Bio: specialization is for insects. Dep: Inspec. & Aud. at
#OFC
. Engagement policy on here: protect the wise & the civil, block idiots & mute the fools. 📕✊🏼🤙
This article was supposed to be kind of mini qualitative look into the state of the Oromo political struggle over last half a century. 30 purposely selected individuals from d/t backgrounds invited for opinions & 12 of them (inclding 2 females) responded.
BREAKING: OLA have controlled Fincha Suger Factory which supplies over 75% of ethanol used in Ethiopia’s “ethanol-benzine blending project” legislated by govt to reduce expenditure of FOREX on fuel. Since 2011, the country uses 10% ethanol/liter of fuel at every filling station.
BREAKING: After sieging it earlier & controlling some strategic areas at the outskirts incl Gobicha district in last couple of days, OLA fighters moved in to take total control of the militarily strategic town of Negelle Borena today. Notable PP govt cadres already fled the town.
CONGRATULATIONS to the people of Tigray!This is not a mere act of defiance to an aspiring nascent dictatorship of Abiy Ahmed’s federal govt w/c is falling off a cliff, but it indeed is a great accomplishment in defending your universally acknowledged right to self-determination.
The large multiethnic Ethiopian diaspora—esp those from Oromia, Tigray, Somali, Sidama, Wolayita, Kambata, Qimamt, Agaw, Gambella, Gumuz & others—can do miracles if they are serious about fighting for their peoples’ rights & dignity—& if they do this in unison & in sync. 1/2
Tana quba qabaadhaa!!
Diinni hamaan Oromoon seenaadhuma isaa keessaattiyyuu arge keessaa, mootummaa bilxiginnaa MM Abiy Ahmed hoogganu kana kan fakkaatu tokkolleen hin turre. Gara fuulduraatittis mootummaan akkanaa (biyyattiin yoo ni jiraatti ta'e) kan Oromoo sadarkaa kanaan...
#OLA
fighters broke into PP’s prison facility in Begi & released political prisoners in there today. Begi is a bustling business town known for its brand coffee produced by commercial farms at its environs in western Oromia bordering neighboring Benishangul-Gumuz regional state.
OLA has continued to mobilize, train, graduate & arm the Oromo Qeerroo/Qarree who peacefully fight to bring about the political change in 2018, which swept Abiy Ahmed into the helm of power that has now proven to be completely stolen by neoneftegna & hostile reactionary elements.
BREAKING: For weeks, OLA fighters encircled the bustling & militarily strategic town of Negelle Borena, Guji Zone, S. Oromia. Launching offensive attacks against localized forces of PP admin over last few days, OLA fighters took control of some strategic parts of the town today.
This graduation event of
#OLA
fighters happened within a radius of 120km from the capital Finfinne (Addis). All these fighters are the youth (Qeerroo/Qarree) who were peacefully protesting on the streets across Oromia during the
#OromoProtests
mov’t [2014-2018] for democracy.
Prominent Oromo political prisoners are
#StarvingForJustice
—on their 25th day of hunger strike today. They are calling on the consciences of country’s political leadership, which unfortunately seem proven to have none, & also on ours. Our collective action needed.
#OromoProtests
In terms of shear geography, Oromia is about SEVEN folds of Tigray.
OLA now controls about half of Oromia or a territory over thrice of Tigray—excluding the Wollo Oromo areas in Amhara region.
Criticisms on “slow advance” of OLA towards Finfinne are therefore unsubstantiated.
One of Abiy’s republican guard motorized toy cars [originally made in UAE for animal hunting] has been captured by
#OLA
fighters at a battlefield near Laga Tafo—a town in Oromia just at the outskirts of the capital city Finfinne|Addis Ababa.
See these 2 figures—before & after.
“...throughout history, empires tried to crush rebellions with an iron fist; but when its [final] day comes, a [frustrated] sinking empire used all its might to save itself—often collapsing into bloodbath”
Y. Harari, 2014. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
#OromoProtests
ALERTS
OMN jornos who have been detained for days now, including Guyo Wario, Melese Diribsa, Mohammod Siraj, Nasir — and opposition politician Dejene Tafa of OFC are all kept in primary school-turned-prison-cells where there exist super transmission of
#COVID
-19 among inmates.
The dissemination of unfounded allegation by
@MinorityRights
in July that vilified Oromo youth as “violent mob w/c perpetrated ethnic cleansing” has been used to justify killing of ~300 ppl in 3 month. Today, 5 yng men were dragged out of home & executed in cold blood in Nekemte.
How do the Norwegian
@NobelPrize
committee see the reality that their Nobel Peace Laureate of 2019
@AbiyAhmedAli
is now the commander in chief of a devastating civil war going on in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 in 2020, any ways?
What’s indeed more astonishing is that we managed to live in an era where a Nobel Peace Laureate politician wages war — in “phases” much like the series sceneries of a horror movie — sitting at his computer desk while acting both as a commander-in-chief & spokesperson of the war.
No group of people in Ethiopia can ever be the enemy of other groups of peoples in the country.
What the Amhara State President, Mr Agegnew Teshager, said today reveals the fascistic madness of those in the PP’s leadership circle has already gone limitless.
#SayNo2Fascism
If Abiy stands with his bravado by leaving palace to join battlefield, hardliner Amhara group may take advantage to exploit their widely entrenched posts in gov’t intel & security establishment to oust Abiy by staging a coup. Then, the door to hell opens even wider. Mark my word!
Ethiopia’s current crisis didn't start with the ongoing "Tigray vs Fed gov” war. Thus it won’t end by negotiation just b/n the two. There's a nationwide
#CrisisInEthiopia
w/c requires a
#NationalDialogueNow
with all stakeholders including the jailed opposition political leaders.
The war on Tigray—extension of one in Oromia—is a war declared by Abiy Ahmed & his supporters on their ideological opponents with pretext of “upholding rule of law”. Even worse, it’s a recipe for a prolong & devastating civil war in Ethiopia.
#NationalDialogueNow
#OromoProtests
A church mocking atrocious crimes historically committed against the Oromo by Minilik’s settler colonial regime to w/c this very church was a party, as it used to get 1/3 of land grabbed by the neftegna regime. If this isn’t violating law, tell me what. Who in z church doin this?
Senior TDF commanders are seen talking to community elders in Afar. Two leading Generals in the TDF command circle seen talking to the Afar in the pictures.
The mass arrest by chaotic regime in
#Ethiopia
turning bizarre.Guess what, they turned most of the schools in Oromia, also in the capital Finfinne, into prisons but still due to lack of space, they randomly release detainees aftr days of detention without charges.
#OromoProtests
In this great pic,
@Jawar_Mohammed
stands paying tribute to the victims of the
#KarrayyuMassacre
in w/c members of the Karrayyu Gada assembly were summarily executed by govt security forces in what observers say is the single largest physical attack against the Oromo Gada system.
Tamagn Beyene, now a US citizen? made his last ditch attempt—via his trademark inciting propaganda—to save the ruthless regime called “Degree” few weeks before it was militarily deposed by EPRDF in May 1991. He is doing same today to save Abiy’s PP regime—former’s incarnate.
1/2
An Oromo academic, current Dean of the Education & Pedagogical Faculty at Addis Ababa University, Dr Hussien Kedir was kidnaped and detained from his home by the Ethiopian govt security forces last July. Today, his whereabout remains unknown.
@ScholarsAtRisk
@hrw
@UNHumanRights
Abiy Ahmed has recklessly dragged Ethiopia to plunge it into a civil war dashing any prospect of delivering on the limited mandate that he was given by the Ethiopian people to lead the country’s transition to democracy.
#NationalDialogueNow
#CrisisInEthiopia
#OromoProtests
.
@Facebook
blocking
#OLA
means if it had existed during the apartheid era in South Africa, it would have blocked
@Nelson
Mandela & his party
#ANC
from its platform merely because political powers of the day & their agents falsely accuse the former of “terrorism”.
#OLAfightsForMe
Pics:
#OLA
in central Oromia. Graduation event happened today—19th Oct, 2021. Important to note that all these youths—Qeerroo/Qarree—were on the streets across
#Oromia
struggling for peaceful transition to democracy in
#Ethiopia
during the historic
#oromoprotests
mov’t, 2014-18.
THREAD: All these Oromo youths (Qeerroo/Qarree) were peacefully protesting in the streets across Oromia as part of
#OromoProtests
movt—notable among the most effective in the history of social mov’ts in Africa—demanding some minimalist list of democratic rights from 2014-2018. 1/
The federal gov’t of the former PM Abiy Ahmed, who now lacks both legal and popular legitimacy is trying to pull one more string — further pushing the Ethiopian multinational federation to the edge of disintegration. So concerning development indeed!
FYI: If one would have taken Amhara propaganda media & their diaspora trolls for real, me & JL Marroo were killed together by the “ENDF” in Mekelle on the 28th of Nov — the day Abiy Ahmed declared to the world that he did conclude the
#WarOnTigray
so victoriously — my foot🦶
Military Generals with strategic thoughts say persecuting a war is like playing a chess ♟game.
One shouldn’t be anchored on winning a battle at every square on dashboard, but the war.
I somehow understand this logic cus I play chess—& I often do with great hits😎
#Ethiopia
OLA has continued to mobilize, train, graduate and arm the Oromo Qeerroo & Qarree who peacefully fight to bring about the political change in 2018, which swept Abiy Ahmed into the helm of power that has now proven to be stolen by the neoneftegna & associated reactionary elements.
The Oromo-Dutch athlete
@SifanHassan
taking pride & promoting her dual identity in what appears to be an intentionally/symbolically encoded pictorial, celebratory message after winning the 5K track competition at
#TokyoOlympics
today. She is further set for victory in 1.5K & 10K.
Mr Teshager, Prezo of Amhara State, pulled a dangerous card to further fuel the ongoing civil war in Ethiopia—perhaps his last one in this devastating conflict. Today, he gathered some religious leaders in the region & told them to declare a religious crusaders’ war against TDF.
#OLA
fighters have freed political prisoners in Kamise & Sambate towns after taking control of the two towns today. Kamisee is a major town & a thriving business center found at a distance of ca 50kms to the south of Kombolcha which the
#TDF
forces took control earlier today.
The madness of Abiy’s regime crossed redline. Country’s “national 📺”—the largest media outlet—has been reduced to the level of regime’s army of vulgar & fake news scavenging supporters on the YouTube. It accuses reputed aid agencies like
@USAID
of “supplying marijuana to TDF”.
Oromia got 178 seats to fill ppls’ reps with at Ethiopia’s fed parlmt. At almost all of electoral posts for these parliamentary seats, potential candidates of the 2 major opposition parties—OLF & OFC—are in prison, together with 10s of 1000s of their supporters.
#OromoProtests
#AbiyAhmed
says he is leaving palace to lead army at frontlines agst joint forces of TDF-OLA—now at~180km from capital Finfinne. If this isn’t gonna be his trade mark lie, the best chance for him might be to become a Nobel-laureate-turned-warlord fighting to get back to z palace.
Tho no one is safe under Abiy fascist rule 2day,Tegaru in d/t parts of 🇪🇹are most at risk. Given daily disseminated anti-Tigrean propaganda on state media & some Amharic tabloids, Tegaru are at risk of identity-based attacks.Fellow citizens shld protect’m or document if couldn’t.
Norwegian professor received death threats from Ethiopians in exile
I salute my good friend Professor
@KjetilTronvoll
for standing for the truth and speaking his mind about what’s going on in Ethiopia —truth got no borders!
So much respect, Sir!
Ethio officials detain prof
@KjetilTronvoll
for he was in Tigray during
#Tigrayelection2020
? SMH! Kjetil is a researcher with long experience of closely observing pol dev’ts/elections in many African countries. He also heads
#OsloAnalytica
. Sure, this madness could cost’em a lot.