Ethiopia’s Millennium Commemoration , a day of sorrow for the Oromo People.
A statement by Oromo Parliamentarians Council
The TPLF/EPRDF regime who boasts to have brought a good governance to the peoples of Ethiopia has discriminately left Oromo prisoners in jail and arresting many more while many non-Oromo prisoners are being released. What is more disturbing is that the regime is constantly harassing the rest of the Oromo people by the name of celebrating the so-called Ethiopian millennium to be celebrated on September 1, 2000 Ethiopian Calendar.
The year 2007 however, is a year of sorrow and grief for the Oromo people because it is the year where:
• Over 40, 000 Oromos are suffering of torture in Ethiopian prisons such as Kaliti, Maikelawi, Zeway, Nekemte, Dhidheessaa, Harar Jaarsoo, Mekele, Adwa, Bure, Zaraba Gidaf, Gimbi, Robe;
• Several Oromos are killed in prisons and their bodies are thrown to the jungles such as Gaara Suufii and eaten by wild animals;
• Oromo students have been dismissed from schools and became a burden to their families for the sole reason of expressing their concern for their suffering people;
• Many Oromo parliamentarians who tried to speak for the people they represent were continuously intimidated by the government security forces and are forced to leave the country, while many more are under arrest and even brutally murdered
• Many Oromo military officers, judges, diplomats, journalists, and other government officials defected to several countries opposing the suffering of their people
• The TPLF/EPRDF government created and fuelled conflict among various Oromo clans such as Borana and Guji, Borana and Garri, resulting in enormous loss of life and property
• The TPLF/EPRDF concocted conflict between Islam and Christian faith and made them fight each other for the first time in the history of our country
• The killing, arrest, and harassments are more intensified in all corners of Oromia at this moment when the celebration of the millennium is already underway.
The Oromo people have nothing to do with the so-called Ethiopian millennium. It is neither our heritage nor our culture. For the Habeshas attempting to force the Oromo people to celebrate their own festival amounts to insulting us, Oromos. We do not share anything together. While they are dancing, we are in jail, in refugee camps, and in the Oromian jungle in search of our freedom.
Therefore, the Oromo Parliamentarians Council has decided to commemorate the Habesha September 1 as a day of grief in which the Oromo people are subjected to the Habesha prison every year starting from the year 2000. We call up on all the Oromo people to remember this day every year by the following activities:
• Visiting the prisoners and their families by taking gifts as much as possible.
• Helping those who have been released from jail morally, financially, and materially.
• Signing petition for the release of all Oromo prisoners and for the evoking of the death penalty passed on some Oromo prisoners.
• Since this day is a day of grief and sorrow we ask all Oromo people that they should not go to any festival or recreation. Everyone should surpass this day in grief and by visiting prisoners and their families.
Freedom for the Oromo people!
The Oromo Parliamentarians Council
August 27, 2007
Samuel
This article is written by Eritrean government cadre
Dear eritrean government cadres,
thank you for writing this propaganda and pretending to be ethnic “Oromo”
please eritreans, mind your own business and stop the suffering of eritreans before you accuse ethiopians.
the ethnic oromo people in ethiopia are represented by many political parties like OFDM, OPDO and ONC.
for example the Oromo national Congress (ONC) oromo opposition party was holding anti-government demonstration . check this video.
there is no persecution of oromo and everyone is free to act.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4132102881581522618&hl=en
please eritrean cadres, stop wasting your time on ethiopia.
thank you
nitsuh ethiopiawi
Ethiopia’s Millennium Commemoration , a day of sorrow for the Oromo People.
It is crystal clear , that this is an article posted by the so called “regime” in Eritrea(one part of Ethiopia) or one of its puppets.
As to the OLF, these are a group of ineffective individuals who have been alleviated by the ordinary respected Oromos, they no more enjoy any support from any normal mind oromo.
Hence , despite the continous barking from the SELATOS shaebian agents(Italian moulded ),Ethiopians will Celebrate their Millenium colorfully & hand in hand.
“The caravan will keep going even if the DOGS BARK”
Iwunatu Yiwuxa
Ethiopia’s Millennium Commemoration , a day of sorrow for the Oromo People.
This article represents the true interest of real sons and daughters of Oromo who are tired of the Abbysinian lies and fabricated legend histories as if Oromo also belongs to these fabricated lies and legends. We Oromos who are aware of ourselves don’t think that what the Abbysinians are fabricating and telling to the Ethiopian people and the international community are aimed at advancing and promoting their intereest to perpetually rule the subject ppeople.
The Colonized people like Oromo, Somali, Sidama, Walaitta, etc, don’t share common history with Abbysinians. We probably commonly share some of the histories in the last 100 years. How come then these people aree expected to share the so called “Ethiopian second Millinum” when were not togehter for the last two thousand years?
Leave alone, all Ethiopian people living in todays Ethiopia, even the Abbysinian Muslems don’t share commonly this caledar as it came to with the Orthodox christian doctrine. The calendar used by Abbysinians is the one they Chrisitians aopted from the old Julian calendar.
This is the fact on the ground and how do they want to fool us with this. If at all it was created by Ethiopians (referring to all black people) who created it, at what time, where in this country – north, south, western or eastern Ethiopia?).
Don’t the TPLF feel ashamed that when it says this calendar is Ethiopians?
This is to be ashamed of. So, Oromos and other subject people of the Abbysinian rule has nothing to do with this claendar. They are forced to accept the calendar the Abbysinians have adopted with christianity. This has nothing to do with Eritrea. It is Abbysinian ruler’s disease to claim that what opposes them belongs to what they hate.
Bye.