Calls on all Members, Partners and Others to Participate
We, the Oromo American Citizen Council, (OACC) fully endorse the upcoming “March to Stop Genocide and Dictatorship in Ethiopia/Africa in Washington D.C., scheduled for September 13,
2009 in front of the United States Capitol.
The OACC is Human Rights Organization based in Minnesota and founded in 2002 whose mission is to educate and motivate Oromo Americans and others to participate in the social and political processes locally and nationally and to work to prevent violations of fundamental civil and political rights in Ethiopia and around the world.
We in the Oromo American Citizen Council are writing this letter to declare that we are joining our sisters and brothers of Ethiopia in the March to be held on September 13, 2009 to Stop Genocide and Dictatorship in Ethiopia/Africa and call upon all Oromo sisters and brothers, who live in Washington DC area to join this Historical march.
The OACC strongly encourage all members and partner organizations to fully participate, as able, in this coalition of like-minded groups who are seeking human rights, democracy, the rule of law, peace, unity and economic prosperity in Ethiopia and in Africa.
The “March to Stop Genocide and Dictatorship in Ethiopia/Africa;” is an event that could exert much pressure to change foreign policies towards Ethiopia and Africa so that free countries stopped supporting dictators and perpetrators of genocide and other crimes against humanity; positively altering the future of our country and of our continent.
This is a significant opportunity in the history of this struggle and the OACC will not be a bystander. Our shared goals with the objectives of this march demand our full participation. We have no excuses for the people back home, who will continue to live under tyranny, misery and hardship, if we who live in freedom, refuse to come together due to differences of ethnicity, regionalism, politics, religion, turf issues or other such differences.
For those who want to know more about the OACC and our work, please contact us or see our website http://www.oromoamerican.org/
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Queen Elen said,
September 5th, 2009 at 08:29 | #2 Reply | Quote The big story make short;
What is ethnic federalism? For Instance in the illegally and unhistorical created so called oromia (the name no one knows from where it came), lives more than 65 Ethnic groups. So, what is your Ethnic federalism(Kilil)?
First of all, this has done by group of bandits; TPLF and EPLF to express their hate towards Ethiopia, to implement anti Ethiopian foreign elements policy that assisted them for years and to take anything they want as they did and still are doing.
Kilil? What is it? What is the historical and legal justification to draw any line and calling it as a state with in a state; Ethiopia? The woyane kilil is just the kind of bandit act no more no less. We Ethiopians and the world know how Ethiopia/Abyssinia looked like even before the Gragn(a bastard Somalian agent) war( Ottoman/Arab Islam against Christian Ethiopia) in 1522EC(1529) -1536EC(1543).
With the Christian European help, the Islamic invaders were defeated from the Ethiopian soil. But the damage remained. Millions of people lived there have been killed, immigrated to the north or forced to change their religion.
This situation became the best way to the galla Migration from the corner of today’s balie. All gallas were at the time Nomads and always on the move looking grass to their animals. It was in their nature to take lands from others and keep it as their own as we see today in Northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia with some Tribes.
The mass and brutal galla Migration did able to occupy the Ethiopian highland with limited resistances as the previous war was badly affected the area and damaged the country central administration the same way as we see today in Somalia.
The Mass galla Migration took 300 years (1550-1850) and on the way many native people have been killed, forced to accept the Galla way of Life or immigrated. That is why the Oromo in central and other part of Ethiopia are naturally looks different than Oromos living in the Oromo Original territory Deep in the South and northern Kenya..
The point is that the TPLF created Kilil will never ever accepted by the Ethiopians. Ask the Sidamas about it. Ask the shewa Amharas about it. Ask kefficho and other Ethnic groups about it. 95% all disputed territories today are in the Illegally TPLF and Shabia created Oromia. 5% are in Tigry. Do you think any Gondere will accept wolqite-Tegede, Humera, Alem wuha Zuria and others its natural territory taken by little bandits like (A) Boy Sebhat who is a childish and sick individual and will be forgotten or accepted? NO.
It is about Time.
Until then, read the book called “YE GALLA Tarik written by an Ethiopian monk, Traveller, historian and writer with name Abraha who was born in the south. The book is written in 1595. Read also other world historians including Arabs who visited Ethiopia time after time mainly in the 13, 14, 15 and so on century. such as Arabs, Europeans, Chinese and so on have long contact with Ethiopia. You find in their books about the rest of Ethiopian groups in the region but not the Oromo (new name to the Gallas since 1974). The only international writer who mentioned in 1898/1906 about the Galla existence in Ethiopia was a Russian writer/traveller. In his book, you find no single work saying “Oromo”. He was calling them with the name they always had ‘Galla’ (Gada system is a corrupt word from Galla).
The point is that the Ethiopian at least the past 500 years true History will guide all Ethiopians. Not the bandit woyane and shabia Kilil and blah ..
Enjoy all oromo communities what they think of you!!!!??????
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