(Qeerroo News, Adama/Oromia, May 23, 2011) In a serious of protest ignited by food poisoning, inflating food prices and living cost and human right abuse in the country; many were imprisoned, other hospitalized but the rest are keeping up the pace of their protest against the regime.

The communication infrastructures were taken down by the regime and it was impossible to communicate on the internet and the phone. Due to the high tension, it was also difficult to go out of the campus.

On Friday May 20, 2011, around 12 AM, when the angry students demonstrate in the campus police cars were destroyed, security officers attached and library was destroyed.

Immediately 5000 federal police force out numbering students broke in to the campus arresting many of them. For hours the students were engaged in stone fight with the huge police force that invaded their campus but the police responded in unbalanced and heavy crackdown.

Many were bitten and more than 20 were imprisoned. Students when taken by the police cars were heard chanting for freedom and their cause.

Students continued chanting “thief, thief government…”, while Oromo students chanted “OLF, OLA, Raise up Qeerroo” the voice and picture of the scene was also recorded.

Qeerroo, a Gadaa based National Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy, is a group of young pro-Freedom and Democracy and Human rights activists came together in order to support each other, build solidarity, and develop sustainable democracy and human rights movements by empowering a younger generation in democratic rights and value.

@Qeerroo 2011