ADDA BILISUMMAA OROMOO
OROMO LIBERATION FRONT
Statement of the Oromo Liberation Front
According to credible reports reaching us from Finfinee (Addis Ababa), starting on May 1, 2010, and
continuing, the Oromo students of the Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) University are under physical assault and
harassment by the brutal TPLF regime’s Agazi (Special Force) soldiers and security forces. The assault
on the Oromo University students was provoked and started by the TPLF security agents enrolled into the
University as students. When the Oromo students were heroically defending themselves from the attack
of the TPLF agents, the TPLF Agazi soldiers and security forces entered the University campus as a
reinforcement force. After they entered the University campus, the Agazi soldiers and the security forces
singled out and brutally and inhumanely attacked the Oromo students. Due to the assault, tens of Oromo
students have been injured; some have suffered life threatening injuries. Hundreds of Oromo students
were kidnapped and taken away by the security forces and their where about is not known. It is believed
that the kidnapped Oromo students are held in secret detention centers and are being subjected to torture,
inhuman and degrading treatments by the brutal TPLF soldiers and security forces. It is also reported that
hundreds of Oromo students who escaped the kidnapping have sought refuge in mosques and churches.
Preliminary Report among those imprisoned are the following:
Name Depatment Year
1 Sanyii Nagaash Political science 3rd
2 Amanu’el Teklu Languag 4th
3 Efrem Fikad u Afan Oromo 4th
4 Tomas Amante Psychology 4th
5 Ayeris Dhalasaa Afan Oromoo 4th
6 Adunya Kaba History 4th
7 Tamiru Adunya Afan Oromoo 4th
8 Tamire Bogale History 4th
9 Gololchaa Baldi Psychology 4th
10 Dabalu Geography 3rd (Where about unknown)
11 Kadir Faraja Afan Oromo 4th
12 Gudina Fixumaa Psychology 4th
The following were wounded and hospitalized and taken out of hospital and thrown into Prison
13 Ibsa Yonas Archeology 2nd
14 Amanuel Teklu Language 2nd
15 Gurmessa Oromoo Language 4th
16 Ifa Tasfaye Oromoo Language 2nd (bullet wounded on the neck)
17 Damasa
18 Cherinat
19 Tafarii
20 Fedhasaa
21 Robina
22 Bekuma Berhane Oromo Language 2nd
23 Taka History 4th
24 Balisaa
Girl Students
25 Marge Guta Oromo Language 2nd
26 Walali Wagga Oromoo Language 2nd
27 Yeshareg Sisay
28 Tinur Waqtola Oromo Language 2nd
29 Shukare Raggasa Language 2nd
30 Rahel Hirana Oromo Language 2nd
31 Tigist Ibsaa Oromo Language 2nd
32 Shitaye Tasfa Language 2nd
33 Hawwii Oromoo Language 3rd (lost teeth)
According to the reports, the assault of the TPLF security forces on the Oromo university
students and the self-defence and solidarity actions of the Oromo students is spreading to
several other institutions of higher education in the country. It is a public secret that the Agazi
soldiers and security forces perpetrating such cruel and in human assaults on the Oromo
students are under the direct command and order of the wicked dictator Meles Zenawi. Agazi
soldiers are remembered in the Addis Abeba street brutal massacre of more than 200 innocent
civilians who were demonstrating to protect their stolen votes by the regime right after 2005
election.
The present assault and harassment of the Oromo university students is neither the first nor an
isolated incident; it is a continuation of a long standing anti-Oromo intellectuals’ policy pursued
by the tyrannical TPLF/Meles regime since it controlled the Ethiopian State power in May
1991. Its purpose is to deprive the Oromo nation of an educated manpower. This inhuman and
anti-Oromo policy emanated from the TPLF leaders’ vile belief that depriving the Oromo
nation of its educated man power makes it easier for them to misrule, subjugate and exploit the
conquered Oromo nation for a long-time. It was based on this inhuman policy that the TPLF
regime capriciously and discriminatorily dismissed more than 300 Oromo students from
Finfinee University a couple of years ago.
The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) vehemently condemns the inhuman assault of the Meles
regime on the Oromo university students. Meles Zenawi and his tyrannical regime bear the sole
responsibility for the assault on Oromo students an its consequences.
The OLF calls on the Oromo people to stand by the Oromo university students, the future of our
nation, who are being attacked by the brutal TPLF regime. We call up on you to fulfil your
natural and patriotic duties to defend and protect your children.
The OLF particularly calls up on the Oromos, who are serving in the TPLF regime’s armed,
security and police forces, to say enough is enough and stand by the Oromo people, who are
daily harassed, terrorized, murdered and subjected to cruel, inhuman and discriminatory
treatments and turn your weapons against the tyrannical Meles Zenawi regime.
The timing of the assault on the Oromo students, May 2010, is not without reason. May 2010, is
a time of another round of a sham election; during which the TPLF regime made it a custom to
terrorize and murder the people. We believe that the assault and terrorization of the brutal
regime only started by the Oromo students; no people in Ethiopia will be immune from a
similar assault and the worst is yet to come; as long as the brutal TPLF continues to control the
State power in Ethiopia. Therefore, the OLF would like to take this opportunity to call up on all
concerned Oromo and other political forces opposed to the TPLF’s tyrannical misrule, to unite,
cooperate, and coordinate our struggles and once and for all get rid of the wicked, cruel and
criminal regime led by the tyrant Meles Zenawi, the source of all our miseries, and usher in an
era of liberation, democracy, freedom, justice, peace and prosperity for all the peoples in
Ethiopia.
Victory to the Oromo People!
Oromo Liberation Front
May 6, 2010
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