- EPRP: Stop the Harassment of Oromos

EPRP: Stop the Harassment of Oromos

Abugida - Nov 17, 2008 - The repressive regime of Meles Zenawi has been jailing, killing and disappearing several thousands of Oromos and their local leaders for many years. In fact, reports coming out of the region have been indicating to us that imprisonments, extrajudicial killings and harassments have intensified in the last several weeks. Many reports have also been indicating that the ethnocentric regime has put many thousands of our Oromo compatriots in concentration camps for several years.

The dictatorial regime of Meles Zenawi has yet to desist from perceiving political opposition as a danger to its political survival. While it proclaims, largely to its foreign audience and backers, to be ushering in a democratic chapter in the country, in actual fact, it is has been harassing the people it rules and hounding its political opponents around the clock. Its current attack of the Oromos, mainly suspected members of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), the Oromo National Congress (ONC) and the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM), are continuations of its past practices. Read More.

Related: Ginbot 7 condemns the ongoing mass detention of Oromos by the Meles dictatorship (Ginbot7.org)