Every year on October 1st the Oromo who are the majority people in Ethiopia celebrate Irreecha which is a Thanksgiving Day. The people from different parts of the regional state of Oromia in Ethiopia are gathered to give thanks to their God for the end of rainy season and the coming of the harvest season. The 1st of October 2016, Thanksgiving was after the yearlong immense destruction and loss of life followed by protests in the Oromia regional state of Ethiopia.
Like the previous celebrations, people were gathered to celebrate Irreecha at Bishoftu, 40 kilometers away from the capital of Ethiopia Addis Ababa. Unlike the previous celebration, there were a lot of Security forces in the celebration place. This created tension and the people who are gathered to thank their God start to show their deep inside sorrow through different actions and songs. The action of one young man who got the microphone and starts to lead antigovernment chants increased the tension, the security force starts using teargas and people started to run. Many lost their life’s and others are injured. The Unfortunate Thanksgiving Day!
Why this all mess happened? The clam of marginalization by successive Ethiopian governments as the root cause and the “integrated Urban Development plan” Policy can be mentioned us an immediate cause for all those messes. ”