Ethiopia: Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) – It is the responsibility of the government to protect innocent citizens! (22.06.2022)

A press release given by the Oromo Federal Congress (OFCO) regarding the recent killings on citizens.

For the past three years, the wars and conflicts that have been going on in different parts of Oromia and Ethiopia as a whole have caused the death, suffering and displacement of innocent people. Since June 11, 2014, in Oromia region west welega zone Gimbi district Tole kebele hundreds of innocent people have been killed. Many of the dead are women and Persistence Evidence shows that they are true. When the government accuses the Oromo Liberation Army of this mass killing, the armed group will also kill the government armed forces.

The horrific killings committed by the armed forces outside the government that have disturbed the public’s conscience at different times have been recorded on video and posted on social media. However, there is no action to control these heinous acts, to catch the perpetrators or to bring them to justice. For example, in the first week of December 2014 in Men As the gist was under here The brutal killing of OLF Shene members in Amhara region, Dawa Chafa Woreda, where the security forces of Menelik committed by removing people from cars that they claimed to be OLF members was recorded on video and presented by Ethiopian Human Rights Commission but no legal action taken is yet known.

As the OFCO leaders, we believe that there is no political gain or victory that can be gained by shedding the blood of innocent people. We condemn any kind of attacks on innocent people. We strongly believe that people from other ethnic groups living in Oromia should get protection and full insurance for their life and property just like any other resident of the region. In this step, Oromia National region And the federal government should be able to do it without discharging their responsibilities.

As OFC has repeatedly called for independent investigation of killings in different parts of the country and the perpetrators to be brought to justice, all the forces involved in the massacre of innocent people should be investigated and made public, and the perpetrators should be brought to justice. We express our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives and were hurt by the attack. Condolences to his family and friends. We urge immediate measures to be taken to stabilize and stabilize the survivors of the attack.

We understand that the war that is going on in the country is either directly or indirectly due to the attacks and killings of innocent people. Therefore, we urge the forces that have entered the war due to political differences to narrow their differences and negotiate to solve their problems peacefully.

Oromo Federal Congress (OFCO)

Finfine: June 15 2014

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Ethiopia: Abiy we don’t believe you…

Attacks on innocent civilians & destruction of livelihoods by illegal and irregular forces is unacceptable. There is zero tolerance for horrific acts claiming lives recently in both Beninshangul & Oromia regions by elements whose main objective is to terrorize communities. Restoring peace and security in affected communities remains our key priority” (Abiy Ahmed Ali, 20.06.2022).

The head of state, the men of honour and of executive privilege is speaking. This being Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. Who is responding to a public outcry after yet another massacre is going public. Alas, we don’t believe him, because this is to common and practice of the security apparatus of the state. While blaming either the victims or the regional militias, which is doing more to defend civilians, than the security organization of the Federal State.

The ones coming with orders from the federal state can be vicious, sinister and destroy neighbourhoods. The state can with the iron fist and with the orders to quell any dissidents by any means. That means arresting the activists, the youths and whoever else who is vocal. While killing senselessly anyone who steps up and who is of the wrong ethnicity at the time. This being the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF), Regional Special Forces who are deployed in other regions than their own or just straight up regional militia trained by government entities like the “Fano”. Therefore, the bloodshed isn’t anything new.

The 200 dead should make you numb and break you heart, but it’s so common. It is the law of the land and is ordered from the “high above”. The PM most likely knows about it. His informed by the regional governments and they know perfectly well what is going on. He is maybe able to fool someone, but not everyone all the time.

The leaks, the videos and the statement of others. Are just proving his involvement and that the state is behind it all. He tried to trick the world about the conflict in the North. Where he was even playing up to a certain point that the Eritrean Defence Force (EDF) wasn’t involved. Until he had to be upfront and say they would “investigate” the matter. However, nothing has ever come out of it. They just accepted the massacres in Tigray and moved on. Just like they created a man-made famine, a well prepared genocide and continued to bushwhack donors to feed the government foreign currency. Therefore, it is hard to believe a government doing that… will ever do something righteous.

Abiy and his allies have lived and thrived on bloodshed. If it was bloody skirmishes in the Ogaden region. The total destruction of Querro and dissidents in Oromia. The deaths and zones of destruction in Afar or parts of the Amhara for that matter now. There isn’t anywhere where the forces of the state is leaving behind peace, but instead leaving behind caskets and dead bodies. The remains of citizens caught in the cross-fire or becoming prey to vicious men in uniform. That is just the “nature” of things and the stores keep coming. There is no brief moment of silence, it is just continued violence.

That’s why statements like today’s from the PM is pointless. We know another massacre will happen in due time. The Regional Special Force, the army or anyone else associated with the state will be the burden behind it and the EHRC will call it out. However, nothing will ever happen and the victims will be pinned on opposition. Because, that is what Abiy does and continues to do. He thinks this trick works and can shield himself from all blame.

However, the gig is up. The bloodshed, the tyranny and the devastation is done in his name. It is on the “medemer” accords and the “fake” unity, which he proclaims on a regular. In the name of “rule of law” which is the weapon to take lives and never have to account for it. Because, the bullets are used, the lives taken and no one is ever responsible for it. These lives are just taken and never any consequences. Villages are destroyed, families are broken up and loved ones taken away prematurely. Just so one man can crown himself king.

This is the “medemer” terror and Abiy will be remembered for that. That is his legacy and the green-washing his name will not save him. The remains on the ground, the blood, the tears and the famines will be the detriment to his name. There will be no legacy of the going green, but bleeding red. Peace.

Ethiopia: Gambella Liberation Army/Front (GLA/F) – Press Release (18.06.2022)

The Gambella Liberation Army has spent at least one year operating jointly with its partner, the OLA in Oromia. GLA/F clearly knows that the enemy is one, which is the PP.

Anywhere there’s PP, GLA/F is willing to conduct join operations together with a sisterly party that really means it to remove PP.

Therefore, an accusation from Okok that OLA and GLA cannot do join operation in Gambella shows that, Okok’s party is used by the prosperity party as aback staber to the United Front.

Last, OLA and GLA cannot be divided by double standard party!

Ethiopia: Statement of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) on the Summary Execution of the Oromos June 18, 2022 (19.06.2022)

[VOL – JUNE 19,2022] While calling for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the northern part of the country, the government of the Prosperity Party has declared a brutal war on the Oromo people and Oromiya. Government security forces, Gambella and Amhara Regional State Police forces, militiamen, and Fano have targeted peaceful citizens. The Gambella incident and Hartuma Fursi massacre attest to this.

After the reported attack of the allied forces of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and Gambella Liberation Front (GLA) on Sene 6, 2014 (June 13, 2022), Gambella Regional State Security Forces targeted Oromo peaceful civilians in the city. They brutally murdered civilians by singling out Oromos due to their ethnic background. One of such cruel acts was shown in the video that went viral on social media. The video showed a young man whose hands were chained on his back and the government security forces raining several gunshots on him. Such a brutal act happened in a country where security forces were supposed to protect civilians.

As restated by Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, in Hartuma Fursi of Oromo Zone of Amhara Regional State, Amhara Regional State security forces and Fano militants conducted similar brutal summary execution of Oromos. The security men were seen drugging young men and women from a track and shooting on the spot. Corpses are seen thrown on the ground. The killers were heard speaking the Amharic language.

The Oromo Liberation Front condemns, by all possible terms, these illegal, hidden and unhidden summary executions of peaceful Oromos. We have disclosed similar unwarranted killings and summary execution of Oromos in Guji, Wollega, and West Showa Zones earlier. Such irresponsible deeds are unacceptable by any standard, and we strongly request our people to stand against it.

Such barbaric measures will undoubtedly aggravate the already volatile situation in Ethiopia in general and Oromiya in particular. The repetitive actions vividly show the irresponsible behaviour of members of the security forces and institutional and individual lack of interest in correcting such criminal acts.

OLF believes that the Ethiopian government is solely accountable for such heinous perpetration.

Therefore,

1. We demand the immediate cessation of such vicious killings and summary execution. We strongly request an impartial investigation, by a neutral body, into this monstrous act against innocent Oromo civilians.

2. We strongly demand the perpetrators of this criminal act should, without delay, be held accountable in the appropriate court of law transparently.

3. The security forces should refrain from such criminal acts and remain loyal to the people and respect to the constitution and international law rather than siding with a party in the grip of power.

4. We call upon the Oromo people and the rest of the Ethiopian peoples to put pressure on the government so that it renounces armed confrontation in favour of a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Oromiya and elsewhere.

5. We also call upon the international community to pressure the Ethiopian government to stop the hidden war and concomitant mass kiillings in Oromiya and encourage it to settle the conflict which is dragging the country into an endless quagmire. If our international allies leave the current condition in Ethiopia unattended, the downward journey will inevitably sink the country deeper.

Finally, we call upon the Oromo people to stand by the Oromo Regional National Transitional Government of Oromiya, their grantor of peace and security, so that the brutal killings and suffering will end soon.

Victory to the Masses!

Oromo Liberation Front

June 18, 2022

Finfinnee, Oromiya

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