(OLF News, March 8, 2009)
The brutal Woyane regime of Ethiopia
once again targeted the Oromo students
learning at colleges and universities of
the Empire and arrested over 80 Oromo
students from Bahir Dar university alone
OLF News correspondent reported from
Finfinnee (Addis Ababa). The Ethiopian
government ordered their gun men,
brutally beaten many Oromo students and
arrested over 80 of them simply because
they peacefully requested that some
individuals who are obsessed with
throwing derogatory remarks over the
Oromo Nation should be brought to
justice according to the law of the
land.
OLF News reporters added that the Woyane
government’s Federal police and security
forces are still searching to apprehend
more Oromo students in Bahir Dar which
is the capital city of the Amhara
regional state. It has to be noted that
almost all of the Oromo students who are
now assigned to the Amhara regional
state for university education were
educated in Afan Oromo and English
alone, and hence do not speak Amharic at
all, and even those who can barely speak
Amharic can easily be identified and are
seen as aliens in the Bahir Dar town and
in the entire Amhara regional state.
Consequently, the students have nowhere
to escape and are being brutally beaten
by the forces of the regime in their
dormitories. Our report added that many
female students have also been brutally
beaten and thrown into jail. Those who
are wounded are left with out any
medical treatment the report added.
The Oromo students in Bahir Dar
University appealed to governmental,
non-governmental and humanitarian
organizations in general and to the
Oromo people in particular to raise
their voices on their behalf and rescue
their lives.
Meanwhile one student was killed and
many others wounded and thrown into jail
in Gedo high school Western Shoa zone of
Oromia regional state when high school
students protested against a similar
derogatory remarks thrown to the Oromo
nation. Stay tuned with OLF News for the
details of this report.
It is to be recalled that the current
TPLF led Ethiopian government is
notoriously known for harassing Oromo
students for asking the right of the
Oromo nation. Several hundreds of
students were killed and tens of
thousands jailed and brutalized since
2005 when a popular protest known as
“Revolt Against subjugation” or “Fincila
Diddaa Gabrummaa”, which had rocked the
entire Oromia regional state, flared up
and continued all over Oromia for about
two years.
It is also to be recalled that the
Ethiopian government discriminately
dismissed 330 Oromo students in 2004 for
peacefully protesting the decision made
by the so called Oromia regional state,
which is a puppet of the TPLF led
government, to move the capital of
Oromia from Finfinnee to Adama.
OLF News