From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Fri Jun 05 2009 - 12:17:50 EDT
29,750 Displaced by TPLF Invented Oromo-Sidama Conflict
(OLF News, June 03, 2009) Our correspondent from Finfinnee (Addis Ababa)
reported that more than 29,750 people have been internally displaced by
the conflict between Gujii Oromo and Sidama ethno-national groups that
OLF News reported on May 31, 2009, a conflict invented by the current
Meles Zenawi regime of Ethiopia. The residents who fled their homes and
internally displaced include people in Western Arsii zone Siraaroo
district and Sidama zone Boorrichaa district due to a conflict, which
broke out on May 22, 2009. A considerably high amount of property is
reported to have been destroyed and several homes of the rural
population burned to the ground by this conflict.
It is to be recalled that OLF News has reported three TPLF invented
conflicts in the last two weeks alone:
1) Between Oromo, Afar, and Argobbaa on May 20, 2009 in which 14 people
died and more than 18 severely wounded;
2) Between Karrayyuu Oromo and Afar May 29, 2009 in which 21 people died
from both sides;
3) Between Gujii Oromo and Sidama on May 31, 2009 in which 100 people
died from both sides.
On several occasions over the last 18 or so years during the current
administration different clans of the same Oromo communities such as
Borana and Gabra, Borana and Guji, Borana and Gari have fought deadly,
due to conflicts cooked by the TPLF regime, in which several people died
from both sides property has been destroyed in a massive scale.
Moreover, there have been repeated incidents of conflict between Oromos
and other people neighboring Oromia such as the Oromo and Somali, Oromo
and Sidama, Oromo and Afar, Oromo and Harari, Oromo and Amhara, Oromo
and Benishangul, Oromo and Gumuz, and this time another round of
conflict between Oromo and Afar and Oromo and Sidama.
WARNING!
The TPLF regime continuously resorts to an evil tactic of creating
conflict between neighboring people who used to have minor differences
in order to divert their attention from the opposition on the regime to
a conflict among themselves. Unless an external intervention takes place
many analysts fear that these endless and vicious cycle of artificial
conflicts could lead to a disastrous consequences of un imaginable scale
as seen in several.
OLF News
http://www.oromoliberationfront.org/News/2009/Invented%20Oromo%20Sidama%
20Conflict.html
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