ONM-ABO, 28 June 2026
A horrific act of state-sponsored violence against a mother and her young children has shocked residents of Baddeessa town, Odaa Bultum district, West Hararghe. A unit of PP soldiers targeted a local woman, Ms Aniisaa Jamaal, launching a vicious physical assault against her and her three young children. The family was subjected to severe blows with rifle butts, leaving the mother and her children with debilitating physical trauma. Simultaneously, in Argiitii kebele of the neighboring Gumbii Bordoddee district, a massive night sweep resulted in the arbitrary arrest of dozens of civilians. Among those currently undergoing continuous interrogation inside local military cells are Aammaddiin Abdallaa, Maammad-xiqqaa Goolee, Haayaat Jamaal, Abraahim Aammee, and Murteessaa Iliyaas, all of whom were targeted solely due to their Oromo identity. In West Wollega’s Aayiraa district, a similar reign of terror has been established in Bondoowo town. Local PP administrators have begun conducting systematic house-to-house searches, accusing smallholders of maintaining active communication lines with the OLA command. Agrarian families are being dragged to the local administrative offices, where they are subjected to public floggings and forced to pay arbitrary compliance fines to avoid immediate transfer to high-security military garrisons.
A monstrous war crime has been executed by government forces in the Guchuu sector of Shaashee kebele, Gadab Hasaasa district, West Arsi. Following highly successful defensive operations by the OLA that neutralized several occupation outposts, federal troops executed a brutal retaliatory massacre. Soldiers pulled seven civilian hostages from the local district prison, drove them to an isolated field, and opened fire on them with automatic weapons. Two of the hostages, Zarihuun Alamuu Ayyaanaa and Asheetuu Sumayyee Fayyee, were killed instantly. Three others survived the initial fusillade with catastrophic bullet wounds: Dirribaa Hurrisaa, Asheetuu Gishuu Haayilee, and Abbabaa Suyyumee Fayyee. The remaining two prisoners were loaded back into military vehicles and have been forcefully disappeared. Local sources report that the district administration utilized this massacre to terrorize nearby agrarian communities into paying massive financial fines. Meanwhile, a severe insider crisis has broken out within the military apparatus in Aannisoo kebele, Eebantuu district, East Wollega. Federal soldiers opened fire on one of their own comrades, executing him on the spot near the Somboo Church sector. The execution occurred after an elite regular army soldier successfully deserted the garrison with his full kit to join the OLA resistance. Gripped by paranoia, the remaining unit officers accused the victim of planning a similar defection, executing him without any military tribunal.
A massive operation of demographic engineering and forced economic eviction has targeted over 5,000 Oromo internal refugees in Gobbuu kebele, Gooroo district, Baalee Bahaa Zone. These displaced families, who had previously fled state violence in other sectors of Oromia, are facing intensive harassment from local PP cadres. The administrators have initiated a campaign of systematic land dispossession, violently seizing agricultural plots from the Oromo refugees to hand them over to non-local pro-regime loyalists. Those who attempt to defend their temporary shelters are immediately beaten and detained under the blanket accusation of being OLA civil assets. Simultaneously, in the Buuyama Dabbalee kebele of Dirree Inciinni district, West Shewa, fascist paramilitaries have escalated their abductions of smallholders. Armed squads kidnapped two prominent local farmers, Obbo Alamuu Aagabas and Obbo Caffee Shalamaa. The victims possess no involvement in any political organisation, yet they were dragged to the central military camp under the standard accusation of maintaining contact with the liberation forces. Local residents report that the district has been completely militarized, with press-gangs searching every rural household to forcefully enlist youth for the collapsing federal war front.
The military administration in Urjii Diimaa and Cooraa kebeles, Ciroo district, West Hararghe, has launched a massive extortion campaign utilizing the mandatory rollout of national digital identification cards. Security forces executed a mass round-up, arbitrarily detaining dozens of residents who were unable to afford the high processing fees associated with the new identification cards. Among those currently held inside the district’s cells are Shaamee Ussoo and Maaruuf Abdallaa. During the same sweep, soldiers violently assaulted a local farmer, Shariif Kaliifaa, administering a brutal public flogging before confiscating his shortwave radio receiver. The official accusation leveled against Shariif by the cadres was that he was caught actively listening to the independent Oromo National Voice broadcasts. In East Wollega’s Limmuu district, a similar pattern of prolonged arbitrary detention has targeted Oromo youth. In Waarroo kebele, a young civilian named Lalisaa Nagaasaa has been held in isolation for several months without any formal charges or legal representation. Prison sources report that Lalisaa faces continuous interrogation and physical abuse under the fabricated charge of managing local logistics for the OLA. Concurrently, the municipal administration in Jimma Arjoo district has placed a total ban on the traditional sale or purchase of agrarian lands. Any farmer caught attempting to transfer land titles is immediately fined 6,000 Birr by local cadres, while those attempting to repair their homes with basic zinc sheeting face immediate property confiscation if they lack the funds to bribe local PP officials.
