The Ethiopian government has pivoted from full scale assault on Tigray in the north, to full scale assault on the peoples of Oromia in the south. Click here to read more
OSG condemns offensive against OLA and Oromo civilians
The Oromia Support Group, together with other global Oromo advocacy and human rights groups, 1 condemns unequivocally and completely the recently announced intensification of the Ethiopian government’s offensive against the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and, therefore and thereby, the Oromo people. Click here to read the full release
The Shocking Human Rights Abuses at Burayu Police Station. Interview with Dessu Dulla.
Dessu Dulla, Editor-in-Chief of Oromia News Network, broadcast on YouTube and Facebook, was interviewed by OMN before his latest episode of detention which began on 18 November 2021 (Committee to Protect Journalists report). He describes the torture of detainees at Burayu Police Station, Finfinnee/Addis Ababa, where he was held on...
Human Rights Violations Continue in West Oromia
Report of Oromia Human Rights Defenders April 15, 2022Click here to read more
Beware Genocide: Report 59 4 April 2022
Qananiisaa Joonsee and his father Joonsee Biqila were executed in Qalaaxee, W Showa, on 11 March - two of 3099 civilian killings by Ethiopian government forces since 2018. Read more
Oromia Region MP Hangaasaa Ibraahim accuses Oromia Region Police Commissioner Ararsa Merdasa of ordering the Karrayyu massacre
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Statement to UN Human Rights Council Special Session on Ethiopia 17 December 2021
The Oromia Support Group (OSG), a registered organisation with ECOSOC Consultative Status, commends the UN Human Rights Council in calling a special session with the aim of ending the yearlong conflict between Ethiopian National Defence Forces and Tigrayan Defence Forces in northern Ethiopia.
Press Release 14 December
Executions and ethnic cleansing. The burial of 14 who were executed when attending a religious ceremony in East Showa on 1 December. Read more
Report 58
Sacrilege in East Showa. Ethnic cleansing by Amhara supremacists as Ethiopia collapses into chaos. Click here to open Report 58
Report 57: Drying out the ocean to catch the fish
Over the last three years, OSG has documented 2393 extra-judicial killings of civilians (excluding Tigray): 1612 were Oromo. Sena Ragassa was taken from her home in Ginci and shot dead on 5 June. Click here to read more.