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Oromia-Ethiopia: Finfinnee University Students Demand Oromo Rights in Finfinnee

January 15, 2012 at 5:12 am · Gadaa.com

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Finfinnee University students have demanded Oromo rights in Finfinnee, including statues in Finfinnee for Oromo nationalist martyrs, according to a report by SBO. Finfinnee is the capital of Oromiyaa, as well as the political capital of Africa. The Oromo is the largest nation in the Horn of Africa and Ethiopia, but a nation politically and economically marginalized and repressed for the last 120 years in its own homeland, Oromia.

The statue in the following videos is a sample design for the Oromo hero Gen. Taaddasaa Birruu in a proposed Oromo Culture and History Heritage Park in Finfinnee; it was designed by a Gadaa.com contributor. Gen. Taaddasaa was an Oromo nationalist freedom fighter, and he was executed by the Derg in 1975.

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  1. Badhassa said,

    January 15, 2012 @ 6:45 am

    I’m from Finfinnee

  2. Finfinnee said,

    January 15, 2012 @ 1:49 pm

    this statue will stand where the menilik colonial statue is standing now.

  3. umer said,

    January 15, 2012 @ 2:20 pm

    as an artist, the statue does not resemble the hero, please let qualified sculptor represent the figure

  4. Ask What You Can Do For Your Country said,

    January 15, 2012 @ 2:35 pm

    Umer, nice observation. oromo struggling for liberation. liberation is each oromo contributing his or her fair share to the struggle. no doubt you will work on get the better statue for this hero.

  5. Addis said,

    January 15, 2012 @ 9:32 pm

    I am not Oromo but I was born and grew uo in Addis (Finfinea), so I have every right like any Oromo who was b rom and grew up in Addis, and i can’t undersdtand what the so called” Natural previlages” that these students talk about. Does that mean an Oromo man from Welega has a special previlage in Addis than me who was born in Addia? As much as Oromia is his land, Addis iw were i was born and when my land is.

  6. Pade waqo said,

    January 15, 2012 @ 10:04 pm

    Do u believe foolish statue will be erected in finfine? May be when u all die.

  7. Tolosa said,

    January 16, 2012 @ 2:04 am

    Guys dont be foolish

  8. Galangalee said,

    January 16, 2012 @ 8:10 am

    Aron what type of language you write? I try to read and i coudn`t understand it ! Please take it back where it belongs.

  9. gamaccu said,

    January 16, 2012 @ 11:41 am

    Aron – I like your comment/galetomaa

  10. Aron said,

    January 17, 2012 @ 5:37 am

    Wedi anbabewchen mamesgen efelgalehu!
    Eskezare yehednbet
    menged ledhinet ena lemahiymnet kemedaregachin belay.
    Malekya lelelew amba genenawy astedader endnsekay menged yemyamechaci honal.
    Kalefe tarki temro zare 21c yemetykewn
    zemenawnet yetelabes
    amerar mekeyes tegeb yemeslgnal.Silezhi Generalu lemesegenu ena digaf liderglachew ygebal.
    Mechiw tiwld kegna mewres yalebet fikir selam yeteshalech huger ke poletica merewchu yetebekal.
    Dihnetachin ena yalememarachin tosi yametabn enji manm
    seytanaw milketa yalew sew yelem.
    Egzybeher Ethiopian ena hizbochuan ybark.

  11. Pade waqo said,

    January 17, 2012 @ 11:37 am

    In simple languge u all who support this idea should do sth. Don’t be a white elephant. How about now?

  12. delux said,

    January 17, 2012 @ 9:32 pm

    That is, in my opinion is a brilliant idea. He is a true Oromo hero. We need his statue being erected in Finfinnee asap. No one is more deserving than Gen. Taaddasaa Birruu. This must be the beginning. We need the statue of other Oromo golden sons and daughters being given memorial statue all over Finfinnee. Finfinnee belongs to Oromo people and no one else.

    But the sample design must be the start. My suggestion his statue must be his entire body standing with glory with his medals of achievement and his sense of being proud in being an Oromo.

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