Remembering Ebbisa Addunya

Over the last two decades, the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s reign saw an unprecedented killing, torture, and harassment of those who dared to speak truth to power.

Seen as a threat to their power, the Oromo, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, paid a hefty price. Oromo students were dismissed from institutions of learning in large numbers, Oromo artists were either killed or forced into exile, thousands continue to languish in prisons across the country and many others lead a life of exile in their own homes.

One notable artist, Ebbisa Addunya, stands tall among many others who perished while fighting for greater Oromo rights. Ebbisa was a young vocalist who won the hearts and minds of his contemporaries. On August 30, 1996, Zenawi’s security forces assassinated Ebbisa at his own house in Finfinne. Following his tragic death, in its

Corruption in the Ethiopian JUST US Sector

For the past several months, I have been commenting on the findings of the World Bank’s “Diagnosing Corruption in Ethiopia”, a 448-page report covering eight sectors (health, education, rural water supply, justice, construction, land, telecommunications and mining). In this my sixth commentary, I focus on “corruption in the justice sector”. The other five commentaries are available at my blog site.

Talking about corruption in the Ethiopian “justice sector” is like talking about truth in Orwell’s 1984 Ministry of Truth (“Minitrue”). The purpose of Minitrue is to create and maintain the illusion that the Party is absolute, all knowing, all-powerful and infallible. The purpose of the Ministry of Justice in Ethiopia is to create the illusion that the ruling regime under the command and control of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) masquerading as the Ethiopian People’s Democratic Front (EPDRF) is absolute, all knowing, all-powerful and infallible.

Telecoms in Ethiopia: Out of reach

Aug 23, 2013 (The Economist) — ETHIOPIA has Africa’s last big telecoms monopoly. The absence of competition has seen a country of more than 80m lag badly behind the rest of the continent in an industry that has generally burgeoned alongside economic growth. Mobile-phone penetration, which averages 70% of the population elsewhere in Africa, is closer to 25% in Ethiopia. A paltry 2.5% of Ethiopians have access to the internet, compared with 40% in neighbouring Kenya.

Oromo journalist, Lalise Wodajo, reunited with family after 8 years

(OPride) – Jiitu Wakjira was only five years old when Ethiopian security forces took away her father, Dhabasa Wakjira, from their home in April 2004.Jiitu understood very little at the time, but remembers missing her father, whom she visited at Ethiopia's notorious Kaliti prison every weekend – for nearly three years.

On Saturday Aug. 10 2013, Jiitu, 14, described her family’s ordeals, in a heartfelt speech that read much like a movie script, before a captive Oromo and Australian audience. Exposed to politics, suppression, oppression and loss at a young age, Jiitu’s is a story of love, perseverance, resilience, and courage.

Ethiopians ‘seek asylum en masse in South Korea’

The young professionals have been training in three fields: Mechanics, Electricity and Welding. A total of 40 Ethiopians, 10 of whom are women, have decided not to return to a repressive life in Ethiopia.

Aug 13, 2013 (BBC News) — Two-thirds of a group of young professional Ethiopians who went for training in South Korea have stayed to seek asylum, it’s reported.

Warra eenyummaa saba tokkoo hin kabajne wajjin biyya waloo takka ijaaruun hin danda’amu

Gara qabiyyee barreeffama kiyyaatti otuu hin seenin dura, duula nafxanyoonni yeroo ammaa Oromummaarratti godhaa jiran ilaalchisee, deebii mooraa keenya keessaa kennamaa jiruuf akka waliigalaatti; keessumaayuu ammoo Sabboonaan keenya Dargaggoo Abdii Fiixee dandeettii isaa addaa kanaan deebii inni kennaa jiru http://ayyaantuu.com/horn-of-africa-news/ethiopia/we-dont-expect-a-dove-from-snake-egg-ke-ibab-inkulal-irgib-antebikim/ baayi’see galatteffachuun barbaada. Asirratti gootummaa Dhaloota Qubee yoon dinqisiifadhu, waan Sabboonaan keenya Obboo Jawaar godhaa jiru hin daganne. Gaafii fi deebii inni EthioTube wajjin dhiyoo kana godheshttp://gadaa.com/GadaaTube/8609/2013/08/07/ethiotube-presents-obbo-jawar-mohammed   yoomiyyuu caalaa kutannoo dhaloota haaraa agarsiisa. Akka waliigalaatti yoo ilaalame, haalli yeroo ammaa kun waan adda addaa akka hubatan nama taasisa. Inni tokko Oromoon Oromummaadhaan bilchaatani fi Sabboonummaan isaanii cimaa ta’e, akkamitti gamtaadhaan dhimma saba Oromoo akka ittisan agarsiisa. Karaa biraatiin ammoo, tuffiis haa ta’u sodaa qabanirraayis haa maddu; sababni kanaa waanuma fedhes haa ta’u, jibbi Habashootni keessumaayuu nafxanyoonni Oromummaaf qaban ukkaamamee fi iitayee ture amma akka dhodhowaa jiru agarsiisa.

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Oduu OPD irraa !!!

“OPDO manna tiksee horii akaakayyuukoo wayya” jedhani warri argan.Maaliif yoo jettan Tikseen akkakayyukoo gaafa horri gadi yaasattu, horii ishee gara feetetti oofti, Bineensa irraa ni eegdi,ni soortis.Gaafa gara manaatti deebitu nyaata ni argatti.Yoo barbaadde illee tiksuu hin barbaadu yoo jette ille dhiistee gara mana warra isheetti galuu ni dandeessi. Gaafa tiksitus, tikseen kan biraa ykn namni kan biraa horii isheen eegdu irratti ishee ajaju hin danda’u.Tikseen kun ihundi isaani kana mataa mataa isanii eeggatu.Horii tiksan irratti tokko tokkoon humnaan dirqisiisuu hin danda’u.

Gadaa As the Fountain of Oromummaa and the Theoretical Base of Oromo Liberation

By Asafa Jalata

Every society has its unique central organizing and ruling ideology and theoretical models in a given historical epoch that it uses as its lenses to look at and interpret the world and to survive freely, and advance its civilization or ways of life without disruption from within and without. Ideology plays many roles in a society, and its essential function is to define and promote the political, material and cultural interests of a group, a nation, a social class, a state or other entities. Before the Oromo were colonized, they had also their central organizing and ruling ideology and theoretical models that were embedded in the gadaa civilization that organized and guided them as a society socially, culturally, religiously, politically, militarily, and economically. I advance the idea that without retrieving and developing the best elements of this civilization, the Oromo cannot fully develop Oromummaa (national culture, identity, and ideology) as their organizing and central ideology and their theoretical models of liberation to empower themselves as a nation in the 21st century by recognizing and overcoming the devastating ideologies, behaviors, and theoretical models of their oppressors that have confused and disempowered them.

Ethiopian repression of Muslim protests must stop

Aug 8, 2013 (Amnesty International) — The Ethiopian government must end its use of repressive tactics against demonstrators, following initial reports of widespread arrests of Muslim protestors during this morning’s Eid al-Fitr celebrations, said Amnesty International today.

“We are extremely concerned at reports coming out of Ethiopia this morning of further widespread arrests of Muslim protesters. The Ethiopian government’s  ongoing repressive crackdown on freedom of speech and the right to peacefully protest has to end now,” said Claire Beston, Amnesty International’s Ethiopia researcher.

Tarkaanfiin Suukaneessaa Sirni Wayyaanee Godinaa Arsiitti Oromoota Musliima Irratti Fudhate Umrii Sirnichaa Gabaabsa malee Hin dheeressu

Ibsa Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo | Hagayya 5, 2013

Sirni faashistii Wayyaanee mormii hawaasni Muslimaa ‘Sagaleen keenya haa dhagahamu’ mata duree jedhuun waggoota lamaaf walitti aansee karaa nagaan geggeessaa jiru humnaan dhaamsuuf tarkaanfii gara jabinaa fudhachuu itti fufeera. Sambata dabre Hagayya 3, bara 2013 godinaa Arsii magaalota Kofalee fi naannoo isaa keessatti ummata karaa nagaan sagalee mormii dhageessise irratti humni waraanaa sirnichaa dhukaasa banuudhaan namoota kudhan aduu saafaatiin ajjeesuu fi kudhanoota madeessuun miidiyaalee idil addunyaa hedduu irratti gabaafameera. Namoonni dhibbaan lakkaawaman badii tokkoon maleetti guuramanii hidhaman. Hidhaan kun babal’atee naannoo biraa illee shororkeessaa jira.

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