You are truly our heroes.

Dear OYSU members
Accept my best greetings
That comes from at the bottom of my heart
Greetings that is sent to somebody you love
Somebody you care or close to you,
Somebody you are proud of

Our sons and daughters
Our sisters and brothers
Our beloved youths
You are truly our heroes and
We are all proud of you
Not only because of whom you are
But also because of what you are doing

Dear OYSU members
You are our cream of the creams
The faces of our country
The beauty of our culture
The roses of our people
The spirit of our struggle
The hope of our children and
We are all proud of you
Not only because of whom you are
But also because of what you are doing

Dear OYSU members
You are the voices for our voiceless citizens
The advocates for our oppressed citizens
The reliable friends of our movement
The campaigners for the justice and equality
And we are all proud of you
Not only because of whom you are
But also because of what you are doing

You are our fresh healthy brains for today
Our feared warriors for this moment
Our strong leaders for tomorrow
Our bright future for the next generation
And we are all proud of you
Not only because of whom you are
But also because of what you are doing

Dear our sons and daughters
Honestly speaking, you have lifted our spirit
Sharpened our focuses
Increased our confidence
Become our daily motivators and
You have kept our moral high

Dear our sons and daughters
Surely, you are the driving force of our struggle
The powerful engine of our self-determination
The soul and the mind of our liberation

I am glad to see you leading our mission
I am glad to see you organizing our community
I am glad to see you creating a grass-root movement

So, we are very grateful to you all
Grateful to what you are doing for our people
Grateful to you for the lectures and workshops
That you hold at the community centers
At the campuses of the universities
As well as recreational parks

Thanks for your powerful messages
Your well-articulated words
Your heartbreaking stories
And soul moving images
That you shared with the world
Thank for your silence cry II documentary
In which you have broken the silences
In which you have shattered the chains of the fears
In which you have said to devil Meles Zenawi
With loud and clear voice enough is enough

Thanks for promoting of the Ogaden awareness
For standing up for our people’s cause
For tightening up your belts for long war
Thanks for defending for our peoples’ rights
By rejecting the Ethiopian illegal occupation
Their torture and indiscriminate killing of the civilians
Their systematic gang-raping of our wives, sisters and mothers
Thanks for shedding lights on the Zenawi’s war crimes
His deliberate ethnic cleansing mission against our citizens
Thanks for exposing of the hidden genocide in Ogaden
Thanks for challenging the Ethiopian donors’
For not monitoring where their assistances go
For not verifying that their aids haven’t fallen into wrong hand
For not making sure that their donations
Have reached to the intended people

Thanks for convincing international community
That the Addis Ababa regime manipulates the aids
That the humanitarian assistances become their tools of repression
That Woyane uses them as a lethal weapon against Ogadenians
That the donors’ food support causes more harms than help.

By Ali Yare
Saudi Arabia.