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

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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

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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.

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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.

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.

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!!

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

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.

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.

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

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.
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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) .

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 alien the Amhara will not become an ally.

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!

The Asmara Group vs. TA-OLF Court Case: Ibsaa Guutama weighs in

In an interesitng article he wrote in July 2007 and posted HERE, Ibsaa Guutamaa weighs in on the The Asmara Group vs. TA-OLF court case and many other issues currently under debate in Oromo circles.

One of the founders of the OLF, Ibsaa Guutamaa is widely recognized for the leadership he provided to the team that produced millions of school text books in Qubee Afaan Oromoo in 1991-92 while he was Minister of Education and the OLF was a partner in Transitional Government of Ethiopia.

Ibsaa’s article begins with a brief introduction of how the Oromo failed under Abyssinia colonization. Then, it quickly moves to posing the often asked question “what do Oromo[s] want?”which he claims “arise from the mixed message and lack of clarity” of some so-called leaders who carry “two cards one for their freedom craving people another for donors who have interest in the status quo.” The “two cards”, writes Ibsaa Guutama, are the search for solution of the Oromo question within a democratized Ethiopia or in a free and independent state of Oromiyaa.

Of carriers of the first “card,” Ibsaa goes no to say:

"There are Oromo groups that would like to remain within Ethiopia whether others like it or not. They only pray to be tolerated by the Ethiopians. Among these are those with nostalgia for the emperors and the Darg’s era. Others are those promised benefits like land and positions if they join the regime. Still others are those who fraudulently joined the movement with a mission of wrecking it and burying the thought of independence ones and for all. Still others are the confused nationalists who had fallen victims to alien machination.

All together they are not OLF but its zombie. They lack the soul and flesh of Oromoness. Hence cannot represent the OLF in any dealing. Above all no group that doesn’t show credibility and consistency of principle can represent its nation. There are those that remained with the kaayyoo and still have more claim of legitimacy than any one. As long as such credible groups exist and the desire for freedom is engraved on the[ir] minds, even of a small group, OLF can never phase out before the liberation of the Fatherland."

Of the pending court case filed by The Asmara Group vs. TA-OLF, Ibsaa writes:

"Many have abandoned Oromoo tradition of safuu. According to [Oromo Safuu] no Oromo shall expose other Oromo to alien scrutiny for individual or group benefit. But a case where compatriots were exposed to freely extract from them some fifty thousand dollars was observed. In the case against compatriots the OLF was presented as an economic firm. Members were presented as donors. The good will and the trust OLF accumulated over years as a result of the sacrifices comrades made was presented as an effort of the plaintiff group. This exercise by a group has cost both sides a substantial amount of money which could have been used for the struggle against the enemies of the nation. For the group OLF that upholds OLF programs as amended in 1998 are the principal enemy. So no wander if they prefer Ethiopia’s democratization over Oromiyaa’s independence."

"Alien courts will not stand witness for our being OLF. OLF was born and registered in the minds and hearts of all Oromo and its rightful members, signed and sealed by those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. That is the evidence we carry with us all the time..."

Source: Gubrimans Publishing

NOTE: This blogger calls on other heavy weights of our struggle to follow Ibsaa's example and weigh in on this court case to inform the public.

Wake Up, Oromos!

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

August 5, 2007

Southern Sudan autonomous – following the Naivasha Agreement; Darfur protected by AU / UN military force – following the recent UN resolution; the war of Southern Somalia expands over Ogaden, turning the much loathed Meles Zenawi tyranny to ground. The most inhuman tyranny in the world cannot contain the countries invaded and oppressed by their monarchical ancestors over the span of the last 120 years; it needs US arms that will have great difficulty to get now that more and more people know that Meles is the African name of Hitler.

Where are the Oromos?

One would consider that the occasion is most propitious for Oromos to reach the long-held dream of Independence. But for the time being, nothing! It seems that everything is perfect in Biyya Oromo, and all the Oromos are happy with the tyranny the Tigray tribal thugs of Meles Zenawi have arranged for them!

A multitude of parties, organizations, liberation fronts and associations of all sorts are unable to join forces and discuss Unity.

Divided, manipulated, easily orchestrated without understanding it, the various elements of Oromo opposition look like the most uncoordinated political forces in Africa.

Oromo leaders in Finfinne

Those based in occupied Biyya Oromo have no courage to articulate a word about the infinite jails where hundreds of thousands of Oromos are treated as insects.

What can they be possibly afraid of?

Can a leader be Leader if he does not dare speak about his People's Right to Independence?

Can a leader be Leader if he is afraid to be imprisoned and tortured? Would it be so terrible in jail after all? Whom would an Oromo leader meet in a jail like Kaliti? Other Oromos or Sidamas, Ogadenis, Afars and other innocent victims of the Neo-Nazi Meles’ paroxysm of tyranny. Is that not honorable to be with them, instead of associating himself with the lewdest and the lowest of the African butchers?

Oromo leaders abroad

Those based abroad can certainly be proud for having spent several years in clandestine struggle, prison, and nightmarish persecution; they escaped from the Morgue ‘Ethiopia’. They tried to carry out the good work to advocate, to publicize, to organize the struggle from distance, and to contact representatives of other peoples, diplomats of civilized countries, international bodies, NGOs, academia, and administrations.

Their concern and effort were honorable; but were they effective enough?

They brought with them to the four cardinal points the entire diversity and the multiplicity of the Oromo society, so multicultural, multi-religious, and ultimately colourful.

One should envy the descendants of a traditional democratic system of society, the poorly known in the West Gadaa system, and should admire the African people whose parts with serenity ascribe themselves to either Islam, Christianity or Waaqefanna, the monotheistic and aniconic traditional Oromo religion that stipulates that the Great and Invisible Waaqo is the Great Architect of the Universe.

Who can be prouder than an Oromo for the variety among the Arsi, the Borana, the Wollo, the Tullama and the other, in total 12, Oromo Galaxies?

But all this should be forgotten for an hour, for a minute, for a second.

For the time of Unity and Last Fight!

Unity of all the Oromo fronts, parties and organizations

Who does not see how close the Independent Biyya Oromo is?

Who cannot see that the last effort will be undertaken only through Monolithic Unity?

United, the Oromos will appear as credible interlocutors of governments and international bodies.

United, the Oromos will not be exposed to the lies of various administrations, colonial and / or post-colonial, that have it easy to promise without delivering, and to manipulate the divided ones, causing tremendous damage and ultimately canceling the Independence perspective.

United, the Oromos will drive the paranoid tyrant Meles to voluntary exile, because the moment of Oromos’ Unity will sound as his death warranty.

The Unity should start among the Oromos abroad. An extraordinary conference should be held to settle all existing issues, and to herald the Unity – Uniformity of all the Oromo political fronts, parties and associations into one Independent Biyya Oromo.

The entire final success will come after Unity, and if they fail in this, Oromos leaders will fail in everything. That’s is why the last 10 meters before the Free Finfinne become so important a distance to describe and to analyze. On this we will focus in a series of forthcoming articles.

Haqaan waan hin qabne Iyyaan hin argatan!!!

Yoo sabatti qoosan kaleessa akka laayyoo,
"Maal dhibdi" jechuudhaan yennaa ganan kaayyoo;
Imaanaa jallanii yennaa achi buusan,
Kaleessa yogguu sana yoom maqaa barbaadan?

Halagaan gorsamuun asiif achi utaaluun,
Tasa wanta hin taane kijibaan caraanuun;
Faallaa sabaa deemaa maqaa gaarii hawwuun,
“Mulqiitii naaf kennii” halagaatti iyyachuun;
Abjuu kaleessaati; dhadhaa abidda buute!!!
Maqaa har’a hawwan isaantu of harkaa gate.




“Himata” dhaqanii waan hin taane abjoochuun,
Tasa bajuu baddee; maaf dhama’uu jarreen?

Dalagaatu muldhisa maqaa fi eenyummaa abbaa,
Nuti kan nyi beeknu seerri keenya saba;
„Mana seeraa“ isaanii eenyutu quba qaba?
Jarreen maaf maraatuu? Maaf dalagu daba?

Aadaa fi seenaan ala Safuuf saalfii gatan;
Lammii tuffatanii halagaa abdatan.
Dhugaa haguuganii kijibaan booqqatan;
Amantee gatanii gantummaa filatan.

Maqaa abbaa gatanii "AFD" jedhan;
Mee maal barbaacha egaa har’a kan dhama’an?
Oromiyaaf falmuu irra "Toopiyuummaa" filatan;
“Addunyaan luucofte” jechuun qabsoo dabsan;
“Diimokaraasii” jechuun bilsummaa dhiisan;
Maqaa isa kamiree kan jarreen barbaadan?

Kaleessa gananoo har’a eessa hafidan?
Doolaara kuma shantam ofumaa kan gatan.
Sabini isaan tufeeraa kana haa beekkatan;
Murtee jiru kanaa adaba haa godhatan.


Kaleessa utuu hin dhihin; namni utuu hin dhaga’in,
Xurii fi qullaan isaanii utuu bakkee hin ba’in;
Jaarsaaf hayyuun meeqa yoo isaanitti himu,
Gurra duuchatanii yennaa dhaban sammuu;
Jalee diinaaf ta’uuf tumsa waliin tuman,
Maqaa yennas gatanii har’a eessaa haafidan?



Eessa geessi jechuun lammii tuffatanii,
Maqaa ofii gatanii dantaa jaaldhatani;
“Qinjit, Arbaynooch” jechuun tarreessanii,
Tokkuumma Ethiopiyaaf tarree tataa’anii;
“AFD” jechuun of moggaasatanii,
Kabaja Oromummaa of irra mulqani.
Saphina isa gadhee yennaas unatanii,
Har’a maqaaf iyyuu kaleessa of gatanii?

Egaa maal hawwuree Shaneen Toophiyootaa?
Qinjit, Arbanyooch kan ta’aniif “tooftaa”
Ilmaan habashootaa kan godhatan gooftaa,
Mana seeraa hin jirre kan dhaqan himata.

Duruu qaanii beekuu? duroo gumaa nyaatan;
Ilmaan gabroomfattuu maddii kan dhungatan.
Halaaba Habashaa jala yennaa boqotan;
Safuu wallaalanii dantaadhaaf of gatan.
Lammii ofii gananii diinaan fira jedhan;
Nu hin ajaa’ibsiisu guyyaan yoo abjootan.

Dur gumaa nyaattanii maqaa abbaa gatnoo;
Eenyu isaaniif naha yoo dhaqan iyyanoo?
Dirmata hin qabani tasa dhaggeeffanoo!!!
Yaa raajii gantootaa hooda kan keessanoo!

Maqaa bilsumman dalaguudhaa daba,
Bitamtanii diinaaf gowwoomsuudhaaf saba;
Of hin gowwoomsinaa sabni ija qabaa!
Shirri isin xaxxan burkutaayee cabaa!!!

Kan sin dura turan gantoonni kaleessaas,
Warrii abbaa garaa Tigroota keessaas;
Kan Amaaratti galtan isin warri hardhaas,
Oromoon isin beekaa hin fiiginaa hangas.

Maqaan isin qabdan kan isiniif malu,
AFD irratti yoo feetan dabaluu;
GANTUU isiniin jenna!!! kan isiif tolu;
Egaa maal barbaaddu maqaa kan caaluu?

Dhugaatu isin tufe; Sabatu isin jibbe;
Waan gumaa nyaattaniif cubbuun isin gube.
Ekeraatu iyyee boqota isin dhowwa,
Imaanaa nyaattanii sichuu buutu bowwaa.
Maqaa abbaa gattanii; iyyaa ammallee booyaa!
Dhugaa irraa maqxanii gubadhaa bobayaa!

Qabsoon ummatichaa jallan hedduu qabaa,
Kanneen isa tiksan ta’aniif utubaa;
Kan kaayyoo isaa tiksan gallii isaa xumuraa,
Maqaa isaantu qabaa gantoota achi goraa.

Dadhabdanii jirtuu dhaqaatii boqodhaa!


Ilmaan habashootaa maddii dhudhungadhaa.
Warra Habashaa waliin dhaqaa ta’aa tarree,
Qaamatti xaxadhaa halaabaa minilik coraatu isin qorree.

Kan Oromiyaaf falmu Addi bilisummaa,
Kaayyoo kan godhate galii walabummaa;
Karaa irraa hin maqu dhaabbiisaa kanuma,
Maqaa fi injifannoon kan isaati gonkumaa!!!
Maqaa fi injifannoon kan isaati gonkumaa!!!

Oromo>>Manni Maxxansaa Oromia hojii jalqabe.

Dhibdeelee barreessitootni Oromoo karaa maxxansaa fi raabsaa qaban furuu fi guddina dagaagina aadaa fi og barruu afaan Oromoo keessatti hirmaannaa ol- aanaa ba’uuf kan akeekkatee bu’urri mana maxxansaa Oromia xumuramee hojii jalqabee jira.

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Explosion kills one person and injures three in Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) One person was killed and three others injured when a mortar exploded in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, APA learnt here on Friday.

Police said the mortar exploded in Merkato, one of the largest open markets in Africa.

“The four people were trying to use the mortar for another purpose unknowingly, and it immediately resulted in the death of one person while it injured the three people seriously,” police said.

The incident occurred in one place of Merkato mainly known for the sale of second hand and used metals and other materials.

Police are investigating how the mortar came into the hands of the people who are said to be used materials sellers.

DT/pm/APA

2007-08-03

African Press Agency

Kan Quba qabduu?? All These done in the past 15 yrs?

Almeda Textile factory( ALTEX) in Adwa, which cost Birr 600 million, has an estimated annual turnover of Birr 320 million. This factory has created employment opportunities for over 1000 people. Other companies that come under EFFORT include:

• Hiwet Agricultural Mechanization Company;
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• Tesfa Livestock Resources Development Company; proposed investment capital for this project is about Birr 150 million;
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• Mesfin Industrial Engineering Company;
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• Addis Pharmaceutical Factory; established with Birr 50 million and its asset is valued at about Birr 250 million;
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• Ethio Rental House created with initial capital of Birr 120 million;
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• Addis Engineering Consultancy Company;
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• Almeda Knitting & Garment Factory established at a cost of Birr 56.6 million and annual turner of Birr 45 million. The factory employs 850 people;
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• Messobo Building Materials Production Company. It employs 550 people;
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• Ezana Mining Development established at a cost of Birr 14 million;
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• Saba Dimensional Stones Company founded with a capital of Birr 75 million and employs 200 people;
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• Guna Trading House established in 1992 and its present yearly turn over is estimated to be around USD 100 million;
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• Trans-Ethiopia Company;
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• Wegagen Bank;
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• Africa Insurance Company;
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• Desalegn Veterinary Drugs & Input Supplies Company;
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• Star Pharmaceuticals and Medical Supplies Company;
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• High Tech Park Company;
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• Express Transit Services;
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• Experience Ethiopian tour;
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• Sheba Tannery Company- proposed investment capital over Birr 230 million;
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• Projects under consideration include: Adigrat Glass Works Company, Paper packaging, plastic project and irrigation development.
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4 SU-27 Ethiopian fighter pilots defect

Four Ethiopian SU-27 fighter pilots have fled the government over lack of freedom, democracy and justice, and the overall worsening political repression in the country.

The four fighter pilots are Captain Samuel Getachew, Lt. Haimanot G. Mariam (female), Lt Yitibarek Tekle and Lt. Fikre-Selassie Feleke. Their whereabouts for the time being remains unknown.

In addition to the repression, the pilots blamed the Zenawi regime for the disappearance of two Air Force pilots who had defected to neighboring Djibouti in June 2005 but were forcibly returned to Ethiopia and have never been heard of again.

The four pilots were students of former Ethiopian Air Force Captain Teshome Tenkolu, a pilot instructor who was tortured and held incommunicado in a dark cell for over two years up to 2000. Captain Teshome, who now lives in exile in Canada, survived a gruesome ordeal and chronicled perhaps the most heart-wrenching story of torture and melancholy to ever befall an innocent Ethiopian citizen.

"The pilots have defected because they wanted to protest against the brutal political conditions in the country, and cited the case of Captain Teshome and the disappearance of the other pilots as cases in point that there is no rule of law and justice in the country.

Captain Behailu Gebre and Lt. Abiyot Mangudai defected to Djibouti in June 2005 after they disobeyed government orders to use their gunship helicopter to fire on anti-government protesters in Addis. Human rights organizations condemned the Djibout regime after deporting the pilots.

Fear of Ethiopian national anger forced Djibouti to misinform BBC on July 19 that the pilots were repatriated voluntarily but tearful family members of the pilots in Addis told Ethiomedia their return was a deportation order carried out jointly by the security forces of President Omar Guelleh of Djibouti and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi."

The pilots who fell back into the hands of Meles, were tortured, and witnesses said the two were limping when they appeared before a Military Tribunal at Debre Zeit Air Force base, 32 km south of the Ethiopian capital.

At that time, Amnesty International called on the Meles regime to allow the pilots immediate access to relatives, lawyers and any medical treatment they may require. Amnesty also called for an investigation to establish whether the pilots had been "forcibly returned" to Ethiopia, in breach of international conventions.

The calls fell deaf ears.