Some fifty years ago few Oromo youth initiated freedom movement that laid down the national Kaayyoo and paid heavy sacrifices but registered significant achievements. The movement is now taken over by legitimate owners, the Oromo people, making the road to… Continue Reading
Emergency declaration simply means government issuing laws that could enable it control natural or manmade crisis by suspending certain provisions of civil rights and/ or personal liberties for a given time and surrounding. Empire Ethiopia claims to have laws all… Continue Reading
Revolution that “exploded” in the Ethiopian empire in 1974 occurred after grievances against the emperor reached the highest intolerable point by all peoples in particular by the Oromo. It was essentially Oromo revolution because as a colonial people they were… Continue Reading
The continued colonial status of Oromiyaa cannot be understood without understand the nature of the colonizer, the Abyssinian state. The power struggle within that state has lived not only creating tension to the Habashaa but also affecting the peaceful life… Continue Reading
Before the sixties Oromo struggle used to erupt in different corners spontaneously. At a period when time and space were not conducive many heroes and heroines paid the ultimate sacrifice. It was failure of such struggle that led the ensuing… Continue Reading
Oromo living in Washington DC could reach several thousand if they are not hiding under different labels. Through the years of exile they had conducted several peaceful demonstrations to express their grievances. However, more than two digits rarely assembled. Reports… Continue Reading
Oromiyaa is still under occupation. Many writers had tried to express the evils of dependency at different times. Over and above the classical atrocities Oromiyaa is facing genocide suppressed by international conspiracy from exposure. At this time unaccounted numbers of… Continue Reading
Oromo liberation movement originated from pain oppression caused to Oromo society. At a period when poverty, illiteracy, ignorance and physical and psychological abuse reached an intolerable level in Oromiyaa social movements to ameliorate them started to show up and political… Continue Reading
Qabama Oromiyaatt karaa xumura itt tolchan barbaaduuf jaatamoota keessa dargaggoon Oromiyaa golee fi jireenya hallee gad yaa’anii. Baras karaa adda addaan mormiin Oromo yeroo dheeraaf gaggeeffamaa ture. Dudhaa Gadaa saanii dhugoomsuuf abbaawummaa dhaloota tokkomsuu fudhachuuf murteeffatan. Jaarraa 16faa as seenaa… Continue Reading
It seems we are now in a period like that of Ali Aluulaa, the last Oromo regent/guardian of the Ethiopian throne. He was true to his trusteeship and did not crown himself when Teedros came to disgracefully discarded him. But… Continue Reading