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Sochii Dargaggoota Biyyoolessaa, National Youth Movement for
Bilisummaa fi Dimokraasiif(SDBBD) Freedom and Democracy (NYMFD)
A Summary of Oromos Killed, Beaten and Detained by
the TPLF Armed Forces during the 2014 Oromo Protest
Against The Addis Ababa (Finfinne) Master Plan
Compiled by: National Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy
(NYMFD) aka Qeerroo Bilisummaa
July 05, 2014
Table of Contents Background ............................................................................................................................................. 3
Methodology ........................................................................................................................................... 5
Table of Number of Oromos Killed by Zone and Occupation ................................................................ 5
Table of Number of Oromos Detained and Tortured by Zone and Occupation ...................................... 6
Partial List of Oromos Killed, Detained and Tortured by Zone .............................................................. 6
West Wollega Zone ............................................................................................................................. 6
Killed ................................................................................................................................................ 6
Detained and Tortured .................................................................................................................... 7
Kellem Wollega Zone ....................................................................................................................... 13
Killed .............................................................................................................................................. 13
Detained and Tortured .................................................................................................................. 13
East Wollega Zone ............................................................................................................................ 15
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Killed .............................................................................................................................................. 15
Detained and Tortued ................................................................................................................... 16
Horro Guduru wollega Zone ............................................................................................................. 25
Killed .............................................................................................................................................. 25
Detained and Tortued ................................................................................................................... 25
Jima Zone .......................................................................................................................................... 27
Killed .............................................................................................................................................. 27
Detained and Tortued ................................................................................................................... 28
West Shoa Zone ................................................................................................................................ 29
Killed .............................................................................................................................................. 29
Detained and Tortued ................................................................................................................... 31
East Shoa Zone .................................................................................................................................. 37
Killed .............................................................................................................................................. 37
Detained and Tortued ................................................................................................................... 38
Special Oromia Zone around Finfine and Finfine (Addis Ababa) .................................................... 40
Detained and Tortued ................................................................................................................... 40
Bale Zone .......................................................................................................................................... 41
Killed .............................................................................................................................................. 41
Detained and Tortued ................................................................................................................... 42
East Harerge Zone ............................................................................................................................. 43
Detained and Tortued ................................................................................................................... 43
DireDewa .......................................................................................................................................... 43
Detained and Tortued ................................................................................................................... 43
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Background
It is a well-documented and established fact that the Oromo people in general and Oromo students
and youth in particular have been in constant and continuous protest ever since the current TPLF led
Ethiopian government came to power. The current protest which started late April 2014 on a large
scale in all universities and colleges in Oromia and also spread to several high schools and middle
schools begun as opposition to the so called Integrated Developmental Master Plan or simply the
Master Plan. The Master Plan was a starter of the protest, not a major cause. The major cause of
the youth revolt is opposition to the unjust rule of the Ethiopian regime in general. The main issue is
that there is no justice, freedom and democracy in the country. The said Master Plan in particular,
would expand the current limits of the capital, Addis Ababa, or Finfinne as the Oromos prefer to
call it, by 20 folds stretching to tens of Oromian towns surrounding the capital. The Plan is set to
legalize eviction of an estimated 2 million Oromo farmers from their ancestral land and sell it to
national and transnational investors. For the Oromo, an already oppressed and marginalised nation in
that country, the incorporation of those Oromian cities into the capital Addis Ababa means once more
a complete eradication of their identity, culture, and language. The official language will eventually
be changed to Amharic. Essentially, it is a new form of subjugation and colonization. It was the
Oromo university students who saw this danger, realized its far-reaching consequences and lit the
torch of protest which eventually engulfed the whole Oromia regional state.
For the minority TPLF led Ethiopian regime, who has been already selling large area of land
surrounding Addis Ababa even without the existence of the Master Plan, meeting the demands of the
protesting Oromo students means losing 1.1 million of hectares of land which the regime planned to
sell for a large sum of money. Therefore, the demand of the students and the Oromo people at large is
not acceptable to the regime. It has therefore decided to squash the protest with its forces armed to the
teeth. The regime ordered its troops to fire live ammunition to defenceless Oromo students at several
places: Ambo, Gudar, Robe (Bale), Nekemte, Jimma, Haromaya, Adama, Najjo, Gulliso, Anfillo
(Kellem Wollega), Gimbi, Bule Hora (University), to mention a few. Because the government denied
access to any independent journalists it is hard to know exactly how many have been killed and how
many have been detained and beaten. Simply put, it is too large of a number over a large area of land
to enumerate. Children as young as 11 years old have been killed. The number of Oromos killed in
Oromia during the current protest is believed to be in hundreds. Tens of thousands have been jailed
and an unknown number have been abducted and disappeared. The Human Rights League of the Horn
of Africa, who has been constantly reporting the human rights abuses of the regime through
informants from several parts of Oromia for over a decade, estimates the number of Oromos detained
since April 2014 as high as 50, 000.
In this report we present a list of 61 Oromos that are killed and 903 others that are detained and
beaten (or beaten and then detained) during and after the Oromo students protest which begun in
April 2014 and which we managed to collect and compile. The information we obtain so far indicates
those detained are still in jail and still under torture. Figure 1 below shows the number of Oromos
killed from different zones of Oromia included in this report. Figure 2 shows the number of Oromos
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