Dr. Trevor Trueman, a human right advocate and a well known activist for his devoteing long years on writing articles and lobbying human rights concerns and abuses in Ethiopia against the Oromo people has visited the Oromo Community in cairo (OCRA-Egypt) on Saturday 25 May 2013. He has discussed with members of our community about the problems the Oromo people are facing in Ethiopia, the problems oromo refugees and asylum seekers are facing on their way to Egypt and about the challenging life situation the Oromo refugees are facing in the host country-Egypt.

It was a very good opportunity for members of the Oromo Community Refugee Association (OCRA-Egypt)  to expalin to Dr. Trueman about the problems all Oromo refugees and asylum seekers are facing in Egypt by sharing with him their grievances regarding their security concers and life challenges happening to Unaccompanied Children, Single mothers, Large families, Single Men and Women and all sorts of problems refugees are facing in this country includinjg the human trafficking and abuses happening against Oromos and other nationalities in Sinai are discussed with Dr. Trevor Trueman.

Availing this opportunity, leaders of the Oromo Community in Cairo would like to thank Dr. Trevor Truman for his visit to our community center to hear about the problems the Oromo people are facing in Ethiopia, to observe the hardships Oromo refugees and asylum seekers are facing on their way to Egypt and to witness the challenges they are encountering in Cairo- Egypt.

Waldaya Baqattoota Oromoo Biyya Masrii   http://osra-egypt.webs.com/apps/blog/

25 May 2013

Sidama Community United Kingdom, May 25, 2013

London,

On a very bright morning in Sidama land, on May 24, 2002, between 10:30 and 11:00am local time; the Sidama people of all walks of life staged on a peaceful and non-violent Demonstration after fully exhausting the constitutional requirements that is needed to undertake such an activity. Carrying the leaves of trees and Ethiopian flags, the demonstrators peacefully started to march towards their capital city, Hawassa which is located at the distance of about 3 km from where they have been planning to hold the said peaceful demonstration when they were encountered with deliberately targeted barbaric acts after they have nearly travelled about a kilometre from the point they were gathering.

The objectives of the demonstration was in protest of the governments decision to remove the administrative right of their capital (Hawassa)- from Sidama to the federal government in addition to the issues related with regional self administration quest, the Sidama nation is constitutionally guaranteed, yet denied. Whilst the Sidamas were peacefully demonstrating, suddenly, they were met with several armoured vehicles with machine guns and others hundreds of army personnel all of whom live shot into the upcoming crowds without warning-instantly killing over hundred Sidama civilians and wounding about 250-300.