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In these hours we learn of the arrest of five sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity St. Vincent de Paul and a Sister of the Congregation of the Ursulines. The arrest, which took place a few hours ago in the capital Addis Ababa, was signed by the head of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Temesgen Tiruneh and is part of the ethnic cleansing operation against citizens of Tigrinya origin that has been underway for almost a month. Addis Ababa. Ethnic cleansing that has reached the dimensions and dynamics of genocide. To break the news in Italy is the colleague Matteo Palamidesse @PalaMatteo reporter journalist based in Rome.
The six nuns are all of Tigrinya origin. Sister Letemareyam Sibhat, Sister Tiblets Teum, Sister Abeba Tesfay, Sister Zaid Moss, Sister Abeba Hagos, Sister Abeba Fitiwi and Sister Superior (of advanced age) Teserma Ursolina, of the Ursuline Congregation. According to our local sources, they were accused of activities in favor of the terrorists Tigrini and Oromo. Deacons Tsehaye Yohanne and Amanuel Hagos, also of Tigrinya origin, were also arrested on identical charges.
The wave of arrests of Catholic clerics in the capital escalated on Friday 5 November when 28 Salesian clerics were arrested during a brutal and illegal raid on Don Bosco's national headquarters in Addis Ababa. Among those arrested there was also the eighty year old.
Mockingly, the wave of arrests of Catholic nuns was carried out simultaneously with the announcement by the fascist Amhara regime that it had set up a government task force to investigate human rights violations in Tigray and punish the perpetrators. The announcement was made by the Federal Ministry of Justice.
The decision follows a report by the Ethiopian Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, according to which both warring parties had committed atrocities and there had been sexual violence, murder, displacement and means of livelihoods and lack of access to humanitarian aid. In reality, the experts of the mixed commission never went to Tigray, nor did they listen to the victims. The Mixed Commission is silent on the thousands of arrests of Tigrini and Oromo and on the proven existence of Nazi concentration camps where over 30,000 Tigrinians are already interned. It is suspected that many of them have already been killed.
“The arrest of the six nuns and the two deacons is repugnant. The Superior Sister Teserma Orsolina, is over eighty years old and does not enjoy good health. What dangerous terrorist could he possibly be? The task force set up by the government has only one goal: to erase the evidence of the genocide taking place. It is necessary for the international community to intervene not with words but with deeds, before they manage to finish their dirty work. Here we are close to the dimensions of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. An entire population, the Tigrinya one, has been condemned to disappear while the Oromo massacres serve to crush 50 million Ethiopians and force them to become slaves of the primitive and barbaric Amhara regime. " Comments an Oromo activist in defense of human rights reached by telephone.
The arrest of the eight religious comes a few days after the denunciation of the genocide taking place in Ethiopia and the persecution of the Catholic Church of Tigray made by the Bishop of the Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat, Monsignor Tesfalassie Medhin, published on Agenzia Fides. “The arrest of the six nuns and two deacons is nothing more than a violent act of revenge by the regime against Monsignor Medhin. They are paying for the fact that the Bishop of Adigrat had the courage to tell the truth about the genocide ”, says activist Oromo contacted.
Fulvio Beltrami
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