Sohel Ajani It all started in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini returned from Paris to Tehran after the exile of US backed Reza Shah and declared Iran as Islamic Republic after the huge public referendum. The then puppet ruler of Iran, Reza Shah, was an open puppet of US and has allowed the US embassy to perform without any restrictions in the nation. After the exile of Shah, revolutionary youths of the country invaded the US embassy, also known as ‘Den of Spies‘.
The tense ties between the Islamic Republic and The US are still bitter and constantly kept world on toes. After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the US & its allies are constantly trying to topple the Iranian regime through any means. Initially they exerted the physical pressure in the form of attach from Saddam Hussein Regime from Iraq. They support the evil regime of Saddam Hussein openly and provided it with sophisticated weapons to harm the newly formed independent republic.
Eight years war crumpled the Iranian economy where debts were on rise and falling value of currency. With all this, the economic sanction imposed by the US government played spoil sport for the already crunching economy. However, the nation resisted and shown its real strength behind its leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.
Soon after the end of 8 years Iran — Iraq war; in 1989 nation lost its founder strong man, Ayatollah Khomeini. This served as major setback to the Iranian nation and the west started believing that the end of regime is close. These calamities turned as blessings for the striving nation in the form of leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
Iranian Revolution 1979 Fall of a Shah 1 of 10 — BBC Documentary
The stunned West is constantly trying to downgrade the development cycle of Islamic Republic through economic sanctions, media war, spreading Iranophobia, etc. However it seems the psychological warfare is giving no positive results to west.
In recent developments, Israel is constantly warning Iran about its peaceful nuclear activities which Tehran says are meant for generating electricity and treatment of cancer patients; however Israel and West claims that it’s intended towards generation of nuclear war heads.
The latest report from IAEA (Nuclear watchdog of UN) says that there is something fishy going on in Iran in regards to nuclear development. Iran slammed this report saying its influenced by west. However, following this report, west has imposed another round of sanctions followed by other European and Asian countries like Japan.
This is one side of the scenario, however the conditions on the side of Iran is very happening. The Arab uprisings in Middle East have toppled many of the western puppet regimes like Tunisia, Egypt & Libya. And some other puppet regimes are still trying to control the uprisings in their countries; such as Bahrain & Yemen. In such scenario, other Arab monarchies can’t go directly in favor of west inviting the public uproar.
With all this, the ongoing financial crisis in Europe is acting like a trend breaker in the Western policy. The “Occupy Movement” in the US, which is actually a people’s movement, is unexpected by anyone and is a major shock for the US administration. We have seen it in the recent media pictures & videos, how the police and state are trying to control the ongoing high profile people’s uprising in western countries.
This is not the end. The actual dent in US & European economy is very visible. The natural awareness spread through the tools which the west has developed has made people much aware about the actual crises at the core of Capitalist system. Today, everyone knows the intentions of US & UK behind the attack of Iraq & Libya. This has also hampered the position of west and turned the sentiments of common people away from them.
Israel, the western puppet in the region, is constantly raising the voice over attack on Iran with the help of US. However, after the capture of drone in eastern Iranian province, Israel has to change its stand. Now we can see this kind of news in media:
Not to miss, the capture of drone by Iranian military holds a major importance in this psychological warfare. Till today, US drone technology considered as very sophisticated & holds very important position in the military field. Iranians not only captured the drone unaffected but also proved their superiority by capturing the most sophisticated US weapon till now. Best thing in this operation was the use of electronic waves to make the drone land.
President Obama asked the Iranians to return the captured drone and that also without any apology; this has created uproar in the social media where the Iranian supporters utilized this opportunity to make fun of the US administration.
West also knows that the war with Iran is not a war with any arrogant regime or war with a dictator like Saddam or Gaddafi, however, it’s a war of Ideology. The US can kill people, invade country and install the puppet regime, however they can’t replace the powerful stronger with the weaker one.
The US & the West is trying its level best to shake the foundations of Islamic Republic by economic sanctions, psychological pressure of attack from Israel, installing missile shield in Turkey, by removing Iranian supporters like regime of Assad from Syria, attacking Hamas & Hezbollah, etc. However Iranians are replying by their simple actions.
They can change the puppet regime, however changing the concept and deep rooted ideology of martyrdom & sacrifice is not possible for west.
History of U.S. Intervention in Iran — 1953 Until Present
Columnist – John Sammon Obama has severely disappointed me but the thought of the other side regaining the throne and running wild exorcising our dwindling rights and presiding over the collapse of America into a hopelessly debtor, middle-classless, unemployed police-state end-of-the-Roman-Empire type monstrosity makes me want to puke.
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You’ve got to hand it to the wretches and fanatics in the Middle East. They managed to freak America out so much that we’re throwing our rights in the trash can. The Bill of Rights. Earlier this week President Obama authorized the drone bombing of an American Al-Qaeda member in Yemen.
Let’s agree this guy is bad and deserved to be killed. It’s still yet another extension of presidential power that never ends. Names are added to lists and people targeted. How soon before someone who is innocent is taken out?
Taken out by mistake because his name appeared on an enemies list.
Do you feel safer?
Secret camps where prisoners are tortured, wiretap spying under the Patriot Act, drawing up lists of subversives. Just like the McCarthy era of the 1950s. We’re throwing away who we supposedly are in the interest of making us safe.
Obama is a one-term president. He can’t stimulus-fix the economy, which is set to tailspin into another recession. The boom days are over and the American people, many of whom were never comfortable with a first black president in the first place, are angry. Americans will forgive an immoral war, they will ignore one million Iraqis killed over false weapons of mass destruction.
They will ignore a diminution of their rights because they don’t even know what their rights are.
And even if they did know, they don’t care.
They’ll ignore and forget everything, except being out of work. They’ll blame Obama for it, who will have to run in 2012 on a negative-oriented, “things will be worse if you elect the Republicans” election. Americans won’t listen to that.
When things are bad, whoever’s in gets thrown out.
And the Middle East. Well that’s war forever. First, we had the weapons of mass destruction scam, then Operation Iraqi Freedom (it isn’t true freedom if a government is imposed by force the people themselves didn’t select). Then we had the Surge. The newest scam from the secret government is the “Drawdown.”
Here’s how it works. Like promising weapons of mass destruction that aren’t there to sell you on the idea of war, the government uses the word “Drawdown” to convince you our occupation is ending in the Middle East. Some troops are actually shipped home, giving you the idea the war is coming to an end.
It isn’t.
Troops are shipped home, new ones come over, troops are rearranged, put on border areas, peripheries, whatever. It’s a smoke-and-mirror game to keep you docile. It doesn’t take much because you were docile to begin with. You don’t care. You’re safer, at least you think.
What’s that clicking? Somebody wiretapping my phone because of my political leanings. Somebody studying my internet searches (all those porno adult websites) to discredit me because of my political beliefs.
It doesn’t matter. I’m safer this way.
Five years from now you’ve forgotten all about it, and we’re still occupying parts of the Middle East.
The American people don’t care. Our economy is going down the drain and we’re spending billions each week nation-building and police-actioning countries in the Middle East while our roads and schools rot, and the American people, like a bunch of sheep, go along.
Say “Baaaah!”
In an earlier column I asked readers of Politicalarticles.net if they thought the America of Richard Nixon, of the Silent Majority, the country of lies and cover-ups and covert actions was the real America, and not that of the hippies or anti-war protestors.
The hippies, often selfish, loud, slobbish and spoiled, at least had enough decency to try and obstruct a system that had gone wrong and was in trouble.
I said then it was clear Nixon’s America was America, and still is.
Obama has severely disappointed me but the thought of the other side regaining the throne and running wild exorcising our dwindling rights and presiding over the collapse of America into a hopelessly debtor, middle-classless, unemployed police-state end-of-the-Roman-Empire type monstrosity makes me want to puke.
There’s only one thing Obama can do, that leaders from time immemorial have done who are in trouble and need to take people’s minds off their domestic problems.
By: Gwada Ogot “Something startles where I thought I was safest most“– the famous philosophical words of doubt expressed by George Lamming in his Caribbean classic, “In the Castle of My Skin.”(Ann Arbor Paperback)
From recent patterns of events globally, “something indeed startles.”
Our world seems ensnared in a reign of catastrophe and turmoil, and where none exists, it lurks with intent. The root causes universally relate to matters governance, religion, ethnicity and economics in addition to natural disasters.
Media headlines candidly voice death, destruction, revolutions, public unrest, poverty, hunger, crime, inflation, disease and anxiety. Regimes world over, hardly sit pretty courtesy of rumbles beneath.
Northern hemisphere nation, Japan, recently suffered a colossal earthquake– one of the biggest ever recorded at an 8-9 magnitude. With it came a high cost on human life– 28,550 dead or missing with 10,901 confirmed deaths and 17,649 reported missing. Insurance industry losses from compensation and retrocession likewise calculate to $25–35 billion. In Miyagi alone, the debris pile is roughly 15 to 18 million tons, an equivalent of 23 years waste. Experts say it will take up to three years to clear the debris, excluding cars and boats.
In its wake, a Tsunami cracked a nuclear plant raising prospects of a nuclear alert. Sample readings of radioactive water from around the reactor buildings computed high levels of radioactive iodine at 3,355 times the legal limit. The blow was so strong it affected weather patterns right through to Eastern Africa.
Likewise, tensions between the two Koreas simmer after the North torpedoed a Southern vessel killing 46 people. Subsequent peace talks have borne no fruit and a full scale war looms after the Pyongyang regime fired 50 heavy artillery shells on to an island off South Korea’s northwest coast, killing two marines, injuring 17 personnel and three civilians, and torching 60 civilians’ homes. The South in response fired back 80 shells into North Korea and scrambled F-16 fighter jets to protect its airspace.
In Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has pre-empted a public onslaught by acknowledging regional cries for reform and promised changes. Pro-Kurdish activists however accuse him of insincerity claiming he has ignored similar calls from his country’s Kurdish minority. As a result, they too have embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience to push for improved cultural and political rights for Kurds.
According to the CIA World Fact book, Kurds comprise 20% of the population in Turkey, 15–20% in Iraq, 8% in Syria 7% in Iran and 1.3% in Armenia. In all of these countries except Iran, Kurds form the second largest ethnic group. Roughly 55% of the world’s Kurds live in Turkey, about 18% each in Iran and Iraq, and a bit over 5% in Syria.
Based on the facts, fears of a Kurdish uprising are real. On 3nd April 2011, in neighboring Iran, four officers were killed in an attack on a police station near a Kurdish town close to the Iraqi border. Clashes between Iranian government forces and Kurdish rebels like the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, or PEJAK, which says it fights for greater rights for Iran’s Kurdish minority not new.
Middle Eastern politics and those of North Africa feed off each other. Egypt, where an uprising felled Mubarak, connects to ten Middle Eastern countries through water and land. Following the North African wave, Syria’s cabinet too resigned on 29th March 2011, in an effort to counter the wave of pro-reform protests.
For Bahrain — the Monarchy has imposed a 12–hour curfew and choked off movement nationwide. Government helicopters are reportedly firing on homes in a hunt for Shiites and attacking doctors treating the wounded, while the government called the demonstrators “outlaws” for demanding an end to the monarchy.
The Bahrain government is currently propped up by troops from Sunni Gulf neighbors fearful for their own rule and the spread of Shiite Iran’s influence. The unrest increasingly looks like a sectarian showdown with Sunni leaders desperate to hold power, while majority Shiites want more rights and an end to the monarchy.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen is likely to be eased out and offered a safe passage out of the country. This is after violence escalated as security forces shot dead 15 anti-regime protestors on 4th April 2011 in the city of Taiz, south of the capital.
In Afghanistan at least nine people were killed by 2nd April 2011, in deadly protests against the burning of a Quran by Pastor Terry Jones, a radical Christian preacher in the United States. In 2010 alone, the US-led foreign troops lost over 700 members, compared to just over 500 casualties in 2009.
A recent United Nations report shows the number of civilian deaths in war-ravaged Afghanistan hit a record high of 2,777 in 2010 a 15-percent increase in civilian fatalities compared to 2009.
Atop the dung heap however, is Gaddafi’s order to bomb citizens, which drew an equally dubious response from NATO allies to bomb Gaddafi. No regard has made to the cost of human life, especially of women and children. Contemporary sentiment is that while Gaddafi can claim no innocence, the West too is morally ill equipped to pass judgment upon him.
West Africa’s Ivory Coast remains deeply divided along ethno-geographic and religious lines. Here, defeated president Gagbo defiantly clings onto power and a military offensive undertaken to dislodge is steadily increasing its toll on human life.
Kenya, the land of Obama’s father is not left out either. Ethnic overtones threaten the very fabric of its existence following a bloody election in 2007 and subsequent charges by the ICC against senior members of government– the result a raging cat fight exploded amongst the ruling elite which have governed the nation since independence raising public anxiety. Besides, increasing incidences of junior police officers killing their superiors then taking their own lives are unsettling.
Uganda too, fresh from an election in February, won by long serving President Museveni, sits sore from refusal by opposition parties to recognize just concluded election results. In–between, almost 30% of the nation’s staple Banana crop has been ruined by disease increasing food and commodity prices. A few months to the elections, a mud slide claimed over 100 lives, 300 reported missing or dead and nearly 700 displaced.
Usually serene Tanzania experiences violent election clashes in 2010, while in Burundi, armed rebellion resumes after a five years hiatus.
From failed Somalia, fundamentalist rebel group, Al Qaeda, continuously exports terror across East Africa by locking on soft targets for attack. Resultant security alerts weigh down on public movement and momentum.
Meanwhile the escalating cost of crude and with it sharp spikes in prices of essential commodities and food, raises serious concerns for regional and global stability.
Are these occurrences’ proofs of the 2012 End Times as predicted by the Mayans or painful labor pangs of a new beginning, or both?
Something indeed startles where I thought I was safest…
Sources; — UN Dispatch
Are we living in the end times?Slavoj Zizek, the philosopher and cultural critic, on the collapse of society and the failure of capitalism.
Columnist – John Sammon Ever since time immemorial, one way to deflect domestic problems at home like unrest or a bad economy is to divert people’s attention by engaging in war. Caesar did it (not Chavez, but Julius), and so did Bush and Cheney. Obama may follow suit.
America must search out a small impoverished country so that it can invade that country and win a war, because we haven’t won in a long time. It’s like the Oakland Raiders. They used to win all the time, and now they don’t.
Think of it.
We lost in Vietnam, and Obama declared “No Victory” after eight years in Iraq. And Afghanistan isn’t looking particularly good. The outcome there is not at all certain. That’s a total of two (possibly) three wars AMERICAN HAS FAILED TO WIN, against tiny impoverished countries much smaller than we are. WE, THE SUPERPOWER.
We’ve also lost the War on Drugs. That’s three, possibly four if the Afghan insanity doesn’t work out.
What’s happening? We used to be undefeated.
Since we only go to war against tiny impoverished countries that lack a navy, an air force, and with ragged insurgents who don’t even have shoes on their feet, why can’t we win?
Think of it. We beat the British twice to found our own country and then we beat the Indians (Native Americans) whose country it originally was. Then we beat the Mexicans and took California and Arizona away from them. Then we beat the Spanish and took over their colony in the Philippines. Then we beat the German Krauts twice with the help of the rest of the world.
Things started to go wrong in Korea. We managed a tie there. Since then we’ve been losing.
Like the Raiders, I think maybe we need a new coach (president?) Maybe we should blame it on the fans, in this case the American people. We don’t dare attack China, our fascist protégée that we’re teaching to take over the world. Or North Korea. They could do us some damage too.
Iran? Probably not.
We need to find a country that’s small enough and a patsy that a war against them would be a cakewalk. Bush said Iraq would be a cakewalk (in private to Dick Cheney), but we know how that turned out.
What countries should we consider for invasion? They have to be Arab. Americans aren’t mad enough at Switzerland to justify an invasion there. Here is a partial list of possibilities:
Yemen — A known hang-out of terrorists. This poor, miserable wretched little wasteland is so pitiful that anything bad happening to them would be better than what they have now. If you assembled 50 Yemenis together they collectively couldn’t figure out how to row a lifeboat. We couldn’t lose here even if we tried. How many Yemenis does it take to plug in a light bulb? You know that one.
Oman — This tiny country curling around the lip of Arabia on the Arabian Sea could simultaneously be hit by American ground forces, naval and air as well as a World War II-style Normandy-type hit-the-beaches D-Day. Nothing would warm our hearts more than an imitation of the last good war (WW2).
Plus, American soldiers could have tee shirts that read “Oh Man!”
The United Arab Emirates — There is nothing united about this place. A conglomeration of ultra-rich tribal chieftains and poverty-stricken yokels, conquest of this country could give us ownership of the Persian Gulf. We could concoct a phony story like we did in Iraq that they had weapons of mass destruction and send in elite squads of Navy Seals and Marine snipers with all our stealth technology and kill a million of these Bedouin losers and who would care? Nobody did in Iraq. We could nation build gated condos there and call it Casa Del Tea Party Patriotic Dunes.
Qatar — All we have to do with this place is add a few letters and it’s named after our own U.S. quarter (quarter dollar). How American can you get? This place is so small, all they export are gnats. If we can’t win here, we can’t win anywhere.
Dr. Demekssa was forced to leave his country and fight from abroad for freedom, liberation, national independence and secession of Oromia. Dr. Demekssa’s revelations should become a matter of utmost concern for international bodies, governments, statesmen and politicians, diplomats and intellectuals, journalists and Human Rights activists worldwide.
The forthcoming electoral fraud in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) is a Shame for the Mankind in its entirety. Reaction must be taken in order to hold responsible and accountable the perpetrators of the electoral fraud, who are also charged with the most odious Crime against the Mankind: the diffusion of the racist theory of Ethiopianism, the falsehood of an Ethiopian nation within which they intentionally attempt to exterminate once forever more than 15 different African nations with great past and noble traditions.
Interview with Dr. Getachew Jigi Demekssa — Part 6
OFDM Executive Committee Member
Head of the Political and Organizational Dept.
MP for Ethiopian Federal Parliament Chairman of Oromo Parliamentarians Council
25. What are the major issues in today’s Oromia? Economy? Human Rights? Environment? Development?
The Oromian economy is currently fully controlled by Males Zenawi and his adviser Nuwy Gbra Ab and their subservient puppets, the Minster of Finance Ahmed Sufian and the Minister of Industry and Trade Girma Biru. These are all TPLF gang members and have absolutely no idea about the socioeconomic realities that prevail in Occupied Oromia.
The Oromia land-grabbing is today the most preoccupying matter for all the Oromos because sizeable lots of fertile land are being sold for 100 years to Indian, Saudis, Sudanese, Europeans and other businessmen. Oromia’s surface totals more than 350000 km2, but the precipitated rhythm of these illegal and absolutely invalid transactions consists in an unprecedented phenomenon in Eastern Africa. I will give you now some examples.
Bangalore-based Karuturi Global Ltd., which is currently leasing more than 300,000 hectares (765,000 acres) of local land, sold out an area larger than the entire Luxembourg (ca. 2600 km2) for only 15 birr (US $ 1.18) per hectare per year.
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, has “bought” and currently “owns” a land lot of 20,000 m2 near the town Bishoftu (Debre Zeit) in Occupied Oromia.
Last year, Ismael Omar Guelleh, the president of Djibouti, “bought” a land lot of 10000 m2 in Bishoftu in order to have a house built there, and more recently he “bought” another 30000 m2 in Bale for agricultural purposes — all in Occupied Oromia.
Furthermore, his woman, Khadra Mohammed, the first lady of Djibouti, “bought” a land lot of 20 hectares in Sebeta (Oromia) in order to set up a flower farm.
The National Bank of Egypt announced that during this year they will buy a land lot of 20000 hectares to invest in agriculture.
It is noteworthy that no less than 240 Saudi companies have applied and got the governmental license for investment in agriculture. Some of these companies have started investing and operating; in their totality, the Saudi investment companies are expected to invest US $2.5 billion in these projects for which a sizeable part of Oromian land has been unlawfully sold to them.
A German company has been working for some time in bio-fuel project that involved an area of ca. 13000 hectares.
Another German entrepreneur has been recently allocated an area of ca. 150000 ha for livestock project.
Notorious for his support to the racist TPLF dictator Meles Zenawi, the Ethio-Saudi entrepreneur Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi Al Amoudi acquired many vast pieces of land in various parts of Occupied Oromia, notably in the periphery of Finfinnee, in the zones Arsi, Gurji (more than half the area) and Bale, and in the West Wellega district of Mansibu.
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Last year, in the first months, the TPLF Mafia lords sold unofficially to personal friends and acquaintances areas totalling 607760 hectares — all in Occupied Oromia.
According to recommendations made by specialists and experts, the disproportionate sales of Oromian land at incredibly low fake prices, which occur without involving preconditions and special agreements, can end up in irreparable disasters.
• – Land deals must be assessed in the light of the often complex overall package they are part of, including commitments on investment, infrastructure development and employment — the “land grab” emphasized by some media is only part of the equation;
• – Land leases, rather than purchases, are predominant in Africa, and host country governments tend to play a key role in allocating them;
• – Land fees and other monetary transfers are generally small (for instance, three dollars to $ 12 per hectare per year in Mali and Ethiopia), not least due to the difficulty of setting land prices in absence of well-established formal land markets;
• – Host country benefits are mainly seen in the form of investor commitments on investment levels, employment creation and infrastructure development
• – Although the structure of current land deals suggests that these commitments may be difficult to enforce.
For all of us, the Oromo Nation who are the undisputed proprietary of all these land lots, as well as of the territory of Occupied Oromia, the aforementioned — and similar, past or future — transactions of the undemocratic, totalitarian TPLF government are illegal and absolutely void. The unlawful foreign and Abyssinian owners will certainly lose their monies in this shameful affair, because the transactions will be cancelled. They cannot deal with a tyrant and illegal tenant of our land.
26. How happy are you with the stance of the Europeans, statesmen, politicians, academia, and intellectuals toward the grave violations of Human Rights in Abyssinia?
Western countries have created fake colonial borders which caused a real political volcano in many African countries across the continent. Until we finally change these colonial borders, the political volcano will continue erupting every now and then, producing genocides, massacres, atrocities and all sorts of calamities.
It is essential to note that the problems between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Rwanda and Burundi have not in fact been created by these two nations, but they are the direct result of the colonization, and the unlawful, immoral and shameful relationship established between the former colonizers and their proxies, today’s fake leaders who are forced to rule tyrannically and within unacceptable and impossible borders that by themselves generate troubles because they represent nothing. Due to the colonialism and its side effects, the Oromo Nation does not have a most deserved position among the UN General Assembly members, but has disappeared, divided among Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
For Western politicians and diplomats, guys like Meles Zenawi, who are ready always to disregard and undermine the interests of diverse subjugated nations and disrespect the interests of the entire African continent, are useful and functional; that’s why they praise them so much. The Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change is an example; the shameful, catastrophic and utterly Anti-African positions supported by the Tigray Mafia lord Meles Zenawi fully exposed his corrupted personality.
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Even in the 21st century, the Western countries failed to demonstrate a genuine interest in the democratization of African countries that they condemned to undeserved tyrannies in the first place. I have shaped the idea that they must imagine that Democracy, Freedom, National Independence and Progress are ideals and concepts good only for themselves, not the rest. When it comes to Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania, the Western governments are interested only generating conflicts, wars and destruction. That is paranoid and inhuman.
27. What could they do in your opinion?
Ethiopia is indeed a land of silence and human rights violations, as I said in a Complaint Statement that I submitted to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Africa Department. The world community has forgotten all our appeals, and today the Oromos are among the voiceless nations at the margin of the international society. I can use the description I made for the HRW to specify what the Western countries could do:
“Meles Zenawi has killed tens of thousands of innocent Oromos and other nations in Ethiopia. Meles is much more brutal than Omar Al Bashir of Sudan, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Milosevic of Yugoslavia, and Idi Amin Dada of Uganda. The difference is he wants to play a different card at different time to show as if he is Western-friendly. He is the most silent killer ever. While we expect him in the Hague, the support European power’s definitely discourage the struggle for justice and democratic reformation in Africa and else where.
Innocent Oromo individuals are being killed in cold blood and denied the honor to get normal burial, some of the dead are left in the forest for hyenas and wild beasts to feast on them. This is what happened in Ciro town in Western Hararge two years ago, the Gara Suufi massacre.
Oromo students who staged for peace protests against the injustice being committed against their people were beaten severely, denied their graduation certificate, dismissed from school and shot dead in the school compound – for no crime committed until today.
There are more than 40000 Oromo political prisoners in Ethiopia, most of them were tortured, shot dead or disabled forever in the same prisons. Oromo intellectuals, business men, farmers and civil servants are detained, tortured and humiliated in a way which can be related to systematic eradication of this big nation.
The most shocking tragedy of this regime is that elected parliamentarians and members of other political parties were subjected to executions and other acts of inhumane treatment. For instance, Mr. Adane was an elected member of the Ethiopian parliament representing the Oromo Peoples Congress Party (OPC). A week after the election of May 2005 a police shot and killed Mr. Adane in Arsi Negele town.
Oromo refugees in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Kenya are under unprecedented suffering after fleeing their land, deported in contrary to international convention, and persecuted for the last 18 years of TPLF regime. In Somalia (Bossaso), 65 Oromos were brutally murdered and more than 100 others were injured in this incident. Among international news outlets, Reuters reported that at least 20 were killed and over 100 were injured. Some other sources have also reported that about 250 homes have been burned. Back in November 06, 2007, 10 Oromo refugees were reported to have been executed in their apartment in Nairobi, Kenya, and killed others are punished by death sentence.
As a way to stay on power, the TPLF regime is putting different ethnic groups against each other almost continuously everywhere in Ethiopia, a land known by tolerance and coexistence for centuries is getting the vice-versa reality. As example, I can mention the Benishangul Gumuz civil war against civil Oromo natives which caused thousands of victims”.
These are few examples of the Human Rights violations being committed against the Oromo Nation and ignored by world community. The Western countries can do everything that it takes to put an end to this situation.
Oromo Parliamentarians: 13 MP’s have been forced to exile, but the world community, including the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), keep silent. The Western countries can stop their silence and act according to the ideals that they have long declared as theirs.
I therefore ask again the World Community to make high pressure on Meles Zenawi and force him to stop these evildoings. I call the World Community to respond to all these tragedies, according their solemnly declared humanitarian and democratic principles.
In parallel, I also call the Oromo Diaspora and all Oromo freedom fighters to underscore that starting by Monday a new face of our struggle for National Liberation must begin and all the Oromo leaders must come to the front of this national struggle. All the Oromos who belong to fronts, movements and parties must be mobilized at all levels for this struggle. Every division must stop now and forever. We need to deploy the best coordinated effort at all levels, political and diplomatic, military and socioeconomic; the struggle for the National Liberation of Oromia must become our only concern, and the action must prevail over theoretical talking. Oromia shall be free!
It all started in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini returned from Paris to Tehran after the exile of US backed Reza Shah and declared Iran as Islamic Republic after the huge public referendum. The then puppet ruler of Iran, Reza Shah, was an open puppet of US and has allowed the US embassy to perform without any restrictions in the nation. After the exile of Shah, revolutionary youths of the country invaded the US embassy, also known as ‘Den of Spies‘.
The latest report from IAEA (Nuclear watchdog of UN) says that there is something fishy going on in Iran in regards to nuclear development. Iran slammed this report saying its influenced by west. However, following this report, west has imposed another round of sanctions followed by other European and Asian countries like Japan.
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