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- Oromo boy names
- Monday, December 20, 2010
- Is that the only issue?
The Kenya government officials however maintain that those arrested were Oromo Liberation Front militias. However, only a section of refugees have been targeted for illegal repatriation. According to the Association, two Nairobi based civil engineers Mesfir Ababa and Tesfahun Camada, were adducted in Nairobi and flown to Ethiopia where they were sentenced to death and to life in prison respectively.
The Kenyans were linked to the incident but shipped to Uganda without the due extradition process.
The ORA accuses the Ethiopian government and some elements within the Kenyan government of gross violation of the basic human rights of the Oromo refugees and Kenyans shipped to Ethiopia. They are currently on trial in Ethiopia.
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Impeccable source have confided that a Kenyan, Abrhim Dambi, the head of the head of Ethiopian Spy network detailed to track down political dissidents has now fled to Addis Ababa where he is hosted by the government after he was exposed. They have been tortured and beaten in prison. However, some observers claim that the OLF has not committed any terrorist act so far.
There are reports that the OLF has increased its activity following the general elections of It is clear that the Oromo row is now the longest liberation war in the region, which appears to have been forgotten. There is a contradiction in what the government officials say. If indeed, those arrested are criminal gangs, why are they not being arraigned in a court of law instead of being clandestinely smuggled out and handed over to the Addis Ababa government? After the parley, the OLF has had a friendly relationship with the Kenyan government. This brings to the fore the question of who the Oromo people and their vanguard political organization the OLF are.
Oromo people are the largest Kushitic group and the second largest nation in Africa. Their population is more than half of the population of the Ethiopian empire.
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Today, the population of Oromo people is more than 40 million. Oromo people have distinct cultural and linguistic identity of their own. They have inhabited a separate and well defined territory in the Horn of Africa for many centuries. It is , square km in size in Ethiopia. The Oromo predominately follow three major religions: Islam, Christianity and Indigenous Oromo religion.
Before the occupation of their land by Ethiopian empire toward the last quarter of the 19th century, Oromo people lived under democratic political system called Gadaa. After resisting a military campaign of Ethiopian empire led by Menelik for many years, the Oromo were defeated and made part of Ethiopia not by their consent but by force. Oromia is the richest part of Ethiopian empire. Eighty per cent of Ethiopian coffee export is from Oromia. Oromia contributes 65 per cent of the national revenue of Ethiopia. Majority of gold and other mineral mining in Ethiopia is in Oromia.
Oromian Rivers supply all hydro electric power of Ethiopia. Yet today, Oromia is synonymous with abject poverty and because of their political opinion, over thousands of Oromo people are languishing in Ethiopian prison. It is difficult to say how many of these lovely kids were killed during the June-July TPLF onslaught or died in Dhidheessa concentration camp later.
Through Forests and Marshlands and Over Mountains with Killers on their Heels Dhaba reported that they, the teachers and caretakers hereafter the guardians , fled with the children into the Charphaa forest. From there, they sent some of the children away to Gidaami and some of them to Begi to look for relatives or hide among the local population. The TPLF forces arrived after sometime and opened fire on the group.
In the shooting that followed, some of the children were killed or injured.
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The children and their guardians fled from Carphaa to the Gaara Arbaa mountain range. Helped with information about the whereabouts of the TPLF forces provided by the sympathetic local population, they had been hitherto ahead of their hunters. However, soon after, two days after their arrival in Gaara Arbaa area, they detected that the TPLF fighters were building a ring around the forest wherein they were hiding.
The children were forced to rush down the hillsides toward the Dabus River. As the month of June is part of the season when the rainfalls are the heaviest, the valley had turned into a marshland and was covered with impenetrable tall elephant grass.
Fleeing on foot through the wild and impenetrable vegetation was taxing. Blood-thirsty insects swarmed in the tall grass making travel through them immensely difficult and unbearable even to the most experienced adults: they had to fight off biting insects and struggle to walk through the grass at the same time. The children and their guardians found the Dabus was in full flood and unfordable on foot. Fortunately, there were canoes owned by the locals. However, they carried only 2 or 3 individuals at a time.
Therefore, it took many hours filled with fear and anxiety to take the children to the other side. After ten days, the children and their caretakers came to Mummee Dhoqsaa on the banks of the Dillaa River, a tributary of the Dabus after ten days Dhaabaa, December 9, The Dillaa was also in flood and, as the children were trying to cross under similar stress and circumstances as when they crossed the Dabus , the TPLF, whose soldiers were still on their heels, opened fire on them in the Gunfi area. According the OSG report mentioned above, an unknown number of children were killed or wounded, and some were captured by the soldiers.
The rest were separated and scattered in different directions. Dhaabaa reported December 9, that a clinic in Gunfi where children who were suffering from malaria and other diseases were getting medication was surrounded by the TPLF soldiers who opened fire on them. Although caretakers were assigned and had accompanied each group Dhaabaa, see above it is difficult to say how many of the children were able to escape the TPLF troops as they continued to chase and capture or kill them for many weeks. This and the other pictures taken in exile show that the children were well cared for by ORA.
As mentioned above, there is no doubt that the TPLF forces knew that those who were fleeing from them were children, as well as their caretakers and teachers, and not Oromo soldiers or fighters. It seems that they captured, persecuted or killed the children as a matter of duty. Different incidents are mentioned by the sources in which the children incurred casualties at the initial stage of their flight.
He also mentions that many children had also drowned when the pursuing forces opened fire on them on the banks of the Dabus River personal communication, March Milkii was among the group of children who were sent in the direction of Mendi in the north.
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Although wounded when her group was attacked on the banks of the Dabus River, she was lucky to escape together with her year brother and many of her companions. Regrettably, it was not all the children in her group who had that luck. She said that between 35 and 40 children in her cohort were killed on the riverbank or drowned while trying to cross to the other side seeking safety. This, not because I believe she is telling lies, but because of the situation under which she had made the observation. However, it is important to note that other sources also indicate that a number of the ORA children had drowned while crossing the Dabus River or its tributaries.
The OSG, for example, mentions that about 20 children had drowned while Dhaabaa mentions only one child who died in such an accident. Since the children were dispersed and fled in different directions, nobody seems to know how many of them had drowned or were killed during the flight.
It is also difficult to verify whether the sources are referring to the same or to different incidents. In general, given the information we have, it is impossible to account for the fate of the majority of the 1, children who returned home, nor of the who were in the Caanqaa and Mummee Dhoqsaa shelters when the TPLF attacked them in June As mentioned above, over children were captured and imprisoned in the Dhidheessa concentration camp.
As will be revealed in the next part of this article, many died there from hunger, diseases and torture. Crime against guardians and sympathetic local Oromo population Noteworthy aspects of the flight of the ORA children were the courage that their guardians — their teachers and caretakers — had shown in protecting them as well as the support given them by the inhabitants of the districts they traversed.
The price which both the guardians and many sympathetic peasants had paid to protect and support the children was high. Some were killed during the flight. It seems many were also caught and imprisoned. The killing of the physically handicapped Adabaa Imaanaa was carried out with barbaric brutality.
Dhabaa wrote November 21, that:. We were followed by the enemy from place to place and arrived in Mummee Dhoksaa on the banks of the Dillaa Gogolaa. After sometime we were surrounded by the enemy.
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They opened gunfire on us. We managed to cross the river by canoes. Since his mule was frightened by the gunfire, panicked and galloped away, we sent away Adaba Imaanaa to limp to his village hiding from the enemy. When I went to his village later and I heard from his neighbors that he had reached his village with difficulty. But the TPLF agents had traced him, surrounded his house, took him out and killed him in late However, in spite of the risks involved, the Oromo inhabitants of the districts through which the children passed, sheltered, fed, and directed them to the safest routes, informing them about the whereabouts of the TPLF forces.
They had also volunteered to receive and hide those children whom the ORA staff were forced to place in their guardianship.
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The generosity shown to the fleeing children and their guardians by the inhabitants of the many villages through which they passed, did not go unpunished by the TPLF. According Dhaabaa November 21, , the first person to be accused of helping the ORA children was a priest in the village of Gabaa Jimaata mentioned above. His name was Abbabaa. He was dragged out of his house by the TPLF soldiers and shot in cold blood. A farmer called Gaaddisaa Daaphoo was killed for feeding the children and their guardians in Harrojjii, a village in which they stayed during their flight.
It is difficult to imagine the hate that makes people commit such atrocities. Why did they kill, for example, a physically handicapped old man? Is it because he was an Oromo? What did the Oromo do to them?