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Ethiopia - Wide Spread Arrest in all Corners of Oromia

10/30/07

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Ethiopia - Wide Spread Arrest in all Corners of Oromia

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Ethiopia - Wide Spread Arrest in all Corners of Oromia Continues Unabated


The Advocacy for the Fundamental Rights of Oromos & Others (AFRO-O) would like to inform Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch about the ongoing mass arrests and torture of hundreds of Oromos in Ethiopia at the present time. Last week, when pressed by Oromo opposition parliament members the Ethiopian prime minister admitted that his government is arresting some Oromos because they were Oromo Liberation Front members and supporters. He went even further by accusing senior opposition MPs, including the honorable Bulcha Demeksa and the honorable Dr.Marara Gudina, of being OLF leaders themselves. He further threatened them by saying that “once the government had enough evidence the culprits would be arrested and put on trial.” This in itself is a clear breach of principle of any democratic governance, for the leader of the ruling party to threaten members of parliament with arrest.
The Advocacy for the Fundamental Rights of Oromos & Others (AFRO-O) has just received a list of 148 Oromo men, women, students and farmers and their places of residences and locations of their detentions. We notice the fact that many individuals are brought to the famous Makelawi detention center in the capital, Addis Ababa, known to Oromos as Finfine. We strongly suspect that the reason for transporting these individuals to the Makelawi is to torture them. The Makelawi in Ethiopia is synonymous with torture to the Oromo people and other Ethiopians. All the listed Oromo individuals are suspected of involvement with the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). We believe that the list is a “tip of the Iceberg,” since the arrests are in the thousands according to news reaching us and are ongoing.

We appeal to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to follow up and investigate these new arrests and their plight to all peace loving people around the globe. We suspect that the real reason for these new arrests is to intimidate the electorate into supporting the ruling party of Prime Minister Zenawi.

Thank you for all your work in supporting those whose rights are denied

Sincerely,

Advocacy for the Fundamental Rights of Oromos & Others (AFRO-O)
P.O. Box 422
Burtonsville, MD 20866

Website: www.afro-o.org


Partial List of Oromos Recently Detained by the Ethiopian Regime

Detainees Name Place of Arrest Held At:
Profession

1 Chanalew Beliu Bedele Makelawi Businessman

2 Jiad Said Matu Makelawi Self employed

3Tamrat Demise Bedele Makelawi Self employed

4 Ethiopia Temesgen Bedele Makelawi Self employed

5 Kalifa Jima Makelawi Student

6 Windimu Fiqire Bedele Makelawi Businessman

7 Sherif Ibrahim Jima Makelawi Businessman

8 Feqadu Bulti Jima Makelawi Development Agent D.A

9 Aduna Balcha Addis Ababa Makelawi Teacher

10 Germa Tesfaye Jima Makelawi Businessman

11 Dawit Kana'a Jima Makelawi Businessman

12 Mohammed Abanaga Jima Makelawi Businessman

13 Mohammed Siraji Jima Makelawi Businessman

14 Tola Chali Addis Ababa Makelawi Barber

15 Muzeyen Gudeta Bedele Makelawi Carpenter

16 Muzeyen Itana Bedele Bedele Police.Station Teacher

17 Ayana Zewude Bedele Bedele Police.Station Development Agent D.A

18 Meseret Binor Bedele Bedele Police.Station Student

19 Naser Abamagal Bedele Bedele Police.Station Self employed

20 Mitiku Gamta Bedele Bedele Police.Station Farmer

21 Habtamu Waga Bedele Bedele Police.Station Civil Servant

22 Solomon Tadese Bedele Bedele Police.Station Student

23 Feqede Jifar Bedele Bedele Polis.Station Bedele Bear Factory employee

24 Mokonen Kanaa Bedele Bedele Police.Station Bedele Bear Factory employee

25 Aliyi Waga Gachi Bedele Police.Station Farmer

26 Mintesenot Banti Bedele Bedele Police.Station Employee

27 Chala Teshome Bedele Bedele Police.Station Employee

28 Sefu Indashawu Bedele Bedele Police.Station Agri. Development Agent

29 Mohaba Abdir Gachi Bedele Police.Station Teacher

30 Itageny Kebede Gachi Unknown Self employed

31 Tadele Gorre Unknown Student

32 Abiot Hailu Matu Unknown Businessman

33 Alemayo Tola Urumu Unknown Employee

34 Dereje Alemu Dega Unknown Employee

35 Elias Naro Matu Unknown Employee

36 Gamachu Shambi Shashamane Unknown Employee

37 Kadir Waritu Shashamane Unknown Teacher

38 Umar Haji Abdirqadir Shashamane Shashamane Police.Station Farmer

39 Ahimed Aliye Shashamane Shashamane Police.Station Farmer

40 Shibru Tasisa Chawaka Bedele FPCCF

41 Desta Addis Shashamane Shashamane Job not specified

42 Jamal Nure Dodola Dodola Police.Station Job not specified

43 Lole Haji Titmo Dodola Dodola Police.Station Job not specified

44 Husen Shale Dodola Dodola Police.Station Job not specified

45 Mulugeta Tesfaye Dodola Dodola Police.Station Job not specified

46 Mohamed Ibrahim Dodola Dodola Police.Station Job not specified

47 Awal Bekele Dodola Dodola Police.Station Job not specified

48 Abera Deresa Dodola Arjo Police Station Job not specified

49 Mulugeta Barisisa Jima Arjo Arjo Police Station Job not specified

50 Abebe Wasane Jima Arjo Arjo Police Station Job not specified

51 Ashebeir Getacho Jima Arjo Arjo Police Station Job not specified

52 Amsalu Getacho Jima Arjo Arjo Police Station Job not specified

53 Fanta Tesema Jima Arjo Arjo Police Station Job not specified

54 Bedasa Chowaka Jima Arjo Arjo Police Station Job not specified

55 Luli Fekada Jima Arjo Arjo Police Station Job not specified

56 Kasahun Bekele Jima Arjo Arjo Police Station Job not specified

57 Dereje Fufa Jima Arjo Arjo Police Station Job not specified

58 Jirata Oljera Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

59 Kidane Chala Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

60 Bekuma Ragasa Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

61 Mekonen Ifa Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

62 Merga Ordofa Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

63 Aduna Jalata Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

64 Buli Tadese Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

65 Galane Tadese Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

66 Iticha Tadese Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

67 Tadese Qadir;u Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Job not specified

68 Addisu Dinkayo Jima Arjo Arjo prision center Teacher

69 Abarash Rafisa Unknown Nekemte Businessman

70 Gamachis Wodajo Nekemte Nekemte Teacher

71 Workine Dinsa Nekemte Nekemte Businessman

72 Fekadu Nagari Nekemte Nekemte Job not specified

73 Tesfaye Burayu Nekemte Nekemte Job not specified

74 Kebede Nanara Nekemte Nekemte Job not specified

75 Jerena Kaba Nekemte Nekemte Job not specified

76 Akasa Wakene Nekemte Nekemte Job not specified

77 Waqshum Namosa Nekemte Nekemte Student

78 Tamerat Tadese Nekemte Nekemte Student

79 Tekalin Alemayo Nekemte Nekemte Teacher

80 Ashiqu Degefa Chawaka Bedele Student

81 Tufa Furi Chawaka Bedele Teacher

82 Duguma Firrsa Chawaka Bedele Teacher

83 Awalu Alemu Chawaka Bedele Job not specified

84 Darge Galata Chawaka Bedele Job not specified

85 Melkamu Chawaka Bedele Job not specified

86 Getacho Chawaka Bedele Job not specified

87 Ismael Husen Darimu Darimu Job not specified

88 Husen Ibrahim Darimu Darimu Job not specified

89 Alemayo Olana Darimu Darimu Job not specified

90 Gabbata Darimu Darlmu Job not specified

91 Ibrahim Husain Darimu Darimu Job not specified

92 Jamal Abdi Darimu Darimu Job not specified

93 Gelda Geso Akaki Dukem Police Station 80 year old farmer

94 Amana Korbe Kofele Kofle Police Station Farmer

95 Amana Korbe Kofele Kofle Police Station Farmer

96 Pawlos Gemechu Adama Makelawi Farmer

97 Bera Adama Adama Police Station Farmer

98 Desalegn Obse Adama Adama Police Station Farmer

99 Denkinesh Unka Shashamane Shashamane Farmer

100 Addisu Badasa Addis Ababa Makelawi University Student

101 Demelash Taye Addis Ababa Makelawi Job not specified

102 Desalegn Debela Addis Ababa Makelawi Job not specified

103 Jirata Falmata Addis Ababa Makelaw Job not specified

104 Amsalu Tolesa Shambu Shambu Police Station Government employee

105 Mosisa Jallata Shambu Shambu Police Station Pharmacist

106 Tesfaye Hordofa Shambu Shambu Police Station Government employee

107 Haile Hambisa Shambu Shambu Police Station Government employee

108 Seyum Girma Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

109 Girma Tefera Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

110 Selemon Tsega Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

111 Fesiha Lema Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

112 Berhanu Abera Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

113 Dereje Janka Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

114 Cheru Zewde Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

115 Kara Zewde Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

116 Negash Meko Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

117 Fekadu Girar Jarso Fichee Farmer

118 Sibhatu Banja Addis Ababa Makelawi Employee

119 Berhanu Mulisa Addis Ababa Makelawi Employee

120 Hailagebriel Ararsa Addis Ababa Makelawi Employee

121 Kalbesa Abalu Addis Ababa Makelawi Employee

122 Dereje Yiheyis Addis Ababa Makelawi Employee

123 Furdisa Yadata Addis Ababa Makelawi Employee

124 Tewodros Mijena Lalo Asabi Unknown Job not specified

125 Fexene Imana Gaba Robi Gaba Robi Farmer

126 Raga Imana Gaba Robi Gaba Robi Teacher

127 Abiot Fekadu Bishoftu Unknown Student

128 Abdi Gari Bishoftu Bishoftu Student

129 Dadi Gallan Bishoftu Bishoftu Student

130 Kibru Bishoftu Bishoftu Student

131 Melka Tegenu Bishoftu Bishoftu Singer

132 Tuji Korjo Bishoftu Bishoftu Student

133 Efrem Lama Bishoftu Bishoftu Student

134 Abata Bekele Nakemte Makelawi Student

135 Dejeni Xasew Bishoftu Bishoftu Student

136 Asafa Mulat Bishoftu Bishoftu Student

137 Berhanu Tolera Bishoftu Bishoftu Student

138 Qatee Gidris Addis Ababa Makelawi Employee

139 Tamrat Abdo Bishoftu Bishoftu Student

140 Nanesa Lemu Yaya Gulele Yaya Gulele/Fital Farmer

141 Girma Gemeda Yaya Gulele Yaya Gulele/Fital Farmer

142 Kidane Girma Yaya Gulele Yaya Gulele/Fital Businessman

143 Tesfaye Gari Yaya Gulele Yaya Gulele/Fital Student

144 Ayelech Werku Yaya Gulele Yaya Gulele/Fital Student

145 Addis Bezaw Yaya Gulele Yaya Gulele/Fital Student

146 Dereje Hailu Yaya Gulele Yaya Gulele/Fital Businessman

147 Selemon Shumi Yaya Gulele Yaya Gulele/Fital Businessman

148 Teddi Berhanu Yaya Gulele Yaya Gulele/Fital Farmer

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msg Comment from: Warrior [Visitor]
Dear OLF Advocacy group, Even if the name list is in thousands it has nothing to do with peaceful Oromo people. But it has to do with Ethiopians who happen to be Oromos engaged in destabilizing activities in Ethiopia. In other words they are OLF and their sympathizer. Some body got to clean this mess and the present Ethiopian government is doing it. I hear a lot of EROR EYEY from here and there against Ethiopia in recent days. I wonder where this EYEYE and ERORO are coming from. I highly suspect it is from the Shabiyas or their TELALKI or any anti Ethiopian force. Wake up folks even Egypt is intending to build a nuclear plant with US green light. Folks if you are real Ethiopian we have to protect our national interest. OLF is useless and unproductive political organization. The present government will not be there for ever but Ethiopia as country should. As long as the government is doing it justly I will agree. This is how politics and business operates in any part of the world. One should simply image had this situation been in the US soil affecting their national interest. They would pin your ass in GUANTANMO Prison Thank you
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 00:44

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msg Comment from: Boona [Visitor]
May God be with them and their families
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 00:50

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msg Comment from: Nebil [Visitor]
booooooooooooooooohuuuuuuu...dont come here crying like a little baby. Oromos are living side by side in ethiopia just as and all do in the country.I bey u guyz have nothing to keep ur mind busy with, u sit infront of ur desktop and fabricate lies about oromos and ethiopians in general. I am sooo soo and sooo glad only ppl like u in disporar who re desperate re talking such nonsense and not in the country. Ethiopia tekedem. God bless...
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 00:54

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msg Comment from: wedi assab [Visitor]
wow for how long is gonna be like this aresting ppl because they are oromos God will be with all victim's of woyane and shaebia.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 00:58

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msg Comment from: 16years old Orboy [Visitor]
I used to like OLF until I found out they dislike anybody with Amhara or Tigray blood they call them mixed :roll: so everybody in Addise Ababa should start their own political party Call it MPOEFF

M mixed
P people
O Of
E Ethiopia
F For
F FReedom
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 01:10

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msg Comment from: hassan [Visitor]
meles is doing good job of disintegrating Ethiopia. there wont be Ethiopia after him
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 01:12

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msg Comment from: Cirrii [Visitor]
Detention of law abiding citizens will not remedy the internal crisis of Mr. Zenawi's regime. We might have been intimidated but We will never be defeated. Our question for freedom is not Either Or; It is Both And!, as once said by Dr. M. L. King, Jr. Oromo civil movement shall continue and we will prevail.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 01:17

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msg Comment from: Seleme [Visitor]


"The Iron Fist of Evil strikes again"!!!


PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 01:36

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msg Comment from: proud oromo [Visitor]
It is not unfamiliar that oromos are suffering like this in 21st century in their fatherland without any crime for over a century. Oromos in jail are not only these but account for nearly a million-refugees, the displaced, the robbed, the disadvantaged, the imprisoned, by bully, stone head and senseless habasha successors. Their turn will come one day that oromos will make all the habasha lands hell and prison for ever. Don't they recall that they were fighting against injustice and torture and now they are torturing and practicing injustice. Today they are free to commit whatever they like against innocent people but are they thinking about what the future holing for them and their kids; nothing but hatred, a breed of new generation brought up with this in mind, and above all these tragedy is gonna be timely but its consequence will last for ever and is empowering and enlighting oromos more than ever.
Victory is always to the oppressed.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 02:11

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msg Comment from: Gada [Visitor]
this is so sad, it's so inhuman!:no:
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 02:11

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msg Comment from: kolotemari [Visitor]
Nazret. Seriously what are you guys doing, dont you have a liitle bit of restraint..My GOD, reporting just for the sake of reporting is just irresponsible. You have to think of the consequences of story's you put out.
Most of all, this idiocy came from an interest group, who is trying to attain a political gains,
Unless you have conclusive evidence from an independent source, you have to keep investigating suspicious leaks.
The peoples listed above were probably arrested for a reasonable cause for crimes like any other person in ethiopia. Infact i call you upon this Nazret...refute my claim....I doubt you can...its sad!!!:no:
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 02:39

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msg Comment from: Kondo [Visitor]
All listed peoples are almost very low living classes. It seems to me alternative for means of lifeor oppurtunity. what about the rich and educated peoples they eating good and living good or OLF is collection of unemployeed peoples;
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 03:42

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msg Comment from: Abbaa [Visitor]
The continuous arrest, torture, secrete extrajudicial massacre and the endless agony upon the Oromo political opponents and the peaceful citizens of Oromia by the Woyane killers is the clear and the final sign of desperate force to have control on Oromo regions. The desperate reign of terror by the Woyane regime will never silence us, surrender or submit to the TPLF invaders. We will fight with sticks, “ulee”, knives ”shuka" , Klash kop and with what ever means we get in order to drive out these monster killers out of Oromia.
OLF is the sol representative of Oromoo people and have the cardinal right to fight against the terror regime of the Woyane's.
OLF is in the heart of all Oromo people both inside Oromia and outside Oromia.The attempts to divide us by bribing the OPDO “gantus” will evaporate as these betrayers come back to their senses and join our common struggle which is to dismantle the Axumite killers and finally become the bosses of our house.
OROMOON TOKKOO, WOYANEN “HABZI, HABZI,” DIINA DHAA!
“BILISUMMAA MAALE HOMAA”.
INJIFANNOO

PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 05:08

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msg Comment from: goraw [Visitor]
it is a sad story when ppl are arested and put in jail for a reason they are not part to. But we do not know the circumstances of detention of these 148 fellow ethiopians from oromia region of ethiopia.

But the flip side of the story is that, this self declared human right group is OLF in sheep cloth. I like the "& Others" part. LOL. Why don't you just stand for oromos, which is a geniune legitmate cause. Who are the others by the way? The KIC and ONLF? I am just guessing as others can be any body .
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 06:23

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msg Comment from: goraw [Visitor]
does any body see the map? Oh my God! They put wollo to oromia. That is funny. What is going on nazret.com? As to the current regions of ethiopia, oromia and tigray are not neghbours. This is BS. Would you please put the legal map or no map at all? Thanks
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 06:31

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msg Comment from: Mese [Visitor]
It is surprising for me not to see my best friends name in the list,couse a lot of inocent oromos I know are spending thsir precious life time in jail.One can prove this going to one of the areas mentioned either on sunday or saterday and hear while names of the prisners called .I strongely urge the wporking group to dig more in the issue and make it at least explicit to the world.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 06:44

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msg Comment from: abdu [Visitor]
Tayrants can detain Oromo people but can never detain their sacred goal which is eventually a lasting freedom .
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 07:42

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msg Comment from: Gehon [Visitor]
The channel for Ethiopia's trouble, nazret.com a propaganda machine for Ethiopian enemies, determined to facilitate the Enemies from within & without.

Nazret, what form of substantiation can you provide us for these reports to be true?. Assume this report did not originate from your establishment, what is your criteria in verifying a report that is submitted to you by an individual or an oblivious organization or otherwise. There will have to be an accountability from nazret.com, for their odysseys none stop, for what seems to be a propaganda and sabotage like reporting directed at against the Ethiopia Government & the population at large.

It is an obligation as well as ethics of norm and rules, to authenticate this fallacious report to which you are fully responsible fore.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 07:56

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msg Comment from: Abram [Visitor]
The Ethiopian Gov. Should immediately end the division of Ethiopian 'Provinces' on ethnic lines. It's primitive and unrealistic. Any ethnic group that's aspiring to succession is backward and, at the same time, the enemy of the Ethiopian nation. Change the names Oromo, Somali, Amhara, Tigre, and terminate the experiment once and for all.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 07:56

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msg Comment from: Belew [Visitor]
What is new about this one? This criminal terrorist government is there to commit genocide against people of Ethiopia. For the last 16 years we witnessed wide spread arrests, murders, extrajudicial killing, tortures and gunning down of demonstrators in a broad daylight by Agazi (Nazi like trained soldiers of Woyane). The only people enjoying these suffering are the Woyane themselves.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 07:57

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msg Comment from: Dagnachew [Visitor]
The EPRDF government is known for giving what ever name it wishes if they want to imprison and torture."libeluat yefelegwatin amora... indilu malet new" That was what happened when woyane put in to prison CUD leaders and supporters after the election 2005 in the name genocide,trison... you name it...

I call all freedom seekers of Ethiopia to stand with oromo people is this time of demise. If we don't struggle for oromo's now, the aggression may come to our village and our home. Ethiopian are not only those who live in Addis But everyone who live in Ethiopia. The innocent blood shed in Addis, or in Oromia, or in Amahara or in Ogaden... should concern us.

God save our country from aggressors.

God bless Ethiopia
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 07:59

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msg Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
Once again as it been said before there is no one above the law. If the article is true that those people have been arrested, they must be the OLF or other terrorist cells. So the government should have search those kind of terrorist cell and bring them to justice. They are obviously beloginig to Kaliti nothing else.

At the same time, I wish the government do the same for those shabia cells Eritreans in our country as well. Especially the one living in Addis Ababa because simply I have the feeling that there are still shabia cells in our capital.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 08:08

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msg Comment from: oxo [Visitor]
Wow, god help us! This does not look good. There is so much tension in the country and the map graphically shows where our beloved country is heading. People, lets stop arguing, trying to out do one another and being all intellectual. Please lets talk about the real ugly issue and what we can do (not for our self ego) for our country before its too late, before we start talking about Ethiopia in the past tense and shade many tears
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 08:27

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msg Comment from: Natoli [Visitor]
Too sad, I am very sad to see my people suffer in the hands of the savages for so long. I have only one thing to say. How long you people suffer? Why always be a victim? A cry baby? I know you are barve enough to defend yourselves.Forget about the worth lesses. "ye Ahiya bal ke jib ayasxilim", as the saying goes. People, do not listen to the good for nothings who believe in "when slapped your left chick, offer your right chick too." Do not wait for no body to come and save you, save yourselves. Defend yourself in any way you possible. May almighty give you comfort and strength!
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 08:28

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msg Comment from: Belew [Visitor]
You want hide the crimes of you gormnmet being commited against the Oromos Aha?
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msg Comment from: gergud [Visitor]
O well they all olf so.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 09:02

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msg Comment from: anonymous [Visitor]
May Allah torment all of you Oromo haters. Woyane and its apologetics will never succeed in suppressing the Oromo people.
Let alone now, they never managed to kill our spirit in the last 100+ years.

The message of freedom, the spirit of bilisummaa has engulfed the souls of the new generation of Oromos.
Nothing, nothing, can stop Oromomos...it's just a matter of time.

Those who condone the atrocity committed against the Oromo people, whether Oromo or non-Oromo, shall burn in eternal hell.

PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 09:21

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msg Comment from: selam [Visitor]
This is not good news’s
This is what this regime does to his own people not only OFL to all Ethiopians.
Melese and his regime have been terrorizing our people for the past years how long are to long this need to be stop. We all must work hard to bring a new day to our country.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 09:26

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msg Comment from: KOKEB [Visitor]
Stop crying! and fight for your right!

bullet is The only thing penatrates TPLF head!
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 09:28

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msg Comment from: no ethio without oromo [Visitor]
wether u post ur negativity or not, guys, u will never hide the truth in the ground the sefering of my oromo brother and sisters, our strugle will continue, the most u hate and ignore our ppl. the worst for ethiopia,and the better for our fight againest neftenga! oromia shall be free!!!!!!!!!
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 09:29

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msg Comment from: Gehon [Visitor]
Kolotemari:Obviously you are absolutely correct, we need to focus on nazret.com, what their intention is or is all about. These nazret.com guys are not the people what you and I have thought to be. I am digging right in to their basement, believe me they have some rat holes all over their leaving quarters. we had to be very careful and vigilant on these guys. They are to be watched for reasons of unsubstantiated reporting on behalf of all the LFs and any one that comes with a tarnishing view of Ethiopia and a certain ethnic groups from within Ethiopian societies.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 09:38

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msg Comment from: hanis [Visitor]
part one:- The Oromo's Voice Against Tyranny argued that: "... the so-called Galla invasion of the sixteenth century was neither an invasion nor a migration. It was rather a national movement of the Oromo people ... with the specific goal of liberating themselves and their territories from colonial occupation. It was nothing more or less than a war of national liberation." In fact the last 2000 years were occupied with a gradual expansion of Abyssinians from north to south. This expansion had been checked throughout by Oromo. It was only with the arrival of Europeans and their firearms that Abyssinians succeeded in their southward expansion mainly in the middle of last century.
Abyssinian and European historians alleged that there was a sudden population explosion in the Oromo community in the sixteenth century that enabled it to invade Ethiopia. The claim lacks a scientific base. During that time no significant, if at all any, technological development such as discoveries or introductions of medicines, new and improved tools for food production, etc. took place in the Oromo community that could have been the cause for the sudden population explosion. The Oromo community had no advantages of these sort over neighbouring communities.
Different areas have been indicated as place where the Oromo developed or differentiated into its own unique community of people or ethnic group (Braukamper, 1980). According to some ethnologists and historians, the Oromo country of origin was the south-eastern part of Oromia, in the fertile valley of Madda Walaabu in the present Baale region. This conclusion was reached mainly on the basis of Oromo oral tradition. Based on scanty anthropological evidence, others have also pointed to the coastal area of the Horn of Africa, particularly the eastern part of the Somali peninsula, as the most probable place of Oromo origin. Bruce, an English traveller, indicated that Sennar in Sudan was the Oromo country of origin and that they expanded from there. It should be noted here that many European travellers have suggested the origin of peoples, including Oromo, to be where they met some for the first time, which in most cases happened to be peripheral areas.
There are several groups of people in East Africa very closely related to the Oromo. For instance, the Somalis are very similar in appearance and culture. The fact that the Somali and Oromo languages share between 30 percent and 40 percent of their vocabulary could be an indication that these two groups of people became differentiated very recently. Other Cushitic-speaking groups living in the same neighbourhood who are closely related to the Oromo are Konso, Afar, Sidama, Kambata, Darassa, Agaw, Saho, Baja and other groups.
The Oromo are also known by another name, Galla. The people neither call themselves or like to be called by this name. They always called themselves Oromoo or Oromoota (plural). It is not known for certain when the name Galla was given to them. It has been said that it was given to them by neighbouring peoples, particularly Amhara, and various origins of the word have been suggested. Some say it originated from the Oromo word 'gaiaana' meaning river in Oromiffa. Others indicate that it came from an Arabic word 'qaala laa'. There are other similar suggestions as to the origin of the word. The Abyssinians attach a derogatory connotation to the Galla, namely 'pagan, savage, uncivilized, uncultured, enemy, slave or inherently inferior". The term seems to be aimed at generating an inferiority complex in the Oromo.
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part two The Oromo People
The Oromo are one of the Cushitic speaking groups of people with variations in colour and physical characteristics ranging from Hamitic to Nilotic. A brief look at the early history of some of the peoples who have occupied north-eastern Africa sheds some light on the ethnic origin of Oromo. The Cushitic speakers have inhabited north-eastern and eastern Africa for as long as recorded history. The land of Cush, Nubia or the ancient Ethiopia in middle and lower Nile is the home of the Cushitic speakers. It was most probably from there that they subsequently dispersed and became differentiated into separate linguistic and cultural groups. The various Cushitic nations inhabiting north-east and east Africa today are the result of this dispersion and differentiation. The Oromo form one of those groups which spread southwards and then east and west occupying large part of the Horn of Africa. Their physical features, culture, language and other evidences unequivocally point to the fact that they are indigenous to this part of Africa. Available information clearly indicates that the Oromo existed as a community of people for thousands of years in East Africa (Prouty at al, 1981). Bates (1979) contends, "The Gallas (Oromo) were a very ancient race, the indigenous stock, perhaps, on which most other peoples in this part of eastern Africa have been grafted".

In spite of the fact that there are several indications and evidences that Oromo are indigenous to this part of Africa, Abyssinian rulers, court historians and monks contend that Oromo were new corners to the region and did not belong here. For instance the Abyssinian court historian, Alaqa Taye (1955), alleged that in the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries the Oromo migrated from Asia and Madagascar, entered Africa via Mombasa and spread north and eastwards. Others have advocated that during the same period the Oromo crossed the Red Sea via Bab el Mandab and spread westwards. Abyssinian clergies even contended that Oromo emerged from water. On this issue, based on the points made in The Oromo's Voice Against Tyranny, Baxter (1985) remarked, "... the contention that the first Oromo had actually emerged from water and therefore, had not evolved to the same level of humanity as the Amhara (i.e. treating a myth of origin as a historical fact); or, more seriously, that Oromo were late corners to Ethiopia and hence, by implication, intruders and not so entitled to be there as the Amhara."
The history of the arrival of the Oromo people in the sixteenth century in East Africa from outside is a fabrication and denial of historical facts. It is a myth created by Abyssinian court historians and monks, sustained by their European supporters and which the Ethiopian rulers used to lay claim on Oromo territory and justify their colonization of the Oromo people. Several authorities have indicated that the Oromo were in fact in the North-eastern part of the continent even before the arrival of the Habasha. According to Perham (1948): "the emigrant Semites landed in a continent of which the North-East appears to have been inhabited by the eastern groups of Hamites, often called Kushites, who also include the Gallas." Paulitschke (1889) indicated that Oromo were in East Africa during the Aksumite period. As recorded by Greenfield (1965), Oromo reject the view that they were late arrivals, "... old men amongst the Azebu and Rayya Galia dismiss talk of their being comparative newcomers....... Their own (Abyssinians) oral history and legends attest to the fact that Oromo have been living in Rayya for a long time. Beke (cited by Pankurst, 1985-86) quoted the following Lasta legend: "Meniiek, the son of Solomon, ... entered Abyssinia from the East, beyond the country of the Rayya or Azebo Gallas There are also evidence (Greenfield et al, 1980) that at least by the ninth and tenth centuries that there were Oromo communities around Shawa and by about the fourteenth century settlements were reported around Lake Tana. The recent discovery, (Lynch and Robbins, 1978), in northern Kenya of the pillars that Oromo used in the invention of their calendar system, dated around 300 B.C., is another indication that Oromo have a long history of presence as a community of people, in this part of Africa.
The so called "Galla invasion of Ethiopia" is also a tale. It was first written around 1590 by a monk called Bahrey and henceforth European historians and others almost invariably accepted this story as a fact. From his writing, it is evident that he was biased against Oromo. The following quotation from Bahrey, (in Beckingham et al, 1954), vividly illustrates typical Abyssinian cultural, religious and racial biases against Oromo. He began his book "The History of the Galla": "I have begun to write the history of the Galla in order to make known the number of their tribes, their readiness to kill people, and the brutality of their manners. If anyone should say of my subject, 'Why has he written a history of a bad people, just as one would write a history of good people', I would answer by saying 'Search in the books, and you will find that the history of Mohamed and the Moslem kings has been written, and they are our enemies in religion In fact it appears that the main purpose of his writing was to encourage Abyssinians against Oromo. Bahrey, Atseme, Harris, Haberiand and others description of what they called the 'Galla invasion of Ethiopia' as an avalanche, a sudden overwhelming human wave which could be likened to a flood or swarms of migratory locust is unrealistic and difficult to imagine to say the least.
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msg Comment from: Beekkaa [Visitor]
Why condem Naziret.com?

This is simply to hide the truth.Woyane cannot stop oromo peoples aspiration by detaining.THey know this fact,but last trial.

For those of you who don`t want the news, go to aiga and walta where you find your version of fact.
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msg Comment from: comment [Visitor]
Our main enemy is Poverty, lets unite and fight poverty rather than...(Oromo)...... ,please join building this beautiful country, once we defeat poverty we can all be happy. ..
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msg Comment from: Dagnachew Korru. [Visitor]
This all garbage list to share HR 2003 loonies which the non grownup CUD'S, ONLF AND OLLF bandas dream? Go get job and get a life.]
Specialy what is wrong with Oromo people? Mom, Dad, Grandpa, Grama and the whole family already here in north america. So what is missing for them? Long time only GONDERES AND GOJAMES WERE THE TRUE REFUGEES BUT NOW EVERY BODY IS BECOME REFUGEE EVERY WHERE IN THE WORLD; SPECIALY OROMOS. How many of them died in yemen? and how many of them to blame the government of Ethiopia just for refugee stasus? SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!1
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msg Comment from: KOKEB [Visitor]
COMMENT

Our main enemy is not poverty! It is TPLF caused poverty and destruction of ethiopia. The country runs by EX-SHABIA members and racist looters. Why people failed to understand the obvious problem of the country.Please there is no time to play child dockling! we have to start revolt now!
from street fight to what ever it takes to get rid of the savages.!


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msg Comment from: Koso [Visitor]
The Woayne badits are working on their own demise. The derge junta was hunting their memebers for destablizing the country. Now the looters are after OLF. The Woayne bandits know that if there is strong military force who oppoase them, the looting and robber in the name of the 'governmt' will stop.
'Death to Woyane dogs!!
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msg Comment from: soda [Visitor]
It is hard to administer our country.No ethnic group think for the other.One need to be powerful to admnister.Is all about power.power plays.for oromos to rule, they need to be united as one.This will take time.but no matter what,let us come closer to unity.Imagine fourty million people ruled by less than two million people.This is they call it democracy.It is like two million mexicans in the US rule the country over the the rest of millions Americans.This is not democracy here. but it is a democracy in ethiopia.Power play.Genuine democracy workfs in wetern nation,and power with democracy works in the third world.In order for oromos to have freedom UNITE.
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msg Comment from: Igdah [Visitor]
Hanis,

I saw the huge difference between the two maps and laughed. I want to tell the cartographers that most of the area in green (or red) is a contested land and putting ink on a map is not going to change anything.

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msg Comment from: Gorawna [Visitor]
Woyane/ Tigre are the most racist group in the history of Ethiopia. For us (the oromo) , it's not the issue of the Meles gangs- it will be an assignment for the rest of generations. I wont fail to teach my kids that the "TIGRE" not only the Woyane are responsible for this mess.
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msg Comment from: Tazabiwa [Visitor]
I cannot wait to see the list of corrupted "TIGRE" and other people that used their current power to steal $$$ from the poor motherland and its children... and JAILED!!!!
Hodamoch!
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msg Comment from: Bell [Visitor]
Hey OLF Supporter or Shaebya's DOG!
Your master Shaebya leader is sick and his day is coming to end. All Ethiopians are celebrating from all directions for their freedom. You not going to mislead anyone here except yourself.
KEEP GETTING STRONG OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY ETHIOPIA FOR EVER!!!
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msg Comment from: Tigistu Molla [Visitor]
So called WARRIOR and Puppet Yeha:

You sound like you are very excited by the suffering of Oromo people. You seem like you are happy by the torture of Oromo sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers. One thing you and your butcher colleagues don't realize is that you are pushing more and more Oromo in to the OLF camp. You are producing more TPLF enemies. You are pushing not only Oromos but all non-Tigreans including the Amharas to join armed struggle to get rid off the Butcher the TPLF regime once and for all. Remember the Amhara proverb that sounds like "Beseferuut Quunna Yisseferaal" literally means "You will pay the price for your evil acts." Wait and see.

VICTORY TO OROMO PEOPLE AND ALL ETHIOPIAN FREEDPM FIGHTERS! LONG LIVE UNITED & LIBERATED ETHIOPIA!
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msg Comment from: Sober Analyst [Visitor]
The pathethic Weyane regime will arrest, torture and kill any ethnicity or Nation which it feels is treatening its existance. Yesterday was the Eritreans, Today are the Oromos tomorrow are the Amharas and so on. The only thing this minority regime understand is muzle the oppresed with the barrel of their gun. This takes us to an Eye for an Eye. The Oromos have the right to resist and fight for succession, equality and liberty. Oromos can prospare on their own. What the got by being part of Ethiopia is being oppresed by junta after junta of an ethnic group of a minority (Amhara, Tigray) The Oromos have to aggresively reclaim their liberty. After all you have the most population of Ethiopia. Should be able to overwhelm the tigray agam weyanes.
Go OLF Go! Victory to the masses of Oromia.
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msg Comment from: Ato Menelik [Visitor]
Thought, word and deed once sloganeered, a reaction undefined.
The battle-hymn, the mantra of a once unfocused mind.
But as logic tempered anger, still inspired but now informed,
The pigs we'd turned to caricature became far worse than we'd warned.

Morality enforcement based on the interests of a state.
Coerced into concordance and threatened into place.
It's not just isolated incidents of cop-jocks kicking ass.
It's a fucking war machine protecting the wealth of the employing class!

And you pigs will pay
In a big way
What a stupid thing to say.

You'll pay for the guns that you've used.
The minorities you've abused
You'll pay for the blood that you've spilled
And the innocent people you've killed
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msg Comment from: Fitsum Kidane [Visitor]
Hanis,
Thank you, for your explanation about Oromo people. I am Amara, my wife is Tigray, and we have two kids. We are pride of Oromo history, as Ethiopian and we need to learn more and teach our kids about Oromo. If I get a second child, I will designate him/her in Oromo name. Oromos are kind, good and honest, but OLF is evil and trying to drive these good Oromo people. I also express condolence for those arrested by EPRDF.
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msg Comment from: Megalu [Visitor]
Ohhh, come-on NAZRET.com, please stop posting news articles from anti-Ethio, terrorists organizations, and unreliable list. We all know that the list is fake.

ETHIOPIA TIKDEM!!!
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msg Comment from: hanis [Visitor]
igdah
don't worry ur loughter is not gonna last forever. the day u realize the obvious map of oromia u'll cry for mercy that is not far from coming. I wonder where u gonna get ur daily bread!
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msg Comment from: Weyenua Teka [Visitor]
I am a 4th year university in USA and my father is a prominent person in TPLF. All you guys say about EPRDF is not true. These people are suspected OLF; they will be investigated and released. You Amaras, we did you become human right activist of Oromia? I know you don’t like Oromo, but you want to use them for political advantage. EPRDF believe that Oromos are 40 million, but Amara you don’t accept that because you feel unsecured. There is Democracy in Ethiopia and the door is open for anyone to enjoy it. We, people of Tigray respect Oromos and appreciate their blessed land and cultare.

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msg Comment from: Kebede [Visitor]

Solution:

End the TPLF ONCE AND FOREVER.

There is no way week can live with this
terrorist and criminal group
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msg Comment from: Eshatu Daba [Visitor]
OLF needs to be very ambitious or just don't micro manage a mini economy. The land mass of western Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, part of Congo and all of Tanzania, to the Indian Ocean and north to western Sudan and Eritrea to the red sea, all the land inhabited by Somali Abo. It is the great horn of Africa, one language and two religions. This is a very viable area to develop a black civilization under the dominant group.
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msg Comment from: comment [Visitor]
Kobeb,
Current government is made of Ethiopian , they are product of Ethiopian People, it's not some people came from another country to rule us. Also,in time and process like next election we could have govenment change till then think of develpment
The focus here should be how to to unit and make our country stable not .... Oromos, Amhara... T.. issues.
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This kind of mantality is backward and does not do any good for you and your coutry or anyone... so, just work with whatever situation is and come up with result , talk less and do more Look at india ,chin and USA they have very diverse population but they focus on feeding there people and educating them , their economy. All things considered, every Ethiopian should focus on education,technology , peace unity and have respect for your country an it's people rather than some forigne people and idealogy
Hope this will help, it's like a disease
that need to be cure through education and enlightment.
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msg Comment from: Gondar [Visitor]
hanis:
Do not confused baby! Now you are trying to build your ethnic but you destroyed it! what a wonderful you are look at some of your...
"particularly the eastern part of the Somali peninsula, as the most probable place of Oromo origin. Bruce, an English traveller, indicated that Sennar in "Sudan" was the Oromo country of origin and that they expanded from there. It should be noted here that many European travellers have suggested"
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msg Comment from: Gondar [Visitor]
Fitsum Kidane:
First do you really understand what he is sowing among us you proud him super raciest?
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msg Comment from: Aba Lafe [Visitor]
Our Brothers and Sisters, the Ethiopian OROMOS Sprit
can not broken by the blood thirsty TPLF BUTCHERS , the broken promises of OLF to the Ethiopian OROMOS, was it, after all just a misfortune or misleading?.
"In sickness and in health"
"For better or for worse"
We The Ethiopian OROMO fight for our right Until DEATH.

Peace out

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msg Comment from: anonymous [Visitor]
Weyenua Teka, Where did you/your Dady get money to send you for undergaduate eduction to School in USA?
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msg Comment from: Igdah [Visitor]
Hanis,

Keep on dreaming, and don’t wake up (or be terrified) if a different version of that map reveals itself to you at one point or another. But thanks for thinking about my daily bread even when you don’t have one for yourself. Otherwise I found you funny in a strange way or is it in the usual way, if you know what I am saying. Peace:)
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msg Comment from: hanis [Visitor]
gonder
do u know the word indigenous oromo was there before abissinian.
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msg Comment from: Enlightened [Visitor]
Torture,murder and other human rights abuses committed by TPLF thugs is a recipe for continuous instability in the Horn of Africa. My advise to Tigres, stop supporting these barbaric acts. Condoning such injustices will backfire in the future. Whether TPLF & Co. like it or not, their barbaric regime will end, and the perpetrators will be brought to justice.
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msg Comment from: NO ETHIO WITH OUT OROMIA [Visitor]
hey gonder
no body gonna believe the hitry that corapted by ur 'dikalla' ancestors baboon looking minilik this is 20007, u'll shirink in to gonder. oromos not gonna tak ur B.S. any more don't rush to tighten up the noose on urself. THE SOONER U RECOGNIZE OROMO THE BETTER FOR UR FUTURE UNLESS,....
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msg Comment from: wondu [Visitor]
I am curious if nazret.com is owned by OLF;)
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msg Comment from: Girmay Berehe [Visitor]
To those who are doubtful of the green map of Oromia,it covers the territory on which the Oromo people have settled.Its tip extends into Tigray, where the vangaurd RAAYYAA & AZEEBOO OROMOOS, to which I belong, live. Coming down to the south,you pass through WALLOO where most of its people are OROMOOS. Just refer to the names of the places,the finger print is there.However, Meles has annexed the territories of the Oromos & the Amharas by putting the language they speak as a measuring stick. It must be the nation or the nationality they blong to, and or the choice the people or individuals democratically take, that should have been considered.
2)Kokeb & Ghion leave Nazret.com alone. You are trying to deny what your master has admitted in the parliament, when his excellency Obboo Bulchaa Demeqsaa, raised about the mass arrest of the OROMOO PEOPLE & that he has the names of 200 on hand. Yeha, don't conclude something out of the blue, don't be blindly hate the Oromo people. You like its land & wealth,why hate the people?You are reminding me the derg era here. I heared someone saying,"we don't need the ERITEAN people except the land,they have all to be throwen to the Red sea.Today ERITREA is librated and it is a free country.Had they been handeled properly may be they would have not gone.Today you are working on the same footing,trying to marginalize the OROMOO,the OGADEEN,SIDAMAA
ANUWAK PEOPLE,etc.You will pay for that & Meles dearly.
3)Meles has targeted the Oromo people as its arc enemey & is carring out GENOCIDE against it, all over in Oromia.This people is being killed on its owen territory on its back yard, on daily basis, by an enemey that came hundreds of miles away.
Oromoos,there is no other way out. Let us intensify the fight for our freedom, and self-determination.The only language Meles understands is that of the gun.
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msg Comment from: elron [Visitor]
What is happening to us? Ethiopians? Is there any Ethiopian physcologist who want to comment on these behaviours? Why are we trying to bring the worst of human kind within us ? ( Especially those who live in usa should know better - you have first hand exprience of how your colour of your skin:black: affects your everyday life.) Hate mongering , and looking down on your own people because of their ethnic origin is unacceptable .There is no justification for these kind of nonsense.
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msg Comment from: hammere [Visitor]


rediculous:

The list might fool some naive people.
But The proud Oromos these days know that they are enjoying their rights to the full.

There is government in Ethioipa that arrests the Oromos that have been under subjugation for years during the former Ethiopian regimes.
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msg Comment from: Ethio [Visitor]
we have to look at the bigger picture, it is never good to imprison too many people especially for things they didn't do. In terms of crying, no one should, cause it is nothing new from the regime
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msg Comment from: Abbo Tewuna! [Visitor]
Let's assume OLF owns nazret.com. Posts its views and political agendas on nazret.com.....
Legally or illegaly we are not forced to vizit this web site. We vizit it because of different reasons---voluntarly or involunteraly...
We can post our reactions...freely.
Don't we have the right to hear from the OLF? or others?
Don't we have the opportunity to refute this news if we have the justification? Does nazret.com censor our views? I learned that Melesawyan PM is ready to arresst OLF...(from nazret.com and then checked others).Isn't he acting as police...?
Those of us who are not ready for discussion should learn to discuss and contribute to the peacefull struggle and build the country we cheer a lot.Those of you who are trying your best to for such struggle put more energy, style and dedication..don't give up hope.
The fear of the so called EPRDF is not this or that group.Its fear is that all opposition groups would reconcile their differences and form a strong force. It's a public secret that "EPRDF" is always trying to bring the OLF to its side.
So all peace loving forces should come together and discuss to form such strong force.
Let's stop playing to the hands of the enemy.
Some interesting things I learned from some comments on this news: 1.some just learned what part of Ethiopia OLF is demanding(rather I say ,trying to take by force)
2. Some consider themselves world police
Let's know the core problem of the country.
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msg Comment from: song [Visitor]
Long live for Oromiya. Oromia will be free.It is only a matter of time.
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msg Comment from: Gondar [Visitor]
NO ETHIO WITH OUT OROMIA:
I can tell you as you said but I have to respect our friends who promised to build our nation with new millennium.

My question our dikala Minilik Born from the Royal, the king and queen family what about your fandiya and - - - -?
For the best regard read “hanis” article then you can tell me either My hero the royal descendent King minilik capture yours. Who cares about the false statement we know where the source come from they shall work instated spent with weird ideas. Ethiopia is Ethiopia You can not touch anything by any means at all. God bless the twin Sisters they can protect her but you tried to destroy many times by the name of Ogaden, olf etc but impossible!

hanis:
"Gered keimebetua eblitalehu bila tanka motiche"
Why don't you ask your self Many times immigrant where ever in the world?
My final your talk and dreams are night mare either by green or making the size big our nation that we give you in time of difficult nothing will not happen!
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msg Comment from: Gondar [Visitor]
henis:
Yes! you are just hen mind
So funny WOW you said, "Oromo were in fact in the North-eastern part of the continent even before the arrival of the Habasha"
Where were destination of the Habasha if their arrival was the North-eastern part of the continent?
You smart rabit Historian get out the hell with your trush! MAN!
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msg Comment from: Jabessa Gada [Visitor]
Hi!

Mass detention will only add on a centurey old grievance of the Oromo people.

No peace and stability in the Ethiopian empire without addressing the Oromo question for political and economic self-determination. All peace loving people of the Ethiopian empire and the globe should condemn such mass detention. This is a principle that should be uphold regardless of which people is under target.

Oromia will ultimately become free. No power on earth can stop Oromo people's march towards self-determination and freedom!

Good job by AFRO-O (the Advocacy for the Fundamental Rights of Oromos & Others). Keep up the good cause!

Victory to the oppressed!!!

Jabessa

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msg Comment from: Ajesi Due [Visitor]
Please Oromo majority kill your enemy and die you will from Waqayo.At least if you kill all your enemy and the remaining survival satisfy Oromia torebuild again.
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msg Comment from: Independent [Visitor]
you guys i have scanned all the comments and there are lots of witches who made postings with the name of oromo. if u got no nick name, load down prefixes like GEBRE,WOLDE, TEKLE,......then hit MARIAM, YOHANNES, MESKEL, MEDHIN.....ect. it works pretty well.

good job, Nazret.com keep on revealing the facts! and spread the truth.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 20:51

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msg Comment from: Aba Tigist [Visitor]
OLF does not represent the Oromo people, it is an organization of few elites who amass money through political fund raisin, in the name of the people. It is a good living for lazy people.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 22:40

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msg Comment from: 16years old Orboy [Visitor]
Gonder

why do you keep saying Europeans suggested oromos came from Sudan because Europeans also suggested your people (amharas) came from Yemen. European suggested the sun revolves around the earth instead of the earth revolving around the sun. European suggested they were the first to start writing on paper but the Chines were doing it before they even knew how to write. Europeans suggested Africans are inferior. European suggested colombes was the first person to reach America ignoring their where already people living in America before colombes. European suggested Gez’ez alphabet was a copy of Greek alphabet. So just because Europeans say so doesn’t mean it is true people!
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/07 @ 23:27

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msg Comment from: dj [Visitor]
elron: Excllent point, the rest of u stop this garbage and think civlized. peace
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 00:31

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msg Comment from: Enlightened [Visitor]
Aba Tigist,

The issue is not whether OLF represents Oromos or not,but it is about respect for human dignity. On one hand you say OLF is an organization of elites, on the other hand you justify all these crimes on ordinary farmers, students, teachers and so on.
May be it is your job to defend the regime, but don't insult our intelligence by writing such non-sense.
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 00:36

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msg Comment from: freebird [Visitor]
peace be with u guys!!!!

Victory for oromian ppl!!!
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 00:43

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msg Comment from: JOHN [Visitor]

We denounce the uncolled for genocide systematically carried against group/s, distinct nationality/ies being advanced for shear selfish sinster of getting power over them by all means/ any means. The Oromos are widely known for being # 1 largest ethenic groups in Ethiopia, hence by rounding large numbers of prominent figueres out them, shall produce discouraged, submissive , loyal voters via shear intimmidations, torture, dislocations, disappearances, disabling physically. This tricks were used by Tigrean Liberation front that migrated to heart land of Ethiopia for over 17 years. Mengistu did the same, so as King Haile Silassie.

wola! if it worked for Haile Silassie and mangistu, why not minority foregn settlers from northern tip of Ethiopia who invaded such rich Oromian states.

This measures would have hefty ugly outcomes when all massacres, genocides are all over! I assure it will, never mind quoting history, Ethiopian cyclical rime changes are its own history. For every blood spilled, there would be 100 fees within that nation. Elects run and defrauded once or perhaps ten times, in terms Tigre occupation. All things must come to an end, then what? Who is responsible for all million living breathing peace loving person identified by human rights, recorded by red cross, detaled by families, who butchered in cold blood, for mere idiocy of the ruling Junta of Tigrean liberation Front????????

Those who sow genocide, mafia like killing spree are to harvest same!!!!!
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 00:47

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msg Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
Tigistu Molla,
You are right United Ethiopia is sound good but keep in mind,we don't need the olf terrorist in our lovely country. Especially when the country is trying to achieved for developmental levels. Though Yeha never be happy when other Ethiopian getting sufere by any means Tegbaban?
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 01:47

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msg Comment from: Abbaa [Visitor]
[Abbaa, do not post in all upper case letters in the future]

The following writing is exactly the real characteristics of the tplf junta’s
wayne’s are hadgiis, woyane's are butchers, woyane's are beggars, woyane's are leboch, woyane's are “sobduu”, (layers) woyane's are “sare maratuu” (mad dogs) woyane's are the enemies of the oromo people. We hate you; get the hell out of oromia. You have been sucking as parasites the fertile resources of oromia and having done that you end up in terrorizing the host. Now the time is up and please get lost to your barren province for good.
There can never be one ethiopia by force and the so called the united ethiopia is history. We can build the new ethiopia only by democracy, mutual respect, basic human right and one man one vote. The ballot box will determine the end fate of ethiopia provides that we accept the universal democracy which is agreed upon by all citizens of ethiopia. Unfortunately the wayne’s have the habit of being the bad losers. Ones they lose the game they run desperately like mad dogs her and every where with their guns and her ends the extent of their civilization. They are just the self appointed power hunger psychopath butchers.
The wayne’s or the “hadgis” of the tplf gangs are the most hated people in oromia therefore it is eye for eye and teeth for teeth. We will revenge for all your sub animal behavior you have committed to the oromo citizens. Soon or letter you will be driven out of oromia by hock or crock.
Victory to the oppressed people of ethiopia.
Injifannoo!

PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 02:19

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msg Comment from: Gehon [Visitor]
Independent: what facts are there to be reviled by nazret? You mean the propaganda that is being disseminated to the idiotic diaspora with a container size appetite for rumors and garbage propaganda by nazret syber terrorists, behind the desk in their barracks some where in the state of Maryland.
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 05:56

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msg Comment from: Senzero [Visitor]
Kolo temari,

First of all, you claimed that I stole your name, therfore, I am willing to give it back to you if you provide any kind of evidence that it was, indeed, yours.

Secondly, I don't think Nazret.com has the resource to investigate each and every news that comes to its port. This is a simple forum where everybody says his/her mind on a subject presented by Nazret.com. It is up to you to take or leave the news. If you are not happy anything said against Woyane, you may as well join Walta forum and make yourself happy. As simple as that!

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msg Comment from: el [Visitor]
ohoooo, my God, I was born and grew up in one of these areas (Jima arjo) and I actually know some of the names and even the persons individaly and I swear to God they are not even Oromos, but Amhara ,some even tgree background who happened to have been born and grew up in that region, my God How low can ONLF or shabians can Go? it is disgrace full. I am not arguing they havenot been arrested but they are definatly not Oromos
nazret.com please stop being a tool for Enemy of Ethiopia. at list be fair.
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 07:11

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msg Comment from: melese for less [Visitor]
Girmay Berhe

You are very talented and historian person. You deserve my PHD. I always tell my Amara brothers that they fall in love with seaports but they do not like Eritrean people. The fall in love with blessed land of Oromia and South Ethiopia, but they do not like people of Oromo, Welayta (weylamo), Kembatta, Hadiya, Sidama, and et.c. We, Ethiopians need national reconciliation to eradicate the epidemic disease called tribalism. We should build up our country and put it on the path of civilization. We do not care about history; we were born when Ethiopia was one; so that we like Ethiopia to be one forever.
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 10:14

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msg Comment from: Gehon [Visitor]
El: why do you think I am so upset, with this nazret.co people! It is absolutely beyond me, why they post such preposterous fictional story. It mind boggling and a reversal affect to us Ethiopian why theses nazret.com guys are obliterating, dispensing such a propaganda at this time of hardship and upheaval that Ethiopia and its people are going through and being used by Ethiopia's worst enemies.
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 11:31

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msg Comment from: Enlightened [Visitor]
Gehon,

Frankly, you are the one who is engaged in an idiotic propaganda to desperately defend the TPLF regime.
You accuse others of "cyber terrorism" while defending the real terrorist and criminal regime. That is a big hypocrisy.
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 11:47

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msg Comment from: Desta [Visitor]
OLF dose not represent Oromos. so if you are helping OLF you should go to jail.
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msg Comment from: Lulu [Visitor]
melese for less,

I agree with most of the things you said but what makes me sick is your Amhara bashing. What makes you think that only Amharas and all Amharas care about sea port? What makes you think that all that has wrong in that part of the world is because of the Amhara? How can you even begin to think of reconciliation while putting all the blame on the Amhara? As far as I can remember most of the cadres that put the derg in firm position (by killing those who opposed it) were ... (you fill in the blank). I don’t want to blame any ethnic group because doing so is going down the ugly path that your name sake wants us to go. And it is not going to help us a bit.
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msg Comment from: melaku [Visitor]
wow they were complaining about amhara when Haile Selassie was in power but I never thought Haile Selassie arested these many at the same time when TPLF was fighting DERG they thought they will be in power overnight with them now what happen?you get what you deserve
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 12:55

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msg Comment from: Ethio [Visitor]
If Oromo want's to separate from the rest of Ethiopia and if that is the will of the Oromo people in a free and democratic referendum, then let them separate. If you have a problem with my statement then you have a problem with the very essence of democracy. Personally I do not support OLF or TPLF but it is simply a right issue for the will of the Oromo people.
PermalinkPermalink 11/01/07 @ 15:52

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msg Comment from: Z-Mike [Visitor]
If true, I am very sad about the action. We need to have change of action and treat one another better than this hate. I read some comments made by Meles that he puts the people arrested to about 200 hundrend. even if they is true, Ethiopia needs some real help now. I am EPRDF supporter by I also love my all Ethiopian people as one regardless of their ethnic backgrounds.

So, lets please watch this carefully and share our civilized way to the ethiopian gov't. I cannot believe Meles said that some of the MP's are ONLF members. If he believes in that perhaps, it's time for reality check with Mr. Meles.

I am very sorry for the Oromo people for this. Can anyone share with us with some real backing facts? I am yet to see one, real story with some crossed checked facts:!:

All Ethiopians should say no to the dividers who are keeping as apart...:no::no::no:
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msg Comment from: Aba Lafe [Visitor]
AFR-O, thanks for providing this INFO. I read all the positive and the negative comments, all of us have a concept of political culture, expect a few who try to Divided the majority of the people. I owe special thanks to nazret.com, We shall over come.

Peace out


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msg Comment from: down for woyane [Visitor]
guys, please give a tangible comment, not for the sake that all is invited to have a say....if you do not have something to say, you can abstain.....some of you for eg. claim that you knew some of the short listed individuals personally as they are not OROMOS....you such guys are publically lieing. Go to WALTA INFOR CENTER AND WATCH WHAT WEYANE LEADER MELES SAID.....HE DID ACKNOWLEDGE THAT... ANYWAYS, WE SHALL WIN PAYING WHATEVER IT COSTS. No one will defrain us from achieving our millenium democracy goals (MDGs) set to realize in 2015. We will decrease the power of woyane by 1/2 by then. look IMF (international move for freedom) report for the detail. a voice for the nonvoice.
PermalinkPermalink 11/02/07 @ 01:23

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msg Comment from: Girmay Berehe [Visitor]
The Oromom people is the one & the only one to decide its fate. No other ethenic group or political party has to tell us who represents us, nor the Oromo poeple decide the fate of others.

If one looks at most of the libration struggles, it was led by enlightened group as it is the concious part of the society. So what is wrong if the OLF leadership is from the enlightened. Why didn't complain when tplf was & is led Meles and his gangesters?

Those of you who hesitate that OLF is in the hearts & soul of the Oromo people,Meles himself has witennesed it by justifying his ownen fabric the opdo,by saying "when scratched,
it is OLF". Even all those opdo members under Meles' will betray him when the right time comes.One has to remember Almaz Mekoo, Hassan Ali and other.

There are the true sons & daughters of the Oromo people,every where.They are all in full alert waiting for the right time to act against the enemy. GENERAL KEMAL GELCHU & AND THE HUNDREDS OF OROMO SOLDIERS WHO JOINED THE OLF WITH THEIR FULL ARMS IS A PROOF FOR THAT.Don't be in a hurry time will tell.

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msg Comment from: Kaco [Visitor]
Firs of all I thank Nazret.com to post such an event that is going on in Ethiopia. If even one or two lines of what Nazret.com rights about the issue in concern, then I as a human being should question how true and close the stories presented to the public is at concern. I believe that if a rumour of a situation begins to flow in the air thourgh an a person, then I would believe that rumour has some believes and trues in its self, thus as a note, the Oromo issues whether they are talked about through Media or in a Coffee shope, it has to have some truth to its self. In that case, I want to make a point that for those individuals who writes negativee comments about the Oromos are in my eyes are lay and dum people. Therefore, these are the type of people who will even go against their own type of people and culture, It is only when one knows self well and respects others that good dialogue takes place. In closing, I hope one makes sense of what I wrote and further explore what is around you and the history of the world before you even make comments about other race.





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msg Comment from: Sami [Visitor]
For some like Yeha it is ok for others to be oppresed and arested and killed as long as Meles is in power. You see when elected govenment is govening true MP's come to represent the people in difernt provinces and which make them feel they are heard.
It is easy let free ELECTION work and TRUE
Democracy work for the people of Ethiopia.
Yehan and alike just want there guy to be the only one to lead.
They feel if Meles and his buddys leave power Ethiopia is doomed. Them may be right, but the doom is because of Meles who ethenicaly divided people of Ethiopia.
Soon beter than later it is time to start fixing ethic problem today!
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msg Comment from: Aba Lafa [Visitor]
The Oromo are divided 12 subgroups. From west to east :these subgroups are'
The Welega Oromo, who live in the Oromo Region west of the Didessa River:
The Macha Oromo, living between Dindessa River and Omo River, and south into Gibe region:
The Tulama Oromo, who live in the Oromo Region around Addis Ababa:
The Wollo Ormo , who are the northernmost subgroup, and live predominantly in the Ormia Zone of Amhara Region, as far north as Lake Ashenge:
The Itu Oromo, who live in the Oromia Region from the Awash River east to a line drawn south Dire Dawa:
The Ania Oromo, who live south of the Ittu and west the Erer River:
The Afran Qallo Oromo( Daga (Jarso,Nole and Hume: Babile Ala Oromo: living west of the city of Harar and the Erer River:
.The Nole Oromo, who live east of Dire Dawa and north harar:
The Babille Oromo:
THe Jarso Oromo:
The Arsi Oromo:
The Borena Oromo:
.The Oborra Oromo:
.The Qallu Oromo
We are the Ethiopian Oromos Existed side by side with our Semitic -Speaking neighbors.
Peace out

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msg Comment from: somali_soulja [Visitor]
thank you for the wise ethiopians in here p
i share my tear with you guys indeed just look to the map its in the interest of the western countries to break up the never colinized country ethiopia guys lets work togheter in this new millinium and save out country our kings fore fathers didnt died for shit are you telling me that menelik selassie and those brave ethiopians died for shit hell noo
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