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OROMO
LIBERATION FRONT |
Feb 01, 2007
Repression
against the Oromo people Intensifies
The Tigrean dominated TPLF/EPRDF regime does
not stop at nothing to maintain its
precarious hold on power. On several
occasions the Prime Minister officially
declared that the mere fact of becoming a
member or association with the Oromo
Liberation Front is a criminal act by
itself. Such blanket criminalization of
large swath of the Oromo people amounts to a
genocidal decree that legalizes mass murder
as a result of political views.
It was to put this sinister policy, aimed at
liquidating dissent, into effect that Minase
Woldegiorgis, aka Abbaa Duulaa Gammadaa the
unelected and Tigrean installed President of
the Oromia Regional State was recently
dispatched to Eastern Oromia. He began his
bloody campaign under a mission dubbed
"eliminating opposition supports" and the
human rights situation in the region has
since steadily and gravely deteriorated.
During the visit, in which the population
refused to turn up to welcome Oromia’s
tormentor, Abba Dula instructed local
cadres, officials and the security forces to
detain and eliminate all dissidents
suspected of supporting the opposition,
mainly the Oromo Liberation Front. Almost
immediately the local government forces
unleashed their terror, rounding up hundreds
of people from localities such as Mi’eessoo,
Asaboot, Haroo Carcar (Baddeessaa), Gubbaa
Qorichaa, Doobbaa and Hancaar.
Sources from the areas indicated that the
detainees were initially collected at
Mi’eessoo prison, and so far, the security
forces have murdered twenty of the
detainees. From among the dead, which
included elders, women and young children,
eleven corpses were discovered on the hills
known as Suufii and Daalacha and collected
for burial. The names of these murder
victims were:
1) Ahmed Kureeyba, 2) Aashaa Kormee
(female), 3) Kadiir Aliyyii, 4) Shaanqoo, 5)
Ahmaddiin, 6) Abdallaa Mohammed ((a student
from Asabot who is shot after the courts
have cleared him of all charges and ordered
his release after declaring his innocence),
7)Yaasiin Mohammed, 8) Ahmad Aliyyii Turee (
an elderly person from Doobbaa), 9) Ahmed
Shankoor and 10) Ahmaddin and 11) Abrahim
Badhaassaa,
The same extra-judicial killings are being
reported in many other districts of Eastern
Oromia. Detention, displacement, and death
in the hands of the security forces have
been intensified throughout the Oromia
Regional State. The perpetrators of this
heinous crime are identified as Duresso, an
intelligence official recently transferred
from Bale zone to the Mi’eessoo area,
Abdalla Idris, Commander of the Militia, and
Abdi Waqo.
Finally, we would like to call on the Oromo
and all the people in Ethiopia to persevere
in the struggle for freedom, democracy and
justice. We would also like to call up on
the international community to put pressure
on the regime to respect human rights and
press it to seek a political solution to the
mounting political crisis in the country and
the region.
Victory for the Oromo People
January 29, 2007 |
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