Jailed Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega awarded the 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom

June 11, 2014 (World News Publishing Focus) –“This Golden Pen is more important than food, medicine and water. It materializes the support and shows that he is not forgotten. That he is one of us. That an attack on one journalist is an attack on us all and that jailing a journalist is a crime against humanity,” Swedish journalist Martin Schibbye said, accepting the 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), on behalf of imprisoned Ethiopian publisher, journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega. 

The honour was formally bestowed on Nega in a ceremony at the 66th World Newspaper Congress, under way in the Italian city of Torino this week, where more than 1,000 media industry representatives have gathered.

TPLF shooting at civilians at Haramessa mass garve

June 10, 2014

OROMOO GODINA BAHAA HARARGEE IRAA WAYAANEEN BANTEE Oromoo mee laalaa video motumman wayaanee ummata iraa dukkassa bantee bombii araa iraa darbuu dhaa ummata rukkutuu issanii mulissa waxabajji 10/2014 ganama 7:00 am iraa jalqabee ummanii mirga Abba biyuumma issaniitii je’anii falmii didaa gabruumaa agarssissaniruu

Mass Grave of Oromos Executed by Govt Discovered in Eastern Oromia

June 10, 2014

(Freedom for Oromia) — According to sources, a confrontation between residents and Ethiopian government officials broke out on June 9, 2014, over a mass grave discovered at the former Hameressa military garrison near Harar city, eastern Oromia.
The mass grave is believed to contain remains of political prisoners executed during both the Dergue era and the early reigns of the current TPLF regime. Among those who were executed and buried in the location was Mustafa Harowe, a famous Oromo singer who was killed around early 1990′s for his revolutionary songs. Thousands more Oromo political prisoners were kept at this location in early 1990′s – with many of them never to be seen again.

Oromummaa and Oromo struggle for identity and Freedom | Oromummaa fi Qabso Oromo Eenyummaa fi Birmadummaaf

By Ibsaa Guutamaa | June 9, 2014

The enemy is trying to erase Oromo identity as independent people to deny their claim over Oromiyaa.  But gallant Oromo that have thirst for freedom are shaking the earth from mountains and valleys of their country.  The enemy is a wobbling tooth that has no remedy except pulling it out.

Manneen Hidhaa Godina Lixa Shawaa Keessatti Oromoonni lakkoofsaan 75 ta’an Haalaan Dararamaa Jiru. Kanneen Keessaa 8 Shamarran Ta’uun Beekame

Gabaasa Qeerroo Lixa Shawaa Waxabajjii 09,2014

Yeroo ammaa kanatti Oromoonni Maqaan Isaanii kanaa gaditti  tarreefaman kuniin mana hidhaa godina Lixa Shawaa,Amboo, Waajjira Poolisii Godinaa, Kachallee Amboo,Gamoo Abbabechi jala,Masaraa Mootummaa Magaalaa Amboo, Hoomachoo, fi  Sanqallee Keessatti hidhamuun miidhaan reebichaa fi dararaan adda addaa  haalaan akka irra gahaa jiru gabaasi Qeerroo Magaalaa Amboo ibsee jira.

A Call for Discussion to all Diaspora based Oromo Youth Organizations

June 8, 2014

Since the Oromo Protests began, Ethiopian security forces responded to the peaceful protests by massacring, imprisoning and torturing innocent students. Government forces famously known as the (Agazi Commandos) have been abducting university students both at school and home. Furthermore, thousands of students have been expelled from universities and are continuously terrorized outside of school. Due to Ethiopia’s repressive policies and lack of free media not much is known about the current crisis. Continuous murders and arbitrary arrests of Oromo students go unreported. However, Oromo groups in the diaspora have organized and rallied in solidarity with Oromo Protests to pressure the international community to condemn human rights violations in Ethiopia. This allowed for some media coverage from the international community, but not enough to get mass media attention.

Found the bodies of Ethiopian immigrants were tortured to death in Yemen

Sana’a, Yemen (Youm 7) — The Ministry of the Interior of Yemen, said on Saturday that security forces found the bodies of Ethiopians in the region bordering Saudi Arabia north of the country.

The interior, in a statement on its website, “The police in the area incited the province of argument found (did not specify the date) on the bodies of two Ethiopians in a garbage dump .. and Forensic Medicine confirmed being beaten and tortured to death.”

She added that the police carried out a screening proved the involvement of a number of people in detention Africans in the backyard of their homes, a number of them were seized during the raid, while others managed to escape.

Ethiopia Recruits Bloggers to Attack Oppositions and the Eritrean Government

ESAT | June 7, 2014

Regime in Paranoia? From Jamming satellite transmissions, blocking websites, criminalise using Skype and arresting bloggers to recruiting paid online attackers and arresting bloggers to training paid social media recruits?

IN an attempt to reduce online criticisms and shower positive image of itself, the Ethiopian Government recently started to train and recruit paid attackers on the web to anything critical of its administration, the Ethiopian Satellite Television Service (ESAT) reported.

In the the second round of new recruits, 235 bloggers were trained in Adama town, focusing on how to shape public opinion on Facebook and other social media technologies by posting comments and documents that support the regime.

The training was given to selected people from different ethnic groups who support the regime, and that the trainees report directly to government officials, ESAT said.

Eutelsat Fingers Ethiopia as Jamming Incidents Triple

June 6, 2014, PARIS (Space News) — Satellite fleet operator Eutelsat said intentional interference, which accounted for just 5 percent of the disruptions to its fleet in 2010, was responsible for 15 percent of the signal disruptions in 2013.

The tripling of intentional interference events, tied in part to the expansion of Eutelsat’s fleet serving Middle Eastern and African television audiences, is unlikely to drop in 2014 with the latest round of jamming by an unidentified source in Ethiopia.

Eutelsat said the jamming, which has affected Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat’s satellites as well as at least two Eutelsat spacecraft, has been geolocated in northeast Ethiopia.

The way the jamming is conducted has resulted to interference not only on the presumed target broadcaster, but to all broadcasters sharing the affected satellite transponders.

Nimoonaa Xilahuun Wareegame

(Oromedia, 6 Waxabajjii 2014) Mana hidhaa mootummaa Itoophiyaa keessatti waggoota dheeraaf dararamaa kan ture, sabboonaa Oromoo, Nimoonaa Tilahuun guyyaa har’aa addunyaa kana irraa boqote.

Sababa gaaffii mirgaa fi bilisummaa Oromoo deeggareef humnoota tikaa wayyaaneetiin Waxibajjii 26, 2008 hidhattoota mootummaa konkolaataa gabatee isaa 3-F ta’een qabamee kan hidhame Nimoonaa Xilahuun, manneen qorannoo fi hidhaa Itoophiyaa kan akka Maa’ikalaawwii fi Qaallittii keessatti hiraarfamaa akka ture ni beekama.