Global Solidarity Protests with Murdered Oromo Student Protesters

Oromo marching in front of White House asking Barack Obama to stop massacre of Oromo by Ethiopia regime. via Oromo Press

May 10. 2014 (Revolution News) – From Washington DC to Toronto, Melbourne, London, Oslo and Johannesburg, demonstrations worldwide were held in over 30 cities demanding justice for students and residents massacred across Oromia region by Ethiopia’s TPLF army and police.

On Tuesday 29 April, an estimated 25,000 people, including residents of Ambo town in central Oromia, participated in a city wide demonstration, in the largest show of opposition to the government’s plans to date.

Ethiopian security forces opened fire on Oromo students at Jimma, Haromaya, Ambo, Wollega, Bule Hora, Madawalabu, Metu, Adama and Dire Dawa universities during peaceful protests killing at least 47 protesters, sources said. Thousands of students at all eight regional universities in Oromia, the largest of Ethiopia’s federal states, protested to demand an immediate halt to the city’s so-called “Integrated Development Master Plan,” unveiled earlier this month.

Oromo students and the wider community believe the plan is to displace farmers in the outskirts and suburban areas of the city, to meet the growing demand for land will weaken the Oromo identity.

May 9th’s solidarity demonstrations aimed at condemning the weeks-long killings, injuries, detentions of Oromo students (oft under ages) and members of the general public by Ethiopia military and federal police. From slogans  commonly carried and heard at worldwide rallies and letters submitted to members of the governments of the cities and countries mentioned, it was clear that the Oromo diaspora was not only opposed to the killings, but it was also outraged by the silence of donor governments to Ethiopia on the ongoing ethnic-cleansing targeting members of the Oromo nationality.

Oromo – Ogaden Communities Protest in Melbourne, Australia

Washington DC

Chanting with anti-Ethiopian regime slogans, carrying signs and waving flags that represent the Independence of Oromia and Ogadenia states, a joint protests by the Oromo and Ogaden communities has been underway in Australia.
The Ogaden Communities that joined with the Oromo Communities in their protests against the Ethiopian government’s killing of dozens of Oromo students spent several-hours of marching in front of the Parliament of Victoria up to federation square, the very center of Melbourne down-town, Ogaden News Agency reports.
The protesters submitted petitions requesting the Australian government to stop giving assistance to Ethiopian government when it uses the assistance as a political weapon to suppress the free press and human rights of its civilians.

DMV Rally. US stop supporting Ethiopian dictators on 09/05/2014

Oromo – Ogaden Communities Protest in Oslo, Norway

Oromo – Ogaden Communities Protest in Edmenton, Canada