Dasi Oran

"It's my people today and yours tomorrow! Remember this day! Remember Ghorman!"

―Dasi Oran, to his fellow senators^[3]

Dasi Oran was a human senator who represented the planet Ghorman in the Imperial Senate. In 3 BBY, Oran conversed with fellow senator Mon Mothma about a bill aimed at bringing down the Public Order Resentencing Directive. Despite being sympathetic to Mothma, he disagreed heavily about the bill and refused to vote with her for fear of further retaliation by the Imperial authorities against the Ghormans.^[1] As part of its secret Ghorman project, the Empire had been conducting an anti-Ghorman campaign via propaganda and military force in order to exploit Ghorman's kalkite ores. The Empire's suppression culminated in the Ghorman Massacre as pretext for seizing the planet's resources.^[4]

Following the massacre, Senator Oran was arrested by stormtroopers in the Imperial Senate Building at night on Coruscant. Oran was dragged through the building's crowded lobby filled with fellow senators who were drawn by the commotion, with someone stating that the presence of stormtroopers in the Senate was unprecedented. Oran's captors remained silent as he asked them what charge he was being arrested for, and as he was taken away, Oran begged the onlooking senators to pay attention and remember Ghorman, warning them that the same oppression would come next to their own people.^[3]