Arresting and Torturing of Oromo Women and Youth does not Stop the Struggle of the Oromo People for Justice and Freedom

Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo

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Sochii Dargaggoota Biyyoolessaa,

National Youth Movement for

Bilisummaa fi Dimokraasiif(SDBBD) Freedom a

nd Democracy (NYMFD)

Arresting and Torturing of Oromo Women and Youth does not Stop the Struggle of the Oromo People for Justice

and Freedom Statement of the National Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy (aka Qeerroo Bilisummaa)

August 2 2014 The Tigrayan minority TPLF led Ethiopian regime has continued arresting and torturing of the

Oromo nationals in an attempt to stop the struggle of the Oromo nation for freedom, democracy and justice. Currently, the atrocities committed by this regime

on innocent Oromo civilians have been escalated to un imaginable scale. Hundreds of Oromo students, teachers, farmers, daily

labourers, and civil servants are languishing in prisons located at several places in Oromia. The overwhelming majority of those who are sent to detention centres are subjected to sever e and inhuman torture. Some have died in prison cell or thrown out of jail and left to die in hospital

simply because they couldn’t stand the torture Oromo nationalists Wako Tola (teacher),

Usmayyo Musa (singer), Alamayehu Gerba (handicapped university student), Nimona Tilahun

(former University student), Tesfahun Chemeda (engineer), Aslan Hassan (university student),

and many others are all killed by the regimes police as a direct result of torture while in prison

cells. Those who survive the brutal tor ture will be subjected to trumped up charges and will be

brought to judges of the kangaroo court of the regime. Before bringing to the court false witnesses are prepared and “evidence”

is planted at their homes by the regimes police and convicted based on these fake testimony and made up and planted

“evidence”. Others are kept in prison indefinitely without any charge at all. In few cases judges render a not guilty

” verdict after the prisoners have already spent several years in jail and let them go free . In some of such cases

the police arrests them back before they even leave the court house and prepare other made up charges.

This has been a well known and established norm of the judiciary system of the current regime in Ethiopia Oromo students are subjected to such

police brutality and unjust judicial process and branded as terrorists for no crime other tha raising the rightful and

legitimate questions of the Oromo people in a peaceful and non violent manner. It is not an exaggeration if we say this

regime in Finfinne (Addis Ababa) is a mafia regime, brutal than the former apartheid regime of South Africa.

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