From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Mar 09 2009 - 16:22:18 EST
More than 80 Oromo Students Arrested and Under Severe Beating in Bahir Dar
University.
(OLF News, March 8, 2009) The brutal Woyane regime of Ethiopia once again
targeted the Oromo students learning at colleges and universities of the
Empire and arrested over 80 Oromo students from Bahir Dar university alone
OLF News correspondent reported from Finfinnee (Addis Ababa). The Ethiopian
government ordered their gun men, brutally beaten many Oromo students and
arrested over 80 of them simply because they peacefully requested that some
individuals who are obsessed with throwing derogatory remarks over the Oromo
Nation should be brought to justice according to the law of the land.
OLF News reporters added that the Woyane government's Federal police and
security forces are still searching to apprehend more Oromo students in
Bahir Dar which is the capital city of the Amhara regional state. It has to
be noted that almost all of the Oromo students who are now assigned to the
Amhara regional state for university education were educated in Afan Oromo
and English alone, and hence do not speak Amharic at all, and even those who
can barely speak Amharic can easily be identified and are seen as aliens in
the Bahir Dar town and in the entire Amhara regional state. Consequently,
the students have nowhere to escape and are being brutally beaten by the
forces of the regime in their dormitories. Our report added that many female
students have also been brutally beaten and thrown into jail. Those who are
wounded are left with out any medical treatment the report added.
The Oromo students in Bahir Dar University appealed to governmental,
non-governmental and humanitarian organizations in general and to the Oromo
people in particular to raise their voices on their behalf and rescue their
lives.
Meanwhile one student was killed and many others wounded and thrown into
jail in Gedo high school Western Shoa zone of Oromia regional state when
high school students protested against a similar derogatory remarks thrown
to the Oromo nation. Stay tuned with OLF News for the details of this
report.
It is to be recalled that the current TPLF led Ethiopian government is
notoriously known for harassing Oromo students for asking the right of the
Oromo nation. Several hundreds of students were killed and tens of thousands
jailed and brutalized since 2005 when a popular protest known as "Revolt
Against subjugation" or "Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa", which had rocked the
entire Oromia regional state, flared up and continued all over Oromia for
about two years.
It is also to be recalled that the Ethiopian government discriminately
dismissed 330 Oromo students in 2004 for peacefully protesting the decision
made by the so called Oromia regional state, which is a puppet of the TPLF
led government, to move the capital of Oromia from Finfinnee to Adama.
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