KAANSARII FINFINNEE QABATEE OROMIYAA GUUTUTTI DARBUTTI JIRU KAN FAYYISU BILISUMMAA OROMIYAA QOFA.

BY FAYISA LEMMA | Bitootessa 30, 2014

Akkuma beekkamu Finfinnee hardha hafteen nafxanyootaa fi wayyaaneen keesaa iyyitu kana waggaa 128 dura gosa Oromoo kan akka Gulallee, Galaan fi Oromoota biraa malee  osoo qorichaafuu barbaadamee habashaan tokko keesatti hin argamu ture. Finfinnees kaansariin hin qabne ture.Qabeenya uumamaanis badhaatuu kan turtee fi lafti ishees bosinaan kan uwwifamte turte. Birbirsa/piyassa bakka yeroo ammaa siidaan nafxanyicha seexana gurraachaa Minilik irra dhaabbatu kana Odaa Yaa’a Gulalleettu irra dhaabbata ture, kun hundi jijjiiramee , qilleensa bareedaa fi qabeenya uumamaa ishee dhabdee gammoojjii tahuu ishee caalaa kan nama gaddisiisu abbaa ishee Oromoota ishee kunuunsaa irra jiraachaa turan sababa kaansarii kanaa dhabuu isheeti.Oromoon akka kaansariin kuni finfinnee hin qabannee wareegama guguddaa kafalee jira,hunda caalaa lubbuu qaqqaalii isaa itti dhabee duguuggin sanyii irra gahee jira.

Erga Finfinneen dhukkuba kanan qabatamtee eegalee keessattuu waggaa 23 darbe babaldhachuu dhukkuba kanaatin Oromooti naannawa finfinnee jiraatan seeran ala Wayyaaneen lafa isaanii irraa buqqiffamanii bakka jiraatani fi waan ittiin jiraatan waan hin qabneef maatiin bittinaa’ee kun wardiyaa tahee,kun hojii humnaa qarshii baayyee gadi bu’aa taheen qacaramaa lafa irraa ari’ame irrattti hojjataa kan jiru yoo tahu kan humna hin qabne ammo kadhattuu karaa gubbaa tahee hafee jira.  Akka fakkeenyaatti bara 2012-2013 keessa maqaa “Bole Lemi Industrial Zone” jedhun maatii Oromoo abbaa warraa 800 ol kan buqqisan yoo tahu lafa kana wayyaaneen kampaanii biyya Chaynaa,Turkii, Hindii, Koriyaa fi Xaaliyaniif addaan qooddee gurgurattee jirti. Kana qofa osoo hin taane fabrikooti bakka kana irratti ijaaraman fi kan naannawa finfinnee bakka biraatti ijaaraman hundi kunuunsa fabrikkaan tokko naannawa itti ijaarameef godhuu qabu osoo hin godhin summiin xuraawaan fabrikkaa isaanii keessaa yaa’u lagoota naannawa san jirutti dabalamuu dhaan bishaan qulqulluu faalee yeroo adda addaa horiin baayyeen dhumatee jira,lubbuu namaatirras rakkinni gahee jira . Xuriin adda addaa kan mana fincaanii dabalatee kan FINFINNEE keessa yaa’u laga akka AQAAQII faaluun uummata keenya miidhaa jira, garuu kan miidhamu Oromoo waan tahef wayyaaneen furmaata laatuu hin barbaaddu. Misooma abaaboo maqaa jedhunis  akka fakkenyati Oromoota naannawa Magaalaa Mannaagashaa fi Sabbataa lafa isaanii irraa buqqifaman baayyinnaan warra isaan buqqise kanaaf  hojii humna kan hojjatan yoo tahu, bakka hojiitti akkamitti akka of eeggatuu qaban waan leenjin hin fudhatinif kemikalota  adda addaan dhukkuba gogaa fuudhanii kan du’ani jirus, kan waliin rakkatutti jirus baayyee dha.Kun hundi kan isaan irra gaheef Oromiyaan, lafti abbaa isaanii, kan akaakilee fi abaabileen isaanii, kan isaan hardha irra jiraachaa jiran badhaatuu fi barbaadamtuu waan taatef malee balleessaa tokkollee qabatanif miti.

Gidduu kana osoo rakinni olitti tarraahe hundi uummata Oromoo irra gahaa jiru furmaata kanaa kennuu dhiisanii kansaricha babaldhisuf,lafa daangaa finfinnee keessaa hunda gurguranii waan fixanif,lafa Oromiya tan gurguramtee hin dhumannetti darbuuf shira wayyaaneen lafa jala xaxxe maqaa magaalota naannawa Finfinne jiran Finfinnee waliin “ master plan”  tokko jala galchuu jedhuun baastee dhageenye jirra, ‘ Osuma beeknuu huuba waliin nyaanne jette sareen’, kan hanga hardhaatis wallaallee osoo hin tahin falmannee falmisiisaa oromoon baayyeen itti hidhamee,tumamee, hujii fi barnoota irraa itti ari’amee,biyyaa itti baqatee malee kaansarichi Finfinnee qabate salphaan hin babaldhanne.Hardha murteen kun Oromoof du’aa fi jiruu tahuu qaba,dhukkubi kaansarii kan Finfinnee qabe kun yoo babaldhate Oromiyaa ajjeesuu akka dandahu hundi keenya beekuu qabna.Oromoon kaabaa kibbatti, bahaa dhihatti tokkummaadhaan shira wayyaanee kana dura dhaabachuu qabna,’madaa quba miilaa irra jiruf mudaamuddin nama dhukubdi’, Finfinnee irraa fagaachuu keenyaa yookin rakinni Oromoota naannawa Finfinnee irra gahaa ture fi jiru waan nurra hin gahinif yoo caldhisne seenaan nu gaafata, keesattuu dhalooti qubee  “QUBEE GENERATION”  shira wayyaanee kana hatattaman uummata baldhaa Oromiyaa biraan gahuu fi fincila finiinsuu irratti akkuma asiin dura godhaa turre gahee guddattu nurraa eeggama. Hanga gaafa Oromiyaan bilisoomtutti kaansarin Finfinnee qabate akka hin babaldhanne godhuu qabna,garuu kaansarichi kan fayyu yoo Oromiyaan bilisoomte qofa.

Hundreds of Ethiopian Refugees Arrived at Yemeni Shores During the last 3 Days!

Ruddum (Aden tomorrow) Private:

March 30, 2014, Aden, Yemen (Aden Tomorrow) — Local residents said a number of coastal areas of Shabwa province, said hundreds of Ethiopian refugees arrived during the past three days to the coast of the province in the absence of a complete local authorities.

He said Citizens for “Aden Tomorrow” Hundreds arrived to the coasts of Shabwa throughout Thursday and Friday, Saturday and deployed along the shoreline of the Directorate of Ruddum in search of refuge.

Aden tomorrow camera photographed a number of displaced people who delight in the general line Maifa’a – freeing a walk and mostly young people ranging in age from 15-45 years.

Due to the lack of refugee camps shelter refugees are forced to walk in search of work or refuge.

And some of them spoke to the reporter Aden tomorrow, stating that they will go to Saudi Arabia.

The most prominent of them to the reporter, “Aden Tomorrow” banknotes of the Ethiopian currency which is equal to 100 wild and YR 1000, they say.

Some policy considerations regarding the Ethiopian outmigration,

By Seid Hassan and Minga Negash | March 28, 2014

In our December 19, 2013 article entitled “Explaining the Ethiopian outmigration: incentives or constrains” we alerted readers and policy makers in Ethiopia about the push, pull and mediating factors of outmigration in general and outlined the factors as they relate to Ethiopia. In this short article we aim to discuss further the incompatibility between macroeconomic growth and outmigration and close the piece by outlining potential mitigation strategies.

By the end of 2013 and early 2014 the world witnessed yet another shame of Ethiopians. Voices of men, women and children in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Libya, Southern Europe and Southern Africa are instantly being transmitted across the globe through the use of advanced information technology. Saudi Arabia alone deported at least 165,000 Ethiopians within the span of few weeks. Demonstrations were held in Kuwait and Israel against African immigrants. The European Union has erected various forms of fences against immigrants from Africa. As Emnet Assefa of Addis Standard, a journalist in one of the local newspaper noted, “[o]ver the last few years, news of young Ethiopian men and women found dead inside jam-packed containers loaded on heavy duty trucks has become a routine media exercise both locally and in many parts of the continent.”  Abuses, abductions, disappearances and killings of Ethiopians in the Middle East, North Africa, and Gulf States has become common. On Thursday March 20, 2014 the (U.S. based) National Public Radio (NPR) run a heart-wrenching story of an Ethiopian young woman who took unbelievable levels of risks and investments to reach the shores of the United States. While outmigration is the history of mankind, as indicated in the holy books, for example, modern day migration, particularly migration into the Middle East, is documented to be associated with calamities.

Detentions of Ethiopians for violating the immigration laws of other countries (such as in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe), deportations, refugee camps filled with Ethiopians, and sending the remains of Ethiopians who died in their search for better lives and liberty has become routine. Disturbed by the depressing news and the total failure of the  Government of Ethiopia (GOE), the Ethiopian diaspora held noisy protest demonstrations in front of the Saudi Arabian and Ethiopian embassies, collected petitions, contributed and donated some funds to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to aid returnees and painfully listened to the information provided by foreign based radios and websites. While these are normal reactions and laudable works, they are nonetheless temporary measures and will not serve as mitigation strategies unless one understands the causes, scale and depth of the problem, and consider a range of possible policy options.

The Horn of Africa has been and continues to be one of the hot spots of major human movements in the world.  Civil wars, secessionist conflicts, tribal-clan warfare, famine, land scarcity and evictions, and poverty have been the causes of both internal displacements and cross border migration. At the time of writing this article, tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees are reportedly crossing the border and entering the Ethiopian territory in search of security. The civil wars in North and South Sudan, tensions and skirmishes in the Eritrean-Ethiopian borders, sectarian and secessionist movements in Somalia and the Ogaden, ethnic, religious and clan tensions, land grabs and repression have been some of the culprits of the migration.

In addition to the instability and government failures in the region, it is important to note that globalization often manifests itself in the form of increased movement of capital, freer movement of goods and services, internationalization of production and investments, and information about labor demand. Hence, outmigration must also be examined in the context of the global trends in the import and export of labor. Immigration magnet countries generally have labor shortages as in the Middle Eastern countries while exporting countries benefit from remittances. In other words, one might be tempted to ask whether the remittance that a country receives from the export of both skilled and unskilled labor drives a government’s policy towards emigration. This question is pertinent to Ethiopia as the country exports both skilled and unskilled labor and its annual earnings from remittances is estimated at about 3 billion dollars, a figure that is more than the revenue it obtains from exporting products. In addition, the government has been trying to finance mega projects through the issuance of low interest and high risk diaspora bonds.

However, consistent with theory, Ethiopians spend their remittance earnings on consumer goods and alleviating family hardships. Remittance expenditures on consumption goods, particularly imports, therefore, is believed to have played their own roles in exacerbating the high cost of living in the country and widening its trade deficit, in addition to raising the birr’s real exchange rate and escalating real estate prices. Anecdotal evidence also shows that a good number of Ethiopian diaspora members are deeply involved in the real estate sector, particularly housing. Using its monopoly power on land, the government has been engaged in evicting entire neighborhoods, including the forced removal of the remains of the dead from grounds that traditionally belonged to the churches, and building roads and auctioning the confiscated lands at artificially inflated prices that are often set through insider trading of information. This is in addition to continuously raising rental prices. The use of remittances in real estate thus could only add fuel to the fire, thereby making housing unaffordable to residents. Anecdotal evidence also shows that remittances have played their own roles in fueling corruption and heightening rural and urban land speculation.

Notwithstanding the above, the GoE has been claiming that the country has been enjoying double-digit real economic growth for about one decade. The growth statistics however has been questioned by several economists and as of late even magazines that used to be known for echoing the government’s line of story have started to question the validity of the government provided statistic.  Secondly, the country is known to have achieved “stability” since 2000, while at the same time neighboring countries such as Sudan and Somalia found themselves embroiled in escalated internal conflicts and with their neighbors. These stories spark a number of important questions. First, given that the country is claimed to be at “peace” with itself and is also a peace-maker in the Horn of Africa (such as contributing troops in Somalia, Sudan and beyond), and with a “federal multi-party system” in place, why would one observe documents and criticisms against the government? Why should the residents of a land with a growing economy and “federal democracy” choose to emigrate en mass In other words, could outmigration and economic growth move in the same direction or move in different directions or have no association between themselves at all? To answer these questions in the context of Ethiopia, one needs to review the relevant literature.

*Source: de Haas (2010) Migration transitions: a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the developmental drivers of international migration’. IMI Working Papers. Oxford, University of Oxford
A quick review of the relevant literature suggests that as development level increases immigration increases as the country becomes a magnet for foreigners and its own diaspora population. However the association between emigration and economic development is negative. Figure 1 shows the migration transition theory of de Haas (2010), which is now popular among researchers on migration. Validating the migration transition theory in the context of Ethiopia requires an empirical research. Unfortunately, empirical research on economic, social and demographic data is generally hard in developing countries because of data reliability and more importantly the politicization of such information. To test the validity of de Haas’s (2010) model, we reviewed the academic and policy literature, applied qualitative-phenomenological methods of research and outlined policy options.

In its November 2012 report, the International Migration Institute at Oxford University confirmed the common knowledge of Ethiopians, and documented that between 1960 and 2000 Ethiopia’s outmigration was one of the lowest in the Horn of Africa. Authorized emigrant population (including asylum seekers) in 2000 was less than 300,000 – lower than Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Yemen. As a percentage of the size of the population, Ethiopia’s outmigration was also the lowest. However, this statistics requires further analysis as the impacts of conflicts in Eritrea, Tigrai, Ogaden and Somalia, famine, conscriptions for the various wars and the red terror were responsible for driving thousands of refugees to the Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti and Kenya.

Fransen and Kuschminder (2009:17) of Maastricht University , citing the World Bank, confirmed the findings of the International Migration Institute and stated that “migration flows out of Ethiopia are relatively small”. The World Bank estimated an emigration rate of 0.6 percent of the population in 2005, which amounts to a stock of 445,926 persons”. And in-migration (refugees from neighboring countries) and outmigration of Ethiopians to neighboring countries as refugees, according to the UNHCR, balanced one another, suggesting that the net migration during the period was close to zero. However, like the Institute of Migration’s data, Fransen and Kuschmider’s work heavily relied on limited literature review and extrapolated statistics using data from IOM, UNHCR, OECD and the World Bank. Their results therefore, may not be useful to predict or understand the scale and form of the migration current crisis. Furthermore, an important factor in analyzing international data is that most of the reports contain only the number of refugees that have been recognized. For instance the World Bank’s recent report does not include registered asylum seekers or the number undocumented Ethiopians living out of their country. The bank reported that between 2009 and 2011 the number of Ethiopian refugees who have been granted refugee status were respectively 121,886; 154,295 and 288,844, showing an annual growth rate of 26.59% and 87.2%. In sum, obtaining reliable data and information about the Ethiopian outmigration is a major issue. Unfortunately, the unreliability of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diaspora Department figures compound the problem.

Notwithstanding the above difficulties, in our December 19, 2013 article, we attributed the Ethiopian outmigration mainly to push factors and following the norm in the migration literature, we outlined the factors under four major categories. We have reproduced them here for the benefits of our readers. The four categories are (1) Supply-Push (Predisposing or Repulsive) Factors- which drive/force migrants out of their country of origin. Examples include poverty, the lack of economic opportunities and jobs, economic downturns, political oppressions, abuses of human rights, religious intolerance (constraints), wars, conflicts and insecurities in the home country; (2) Demand-Pull-factors- which in general are positive and are responsible in attracting migrants. Examples include: higher wage rates and better standard of living in destination countries; higher and steady demand for cheap and unskilled labor in destination countries’ informal economies (domestic work, construction, services such as cleaning, restaurant and fast food services), political and religious freedom in destination countries; (3) Mediating Factors, which are divided into two conflicting factors: (a) Facilitating/encouraging factors- which are the ones that trigger, enable and accelerate departure. Examples include the availability of visas, passports, transport, communications, information, recruiters, brokers, traffickers and smugglers, porous borders, and the resources needed for the journey, distance to and between sending and destination countries and length of transit periods. (b) Restraining/constraining factors or intervening obstacles- are the ones which work against making the journey – such as the lack of the ones described in (a) above, high migration costs, perceived risks, stricter controls of recruitments, stiff punishments and penalties against smugglers and traffickers, rogue employment practices in destination countries; and (4) Social network (pull) factors – such as the existence of relatives, friends and acquaintances in host/destination countries, available opportunities for family unifications in host countries, or when individuals send money to bring other family members to join them into the new (host) country- a chain migration which results in migration fields or clustering of people from specific countries into certain neighborhoods or small towns in the new (host) countries (e.g. China Town, Vietnamese Town, Little Ethiopia, etc. in North America). Mediating factors also include success stories of the diaspora.

Returning to the issue about the link between economic growth and migration, in the case of Ethiopia, unlike the growing domestic product data reported by the government and the high rise buildings and construction projects that are undergoing in recent years, the human development indicators generally show that there has been little progress in alleviating poverty in the country (According to UNDP’s 2011 survey, Ethiopia is in the low human development category—positioning the country at 173 out of 187 with 87.3 percent of the country’s population lived in multidimensional poverty (MPI)). Despite the big push and donor support, early human development indicators reveal that Ethiopia, unfortunately, will not be able to meet many of the MDG goals by 2015. Thus, the GoE must blame itself for washing away the donor propelled gain in the economy by inflation. Perhaps, a better indicator could be creating a misery level tracking index, which can be computed by the sum of the country’s inflation rate, unemployment rate, augmented by annual changes in outmigration and subtracting the country’s economic growth rate. In this respect, in a recent paper, Abebe Shimeles and Andenet Delelegn (see African Development Bank Group Working paper No 182 September 2013), using household data that was collected by Addis Ababa University in collaboration with Oxford University and the University of Gothenburg attempted to empirically examine the welfare effects of rising food prices (inflation). They show that between 2000 and 2006, the Ethiopian economy has had a cumulative welfare loss of 53%. The “true” level of welfare loss was 12% worse than what was estimated by the GoE’s statisticians. Between 2007 and 2013 Ethiopia has seen a series of sharp increases in the cost of living, reaching as high as 64% in 2008. The country also “officially devalued the Birr by over 102% against the U.S. Dollar between November 2007 and February 2013 despite being warned that devaluation would not have its intended effects without addressing the country’s economic fundamentals.

While the increases are not unparalleled by the history of hyperinflation, the growth claim made by the GoE appears unparalleled indeed. The ramifications of these inaccuracies for economic planning and hardship (misery index) and outmigration, in an environment of the feminization of poverty are serious. Inflation also has wealth transfer effects and widening inequality especially when it occurs under an environment of full control of land by the government, credit channeling, excessive money supply and monetization of government borrowing, and political-party owned and state owned enterprises. Indeed, there are numerous signs indicating that the government’s Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) “belies the reality on the ground”, is a “misguided economic policy”, and too “fanciful” to trust. As one of the pro-government local papers noted, the GTP was just one of a “number of fashionable ideas and initiatives” … concocted by the late Prime Minister Zenawi and his party elites…” – the concocted ideas being just a “theoretical synthesis” rather than being practically applicable to the Ethiopian context. As predicted by Ken Ohashi, the then World Bank Country Director for Ethiopia, the GTP has become unsustainable, all signs indicating its failure. The tell-tale signs are indicated by: the government’s neglect of the manufacturing sector of the economy (Economist, March 02, 2013, Enku Magazine’s interview of Mr. Mushe Semu, May, 2013 edition, Reporter, October 5, 2013, Addis Fortune, March 9, 2014); the gloomier picture of the flower industry (Reporter, February 8, 2014); the sharp declines in the country’s exports (Reporter: October 5, 2013, January 11, 2014, Addis Fortune), the deterioration of the country’s indebtedness (Ezana Kebede, 2014); the credit crunch facing the private sector (Reporter, February 8, 2014); the negative ramifications in foreign exchange shortages (Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2014); the deprived private sector: (IMF); the rising tide of corruption (World Bank, Global Financial Integrity, Hassan) and disturbingly, the falsely trumpeted “gains” in the agricultural sector, where most of the out-migrants originate (AllAfrica.com, January 19, 2014).

Now that we have shown outmigration is incompatible with a growing economy, the GoE and the donor community need to take the bull by the horn and address key issues that hold the economy from growing and also the drivers of emigration. The ruling party cannot escape re-examining its land policy and restructure the ownership structure in the economy, liberate the markets so that private enterprise would flourish; it should allow the archaic finance industry to respond to the realities of the economy; seriously fight inflation and corruption, grant the poor the freedom to vote on policy, and put in place sound controls against illicit financial flows and human smuggling; design and implement sound population development and family planning policy; restructure public and private information dissemination institutions to allow robust debate on national policy. The government needs to guarantee and respect private property and put in place reliable investor protection mechanisms. More importantly, it needs to take concrete conflict prevention strategies and open the political space at home in order to reduce political instability and minimize the probability of yet another round of large scale outmigration. The available data and the realities on the ground strongly show that both inter-migration and intra-migration have become serious issues for the country. The GoE therefore needs to consider establishing a research center for migration studies in one of the universities.

Outmigration also requires reforming the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Labor. Like other nations, Ethiopia, on behalf of its citizens, needs to promote cooperation and negotiate minimum labor standards in host countries. It must push migrant recipient countries the International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families (ICRMW), one of the core international human rights treaties. For emigrants who go to specific destinations, the government can create incentives for minimum level of skills certifications. It needs to provide coping mechanisms and establish a desk in the embassies for handling physical, emotional and sexual abuses and cultural prejudices faced by immigrants, in general, and women in particular. The remittance obtained from destination countries could justify the additional costs of providing the above services. The country must be able to pass and implement effective regulation against “agents” and human smugglers. The government also needs to re-examine the de facto policy of using remittances (i.e. exporting people) as developmental instrument, for the macroeconomic effects are ambiguous at best.

The Ethiopian diaspora community must also do its part. Most of the diaspora institutions are divided, weak and poorly managed. Similar to the politics inside the country, the diaspora is divided along political, ethnic and regional lines. Hence, there is no “national consensus” and the government’s diaspora policy has become part of the problem. The GoE leaders often face booing and protest demonstrations when they travel abroad. They in turn label their critics as “extremists”, “chauvinists” and even “terrorists”. The diaspora is predominantly unengaged and a small proportion appears to be opportunistic. The majority fears reprisal from the government for showing dissent or for not cooperating with the embassies. With regard to the economic impact, other than the remittance, the magnitude of diaspora’s “contribution” to development appears to be a moot point. Furthermore, unlike out-migrants of other countries, Ethiopian out-migrants seem to have failed to pay attention to the ongoing politics of their respective destination countries. The use of immigrants as political punch bags by the Saudi authorities could have been minimized if Ethiopian migrants were paying attention to the upcoming of large scale and politically-motivated deportations. Finally, Ethiopian immigrants must take lessons from the recent deportations and establish strong centers in their respective destination countries and create a global network that supports the community in times of crisis.

Renaissance Dam trouble: Ethiopia lashes out at Eritrea, Egypt.

The Renaissance dam will flood 1,680 square kilometers of forest in northwest Ethiopia (an area about four times the size of Cairo), displace approximately 20,000 people in Ethiopia, and create a reservoir that will hold around 70 billion cubic meters of water – equivalent to the entire annual flow of the Blue Nile at the Sudan border.

March 27, 2014, ADDIS ABABA (Turkish Press) – An Ethiopian foreign ministry spokesman has lashed out at longstanding rival Eritrea, accusing the latter of destabilizing the East Africa region, while also blasting Egypt for the latter’s “malicious” media campaign against Ethiopia’s multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam project.

“Eritrea’s involvement in regional conflicts has been the case for long now,” Ambassador Dina Mufti told foreign journalists at a weekly press briefing on Thursday.

According to Mufti, Eritrea has played a role in the ongoing conflict in South Sudan.

“We have circumstantial evidence of Eritrea’s involvement [in the South Sudan crisis],” the spokesman said.

Tensions between Addis Ababa and Asmara have persisted since a bloody two-year border war – in which tens of thousands were killed – ended in 2000.

As for the row with Egypt over the Nile dam, Mufti said Cairo had launched a media campaign aimed at turning international opinion against the dam project.

“The project is a regional project,” he said. “The project will not hurt the interest of Egypt. Rather, it benefits Egypt and other countries of the region.”

Egypt’s alleged media campaign, according to Mufti, “won’t be in the interest of Egypt and [in the interest of] the people of Egypt.”

Egypt, he added, had walked out of a tripartite committee with Ethiopia and Sudan that had been formed to assess the dam’s potential impact.

Subsequent efforts to bring Egypt back to the tripartite negotiations, said Mufti, had failed to bear fruit.

The mega-dam project has caused tensions with Egypt, which fears a possible reduction of its traditional share of Nile water.

Addis Ababa, however, insists the project will benefit downstream states Sudan and Egypt, both of which will be invited to purchase electricity generated by the dam.

Source: Turkish Press

April 15: Oromo National Memorial Day..

March 27, 2014 (Advocacy for Oromia) - April 15th is the Oromo Martyrs’ Day, also known as Guyyaa Gootota Oromoo. This commemorative day was first started by the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) after the executions of its prominent leaders on a diplomatic mission en routed to Somalia on April 15, 1980. Since then, this day has been observed as the Oromo Martyrs’ Day by Oromo nationals around the world to honor those who have sacrificed their lives to free Oromia, and to renew a commitment to the cause for which they had died.

Why April 15th?

Mid 1978-1979 is remembered as the period when the survival of the Oromo national liberation struggle, led by the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), was under a severe threat of extinction. It was feared that OLA units in Arsi, Bale and Hararghe would disintegrate, and their channel of connection and supplies would be cut off by the Dergue army that just recuperated from the Ethio-Somali war. Upon defeating the Siad Barre army, the Dergue turned its face on OLA. The OLA, in the fronts of Arsi, Bale and Hararghe, fought steadfastly and scored victory over the Dergue army and regrouped once again on January 1st 1980. In the wake of their military victory, OLF intensified its political struggle inside the country and abroad. The initial political victory included the persuasion of the Siad Barre government to allow the opening of OLF office in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1980, to serve as a center of consultation and deliberation between OLF political and military leaders.

In the same year, a ten-member high-ranking military and political delegates (see list below) were on their way to Somalia to meet with political leaders there when they were captured by Somali bandits in Shinniga desert (in Ogaden). These bandits were members of a splinter group from the Siad Barre army that harbored bitter hatred towards Oromo and the OLF. These bandits abused and severely tortured their Oromo captives. The bandits finally ordered the Muslims and Christians to segregate before their executions. The Oromo comrades chose to stay together and face any eventualities than identifying themselves as nothing else, but Oromo. On the day of April 15, 1980, all the ten were executed and their bodies thrown into a single grave.

Reasons for Celebrating the Oromo Martyrs’ Day
There are four major reasons why we commemorate this day.

First, this day allows us to remember those Oromo heroines and heroes who sacrificed their lives to restore Oromo culture, identity, and human dignity that were wounded by Ethiopian colonialism. In other words, this commemoration assists us to recognize the dialectical connection between martyrdom, bravery, patriotism and Oromummaa.

Until Oromo heroes and heroines created the OLF and maintained its survival by paying ultimate sacrifices, Oromo peoplehood, culture, language, and history were dumped into the trashcan of Ethiopian history. These heroes and heroines had clearly understood the significance of Oromo culture, history, language, and identity in building Oromummaa, and victorious consciousness to consolidate the Oromo national struggle for achieving Oromian statehood, sovereignty, and democracy.

Second, this commemoration day reminds us that Oromo liberation requires heavy sacrifices, and those who have given their lives for our freedom, are our revolutionary models. Such patriots created dignified history for our nation.

Third, this day reminds us that we have historical obligations to continue the struggle that Oromo martyrs started until victory.

Fourth, this celebration helps us recognize that Oromo heroes and heroines are still fighting in Oromia today. Overall, those Oromo patriots, who by luck have survived and continued the difficult and complex struggle, deserve recognition and respect for what they have done for their people. We must protect them from lies and propaganda of the internal and external enemies. Without the persistent efforts of our patriots, the multiple enemies of the Oromo nation would have destroyed the OLF a long time ago. This does not mean that we do not criticize them when they make mistakes. It is the responsibility of Oromo nationalists to develop constructive criticisms to strengthen our national movement.

The Oromo leaders and members of the OLF, who ignited the fire of Oromummaa or Oromo nationalism, whether dead or alive, have been the foundation and pillar of the Oromo national movement. They left their families, wives, husbands, houses, professions, and children by choosing Oromo human dignity and freedom. By making these kinds of difficult choices, they confronted suffering and death. Consequently, they opened a new historical chapter in our history, and showed to us new possibilities by taking risky and courageous actions. Today, Oromo heroes and heroines are engaged in the Oromo struggle; members of the OLA, Oromo activist students and other activists are our contemporary heroes and heroines, who are intensifying the struggle. All Oromos all over the world who demonstrate their support and sympathy for the Oromo national struggle by contributing whatever they can for these brave men and women are also engaged in patriotic and brave activities.

We, Oromos in exile/Diaspora, should follow the footsteps of the fallen and surviving Oromo heroes and heroes by contributing anything we can to support the Oromo national struggle. If the fallen Oromos had paid with their lives to liberate us, how can we fail to contribute our time, money and expertise to liberate our beloved country, Oromia? How can we sleep when our mothers, daughters and sisters are raped in Oromia? How can we be at peace when genocide is committed on our people? Since our people live under Ethiopian political slavery, and since no country supports the Oromo struggle, we must fulfill our historical obligations by supporting the Oromo national struggle.

April 15th is then chosen to be a day of remembrance for these and all other martyrs, who died in any month and season of the past 120 years of the Oromo anti-colonial struggle.

The following Oromo leaders were martyred on April 15, 1980
1. Bariso Waabii (Magarsaa Barii)
2. Gadaa Gammadaa (Demise Tacaane)
3. Abbaa Xiq (Abboma Mitikku)
4. Doori Barii (Yiggazu Banti)
5. Falmataa (Umar, Caccabsaa)
6. Fafamaa Doyyoo
7. Irrinaa Qacale (Dhibaa)
8. Dhadhachaa Mul’ataa
9. Dhadhachaa Boruu
10. Marii Galaan

Conclusion
Our martyrs lost their lives while dreaming and fighting for freedom, justice, democracy, and development of their people and their country. They recognized that agitating, educating, organizing, and mobilizing a colonized and dehumanized nation for liberation requires courage, determination, bravery and self-sacrifice without fear of suffering and death in the hands of the enemy and their collaborators. We have moral and national responsibilities to achieve the objectives for which our heroines and heroes sacrificed their lives.

The Oromo national movement is a very dangerous project. Tens of thousands of our people have been imprisoned, tortured, raped, and received all forms of abuse from successive Ethiopian governments in general, and that of the Meles Zenawi in particular. The Tigrayan-led government has been systematically targeting and killing all Oromo leaders and those who have potentials of leadership while promoting the most despicable elements of Oromo society and the children of colonial settlers as leaders of the Oromo nation.

While commemorating our fallen heroes and heroines, we must also remember our current ones who are engaging in the bitter struggle and those who are suffering in Ethiopian prisons. We must double our support for the OLA that is engaging in implementing the missions of the fallen Oromo heroines and heroes in Oromian forests, valleys, mountains, and Ethiopian garrison cities. We should sustain the spirits of our fallen heroes and heroines by taking concrete actions every day. It is our national responsibility to educate, mobilize and recruit passive or unconscious Oromo individuals to join the Oromo national movement. Such actions must start in families by educating and training children; husbands and wives must teach one another and their children the essence of Oromoummaa. The spirits of our heroes and heroines require that all of us must be grass-root leaders who engage in a systematic struggle to fight those agents of the enemy or those misled individuals who undermine the Oromo national struggle intentionally or unintentionally.

All Oromo nationalists must be cadres, teachers, students, leaders, followers, fighters, financiers, ideologues, organizers, defenders and promoters of the Oromo cause. We should not keep quiet when certain individuals attack our organizations, leaders, communities and Oromo peoplehood to satisfy their troubled egos or their masters. If we do some of these activities in our daily lives, the spirits of our fallen heroes and heroines will survive through our actions.

Ethiopia: Arrests and Detentions of Oromo Students in Southern Oromia.

HRLHA Urgent Action

March 26, 2014

Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to express its deep concern over the safety and fates of Shakiso High School Oromo Students who became victims of discriminate mass arrest and detention in Shakiso Town of Guji Zone in southern Oromia. Around two hundred ethnic Oromo Students have been sent to a jail in the nearby Adola Town, and some have received varying degrees of injuries both from bullets that were shot by the security forces during the interference and by beatings.

Shakiso High School

Those high school Oromo Students, almost all of whom are juvenile, were arrested and/or picked up at different times from different places including the school compound following a minor clash between them and ethnic Amhara Students of the same high school. According to information obtained by HRLHA through its correspondents, the clash between the two groups occurred following a provocation by the ethnic Amhara Students in opposition to the singing of the regional anthem in the regional Oromo Language by ethnic Oromo Students during flag raising ceremony at the school based on the rules and regulations provided for by the constitution of the regional state. The ethnic Oromo Students were reporting the incident and filing their complaints with the school administration when the school compound was raided by the federal security forces. Among the ironies surrounding this incident were that:

1. The Federal Security Forces were deployed to interfere in such very minor and localized issues that could easily be dealt with by local administrative bodies and communities including that of the school itself,
2. The ethnic Oromo Students, who were the victims of the clash, were discriminately double-victimized while those who triggered the violence were left unquestioned,
3. Not only that such constitutional provisions as a regional anthem that have been in place for close to two decades becomes a subject of dispute, but also those who attempted to exercise such legal provisions were deemed criminals that belong to detention instead of those who contradicted the constitution head on.

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) has been able to obtain the names of the
following Oromo students among those who have been detained:

1. Bezabish Gurmeessaa (MEMBER OF OPPOSITION OFC)- wounded by bullet,
2. Desta Waaree – beaten up and injured,
3. Bali Chachu (MEMBER OF OPPOSITION OFC)
4. Buno Shaggola (MEMBER OF OPPOSITION OFC)
5. Bakalcha Oddo (MEMBER OF OPPOSITION OFC)
6. Bezabish Gurmeessaa
7. Chaltu Birbissa
8. Hotessa Soree
9. Yohanes Jisso
10. Kifle Areri
11. Badhadha (father name not identified)
12. Beyena Jarso
13. Shambel Galchu
14. Jemal Aga
15. Wendimu Areri
16. Nagessa Gedo
17. Getachew Demise
18. Boru Dube
19. Gemechis Bilu
20. Chari Chana
21. Ware Kottola ,

Although the interference of the government security forces was not far from expectations, the very harsh and violent actions that have resulted in life-threatening injuries are not acceptable by any standard. Given the violent way the students were dealt with, it is also very likely that they could be subjected to tortures.

Therefore, HRLHA calls up on the Ethiopian government to unconditionally release the detained
students; and allow necessary treatments for those who have been injured and/or wounded. It also calls upon the Ethiopian government to investigate the clash and bring the culprits to justice so that they refrain from continued racist provocations that will create conflicts between the two nations.

“TOKKUMMAAN” DHAADANNOO FI HAWWIIN HIN DHUGOOMU !!!!

SEENAA  Y.G(2005) | Bitootessa 24, 2014

Tokkummaa Ilmaan Oromoo bakkayyutti hawwanii fi Tokkummaan addunyaan itti jirtu, hiikkaansaa tokko moo, garaagarummaa qaba laata ? Adeemsa Qabsoo Biyyootaa fi saboota addunyaa keenya irra jiranii, Tokkummaan Qabsoo isaaniif hawwaa turan/jiranii fi nuuti amma bakka marattu akka dhaadannotti itti dhimma ba’aa jirru , tokko moo walii faallaadha ? gaaffii kana kaasuuf kan dirqisiise,Qabsoo Oromoo hudhee kan takaalee jiru, tokkummaa dhabuu keenyadha !! namoonni jedhan heddummaachuu fi hawwii tokkummaaf qaban, bakka hundatti akka dhaadannotti, akka yaadaatti ,akka hawwiitti, wal ga’ii irratti, hiriira irratti, Intarneeta irratti aarii fi  gaddaan guutamanii yennaa dubbatanii fi kataban arguu fi dhaga’uu  koo irraati. Akka kiyyatti Tokkummaan yaada walii galaa of keessaa qabu Ummata tokkof barbaachisaa ta’us, Qabsoo keenyaaf dhibeen tokkummaa nuuti hawwinu odoo hin taanee, yk Tokkummaa yaada Ilmaan Oromoo keessa jiru odoo hin taane, Tokkummaa yeroo qabsoo nu barbaachisu wallaaluu keenyadhaan jedha. Tokkummaan amma hawwaa jirru, Tokkummaa Bilisummaan booda ittiin jiraannu malee, kan yeroo Qabsoo keenya kanaatti nu barbaachisu miti. Miti kanan jedheef dhugeessuun hedduu ulfaataa ta’uu isaa irraati. Qalbiin haa wal hubannu. Gadi fageessinee haa yaannu. Miira ho’aan odoo hin taanee, miira tasgabbaa’een itti haa yaannu. Kun waan salphaa miti. Waan Ummati tokko irratti wal hubachuu qabudha. Bakka dhibee yk dhibee jiru adda yoo hin baasiin dawaan hin argamu waan ta’eef.

Tokkummaan nu barbaachisu maal irratti ? Tokkummaa nuuti barbaannu isa kam?  Tokkummaa Bara Abbaa Biyyaa turreeti ? Tokkummaa Bara Gadaan tureetii ? Tokkummaa Dhiigaatii ? Tokkummaa Siyaasaatii ? Tokkummaa Ummataati ? Tokkummaa Dhaabbilee Siyaasaatii ? Tokkummaa Sabummaatii ? Tokkummaa yaadaatii ? Tokkummaa ejjannoo Siyaasaatii ? Tokkummaa Qabsootii ? Tokkummaa Ilaalchaatii? ? Tokkummaa jireenya hawaasummaatii ? Tokkummaa Amantii fi Gandummaa dhiifnee waliin jiraannudhaa ? Tokkummaa maalii barbaanna ? Tokkummaa Bilisummaa dura Qabsoo keenyaaf barbaachisu moo, kan Bilisummaan boodaati ? Tokkummaa hawaasa alaati moo Biyya keessaati. Isa kamtu tokkummaa dhabe ? maaliif dhabe ? Biyya keessatti diinni waan itti jabaateefi ? Biyya alaa dhaqee , jireenyaaf fiigu irraati ?Tokkummaa kana eenyutu dhugoomsa ? eenyu irraa eegala ? yoom eegalama ? maaf hanga har’atti furmaata dhabe ? Tokkummaa nuuti hawwiinuu fi addunyaan itti jirtu maaliin adda ta’anii, isaan itti milkaa’anii nuuti hankaaknee hafne ? gaaffii hedduu tarrisuutu danda’ama. Tokkumuu keenya irraa maal arganna ? tokkummaadhaan maal raawwanna ?? qabsootti galagallaa ? ……Tokkummaan garaagarummaa maalii qabaa ? jechuun keessan hin hafu.ykn kan jedhee gaaffii kaasu hin dhibu. Ani garuu gadi jabeessee kan dubbachuu barbaadu  garaagarummaa guddaa qabaachuu isaati. Kana ragaa fi muuxannoo Addunyaa keenya irraa fi kanneen biroon wal bira qabnee ilaalla.

Akka kiyyatti , yeroo Gabrummaa jala jirru ykn Qabsoo keessa jirru kanatti, tokkummaan nu barbaachisu isa kam akka ta’ee yoo hin hubatiin, tarii tokkummaa dhabuu keenya itti fufsiifna malee , furmaata hin argamsiifnun jedha. Waan Tokkummaa keenya  diigu akka gaaraatti mana nu keessatti ijaarratee odoo jiru, waan amma gaaraa ga’u kun ammo , hawwii fi dhaadannoon gonkumaa baduu akka hin dandeenye argaa jirra. Dhalooti tokko yk lama waan itti gaddaa jiraatee fi inni har’aas keessa gangalataa jiruudha. Kanaafii, Tokkummaa nu barbaachisu adda baafannee irratti yoo hin hojjatiin, waan dura hojjatamuu qabuu fi duuba hojjatamu adda odoo hin baafannee sochiin taasifnu, dadhabbii bara gabrummaa keessa dabarree dabaluu qofaa ta’a kanan jedheef. Akkaataa Tokkummaa itti deeffachuuf tattaaffachaa jirru, Tokkummaa Uruursaa jirra malee, dhibee keessaa baasaa hin jirru. Tokkummaa dhibeen hin qabamne, garuu dhibee qabsiifnee Uruursaa jirra. Kan dhibee qabu, warra tokkummaa hawwuu fi dhaadannoon yaadatu malee, Tokkummaan hawwinu dhibee qabaatee miti. Hiikkaan tokkummaa bara gadaa ture, har’as hin jallanne. Tokkummaan nuuti feenu kan addunyaa irraa adda isa taasisu tokko isa kana. Waan namoonni keenya irra jireessi hin hubatiin, bakka Tokkummaa nu hin barbaachifnetti Tokkummaaf iyyinee yoo waamne, bu’aa isaa irra balaan isaa hammaataa ta’uu fi injifannoo booda deeffachuu waan dandeenyutti yeroo gabuu keenya hubachuu dhabuu isaaniiti. Siyaasa keessatti tokkummaa dhabuun bakka itti nama gargaaru jira. Yoo xiqqaate miidhaa tokkummaa dhabuu ittiin wal barsiisuuf nama gargaara. Ummati tokkummaa dhabuu irraa maal akka miidhaman hubachiisuuf yeroo laachuun dansaadha. Kana jechuun beekaa kana hojjatu jechuu miti. Haalumatuu kana uuma. Yaada kana irratti yeroo biraa itti deebina.

TOKKUMMAA NUUTI BARBAANNU ISA KAM ??

Akka Ummataatti yoo ilaallee , Ummata miliyoona 45 waa hundaan tokko haa ta’u jadhanii yaaduun mataa isaa madda rakkooti. Tokkummaa bara Abbaa Biyyaa turre ykn Bara Gadaan jiraatamaa ture hawwiina yoo ta’ee, kun yeroo isaa miti. Kana deeffachuuf dhaloota akka Bara Gadaa sanaatti guddisan malee, waan ta’u hin fakaatu. Waan qabatamaa irratti haasofnaa hubadhaa . waan hawwiinu miti. Kun tarii Bilisummaa booda waan feene akka feenetti wayita gaggeessinu ta’a. warruma har’a Hafteen gadaa keessatti mul’ataa jiran, Booranni, Warri Maccaa , Tuulamaa fi kkf. Gadaan bulaa jiranillee, walitti deemaa hin jiran. Dhalootaaf akka dabru garuu tattaaffii mataa isaanii gochaa jiru. beektoonni keenya garuu Gadaa kana dubbachuu malee , Gadaan kun sirna/bara  hammayyaa kana keessa akkamiin akka ol guddatee Muuxannoo addunyaa horatee, Ummata isaa akka jiraachiisuu fi ummatis itti jiraatu danda’u irratti hojjachaa kan jiran natti hin fakkaatu. Har’allee Gadaan Ameerikaa addunyaa irraa Hangafa ishee taasise, Hayyoota keenyaa fi Abbootii gadaa keenya, Uffata aadaa Uffatanii bakkayyuutti Afeeramuun alatti, akka yaadaa fi sirnaatti akka socha’an gargaaramaa hin jiran. Tokkummaan bara Sanaa har’a irra dhaabbannee hawwuun bu’aa hin qabu. Deeffachuufis waan humnaa oliti. gabaabaatti, lafa qotanii odoo hin meesiin, midhaan hin facaasan. Mana utubaa fi dagalee malee hin ijaaran waan ta’eef.

kana booda kan jiru yoo ilaallee, Bara Gabrummaatii . Bara Gabrummaa kana keessa, utubaa Tokkummaa keenyaa kannen ta’an dhabneerra. Aadaa, safuu , hooda , jiruu fi jireenya kkf hundee Tokkummaa Ummata keenyaa kanneen ta’an akka malee dhabneerra. Har’a kan keessa jirruu fi nu keessa jiru, keenyaa miti. Jiruu fi jireenyi keenya hundumtuu waan halgaan nu diiguuf nu keessa kaa’eedha. Tokkummaa keenyaaf summii inni guddaa isa kana. Summii guddaa kana odoo of keessaa hin baasiin Tokkummaa hawwiinu, dhaadannoon irra deddeebinu, gonkumaa dhugoomsuu hin dandeenyu. Hawaasi keenya har’a waan inni keessa jiru, waan xaxamaadha. Waan wal keessa laaqamee miillaa fi mataa isaa illee adda baasuuf nama rakkisuudha. Sababaa kanaan Oromoon har’a bakka meeqa dhaabbatee jira ? Oromoo yaadaa fi ilaalchaan bakka dhibba dhaabbatee jiru kanaaf, Tokkummaan amma waaqaa irraa fagaata. Aadaan jiruu fi jireenyaa, keessa jirru walii keenya giddutti summii kan facaasu malee, kan waliin nu jiraachisuu miti. Jiruu fi jireenyi addunyaa keenyaa fi warri addunyaa kana tu’achuuf tattaafatan Ummata addunyaa kana raatessanii akka waa tokkoo hin yaanneef ofittummaan cuubanii itti taphachaa bakka jiranitti, Tokkummaa habjuu keessaa waliif hawwuun wal gawwamsuu natti fakkaata. Hawaasa yk nama maraammartoo kana keessa jiru akkamiin Tokkummaa labsaniif ? waan wal xaxaa kana keessa isaaf labsuumoo, isa hubate qabatanii diina dhaanuutu yeroo nu gabaabsa ? Tokkummaa dhalli Oromoo keessa isaatti hawwu yeroon isaa fagoodha.

Sirnoonni gabrummaa keessa nu jiraachisan, Tokkummaa nu keessa jiru nu keessaa duguuganii baasutti milkaa’aniiru. Tokkummaa wareegama ykn of kennuu barbaachisu nu keessaa fuudhanii , kan dantaan gegeddaramu nu keessa kaa’aniin sochaa’a jirra. Kanaaf ragaan, hanga har’atti tokkummaatti mikaa’uu dhabuu keenyadha. kanaafan, Tokkummaan keessa keenya jiru dhibee qabsoo kanaa ykn qabsoo takaalee kan qabe mitii kanan jedheef. Tokkummaa bara qabsoo keessa nu barbaachisu wallaaluun keenya nu miidhaa jira.  Keessi keenya Tokkummaa dhugeessuuf, Ulaagaa Tokkummaan barbaaduuf qophiidhaa ? Tokkummaan ofittummaaf diina. Ofittummaanis Tokkummaaf diina. Of-tuulummaan Tokkummaaf diina . Tokkummaanis of- tuulummaaf diinadha. Waan waliif faallaa ta’e kanaan bulaa tokkummaa isa durii miti , isa yaadaan wal ta’uu illee dhugeessuu hin dandeenyu. Kana irratti gadi jabeessinee hojjachuu qabna. Kanaaf akka hiriyyaa wal hin amannee malkaa buunetti wal kaksiifna . kun jiraannaan Tokkummaan abadanii !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mee fakkeenyaan haa ilaallu . mee, Nama Sirna Gadaa  akka gaaritti beeku, Nama Aadaa Oromoo akka dansaatti beeku, Nama Seenaa Oromoo beeku malee ittin hin jiraanne tokko, beektoota waan Oromoon qabuun Faranjiin isa eebbisee tokko, Nama jireenya isaaf akka malee fiigu tokko, Qabsaa’aa Qabsootti jiru tokko, Namoota Amantii leellisan keessaa tokko, Nama Amantii isaa jaallatuu fi dhimma Oromoof dursa kennu tokko, Nama waan Amantiin addunyaa isa barsiiftu itti amanee dhufaatii saba isaayyuu galaana ceesisu tokko, dhaloota qubee tokko, Daldalaa tokko , Sooressa tokko, Abbaa Qabeenyaa bara kana keessa tujaare tokko , Oromoo Angoon isa moote wayyaanee waliin jiru tokko , Nama waa’een siyaasaa hin galleef tokko, nama waan addunyaa kanaaf dhimma hin qabaanne tokko, har’a jiraachuun isaa fi guyyaa har’aa buluun isaaf Bilisummaa itti fakkaatu tokko , qotee bulaa tokko, nama waggaa dheeraa Biyya alaa jiraate, Nama waan hundaatti of eegannoo fi sagantaan deemu tokko akkasumas, nama bakka itti dhiheetti buluu fi waan hundaaf dantaa hin qabne, nama jireenya isaa fi maatii isaan ala jiraniif naasu hin qabne, Nama barnootaan guddaa fi dhimma addunyaa keessatti qooda qabu, Nama Biyyoota gurguddatan keessatti qooda ol aanaa qabu, Nama Siyaasa addunyaa fi Biyyoota adda addaa keessatti qooda qaban, Nama sadarkaan beekumsa isaa yunivarsitii addunyaa keenya irraa bebbeekamoo keessa jiru, Nama guyyuu dhimma ummata isaaf ifaajju yk Ummata isaa addunyaatti beeksisuuf gama hundaan tattaafatu, Nama Qabsoo keessaa gane, kan Angoof bololu, basaastuu diinaa , Qabsaa’aa kan fakkaatu, Sabboonaa fi fakkeessa ………..kkf. walitti fidaatii,, mee Waan TOKKUMMAA yaadaa . Maaliin tokko ta’uu danda’u ? waan Oromoon keessa jiru kana irra hedduu bal’aadha.

Tokkummaan asi keessatti isaaniif hawwinu isa kam ? Oromoo ta’uu isaaniitii ? amma har’aatti Oromoo sabummaa isaa ganee, halagattii of himatu argee hin beeku. kan diina jala goru jira. Tokkummaa amma nu barbaachisuuf akkamiin jara kana wal faana akka dhaabbatan taasisuu dandeenya ? Tokkummaa keessa keenyattii hawwinuuf haalli keessa jiran ni mijataa ? haalli keessa jiran Tokkummaa nuuti barbaannuuf gufuu taanaan, filannoon keenya maal ta’uu qaba?? ati kana dhiisii asi kottu. Ati ammo kanatti deebi’i. maaloo kana godhaa jennee imimmaan cobsinaafii ? keessa keenyaa itti gadduu ibsinaafii ?kkf  akkamiin isaan tokkomsuu dandeenya ? gubbaatti akkuman kaase, Tokkummaa bara GADAA Namoota kana giddutti deebifna jechuun habjuudha. Isa Bilisummaa boodaa dhiifnee waan keessa jirruuf yaa yaannutii, Qabsoo keenyaaf Tokkummaa nu barbaachisa yoo jennu , jara kana akkamiin hiriirfachuu dandeenya ?  amma isaaniif galutti eegnaa ? isaan tokkummaa kana keessatti makaman malee Bilisummaan hin jirutti fudhannaa ?akkam goona ?

Tokko jennee Tokkomsuuf aadaa barsiifnaa ? Oromummaa barsiifnaa ? …Amantii isa danqe dhiisifnaa ? Ofittummaa baqaqisinee keessaa fuunaa ? diina biraa ba’ii jennaanii ? akka walii galaatti mraammartoo akkasiin lammiin keenya adda fagaatee jiraa akkamiin Tokkummaa keessa keenyaa dhugeessina ? kun gaaffii guddaa, qorannoo bal’aa kan barbaaduudha. Qorannoo qofaa odoo hin taanee, furmaata isaallee qopheessanii kan irratti hojjatanii Ummata Ofii furaniidha. Wanni amma keessa jirru kanaan tokko . kana ta’uutu hawwiin qofaa dhaadannoo nu dhageesisa. Fuullee waliitti dubbannee karaa wareegamaan asi ga’e, kaayyoo har’allee jireenyi fi lubbuun itti badaa jiru karaa irra haa buufnu. Ummata miliyoona 45 Tokkomee malee Bilisummaan hin jiru jennee, hamilee wal buufana yoo ta’ee ,, addunyaan akkamiin qabsaa’oota muratoo muraasaan Bilisummaa isaanii labsatan ? Afriikaa Kibbaa kan kanaan ga’ee ANCn gaaffii akkasiin takaalameeraa ? Sudaan Kibaa woo ? Ertiraanoo ? bara qabsoo isaanii Mormitoonni har’a jiran bara sanas ni jiru. tokkummaa dhabuu isaaniin Bilisummaa dhabaniiru ? akkamiin rakkoo wal fakkaataa kana irra aanan ?

KUTAA 2FFAATTI  itti deebina . HORAA BULAA !!!!!!!!!!

NU YAADACHIISAA!!!

Nu yaadachiisaa

Nu yaadachisaa, akka dansaa

Nu yaadachiisaa hirriibaa nu kaasaa

Ilmaan minilik, yaa maatii bineensaa

Takka na caqasaa, xiqqoon isin gorsaa

Jabaadhaa nu yaadachiisaa akka dansaa

Tuttuqaa madaa teenya tan kaleessaa

Hekeraa, yaa ilmaan hekeraa

Lubaa lubbee, yaa dabteraa

Bifa dhablee, yaa  gaararraa

Barreessituu seenaa dharaa

Akka dansaa nu abaaraa

Gumaa baafnaa nu afeeraa

Nu mullisaa siidaa waraabeessaa

Itti sirbaa, nu dhaadheessaa

Hirriibarraa nu dammaysaa

Haaloo baafnaa nu qopheeysaa

Itti suuqaa eegee fardaa

Nu yaadachiisaa guyaa gaddaa

Guyyaa lammii fixe rasaasni ibiddaa

Lafee cabsee, dhiiga dhangalaasee lubbuu addaa

Guyyaa harma muraa aanolee

Guyyaa minilik Oromoota golee

Naasuu takkaan malee

Daa’imman ibiddaan waxalee

Dardaraa-manguddoo ciqilee mogolee

Akka loonii billawaan qaqqalee

Qeerroo gurgure, sibilaan shakaalee

Gabra taasise, kaan jiraa awwaalee

Nu yaadachiisaa guyyaa kalee

Soddaan hindandeenyee waraansa ciqilee

Madaa qoorte buruysaa akka killee

Gumaa  baasuu nuti hinwallaallee

Nu afeeraa, ol fuudhaa sagalee

Ajaa teessan, irraa saaqaa willee

Nu yaadachiisaa

Nu yaadachisaa, akka dansaa

Nu yaadachiisaa hirriibaa nu kaasaa

Ilmaan minilik, yaa maatii bineensaa

Takka na caqasaa, xiqqoon isin gorsaa

Jabaadhaa nu yaadachiisaa akka dansaa

Tuttuqaa madaa teenya tan kaleessaa

Guyyaa sheexanii  suuqqate baallii

Qaamaan dhiqatee dhiiga calanqoo calii

Lafee cabsee, lubbuu lammii qalii

Lammii Oromoo, Raayyaa fi kamisee

Haadaa fi sibila, maxxanaan fannisee

Dhiiga dhagalaasee, lafee cabsee

Haadhaa fi abba, matii lubbuu baasee

Yeeyyii fi waraabo, bineensa nyaachisee

Miliyoona kudha shani gad deebisee

Gadaa cabsee, oromoo facaasee

Wirtuu Oromoo mataskan taasisee

Ilmaan oromoo kiristinnaa kaasee

Burqaa Oromoo, habashaa dhaalchisee

Nu yaadachiisaa

Nu yaadachisaa, akka dansaa

Nu yaadachiisaa hirriibaa nu kaasaa

Ilmaan minilik, yaa maatii bineensaa

Takka na caqasaa, xiqqoon isin gorsaa

Jabaadhaa nu yaadachiisaa akka dansaa

Tuttuqaa madaa teenya tan kaleessaa

Nu yaadachiisaa sheeyxaanummaa habashaa

Daakaa, ganaanaa, jiisaa  akka qooshaa

Nu afeeraa ni taphannaa meesha-meeshaa

Gaara baanee, tulluu maxxaaqashaa

Kan oomishu laallaa warshaa

Goota akka G/ Taaddasaa

Elemoo qilxuu fi Nagaasaa kumsaa

Gootoota onnee soorsaa

Burisoo Buruu fi Nadhii Gammadaa

Kan galmaan nu dhufan, afaanii fi aadaa

Waaqoo Guutuu fi J/Abbaa Gadaa

Goota-goota caalu, kan hinqabne sodaa

Kan boolaa nu baasan Oromiyaa leelloo

Badhaadha uumamaa, loosha mudhii qalloo

Jabaadhaa nu yaadachiisaa maaloo

Lubbuu ilmaan ayyaa, gootota solooloo

Meeccaa fi tuulama, hayyuu afran qalloo

Kam waameen, kam dhiisa

Seenaan gootota garaa nama raasaa

Nu yaadachiisaa

Nu yaadachisaa, akka dansaa

Nu yaadachiisaa hirriibaa nu kaasaa

Ilmaan minilik, yaa maatii bineensaa

Takka na caqasaa, xiqqoon isin gorsaa

Jabaadhaa nu yaadachiisaa akka dansaa

Tuttuqaa madaa teenya tan kaleessaa

Ilmaan minilik, yaa ilmaan dheengee

Bineensa gurraacha, kan hinqabne eegee

Kan nama nyaatu lafeellee duguugee

Osoo ijaan garuu taanee akka ballaa

Osoo dhagenyuu, fakkaannee dhagelaa

Isinii obsinee bara dhibba caalaa

Nu taasiftanii gowwaa fi wallaalaa

Nu mogaaftanii  jecha maqaa gaallaa

Nuti hinrafne, shilim jannee malee

Hindagannee gadda aduu kalee

Saffuu  waqaa, nagayaaf bolollee

Dheebonnee, dhugaadhaaf  hamillee

Nu yaadachiisaa

Nu yaadachisaa, akka dansaa

Nu yaadachiisaa hirriibaa nu kaasaa

Ilmaan minilik, yaa ilmaan bineensaa

Takka na caqasaa, xiqqoon isin gorsaa

Jabaadhaa nu yaadachiisaa akka dansaa

Tuttuqaa madaa teenya tan kaleessaa

Ilmaan sheeyxaanaa, yaa shanyii bulguu

Dhugaa baatee, hindandeessan haguuguu

Hayyuu baayyee qabna, kan haadhee findiguu

Osoo hinjiissini dhaabataan shalaguu

Isin nyaachifnee, dhadhaa fi caccabsaa

Walalaa dammaa, buddeena kanniisaa

Foonii fi kudraa Oromiyaa keessaa

Isinirraa geedarree, wayaa gogaa

Isinii uwwifnee, uffata midhaagaa

Rabbii guddaan ragaa

Biiftuun baatee dhugaa

Maaqaa maaf geedartan, biyya abbaa kiyyaa?

Toophia mitii maqaan Oromiyaa

Nu yaadachiisaa

Nu yaadachisaa, akka dansaa

Nu yaadachiisaa hirriibaa nu kaasaa

Ilmaan minilik, yaa maatii bineensaa

Takka na caqasaa, xiqqoon isin gorsaa

Jabaadhaa nu yaadachiisaa akka dansaa

Tuttuqaa madaa teenya tan kaleessaa

Gochaan keessan nama raajaa

Hinsaaqinaa keessan ajaa

Ni dhumtanii shanyii bajjaa

Qalamtanii akka goljaa

Mee lakkisaa, dubbii qosaa

Dhaggeefadhaa ni dibbisaa

Akka dansaa gurra qeensaa

Dhufaa jiraa leenci raasaa

Lubbuu gootaa tan kalessaa

Gumaa baafnaa nu qirqirsaa

Abbaan keessan Rabbi hinbeekuu

Shira keessan namni hinarkuu

Haadhaa, haadhaa akka lukkuu

Boollaa baasaa ablee kakuu

Ni gaafannaa abbaa bokkuu

Lubuu gootaa, tan akaakuu

Gumaa baasuu kan nu dhoorkuu

Bifa dhablee yaa gaararraa

Eeboo tumnee, mancaa qarraa

Akka dansaa nu abaaraa

Fittuttuqaa gamna cibraa

Gumaa baafnaa nu afeeraa

Nu yaadachiisaa

Nu yaadachisaa, akka dansaa

Nu yaadachiisaa hirriibaa nu kaasaa

Ilmaan minilik, yaa maatii bineensaa

Takka na caqasaa, xiqqoon isin gorsaa

Jabaadhaa nu yaadachiisaa akka dansaa

Tuttuqaa madaa teenya tan kaleessaa

Yaa maatii minilik baayyedha jarjertaa

Gubatee hingarree ibiddaan taphattaa

Hekeraa abbeetii jabo dhaadheeysitaa

Faradoo fi gaangee gargarii ni beeytaa?

Maxxannee fi teenya raattuu

Kaayoo sabaa tan gurgurtu

Ishii beeka goda seentuu

Itti dhiisaa haa maraattuu

Bilisummaan kadhaa hintaatuu

Oromiyaan hinbitamtuu

Laaltee hingartuu gaara gamaa

Siif hingallee haga ammaa

Dhugaa seetee jecha diimaa

Kan leencoo fi murna ammaa

Arrab lameen ni manaamaa

Suuta ja’a gamaaggamaa

Hojii isaa hamma dhumaa

Nu yaadachiisaa

Nu yaadachisaa, akka dansaa

Nu yaadachiisaa hirriibaa nu kaasaa

Ilmaan minilik, yaa maatii bineensaa

Takka na caqasaa, xiqqoon isin gorsaa

Jabaadhaa nu yaadachiisaa akka dansaa

Tuttuqaa madaa teenya tan kaleessaa

Cubbuu dhiisaa of gargaaraa

Yoo dandeessan wal baraaraa

Leenci gadaa dhufaa jiraa

Isiniif laannaa takka caarraa