Secondly, if there is no political representation with courageous and visionary leadership, the nation can’t economically prosper. Its intellectuals will not be able to create ideas and thoughts for their nation. There will not be any form of enthusiasm and conducive atmosphere for creativity. Its business community can’t have opportunity to do their best under occupation.
Thirdly, to do these, there need to be socio-cultural freedom and liberty. The nation needs to have ownership of its land, cultural heritage, political leadership and control over its resources to solve its social problems. Today, all these are non-existent in Sidama land.
Additionally, non-Abyssinian nations of the empire are made to feel inferior to their colonial masters although the Sidama nation hasn’t voluntarily surrendered its liberty and national integrity. However, due to their militarily upper hand, the Abyssinian successive regimes kept their pervasive, all rounded domination in the past century as it is today. Therefore, social problems in Sidama region are pretty intertwined with political, cultural and economic problems deliberately perpetrated by successive Abyssinian regimes.
- To what extent do traditional social systems survive today among the Sidamas?
- Culturally egalitarian nation of Sidama was obliged to give its way for the brutish and incompetent Abyssinian rule since it has fallen at the hands of Abyssinian colonizers. The Sidama nation’s socially accepted true ways of life and its egoistic derive are dramatically diminishing amongst young Sidamas - especially those who are primarily involved in protestant Christianity and those who are loyalists of the successive Abyssinian regimes. The socially accepted ways of life, ‘halaale’ is being destroyed and replaced with an alien culture which is the result of systematic subjugation of Sidama cultural heritage by the successive rulers. The colonizers regard Sidama ways of life uncivilized and backward.
However, the majority of the people in the nation in particular older people and highly educated groups of the society kept their belief and traditional ways of life intact despite relentless pressures. Sidama National Liberation Organization (SNLO) struggles and tirelessly works to preserve Sidama’s cultural heritage whilst adopting modern technology in such a way that both be integrated for the benefit of our society.
Note
The daily Sidama reality is not as idyllic as the Lake Awassa shores.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Forgotten People of Northern Kenya ll - Moyale
Abdulkadir Gumi
August 24, 2007
Moyale is the name of the town at the main border crossing between Ethiopia and Kenya. Technically one could say there are two towns; Ethiopian Moyale (north) and Kenyan Moyale (south), with the border running between them.
IT is inhabited by the Borana Oromo, Gabra Oromo and other Oromos. It is the main border post on the Nairobi-Addis Ababa road, located at 3‹34ŒN, 39‹5ŒE.Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005,
Dide Galgalu Desert is known for its traditional architecture.
During World War II, both parts of the town was captured by Italians from Ethiopia in 1940, and retaken by the British on 15 July 1940.
To the north, buses run on the tarmac road all the way to Addis Ababa. To the south, only private vehicles - in particular, cattle trucks - go along the unmade track to Marsabit, and then Isiolo - from where public transport is available on the tarmac roads the rest of the way to Nairobi. we are a century and no development had happened in Northern Kenya region MOYALE since Kenya independent and nothing seems forthcoming . Northern Kenyan people are in a real disaster of ignorance and clan feud with foreign aggressors.unlike the other Kenyans tribes we have virtually no functional infrastructures, schools ,roads , hospitals , and extension service are not more than a stale reminder that of colonial time .
The Oromo Boranas of Northern Kenya along the border have been victims of widespread harassment, murder, torture, and detentions without trial and unexplained disappearances at the hands of Ethiopian government soldiers. The terror escalated as soon as the present Ethiopian regime of TPLF/EPRDF took over from Mengistu's Communist government. The TPLF government of Ethiopia would like the world to believe that this government is legitimate and democratic than previous regimes. Let their record speak for itself. It is exactly a decade ago and probably they would celebrate the 10th anniversary since ascension to power, but the Borans are grieving. They have buried their relatives and children and continue to bury the dead up to this day, and this brutal tyrannical regime has inflicted more pains and suffering to the Borans than any other time in the history of the Ethiopian empire. We have no idea how many Kenyan Borans suffered at the hands of the previous Ethiopian governments, but the evidence we have of the current Ethiopian government's participation in the killings of Kenyan Boran along the border is overwhelming. Every time one reads about the border clashes, the TPLF government would try the best they could to paint Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) as the cause of the problem. They would say their soldiers pursue OLF fighters across the border and the Borans are harboring OLF fighters. What a travesty. Shame! Are the Borans in Kenya OLF supporters? This has been speculated and Ethiopian government would like you to belief that the OLF they are fighting are also on the Kenya side of the border, but the reality is that there is no evidence to support the allegations. A mere sympathy or ethnic affiliation does not justify these heinous crimes against humanity, just because Borans occupy both side of the border. It is not crime to live along the border, as a matter of fact, the Borans were living in the area before the colonists (British & Ethiopia) ever set foot in the region and demarcated the borderline. However, the point of our contention is not to argue against or for border issue but to set the record straight that OLF do not need the support of Kenyan citizens to win their war.
It is true, Borans are part of the larger Oromo. The Oromo people are the majority in the Ethiopian Empire, (over 25 million) and yet they are being brutalized by this regime. Oromos have had a long history of suffering under past regimes and continue to suffer under this regime as well. The Ethiopian government is perpetrating daily massacres on Oromo civilians in all regions of Oromia. The plight of Oromo suffering is now recognized by Human Rights Organization and has been documented. OLF is no different from any other freedom fighters, fighting to gain independence from the yoke of colonialism. The Oromo people in Ethiopia had no choice but wage bitter struggle for their inalienable rights to self-determination, just like all colonized people ought to do. Many Kenyans may not understand, because they have always been told that Ethiopia is the only country that has not been colonized. How little do we know the country bordering us in the north! Colonists or dictators are color blind, just because most of colonial oppressors were white, does not mean that there are not black colonizers. In the case of Ethiopia, the Abyssinian empire annex all the regions bordering Abyssinia by force and made them subjects, the expansion would have continued and taken over the whole of northern Kenya, had it not been for the British who eager to expand themselves, quickly stopped the expansion. Thus, the birth of border line.
Far from the eyes of the world, the forgotten people of Northern Kenya are dying from ethnic violence, local banditry,living in fear and abuse by the provincial administration and international aggression. Murders, abductions, torture, rape and the disappearance of citizens are common occurrences. Insecurity and humanitarian need in this part of Kenya have reached staggering proportions.
To proceed. be in touch.
Victory To Justice and peace
August 24, 2007
Moyale is the name of the town at the main border crossing between Ethiopia and Kenya. Technically one could say there are two towns; Ethiopian Moyale (north) and Kenyan Moyale (south), with the border running between them.
IT is inhabited by the Borana Oromo, Gabra Oromo and other Oromos. It is the main border post on the Nairobi-Addis Ababa road, located at 3‹34ŒN, 39‹5ŒE.Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005,
Dide Galgalu Desert is known for its traditional architecture.
During World War II, both parts of the town was captured by Italians from Ethiopia in 1940, and retaken by the British on 15 July 1940.
To the north, buses run on the tarmac road all the way to Addis Ababa. To the south, only private vehicles - in particular, cattle trucks - go along the unmade track to Marsabit, and then Isiolo - from where public transport is available on the tarmac roads the rest of the way to Nairobi. we are a century and no development had happened in Northern Kenya region MOYALE since Kenya independent and nothing seems forthcoming . Northern Kenyan people are in a real disaster of ignorance and clan feud with foreign aggressors.unlike the other Kenyans tribes we have virtually no functional infrastructures, schools ,roads , hospitals , and extension service are not more than a stale reminder that of colonial time .
The Oromo Boranas of Northern Kenya along the border have been victims of widespread harassment, murder, torture, and detentions without trial and unexplained disappearances at the hands of Ethiopian government soldiers. The terror escalated as soon as the present Ethiopian regime of TPLF/EPRDF took over from Mengistu's Communist government. The TPLF government of Ethiopia would like the world to believe that this government is legitimate and democratic than previous regimes. Let their record speak for itself. It is exactly a decade ago and probably they would celebrate the 10th anniversary since ascension to power, but the Borans are grieving. They have buried their relatives and children and continue to bury the dead up to this day, and this brutal tyrannical regime has inflicted more pains and suffering to the Borans than any other time in the history of the Ethiopian empire. We have no idea how many Kenyan Borans suffered at the hands of the previous Ethiopian governments, but the evidence we have of the current Ethiopian government's participation in the killings of Kenyan Boran along the border is overwhelming. Every time one reads about the border clashes, the TPLF government would try the best they could to paint Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) as the cause of the problem. They would say their soldiers pursue OLF fighters across the border and the Borans are harboring OLF fighters. What a travesty. Shame! Are the Borans in Kenya OLF supporters? This has been speculated and Ethiopian government would like you to belief that the OLF they are fighting are also on the Kenya side of the border, but the reality is that there is no evidence to support the allegations. A mere sympathy or ethnic affiliation does not justify these heinous crimes against humanity, just because Borans occupy both side of the border. It is not crime to live along the border, as a matter of fact, the Borans were living in the area before the colonists (British & Ethiopia) ever set foot in the region and demarcated the borderline. However, the point of our contention is not to argue against or for border issue but to set the record straight that OLF do not need the support of Kenyan citizens to win their war.
It is true, Borans are part of the larger Oromo. The Oromo people are the majority in the Ethiopian Empire, (over 25 million) and yet they are being brutalized by this regime. Oromos have had a long history of suffering under past regimes and continue to suffer under this regime as well. The Ethiopian government is perpetrating daily massacres on Oromo civilians in all regions of Oromia. The plight of Oromo suffering is now recognized by Human Rights Organization and has been documented. OLF is no different from any other freedom fighters, fighting to gain independence from the yoke of colonialism. The Oromo people in Ethiopia had no choice but wage bitter struggle for their inalienable rights to self-determination, just like all colonized people ought to do. Many Kenyans may not understand, because they have always been told that Ethiopia is the only country that has not been colonized. How little do we know the country bordering us in the north! Colonists or dictators are color blind, just because most of colonial oppressors were white, does not mean that there are not black colonizers. In the case of Ethiopia, the Abyssinian empire annex all the regions bordering Abyssinia by force and made them subjects, the expansion would have continued and taken over the whole of northern Kenya, had it not been for the British who eager to expand themselves, quickly stopped the expansion. Thus, the birth of border line.
Far from the eyes of the world, the forgotten people of Northern Kenya are dying from ethnic violence, local banditry,living in fear and abuse by the provincial administration and international aggression. Murders, abductions, torture, rape and the disappearance of citizens are common occurrences. Insecurity and humanitarian need in this part of Kenya have reached staggering proportions.
To proceed. be in touch.
Victory To Justice and peace
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Kinijit: the ‘Ethiopian’ Name of the Lie
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
August 21, 2007
Two earlier articles we published on the provocative case of the Neo Nazi Kinijit party of the Abyssinian Amhara tribe drew attention, positive and negative, from many readers in Africa, America and Europe.
Before advancing in the analysis of the Kinijit website texts and propagandist material, we find opportune to denounce the attitude of several totalitarian Amhara readers who write to express their opposition to the facts we refer to, and the textual analysis we use as method to reveal their true, execrably dictatorial and obscurantist, impermissible ‘ideas’.
Certainly the impoverished, starving, and analphabetic Amharas never had an opportunity to learn and understand what Renaissance, Enlightenment, Freedom, Equality, Fraternity, Democracy, and Human Rights are; they live in eras antedating the Dark Ages, with an unprecedented record of illiteracy that encompasses their odious Debteras the analphabetic monks.
It is essential therefore for them to learn through this article that in this world every one has the right to reject facts, ideas, interpretations and even common sense; when doing so, the denouncer has to
a. avoid insults,
b. provide arguments, facts and other evidence, and
c. stay away from racist and discriminatory approaches that are not acceptable.
Oromo cultural – educational – political tutelage of the Amharas?
Otherwise, the transgressor defames his own people and country, culture and background, and if not denounced by his/her own compatriots, the case reveals how much uncivilized the ethnic group in question is.
More letters I receive from uncivilized Amharas, closer I come to the conclusion that they – even the Amhara graduates of international universities – are in need of an Oromo cultural – educational – political tutelage.
Kinijit representativity basis
It is high time for us to focus now on Kinijit Vision statement which is the best proof of the Kinijit Amhara malignant target, i.e. a new dictatorship over the various Kushitic Ethiopian peoples of Abyssinia, who consist in the country’s overwhelming majority (more than 70%), on the Tigrays (12% of the population), and on the (also terribly oppressed) Muslim Amharas, who mount up to 55% of the Amharas. This highlights how much unrepresentative the Kinijit pseudo-democrats are: they represent one of the political parties of the Amhara monophysitic Christian ethnic – religious group that totals approximately 8 to 9% of the overall country’s population. This is lower than the level of Saddam Hussein’s representativity!
Kinijit Vision Statement
“KINIJIT’s vision: is to see a country in which, its people are united on the basis of equality and mutual respect; in which the people work together to extricate themselves from poverty backwardness; to see Ethiopia as a country in which the human and democratic rights of its citizens are fully respected; to see Ethiopia having a leadership that works in a spirit of responsibility accountability and on the basis of fulfilling the demands of the people; to see a country endowed
with good governance that operates at all levels in a system of openness and democracy”.
Kinijit Vision Statement analysis
To start with, the Kinijit aspiring dictators must envy Meles Zenawi’s regime; they will never be able to perform as well as he did for 16 years; whereas dictator Zenawi tyrannized peoples whose existence – to say the least – he recognized, the shameful and undemocratic Kinijit have the vision of ‘one country and one people’.
“Its people”; what a provocative, neo-Nazi statement!! This means that for the Kinijit Amharas – in the worst case scenario, if they are given by their colonial masters the possibility to rule Abyssinia –
either they will evacuate the quasi – totality of the country’s population (at least they will try)Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
or they will reject the present nominal federal character of the state, turning it to a resolutely totalitarian regime that abnegates the existence of numerous peoples, nations, cultures, religions and behavioural systems.
The latter will translate to tyrannical imposition of Amharic as national language on the outright majority of the country (more than 91 – 92 %), who hold this non African, alien idiom as absolutely profane to their cultures and traditions, and as completely useless – as syllabic (not alphabetic) – within the context of our modern world.
It is therefore comical for the Kinijit aspiring tyrants to speak about ‘Equality’ without admitting first that there are many different peoples in the country; among whom is this supposed ‘equality’ to be implemented? Among only the Amhara monophysitic Christians?
This would mean that all are equal in Abyssinia, but some lucky few (namely the Amhara monophysitic Christians, who represent just 8 – 9% of the country’s populations) are ‘more equal’. That’s ridiculous!
Kinijit’s ‘Ethiopia’: Haile Selassie transvestite, and plastered with Human Rights!
‘Mutual respect’ is another ludicrous affirmation of the untrustworthy Amhara Kinijit relics, who try to put the anachronistic and obsolete, monarchical political model of Haile Selassie in republican ‘clothes’, and to plaster this ridiculous transvestite fabrication with modern political liberal jargon – bought in a super market of political PR.
It is of seminal importance to let these uneducated Kinijit Amharas understand that ‘mutual respect’ anticipates recognition of the ‘Other’. As long as they do not recognize the numerous peoples of the country that they shamefully aspire to rule, no one will take them seriously, when they claim to demonstrate ‘mutual respect’! To whom do they show this ‘mutual respect’ of theirs? To their brothers? To their thugs?
However, this is precisely what tyrant Meles Zenawi proved to be illustriously good for; he feels ‘mutual respect’ for his thugs, who impersonate ‘Ethiopian’ soldiers, and thus carry out tortures and extrajudicial killings in Ogaden that need volumes to be possibly recorded.
The neo-Nazi identity of the Kinijit Amharas revealed
Further provocation: ‘people work together to extricate themselves from poverty’! Had they mentioned explicitly the numerous nations and peoples of their country, they would have got the right to claim trustworthiness. As it is, one has to ask who these ‘people’ who ‘work together’ are.
Since the Kinijit aspiring tyrants do not recognize / mention the Ogadenis, the Oromos, the Sidamas, the Afars, the Anuaks, the Shekachos and many others, plus their Abyssinian rivals, the Tigrays, it becomes very clear who these ‘people’ who ‘work together’ are.
They are the same (always) monophysitic Christian Amharas, who extirpated and confiscated the totality of the land property of all the Oromos, all the Ogadenis, all the Sidamas, all the Afars, all the Gambellas, all the Shekachos and all the other oppressed peoples of the Morgue called ‘Ethiopia’, and gave it as gift to Amhara feudal landlords, who in turn expurgated from “their” illegal property those numerous peoples whom they considered and explicitly named ‘insects’.
As it is an Amhara tradition to name all the rest ‘insects’, we understand why the Kinijit aspiring tyrants do not name them in their own texts; human beings for the Amharas are only the Amharas. By sticking to this tradition, the Kinijit guys offer the best proof that, as neo-Nazi aspiring tyrants, they will outperform in cruelty the ailing Tigray-led Zenawi regime, if helped to return in power.
Human and democratic rights in fake Ethiopia? You must be kidding!
Finally, the Kinijit aspiring tyrants want to “see Ethiopia as a country in which the human and democratic rights of its citizens are fully respected”. In the light of the aforementioned, we realize that these ‘rights’ will be reserved for das Herrenvolk, the Amhara Monophysitic Christians, whereas all the rest, African ‘Untermenschen’, will have to accommodate themselves – as they know only too well – in the Kingdom of Death.
That’s why is would be better to send the Kinijit neo-Nazi to Hell, helping all the oppressed peoples of the Horn of Africa region to achieve national independence and Freedom, and implement Democracy and progress.
Note
The picture illuminates what should be expected from an obnoxious Kinijit Amhara rule in Abyssinia.
August 21, 2007
Two earlier articles we published on the provocative case of the Neo Nazi Kinijit party of the Abyssinian Amhara tribe drew attention, positive and negative, from many readers in Africa, America and Europe.
Before advancing in the analysis of the Kinijit website texts and propagandist material, we find opportune to denounce the attitude of several totalitarian Amhara readers who write to express their opposition to the facts we refer to, and the textual analysis we use as method to reveal their true, execrably dictatorial and obscurantist, impermissible ‘ideas’.
Certainly the impoverished, starving, and analphabetic Amharas never had an opportunity to learn and understand what Renaissance, Enlightenment, Freedom, Equality, Fraternity, Democracy, and Human Rights are; they live in eras antedating the Dark Ages, with an unprecedented record of illiteracy that encompasses their odious Debteras the analphabetic monks.
It is essential therefore for them to learn through this article that in this world every one has the right to reject facts, ideas, interpretations and even common sense; when doing so, the denouncer has to
a. avoid insults,
b. provide arguments, facts and other evidence, and
c. stay away from racist and discriminatory approaches that are not acceptable.
Oromo cultural – educational – political tutelage of the Amharas?
Otherwise, the transgressor defames his own people and country, culture and background, and if not denounced by his/her own compatriots, the case reveals how much uncivilized the ethnic group in question is.
More letters I receive from uncivilized Amharas, closer I come to the conclusion that they – even the Amhara graduates of international universities – are in need of an Oromo cultural – educational – political tutelage.
Kinijit representativity basis
It is high time for us to focus now on Kinijit Vision statement which is the best proof of the Kinijit Amhara malignant target, i.e. a new dictatorship over the various Kushitic Ethiopian peoples of Abyssinia, who consist in the country’s overwhelming majority (more than 70%), on the Tigrays (12% of the population), and on the (also terribly oppressed) Muslim Amharas, who mount up to 55% of the Amharas. This highlights how much unrepresentative the Kinijit pseudo-democrats are: they represent one of the political parties of the Amhara monophysitic Christian ethnic – religious group that totals approximately 8 to 9% of the overall country’s population. This is lower than the level of Saddam Hussein’s representativity!
Kinijit Vision Statement
“KINIJIT’s vision: is to see a country in which, its people are united on the basis of equality and mutual respect; in which the people work together to extricate themselves from poverty backwardness; to see Ethiopia as a country in which the human and democratic rights of its citizens are fully respected; to see Ethiopia having a leadership that works in a spirit of responsibility accountability and on the basis of fulfilling the demands of the people; to see a country endowed
with good governance that operates at all levels in a system of openness and democracy”.
Kinijit Vision Statement analysis
To start with, the Kinijit aspiring dictators must envy Meles Zenawi’s regime; they will never be able to perform as well as he did for 16 years; whereas dictator Zenawi tyrannized peoples whose existence – to say the least – he recognized, the shameful and undemocratic Kinijit have the vision of ‘one country and one people’.
“Its people”; what a provocative, neo-Nazi statement!! This means that for the Kinijit Amharas – in the worst case scenario, if they are given by their colonial masters the possibility to rule Abyssinia –
either they will evacuate the quasi – totality of the country’s population (at least they will try)Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
or they will reject the present nominal federal character of the state, turning it to a resolutely totalitarian regime that abnegates the existence of numerous peoples, nations, cultures, religions and behavioural systems.
The latter will translate to tyrannical imposition of Amharic as national language on the outright majority of the country (more than 91 – 92 %), who hold this non African, alien idiom as absolutely profane to their cultures and traditions, and as completely useless – as syllabic (not alphabetic) – within the context of our modern world.
It is therefore comical for the Kinijit aspiring tyrants to speak about ‘Equality’ without admitting first that there are many different peoples in the country; among whom is this supposed ‘equality’ to be implemented? Among only the Amhara monophysitic Christians?
This would mean that all are equal in Abyssinia, but some lucky few (namely the Amhara monophysitic Christians, who represent just 8 – 9% of the country’s populations) are ‘more equal’. That’s ridiculous!
Kinijit’s ‘Ethiopia’: Haile Selassie transvestite, and plastered with Human Rights!
‘Mutual respect’ is another ludicrous affirmation of the untrustworthy Amhara Kinijit relics, who try to put the anachronistic and obsolete, monarchical political model of Haile Selassie in republican ‘clothes’, and to plaster this ridiculous transvestite fabrication with modern political liberal jargon – bought in a super market of political PR.
It is of seminal importance to let these uneducated Kinijit Amharas understand that ‘mutual respect’ anticipates recognition of the ‘Other’. As long as they do not recognize the numerous peoples of the country that they shamefully aspire to rule, no one will take them seriously, when they claim to demonstrate ‘mutual respect’! To whom do they show this ‘mutual respect’ of theirs? To their brothers? To their thugs?
However, this is precisely what tyrant Meles Zenawi proved to be illustriously good for; he feels ‘mutual respect’ for his thugs, who impersonate ‘Ethiopian’ soldiers, and thus carry out tortures and extrajudicial killings in Ogaden that need volumes to be possibly recorded.
The neo-Nazi identity of the Kinijit Amharas revealed
Further provocation: ‘people work together to extricate themselves from poverty’! Had they mentioned explicitly the numerous nations and peoples of their country, they would have got the right to claim trustworthiness. As it is, one has to ask who these ‘people’ who ‘work together’ are.
Since the Kinijit aspiring tyrants do not recognize / mention the Ogadenis, the Oromos, the Sidamas, the Afars, the Anuaks, the Shekachos and many others, plus their Abyssinian rivals, the Tigrays, it becomes very clear who these ‘people’ who ‘work together’ are.
They are the same (always) monophysitic Christian Amharas, who extirpated and confiscated the totality of the land property of all the Oromos, all the Ogadenis, all the Sidamas, all the Afars, all the Gambellas, all the Shekachos and all the other oppressed peoples of the Morgue called ‘Ethiopia’, and gave it as gift to Amhara feudal landlords, who in turn expurgated from “their” illegal property those numerous peoples whom they considered and explicitly named ‘insects’.
As it is an Amhara tradition to name all the rest ‘insects’, we understand why the Kinijit aspiring tyrants do not name them in their own texts; human beings for the Amharas are only the Amharas. By sticking to this tradition, the Kinijit guys offer the best proof that, as neo-Nazi aspiring tyrants, they will outperform in cruelty the ailing Tigray-led Zenawi regime, if helped to return in power.
Human and democratic rights in fake Ethiopia? You must be kidding!
Finally, the Kinijit aspiring tyrants want to “see Ethiopia as a country in which the human and democratic rights of its citizens are fully respected”. In the light of the aforementioned, we realize that these ‘rights’ will be reserved for das Herrenvolk, the Amhara Monophysitic Christians, whereas all the rest, African ‘Untermenschen’, will have to accommodate themselves – as they know only too well – in the Kingdom of Death.
That’s why is would be better to send the Kinijit neo-Nazi to Hell, helping all the oppressed peoples of the Horn of Africa region to achieve national independence and Freedom, and implement Democracy and progress.
Note
The picture illuminates what should be expected from an obnoxious Kinijit Amhara rule in Abyssinia.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Oromo>>The Asmara Group Law Suite Dismissed Without Prejudice
In its press release disseminated on Aug. 16, 2007, the OLF Executive Committee [TA-OLF] informed its readers that the case against it, filed in a MN court on July 19, 2007 by the Asmara group, has been dismissed “without prejudice.” Dismissal without prejudice is "when a case is dismissed but the plaintiff is allowed to bring a new suite on the same claim". In other words, the Asmara Group may file the same law suite again if they so wish.
According to this press release, the case was dismissed “after two days of court appearances” and “before the originally planned hearing date of 16th August 2007.” However, the press release did not explain the legal basis for the dismissal.Claiming it was forced to speak out on this issue to counter what it called “the continuous misinformation that has been disseminated by the Asmara Group” regarding who initiated the court case, TA-OLF said it was “forced to mount a defense as the law of the land requires” only after the Asmara group filed a complaint against it.It goes on to say “As far as the OLF [TA-OLF] is concerned, it is NOT for foreign courts to determine who is OLF and who is not. This is a case that can be decided ONLY by the Oromo people. If it were up to the OLF [TA-OLF], no funds raised in the name of the Oromo struggle would be squandered on frivolous court cases like this one.”The press release concluded by thanking its members and supporters, and also by calling on members of the Asmara Group OLF “to do the dignified thing and say enough is enough” to the Asmara Group and join the TA-OLF.This blogger received news of the dismissal with relief. In this blogger’s opinion, no interest of the Oromo people can be served by wasting time and other resources on taking another Oromo organization to court. It is not the time for Oromo political forces to take their brethren to courts, but for them to take Meles Zenawi and his cronies to court. Neither is it the time to waste thousands of dollars on lawyers for something no legal solution can be found. Even if the MN court had confirmed one of the groups as “OLF” what good would that be if the Oromo people do not accept that group as OLF? Why not wait for the Oromo people’s ultimate decision? Meanwhile, if there is money to be spent, please spend it on our refugees in East Africa whose suffering is known to everyone. There other worthy causes to spend money on than lining up USA lawyers’ pockets.Please stop this madness.
Read the press release HERE
According to this press release, the case was dismissed “after two days of court appearances” and “before the originally planned hearing date of 16th August 2007.” However, the press release did not explain the legal basis for the dismissal.Claiming it was forced to speak out on this issue to counter what it called “the continuous misinformation that has been disseminated by the Asmara Group” regarding who initiated the court case, TA-OLF said it was “forced to mount a defense as the law of the land requires” only after the Asmara group filed a complaint against it.It goes on to say “As far as the OLF [TA-OLF] is concerned, it is NOT for foreign courts to determine who is OLF and who is not. This is a case that can be decided ONLY by the Oromo people. If it were up to the OLF [TA-OLF], no funds raised in the name of the Oromo struggle would be squandered on frivolous court cases like this one.”The press release concluded by thanking its members and supporters, and also by calling on members of the Asmara Group OLF “to do the dignified thing and say enough is enough” to the Asmara Group and join the TA-OLF.This blogger received news of the dismissal with relief. In this blogger’s opinion, no interest of the Oromo people can be served by wasting time and other resources on taking another Oromo organization to court. It is not the time for Oromo political forces to take their brethren to courts, but for them to take Meles Zenawi and his cronies to court. Neither is it the time to waste thousands of dollars on lawyers for something no legal solution can be found. Even if the MN court had confirmed one of the groups as “OLF” what good would that be if the Oromo people do not accept that group as OLF? Why not wait for the Oromo people’s ultimate decision? Meanwhile, if there is money to be spent, please spend it on our refugees in East Africa whose suffering is known to everyone. There other worthy causes to spend money on than lining up USA lawyers’ pockets.Please stop this madness.
Read the press release HERE
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Friday, August 17, 2007
Nuro Dedefo Defends the Asmara Group's Law Suite
In an interview he gave to Oromo Community Radio on KFAI Radio without Borders 90.3 of MPLS – St. Paul, Nuro Dedefo confirms that the temporary restraining order against TA-OLF has been lifted, and that the Asmara Group of OLF is proceeding with the court case seeking permanent injunction against TA-OLF from using the OLF name, emblem and flag.According to Nuro Dedefo, who was introduced by the interviewer as chairman of the USA chapter of the OLF [Asmara group,] his group was forced to go to court because TA-OLF booked the same conference room which the Asmara Group had previously booked for their public meeting on July 27, 2007. He informed the radio audience that after appealing to the courts and obtaining a temporary injunction against TA-OLF, they [Asmara Group] failed to post the necessary bond as ordered by the court. As a result, the restraining order was vacated.Asked why they failed to post the required bond, Nuro says they refrained from doing so because TA-OLF re-scheduled their public meeting to a different date (from Friday to Thursday.) He goes on to say “Contrary to what they [TA-OLF] have been spreading, the temporary injunction was not lifted based on the merit or demerit of the case but because we failed to post the required bond.”Responding to Nuro Dedefo’s assertion on this matter, my TA-OLF contact had the following to say.“It is true that the meetings were scheduled on the same date and at the same conference center. However, it is not true that this was done intentionally on OLF’s part. Your readers should know that the OLF held its 2006 public meeting at the same conference center and on the same date (July 27, 2006.) The truth, in this case, is the OLF booked the conference center for July 27, 2007 before the Asmara Group. It, also, announced its meeting to the Oromo public well in advance of the Asmara group. The OLF became aware of the scheduling conflict with the Asmara group’s meeting on July 8, 2007 after it announced it to the public on MPLS’s Radio Voice of Oromia program. Soon after becoming aware of the scheduling conflict, the OLF decided to change its public meeting from July 27 to 26, 2007 and, as listeners of MPLS’s Radio Voice of Oromia program can attest, it announced this change to listeners of that radio program on July 15, 2007. The Asmara group filed their law suite on July 19, 2007, four days after becoming aware that the OLF had changed its meeting date to July 26, 2007. The matter was heard before a judge for the first time on July 23, 2007, 8 days after the Asmara group had become aware that the OLF had changed its meeting date to July 26, 2007. For Nuro Dedefo, who prides himself so much on being a lawyer, to get on a public airwave and make a false statement by saying “the OLF changed its meeting date after July 23, 2007; As a result we refrained from posting the required bond” shows how seriously he takes his lawyer’s oath which he swore to “…never seek to mislead … by an artifice or false statement of fact …” For those who do not know Nuro Dedefo, he "had a very noble job in Ethiopia," as president of the Arsi Regional High Court under TPLF. As for his legal opinion on the matter, the Internet is peppered with records of his losses as a lawyer and one is advised to not take him seriously. In 1998, he filed a complaint against Midwest Patrol and Commissioner of Economic Security in MN and lost. He appealed that decision to Court of Appeals and lost again (read HERE.) In 2004, he appealed a court decision against him granting an individual “an order for protection.” He lost that appeal too (read HERE.) In 2006, he filed a defamation suite against Aliyi Wake, et al. Upon lossing, he appealed the court decision and lost again. (read HERE.)The list goes on and on but you get the point. The point is I would not want Nuro Dedefo to represent me in any capacity let alone in a court of law. As for who is OLF proper and who is not, suffice to say that no partner of Qinijjit can claim to be OLF.”On whether the Asmara Group is seeking compensation from TA-OLF for using the OLF name for the last five years, Nuro made no mention of the $50,000 US they applied for in compensatory damages but said “what is past is in the past. What we are seeking is to stop them from operating under the OLF name in the future.” Interestingly, Nuro asserts that TA-OLF does not cause any damage to the Asmara Group but is a “nuisance.”Asked if it was necessary to go to a USA court to determine who is OLF and who is not, Dedefo said TA-OLF had to be stopped from confusing the people by claiming to be OLF proper and causing a “nuisance.”This blogger wishes the interviewer had asked Nuro Dedefo how much Oromo hard earned dollars are squandered on bringing this case to the courts. Hopefully, TA-OLF will also give an interview and let us know how much they have spent so far to defend the case.Listen to Nuro Dedefo’s interview HERE
Source>> http://www.oromoaffairs.blogspot.com
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
NPR Reports the Guyii Killings
It is to be recalled that Human Rights Watch (HRW) had reported the killings of Gemechu Benesa Bula and Lelsa Wagari Bula in Guyii on the evening of on January 4, 2007, by TPLF police and militia members. In a letter it wrote (read HERE) to Ethiopian Minister of Federal Affairs on Feb. 20, 2007, HRW had asked that the killings be investigated and the killers brought to justice.No investigation has been undertaken and the killers continue to roam the towns and villages of Oromia.
Nick Wadhams of National Public Radio (NPR) traveled to Guyii and interviewed the parents of the murdered students. Please listen HERE to the full NPR report as broadcast on August 13, 2007.
Source http://www.oromoaffairs.blogspot.com/
Nick Wadhams of National Public Radio (NPR) traveled to Guyii and interviewed the parents of the murdered students. Please listen HERE to the full NPR report as broadcast on August 13, 2007.
Source http://www.oromoaffairs.blogspot.com/
The Bitter Truth is Advocating for Oppressed Oromo and Other Ethnic group.
Abdulkadir Gumi
August 15, 2007
" Speaking truth to power is no panglossian idealism, it is carefully weighing the alternatives picking the right one and then intelligently representing it where it can do most good and cause the right change. ''Edward Said'
Oromo, Ogaden , Sidama Afar, are people who were oppressed by tyranny.
The bitter truth about what happened especially to Oromos , Ogadens, Sidamas in Ethiopia throughout century cannot be denied, except by those so twisted, so filled with hatred, so bent on destruction. Dr Muhammad Shamsudin Megalomotis , who has advocated the truth in the Region has done many realities open to the world through his bright hand in writing many articles on the Oppressed people everywhere in the world not only in Ethiopia. Adding to a long list of absurdities,We should be happy with Article 39 of Ethiopian constitution. Let people decide whether they want to unite or be independent. People should be given a chance to express their interest freely. After decades of suffering and killings of Oromos in Horn of Africa and Ogadens.People who were denied education and all sort of discrimnation are put on them,
Ethiopian Amhara Leaders are well educated and known not only in Ethiopia, but also worldwide.thus know how to oppress people when when deniying education for other ethnic group. The major tool used by them to ignore other Ethnic majorities inorder to kill the reality on the ground. because they think no one except them could speak democratically againsit them , it is because the people who were dictators and want to be dictators also on free medias.THE truth shall set you free, so journalists and others, are always reminded. Not every reader, listener or television viewer will accept it, though. For some the truth is unpalatable.
Dr Mohammad Shamsudin Megalomotis is a man who loves attention, owe scholarly integrity. This is a man filled with the truth and hold obvious facts.
I'll leave it to the historians like him to refute the suffering of Oromos and other ethnic group in Ethiopia in the hand of Recist AMHARA AND TIGREY and also Other Oppressed Ethnic group in all corners of the world.
The bitter truth is that the KINIJIT is a Haile Salasie and Mangistu masterminded coming in to Ethiopia to Amaranizing other ethnic groups and one language called Amharic by imposing on other nations. This is really an old system, which can’t solve the problems in Ethiopia. What will solve the problem of Ethiopia is Independence of OROMIA and OGADENIA TOO.
We can only wish that those who deny the truth that Dr Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis on his articles and it may come to learn the evilness of their errors and suffer for their sins of denial. The good news, the good truth, is that they fight an impossible battle because you cannot deny with so many witnesses, so much proof, so much evidence that still lives on today.
August 15, 2007
" Speaking truth to power is no panglossian idealism, it is carefully weighing the alternatives picking the right one and then intelligently representing it where it can do most good and cause the right change. ''Edward Said'
Oromo, Ogaden , Sidama Afar, are people who were oppressed by tyranny.
The bitter truth about what happened especially to Oromos , Ogadens, Sidamas in Ethiopia throughout century cannot be denied, except by those so twisted, so filled with hatred, so bent on destruction. Dr Muhammad Shamsudin Megalomotis , who has advocated the truth in the Region has done many realities open to the world through his bright hand in writing many articles on the Oppressed people everywhere in the world not only in Ethiopia. Adding to a long list of absurdities,We should be happy with Article 39 of Ethiopian constitution. Let people decide whether they want to unite or be independent. People should be given a chance to express their interest freely. After decades of suffering and killings of Oromos in Horn of Africa and Ogadens.People who were denied education and all sort of discrimnation are put on them,
Ethiopian Amhara Leaders are well educated and known not only in Ethiopia, but also worldwide.thus know how to oppress people when when deniying education for other ethnic group. The major tool used by them to ignore other Ethnic majorities inorder to kill the reality on the ground. because they think no one except them could speak democratically againsit them , it is because the people who were dictators and want to be dictators also on free medias.THE truth shall set you free, so journalists and others, are always reminded. Not every reader, listener or television viewer will accept it, though. For some the truth is unpalatable.
Dr Mohammad Shamsudin Megalomotis is a man who loves attention, owe scholarly integrity. This is a man filled with the truth and hold obvious facts.
I'll leave it to the historians like him to refute the suffering of Oromos and other ethnic group in Ethiopia in the hand of Recist AMHARA AND TIGREY and also Other Oppressed Ethnic group in all corners of the world.
The bitter truth is that the KINIJIT is a Haile Salasie and Mangistu masterminded coming in to Ethiopia to Amaranizing other ethnic groups and one language called Amharic by imposing on other nations. This is really an old system, which can’t solve the problems in Ethiopia. What will solve the problem of Ethiopia is Independence of OROMIA and OGADENIA TOO.
We can only wish that those who deny the truth that Dr Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis on his articles and it may come to learn the evilness of their errors and suffer for their sins of denial. The good news, the good truth, is that they fight an impossible battle because you cannot deny with so many witnesses, so much proof, so much evidence that still lives on today.
Ah, what an age it is
When to speak of truth and reality is almost a denied by the Dictotors AND THEIR children.
For it is a kind of silence about injustice!
Even anger against injustice
Makes the voice grow harsh.
Oromos and Other Ethnic group are in A ledge of fire"
That is what we are always walking on and that “ledge of fire” where there is hope of changing the future."There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desire."
The above applies to Kenya, it is why The People of Northern Kenya are also forgotten by all who till now dont know who are they belong to.
When to speak of truth and reality is almost a denied by the Dictotors AND THEIR children.
For it is a kind of silence about injustice!
Even anger against injustice
Makes the voice grow harsh.
Oromos and Other Ethnic group are in A ledge of fire"
That is what we are always walking on and that “ledge of fire” where there is hope of changing the future."There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desire."
The above applies to Kenya, it is why The People of Northern Kenya are also forgotten by all who till now dont know who are they belong to.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Northern Kenya Ahead of General election in Kenya
Abdulkadir Gumi
August 13, 2007
The Oromo-Boorana people of Northern Kenya are facing big challenge ahead of coming General-election.the cause of this are dozen of political parties beside the mama and baba {KANU} or ODM Kenya facing north to determine their strenght. I am sure by now the society have divided in which side to support or oppose depending from which clan,tribe an individual comes from as this was their tradition. So our learned brothers and sisters, how could you give this people direction,as the outcome of this election will either positively or negatively affect our Oromo community in general.
I ask My self now If i were to choose or go to bullot box to elect the member of parliament today who would I chose to Isiolo North/South? Marsabit and North Horr? Moyale, Burra and Hoola?Can You Help me Please solve this Question. the Question is How can and what can we do to elect a SAMPLE of Dr Guracha to the Kenya Parliament ? Need answer plz Oromo-Northers concerned try to discuss on this.
Lets stop the old mentality of "ABBO ATIN GOSII MAAL?" (what is your clan? ''GANDAA KAMII DHUFTEE?''(from where did you come from ?) Amantii te maali"? (What is your religion) .Ironically to the most nuclear segment of the community, the deadly virus called CLANISM which to most community of the country is long gone proverbial "gamme ateeti". what a pity! sadness never leave us, and i think if you are weak, everyone would want to test his might on you...
Those Borana-Oromos of kenyan Origin never recovered from Dhaaba during the early years of independence, but now histroy is repeating it self!!!!. still the clanism created by external WOYANE forces exist even on the far border into Kenya . We never said or did anything about Dhaaba in Kenya that Justified the cause by the government and now based on the past justification they repeating it.This will never end if we dont have a voice to raise!!! Please lets put our minds together as the elites of the community and fight the vices that takes us to stone age generation and think for the betterment of the This and coming generation and more so improve on our generation too.
Please speak up to be heard around the worldSpeak for your people
Speak for Oromo and Oromia
Speak for OROMO UNITY.
Nothing will stand before us if we are still and united
Nageenni badhaadha Oromtichaafi Oromtitti!!
August 13, 2007
The Oromo-Boorana people of Northern Kenya are facing big challenge ahead of coming General-election.the cause of this are dozen of political parties beside the mama and baba {KANU} or ODM Kenya facing north to determine their strenght. I am sure by now the society have divided in which side to support or oppose depending from which clan,tribe an individual comes from as this was their tradition. So our learned brothers and sisters, how could you give this people direction,as the outcome of this election will either positively or negatively affect our Oromo community in general.
I ask My self now If i were to choose or go to bullot box to elect the member of parliament today who would I chose to Isiolo North/South? Marsabit and North Horr? Moyale, Burra and Hoola?Can You Help me Please solve this Question. the Question is How can and what can we do to elect a SAMPLE of Dr Guracha to the Kenya Parliament ? Need answer plz Oromo-Northers concerned try to discuss on this.
Lets stop the old mentality of "ABBO ATIN GOSII MAAL?" (what is your clan? ''GANDAA KAMII DHUFTEE?''(from where did you come from ?) Amantii te maali"? (What is your religion) .Ironically to the most nuclear segment of the community, the deadly virus called CLANISM which to most community of the country is long gone proverbial "gamme ateeti". what a pity! sadness never leave us, and i think if you are weak, everyone would want to test his might on you...
Those Borana-Oromos of kenyan Origin never recovered from Dhaaba during the early years of independence, but now histroy is repeating it self!!!!. still the clanism created by external WOYANE forces exist even on the far border into Kenya . We never said or did anything about Dhaaba in Kenya that Justified the cause by the government and now based on the past justification they repeating it.This will never end if we dont have a voice to raise!!! Please lets put our minds together as the elites of the community and fight the vices that takes us to stone age generation and think for the betterment of the This and coming generation and more so improve on our generation too.
Please speak up to be heard around the worldSpeak for your people
Speak for Oromo and Oromia
Speak for OROMO UNITY.
Nothing will stand before us if we are still and united
Nageenni badhaadha Oromtichaafi Oromtitti!!
Oromo Refugees in Cairo – forgotten by all
Oromo Refugees in Cairo – forgotten by all
Getting out of the Hell of bogus-‘Ethiopia’ is not an easy story; it takes much money or great despair, and is achieved through many ways leading to a great number of destinations. Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti have been primary choices due to both, the propinquity and the existence of Oromo communities; the latter is mostly true for Kenya, another typical, artificial entity of the colonial heritage; Kenya’s Northeastern province is quasi-exclusively inhabited by Oromos and Somalis, and has been erratically added to England’s colonial fabrication ‘Kenya’. There are many Oromo Kenyan nationals and with them Oromo refugees escaped from Abyssinia have a lot to share. There is a numerous Oromo refugee community in Kenya, and Oromos from Abyssinia are easily given refugee status by the UNHCR. Another destination, less frequented, is Yemen; Eritrea would not be an easy choice because of the long date war between Eritrea and Abyssinia, which makes the borders almost impossible to cross. Djibouti is the usual transit territory for these cases, as Somaliland’s good relations with the Addis Ababa based Tigray tribal tyranny make of the non recognized country a rather suspicious and untrustworthy territory for Oromos, and even more so for Ogadenis. Sudan and Egypt are another destination customarily chosen by great numbers of Oromos, as well as other oppressed ethnic groups of Africa’s Morgue ‘Ethiopia’. It is not a necessarily easy case; crossing as most do from Asosa (capital of the Benishangul province of Abyssinia) to Ad Damazin (capital of the An Nil Al Azraq / Blue Nile province of Sudan) is a very difficult enterprise, a real adventure. Climatologically different, Sudan, particularly the Nubian North, is unbearably hot for Oromos who are accustomed to fresher and more humid, mountainous environment. For those who do not settle in Khartoum, the difficult desert track that from Debba continues alongside the Nile up to the extreme North, Wadi Halfa, and thence to Egypt, is the way to reach Egypt. Then, the real surprise starts, as Cairo has nothing in common with Nairobi. The capital of Egypt is the least African capital of the continent, and is definitely closer to Damascus, Jerusalem, Amman and Baghdad than to Khartoum. Modern Arabic is totally unknown in Abyssinia, and scarcely spoken in Eritrea. The treatment by the UNHCR is also very different. Problems of the Oromo Community in Cairo The Oromo Refugee Community in Cairo is not recognized by the UNHCR thus far, and this creates the first problem. The Oromo refugees in Cairo would get maximum profit of the services and assistance accorded to refugees if recognized as an independent refugee community. It is essential that one dissociates them from the so-called Ethiopian refugees, who are almost exclusively Amhara, who are unable to stand the Tigray based minority rule of the cruel tyrant Zenawi. Second, and more serious problem is the unfair treatment applied to almost all the Oromo refugees in Cairo by the UNHCR. It has become customary for the UNHCR to turn down and inconsiderately file Oromo applications for refugee status. In this way, Oromo refugees in Cairo are exposed to insecurity, and in case they are found without papers they can be detained in Egyptian jails for too long. The unrecognized Oromo Refugee Community in Cairo has established its website in which one can read (http://oromocairo.jeeran.com/index.html) their appeal to the UN and international bodies, Embassies, Humanitarian Associations and NGOs to help save two prisoners who have been left for too long in Cairo jails as having no papers. If these Oromo refugees are granted the refugee status, they will be immediately free. We find necessary at this point to re-publish an excerpt from the Appeal published in the Oromo refugee website: "The two Oromos were caught in their ways to saving their lives, and are still suffering in the prison they run away from. Shagga Dibu – he served in prison for one year without any trial; he was interviewed by UNHCR office twice, but is still pleading to all Humanitarian offices to be freed. We are crystal clear that if he is sent back home, his fate is death or life imprisonment. Zakir Abba Sambe Abba Waji – he served in prison for one year with out any trial, he was caught in the border from Libya when he attempted to enter Egypt. His bag contained a big amount of money, and it was confiscated; he is mentally draining. If he returns to where he fled from, he will automatically face grave consequences". Third, although they have got promises on behalf of Humanitarian Associations and NGOs, the Oromo Refugees in Cairo still have no place to meet, no place to organize Afaan Oromo courses for the analphabets among the refugees, no place to organize cultural events. Only recently, they managed to perform at the Cairo Opera where they had the opportunity to offer Egyptian audience a first snapshot of Oromo culture – something totally excluded from the agenda of the disreputable tyranny’s embassy at Cairo that pursues a gravely racist and discriminatory diplomacy, identifying the falsely re-baptized as ‘Ethiopia’ country with the alien, Semitic Abyssinian culture (that reflects 10% of the country’s population). Fourth, Cairo has become the terrain of perpetuating Abyssinia’s century-long conflicts between Amharas and Oromos; as the Tigray dominated severely unrepresentative tyranny is most loathed by Amharas as well, many Amharas escape through Sudan to Egypt, where they would not be offered refugee status if admitting their Amhara identity. They say therefore lies that are disastrously believed by the UNHCR and various humanitarian organizations. On the insubstantial ground that there are some Oromos in Finfinne (falsely and tyrannically renamed by the Amharas and the Tigrays only as Addis Ababa), who either because of being the offspring of mixed marriages or due to undesired cultural assimilation do not speak Afaan Oromo but only Amharic, the UNHCR should not end up offering more support to the tyrants than the tyrannized. Issues pertaining to refugee status determination should therefore be fully reconsidered and vigorously de-ideologized. The best solution lies in arranging a special session between UNHCR representatives and delegates of various Oromo political parties, fronts, organizations, and cultural associations and academies to redefine the subject. We strongly believe the UNHCR’s primary task is to reopen and review all the files of the Oromo refugees in Cairo, positively addressing their demands, and actively offering them refugee status as soon as possible. As the issue is multifaceted, we will soon come up with more insightful.
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin MegalommatisPublished: 8/12/2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Oromo>>All in my Thought
Here is a poem, “All in My Thought”, composed by Giddi Abamegal, an Oromo refugee in Kenya and published in Tilting Cages:A Collection of Refugee Writings, edited by Noomi Flutter and Cari Solomon, reflecting the predicaments of exile.
In front of my tilting cage,
that litle hut of plastics,
so not to suffer from loneliness,
I traveled far and wide,
all in my thought.
I went back to the remote past,
our home and its vicinities,
grandma and her stories
of my great-grandmother,
those mighty warriors from whom I inherited
intolerance and pride.
I traveled far and wide,
all in my thought.
I went far into the future,
into my dreams and high hopes.
To see what was there,
where this changeles passage of time,
where this endless kick of my heels,
could possibly one day lead.
I traveled far and wide,
All in my thought
I also traveled to eternity,
to see my soul at the end of the mess.
I traveled far and wide,
all in my thought.
that litle hut of plastics,
so not to suffer from loneliness,
I traveled far and wide,
all in my thought.
I went back to the remote past,
our home and its vicinities,
grandma and her stories
of my great-grandmother,
those mighty warriors from whom I inherited
intolerance and pride.
I traveled far and wide,
all in my thought.
I went far into the future,
into my dreams and high hopes.
To see what was there,
where this changeles passage of time,
where this endless kick of my heels,
could possibly one day lead.
I traveled far and wide,
All in my thought
I also traveled to eternity,
to see my soul at the end of the mess.
I traveled far and wide,
all in my thought.
Panicked Dictator Zenawi fails to impair Oromo and Ogaden Liberation Forces
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
August 11, 2007
The most inhuman state in the world, tyrannical bogus-Ethiopia entered its shameful history’s final page; that of the end. Unable to fight in Somalia where tyrant Zenawi’s tribal – Amhara and Tigray – soldiers are daily shot dead in great numbers, incapable to maintain his Abyssinian tribal – lawless and uncivil – order in Ogaden, the useless ‘ally’ of the Democrat Administration, Meles Zenawi sees his relic state being gradually decomposed. These are the last days of Addis Ababa, the shameful and disreputable, false name of the occupied capital of Oromo Ethiopia – the correct and authentic name of which is Finfinne.
To make a last effort to survive, the Tigray criminal Zenawi needs arms from uniformed American businessmen, who would be extremely appalled if they knew the iniquitous deeds of the bogus-Ethiopian dictator. His tribal and unrepresentative diplomats, who calmly and pompously address elected administrators and respectable businessmen, would be lynched – if back home – by the tyrannized masses of the impoverished African country, who consider these criminal ‘diplomats’ as the main reason of the afflicted misery and underdevelopment on their otherwise rich and blessed African country. These pseudo-diplomats do not represent more than 16% of their country, namely the Monophysitic Christian Amhara and Tigray populations.
To better diffuse their lies about the mostly unstudied case of tyrannical Abyssinia (falsely and criminally renamed ‘Ethiopia’), these ‘diplomats’ need false news from back home in order to effectively convince their customarily uniformed interlocutors about the supposed, mythical ‘order’ that ‘prevails’ in Abyssinia. Recent lies of the tyrannical and criminal government of bogus-Ethiopia have been denounced with the utmost indignation by the leaders of the oppressed Oromo majority of the country. The Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo – Oromo Liberation Front issued a press release that we find necessary to integrally publish here in order to unveil and deplore the falsification and propaganda machine of Africa’s most loathed and most unrepresentative tyrant.
A Bogus Victory Declaration of TPLF/EPRDF Tyrannical Regime
The Oromo Liberation Front's Statement regarding the August 7, 2007, TPLF/EPRDF's Claim of Victory
In our recent statement the OLF correctly stated that, "the TPLF regime has shown itself to be the mother and father of all lies". Indeed since the time of Nazi Germany, there has never been a regime like that of the TPLF, which has developed lies and deception into an art of governance. The regime has fabricated so many lies to confuse and victimize the Oromos and other peoples of Ethiopia. In the process, the regime's survival has totally depended on manufacturing lies and hate propaganda on those it believes threat to its multiple agendas.
The regime has been fabricating such baseless lies primarily for the consumption of its international financiers. Thus, over the years the regime has perfected the art of manufacturing lies for the purpose of obtaining financial and military support from its international backers.
Continuing with tradition of fabrication of lies, on August 7, 2007, The TPLF/EPRDF's regime's Defense Ministry asserted that his forces killed several "rebels" and "captured hundreds in two months." The Ministry further asserted, "All the elements belonged to the ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front), OLF (Oromio Liberation Front), and Al-Ittihad." The latter organization was added to the list, because it serves the TPLF regime as its cash cow.
However, the TPLF/EPRD's Defense Ministry's victory declaration is a bogus claim. During the last two months despite the Ministry's statement claim, the OLF did not operate in the Ogaden. The joint operation of the OLF and OLNF took place in January and February 2007. In that joint operation, the gallant Oromo Liberation Army and the ONLF Army caused heavy damage to the TPLF army. In their historic joint operation and victory over the enemy, the OLF and ONLF liberation armies captured military personnel, weapons and ammunitions. The OLF and ONLF successful joint operation was a military and political blow that shocked the TPLF army and leadership. The Oromo Liberation Front has no contact with Al-Ittihad, and has never had a joint military operation with it. The TPLF's regime's implication that the OLF Army has jointly operated with the Al-Ittihad is a habitual malicious false accusation.
August 11, 2007
The most inhuman state in the world, tyrannical bogus-Ethiopia entered its shameful history’s final page; that of the end. Unable to fight in Somalia where tyrant Zenawi’s tribal – Amhara and Tigray – soldiers are daily shot dead in great numbers, incapable to maintain his Abyssinian tribal – lawless and uncivil – order in Ogaden, the useless ‘ally’ of the Democrat Administration, Meles Zenawi sees his relic state being gradually decomposed. These are the last days of Addis Ababa, the shameful and disreputable, false name of the occupied capital of Oromo Ethiopia – the correct and authentic name of which is Finfinne.
To make a last effort to survive, the Tigray criminal Zenawi needs arms from uniformed American businessmen, who would be extremely appalled if they knew the iniquitous deeds of the bogus-Ethiopian dictator. His tribal and unrepresentative diplomats, who calmly and pompously address elected administrators and respectable businessmen, would be lynched – if back home – by the tyrannized masses of the impoverished African country, who consider these criminal ‘diplomats’ as the main reason of the afflicted misery and underdevelopment on their otherwise rich and blessed African country. These pseudo-diplomats do not represent more than 16% of their country, namely the Monophysitic Christian Amhara and Tigray populations.
To better diffuse their lies about the mostly unstudied case of tyrannical Abyssinia (falsely and criminally renamed ‘Ethiopia’), these ‘diplomats’ need false news from back home in order to effectively convince their customarily uniformed interlocutors about the supposed, mythical ‘order’ that ‘prevails’ in Abyssinia. Recent lies of the tyrannical and criminal government of bogus-Ethiopia have been denounced with the utmost indignation by the leaders of the oppressed Oromo majority of the country. The Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo – Oromo Liberation Front issued a press release that we find necessary to integrally publish here in order to unveil and deplore the falsification and propaganda machine of Africa’s most loathed and most unrepresentative tyrant.
A Bogus Victory Declaration of TPLF/EPRDF Tyrannical Regime
The Oromo Liberation Front's Statement regarding the August 7, 2007, TPLF/EPRDF's Claim of Victory
In our recent statement the OLF correctly stated that, "the TPLF regime has shown itself to be the mother and father of all lies". Indeed since the time of Nazi Germany, there has never been a regime like that of the TPLF, which has developed lies and deception into an art of governance. The regime has fabricated so many lies to confuse and victimize the Oromos and other peoples of Ethiopia. In the process, the regime's survival has totally depended on manufacturing lies and hate propaganda on those it believes threat to its multiple agendas.
The regime has been fabricating such baseless lies primarily for the consumption of its international financiers. Thus, over the years the regime has perfected the art of manufacturing lies for the purpose of obtaining financial and military support from its international backers.
Continuing with tradition of fabrication of lies, on August 7, 2007, The TPLF/EPRDF's regime's Defense Ministry asserted that his forces killed several "rebels" and "captured hundreds in two months." The Ministry further asserted, "All the elements belonged to the ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front), OLF (Oromio Liberation Front), and Al-Ittihad." The latter organization was added to the list, because it serves the TPLF regime as its cash cow.
However, the TPLF/EPRD's Defense Ministry's victory declaration is a bogus claim. During the last two months despite the Ministry's statement claim, the OLF did not operate in the Ogaden. The joint operation of the OLF and OLNF took place in January and February 2007. In that joint operation, the gallant Oromo Liberation Army and the ONLF Army caused heavy damage to the TPLF army. In their historic joint operation and victory over the enemy, the OLF and ONLF liberation armies captured military personnel, weapons and ammunitions. The OLF and ONLF successful joint operation was a military and political blow that shocked the TPLF army and leadership. The Oromo Liberation Front has no contact with Al-Ittihad, and has never had a joint military operation with it. The TPLF's regime's implication that the OLF Army has jointly operated with the Al-Ittihad is a habitual malicious false accusation.
The Oromo Liberation Army has continued its operation in all corners of Oromia. The Oromo Liberation Army's recent successful operations in Burqaa, Babile, etc. of Eastern Oromia have made many TPLF soldiers out of action and captured weapons and ammunitions.
The TPLF army did not and cannot defeat the Oromo Liberation Army. Contrary to the TPLF regime's false assertions, the Oromo Liberation struggle is growing stronger and gathering momentum on each passing day. On the other side, the tyrannical TPLF regime is fast losing ground, being rejected by its international backers on each passing day, not to mention the internal legitimacy it never had. Had the TPLF victory propaganda of the last sixteen years been true, there would not have been a talk about the OLF now. A bogus victory declaration does not save the TPLF/EPRDF tyrannical regime from its inevitable downfall. This is the verdict of history from which the TPLF regime will never escape.
Finally, we would like to reiterate that the Oromo Liberation Army targets the TPLF army, its military installation and assets. The Oromo Liberation Army never targets the civilian population and property.
Victory to the Oromo People!
Oromo Liberation Front
August 8, 2007
www.oromoliberationfront.org
The TPLF army did not and cannot defeat the Oromo Liberation Army. Contrary to the TPLF regime's false assertions, the Oromo Liberation struggle is growing stronger and gathering momentum on each passing day. On the other side, the tyrannical TPLF regime is fast losing ground, being rejected by its international backers on each passing day, not to mention the internal legitimacy it never had. Had the TPLF victory propaganda of the last sixteen years been true, there would not have been a talk about the OLF now. A bogus victory declaration does not save the TPLF/EPRDF tyrannical regime from its inevitable downfall. This is the verdict of history from which the TPLF regime will never escape.
Finally, we would like to reiterate that the Oromo Liberation Army targets the TPLF army, its military installation and assets. The Oromo Liberation Army never targets the civilian population and property.
Victory to the Oromo People!
Oromo Liberation Front
August 8, 2007
www.oromoliberationfront.org
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Ethiopian rebels warns against oil exploration activities in Ogaden
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
ONLF Press Release
August 7, 2007 — Recent sensational claims by the Ethiopian regime that it has been able to realize military gains in Ogaden have no basis in reality and are designed to give a false sense of security to oil companies being urged by the regime not to abandon their exploration plans in Ogaden.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) would like to make clear that our forces are largely intact, operational and effective. We also wish to confirm that the regime of Melez Zenawi does not have effective control of Ogaden, a factor which has contributed to their policy of denying entry to international journalists and expulsion of the ICRC.
Pursuing oil and natural gas exploration activities in Ogaden at this stage can only be characterized as gross corporate irresponsibility given the war crimes being committed against our civilian population.
The ONLF will continue to uphold the principle of justice, democracy and respect for human rights before oil exploration in Ogaden and as such, we will not allow this regime to benefit from our peoples natural resources.
Displaced Oromians race to free their homeland
Although it is one of Africa’s largest nations, Oromia is either forgotten by or unknown to the majority of the world today. A July 29 first-ever race around Lake Calhoun was intended in part to rectify that oversight.Only four nations in Africa have larger populations than Oromia (estimated at 40 million), which is located in the Horn of Africa and makes up a large part of Ethiopia. It is about the size of Texas. However, throughout most of their early history, the Oromo people have been utterly mistreated. During the last quarter of the 19th century, Oromia was colonized by Abyssinia, a Black African nation that received help from the European colonial powers of the day. Between 1870 and 1900, the Oromo population was cut in half from 10 million to five million. Many were killed by the colonial army, while others died of famine and epidemics and others were sold as slaves. The Abyssinian leaders called the Oromians “Galla,” which means “inherently inferior,” a term the Oromo people still disdain today. When the late Ethiopian ruler Haile Selessie was in charge, he continued the genocidal practices against the Oromians and did everything possible to destroy the Oromo culture (they believe in self-sufficiency), their language (Oromo, or Afan Oromo, closely related to Somali), and religious customs (Oromians believe in Waaqa (God) and either follows Islam or Christianity). Despite being the majority in Ethiopia, the Oromo people have no representation in the minority-ruling Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Party government, which has been in power since the early 1990s. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has continued the century-plus oppressive policies that have driven out many of the Oromo people, forcing them to neighboring African countries such as Somalia, or even farther west to America. The largest number of Oromians living in the U.S. are found in Minnesota. The Oliqaa Foundation sponsored a first-time “Run for Oromia” 5K and 10K race at Lake Calhoun July 29. It was originally billed to honor past Oromian runners such as Abebe Bikila, the first African to win an Olympic gold medal, and Derartu Tula, the first Black female athlete to win the 10K gold medal. Run for Oromia’s main purpose was to call attention “in a peaceful way” to the human rights violations currently being committed by the Ethiopian government against the Oromo people, said its organizer Mike Abebe. He explained that a primary reason so many of his native Oromians chose Minnesota as their home away from home is because of the history of working with missionaries of Norwegian decent in Ethiopia, many of whom came from Minnesota. As a result, when asked where they like to live once they reach the United States, Oromians often choose Minnesota, he noted. There were approximately 500 participants in the two races, said Abebe. Spectators greeted the runners at the finish line, cheering them on while waving Oromo Liberation Front flags. Mathew Chesano of Kenya, which borders Oromia to the south, won the 5K race, and Wegayehu Tefera, an Oromian who now lives in New York, finished second. Another Oromian, Yimenasha Taye, was the top female 5K finisher. All were pleased with their results, but solidarity with the Oromo people was more important to them. “I ran for my neighbors,” said Chesano. Now living in New York, Tefera said through an interpreter, “I’m so glad to be a part of this.” Berhanu Wakene of Seattle, a 5K runner, said that the race is “about the freedom of our land.” Abebe left his homeland 20 years ago. Now living in Atlanta, he has visited family members back home in Oromia in the past but now feels that he might not be able to go back because of the attention Run for Oromia might bring. “I don’t feel good [about not returning to his homeland], but I told everybody that this is not about me and my family, but it’s about millions of people,” he said matter-of-factly. “The biggest concern is about human rights,” said Abebe’s assistant Alecia Crumby of Atlanta, Georgia. She participated in events leading up to the race during Oromo Week, which was declared in Minnesota for the last two weeks of July. The American-born Crumby noted, “It bothers me a lot because I have a lot of friends who are Oromians, and I work with Oromians, too. A lot of people get killed [in Oromia] for speaking their minds. [They] don’t have freedom of speech that we have here.”After spending 15 days in jail, Kassa Dadhi, a 10K runner, said he left Oromia as soon as he could after his release. He has been in the United States for 10 years, and lives in St. Paul. “Some of my friends and family are dead,” he painfully recalled. Abraham Dalu, a 5K runner who also lives in the Twin Cities, said he, too, fled his homeland and relocated in the U.S. 20 years ago because of the oppressive conditions in Oromia. “It was a die or live situation,” he pointed out. “Of course, it is a natural thing to opt for life.”He visited family members in Oromia earlier this year. “[The conditions] are so bad for our people,” Dalu said, also decrying the Ethiopian government for sending soldiers into Somalia and committing atrocities against Oromo refugees there. Many were deported back to Ethiopia and jailed. “They [the soldiers] killed a lot of Oromo people who fled [Ethiopia] because of persecution.” Mihref Sarka once was a reporter in Oromia. “I was working for Barisa, the only newspaper in Ethiopia. It is a government newspaper.” He left Oromia in 1995 because of limited press freedoms, and now lives in Hannover, Germany. “It wasn’t easy leaving,” Sarka noted. “Losing my homeland is losing friends, peer groups…losing everything.”In the United States for the first time to visit his three brothers and other relatives, Sarka said he will return to Germany later this month. For now, he can’t go back to Oromia. “I know the risk waiting for me back there,” he said.These transplanted Oromians want to see change in their homeland, but according to Sarka, it won’t happen anytime soon. “The change is very slow,” he said, “and our people are dying rapidly. I can say I have been an eyewitness to the brutality of this regime.”Added Dalu, “Hopefully, the world community will recognize what is going on in terms of human rights abuse and the lack of true democracy in the country. Hopefully, the Western countries will open up their eyes and learn what really is going on.” When his native land becomes more democratic, Dadhi said, “I want to go back home.” Said Crumby, “I challenge everyone to take a look at what is going on over there. It is not right.”“Going back home [one day] is our target,” concluded Sarka.Charles Hallman welcomes reader responses to challman@spokesman-recorder.com.
Traps in the Path of Oromo leaders
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
August 7, 2007
Following the feedback I have got from Oromo and other African readers, I believe I have to tackle first the issue of possible traps existing in the path of the present Oromo leaders. Before identifying targets and tasks, it is always important to beware of traps and ambushes. In the case of the Oromos, because of the seminal developments the independence of the Oromos would trigger throughout Africa, the traps are more sophisticated and not ostensible. The ambushes take the form of acceptance in the ‘club’ of influential administrations, and the psychological role it plays among people deprived of anything.
Trap 1 – Current Borders of Africa
Believing in their importance, accepting their validity, and admitting their maintenance is a suicidal act for an African. Even more so for an African leader of an oppressed, tyrannized and massacred people. If now the leaders of Africa’s third largest ethno-linguistic group are asked to demonstrate obedience to the most disreputable borderlines in the History of the Mankind, we understand that those who dare ask for it have in mind never to allow the Oromos to form an independent state.
Trap 2 – Replay of the 1991 Ominous Plot
Many voices try to convince Oromo leaders to imitate and repeat the Tigray example of 1991. If an ethnic group representing Abyssinia’s 10 to 11% managed to rule the country for 16 years, the Oromos totaling approximately 40% could eventually dominate for decades, mesmerize these deceitful voices. It would take for an Oromo no less than absolute oblivion of his Oromo-ness to possibly believe this inhuman aberration. Yet, these voices reach Oromo ears in very soft tonalities: if the US managed to deal, negotiate and build a relationship with Meles Zenawi who represents only 11% of Abyssinia’s population, the US administration could envisage the possibility of widening and deepening its involvement in Abyssinia – especially in the light of the recent events in Somalia. These perilous sirens submit the idea that the US would be delighted with an Oromo administration in Abyssinia that would be far more representative than the Tigray tribal plutocracy, suffice it the Oromo leaders do not tear down the “US-friendly” state’s unity, and do not remove their soldiers from Somalia.
Trap 3 – Lack of Interconnection
If you believe that your life’s most important event is to meet a low level US diplomat once every three months, and rely on his consolation and promises, you will have no time to interconnect with your natural allies, the Ogadenis, the Somalis, the Sidamas, the Afars, the Furis of Darfur, the Bejas and the Nubians of Sudan, and the Berbers of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Mauritania. Like this, you deprive yourself, your movement, your people and your chances from the most dynamic element in the struggle for independence: international respect from the part of the oppressed peoples of the Black Continent, and the world.
Trap 4 – Ignorance of African History
There are many Oromos who manage to travel abroad under at times adverse conditions and settle, study, and live peacefully. Oromos excel in Maths, Engineering, Medicine and Economics. Yet, nothing would enrich their experience and empower liberation struggle more than the study of other African nations’ history, politics, and culture. Interconnection with African independent states is far more valuable, as it allows advocacy in the most fertile ground.
Trap 5 – Reliance on Colonial Powers and Ensuing Ineptitude
The Oromo leaders must understand that the only force they need is the Power to drive their people to Independence, while coordinating with the Ogadenis, the Anuak, the Sidamas, and others. This power does not exist in the hands, the minds, and the pockets of the French, the British, the Americans and the Chinese. All they can offer is an hallucination of independence (if they finally agree on this, after a lot of humiliations – personal and national – of the Oromo leaders) that we noticed in so many cases of postcolonial colonialism. The Power to drive the Oromos to Independence exists among the Oromos, only the Oromos have it, and it is up to the Oromo leaders, up to their shrewdness, their astuteness, their perspicacity to identify it and finally extract. Funds allocated by European and American administrations are Oromo-wise unethical and immoral source of distraction and deviation, whereas little money collected among Oromos in Oromia and in the Diaspora is a blessing that will be wisely used.
Trap 6 – Advocacy: A Key Word Forgotten
The Oromo leaders must understand that under current circumstances only their commitment to successfully plan and carry out an unprecedented Advocacy World Campaign for the ‘Most Numerous People without State’ will corroborate their purpose and justify their future ambitions. All countries of the world must be targeted; all major languages of the world must become the field of the Oromo Advocacy campaign. The Chinese, the Brazilians, the Turks, the Koreans, the Bangladeshis, the Poles, the Danes, the Senegalese and the Moroccans, all must learn words like Gadaa, Waaqo, Finfinne and Kush; all the peoples of the world must have in their languages a brief description of what Gadaa is, and what it can still offer to the entire Mankind.
Trap 7 – Western Soft Power and “mass media democracy”
The most treacherous trap and the most mendacious purpose would indicate to the Oromo leaders how to become ‘democratic’, how to implement ‘democracy’, how to cope with Western Values. There is nothing more inhuman than what a Western politician or diplomat would determine in 2007 as ‘Western values’. We saw these Western values in Darfur, in Uganda, in Ogaden, in Tibet, and in Saudi Arabia. The massacres of 250000 innocent people in Darfur is not an issue for the Western values of the hypocritical gangsters who declare War on Terror and at the same time select as their friends the corrupt and tyrannical leaders of the Islamic terrorism factory ‘Saudi Arabia’. If Europeans want to discuss Western values and if the self-determination of a people is one among them, they have to recognize immediately three European countries that are not recognized yet: Kosovo, Transnistria, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. And if they want to discuss ‘democracy’, Oromo leaders should explain to them that the Oromos, thanks to their open, democratic social system of Gadaa, do not need secret associations and occult mysteries in their tolerant and multi-religious society. The Gadaa system should not be replaced by a transplanted Freemasonry of French colonial inspiration.
Note
'Oromia' - Painting by Abebe Zelelew
August 7, 2007
Following the feedback I have got from Oromo and other African readers, I believe I have to tackle first the issue of possible traps existing in the path of the present Oromo leaders. Before identifying targets and tasks, it is always important to beware of traps and ambushes. In the case of the Oromos, because of the seminal developments the independence of the Oromos would trigger throughout Africa, the traps are more sophisticated and not ostensible. The ambushes take the form of acceptance in the ‘club’ of influential administrations, and the psychological role it plays among people deprived of anything.
Trap 1 – Current Borders of Africa
Believing in their importance, accepting their validity, and admitting their maintenance is a suicidal act for an African. Even more so for an African leader of an oppressed, tyrannized and massacred people. If now the leaders of Africa’s third largest ethno-linguistic group are asked to demonstrate obedience to the most disreputable borderlines in the History of the Mankind, we understand that those who dare ask for it have in mind never to allow the Oromos to form an independent state.
Trap 2 – Replay of the 1991 Ominous Plot
Many voices try to convince Oromo leaders to imitate and repeat the Tigray example of 1991. If an ethnic group representing Abyssinia’s 10 to 11% managed to rule the country for 16 years, the Oromos totaling approximately 40% could eventually dominate for decades, mesmerize these deceitful voices. It would take for an Oromo no less than absolute oblivion of his Oromo-ness to possibly believe this inhuman aberration. Yet, these voices reach Oromo ears in very soft tonalities: if the US managed to deal, negotiate and build a relationship with Meles Zenawi who represents only 11% of Abyssinia’s population, the US administration could envisage the possibility of widening and deepening its involvement in Abyssinia – especially in the light of the recent events in Somalia. These perilous sirens submit the idea that the US would be delighted with an Oromo administration in Abyssinia that would be far more representative than the Tigray tribal plutocracy, suffice it the Oromo leaders do not tear down the “US-friendly” state’s unity, and do not remove their soldiers from Somalia.
Trap 3 – Lack of Interconnection
If you believe that your life’s most important event is to meet a low level US diplomat once every three months, and rely on his consolation and promises, you will have no time to interconnect with your natural allies, the Ogadenis, the Somalis, the Sidamas, the Afars, the Furis of Darfur, the Bejas and the Nubians of Sudan, and the Berbers of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Mauritania. Like this, you deprive yourself, your movement, your people and your chances from the most dynamic element in the struggle for independence: international respect from the part of the oppressed peoples of the Black Continent, and the world.
Trap 4 – Ignorance of African History
There are many Oromos who manage to travel abroad under at times adverse conditions and settle, study, and live peacefully. Oromos excel in Maths, Engineering, Medicine and Economics. Yet, nothing would enrich their experience and empower liberation struggle more than the study of other African nations’ history, politics, and culture. Interconnection with African independent states is far more valuable, as it allows advocacy in the most fertile ground.
Trap 5 – Reliance on Colonial Powers and Ensuing Ineptitude
The Oromo leaders must understand that the only force they need is the Power to drive their people to Independence, while coordinating with the Ogadenis, the Anuak, the Sidamas, and others. This power does not exist in the hands, the minds, and the pockets of the French, the British, the Americans and the Chinese. All they can offer is an hallucination of independence (if they finally agree on this, after a lot of humiliations – personal and national – of the Oromo leaders) that we noticed in so many cases of postcolonial colonialism. The Power to drive the Oromos to Independence exists among the Oromos, only the Oromos have it, and it is up to the Oromo leaders, up to their shrewdness, their astuteness, their perspicacity to identify it and finally extract. Funds allocated by European and American administrations are Oromo-wise unethical and immoral source of distraction and deviation, whereas little money collected among Oromos in Oromia and in the Diaspora is a blessing that will be wisely used.
Trap 6 – Advocacy: A Key Word Forgotten
The Oromo leaders must understand that under current circumstances only their commitment to successfully plan and carry out an unprecedented Advocacy World Campaign for the ‘Most Numerous People without State’ will corroborate their purpose and justify their future ambitions. All countries of the world must be targeted; all major languages of the world must become the field of the Oromo Advocacy campaign. The Chinese, the Brazilians, the Turks, the Koreans, the Bangladeshis, the Poles, the Danes, the Senegalese and the Moroccans, all must learn words like Gadaa, Waaqo, Finfinne and Kush; all the peoples of the world must have in their languages a brief description of what Gadaa is, and what it can still offer to the entire Mankind.
Trap 7 – Western Soft Power and “mass media democracy”
The most treacherous trap and the most mendacious purpose would indicate to the Oromo leaders how to become ‘democratic’, how to implement ‘democracy’, how to cope with Western Values. There is nothing more inhuman than what a Western politician or diplomat would determine in 2007 as ‘Western values’. We saw these Western values in Darfur, in Uganda, in Ogaden, in Tibet, and in Saudi Arabia. The massacres of 250000 innocent people in Darfur is not an issue for the Western values of the hypocritical gangsters who declare War on Terror and at the same time select as their friends the corrupt and tyrannical leaders of the Islamic terrorism factory ‘Saudi Arabia’. If Europeans want to discuss Western values and if the self-determination of a people is one among them, they have to recognize immediately three European countries that are not recognized yet: Kosovo, Transnistria, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. And if they want to discuss ‘democracy’, Oromo leaders should explain to them that the Oromos, thanks to their open, democratic social system of Gadaa, do not need secret associations and occult mysteries in their tolerant and multi-religious society. The Gadaa system should not be replaced by a transplanted Freemasonry of French colonial inspiration.
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'Oromia' - Painting by Abebe Zelelew
The forgotten People of Northern Kenya
Abdulkadir Gumi
August 8, 2007
The northern half of Kenya is a vast, sparsely populated desert. The dry shrub lands and rocky wasteland is home to some of Kenya’s most interesting people, such as the Borana-Oromo and Gabra-Oromo tribes. These tribes have been influenced very little by the west, and unlike the Maasai, have had very little contact with tourists as well. They live as they did years ago by herding livestock. The people as well as the awesome scenery make Northern Kenya a nice place to visit.
The current atmosphere between the tribes of Northern Kenya is very touchy, and tribal violence has become quite common. Livestock raids between some tribes have turned violent due to use of automatic weapons, and a vicious cycle of revenge killings has emerged. This is mainly a problem with tribes of Northern Kenya , but violence is also common east of lake, where bandits roam. The danger of bandits is so real that no one goes north of Samburu National Reserve without an armed escort.
Thinking about this expansive region, it is hurting to see the extent of neglect by successive regimes. Clearly no one and I mean no one has interest of developing that region. We have to put aside our difference and demand our share. I lost count how many times we have been promised that the Isiolo-Moyale road will be tarmacked. Soon it will be promised in the forth-coming by-elections. You should know that is a plain lie. Truth will only prevail if we ourselves stood together and demand for what is rightfully ours. This road is our right it’s not a privilege.
urge my Borana-Oromo people every where in the world .In all corner of the world that this is the time when genius may be found through efforts in helping and developing this community. time is opportune for us to change our face and shine the future of the next generation .Our current generation is facing many problems no previous generation ever faced just because of natural calamities that cause the problem in the region like poverty, banditry, and clan feud among others .illiteracy and luck of devastation. we have to see our current situation in our region politically and socially, our people are in hardship where they struggle to in order to survive .we are still a century and no development had happened in our region since Kenya independent and nothing seems forthcoming . we are in a real disaster of ignorance and clan feud with our neighboring clan .unlike the other Kenyans tribes we have virtually no functional infrastructures, our schools ,our roads , our hospitals , and extension service are not more than a stale reminder that of colonial time . It is to us and our priority to manage our work concerning to the situation.
Education particularly the major facts in the future development. An illiterate population makes poor and non productive society .although we are facing logical problems we have to plan to individually to combat the ignorance education is the only key to bringing changes in northern Kenya communities .truth shall never cease to exist simply because they are ignored . It is hurting to see the extent of neglect by successive regimes. I say this trying to bandage my burning injury.
finally We need to have our cultural centers, football teams which I may suggest to be (BIFTUBARI CLUB) also to establish new town at GOTU area to be Called (Nageelle waaso) .
August 8, 2007
The northern half of Kenya is a vast, sparsely populated desert. The dry shrub lands and rocky wasteland is home to some of Kenya’s most interesting people, such as the Borana-Oromo and Gabra-Oromo tribes. These tribes have been influenced very little by the west, and unlike the Maasai, have had very little contact with tourists as well. They live as they did years ago by herding livestock. The people as well as the awesome scenery make Northern Kenya a nice place to visit.
The current atmosphere between the tribes of Northern Kenya is very touchy, and tribal violence has become quite common. Livestock raids between some tribes have turned violent due to use of automatic weapons, and a vicious cycle of revenge killings has emerged. This is mainly a problem with tribes of Northern Kenya , but violence is also common east of lake, where bandits roam. The danger of bandits is so real that no one goes north of Samburu National Reserve without an armed escort.
Thinking about this expansive region, it is hurting to see the extent of neglect by successive regimes. Clearly no one and I mean no one has interest of developing that region. We have to put aside our difference and demand our share. I lost count how many times we have been promised that the Isiolo-Moyale road will be tarmacked. Soon it will be promised in the forth-coming by-elections. You should know that is a plain lie. Truth will only prevail if we ourselves stood together and demand for what is rightfully ours. This road is our right it’s not a privilege.
urge my Borana-Oromo people every where in the world .In all corner of the world that this is the time when genius may be found through efforts in helping and developing this community. time is opportune for us to change our face and shine the future of the next generation .Our current generation is facing many problems no previous generation ever faced just because of natural calamities that cause the problem in the region like poverty, banditry, and clan feud among others .illiteracy and luck of devastation. we have to see our current situation in our region politically and socially, our people are in hardship where they struggle to in order to survive .we are still a century and no development had happened in our region since Kenya independent and nothing seems forthcoming . we are in a real disaster of ignorance and clan feud with our neighboring clan .unlike the other Kenyans tribes we have virtually no functional infrastructures, our schools ,our roads , our hospitals , and extension service are not more than a stale reminder that of colonial time . It is to us and our priority to manage our work concerning to the situation.
Education particularly the major facts in the future development. An illiterate population makes poor and non productive society .although we are facing logical problems we have to plan to individually to combat the ignorance education is the only key to bringing changes in northern Kenya communities .truth shall never cease to exist simply because they are ignored . It is hurting to see the extent of neglect by successive regimes. I say this trying to bandage my burning injury.
finally We need to have our cultural centers, football teams which I may suggest to be (BIFTUBARI CLUB) also to establish new town at GOTU area to be Called (Nageelle waaso) .
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Awake Finfinne! The Venerable Emanation of Kush!
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
August 6, 2007
If Unity is urgently needed among all the Oromos as a first step towards Freedom and Independence, Integrity is the ultimate guarantee of success in the process.
Integrity means for all the Oromos an everlasting commitment to the Kushitic Quintessence of their Tradition, a Transcendent Path in Search of the Primary Oromo Identity, a Permanent Re-assessment and Re-adjustment of the Oromo political choices to what is not ‘politically correct’ but to what is Kushitically Right.
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The Search for the Kushitic Authenticity is not a historical endeavour for today’s Oromos; it may be so, but only at an elementary level. In fact, the Search for the Oromo Soul, the Oromo Noblesse, the Transcendental Soul will offer the keys to Success and Self – Determination in the years ahead.
A deep search in the Values of the Gadaa system; a Quest for the Pillars of Faith in Waaqo; the Humanity they radiate; the Universal Truth they herald; the Self-Reliance they bestow upon every Oromo; the Self-Fulfillment they demand; the Consolidation they grant.
In a world of Immoral Chaos,
In a collapsed Mankind of absolute, materialistic concern,
In a devious and worthless context of egotistic hysteria,
How can an Oromo fit? What can an Oromo offer?
Will an Independent Biyya Oromo be the accomplishment of one more nation building?
Or will the Oromos be able to Herald a New Era for the entire Black continent through a Revitalized Kushitic Democracy?
Awake Finfinne!
The Inner Voice for Integrity and Authenticity is the only resort the Oromos have in today’s world.
Many other peoples may be in parallel path, with their Dramas, their Paths, their Traditions. Darfur, Kabylia, Ogaden, Sidama, Beja, and so many others.
What makes the Oromo Case Unique?
Perhaps only an Oromo can find in the depth of his soul the bitter truth:
There will be no friends in the Path for Independence.
The oppressors and the enemies of yesterday and today will not become the friends and the associates of tomorrow.
From the Tigray aggression there will be no egress.
An Amhara oppressor will always be an Amhara transgressor.
And a Tigray malefactor will never turn to benefactor.
The change will all rely on Oromos’ shoulders.
Only the Oromos’ commotion matters, only the Oromos’ action will be the necessary Hirressa ritual that will revivify the Mormor of their souls.
Is it not therefore now the correct time to say
Galataa kee yaa Waaq, kan bishanfqilleensaa nuukenitee
and ultimately cross the river of Darkness, cutting the last chains of oppression that kept Oromos inactive for too long?
What makes the Oromo Case Unique?
Perhaps only an Oromo can find in the depth of his soul the bitter truth:
The Kushitic Integrity cannot be bartered with diplomatic calculations, American advise, and Anglo-French guidance.
The Kushitic Genius cannot be exposed in the Stock Exchange of faraway intruders, be they Russia, China or others.
In a fake world, there are no superpowers; there are not even powers!
What is felt as such is just erroneous projection of inner fear.
But can a Kushite be fearful of filthy and corrupt politicians, and immoral strategists?
What is the force left in the hands of the so-called great powers, except acquired speed of oppression politics and cynical purposes?
Who should fear more? A Kushite original uttering ‘Leemmoo Garaa Taliilaa’ or a Westerner who is today fully aware of the bubble going soon burst?
Awake, Awake, Finfinne! O lovely Emanation of Kush.
Awake and overspread all Nations as in Ancient Time;
For lo! The Night of Death is past and the Eternal Day
Appears upon Tulla Hills. Awake, Finfinne, and come away!
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