Ethiopian Court Gives Oromo Politicians Prison Over Secession
By William Davison
(Bloomberg) — Ethiopia’s Federal High Court sentenced two senior Oromo politicians to as much as 13 years in prison after their convictions on charges of inciting a secessionist rebellion.
Bekele Gerba, deputy chairman of the opposition Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement was sentenced to 8 years in prison and Olbana Lelisa of the Oromo People’s Congress party to 13 years, Judge Kenate Hora said.

Bekele Gerba
“It’s absolute injustice,” Bekele said to reporters outside the courtroom. Bekele and Olbana were accused of being members of the banned Oromo Liberation Front and inciting students to rebel, Kenate said. Seven others were given sentences of between three years and 12 years for getting
training in camps in Kenya and being involved in gunfights with Ethiopian soldiers, he said.

Olbana Lelisa
silences legitimate Oromo opposition by branding them rebels, Amnesty International said in a report in January.
Jawar Mohammed, the media frenzy, a scholar & hidden terrorist group spokes person, will do research & analysis, uncover the double face nature of the Jailed & the Jailer.
Please give time for Jawar Mohammed to give his professional analysis about peaceful opposition & terrorist group OLF by extracting its double face nature.
Jawar knows no thing, he is a naive student in the known university!!
Happy to see more comments aggainst Jawar which is, by far, a clear conformation to Oromos of this generation and enabled us see the extent of hate being exhibited by ETHIOPIANS towards genuine Oromo Scholars.
VIVA JAWAR…..Just let them keep crying!!!!!!!!!!