HRLHA  URGENT ACTION

           October 5, 2012

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the safety and wellbeing of hundreds of Oromo Nationals who were arrested by the Ethiopian Security forces on the annual Irrecha Festival (Oromo Traditional Thanksgiving) Holiday in central Oromia Regional State in Ethiopia.

According to the information obtained by HRLHA through its correspondents in central Ethiopian, over two hundred Oromo nationals, almost all of whom were the youth, were arrested in a surprise crackdown by armed government forces around the end of the Irrecha Holiday ceremony at Hora (Lake) Arsadi in the Central Oromia City of Bishoftu/Dabra-Zayit on the 30^th of September 2012, and taken away to Maikelawi Investigation prison and to unknown destinations. The allegations were that the holiday celebrants chanted some kinds of political slogans along with Irrecha Festival songs.

HRLHA’s  informants from Western and Southern Showa also  reported that many Oromos who were on traveling to attend the Irrecha Festival Celebration at Bishoftu were pulled out their Buses on September 29, 2012  by the Security forces in towns of Guder, Ambo, Ginchi, Shashemene, Sebata, Dukem and other towns and taken to unknown destinations.

The very ambiguous question, as it has been the case in Ethiopia’s political environment in the past fifteen to twenty years, is as to why political opinions and expressions, if any, become a crime in a country that claims to be democratic. It is very unfortunate that the Oromos and other nations and nationalities in Ethiopia are not able to see signs of democratic political changes even following the change of top political leadership. Among the hundreds of arrestees and detainees, the whereabouts of whom were not yet known, the HRLHA correspondents have been able to get the names and some other relevant information of the following: HRLHA UA Irrecha 2012

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Gaafa Fulbaanaa 30/2012 Hidhamtoonnii Oromoo Mana Hidhaa Qalliittii Zoonii garaagaraa keessaa jiraanii fi Mana Hidhaa Aqaaqii Keessaattii Argaman Ayyaana Irreechaa Kabajatan,Kabajaa Ayyaana Irreechaa kanaan wal qabatee namoonnii hedduun loltoota Waayyaanee hidhamtotaa egaa jiraniin dorsifamaan, Keessaattuu warra sirnaa Ayyaanichaa irraattii adda durummaan dubbatanii fi akka kabajaataniif haala mijjeessaaniin mootummaan Waayyaanee isiin akka hidhamtoonnii cabsanii badaaniif haalaa mijeessaa jirtu jechuun dorsisaa jiraachuun gabaafame, Haalumaa wal fakkaatuun hidhamtonnii Oromoo mana hidhaa Ziiwwaayitti hidhamanii jiraan guyyuma Irreechaa kanaa Ayyaanaa irreechaa wayita kabajatan mirgi akkasii isiniif hin kennaamne jechuun poolisonnii sirnicha hidhamtotaa doorsisuu irra darbanii dararaa akka jiran beekame. Haata’uu malee cichoominaa fi dura dhaabbaannaa hidhamtotaatiin kabajachuu danda’aniru.

Haala kana keessatti hidhamtoonni dhaamsa dhaammatan keessatti yaa ilmaan Oromoo jabaadha,hidhaa fi ajjeechaan qabsoo irraa nu hin deebisu,tokkummaa keessan cimsaa yoo jabaanne ni bilisoomna. fi kkf dhaamsa dhaammachuu isaanii gabaasi achi irraa dhufe addeessa.

Onkololeessaa 2/2012 Godina Lixaa Shawaa Aanaa Midaa Qanyii keessatti diddaa barattooti Oromoo gandoota gara garaa keessatti kaasaniin wal qabatee nammoonni nagaa sadii maqaa ABOn shakkamanii hdihamuu gabaasi qeerroo naannoo sanii nu gahe addeessa.Kanneen keessaa.

1. Barataa Hundaa’ol Dhugaasaa

2. Batataa Bantii Dalasaa

3. Barsiisaa Xuurii Bantii

Badii tokkoon malee waajjiraa Poolisaa Aanaa Midaa Qanyiittii hidhamanii akka jiran gabaasi addeessa. Naannoo kanatti ilmaan Oromoo yeroo gara garaa hidhamuun isaanii beekamaa dha, barata Hundaa’ol Dhugaasaa ammaan dura duraa mana Hidhaa Godina Lixaa Shawaattii hidhamee dararamaa kan ture, fi yeroo amma kana yoo
Miseensaa OPDO taatee malee hin barattu jechuun barnotaa irraa dhorkamee kan jiru, ta’uun beekamadha.

Onkoloolessa 5,2012

Godina Wallagga bahaa aanaa Giddaa keessatti diddaan ilmaan Oromoo itti fufuun wal dhabdeen Poolisoota federaalaa ummata dararuuf bobba’anii fi Poolisoota Oromiyaa gidduutti uumame.Poolisootni Federaalaa naannoo kanatti bobba’an Poolisii Oromiyaa fi Bulchinsa gandaa kan tahan wayita walitti bu’insi ilmaan Oromoo fi Uummata Beenishaangul Gumuz bu’insi turetti isintu meeshaa waraanaa Oromootaaf kenne jechuun qorannoon rakkisaa jiran.Qorannoo kanaanis Poolisiin Oromiyaa gurra hin kenninu jechuun wal dhabdeen uumamee jira.Haala kanaanis Poolisootni Federaalaa Komaander Asaffaa Gannatii kutaa qorannoo yakkaa kan tahe Tika mootummaa Wayyaanee naannoo kanaa Shallamaa jedhamu waliin qorannoon rakkisaa jiran.Miseensotni Poolisii Oromiyaas kanaaf bakka hin kenninu jechuun diddaa mul’isaa akka jiran gabaasi naannicha irraa nu gahe addeessa.