Oromia for Oromo: Wind of protest in the army: Ethiopian soldiers and officers based in the east of the country are accusing their hierarchy of discrimination.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Wind of protest in the army: Ethiopian soldiers and officers based in the east of the country are accusing their hierarchy of discrimination.

Wind of protest in the army: Ethiopian soldiers and officers based in the east of the country are accusing their hierarchy of discrimination.

May 2nd 2009 - According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the complaints by soldiers and officers based in Harar and Jijiga have reached the ears of their high command. Their accusations concern various forms of discrimination (for example, dismissing some soldiers without compensation, while others are given it, unfairness in promotions, Tigrayan soldiers and officers have separate doctors from other ethnic groups). The Tigrayan General Igziabher Mebrat went on the spot to calm down the tempers. He got carried away during one meeting with soldiers: he displayed an Ethiopian flag and said â€œwe have enough enemies; we must stay united in the interest of Ethiopiaâ€. The Amhara General Abebaw Tadesse also came to speak to the angry soldiers. These two high-ranking officers promised to come back with the answers from the ministry of defence. But meanwhile, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi summoned General Samora Yunis and other Tigrayan generals and asked them to put an end to this fledgling agitation within the army.

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TPLF Regimes Sets Up Special Force to Crash Popular Uprising, Say Defecting Ethiopian Soldiers

15 May 2009 Asmara â€” Ethiopian soldiers who arrived in Eritrea recently opposing the TPLF regime's policies said that the regime has set up a special force to crash the mounting popular uprising in that country. They pointed out that the setting up of the special force is designed to suppress opposition on the part of the general public and members of the Army. The soldiers further disclosed that the prevailing opposition and chaos inside the Army is the result of the mass arrest and liquidation, as well as the resist policies being pursued by the regime.The defecting soldiers are Osman Abdalla and Weyesa Bekele, both from the Oromo ethnic group.

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The Tigreans domination of the military

Several Ethiopian scholars and political commentators alike have argued in the past that the TPLF regime in Ethiopia has been promoting the domination of a minority ethnic elite, i.e., the Tigreans, in all spheres of the nationâ€™s life â€” economy, military, intelligence and security services, foreign affairs, etc. Much has been said and many have commented upon the blatant nature of the drive to ensure the domination of Tigrean elites who claim to represent only 6% of close to 80 million Ethiopians.

Below one can find list of the names, positions, and ethnic compositions that exist in the current so-called national military in Ethiopia:

The most senior Command posts of the Defense Ministry
Chief of Staff, General, Samora Yunus, Tigre
Training Department, Lt. General Tadesse Worede, Tigre
Logistics Department, Lt. General Geazi Abera, Tigre
Military Intelligence Department, Brg. General Gebredela, Tigre
Operations Department, Lt. General Gebre Egziabiher, Tigre
Engineering Department, Lt. General Berhane Negash, Tigre
Air force, Brg. General Mola Haile Mariam, Tigre
Heads of the four commands

Central Command, Lt. General AbebawTadesse, Agew
Northern Command, Lt. General Seare Mekonnen, Tigre
South Eastern Command, Maj. General Abraha W. Gabriel, Tigre
Western Command, Brg. General Siyoum Hagos, Tigre
Division Commands

31st Division Commander, Colonel Tsegaye Marx, Tigre
33rd Division Commander, Colonel Kidane, Tigre
35th Division Commander, Colonel Misganaw Alemu, Agew
24th Division Commander, Colonel Work Aieynu, Tigre
22nd Division Commander, Colonel Dikul, Tigre
14th Division Commander, Colonel Woedi Antieru, Tigre
21st Divison Commander, Colonel Gueshi Gebre, Tigre
11th Division Commander, Colonel Workidu, Tigre
25th Division Commander, Colonel Tesfai Sahel, Tigre
20th Division Commander, Colonel, Teklai Klashin, Tigre
8th Mechanized Division, Colonel Jemal Mohamed, Tigre
4th Mechanized Division, Colonel Hintsaw Giorgis, Tigre
19th Division Commander, Colonel Wodi Guae, Tigre
44th Division Commander, Colonel Zewdu Teferra, Agew
13th Division Commander, Colonel Sherifo, Tigre
12th Division Commander, Colonel Mulugeta Abraha, Tigre
32nd Division Commander, Colonel Abraha Teslim, Tigre
6th Mech. Div. Commander , Colonel Gebre Medhin Fekad, Tigre
23rd Division, Commander, Colonel Wold Beilalom, Tigre
43rd Division Commander, Colonel Wodi Abate, Tigre
26th Division Commander, Colonel Mebratu, Tigre
7th Mech. Div. Commander, Colonel Gebre Gebre Mariam, Tigre

Defense Ministry Departments and other specialized Units

Agazi Commando Div., Commander, Brg. General Muhamed Aisha, Tigre
Addis Ababa Security Division, Colonel Zenebe Amare, Tigre
Palace Security Force, Commander, Colonel Geresenay, Tigre
Banksâ€™ Security Force, Commander, Colonel Hawaz Woldu, Tigre
Engineering College, Commander, Colonel Halefom Ejigou, Tigre
Heath Science College, Commander, Colonel Tesfaye Giday, Tigre
Mulugeta Buli Technical College Commander, Colonel Meleya Amare, Tigre
Resource Management College Commander, Colonel Letayi Tigre
Staff & Command College, Commander, Brg General Tesfaye Giday Tigre
Bilate Training Center, Commander, Colonel Salih Berihu, Tigre
Hurso Training Center, Commander, Colonel Negash Hiluf, Tigre
Awash Arba Training Center, Commander, Colonel Muze, Tigre
Bir Shelko Training Center, Commander, Colonel Negasi Shekortet, Tigre
Head of Admin., the Ministry of Defense, Brg.Gen. Mehari Zewde, Tigre
Dejen Defense Aviation, Head, Brg General Kinfe Dagenew, Tigre
Defense Ministry, Head of Research, Brg. Gen. Halfom Chento, Tigre
Defense Ministry, Head of Legal Affairs, Colonel Askale, Tigre
Head of the Office of the Chief of Staff, Colonel Tsehaye Manjus, Tigre
Head of Indoctrinated Centre , Brg. General Akele Asaye, Amhara
Head of Communication, Colonel Sibhat, Tigre
Head of External Affairs, Colonel Hasene, Tigre
Head, Special Forces coordinating Center, Brg. Gen Fiseha Manjus, Tigre
Head of operations Department, Colonel Wodi Tewik, Tigre
Planning and Program Department Head, Colonel Teklai Ashebir, Tigre
Defense Industry Coordinating Head, Colonel Wodi Negash, Tigre
Head of Finance in the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Zewdu, Tigre
Head of Purchasing in the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Gidey, Tigre
Head of Budget Department, Ato Brehane Tigre

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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 29, 2009

Wind of protest in the army: Ethiopian soldiers and officers based in the east of the country are accusing their hierarchy of discrimination.

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The formation of the Gadaa republic of Oromia

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