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Foreign move Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London SW1A 2AH 25 Honorable 2013
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(OPride) ― On Nov. 14, tens of thousands of people, including prominent artists and Oromia State officials, attended the funeral of celebrated Oromo hero, Aliyi Cirri Jara, who died on Nov. 11 at Goba Hospital after a long illness. He was 96.
Colonel Aliyi Chiri, as he is known, was one of the last remaining revolutionary fighters who in the early 1960s launched the Bale Oromo resistance against the imperial Ethiopian state.
It’s a fitting tribute to the veteran hero whose struggle and bravery transcends space and time. A celebration of a life well lived in the service of others. As soon as the news of his death broke, delegations of mostly young people from across Oromia began posting images of a fleet of buses heading to Madda Walabu, where he was buried. His tomb will be erected on the same strip of land that Waqo Gutu and Adam Jilo’s remains rest with eternal glory.
Madda Walabu is a magical place in the Oromo imagination. It is the cradle of Oromo civilization and the birthplace of the Gadaa system. It also produced numerous Oromo heroes who have been a thorn in the side of Ethiopia’s successive rulers and whose names are part of the collective Oromo consciousness.
Col. Aliyi was born in 1921 in Bale region, southeastern Ethiopia, Dalo Mana district at a village of Ci
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Oromo Liberation Front
Oromo nationalist political party in Ethiopia
The Oromo Liberation Front (Oromo: Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo, abbreviated: ABO; English abbreviation: OLF) is an Oromo nationalist political party formed in 1973 to promote self-determination and the independence for the Oromo people inhabiting today's Oromia Region and Oromia Zone in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia.[5][6][7] The OLF has offices in Addis Ababa, Washington, D.C., and Berlin, from which it operates radio stations that broadcast in Amharic and Oromo.[8][9]
The OLF is not to be confused with the Oromo Liberation Army, which is the now independent former military wing of the OLF. The OLA split from the OLF following disagreements over disarmament.
History
[edit]The Oromo people, an ethnic group native to the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, remained independent until the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when they lost their sovereignty and were conquered by Abyssinia. The Oromos suffered harsh oppression under the imperial rule of Haile Selassie, who was ethnically Oromo and Amhara.[10][11][12] Under the Haile Selassie regime, the Oromo language was banned from schools and government.[13][1