Stop playing a political game on the Oromo people!
(A press release from Qeerroo/ Finfinnee, 29th May 2011) The political bankruptcy and lack legitimacy created due a repeated failure to convince the public at large with old cards have forced the TPLF regime to bit the Abay Dam construction drum in a bid to avert the public anger and the momentum of popular uprising from the Oromo and other peoples in Ethiopia.
The TPLF government has never raised the issue of Abay River at any time in the last 20 year of its dictatorship. Abay was always there, but the timely question is how come they saw Abay only now? Without solving the critical problems of the nation, the construction of Abay alone can’t avoid the existing and pushing problems with in the Country.
Today, the Oromo and other Ethiopian people can’t live in their own country; they are unable to plough, trade, produce and study in peace and freedom. The natural resources of the Oromo people, its land and minerals are on sale; productive areas of Oromo lands are being distributed to foreign land grabbers and to the regimes inners circles.
Left with nothing to eat, the Oromo is being forced to migrate from its land. Productive youngsters and innovative minds of are being dragged to prisons and the rest are forced to exiles. While Oromia is on sale to foreigners and to the regimes’ elites, the development and Abay dam construction propaganda is adding an insult to injury for the Oromo people.
Today when TPLF celebrate its 20th year of its dictatorship, it is clear for the Ethiopian people that the regimes’ propaganda of Abay dam construction as the only title and solution of Ethiopia’s problem is a political game. While it assembles peoples from all directions of the city with bus trucks to what it calls supports rally at Mesqel square to preach Abay dam construction and recording them for media consumption, the regime was also trying hard to put under control different University campus students resistance to the system of repression by sending the armed force and huge spy networks.
QEERROO 