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Joint Statement by UOPLF, OLF, IFLO, and OLC A new wave of mass arrest and harassment in Oromia Successive Ethiopian regimes oppressed, exploited and harassed the Oromo people. The scale and magnitude of oppression against the Oromo people by the incumbent Wayane regime has no parallel. This government actively engaged in systematic genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Oromo people. Oromos are physically being killed just because of their ethnic background. Besides looting and siphoning all moveable properties and resources of Oromia to Tigray region, the Wayane have burnt the natural environment of Oromia. Prominent Oromo individuals, intellectuals, civil servants, businessmen/women, students and teachers are being killed, arrested, kidnapped, and harassed for no crime committed. Oromo sons are used as mine sweepers and human wave in the unjust wars that the Wayane regime generated to consolidate its rule and to suppress the struggle oppressed nations and nationalities in the country and to destabilize the region as whole The Wayane regime is employing the old tactic of divide and rule and is consciously instigating animosity between the Oromo people and the neighboring peoples. In less than ten years since it came to power Wayane had made futile attempts to create conflicts between Oromo and Issa, Oromo and Ogaden, Oromo and Sidama, Oromo and Gedeo, Borana Oromo and Garri Oromo. To saw seeds of conflict between Oromo people and neighboring peoples, the Wayane purposely demarcates Oromo territory to be included in neighboring peoples. This is a double-sided crime against the Oromo people. Wayane is planting mines that will explode in the future if not held carefully and it is also meant to chop up Oromia piece by piece and finally erase it from the map. The latest development is the total detachment of Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) which is the umbilical cord of Oromia. Currently, on the issue of Finfinnee, the Wayane has resorted to the use of force to intimidate and silence the anger of our people. There is a new wave of mass arrest and harassment all over Oromia& Wayane regime driven by desperation and hopelessness is arresting prominent Oromo individuals, intellectuals, businessmen/women and students to quell the peaceful demonstration and resistance of our people. The evil intention of this action is to incapacitate the struggle of Oromo people to gain what is forcefully taken away from them. The current wave of mass arrest and harassment has targeted influential Oromo individuals. Many are arrested in the past week and tens of thousands are being tortured in prisons by the brutal Ethiopian security forces with a special hatred for the Oromo people. Today our people are living in an atmosphere of total fear and terror. There is no rule of law and justice in Ethiopia. We condemn this action of Wayane and demand the release of all Oromo arrested without any crime committed. We want to tell the Wayane that arrest, harassment and intimidation of Oromo people won't curb the progress of the struggle. Likewise, we want to warn those Oromo currently working with the government that the next wave of mass arrest will definitely target them. The only way-out of this condition is by intensifying the national liberation struggle and freeing Oromia from all forms of oppression We hereby appeal to the international community to stand by us in our struggle for freedom and justice. We call upon all governments humanitarian organizations and peace loving individuals to exert all necessary pressures on the Wayane regime to respect the human rights of the Oromo people and to release all Oromos who are languishing in the prisons of Ethiopia. Above all, we call upon the Oromo people to strengthen their unity and step up their covert and overt resistance against Ethiopian government and show to the enemy that harassment arid tenor cannot deter the Oromo people from its struggle. Unity
is Strength!! United
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