{"id":219889,"date":"2018-05-12T00:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T04:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=219889"},"modified":"2019-02-10T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T12:19:22","slug":"protests-spread-in-somali-region-of-ethiopia-as-demand-for-the-removal-of-tplf-puppet-abdi-iley-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/219889","title":{"rendered":"Protests spread in Somali region of Ethiopia as demand for the removal of TPLF-puppet Abdi Iley intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests by the residents of Ethiopia&#8217;s Somali region is spreading to several towns as demanding the removal of regional president Abdi Mohamoud Omar (Abdi Ilay or Iley) has intensified. <\/p>\n<p>President Abdi and his notorious special police (aka Liyu Police) are accused of waging a genocidal war against the people of Ogaden and an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Oromo.   <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ethiopia: Somali region protests erupted on 20 April. Calling for regional govt to release 1,500 prisoners. Later against corruption and abuse by regional president, Abdi Illey, unpopular because of his violent deployment of the Somali militia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZM3lMdoXNv\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZM3lMdoXNv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Martin Plaut (@martinplaut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinplaut\/status\/995060998913626121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very tense and volatile situation  are reporting from Ethnic Somali  region. Tayasir Omer-Food is the latest victim that hanged in  kabridahare by current administration direct order from Abdi Iley at .Fresh protests are taking  in different parts of the region <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8UKm6bjj7i\">pic.twitter.com\/8UKm6bjj7i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; M.Dahir (@colhaye2011) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colhaye2011\/status\/994960453271990272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Abdi Iley&#8217;s Liyu Police fire bullets on unarmed protesters<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fabdirashid.shua%2Fvideos%2F2141521672531446%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First pictures of the tortured Ethiopian Human Rights Commission Somali Region Branch Commissioner, and deputy commissioner of the National Election Board of Ethiopia,  Mr Jamal Mohamed Warfa, emerge. He was beaten by Abdi Iley\u2019s Liyu Police in Jigjiga yesterday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pk9vG8oLJy\">pic.twitter.com\/pk9vG8oLJy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yusuf Ali Adan (@iamsomali) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamsomali\/status\/992325767056027648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests by the residents of Ethiopia&#8217;s Somali region is spreading to several towns as demanding the removal of regional president Abdi Mohamoud Omar (Abdi Ilay or Iley) has intensified. President Abdi and his notorious special police (aka Liyu Police) are accused of waging a genocidal war against the people of Ogaden and an ethnic cleansing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613],"class_list":["post-219889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-abdi-iley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Somali-region-protest-spreads.jpg?fit=695%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-VcB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219892,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219889\/revisions\/219892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}