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Mohammed Zakir (a.K.a. Meyra) was a legendary Oromo hero who is noted for his high contribution to keep the lights of Oromo nationalism shining after the martyrdom of his two hero colleagues called Elemo Qiltu and Ahmad Taqi. His real name is Mohammed Zakir Sheikh Omar. But he is well known among his mates and the Oromo nationalists as “Meyra”.〔Aladdin Alevi’s interviews with Haji Ahmed Alhadi and Haji Ahmed Ashir, both of whom are the brothers of Meyra, 2006, Gelemso and Addis Ababa〕 A son of the reverend Islamic Scholar Sheikh Umar Aliye, 〔Ulrich Braukämper: ''Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia. Collected Essays'', Göttinger Studien zur Ethnologie 9, 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-5671-7, p. 117-119〕 he was born in Gelemso town in 1949. He was the last son of his mother whose name was Meymuna Saddiq. His father had a boy after him (Sheikh Omar married four wives). ==His Early Struggle== Mohammed Zakir was trained on basic Islamic educations in his early ages. Then after, he attended the formal schools in Gelemso and Chiro before he joined the Addis Ababa Technical College (well known in its Amharic name ተግባረ ዕድ) for higher education. However, he left his college education uncompleted as he was attracted by the Oromo National Movement (ONM) which was then led by Elemo Kiltu (a.k.a. Hassen Ibrahim) after the latter set his foot in homeland with his fellow men to launch on an armed struggle in the Chercher Highlands. .〔Aladdin Alevi’s interviews with Haji Ahmed Alhadi (Gelemso), Haji Ahmed Ashir (Addis Ababa), Sadiq Sheikh Mukhtar (Addis Ababa) and Sadiq Haji Abdullahi (Addis Ababa, 2004), Ahmed Siraj Nure and Ahmed Haji Mussema (Harar, 2008)〕 No sooner than he was introduced to the leader Elemo Kiltu through Ahmad Taqi, his relative and close friend, he was assigned as the movement's chief of intelligence and logistics where he was responsible for the daily consumptions of the Oromo fighters as well the necessary intelligence works. However, he didn't join the guerrilla force openly due to the arrangements made by the leader, Elemo Kiltu, himself. Few months latter, while he was returning from Guba Qoricha, the guerrilla's main operation district, he fall in the hand of the security forces of the newly emerging Military Junta and taken to a custody.〔Aladdin Alevi’s interviews with Muttaqii Sheikh Mohammed Rashid, Haji Ahmed Alhadi (Gelemso), Mohammed Beker (Gelemso, 2006),Haji Ahmed Ashir (Addis Ababa, 2007), Ahmed Ibrahim (Ahmed Philips), Ahmed Siraj Nure and Ahmed Haji Mussema, Harar, 2008〕 On September 5/ 1974, the operations of the short lived guerrilla had ended in great tragedy. Elemo Kiltu, Ahmad Taqi and other seven Oromos (including Sheikh Jamal Bareeda, Sheikh Aliyyi Arsii and Mahdi Ahmed, a nephew of Sheikh Muhammad Rashad Abdulle) were martyred at the Battle of Tiro.〔Aladdin Alevi’s interviews with Muttaqii Sheikh Mohammed Rashid, Sheikh Mohammed Shato, Haji Abdurazaq Mohammed (Addis Ababa, 2007), Haji Ahmed Alhadi (Gelemso, 2006), Mohammed Beker (Gelemso, 2006), Haji Ahmed Ashir (Addis Ababa, 2007), Ahmed Ibrahim (Ahmed Philips), Sheikh Jamaal Ahmed, Harar, 2008〕 The Dergue, which was not formal then (Emperor Haile Selassie was removed officially 6 days latter) turn its face to the urban people and caused mass arrest of the business community and the scholars in the towns of Gelemso, Baddessa, Mechara, Boke and Balbaleti. From among those detainees, eight people were taken to the city of Harar to be tried by the Harerghe Province Higher Military Court. The detainees were, in addition to Meyra, Muttaqii Sheikh Mohammed Rashid (a brother of Ahmad Taqi ), Ahmed Al-Hadi Hussein (brother of Mohammed Zakir Meyra), Mohammed Beker, Nejash Usmael, Usmael Ahmayyu, Amino Abdurahman (a.k.a. Amino Tuti) and Wayyaa Ibroo (a.k.a. Abubeker Ibrahim).〔Aladdin Alevi’s interviews with Muttaqii Sheikh Mohammed Rashid, Sheikh Mohammed Shato, Mohammed Beker (Gelemso, 2006), Haji Ahmed Ashir (Addis Ababa, 2007), the wives of the detainees Munira Ahmed, Janiya Ahmed, and Najiyya Ahmayyu, December 2006,Gelemso〕 Meyra and the seven detainees were kept in the infamous Aw-Izin prison (now a state prison under the Harari People’s Regional State). After a series of interrogations, the Harerghe Province Higher Military court sentenced the eight prisoners to death. However, when the Dergue declared official amnesty for all political prisoners in November 1974, Meyra and the other detainees were freed. 〔Aladdin Alevi’s interviews Muttaqii Sheikh Mohammed Rashid, Haji Ahmed Alhadi, Mohammed Beker Gelemso, 2006〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mohammed Zakir Meyra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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