* That the geography of life-threatening food insecurity canvasses the peripheral southern regional states such as, the Southern Nations and Nationalities, Oromia, Ogaden-Somali. Ironically these south Ethiopia’s regions are the greenest and the most fertile. They are simultaneously the scenes of ongoing low-intensity armed conflicts between Meles Zenawi’s government of Ethiopia and the Oromo Liberation Front in Oromia, the Sidama Liberation Front in the SNNP, the Ogaden Liberation Front in Ogaden and the Afar Liberation Front in Afar. We see clearly that the maps of famine follow the maps of conflict and instability. Showing that famine is used as a weapon of collectively punishing ethnic groups in the non-ruling geographic areas, whereas the same levels of food insecurity are not observable in Tigray region ( the homeland of the Prime Minster of Ethiopia).

* The second pattern is that benevolent Western aid organizations involved in helping systematic famine victims and Western reporters blame (frame) the cause of this large-scale famine in the south exclusively on the shortage of rainfall and population growth. No Western media cites war as a primary cause of food insecurity in Ethiopia. Resettling and urbanization are erroneously suggested as solutions for those superficial causative factors.

– Full Story (Oromo Press)

Jaal Qaasim:

Jaal Hirphaa Gaanfuree:

Jaal Elemoo Alii:

- Source: Qeerroo.org

Miseensoti Tokkuma Barattoota Oromoo Biyya Jarmanii (TBOJ), Oromoo Munshinii fi naannoo isaa Caamsa 5 bara 2012 magaalaa Munshinitti waliiti dhufanii jaallan qabsaawota Oromoo otuu bilisummaa saba isaaniif falmanii yeroo,bakka fi, haala gara garaa jalatti lubbuu isaanii jijjiira hinqabne dabarsanii kennan yaadatanii oolanii jiru.

Guyyaa yaadannoo kana kan hasawaan banan Obboo Mekonnoon Gurmessaa barressaa TBOJ yoo ta’an isaanis jaallan keenya bilisummaa uummata Oromoo dhugoomsuuf jecha lubbuu isaani wareegan bara baraan yaadatamuu qaban jedhanii jiru. Dhalooti haaraanis kana ilaalee kaayyoo isaan kaasani kana bakaan gahuuf akka caraaquufis dhaamsa dabarfanna jedhan jiru.

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I. Qabsaawonni fi jaarmiyooti bilisummaa Oromoof qabsa’aan garaa-garummaa isaan gidduu furun yaada ana malee dhaabni Oromoo kan biraan jiraachuu hin qabu jedhurra ol-guddatuun akka wal_hubannoon bilisummaa Oromotiif qabsaa’an fi xiyyeeffannaa isaanis kara diinatti godhan waamicha goona.

II. Gurgurtaa lafa Oromoo fi ummattoota cunqurfamoo biraa impaayera Itophiyaa keessatti argamanii irratti motummaan Wayyaanee adeemsisaa jiru jabeesinee mormina.

III. Eenyummaa Oromoo jijjiruuf (demographic change) akeekkate qubsumma seeraan alaa ummatoota amma mootummaan TPLFn geggeefamu ni mormina.

IV. Nageenya ollaan wajin jiraachuu sabootaa jeequun umurii isaa dheerraffatuu kan barbaadu mootummaan Wayyaanee ummatoota bara dheeraa nagaa waliin jiraatan walitti buusuun lubuu hedduu fi qabeenyaa hedduu dhabamsiisaa turee jira. Ammas gochaan akkasii kun naannoo baha Wallagaa keessatti ummata Oromoo fi Gumuz giduutti deemaa jira. Gochaa akkasii kana cimsinee dura dhaabbanna.

V. Mootummaan Wayyaanee yeroo hedduu bakka tokko ykn saba tokko oggaa rukutuu barbaaddu dursee sababa sobaa qindeesee midiyaa isaatti dabarsa.Itti aansee akka waan ragaa qabatamaa argatee godhee tarkanfii shororkessummaa hojjataa. Haaluma kanaan baatii darbe keessa mataan mootummaa Itophiyaa Mallas Zenawii naanoo Oromiyaa Baaleeti fi Arsii kessa maadhee Alqaayidaa arganne jechuun dursee sababa kijibaa uummee dubbgatuun isaan ni yaadatama. Sababii kijibaa kanarratti hunda’auudhaan ummata nagaa n Masjiidatti Rabbi kadhatee galuu rasasa itti banee ajjessuu isaa jabessinee balaaleffana. Mucaa waggaa 6 dabalatee Oromoota mootummaa shororkessa kana dhumaniifis gaddee nutti dhaga’amee ibsinaa

VI. Guyyaa gootota yeroo kabajjinu kana hoganootin ABO bakka adda addatti wal hiranii jiranii fi dhugumaan qabsoo bilisummaa Oromootti amanan, rakkoo isaanii gidduu jiru gad ta’anii furuun uummata Oromoo afaan faajjii kessa baasanii akka isaanii dinarratti xiyyeeffatan maqaa gootota wareegamanitiin gaafannaa.

VII. Jarmiyooti uummata (civic groups) kan akka Hawaasoota Oromoo, jaarmiyaa hayyootaa fi kkf fakkataan, murnotaa fi dhaaboota siyaasaatti of-hidhuu dhiisanii dhimma Oromoo irratti bilisa ta’anii akka hojjataan yaadachiisaa, rakkoo qabsoo Oromoo kana kessatti qaama bilisaa ta’aanii dhaaboota qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo irratti dhiibbaa barbaachisu akka godhanii waamicha goona.

Injifannoon ummata oromoof!!
Qabsawwan ni kufa !!
Qabsoon itti fuffa!!
Caamsa 5 bara 2012
Munchen-Germany

Report from Ayyaantuu.com:

On April 6, 2012, hundreds of Oromo nationals and others have been detained in Western Arsi Zone, Gadab Asaasaa district, in connections with the current movement for the right of religious freedom by followers of Muslim religion, and are waiting to appear in court. The following are among those detained.

– Full Story (Ayyaantuu.com)

Let Oromia be Oromia again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(Oromia was Oromia to me.)

Let Oromia be the dream the Oromo dreamers dreamed–
Let it be that great strong land of Aba Gada
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(Oromia was Oromia to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false
patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There`s never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your shroud across Oromia?

I am the Oromo farmer, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Oromo, bearing colonist's scars.
I am the Oromo man driven from Oromia.

I am the young Oromo man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one`s own greed!

I am the Oromo Peasant, bonds manto the soil.
I am the worker who is forced to give up his land.
I am the Oromo, who was mad theservant to colonizer.
I am the Oromo man, who never got ahead,
The poorest worker who was demoralized through the years.

Yet I`m the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That`s made Oromia the land it has become.

The free?

Who said the free? Not the Oromo?
Surely not the Oromo? The millions of Oromos on relief today?
The millions of Oromos, who were shotdown when we strike?
The millions of Oromos, who got nothing but discriminations?
For allthe dreams we`ve dreamed
And all the songs we`ve sung
And all the hopes we`ve held
And all the flags we`ve hung,
The millions who have been put in prisons.

O, let Oromia be Oromia again–
The land of the Gada system
And yet must be–the land where every man is free.
The land that`s mine–the Oromo,
Who made Oromia,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose–
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people`s lives,
We must take back our land again,
Oromia!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
Oromia was Oromia to me,
And yet I swear this oath–
Oromia will be Oromia to me!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape androt of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the Oromo people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain–
All, all the stretch of these great green fertile lands–
And make Oromia again!

BILISUMMAA!

* Mosisa Meka, mosisa_meka@yahoo.com
Milwaukee, WI

Gammachuu ijjollummaa
Ciminaaf humna dargagummaa
Ogummaaf Dhadhabina dullummaa
Hammatee simata hundumaa.
Ballaadha garaan biyya ABBAA
Biyyi abbaa ofii hundarra caalaa
Keessaa jirachuuf yoo qabatan carraa.
Qorraaf dhahoo dha bayyiin mukaa isaa
Aduudhaaf gaddisa daggali bosona isaa
Binneessa daggalaaf iddoo bulmataa
Goota ijjoolle isaaf maddaa irbataa
Alagaaf dhuma filmataa.
Safuu! bayyini albuuda isaa
Ijjoollee isaa dhiisee orma kununsa
Hortee isaa agabsee olla qubsaa.
Horiin kees hedduu qotiyyoof sawwaa
Ormis isa si harkaa yaachuuf si hawwa
Kannisaas qabda motii awwanisaa
Kan sirraa ari’u awaldigeessa
Bayyini bishaan kee burqqaa maddaa ibsaa
Gola kee dukanneessee olla urjiii fakkeessa
Safuu! Safuu! Biyyaa ABBAA
Ijjolleen kee hedduun baraataaf ogeessa
Hedduun sanii ni jiraatu biyyaa ormaa keessa
Qabeenyaa, beekumsaa fi dandeetii
Siif yoo hin taane mali bu’an isaanii?
Kaan sirraa dhalataa kan sitti dhalataa
Kaan siif mormaa kan sitti gomma
Tokko sirraa lolaa algaaf orma
Tokko sittiin gala diina, ta’ee bitamaa ormaa.
Biiyyi ABBAA guddaa Guddaa akka AABBO
Ijjolle keeti maaf hin himtuu daandii QABSOO
Akkas jettee maaf hin himtu dhibee kee
Nadhageessuu ijjollee koo…
Alagaan naa nyaatee foon koo…
Badduu base qorqe lafee koo…
Sammatte albuuda koo
Gurguratee bunaa koo
Yaafate loon koo
Hirmaate lafa koo
Barbaddeese bosona koo
EESSA jirtu ijjollee koo?
Argituu hubamuu koo
Maaf narraa hin darbu samamuun koo
Iyyaa koo dhagessuu yaa ijjollee koo! (2x)

* Bokkuu Badhanee, Nama biyya Oromootin

The following report is from the Oromia Support Group (OSG), a non-political organisation which attempts to raise awareness of human rights violations in Ethiopia. OSG has now reported 4407 extra-judicial killings and 992 disappearances of civilians in Ethiopia. Hundreds of thousands have been placed in illegal detention, where torture and rape are commonplace. To read the full report (pdf format), please click here.

Djibouti: destitution and fear for refugees from Ethiopia

Oromia Support Group Report 48 | May 2012

Summary
Refugees from Ethiopia and officials of NGOs and governments were interviewed in Somaliland and Djibouti in November and December 2011. Formal interviews with 43 refugees, including 26 in Djibouti, confirmed other reports that a high proportion of refugees from Ethiopia have been tortured.

Twenty one of the 43 interviewees (49%), including eight of the 26 interviewed in Djibouti, had been tortured. Every male former detainee (17) and four out of six female former detainees had been tortured – 91% of 23 former detainees.

At least four of the six female former detainees were serially and multiply raped. Three more, two when aged 11-14, were raped by Ethiopian security forces in or near their homes.

Interviewees reported 34 killings of close relatives and friends by Ethiopian security forces and the deaths of 94 in horrific circumstances in detention. One gave an eye-witness account of the Weter massacre, where he reported 1000 were shot dead in 1992.

There are several hundred registered asylum-seekers in Djibouti city and several thousand undocumented immigrants from Ethiopia. Registration, which was resumed for new applicants in 2010, affords a degree of protection from police roundups and the threat of deportation to Ethiopia. Refoulement of large numbers of registered asylum-seekers and UNHCR mandate refugees is now less common, due to better training of the Djibouti police by UNHCR.

However, refoulement of at least 25 Oromo and Ogadeni asylum-seekers and refugees occurred between November 2010 and January 2011. Eye-witness accounts corroborate claims that these men and women were abducted by snatch squads consisting of Djibouti and Ethiopian security forces.

UNHCR acknowledges that some were taken but believes reports by Djibouti police that only members of armed opposition groups were arrested and deported. Evidence provided by eye-witnesses and acquaintances of those refouled is not consistent with this belief. UNHCR does not appreciate the risk of abduction and refoulement for refugees who have no association with Ethiopian opposition groups, nor the associated fear that is part of their daily lives.

Asylum-seekers in Djibouti city lead a marginal existence, due to high unemployment and exploitation of cheap casual labour. Xenophobic and sexual violence is commonly reported in the city and in the area of Ali Addeh refugee camp, where most of the few hundred Ethiopian mandated refugees live. Two women reported three incidents of rape, including two of gang-rape in Djibouti city.

The sluggish refugee status determination process badly needs overhauling in Djibouti. Very few asylum-seekers achieve refugee status and therefore the assistance available in Ali Addeh camp or the slim chance of being considered for resettlement in a third country.

The factors that lead people to leave their homes, communities and lands in search of safety are complex. Repression, social violence, armed conflict, poverty and forced displacement co-exist and reinforce each other. The immediate cause of flight is almost always the danger of human rights abuse. …

The growing number of refugees is neither a temporary problem nor the random product of chance events. It is the predictable consequence of human rights crises, the result of decisions made by individuals who wield power over people’s lives. If governments did their job – if they protected their citizens instead of persecuting them – then those in exile could return home safely, and no more men, women and children would have to gamble on an uncertain future in a foreign land.

- Amnesty International. Refuge! Africa. In search of safety: The forcibly displaced and human rights in Africa. Index AFR 01/05/97. London. June 1997 (pp.1 and 6).

– Full Report (pdf format)