Today, with the mass incarceration of the Oromo youths, Ethiopian prisons not only speak Afaan Oromoo but also write in Qubee. ‘’ Ethiopia state of emergency arrests top 11,000’’ The head lines from Human Right groups read like: The numbers of Oromo jailed that are coming out of Oromia after the “ state of Emergency” is staggering. What has changed since he left the prison? Nothing much! His ex-comrades continued to kill and incarcerate Oromo people indiscriminately in mass the minority TPLF-led government of Ethiopia is draining Oromia of its youth in search of the so-called “handful of disruptors” as in the saying “If You Can’t Catch The Fish, Drain the Sea”. He must have seen the heart and generosity of the Oromo people to feel their pain for no wrong doing but raising their voices against injustice. But we must give him credit for listening, perhaps trying couple of Afaan Oromoo words, and telling the world the plight of the Oromo people in a very candid way. Make no mistake he shares equal responsibility in the killings and incarceration of thousands of Oromo young and old, adults and children, women and men. This is the principle encrypted in their brains by the Gadaa institution. This is a testimony that the Oromo people believe in the rule of the law.
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Ironically, Britukan Mideksa, an Oromo ex-Federal judge, dropped all his charges and set him free only to be re-arrested as he was leaving her courtroom by the government and spent the next six years in jail.
Ethiopia has about 100 million population. On his release he told us something we have known all along.Īfaan Oromoo is the language spoken by about 40 million Oromo people in Ethiopia, representing the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia. Some years back Siye Abraha, ex-leader of Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and Minister of Defense, after fallout with his comrade the late ex-Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, spent six years in Ethiopian prison for bribery and corruption.ĭuring his six years in prison he had time to reflect on many things and also got the chance to speak, eat, listen to their stories, and laugh with Oromo prisoners he helped imprison.
Afaan Oromoo: The official Language of Ethiopian prisonsĪfaan Oromoo is an official language in Ethiopian prisons
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