Update: Jan 30, 2011: OLA claims responsibility for killing of EPRDF agent, Habtamu Lamma, in Charchar West Hararge on Jan 25th. They have also issued a warning to all agents of the regime, saying they will suffer the same fate.
Re: The Qabsaawaa Channel
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:05 am
by Aliyyi Oromada
The Story of Qaasim Usman – better know by his nom de geurre “Nadhii Gammadaa”-
One of the benefits of his story is that it can benefit many youth living in these times, who lack substance. Or those who only strive for material gains. Born to a family of farmers of the Arsi-Oromo, Nadhii was a post secondary student in the mid 1970’s at a time when student movements were challenging the regime of Haile Selassie. When the regime was toppled in a military coup, Nadhii saw the military as merely another tool of oppression for his people, and so he went to east Hararge where Oromo guerrillas of the OLF, at that time led by Sh. AbdulKarim Ibrahim were based. He would spend the remainer of his adult life in the bush fighting the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam.
In the mid 1980’s, he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Somalia after relations between the OLF and the Siad Barre regime had improved after a long period of hostilities. The issue stemmed from the OLF’s refusal to work with the WSLF and SALF movements and accept the name “Somali Abbo”. Anyways due to the collapse of the SALF, many of its members joining the OLF, and the decline of the WSLF the Siad Barre regime decided to maintain relations with the OLF. During his brief stay in Moqdisho, an OLF member asked Nadhii about the situation in the bush, to which Nadhii gave a memorable reply:
“I am doing something, which if you offered somebody a million dollars to do, they would never do it. But I do it with happiness. It is hard when the comrade you laughed & joked with, you lived with for so long, next thing you know you are digging his grave. When the generous family which fed you yesterday, you come back the next day and you find them slaughtered and their house burned down (by the brutal regime). But what can you do.”
On another occasion he told one of his companions that after spending over a decade in the bush walking long distances with a heavy load , “I don’t even know how to walk in a city anymore”.
OLA Base camp in Hararge (1989)
After the fall of the DERG regime in May 1991, the OLF was part of the transitional gov’t. Nadhii, as a member of the central committee was responsible for getting the country ready for elections. But the TPLF was not interested in elections, and the OLF learned that lesson the hard way in June 1992 in the now infamous deal which was betrayed. Most of the OLF central committee packed their suitcases & fled the country, abandoning the army. However Nadhii, rejoined the armed wing. The circumstances surrounding his death are not clear, but it is believed that he was killed in the fighting in the Summer of 1992.
Translation: On Febuary 7th 2011, OLA unit attacked a police station in the town of Awwadaay in the neighbourhood called Bashiir. The police force suffered heavy losses. As usual in response they have resorted to arresting and harassing civilians.
Translation: On the night of Feb 18 2011, OLA units attacked an Ethiopian army base stationed near Khombolcha town. In this attack 19 Ethiopian troops were killed and atleast 25 were wounded. The camp was said to be completely destroyed. Khombolcha town is 12 km north of Harar city.
In other news near on Feb 5th 2011 near the city of Dirre Dhawa, at the place called Mannaafashaa, a vehicle carrying Ethiopian soldiers sent to the area to harass civilians hit a landmine, in which 15 soldiers were killed and many wounded. The OLA in Harargee says they will continue their actions.
Also in response to the uprisings in North Africa and other places, the Ethiopian regime is sending more spies into the population across the country. The OLA says they will punish these agents.
Translation: On the 17th of Febuary 2011, just before dawn in the district of Jaarso, in the area of the Abbayyaa River of North Shawa Zone, soldiers belonging to a so called commando group of the regime stationed in the area for an offensive were attacked by OLA, leaving 9 dead and atleast 11 wounded.
On March 2nd 2011, in East Harargee Zone in the Mullata Mountains at Laga Areer, an offensive by Ethiopian troops was repelled by OLA, killing 8 and wounding 5 soldiers of the regime. A large quantity of small arms were recovered from the soldiers.
Re: The Qabsaawaa Channel
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:04 am
by bareento
Just a little precision, Abbayyaa river is the Blue Nile.
Its historic and natural border between Tuulamaa Oromo(showa) and the funny and nverthless noble Gojjamees (known by their affectionnate nick Goojjee).
B.
Re: The Qabsaawaa Channel
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:08 pm
by Aliyyi Oromada
News from back home. OLA/WBO has been present on the major highway in east Hararge south east of Dirre Dhawa. There was an incident where they set up a roadblock on the highway, checking vehicles. They pulled a person from one of the vehicles and executed them on the side of the road. It seems like they were looking for particular EPRDF cadres. Anyways, the highways have been declared “unsafe”.
Re: The Qabsaawaa Channel
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:00 pm
by Aliyyi Oromada
(Madda Oduu ABO/MOA/Bitootessa 14,2011)Akka gabaasaa nu dhaqqabeetti, Humni addaa WBO Bitootessa 4 bara 2011 Godina Harargee Bahaa Magaalaa Gursum biratti tarkaanfii battalaa loltoota wayyaanee irratti fudhateen 2 ajjeesee jira.
On March 4th 2011, OLA killed 2 Ethiopian soldiers near the town of Gursum, East Hararge.
Frustrated Meles purges Oromo slaves
(JT) During an annual conference of the ruling party bloc Oromo Peoples Democratic Organization (OPDO), over 120 top government officials were suddenly arrested by security forces of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, according to a local newspaper. This has led to the dismissal of nearly half the cabinet members of the regional government of Oromia.
The OPDO Oromo officials were accused of being disloyal to the Meles government.
Based on the reunification agreement signed on September 27, 2010, the OLF Unification Committee held its meeting from March 8-12, 2011. The Committee has successfully completed the steps necessary to resolve the internal differences that have sapped the energy and resources of our people over the last three years. Accordingly, we are happy to announce that the basis for the reconciliation of OLF is finalized.
According to Ethiopia's main opposition coalition Medrek - composed of eight mostly regionally-based parties - several of its member parties have experienced a wave of arrest this week. At least 250 opposition members remain in detention, they claim.
Most of the detainees were said to be from the Oromo People's Congress (OPC) and the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM), two Medrek coalition partners. The OPC and OFDM are from Ethiopia's central Oromia region, which surrounds the capital, Addis Ababa.
The Medrek leadership reports that at least 217 OFDM members and 40 OPC members have been arrested during the week and that the whereabouts of most of them still were unknown.
At the same time, there are unconfirmed reports that at least 150 key members of the Oromo People's Democratic Organization (OPDO), a member of Ethiopia's ruling coalition, have been arrested on corruption charges during the same time.
Ethiopian opposition figures put all these arrests in connection with the repeated calls for Egypt-like mass protests and riots. Many of these calls have come from the key Oromia region, with the outlawed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) repeatedly calling on Ethiopian to unite and overthrow the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
Indeed, there is a growing movement calling for mass protests in Ethiopia, inspired by the North African revolutions. Two youth groups are calling for nationwide protests on 20 May.
The latest news from East Hararge: Atleast 46 Ethiopian troops killed and wounded
March 12/2011 - Mullata Mountains, Mayyu Mulluqqe district, in the area of Gaara Wallo an OLA attack on EPRDF left 6 killed, at least 18 wounded
March 17 - Baabbile town, an OLA attack on an EPRDF military camp left 14 killed, atleast 7 wounded.
March 19 - (Special Force) Dirre Dhawa town, in the Addis Katama neighbourhood a senior EPRDF cadre was killed by the OLA ‘special force’ (humna addaa), which are urban guerrilla units.
Source: SBO/VOL Radio March 23/2011
Re: The Qabsaawaa Channel
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:28 am
by St8OuttaDirree
Re: The Qabsaawaa Channel
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:48 pm
by Aliyyi Oromada
OLA Special Force unit operating in Northern Shoa zone, Hidhabu Abote county [woreda] around Jamai river at a place called Salal Gulla has attacked a Woyane police force unit, dispatched to evict local farmers from their land, instantly killing a police commander, named Inspector Zelalem Eshetu and severely wounding another police named Girma Boggale.
Diinni dhalootan lammii Tigraay tahe kun yeroo dheertuf bakkoota adda addatti gara jabinaan ilmaan Oromoo irratti tarkaanfiilee ajjeechaa, ukkaamsanii dhabamsiisu fi hidhaa seeran alaan irratti banuun nama yakka ol’aanaa hojjataa ture akka tahes ummanni naannichaa mirkaneesseera.
On March 24th 2011, OLA Special force operating around Dirre Dhawaa at Dhangaggoo, killed a criminal high ranking Tigrayan officer named Ezekial Gabru and sent him to the fire of hell insha’allah.
Re: The Qabsaawaa Channel
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:58 am
by Aliyyi Oromada
Ethiopia to charge 121 prisoners with terrorism
By Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's government on Thursday said it was preparing to charge more than 100 prisoners with terrorism and dismissed calls by a rights groups to release them immediately.
The government said it had arrested 121 people in March and accused them of being members of the outlawed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) rebel group.
Campaign group Human Rights Watch said the arrests were part of a government crackdown on opposition campaigners from Ethiopia's Oromo ethnic group.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is Washington's closest ally in the Horn of Africa but has come under increasing criticism from rights groups accusing him of crushing dissent.
Opposition officials in the capital Addis Ababa who did not want to be named told Reuters they suspected the arrests were motivated by government fear of a public uprising.
Ethiopia's government defended the arrests and said there was no limit to how long the suspects could be held as long as they were regularly remanded by the courts.
"They are being held on suspicion of OLF membership while prosecutors prepare charges against them for terrorist activities," government spokesman Shimeles Kemal told Reuters.
"Ethiopia has the right to defend itself against terrorism and these groups have no right to question that ... Nobody was arrested only for involvement in opposition politics," he added.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told parliament on Tuesday that some "terrorists" were using membership of political parties to cover up their activities.
He said Eritrea was stepping up attempts to destabilise Ethiopia by arming rebel groups including the OLF.
The OLF has been fighting since 1993 for more autonomy for the Oromia region. The Oromo are Ethiopia's biggest ethnic group with 27 million out of a population of 80 million.
Oromia produces most of the coffee in Africa's biggest grower, along with oil seeds, sesame and livestock, which are all key exports.
Human Rights Watch said Ethiopia had arrested more than 200 Oromos since March.
"The authorities should immediately free the Oromo opposition members unless they can bring credible charges against them," the New York-based group said in a statement.
Opposition parties said their supporters had been arrested in recent weeks.
"We have more than 80 people detained since mid-March," Merera Gudina, leader of the Oromo People's Congress, told Reuters. "The government, however, says they are members of the OLF. The arrests are ongoing."
The main opposition coalition, Medrek, last week named 68 Oromos it said were being held without charge because of their political affiliations.
In other news, reported Apr. 3 2011 - In west Shawa, Chaaliya district, an Ethiopian gov’t official, Lammaa Waggaari, responsible for expelling Oromo students suspected of opposing the ruling party, was killed when a bomb was thrown into house by unknown assailants.
