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On November 1, 2012, Ethiopia’s kangaroo court convicted nine Oromo nationals, including opposition leader Bekele Gerba, who was nabbed on Aug. 27, 2011 after meeting an Amnesty International delegation, under that country’s sweeping anti-terrorism law. Their sentencing is scheduled to take place in a few weeks.
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by Hassen Hussein
On November 1, 2012, Ethiopia’s kangaroo court convicted nine Oromo nationals, including opposition leader Bekele Gerba, who was nabbed on Aug. 27, 2011 after meeting an Amnesty International delegation, under that country’s sweeping anti-terrorism law. Their sentencing is scheduled to take place in a few weeks.
The Oromo term roorroo connotes more than its often used English equivalent, injustice. It denotes, in the words of anti-apartheid leader and the greatest statesman of our time, Nelson Mandela, a time “in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight.”
Gerba, the Vice-President of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), knew too well that his oppressed nation faced such a trying moment under the rule of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). The courageous Gerba chose not to submit. He valiantly fought against the violence suffered by the Oromo not with guns but through a non-violent means as a parliamentarian and an opposition party leader.Read More
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