Oromia for Oromo: Ethiopia: Oromo from across Europe converge on Brussels and call to stop aid to Ethiopia’s repressive regime

Friday, May 22, 2009

Ethiopia: Oromo from across Europe converge on Brussels and call to stop aid to Ethiopia’s repressive regime

Ethiopia: Oromo from across Europe converge on Brussels and call to stop aid to Ethiopia’s repressive regime

A call to place aid to Ethiopia under greater scrutiny and to bring pressure to bear on Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to ensure the respect of human rights in Ethiopia has brought Oromo from all over Europe onto the streets of Brussels. Below is the Press Release from UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization) and UOSE (Union of Oromo Students in Europe):

22 May 2009, Brussels - Oromo activists from across Europe converged on Brussels today to raise international awareness of the ongoing human rights abuses being perpetrated in Ethiopia under the administration of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Marching from the European Commission’s Berlaymont building, demonstrators crossed the city of Brussels to bring their message to the embassies of both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Oromo representatives explained to international media the importance of the protest as a means of bringing scrutiny to bear on Ethiopia ahead of the 2010 elections and the environmental degradation that was going unchecked at the same time as human rights were being eroded.

As part of the protest, letter of appeal were issued to the European Commission, Members of the European Parliament, representatives of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific states, and the embassies of the United States and United Kingdom.

The appeal made the following calls:

* That the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees initiate an inquiry into allegations of human rights abuses perpetrated by the Ethiopian Government;
* That European Union (EU) member states to raise the issue of human rights in Ethiopia with the Ethiopian government;
* That EU member states to express a collective and public concern at the human rights situation in Ethiopia, including a call for the release of all detained political prisoners;
* That European companies, their Ethiopian partners, and the Ethiopian government adhere to international environmental standards and obligations;
* That a mechanism capable of bringing together all stakeholders in resolving Ethiopia’s internal conflicts be established and supported;
* That the Ethiopian government is held publicly accountable for all aid donated to, or channelled through, its departments.

PDF FILE of the Press Release from UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization) and UOSE (Union of Oromo Students in Europe)

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The formation of the Gadaa republic of Oromia

The Abyssinians, be they are the Eritreans, the Tigreans who currently rule Oromia and the Amaharas, tactic in Oromia is to make OROMIANS problems complicated so that their economic and political upper hand in Oromian will remain unchanged but the only way to reverse their evil and cunning artificially engineered problems in Oromia is to simplify and clarify it. In addition to the above reality, the Oromians must understand that the goal of American advisers to the Tigre government in Finfinee is to enforce a strong central government idea sponsored by the estate department of America. To accomplish their mission, the Americans are advising Malsaa Seenaa to drag on the colonization time until Oromians question for independence is destroyed. To prolong the Tigre colony in Oromia, the Amhara chauvinism will be as the a common threat to all ethnic group in empire Ethiopia so that the Tigreans are looked at as the only force that can keep the Amhara chauvinism at bay.. Recognizing these grand agendas of the White man and the Abyssinians, the reality on the ground shows that, from an economic aspect, food prices are sky rocketing, more children are starving and the Tigreans are becoming richer and richer every day in Finfinnee and Oromia because they control the entire economy of of Oromia. Further more, let alone bringing back the Assab port, Badame is lost to Eritrea, the Amharas have lost half of Gondar to Tigri, half Wallo was partitioned towards Tigri following TPLF’s agenda of creating greater Tigri and a former poor Tigri province continues to look like Europe capturing the imaginations of millions of destitute people of empire Ethiopia. From global political front, Aboma’s coming to power in America and the departure of conservative Christian Bush have brought dark cloud upon Africa’s dictators. Hence, despite OLF’s weak political influence inside empire Ethiopia today, the TPLF regime doesn't have the support it claims to have from the people of empire Ethiopia. That means, the only formidable force that can tip the balance of power in empire Ethiopia are the people of Oromia if they are united and organized in order to build other ethnic groups confidence and lead them to true freedom. Therefore, it is an absolute fact that the Oromians build a political infrastructure that will facilitate their unity and superiority over their weakness. Political infrustructure is the spirit of cooperation and the ideas, the interests and ingredients that binds different groups together on free will. In general terms, infrustructure is an invisible -expensive - useful stuff that makes our lives work so well: For example, water, sewer, open spaces, libraries, energy pipelines, schools, public safety systems and transportation networks are social infrucstuctures available to connect every one. When transilated to a sense of building a political infrastructure among Oromia's political parties or groups or entities, the formation of alliances must be understood by the above example. As long as the liberation objective of Oromia is not formulated in a precise language which the society can understand, the Oromians and the OLF will continue to suffer endless barrages of confusions and TPLF's Dogs such as the OPDO will have so much to say in order to manipulate the Oromians against their own liberation organizations. Evidently, the OLF suffered a political setback because of the shift it made in 2005 from it’s original political objective. By acknowledging the value of this key concept, including the importance of understanding the nature of a conflict inside itself and Oromia’s localities, the OLF can re embark upon the friction and the fog that seem affecting it’s relationship with the Oromians and quickly transition to the formation of the CAFFEE OROMIYAA or the parliament of united republic of Oromia. Numerous Oromian scholars have observed that the tactical shift made by the OLF since 1991 have encouraged misinterpretation about the intentions of the OLF to stand with it’s original objective of liberating Oromia despite millions of Oromians commitment to the idea of liberating Oromia from the colonization of the Abyssinians (the Tigre and the Amharas). It is very important to understand why the Oromians opinion have taken a dim view at large-scale today. The utilization of Ethiopianist tactical approach limits Oromian’s desire to be a part of the revolution movement because OLF’s recognition of the survival of empire Ethiopia will eventually result in the strengthening of a tainted and outdated Abyssinians institutions and military doctrine dictums. In-order to wage a decisive battle on Abyssinian colonization, first, a war must take place against those intermittent tactical moves emphasized by the OLF in 2005 and of-course a war on irregularity requires the untimely death of political duality, i.e, it limits OLF’s ability to claim Ethiopia and Oromia at the same time. None-the less, a focus on strict objective of the liberation of Oromia gives a clear understanding of the mission sought by the founders of the Maccaa and Tulamaa Association and the OLF when it also provides a broader political platform that unify the Oromians and rally them around a single objective that gives a relative advantage to finish the remaining historical journey of liberating and defending Oromia from the colonial yoke of the Abyssinians. A focus on the original objective of liberating Oromia will help the Oromians to overcome the inherent imperfection of localist and religious differences which the Abyssinians utilized to divide the Oromians and rule them for century and half now. In other words, the conflicts that escalates among the Oromians here and there will end when the Oromians are focused on a strict objective of liberating their country Oromia.. That means, a focused aim of liberating Oromia will bring natural reconciliation among Oromians opposing views by being a conceptual model by shedding light on a single political purpose while entirely plugging off all loop holes through which the Abyssinians sneaked in in order to manipulate the Oromians towards to division and weakness. Hence, Oromians and OLF’s dedication to the idea of the formation of the Gadaa republic of Oromia, will serve as a decisive battles against the colonizing force of the Tigre in Oromia. In the following manuscript or a “rough draft”of the Gadaa constitution of the democratic republic of Oromia, a dialectical method of reasoning have been employed in order to clear up littered Oromian political past of contradictions and redundancies that mislead the Oromians and the world at large. To read the entire manuscript, please subscribe to KAAYOO journal 2009 edition. The Oromian Scholars and Professionals Association (O.P.S.A)

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Ethiopia: Oromo from across Europe converge on Brussels and call to stop aid to Ethiopia’s repressive regime

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