(Daniel Berhane)
Dozens of Ethiopians staged a demonstration in front of Ethiopia’s Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, according to eye witnesses’ report.
The sources indicated that the demonstrators held banners that claim “we are Oromos not Ethiopians”; holding flags and wearing t-shirts bearing OLF’s emblem.
OLF (Oromo liberation Front) is a terrorist group backed by Eritrea and implicated by a United Nation report for its role in a foiled attempt to bomb an African Union summit in 2010.
The protesters also held Egypt’s flag.
The sources provided this blog with a photo of the demonstrators. (See on the photo on the right)
In a related news, the Egyptian website Ahram reported an Ethiopian demonstration was held at the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cairo. The website reported that:
Abdel-Kader Goumy, one of the protesters, told Al-Ahram’s Arabic language news website that the Renaissance Dam is intended to generate electricity, and, as such, there is no reason it should be built on the Nile, rather than on Ethiopia’s other rivers.
“The [Oromo] tribe supports Egypt’s right not to be adversely affected [by the dam]… Addis Ababa is not in need of water, rather it aims to build the dam for political purposes,” he added….
Protesters lifted Egyptian and Ethiopian flags, declaring their refusal to support a dam that will “damage Egypt and will not help Ethiopia.”
It is to be recalled that Elias Kifle, owner of EthiopianReview and former diaspora liaison of the pro-Eritrea group EPPF [Ethiopian People Patriotic Front], wrote an open letter on May 31 claiming that:
“Any government that represents the interest of Ethiopia would not try to dam the Nile when the country has many other underutilized rivers we can dam for electricity and irrigation purposes economically and in an environmentally safe way.
I would like Egyptians to know that the people of Ethiopia are not threatening your survival. We have not been consulted about the project, and we do not support it.”
Similarly, Professor Alemayehu Gebremariam (Al-Mariam), board member of the Ginbot-7 backed media ESAT, wrote a pro-Egyptian article last March ridiculing the Renaissance dam – which is a dream of several generations – in the following words:
What will Egypt will do if Meles’ “Grand Renaissance Dam” is in fact built? “Simple.” They will use dam busters to smash and trash it……
Meles [Zenawi]’s legacy could indeed be a water war of death and destruction on the Nile, but he will never have a cement monument built on the Nile to celebrate his life. Meles’ disciples would be wise to remember an old prophesy as they march headlong to build their doomsday dam on the Nile: “God gave Noah the Rainbow Sign: No more water. The fire next time!”
Regardless of all these fifth-columnists psychological campaign, opinion on Addis Ababa streets remains firm that halting the Renaissance dam project is simply unthinkable.
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HARAN, plz plz plz, u shldn’t use ur full of pourage brain here, coz u r vry hopeless to even rate Oromo as animal, bfr that u shld know that u ve got a wild and filthy brain to use it in the 21st century. and remember wht ever u utter frrm ur mouth best describes u. in fact i shldn’t be so foolish to waste ma time to hammer a point in ur head coz u were born daft, u mother fucker kiss ma nasty ass and suck ma filthy dick. and i hate u to be born as an Ethiopian shame on u
HARAN, plz plz plz, u shldn’t use ur full of pourage brain here, coz u r vry hopeless to even rate Oromo as animal, bfr that u shld know that u ve got a wild and filthy brain to use it in the 21st century. and remember wht ever u utter frrm ur mouth best describes u. in fact i shldn’t be so foolish to waste ma time to hammer a point in ur head coz u were born daft, u mother fucker kiss ma nasty ass and suck ma filthy dick. and i hate u to be born as an Ethiopian shame on u
fuck u dani and once again fuck u and ur mother fucker mama ok, coz, i also belong to the Oromo ppl,bt ma grand ancestors did’t tell me i shld stand against ma mother land Ethiopia, may be u must be frm sm other clan bt not frm Oromo, coz there is no Oromo who compromises against Ethiopian interest. u shld also know that i don’t belong to the current mother fucker regime, bt this time it is abt Ethiopia ok. and u dense mother fucker shut ur mouth if u claim being an Ethiopian ok.
We diapora knows your location continues to comment with pejorative words will make you to go to litigation end your life there
Dear Daniel continue to moderate all a man himself identify mature idea and non mature idea
yhank you
I lough at your message you are going to restrict people interest …. you are too simple and meagre issue of politics that you mean one politics to live the issue of dam is concerning all
think more things are on the way not finished OLF has right to fight to rally
Excellent!, but the probelm, rahter the challnge, is how to balacne between the blocking and the truth you saide spoiling ettihially dividing Words. You know sometimes fathers (who know better about tommorow’s consequance and best one for their children) hider some bad things far form their children. Some people use only their five sens organs, than processing in their mind the altimate results. Try to be away from being insitrument of egyptian plot. We are Oromos, Guraghes, Amharas, Tigri, Somali, Hadiyas, sidamas, Wolayta, Afra, …. and so beautiful. Timely issues, which had been created by this one or the other one, it is timely -things will go imroving as we come out of this ugly humilating poverty
Dear Daniel,
Please I like this forum. But you should moderate messages that are meant to divide Ethiopians, such as the ETHNIC-BASED messages above. Such messages should be blocked. If possible as some web sites do, blocking the IPs should be exercised. Other wise, your web site will be a forum for immature and non-sense politics rather than a forum for constructive dialogue.
Baaalege! Yalseletenk! woyes Shabia?
We Oromo Must use opportunities to down the oppressive and dictator regime
Daniel Thank you very much that you did as i told you
I know you are smart not like those dogma we are …..
Not Ethiopia is told by some others mean enemies !!
I am OROMO ,Ethiopian .pls dont belive the fake Egyptian strategy of using Eritrians looking
If Oromos are animals as said they will demonstrate against the renaissance dam, if not they will support because any human from Ethiopia is expected to support the construction of the dam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Al-G-Mariam,
Never saw such a traitor in my life who’s been long-sponsored by Egypt, I presume. “Minamin bebelabet yichohal” the saying goes. A professor! who fights against his own motherland, filled with only hatred and contempt to other Ethiopians, thinking that he knows everything and all what is good for Ethiopia. I’m realy tired and ashemed of this cheap guy.
so why don’t they ask the Egyptians to give some land in order to establish the Federal Republic Of Oromiya kikikikikikikikiki
Cheap and outdated propaganda of Egyptian.
MORON Bandawoch
Dozens of useless trash people can never represent Millions of Ethiopian Oromo people. they are opportunity seekers employed by our Enemy Egypt’s government. So they don’t deserve this much discussion.
This fire fuck you theirin we Oromo together with any organization why not evil spirit we will cooperate with to end your dogmatic idea … prepare to run away we know who are you there …
We don’t usually moderate comments. B/c we don’t have the manpower to do it consistently and periodically.
Hope we will fix that soon.
For now, I removed the pejorative word as per your request.
Keep in touch.
This is because Egypt plotted of supporting opposition, mentioning the Oromo, OLF, as potential recivers of funding to destabilize Ethiopia (Live TV). These demonstrators did not yet understood if they get money it is in exchange for their BLOOD and for fighting their motherland, defending Egypt. This is not unusual for Ethiopia and elsewhere, there are always TRAITORS, looking for EASY MONEY, but history shows that the victory is always for the majority that defend the motherland. The majority of Ethiopians, I would guess 95%, whatever ethnic group they belong to, are pro-reneissance dam, and on the NILE. If those traitors came to fight the fight against poverty and Egyptian domination, then they will surely end up either as a fertilizer somewhere in the Ethiopian lowlands or they end up cramming the jails. We shouldn’t forget history and looking back some 15 years would suffice.
People like u are responsible for this. Don’t be moron. You better shout your mouth. Oromos are great people.
He is not ……
Dear Daniel The comment given on your Blogs by some nonsense Bache Who is Psychotic in such pejorative words we will not live together it aggravate the problem total Oromo lining in Ethiopia are on the side of govt why he comment this filthy in side him we Oromo will back to our land one day near future !!!
This is not about oromo people in Cairo dont be foolish ma fellow Ethiopians this is a conspiracy by Egyptians to stabilize the unity of great oromo people with the rest of the nations ..be careful this is critical time if people of oromo is not an Ethiopian who is going to be an Ethiopian think! ma fellow Ethiopians however few people with their political ideology can oppose anything but they can not represent the whole people!!!any how be careful from Egyptian racist arrow!!!! God bless Ethiopia and long live Ethiopia!!!
i disagree on z photo-credit
Bache, Watch our mouth. You are Eritrian.
Ethiopia never and never planned to hurt Egypt people, Ethiopian want to stop poverty by getting out of electric and sending the water to Sudan and Egypt instead of irrigation use. Advice to brother and sister of Egyptian, Ethiopian proposal is clear, using Nile to making electric to be able to control poverty for growing population in their side. There is no another way to with stand the fast population growth on Ethiopia side unless Ethiopia making this big power plant to be able to pass the water to Sudan and Egypt. If Egypt think like those, they called themselves Ethiopian they are power seekers they don’t represent a handful, they don’t represent Ethiopians. they are scratching everything to be on power they don’t care about Ethiopian or Egyptian people lives or future. If they were caring for the people, for the children and for the women of Ethiopians they will make their head down and all thing were in a different way, they are shouters, they have no idea sleeping without a meal means for elderly or a mother or a child for one day. Ethiopia and Egypt have to do what is the right to do for both countries peoples.
Really it is a fake few Ethiopian demonstration in Cairo.To tell u the fact,my friend lives in Egypt/I don’t like to mention his real name and location/,and as he told me,he was asked by unknown Egyptian /probably security agents/to join the move with various promises Job opportunity and to get passport with incentives to fly to any country in the world,and he added incentives will increase with person that you made to join the move.
As to me these Ethiopians r not really on the EgyptIan side it is a fake demonstrations
Really shameful that few Ethiopian demonstration in Cairo.To tell u the fact,my friend lives in Egypt/I don’t like to mention his real name and location/,and as he told me,he was asked by unknown Egyptian /probably security agents/to join the move with various promises Job opportunity and to get passport with incentive to fly to any country in the world,and he added incentive will increase with person that you made to join.
As to me these Ethiopians r not really on the EgyptIan side it is a fake demonstrations
kakito.many oromo love thier country and some are claming they are not Ethiopians.dear ethiopian government it is better to make some measurment for the Egyptian all time treat to ethiopian unity and soverngnity.
God bless Ethiopia.
this is what we expect from ***** which are not Ethiopians who migrated from some where !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!