WELCOME TO THE OROMO INITIATIVE FOR ACTION(OIA) The
Oromo Initiative for Action is a forum established to enhance constructive dialogue
in an effort to rally all oromos behind our cause of liberation.
Ethiopian police 'tortured Christians' Hundreds of Christian demonstrators were illegally detained and tortured by Ethiopian police, a human rights
body says.
Wal-gahi OIA Atlanta Georgia Amajjii 11,2003 Miseensa fi hawaasa ummata oromoo waajiraa hawaasa Oromoo Atlanta GorgiaUSA iraa tti wal-gahi godhee guyyaa Amajjii 11,
2003 milkii nagaya fi injifannoo guddaan xummuranee. kora kan irra tti hawaasa fi miseensii OIA irratti argamaani rakkinaa
fi hammeena TPLF yakka ilmaan Oromoo irratti rawwatee beelessuu fi dhukkuba akkasuma hameen dhalaa namaa irratti namin hin
hojjaannee ilmaan Oromoo irratti hojjaatamee vido fi suurraa miiddhaa ragaa mirkanwwa dhugaa ummatati ergaa ilaallmee booda
aarrii dhan garaa murannoon marii wal-gahii kan irratti marii kora kan guutuu ummatta Oromoo balaa dhiheessna marii kan akkuma
achii irratti mariiatmeeti isiniif dhieessina. Full Read
Dear Friends, Happy new year. (OBA - Oromo Bar Association)
As
we bid farewell to 2002 and welcome 2003 it is good to look back and remember the events that brought warmth to our hearts,
experiences that caused us to grow and awakening to the reality that if anything good is to happen to us and for our people
it can only happen by our efforts alone.
Now is the time to forget the little things that distracts us from focusing
on and bettering our lives and the lives of those we love. Now is also the time not to forget our mistakes and remember the
lessons that came with it. FULL READ
Portland Oromo community Please forward to OIA
I
am forwarding this e-mail to you after I saw your move fraction. Appreciate your plan to convene public meeting in Atlanta.
I have been criticizing the leaders of our liberation struggle for falling to be more inclusive, and not able to lineup Oromo
mass in Diaspora behind freedom struggle. I am also critical about myself, not being able to play my own part as individual.
I am from Portland, Oregon, one of the North American City where large numbers of Oromo people reside and in contrary the
weakest Oromo community exists.
The morale of our people is steadily declining, and the apathy to our freedom
struggle is on the rise. This is the truth on the ground. I think we don't have to be fooled by one day fund raising or with
the opinions of few, who are engaged on self-serving their egos. Some people may automatically put me in the enemy's camp
for my opinion, but deep in our heart we all agree. WE SHOULDN'T BE SATISFIED UNTIL EVERY SON AND DAUGHTER OF OROMIA PAID
HIS/HER TRIBUTE TO FREEDOM STRUGGLE. To make short my point, if your move is to energize our struggle please put on your
list Portland Oromo community.
THE UNITED WE STAND THE STRONGEST WE WILL BE.
To the Oromian students who celebrate Oromian New Year Finfinnee, Oromia
December
27, 2002
Darrggaggoo Oromiyaa!
We indulge in the pleasure of writing this letter on the occasion
of our New Year celebration day of 2003 to send a congratulatory message from the Oromian National Academy to you, and through
you, to the courageous people of Oromia. By resisting the after shock of the Ethiopian invasion of Oromias territory
115 years ago, and the looming danger of human rights violations which have posed great pain upon all Oromia, your decision
to celebrate the Oromian New Year 2003 sends a strong message to the colonizing force and the chauvinist Ethiopians who think
that Oromians are a part of Ethiopia. FULL READ
East Africa Seen as Fertile Region for Terrorism The Nov. 28 bombing of a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya -- coupled with a failed missile attack on an Israeli
airliner -- focuses attention on terrorism in the Horn of Africa. Porous borders, poverty and corruption make the region vulnerable
to infiltration by al Qaeda and other terrorist networks. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports. Dec. 4, 2002
Wednesday, 4 December, 2002, 12:14 GMT AFRICA UN sounds warning on Africa famine Africa faces a major crisis with hunger threatening 38 million people, the UN food agency says, but warns
of a lack of political will to tackle it.
Tuesday, 19 November, 2002, 09:25 GMT Ethiopia:
The warning signs that lead to famine Sound8 Ethiopia faces a famine dwarfing the 1980 disaster By Declan Conway Lecturer in Natural Resources, University of East Anglia Drought and famine have been a feature of
life in Ethiopia throughout history, from the major droughts in 1888 and 1913 and in more recent times 1972/3
and 1984/5 stand out. Now there are warnings that 2002/3 may have disastrous consequences perhaps even greater than those
of 1984/5. Warning signs
Monday, 18 November, 2002, 12:33 GMT TPLF terrorist rejects Eritrean ports People needs more food aid to avert disaster TPLF Terrorist has rejected an offer from its former foe Eritrea
to use its Red Sea ports to transport food aid. Some 14 million Ethiopians are estimated to be at risk from famine
next year because of the failure of crucial rains.
OIA has also confirmed OIA has also confirmed the existence of a notorious torture chamber located at Bilate state farm in central
Oromia. Our intelligence division has obtained pictures of the actual torture chamber, snap shots of actual tortures in progress,
Oromos dead and dying on the torture stand, bodies of torture victims disposed off in farms near the prison and torture center.
The torture victims come from all over Oromia and the identities of some could not be confirmed.
The Oromo Community in Washington,
DC would like to bring to your attention the extreme food shortage that is causing a full-blown famine in eastern, south eastern,
southern, and central low lands of Oromia. Drought and the repressive Ethiopian regime policy and its crimes against humanity
including the use of hunger as a weapon against the Oromo people have exacerbated the current famine.
The grim reports
reaching us show starvation and death throughout Oromia on a scale that is unimaginable. As the drought persists killing thousands
of people and livestock, people had to survive by digging wild roots and eating leaves and sometimes resorting to poisonous
seeds with disastrous consequences. The reports indicate vulnerable children are seriously affected and are dying on the backs
and arms of their mothers in numbers daily.
AIDS and Famine as weapons of mass murder When the pseudo Marxist Derg regime fell in 1991, a lot of people hoped things would change for the better. But, for those
who had read TPLFs racist literature, what they have been doing since they took power, sadly enough, has not been the least
bit surprising. TPLF had openly declared their hatred for the Oromo people in no uncertain terms. Full Report
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