(OLF News, May 20, 2009) OLF News correspondents from Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) reported that the TPLF Ethiopian regime, which follows an evil policy of divide-and-rule, concocted another conflict between Eastern Shoa Oromo, Afar and Argobba ethno-national groups at places known as Summaa and Dhangaddii, in which 14 people were killed and more than 18 others wounded. It is further reported that the Wayyaanee TPLF regime forces who arrived at the area, supposedly to stop the conflict, were seen arming Afars and Argobbas, while disarming the local Oromos as they have been doing at several places in the conflicts they orchestrated before.
It is to be recalled that about 400 Oromo civilians were killed and over 12, 0000 left their homes when armed forces of Benishangul Gumuz suddenly attacked unprepared civilian Oromos in Western Oromia, Eastern Wallaggaa zone in May of 2008.
The massacre of 2008 was reported to have started when a well trained and armed (by TPLF regime) neighboring Gumuz tribe militia crossed over from their regional state of Benishangul Gumuz state to Oromia state and attacked villages before day break leaving hundreds of farmers dead and thousands more internally displaced.
On several occasions over the last 18 or so years during the current administration different clans of the same Oromo communities such as Borana and Gabra, Borana and Guji, Borana and Gari have fought deadly, due to conflicts cooked by the TPLF regime, in which several people died from both sides property has been destroyed in a massive scale. Moreover, there have been repeated incidents of conflict between Oromos and other people neighboring Oromia such as the Oromo and Somali, Oromo and Sidama, Oromo and Afar, Oromo and Harari, Oromo and Amhara, Oromo and Benishangul, Oromo and Gumuz, and this time another round of conflict between Oromo and Afar.
Mean while in a related news our correspondent reported that another conflict between Sidamas and Oromos is in the making by the regime, and many Oromo nationalists are raising their concern that further loss of life and destroying of property could follow.
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