Jidduu Galeessa Oromiyaa Naannoo Saadim Irraa Qabeenyi Oromiyaa Lafti Dhagaa Coble stone Qabu Abootii Qabeenyaa Abashaaf Kennamuun Mormii Kaase.

Btootessa 14,2013 Finfinnee

Magaala Finfinnee Boolee naannoo Saamid jedhamutti qabeenya Oromiyaa kan ta’e dhagaa Coble stone dhaaaf oolu ilmaan Oromoo irraa fudhatamuu fi naannicha irraa Oromoo buqisuun Abashoota kanneen waldaa xixiqqaa jedhamanii Wayyaanee ijaaramaniif kenname.

Bitootessa 14,2013 Oromoonni naannoo kana jiraatan qabeenya keenyatti nutu fayyadama,Qabeenyi Oromiyaa kan ilmaan Oromooti malee kan mootummaan Wayyaanee IMXdhaan miseensummaan ijaartee nutti ergitu miti jechuun qabeenya keenya irratti wareegamna jechuun falmaa mirgaa eegalan. Kanneen qabeenya kanatti fayyamuuf humnaan dhufanis ilmaan Oromoo naannoo kanaa gamtaan of irraa ittisaa jiru.Mootummaan Wayyaanees ilmaan oromoo qabeenya kun kan Oromoo dha  kanneen jedhan miseensota ishee waliin taatee waraana hedduumminaan bobbaasuun rukkutaa jirtus ilmaan oromoo gamtaan waraana Wayyaanee fi jala deemtota ishee dura dhaabbatee jira.Mootummaan

Wayyaanee waraana bobbaasus tasgabbii itti gochuu kan dadhabe yoommuu tahu ilmaan oromoo gamtaan yaa’anii abbaa qabeenya kanaa kan tahe nu haa gaafatu jechuun bakka albuudaa kana qabatanii dhorkanii jiran.

Gaaffiin Mirgaa Barattoota Oromoo Asoosaa Itti Fufe!

Bitootessa 14,2013 Asoosaa

Diddaan barattoota Oromoo Yuuniversitii Asoosaa itti fufuun barattooti Oromoo kitaabota afaan Oromoon barreefamanii fi seenaa uummata Oromoo qabu bituun barsiisota warra afaan Oromoo osoo hin beekiin sabummaanis Oromoo hin ta’iin garuu sadarkaa Yuuniversitiitti warra afaan Oromoo barsiisaniif hiruu fi kennuun “Afaan keenya afaan saba kamiinuu gadi waan hin taaneef barsiisaa afaan keenya haasawu akka nu barsiifnas” jedhanii sagalee diddaa dhageessisanii jiru.

Barattooti Oromoo kun waraqaalee dhadannoo fi gaaffii mirgaa kaasu guutuu Yuuniversitichaa keessatti facaasuun diddaa nyaataa fi barnootaa kaasuun gaaffiin ummata Oromoo akka deebi’u gaafatanii jiru. Kana malees barattooti Oromoo Yuuniversitii Finfinnee kiiloo 4 fi Amboo irraa arihaman hatattamaan barnootatti haadeebi’u gaaffii jedhu kaasanii jiru.

Haalli kun kan itti cime mootummaan Wayyaanee waraanga guuree mooraa sanitti erguun barattooti kun akka eegaman taasisaa jiraachuun gabaasi qeerroo mooraa Yuuniversitii Asoosaa addeessa.

Oromo Studies Association’s (OSA’s) Appeal Letter to the President of Addis Ababa University

The following is an appeal letter from the Oromo Studies Association (OSA).

Waldaa Qormaata Oromoo

P.O. Box 32391, Fridley, MN 55432
OromoStudies.org

March 13, 2013

Open Letter to:
Dr. Admasu Tsegaye
President, Addis Ababa University
P.O.Box 1176
Email: commoffice@aau.edu.et
Tel: 251 111 239705
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dear President Admasu:

On behalf of the Oromo Studies Association (OSA), a scholarly organization that promotes studies relevant to the Oromo people, I am writing to protest the dismissal and suspension on February 21, 2013 of 33 Oromo students from Addis Ababa University (AAU). We understand from the press accounts that 1student was expelled, 7 students were barred from study for two years and 25 others similarly suspended for a period of one year. The action of the administration of AAU was reported to have been on the grounds that the students took part in a conflict between Tigrean and Oromo students at the beginning of January, instigated by a posting on the wall of the student dormitories denigrating the Oromo people. Now we learn that 22 other students are reported to have been dismissed from Ambo University on March 1, 2013, when Oromo students at that campus protested the treatment of Oromo students at AAU.

We are disturbed by the news that in response to the conflict only the Oromo students were targeted to be rounded up, incarcerated for several weeks, and eventually either expelled or suspended by the University administration without fair judicial process. Tigrean students party to the conflict were not subject to any of the above. The action taken against the Oromo students is one of ethnic discrimination at an academic institution. As an organization we are committed to champion both academic freedom and practices exemplary of justice and fairness in institutions of higher learning. We call upon you to reconsider and reverse this one-sided prejudicial treatment of the Oromo students at AAU. Such extended denial of access to education unevenly applied to students of Oromo origin is too harsh a penalty, and one which has an immediate and long-term impact for their families and communities. It also undermines the University’s position as an exemplar of fairness and as an instrument to defeat intolerance and address poverty. Our members are united in believing that education is a singularly important tool for moving the country away from the willful intolerance that has subjected it to perpetual conflict and abject poverty.

We urge you to ensure AAU’s status as the foremost institution in the country to champion access to education, fairness in judicious practice, and even-handed treatment of its students. This extreme action of denial of access to education by students, who have successfully matriculated, unless corrected, will put a sad mark on the history of the University that has cultivated so many scholars, regardless of their ethnic origin and political views. Many past and current OSA leaders and members are alumni of yourgreat institution.

Exclusive action against Oromo students in a two-sided disagreement constitutes an injustice unworthy of a national university. Therefore, on behalf of the members of OSA, I urge you to reverse this unfortunate decision and allow these Oromo students to rejoin the university, pursue their academic studies and continue on the path to becoming productive citizens. Such an action will attest to the integrity, the example and the positive influence of Addis Ababa University both in the country and internationally.

Sincerely yours,

Mosisa Aga, Ph.D.
President, Oromo Studies Association (OSA)

CC:

Honorable Ato Demeke Mekonnen
Minister, Ministry of Education
Federal Republic of Ethiopia
P.O.Box 1367
Tel: 251115553133
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Honorable Ato Berhan Hailu
Minister, Ministry of Justice
Federal Republic of Ethiopia
PO Box 1370
Tel: 251115515099
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

H.E. Ato Hailemariam Dessalegn
Prime Minister, Federal Republic of Ethiopia
P.O. Box 1031
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500, USA

Secretary John Kerry
State Department
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington DC 20520
Telephones: (202) 647-4000/             (202) 647-6575

Palais Wilson
52 rue des Pâquis
CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland.
InfoDesk@ohchr.org

Human Rights Watch
New York, NY 10118-3299 USA
Tel:             +1-212-290-4700
Fax: +1-212-736-1300
Email: hrwpress@hrw.org

Amnesty International UK
The Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard
London EC2A 3EA
Email: sct@amnesty.org.uk

Call for Peaceful Mass Demonstration Against the Repressive Ethiopian Regime

Oromo nationals, who live in Europe will join and hold a peaceful mass demonstration in front of the Parliament of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, on 12 April 2013 from 10:00am to 1:00pm. The purpose of the demonstration is to protest against the widespread human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings, disappearances, genocide, human trafficking and uprooting of Oromos from their ancestral land and grabbing their land in the name of investment by the repressive Ethiopian TPLF regime. It is also to ask the European Union to put pressure on the Ethiopian government that it should respect the human rights of the Oromo people in accordance with international human rights laws and release all Oromo political prisoners. There will also be an educational seminar in Antwerpen on 13 April 2013 commencing 9:30am.

Protest Date: 12 April 2013
Protest Time: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Place: Rue Wiertz 60 Wiertz Straat 60
B-1047 Brussels
Belgium

Coordinating Committee

A Chinese man was killed in Oromiya region of Ethiopia, in a dispute possibly involving land grabbing and environmental pollution.

February 9, 2012 Finfinnee

According to reports from West Show Zone of Ada’a Berga Woreda, A Chinese man who owns the largest share in Dangatte Cement Factory was killed in Reenjii town. Even if no one has yet declared responsible for incident, some have suggested that it might be an expression of anger by local residents due to the deadly impact of the factory on the local people and the environment. Some have also pointed the fact that  the Chinese man was known for his disrespect for the outcry of the local population and trusted only the dictatorial regime on power, which is responsible for the eviction of Oromo farmers from their land and destruction of their livelihood in the name of investment.

But officials have detained local militiamen including a man named,  Birbirsoo Dhaabaa; accusing them of conspiring with OLF (Oromo Liberation Front) or causing the death themselves. It is customary for the Ethiopian authorities to accuse, imprison and/or kill civilians and peoples of all sectors of life on labels of conspiring with the OLF, according to right groups.

In a similar news 15,000 hectares of sugarcane have been set on fire yesterday in Ilu Abba Bora zone of Oromiya region. It is becoming clear more than ever that the impact of land grabbing and countless human right abuse in the largest and most populous Oromiya region of Ethiopia is pushing out of limit and causing unexpected incidents by victims of the system at different time and places. Stay tuned for details coming soon.

Aljazeera: The Price of War on Terror in Ethiopia – March 12, 2013

Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software

Last May, two security researchers volunteered to look at a few suspicious e-mails sent to some Bahraini activists. Almost one year later, the two have uncovered evidence that some 25 governments, many with questionable records on human rights, may be using off-the-shelf surveillance software to spy on their own citizens.

Morgan Marquis-Boire, a security researcher at Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, and Bill Marczak, a computer science doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that the e-mails contained surveillance software that could grab images off computer screens, record Skype chats, turn on cameras and microphones and log keystrokes. The word “FinSpy” appeared in the spyware code. FinSpy is spyware sold by the Gamma Group, a Britishcompany that says it sells monitoring software to governments solely for criminal investigations.

Now, one year later, Mr. Marquis-Boire and Mr. Marczak have found evidence that FinSpy is being run off servers in 25 countries, including Ethiopia and Serbia, without oversight.

Until Mr. Marquis-Boire and Mr. Marczak stumbled upon FinSpy last May, security researchers had tried, unsuccessfully, for a year to track it down. FinSpy gained notoriety in March 2011 after protesters raided Egypt’s state security headquarters and discovered a document that appeared to be a proposal by the Gamma Group to sell FinSpy to the government of President Hosni Mubarak .

Martin J. Muench, a Gamma Group managing director, has said his company does not disclose its customers but that Gamma Group sold its technology to governments only to monitor criminals. He said that it was most frequently used “against pedophiles, terrorists, organized crime, kidnapping and human trafficking.”

But evidence suggests the software is being sold to governments where the potential for abuse is high. “If you look at the list of countries that Gamma is selling to, many do not have a robust rule of law,” Mr. Marquis-Boire said. “Rather than catching kidnappers and drug dealers, it looks more likely that it is being used for politically motivated surveillance.”

As of last year, Mr. Marquis-Boire and Mr. Marczak, with other researchers at Rapid7, CrowdStrike and others, had found command-and-control servers running the spyware in just over a dozen countries. They have since scanned the entire Internet for FinSpy.

The Munk School is publishing their updated findings on Wednesday. The list of countries with servers running FinSpy is now Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Britain, Brunei, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Qatar, Serbia, Singapore, Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Vietnam.

In Ethiopia, FinSpy was disguised in e-mails that were specifically aimed at political dissidents. The e-mails lured targets to click on pictures of members of Ginbot 7, an Ethiopian opposition group. When they clicked on the pictures, FinSpy downloaded to their machines and their computers began communicating with a local server in Ethiopia.

“This continues the theme of FinSpy deployments with strong indications of politically motivated targeting,” the researchers wrote in their report.

A Turkmenistan server running the software belonged to a range of I.P. addresses specifically assigned to the ministry of communications. Turkmenistan is the first clear-cut case of a government running the spyware off its own computer system. Human Rights Watch has called Turkmenistan one of the world’s “most repressive countries” and warned that dissidents faced “constant threat of government reprisal.”

In Vietnam, the researchers found evidence that FinSpy was running on Android-powered phones. They found one Android phone infected with FinSpy that was sending text messages back to a Vietnamese telephone number. That finding was particularly troubling, researchers say, given recent clampdowns by the nation’s government. Last year, Vietnam introduced censorship laws that prohibit bloggers from speaking out against the country’s ruling Communist party. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 40 people had since been convicted and sentenced to prison terms. Many are now serving terms ranging from three to 13 years.

The sale of surveillance technology is still largely unregulated, but Mr. Marquis-Boire and Mr. Marczak’s findings have prompted greater scrutiny. Responding to their findings last fall, Germany’s foreign minister Guido Westerwelle called for an Europe-­wide ban on the export of surveillance technology to repressive regimes. And last month, Privacy International and other groups filed complaints with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development against Gamma Group and Trovicor GmbH, a German company that also sells surveillance software.

“I don’t think you can put technology back in the bottle,” said Mr. Marquis-Boire. “I understand why police would want to use this type of technology, but I’m just not for commercial companies selling them to nondemocratic regimes with questionable human rights records.”