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Monday, 24 December 2012

postheadericon FREE Bekele Gerba and Olbana Lelisa, OROMO Political Prisoners in the Ethiopian Empire

FREE Bekele Gerba and Olbana Lelisa, OROMO Political Prisoners in the Ethiopian Empire Video Clips. Duration : 9.98 Mins.


bit.ly - FREE Bekele Gerba and Olbana Lelisa, OROMO Political Prisoners in the Ethiopian Empire, which is overall the prison house of the Oromo nation - OROMIA SHALL BE FREE! On August 27, 2011, Oromo political leaders, Obbo Bekele Gerba and Obbo Olbana Lelisa, were thrown into prison by the TPLF regime, which has militarily occupied Oromiyaa since 1991. Two of the estimated 20000 Oromo nationalist political prisoners in the Ethiopian empire, Obbo Bekele Gerba was the deputy Chairman of the opposition Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM), and Obbo Olbana Lelisa a leader in the Oromo People's Congress party (OPC) at the time of their arrests. Obbo Bekele Gerba and Obbo Olbana Lelisa were thrown into prison after meeting with an Amnesty International delegation, which was also expelled from the Empire afterwards. Please read here about Amnesty International's report about the two prisoners of consciousness. www.amnesty.org The two were then joined in October 2011 by another 100 Oromo political prisoners, including leaders and activists of the Oromo civic society, the Macha-Tulama Self-Help Association (MTSHA), which was afterwards closed down for yet another round. THE FORGOTTEN POLITICAL PRISONERS In one of his recent reports, VOA's Peter Heinlein reported about the forgotten case of the Oromo nationalist political prisoners: "Almost forgotten has been the case of more than 100 ethnic Oromo political activists. Prosecutors have alleged they were involved with the ...

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