Four OLF High-ranking Officers Remain Behind Bars contradicting Court Order

 The four Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) officers, Mikael Boran, Dawit Abdeta, Lemi Begna, and Gada Gabisa were declared free by Burayu District Court following an assessment of their Habeas Corpus request on 18 July,2022. The remainder of the release procedure has been finalized as of 25 July, however they remain in police custody their lawyer explains.

Free Them All

We have completed all the legal processes and submitted a letter to the Burayu Police Station and the Oromia Police Commission. However, they have remained silent after receiving the letter, without giving any further reply,” said the lawyer of the OLF officials.

OLF issued a statement, on 26 July,2022 calling for the immediate and unconditional release of its party leaders who are imprisoned without committing any crimes. The statement added, even though OLF is a legally registered party, the leaders, officers and members of the party are illegally detained. Furthermore, the OLF statement said that the courts at various levels have been ordering the release of the members, leaders and officials of the party after confirming their acquittal. In the same statement, OLF cited reports of Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) that confirmed illegal detention of political party members.

When asked what the next legal steps could be for the release of the four OLF officers, their lawyer said, “There is nothing left in the courts. The court and the prosecutor acquitted them. The problem is with the Police.”

The National Electoral  Board of Ethiopia in a letter dated 4 March, 2022 said it established petition investigative teams in Oromia, Benishangul Gumuz, Southern Nations and Peoples region, Amhara, Southwest and Sidama regions as well as in Addis Abeba municipality following complaint from opposition parties. The investigation team constituted of one member from the ruling party, two members from the NEBE and one from the petitioning parties.

After the committee completed its investigation, the election board said that some administrative and judicial bodies view the OLF as an illegal party . The committee also visited 29 prisons and  facilitated the release of 82 people including the chairman of OLF as well as 13 members of Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC). However, the majority of OLF members remain behind bars. 

Last May, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) released a report on its investigation into the detention of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) leaders in various detention centers in Oromia. The report confirmed that many OLF leaders and members are “illegally detained”. It was also documented that the OLF has repeatedly demanded the release of its leaders and confirmed that they were tortured by the police while in custody.

Women, elders and children under Abiy regime’s crackdowns: suffering in its all stake

 

Ethiopia became the scene of a political crackdown, communal unrest, and civil wars.These burdens include losing loved ones and caring for victims of torture or as a result of war. A lot are forced to raise children alone, either as a result of loss of partners in conflicts or to state crackdown and some are denied that as they are behind bars. Their only fault is daring to engage in politics, and as a reward, the state inflicts upon them the harshest forms of brutality. It ranges from physical and psychological abuse followed often by sexual violence. 

Some like Lidia Abera lose their loved ones to the brutality of the state and after the fact are subjected to the horrors. Lidia who is originally from the Kellem Wollega zone in the Oromia region, lost her father Abera Tolesa to torture at the hands of security forces while in custody, He was held in Sankele prison. According to family members, they fled to Addis Abeba due to constant harassment by security forces, following the death of Lidia’s father. Unfortunately, security forces tracked them down and arrested Lidia on April 17, 2020, only a few days after the arrest of her brother Henok Abera. 

Family members who talked to Addis Standard described how they failed to locate Lidia until she appeared on the regional broadcaster Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN) on June 11, 2020, alleging she was a member of Aba Torbee (an assassination squad allegedly operating under the guise of the Oromo Liberation Army). A family member who in fear for their safety asked to remain anonymous, witnessed  “When we saw her on TV, we were in disbelief because we didn’t think it was her. Her appearance changed. We were searching for her, we don’t know where they kept her all that time.”

“It is visible that she sustained injuries during her disappearance but she wouldn’t talk about it,” said the family member while adding that to this day she refuses to talk about the issue for fear that it will affect her mother’s mental health. The family member added, “To this day she has difficulty moving her legs. When asked about it she says it is nothing.” Lidia is still taking medications to treat complications that arose from her time in custody. 

The worst crackdown that Oromia witnessed since the fall of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) led Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democracy Front (EPRDF), came shortly after the assassination of Hachalu Hundesa, many women in Oromia were arrested or became victims of state-sanctioned violence. Their stories were sidelined due to the arrest of high-profile political figures like Jawar Mohammed, and Bekele Gerba. Two women who were arrested in the crackdown are Kemila Kadir and Foziya Jundi. Both were sentenced to 16 and 15 years respectively for the responsibility for the death of people during a protest after the assassination of Hachalu Hundesa. A family member of Foziya Jundi first witnessed  and asked for anonymity as the fear of surveillance on their family persists, saying, “The atmosphere of fear is still growing.” 

Fozia, a mother of two, is currently serving 15 years in prison, but the family says her arrest and the court proceeding were unjust. Initially, she was arrested and charged with participating in the protests that broke out following the assassination of Hachalu Hundesa. Her family member recounted, “She was arrested for allegedly participating in and organizing the protest. She later was charged for using hate speech, for using the term “Neftegna” but now she is convicted of murder.” The family is confused about the entire procedure and wonders still about the turnout of events and how can someone be connected to crimes they are not even charged with. 

These incidents are only mentioned in the margins of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) reports and many international rights groups ignored the tragedy of women in Oromia to pursue similar violations in the northern part of the country. Investigations on the violations committed against women political prisoners are rarely carried, out and/or written on the sideline of major human rights reports. 

The conflict in Oromia did not spare human rights activists such as Chaltu Asfaw, a 29-year-old Oromo women’s rights advocate. She was arrested on November 11, 2021, during Ethiopia’s nationwide state of emergency.  Chaltu is serving as head of finance for a legally registered women’s empowerment NGO called Adoye. 

According to her family, Chaltu was under surveillance and constant harassment by security forces, which included suspending her bank accounts. Moreover, family members disclosed that the security forces tried to intimidate Chaltu by telling her, “Your organization should work with the government,” a proposal she refused alongside her colleagues.  

After her arrest, she spent two days in a police station, and then she was transferred to Maekelawi, the infamous notorious prison the government announced its closure in the dawn of the reform. For weeks her family was denied access to visits, to be allowed visits twice a week later on.  Chaltu only appeared in court after the state of emergency was lifted. The police accused her of terrorism, but no charges were filed officially. Chaltu remains for the second time in her life in prison awaiting charges. 

More often women are not only targeted not only for their alleged crimes but for the alleged crimes of their family members. In May last year, the EHRC published a thorough report on law enforcement operations in the Oromia region, which highlighted family members, including women, who were imprisoned on the premise that their family members were linked to the OLA. According to the article, arrested family members are being asked to hand up those suspected of having ties to OLA. The report featured pregnant, lactating mothers and mothers with their children. One example is Amane, a lactating mother currently under arrest in Asella, Oromia for her husband’s participation in politics. 

It seems unlikely that the new war declared in Oromia against the OLA, which is designated terrorist by parliament and other groups the government described as “Islamic extremists” will spare women. Previously, wives of religious clergy in West and East Hararghe, Arsi, and West Arsi as well as Bale zones fell victims to violence that targeted their spouses. Most famously the case shooting of an Imam in Asasa along with his wife and nursing child in August 2020 by security forces.

Abiy's regime (Prosperity Party) must release all political prisoners and journalists

 

Free Them All!

Judges at the Oromia Supreme Court who are presiding over the case involving 17 defendants, including two journalists from Oromia News Network (ONN), on 21 July decided to accept the charges by the prosecutor and proceed with the hearing. However, the defense team said that the decision by the judges to proceed with the hearing contradicted the court’s own earlier ruling asking the prosecutor to amend various parts of the initial charges that invoked, among other charges, Article 258/A of the Criminal Code, which discusses provisions of the death penalty.

The judges ruled to proceed with the hearing yesterday against the defense’s argument that the substance of the amended charges by the prosecutor, especially on Article 258/A, remained similar with the previous one which were up for amendment as per the court’s own ruling.

The 17 defendants under the file name of Qasim Abdullahi includes ONN journalists Bikila Amenu and Dessu Dulla, who were detained in November and May 2021, respectively. They are facing charges on criminal and terrorism offenses under Article 27, Article 32, Article 238/1/B, as well as Article 258/A of the Criminal Code. The charges brought by the prosecutors in April this year include intent to commit crimes, committing crimes, and outrage against the constitution or the constitutional order. Under these criminal provisions, the prosecutor accused the defendants of attempting to dismantle the legally established government of Oromia regional state, and install in its place the Oromia Regional National Transitional Government (ORNTG), in violation of article 238/1/B of the criminal code.

The charges under Article 258/A of the Criminal Code discuss the legal punishment provisions under “Aggravation to the Crime.” The provision deals with punishment “for which the law provides the alternative of rigorous imprisonment for life or death, the Court shall pass sentence of death,” making the possibilities that if convicted the accused will face “rigorous imprisonment for life or death.”

The charges also included charges of terrorism related offenses against Khalifa Abdufeta, the 7th defendant in the same file name.

Subsequently, the defense team has fielded its objections against the charges on the grounds of “principles of legality”, under Article 2 of the criminal code; as well as under article 19 and article 29 of the federal constitution on the basis of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, among others.

The defense team argued that the activities of establishing the said Oromia Regional National Transitional Government were organized peacefully under the auspices of a legally registered opposition party, specifically the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). The party has publicly declared the need for establishing a transitional government in Oromia regional state, the defense team argued, including by issuing official press releases where there was no violence committed by any of their clients. The defense team also argued that official letters describing OLF’s political alternatives were submitted to various offices within the Oromia state government and civil servants, rendering the prosecutor’s argument on allegations of violence irrelevant.

Additionally, the defense team argued that the terrorism charges against the 7th defendant Khalifa Abdufeta, and the alleged accusation against him of “supporting OLF/Shene professionally and with information” were mere allegations which were not backed by actual evidences. Similarly, invoking Article 258, which is a provision about punishment, merits no legal proceeding and was only done to create psychological duress on the defendants.

At a hearing on 07 July, the Oromia Supreme Court has accepted the defense’s argument against the prosecutor’s invocation of article 258 and ordered prosecutors to amend the charges including removing the article from the remaining charges on the basis that punishment provisions cannot be discussed during ongoing trials. The Court also accepted the defense’s argument on the need to amend the charges under article 238/1/B of the criminal code, lack of evidence against the 7th defendant who is charged under terrorism offenses, as well as the request for the prosecutors to separate the charges that summarily accused all the 17 defendants without indicating the allegations against each defendant.

However, the Prosecutor returned to the next hearing on 18 July with no amendment to the charges under Article 258, as well as the remaining order from the Court, including on the order for evidence against the 7th defendant, as per the ruling from the court, prompting the defense team to file for dismissal of the charges against their clients on the basis that prosecutors were unable to comply with the Court’s orders and other irregularities. The Court however ordered the prosecutor to amend the charges for the second time, which led to the defendants to file an appeal for the removal of the judges from the bench on the basis of bias and unfairness.

The defense team lost the appeal for the removal of the judges, as well as the appeal for the dismissal of the charges, leading to the hearing on Thursday 21 July.

Tolemariam Magarsa, legal counsel to the defendants, witnessed that the appeal filed by the defendants for the dismissal of the charges after the prosecutor failed to amend the charges under Article 258 was ruled void. “The court stated that the major points in the charge were not listed under Article 258, but under article 238 of the criminal code; for this reason, the defendants’ appeal was dropped and the amended charges by the prosecutor were accepted,” he said.

But according to Milkias Bulcha, another member of the defense team, the court’s decision on 21 July to proceed with the hearing contravened its own decision earlier ordering the prosecutors to amend the charges. “The prosecutor did not comply with the court’s ruling for amendment and the court’s decision to proceed with the hearing contravened its own earlier decision that sought for amendment in the charges,” Milkias witnessed.

Subsequently, according to Tolemariam, the defense began giving counterarguments against prosecutor’s charges and argued that establishing the Oromia Regional National Transitional Government (ORNTG) constitutes no offense, and is guaranteed by the constitution under the right to freedom of expression. The defense also said that official letters on the ORNTG political programs were sent to the Oromia Police Commission, Oromia President’s office Oromia Justice Bureau, the regional parliament, and other regional state institutions and civil service offices peacefully and with “no crimes committed.”

The hearing yesterday was also when the defense team’s request for bail has been overturned by the court. “The defendants have known addresses, they have responsibilities delegated to them by their party, they can’t evade the law and taking into consideration the stress their families are under as well as the impacts on the party’s work,” Tolemariam said explaining why the defense team fielded for bail. However, the prosecutor objected the request on the grounds that that the defendants have no addresses and pose a flight risk.

Although the Court has rejected the request for bail, it adjourned another hearing on 02 August to review and decide on the matter.

Most of the 17 defendants were arrested in November last year and are detained at Dalati police station in Sabata town, in Oromia Regional State Special Zone Surrounding Finfinne. Except for the two journalists, the remaining 15 are members of the opposition party OLF who were serving the party in various capacities,

Vice-chairman of Finfinnee Renaissance Association missing after detained by Abiy' security forces

 

Henock Dejene, Vice-chairman of the Finfinnee Renaissance Association, was taken from his home by security forces a week ago by security forces who said he was wanted “in connection with current affairs”; since then he has not appeared in court and his whereabouts remain uncertain.

Henock was taken from his home by security forces on 10 July 2022. Speaking on the events surrounding his arrest, the family member who wants to remain anonymous said, “two individuals dressed in civil clothes came in and told him to get dressed; [they also] took his phone and arrested him without offering any clarifications as to why.”

The plain clothes individuals were not in possession of a court warrant but only showed him their security IDs. “After taking him, they returned with the police and searched the house, during their search, they found and confiscated a flag of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and a picture of Jawar Mohammed.”

The family member also said that during the search, both the Ethiopian and OLF flags were found however, only the OLF flag was registered as ‘OLF Shane flag’, Henock protested and was able to sign a declaration that the flag found was only that of the OLF, which is a legally-registered party. 

On the day of his arrest, he was taken to the police station near Adwa bridge in Addis Abeba and later on transferred to the police station in Yeka Woreda 07. “On Tuesday, July 12, 2022, he was scheduled to appear at the Lideta court but he didn’t. We have been visiting him till July 12, after which he went missing.”

The family expected that he would be taken to court with other people. “The next day, when we went to the prison, they told us he had been taken to Abba Samuel prison in the evening. We went there too, but we were notified that he might have been taken to Awash 7.”

Henock Dejene, a father of three and a civil servant, was previously detained for a day but released soon after afterward. But now not knowing where Henock is has put “a lot of mental stress” on the family.

Finfinnee Renaissance Association is a legally recognized association in accordance with Proclamation No. 1113/2011. The association is focused on activities around developing Oromo culture and norms on voluntary basis.  

The Association released a statement on its Facebook page saying “our deputy chairman, Henock Dejene, for reasons unclear to date, was taken and his whereabouts remain unknown to his family and members of the association, causing much distress. Thus, we are requesting the government to notify us about the location and condition Henock is in, and similarly, if he has committed a crime, we ask for the respect of the legal court procedures in that regard.’’

Kumsa Diribsa (Marroo)’s interview with Riyoot Media. Here are some important points that he made in the interview ,

Kumsa Diribsa (Marroo)’s interview with Riyoot Media. Here are some important points that he made in the interview ;

1. He indicated that there is a moral failure in the ruling regime’s leadership, which may be making the regime to use civilian deaths for political tool and war policy.

2. He was manifestly and unequivocally clear that Civilian deaths in the country must stop; and an independent investigation (fact finding) should be dispatched to the conflict zones of oromia. He says “our door is open for anyone who would want to establish the truth with a sufficient evidence.”

3. He also indicated that former soldiers from the OLA who were genuinely disarmed in 2018 by Oromia technical committee of 71 members (the soldiers who agreed to be disarmed were close to 1,000 in number according to him) are now retrained by Abiy Ahmed’s regime and dispatched back to Oromoo zones with the intent and plan to carry out operations that, according to him “frame up or blame civilian deaths on the OLA.”

- this event from 2018 warrants further research in order to learn the dynamic between local and international standard of disarming and reintegration. We need to set the record of 2018 straight for future conflict resolution efforts. What went wrong in 2018? Why did peace effort fail in 2018? Needs an in-depth research exercise.

4. He also indicated there is a heavy presence in Ethiopia of soldiers and intelligence forces belonging Isayas Afeworki of Eritrea.

You can hear the full interview from the link below;

(15) Reyot | ብሄር ተኮር ፍጅት ፈጻሚው በእርግጥ ማን ነው? ቆይታ ከኦሮሞ ነጻነት ሰራዊት አዛዥ JaalMarroo ጋር። 07/09/2022 - YouTube

Northern Ethiopia’s War Overshadows Ongoing Cycles of Violence in Oromia , HRW

 In November 2020, global attention turned to the outbreak of conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region between Ethiopian government forces and its allies against Tigrayan forces. The fighting followed a year of growing political tensions between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigray’s regional authorities, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).

By July 2021, the conflict had spread to Tigray’s neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara. Original research by Human Rights Watch found serious violations of international humanitarian law by warring parties, including summary executions, widespread sexual violence, and the pillage of property. Tigrayan civilians have also faced a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign. Despite the declaration of a humanitarian truce in late March 2022, abuses are still ongoing.

Yet, well before the conflict in northern Ethiopia, there has been widespread impunity for ongoing rights abuses in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, including in areas already suffering from conflict. Many of these abuses still persist and require urgent international attention.

This week marked the two-year anniversary of the assassination of the popular singer, Hachalu Hundessa, who was gunned down in the nation’s capital, Addis Ababa.

THE KILLING OF AN ICON

The killing of an icon of the country’s Oromo protest movement triggered widespread unrest and violence — particularly in the Oromia region — that left at least 178 people dead. These events marked a turning point in the deteriorating rights environment in the country.

At the time, in 2020, protesters mourning Hachalu’s death took the streets across Oromia and in Ethiopia’s capital. Security forces cracked down on the mourners, killing or injuring dozens. Hachalu’s uncle was among several mourners that security forces killed in front of the Hachalu’ family home in Ambo town before the burial. One witness told us, “It was Hachalu’s uncle that was shot first in the neck, he couldn’t survive and immediately passed away. Then heavy firing erupted. The shooting killed many others.”

Affected communities across the board repeatedly called for credible investigations and redress. Instead, the government arbitrarily arrested thousands of Oromos and left many languish in overcrowded detention sites such as warehouses, police stations, and schools for months without ever facing trial. In May 2021, Ethiopia’s national human rights commission documented widespread arbitrary detentions that lacked any judicial oversight.

Authorities also arbitrarily arrested dozens of politicians from across the political spectrum, reportedly denying many basic due process rights in connection with the unrest. While most were released in early 2022, opposition politicians from the Oromo Liberation Front remain in detention despite multiple judicial orders instructing they be released on bail. In addition, some have become ill, reportedly due to a lack of adequate medical care.

WIDESPREAD ABUSES IN OROMIA

In western Oromia, an abusive government counter-insurgency campaign against an armed group, the Oromo Liberation Army, was already underway, with civilians caught in between suffering numerous abuses. By early 2019, the government had established a federal command post, which coordinates federal and regional security forces in western Oromia. In addition, the authorities have sporadically cut communications in western Oromia, including imposing a three-month shutdown in early 2020. Aid agencies, the media, and rights groups have also had limited access to the region.

Despite these restrictions, human rights groups and the media have been able to report on serious abuses by government forces, including summary executions and arbitrary detentions. Armed groups have also abducted or killed minority community members and government officials.

Security forces have targeted young Oromos, accusing them of support for or affiliation with the armed group. In May 2021, government security forces summarily executed a 17-year-old Oromo boy in broad daylight. Government officials callously filmed the execution and later posted segments put on a government Facebook page. Instead of immediately investigating this horrific incident, government officials intimidated and arrested the boy’s family members and friends.

A culture of impunity for security abuses has only emboldened unaccountable security forces and done nothing to prevent further harm.

Ethiopia’s government and its partners should no longer ignore the mounting tragedies affecting families throughout Oromia. There is a deep need for structural reforms of the abusive security apparatus and for social repair.

The government can start by facilitating credible independent investigations into the serious abuses by its own forces and by armed groups, as communities demanded. This would help demonstrate that it is serious about ending the abuses that have wreaked havoc on Oromia residents.

Source: /www.hrw.org/news/2022/07/04/

OLF Statement on the Deepening Violence in Oromia.

 OLF Statement on the Deepening Violence in Oromia.

The conflict-ridden Horn of Africa is facing a critical moment in this period. An incident in one part of the region drags more chain of violence in another. OLF believes the issue must be handled ingeniously. Yet the Ethiopian Prosperity Party leaders are behaving recklessly. The suffering of people, death, displacement and hunger are seen as habitual. Repent of past mistakes is not thought of.

Recently, Presidents of Amhara and Oromia regional states announced, in Bahir Dar, a new pact to conduct war to wipe out the “rebels” (Oneg Shane) in Oromia. Following this pact, military convoys of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) with heavily armed security forces have entered Oromia in a different directions from Amhara Regional State.

Several rounds of such brutal and violent responses against the deep-rooted political problems in Ethiopia have turned out to be futile. What featured were killings of civilians, children, youth, older men and women, burning of villages, destruction of crops on the field and in the granaries, suffering and displacement. Currently, Ethiopia harbors the largest internally displaced people in the Horn of Africa. The hunger of thousands of people is already recorded. Famine is looming. Attempts at resolving political problems through violent means have proved inconsequential in Oromia over the last 50 years. This time around, the impact of the violence would be much dearer than ever as the intensity of the response is huge.

We call upon the presidents of both regions to call off this offensive, end this violence and resolve the conflict through peaceful means. We would remind them that the responsibility for further bloodshed, deepening the already complex contradiction, suffering and displacement of the civilians is on the leaders.

We also call upon the other regions of Ethiopia not to take part in this action for the sake of our people's mutual benefit, friendship and fraternity and the peaceful coexistence of peoples that is so needed in this troubled region of the Horn.

Victory to the Masses!

Oromo Liberation Front

July 2022

Finfinnee, Oromia

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Waraanaa fi Haleellaa Oromiyaa Keesssatti Hidda

Gad-Jabeeffachaa Jiru Ilaalchisee Ibsa ABO

Walitti bu’insaa fi wal-waraansi gaanfa Afirikaa tibbana sadarkaa yaaddessaa irra ga’ee jira. Naannicha keessatti bakka tokkotti rakkoon yoo dhalate iddoo biraattis rakkoo uumuudhaan wal harkisee babal’achaa deema. ABOn dhimmi kun of eeggannoo fi hubannaadhaan qabamuu qaba jedhee amana. Haatahu malee gaggeessitoonni Paartii Bilxiginnaa adeemsa maal na dhibdee deemaa jiru. Dararami, duuti, buqqaafamuu fi beellii uummataa bartee jireenya guyyaa guyyaa uummatichaa ta’ee jira. Dogoggorama baroota darban raawwatamaniif qaamni yaade ammallee hin jiru.

Tibbana pirezidantonni Mootummaa Naannoo Amaaraa fi Mootummaa Naannoo Oromiyaa Baahirdaaritti walga’anii mari’achuudhaan ‘Riphe loltoota” Oromiyaa keessa jiraatan kan isaan “Oneg Shanee” jedhanii waaman irratti waraana labsanii jiru. Kanumaan Loltoonni Raayyaa Ittisa Biyyaa meeshaalee gurguddoo hidhatan Naannoo Amaaraa irraa kallattii garaagaraan Oromiyaa seenaa jiru.

Rakkoo maddi isaa siyaasa ta’eef deebii akkanaa marsaalee hedduu deddeebi’anii yoo kennan yooimyyuu fala hin taane. Tarkaanfii akkanaa marsaa marsaadhaan deddeebi’ee fudhatamaa tureen uummata nagaa, daa’’imman, dargaggoota, namoota raagan fi dubartootatu ajjeeffama, mana namoota nagaatu gubama, midhaan oyiruu fi gumbii keessatti mancaafama, namootatu qe’ee fi qabeenya isaanii irraa buqqaafama. Yeroo kanatti Itoophiyaan baay’ina namoota biyya isaanii keessatti qe’eef qabeenya isaaniirraa buqqaafamaniin sadarkaa jalqabaa irratti argamti. Namoonni kumootaan lakkaa’aman beela’anii jiru. Ongeenis hammaachaa jira. Rakkoolee kanneen humna waraanaan furuuf yaaluu bu’aa tokkollee hin qabaanne waggoota 50 darban arginee jirra. Keessumaa ammo yeroo ammaa kana humna waraanaatiin rakkoo siyaasaa biyyattii furuuf yaaluun balaa baay’ee hamaa ta’e qabatee dhufa.

Waan kana ta’eef pirezidaantonni naannolee lamaanuu tarkaanfii lola labsuu kanarraa of qusatanii, marii fi karaa nagaatiin rakkoo jiru furuuf akka hojjetan waamicha goona. Kana ta’uu baannaan dhiigga dhangala’uuf deemuu fi rakkoo inumaa uummata gidduutti hammaachuuf jiruu, dararamaa fi buqqaafamuu uummata nagaa kanaan walqabatee dhufuuf gaggeesitoota kanneentu itti gaafatama.

Naannooleen Itoophiyaa biroon dantaa waliinii, obbolummaa, hariiroo fi nagaan waliin jiraachuun uummata sabaaf sablammoota biyyattii gidduu jiru akka hin boorofneef gocha kana keessatti akka hin hirmaanne hubachiifna.

Injifannoo Uummata Bal’aaf!

Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo

Finfinnee, Oromiyaa