The plight of Oromo refugees in Kenya

The European Union (EU) has demanded a public inquiry

The plight of Oromo refugees in Kenya:

Part I

The background

The Oromo people are the single largest nation in the Horn and in East Africa. Historically hey were reach and had developed a kind of democratic culture, embracing all socio-economic and political phenomena, named Gada system. The implication of this system was far reaching that the then Oromo were peace loving, prosperous, well organized and militarily very strong people. As a nation, they were strongly defending their people and territory. Thanks to the incursion of Europeans in to the African territories, as late as the second half of the nineteenth century and most importantly to the Christianity which played decisive role in bringing a sort understanding and religious affiliation between the two colonizers-the Europeans and Abyssinians-that the mighty powers of the Oromo was humiliated by the modern weapons of latt! er and the Oromo were forced to knell down in front of their age long enemy at the same century.

Since then, the fate of this once indomitable very indigenous African nation has become a subject of perennial war, famine, persecutions, denial of their identity and expulsions from their inalienable land. The situation has been exacerbated since the Oromo have started national liberation movement, under the leadership of the O.L.F, in 1970s and reached its climax during the Transitional Government of Ethiopia and aftermath.

I. Causes of the Exodus of Oromo Nationals in the last three Decades and why they are suffering in Kenya today.

The Oromo nation to whom we the Oromo refugees in Kenya belong had been independent and administering itself before the colonial subjugation of Oromia by the narrow nationalist governments of Ethiopian Empire at the end of the 19th century,. However, since the colonial subjugation, the Oromos had lost their territorial independence, freedoms and, all human and democratic rights as well. As a result they have been harassed and humiliated from the past up to the present. To mention some of it, they have been persecuted, slaughtered, abducted, kidnapped, disappeared, detained, tortured, robbed and confiscated of their properties extra judicially for political reasons and, in short, for the mere fact of belongingness to Oromo nation became a crime especially during the Imperial and the Darg reg! ime.

After the downfall of the Darg military regime in 1991 and the coming to power of Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF) political climate seemed to get better. However, soon after one year one of the prominent opposition parties of the transitional government the OLF withdrew from the charter and all the prospect of having democratic government in Ethiopia drained into calamity. Thus under the guise of pacifying the Oromia region from the OLF, the present ruling party in Ethiopia EPRDF's, declared all out war against the Oromo and started harassments, humilities, and the violation of human and democratic rights are aggravated that EPRDF restlessly and publicly continued slaughtering, detaining, torturing and abducting the Oromo nationals! in mass for political reasons. In other words extra judicial killings, detention and lootings are rampant and unbearable to every Oromo. So the past and the current political conditions in the Ethiopian Empire are so hostile for the Oromo to live on their land peacefully. Due to these reasons many Oromo nationals including ourselves have fled and are still fleeing their home country in mass by crossing the borders of the neighboring countries like Moyale, Kenya so as to spare their lives at risk.

Up on our arrival in Kenya, we were registered with the UNHCR B. O. for Kenya in order to get refugee status and durable solutions to our pressing problems. In Nairobi, many of us are denied refugee status and waiting for the reconsideration of our cases; some of are asylum seekers waiting for decision of refugee status determination; some of are given UNHCR mandate letter to stay in Nairobi whereas some others are waiting for family unification process with JVA and INS. In a nutshell, all of us are forced to reside in Nairobi with consent of either the UNHCR JVA or INS, particularly for the following reasons. B. An Asylum seeker

Asylum seekers are forced to stay in Nairobi by the UNHCR, until they know the decision of their case. Usually new arrivals/ asylum seekers are given appointment for 3 months for the first time. But if they fail to attend the first appointment date for what so ever reasons, which in most cases are sickness, financial problems and Kenyan police harassment, the appointment is extended for well over a year.

In addition to that, one is mostly given appointment for his decision for not more than three weeks at the beginning. Nonetheless, that is absolutely impractical in actual facts as it is always extended for the next thee weeks or a month and some times it continues like that for the next fifty-or sixty appointments. There are refugees who are destined to attend for a single decision for more than a solid year.

In short then that it should be known that it is the UNHURT status determination process that keeps many Oromo refugees in Nairobi.

C. Nairobi Mandate Holders

It is clear that Nairobi city is harboring thousands of refugees from neighboring regions like Great Lakes, East Africa and the Horn mostly under the UNHUR category of urban refugees.

The Oromo from Ethiopia are amounted to good portion of these types of mandated refugees in Nairobi. Surprisingly, however, all of them are residing together at shaggy, forgotten and dirty corner of the city named Eastleigh.
They became a prey for the Kenyan police and are treated by the Kenyan Government as intruders or foreign criminals. The UNHCR officials have never visit them and so as any other humanitarian organization seems to care about these forgotten, downtrodden creatures and stateless human being.
Ironically, however, both the UNHCR and Goal Kenya have never stopped promising them either to provide them with proper accommodation and other facilities with in Nairobi or giving them a so called minority camp in Kenya other than Kakuma and Dhadhab. There was time when one of the UNHCR protection officer informed Oromo facilitators that the Kenyan government was ready to provide the Oromo with this camp.

D . Family unification cases
There are also hundreds of Oromo refugee residing in Nairobi depending on the remittance from their relatives from countries like USA, Canada, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, etc. Most of these them were in Mombassa camp before it was burnt in 1997 and transferred to Kakuma and Dadaab aftermath. However they could not live there peacefully as many of them became victims of Ethiopian government's agents and some clandestine Ethiopianist organizations like "Yehagar fiqir Ethiopian Andinat" the so called "***** Gaday". As a result, many of them were returned to Nairobi to spare their lives. There are also some refugees whose parents, spouse or guardians were resettled by the UNHCR in the third countries living them in Nairobi.
These types of refugees are economically better than the others for they depend on the remittance from their relatives. However, this scares source of income is also used to be a means livelihood for many other refugees who are mandated, by the UNHCR, to live in Nairobi but without any type of assistance.
Ironically, however, there is time when more than two families of the latter type depend on the income of one family of the former ones. That was perhaps why a Daily Nation reporter told us to observe more than fifteen refugee males and females sleeping in one small room. That was perhaps why lucky Kenyan raiding soldiers (not police) were able to take away thousands of Ksh and US dollars, many grams of precious jewelries, many mobile telephones and other portable mater! ials from a single room. Mind you! based on the excellent experience of their CIDs that the raiding was carefully planned to the end of the month when all the money from the relatives abroad reaches the refugees.
At this very juncture, we would strongly urge you to understand us that a huge sum of money we report to have been taken by the Kenyan army on, May 30, 2002, from our people has left them for months of starvation. Please would you come and see them now. You will observe the agonizing situation those refugees are indulged in now a day

E. A Resettlement Back lock

There are refugees whose files were submitted to the different embassies for resettlement in 2000 and before and who ere interviewed by the respective embassies. Some of them were rejected by the embassies and waiting for resubmission for another embassies for the last two years. But corruption became the main scapegoat for the UNHCR official to defend themselves against refugee's complaints. However, this kind of pretext, only to delay refugee's status or case progress in resettlement should be condemned by the international community and humanitarian Organizations.

III . Reasons Why Oromo Refugees Refrain from going to Kakuma and Dadaab Camps.

The Oromo people are one of the largest ethnic groups in Ethiopia. They are well over 60% of the entire population of the country.

They need self-determination or independence from the Ethiopian Empire owing to the new Ethiopian constitution which states that "the right of every nation and nationalities for self determination up to succession is protected" and the Oromo have been fighting for this vital cause, mainly siding the OLF. Due to this reasons, they became bitter enemy of the minority group the Amhara and of less minority Tigrians who do not want to hear this issue of the Oromos. Even though it is very simple to explain why the majority Oromo become victim of the minority, we neglect the historical depth of the matter only for the sake of confining ourselves to why the Oromo refugees refrain from going to Kakuma and Dhadhab,.

In the first place, both Kakuma and Dadaab are not safe place for the Oromo for the following reasons:

A. They are not situated at a reasonable distance from Ethiopian border and very vulnerable for EPRDF's easy incursions in to them.

B. There is persistent rampant banditry actions in these camps.

C. There are also political agents of the EPRDF's security forces and hidden organizations like 'Ethiopia Andinet Yehagar Fikir Mahbar' who are there to spy, kill, kidnap, attack and harass Oromo nationals in camouflage in co-operation with Ethiopian community and Ethiopian Embassy secretly. Secondly, both the Amhara and the Tigrians who were Ethiopianist ruling tribes during the Imperial and the Dergue regime as well as now-a days do share tribal origin and cultural identity. They are cousins, so to speak. Their contradiction does not go beyond the strife for controlling political and economic power. But they do have many -many common interests against Oromo. For instance when the Amhara were on political Power the Tigrian controlled all major economic spheres and the vice versa. Both do not want to see old Ethiopian Unity (including present day Eritrea) threatened. Both do fight for the supremacy of the Orthodox Christianity. Both are equally the! enemy of the Oromo for more than four centuries. For them the term Ethiopia implies the mighty of Amhara, Tigre and the Orthodox Church in politico-economic hemisphere of the Empire. That is why the Darg soldiers who fought against the Wayane (EPRDF) for the political power but defeated and camped at Kakuma, re-allied with Tigrian Party (EPRDF) when the Eritreans said to have threatened Ethiopian unity. That is why the Darg refugee soldiers at Kakuma hate the Oromo refugee and turned to be deadly enemy of them though both were expelled from their country by the EPRDF. Further more; many Darg commanders camped at Kakuma by the UNHCR were murders of innocent Oromo by accusing them of threatening the so called Ethiopian Unity and many Oromo refugees whom UNHCR is trying to bush to Kakuma are, ironically, families, relatives and friends of those victims. As a result Kakuma and Dadhab, for the Oromo refugees, are not only where their old enemies are well established and capable to take any fatal actions against them but also where the killers of their family are situated. As such for the Oromo, referring them to Kakuma is nothing more than sending them to a death row

IV .A Continues Complaints of the Oromo people to UNHCR B. O. for Kenya. We have been complaints to the UNHCR B. O. for Kenya for the last few year against following issues:

1. Denial of refugee status by rejecting 80% of our genuine cases despite the current hostile political situations in Ethiopia that prove the genuinety of our cases.

2. Denial of durable solutions or resettlement in any safe third country for no reasons.

3. Denial of necessary protection to our life and basic human rights with out any good causes.

4. Denial of safe shelter, necessary supplies, medical treatments and others.

5. Denial of access to UNHCR office in person for legitimate purposes for no reasons.

6. Failure to consider and respond to our written petitions sent by mail or delivered in person.

7. Referrals to unsafe Camps by undermining our security problems including our sick or mentally and physically disabled members despite professional recommendations by Kenya Home Affairs or GOAL.

8. Exposure to refoulment, attack, detention and payment of ransom money to the Kenyan Police.

9. Inclination of repatriation of Oromo nationals as a solution to their problems while in fact it is not so far as Oromia, the homeland of Oromo nationals, is not in peace. Denial of refugee status, denial of resettlement and camp referrals are probably evidences to that effect.

10. Repeated rescheduling of our cases for more than 4 years and long appointments of usually more than 3 months for no reasons.

11. Failure to deal with our cases or to give decisions and failure to notify as of the progress of our cases for no satisfactory reasons.

12. . Irrelevant, provocative and partial interrogation by lawyers.

13. Inhospitality, hatred, abuse and poor service by the staffs.

14. Failure to hold our cases as a confidential matter and revealing the contents of the cases to our political enemies.

15. Irrational action of taking our cases as a hostage and giving of privileges and priorities to the camps exiles in order to force us to the insecure camps.

16. Deliberate misplacing of our documents and telling us 'loss' as a reason for rescheduling

17. Reconsideration or reverting of our cases on false, written or otherwise, information usually supplied by our political enemies in our absence.

18. Reversal of former decisions of acquisition of refugee status and resettlement with out any good cause and remanding of our cases back to the initial interview.
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V. The Solutions We had been requesting

1. We repeatedly requested the UNHCR to find us any other safe camp by discussing with the Kenyan Government. Irrespective of repeated promise, by Mr. Sergio Gole, an Assistant Resettlement officer, that both the UNHCR and the Kenyan government were ready to offer new Refugee camps to the Oromo and other minority groups, nothing has been realized in practice, however. In addition, we request the office to give us either any kind of necessary protection or resettlement, to which we are in fact entitled on equal footing with the others, so that we can leave Kenya before we perished by the catastrophic incidents like the following one. Nevertheless all the UNHCR ,Goal Kenya, RCK and the Kenyan Government turned a deaf ear to our pertinent complaints.

Unexpected and Inhuman tragedy of May 30, 2002.

The cause of unexpected and inhuman catastrophic action taken by the Kenyan army against the Oromo refugees is alleged to have been the illegal arrival of two small size air crafts from Somalia and returned back discreetly to unidentified place. The irony, however, is why only the innocent Oromo refugees, who live separately from the Somalis, had been persecuted while those Somalis residents and passengers of those planes were clearly identified, captured by Kenyan police and presented to the court had nothing to do with Oromo refugees. Is it a legality matter? No because so many Ethiopian and other refugees living in Nairobi illegally were unharmed.&n! bsp; Nevertheless, nothing is made by mistake or without plan.
Anyway, the issue is not simple and the causality was so cumbersome and so humiliating. Mothers and sisters were raped in front of their children and siblings. Many have jumped from high buildings and broken their backbones and limbs. Many were missing. Properties amounted to thousands of dollars have been taken. More than 800 hundreds of people were taken to trouble Kenyan jails hundred millions of Ksh was paid to the police to release them. You can imagine the extent of the damage from the following some samples.

Sample of 182 victims of May 30th tragedy: in Nairobi The following very limited sample, which excludes all broken TVs, Radios, other precious household materials and stolen cloths etc, can demonstrate that the only 182 Oromo refugees in Nairobi have lost more than 5.1 million Ksh hard cash, nineteen mobile telephones, 5 photo cameras, 8 watches and more than

1.172 Kg golden jewelries as well as, more than ten women were found to be raped on the same day not to mention those allegedly raped in jail.

Lak. Maqa Abbaa Mana Saala Umri Namota hidhaman Maqaa isaani Umri Saala Qabenya Mana kesaa fudhame Malaqa ittin bahe Ragaa Baqataa UN No JIVA No

1 Falmatu Guto dha 32 // // // 4000 10,000 Mandeta ET-0015623

2 Kimiya Yaqob 35 dha 10,000 X-balema

3 Yasmin Usman 26 dha 10,000 Fudhatani Jiran

4 Maymuna Abdulahi dha 38 // // // 8000 Mandeta ET

5 Hussen Dawit dhi // // dhi 12,000 Mandet ET

6 Lulaa Mahamad dha // // dha 10,000 X-balama

7 Ashrafu Mahamad dha 10,000

8 Abdurazaq Mahamed dhi 17 // // // 10,000 X-balama

9 Munir Ridwan dhi 30 // // // 15,000 10,000

10 Ahmed Yusuf dhi 10,000

11 Harun Yusuf dhi 10,000

12 Ukash Yusuf dhi 10,000

13 Nujumaa Sufiyaan dha 25 6,000 10,000 Mandet

14 Haloo Waare dha 45 5,500 10,000 JVA

15 Safiya Ahmed Kabira dha 29 20,000 15,000 Mandet ET-0011424
16 Ashrafa dha 20 // 20,000 15,000 Mandet

17 Rahima Tamaam dha 35 15,000 30,000 mandet ET-0016911

18 Alfiyaa Mussa dha 18 15,000 10,000

19 Asli wari'oo dha 55 10,000 15,000 Mandet ET-097666

20 Asli Mahamed dha 17 10,000 15,000 Mandet ET-097666

21 Na'ima Umer dha 25 10,000 10,000 Mandet ET-007410

22 Kadra Umer dha 17 10,000 15,000 mandet ET-007410

23 Bontuu Kadiir Hussen dha 22 3,000 45,000 mandet ET-008591

24 Fatuma Ahmed dha 42 15,000 10,000

25 26 Mahamed Suleyman 24 dhi tuminsa Sa,atti Hulaa Mana 6000 Islii kara 2 Super market
27 Fatuma Mahamed 58 dha tumiicha moba'illa Noki'a Dawiti 60,000 // // 28 Abdosh Abdi Shak usman 16 dhi malaqa kuma 60,000 Maskota buqise nutti sene nutuman JVA
29 Fatti Abdi sha'I Usman 19 dhi Sa'a 1
30 Abdusamad Mumee umer dhi Moba'ila Isaa Lama 25,000 11,544 ET-0210
31 Ragatuu Harun ali 20 dha dahaba 950 ET-016135
32 Nujuma Abdula Mahamed 30 dha 33 Zuber Abdula Mahamed dahaba Dolara 2310 U.S.A 975 U.S.A 2310 JVA
34 Hayati dahaba
35 Mariya Ahmed Garad tumaa
36 Fatiya tumaa
37 Kimiya tumaa
38 Ali Mume Usman tumaa
39 Adame tumaa 40 Yusuf tumaa
41 Abdi tumaa
42 Ayub tumaa
43 Abe tumaa
44 Heelan Hayile ulime tumaa
45 Huriya Haji ebrahim tumaa
Maqaa Abaa Mana Sala Umri Midhaa Namota irragesse Qabenya bade Ragaa baqata UNHURT No JVA No Akkata hidha itti Bahe
46 Muhamed Suleyman Tumnsa 9,000 Bellama =021313 15,000
47 Zahraa Abdurahman Gido // dahaba 9-15 Mandeta 0007360 10,000
48 Nuuree Ahmed Bakri // 8000 ET-0014921 10,000
49 Abdela Amin Bakri mana cabsanii -100,000 15,000 JVA 15,000
50 Zayida Isa Ebrahim Jollee tiyya sadihiitti taphatan
51 Jolee xitiqo Lama tuminsa
52 Najiyaa Ahmed Yusuf Tominsa akamale tumani hakima satiharkaa tifi malaqa 7000 7000 ET-021843
53 Mahamed Fadhi Take Hidha tumame sa'ati harkaa 15000 ET-0016976
54 Najib Mahamed Amina (Wife) Ulfa qabdu tuman 5000 700
55 Mahamednur Jundi Tumame 10,000
56 Xahaa Yusuf Sa'id Aliyi Hidhame 20,000 ET-16266
57 Hussen Aliyi Hidhame 10,000 ET-20660
58 Mujat Ahmed Haji tuminsa 15,000 JVA
59 Ashrafu Ahmed dhi 25 Dahaba 150 grama 10,000
60 Ahmed Mahamed dhi 30 Moba'ila fi 15,000

Part II

Maqaa Abaa manaa Sala Umri Mana Hidha Sala Umri Qabenya samame Ragaa Baqataa UNHURTJVA No Malaqa bahanen<
61 Shamil Aliyi dhi 34 1.Abdalla Jaabir dhi 19 Moba'ila 8,000
62 Abba Jamal Mahamed dhi 45 dhira 36 Dahaba kanitti bahan30,000 mandeta ET-022666 30,000
63 Faki'a Abdlla Jolee 6 wajiin dha 30 Dha Moba'ilafi dahaba Malaqaa 5,000 mandeta ET-0014037 10,000

Maqaa Namootaa Umri Kafaltii Qabeenya samame UNHCR 65 Birra Hassan Elemo 31 // 200,000 0011773
66 Umer Mahamed Siraj 29 2000 US dolar 2 Moba'il
67 Bushra Yusuf 25 1500 1kg gold
68 Awal Muktar Amee 22 10,000 20,000 k.sh 016959
69 Mustafaa Mahamed Adem 22 15,000 500,US dolar
70 Iliyas Ahmed Nure 24 10,000 300 US Dolar 017437
71 Najib Ahmed Hashim 24 15,000 400US Dolar 0009166
72 Gadisa Sanii Ibrahim 21 10,000 1000 US Dolar 0021750
73 Tofiq Ahmed Nure 27 10,000 Sa'a docment malaqa 13000k.sh
74 Shamsudin Usm'el Adem 34 15,000 7000 k.sh 0020011

Maqaa Namootaa Umrii Kafaltii adabaa Qabeenya Samame Ragaa baqataaJVA UNHCR
77 Ahmed Abdosh Umer 42 10,000 8000-mobile 0007685
78 Umer Ahmed Hassan 27 10,000 4000 00016705
79 Fatuma Ahmed Issa 48 20,000 3000-1mobil 1poto camera 0013090
80 Abdurahiman Abbadiga 23 15,000 1 mobil 8000 0021676
81 Kemal Mahamed Amin 20 15,000 2000 3 trousers 509405 509405
82 Sa'ada Mahamed Ahmed 21 13,000 7g gold //
83 Mustafa // 19 15,000 1 tape //
84 Su'udi 16 15,000 10,000 //
85 Jemal 22 1500 //
86 Sheda 17 1500 2000 Tv cabsan
87 Ibrahim Mahamed 26 1500 1kg gold 021522
88 Chaltu Abdurazaq 17 10,000 1 mobail 18g gold 164,000 ksh
89 Mahammed Ahmed Usman 53 110,000 1320 US Dolar and many others
90 Ahmed Mahamed aliye 29 30,000 3000 US Dolar 007674

No Maqaa Gutuu Umrii Saal Midhaa irra gahe Qabenya bade/kansaman Polisa fkafalame,dimishashan Waraqaa Jirenya
91 Urgesaa Bento Kulu 35 Dhi Dhanamee 16,0000 5,000 Mandeta
92 Kadir Hiko Dube - Dhi // 4,000 - Mndeta
93 Sanbate Sa'id - Dhi // 6,000 15,000
94 Muhamad Guracha Wado 60 Dhi // 30,000 80,000
95 Ahmed HassenSeribo 24 Dhi //
96 Jamal Sinbiru Ture 23 Dhi dhaname
97 Jawaro Dube Falam 15 Dhi "
98 Hiko Falama Tashitee 16 Dhi "
99 Mahamad Koji Arifach 14 Dhi "
100 Kemiso Hussen Elemo 12 Dhi "
101 Sadiq Elemo Hiribo 12 Dhi " -
102 Qasim Elemo Hiribo 11 Dhi " -
103 Fatuma Aman Kadir 17 Dha Dhanamte
- 104 Mustafa Aman Kdir 21 Dhi Dhaname -
105 Abdul Samad Mahamed 22 Dhi "- 20,000 10,000 Mndet
106 Ture Manza Haji 26 Dhi Dhaname 4,000 5,000 Appontment
107 Tune Gada Gale 28 Dhi - - - Appointemt
108 Abdo Wako Ture 35 Dhi - - - IOM
109 Abu Gamcha Dajo 25 Dhi - - - Appointement 110 Abdu Watch Tonosa 30 Dhi Dhaname 27,000 1
0,000 Mandet 111 Ali Ayano Watcha 28 Dhi - - - Mandet
112 Gamada Qantri 30 Dhi Dhaname - 10,000 Appointemt
113 Hinko Wajiso 30 Dhi // 200 11,000 Mandet
114 Chala Mangash Qajela 24 Dhi // - 5,000 Mandet
115 Jafar Suleyman Fa'sa 25 Dhi // - - Mandet
116 Gamachu Bafikadu 24 Dhi // - - Mandet
117 Ayub Mume 26 Dhi // - 10,000 Appointement
118 Abdul Malik Mume 23 Dhi // - 10,000 Appointement
119 Hayat Mume 28 Dha // - 10,000 Appointemnt 120 Hassan Mhamed 29 Dhi // 15,000 7,000 Mandet 121 Aman Ragassa 16 Dhi // 4,000 15,000 Mandet 122 Jamal Mahamed 28 Dhi // 5,000 5,000 Mandet 123 Malkat Aman Kabato 23 Dhi // 5,000 5,000 Mandet 124 Jamal Hasato Kabato 30 Dhi // 2,000 5,000 Mandet 125 Ababachew Hussen Kato 30 Dhi // 7,000 10,000 Appontement 126 Zeytuna Aman Kabto 13 Dha Dhanamte 400 2,000 Pasaport 127 Shamsiya Hussen kabato 15 // // 6,000 15,000 INS 128 Hiko Aman Kabato 20 Dhi // 7,000 15,000 Pasaport 129 Hiko Wako Tisse 24 // // 5,000 6,000 Apointemt 130 Rukiya mHassan Tayiro 30 Dha // - 5,000 Pasapott 131 Abdulmajid Hussen 22 Dhi // - 2,000 // 132 Mamud Aman 10 Dhi // - 10,000 // 133 Yusuf Hussen 10 Dhi // - 3,000 INS 134 Tatiku Erikata 27 Dhi // 6,000 8,000 Mandet 135 Mulugeta Reba 45 Dhi // 6,000 17,000 // 136 Danye Dafarisha 30 Dhi // - - // 137 Mahamed Sinbiro 26 Dhi // - 16,000 // 138 Kasim Hasso 25 Dhi // 15,000 3,000 Mandeta Nairobi 139 Lalise Roba Galmo 30 Dha // 30,000 9,000 // 130 Biftu Anawar 3 Dha // - 9,000 // 131 Anawar Hedara 32 Dhi // - - // 132 Ruman Umar 28 Dhi // - 10,000 // 133 Bharu Kadir 30 Dhi // - 10,000 // 134 Umar Kadir 40 Dhi // 30,000 15,000 // 135 Arii Kumbi 32 Dhi // 3,000 - //

No Maqaa Gutuu Umrii Saala Midhaa irra gehe Qabenya bade/kansamame Polisaf Waraqaa Jirenya 136 Amaan Hedatoo Qeerransoo 29 Dhi Tumaa 3000 33000 Mandet 137 Bontuu Kadir Hussen 22 Dha Tumaa - 20,000 Waraqaa belamaa 138 Yaasiin Bashir Bushra 32 Dhi - - 2000 Mandeta 139 Waqoo Tibbeessoo Guddatoo 27 Dhi - 12000 - Waraqaa belamaa 140 Birru Hurrise Fatansaa 55 Dhi Tumaa 8000 10,000 Mandeta 141 Nabiya Ahmed Abdalla 22 Dha Tumaa 13000 32,000 Mandeta 141 Huseen Nuuraa Duulee 60 Dhi - 60,000 50,000 Mandeta 141 Maahmud Abdullahii Hasan 28 Dhi Tumaa 1000 - Mandeta 142 Kumala Adunya Tuyyoo 30 Dhi Tumaa 34,000 19,000 Mandeta 143 Jamaal Amaan Ahmed 23 Dhi Tumaa 5000 28,000 Mandeta 144 Kasayee Getachew Dibaba 27 Dhi Tumaa 29,000 3,000 Mandeta 145 Dammituu Mi'eessoo 22 Dhi Tumaa - 10,000 Mandeta 146 Irkisaa Guddinaa 21 Dhi Tumaa - 5,000 Mandeta 147 Darajee Daadhii 23 Dhu Tumaa - 3,000 Mandeta 148 Faaxee Tashitee 25 Dhi Tumaa 2000 11,000 Mandeta 149 Biraanuu Eda'oo 42 Dhi Tumaa 24,700 4,000 ID(Air line certaficate,passport in Kenya Mandet 150 Kuluree Midhaksoo 30 Dhi Tumaa 160,000 28,000 Mandet 151 Sabboonaa Amaan 3 Dhi - - - - 152 Shimalis Birruu 20 Dhi Tumaa - - - 153 Dajanee Birruu 18 Dhi - - - - 154 Jaalannee Birruu 14 Dha Tumaa - - - 155 Natoo Baruu 16 Dha Tumaa - - - 156 Damee Baruu 15 Dha Tumaa - - - 157 Naziraa 14 Dha Tumaa - 10,000 Mandet 158 Naziraa Huseen Nuree 14 Dhi Tumaa - - - 159 Ashiya Ahmed 13 Dha Tumaa - - - 160 Rahimaa Ahmed 12 Dha Tumaa - - - 161 Ahmed Saafaloo 30 Dhi Tumaa - - Mandet 162 Abdi Ahmed 25 Dhi Tumaa - - - 163 Ilillii Kumala 3 Dha - - - - 164 Dararaa Kumalaa 1 Dhi - - - - 165 Sheed amaan Ahmed 19 Dha Tumaa - 10,000 Mandet 166 Huriya Mahammed Huseen 22 Dha Tumaa - 10,000 Mandet 167 Aliyyii Hasan 26 Dhi Tumaa - 12,000 Mandet 168 Nafiisaa Hasan 18 Dha Tumaa - 7,000 Mandet 169 Umar Hajii 6 Dhi - - - - 170 Mubaarak Hajjii 5 Dhi - - - - 171 Gammachuu Kuuraa 7 Dhi - - - Mandet 172 Midhagsa Ragassa 8 Dhi Tumaa - 10,000 Mandet 173 Rata Makulee 25 Dhi Tumaa - 10,000 Mandet 174 Kadir Umar 25 Dhi Tumaa 96,000 25,000 Appointement 175 Gamee Tahir 37 Dhi Tumaa - - // 176 Ahmed Kadir Umar 28 Dhi Tumaa - - // 177 Rhma Kadir 9 Dha Tumaa - - // 178 Taha Kadir 8 Dhi Tumaa - - // 179 Mahamed Kadir Ituu 5 Dhi Tumaa 10,000 6,000 // 180 Umar Hajii datu 33 Dhi Tumaa 7,000 10,000 // 181 Buraqa Kadir 35 Dhi Tumaa - 10,000 Appointement 182 Jamal Abdulnasir Midhaga - dhi Tumaa 1- 10,000 Mandet

Qbeenya Samamee fi Maallaqa

Kan warren hidhameef kafalame(bails/bribes paid at court only) Kaa Samame(Confiscated asset) Moba'il(Mobile telephone) Kamera(Photo Camera) Saa'tii(Watches) Warqii(Gold jewelries) 2,007,350.00 3,169,220.00 19 5 8 1.175kg

Dear Brothers the is a half processed data of 182 victims of kenyan soldiers raid of Ormo refugees in Nairobi on May 30th,2002. please read both parts of the attachments and send it to the concerned humanitarian organizations and other bodies. with a kind regards. Bedri K.Mohammed Part I The background The Oromo people are the single largest nation in the Horn and in East Africa. Historically hey were reach and had developed a kind of democratic culture, embracing all socio-economic and political phenomena, named Gada system. The implication of this system was far reaching that the then Oromo were peace loving, prosperous, well organized and militarily very strong people. As a nation, they were strongly defending their people and territory. Thanks to the incursion of Europeans in to the African territories, as late as the second half of the nineteenth century and most importantly to the Christianity which played decisive role in bringing a sort understanding and religious affiliation between the two colonizers-the Europeans and Abyssinians-that the mighty powers of the Oromo was humiliated by the modern weapons of latt! er and the Oromo were forced to knell down in front of their age long enemy at the same century. Since then, the fate of this once indomitable very indigenous African nation has become a subject of perennial war, famine, persecutions, denial of their identity and expulsions from their inalienable land. The situation has been exacerbated since the Oromo have started national liberation movement, under the leadership of the O.L.F, in 1970s and reached its climax during the Transitional Government of Ethiopia and aftermath. I. Causes of the Exodus of Oromo Nationals in the last three Decades and why they are suffering in Kenya today. The Oromo nation to whom we the Oromo refugees in Kenya belong had been independent and administering itself before the colonial subjugation of Oromia by the narrow nationalist governments of Ethiopian Empire at the end of the 19th century,. However, since the colonial subjugation, the Oromos had lost their territorial independence, freedoms and, all human and democratic rights as well. As a result they have been harassed and humiliated from the past up to the present. To mention some of it, they have been persecuted, slaughtered, abducted, kidnapped, disappeared, detained, tortured, robbed and confiscated of their properties extra judicially for political reasons and, in short, for the mere fact of belongingness to Oromo nation became a crime especially during the Imperial and the Darg reg! ime. After the downfall of the Darg military regime in 1991 and the coming to power of Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF) political climate seemed to get better. However, soon after one year one of the prominent opposition parties of the transitional government the OLF withdrew from the charter and all the prospect of having democratic government in Ethiopia drained into calamity. Thus under the guise of pacifying the Oromia region from the OLF, the present ruling party in Ethiopia EPRDF's, declared all out war against the Oromo and started harassments, humilities, and the violation of human and democratic rights are aggravated that EPRDF restlessly and publicly continued slaughtering, detaining, torturing and abducting the Oromo nationals! in mass for political reasons. In other words extra judicial killings, detention and lootings are rampant and unbearable to every Oromo. So the past and the current political conditions in the Ethiopian Empire are so hostile for the Oromo to live on their land peacefully. Due to these reasons many Oromo nationals including ourselves have fled and are still fleeing their home country in mass by crossing the borders of the neighboring countries like Moyale, Kenya so as to spare their lives at risk. Up on our arrival in Kenya, we were registered with the UNHCR B. O. for Kenya in order to get refugee status and durable solutions to our pressing problems. In Nairobi, many of us are denied refugee status and waiting for the reconsideration of our cases; some of are asylum seekers waiting for decision of refugee status determination; some of are given UNHCR mandate letter to stay in Nairobi whereas some others are waiting for family unification process with JVA and INS. In a nutshell, all of us are forced to reside in Nairobi with consent of either the UNHCR JVA or INS, particularly for the following reasons. B. An Asylum seeker Asylum seekers are forced to stay in Nairobi by the UNHCR, until they know the decision of their case. Usually new arrivals/ asylum seekers are given appointment for 3 months for the first time. But if they fail to attend the first appointment date for what so ever reasons, which in most cases are sickness, financial problems and Kenyan police harassment, the appointment is extended for well over a year. In addition to that, one is mostly given appointment for his decision for not more than three weeks at the beginning. Nonetheless, that is absolutely impractical in actual facts as it is always extended for the next thee weeks or a month and some times it continues like that for the next fifty-or sixty appointments. There are refugees who are destined to attend for a single decision for more than a solid year. In short then that it should be known that it is the UNHURT status determination process that keeps many Oromo refugees in Nairobi. C. Nairobi Mandate Holders It is clear that Nairobi city is harboring thousands of refugees from neighboring regions like Great Lakes, East Africa and the Horn mostly under the UNHUR category of urban refugees. The Oromo from Ethiopia are amounted to good portion of these types of mandated refugees in Nairobi. Surprisingly, however, all of them are residing together at shaggy, forgotten and dirty corner of the city named Eastleigh. They became a prey for the Kenyan police and are treated by the Kenyan Government as intruders or foreign criminals. The UNHCR officials have never visit them and so as any other humanitarian organization seems to care about these forgotten, downtrodden creatures and stateless human being. Ironically, however, both the UNHCR and Goal Kenya have never stopped promising them either to provide them with proper accommodation and other facilities with in Nairobi or giving them a so called minority camp in Kenya other than Kakuma and Dhadhab. There was time when one of the UNHCR protection officer informed Oromo facilitators that the Kenyan government was ready to provide the Oromo with this camp. D . Family unification cases There are also hundreds of Oromo refugee residing in Nairobi depending on the remittance from their relatives from countries like USA, Canada, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, etc. Most of these them were in Mombassa camp before it was burnt in 1997 and transferred to Kakuma and Dadaab aftermath. However they could not live there peacefully as many of them became victims of Ethiopian government's agents and some clandestine Ethiopianist organizations like "Yehagar fiqir Ethiopian Andinat" the so called "***** Gaday". As a result, many of them were returned to Nairobi to spare their lives. There are also some refugees whose parents, spouse or guardians were resettled by the UNHCR in the third countries living them in Nairobi. These types of refugees are economically better than the others for they depend on the remittance from their relatives. However, this scares source of income is also used to be a means livelihood for many other refugees who are mandated, by the UNHCR, to live in Nairobi but without any type of assistance. Ironically, however, there is time when more than two families of the latter type depend on the income of one family of the former ones. That was perhaps why a Daily Nation reporter told us to observe more than fifteen refugee males and females sleeping in one small room. That was perhaps why lucky Kenyan raiding soldiers (not police) were able to take away thousands of Ksh and US dollars, many grams of precious jewelries, many mobile telephones and other portable mater! ials from a single room. Mind you! based on the excellent experience of their CIDs that the raiding was carefully planned to the end of the month when all the money from the relatives abroad reaches the refugees. At this very juncture, we would strongly urge you to understand us that a huge sum of money we report to have been taken by the Kenyan army on, May 30, 2002, from our people has left them for months of starvation. Please would you come and see them now. You will observe the agonizing situation those refugees are indulged in now a day E. A Resettlement Back lock There are refugees whose files were submitted to the different embassies for resettlement in 2000 and before and who ere interviewed by the respective embassies. Some of them were rejected by the embassies and waiting for resubmission for another embassies for the last two years. But corruption became the main scapegoat for the UNHCR official to defend themselves against refugee's complaints. However, this kind of pretext, only to delay refugee's status or case progress in resettlement should be condemned by the international community and humanitarian Organizations. III . Reasons Why Oromo Refugees Refrain from going to Kakuma and Dadaab Camps. The Oromo people are one of the largest ethnic groups in Ethiopia. They are well over 60% of the entire population of the country. They need self-determination or independence from the Ethiopian Empire owing to the new Ethiopian constitution which states that "the right of every nation and nationalities for self determination up to succession is protected" and the Oromo have been fighting for this vital cause, mainly siding the OLF. Due to this reasons, they became bitter enemy of the minority group the Amhara and of less minority Tigrians who do not want to hear this issue of the Oromos. Even though it is very simple to explain why the majority Oromo become victim of the minority, we neglect the historical depth of the matter only for the sake of confining ourselves to why the Oromo refugees refrain from going to Kakuma and Dhadhab,. In the first place, both Kakuma and Dadaab are not safe place for the Oromo for the following reasons: A. They are not situated at a reasonable distance from Ethiopian border and very vulnerable for EPRDF's easy incursions in to them. B. There is persistent rampant banditry actions in these camps. C. There are also political agents of the EPRDF's security forces and hidden organizations like 'Ethiopia Andinet Yehagar Fikir Mahbar' who are there to spy, kill, kidnap, attack and harass Oromo nationals in camouflage in co-operation with Ethiopian community and Ethiopian Embassy secretly. Secondly, both the Amhara and the Tigrians who were Ethiopianist ruling tribes during the Imperial and the Dergue regime as well as now-a days do share tribal origin and cultural identity. They are cousins, so to speak. Their contradiction does not go beyond the strife for controlling political and economic power. But they do have many -many common interests against Oromo. For instance when the Amhara were on political Power the Tigrian controlled all major economic spheres and the vice versa. Both do not want to see old Ethiopian Unity (including present day Eritrea) threatened. Both do fight for the supremacy of the Orthodox Christianity. Both are equally the! enemy of the Oromo for more than four centuries. For them the term Ethiopia implies the mighty of Amhara, Tigre and the Orthodox Church in politico-economic hemisphere of the Empire. That is why the Darg soldiers who fought against the Wayane (EPRDF) for the political power but defeated and camped at Kakuma, re-allied with Tigrian Party (EPRDF) when the Eritreans said to have threatened Ethiopian unity. That is why the Darg refugee soldiers at Kakuma hate the Oromo refugee and turned to be deadly enemy of them though both were expelled from their country by the EPRDF. Further more; many Darg commanders camped at Kakuma by the UNHCR were murders of innocent Oromo by accusing them of threatening the so called Ethiopian Unity and many Oromo refugees whom UNHCR is trying to bush to Kakuma are, ironically, families, relatives and friends of those victims. As a result Kakuma and Dadhab, for the Oromo refugees, are not only where their old enemies are well established and capable to take any fatal actions against them but also where the killers of their family are situated. As such for the Oromo, referring them to Kakuma is nothing more than sending them to a death row

IV .A Continues Complaints of the Oromo people to UNHCR B. O. for Kenya. We have been complaints to the UNHCR B. O. for Kenya for the last few year against following issues: 1. Denial of refugee status by rejecting 80% of our genuine cases despite the current hostile political situations in Ethiopia that prove the genuinety of our cases. 2. Denial of durable solutions or resettlement in any safe third country for no reasons.

3. Denial of necessary protection to our life and basic human rights with out any good causes. 4. Denial of safe shelter, necessary supplies, medical treatments and others. 5. Denial of access to UNHCR office in person for legitimate purposes for no reasons. 6. Failure to consider and respond to our written petitions sent by mail or delivered in person. 7. Referrals to unsafe Camps by undermining our security problems including our sick or mentally and physically disabled members despite professional recommendations by Kenya Home Affairs or GOAL. 8. Exposure to refoulment, attack, detention and payment of ransom money to the Kenyan Police. 9. Inclination of repatriation of Oromo nationals as a solution to their problems while in fact it is not so far as Oromia, the homeland of Oromo nationals, is not in peace. Denial of refugee status, denial of resettlement and camp referrals are probably evidences to that effect. 10. Repeated rescheduling of our cases for more than 4 years and long appointments of usually more than 3 months for no reasons. 11. Failure to deal with our cases or to give decisions and failure to notify as of the progress of our cases for no satisfactory reasons. 12. . Irrelevant, provocative and partial interrogation by lawyers. 13. Inhospitality, hatred, abuse and poor service by the staffs. 14. Failure to hold our cases as a confidential matter and revealing the contents of the cases to our political enemies. 15. Irrational action of taking our cases as a hostage and giving of privileges and priorities to the camps exiles in order to force us to the insecure camps. 16. Deliberate misplacing of our documents and telling us 'loss' as a reason for rescheduling 17. Reconsideration or reverting of our cases on false, written or otherwise, information usually supplied by our political enemies in our absence. 18. Reversal of former decisions of acquisition of refugee status and resettlement with out any good cause and remanding of our cases back to the initial interview. .

V. The Solutions We had been requesting

Unexpected and Inhuman tragedy of May 30, 2002.

The cause of unexpected and inhuman catastrophic action taken by the Kenyan army against the Oromo refugees is alleged to have been the illegal arrival of two small size air crafts from Somalia and returned back discreetly to unidentified place. The irony, however, is why only the innocent Oromo refugees, who live separately from the Somalis, had been persecuted while those Somalis residents and passengers of those planes were clearly identified, captured by Kenyan police and presented to the court had nothing to do with Oromo refugees. Is it a legality matter? No because so many Ethiopian and other refugees living in Nairobi illegally were unharmed.&n! bsp; Nevertheless, nothing is made by mistake or without plan. Anyway, the issue is not simple and the causality was so cumbersome and so humiliating. Mothers and sisters were raped in front of their children and siblings. Many have jumped from high buildings and broken their backbones and limbs. Many were missing. Properties amounted to thousands of dollars have been taken. More than 800 hundreds of people were taken to trouble Kenyan jails hundred millions of Ksh was paid to the police to release them. You can imagine the extent of the damage from the following some samples.

Lak. Maqa Abbaa Mana Saala Umri Namota hidhaman Maqaa isaani Umri Saala Qabenya Mana kesaa fudhame Malaqa ittin bahe Ragaa Baqataa UN No JIVA No

1 Falmatu Guto dha 32 // // // 4000 10,000 Mandeta ET-0015623 2 Kimiya Yaqob 35 dha 10,000 X-balema 3 Yasmin Usman 26 dha 10,000 Fudhatani Jiran 4 Maymuna Abdulahi dha 38 // // // 8000 Mandeta ET 5 Hussen Dawit dhi // // dhi 12,000 Mandet ET 6 Lulaa Mahamad dha // // dha 10,000 X-balama 7 Ashrafu Mahamad dha 10,000 8 Abdurazaq Mahamed dhi 17 // // // 10,000 X-balama 9 Munir Ridwan dhi 30 // // // 15,000 10,000 10 Ahmed Yusuf dhi 10,000 11 Harun Yusuf dhi 10,000 12 Ukash Yusuf dhi 10,000 13 Nujumaa Sufiyaan dha 25 6,000 10,000 Mandet 14 Haloo Waare dha 45 5,500 10,000 JVA 15 Safiya Ahmed Kabira dha 29 20,000 15,000 Mandet ET-0011424 16 Ashrafa dha 20 // 20,000 15,000 Mandet 17 Rahima Tamaam dha 35 15,000 30,000 mandet ET-0016911 18 Alfiyaa Mussa dha 18 15,000 10,000 19 Asli wari'oo dha 55 10,000 15,000 Mandet ET-097666 20 Asli Mahamed dha 17 10,000 15,000 Mandet ET-097666 21 Na'ima Umer dha 25 10,000 10,000 Mandet ET-007410 22 Kadra Umer dha 17 10,000 15,000 mandet ET-007410 23 Bontuu Kadiir Hussen dha 22 3,000 45,000 mandet ET-008591 24 Fatuma Ahmed dha 42 15,000 10,000

25 26 Mahamed Suleyman 24 dhi tuminsa Sa,atti Hulaa Mana 6000 Islii kara 2 Super market 27 Fatuma Mahamed 58 dha tumiicha moba'illa Noki'a Dawiti 60,000 // // 28 Abdosh Abdi Shak usman 16 dhi malaqa kuma 60,000 Maskota buqise nutti sene nutuman JVA 29 Fatti Abdi sha'I Usman 19 dhi Sa'a 1 30 Abdusamad Mumee umer dhi Moba'ila Isaa Lama 25,000 11,544 ET-0210 31 Ragatuu Harun ali 20 dha dahaba 950 ET-016135 32 Nujuma Abdula Mahamed 30 dha 33 Zuber Abdula Mahamed dahaba Dolara 2310 U.S.A 975 U.S.A 2310 JVA 34 Hayati dahaba 35 Mariya Ahmed Garad tumaa 36 Fatiya tumaa 37 Kimiya tumaa 38 Ali Mume Usman tumaa 39 Adame tumaa 40 Yusuf tumaa 41 Abdi tumaa 42 Ayub tumaa 43 Abe tumaa 44 Heelan Hayile ulime tumaa 45 Huriya Haji ebrahim tumaa Maqaa Abaa Mana Sala Umri Midhaa Namota irragesse Qabenya bade Ragaa baqata UNHURT No JVA No Akkata hidha itti Bahe 46 Muhamed Suleyman Tumnsa 9,000 Bellama =021313 15,000 47 Zahraa Abdurahman Gido // dahaba 9-15 Mandeta 0007360 10,000 48 Nuuree Ahmed Bakri // 8000 ET-0014921 10,000 49 Abdela Amin Bakri mana cabsanii -100,000 15,000 JVA 15,000 50 Zayida Isa Ebrahim Jollee tiyya sadihiitti taphatan 51 Jolee xitiqo Lama tuminsa 52 Najiyaa Ahmed Yusuf Tominsa akamale tumani hakima satiharkaa tifi malaqa 7000 7000 ET-021843 53 Mahamed Fadhi Take Hidha tumame sa'ati harkaa 15000 ET-0016976 54 Najib Mahamed Amina (Wife) Ulfa qabdu tuman 5000 700 55 Mahamednur Jundi Tumame 10,000 56 Xahaa Yusuf Sa'id Aliyi Hidhame 20,000 ET-16266 57 Hussen Aliyi Hidhame 10,000 ET-20660 58 Mujat Ahmed Haji tuminsa 15,000 JVA 59 Ashrafu Ahmed dhi 25 Dahaba 150 grama 10,000 60 Ahmed Mahamed dhi 30 Moba'ila fi 15,000

Part II

Maqaa Abaa manaa Sala Umri Mana Hidha Sala Umri Qabenya samame Ragaa Baqataa UNHURTJVA No Malaqa bahanen 61 Shamil Aliyi dhi 34 1.Abdalla Jaabir dhi 19 Moba'ila 8,000 62 Abba Jamal Mahamed dhi 45 dhira 36 Dahaba kanitti bahan30,000 mandeta ET-022666 30,000 63 Faki'a Abdlla Jolee 6 wajiin dha 30 Dha Moba'ilafi dahaba Malaqaa 5,000 mandeta ET-0014037 10,000

Maqaa Namootaa Umri Kafaltii Qabeenya samame UNHCR 65 Birra Hassan Elemo 31 // 200,000 0011773 66 Umer Mahamed Siraj 29 2000 US dolar 2 Moba'il 67 Bushra Yusuf 25 1500 1kg gold 68 Awal Muktar Amee 22 10,000 20,000 k.sh 016959 69 Mustafaa Mahamed Adem 22 15,000 500,US dolar 70 Iliyas Ahmed Nure 24 10,000 300 US Dolar 017437 71 Najib Ahmed Hashim 24 15,000 400US Dolar 0009166 72 Gadisa Sanii Ibrahim 21 10,000 1000 US Dolar 0021750 73 Tofiq Ahmed Nure 27 10,000 Sa'a docment malaqa 13000k.sh 74 Shamsudin Usm'el Adem 34 15,000 7000 k.sh 0020011

Maqaa Namootaa Umrii Kafaltii adabaa Qabeenya Samame Ragaa baqataaJVA UNHCR 77 Ahmed Abdosh Umer 42 10,000 8000-mobile 0007685 78 Umer Ahmed Hassan 27 10,000 4000 00016705 79 Fatuma Ahmed Issa 48 20,000 3000-1mobil 1poto camera 0013090 80 Abdurahiman Abbadiga 23 15,000 1 mobil 8000 0021676 81 Kemal Mahamed Amin 20 15,000 2000 3 trousers 509405 509405 82 Sa'ada Mahamed Ahmed 21 13,000 7g gold // 83 Mustafa // 19 15,000 1 tape // 84 Su'udi 16 15,000 10,000 // 85 Jemal 22 1500 // 86 Sheda 17 1500 2000 Tv cabsan // 87 Ibrahim Mahamed 26 1500 1kg gold 021522 88 Chaltu Abdurazaq 17 10,000 1 mobail 18g gold 164,000 ksh 89 Mahammed Ahmed Usman 53 110,000 1320 US Dolar and many others 90 Ahmed Mahamed aliye 29 30,000 3000 US Dolar 007674

No Maqaa Gutuu Umrii Saal Midhaa irra gahe Qabenya bade/kansaman Polisa fkafalame,dimishashan Waraqaa Jirenya 91 Urgesaa Bento Kulu 35 Dhi Dhanamee 16,0000 5,000 Mandeta 92 Kadir Hiko Dube - Dhi // 4,000 - Mndeta 93 Sanbate Sa'id - Dhi // 6,000 15,000 94 Muhamad Guracha Wado 60 Dhi // 30,000 80,000 95 Ahmed HassenSeribo 24 Dhi // 96 Jamal Sinbiru Ture 23 Dhi dhaname 97 Jawaro Dube Falam 15 Dhi " 98 Hiko Falama Tashitee 16 Dhi " 99 Mahamad Koji Arifach 14 Dhi " 100 Kemiso Hussen Elemo 12 Dhi " 101 Sadiq Elemo Hiribo 12 Dhi " - 102 Qasim Elemo Hiribo 11 Dhi " - 103 Fatuma Aman Kadir 17 Dha Dhanamte - 104 Mustafa Aman Kdir 21 Dhi Dhaname - 105 Abdul Samad Mahamed 22 Dhi "- 20,000 10,000 Mndet 106 Ture Manza Haji 26 Dhi Dhaname 4,000 5,000 Appontment 107 Tune Gada Gale 28 Dhi - - - Appointemt 108 Abdo Wako Ture 35 Dhi - - - IOM 109 Abu Gamcha Dajo 25 Dhi - - - Appointement 110 Abdu Watch Tonosa 30 Dhi Dhaname 27,000 10,000 Mandet 111 Ali Ayano Watcha 28 Dhi - - - Mandet 112 Gamada Qantri 30 Dhi Dhaname - 10,000 Appointemt 113 Hinko Wajiso 30 Dhi // 200 11,000 Mandet 114 Chala Mangash Qajela 24 Dhi // - 5,000 Mandet 115 Jafar Suleyman Fa'sa 25 Dhi // - - Mandet 116 Gamachu Bafikadu 24 Dhi // - - Mandet 117 Ayub Mume 26 Dhi // - 10,000 Appointement 118 Abdul Malik Mume 23 Dhi // - 10,000 Appointement 119 Hayat Mume 28 Dha // - 10,000 Appointemnt 120 Hassan Mhamed 29 Dhi // 15,000 7,000 Mandet 121 Aman Ragassa 16 Dhi // 4,000 15,000 Mandet 122 Jamal Mahamed 28 Dhi // 5,000 5,000 Mandet 123 Malkat Aman Kabato 23 Dhi // 5,000 5,000 Mandet 124 Jamal Hasato Kabato 30 Dhi // 2,000 5,000 Mandet 125 Ababachew Hussen Kato 30 Dhi // 7,000 10,000 Appontement 126 Zeytuna Aman Kabto 13 Dha Dhanamte 400 2,000 Pasaport 127 Shamsiya Hussen kabato 15 // // 6,000 15,000 INS 128 Hiko Aman Kabato 20 Dhi // 7,000 15,000 Pasaport 129 Hiko Wako Tisse 24 // // 5,000 6,000 Apointemt 130 Rukiya mHassan Tayiro 30 Dha // - 5,000 Pasapott 131 Abdulmajid Hussen 22 Dhi // - 2,000 // 132 Mamud Aman 10 Dhi // - 10,000 // 133 Yusuf Hussen 10 Dhi // - 3,000 INS 134 Tatiku Erikata 27 Dhi // 6,000 8,000 Mandet 135 Mulugeta Reba 45 Dhi // 6,000 17,000 // 136 Danye Dafarisha 30 Dhi // - - // 137 Mahamed Sinbiro 26 Dhi // - 16,000 // 138 Kasim Hasso 25 Dhi // 15,000 3,000 Mandeta Nairobi 139 Lalise Roba Galmo 30 Dha // 30,000 9,000 // 130 Biftu Anawar 3 Dha // - 9,000 // 131 Anawar Hedara 32 Dhi // - - // 132 Ruman Umar 28 Dhi // - 10,000 // 133 Bharu Kadir 30 Dhi // - 10,000 // 134 Umar Kadir 40 Dhi // 30,000 15,000 // 135 Arii Kumbi 32 Dhi // 3,000 - //

Qbeenya Samamee fi Maallaqa

This is obviously one of the saddest moments in our history. The paper clearly shows that there is surely a failure from the UNHCR part to listen to the plight of the Oromo refugees.

Meanwhile, we must look into why this happens to Oromos. Has woyane bribed the UNHCR officials? If not, then why does the organization decide to turn its back? We must also re-evaluate our weaknesses.

The way we approach or not approach authorities is not applausible either. First, we assume that authorities or organizations understand our problems automatically. Therefore, there is no need to explain ourselves. Secondly, if we do approach authorities, we behave as though we can get what we want by force as it is our right to do so. Displaying politeness is not in our agenda. Instead, we blame authorities.

We need to realize that organizations are collections of human beings that can be corrupted, manipulated, persuaded etc. They have all the characteristics that humans have.

Thus, the UNHCR can at its own discretion, make some very important decisions that can be detrimental.

Therfore, our refugees need to soften their tones and practise, if necessary, their legal rights to get the services they are entitled to by the International Refugee Laws.

Thus, this paper, itself needs some modification, if we are to submit it to our respective representative. We should avoid the blame words while explaining the UNHCR's failure to listen to Oromos' concerns.

With this in our hands, we will be able to convince the united Nations to grant the Oromo refugees in Kenya a special status. Let us start organizing before the next round up happens. Remember, the Kenyan security forces will continue to rob and harass Oromo refugees because they have a stake in it. Nagaan!

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