London International Oromo Culture & History Workshop (July 7th, 2007)

The purpose of the workshop is, thus, to illuminate the History of the Oromo Nation and more importantly [to] bring together scholars and researchers in Oromo Culture and History to share their knowledge and expertise with the audience to enhance the knowledge of the Oromos [and others] about their cultural heritage and history. Full Text

OSA Must Continue to Function as an Independent Scholarly ... - A Follow Up

Given the full determination of a well financed dubious political group to keep the association [OSA] under its control, the odds that OSA can be reinstated back to its scholastic stature any time soon, unless we rally genuine OSA scholars to intervene is virtually impossible. For us personally and as we declared before, membership in OSA remains no longer an option so long as the association lives outside the limits of universally accepted code of scholarly conduct. Full Text

OSA Must Continue to Function as an Independent Scholarly ...

To members of Oromo Studies Association (OSA)

We the undersigned members of the OSA and past officers would like to inform members at large, and other genuine Oromos, and friends of the Oromo about a very ominous concern over the path which our Scholarly Association has taken during the past one year. This tragic episode has severely compromised the credibility of OSA as a scholarly association. This statement is intended to provide you with evidences in order for you to take necessary actions and join us in the struggle to reinstate OSA as a scholarly Oromo organization. Full Text

The Oromo People and Acts of Genocide Against Them

"The recurrent famine in Oromia is a consequence of the ruling Ethiopian regime's policy of genocide against the Oromo people. The TPLF regime has been pursuing environmentally harmful policies in Oromia since it seized power in 1991. With total disregard for the long-term environmental consequences, the government has been awarding contracts to investors. These investors are undertaking unregulated mining and mechanized farming in ecologically sensitive and vulnerable areas. The regime has also adopted from its predecessor, the Dergue, the policy of massive resettlement on Oromo land with wanton disregard for the ecosystem."
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To whom it may concern: Letter from expelled Finfinnee (A.A) University students (Feb. 14, 2004)

" They wanted to demonstrate that Oromos, and their children are against the law and irresponsible. In the history of this country, Oromos and their children never had a propensity to damage public property let alone publicly declaring that they do such act as the Government media has tried to portray us. No group in Ethiopia can legitimately claim to be more protective of the property of Ethiopian people than Oromo people and its children. The Oromos are known in this country as the most law-abiding and tolerant citizens." Full text

In Praise of Mother Earth: Traditional Oromo Poem

Liberating the Oromo People For Stability, Peace, and Development  In the Horn of Africa - A lasting peace, stability and development cannot be achieved in the Horn of Africa until and unless the tyranny of current Ethiopian regime is brought to an end. Full Text

Ethiopian System of Domination and Consequences
Analysis by Abiyu Geleta: Just as Haile Selassie's regime used modernization as a code word for consolidation of Menelik's empire, and the Dergue regime tried to use Marxism-Leninism to maintain Abyssinian domination, the TPLF regime found democratisation to have a useful currency as a code word for its agenda of domination. Full Text

Ethiopian Aggression on the border town of Moyale, Kenya - The Borans of Kenya have been victims of widespread harassment, murder, torture, and detentions without trial and unexplained disappearances at the hands of Ethiopian government soldiers. This recurring incidents have convinced many Boran leaders in Kenya that the Ethiopian agents are after the elimination of Borans both in Kenya and Ethiopia. Full Text

On the Oromo Factor in the Ethiopian-Eritrean War
Comment by H.Q. Loltu: For people who think that Ethiopia has become a democracy in the years since the Tigray have come to power, Ethiopia’s behavior in the current war with Eritrea is completely baffling. Recent press releases have quoted the mediators who were sent to broker a peace agreement as calling it "stupid" and saying that it is "Africa's most senseless war." There are many aspects that do not seem to make sense. Full Text

Questions of accountability for the Ethiopian-Eritrean war
Comment by Nagawo Taabor: "After the dust of the war settles, after jingoism wears out, after adrenaline drops to its normal level, and after all the cost of the war -- both in terms of human life and material destruction are accounted for -- there will even be more questions of accountability that those who led all of us to this abominable state of affairs will have to answer." Full Text

The Oromo People in Search of Just Peace
The Oromo constitute the largest Cushitic group in all of Africa. Their population is estimated at some 30 million, a good half of the total population of the Ethiopian state. Despite policies persistently followed by successive autocratic governments of Ethiopia in the past to change the demographic composition of regions through resettlement schemes and forced assimilation, each national group has maintained a distinct cultural identity of its own with its own language and its own separate and well-defined territory throughout the millennia. Full Text

Letter from the Oromo Communities in North America to H.E. Mr. Kofi Anan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
The TPLF soldiers are the law unto themselves.  In short, there is no rule of law in Oromia where our people are subjected to arbitrary arrests, prolonged detention without trial and due process of law and frequently  subjected to extrajudicial execution. Full Text