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The
Federal Government of Ethiopia terrorizing Oromo University
students - Upto 50 students 'disappear'
It
started as a simple scuffle in an ethnographic presentation
class on 22 December where a Tigre student presents
a provocative paper on the Oromo. Some of the the students
get hold of him afterwards and ask why he had to do
that, to which he replies they deserve it. A fight ensues
which is then reported to the police. The police to
be fair, treated the case as a normal day to day fight
between students and took the names of all involved
and told them (both sides) to come and report with their
cases and witnesses.
During
the course of the day, for no apparent reason 10 of
the students reported to have been in the scuffle disappear.
The rest of the Oromo student gather and go to the police
station to ask what had happened to their friends. They
get beaten up and dispersed back to their dormitories.
The
same night turns into a nightmare when Tigrean police
and security of the FDRE break into the dorms through
doors and windows terrorizing the students. Doors that
lead out of the dormitories get locked and students
from the other building cannot respond to the screams
and cries of students in the locked rooms.
Students
who were in the rooms report that they got beaten and
kicked with rifle butts, police batons and various other
materials that they were not able to identify. The men
(with the aid of the Tigre students in campus) then
proceed to look for the people whom they had come to
collect. Their list is long and comprehensive containing
the names of Oromo students nobody knows where they
got from or why. They leave with approximately 30-50
students (the exact number is not yet known).
The
Oromo community would like to ask the Federal Government
of Ethiopia where their children are and what is happening
to them and would also like the human rights commission,
the international community and the media to investigate
the case and bring it to light.
The
Oromo Students of the Addis Ababa University would also
like to take this opportunity to ask the Federal Government
of Ethiopia to stop its terrorizing activities and be
encouraged towards a democratic reign.
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