#OromoProtests Solidarity Hunger-Strikers Hold a Mock Funeral in Front of the Minnesotan State Capitol for Slain Oromo Students and Civilians in Oromia

(May 11, 2014) – #OromoProtests Solidarity Hunger-Strikers at the Minnesota State Capitol held a mock funeral to honor and remember the more than 50 unarmed Oromo students and civilians murdered by the TPLF Ethiopian regime in April 2014 while peacefully rallying against the implementation of the Addis Ababa Master Plan and for the institutionalization of the special interests of Oromiyaa over Finfinnee. The hunger-strike has been held since Friday evening (May 9, 2014) and is expected to last tonight (May 11, 2014).

The sample coffins for the slain Oromo students and civilians were draped with the Oromo struggle (or Oromummaa) flag.

Among those killed by the TPLF Agazi Federal Military-Police include:

- Ababa Kumsa – Wallega
- Abdi Kamal – Guder Junior Secondary School
- Abdisa Nagasa – Wallega
- Endale Desalegn (or Temesgen) – Ambo High School
- Falmata Bayecha – Jimma 5th yr Medicine
- Galana Adaba – Jimma 3rd yr Governance
- Getachew Daraje – Jimma 3rd yr Governence
- Getahun Jirata – Guder Junior Secondary School
- Gexe Tafari – Wallega
- Gurmu Damxoo – Guder Junior Secondary School
- Hussen Umar – Jimma
- Israel Habtamu – Jimma
- Kumala Guddisa – Guder Junior Secondary School
- Tadesse Gashee – Ambo Liban Macha Junior Secondary School
- Tashome Dawit – Wallega
- Zabana Barasa – Jimma 3rd yr Governance (or Oromo Folklore)

36 Oromo Students Arrested by TPLF Ethiopian Regime As Part of Ongoing Violent Crash of the #OromoProtests FDG

Breaking News reaching our desk: an estimated 36 Oromo students have been arrested by the TPLF Ethiopian regime in Haro Limu (Eastern Wallaggaa, Oromia) over the last week. These arrests are in addition to the several hundred others being carried out across Oromia by the TPLF Ethiopian regime to crash the ongoing Oromo Students ‪#‎OromoProtests‬ FDG Movement.

Baqattootni Oromoo biyya Sudaan rifeensa haddachuudhan fi kkf gadda isaani muldhisan

Caamsaa 11, 2014

Nuti baqatoonni Oromoo biyya Sudaan keessa jiraannu haala yeroo ammaa sabni keenya keessa jiru dhiheenyatti hordofaa jira. Saamicha lafa Oromiyaa mormuun diddaa barattoonni Oromoo agarsiisan dhaamsuuf tarkaanfii hameenyaa sirni Wayyanee fudhateen gadda guddaatu nutti dhagahame. Haa tahu malee tarkaanfii gara jabinaa diinaa kana mormuun hiriirota nagaa hawaasota Oromoo biyya ambaatiin geggeeffaman hoggaa arginu qalbiin keenya cabe deebi’ee jajjabaateera.

Nuti baqattoonni Oromoo biyya Sudaan keessa jiraannu akka obboleeyyan keenya biyya ambaatti alaabaa ABO fi dhaadannoolee qabannee deeggarsa ilmaan Oromoo wareegamaniif qabnuu fi mormii sirna Wayyaanee irratti qabnu ifatti hiriira baanee addunyaa dhageessisuun hawwii keenya guddaa ture. Haa tahu malee hariiroo dippilomaasii jabaa sirni Wayyaanee mootummaa Suudaan waliin qabu irraa kan ka’e mirga akkasii waakkatamne.

A Tragic Consequence of the “10th Addis Ababa Integrated Development Master Plan.”

Warning for the Future

By Dr. Negaso Gidada | May 11, 2014

1. Introduction

Addis Ababa is now 127 years old as the capital of Ethiopia. It was founded by Empress Taitu and Emperor Menilik II in 1887 around the hot water spring called Finfinnee. Empress Taitu is said to have seen a kind of lower which she did not know before and called the area Addis Ababa, meaning New Flower. The Oromo call Addis Ababa as Finfinnee.

History tells that King Sahle Sellasie of Shoa was involved in expanding the territory of the kingdom of Shawa into the Oromo areas of the Tulama earlier. A witness (Harris from England) to what was happening during Sahle Sellasie’s wars against the Oromo also speaks particular what took place in Entoto, the hills in the northern part of Addis Ababa. This is a recorded history (Harris 1844, 178; Bonnie K. Holcomb and Sisai Ibsa, 1990, 85). Here is what is written: “While these forces (Forces of Sahle Sellasie), who were in effect demonstrating their use of guns given by European to Sahle Sellasie, began to destroy the Oromo life and resources, the guests of Sahle Sellasie, the Britons who accompanied the mission with the king, were observing with field glasses what was happening. They reported that when ‘¼. The luckless inhabitant, taken quite by surprise, had barely time to abandon their property and fly for their lives to the fastness of Entotoo which reared its protecting form at the distance of a few miles. The spear of the warrior searched every bush for the hunted foe. Women and girls were torn from the building to b hurried into hopeless captivity. Old men and young were indiscriminately slain mutilated among the fields and groves; flocks and herds were driven off in triumph and houses after houses was sacked and consigned to the flame.’ The Oromo of the area, particularly the Galallee remember that their leaders such as Tuba Mona, Birraatuu Goolee, Waamii Gaaroo, Shabbuu Bordee, and Ilaansoo Halloo died in these wars of conquest of the area. Later, after Menelkik’s conquest and the establishment of the capital, many of the remaining Oromo population in the surrounding were uprooted and resettled elsewhere.

Oromo community in Melbourne protests against Ethiopian’s government violent crackdown on farmers and students

May 11, 2014 (Advocacy for Oromia) – The Oromo community in Melbourne organised a protest rally in Melbourne on Friday 9 May 2014 to voice its concerns about acts of violence perpetrated against civilians (mostly Oromo students and farmers) by government forces in Addis-Ababa, Ethopia.

Greater Addis Ababa plan sparks Oromo protests

May 11, 2014 (World War 4 Report) — Another battle for control over urban space is heating up in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa—concerning plans to expand the city’s municipal boundaries and absorb several smaller outlying towns where the traditionally excluded Oromo people are still dominant. The “Integrated Development Master Plan” has sparked a wave of protests, principally by Oromo students. Official figures say seven have been killed by police in the protests since late April, but independent reports claim the death toll is more than 20. 

Addis Ababa, called Finfinne by the Oromo, was the center of Oromo culture and the principal city of Oromia (then divided into several small states) before it was conquered in 1869 by Emperor Tewodros of the Amharic-dominated Shawa (Shoa) state, the founder of modern Ethiopia. It was named the country’s capital by his sucessor Menelik II in 1886. It is today one of the fastest growing cities in Africa, with a population of over 4 million, fueled by a high rate of rural-urban migration. Since Ethiopia’s 1991 revolution, the ruling elite has been Tigrean rather than Amharic. But the Oromo continue to be marginalized politically—and overrun in their own homeland. (HRW, May 5; Zegabi, May 2; Oromo history page at Gadaa.com; Ethiopia history page at Embassy of Ethiopia, UK; Ethiopia profile at BBC News)

Global Solidarity Protests with Murdered Oromo Student Protesters

Oromo marching in front of White House asking Barack Obama to stop massacre of Oromo by Ethiopia regime. via Oromo Press

May 10. 2014 (Revolution News) – From Washington DC to Toronto, Melbourne, London, Oslo and Johannesburg, demonstrations worldwide were held in over 30 cities demanding justice for students and residents massacred across Oromia region by Ethiopia’s TPLF army and police.

On Tuesday 29 April, an estimated 25,000 people, including residents of Ambo town in central Oromia, participated in a city wide demonstration, in the largest show of opposition to the government’s plans to date.

Ethiopian security forces opened fire on Oromo students at Jimma, Haromaya, Ambo, Wollega, Bule Hora, Madawalabu, Metu, Adama and Dire Dawa universities during peaceful protests killing at least 47 protesters, sources said. Thousands of students at all eight regional universities in Oromia, the largest of Ethiopia’s federal states, protested to demand an immediate halt to the city’s so-called “Integrated Development Master Plan,” unveiled earlier this month.

Oromo students and the wider community believe the plan is to displace farmers in the outskirts and suburban areas of the city, to meet the growing demand for land will weaken the Oromo identity.

May 9th’s solidarity demonstrations aimed at condemning the weeks-long killings, injuries, detentions of Oromo students (oft under ages) and members of the general public by Ethiopia military and federal police. From slogans  commonly carried and heard at worldwide rallies and letters submitted to members of the governments of the cities and countries mentioned, it was clear that the Oromo diaspora was not only opposed to the killings, but it was also outraged by the silence of donor governments to Ethiopia on the ongoing ethnic-cleansing targeting members of the Oromo nationality.

Magaalan Gimbii Mormii Ummataan Jeequmsa Guuddaa Keessa Galte

Ayyaantuu.com | Caamsaa/May 10, 2014

Wallagga Dhiyaatti magaalaan Gimbii sochii mormii ummata Oromoo magaala sanaan jequmsa gudda keessa galtee akka jirtu oduu ammaan tana Ayyaantuu.com gahe ifa godhe.

Akka odeeffannoo argameetti mormii qeerroon magaalaa Gimbii guyyaa Sanbataa, Caamasaa 10, 2014 kaasaniin lubbuu dargaggoo Oromoo tokko humna Waraanaa motummaa Itophiyaan yeroo galaafatamu lama ammoo mada’anii hospitaala Adventistii Gimbiitti yaalaaf galaniiru.

Qabeenyaan deggertoota mootummaa gabroomfataa TPLF adda addaa mormi ummataa kanaan kan barbaadaa’e yeroo ta’u humni poolisa federaalaa ummata irratti dhukaasa banee miidhaa geessisaa akka jiru hubatameera. Magaalli Gimbiis waraana Wayyaanee fi Polisa Federaalaan weeraramtee akka jirtuu fi barattooti mannee barumsa olaanoo adda addaa irraa gara mana isaaniitti deebi’a jiranis battaluma sochii ummataa kana caalaatti finiinsaa akka jiranis maddi oduu kun ifa godhee jira.

Oromo Demonstrations around the world from single person in Michigan to thousands

Must watch: Edmonton Oromo community Demonstration	A bystander shot a video in Washington DC and posted on Youtube

FINFINE IS THE CENTRAL AND INTEGRAL PART OF OROMIA

1. Afaan Oromo Version
2. Amharic Version

May 10, 2014 (Oromo Liberation Front) — The authoritarian regime of TPLF-EPRDF in Ethiopia has continued reversing some rights achieved by the Oromo people’s struggle. Even the regime is continuing violating the rights enshrined in its own constitution of the country that has been worked out by its own experts. The wicked Master Plan of Addis Ababa that was declared recently by the incumbent regime is unfolding the continuation of dismembering Oromia state that has been underway since the last two decades. Beginning from 1991, TPLF’s strategic policy of eviction and displacement of Oromo from their ancestral land is unabated. Despite deafening propaganda and denials of the Integrated Master Plan’s infringing of the borders of Special Zones around Finfinne (Addis Ababa), the said Zones are already under Finfinne Administration practically.