-Ethiopia:Joint Press Release: Sidama and Oromo National Youth Movements
Joint Press Release Sidama and Oromo National Youth Movements The oppressed peoples in Ethiopia have spent years of painful struggle against alien’s domination and dictatorship. To this end, the struggles of the Sidama and Oromo peoples have already costed countless lives and a great deal of material destruction. Based on this foundation and fact, we, the Youth Representatives of the Oromo and Sidama peoples, have met from 24th-26th October 2012 and discussed on a wide range of matters concerning our peoples and the need for a common struggle against the common enemy. We have noted the current TPLF government’s deliberate impoverishment, looting, exiling, confiscation of land and unlawful imprisonment being unleashed against the Oromo and Sidama peoples. After long deliberation, we have agreed on the need to keep the struggle inherited from our struggle’s heroes and the need to realise them. Accordingly, we have agreed: 1. To work together to realise our freedom an