Merciless Persecution of Oromo Students by the Neo-Nazi Abyssinian dictator Meles Zenawi

Almost 500 km in the south of Finfinne – defamatorily called Addis Ababa by the 19th and 20th century barbaric and criminal Amhara monarchs – is located Arba Minch, a purely Oromo city. This is not the place of the Amharas of Gondar (around the lake Tana), neither is it home to the Tigray Abyssinians of Mekele (close to the Eritrean border).

Athens belongs to Greece; and it was never home to Germans who live in the North of Europe. Yet, one could meet in Athens many Germans and even read inscriptions in German in various spots in the Athens streets for an unfortunate period of 3.5 years. It was called ‘German Nazi occupation’. and it lasted from 1941 until 1944.

Similarly, and paradoxically, one can find some Amharas and Tigray Abyssinians today in Arba Minch; this is for the totality of the population, the indigenous Oromo Ethiopians, a most unfortunate experience, far worse than that of the WW II Greeks in terms of discrimination, persecution, cultural, linguistic, religious and national oppression, violation of Human Rights, and brutal oppression.

Amhara and Tigray: no legitimacy to stay in Oromia

These Amharas and Tigray Abyssinians, who are currently present in the occupied Ethiopian Oromia, have as much legitimacy as the Germans had in occupied Greece during WW II. That’s why the Oromos have been in their totality engaged in the struggle for Independence and Freedom, National and Cultural preservation and socio-economic self-determination. What we have attested over the past 130 years in Oromia is the Abyssinian Tigray amd Amhara occupation.

Many nations have lost independence for longer periods, and yet they preserved their national and cultural authenticity; however, a long occupation implies certainly worse means of oppression and more advanced stages of discrimination.

The Germans had not thought in 1942 to set up a university in occupied Athens. The fact that the Amhara and Tigray illegal invaders founded a university in Arba Minch demonstrates clearly how far worse the Neo-Nazi Abyssinians are, if compared with the Nazi Germans.

An Amhara Abyssinian center of propaganda and diffusion of the Neo-Nazi Amhara theories in the heart of Oromia is in and by itself a critical threat of national and cultural extermination for the powerless and deprived Oromos.

Evil Amhara Plan of Extermination of the Oromo Nation

The Arba Minch ‘university’ uses as medium, both Amharic and Afaan Oromo (language), in order to gradually amharize and de-oromize the Oromo students, who in their desire for knowledge and progress are viewed by the tyrannical and criminal Amhara and Tigray elites as their first victims and best prey. Alien soldiers have been transported from the faraway Amhara and Tigray provinces in order to help brutally impose the Neo-Nazi, Satanic plan of total extermination of the Most Ancient and Venerable Kushitic Nation of the Oromos.

How would you find a Neo-Nazi German University in WW II occupied Athens? How would the Greeks find it? Certainly, they would consider it as the most venomous part of the evil Nazi plan of assimilation.

The Oromos are not different; they consider the disreputable university as the most venomous part of the evil Amhara – Tigray Neo-Nazi plan. The university should either close or fire the non Oromo staff, and impose instruction in Afaan Oromo only.

Unfortunately, the western mass media have not yet focused on the totalitarian systems, ideas and practices propagating universities of the 21st century. That’s why I find the case as highly preoccupying. A few weeks ago, I went through an insightful article written by an Oromo who currently resides in the Abyssinian realm of Hell.

The article under the title ‘Criminalizing, detaining, killing and dismissing Oromos students in Ethiopian Universities’ was published in the informative and authoritative Sudanese portal Sudan Tribune. Published on January 22, the article (http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25669) illuminates the discrimination, the persecution, the troubles, and the dangers the Oromo students face when going to the alien university that consists in a carcinogenic tissue in the occupied Oromia. I republish the text of the article integrally.

Criminalizing, detaining, killing and dismissing Oromos students in Ethiopian Universities

By Qeerransoo Biyyaa

January 21, 2008 — I am writing this article to remind the world, particularly human right watch groups, to pay more attention and stop the rising gross violations of human right against Oromo students in Ethiopian Universities.
The history of discriminating and attacking Oromo students has extended over four decades now. My interest here is not to cover the plights of Oromo students over this length of time but it is to illustrate when, how and why the Ethiopian state attacks Oromo students on campuses. Especially, ever since the minority regime has ascended to power via undemocratic means in 1991, targeting Oromo students as ‘enemies’ of the state has been increasing every year.

I will use a few instances from 2008 to illustrate the nature of the tactics the government uses to demoralize and to disrupt students from focusing on their educational goals. On January 1, over 200 Oromo students were arrested and a few sustained injuries from live ammunitions. This happened at Arbaminch University. The reason they were attacked was because they were found celebrating January 1 as a new year. The attacks were justified by alleging that the students were promoting ‘subversive’ Oromo Liberation Front agenda.

Several ethnic groups are represented in Ethiopian Universities but the only group who is always exclusively victimized are the group of Oromo students belonging to the Oromo tribe, for mere reasons of belonging. People everywhere do not choose what tribe, what race they want to be born and be. It is just natural; you are one or the other. But in Ethiopia this is crime for Oromo students. Mass arrests are spontaneous and they do not involve court arrest warrants. Once students are arrested out of say the 200 students, a few who are picked by government spies as ‘front-runners’ will disappear without due process of law, maybe some as long as the regime is in power.

Oromos students in Ethiopian Universities

The other form of human rights violation against Oromo students takes a form of arbitrary complete academic dismissals. As an example for this, on the 18 January 12 Oromo students were given complete dismissals at Jimma University and coerced out of campus by heavily armed federal police. Because the students wore T-shirts with the map of Oromia and Oromo heroes, including sports heroes, printed on them, the universities board decided them exclude them from there education. Then, in the same way, the students were accused of being sympathizers with the Oromo Liberation Front and that justified their segregation. Incidents of this nature are so widespread that it seems to be a normal process. Both the Oromia regional state and the central governments are found to turn blind eyes to this.

The other form that the attacks against Oromo students take is provocation by students affiliated ethnically and politically to the state. These provocations mostly come by calling Oromo students derogatory names that dehumanizes and insults their tribe, Oromo. This has been a major cause of exchange and fight between tribally divided students. Then, security forces intervene in favor of students affiliated to ruling party and again Oromo students are victimized. The justification is simple. University administrators together with security forces, pull out one phrase "Member of Oromo Liberation Front’. To a worrying degree, this has been going on viciously.

What happens once Oromo students arrested?

If it is a mass arrest in several hundreds, the majority will be suspended for one year from their school, a few others given academic dismissals, and a few will be thrown behind bars without access to fair trial for unlimited period of time. Of course, some unfortunate ones are shot dead at the early stage of unrest.

When do attacks take place? They happen usually one or two weeks before final examinations. While students who are by origin from the Prime Minister’s tribe got to study for their exams undistracted, Oromo students are often traumatized by the knowledge that they can’t take their exams or don’t have enough time to study if they are released 2 days before exams.

Implications of the plights

Trauma caused at once will have a lasting impact of demoralizing the Oromo students as a result of which one may expect a decline in their academic performance. Besides this psychological warfare, Oromo students sustain bodily injuries and some will die. This would affect their poor parents who have had a dream of seeing their son, daughter finish University and help them alleviate their poor living conditions. If these attacks happen only once to all groups of students, it can be called an accident. But given the increasing gross violations against Oromo students from year to year, the state bears the responsibility for this.

Call on the FDRE and Oromia State Governments

It is incumbent on the Prime Minister’s office to stop making the universities battle grounds and instead making them where every Ethiopian child regardless of its ethnic origin enjoys full academic privileges/the rights to education. Exclusively detaining, killing and dismissing Oromo students while other students learn undisturbed are dangerous scenarios which can further divide the already divided Ethiopian people. Students come to universities for books and not for bullets. Oromia State is presently failing to protect the interests of students from its region in Ethiopian Universities despite the claims and propaganda that it stands for the interests of the Oromo people.

Call on the Human Rights Watch Groups and the International Community
I personally appreciate the reports that have so far been produced on human rights abuses in Ethiopia by organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Genocide Watch. I further appeal for more attention to Oromo students who continue to suffer gross violations of human rights, in manners that are clearly discriminatory in nature, as opposed to students from tribes of previous and present Ethiopian ruling regimes. The pressures that the International stakeholders put on Ethiopian government has a substantial impact on making Ethiopia move towards reconciliation and ‘true’ freedom and democracy. Democratizing and stabilizing Ethiopia will then contribute not only for its own development and progress but to stabilizing the Horn of Africa region.

The author is based in Ethiopia he can be reached at meettaa@gmail.com

Call for Support to the Oromo Students and Reaction against Arba Micnh "university"

As epilogue, I call upon every reader of the present article to write a few words of consolation to the article’s author. In addition, I believe it is the duty of all of us to send a copy of the article and a brief protestation to the incredible ‘president’ of the Arba Minch ‘university’ (http://www.arbaminch-univ.com/about.html) in the following address president@arbaminch-univ.com. We would turn this world to a better place, if we spent some minutes to tell these disreputable pseudo-academia.

- "We know you, and we will combat you. You won’t get away with you rplans. Get out of Oromia; go home".

Note
Picture: Only the flowers are happy in Arba Minch ‘university’.