ONM-ABO, 9-12 June 2026
Reports of extrajudicial executions and state-instigated border conflicts continue to emerge from rural Oromia, pointing to a strategy of deliberate destabilization by federal forces.
In West Shewa’s Meettaa Wal-qixxee district, a 20-year-old youth named Dajanee Iddeessaa was beaten to death with clubs by PP forces in Eelaa Amuumaa. A regime police officer named Booressaa reportedly carried out the assault to settle a personal vendetta, targeting the youth’s kidneys and neck. Dajanee succumbed to his injuries while being transported to Incinnii Town Hospital. In North Shewa’s Dharraa district, a father of four, Aabbuu Suudee Boruu, was executed by PP soldiers in Qundee village. He had been abducted from his home a week prior and subjected to severe torture inside a local military camp before being shot.
In Hoomaa town, West Wollega, a young unmarried man named Biraanuu, who had no political involvement, was shot and killed by PP forces under the suspicion that he was passing logistics information to the OLA. Nearby, in Bulaan district, PP soldiers shot a prominent local farmer named Mr Alaaminaa Abbaay while he was walking to his fields. To prevent locals from providing medical attention, the soldiers dumped him deep inside the forest, where he was discovered alive by search parties a day later.
Sexual violence remains a persistent tool of intimidation. A member of the federal defense forces attempted to sexually assault an Oromo girl, Daraartuu Margaa, in Calliyaa kebele, Dibaax district, while she was fetching water from a river. The soldier fled when local residents responded to her cries for help.
In Agamsaa district, Horo Guduru Wollega, regime forces forcibly evicted over 100 household heads from Nashee 2nd kebele under the blanket accusation of maintaining ties with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA). Stranded in Saqalaa town, Horo Bulluq district, the families face homelessness, while 30 other farmers, including Maammaad Hasanii and his wife Kanzii, remain detained without trial at the district police station.
Further engineered conflict was reported on the Oromia-Afar border at Harooreettii in Gumbii Bordoddee district, where a clash resulted in the death of a civilian, Hasan Sayid Harrichoo. Observers state the regime routinely inflates ethnic border friction to distract from internal political crises. Similarly, a non-local Amhara security official named Warqinaa based in Culuullee town reportedly instigated border skirmishes between local Oromo and Gurage communities in nearby Bu’ii district.
In Waayyuu Tuqaa district, East Wollega, cadres have initiated systematic demographic adjustments. In Miinyaa Kuraa kebele, local administrators Dassaaleeny Taaddasaa and Dassaalenyi Mitikuu have settled non-local Amhara settlers on choice Oromo farmlands. Local Oromo farmers are blocked from cultivation and grazing, and face extortion demands to recover seized cattle under threats of being branded OLA collaborators.
