{"id":269839,"date":"2019-03-16T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=269839"},"modified":"2019-03-19T00:39:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T04:39:32","slug":"legetafo-legedadis-tragic-history-repeats-in-sululta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/269839","title":{"rendered":"Sululta to demolish &#8220;illegal&#8221; houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=plK3Iq9_MH0<\/p>\n<p>Sululta City Administration has publicly announced that it will proceed to tear down houses marked down for demolition. Even though the mayor had previously disputed the news, today\u2019s statement clearly showed the administration not-so-secret intention. According to Mayor Roza Umer, the city administration is abiding by regulations and has discussed and agreed upon the demolition with the residents. The administration decided to knock down the houses after warning responsible against any illegal actions. One can\u2019t help but realize this scenario\u2019s similarity with Legetafo Legedadi house demolitions that led to thousands of displacement. As Karl Marx has said, \u201c History repeats itself. First as a tragedy, second as farce.\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=plK3Iq9_MH0 Sululta City Administration has publicly announced that it will proceed to tear down houses marked down for demolition. Even though the mayor had previously disputed the news, today\u2019s statement clearly showed the administration not-so-secret intention. According to Mayor Roza Umer, the city administration is abiding by regulations and has discussed and agreed upon the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":269840,"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":[],"class_list":["post-269839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sululta-demolition.jpg?fit=927%2C479&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-18cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269839","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270144,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269839\/revisions\/270144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}