The Oromo people need Protection, urgently!

 

The Oromo people need Protection, urgently. As the largest ethnic group the Oromo nation have suffered variations of atrocity crimes perpetrated by successive regimes. Because of their numerical strength and their huge, strategically located, and resource-rich homeland, the Oromo have been seen by the architects of the hegemony as a vast treasure trove of wealth to loot and a strategic anchor for further expansion and predation. Naturally, the Oromo have mounted an epic struggle to resist dictatorship . Times, regimes, circumstances, and fortunes have changed, but the struggle has continued.

Under Abiy Ahmed and his Prosperity Party (PP), the plight of the Oromo has worsened. Initially Abiy’s partially Oromo heritage and his meteoric rise to fame as a man of peace and Nobel Peace Laureate caused many to see a glimmer of hope. But that was not only premature; it was entirely misplaced. PP turned out to be ideal vessels for a new and more lethal variant of fascism.

Currently Oromos collectively face massive, vicious & well-coordinated assault that has the hallmarks of a rare and multi-faceted form of Genocide, ethnically, nationally, and culturally. The all out campaign against Oromo started long before the outbreak of the war in Northern Ethiopia . The Rose Terror, as I described it elsewhere, has ravaged much of Oromia largely in the dark. Oromo politicians, political parties, civic and professional organizations, traditional elders, religious leaders, artists, students, traders, farmers, businessmen, journalists, media outlets, ordinary villagers have been marked for mass incarceration, torture, targeted assassination, or mass slaughter.