The festival of Irreechaa in Finfinnee is not an invasion but a return to roots. It embodies the Oromo people’s right to celebrate their culture in their own capital. Ethiopia’s unity will endure only if built on equality and mutual respect, not cultural supremacy or denial of history.
Introduction The ultimate objective of the Amhara political elite appears to be the restoration of a centralized, unitary Ethiopian state, effectively dismantling the current multinational federal arrangement and overturning the existing constitution. However, this vision is neither straightforward nor uncontested. Contrary to this centralist ambition, the diverse nations, nationalities, and peoples within the Ethiopian empire…
Ethiopia, an ailing empire, like others before it, is crumbling under its own weight. Recent events in Oromia have exposed the vulnerability and frailty of the 130 years old dilapidated empire. The bastions of the empire were totally surprised but the rest of the world seems aware of what was coming. The self-distraction of the…
JANUARY 22, 2016 By: Felix Horne, Researcher, Horn of Africa “Badessa” was a third-year engineering student in western Ethiopia in April 2014 when he and most of his classmates joined a protest over the potential displacement of ethnic Oromo farmers like his family because of the government’s plan to expand the capital, Addis Ababa, into…
The debate on the situation in Oormia & Ethiopia in the EU parliament and the resolution adopted on 21 January 2016 . Watch:
January 21, 2016 —FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—Media Contact: Anuradha Mittal, Oakland InstituteLewis Gordon, Environmental Defender Law Center Oakland, CA—With human rights as the special focus of the 26th Summit of the African Union that gets underway today in Ethiopia, the Oakland Institute and the Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC) released a new report, Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Law:…
Alarmed by the TPLF’s vicious brutality against the people of Oromia, European Parliament conducted unprecedented 28 member states emergency debate on situation in Ethiopia, summoned the Ethiopian foreign minister to Brussels, and issued, yet again its latest resolution (Full Document can be found at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+MOTION+B8-2016-0121+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN) However, the question remains will EU sanction the Ethiopian state…
What is genocide? The term “genocide” did not exist before 1944. It is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group. Is the international convention against genocide? The crime of genocide is defined in international law in the Convention on the Prevention…
