Recent Developments
- The leadership of OPC was one of the founding members of the Forum for Democratic Dialogue (FDD). The creation of the Forum was agreed upon on June 17, 2007.
- OPC formed a coalition with the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement in January 2009, according to a press release issued by both parties.
- The OPC issued a press release on 5 March 2009 claiming that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front party committed three separate acts of harassment against its members during the prior weeks. These included a February incident where two teachers in Midakaegn woreda were severely beaten by the local police and woreda officials, and security personnel on 4 March surrounding the high school in Gedo then shooting at the students and wounding at least three (one died later in the hospital).
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