Oromo Liberation Front

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The Oromo Liberation Front ( oromiffa : Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo , Amharic ኦሮሞ ነጽነት ግንባር English Oromo Liberation Front , or OLF for short ) is a political and military organization in Ethiopia , which is mainly active in the south and southwest of the state of Oromia . Their goal is the establishment of an independent state of the Oromo people, which they believe is oppressed in Ethiopia.

The armed wing of the OLF, the Oromo Liberation Army ( Oromo Liberation Army , OLA), perpetrated occasional attacks against the Ethiopian government and army . In doing so, it partly cooperates with the National Liberation Front for the Ogaden (ONLF).

The OLF is a member of the UNPO . However, their support in the Oromo population group is not very strong.

The Ethiopian government regards the OLF / OLA as a terrorist organization that is supported by the hostile government of Eritrea and is responsible for various attacks in Ethiopia. The legal opposition party of the Oromo Federal Democratic Movement ( WAFIDO ) is said to have links to the Oromo Liberation Front. The party's general secretary, Bekele Jirata , was therefore arrested, but later released on bail.

history

OLA fighters

The OLF was founded in 1973. She was trained by the Eritrean independence movement Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and cooperated with the West Somali Liberation Front (WSLF).

After the fall of the Derg military government in 1991, the group was initially involved in the new government of Ethiopia. After the 1992 elections, however, she left the government and the transitional parliament and has been in conflict with the ruling EPRDF ever since . The OLF is in opposition to the ruling party in Oromia, the Democratic Organization of the Oromo People (OPDO). In July 2006 she was expelled from the United Liberation Forces of Oromia (ULFO), which she co-founded in 2000 , because she joined the political alliance Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD).

The OLF stood in opposition to the party coalition Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples .

The OLF was held responsible for a grenade attack on a political rally at the government camp in Addis Ababa on June 23, 2018; The attack left two dead and 156 injured.

In February 2019, police reportedly arrested Colonel Gemechu Ayana - a prominent member of the Oromo Liberation Front - and detained him for eight months on terrorism charges, contrary to the provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act, which stipulates pre-trial detention for a maximum of four months have. In December 2019, the responsible authorities are said to have dropped the allegations against him and set him free.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statement on the TPLF Regime's accusation of the OLF of the Minibus Blast in Finfinne / Addis Ababa
  2. ↑ Ethiopia: Arbitrary detention / torture or other ill-treatment . Amnesty International report AFR 25/012/2008, November 14, 2008; Retrieved May 13, 2009
  3. ↑ "OFDM leader Bekele Jirata released on bail" ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Jimma Times , February 4, 2009; Retrieved March 9, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jimmatimes.com
  4. ↑ on the exclusion of the OLF from the ULFO. ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Addisvoice.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.addisvoice.com
  5. ↑ Mark T. Aga: Jawar Mohammed Biography: The Interesting Profile of an Influential Man - allaboutETHIO. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  6. ^ After the attack on a rally in Ethiopia: two dead, 156 injured. In: RT (TV station) . June 24, 2018, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Entry with GTD ID 201806230001 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on February 15, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ethiopia 2019. Amnesty International , April 8, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 .