A PRIZE FIGHTER INFERNO TORRENT SERIES
This article attempts to fill the gap.Īs indicated in the title of the article, the forest fires of 2000 and the AAMP of 2014 are two of the most conspicuous events in a series of incidents which have instigated the Oromo student protests of the last fifteen years. Although the conflict between them has persisted for more than a decade and half, a holistic picture that shows the complexity of the issues which constitute the demands of the Oromo students and the psychology of domination and fear that underpin the repressive responses of the leaders of the TPLF-led regime to the student demands is lacking.
It is common knowledge that Oromo students from high schools, colleges and universities have been expressing grievances and making peaceful demands on behalf of their people, and that the response of the Ethiopian regime has been violent during the last fifteen years. In Ethiopia, a student movement, in the 1960s and early-1970s, was a catalyst for the revolution that led to the downfall of the Haile Selassie regime in 1974. The role of student movements in struggles against colonialism in Africa and Asia is also on record. In the West, the anti-establishment student movements of the 1960s had significant effects on both national and global politics. In Asia and Latin America it had a significant role in the fall of many regimes. Literature on social movements shows that student activism has been a catalyst in regime change in many countries around the world. From the Forest Fires of 2000 to the Conflict over the AAMP in 2014 and Beyond
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