Dozens of Oromo arrested: student tortured

Oromo’s are still suffering in their mother land by dictators over the last 100 years. There are lots of sad untold stories in Oromo land which the world has to know. Thousands of Oromo political prisoners are suffering in the current TPLF prison in Ethiopia , still hundreds are dying in prison , Oromo students are fired from high schools, colleges and university’s , for being an oromo.where is justice ?

On 1 August, HRLHA reported (in Press Release 18) that dozens of Oromo had been detained in a wave of arrests in the capital under the pretext of involvement with the OLF. HRLHA named the following three who were detained on 23 July:
Taye Danda’a Arado, 5th year law student at Addis Ababa University
Bayisa Dhaba Lata, employee of Dukam Municipality (Southern suburb of
Addis Ababa)
Muse Ali, government employee
Another detainee, Zalaka Benya, was named later by the OLF (16 September).
Taye was an outstanding student who was due to graduate three days after his arrest and had been offered a teaching post at the university. He had been detained with Macha-Tulama Association members in early 2004 and had remained in detention for nearly three years, until released in late 2006. He had been a key figure in the university Oromo language society (the Afaan Oromo Club), was an active member of the Union of Oromo Students at the university and had been involved with the graduation ceremony and the Oromo Students Graduation Bulletin, which was not allowed to be published. He was taken from in front of the main university campus by plain-clothed security officers and held incommunicado with Bayisa and Muse at Maikelawi CID. Ethiomedia reported on 6 October that Taye had been tortured and that his place of detention was no longer known.

Taye Danda’a Arado

August 2009: Convictions, arrests, torture, harassment

The Federal High Court reached a verdict on 14 of the 46 Ginbot 7 suspects on 6 August (Reuters, 8 August). One was acquitted and thirteen, including Dr Berhanu Nega, were found guilty.

The OLF reported (OLF News, 13 August 2009) that civilians in W. Hararge, especially in Daro Labu and Bookee districts, had been detained in reprisal for OLF activity in the area. The administrator of Biliqa village, Kamal Adam, and Bayisa, an elder from Tayfee village, were among those detained, alonside several farmers. The report also named Sham Mohammed and Taju Abdalla among several detained and tortured in Dire Dawa, E. Hararge.

On 18 August, the OLF reported detentions and torture in Xiyo, Digalu, Xijo and Muneesa districts of Arsi, naming Abdalla Fiqire, Mr Samuel, Abdalla Qumbo, Abbe Mohammed, Eliyas Kasaya, Mr Kadir, Qaalakiristosa Zamadu and a Mr Qancare and ‘all his family’ among those detained.

The OLF later reported (8 September) that Oromo in W. Showa had been arrested, dismissed from their jobs and denied educational opportunities for refusing to join the government Oromo party, the OPDO. Those detained in Jaldu district included Hailu Gobana, Dejene Tolasa, Birhanu Milkeesa and Kabee Xaafa. No attempt had been made to take these men to court two weeks later. The organisation also reported that three men, Tasfaye Boka, Haile Fulasa and Zeena Bachaara, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2009 for inciting student disturbances in 2005 were being severely tortured in Ambo prison, W. Showa.

On 23 August, Capital reported that the UDJ presented a report to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi which detailed abuses against party members. Its offices across the country had been shut down by local security officers and some had been demolished. Senior party members had been detained ‘on fabricated charges’, predominantly in SNNPR, Oromia and Amhara Regions. One member was detained for ‘posting a UDJ banner without permission’ said the acting chair, Gizachew Shiferaw.

On 29 August, Ethio-Channel reported that 25 university students, teachers and farmers were sentenced by the Federal High Court to 10-15 years in prison for suspected links with the OLF, damaging government institutions and robbing ‘millions of Birr from Fincha sugar factory’.

Former Ethiopian President and Medrek coalition partner, Dr Negasso Gidada, announced to the press at the end of August that government cadres disrupted a political meeting which he was addressing in Adama (Nazaret) in an ‘organised disturbance’.

source:-oromo.org