Caffee Oromiyaa Should Stop Handing Over Major Oromian Towns
to TPLF
A Statement of
Qeerroo Bilisummaa Opposing the Addis Ababa Master Plan Approved by Caffee
Oromiyaa Finfinnee (Addis Ababa)
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| Stop Handing Over Major Oromian Towns to TPLF |
The so called “Parliament of the Oromia Regional State” aka
Caffee Oromiyaa has currently rectified the so called Addis Ababa Integrated
Developmental Master Plan which is prepared by the TPLF led federal government
to evict Oromo farmers from their ancestral land and control several Oromo
towns and eventually dismantle the state of Oromia. The National Youth Movemnet
for Freedom and Democracy (NYMFD) aka Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo strongly
condemns this plan and hereby releases the following seven-point statement
declaring to mobilize Oromo youth for an intensified resistance and protest to
stop its implementation. This so called Master Plan is declared as an organized
campaign by the minority Tigrean led federal government of Ethiopia to
exterminate and assimilate the Oromo as an indigenous people and destroy and
dismantle our homeland Oromia and control our natural resources. The so called
proclamation is exclusively prepared by the TPLF elite circles and presented to
the so called Caffee Oromia Parliament, which is composed of members of the so
called Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO), an organization which is
nominally considered as part of the ruling EPRDF party but in essence under the
complete control of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). As expected,
the Caffee Oromian Parliament, on its conference of October 1 – 3, 2015, has
approved a more extended plan not only to expand the capital Addis Ababa to
include several neighboring Oromo towns but also to put several Oromian towns
beyond the reach of the capital under the TPLF/EPRDF federal administration.
Nothing more is expected from this parliament as its members are cherry-picked
from some Oromo speaking dummies by TPLF elites through the so called 2015 sham
election in which the EPRDF declared 100% victory. Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo
condemns this evil plan in the strongest possible terms and will wage a bitter
and Oromia wide struggle to stop its This declaration of “Master Plan” can be
seen as a declaration of war on the Oromo people. It is intended not only to
take away Oromo land and resources but also to destroy the Oromo culture,
language, and identity and dismantle our ancestral land Oromia and eradicate
the Oromo people from the face of the earth. The organization of Qeerroo
Bilisummaa Oromoo, Oromo youth, Oromo students and the Oromo people in general
once again strongly denounce this plan and will do everything possible to stop
its implementation. The Ethiopian Federal government had attempted to pass this
so called Addis Ababa Master Plan in 2014 to control and to incorporate several
big towns such as Ambo, Jimma, Mattu, Nekemte, Ghmbi, Waliso, Adama,
Shashemene, Haromaya and others. At that time Qeerroo Bilisummaa and Oromo
students submitted a nine-point appeal to all concerned government bodies.
Since our appeal fell on deaf ears, we opposed the plan by igniting an
Ormia-wide protest in which at least 280 Oromo students have been killed
hundreds more wounded and tens of thousands jailed and tortured. The current
declaration approved by Caffee Oromiyaa is done on the graves of the lives
hundreds of Oromo school children killed in 2014 in opposition of the same
plan. It is a declaration intended to be implemented through the barrel of the
gun and by way of terrorizing the Oromo public. It is a historical crime
against humanity and Caffee Oromiyaa and the TPLF government will be
responsible for its consequences. It is imperative that the entire Oromo people
throughout the world not only strongly condemn but also stand in unison and
resist and prevent it from being implemented. Qeerroo Bilisummaa therefore is
determined to stand on the way of this evil plan and fight for the right of our
people and hereby declare the following seven-point resolutions. 1. We members
of Oromo youth and Qeerroo hereby declare to wage and intensify an Oromia-wide
protest of the Oromo people opposing the so called Master Plan of the TPLF led
Ethiopian regime currently approved by the so called Caffee Oromiyaa who claims
to represent the Oromo people. We will strongly support the voices of the Oromo
youth recently manifested at Lake Arsadi (Bishoftu) Irreechaa festival and at
Malkaa Ateetee Irreechaa event in Burayyuu through various traditional songs
and slogans denouncing the Master Plan and uphold the resolutions informally
passed by Oromo youth on those events. 2. We call upon the Oromian Regional
Administration and Caffee Oromian Parliament to immediately nullify and stop
the Master Plan and extended plan to give away and sell Oromian towns as
approved on October 1 – 3, 2015. We hereby declare that the so called Caffee
Oromian Parliament does not in any way represent the Oromo people and does not
speak for the Oromo people. Therefore, any resolution passed, including the
current master plan, is null and void. If Caffee Oromian Parliament doesn’t
cancel this plan, the Oromo people should stand up and request for this body to
be legally responsible for the historical crimes it committed on the Oromo
generation. 3. We reiterate that Caffee Oromian Parliament will be solely
responsible for the crimes of killing, abduction, arrest, torture that have
been committed by the TPLF/EPRDF government on the Oromo people and other
oppressed people of the Ethiopian Empire and that are yet to be committed as a
consequence of the resistance of the Oromo public. 4. We call upon the Oromo
youth, Oromo civil servants, Oromo farmers, Oromo students, Oromo health
professionals, members of Oromian police, Oromos who serve in the military of
the regime to hold members of Caffee Oromian Parliament represented in your
area responsible for their actions of crimes in the name of being their
“representatives”. 5. We cannot keep silent while our homeland Oromia is
dismantled; our land is sold to transnational investors; our people are
incarcerated, tortured and killed in mass on a daily basis; our students are
dismissed from school, our farmers are evicted from their ancestral land; and
the lives of millions of
Oromos are taken away by man-made famine and disease.
Therefore, we call upon the entire Oromo people to stand in unison and struggle
for our rights and stop this evil so called Master Plan. 6. We call upon all
Oromo political and civic organizations, Oromo intellectuals and Oromo business
men and women to join the Oromo people and the Oromo youth and avert this evil
plan approved by Caffee Oromiyaa. We reiterate that it is your responsibility
to liberate your homeland and your people from subjugation and save your country
Oromia from being dismantled and dismembered into several pieces. 7. We call
upon members of the Oromian Police and Oromian militiamen and Oromos serving
the regime in the military to join your people and oppose the master plan
approved by Caffee Oromia for the intention of controlling the Oromo people and
our homeland Oromia.
Victory to the Oromo people!
Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo,
October , 2015
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