Oromo Students at Addis Ababa University

Dear all,
The Federal Government of Ethiopia terrorizing Oromo University students - 
Upto 50 students 'disappear'. The following  is the students' press release. 
Visit Oromia.com for  details and further information.

Regards,
Thomas




Oromo Students at Addis Ababa University
Press Release
23 December 2000


It started as a simple scuffle in an ethnographic presentation class on 22 
December where a Tigre student presents a provocative paper on the Oromo. 
Some of the the students get hold of him afterwards and ask why he had to do 
that, to which he replies they deserve it. A fight ensues which is then 
reported to the police. The police to be fair, treated the case as a normal 
day to day fight between students and took the names of all involved and 
told them (both sides) to come and report with their cases and witnesses.

During the course of the day, for no apparent reason 10 of the students 
reported to have been in the scuffle disappear. The rest of the Oromo 
student gather and go to the police station to ask what had happened to 
their friends. They get beaten up and dispersed back to their dormitories.

The same night turns into a nightmare when Tigrean police and security of 
the FDRE break into the dorms through doors and windows terrorizing the 
students. Doors that lead out of the dormitories get locked and students 
from the other building cannot respond to the screams and cries of students 
in the locked rooms.

Students who were in the rooms report that they got beaten and kicked with 
rifle butts, police batons and various other materials that they were not 
able to identify. The men (with the aid of the Tigre students in campus) 
then proceed to look for the people whom they had come to collect. Their 
list is long and comprehensive containing the names of Oromo students nobody 
knows where they got from or why. They leave with approximately 30-50 
students (the exact number is not yet known).

The Oromo community would like to ask the Federal Government of Ethiopia 
where their children are and what is happening to them and would also like 
the human rights commission, the international community and the media to 
investigate the case and bring it to light.

The Oromo Students of the Addis Ababa University would also like to take 
this opportunity to ask the Federal Government of Ethiopia to stop its 
terrorizing activities and be encouraged towards a democratic reign.

End





_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com