{"id":279272,"date":"2019-06-18T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV0aGlvcGlhb2JzZXJ2ZXIuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMTgvaGF3YXNzYS1hLWNpdHktaW4tYS1zdGF0ZS1vZi1kaXNvcmRlci_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:22","slug":"ethiopia-observer-said-hawassa-faced-disorder-as-sidama-statehood-pressure-turned-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279272","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Observer said Hawassa faced disorder as Sidama statehood pressure turned violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 June 2019 Ethiopia Observer published \u201cHawassa \u2014 a city in a state of disorder,\u201d linking the Sidama autonomy campaign to daily violence that left other southern ethnic communities fearful in the lakeside capital.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia Observer said Hawassa faced disorder as Sidama statehood pressure turned violent\" \/>\n<p>The outlet described attacks on Wolayita and other groups, threats against traders, and weak law enforcement after the zone administration\u2019s statehood vote, arguing that self-rule demands could not excuse assaults on neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as urban-politics archive, the Observer essay dates mid-2019 reporting on Hawassa\u2019s Sidama-statehood violence and civic disorder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopiaobserver.com\/2019\/06\/18\/hawassa-a-city-in-a-state-of-disorder\/\">Ethiopia Observer<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawassa- a city in a state of disorder&nbsp;&nbsp;ethiopiaobserver.comThe campaign for Sidama autonomy, which has been going on for some years, gained momentum when the Zone Administration in Hawassa voted for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423532,"comment_status":"closed","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-279272","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\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aEo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279272","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755263,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279272\/revisions\/755263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}