He was imprisoned in Somalia after he went to Mogadishu to solicit support for the Bale movement. Nonetheless, it is an important contribution to preserving the stories and narratives of the Bale movement, one of the defining episodes in Oromo history. The Bale Oromo fighters rebelled after being denied a dignified existence on their ancestral land. The Bale fighters knew that the existence of the Oromo people as a collective depended on their conscious acts of resistance. By writing Oromo Witness, Abdul has now honored his ancestors and fulfilled his own dreams, and theirs, too.

Source: Ethiopian News August 20, 2020 19:04 UTC