Monday
Just hit 'delete' and move on
Don't fly off the handle due to any shocking news that might come your way, today -- you might be only getting part of the story, so it's very unwise to connect the few dots you've been given. Wait for this story to develop more fully over the next few days. You will probably see that not only are things more complicated than you had heard, they're also none of your business. Making assumptions will only lead to problems. So when you get that email or text, just hit 'delete' and move on.
Dancing around the truth is a waste of time
The people around you today don't seem like they are saying what they truly mean -- could they be holding their tongue because they are afraid of hurting your feelings or ticking you off? When they ask you for your opinions, you don't mince words -- so why should they? Speak up and let them know that when you ask them a question, you expect the truth. Ask for this kind of honesty today -- and be prepared for what it may bring you. Dancing around the truth is a waste of time.
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Speak out Oromo!
Wednesday
Now we broke the 500 milestone. Lets get the 500 more we needed
Thank you all Oromos and frind of Oromos who signed this petition so far. Please invite your frinds and relatives to do so...
We are only 485 more signature to go. Please go to this link and sign and support your Oromo people by being voice to voice less!
We signed the "IOYA CONDEMNS THE MASSACRE OF 400 OROMOS (AND COUNTING) IN WESTERN OROMIA" petition!
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We are only 485 more signature to go. Please go to this link and sign and support your Oromo people by being voice to voice less!
We signed the "IOYA CONDEMNS THE MASSACRE OF 400 OROMOS (AND COUNTING) IN WESTERN OROMIA" petition!
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Tuesday
7 more to go!
Please go ahead and get us reach the 500 mark. Only 7 more to go... It been already more than a week to just get 500 signatures.
We signed the "IOYA CONDEMNS THE MASSACRE OF 400 OROMOS (AND COUNTING) IN WESTERN OROMIA" petition!
Speak out Oromo!
We signed the "IOYA CONDEMNS THE MASSACRE OF 400 OROMOS (AND COUNTING) IN WESTERN OROMIA" petition!
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Saturday
Shouldn't we thinking about defending ourself?
All Oromos should have the right to carry gun! If government can't protect our people we should be able to arm and protect ourselves! It is not choice anymore, it is necessity!
Friday
Help Children in Oromia
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Thursday
Please go out and sign this petition
IOYA CONDEMNS THE MASSACER OF 400 OROMOS (AND COUNTING) IN WESTERN OROMIA
Target:Human Rights SupportersSponsored by: International Oromo Youth AssociationDate: May 30, 2008
IOYA condemns the Massacre of 400 Oromos (and counting) in Western Oromia
IOYA condemns the Massacre of 400 Oromos (and counting) in Western Oromia
Continuing its Nazi style agenda, the TPLF government has introduced its next tactical chapter on systematic massacre of Oromo civilians. The trained commandos of the Ethiopian government, who are backed by bombs, AK 47s and other heavy artillery, have continued their massacre of Oromo civilians killing mothers, burning children alive in locked houses, amputating those they could catch alive and destroying their properties, in Western Oromia, Eastern part of Wollega.
In this area of Western Oromia, Oromos have lived side by side with the Gumuz people peacefully until recently. The TPLF regime has systematically and maliciously turned the Gumuz against Oromos. Specifically on May 17, 2008 marked the beginning of13 days and counting of violence that claimed the lives of more than 400 people in its first two days. The Gumuz militia backed by TPLF regime, attacked unarmed civilian Oromos burning down their houses while cutting open pregnant mothers' wombs, amputating elders and children and forcing thousands to flee their homes. There have been more deaths and injuries as the issue has escalated and no attempts were made by the government to contain it.
Hospitals can only accept those who are on the verge of dying while those who are severely injured are being turned down. Thousands of people are living in an open soccer field, away from the center of the conflict areas, where they hope to seek refuge, with no money or food to survive. Most have been forced to beg on street for daily survival.
The TPLF regime trained and armed Gumuz militia with AK-47 and heavy machine-guns and ordered them to commit indiscriminate killings of unarmed Oromo civilians of East Wallagaa. The worst part of the story is the fact that the Oromos were not allowed to bear arms and those who possessed firearms in the past were forced to disarm prior to the staged incident. The Gumuz militia is said to be so heavily armed that the local police could not hold them off using their sticks and police uniform.
Ever since it came to power, the TPLF/EPRDF regime has applied the outdated 'divide and rule' policy to weaken peoples' struggles for freedom and justice by sowing seeds of disharmony among friendly neighboring peoples. The TPLF regime's track record of the past 17 years of tyrannical rule is full of such evil intrigues that instigated bloody conflicts among people of Ethiopia. It has become a common living situation for Oromos to be terrorized by the government for being nothing other than Oromos.
It was just about a year ago when the government sponsored a daylight killing in Easter Oromia, in a place called Gaara Suufii, where civilians were indiscriminately massacred and their dead bodies were fed to hyenas. Who could forget the daylight killings of Oromo refugees in Kenya by the Ethiopian government agents to suppress the opposing voices that fled their homeland and live in refugee camps to start over life?
Fresh in our memories is also are the outrageous story of the heinous crimes committed against Oromo refugees in Puntland%u2019s Bosasso city of Somalia on February 5, 2008, where 65 Oromo refugees were bombed to death in daylight, while over 100 were also wounded, sponsored by no one other than Ethiopian government.
From time to time, over the last 17 years, the TPLF regime instigated a series of disputes between Oromos and Sidamas, Oromos and Somalis, Oromos and Gedaos, Anywaks and Nuers, Oromos and Amharas, Oromos and Oromos, now Oromos and Gumuzis.
The International Oromo Youth Association (IOYA) deeply condemns the massacre of Oromo civilians by the TPLF backed Gumuz militia.
Therefore IOYA:
Calls on International community to pressure the Ethiopian government to help stop the massacre of civilians and bring to justice those who are responsible
Calls on the International Red cross and other humanitarian agencies to provide food and shelter for those who have been displaced as a result of the conflict
Calls on Ethiopian government to allow the Oromos to arm themselves in order to defend themselves and keep their families safe
Calls on all Oromos and friends from around the world to come together and join hands in an effort to support the devastated communities overcome this ongoing nightmare
Justice for the Oromo People,Justice for All
International Oromo Youth Association
Target:Human Rights SupportersSponsored by: International Oromo Youth AssociationDate: May 30, 2008
IOYA condemns the Massacre of 400 Oromos (and counting) in Western Oromia
IOYA condemns the Massacre of 400 Oromos (and counting) in Western Oromia
Continuing its Nazi style agenda, the TPLF government has introduced its next tactical chapter on systematic massacre of Oromo civilians. The trained commandos of the Ethiopian government, who are backed by bombs, AK 47s and other heavy artillery, have continued their massacre of Oromo civilians killing mothers, burning children alive in locked houses, amputating those they could catch alive and destroying their properties, in Western Oromia, Eastern part of Wollega.
In this area of Western Oromia, Oromos have lived side by side with the Gumuz people peacefully until recently. The TPLF regime has systematically and maliciously turned the Gumuz against Oromos. Specifically on May 17, 2008 marked the beginning of13 days and counting of violence that claimed the lives of more than 400 people in its first two days. The Gumuz militia backed by TPLF regime, attacked unarmed civilian Oromos burning down their houses while cutting open pregnant mothers' wombs, amputating elders and children and forcing thousands to flee their homes. There have been more deaths and injuries as the issue has escalated and no attempts were made by the government to contain it.
Hospitals can only accept those who are on the verge of dying while those who are severely injured are being turned down. Thousands of people are living in an open soccer field, away from the center of the conflict areas, where they hope to seek refuge, with no money or food to survive. Most have been forced to beg on street for daily survival.
The TPLF regime trained and armed Gumuz militia with AK-47 and heavy machine-guns and ordered them to commit indiscriminate killings of unarmed Oromo civilians of East Wallagaa. The worst part of the story is the fact that the Oromos were not allowed to bear arms and those who possessed firearms in the past were forced to disarm prior to the staged incident. The Gumuz militia is said to be so heavily armed that the local police could not hold them off using their sticks and police uniform.
Ever since it came to power, the TPLF/EPRDF regime has applied the outdated 'divide and rule' policy to weaken peoples' struggles for freedom and justice by sowing seeds of disharmony among friendly neighboring peoples. The TPLF regime's track record of the past 17 years of tyrannical rule is full of such evil intrigues that instigated bloody conflicts among people of Ethiopia. It has become a common living situation for Oromos to be terrorized by the government for being nothing other than Oromos.
It was just about a year ago when the government sponsored a daylight killing in Easter Oromia, in a place called Gaara Suufii, where civilians were indiscriminately massacred and their dead bodies were fed to hyenas. Who could forget the daylight killings of Oromo refugees in Kenya by the Ethiopian government agents to suppress the opposing voices that fled their homeland and live in refugee camps to start over life?
Fresh in our memories is also are the outrageous story of the heinous crimes committed against Oromo refugees in Puntland%u2019s Bosasso city of Somalia on February 5, 2008, where 65 Oromo refugees were bombed to death in daylight, while over 100 were also wounded, sponsored by no one other than Ethiopian government.
From time to time, over the last 17 years, the TPLF regime instigated a series of disputes between Oromos and Sidamas, Oromos and Somalis, Oromos and Gedaos, Anywaks and Nuers, Oromos and Amharas, Oromos and Oromos, now Oromos and Gumuzis.
The International Oromo Youth Association (IOYA) deeply condemns the massacre of Oromo civilians by the TPLF backed Gumuz militia.
Therefore IOYA:
Calls on International community to pressure the Ethiopian government to help stop the massacre of civilians and bring to justice those who are responsible
Calls on the International Red cross and other humanitarian agencies to provide food and shelter for those who have been displaced as a result of the conflict
Calls on Ethiopian government to allow the Oromos to arm themselves in order to defend themselves and keep their families safe
Calls on all Oromos and friends from around the world to come together and join hands in an effort to support the devastated communities overcome this ongoing nightmare
Justice for the Oromo People,Justice for All
International Oromo Youth Association
Sunday
Okaaaaaaaaaaay!
Human Rights Watch,Amnesty International USA
The Wayane/TPLF Instigated Massacre of the Oromos in Western Oromia
Once again the TPLF/ EPRDF regime has deliberately organized and instigated armed attack on the Oromo. This time the regime organized, trained, armed and unleashed militia from Gumuz, a nation in a region neighboring Oromia from the West, on wanton killings of the Oromos of East Wallaggaa, Western Oromia. This is a Crime against Humanity.
The Oromo and Gumuz peoples have lived together as good neighbors for hundreds of years. It is these neighboring peoples that the TPLF regime maliciously turned against each other causing days of violence that claimed the lives of more than 400 people, as a result of a campaign that went on from May 17, 2008 to May 19, 2008 . The Gumuz militia attack on the unarmed civilian Oromos caused the death of hundreds and many more injuries and displacement of hundreds to people, and destruction of large amount of properties. The TPLF regime trained and armed Gumuz militia with AK-47 and heavy machine-guns and ordered them to commit indiscriminate killings of unarmed Oromo civilians of East Wallagaa . As a matter of the TPLF government's policy, the Oromos were disarmed and are not allowed to bear arms. The Gumuz militia attacked the unaware and unarmed civilians. Hundreds of Oromos were subjected to horrific and barbaric killings. The militia is said to be so heavily armed that the local police themselves had to flee along with the civilians. The relevant government body and armed forces were bystanders watching the massacre of the unarmed and defenseless Oromos.
On May 17, 2008 , a significant number of well armed forces from the Benishangul Gumuz regional state suddenly attacked unprepared civilian Oromos early in the morning, before they were even awake from sleep. As the attackers were well armed with AK-47 and other unmentioned heavy machine guns, and were highly trained military personnel, they inflicted deadly massive casualties on the unawake Oromo civilians.
Conflicts have been reported in the following parts of East Wallagga . These are:
Saasiggaa District, particularly at Haroo Waataa, Camp 4, Camp 5, Camp 8,
and Baloo villages;
Limmu District, particularly at Arqumbee village; and Other areas
(clear location not found): Amba 7, and Mandar 10 villages. The conflict is still spreading to other areas in the region.
Digaa District, Arjoo Gudatu, and Dimtu area new war against the innocent unarmed Oromo people
2. Scope of the attacks which is stil going on
The invaders¢ actions include mutilation of body parts (arms, legs, and
other organs of children, breasts of women, male genitals), throat cutting and slaughtering, burning down of housings and other properties, looting of properties including animals, raping of women and children, and burning of dead bodies in masses, to make access to information impossible. Very disturbingly, the invaders seriously target the male section of the society.
They also snatch infant babies from mothers¢ backs and kill, only to force the mothers to eat the flesh of their own babies.
Access to information has been intentionally made difficult, not only by the killers, but also by government structures. We are able to get information only for a limited part of the victim population (Saasiggaa district), and only for limited days of the incident (May 17-19, 2008). According to key informants and victim families, the names of which we don¢t have to disclose due security reasons, the following major causalities have resulted from the incident.
3. Consequences of the conflict
3.1 Lose of lives
A total of 400 Oromo civilians are estimated to be killed until May 19, in the areas mentioned above. About 65 of the dead are from Haroo Waataa village of Saasiggaa alone. Most of the dead are male children and the elderly. Only 115 dead bodies were found and buried in groups, in just four graves (40, 30, 25, 20 bodies). The remaining bodies, most of them burnt or eaten by dogs and hyenas, are being gradually discovered.
The following list provides the names of some of the dead, in Saasiggaa
district. The age and other identifications of the victims could not be found, for the moment.
a. Tasfaayee Qana¢aa
b. Waq-gaarii Deetii
c. Boggaalee Waaqtolee
d. Salbaanaa Galataa
e. Kabbadee Salbaanaa
f. Fiqaaduu Salbaanaa
g. Fayyisaa Wadaajoo
h. Tarrafaa Nagaraa
i. Badirii Jamaal
j. Samu¢el Waanee
3.2 Injuries
According to the key informant¢s observation, about 40 seriously injured
Oromo civilians were receiving medical treatment in Naqamtee Hospital as of May 19. Below is the list of only six of them, all of them from Haroo Waataa village:
A. Saamu¢el Tolasaa (See Picture 1)
B. Daani¢el Dhaabaa (See Picture 2)
C. Adam Muhaammad
D. Darajjee Fiqaaduu
E.. Addaamuu Imaanaa
F. Warkinesh Fiqaaduu
G. Abraham Mallasaa
3.3 Lose of properties
There is no quantified information about the extent of property lose resulted from the conflict. Generally, however, the properties of three villages in Saasiggaa, including Haroo Waataa and Baloo have been irrecoverably damaged: housings and in-house properties, including crops were totally burnt down; and the livestock were looted by the invaders. Similar types of loses of property have been reported elsewhere covered by the conflict.
3.4 Displacement
Civilians in the affected areas have continued to flee their homes and
properties beginning with the onset of the conflict on May 17, 2008. Until May 21, over 12, 0000 people are believed to have left their homes, and are camped in Naqamtee town and at a primary school in Saasiggaa district. According to a key informant, the Ethiopian Red Cross is providing minimum basic life-saving assistance to the victims.
4. Action taken by the government to stop the conflict
According to the Ethiopian Law, civilians are not allowed to bear arms in
general. Hence, Oromo civilians are totally unarmed. On the contrary, even ordinary Gumuz people are armed. The armed invaders used that opportunity as a source of arms supply for their continued killings. However, both the regional and the federal movements exhibited significant reluctance at stopping the conflict. Although the federal government has deployed its forces, they remained witness to the raging killings, instead of stopping the killers. They rather successfully prohibited Oromos from neighboring villages and local militias from coming to the rescue of the victims, and from and defending themselves. Most of the loses (both life and property) happened at the presence of the federal forces.
In further worsening of the situation, the government has systematically
blocked access to information through prohibiting access to victims and the damaged areas, by information seekers. Neither government media nor the free press has brought the issue to public attention.
5. The TPLF Regime only this year crime against the Oromo
Ever since it came to power, the TPLF/EPRDF regime has applied the outdated 'divide and rule' policy to weaken peoples' struggles for freedom and justice by sowing seeds of disharmony among friendly neighboring peoples. The TPLF regime's track record of the past 17 years of tyrannical rule is full of such evil intrigues that instigated bloody conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . As a result of TPLF's machinations Oromo and Sidama, Oromo and Somali, Oromo and Gedao, Anywak and Nuer, Oromo and Amhara, Oromo and Oromo, now Oromo and Gumuz and several other people have clashed. As the result thousands of innocent lives were lost, tens of thousands of people were displaced and enormous amounts of properties were destroyed in the past 17 years. For example in this year only:-
1.With the TPLF, woyane regime instigated conflict between Guji Oromo and Konso 40 peoples have lost their life¢s, dozens wounded and properties were destroyed.
2.In the historic place of Madda Walabu many Oromo¢s have lost their lives.
3.In Me¢esso and many other places ,conspiracy was made between Oromo and Somalis , in which civilian Oromo¢s were murdered by the well armed groups.
4.In Wondo Genet more than 40 Oromo¢s were killed by raids.
5.TPLF have armed the Afar so as the can raid to the extent of Adama.
6.In Wanbara Oromo¢s are being hunted like a wild.
7.Many times and at different places in the Region of Benishangul TPLF have armed its murderers and raided the Oromo¢s in Limmuu ,Gigami, Manasibuu, Gidda, Sasigga ; which is followed in huge destruction. Accordingly as of may 17/2008 on civilian Oromo¢s are under armed attack by the same group.
8. The TPLF government is also active in refuge murder in the horn. In Somalia ; Punta land (Bosaso)65 were killed ,100 wounded and 250 homes burned down.
9.Ever year Oromo University students are killed and dismissed from school in group.
10. The government have the same plan in other part of Oromia in near future to create conflict between Oromo and Gambela (Anyuak) South, Isaa and Oromo in the East Oromiya
The most horrific act includes killing a mother and forcing the son to eat the deed body ,and they also killed the 2 week long mother giving birth and wounded the son.
Behind all the conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia during this period, there always are the TPLF regime's security agents deliberately creating distrust and suspicion among peoples who have lived peacefully for many years as neighbors. The regime survives by creating armed conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . Such heinous act is a crime against humanity.
6. Annex
Last, but not least, we call upon the international community and governments to exert all necessary pressures on the TPLF regime to desist from its inhuman and destructive policies of deliberately setting the people it purports to govern against each other. We also call on all concerned governments and international organizations to pay close attention to the crime against humanity the minority tyrannical TPLF regime is perpetrating in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in general and take remedial actions before it is too late. We call European Union And USA government to stop all economic and material support for dictatorial regime.
Appeal for UN General secretary
The Wayane/TPLF Instigated Massacre of the Oromos in Western Oromia
Once again the TPLF/ EPRDF regime has deliberately organized and instigated armed attack on the Oromo. This time the regime organized, trained, armed and unleashed militia from Gumuz, a nation in a region neighboring Oromia from the West, on wanton killings of the Oromos of East Wallaggaa, Western Oromia. This is a Crime against Humanity.
The Oromo and Gumuz peoples have lived together as good neighbors for hundreds of years. It is these neighboring peoples that the TPLF regime maliciously turned against each other causing days of violence that claimed the lives of more than 400 people, as a result of a campaign that went on from May 17, 2008 to May 19, 2008 . The Gumuz militia attack on the unarmed civilian Oromos caused the death of hundreds and many more injuries and displacement of hundreds to people, and destruction of large amount of properties. The TPLF regime trained and armed Gumuz militia with AK-47 and heavy machine-guns and ordered them to commit indiscriminate killings of unarmed Oromo civilians of East Wallagaa . As a matter of the TPLF government's policy, the Oromos were disarmed and are not allowed to bear arms. The Gumuz militia attacked the unaware and unarmed civilians. Hundreds of Oromos were subjected to horrific and barbaric killings. The militia is said to be so heavily armed that the local police themselves had to flee along with the civilians. The relevant government body and armed forces were bystanders watching the massacre of the unarmed and defenseless Oromos.
On May 17, 2008 , a significant number of well armed forces from the Benishangul Gumuz regional state suddenly attacked unprepared civilian Oromos early in the morning, before they were even awake from sleep. As the attackers were well armed with AK-47 and other unmentioned heavy machine guns, and were highly trained military personnel, they inflicted deadly massive casualties on the unawake Oromo civilians.
Conflicts have been reported in the following parts of East Wallagga . These are:
Saasiggaa District, particularly at Haroo Waataa, Camp 4, Camp 5, Camp 8,
and Baloo villages;
Limmu District, particularly at Arqumbee village; and Other areas
(clear location not found): Amba 7, and Mandar 10 villages. The conflict is still spreading to other areas in the region.
Digaa District, Arjoo Gudatu, and Dimtu area new war against the innocent unarmed Oromo people
2. Scope of the attacks which is stil going on
The invaders¢ actions include mutilation of body parts (arms, legs, and
other organs of children, breasts of women, male genitals), throat cutting and slaughtering, burning down of housings and other properties, looting of properties including animals, raping of women and children, and burning of dead bodies in masses, to make access to information impossible. Very disturbingly, the invaders seriously target the male section of the society.
They also snatch infant babies from mothers¢ backs and kill, only to force the mothers to eat the flesh of their own babies.
Access to information has been intentionally made difficult, not only by the killers, but also by government structures. We are able to get information only for a limited part of the victim population (Saasiggaa district), and only for limited days of the incident (May 17-19, 2008). According to key informants and victim families, the names of which we don¢t have to disclose due security reasons, the following major causalities have resulted from the incident.
3. Consequences of the conflict
3.1 Lose of lives
A total of 400 Oromo civilians are estimated to be killed until May 19, in the areas mentioned above. About 65 of the dead are from Haroo Waataa village of Saasiggaa alone. Most of the dead are male children and the elderly. Only 115 dead bodies were found and buried in groups, in just four graves (40, 30, 25, 20 bodies). The remaining bodies, most of them burnt or eaten by dogs and hyenas, are being gradually discovered.
The following list provides the names of some of the dead, in Saasiggaa
district. The age and other identifications of the victims could not be found, for the moment.
a. Tasfaayee Qana¢aa
b. Waq-gaarii Deetii
c. Boggaalee Waaqtolee
d. Salbaanaa Galataa
e. Kabbadee Salbaanaa
f. Fiqaaduu Salbaanaa
g. Fayyisaa Wadaajoo
h. Tarrafaa Nagaraa
i. Badirii Jamaal
j. Samu¢el Waanee
3.2 Injuries
According to the key informant¢s observation, about 40 seriously injured
Oromo civilians were receiving medical treatment in Naqamtee Hospital as of May 19. Below is the list of only six of them, all of them from Haroo Waataa village:
A. Saamu¢el Tolasaa (See Picture 1)
B. Daani¢el Dhaabaa (See Picture 2)
C. Adam Muhaammad
D. Darajjee Fiqaaduu
E.. Addaamuu Imaanaa
F. Warkinesh Fiqaaduu
G. Abraham Mallasaa
3.3 Lose of properties
There is no quantified information about the extent of property lose resulted from the conflict. Generally, however, the properties of three villages in Saasiggaa, including Haroo Waataa and Baloo have been irrecoverably damaged: housings and in-house properties, including crops were totally burnt down; and the livestock were looted by the invaders. Similar types of loses of property have been reported elsewhere covered by the conflict.
3.4 Displacement
Civilians in the affected areas have continued to flee their homes and
properties beginning with the onset of the conflict on May 17, 2008. Until May 21, over 12, 0000 people are believed to have left their homes, and are camped in Naqamtee town and at a primary school in Saasiggaa district. According to a key informant, the Ethiopian Red Cross is providing minimum basic life-saving assistance to the victims.
4. Action taken by the government to stop the conflict
According to the Ethiopian Law, civilians are not allowed to bear arms in
general. Hence, Oromo civilians are totally unarmed. On the contrary, even ordinary Gumuz people are armed. The armed invaders used that opportunity as a source of arms supply for their continued killings. However, both the regional and the federal movements exhibited significant reluctance at stopping the conflict. Although the federal government has deployed its forces, they remained witness to the raging killings, instead of stopping the killers. They rather successfully prohibited Oromos from neighboring villages and local militias from coming to the rescue of the victims, and from and defending themselves. Most of the loses (both life and property) happened at the presence of the federal forces.
In further worsening of the situation, the government has systematically
blocked access to information through prohibiting access to victims and the damaged areas, by information seekers. Neither government media nor the free press has brought the issue to public attention.
5. The TPLF Regime only this year crime against the Oromo
Ever since it came to power, the TPLF/EPRDF regime has applied the outdated 'divide and rule' policy to weaken peoples' struggles for freedom and justice by sowing seeds of disharmony among friendly neighboring peoples. The TPLF regime's track record of the past 17 years of tyrannical rule is full of such evil intrigues that instigated bloody conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . As a result of TPLF's machinations Oromo and Sidama, Oromo and Somali, Oromo and Gedao, Anywak and Nuer, Oromo and Amhara, Oromo and Oromo, now Oromo and Gumuz and several other people have clashed. As the result thousands of innocent lives were lost, tens of thousands of people were displaced and enormous amounts of properties were destroyed in the past 17 years. For example in this year only:-
1.With the TPLF, woyane regime instigated conflict between Guji Oromo and Konso 40 peoples have lost their life¢s, dozens wounded and properties were destroyed.
2.In the historic place of Madda Walabu many Oromo¢s have lost their lives.
3.In Me¢esso and many other places ,conspiracy was made between Oromo and Somalis , in which civilian Oromo¢s were murdered by the well armed groups.
4.In Wondo Genet more than 40 Oromo¢s were killed by raids.
5.TPLF have armed the Afar so as the can raid to the extent of Adama.
6.In Wanbara Oromo¢s are being hunted like a wild.
7.Many times and at different places in the Region of Benishangul TPLF have armed its murderers and raided the Oromo¢s in Limmuu ,Gigami, Manasibuu, Gidda, Sasigga ; which is followed in huge destruction. Accordingly as of may 17/2008 on civilian Oromo¢s are under armed attack by the same group.
8. The TPLF government is also active in refuge murder in the horn. In Somalia ; Punta land (Bosaso)65 were killed ,100 wounded and 250 homes burned down.
9.Ever year Oromo University students are killed and dismissed from school in group.
10. The government have the same plan in other part of Oromia in near future to create conflict between Oromo and Gambela (Anyuak) South, Isaa and Oromo in the East Oromiya
The most horrific act includes killing a mother and forcing the son to eat the deed body ,and they also killed the 2 week long mother giving birth and wounded the son.
Behind all the conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia during this period, there always are the TPLF regime's security agents deliberately creating distrust and suspicion among peoples who have lived peacefully for many years as neighbors. The regime survives by creating armed conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . Such heinous act is a crime against humanity.
6. Annex
Last, but not least, we call upon the international community and governments to exert all necessary pressures on the TPLF regime to desist from its inhuman and destructive policies of deliberately setting the people it purports to govern against each other. We also call on all concerned governments and international organizations to pay close attention to the crime against humanity the minority tyrannical TPLF regime is perpetrating in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in general and take remedial actions before it is too late. We call European Union And USA government to stop all economic and material support for dictatorial regime.
The Wayane/TPLF Instigated Massacre of the Oromos in Western Oromia
Once again the TPLF/ EPRDF regime has deliberately organized and instigated armed attack on the Oromo. This time the regime organized, trained, armed and unleashed militia from Gumuz, a nation in a region neighboring Oromia from the West, on wanton killings of the Oromos of East Wallaggaa, Western Oromia. This is a Crime against Humanity.
The Oromo and Gumuz peoples have lived together as good neighbors for hundreds of years. It is these neighboring peoples that the TPLF regime maliciously turned against each other causing days of violence that claimed the lives of more than 400 people, as a result of a campaign that went on from May 17, 2008 to May 19, 2008 . The Gumuz militia attack on the unarmed civilian Oromos caused the death of hundreds and many more injuries and displacement of hundreds to people, and destruction of large amount of properties. The TPLF regime trained and armed Gumuz militia with AK-47 and heavy machine-guns and ordered them to commit indiscriminate killings of unarmed Oromo civilians of East Wallagaa . As a matter of the TPLF government's policy, the Oromos were disarmed and are not allowed to bear arms. The Gumuz militia attacked the unaware and unarmed civilians. Hundreds of Oromos were subjected to horrific and barbaric killings. The militia is said to be so heavily armed that the local police themselves had to flee along with the civilians. The relevant government body and armed forces were bystanders watching the massacre of the unarmed and defenseless Oromos.
On May 17, 2008 , a significant number of well armed forces from the Benishangul Gumuz regional state suddenly attacked unprepared civilian Oromos early in the morning, before they were even awake from sleep. As the attackers were well armed with AK-47 and other unmentioned heavy machine guns, and were highly trained military personnel, they inflicted deadly massive casualties on the unawake Oromo civilians.
Conflicts have been reported in the following parts of East Wallagga . These are:
Saasiggaa District, particularly at Haroo Waataa, Camp 4, Camp 5, Camp 8,
and Baloo villages;
Limmu District, particularly at Arqumbee village; and Other areas
(clear location not found): Amba 7, and Mandar 10 villages. The conflict is still spreading to other areas in the region.
Digaa District, Arjoo Gudatu, and Dimtu area new war against the innocent unarmed Oromo people
2. Scope of the attacks which is stil going on
The invaders¢ actions include mutilation of body parts (arms, legs, and
other organs of children, breasts of women, male genitals), throat cutting and slaughtering, burning down of housings and other properties, looting of properties including animals, raping of women and children, and burning of dead bodies in masses, to make access to information impossible. Very disturbingly, the invaders seriously target the male section of the society.
They also snatch infant babies from mothers¢ backs and kill, only to force the mothers to eat the flesh of their own babies.
Access to information has been intentionally made difficult, not only by the killers, but also by government structures. We are able to get information only for a limited part of the victim population (Saasiggaa district), and only for limited days of the incident (May 17-19, 2008). According to key informants and victim families, the names of which we don¢t have to disclose due security reasons, the following major causalities have resulted from the incident.
3. Consequences of the conflict
3.1 Lose of lives
A total of 400 Oromo civilians are estimated to be killed until May 19, in the areas mentioned above. About 65 of the dead are from Haroo Waataa village of Saasiggaa alone. Most of the dead are male children and the elderly. Only 115 dead bodies were found and buried in groups, in just four graves (40, 30, 25, 20 bodies). The remaining bodies, most of them burnt or eaten by dogs and hyenas, are being gradually discovered.
The following list provides the names of some of the dead, in Saasiggaa
district. The age and other identifications of the victims could not be found, for the moment.
a. Tasfaayee Qana¢aa
b. Waq-gaarii Deetii
c. Boggaalee Waaqtolee
d. Salbaanaa Galataa
e. Kabbadee Salbaanaa
f. Fiqaaduu Salbaanaa
g. Fayyisaa Wadaajoo
h. Tarrafaa Nagaraa
i. Badirii Jamaal
j. Samu¢el Waanee
3.2 Injuries
According to the key informant¢s observation, about 40 seriously injured
Oromo civilians were receiving medical treatment in Naqamtee Hospital as of May 19. Below is the list of only six of them, all of them from Haroo Waataa village:
A. Saamu¢el Tolasaa (See Picture 1)
B. Daani¢el Dhaabaa (See Picture 2)
C. Adam Muhaammad
D. Darajjee Fiqaaduu
E.. Addaamuu Imaanaa
F. Warkinesh Fiqaaduu
G. Abraham Mallasaa
3.3 Lose of properties
There is no quantified information about the extent of property lose resulted from the conflict. Generally, however, the properties of three villages in Saasiggaa, including Haroo Waataa and Baloo have been irrecoverably damaged: housings and in-house properties, including crops were totally burnt down; and the livestock were looted by the invaders. Similar types of loses of property have been reported elsewhere covered by the conflict.
3.4 Displacement
Civilians in the affected areas have continued to flee their homes and
properties beginning with the onset of the conflict on May 17, 2008. Until May 21, over 12, 0000 people are believed to have left their homes, and are camped in Naqamtee town and at a primary school in Saasiggaa district. According to a key informant, the Ethiopian Red Cross is providing minimum basic life-saving assistance to the victims.
4. Action taken by the government to stop the conflict
According to the Ethiopian Law, civilians are not allowed to bear arms in
general. Hence, Oromo civilians are totally unarmed. On the contrary, even ordinary Gumuz people are armed. The armed invaders used that opportunity as a source of arms supply for their continued killings. However, both the regional and the federal movements exhibited significant reluctance at stopping the conflict. Although the federal government has deployed its forces, they remained witness to the raging killings, instead of stopping the killers. They rather successfully prohibited Oromos from neighboring villages and local militias from coming to the rescue of the victims, and from and defending themselves. Most of the loses (both life and property) happened at the presence of the federal forces.
In further worsening of the situation, the government has systematically
blocked access to information through prohibiting access to victims and the damaged areas, by information seekers. Neither government media nor the free press has brought the issue to public attention.
5. The TPLF Regime only this year crime against the Oromo
Ever since it came to power, the TPLF/EPRDF regime has applied the outdated 'divide and rule' policy to weaken peoples' struggles for freedom and justice by sowing seeds of disharmony among friendly neighboring peoples. The TPLF regime's track record of the past 17 years of tyrannical rule is full of such evil intrigues that instigated bloody conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . As a result of TPLF's machinations Oromo and Sidama, Oromo and Somali, Oromo and Gedao, Anywak and Nuer, Oromo and Amhara, Oromo and Oromo, now Oromo and Gumuz and several other people have clashed. As the result thousands of innocent lives were lost, tens of thousands of people were displaced and enormous amounts of properties were destroyed in the past 17 years. For example in this year only:-
1.With the TPLF, woyane regime instigated conflict between Guji Oromo and Konso 40 peoples have lost their life¢s, dozens wounded and properties were destroyed.
2.In the historic place of Madda Walabu many Oromo¢s have lost their lives.
3.In Me¢esso and many other places ,conspiracy was made between Oromo and Somalis , in which civilian Oromo¢s were murdered by the well armed groups.
4.In Wondo Genet more than 40 Oromo¢s were killed by raids.
5.TPLF have armed the Afar so as the can raid to the extent of Adama.
6.In Wanbara Oromo¢s are being hunted like a wild.
7.Many times and at different places in the Region of Benishangul TPLF have armed its murderers and raided the Oromo¢s in Limmuu ,Gigami, Manasibuu, Gidda, Sasigga ; which is followed in huge destruction. Accordingly as of may 17/2008 on civilian Oromo¢s are under armed attack by the same group.
8. The TPLF government is also active in refuge murder in the horn. In Somalia ; Punta land (Bosaso)65 were killed ,100 wounded and 250 homes burned down.
9.Ever year Oromo University students are killed and dismissed from school in group.
10. The government have the same plan in other part of Oromia in near future to create conflict between Oromo and Gambela (Anyuak) South, Isaa and Oromo in the East Oromiya
The most horrific act includes killing a mother and forcing the son to eat the deed body ,and they also killed the 2 week long mother giving birth and wounded the son.
Behind all the conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia during this period, there always are the TPLF regime's security agents deliberately creating distrust and suspicion among peoples who have lived peacefully for many years as neighbors. The regime survives by creating armed conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . Such heinous act is a crime against humanity.
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Last, but not least, we call upon the international community and governments to exert all necessary pressures on the TPLF regime to desist from its inhuman and destructive policies of deliberately setting the people it purports to govern against each other. We also call on all concerned governments and international organizations to pay close attention to the crime against humanity the minority tyrannical TPLF regime is perpetrating in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in general and take remedial actions before it is too late. We call European Union And USA government to stop all economic and material support for dictatorial regime.
The Wayane/TPLF Instigated Massacre of the Oromos in Western Oromia
Once again the TPLF/ EPRDF regime has deliberately organized and instigated armed attack on the Oromo. This time the regime organized, trained, armed and unleashed militia from Gumuz, a nation in a region neighboring Oromia from the West, on wanton killings of the Oromos of East Wallaggaa, Western Oromia. This is a Crime against Humanity.
The Oromo and Gumuz peoples have lived together as good neighbors for hundreds of years. It is these neighboring peoples that the TPLF regime maliciously turned against each other causing days of violence that claimed the lives of more than 400 people, as a result of a campaign that went on from May 17, 2008 to May 19, 2008 . The Gumuz militia attack on the unarmed civilian Oromos caused the death of hundreds and many more injuries and displacement of hundreds to people, and destruction of large amount of properties. The TPLF regime trained and armed Gumuz militia with AK-47 and heavy machine-guns and ordered them to commit indiscriminate killings of unarmed Oromo civilians of East Wallagaa . As a matter of the TPLF government's policy, the Oromos were disarmed and are not allowed to bear arms. The Gumuz militia attacked the unaware and unarmed civilians. Hundreds of Oromos were subjected to horrific and barbaric killings. The militia is said to be so heavily armed that the local police themselves had to flee along with the civilians. The relevant government body and armed forces were bystanders watching the massacre of the unarmed and defenseless Oromos.
On May 17, 2008 , a significant number of well armed forces from the Benishangul Gumuz regional state suddenly attacked unprepared civilian Oromos early in the morning, before they were even awake from sleep. As the attackers were well armed with AK-47 and other unmentioned heavy machine guns, and were highly trained military personnel, they inflicted deadly massive casualties on the unawake Oromo civilians.
Conflicts have been reported in the following parts of East Wallagga . These are:
Saasiggaa District, particularly at Haroo Waataa, Camp 4, Camp 5, Camp 8,
and Baloo villages;
Limmu District, particularly at Arqumbee village; and Other areas
(clear location not found): Amba 7, and Mandar 10 villages. The conflict is still spreading to other areas in the region.
Digaa District, Arjoo Gudatu, and Dimtu area new war against the innocent unarmed Oromo people
2. Scope of the attacks which is stil going on
The invaders¢ actions include mutilation of body parts (arms, legs, and
other organs of children, breasts of women, male genitals), throat cutting and slaughtering, burning down of housings and other properties, looting of properties including animals, raping of women and children, and burning of dead bodies in masses, to make access to information impossible. Very disturbingly, the invaders seriously target the male section of the society.
They also snatch infant babies from mothers¢ backs and kill, only to force the mothers to eat the flesh of their own babies.
Access to information has been intentionally made difficult, not only by the killers, but also by government structures. We are able to get information only for a limited part of the victim population (Saasiggaa district), and only for limited days of the incident (May 17-19, 2008). According to key informants and victim families, the names of which we don¢t have to disclose due security reasons, the following major causalities have resulted from the incident.
3. Consequences of the conflict
3.1 Lose of lives
A total of 400 Oromo civilians are estimated to be killed until May 19, in the areas mentioned above. About 65 of the dead are from Haroo Waataa village of Saasiggaa alone. Most of the dead are male children and the elderly. Only 115 dead bodies were found and buried in groups, in just four graves (40, 30, 25, 20 bodies). The remaining bodies, most of them burnt or eaten by dogs and hyenas, are being gradually discovered.
The following list provides the names of some of the dead, in Saasiggaa
district. The age and other identifications of the victims could not be found, for the moment.
a. Tasfaayee Qana¢aa
b. Waq-gaarii Deetii
c. Boggaalee Waaqtolee
d. Salbaanaa Galataa
e. Kabbadee Salbaanaa
f. Fiqaaduu Salbaanaa
g. Fayyisaa Wadaajoo
h. Tarrafaa Nagaraa
i. Badirii Jamaal
j. Samu¢el Waanee
3.2 Injuries
According to the key informant¢s observation, about 40 seriously injured
Oromo civilians were receiving medical treatment in Naqamtee Hospital as of May 19. Below is the list of only six of them, all of them from Haroo Waataa village:
A. Saamu¢el Tolasaa (See Picture 1)
B. Daani¢el Dhaabaa (See Picture 2)
C. Adam Muhaammad
D. Darajjee Fiqaaduu
E.. Addaamuu Imaanaa
F. Warkinesh Fiqaaduu
G. Abraham Mallasaa
3.3 Lose of properties
There is no quantified information about the extent of property lose resulted from the conflict. Generally, however, the properties of three villages in Saasiggaa, including Haroo Waataa and Baloo have been irrecoverably damaged: housings and in-house properties, including crops were totally burnt down; and the livestock were looted by the invaders. Similar types of loses of property have been reported elsewhere covered by the conflict.
3.4 Displacement
Civilians in the affected areas have continued to flee their homes and
properties beginning with the onset of the conflict on May 17, 2008. Until May 21, over 12, 0000 people are believed to have left their homes, and are camped in Naqamtee town and at a primary school in Saasiggaa district. According to a key informant, the Ethiopian Red Cross is providing minimum basic life-saving assistance to the victims.
4. Action taken by the government to stop the conflict
According to the Ethiopian Law, civilians are not allowed to bear arms in
general. Hence, Oromo civilians are totally unarmed. On the contrary, even ordinary Gumuz people are armed. The armed invaders used that opportunity as a source of arms supply for their continued killings. However, both the regional and the federal movements exhibited significant reluctance at stopping the conflict. Although the federal government has deployed its forces, they remained witness to the raging killings, instead of stopping the killers. They rather successfully prohibited Oromos from neighboring villages and local militias from coming to the rescue of the victims, and from and defending themselves. Most of the loses (both life and property) happened at the presence of the federal forces.
In further worsening of the situation, the government has systematically
blocked access to information through prohibiting access to victims and the damaged areas, by information seekers. Neither government media nor the free press has brought the issue to public attention.
5. The TPLF Regime only this year crime against the Oromo
Ever since it came to power, the TPLF/EPRDF regime has applied the outdated 'divide and rule' policy to weaken peoples' struggles for freedom and justice by sowing seeds of disharmony among friendly neighboring peoples. The TPLF regime's track record of the past 17 years of tyrannical rule is full of such evil intrigues that instigated bloody conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . As a result of TPLF's machinations Oromo and Sidama, Oromo and Somali, Oromo and Gedao, Anywak and Nuer, Oromo and Amhara, Oromo and Oromo, now Oromo and Gumuz and several other people have clashed. As the result thousands of innocent lives were lost, tens of thousands of people were displaced and enormous amounts of properties were destroyed in the past 17 years. For example in this year only:-
1.With the TPLF, woyane regime instigated conflict between Guji Oromo and Konso 40 peoples have lost their life¢s, dozens wounded and properties were destroyed.
2.In the historic place of Madda Walabu many Oromo¢s have lost their lives.
3.In Me¢esso and many other places ,conspiracy was made between Oromo and Somalis , in which civilian Oromo¢s were murdered by the well armed groups.
4.In Wondo Genet more than 40 Oromo¢s were killed by raids.
5.TPLF have armed the Afar so as the can raid to the extent of Adama.
6.In Wanbara Oromo¢s are being hunted like a wild.
7.Many times and at different places in the Region of Benishangul TPLF have armed its murderers and raided the Oromo¢s in Limmuu ,Gigami, Manasibuu, Gidda, Sasigga ; which is followed in huge destruction. Accordingly as of may 17/2008 on civilian Oromo¢s are under armed attack by the same group.
8. The TPLF government is also active in refuge murder in the horn. In Somalia ; Punta land (Bosaso)65 were killed ,100 wounded and 250 homes burned down.
9.Ever year Oromo University students are killed and dismissed from school in group.
10. The government have the same plan in other part of Oromia in near future to create conflict between Oromo and Gambela (Anyuak) South, Isaa and Oromo in the East Oromiya
The most horrific act includes killing a mother and forcing the son to eat the deed body ,and they also killed the 2 week long mother giving birth and wounded the son.
Behind all the conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia during this period, there always are the TPLF regime's security agents deliberately creating distrust and suspicion among peoples who have lived peacefully for many years as neighbors. The regime survives by creating armed conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . Such heinous act is a crime against humanity.
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Last, but not least, we call upon the international community and governments to exert all necessary pressures on the TPLF regime to desist from its inhuman and destructive policies of deliberately setting the people it purports to govern against each other. We also call on all concerned governments and international organizations to pay close attention to the crime against humanity the minority tyrannical TPLF regime is perpetrating in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in general and take remedial actions before it is too late. We call European Union And USA government to stop all economic and material support for dictatorial regime.
Appeal for UN General secretary
The Wayane/TPLF Instigated Massacre of the Oromos in Western Oromia
Once again the TPLF/ EPRDF regime has deliberately organized and instigated armed attack on the Oromo. This time the regime organized, trained, armed and unleashed militia from Gumuz, a nation in a region neighboring Oromia from the West, on wanton killings of the Oromos of East Wallaggaa, Western Oromia. This is a Crime against Humanity.
The Oromo and Gumuz peoples have lived together as good neighbors for hundreds of years. It is these neighboring peoples that the TPLF regime maliciously turned against each other causing days of violence that claimed the lives of more than 400 people, as a result of a campaign that went on from May 17, 2008 to May 19, 2008 . The Gumuz militia attack on the unarmed civilian Oromos caused the death of hundreds and many more injuries and displacement of hundreds to people, and destruction of large amount of properties. The TPLF regime trained and armed Gumuz militia with AK-47 and heavy machine-guns and ordered them to commit indiscriminate killings of unarmed Oromo civilians of East Wallagaa . As a matter of the TPLF government's policy, the Oromos were disarmed and are not allowed to bear arms. The Gumuz militia attacked the unaware and unarmed civilians. Hundreds of Oromos were subjected to horrific and barbaric killings. The militia is said to be so heavily armed that the local police themselves had to flee along with the civilians. The relevant government body and armed forces were bystanders watching the massacre of the unarmed and defenseless Oromos.
On May 17, 2008 , a significant number of well armed forces from the Benishangul Gumuz regional state suddenly attacked unprepared civilian Oromos early in the morning, before they were even awake from sleep. As the attackers were well armed with AK-47 and other unmentioned heavy machine guns, and were highly trained military personnel, they inflicted deadly massive casualties on the unawake Oromo civilians.
Conflicts have been reported in the following parts of East Wallagga . These are:
Saasiggaa District, particularly at Haroo Waataa, Camp 4, Camp 5, Camp 8,
and Baloo villages;
Limmu District, particularly at Arqumbee village; and Other areas
(clear location not found): Amba 7, and Mandar 10 villages. The conflict is still spreading to other areas in the region.
Digaa District, Arjoo Gudatu, and Dimtu area new war against the innocent unarmed Oromo people
2. Scope of the attacks which is stil going on
The invaders¢ actions include mutilation of body parts (arms, legs, and
other organs of children, breasts of women, male genitals), throat cutting and slaughtering, burning down of housings and other properties, looting of properties including animals, raping of women and children, and burning of dead bodies in masses, to make access to information impossible. Very disturbingly, the invaders seriously target the male section of the society.
They also snatch infant babies from mothers¢ backs and kill, only to force the mothers to eat the flesh of their own babies.
Access to information has been intentionally made difficult, not only by the killers, but also by government structures. We are able to get information only for a limited part of the victim population (Saasiggaa district), and only for limited days of the incident (May 17-19, 2008). According to key informants and victim families, the names of which we don¢t have to disclose due security reasons, the following major causalities have resulted from the incident.
3. Consequences of the conflict
3.1 Lose of lives
A total of 400 Oromo civilians are estimated to be killed until May 19, in the areas mentioned above. About 65 of the dead are from Haroo Waataa village of Saasiggaa alone. Most of the dead are male children and the elderly. Only 115 dead bodies were found and buried in groups, in just four graves (40, 30, 25, 20 bodies). The remaining bodies, most of them burnt or eaten by dogs and hyenas, are being gradually discovered.
The following list provides the names of some of the dead, in Saasiggaa
district. The age and other identifications of the victims could not be found, for the moment.
a. Tasfaayee Qana¢aa
b. Waq-gaarii Deetii
c. Boggaalee Waaqtolee
d. Salbaanaa Galataa
e. Kabbadee Salbaanaa
f. Fiqaaduu Salbaanaa
g. Fayyisaa Wadaajoo
h. Tarrafaa Nagaraa
i. Badirii Jamaal
j. Samu¢el Waanee
3.2 Injuries
According to the key informant¢s observation, about 40 seriously injured
Oromo civilians were receiving medical treatment in Naqamtee Hospital as of May 19. Below is the list of only six of them, all of them from Haroo Waataa village:
A. Saamu¢el Tolasaa (See Picture 1)
B. Daani¢el Dhaabaa (See Picture 2)
C. Adam Muhaammad
D. Darajjee Fiqaaduu
E.. Addaamuu Imaanaa
F. Warkinesh Fiqaaduu
G. Abraham Mallasaa
3.3 Lose of properties
There is no quantified information about the extent of property lose resulted from the conflict. Generally, however, the properties of three villages in Saasiggaa, including Haroo Waataa and Baloo have been irrecoverably damaged: housings and in-house properties, including crops were totally burnt down; and the livestock were looted by the invaders. Similar types of loses of property have been reported elsewhere covered by the conflict.
3.4 Displacement
Civilians in the affected areas have continued to flee their homes and
properties beginning with the onset of the conflict on May 17, 2008. Until May 21, over 12, 0000 people are believed to have left their homes, and are camped in Naqamtee town and at a primary school in Saasiggaa district. According to a key informant, the Ethiopian Red Cross is providing minimum basic life-saving assistance to the victims.
4. Action taken by the government to stop the conflict
According to the Ethiopian Law, civilians are not allowed to bear arms in
general. Hence, Oromo civilians are totally unarmed. On the contrary, even ordinary Gumuz people are armed. The armed invaders used that opportunity as a source of arms supply for their continued killings. However, both the regional and the federal movements exhibited significant reluctance at stopping the conflict. Although the federal government has deployed its forces, they remained witness to the raging killings, instead of stopping the killers. They rather successfully prohibited Oromos from neighboring villages and local militias from coming to the rescue of the victims, and from and defending themselves. Most of the loses (both life and property) happened at the presence of the federal forces.
In further worsening of the situation, the government has systematically
blocked access to information through prohibiting access to victims and the damaged areas, by information seekers. Neither government media nor the free press has brought the issue to public attention.
5. The TPLF Regime only this year crime against the Oromo
Ever since it came to power, the TPLF/EPRDF regime has applied the outdated 'divide and rule' policy to weaken peoples' struggles for freedom and justice by sowing seeds of disharmony among friendly neighboring peoples. The TPLF regime's track record of the past 17 years of tyrannical rule is full of such evil intrigues that instigated bloody conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . As a result of TPLF's machinations Oromo and Sidama, Oromo and Somali, Oromo and Gedao, Anywak and Nuer, Oromo and Amhara, Oromo and Oromo, now Oromo and Gumuz and several other people have clashed. As the result thousands of innocent lives were lost, tens of thousands of people were displaced and enormous amounts of properties were destroyed in the past 17 years. For example in this year only:-
1.With the TPLF, woyane regime instigated conflict between Guji Oromo and Konso 40 peoples have lost their life¢s, dozens wounded and properties were destroyed.
2.In the historic place of Madda Walabu many Oromo¢s have lost their lives.
3.In Me¢esso and many other places ,conspiracy was made between Oromo and Somalis , in which civilian Oromo¢s were murdered by the well armed groups.
4.In Wondo Genet more than 40 Oromo¢s were killed by raids.
5.TPLF have armed the Afar so as the can raid to the extent of Adama.
6.In Wanbara Oromo¢s are being hunted like a wild.
7.Many times and at different places in the Region of Benishangul TPLF have armed its murderers and raided the Oromo¢s in Limmuu ,Gigami, Manasibuu, Gidda, Sasigga ; which is followed in huge destruction. Accordingly as of may 17/2008 on civilian Oromo¢s are under armed attack by the same group.
8. The TPLF government is also active in refuge murder in the horn. In Somalia ; Punta land (Bosaso)65 were killed ,100 wounded and 250 homes burned down.
9.Ever year Oromo University students are killed and dismissed from school in group.
10. The government have the same plan in other part of Oromia in near future to create conflict between Oromo and Gambela (Anyuak) South, Isaa and Oromo in the East Oromiya
The most horrific act includes killing a mother and forcing the son to eat the deed body ,and they also killed the 2 week long mother giving birth and wounded the son.
Behind all the conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia during this period, there always are the TPLF regime's security agents deliberately creating distrust and suspicion among peoples who have lived peacefully for many years as neighbors. The regime survives by creating armed conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . Such heinous act is a crime against humanity.
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Last, but not least, we call upon the international community and governments to exert all necessary pressures on the TPLF regime to desist from its inhuman and destructive policies of deliberately setting the people it purports to govern against each other. We also call on all concerned governments and international organizations to pay close attention to the crime against humanity the minority tyrannical TPLF regime is perpetrating in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in general and take remedial actions before it is too late. We call European Union And USA government to stop all economic and material support for dictatorial regime.
The Wayane/TPLF Instigated Massacre of the Oromos in Western Oromia
Once again the TPLF/ EPRDF regime has deliberately organized and instigated armed attack on the Oromo. This time the regime organized, trained, armed and unleashed militia from Gumuz, a nation in a region neighboring Oromia from the West, on wanton killings of the Oromos of East Wallaggaa, Western Oromia. This is a Crime against Humanity.
The Oromo and Gumuz peoples have lived together as good neighbors for hundreds of years. It is these neighboring peoples that the TPLF regime maliciously turned against each other causing days of violence that claimed the lives of more than 400 people, as a result of a campaign that went on from May 17, 2008 to May 19, 2008 . The Gumuz militia attack on the unarmed civilian Oromos caused the death of hundreds and many more injuries and displacement of hundreds to people, and destruction of large amount of properties. The TPLF regime trained and armed Gumuz militia with AK-47 and heavy machine-guns and ordered them to commit indiscriminate killings of unarmed Oromo civilians of East Wallagaa . As a matter of the TPLF government's policy, the Oromos were disarmed and are not allowed to bear arms. The Gumuz militia attacked the unaware and unarmed civilians. Hundreds of Oromos were subjected to horrific and barbaric killings. The militia is said to be so heavily armed that the local police themselves had to flee along with the civilians. The relevant government body and armed forces were bystanders watching the massacre of the unarmed and defenseless Oromos.
On May 17, 2008 , a significant number of well armed forces from the Benishangul Gumuz regional state suddenly attacked unprepared civilian Oromos early in the morning, before they were even awake from sleep. As the attackers were well armed with AK-47 and other unmentioned heavy machine guns, and were highly trained military personnel, they inflicted deadly massive casualties on the unawake Oromo civilians.
Conflicts have been reported in the following parts of East Wallagga . These are:
Saasiggaa District, particularly at Haroo Waataa, Camp 4, Camp 5, Camp 8,
and Baloo villages;
Limmu District, particularly at Arqumbee village; and Other areas
(clear location not found): Amba 7, and Mandar 10 villages. The conflict is still spreading to other areas in the region.
Digaa District, Arjoo Gudatu, and Dimtu area new war against the innocent unarmed Oromo people
2. Scope of the attacks which is stil going on
The invaders¢ actions include mutilation of body parts (arms, legs, and
other organs of children, breasts of women, male genitals), throat cutting and slaughtering, burning down of housings and other properties, looting of properties including animals, raping of women and children, and burning of dead bodies in masses, to make access to information impossible. Very disturbingly, the invaders seriously target the male section of the society.
They also snatch infant babies from mothers¢ backs and kill, only to force the mothers to eat the flesh of their own babies.
Access to information has been intentionally made difficult, not only by the killers, but also by government structures. We are able to get information only for a limited part of the victim population (Saasiggaa district), and only for limited days of the incident (May 17-19, 2008). According to key informants and victim families, the names of which we don¢t have to disclose due security reasons, the following major causalities have resulted from the incident.
3. Consequences of the conflict
3.1 Lose of lives
A total of 400 Oromo civilians are estimated to be killed until May 19, in the areas mentioned above. About 65 of the dead are from Haroo Waataa village of Saasiggaa alone. Most of the dead are male children and the elderly. Only 115 dead bodies were found and buried in groups, in just four graves (40, 30, 25, 20 bodies). The remaining bodies, most of them burnt or eaten by dogs and hyenas, are being gradually discovered.
The following list provides the names of some of the dead, in Saasiggaa
district. The age and other identifications of the victims could not be found, for the moment.
a. Tasfaayee Qana¢aa
b. Waq-gaarii Deetii
c. Boggaalee Waaqtolee
d. Salbaanaa Galataa
e. Kabbadee Salbaanaa
f. Fiqaaduu Salbaanaa
g. Fayyisaa Wadaajoo
h. Tarrafaa Nagaraa
i. Badirii Jamaal
j. Samu¢el Waanee
3.2 Injuries
According to the key informant¢s observation, about 40 seriously injured
Oromo civilians were receiving medical treatment in Naqamtee Hospital as of May 19. Below is the list of only six of them, all of them from Haroo Waataa village:
A. Saamu¢el Tolasaa (See Picture 1)
B. Daani¢el Dhaabaa (See Picture 2)
C. Adam Muhaammad
D. Darajjee Fiqaaduu
E.. Addaamuu Imaanaa
F. Warkinesh Fiqaaduu
G. Abraham Mallasaa
3.3 Lose of properties
There is no quantified information about the extent of property lose resulted from the conflict. Generally, however, the properties of three villages in Saasiggaa, including Haroo Waataa and Baloo have been irrecoverably damaged: housings and in-house properties, including crops were totally burnt down; and the livestock were looted by the invaders. Similar types of loses of property have been reported elsewhere covered by the conflict.
3.4 Displacement
Civilians in the affected areas have continued to flee their homes and
properties beginning with the onset of the conflict on May 17, 2008. Until May 21, over 12, 0000 people are believed to have left their homes, and are camped in Naqamtee town and at a primary school in Saasiggaa district. According to a key informant, the Ethiopian Red Cross is providing minimum basic life-saving assistance to the victims.
4. Action taken by the government to stop the conflict
According to the Ethiopian Law, civilians are not allowed to bear arms in
general. Hence, Oromo civilians are totally unarmed. On the contrary, even ordinary Gumuz people are armed. The armed invaders used that opportunity as a source of arms supply for their continued killings. However, both the regional and the federal movements exhibited significant reluctance at stopping the conflict. Although the federal government has deployed its forces, they remained witness to the raging killings, instead of stopping the killers. They rather successfully prohibited Oromos from neighboring villages and local militias from coming to the rescue of the victims, and from and defending themselves. Most of the loses (both life and property) happened at the presence of the federal forces.
In further worsening of the situation, the government has systematically
blocked access to information through prohibiting access to victims and the damaged areas, by information seekers. Neither government media nor the free press has brought the issue to public attention.
5. The TPLF Regime only this year crime against the Oromo
Ever since it came to power, the TPLF/EPRDF regime has applied the outdated 'divide and rule' policy to weaken peoples' struggles for freedom and justice by sowing seeds of disharmony among friendly neighboring peoples. The TPLF regime's track record of the past 17 years of tyrannical rule is full of such evil intrigues that instigated bloody conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . As a result of TPLF's machinations Oromo and Sidama, Oromo and Somali, Oromo and Gedao, Anywak and Nuer, Oromo and Amhara, Oromo and Oromo, now Oromo and Gumuz and several other people have clashed. As the result thousands of innocent lives were lost, tens of thousands of people were displaced and enormous amounts of properties were destroyed in the past 17 years. For example in this year only:-
1.With the TPLF, woyane regime instigated conflict between Guji Oromo and Konso 40 peoples have lost their life¢s, dozens wounded and properties were destroyed.
2.In the historic place of Madda Walabu many Oromo¢s have lost their lives.
3.In Me¢esso and many other places ,conspiracy was made between Oromo and Somalis , in which civilian Oromo¢s were murdered by the well armed groups.
4.In Wondo Genet more than 40 Oromo¢s were killed by raids.
5.TPLF have armed the Afar so as the can raid to the extent of Adama.
6.In Wanbara Oromo¢s are being hunted like a wild.
7.Many times and at different places in the Region of Benishangul TPLF have armed its murderers and raided the Oromo¢s in Limmuu ,Gigami, Manasibuu, Gidda, Sasigga ; which is followed in huge destruction. Accordingly as of may 17/2008 on civilian Oromo¢s are under armed attack by the same group.
8. The TPLF government is also active in refuge murder in the horn. In Somalia ; Punta land (Bosaso)65 were killed ,100 wounded and 250 homes burned down.
9.Ever year Oromo University students are killed and dismissed from school in group.
10. The government have the same plan in other part of Oromia in near future to create conflict between Oromo and Gambela (Anyuak) South, Isaa and Oromo in the East Oromiya
The most horrific act includes killing a mother and forcing the son to eat the deed body ,and they also killed the 2 week long mother giving birth and wounded the son.
Behind all the conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia during this period, there always are the TPLF regime's security agents deliberately creating distrust and suspicion among peoples who have lived peacefully for many years as neighbors. The regime survives by creating armed conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia . Such heinous act is a crime against humanity.
6. Annex
Last, but not least, we call upon the international community and governments to exert all necessary pressures on the TPLF regime to desist from its inhuman and destructive policies of deliberately setting the people it purports to govern against each other. We also call on all concerned governments and international organizations to pay close attention to the crime against humanity the minority tyrannical TPLF regime is perpetrating in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in general and take remedial actions before it is too late. We call European Union And USA government to stop all economic and material support for dictatorial regime.
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