Truth Barometer #4

By odaahora

Alfred Ilg served as the best adviser in all spheres, smuggled weapons, participated in the war with Menelik’s illiterate, arrogant killer troops called “fannos” who conducted genocides where ever their footholds. He was assigned to the ministry of all affairs, officially awarded “Councilor of state with Excellency and honored” with a title called “Bitweded” by Menelik II. Bitweded-an Amharic word literally means the beloved, and it is the highest title ever conferred on a foreigner for his three decades of loyal services, although his official contract to construct railroad was for three Years. It worth’s to know that for Menelik an engineer means the man who can all as considered Ilg as a “God.” Indeed, Menelik was right because Alfred Ilg was the only trusted Fernj (Whiteman) that lead a blind man; Menelik to its dream of Expansion and creation of one of the barbaric,predatory Abyssinian Empire we know today in the horn of Africa, as “ Quasi-Ethiopian State.” Without Alfred Ilg plausibly the fake “Ethiopia” we know today, where over Eighty Ethno-nationals are incarcerated since then, could have never existed.

If someone asks who is Alfred Ilg? The most probable answer that comes in the mind of the majority one could get is the “Rail-road-construction-the gate to civilization,” that was and still is what the propaganda of both beneficiaries, the Abyssinians, and the Swiss tell. But the fact on the ground speaks another language if someone has an  opportunity of reading and analyzing authentic written documents deep into the bone marrow available in german language.

In OSAs mid-year conference that was first held in Munich,Germany, under the Theme: “Historical and Contemporary Relations between  Europe and the Oromo” and What the position of Alfred Ilg suggests about the European Role in Building the Ethiopian State under Menelik was included in the preliminary schedule but not finalised to be explored by our Qabannee:Bonnie Holcomb. I had had an opportunity to study at list three authors and their books written in German language through library loans on the role of Alfred Ilg and Menelik of Abyssinia from the various perspective and hoped to gain more knowledge from our blessed expertise on the subject in the conference on 29th of March 2015 in Munich.

The Portuguese: the Eye opener of Europe

Portuguese was and still is credited for opening the Eyes of Europe that there is a land behind the seas and oceans beyond Europe’s geographical boundaries. Vasco da Gama who was born in Sines, Portugal and his voyages around Africa, and India, booties shipped back home he ends of 15th century reawakened Europe to compete for turfs around the world. Europe come to the position that we have long experiences of butchering each other since the era of Vikings’ within our geographical boundaries why could not we do it abroad? And they did it. Portuguese was considered as the real mother of over five centuries of Chattel slavery.

Although the direct influences, interests and supports of the Portuguese in Abyssinia proper go back to Christoph, the brother of Vasco da Gama of Portugal in the 1540s, about four centuries later, the Berlin conference is not an act of solo states, but Europe as a continent including the USA to scramble for rich African, and Asian resources that holds true to the present.

Five years before the scramble for Africa’s conference by European colonizers, whose seeds were sown, and catalyzed by the German leader Otto Bismarck in the year 1884/1885 held in Berlin, one of a swiss national named Alfred Ilg began to serve Sahile Mariam who was one of the three rival warlords of the region, in Abyssinia proper in the horn of Africa during this period. Abyssinia was considered as a shareholder “partner” for scrambling the horn of Africa. Among the three rivals of Abyssinian warlords raised in the region at this period, Sahle Mariam (later renamed to “Menelik II” was singularly left, while the other two Kasas of Gonder and Tigre were killed, as the only final candidate “partner” for European colonizers missions in the horn of Africa.

Sahle Mariam knew Euro panes advanced firearms production and military advisors, from his two rivals, Kasa of Gonder (Tewdros) and Kasa of Tigray (Yohanis IV).For instance, A Swiss citizen, named Gunner, Louis was the military advisor and Yohanis had waged war against Sahile Mariam, to clean the roads toward the south, to Oromia, the resource-richest part in the horn of Africa. Sahile Mariam surrender to Yohanis, IV without any confrontation and submitted and obliged to pay him an annual attribute of 500 slaves 50,000 Maria Theresa thaler , 500 Mules, 10,000 Horses 50,000 head of cattle and several thousand measures of grains large container (Gambos) of meat, butter,etc., all, stolen, looted, plundered from Oromo land. Yohanis also order free pass for his “armies” hordes to Yaaya Gulaalee “Debree Libanose” to the central Salaale region of Tuulama Oromo. Sahile Mariam must also show a humiliating act of submission and present himself naked to the waist and carry rock on his neck to beg him to pardon to pledge fealty and approach barefoot and with his face down. A typical, Abyssinian mannerism, deep-rooted, “Civilization” of Coptic-Orthodox-doctrine. Yohansi IV also ordered him to supply with “Armies” to fight against the Egyptians.

As the underdog, Sahile Marima’s main dream at this particular period was, in fact, to obtain enough modern firearms to fight against Yohanis IV. Thus, Sahile Marima’s gave a contract to the Swiss Company called Fuerrer and Eshen in Aden to seek for a good European “engineer” for his service, like Gunner Louis, Yohanes’s military adviser.

The Swiss national Alfred Ilg was found to be the perfect person for Menelik’s colonization and expansions projects for the coming three decades of his services and the creation of one of the barbaric predatory empire, the so-called “Ethiopia” of today. Fuerrer knew Alfred Ilg in Zurich who finally hired him, signed a contract for three years as an engineer to build Railroad from Finfinne to Somali coast with an annual salary of five thousand francs and organized his journey to Abyssinia. The rail–road project was designed by France Company as the sphere of political influence in the horn of Africa, the Red Sea, and its coast and especially Abyssinia. France dreamed of joining the colonial lands in Africa stretching from Djibouti, the most eastern coast of the African continent to Dakar-Senegal, West Africa, analog to Britain’s Cape Town to Cairo railroad dream.

It worth to note “engineer” in Menelik’s mind mean someone who can all so to say like a “God.” he was an alphabet and cannot read and write with his own langue late alone to develop an interest in technology or civilization he had never had it in his vocabulary. He desperately sought a middle man to have an access to modern European Firearms, corresponding trainers, and techniques, Advisor, Financiers, etc., urgently. Thus, the railway constructions contract made was simply an entry visa to achieve his dream of colonization of the south and settlement’s projects as it was happened.

Neutrality of Swiss: beyond duality

The law lexicon defines Neutrality as:

The state of a nation which takes no part between two or more other. nations at war with each other. Neutrality consists in the observance of a strict and honest impartiality, so as not to afford advantage in the war to either party; and particularly in so far restraining its trade to the accustomed course which is held in time of peace, as not to render assistance to one of the belligerents in escaping the effects of the other’s hostilities Even a loan of money to one of the belligerent parties is considered a violation of neutrality. A fraudulent neutrality is considered as no neutrality.

As folks adage says that everybody is the moon, and has his dark side which (S)he could not show to the others. We were told that during the scramble for Africa by European colonizers Switzerland has considered herself as a neutral state and told us how missionaries supported the emancipation movement of the decolonization in the African continent. In fact, she turned to be neither one nor the other as the legal definition of neutrality qualifies it.

Switzerland declaration of her neutrality in relation to her foreign policy of the Confederation was in 1815, to avoid a long lasted internal conflict within the region. Because of her Folks composition and geographical position in central Europe, where major wars were fought against each other to control the Alpine transit route in all compass directions. Otherwise, it was unthinkable to avoid the conflicts within Europe. That being said, how can one justifies the neutrality of the state that sales weapon like Vetterli-Swiss Riffles abroad to warlords in Africa and a number of her (Swiss) citizens to be a military advisors, firearm smugglers, boots of colonialists, over thousands of stolen cultural goods, historical artifacts, symbols like crone of king of Kaffa were transported to her capital cities museum as save heaven she consider herself neutral analog to other metropolitans of Europe. Furthermore, when her citizen participates in the war of colonization actively like Alfred in Abyssinia among others. That is fraudulent neutrality that goes beyond duality.

The awful truth of Alfred Ilg and his Services

Alfred Ilg was born in Frauenfeld on 30th of March 1854 near Bodensee, Switzerland. He was grown up in the “Hause zum Hirschen” and the rest is communal”, with his mother Maria Magdalena Ilg, two step-sisters and step-father, senior lieutenant Neuweiler. Ilg obviously did not know his biological father that led to a difficult childhood life, because he was considered as an illegitimate son, out of wedlock teased at his primary canton school (Gymnasium) by his classmates and age groups in his hometown, and he must compensate with his physical ability. There is no worse than to be called illegitimate for a son who was grown up in Conservative Protestant Swiss community at this particular period of time. To the worst, the death of his step-father further surprised him and left a widow and two step-sisters on the breadline. He worked hard to take care of the family and studied mechanical engineering in Polytechnic school in Zurich (current Federal Institute of Technology) from 1873-1878. Ilg speaks French, Italian language, a little English that played a major role in his future life and services.

Although Ilg had a good qualification, he did not see a stable future of work and life in Switzerland, because Europe, in general, was found in great economic crisesIt worth’s to note that at this period of time, Europe, in general, was found in great economic crises, after intra-European civil war of Austro-Prussian War, Franco-Prussian war, followed by long depression and economic crises Europe and America. The people of Europe were migrated to another continent via Seas and Oceans to seek a better live at this period of time. Alone from Switzerland whose total population was known to be exactly Two and half million, about 13 thousand people were migrated to different part of the world thus Alfred Ilg was not unexceptional, except that he knew nothing about Abyssinia and it was the journey to the unknown world of a Swiss national, to bring a light to Africa as it is often called by all colonial power “the European civilization mission”. How dear humane were they and still are the Europeans to bring a light to a dark continent, that Africa was desperately waiting for so long. Were not they, the mothers of chattel slavery and slaveholders for over five centuries?

It must be in fact called European Colonization mission, barbarism and genocides and extermination. Apropos, Civilization began where mankind began and that was Africa more precise in Oromo land, the cradle of human physically and mentally, and further following the courses of Laga Abbaayyaa, the blue Nile River, the root as in trees, where the major sources of its tributaries begins, like Jama, Mogor, Guder, Dhedhesaa rivers, etc., springs) that makes the great Nile River and the first great civilization along its way to Nuuba (Nubia) Marawaa (Meroe) ); the stem as in trees, and then to KMT- (Old Egypt) the flower as in trees of the African civilization. When Laga Abbaayyaa reaches KMT it was called Hapi in their language. KMT means the land of the black people, and Black is a color of the divine, and even the God, the creator symbolized with Black color: Waaqa Gurraacha .

Alfred Ilg and two Artesians began their journey on 28th of May1878 from Zurich to an unknown world to Abyssinia. First, he traveled from Zurich- Switzerland to Marseille-France with train and further to Aden-Yemen with Ship where he meets Fuerrer. They arrived at their final destination in eight months, on 1st of January 1879 at Akkoo Manooyyee or Halkobare deformed to “Ankober” by Amhara settlers where Sahile Mariam lived.The native Oromo residents of the place call it (H)alKoobari and to the hill Gooro beela that is about 2465 meters of elevation. It was a village-town with an estimated 10 to 15 thousand inhabits, living around the hill in irregularly distributed huts occupied by Amhara settlers colony surrounding by native Oromos who were turned to a house slave, field slaves, field workers, guards, and hand-workers of Sahile Mariyam.

Halkobar is one of the name of Tuulama branch (Gosa) and territory of indigenous Oromo population inhabited in the eastern ranges of Tuulama plateau, with other Oromo Gosas in the region, Liche, Laalo, Dobba, Giche, Basso, Werrena, Majate, Qewet, Senbete, Jille, Tumuga, virtually exterminated by Amha Yasus who conducted genocide act for three decades of aggrandizement policy, territorial expansion and resettlement of the Amharas in evicted territories. His son, Asfawa Wesin followed his father’s footsteps further south, east and west in larger scale further for twenty-three years of extermination policy, proceeded with his son Wason Seged, who occupied the central Tuulama high land of Galan, Aborii, Gulalee, Abichuu, e.t.c, the nucleus of Oromo land that turned to the springboard of Sahle Mariam’s colonial expansions and the genocidal act like his forebears in the horn of Africa.

The Amhara settlers in Halkober who claimed to be descendent of Nagasi Krestos, a refuge who run out of over centuries of chronical wars of rival warlords in Abyssinia proper to save their life, settled, and treated humane. given shelter, foods, a piece of turf for the farm, even women by the Oromos, the settlers gradually turned their back against them began extermination and renamed the region.

After short days of pause in “Ankober”, Ilg and his colleges were ordered by Sahlie Mariyam to go to Shagar /Finfinne, the heartland of the Oromos, to build his own hut in Xiixa “Intotto” and settle there. They were escorted to Intoto with six thousand Neftenya-(weapon carrier) men. These were the first settler colony in the heart of Oromia lead by Ilg to be followed by Sahile Mariams settler colony soon and give the new name in favor of his wife to Shagar/Finfinne. Once we know for sure the behavior and the mannerism of Abyssinians men, in relation to others flora and fauna most specifically women, and nothing has changed contemporarily until they hold the power, it will not be difficult to grab what type of atrocities, genocides and ethnocide were conducted by Settlers on the Oromo inhabits of the region. Furthermore, if six thousand Netanya’s were assigned to escort one Ferenj, Alfred, what did we expect how many Netanya’s will follow the future “Negus Menelik” who is going to settle on the Tuulama highland plateau and what type of damage they committed against Oromo people around and beyond to the present.

Alfred Ilg built his hut in Intoto. Not only the material for construction and the laborers were provided by the Oromos under occupation but also Ilg was the first landlord given by Menelik, About forty Oromo families was turned to serve him serfdom provided him all what he needs for life. He learned the Amharic language using the German version of his bible parallel to Coptic- Habesha version of the bible of Sabean script autodidactically while there was neither teachers nor grammar book in Habesha language was available. Thus, it is not surprising that Menelik, a pitch black skin with funny nose and pock-marked face cannot read write his own language.

The first phase of Alfred was to build a trust. So he worked out figures as gifts from Tusks of Elephants, Rocks, Ivory, Woods, etc., to Sahle Mariam and his wife Tayitu. He becomes regular visits and Invitations from his future Master. Alfred knew what is running in Sahle Mariam’s mind in relations of Fernj (Europeans) who served as missionaries, advisors, weapon dealers. He must convince both pairs that he is a unique, loyal Frenj and not the untrusted white Men they knew. The most skeptical one was Tayitu that said “Fernj iytamenim”, but “they knew. It worth to note that Sahile Mariam’s priority dream was to find the road to get modern firearms from Europeans and military advisors, the rests what was related to technology or civilization was unworthy and it was simple a spin-off his dreams. He was an alphabet who had never had in his vocabulary late alone to develop an interest in technology or civilization. Thus, the services of Alfred Ilg began with everything related to firearms, ammunitions provided from Europe to Sahile Mariam and stored in his weapon storehouses, their maintains, reparations, and acquisitions from Europe. He was also responsible for recruiting, training new militias, building of fabrics to produce gunpowder, training, establishing trade unions, designing and building the future residence “Menelik gibbi or Adaarash” paved streets, bridges etc., around it, Church where Sahile Mariam was crowned and given the name “Menelik II” Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God, King of Kings” given by Abuna Mathewos, the head of the Coptic orthodox church in 1889. The dates to be read varies, some wrote on 9th of March and others wrote on the 3 rd of November in 1889 in “Intooto Mariam ”. All the hard works were done with slave labors, predominately by the Oromos.

In the next part, deep exploration of the political, financial and the role of advocacy for Abyssinia Alfred Ilg as a person and using his country as a shield of protection and intervention played between the mainly the three major dominant European colonizers in the horn of Africa, Italy, France and England and Abyssinia as chess board. At last but note least the role of Alfred Ilg in all treaties most importantly the diabolic lies of Abyssinia to the very date. She alleged as the falsity of the interpretations of the model verbs “the can and the must” Waacaale “Wichale treaty” between Italy and Menelik in May 1889 and waged war seven years later. During his Three decades of services as a minister of all his 6-times travels to Europe, and what the deals was all about and how other European states responded to his behavior and brought Abyssinia to world political arena.

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Sochiin Qerroo Sadaasa 13, bara 2015 aana Ginciitti eegalee hangaa har’attu osoo wal irraa hin citiin yeroo dheeraaf gaggeeffame, wareegama guddaa baasuun milkii guddaa fide. Sochiin kunis gaaffii Oromoo sadarkaa ol-aanaatti tarkaanfachiise. Keessa’uu gama siyaasaa fi diplomasiitiin bu’aan inni buuse jabaa dha.

Sochiin qeerroo uummata Oromoo guddeessa sochoose kuni namoota, Jaarmolee siyaasaa, Biyyootaa fi Ummattoota adda addaa biratti bifa adda addaan hubatame. Fakkeenyaaf:

1) Mootummaa TPLFn gaggeeffamu biratti humna aangoo isaa raasu ibidda dibaa keessaa gad itti baheetti

2) Ummata Oromoo bal’aa biratti wal irratti amanti, xiiqii, sabummaan fi tokkummaa akka horeetti

3) Jarmoolee siyaasaa Oromoo biraatti hiree ajaa’ibaa, yoo danda’amee ofii dhuunfachuu, hanqannaan ammoo carraa barbadani itti seenuu akka qaban irratti mari’atan

4) Humnootiin siyaasaa Impayeera Ityophiya, keessa’uu warrii tokkummaa Xophiyaa faarsan, biratti yoo Jaarmoolee Oromoo “moderate” jeedhaman harkatti galfachuu hin dandeenye akka yeroon itti dhiitetti

5) Humnootiin Siyaasaa Impayeeraa Ityophiyaa kan hiree ofiin murteeffanaatti amanaan biratti ammoo akka hireen bilisummaa dhiyaattefitti fi qabsichaa tin’isuun, kan ofii isaaniis jabeeffachuuf tattaaffachuu

6) Biyyootiin sa’ibaa Mootumaa TPLF biratti rifaatuun rakkoo gaanfa Afrikaa mudatuu fi bifaa ittiin Mootummaa TPLF caccabuuf deemu itti suphaniitti akka fiigan dirqe

Sochiin qeerroo Oromoo adeemsa keessa waan sadii ifa godhe. Isaanis; Alaaba ABO ol kaasuu, deeggarsa ABOf qabu ifaan ibsuu fi gaaffii hiree ofii ofiin murteeffannaa (of bulchuu fi qabeenya ofii irrati abbaa ta’uu) ifa godhe.

Haalli kunis waligalaa Humnoota siyaasaa sochiin qeerroo biyya keessaa isaan yaaddessu eegale. Isaanis:

• TPLF; mootummaan 100% uummataan filame ofiin jettu, uummati Oromoo harka guddeessi bulchiinsa ishee fudhachuu didee itti fincilee barcuma aangoo jalaa raasuun, buulchiinsa mataa isaa tolfachuu eegaluun,
• Humnoota Habashaa; kan aangoo siyaasaa Xophiyaa qabanna jedhanii hawwan, akka hawwii isaaniitti Xophiyaa bakka dur jirtu irraa dhabuun, dhalooti dammaqaan Oromoo mirga isaa, mirga abbaa biyyummaa isaa akka dabarsee hin keennineef hubachuun, akka hawwii isaaniitti hireen aangootti deebi’uun isaanii dhabamuun,
• Warra dhi’aa; TPLF barottan digdamoottan darban lola shororkeessummaa naannoo gaanfa Afrikaatti nuuf lola jedhanii fi ergataan, deeggarsa uummataa dhabuun fi yakka uummata irratti dalaguun yoo TPLF naannoo sanatti aangoo dhabe, sabatiinsa naannoo sanaa isaan yaaddessuu fi humna TPLF bakka bu’ee ergama isaanii fudhatuuf dhabuun,
• Oromoo; jajallatoota maqaa Oromootiin aangoo Siyaasaa Xophiyaa qabachuuf hawwan, warra yaaddoon habashootaan wal fakkaattu qaban, warra Wayyaanee (TPLF) waliin waa’ila ta’uu hawwan, mormitootaa fi warra mormituu ta’uu abdatan, karaan isaan filatan sababa sochii kanaan akka abdii hin qabne uummati arguu fi ijibbatuun, qeerroo Oromoo akka fedha siyaasaa isaaniitti hogganuuf tattaafatanii, qeerroon Oromoo harkatti diduun fi of dandayee sosso’uun kan isaan mufachiise,

Warri armaan olii kan yaaddoo sochii qeerroo irraa qaban hundi sochii qeerroo irratti duula eegalan.

Kan warra halagaa sababni isaa ifaa fi mul’ataa waan ta’eef, kan jajjallattootaa bifa hin mul’atneen waan gaggeeffamuuf Oromoof ibsuun fardii dha.

Waayyaaneen sochii qeerroo kana bifoota araaraa, sossobbaa fi ajjeechaan ukaamsuu dadhabde, amma olola kanaan sochiin Oromoo qabbaneessuuf akekkatte. Ololli deemaa jiru kan nama tokkoo irratti qiyyaafatee kan namoota inni waliin hojjetaa turan jedhamee shakkamu, kan artistoota Oromoo, namoota media, hoggnoota siyaasaa, namoota waa ijaaruu fi uummata kakaasuu danda’an jedhamanii fi walumaa gala sochii qeerroo Oromoo irratti aggaammate dha.

Wayyaaneen Oromoo di’asporaa itti dhimma baatee, media Oromoon ofii isaatiin ijaarrate hulluqxee seenuun, Oromoo haamlee cabsuun sochii isaa irraa dhaabuu akka toftaatti dhimma bahuutti milkoofti laataa? Inni jedhu sirnaan xiinxalamuu qaba. Ammoo itti hin milkooftu! Lola qabbanaawaa wayyaaneen ilmaan Oromoo gidduutti akka ta’u qiindessite wal irraa fuudhanii afarsuun Oromoo moo wayyaanee fayyada? Wayyaanee irratti duuluun hafee, nama ammatti murteessaa hin taane tokko irratti yeroo haga kana itti kennanii haasawuun, hoggana ABO irratti duuluu fi dhaaba maqaa xureessuun wayyaaneef carraa guddaa dha, Oromoof ammoo wareegama haga ammaa baase jalaa haguugu fi dhugaa isaa jalaa uukkaamsuu dha.

Oromoota tokko tokko kan duraan sochii kana akka sochii nama dhuunfaa fi garee tokkootti dhiyeessuun ofii fi sochiicha farsuu irratti bobba’aniitti gaaffii uume. Keessaa Oromootti namootni akkas kaachaa turan yeroo ammaa ammoo akka sochiin kun kan ABOn gaggeeffamaa turee fi jirutti dhiyeessan heedduu nama hin raaju. Seenaa wal fakkaataa barottan darban keessa raawwatan irra deebi’ani raawwataan waan ta’eef, waan addaa miti.

Dargaggeessi shakkamee kun, yakki irratti dhiyaatu kan mul’isu kan bara 2015 keessa raawwatame dha, sochiin Oromoo qeerroon hogganamu kan guddoo finiine bara 2016 keessa, kan qeerroo hogganu isa dha jedhama, namni kun yakka Oromoo irratti dalagaa bifa kamiin sochii Qeerroo kana hogganee milkeesse? Gaaffiin jettu deebi’uu qabdi. Gurbaan kun biyya keessa ta’ee hidhamaa bahaa jiraachuun ibsama. Namooti garii sochii qeerroo kan hogganu OFC fi Dr. Mararaa faa akka ta’es nuuf ibsu, Wayyaaneen ob. Baqalaa Garbaa hidhaa, Dr. Mararaa Guddinaa sababaa guyyaa tokkofilee hidhuu itti dhiiste sababaan isaa maali? Innis ifaan OMN waliin ni haasa’a. Shirri tika wayyaanee wal xaxaa dha yaa firaa!

Ololli maqaa xureessii amma deemaa jiruuf inni duraa fi abbaan dhimmaa nama Ashanafi Addunya (Milkii Addunya) jedhamu dha. Namni kun nama FDG keessatti qooda fudhachaa ture booda irratti hidhame ture dha. Mana hidhaa Wayyaanee keessatti tika Wayyaaneen kaadhimmame hojjachaa akka tures duubbeen seenaa isaa ibsa. Mana hidhaa irraa erga bahee booda, yeroo gara USAtti bobba’u kan gaggeesse tika waliin hojjetu akka ta’es beekama. Innis dirqama itti keennamee Kettotaa biyyaa ambaa keessatti uumuun hanga ammaa hojjachiisa jira. Namni Nageessoo Duubee OFCn biyyaa ambaa keessatti dhadheessuu obboleetti Ashanafii Addunyaa fuudha, warra soddaa ti. Har’aa waluumaan gamtaan ABO irratti duulaa jiru. Namoota  OFC keessaa TPLFf kaadhimamanii OFC-TPLF tolfachuuf Sabboontota Oromoo kan akka Baqalaa Garbaa, Baqalaa Nagaa, Dajanee Xaafaa faa TPLF dabarsanii kennuun, ajandaa kana duuba jiran, halagaaf ergamuuf ariifatuun dhuma isaanii akka hammeessuu shakkiin hin jiru.

Ammatti sababa kanaafis sochii qeerroo fi ABO walitti guduunfanii, nama dogoggora raawwate jedhame maqaa dha’anii ABO irratti olola cimaa bananii jiru. Kan nama gaddisiisu, namoota qabsoo irraa baqatan, kan qabsicha qaamaan keessatti hirmaatanii hin beeknetu waa’ee qabsoo Oromoo qabsaawota barsiisuuf dhama’a. Eenyummaa warra qabsoo irraa baqatee fi qamaan qabsoo irraa qooda hin fudhatiin gadi fageenyaan ibsuun ni danda’ama. Qabsoon isa akka arraba dheeratanii miti, namoota qaamaan qabsoo keessatti argamanii qabsoo gaggeessan irratti ololuuf haamlee itti hin qaban! Oromoon waan kana nurraa dhugeeffata jedhanii hawwuunis gowwummaa dha. Ololli yeroo dhaaf nama afaanfajeysa malee yeroo dheeraaf dhugaa haguuguuf humna itti hin qabu.

Warri beekaa fi osoo hin beekiin ajandaa tika wayyaanee tarkaafachiisaa, haamlee Oromoo cabsuu fi Oromoo wal dura dhaabuuf tattaafatan gochaa isaanii kana kan hubatu Oromoo qara ta’ee qofaa dha.

Erga ololli kun eegalee namooti maqaan isaanii sabqunnamtii hawaasummaa irratti xuxxuqamee Wayyaaneen adamfamaa jiraachuu fi studion qeerroo saamamuun dhaga’ame. Media Sagalee Qeerroo irratti ololli jabaan deemaa ture, dhumni isaa akkas ta’e. Median walabaa jedhamu OMN waan kana gabaasuu hanqachuun sabaaban isaa maali? Sadarkaa dorgommii media irra ga’ame jechu dha? OMN fi Qaanqee show olola ABO irratti gaggeeffamu babal’isuuf tattaafachuu arguun ammoo daran nama qaanfachiisa.

Tibba Dhaabotin Siyaasaa Oromoo afur Walii-galtee Wal-hubannoo tolfatan keessa Oloolli kun banamuun waan hedduu wal nama gafachiisu dha. Wal hubatnoon kun olola Oromoon wal irratti gaggeeysu hambissee, humna qabsa’ota cimsee kan qabsootti sossosu dha jedhamee abdatamaa ture. Ce’umsa kana irratti gaaffiin belbeltuun Humnaa Oromoo walitti qindeessee kan qabsootti sochoosu kan jibbu eenyu? kan jettu taati.  Deebbiin isaas salphaa dha. Kan jalqabaa Wayyaanee tahu falmmiin hin jiru. Kan lammeessoo sa’iboota Wayyanee kan tasgabiin ganfa afrika gaaffi jala nu jalaa seensisa jeedhanii yaadda’an ni tahu. Sadaffaa Humnootii siyaasaa habashaa aangoo Wayyaanee irra fudhachuuf tattafatan yeroo tahan kan arfaffaa ammoo Siyaasaa Oromoo keessatti namooti akka dhuunfaatti Wayyaanee waliin hojjechuuf fedhan kan ABO akka diina tokkoffaatti ialaalan, kan gariin ifaan Wayyaanee kadhachaa turan, ammas sababa diddaa wayyaaneetiin osoo itti hin mikaa’iin hafan dha. Ammallee Wayyaanee guyyaa tokko nuuf haayyamti jedhanii Wayyaanee abdii dhaan haayyama irraa eeggatan ni jiran. Olola kana gaggeessuun kan Wayyaanee garaa laaffisuufis itti fakkaatullee ni jiru.  Kanaafu Waliigaltee tolfame fi gara fuula duraa itti jabaachuu jiru keessatti ABOn liqimsaamee humnaa dadhabaa kan warra “moderate” ofiin jeedhaniin dhunfatamee akka mul’atuu kan hawwan tahu gaffii hinqabu. Adeemsi shiraa haguuggatee deemu kun walii galtee tahe kan gabbifamu qabu irra gaadiddu kahu ni mala. Kanaafuu qabsa’oon milkaa’ina walii galtee tolfame irratti ciichu qabu.

Tibba qabsoon jabaattee milkiin cululuqxe, abbaa qabsichaa ABO maqaa isaa dhoksuun, akka ABO gummaacha qabsoof ooluu malu haawaasa isaa irraa hin sassaabbannee shira irratti dalagu. Tibba gaafatamummaan dhuftu ammoo, gaafatamummaa hunda akka ABO fudhatuu, gaafatama fudhachuu qofaa osoo hin taane, ABO ittiin yakku. Kunis ABO ittiin hadheessuun, uummata isaa irraa adda kutanii, dadhabsiisuuf kan akeekkate dha. Humnooti marti toftaa fi tarsiimoo ABO laaffisuu fi dhabamsiisuu irratti walii galu. Wayyaaneenis ABO yakkiti, habashootis ABO yakkiti, jajallatootis ABO yakkuu hojii isaanii godhatanii jiru. Kuniis ABOf haaraa miti, kan haara isa godhu namoota bobbaa akkanaa irratti bobba’antu jijjiirame ykn maqaa jijjiirrate.

Adeemsa qabsoo bakka fagoo irraa gaggeessani hafnaan, bakkuma qabsichi jiru keessa ta’anii dogoggora malee waa dalagun ni danda’ama jechuun rakkisaa dha. Rakkoon jirtu, kan wayyaaneen keessa gugachuuf itti milkooftellee, karaa namoota dogoggora jiru haga waaqaa guddisanii dhadhessanii, fi hojiilee dalagaman ammoo haga ija xaafiitti gadi xiqqeessanii dhiyeessuuf tattaafataniiti. ABO, kallacha qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo, kan ololaaf mititi bu’aa ba’ii qabsoo kamuu injifachaa qabsoo saba isaa gaggeessaa jiru akka ta’e firris diinnis ni beeka. Qabsoon bilisummaa Oromoo kan haaqa wareegama ilmaan Oromoon bakkan ni geetti. Lukkeeleen diinaa fi warri angoof bololan summii isaanii waliin ummataa Oromoo biratti ni tufamu.

Jaaromleen Oromoo hawwii ummata isaanii mirkaneessuuf siyaasaa tasgaba’e fi qabsoo of irratti hirkannoon gaggeessan agobara tokko jalaatti walsassaabuun akka ummata Oromoo humna siyaasa jabaa fi guddaa ta’e addunya fudhachiisuuf dalagan mamiin hin jirtu. Akkuma handhurri Oromiyaa Finfinnee taatee handhurri qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo ABO fi WBO ta’uun dagatamuu hin qabu. WBO fi ABO qaama dantaa waloo ummata Oromoo (Oromo national interest) tiksan, eenyummaa keenya kan adunyaatti ibsanii fi qara ta’anii diina waraanan ta’uun dagatamu hin qabu.

Namooti sadarkaa guddaatti ilaalaman kan ajandaa kanatti hirmaatan keessaa gariin warra qabsichaaf wareega baasuu baqatanii biyya ambaa keessa daaddisan waan ta’niif gochaa fokkata kana keessatti isaanii hirmaatu arguun, hagaam akka naamusa namummaa «ethics» dhaban mul’isa. Qabsoo irraa fagaachuun qor-qalbii inni adeemsa keessa sammuu namaa keessa bulchu namatti mul’isa.

ABOs hoggana, qondala fi miseensota isaa qabsoo kanaatti cichanii jiran jabeeffatee, qoraatti isa keessaa ta’anii isa waraanan of keessaa buqqisuun qabsoo isaa of dura tarkaanfachiisuun dirqama isaati.

Namoota OMN-in of hagugganii jibba akeeka ABO irratti oofan, media sabni Oromoo akka odeessa argatuuf ijaarratetti akka-malee itti dhima ba’un (misuse goochuun) Oromoo keessa afaanfajjii uuman, gochaan isaanii kun bu’aa inni Oromoof qabu gilgaalanii irraa of qusachuu qaban.  Oromoon kan OMN ijaarrate akka qabsoo isaa irratti duulli maqa xureessii gageeyfamuuf osoo hin taane, OMN akka Wayyaanee saaxilu, ololaan diina haleelu, odeessa Qabsoo Bilisummaa Oromoo gurra uummataan gahuun Oromoof haamlee ta’u ture. Gidduu kana OMN duula nama dhuunfaa fi qabsoo Qeerroon gaggeessitu irratti bobba’uun haamlee Oromoo of-duuba deebisuuf tattaafate kan Oromoo hedduu ajaa’ibsiisee dha.

ABO diina innikkaa tokkoffaa Wayyaaneeti, kanaaf diinummaan irratti duula. Habashootis Oromoon abbaa biyyaa yoo ta’e aangoon lammata itti deebi’an hin jirtu. Kanaaf Oromoo gidduutti garaagarummaa dhalchanii keessatti dantaa isaanii guuttachuuf dhama’u. Haala kanaan ABO fi uummata Oromoo adda fageessuuf harka Wayyaanee fi Habashootaa shirri xaxamu dha.

Kan Oromoon irratti duuluu male Wayyaanee dha, Oromoon kan irraa haasa’uu male dhimma lammii isaa 500 ol ajjeefamanii, kan kumoota dhibbaan mana hidhaa keessa jiranii, kan madaawanii gargaarsa dhabanii ture, har’a namni hundi sana dagatee nama tokko irraa haasawaa oolee buluun qabsichaaf miidhaa guddaa dha. Oromoo! Ijaa fi gurra haa banannu!

Xumura irratti ajandaa kana irraa kan fayyadamu Oromoo osoo hin taane TPLF fi warra salgii Oromoo irra taa’uu hawwan qofaa ta’uu hubachuun, Oromoon golee hunda keessaa jiru wal irratti duuluu dhaabee, TPLF, diina innikkaa irratti duuluun aantummaa saba isaaf qabu akka agarsiisu abdii Oromoo maraati.

Dhugaabaas Dhugumaa

Caamsaa 9, 2016

Injifannoo Ummata Oromoof!

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At least 50 people in Ethiopia have died in floods and landslides caused by heavy rain, a state-affiliated broadcaster has reported.

The rainfall follows one of the worst droughts in more than 50 years, made worse by the El Nino phenomenon.

Administrators in the southern district of Wolaita said 41 people had died in landslides on Monday.

Nine other people drowned in floods in the south-eastern area of Bale that also killed hundreds of head of cattle.

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The flooding in Bale, in the south of the Oromia region, has reportedly affected 559 hectares (1,381 acres) of farmland too, washing away seeds.

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Rescue efforts are under way to save people missing in the landslides, Wolaita police commissioner Alemayehu Mamo told Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC).

But a major road and bridge had also been damaged in the SNNP region, hampering rescue efforts, he said.

The BBC’s Emmanuel Igunza in the capital, Addis Ababa, says more than 10 million people are already in need of urgent humanitarian assistance because of the drought.

The government and aid agencies have launched a $1.4bn (£970m) appeal to help those requiring urgent food assistance.

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Dear Obbo Dereje,

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BY ELAINE KLAASSEN

The Tawfiq Islamic Center on Minnehaha Avenue at 24th Street, now under construction, will open in July, after Ramadan. There will be a grand opening for the wider community. Executive Director Oumer M. Wako says they would like to share their culture with the neighborhood. And their food shelf, which they will reinstate once construction is over, is for everyone.
The Oromo Muslims (from Ethiopia) started to arrive in Minnesota in the early 1990s. As their population grew, they established Islamic centers in different parts of the Twin Cities, such as Fridley, North Minneapolis and St. Paul, to help sustain their cultural and religious identity and to preserve their heritage. All the centers work together. According to the Tawfiq Islamic Center on Minnehaha’s website, their mission is to “promote Muslim individual and community development through social and educational programs in light of the Quran and Sunnah.” Although they are primarily an Oromo group, the center is a place of nurture for all Muslims of any nationality, according to the director.
There are also Oromo Christians in the Twin Cities. The Tawfiq Islamic Center, says Mr. Wako, works together with them when there are human rights abuses against the Oromo people in Ethiopia, as is happening now, with the takeover of their lands by the government in the name of development, and the killing and brutal imprisonment of protesters.
The Tawfiq Islamic Center on Minnehaha Avenue, which shares the name of the Islamic center in North Minneapolis, was acquired in 2014. The architectural drawings of the finished exterior are very beautiful and captivating. The inside is massive, with various lovely greens and textured metal inside front doors. It contains seven classrooms (one of the educational programs holds a contest for which children memorize the Koran), many offices, a library, a bookstore, a gym, a community room for weddings and other celebrations, a prayer room  that holds about 450 people, special rooms for women to visit together (Wako says that, in Islam, men and women are separate), restrooms designed with areas for the customary Islamic footwashing, and special rooms for preparing and storing the dead before funerals and burial.
When the date is set for the grand opening, everyone will be invited to meet their Muslim neighbors and to become acquainted with the customs and values of Islam.

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1.Mala Hawaasummaa(Social Engineering)
Malli kun salphamatti dadhabinna keessanitti fayyadamuun akkaawuntii Facebook keessan banani seenu jechuudha, innis maloot heddu uf keessaa qaba muraasni isaani -password keessan tilmaamu, kunis lakkoofsa bilbila keessan itti yaalu,lakkoofsa bilbila keessan email facebook sanitti yaalu -Forget password ka jedhuun filannoowwan facebook fiduun isin fakkaatanii odeefannoolle keessan itti guutu,odeefannoolle keessan email Facebook guutuun email banuu yaalu.

2. Qurxummeessuu(Physhing)
Akka mala kanaatti dura warri password isin jalaa hatuu barbaade websaayiti Facebook fakkaatu hojjatanii linkii isaa isinitti ergu booda yeroo isin linkii san bantan websaayiti fuula Facebook cufame fakkaatutu isinitti dhufa isin ammoo weebsaayiti facebook isinitti fakkaate password fi email itti guuttanii login ka jedhu tuqxu booda eega isin login tuqxan linkichi gara warri linki isinitti erge ajaje isin fida. Password fi email keessan ammoo warroota linki isinitti erge bira dhaqa.

3. Keylogger
Keylogger jechuun akaakuu softweerota password fi email dabalatee wanta isin keyboard keessan fayyadamtanii barreessitan hunda galmeessu jechuudha, Keylogger gosa lamatu jira. Inni tokko waan isin keyboard fayyadamtanii barreesitan hundaa galmeessee kompitera keessatti save godhuudha booda namichi bakka waan beekuf eega isin deemtam faayili san banee laala.
Inni lammataa ammoo namichi isin irraa fagoo taa’ee halaalatti vaayirasii Keylogger kompitera yookiin mobila teessan keessa galcha, karaa heddu fayyadamuun mobila/kompitera keessan keessa galcha booda vaayirasiin Keylogger sun waan isin keyboard fayyadamtanii barreesitan hundaa qubee,lakkoofsa fi mallattoo isin tuqxan hundaa namichaaf erga jechuudha.

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Mata duree barruu tiyyaa isiniif yaa ibsu. “Booruu Barraaqaa”kan wallaalu jira natti hin fakkaatu. Booruun, Naannoo bara 2002 qabsootti kan dabalameedha. Leenjii argatee SBO keessatti yeroo dheeraaf kan hojjate, cimiina isaa ilaalanii hogganummaaf kan kaadhidhameedha. Ciminni isaa silaa Hoggana keessaa Hoggana itti aanuuf kan isa qopheessuu malee, kan sadarkaa har’aan isa geesisu jennee gonkumaa yaannee hin beeknu. Ani waggaa 5 dura yeroon qabsoo keessaa alatti ba’ee Biyya alaatti ce’uuf socha’uu, komee hedduu of keessaa qaban ture. garuu komee kana diina sooruuf abbalee hin beeku. sababaan bu’aa tokkollee waan hin qabaanneef. Har’a waggaa lamaa asi garuu bakka kiyyattii deebi’een waan narraa eegamuun hojjachaa jira. Booruu duran bakka Sanaa ba’ee. Egan achi ba’ee, gurri kiyyaa bakka Sanaa fagaattee hin beektu. Ammuma qabsaa’oota achi jiraniin dhimma naannoo sanaan beeka. Har’a Booruun waa hedduu dubbataa fi katabaa jira. Ajaja dabarsuu irrallee ga’eera. Qaama maalii keessa jiraatee ajaja akka dabarsuu ani hin beeku. karaa fb dhaaba ajaja ta’ee, qeerroo ajaja ta’ee, Ummata kana ajaja ta’ee hin beekuu waa hedduu dubbataa jira. Tarii adeemsi isaa kun warra kaanis jallisuu waan danda’uuf dhugaa jiru waliif himuutu dansaadhaa jedheen deebii gababaa kennufii barbaade.

Booruun amaloota mataa isaa qaba. waan hundi akka isaaf dursee galutti fudhata. Waliigaltee namootaan qabu yeraadha. Kutaa isaa keessaa ba’ee qabsaa’oota akkasaan waliin haasa’uu fi ooluu hin fedhu. Dhugaadhaa kitaaba ni dubbisa. Hogganni har’a salphisu akka mucaa ushuu golatti macaafa adda addaa itti guuranii dubbisiisanii jiru. irra jireessi kitaaboota kanaa siyaasa. Seenaa Gootoota biyya isaanii Bilisoomsaniiti. Hogganni kana gochuun, nama tolfachaa turan. Hojiin isaa hundi dhoksaadha. Kkf qaba. amaloonni ittiin qeeqamaa turetu har’a isa saaxilaa jira. Jaallan isaa waliin wayita hojjatu akkam akka ture seenaatu dubbata. Waa hundaan ofii beekamuu barbaada.

Booruu fi Fixeensa ganamaa:—

Booruu Barraaqaan waggaa 4 fi 5 dura kitaabi Maxxansiisee Ummataaf dhiheesse, “FIXEENSA” jedhamti. Waan Booruun kitaaba isaa hanga fuula 300 qabu sana irratti katabee balaaleffate sana hundaa, har’aa ofii dalgaa jiraachuu isaatu na raajeen mata duree kana uummadhe. Ani namummaa fi Oromummaa booruu irraa dhimma hin qabu. Yaadaa fi adeemsa isaa irraan komee qaba. Booruun waa hedduu sobeera. Angoo fi beekumsa hin qabnee ofi kennee Ummata gawwamsuu yaaleera. Bara leenjii keessa waan nuuf himaa ture har’a cabsee ofii seenaatti of laatee jira. Tarii yoo inni iriibaa ka’ee maalan hojjadha ? jedhee of hubatee waan itti jiru irraa hin dhaabbannee, waan gadi fagoo kaafna.har’aaf garuu waanuma amma lallabaa jiru irratti waan gaggabaabduu kaafna.

Booruun , gaafa kitaaba “Fixeensa” jedhee baasuu waan irratti harkifatee baaseetu jira. Yeroo micciiramni dhaaba keessaa ba’uu, warra badii kana hojjatee balaaleffachuuf katabe.akkaataa inni itti katabee hedduu nama raaja ture. Kitaabni sun akka ba’een waa hedduu jedhameera. Namoota yaada itti kaasan keessaa nama tokkon beeka. Booruu, kitaaba kana eenyuuf katabdee jedhanii gaafatan ? inni duchaamatti ummataaf jedhe. Namni sun garuu dhalooti maal irraa hubataa ? jedhaniin. Deebii hin qabu ture . yaadeetu , badii kana irraa baratuu jedhe. Namni sun garuu kitaabni kun kan dubbisamee kan gatamu ta’aa jedhaniin. Har’a hin yaadatu ta’a. Kana jechuun kiyya jara ati balaaleffattee akka gandaatti itti katabdee kun, boruu deebi’anii yoo araaraman maal gootaa ? jedhaniin. Deebii isaa isatu beeka. Booruun garuu yeroositti waan sanaan aguugamu barbaade malee waan boruu fidu gonkumaa hin ilaalle. Fixeensi ganamaa har’a yoo dubbisan bu’aan irraa argamu, waan katabameef sanaaf atu hin taanee, badii booruun har’a keessa gangalatuuf madda ykn ragaa ta’a. Booruun kaleessa warra eessallee hin geessanii ABO ni injifataa jedhee bakka kumatti katabee itti himaa turee fi haala Booruu har’aa yennaa wal bira qabnuu, Fixeensa ganamaa isa keessatti mana ijaarratee odoo hin argiin, kan namaa argee sardamee , maa namni na dursaan katabuu hubata.

Akka walii galaatti kitaabni Fixeensaa itti dadhabame jedhamu yeroosuma dhumateef. Maaliif jennaan waan umurii hin qabnetti maxxanfamee katabame.kan nama raajuu hojiin booruu har’aas kanuma ta’uu isaatii.wanni hedduu nama raajuu yeroo warri micciiramaa ykn jijjiiramaa achi ba’anii yaadoota ji’a 6tti furmaata finna jedhan, Hogganni nu hojjachiisuu didee jedhan Booruun maal jedhee hojjachaa akka ture seenaatu gaaf tokko suuraa waliin dhiheessa. Yeroo ADOn achi ba’uus, kaleessa Bilisummaa jechaa Ummata dammaqisaa jiraatanii, har’aa tokkummaa Itoophiyaa jedhan hin qaanfatanii jedhee waan katabaa turee fi hojjachaa ture isumatu beeka. Dursaan qabsoo Ummatichaa eenyu akka ta’ee waggaa 4 fi 5 dura waan jedhee hojjachaa ture isumatu beeka. Har’awoo ?????ofi har’a gaafa galalgalu akkamiin ofitti kataba???

Booruun gidduu kana waan soba adii sobe keessaa :—

Waan Girmaa xurumaa, waan qeerroo, qabsoo Oromoo waa hedduu jechaa jira. Waan jedhu kanaaf ammoo sadarkaa tokkoffaatti yeroo ani SBO keessa hojjachaa turee fi Hoggana ture akkas godhee….. jedhee dhiheeffata. Kun gonkumaa sobadha.dhaabni adeemsa booruu dhaaba keessaa ibsuu ni danda’an. Garuu kan nama meeqaa ibsanii danda’u ? kan callisaniifis kanumaaf natti fakkaata.

Booruun SBO fi Gaaddisa Dhugaa  irra hojjachuu ega dhaabee, waggaa 4 ykn 5 ta’eera.  Gulaalaan ture kan jedhuuf, yeroo SBO irra hojjachaa turee gulaalaa afaan amaaraa ture. kan afaan Oromoo nama biraati. Ega hoggana ta’ee sbo dhaabee Afaanuma amaaraa amma ba’uutti gulaalaa ture.gulaalummaan sun ammoo akkam akka ture ijoollee akka dansaatti beektuuf haa dhiifnu. Egaa booruun waa’ee qeerroo inni gabaasaa fi gaafachaa ture isa bara kamiiti ? rakkoon jiraachuun ifa. Sochiin qeerroo kan ammaa dura kan turee kan bara 2014 ti. Yeroo kana Booruun odeeffannoo sbo kamiinu walitti dhufeenya hin qabu. Gulaalummaan Afaan Amaaraa , Odeeffannoo afaan Oromoon hojjataman Afaan amaaraatti hiikkuu, sagantaalee hojjataman afaan amaaraan sirrii ta’uu ilaaluu fi seeraa heera miidiyaa fi dhaabaa akka hin cabsinee eeguudha. Booruuf odeeffannoon bifa kamiitu dhuunfaatti isa ga’uu gonkumaa hin turre. Waanuma afaan Oromoo keessatti hojjatamu iyyuu hojiilee hiikaman yennaa argu hubata ykn wal ga’ii torbanii irratti dhaga’aa, irratti mari’ata . kanuma. Maarree sababaa akka waan guddaatti dhiheeffate eessaa ba’ee ? sochiin qeerroo ammaa qindaa’uu fi gaggeeffamuun booruuf waanuma haaraadha. Akkuma ummata kaanii dhaga’ee ykn arge. Yoo carraa argadhetti Fixeensa ganamaan of irratti hojjadhaa yoo hin ta’iin, gonkumaa odeeffannoo qeerroo hin qabu.warra qeerroo eenyullee waliif katabuu danda’ama. Garii waan ani jedhe malee yoo jedhan akkamiin ta’a ? xalayaa warra kaanaadaaf katabe argitanittu. Qeerroon arraata shaneeti jedhe. Kun ragaadha, adeemsa booruu nama baruu barbaadeef.

inni lammaffaa , Booruun, Hogganootu har’a isa kabajanii hogganumaaf isa kaadhiman gatee ega ba’ee, waggaa 2f deema. Yeroo isaan waliin ture wal ga’ii meeqa akka isaan waliin taa’ee isatu beeka. Murtoo meeqa akka waliin dabarsee isumatu beeka. Gaaffiilee inni gaafataa fi yaadi dhiheessaa ture maal akka ture ifatti warri gaafannee beeknu jirra. Waan waggaa lama dura isayyuu ega hoggana ta’ee waggaa hin guunnee keessatti gaaffiin booruun kaasuu danda’uu isa kami ? mee dhugaaf haa dubbannuu, namni bakka haaraa fi warra baayyee isa hangafan keessa dhufee yeroo ammamiitti gaaffilee kaasuu danda’a ? of tuuluun kun eessaan nu ga’aa ? warrumti waggaa 20 keessa taa’anii keessaa ba’aanu akkas dubbataniiruu laata ? Booruun har’aa Hooggana yennaa arrabsuu fi busheessuuf yennaa yaaluu hangam bilchina isaa tilmaamsiisaa akka jiru ni hubataa laata ? Hogganni inni itti bulgaafatu kun , kaleessa ummata Miliyoona 40 dursuu dandeessaa jedhee isa kaadhimee deebisee arrabsuun maal jechuu akka ta’ee ni hubataa ? Girmaa xurunaa yakka hojjachuun isaa ifa. Warri Girmaa saaxillee jedhanii iyyaa ykn caraanaa jiraniif gootummaan booruun kennu Fixeensa ganamaati. Akka kiyyatti, Ummataaf hojjachuudhaa ykn hadooduudhaa jedhee kan itti amanuu , Farra qabsoo midiyaa irratti saaxillee jedhanii gootummaa argachuuf guggufachuu ykn , isa kaan salphisuuf fiigu atu hin taanee, isa badii hamaa kana hojjate raga itti lakkaa’anii, beeksisanii fala yoo dhaban dhabamsiisuutu Gootummaadhaan jedha.kakuun hojii ykn qabsoo addunyaa kanaa hundi kanadha.

Booruun har’a namicha kana ajjeesuuf ABO itti waamaa jira. Karaa tokkon ammoo dadhaboodhaa hin jiranii jedha. Warri saaxillee jedhan kun , kakuu qabsoo jiruun wal adabuu maa dadhaban. ? kamtu qabsoo kana baraara ? afarfannaan har’aa namcihaaf maal dabarsaa jira. ? Booruun dhuma kana irra waan isa taajjabsiisuu kan baasee, dhaabaan mee ajjeesaa nu argisiisaa jechuu isaatii . Booruuf nama ajjeesuun waa guddaadha. Akkan dhaga’eetti nama dhiiga indaanqoo wayita arguu baqatu, akkamiin dhiiga namaa arguu hawwaa?qabsoo keessatti , nama qawwee baatee jiru biratti waan akka nama ajjeesuu salphatu hin jiru. Booruun sammuu kana hin hubanneen of jiraachisaa jira. Qabso keessatti lubbuu ba’uu hin qabnee baraaruutu bakka ol aanaa qaba waan ta’eef. Qabsaa’uutti aanee kan jiru diina ajjeesuudha.diina akkasii ajjeesuu qabnaan yaada bareedaadha. Mee ajjeesaa na argisiisaa jechuun , Filmii irraa ilaaluutu salphata. Jechii isaa mataan isaa hin ulfaatu ? maaltu Biyya ishee hin beekne dhaqixee maal naa godhaa jettii taate dubbiin.

BOORUU FI JECHA ARRAATAA :-

Booruun ergaa mataa isaatiif miidiyaa akka qeerroo, simbirtuu kkf isa dinnaan diina godhatee , diinummaa isaa illee Arrata shaneetti ramadeera. Dhugaa waaqaa Booruun fayyaatti hin jiru. kaleessa miidiyaan oromoo kumantamaan akka ta’uuf hojjannaa jechaa ture. har’a a ammoo ija jaamsuuf itti deelee jira. Namni kun dhuma isaa hin beeku. gama kanaan kan jiru niin bulfadha.

BOORUU FI MARAATUMMAA , SEER-DHABLUMMAA:

Booruun boruu Ummata miliyoona 40 dursuu danda’aa jedhamu seer-dhablummaa isaa illee ifa baafateera. Hogganni ABO seerumaan jecha “SHANEE” jettu of irraa kaasanii , KOREE HOJII RAAWWACHIIFTUU jedhanii of moggaasaniiru. Booruun garuu sammuu dhaaba lamallee keessummeessuu danda’uu atu keessatti hin umamiin, nama Ummataaf ykn qeerroof furmaata argamsiisuu ta’uuf abbaleera. Jibbi Booruu Barraaqaa hangam dhiiga isa seenee obbolaa isaatti dhukaasufillee qophaa’uu isaa kan argisiisu, jecha officialy kaafameen Hooganoota waamaa jira. Kana maal jedhu egaa. Wayyaanee ABO ni abaara. Booruunis ABO ni abaara. Maal garaagarummaan isaanii . Wayyaaneen ABO nii jibba. Jibba gadi fageenya qabuun. Booruunis kanuma nutti mul’isaa jira. Ani innis wayyaaneedhaa jechaa hin jiru. jibbi isaanii garaagarii ? kan wayyaanee ABO ajjeesuu ykn dhabamsiisuudha. Kan Booruwoo ? maal irraa hubanna ? akka jecha Booruutti, ABO yoo dulloomee ta’ee falli isaa maalii ? falli isaa dhaloota itti aanutti dabarsuudha qabaadhaa mitii ? booruun kan barbaadu. Atu nu harkaa fuutaa jedhanii si kaadhimanii, atimmoo harma haadha si deessee deebistee ciniinuun si hanqannaan dhiigsaa jirataa , eenyuttii kennuree ? kan akka kee dargaggoota haala kanaan kaadhimaman hanga 15 ni beekna. Kanneen keessaa kan har’a fagaatanillee waliin jiran 3 hin caalan.Hogganummaatti fiduuf Miseensa Gumii sabaa ta’uu qabdan. Kana godhan. Deebiin keessan maal ta’ee ? kaan maallaqa saamaa kkf . Hunduu achi ba’ee itti bulgaafate. Keezii ABOn ba’anii ABO abaaran. Booruu Barraaqaa of hin tuuliin !!!!!!!!sirra yoo guyyaa guutuu dubbatan irraa bareedu hedduutu jiraa.

BOORUU FI MIIDIYAA :-

Booruun Miidiyaa baayyee kan jaallatuudha. Baayyee . mee callisaatii miidiyaa irratti waanuma hojjachaa jiru callisaa hordofaa. Yeroo qeerroonn Biyya keessaa gootummaa innu hin yaannee hojjatan walaloo katabee fi seeneessuu katabee afarsaa ture. Xiinxalaa gola warra isa fakkaataniin muudamee ibsa itti kennaa ture. har’a ammoo kan biraati. Girmaan keessa waan jiraateef ykn diina waan ta’eef gootummaa qeerroo haquuf eenyutu mirga isaa kenneef. ? duraan eenyutu caraanii ittiin jedhe ? ammawoo eenyutu halaakii ittin jedhe ? Booruun mata duree hundaa irratti yaaduma laachuu , qeequu kkfn waan keessaa hafee hin qabu. Keessattu dhiheenya kana lammiilee keenya galaana irratti dhuman ilaalchisee namni atu nan dursiin jedhee waan katabee keessaa , “Diinni keenya tokkoffaan wayyaanee atu hin taanee, baqattummaadhaa ” jedhee kan katabeef deebiin laatamee maal akka ta’ee innu beeka. Waggaa 13 ol diinni innikkaa oromoo wayyaaneedhaa jedhee SBO keessaan lallabaa kan jiraatee har’a ga’ee baqattummaadhaa jedhe. Kana maal jettu ? kana kaasuun kiyya , eenyurrallee goruuf odoo hin taanee dhugaa baasuufi. Kaayyoo ani itti amanu keessaa ba’ee dubbachaa fi xibaaraa akka jiru waanan mirkaneeffadheefi. Kan isaatti hin bu’u.Booruun barnootaan sadarkaa Barsiisaa ta’uu irra hin dabarre. Barsiisaa sadarkaa 1ffaa . kanarra taree raga hin qabu. Beekumsi achumatti hin hafu qalbiin ballachuu danda’a. dubbisuun. Biyya alaatti namoonni siyaasaa adda addaa irratti yaada kennan beekumsi isaanii sadarkaa maal irra ga’ee akka ta’ee walitti hin himnu. Booruu fi kanneen akka isaa “Xiinxalaa” waliin jechaa gubbaatti of fannisanii jiran , maabara nama shanii ijaaranii of jalaa hin qaban.hiriyyaa illee hin qaban. Yaada lamaa fi sadii tarrisanii ilaalu illee hin danda’an. Garuu dhaabaa fi Hoggana Dadhabiina isaanii waliin qabsoo Oromoo Senaataroota mariif afeereen ga’aa arrbsan . kun hangam ija jabaatanii jennamoo, waan ija isaan baasisuutu jiraa jenna ?

Booruun murannoo isaa waggaa 15 bishaan itti naqee balleesseera. Ilma ykn Intala isaa hangafaa haalee ykn ganee ykn kan koo miti jedhee, mucaa isaa lammaaffaa hangafa taasifachuuf lafa ciraa jira. Kun wallaalummaa isaati malee, inni mataan isaa abbaa biraa qaba . seenaan kaleessa waggaa 50 fi isaa olitti herreegamtee sagantaan TV fi SBO irratti hojjatamaa turte haalamtee, Abbaan isaa eenyurraa kka dhufe wallaalee , Umamni isa irraa eegaluu nu lbsuuf wawwaata. Booruun ABO abbaa hundaa ta’ee, mucaan geeddaruu barbaada. Hoggana isa bakka buufachuuf ture salphisa. Hogganoota qabsoo dadhabiin isaanii waliin cichanii waggaa 70, 60 ta’anii, “waan irra gangalataa turtan “” ittin jedha. Waa hundaa gangalachuu fedhiisaa bakka hin filannee fi nama hin filannee sanaan wal fakkeessa.

Waa hedduu hanbifanne. Booruun boruu waa hundaa ilaalee qabsoo kanatti harka laachuuf jiru kun, gaabbii borii ofitti hin baayyisiin jenna. Akka seenaa fi muuxannoo waggoota 40 irraa baradheetti, Warri Dhaaba kanaa fi Hooggana kana abaaree fi tuffatee filannoon sirri lama qaban. inni 1ffaan, akkuma warra kaanii wayyaaneetti. galuudha. Inni lammaffaa , kan dabree waliin dhiifne jedhanii akka har’aa kana qabsoo qindeeffachuuf murteeffachuudha. Kana giddutti mana ijaaruun waan hin taane. Hin danda’amus. Kan jiru kanuma lamaanii. Obbo Baqqalaa Garbaan Booruun yoo faarsaman nah in dinqu. Nuus hin dinqu. Maaliif jennaan, dubbiin dubbii FIXEENSA ganamaati boru ammoo arrabsamuuf taa’an. Baqqalaa Garbaan Goota. Gootummaan isaa kun booruu irraa hin kennamuuf. Maaliif jennaan, Booruun Hundeessitoota qabsoo hundaa kan jiranii fi wareegaman gootootaa jechaa ture. har’a ammoo salphisaa jira . Baqqalaa Garbaa Boruu dabalee Goota jechuuf ragaan maalii ? Booruun warra funyaan diinaa jala taa’ee ,,,,,,,jedhee faarsuun isaa natti hin tolle. Waan waliin beeknu waan jiruuf.

BOORUU BARRAAQAA YKN YAAHIYYAA JAMAAL YKN YAYA BASHIIR dhiisi.!!!!!!

Warra barru fi yaada kee siif afarsan , gadi fageenyaan hordofi. Kanatu si miidhaa jiraa. Maqaa isaanii ilaalii . maqaa Oromoon baafatuun mee xiinxalii. Wayyaaneen qeerroo keessa seenuuf qabatamaan waan hojjanne beekna.  Qorichi Girmaa Xurunaa afarfannaa miidiyaa irraa mitiii dhiisii hojii kee jaalala ummataa siif horutti deebi’ii.sirraa fagoo hin jirru. Jarumatu narratti katabee jettees hin dhipahtiin. Namni akka gaaritti si beeku , anarra jechuudhaa, Biyyuma Awuroppaa ani jiru jira.barruu kana gama kamiinu hin shakkiin akka dhaabbattuf qofa .Girmaa xurunaa gantuudha. Gantuu balaaleffannaan gantummaas balaaleffachuu qabna.ilaalcha barbaaddee qabaadhu. Kaayyoo ABOs dhiisi. Kun rakkoo hin qabu. Garuu Hogganoota bifa barbaaddeen qeeqi. Yoo furmaata ta’eef. Qabsaa’ootaa fi kaayyoo keenya garuu irraa dhaabbadhu. Irraa dhabbadhu.!!!!!!!!!!!kana booda deebii tokkollee hin feenu.

 HUNDEE LAMMII tiin.(Gaashi Baarkaa, Naayirobii, Awu

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Mucaa Gamnaa fi Ilma Nugusaa

Ilmi nugusaa mucaa hiyyeessa gamna wayii qore. Innis mucaa hiyyeessa garuu gamna akka tahe hin beeku ture. Garuu mucichi gamnummaa fi cimina isaa mirkaneesse! Mucichis badii nugusichi uummata irraan gayu dalgaan ibsuu qofa osoo hin taane dhumarratti itti hime. Mucaan nugusaas akkas jedheen:- Beekumsa moo duniyatu caala? Jedheen!

Ilma nugusaa:- Beekumsa moo duniyatu caala?

Mucaa gamna:- Adda isiniif baasaa hin dheekkaminaa jedheen.

Ilma nugusaa:- Akkamitti? Duniyaatu waa hundaa dhiyeessaa; duniyaatu irra jabduu; duniyaatu caala jedheen!

Mucaa gamna:- Mallaqa beekumsatu eega. Beekumsi maallaqa qofa osoo hin taane mataa keennas kan eegu isa; kallattii nuttI kan agarsiisu isaa. Maallaqni namootaaf ajajamaadha. Beekumsi ammo hogganaa; barsiisaa; ajajaadhas! Maallaqni dhaabbatumatti qisaasamee dhumata. Kanaaf beekumsa duniyaa caala!

Dabalees

-Beekumsi waan waa sirreessaa/qulqulleessaatii duniyaan miti

-Beekumsi eennufuu hiramaa duniyaan hin hiramtu

-Beekumsi waa sirreessoo nagaa buusoo duniyaan miti

Jedhi yoo jette inumaa; yakkamaan yakkamaa olii duniyaadha!!

“Duniyaa yakkamtuu

Abbaa feete soortuu

Garii dureessa gootee

Garii hiyyummaan gooltee

Yakkamaan akka kee inuma jirree

Beekumsaan karaa sirrii osoo sararree!”

Kanumatti dabalee gamnoonni waa’ee duniyaa yakkamtuu ta’uu isii yoo raga bayan:-

–          Duniyaan sagalimaa kudhan guuttee hin beektuu

–          Gaafa maallaqni haasayuu jalqabu dhugaan ni callifti

–          Bunni kama jalqabaati; 2ffaa fi 3ffaan haafaa duniyaati

–          Duniyaan fixeensa ganamaati; yoo tahe muldhattee deebitee ka baddu

–          Duniyaa booddeen isii waa qaba!

Kanaaf duniyaan shakkamtuu; yakkamtuudha! Jedhee rakkoo duniyaa nugusichaan wal qabsiisee nugusicha qoccoluu kajeele; dhugaas dubbachuu yaale.

Ani garuu beekumsaan

–          Gamna na taasisaa gamna ittiin ta’a

–          Onnetti qalbii guutaa ittiin milkaaya

–          Milkii ittiin hoffola

–          Qabeenna hin hatamnee abbaa isaa ta’a

–          Ulee kaazaraatii ittiin of irkisa

–          Ibsituu dukkanaatii nan ibsadha

–          Qajeelchituu daba uumameetii ittiin wa qajeelcha

–          Humnaa ittiin goonfadha

–          Hiixata ittiin waa bira gaya

–          Furtuu balbala heddu bantuu ittiin banadhee seena

–          Bokkuu seera ittiin muranii seera ittiin mura

Itti dablees mucaan gamin akkas jedhee ilma nugusaatti raage!!!

“Duniyaatu didee jallata

Hiyyeessatu lafa guuta

Baratu farrisaa

Falli dhugaa akkaan barbaachisaa

Ta’uu baannaan hallayyaa si buusaa!”

Ilmi nugusaas aaree” Maal jetta!” jedheen

Mucaan amnis sodaa tokko malee akkas jedheen” Kan jedhe hin jenne jedhu; ka jedhin jedhe jedhu; fidaa hin jenne jedhaanii kan jette naan jedhu!”

Ilmi nugusaas mucaa gamnicha hidhatti darbate.

(Haasawa ilma nugusaa booda waa baayyee osoo hin turree waggama muraasatti hiyyeessonni ka’anii falmatanii nugusicha aangoo irraa darbatan. “Hiyyeessi waan nyaatu yoo dhabe nugusa nyaata” jedhanii geerraran.

Kana boodas mucichi akkas jedhe

“Duniyaatu didee jallata

Hiyyeessatu lafa guuta

Baratu farrisaa

Falli dhugaa akkaan barbaachisaa

Ta’uu baannaan hallayyaa waa buusaa!”

“Beekaan duraa himee

Sirrii kan nuuf dhaame

Rakoo sabaa furaa

Isinis akkanumatti kufurraa!”

Mucaan gamnis akkas jedhee ilma nugusaa fi nugusaan

“Hin boone moo hin oodee

Hin mooge moo hin hoodee

Dubbadha jedhu sirrii osoo dubbatee

Aangoo irraa bu’us osoo ima fudhatee

Kana didee; ofumaa ajjeesee hallayyaa of gatee!!”

Uummannis akkas jedhe

“Qabeenya koo saamaa

Bara hamaan deemaa

Ammaa achi argatuu; kan an qabu 430

Kanas kan jedhe sabni bar hundumaa!!”

Ilmi amnaas akkas jedhee mammaake!

“Gaafa badii deemtu narra gorii; gaafa badii galtu narra gorin”

“Ijji gamnaa dura boossi”

“Yoo haasayanii fi deeman; dhugaaf tulluun hin dhokatti malee baddu”

“AAK JEDHAN WAA TUFAN MAMMAAKAN WAA HIMAN” jedhee haasawa ofii xumure.

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Gubaatii waa lamaa abbatu eeggata/abbatu malaan itti fayyadama:-

1ffaa gubaatii ibiddaa

2ffaa gubaatii haasawa gowwaa

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Waa sadi waan arfii addeennaati:-

1ffaa warqee

2ffaa arfii waraanaa

3ffaa daaraa ibiddaa

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Waa sadi wal miliqxe

1ffaa Harreen damma nyaaphaa baattii ofii hin nyaattuu jala miliqe

2ffaa leenci ala gala; asheeta yeroo biratti beelayaa; jala miliqe

3ffaa wallaalaan beekaa jiruu wallaalee; jala miliqe

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Ilma jechuun:-

Maqaa abbaa kan yaamsise;

Kan lammii abdachiise;

Kan abbaa ajajame;

Kan lammii abboomame;

Kan gaachana qabate;

Kan lammii dhaabbate!!!

Itti fufa…

GAMTEESSAA SABAA

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By Dr. B.K.Deressa

For more than 100 years, the Oromo people has been at war with enemies sworn to its destruction. It did not seek enmity or hostilities with them.  For much of this period, the Oromo leaders has pursued various strategies – including military engagements, benign neglect, willful blindness and outright appeasement . They all ignore the aforementioned realities and, as a practical matter, have exacerbated them. A lack of clarity about these realities or a strategy for dealing effectively with them has contributed to a strategic environment of great and growing danger and a wholly inadequate Oromo people struggle capacity for contending with such perils.

Ethiopia is a key strategic ally for the War on Terror, which insulates it from any US condemnation. Ethiopia receives the largest aid in Africa — an average $3.3 billion per year. The government abuses aid money to the extent that even government-provided seeds and fertilizer is denied to farmers who are not party members. Regarding the current uprising, the United States has issued a statement of concern. However, the regime itself is noticeably unconcerned because it knows these statements by the U.S. are accompanied by little or no action. Even the African Union, with its headquarter in Addis Ababa, while rightly concerned about a potential genocide in Burundi, is conspicuously silent on the massacre taking place against the Oromo right on its doorstep.

The Ethiopian military as an institution has acquired unprecedented power. Under any conceivable scenario, the military will continue to be a key and decisive player. Yet, it is not a truly national army; at the officer corps level, it is heavily dominated by Tigreans. Control of key economic sectors by the military under the EPRDF have made it difficult to limit its role to a strictly military one. The military’s role has other consequences of spiraling ethnic conflicts which have reached a boiling point in the current uprising. EPRDF rule has engendered profound hatred and resentments among different groups with Ethiopian society.

Beginning in December 2010, unprecedented mass demonstrations against poverty, corruption, and political repression broke out in several Arab countries, challenging the authority of some of the most entrenched regimes in the Middle East and North Africa. For example forcing Ben Ali to flee from Tunisia. The apparent success of the popular uprising in Tunisia, by then dubbed the Jasmine Revolution, inspired similar movements in other countries, including Egypt, Yemen, and Libya. Such was the case in Egypt, where in 2011 a popular uprising forced one of the region’s longest-serving and most influential leaders, Pres. Ḥosnī Mubārak, from power.

Qube generations of gallant Oromo son and daughters  inflamed the century long grievances and harassment of Oromo people in the name of Addis Ababa Master Plan encroaching and displacing Oromo farmers, but this masks a deeper grievance which has been brewing for at least two decades under this regime, and for over a century under successive Ethiopian rulers. Those uprising in Oromia was forcefully stopped by special commando of TPLF, killing at least more than 1000 peoples (including women and children) and imprisoned countless innocent freedoms fighters.

While opposition and discontent have been growing in Ethiopia, the security apparatus is ever vigilant against them . The TPLF marginalized both the legal and the extra-legal opposition, leaving little option but to fight them till death.  

This paper starting with a clear-eyed understanding of the enemy we confront – namely, Barbaric TPLF government, well-funded TPLF propaganda machines, traitors and puppet individuals, weak and paralyzed splinter organization and the essential elements for countering it.

1. Barbaric TPLF government: The same system that imprisoned, chopped  and hanged general Tadesse Biru, Mr. Gudina Tumsa, Mamo mezemir and countless Oromos  are still govern us with a new face (TPLF-elite). My question is what is the rational explanation behind this endless sufferings? In order to get to the root of the colonial problem in Oromia, it is necessary to understand that oppression experienced over such a long period of time effects people’s minds and souls in seriously negative ways and creation of countless traitors those who expands enemy destructive propaganda internally and externally. It means recognizing that colonial injustices and oppression have had effects on both individuals and collectivities. Health and healing, in the true sense of these terms, can only be achieved by breaking out of the toxic environments of the enemies propaganda and reserve; physical, spiritual, psychological health of Oromo people, and socio-cultural integrity. When we are working together to achieve all those goals we become strong and dignified nations and our enemy will be weak and ineffective.
2. Traitors and puppet individuals:  History has proved to us that our heroes were the true champions and advocates of true human rights and father of freedom.  But down the line of struggle instead of burning with desire for independence and freedom , the traitors who were not ready to pick up arms and fight for their freedom, more comfortable to eat the colonialist leftovers were systematically educated and groomed to inherit  the mantle while the WBO (our heroes) still fighting in the bush and qeerroos are confronting well organized and equipped TPLF junta with bare hands.

Opportunistic individuals and traitors were rewarded with plum jobs in the government and good education for their kids with scholarship overseas. In a new fake federal government of Oromia with an Oromo face yet the ‘colonial masters ‘still calling shots and controlling from their comfortable and luxurious oligarchical palaces in Mekele and arat kilo.

The political game to hoodwink and brainwash Oromo’s with the sweet sugar coated songs of patriotism, real democracy, time of development is over. Oromo’s are fed up with those who claim to be defender of his right and champion of democracy and yet looting our economy, amassing wealth and banking their loot overseas. Our new colonial masters have two faces known enemy TPLF elite and Opportunistic individuals, traitors and colonial collaborators who still enjoy the strapping of power and wealth inherited from the colonial masters. Unless we as a freedom fighters unite to fight them, our freedom and independence will just remain an ‘illusion‘ and our pride, desire to be free will soon be buried into the grave of oblivion.

1. Weak and paralyzed splinter organization

Political instability is often act as a barrier to sustainable human development,  because they are disruptive to the delivery of services and development programmes, and make it more difficult for leaders to be accountable. The better organized the party is internally, the stronger its responses when faced with sudden challenges such as leadership changes, internal crises, enemy messengers and reforms within society.

In any democracy, having skilled and committed leaders are essential to the durability and impact of organizations. Leaders determine if and how the organization will deploy its resources, prioritize its goals, and engage with its community to take action. They incorporate individuals into the political system by bringing them into association with each other, represent members’ shared interests in the public arena, advocate for public outcomes, build democratic capacity within the public, and provide public forums within which democratic learning, motivation, and deliberation can be fostered. Leadership is essential to all of this work.

Yet multiple questions about leadership and leadership quality within political organizations still deserve more study, it is better to identify the leadership practices

that seem to be the most effective.

• thinking creatively • listening to other people • accepting responsibility • accepting criticism • fighting and working for better results instead of propagating rumors • delegating responsibilities to others • coaching and mentoring others • providing others with support to do their work well • challenging others to be more effective • organizing and running a meeting  for strength and for victory • working effectively with public officials, intergovernmental organization, international leaders and policy makers • planning and carrying out a campaign against colonialism • working with the media in order to expose the realities instead of confusion • managing internal conflict

It is sad and unfortunate to see how many paralyzed and dormant organizations are formed since 1991 in the name of Oromo people. Before 1991 OLF has fought gratefully and thankfully a well-organized colonial power and brought light to our people. Still OLF is doing all kinds of struggle under very complex and complicated regional and geo-political situation (military, political and social ) in order to destroy our sworn enemy TPLF-junta. Many Oromo media (TV and radio) have done enormous contribution to enhance our struggle.  My question is here not the formation of a political organization but the fruitfulness and results of all those new and splinter organizations!!!!!

• Did they transfer our struggle from one step to other?
• Did they produce any significant positive evolution?
• Did they have brought unification among our society or confusion?
• Where is their creativity? Where is Their responsibility for their failure to fulfill what they promise? Where is their quality to enhance their people struggle on world stage?
• Our struggle is not par-time job, it needs permanent presentation. Are their leaders consistently present on the stage or come to stage when their pocket is empty?
• Are their leaders are contested with pain and grievances of our society?
• Are their leaders create job for themselves in the name of Oromo peoples in order to compensate their incompetence in these competitive world?
• Are their leaders dare to confess international leaders and organizations to confront the ongoing atrocities in Oromia? If yes tell officially to your people publicly your records when and where.

For me it is clear they are born to confuse and destruct our people from our goals, create jobs for themselves and empty honeycomb.

In medical terminology natural menopause is defined as the permanent cessation of menstrual periods, determined retrospectively after a woman has experienced 12 months of amenorrhea without any other obvious pathological or physiological cause. It occurs at a median age of 51.4 years in normal women, and is a reflection of complete, or near complete, ovarian follicular depletion, with resulting hypoestrogenemia and high follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) concentrations.

Adverse political developments can create direct socio-economic stagnation and affect seriously the long term plans of our peoples. So after so long period of time in our struggle (Oromo people struggle) it is time to be in menopause than giving birth to a handicap and paralyzed organization.

• My message to those leaders who were already born and hospitalized in invalidation centrum please look a good diagnostic algorithm for your disease in order to classify a right diagnosis for yourself to get a right treatment in the rehabilitation center before asking a diagnostic algorithm for healthy Oromo people.
• For groups who are preparing to acquire leaders from menopause time please get ready to exclude the chromosomal abnormalities in order to avoid disability of your leaders. Oromo people needs healthy, competitive, creative and charismatic leaders.  
• For organization, those still working hard day and night to destroy our enemy in the bush and in the streets of Oromia and looking forward to create the best strategy to eradicate ones and for all our enemies stop to make deal with disabled groups and empty organizations.  Freedom is not pass to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.

We as an Oromo, we must never lose what make us the best freedom fighters, first democratic nations in the world and most generous people in the globe even for our enemy. While the stand for freedom must begin with each of us individually, one alone is not enough. All freedom lovers must stand together to vanguard our victory. In my heart I still believe there are men and women who will stand for freedom, just as our hero’s did, not out of pride or power, but out of sense of service to the people of Oromo.

Long live WBO and Qeerroo.

Victory to the Oromo people!

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Truth Barometer #4

By Odaahora

The Tuulama highland plateau where Finfinne or Shagar is located was a beautiful village like any Oromia villages, with its blessed geographical contours where one can enjoy the beauty of its land escapes in all four compass directions from the top of the Xiixa or Intooto Moutain with an elevation of 2355 meters. The Tuulama highland plateau was proposed to be the most plausible terra known as the cradle of the Oromo people and the umblicalcord of Oromia and its capital city. It was known for its rich cattle production site from where the Oromos named it Dirree Saawa, means plain for cattle as the knowledgeable Oromo storyteller like Edaa’oo Boru proves it. It is an indication of its fertility, abundant grasses, water, rivers, and streams from where the name Finfinne means Fountain is coined.

The plateau Tuulama highland had a vegetation of great variety of fauna and flora of tropical highland forest with indigenous trees like Junipers trees, Podocarpus trees e.t.c, before the invasion of Eucalyptus trees seedling exported from Austral and the Habesah settlers. It was estimated to have about 150,000 to 200,000 inhabits, with distributed huts surrounded by farms, grasslands were horses, cattle’s, sheep and calves grasses, typical of all Oromia highland inhabitants residency before the genocide and ethnocide of the native Oromo were conducted by Habeshas most intensively by Sahile Maria’s nomadic, predatory settler/ Neftanyas and brigands and occupied and colonized that holds to the very minute.

Once Alfred and his two colleges were settled in Intooto, the next urgent project was building houses for Menelik’s future residence, roads, bridges, churches using slave labor and recruiting workers and soldiers and later on a construction of Bullet fabric in Finfinne. In smuggling weapons from Europe, the French citizen Leon Chenfneux was Alfred’s partner par excellence. Alfred Ilg traveled to Europe seven times as “Habeshanized ferji” with Swiss background to solve all the problems related to Menelik. These name Dirree Saawa was deformed to a meaningless name “Shoa” similar Fifinne was renamed to “Addis Ababa” by the settler colonialists that was turned to be the springboard of Sahile Maria’s expansions wars and genocides where the empire was increased from five to six to the original size of Abyssian proper, “thanks to the brain and architect of all affairs, weapon smuggler, advisor etc., of Sahile Mariam “Menelik II,”named Alfred Ilg of Swiss citizen” and the establishment of one of the primitive, barbaric empire contemporarily know as “Ethiopia” stolen from Greeks who knew nothing about the existence on this planet. Once settling in Fifinne, Sahile Mariam must urgently claim for the throne to be called “Menelik II” the myth of the tribe of Judah.

It was on the day when Sahlie Mariam was renamed to “Menelik II” by Abuna Mathewos in Intooto in 1889 that among other Europeans who participated in this ceremony, Alfred Ilg was the only person who appeared with local dresses “Shemma: an habeshanized Ferenj,” a plus point for his loyalty and trust indicator to Menelik and his circles. On the 2nd of May of the some year the Treaty of Waacaale (TW), deformed to a meaningless name “Wichale” by Abyssinian settlers was signed between Italy and Menelik. According to Oromo, genealogical descriptions Waacaale is a branch of Sikko Oromo resided in the northeastern parts of Oromo land, mostly known as Walo region to which Ittaya, Borru, Uttala Oromo Gosas or Qommos belongs among others inhabitants in the region.

Italy was the primary sources of weapon supplier to Sahile Maraim, as a hope to fight against the trouble maker, Yohanis of Tigre on the Italian-occupied colonial borders in the horn of Africa, Eritrea, who had over 30,000 soldiers trained by Swiss master Gunner Louis. The representative of Italian government G.P. Antonelli began working with Sahile Mariam since the beginning of the 1880s in so-called alliance plane and trade argument planes and Massawa was occupied by Italians without a single shot in 1885, and delivered over 189,000 weapons of war from Europe to Sahile Mariam through the port of Massawa under her control until 1895, within ten years alone. But, Sahile Mariam surrendered to Yohanis IV without a shot and pardoned as an underdog to hold his part occupied but pay annual attributes to Yohanis IV.Two months after Yohanis was killed by Mahdists the TW was signed be Italy and Sahile Mariam. First, the complete draft of the prepared treaty was written in Italy that Antonelli brought with him to Menelik in his occupied camp gafol or Zagol in Waacaale to be interpreted in Amharic, signed, and sent back to Italy to be ratified and executed. Menelik had signed and sent it back to Rome. Gafol or Zagol is the deep-rooted system of predatory Abyssian settler troops escorting their warlords or brigands preys on the local community within which they temporarily settled. They were known as “human locusts or plague” where ever their footholds.

The TW was the work of Antonelli and Alfred Ilg. Both of them equally knew Sahile Miriam, worked with each other as a friend or as foe depending on the time and circumstances. Both of them knew the Amharic language and native to the Italian language. The arrived at the some year and worked almost over 10 years with Sahile Miriam who finally profited immensely from both. As the letter reached Italy, Rome was very much satisfied and promptly sent as the reward of welcome gifts of 4000 Remington rifles with 200,000 cartridges, 500 other rifles, and 1million Westerly cartridges. Antonelli was very satisfied with the deals with Menelik who furthermore gave one-third of Eretria including Keren, and Asmara two months after TW. In addition to Firearms and ammunitions, Antonelli also secured a loan of 2 million Lire for Menelik in concision concerning the boundaries in February 1890

The spin of the modal verbs of TW the “can” and the “must”

The assumption that what Menelik had signed in TW and ratified was the translated Amharic version of the “can” but not the Italians version of the “must”, and was alleged to be the mistakes of alleged translator named Yosef of Menelik to Amharic was a betrayal of grade level A. he was found as scope goat. First, Yosef knew nothing about Italian alphabet late alone the syntaxes and semantics of the Italian language and holds a license of the translator. Thus, no healthy human curses an illiterate person for foreign language and exchanges of modal verbs except the Abyssinia’s. Secondly, If, the issue was as it was propagated by Abyssinians, one will not sign the treaty on the spot if he or she can be able to take the consequence granted, but not six years later. Third, Italy could never provide weapons and ammunitions of war and money loans since she occupied the red sea coasts and Eretria till TW. Fourth, one must know that Menelik was also an illiterate with his own language who cannot read and write, let all to detected the role of “must and can” and global treaties. His knowledge is limited to the villages he moved and settled and knew that Europe produces modern weapons of war that he eager to get to fight against his local rivals and territorial expansion in the region.

Thus, The fact that Italy was a protectorate was proved by Menelik himself at the end the end of the 1890s in dozen of letters written to Italy. It was also known by the responses he got from all Europeans except the Russians and Turkey symbolically who has no much spheres of influence to change the paradigm. It was known that Alfred Ilg, the spin engineer who knew Italian and Amharic languages was in Waachale with the alleged translator Yosef who knew no Italian, thus it can be only Ilg who translated the draft signed by Menelik and sent to Rome. In return Menelik was supplied with sufficient weapon and money loans from Italia which she was going to regret in March 1896.

The idea of the projects of betrayal and accusation of Antonelli began by Alfred Ilg himself it cannot be otherwise. In fact, all sorts of communications channels, letters mainly made between Menelik and the rest of the Europeans colonial powers in general, and around the horn of Africa in particular were opened, read, interpreted and responded through Alfred Ilg whom menelik authorized. One must  understand all Habesahs around him and he himself can not read and wrtite thir wn lanagauge let alone to act as a bridge as interpretor.Thus,  Menelik without Alfred Ilg was a blind man, and Alfred Ilg was a minister for all, an interpreter, secretary, advocate, foreign and domestic relations, trade and commerce begging from clay pot to white gold, plundered resources, looted subjestcs, stolen historical,cultural goods wherever the foot of Minilks predatory brigands Militias holds in Oromia and the whole south with similar historical fates  incarcerated in th empire. Alfred Ilg had a finger in every pie and no one by pass him.

In his first trip back to Europe Ilg represented his plans of Menelik’s empire to the Geographical-ethnological society of Zurich in May 1980. He left with the ship fully loaded with goods and resources exploited from conquered regions of the south as a whole such as Gold, Coffee, Ivory, Tusk, Cinnamon, Civet, Fur, Hide, Historical artifacts, etc to Europe. In return from Europe, he shipped back full of Weapons of war and its accessories, construction machines and materials, and some times gifts for his his Master-Menelik to Abyssinia, and that was the beginning trip and he would travel 6 times more untill to his final leave of the Empire in 1906 that will be explored in the follwing part.

A lot of inks were spilled on the barbarisms of the Habeshas-the exact name one must called them, go back to the day of their arrival in the horn Africa from Southwest Asian desert. Furthermore, nothing has changed and the world is witnessing it on daily base today. So, if a sacred historian writes about Habeshas histroy not folklore myth and fables, her signature must be barbarisms, famine, hunger and hypocrisy, last but not least diabolic lies and betrayal. The Italian accused Alfred Ilg not the barabaric menelik, and found him guilty called him Firearm smuggler and betrayal of the treaty.

Although the accusation of italiay did not bear fruit, the idea of  betrayal and annulment of the Treaty of Waacaale was designed and executed by Alfred Ilg. He comes out with the idea before Menelik official rejects the treaty he signed and won the gigantic amount of weapons and a debt of Two million Liras loans must be repaid and while Menelik and his settlers were in Famine and cannot pay it back. There were enough weapons of war than food in the empire on Menelik imported from Europe including Switzerland who portray herself neutrality this period of time. Ilg was turned to the shareholder of every subject and resources exploited from the south with Menelik and promised to pay it back, and he paid it back. Now the super mentor, Alfred Ilg and the underdog “Negus Menelik” fill matured enough to reject officially the modal verb of Italians “must” to “will or can” of the Alfred Ilg-Menelik version that they profited from it, since the 1980 trade argument with Italy to the TW on the 2nd of May1889 to the beginning of the war in on 1st of march 1896 with Italy. As an idiom that says: Biting the hand that feeds you.”typical Abyssinian cultural doctrine and behavior and arts of acts heritage one must know.

The following part will thoroughly explore the impacts of the colonial forces occupied the red seas strips and islands like Britain, France, and Italy most efficiently and the role Alfred Ilg in internal as wells as foreign affairs of Abyssian and his role in wars waged by Menelik against the people of the south. The awufl truth of the the spin engineer of the railroad project that indeed turened to the capitain of firearm smuggler will continoue.

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OMN:Oduu Caamsaa 18,2016 Magaalaa Finfinnee kutaa bulchiinsa Booleetti, ijaarsa seeraan alaa manniinii jechuun, bulchiinsi magaalattii, manniin jiraattotaa wayta diigaa turetti, mormii uumameen, dhukaasa poolisoonni Federaalaa roobsaniin namoonni sadii ajjeefamuun himame.

Magaalaa Finfinnee kutaa bulchiinsa Boolee Bulbulaa naannawaa Warra Gannuu jedhamutti, guyyaa hardhaa Caamsa 18 bara 2016 maqaa ijaarsa seeraan alaa manniin jechuun wayta bulchiinsi magaalattii manniin diigaa jirutti mormii dhalateen, poolisoonni Federaalaa namoota sadii ajjeesuun himamee jira.
Miidhaan hamaan Poolisoota namoota ajjeesan kanarra gahuunis ibsame.

Jiraataan magaalaa Finfinnee tokko akka jedhanitti, akka laakkofsa biyyattiittii ganama hardhaa ture, bulchiinsi magaalaa Finfinnee ijaarsa seeraan alaa jechuun wayta manniin jiraattotaa diigaa jirutti kan mormiin isaan muudate.

Booda ammoo poolisoonni Federaalaa meeshaa waraanaa hidhatan jiraattota manniin keenna nurraa diiggamuu hin qabu jechuun mormatan irratti dhukaasa roobsaniin battalumatti lubbuun namoota sadii darbee jira.

Akka namni kun jedhanitti, bulchiinsi magaalatti manneen kun seeraan ala ijaaraman haa jedhu malee dhugaan jiru sanii miti.

Jiraattoonni ajjeefaman kun ijaarsa seeraan alaa manniin isaanii kan ijaaratan osoo hin taane, lafa san irratti kan dhalataniidha.

Mootummaan humanaan biyyattii bulchaa jiru ammoo ta’e jedhee lubbuu namoota nagaa baasaa jira.

Kana gochuun isaa mootummichaa karaa dhoksaa ta’een, karoora maastar pilaanii Finfinnee hujii irra oolfataa jira jedhan.

Jiraataan magaalaa Finfinnee kun itti dabaluun jiraattota lafa kanarratti handhuurri isaanii bu’e lafa irraa buqqisanii lafa san abbootii qabeenyaaf kennuuf ajjeechaa kana raawwataa jiru jedhan.

Wayta gara garaatti ijaarsa seeraan alaa manniinii jechuun magaalaawwan Oromiyaa hedduu keessatti diiggamiinsa geggeeffamee tureen, lubbuun namoota baayyeetis darbuun isaa kan yaadatamuudha.
Usmaan Ukkumeetu Gabaase.

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Qeeyroo

Caamsaa 18,2016/ Magaalaan Boolee fi naannnoon ishee humna waraana Wayyaanee komaandoo jedhamaniin marfamtee jirti. Mootummaan Wayyaanee uummata Oromoo doorsisaan qabeenyaa isaa saamaa fi lafa isaa irraa guurratee gurgurataa ture amma kun hafee uummanni oromoo meeshaa diinni ittiin doorsisuuf utuu hi jilbeenfatin lafa isaa dura dhaabbatee falmii fi FXG gaggeessaa jira.

Yeroo ammaa mootummaan Wayyaanee maqaa ijaarsa seeraan alaa jedhuun manneen uummata oromoo naannowaa Finfinnee diigsisee abbaa qabeenyatti gurguratuuf yaalii taasisuun isaa ammaa kaasee kan itti hin milkkoofne tahuu FXGn feshelataa dhufeen uummanni naannoo Boolee Bulbulaa jiraatan mana isaani yeroo dheeraa irra jiraataan Wayyaaneen waraana isheetiin dirqisiistee diigsisuuf yaalii taasistee turteen har’a FXG uummata naannichaan dhoween dhukaasni uummata lafa isaaf bahee falmate irraatti dhuka’een namootni 3 wareegamuun kaan madawanii akka jiranii fi tarkaanfiin uummataanis waraana Wayyaanee irratti fudhatamuudhaan lafa keenya nurraa fudhachuufuu miti aangookeerrayyuu si gaggeessina jechuun uummanni FXG galgala kana finiinsaa jira. Kanneen du’an yeroof maqaa isaanii kan hin arganne dhukaasni yeroo dheeraa uummata iratti dhuka’een magaalaan Boolee fi naannon ishee Garji fi Boolee Bulbulaan walumaa galatti FXGn hudhamtee waraanni Wayyaanees keessa bololi’aa jira.
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irratti fudhatames jabaatee itti fufeera. FXG Haromayyaatti marsaa 5ffaa dhowee jiruun kan duubatti hin deebine tahuu diinnis hubatuudhaan soda guddaan wayyaanee qabatee jira.

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Abdissa Loke is tired of being mistaken for Somali.

Loke and thousands of other Oromo people in Minnesota are often lumped into the same group as people from Somalia, despite coming from a different country, speaking a different language and having a different culture.

“In schools, hospitals, everywhere we go they define us as Somali,” Loke said. “We are the second largest immigrant population from [East] Africa, but they still don’t know us.”

Loke, who’s the executive director of the Oromo Cultural Institute of Minnesota (OCIM), plans to change that. With help from the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation and the West Bank Community Coalition, OCIM began conducting door-to-door surveys last week in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. The goal is to find out just how many Oromo people are living there — and what kind of barriers they’re facing.

The groups hope the data collected will help bring higher visibility to Minnesota’s Oromo population and open up city and state funding. “When [Oromo] identity is misrepresented as Somali, we feel [invisible],” said Loke. “That includes funding.”

Second largest East African population

OCIM estimates up to 40,000 Oromo people are living in Minnesota, but the state demographer’s office puts that number closer to 8,500.

Minnesota State Demographer Susan Brower said that by comparing census data with public school enrollment data — which documents which languages students speak at home — they were able to distinguish Minnesota’s Oromo population from the state’s estimated 18,000 Ethiopian immigrants. Oromos make up one of three major ethnic groups who come from Ethiopia.

Still, that leaves Oromos as the second largest East African group living in Minnesota, behind Somalis.

Mohamed Mohamed, executive director of the West Bank Community Coalition (WBCC), said the survey should be able to provide data on just how many Oromos live in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Around 45 percent of the neighborhood’s population is immigrants, Mohamed said, and most of them are East African.

But finding out just how many of those are Oromo will help neighborhood associations like his better strategize their community engagement efforts to get residents more involved with city government. “We’d like people to understand what’s happening on the city level,” he said. “Really take ownership of their role as a community member.”

WBCC donated $2,000 to fund the survey, with Wilder pitching in $6,500 to pay for operational costs and staffing.

“The Oromo people are an integral part of the Twin Cities community,” said Wilder Associate Researcher Ryan Evans. “And Wilder Foundation, as part of this community and doing research that highlights parts of this community, we thought it was important to do this work.”

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Map of Ethiopia highlighting the Oromia Region

Mohamed said he’s excited to see this work get funding and that he hopes it’s just the start of the important task of documenting Oromo people and their culture throughout the state.

OCIM Board Chair Girma Hassan said once they have substantial data they plan to bring it to government officials with hopes of shedding light on struggles that specifically face Minnesota’s Oromo population, including funding that addresses their specific barriers.

“It’s very important for public servants to know the Oromos and the Oromo culture and the demographic of the Oromo people in the state of Minnesota,” Hassan said.

Early results of survey

With the survey only beginning on May 9 and run by volunteer canvassers, Loke said, they’ve only managed to interview around 20 people so far — but they hope to have at least 100 completed by the end of the month.

The results so far point to some common challenges. “Number one is language barriers,” Loke said. “Especially in public services … in buildings where they live or in transportation.”

For example, he said, many Oromo people have trouble riding the light rail, since the information is posted in English and Somali, but not in Oromo.

The language barrier also poses potential threats during emergencies, he said, since police officers and other emergency personnel don’t speak Oromo — a major problem in Cedar-Riverside where there’s a large Oromo-speaking population. “When an emergency happens, there’s very limited communication,” he said.

Hassan said part of the problem is that funding the state appropriates to translation efforts mostly covers Somali language, even though Oromos don’t speak Somali.

To add to that, the language issue is affecting Oromo youth, Hassan said. Young people don’t see learning the language as useful, so knowledge of Oromo culture has waned among those younger than 40, he said. “There’s concern about our children,” he said. “They’re not learning their language and they’re just learning English.”

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WASHINGTON, DC — 

Itti gaafatamaan dhimmootii Komunikeeshinii mootmmaa naannoo Oromoyaa Obbo Faqaadu Tasammaa Raadiyoo sagalee Amerikaaf akka ibsantti Mootummaan Federaalaas ta’e kan Oromiyaa Mormiin gaggeeffame bulchiinsa gaarii dhaba irraa madde jedhee amanuus deemsa ture kessaatti kanneen yakka adda addaa rawwataniin to’annaa jala jiran walaba ba’u jechuu miti jedhan.

Kanneen to’annaa jala turanii fi amma iyyu jiran dhimmi isaanii sadarkaa sadiitti qodamee akka iaaalame ibsanii akkuma to’annaa jala oolantti battaluma kan gadhiifaman, to’annaa jala turanii barnooti eega kennameefii booda kan gadhiifaman akkasumas amma iyyu to’annaa jala kan jiranii fi kanneen yakki rawwatan ragaan irratti dhiyaatee seeraan ilaalamaa jiran jedhu.

Akka kanaaniis dhiyeenya kana namoonni hedduun barnoota eega argatanii booda Xollaay keessaa gadhifamuu kan ibsan Obbo Faqaaduun lafa to’annaaf turantti dararaan irra ga’e tokko iyyuu hin jiru jedhu.

Humootii waraanaas ta’e aangawoota mootummaa walitti bu’iinsa Oromiyaa keessatti uumameen lubbuu galaafatan ykn yakka adda addaa rawwataniin to’annaa jala oolan yoo jiru ta’e kan gaafataman Obbo Faqaaduun gara fuula duraatti kan ibsamu ta’a jedhan.

Kan dhiyaanya kana miliqee ba’e waraabbii sagalee walgahii DH.D.U.O irratti Obbo Abba Dulaa Gammadaa akka dubbataniitti mormii Oromiyaa keessatti dhalateef sababaan dhaabbatoota siyaasaa adda maqaa dhahaman miti jedhanii rakkoon numa gidduu jira jechuun akka fakkkeenyaattis barattoonni Oromoo Digrii adda addaan eebbifamanii hojii dhabuun rakkataa jiran kuma hedduu ta’uu xuquudhaan , yoo hojii argatan illee waardiyyummaa ta’u ibsanii turan.

Obbo Faqaaduun waa’ee kanaa gaafatamanii kunis kan gumaache qabaatu iyyuu bulchiinsa gaarii dhaba waliin wal qabata jedhu.

Mata dureelee adda addaa irrati deebii kennaan gaaffii fi deebii kutaa lamaan dhiyeessinu irraa caqasaa.

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Over the past 15 years, Ethiopia has become home to one of the world’s fastest-growing higher education systems. Increasing the number of graduates in the country is a key component of the government’s industrialisation strategy and part of its ambitious plan to become a middle-income country by 2025. Since the 1990s, when there were just two public universities, almost 30 new institutions have sprung up.

On the face of it, this is good news for ordinary Ethiopians. But dig a little deeper and tales abound of students required to join one of the three government parties, with reports of restricted curricula, classroom spies and crackdowns on student protests commonplace at universities.

Nowhere has this been more evident than in Ambo in Oromia state. On 25 April, protests against government plans to bring parts the town under the administrative jurisdiction of the capital, Addis Ababa, began at Ambo University. By the following Tuesday, as protests spread to the town and other areas of Oromia, dozens of demonstrators had been killed in clashes with government forces, according to witnesses.

As Ethiopia experiences rapid economic expansion, its government plans to grow the capital out rather than up, and this involves annexing parts of the surrounding Oromia state. An official communique from the government absolved it of all responsibility for the clashes, claiming that just eight people had been killed and alleging that the violence had been coordinated by a few rogue anti-peace forces. The government maintains that it is attempting to extend Addis Ababa’s services to Oromia through its expansion of the city limits.

However, Oromia opposition figures tell a different story. On 2 May, the nationalist organisation the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) issued a press releasethat condemned the “barbaric and egregious killing of innocent Oromo university students who have peacefully demanded the regime to halt the displacement of Oromo farmers from their ancestral land, and the inclusion of Oromo cities and surrounding localities under Finfinnee [Addis Ababa] administration under the pretext of development”. The Addis Ababa regime dismisses the OLA as a terrorist organisation.

While news of the killing of unarmed protesters has caused great concern among many Ethiopians, there has been little coverage overseas. The government maintains strict control over the domestic media; indeed, it frequently ranks as one of the world’s chief jailers of journalists, and it is not easy to come by independent reporting of events in the country.

Nevertheless, the government’s communique does run contrary to reports by the few international media that did cover the attacks in Ambo, which placed the blame firmly on government forces.

The BBC reported that a witness in Ambo saw more than 20 bodies on the street, while Voice of America (VOA) reported that at least 17 protesters were killed by “elite security forces” on three campuses in Oromia. Local residents maintain that the figure [of those killed] was much higher.

These reports, while difficult to corroborate, have been backed up by Human Rights Watch, which issued a statement saying that “security forces have responded [to the protests] by shooting at and beating peaceful protesters in Ambo, Nekemte, Jimma, and other towns with unconfirmed reports from witnesses of dozens of casualties”. One university lecturer said he had been “rescued from the live ammunition”, and that it was the “vampires – the so-called federal police” who fired on the crowds.

The Ethiopian government likes to trumpet its higher education system to its western aid backers as a crowning success of its development policy. As billions in foreign aid are spent annually on Ethiopia, the west must be more cognisant of the fact that this money helps reinforce a government which cuts down those who dare to speak out against it.

Inevitably, continued support for such an oppressive regime justifies its brutal silencing of dissent. Yes, the higher education system has grown exponentially over the past 15 years but the oppression and killing of innocent students cannot be considered an achievement. Any system which crushes its brightest should not be considered a success.

Paul O’Keeffe is a doctoral fellow at La Sapienza University of Rome, where he focuses on the higher education system in Ethiopia

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Namni barattoota Oromoo Yunivarsitii Haramayaa maqaa tarreessee Agaazitti kennaa jiru tokko nama kana. Maqaan isaa Mabratu Mollaa ti. Bara dabre eebbifamee University Enterprise Office keessa hojjata. Irraa of eegaa.

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