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Legal Analysis of Ethiopia’s State of Emergency
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-11-012022-12-18
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/10/30/legal-analysis-ethiopias-state-emergency OCTOBER 30, 2016 11:00PM EDT Summary On October 9, 2016, the Ethiopian government announced a country-wide six-month state of emergency. This followed a year of widespread protests against government policies that state security forces violently suppressed, killing hundreds of people and detaining tens of thousands. [1] Protesters also committed a...
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That Fateful Day, October 18, 1986||Guyyaattii Bala’amtuu Sana, Onkololessa 18, 1986
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-10-152026-04-12
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By Ibsaa Guutama October 2016 Source:http://www.gubirmans.com/Guyyaattii%20Bala%E2%80%99amtuu%20Sana.html It was Birraa season in Oromia. It all happened in Maa'ikalaawii (Central) Investigation center in Northern Finfinnee. One morning hour, some prisoners were busting in the morning sunshine behind a building where prisoners meet their relative by appointment. The north side of the building had window like openings, where...
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Joint OLF and ULFO Statement on Ethiopian Regime's Mass Murder at the Ireechaa Festival 2016
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-10-042022-12-18
Press Release October 2, 2016 www.oromoliberationfront.net www.ulfo.org
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TRT WORLD Ethiopia's Oromo Protesters
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-09-032022-12-18
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WATCH: http://www.ahadutube.com/trt-world-ethiopias-oromo-protesters_5d589507e.html
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The Question: Can the Olympics ever be apolitical?
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-08-282022-12-18
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Feyisa Lilesa's solidarity sign to Ethopians is the latest political act at a games By Davin O'Dwyer Source: THE IRISH TIMES On the final day of the Rio Olympics, as the Ethiopian runner Feyisa Lilesa crossed the finishing line in second place, he raised his arms above his head and crossed his wrists in an...
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The Bravest Olympian in Rio — Ethiopia’s Feyisa Lilesa Risks Death But Speaks Out About Killings of Oromo Protesters in Ethiopia After Earning Olympic Silver in Marathon
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-08-222022-12-18
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Media coverage of Olympian Feyisa Lilesa's taking stand: MUST WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhjdE9AJtxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdRNuEaYWJA The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/world/africa/feyisa-lilesa-ethiopia-olympic-marathon-protest.html?_r=0 The Times:Ethiopia Says Olympic Runner Feyisa Lilesa Will Get Hero's Welcome Despite Defiance http://time.com/4461354/ethiopia-olympic-runner-feyisa-lilesa/ BBC - read more at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37150673 Letsrun.com: The Bravest Olympian in Rio — Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa Risks Death But Speaks Out About Killings of...
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Dozens killed as police use excessive force against peaceful protesters in Ethiopia
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-08-092022-12-18
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Source: Amnesty International PREESS RELEASE AUGUST 8, 2016 At least 97 people were killed and hundreds more injured when Ethiopian security forces fired live bullets at peaceful protesters across Oromia region over the weekend, according to credible sources who spoke to Amnesty International. Thousands of protesters turned out in Oromia and Amhara calling for political...
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Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds: Free Wrongly Held Detainees, Independent Inquiry Needed. By Human Rights Watch 15 June 2016
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-07-142022-12-18
“Such a Brutal Crackdown” Killings and Arrests in Response to Ethiopia's Oromo Protests download whole document: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/ethiopia0616web.pdf
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News in Pictures - Recent protests in Oromia and worldwide
By Staff Editor Posted on2016-02-28
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The following are some of the pictures depicting recent protests by the Oromo people in Oromia and worldwide. As widely covered by the international media, the protests were triggered by the so-called "Addis Ababa Masterplan" which has been rejected by the Oromo people nation-wide, because of the disastrous effects the proposed plan would have on...
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Ethiopia's Invisible Crisis
By Leemman Leeqaa Posted on2016-01-24
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JANUARY 22, 2016 By: Felix Horne, Researcher, Horn of Africa "Badessa" was a third-year engineering student in western Ethiopia in April 2014 when he and most of his classmates joined a protest over the potential displacement of ethnic Oromo farmers like his family because of the government's plan to expand the capital, Addis Ababa, into...
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EU parliament adopts resolution on Ethiopia
By Leemman Leeqaa Posted on2016-01-222025-01-21
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The debate on the situation in Oormia & Ethiopia in the EU parliament and the resolution adopted on 21 January 2016 . Watch:
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Ethiopia's Anti-Terrorism Law: A Tool to Stifle Dissent - A Legal Analysis by International Lawyers
By Leemman Leeqaa Posted on2016-01-21
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January 21, 2016 ---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE---Media Contact: Anuradha Mittal, Oakland InstituteLewis Gordon, Environmental Defender Law Center Oakland, CA—With human rights as the special focus of the 26th Summit of the African Union that gets underway today in Ethiopia, the Oakland Institute and the Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC) released a new report, Ethiopia's Anti-Terrorism Law:...
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