EndHumanRightsViolationsCampaign Twitter Storm / TWITTER CAMPAIGN, ACTIVE NOW! TWITTER CAMPAIGN, ACTIVE NOW! Involuntary Migration Torture and Detention Extrajudicial Killings and rape Genocide Transpires Involuntary Migrations 14 to 15 Oromo refugees were taken from their homes in Djibouti and immediately taken across the border to Ethiopia on June 30th, 2020. Refoulement threatens the safety and is a serious setback of security for refugees. t.co/0WjhtClFGk #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo Click To Tweet Oromo migrants are detained in poor overcrowded conditions with blocked and overflowing toilets, without medical care including prenatal care for those who were pregnant, food and water. pic.twitter.com/IUuZN5bRPT #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNGeneva @DepSecDef Click To Tweet Deportations of Oromo refugees violates the international legal prohibition on refoulement or forced return to a country where refugees may face threats to their lives, freedom, torture, or other serious harm. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNAmbUS @UNGeneva @USTradeRep Click To Tweet The New Humanitarian reported that EU aerial surveillance with drones and planes aided the Libyan Coast Guard in locating vessels to return to Libya and discouraged other vessels from rescuing the refugees. t.co/oOWk23iOLW #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @SecBlinken Click To Tweet Under international standards, refugees should not be detained on immigration grounds. International human rights standards also prohibit immigration-related detention of children. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @eucopresident @DepSecDef @EUSR_Weber @ABaerbock @HouseForeign Click To Tweet Oromo detainees organized a hunger strike to protest the conditions and their continued detention. They said that the only way to be released was to pay a 70,000 Yemeni rial (US$280) fee to the security guards t.co/mkKIUHSRFE #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva Click To Tweet Thousands of Oromo migrants are kept in deplorable conditions in Saudi Arabia. A large number of them die each week. The prison cells are extremely crowded and unhygienic. pic.twitter.com/x3mI0IEs2T #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNGeneva @EUSR_Weber @SenateForeign Click To Tweet Detention without due process or adequate procedural safeguards is arbitrary and is prohibited by regional and international human rights law. Oromo refugees should not be detained and killed by host countries. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNGeneva @SenateForeign Click To Tweet Three women said they had contact with a female detainee whose baby had died in detention. Eight detainees said they had experienced and witnessed beatings by guards, and they had administered electric shocks as punishment. t.co/H9ugd1YXLd #HumanRightsForOromo Click To Tweet Over 15 Oromo migrants were aerially attacked and killed by Saudi Arabia in prison in Saada, Yemen on January 22, 2022, t.co/uKYaLVfqfP #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @SecBlinken @EUAmbUS @UNAmbUS @USTradeRep @NATO @JanezLenarcic @UNGeneva @DepSecDef @ABaerbock Click To Tweet Host countries, such as Djibouti, must stop the arrests and attempts to send Oromo refugees back for conscription into Ethiopian armed forces. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @SecBlinken @EUAmbUS @UNAmbUS @USTradeRep @NATO @JanezLenarcic @UNGeneva @DepSecDef @HouseForeign Click To Tweet They described serious skin problems they said were caused by the unhygienic conditions. Three men said that guards beat them for complaining about the conditions. t.co/GmqfmRWBlh #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNAmbUS @JanezLenarcic @UNGeneva @DepSecDef Click To Tweet Saudi Arabia should immediately allow UNHCR to exercise its mandate by allowing it to determine Oromo asylum seekers’ refugee status and facilitate durable solutions, including integration in Saudi Arabia. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNAmbUS @UNGeneva @DepSecDef Click To Tweet The narrative of Oromo migrants fleeing, primarily the Oromia region, connects to the decades of atrocities and human rights violations in Ethiopia. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNAmbUS @UNGeneva @DepSecDef @ABaerbock @HouseForeign @USTradeRep @NATO @JanezLenarcic Click To Tweet It is the fragmented, exclusionary, and hostile Ethiopian empire system that has resulted in the migration of Oromos, the largest and historically marginalized nation. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNGeneva @DepSecDef @HouseForeign @USTradeRep @JanezLenarcic Click To Tweet When Abdel Karim Ibrahim Mohammed, 23, fled the recent violence consuming Ethiopia’s Oromia region, he never imagined he would fall into the hands of Yemen’s Houthis. t.co/jnV5gChj77 #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNGeneva @DepSecDef @ABaerbock @HouseForeign Click To Tweet Torture, Disappearances, Arbitrary Arrests and Detention Arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings of Oromo youth, farmers and professionals with complete impunity for perpetrators is widespread across the Oromia region. t.co/fhftyNZNZS #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNAmbUS @UNGeneva @DepSecDef @HouseForeign Click To Tweet Abdulhaviz Nasru Hassan, in Meta woreda, E Hararge, was detained in a nearby military camp in December, where he was physically and psychologically tortured and still under critical situation. t.co/Xd155ZCooq #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNGeneva @DepSecDef Click To Tweet Two Oromo girls and 2 Oromo boys aged 15 and 16 were sentenced to terms of 15-16 years in prison after being detained since their arrest on 30 June 2020, for taking part in protests following the assassination of Hacaaluu Hundeessa #HumanRightsForOromo t.co/bAnsl96lse Click To Tweet I was beaten on the day I was arrested and the next day. I told them I was pregnant when they were beating me. But they said it does not matter whether I am pregnant or not. They said they may even kill me. t.co/fhftyNZNZS #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @NATO Click To Tweet Daniel Gamada, a musician, was abducted from his studio in Asko, on the outskirts of Finfinee. He had been raising awareness about atrocities committed against Oromos in Wollo pic.twitter.com/QHhGqzU1Sj #HumanRightsForOromo t.co/SDfH324GaU @UNGeneva @NATO @EUAmbUS @DepSecDef Click To Tweet Eleven Oromo political prisoners are held unlawfully in detention in Southwest Showa zone. They were arrested in August, beaten and tortured in custody and denied any medical help. t.co/pf05iOPW1G #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @EUAmbUS @DepSecDef @NATO Click To Tweet Eight-year-old Senate Ephraim was taken from her home in Mandi town, W Wallega, on 30 August. She was described as between life and death after being gang-raped by soldiers in a military camp. P:23 t.co/REQSuvYQUj #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @DepSecDef Click To Tweet Five teenage male students were taken from Jidola district, E Guji and detained at a nearby military camp, where they were raped by soldiers. t.co/REQSuvYQUj #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @DepSecDef @UNAmbUS @USUN @JosepBorrellF @SecBlinken @antonioguterres Click To Tweet Extrajudicial Killings, injuries and rape Fikadu Tolera, an Oromo lecturer at Madda Walabu University in Bale, Robe was shot dead in Shashamane, W Arsi, on 25 Oct, after posting on social media a message about the killing of five students in E Wallega, on the 23rd pic.twitter.com/ZGenWswGoz #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva Click To Tweet Badhane Toyi, 10th grade student in Inciini town, Dire, W Showa, is shown right in Ambo hospital, critically ill after being shot by Prosperity Party security man named Guluma Ebissa on 5 November. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @EUSR_Weber @ABaerbock @HouseForeign Click To Tweet Galana Imana, a known OLF member and supporter, was taken from his home in Ambo, W Showa, into incommunicado detention, where he was killed. His body was found two days later in the nearby Debis river. pic.twitter.com/Fso9hYPFAa #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @HouseForeign Click To Tweet Extrajudicial killing, injuring, lengthy imprisonment, obstruction of justice, elimination of political opponents, burning of homes, & looting properties were the hallmarks of Abiy's leadership in Oromia. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @HouseForeign @EUAmbUS Click To Tweet Fayisa Qanani, father of three from Muger district, W Showa, was taken from detention in Muger police station by soldiers and killed. His body and those of two unidentified youngsters were later found in a nearby forest. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @HouseForeign Click To Tweet OMHRO reported that Daniel Ebissa died after his tongue was cut out while in police custody in Nekemte, E Wallaga, at an unspecified date in October. t.co/2YaXMnCp0h #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @HouseForeign @JosepBorrellF @JanezLenarcic @DepSecDef Click To Tweet Three Oromo civilians, including a 5-month pregnant woman, were executed after one week of incommunicado detention on November 12. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @HouseForeign @JosepBorrellF @USTradeRep @JanezLenarcic @DepSecDef @EUSR_Weber @ABaerbock @SenateForeign Click To Tweet 'There was a river and they killed him on a rock next to it. He was shot from behind; his hands were tied at the back. It looks like they used him as a target for shooting practice,' the relative alleged. t.co/1wuDWTockH #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @USNATO Click To Tweet Genocide Transpires On the evening of December 1, 2021, 14 immensely revered Karrayyu Oromo community leaders in East Shawa, Oromia abducted during their sacred ritual, taken to a remote location, and summarily executed by the regime’s security forces. t.co/Uixs8CvdVM #HumanRightsForOromo Click To Tweet The government prevented the attendance of the Irreecha ceremony in October 2020. More than 2,000 Oromo from Wallega were arrested in Finfinnee/ Addis Ababa after being made to show their ID cards. t.co/TWz1F9qeHR pic.twitter.com/104WSaoeDK #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS Click To Tweet 'Oromos have always suffered in this region. They attack us merely because we are Oromo.' Properties, farms and vehicles were severely damaged, and compounds of homes were burned down. t.co/6wShkr2MyI #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @HouseForeign @DepSecDef Click To Tweet In a speech made by an Amhara Region militia officer in front of an excited, cheering crowd, in which he proudly stated that for every Amhara killed by an Oromo, they would kill 100 Oromo. t.co/YLWDHb5Nq3 #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @UNGeneva @DepSecDef @NATO Click To Tweet Ethnic cleansing of Oromo from Amhara and Benishangul Regions by Amhara militia and the destruction of villages in Wallega and Guji by government soldiers are a chilling indication of Ethiopian government intentions. #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNGeneva @NATO Click To Tweet The causal link between conflict and famine, both organs of state collapse, is elegantly and simply shown as drought-hit farmers in East Bale. Young Oromos are forced to join the army to avoid dying of hunger. t.co/gtSUFB6EAz #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS Click To Tweet An October appeal by the Oromo Relief Association, reports that over 14 million Oromos in 135 districts of Oromia Region ‘are in dire famine’. The humanitarian crisis is quickly deteriorating. t.co/xXU3xvWxJU #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNGeneva @NATO Click To Tweet 41 Oromos were abducted, forced to hand over traditional weapons and beaten. Two escaped. Remains of 14 bodies were found and 25 are unaccounted for. t.co/6Y2dx2DM4j #OromiaVoice #HumanRightsForOromo @EUAmbUS @UNGeneva @SenateForeign @HouseForeign @USNATO @eucopresident Click To Tweet This is a list of Oromos killed in October & November 2021 by Amhara militants in Eastern Welega zone, Oromia. pic.twitter.com/ecXSpNFOJ6 @NATO @SecDef @UNGeneva #OromoVoice #HumanRightsforOromo Click To Tweet
