Oromo in Norway stage protest against TPLF delegates

April 28, 2013 | Dagbladet  | ( Translation by Google)

By Anders Holth Johansen

Oromo-Norwegians, representing the ethnic Oromo of Oromia in Ethiopia demonstrates this afternoon at a meeting organized by the Ethiopian authorities at the SAS hotel by Holberg place in Oslo.

Around 150 people had turned up to protest the event.

” It does not go peacefully. We must try to keep them away from the hotel entrance”, said operations manager of the Oslo police Hilde Walsø to Dagbladet 15.30 o’clock

Then no one was arrested.

-”It was decided that we would go to the arrests, but then they got one last chance, and when they chose to break up the demonstration, said Walsø.

During the selection, as it was not sought permission for, a total of 11 people arrested for public nuisance. No one was injured.

Oromia is a region in Ethiopia, with an estimated 27 million people. Oromo have their own language, and is the largest of the 80 different ethnic groups in Ethiopia. Yet they are largely sidelined politically.