(Qerroo News, Adama, June 05-2011) It is years now that the TPLF led EPRDF government is confiscating farmers land to award to its inner circle and sell it out to foreign investors while million of the country men and women go hungry. This all is being carried out by the support of huge security personnel’s and the regime has invested heavily to silence the farmers.  But the news from Boosat Woreda in Central Oromia is revealing the breaking of the silence to this unforgiveable crime.

According to Qeerroo news correspondent in Boosat woreda, the Dongorree and Moomee kebele farmers has risen up in the serious of protest on this matter. Accordingly the dictatorial regime on power is imprisoning many farmers accusing them of orchestrating protest, participating in uprising and unwillingness to leave their land away.

In a similar development, the cadres of the government have ordered their security team to fire on farmers without any discussion on these who will try to plough their land after being evicted and given to other owners.

Some of the farmers imprisoned after protesting to give up their land include:

1. Mr. Daaccoo Beqele
2. Mr. Zawdee Kebede
3. Mr. Alemayyoo Kebede

These and other farmers are still suffering in prisons, while the land grabbing and eviction of farmers continues in very shocking speed.

In a continued Resistance against oppression: Arbaminch University students arrested in mass while 286 students in Gedo high school were dismissed for two years

(Qerroo News, Adama, June 06-2011) After the youth revolution started in Oromia back in April 2011, Oromo students especially University students never stopped asking for their democratic right in raising the legitimate voice of the oppressed Oromo and Ethiopian People, but the answer from the regime on power continued to be extreme violence, live ammunition, imprisonment, dismissal and killings.

In the under reported case of Teppi University, more than 1400 students were affected by the unproportional use of force from the Ethiopian regime. In a similar incident in Universities like Jimma, Arbaminch, Adama, Hawaasa, Wallaga, Ambo and Addis Ababa harassment, kidnapping, biting, and imprisonment become normal way of treatment. The whereabouts of the majority cases reported were yet unknown.

To worsen the situation many University students in Teppi and Adama Universities were poisoned in which hundreds were hospitalized and many were seriously sick. Arbaminch University students asking for democratic freedom in the country on 1^st of June 2011 were met by the federal police force tear gas and unproportional force after they are back to their dormitory. Eyewitness said the police have taken 4 big tracks and one small minibus students and their whereabouts is still unknown. After the regimes authority allowed students to eat in the cafeteria after 3 days, students were given poisoned food and as many as 455 students reportedly went ill and 75 of them were hospitalized. Angered by the series of event orchestrated on them students organized themselves for protest but they faced brutal crackdown and three students namely

1. Morka (3^rd year Hydrologist)
2. Abaabu Dibaba (3^rd year Physics) and
3. Miliyoon (3^rd year Management); were bitten and taken by the police after blaming them as organizers of the youth revolution in the campus.

As part of the crackdown, the regime is using a network of spies in the campus instead of answering to the legitimate demand of the youth.

Dismissal in Gedo Schools

In a similar incident 286 students in Gedo preparatory and high school were dismissed for 2 years from school without any legal ground. What is more, more than 15 students from 10^th and 12^th grade; were banned from sitting for the national examination on similar grounds.

The Qeerroo group said “These students were punished only for their identity and for their resistance to the dictatorship looming in the country”. Qeerroo also said that, “these days’ youth with a banner for freedom and democracy are being met by unproportional forces and the very crackdown of the peaceful and legitimate protesters by itself witnesses the genuinity of our demands and the use of force by itself will only electrify the speed of our movement”

Another Qeerroo group member also said “we can understand the deep hatred of the regime against the Oromo people from its cruel and irresponsible crackdown on peaceful demand and we should also double our effort to bring the long suffering of our people to an end.”

Accordingly nationalist in the Calliya Woreda said, “These brutal and cruel decisions can never bring the spirit of the Oromo people and students down but will increase the unwavering commitment of the nation to the demise of the dictatorship in the country.”

Qeerroo June 2011

Adama, Oromia