{"id":428780,"date":"2023-01-16T01:44:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T06:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=428780"},"modified":"2023-01-16T01:44:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T06:44:37","slug":"ethiopia-security-forces-announce-arrest-of-hundreds-of-extremists-in-addis-ababa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/428780","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Security forces announce arrest of hundreds of \u201cextremists\u201d in Addis Ababa: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">The Ethiopia Joint Peace and Security Task Force has arrested 216 \u201cextremists\u201d in operations across Addis Ababa, the Federal Police statement disclosed over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In a press statement, the Federal Police said 107 members of the terrorist Shene (Oromo Liberation Army) who were hiding in Addis Ababa were caught with weapons they use to conduct attacks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The press statement further said 109 \u201cFano\u201d members who were trying to incite \u201cethnic violence\u201d using some questions raised in schools as a cover have been arrested along with their weapons.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In recent years, Ethiopian security forces have made a practice of making declarations about arrest of \u201cextremists\u201d near or during major holiday events.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are gearing up to celebrate Timket (Ethiopian epiphany) a colorful three day religious festival commemorating the baptism of Jesus Christ, which starts on January 18 or January 19 during leap year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopia Joint Peace and Security Task Force has arrested 216 \u201cextremists\u201d in operations across Addis Ababa, the Federal Police statement disclosed over the weekend. In a press statement, the Federal Police said 107 members of the terrorist Shene (Oromo Liberation Army) who were hiding in Addis Ababa were caught with weapons they use to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":428781,"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":[5891],"class_list":["post-428780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-addis-ababa-schools-extremiststimket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Timket-festival.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1NxO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428780","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428782,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428780\/revisions\/428782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}