Tsegaye Ararssa is an Oromo living in Australia. He is a public intellectual often writing, reading, teaching, and speaking on issues of human rights, constitutional law, minority rights, multi-nationalism, and social justice. Owing to his intervention on various media outlets and on social media spaces, he has often been targeted for attack, vilification, character assassination, and defamation. Because he is an Oromo dissident opposing the repressive violence of the Ethiopian government, Ethiopians who support the government repeatedly gang up to launch a mass defamation and bullying campaign to silence him. Often, these Ethiopians in diaspora are driven by deep-rooted cultural prejudice and a wild Oromophobia that seeks to project the Oromo person as a savage posing as a security threat to the Ethiopian regime. Too often, Tsegaye and numerous other Oromo intellectuals, journalists, political leaders, activists, religious leaders, business leaders, traditional leaders, ommunity organizers, and artists have been targeted as objects of such Oromophobic gaze. One recent victim of an overflowing racist hatred driven by Oromophobia is the renown Oromo singer and song writer, #HaacaaluuHundeessaa, who has been assassinated in the hands of these bigots, armed and supported by the Ethiopian government. The assassination was openly called for on various media outlets for three or four days non&stop before he was eventually assassinated. Although they have been making such calls for the assassination of several notable Oromos (including Tsegaye) before, the hateful call for such violence on Tsegaye and his friends have intensified after Haacaaluu's murder. As if that is not enough, they go on a rampage of smear campaigns to damage his reputation and to demonize and dehumanize him. Their recent series of petitions make a serious allegation that Tsegaye is involved in the killing of Haacaaluu, an artist whom, according to all available evidence, their own government assassinated. They also allege, obviousy bogously, that Tsegaye incites violence of all sorts when, in fact, it is them and their government that are jointly conducting violence and mayhem in Ethiopia. We believe that this is a serious violation and abuse of the policies and standards of all social media platforms. We also believe that Tsegaye is targeted merely because he is a critical intellectual voice of the #Oromoprotest movement. We further believe that their smear campaign is conducted to indirectly intimidate and silence the voice of the struggle for social justice in Ethiopia. While Tsegaye and the Australian Oromo Communuty Association of Victoria (AOCAV) is making preparations to take all legal measures against the individuals, organizations, and governments involved, we call on all progressive social justice activists, Oromos and others, to stand in solidarity with Tsegaye and to denounce the campaigns to suppress the freedom of speech he deserves to enjoy as a scholar and public intellectual. We also request the powers that be to reckon with these defamatory attacks and extend the necessary legal support and protection that he may need. We also call on Change.org to remove the series of 3 petitions piled up on their page in the last three to four weeks as they are all inimical to his character as a person, his career as a legal academic, his profession as a lawyer, and his good name as a public intellectual and a social justice activist.