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MALTUU FI GUMGUMA GABRUMMAA''
(The wanderers and their murmurs of oppression)
I wrote this short story in 2014 when Oromo students protested EPDRF's #AddisAbabaMaterPlan, the plan to evict Oromo farmers from their land around Addis Ababa.
When the students got angry and decided to be the Oromo farmers' voice in the streets and protested, they were killed by security forces in daylight at various universities.
The main idea of writing this short fiction based on the fact that happened in Oromia came to my mind after speaking to some students at #Madawalabu University in the Bale Zone in the regional state of Oromia.
I wrote it when one of the students was shot dead and died after being taken to Shashemene Hospital. This short fiction based on the actual events can be like echoes and pain from families, friends in the neighbourhood. I tried to think about the situation in Oromia. I shared the sadness and despair with families who sent their children to universities and received the bodies.
As I try to dig deep into the communities, this short story also tells how the regime's spies went deep into families and made them talk and gossip about the authorities. After speaking with them, the spies reported the people to the administration based on what they said against the government.
This short story tells how Oromo students were shot side-by-side in the streets by Ethiopian Ethiopian regimes. Simultaneously, it speaks loudly about their courageous, determination and readiness to fight Ethiopia's colonial rule to benefit their people to their last breath. It aims to glorify the ultimate sacrifice that the Oromo students made for the Oromo nation's freedom. I believe their story of brave deeds must be written in ink and remembered by the generation to come.
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