Oromo Liberation Front challenges Neo-Nazi ‘Ethiopian’ Tyrant Zenawi

In an earlier article (How Neo – Nazi Dictator Zenawi triggers the Islamic Revolution of ´Ethiopia´ http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/62907), we reported atrocities, perpetrated in parts of Western Oromia by Tigray forces and Gumuz ethnic militias armed by tyrant Zenawi’s lawless administration, involving massacres, organized criminal acts, and deliberately triggered ethnic discord. We made clear that the deterioration of the situation will trigger a trans-ethnic Islamic extremist alliance in Abyssinia (fake ‘Ethiopia’) that will explode taking the form of the Islamic revolution of ‘Ethiopia’.

Promptly reacting to the ominous events, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) issued a Statement, denouncing the Neo-Nazi policies of the Tigray gangster Zenawi. We republish it here integrally, as it contributes to mutual understanding, rapprochement and concord among the tyrannized, subjugated nations of Abyssinia, who should not fall victims of such plots.

In addition, to underscore the veracity and the accuracy of the OLF interpretation of the tragic events, we republish a related report published in the Anuak portal Anuak Media that presents the situation precisely in the same way.

We have reason to believe that the tyrannical and racist administration of the Tigray dictator, after having recently implemented tyrannical measures in Benishangul – Gumuz, tried to momentarily satisfy and neutralize the Gumuz by arming them against the Oromos. In fact, no one should believe the promises of Zenawi’s Collapsing Amhara and Tigray Cannibals.

Statement on the Wayane / TPLF Instigated Massacre of the Oromos in Western Oromia
By Oromo Liberation Front (OLF)

(http://www.ayyaantuu.com/Oromiyaa/NewsBlog/tabid/36/EntryID/2297/Default.aspx)
May 24, 2008

Once again the TPLF/ EPRDF regime has deliberately organized and instigated armed attack on the Oromo. This time the regime organized, trained, armed and unleashed militia from Gumuz, a nation in a region neighboring Oromia from the West, on wanton killings of the Oromos of East Wallaggaa, Western Oromia. This is a Crime against Humanity.

The Oromo and Gumuz peoples have lived together as good neighbors for hundreds of years. It is these neighboring peoples that the TPLF regime maliciously turned against each other causing days of violence that claimed the lives of more than 400 people, as a result of a campaign that went on from May 17, 2008 to May 19, 2008. The Gumuz militia attack on the unarmed civilian Oromos caused the death of hundreds and many more injuries and displacement of hundreds to people, and destruction of large amount of properties. The TPLF regime trained and armed Gumuz militia with AK-47 and heavy machine-guns and ordered them to commit indiscriminate killings of unarmed Oromo civilians of East Wallagaa. As a matter of the TPLF government's policy, the Oromos were disarmed and are not allowed to bear arms. The Gumuz militia attacked the unaware and unarmed civilians. Hundreds of Oromos were subjected to horrific and barbaric killings. The militia is said to be so heavily armed that the local police themselves had to flee along with the civilians. The relevant government body and armed forces were bystanders watching the massacre of the unarmed and defenseless Oromos.

Ever since it came to power, the TPLF/EPRDF regime has applied the outdated 'divide and rule' policy to weaken peoples' struggles for freedom and justice by sowing seeds of disharmony among friendly neighboring peoples. The TPLF regime's track record of the past 17 years of tyrannical rule is full of such evil intrigues that instigated bloody conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia. As a result of TPLF's machinations Oromo and Sidama, Oromo and Somali, Oromo and Gedao, Anywak and Nuer, Oromo and Amhara, Oromo and Oromo, now Oromo and Gumuz and several other people have clashed. As the result thousands of innocent lives were lost, tens of thousands of people were displaced and enormous amounts of properties were destroyed in the past 17 years. Behind all the conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia during this period, there always are the TPLF regime's security agents deliberately creating distrust and suspicion among peoples who have lived peacefully for many years as neighbors. The regime survives by creating armed conflicts among peoples in Ethiopia. Such heinous act is a crime against humanity.

For years, the OLF has been issuing warnings to all the peoples in Ethiopia in general and to the Oromo in particular to be cautious and not to fall into the trap of TPLF instigated ethnic conflict. It is sad that contrary to our early warnings, the regime succeeded in recruiting thugs from among the friendly people of Gumuz and attacked and caused the death of hundreds of innocent and unarmed population and the destruction of their properties. Only in the past weeks this regime made agreement with bio-fuel companies to misappropriate hundreds of thousands of hectares of land from that region and persecuted the local administration. The current move is to deflect the attention of the people from that scheme. We have no doubt that the TPLF regime will continue to foment similar conflicts among the peoples in Ethiopia. Therefore, all the peoples in Ethiopia need to always be vigilant and work together to foil future similar wicked acts of the minority TPLF regime.

Finally, the OLF vehemently condemns the cruel act and policies of the TPLF regime and Gumuz militia that resulted in the death and injuries of hundreds of innocent Oromos. Again we forewarn the brotherly peoples of Oromo and Gumuz in particular and all the peoples in Ethiopia in general to defy the regime's malicious divide and rule policy, unite and work together to hasten the inevitable downfall of the minority TPLF regime. At the same time, we remind the Oromo people, the victim of the minority TPLF regime's long declared all-out war of subjugation, that you are in the war of liberation, to which you have all the rights, and hence to rise and defend yourself by all means at your disposal.

Last, but not least, we call upon the international community and governments to exert all necessary pressures on the TPLF regime to desist from its inhuman and destructive policies of deliberately setting the people it purports to govern against each other. We also call on all concerned governments and international organizations to pay close attention to the crime against humanity the minority tyrannical TPLF regime is perpetrating in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in general and take remedial actions before it is too late.

Victory to the Oromo People!

Oromo Liberation Front

Ethiopia: More than 120 people were killed in western Ethiopia
By Anyuak Media

http://www.ayyaantuu.com/Oromiyaa/NewsBlog/tabid/36/EntryID/2298/Default.aspx and http://www.anyuakmedia.com/Ethionews_temp_52408.html
May 25, 2008 11:06 AM

Ethnic clashes erupted in Ethiopia between the neighboring Gumuz and Oromo leaving hundreds killed and thousands displaced in Eastern Wellag of Oromia state.

The clash started on Saturday May 18, 2008, when armed Gumuz crossed over from their regional state to Oromia State and attacked villages before day break", residents told Sudan Tribune.

Government officials have declined giving the official number of the victims of the conflict so far. Residents said that over 130 people died and about 8000 people have been internally displaced.

People died from both sides of the tribes but eyewitnesses have said, "the attacks were preplanned and nocturnal and the Oromos were caught unprepared ; as result, the majority of the people who lost their lives and whose houses were burned down with children inside were Oromos."

Oromos further accused the federal government of manipulating and arming the Gumuz to attack their neighboring Oromo over land claim.

The Oromo residents also suspect both the regional sate of Benishangul Gumuz and central government have role in arming and mobilizing the Gumuz to attack them.

Benishangul Gumuz state is located in the border with the eastern Sudan state of Blue Nile.

The federal police and Oromia regional police have not intervened to avert the armed attacks, residents claimed. They further say that the conflict is still going on and people are dying, houses and properties are being burned down daily.

For over a century, the two tribes share the same history of repression under successive Ethiopian regimes and lived together peacefully.

The Oromo are the largest single ethnic group in Ethiopia, at 32.1% of the population according to the 1994 census, and today numbering around 25 million.

They are divided into two major branches that break down into an assortment of clan families, however a number of ethnic based political organizations have been formed to promote the interests of the Oromo. Some of it seek to create an independent Oromo nation, some using armed force.

Giving a land that belongs to one group to the other to incite conflict has been seen in many neighboring Southern region since the current regime came to power in 1991. Land is also the cause of the conflict between the invading Sudanese Army in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.