Hmm...yaballo wrote: ↑10 Aug 2020, 19:47PHOTOS: Abiy's & Isayas Afeworqi's armed thugs continue to massacre the WOLAITA. NEWS: "At Least Scores Dead in Ethiopia Protests Over Autonomy" (The New York Times).
Aug. 10, 2020, 3:09 p.m. ET
ADDIS ABABA — At least 10 people died in clashes between protesters and security forces in Ethiopia’s southern region on Monday, health officials said, the latest violence as myriad ethnic groups clamour for more autonomy.
The protests were sparked by Sunday's arrest of local officials and activists seeking a new autonomous region for their Wolaita ethnic group, said Matheos Balcha, spokesman of the opposition party Wolaita National Movement Party. One of their party members was arrested, he said.
Security forces shot dead at least six people in Boditi on Monday, a town 295 km (180 miles) southwest of the capital Addis Ababa, said Temesgen Hilina, a senior official at Boditi health center.
“They were shot in the head, abdomen, and their chest," he said. “I was the one who gave them the first treatment and later they died."
A 14-year-old boy was among the dead, he said, and 34 people injured.
In Sodo town, 315 km southwest of Addis, a health officer from Wolaita Sodo University teaching hospital said he saw four dead gunshot victims and heard of eight others from colleagues. He spoke on condition of anonymity.
The regional government spokeswoman did not return a call seeking comment.
Like many ethnic groups, the Wolaita - currently part of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Regional state - want their own state, which would give them greater powers over security and taxation.
Ethiopia currently has 10 states and around 80 ethnic groups. Its federal system allows any ethnic group to demand a referendum on establishing their own autonomous region - but the previous administration never permitted such votes.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who came to power in 2018, oversaw democratic reforms that included holding one such referendum last year. But Abiy has struggled to reign in the forces he unleashed as regional strongmen build their bases with appeals to ethnic nationalism.
(Editing by Katharine Houreld and Sonya Hepinstall).
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I am not a politician like you but yet I think that you are best known for your fake news and sensational graphic pictures intended to shock the public and collect supports for the outlaw tplf Oligarchs who plan and execute such barbaric violence now for over 2 years all over Ethiopia purposely to discredit the current transitional government leading Mamma Ethiopia forwards to security and prosperity.
The sure and 100% secure peaceful way of living is to respect the law 100%.
They do have choices, means peaceful or violence, unless the self wounding tplf tells them that they have no choices but become violent and get killed just to make the masochistic tplf happy for a moment.
The government has legitimate rights and powers to uphold security and public safety by all means possible. Breaking the law violently and endangering public security and public safety means willingly and knowingly committing suicide.
In that case, the culprits can only blame themselves for any misfortune. Tell this matter to your tplf propaganda trumpets so that they may keep barking day and night non stop.
