He was buried 11 February in his birthplace in the Bale Zone.
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He fired the first shot in 1958 by slaying two policemen and together with Abdullai Usman Gutu proceeded to the jungle in 1962 to widen an armed resistance against Haile Selassie’s land policies in what is now Oromia Region, where most Oromo live.
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General Waqo Gutu Usu (1920 - February 3, 2006) was an Oromo rebel figure and leader of one of the earlier Oromo separatist movements; the Bale rebel movement in the 1960s that fought against the Ethiopian Empire.
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