AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

PUBLIC STATEMENT

AI Index: AFR 25/005/2014

22 September 2014

Systemic human rights concerns demand action by both Ethiopia and the Human Rights Council

Human Rights Council adopts Universal Periodic Review outcome on Ethiopia

With elections coming up in May 2015, urgent and concrete steps are needed to reduce violations of civil and political rights in Ethiopia.� Considering the scale of violations associated with general elections in 2005 and 2010, Amnesty International is deeply concerned that Ethiopia has rejected more than 20 key recommendations on freedom of expression and association relevant to the free participation in the elections and the monitoring and reporting on these. These include in particular recommendations to amend the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which continues to be used to silence critical voices and stifle dissent, and recommendations to remove severe restrictions on NGO funding in the Charities and Societies Proclamation.� The independent journalists and bloggers arrested just days before Ethiopia’s review by the UPR Working Group in May 2014 have since been charged with terrorism offences. Four opposition party members were arrested in July on terror accusations, and, in August, the publishers of five magazines and one newspaper were reported to be facing similar charges.

While Amnesty International welcomes Ethiopia’s statement of ‘zero tolerance’ for torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and its commitment to adopt preventative measures,� it is concerned by its rejection of recommendations to investigate and prosecute all alleged cases of torture and other ill-treatment and to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.� The organization continues to receive frequent reports of the use of torture and other ill-treatment against perceived dissenters, political opposition party supporters, and suspected supporters of armed insurgent groups, including in the Oromia region. Amnesty International urges Ethiopia to demonstrate its commitment to strengthening cooperation with the Special Procedures by inviting the Special Rapporteur on Torture to visit the country.� Unfettered access by independent monitors to all places of detention is essential to reduce the risk of torture.

Ethiopia’s refusal to ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance is also deeply concerning in light of regular reports of individuals being held incommunicado in arbitrary detention without charge or trial and without their families being informed of their detention – often amounting to enforced disappearances.�

Ethiopia’s UPR has highlighted the scale of serious human rights concerns in the country. Amnesty International urges the Human Rights Council to ensure more sustained attention to the situation in Ethiopia beyond this review.

Background

The UN Human Rights Council adopted the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review of Ethiopia on 19 September 2014 during its 27th session. Prior to the adoption of the review outcome, Amnesty International delivered the oral statement above.

Amnesty International had earlier submitted information on the situation of human rights in Ethiopia: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR25/004/2013/en/95f2e891-accc-408d-b1c4-75f20c83eceb/afr250042013en.pdf

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International Secretariat, Amnesty International, 1 Easton St., London WC1X 0DW, UK http://www.amnesty.org

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Source: Amnesty

Jiituu lammii, Ful. 22, 2014

Halkan dhawaata bari’a. Hanga obsaa fi murannoon itti deeman mallattoo barii lafaa eeru arguu fi dhaga’uu jalqabu. Hangasitti garuu cichaa fi murannoo gaafata. Seenaa qabsoo bilisummaa Afrikaa keessatti Hanga xumura waraana Addunyaa 2^ffaa (WWII)tti dukkanni gabrummaa dachee Afrikaa dhuunfate tasuma waan bari’u hin fakkaatu ture. Haa ta’uutii garuu taateen seenaa kana jijjiiru guyyaa isaa eegee  dhalachuu hin oolle. Innis sochii barattoota Afrikaa ti.

Barri 1935 – 1960 bara sochiin barattoota Africa jabinaa fi heddumminaan itti mul’atee dha. Baay’inni dhaabbilee barnootaa dachee Afrikaarratti mul’achuun,  lakkofsi ilmaan Afrikaa mana barnootaa seenan akka dabalu taasise. Lakkoofsi barattoota ilmaan Afrikaa biyya keessaa fi alaatti dabalaa deemuun dammaqiinsa siyaasaa fi hadheeffannoo gabrummaarratti isaan qaban jabeessuu eegale. Dammaqinsaaa fi hadheeffannoo kana keessaa warraaqsi dammaqinsa hawaasaa uumu dhalate. Dhaloota warraaqsa kanaatu dukkana gabrummaa dachii Afrikaa dhuunfatetti daangaa kaa’uun waldhaansoo haaraaf karaa saaqe. Waldhaansoo Diddaa Gabrummaa! Sochii Barattoota Oromoo

Ayyaanaa Irreecha Bara 2014 Ilaalchisee Ibsa Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo Irraa Kenname.

Fulbaana  22,2014 Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo Ayyaanaa Irreechaa Birraa bara  2014 Hora Arsadii fi godinaalee Oromiyaa garaagaraa keessatti kabajamuuf jiruu ilaalchisuun Uummatni Oromoo nagaan akka kabajatuuf qophii   fi  enyummaa, tokkummaa fi jaalaala waliif qabu akka jabeeffatuuf ibsa qabxiijaha(6) qabudabarse.

Seenaa uummata Oromoo kessaatti ayyaanni guddaa fi  kabajamaa keessaa tokko ayyaana irreechaati. Ayyaanni kun uummata Oromoo biratti Waggaa keessatti yeroo lama kabajama. Kunis Ayyaanaa Irreecha Birraa fi Ayyaana Irreecha Arfaasaajedhamuun Ayyaana Oromoon kabajatudha. Ayyaanni Irreechaa waktii Birraa baroota dhufaa darbaa fi bittaa mootota fi mootummoota abbooti irree biyyaatti bitaa jiran biratti barrii Oromoon tole jedhee nagaan manaa ba’ee nagaan ayyaaneffatee,Irreeffatee galee beeku takkaa hin turre. Ayyaannichi biyyaattii keessatti Ayyaana Oromoo ta’uu fi Waan Oromoon qofti Ayyaana kabajamaa fi jaalatamaa kana irratti walittii dhufee Ayyaaneeffatee jaalaala ,gammachuu, tokkummaa fi eenyummaa isaa waan jabeeffatuuf abbootiin Irree warrii Oromoon akka walitti hin dhufne hin barbaadne afaan qawween dura dhaabbachaa turan dhaabbachaas jiru, Sabboontota Oromoo fi jaalattoota ayyaanaa kanaa fi leellistoota ayyaana kanaa fi Amantii Waaqqeffaanna dhibbootan lakka’amanituu badii tokko malee eenyummaa isaaniin yakkamee hidhatti guurama ture, guuramas jira. Dhiibbaan hangamiituu utuma jiruu Uummaatni Oromoo bara irraa gara baraatti kan Ayyaana Irreechaa Arsadii irraatti argamu miliyoonaa hedduun dabalaa dhufuun uummatichi eenyummaa Amantii, Aadaa, Duudhaa fi Safuu isaa irraatti wareegama qaalii baasuun sadarkaa har’aa kana irraga’ee jira. Sababaa Ayyaana kanaan Wal qabatee bara Mootummaa Wayyaanee EPRDF/TPLF/OPDO Uummatni Oromoo waggaa 23 guutuu dachaan hidhatti guuramee hidhamee dararama, human waraanaa itti bobbaasuun bakkeetti safuun irraa mulqamee uuffatni aadaa Oromoo illee irra baafamee badii tokko malee mana hidhatti darbama as ga’ee jira. Haalaa Suukaneessaa akkasii keessaatti Oromoon eenyuummaa isaa irratti cichuun tokkummaa isaa fi Jaalala Oromummaa waliif qabu jabeessuun kabaja Ayyaana Irreechaaf qabu jabeessuun itti fufee jira. Guutummaa ibsa kanaaf:- Ayyaana Irreechaa Ilaalchisee Ibsa Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo Fulbaana 22 2014

The New World Summit of Stateless State was held from September 19-21 at Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS) in Brussels, Belgium. Twenty stateless political organisations have been participated on this summit. The Summit was divided in to five sessions. These are: Oppressive State, Progressive state, Global state, New States and Stateless State. Dr. Shigut Geleta has presented on the Oromo issues on the first session and his paper addressed how successive Ethiopian regimes orchestrated the notion of self-determination and attempted to blackmail genuine Oromo Liberation struggle.

OPPRESSIVE STATE

A Criminal State: The Blacklisting of the Oromo Liberation Struggle for Freedom and Democracy

The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) is a political and militant organization that fights for the self-determination of the Oromo people against Ethiopian rule. As a result of the struggle that began after the Ethiopian colonization of Oromia in the late 19th century, the OLF was formed as a secular, military organization that ousted Emperor Haile Selassie during the Marxist-Leninist revolution in 1974. The OLF has also fought the subsequent Derg military regime (1974-1991) in coalition with other military nationalist organizations, such as the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). When the thirty-year civil war finally led to the toppling of the Derg regime in 1991 and the independence of Eritrea, the OLF participated in the mainly TPLF’s dominated Transitional Government of Ethiopia. As the TPLF consolidated its grip on power and continued to negate the political autonomy of the Oromo, the OLF left the Transitional Government in June 1992, which leads to a violent backlash against the Oromo population. Currently, despite being a democracy in theory, both the military regime as well as the political and economical sphere is dominated by the Tigrayan minority. As a consequence, other oppressed ethnicities such as the Ogaden and the Oromo continue their military and political struggle for self-determination. Following Ethiopia’s adoption of the restrictive Anti-Terrorism Proclamation in 2009, the OLF was blacklisted as a terrorist organization along with the ONLF and the Ginbot 7 movement, which lead to large-scale arrests and prosecution of prominent members of these groups, including parliament members and candidates.

This lecture addressed the manner in which blacklisting a political movement as ‘terrorist’ functions as an ideological cover-up of the enforced administrative construct of the Ethiopian state. Apart from the Oromo, who represent the largest ethnic group in the country, many other peoples struggle for independence from the contested state. At what level can we argue that the state of Ethiopia even exists, when its main legitimacy seems to be based on its capacity to suppress the very political majorities that constitute it? The blacklisting of a people’s history thus becomes a way of evading confrontation with the criminal dimensions of the state itself.

Dr. Shigut Geleta is Head of the Oromo Liberation Front’s (OLF) Diplomatic Division.

Source: Extracted from Brochure of the summit

Related: New World Summit-Brussels Stateless State

Fulbaana 21,2014 Dambi Doolloo

Gabasa Qeerroo Qellem Dambi Doolloo irraa addeessuun har’a Fulbaana 21,2014 humni waraana Wayyaanee naannoo fi gandootni Aanaa Anfilloo hunduu humna waraana wayyaaneen kan marfamee ooleedha. Yeroodhaa yerootti kan gabasaa jirru torbeewwan kana mootummaan wayyaanee ajandaalee garagaraa fudhachuudhaan konfiraansiin gandoota aanaa Anfilloo keessa jiran keessatti kan gaggeeffamuuf ture,kunis miseensota dhaabaa aanaa Anfilloo hunda kan hirmaachisu ganda ganda irratti guyyoota 4f kan kaa’amee ture gandoota garagaraa hanga hr’aatt utuu hin milkaa’in hafeetu jira. Kanaan dura gandoota Shebel,Waabaa Eebbaa,Muggii,Eenechee fi kkf keessatti hin milkaa’in waan hafeef ammallee itti fufuudhaan guyaa kaleessaa Fulbaana 20,2014  kan gaggeffamuuf ture ganda Doollaa fi Kollii bakka jedhamtu keessatti miseensonni dhaabaa isaan abdatan konfiraansii isaanii hirmaachuu diduu irraan hafee jira, akka walii galaatti gabaasni Qeerroo ibsu walgayii ykn konfiraansiin mootummaa Wayyaanee dhimmoota gamaggama hojii darbanii, hojjetoota isaanii gaggeessuu, dhimma filannoo dhufuu fi ajandaalee adda addaa irratti dubbachuuf guyyoota 4f qopheessan hin milkaa’iin hafee jira kanneen gandoota adda addaa irraa kanaan dura gabaasuun keenya ni yaadatama.

Kun hunduu mootummaa Wayyaane hedduu mufachiisee jira, uummata oromoo jiraattoota aanaa Anfilloo irraa abdii dhabeera,miseensota dhaabaa jedhaman irraas abdii kutatee jira. Akka gabaasni Qeerroo har’a Fulbaana 21 addeessutti halkan edaa irraa kaasee ganda Kollii, Garjeedaa, Shebel, Waabaa Eebbaa fi Dalla Shoor jedhaman irraan humni waraana wayyaanee qubachiifamee jira.

Uummanni oromoo Anfilloo irra jiraatu WBO wajjin walii galee jira, hojjetaan mootummaa jedhamee waamamus ABOdha, kan jedhuun humna WBOtu jira kan jedhu qofa osoo hin taanee uummata Oromoo naannoo sanii waan shakkeef mootummaan Wayyaanee humna waraana isaa federaala irraa gara sanatti ergee daangaa daangaa bosonaa qabsiisaa jiraachuu gabaasni nu gahe addeessa.

Kana malees loltooti Wayyaanees ta’e bulchitooti aanaalee jiraattota Oromoo Anfilloo toohachu hin dandeenye, hojjetoonni mootummaa aanaa kana irra jiran siyaasa ABO barsiisu malee siyaasa mootummaan durfamani hin jirani, qoratamuu qabu jedhamee mootummaan wayyaanee murtooo keessa seenee jira,akkasuma poolisoota oromiyaa naannoo san jiran irraas shakkiin guutamee jira, toohannaa uummata oromoo naannoo sanaa fi hordoffii ykn sakatta’iinsa humna waraana WBOtiinis wal qabsiisee Fulbaana 19 irraa kaasee akka walii galaatti Wallagga Anfilloo qubachiisaa akka jiru gabaasni Qeerroo Dambi Dolloo irraa addeessa.

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