IOYA Organizes a Peaceful 10,000 People March for July 26, 2007
St. Paul, MN - June 11, 2007
The International Oromo Youth Association (IOYA) has announced a peaceful 10,000 People March for Oromia to be held on July 26, 2007 in St. Paul, MN. The demonstration is to express concerns about human rights abuses in Oromia (for more details on the March - click here).
At the end of May, Amnesty International outlined in its Annual Report of 2007 that there were large-scale arrests and detentions with no due process of law in different areas of Oromia.
Another watchdog, Human Rights Watch, has also expressed concerns (in a letter addressed to the Ethiopian regime's officials) over human rights violations allegedly committed by federal police officers against students in the towns of Dembi Dollo and Ghimbi in January 2007 ...