{"id":1603,"date":"2011-08-08T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T22:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/174.120.63.226\/~hrlha\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2011-08-08T18:22:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T22:22:26","slug":"kidnappings-and-disappearances-of-university-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappings and Disappearances of University Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>Ethiopia – <\/strong>HRLHA Urgent Action and Appeal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Public – August 8, 2011,<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nIt has been a nightmare for families that the whereabouts of their children is not known since the end of the school year of 2011. Among Oromo students left their campuses up on the closure of the Universities at the end of the school year in June 2011 some were not returned to their home of birth place according the information the HRLHA reporter received from the families and friends of the victims. Some of the family members even traveled more than 800 Kms to seek information about their missing children from the Universities where they were used to attend. \u00a0However, none of them obtained a credible information about of their children until this report is compiled.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The HRLH reporter managed to get the following nineteen names among many Oromo students believed kidnapped by the Ethiopian Security force at different places and time on their way to their home \u00a0in June 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
No<\/td>\nName<\/td>\nGender<\/td>\nUniversity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nGamachis Yosef<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nAdama University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nAbdisa Mengesha<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nAdama University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nObse Bekele<\/td>\nF<\/td>\nAdama University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSelemon Indalu<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nAdama University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nKumessa<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nAmbo University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nMo\u2019I Oljirra<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nAmbo University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nTariku Murmur<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nHaromaya University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nKumsa<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nHaromaya University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nIbsa Gamachu<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nHaromaya University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nGetu Rabirra<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nHawassa University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nLalise Joba<\/td>\nF<\/td>\nHawassa University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nLami Tasisa<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nTepi Mizan University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nAhimed Mohamed<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nJima University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nAnwar Jundi<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nJima University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nLami Garoma<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nJima University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nAkalu Kebede<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nJima University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nDamara Kajela<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nWallaga University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nShitaye<\/td>\nF<\/td>\nWallaga University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nMalka<\/td>\nM<\/td>\nArba Minch University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Background Information<\/span>;- <\/strong>HRLHA has been \u00a0repeatedly reported hundreds of \u00a0\u00a0Oromo\u00a0 Students have been \u00a0abducted, kidnapped, detained, and many of them tortured and killed, in this year\/2011 with unfounded allegation on suspicion of links with the OLF.<\/p>\n

HRLHA calls up on the Ethiopian Government to immediately halt racial and discriminatory human rights abuses against Oromo young generation and disclose where they are detained and also urges unconditionally release of these students. HRLHA also calls up on regional and international diplomatic, democratic, and human rights agencies to make a pressure on \u00a0Ethiopian TPLF\/EPRDF regime to stop \u00a0its persistent brutal, dictatorial, and suppressive actions against innocent Oromo students who attempt to exercise their democratic rights granted in the Ethiopian constitution (1995), article 29, .<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED ACTION: <\/strong>Please send appeals to the Ethiopian Government and its<\/p>\n

concerned officials as swiftly as possible, in English, Ahmaric, or your own language expressing:<\/p>\n