 Few months later, 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.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.