Human Rights Archives – OROMIA TODAY

Article | Community | Human Rights | Politics | ⏭
Ambo: Cruelty in Plain Sight — Violence, Impunity, and the Political Crisis in Oromia
By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2026-04-162026-04-16
In Ambo, a shocking act of violence against young adults exposes more than individual cruelty—it reveals a growing pattern of impunity and normalized abuse across Oromia. What appears as a single incident reflects a deeper crisis, where violence is increasingly visible, accountability is absent, and fear is woven into daily life. As informal actors and unchecked forces shape events on the ground, the question is no longer whether this is isolated, but how far the pattern extends.
Read More Ambo: Cruelty in Plain Sight — Violence, Impunity, and the Political Crisis in Oromia
Article | Campaign | Human Rights | Politics | ⏭
Aabbuu Seeraa: Building Progress on Indigenous Erasure
By OROMIA TODAY Posted on2026-01-302026-01-24
In Aabbuu Seeraa, thousands of indigenous Oromo families are being displaced to build a flagship airport. Model houses are showcased to project “modernization,” while most households remain without shelter, land, or livelihood—and those who protest face detention. This is not opposition to development; it is a demand for development as a social contract. Minimum conditions are proposed for legitimacy, including housing, livelihood restoration, heritage and environmental protection, demographic sensitivity, perpetual stakeholding, and independent international assessment.
Read More Aabbuu Seeraa: Building Progress on Indigenous Erasure
Editorial | Human Rights | ⏭
The Noonnoo Massacre: A Shame That Stains Oromia and Ethiopia Alike
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-202025-10-21
1 Comment
The Noonnoo massacre has once again exposed the moral decay within Oromia’s political leadership and Ethiopia’s federal establishment. When 27 innocent lives — mostly children and the elderly — are slaughtered, yet no voice of outrage rises from those sworn to defend the people, silence becomes complicity. The tragedy is not just the massacre itself, but the cancerous indifference of leaders who have traded conscience for comfort and turned Oromia’s pain into background noise.
Read More The Noonnoo Massacre: A Shame That Stains Oromia and Ethiopia Alike
Editorial | Human Rights | Politics | ⏭
The Happy Tears of One, the Anguished Tears of Thousands
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-09-092025-09-09
Ethiopia today elevates the happy tears of an autocratic ruler above the anguished tears of thousands. As Oromia bleeds from years of massacres, displacement, and proxy wars, state media buries the truth — while in grotesque contrast, the ruler’s tears of joy receive wall-to-wall coverage. History warns us: ignored anguish always erupts into tragedy. The world must act now, before Oromia’s tears ignite into an irreversible fire.
Read More The Happy Tears of One, the Anguished Tears of Thousands
Editorial | Human Rights | Politics | ⏭
When Hundreds of Thousands Equal Zero
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-02-092025-02-09
"Believe it or not, we did not torture a single person." These were the words spoken by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister just days ago. A bold statement. A lie so audacious, so detached from reality, that it serves as the mother of all lies. The truth is written in blood and suffering. The Oromia region alone...
Read More When Hundreds of Thousands Equal Zero
Article | Campaign | Human Rights | Opinion | Politics | ⏭
When Those Who Should Protect You Become the Perpetrators
By Elemoo Qilxuu Posted on2025-02-022025-02-02
This article was part-featured in Ethio Forum's news documentary: የሽመልስ አብዲሳ የምስጢር ሠራዊት፤ ነጌኛዎቹ ወታደሮች (5 Feb 2025). What Do You Do When Power Becomes the Criminal? How do you describe the indescribable? How do you find words for a reality so twisted that it defies logic, morality, and even the most basic human decency?...
Read More When Those Who Should Protect You Become the Perpetrators
Article | Human Rights | ⏭
Not Poor But Dispossessed
By Olii Boran Posted on2024-12-012025-01-21
Excerpt: She is not poor but dispossessed. The tear-streaked face of an Oromo woman from northern Oromia, captured in a single haunting photograph, tells a story of systemic betrayal. Her sadness is not born of fate but of deliberate cruelty—of a government that abandoned her, of militias that stole her land, and of institutions that...
Read More Not Poor But Dispossessed
Human Rights
Ethiopia: Boy Publicly Executed in Oromia
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-06-112022-12-18
Ethiopia: Boy Publicly Executed in Oromia Hold Abusive Officials, Security Forces Accountable Roundabout at site of Amanuel Wondimu's execution on May 11, 2021, in Dembi Dollo town, Oromia, Ethiopia. © Nakoor Malkaa VOA (Nairobi) – Ethiopian government forces summarily executed a 17-year-old boy in Ethiopia's Oromia region in broad daylight, Human Rights Watch said today....
Read More Ethiopia: Boy Publicly Executed in Oromia
Community | Human Rights
ETHIOPIA: "BEYOND LAW ENFORCEMENT": HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY ETHIOPIAN SECURITY FORCES IN AMHARA AND OROMIA
By Staff Editor Posted on2020-06-012022-12-18
8 Comments
RESEARCH ETHIOPIA: TORTURE AND OTHER ILL-TREATMENT 29 May 2020, Index number: AFR 25/2358/2020 The political reforms introduced in Ethiopia by the incumbent government in 2018 presented the country with an opportunity to break with its abysmal human rights record marred by extrajudicial killings, torture and other ill-treatment and enforced disappearance among other serious human rights...
Read More ETHIOPIA: "BEYOND LAW ENFORCEMENT": HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY ETHIOPIAN SECURITY FORCES IN AMHARA AND OROMIA
Human Rights | News
Ethiopia: Security forces 'must face justice for horrific human rights violations' - New Report
By Staff Editor Posted on2020-05-302022-12-18
Amnesty International UK Press releases 29 May 2020 10:8am At least 10,000 people were arbitrarily arrested and detained last year as part of the government's crackdown on armed attacks and violence in Oromia Region Forces have burned homes to the ground, committed rape and extrajudicial execution in response to inter-communal violence ‘With elections on the...
Read More Ethiopia: Security forces 'must face justice for horrific human rights violations' - New Report
Editorial | Human Rights
To Heal, Ethiopia Needs to Confront its Violent Past
By Staff Editor Posted on2020-05-302022-12-18
Laetitia Bader Senior Researcher, Africa Division Click to expand Image Visitors view photos of victims of the Derg regime in Ethiopia's Red Terror Martyrs' Memorial Museum in Addis Ababa on March 4, 2014. © 2014 Eitan Simanor/Alamy Stock Photo. “I want to move on and feel a part of Abiy's Ethiopia. I want justice and...
Read More To Heal, Ethiopia Needs to Confront its Violent Past
External | Human Rights | Report | ⏭
Oromo Human Rights Campaigner Seena Jimjimo Testifies at US Congress Hearing
By Staff Editor Posted on2017-03-142025-01-21
1 Comment
Source: https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-democracy-threat-ethiopia/ To watch visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoE0ldEhM8I
Read More Oromo Human Rights Campaigner Seena Jimjimo Testifies at US Congress Hearing
Human Rights
The matter of Oromo Liberation --II--Dhimma Bilisummaa Oromoo
By Staff Editor Posted on2017-02-262022-12-18
1 Comment
By Ibsaa Guutama February 2017 The matter of Oromo Liberation Seriousness of the Oromo in demanding for their independence has started to be felt by all that have interest in and hatred for independent Oromia. As a result, scared internal and external forces are rushing to extinguish the fire of freedom. For them independent Oromia...
Read More The matter of Oromo Liberation --II--Dhimma Bilisummaa Oromoo
Community | Human Rights
Oromia’s moment of truth: The Greatest Oromo generation and the Oromia Flag
By Staff Editor Posted on2017-02-042022-12-18
1 Comment
By Leenjiso Horo, February 2017 Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. —Frantz Fanon The Greatest Oromo Generation of 1960s The great Oromo generation of 1960s chose to fulfil its mission. Its mission has been and still is the liberation of Oromia. It rejected any political line...
Read More Oromia’s moment of truth: The Greatest Oromo generation and the Oromia Flag
Human Rights
The Tigrayan fascist regime’s genocidal war against the Oromo people
By Staff Editor Posted on2017-01-032022-12-18
1 Comment
By Leenjiso Horo, January 2017 The Tigrayan fascist regime has undertaken open and hidden total genocidal war against the Oromo men, women, and children. It has been carrying out systematic, methodical, pre-planned, and centrally-organized genocidal mass massacre against the Oromo men, women and children. Our people have been and are facing the cruelest and barbarous...
Read More The Tigrayan fascist regime’s genocidal war against the Oromo people
Human Rights
OSA: Expression of Strong Opposition to the Candidacy of Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Ethiopian Foreign Minister, to Lead the World Health Organization
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-11-072022-12-18
1 Comment
October 30, 2016 Dr. Margaret Chan Executive Director, Office of the Director General, World Health Organization (WHO) From: Oromo Studies Association (OSA) Re: Expression of Strong Opposition to the Candidacy of Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Ethiopian Foreign Minister, to Lead the World Health Organization Dear Dr. Chan, On behalf of the Oromo Studies Association[1] Board of...
Read More OSA: Expression of Strong Opposition to the Candidacy of Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Ethiopian Foreign Minister, to Lead the World Health Organization

Tags Cloud