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]]> Ethiopian marathon silver medalist Feyisa Lelia who made a protests for his Oromo people when he crossed the finish line in Rio yesterday is seeking political asylum.

He has a wife and two children back in Ethiopia where Human Rights Watch says more than 400 people have been killed in protests since last November.

Most people didn’t realized how dangerous a protest they were watching when Feyisa Lilesa crossed the Olympic marathon finish line, raising  his arms to form an “X.”

He was protesting the Ethiopian government’s brutal killing of hundreds of his Oromo people who number 35 million and make up Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group.

He told journalists Oromo is my tribe. Oromo people now protest what is right, for peace, for a place.

He did not say how he planned to get his family to join him when he seeks shelter in the United States.

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