Human Rights Abuse in the Horn of
Africa
 Saturday,
30 August 2008 Ethiopia-Torture and Extrajudicial
Killings There are reports of torture and unlawful
killings by Ethiopian security agents around the
border and in side the country.
1. Sheik Mohamed Kalif Shafi, age 68, born in
eastern Harerge, Kombolch/Falana town, was killed
by the Ethiopian army personnel in the Ethio- Somalia
border town of Bombasi, HRLHA reporter reported.
Sheik Mohamed Kalif was an Ethiopian Oromo who
had been in Somaliland for over 30 years. He recently
traveled to Ethiopia to visit his relatives in Eastern
Hararge, Kombolcha/Falana town. According to HRLHA
reporter in Somaliland, Sheik Mohamed was killed
by hanging by Ethiopian army, in a military camp
found in the border town of Bombasi on his way back
to Somaliland. Besides, Sheik Mohammed was severely
tortured by the members of the Ethiopian army before
he was killed by hanging, according to HRLHA reporter.
The Ethiopian army in the area, who exrtrajudicially
killed Sheik Mohamed Kalif, has been trying to convince
the public that Shek Mohamed committed suicide.
2. Abdii Umar Alii, age 15, was killed by Ethiopian
soldiers in Awady town, Eastern Hararge in Ethiopia
on August 13, 2008. According to HRLHA reporter,
on the same day, 12 other civil Ethiopians were
killed in a car by Ethiopian soldiers between Harar
and Jijiga towns while driving from Wachale to Harar.
The reason for the Killing was unknown.
Sudan;- Detention and Torture
Among the Oromo refugees currently living in
Sudan, Khartoum, the following Oromos have been
being held in a Sudanese detention center for more
than six months:
1. Marqos Goobana
Gambel
2. Tamam Fiqkadu
Dugasa
3. Mohamed Umar
4. Sharafu Mohamed
5. Tamam Negasa
According to HRLHA reporter in Khartoum, the
Oromo refuges were abduted by the Sudanee security
agents and exposed to severe torture before they
were sent to the detention centre. Among them, Tamam
Negassa is still being held in prison under harsh
condition.
HRLHA highly condemns the unlawful killings of
civilians by the Ethiopian military personnel and
Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA)
is also highly concerned about the safety and security
of all refugees residing in Sudan. It urges other
human rights agencies (local, regional and international)
to join hands with it and condemn these illegal
and inhuman acts of both the Ethiopian and the Sudan
governments against defenseless citizens and refugees.
It also requests governments of the West and other
international organizations to interfere so that
the safety and security of those refugees would
be secured.
The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa/HRLHA
is a non-political organization which attempts to
challenge abuses of human rights of the peoples
of various nations and nationalities in the Horn
of Africa.
HRLHA is aimed at defending fundamental human
rights including freedoms of thought, expression,
movement and organization. It is also aimed at raising
the awareness of individuals about their own basic
human rights and that of others. It has intended
to work on the observances as well as due processes
of law. It promotes the growth and development of
free and vigorous civil society
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Baga asdhuftan jechaa, mee dhaamsa keeysan
nuuf ergaa, akka daran isiniif qophii balifnu. Galatoomaa!
MISSION
The central mission of FIDO
is to utilize all necessary means recognized by United
Nations General Assembly to liberate the Oromia people
from the political tyranny and domination of Ethiopian
government, so that the people of Oromia can exercise
their inalienable right for self-determination
VISION
- To evolve Oromia nationalism that
is based on one indivisible nation with one destiny.
- To establish a democratic society that is founded
on Gada democracy, which promotes liberty,justice,
and rule of law.
- To create a socio-political order that
guarantees the peaceful co-existence of different
religions and the right for freedom of worship.
- To have a policy that recognizes and respects
the rights of minority nationalities
INTERNAL STRIVES AMONG THE LIBERATION FORCES FOR OROMIA
- The Abyssinian colonization remains confusing not only to outsiders but also
to the Oromians themselves. This is because Abyssinian colonization is
black-on-black political domination, which is different from white-on-black
political domination that is carried out by rich European colonial powers.
- Right from the start of modern struggle for the liberation of Oromia, there
were groups of Oromians who believed the Oromian question was not a colonial
one. They preferred to go under the banner of Ethiopia. This issue remains a
fundamental cause of internal conflict among the liberation forces of Oromia.
- It is very unfortunate that the division among the political organizations
that represent the people of Oromia had at some point led to
inter-organizational violent confrontations that caused the loss of many
innocent lives. This situation has contributed to perpetuate the Abyssinian
colonial presence in Oromia.
- Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa and his fellow liberation forces have encountered setbacks
several times and to be forced to take different routes to save the struggle
from faltering.
- In 1978 a group of Oromos with different outlook joined the liberation force
formed in Eastern Oromia and tried to destablize it. Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa,
Mul’is, Bookee and few other leaders and founders of the liberation force were
forced to out of the unit they had formed in Eastern Oromia.
- Jaarraa and few others after leaving Oromia regrouped and formed Islamic
Front for the Liberation of Oromia. It was intended to check against the
infiltration of those who do not believe in Oromian independence struggle and
want mend fences with Ethiopia government.
- Forty years after our struggle, it is expected that the liberation movement
should have matured to a point where groups and people with differing
world-views can function with each other for a common goal.
- As a result of this, our organization is adopting more inclusive name by
abandoning the name, IFLO, which has served the liberation movement a great
deal.
THE QUESTION OF LIBERATION OF OROMIA
- The liberation struggle of the people of Oromia against successive Ethiopian
regimes cannot be characterized as “an internal civil strife, banditry,
terrorism, and a civil war”. It is a struggle of people under alien domination -
- The legitimacy and validity of the people of Oromia right of
self-determination is based on the fact that the people are under foreign
domination.
- Article one of resolution 2649(XXV) of the United Nations General Assembly
recognizes the right of dependent peoples to “use any means at their disposal”
to restore to themselves their legitimate right.
- The people of Oromia’s demand for self-determination is not a question of
secession from a country with whom they have willfully integrated.
- It is not also a matter of a periphery struggling for decentralization or
devolution of power from a central government. It is a demand by the people of
Oromia to restore the sovereignty taken away from them by the Abyssinian
conquest and to freely determine their own political status.
- The people of Oromia are culturally and linguistically distinct and
territorially separate from the Abyssinians who dominate them. Their demand does
not, therefore, violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Abyssinia-cum-Ethiopia.
- The people of Oromia have never been meaningfully represented in the
Ethiopian political process. In fact, there has never been a moment in the
political history of the Ethiopian empire-state when the state possessed a
government representing the “whole people”.
- The population is never given any opportunity to freely express its
political will.
- The demand of Oromia people for self-determination is not an internal affair
of Ethiopia in the same way as the demand of the three Baltic States of Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania for self-determination was not an internal affair of Russi
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