{"id":436627,"date":"2023-03-09T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=436627"},"modified":"2023-03-09T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:19:32","slug":"878-ethiopians-detained-during-violence-marred-adwa-victory-day-celebrations-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/436627","title":{"rendered":"878 Ethiopians detained during violence marred Adwa victory day celebrations: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security forces have detained 878 individuals in connection with the violence marred Adwa victory day celebrations in Addis Ababa earlier this month, the state owned Ethiopia News Agency (ENA) reported on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quoting the Ethiopia Joint Security and Intelligence Task Force statement, ENA reported \u201c557 out of the 878 suspects\u201d came from other parts of Ethiopia with a view to allegedly \u201cspoil\u201d Addis Ababa\u2019s peace and create \u201cchaos\u201d during Adwa victory day celebrations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suspects are accused of trying to destroy and loot properties as well as inflicting bodily harm on more than a dozen police officers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Ethiopia Joint Security and Intelligence Task Force statement also admitted for the first time the killing by bullets of a person during the Adwa victory day celebrations which happened last Thursday. The statement further said an investigation is currently underway into the circumstances of the deadly shooting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a report issued last Friday, the state backed Ethiopia Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said \u201cSecurity forces overreacted\u201d and needlessly beat people, used tear gas, plastic and lethal bullets and other \u201cexcessive\u201d measures during the Adwa victory day celebrations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EHRC, said the \u201cexcessive measures\u201d by security force which included older persons and children resulted in at least one death, several bodily injuries and distress on people gathered around Menelik square for the national holiday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EHRC also said a religious congregation in nearby Saint-George Church was violently disrupted by the \u201cunnecessary and excessive actions of security forces\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An eyewitness told Mereja.com on Sunday, she saw security forces using tear gas and live fire against crowds on Adwa victory day in the Ethiopian capital after some of them started chanting antigovernmental slogans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also told Mereja, she witnessed security forces beating some of the people who were part of the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces have detained 878 individuals in connection with the violence marred Adwa victory day celebrations in Addis Ababa earlier this month, the state owned Ethiopia News Agency (ENA) reported on Wednesday.\u00a0 Quoting the Ethiopia Joint Security and Intelligence Task Force statement, ENA reported \u201c557 out of the 878 suspects\u201d came from other parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":436628,"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":[5845],"class_list":["post-436627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/shm.jpg?fit=233%2C216&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1PAn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436627","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=436627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436629,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436627\/revisions\/436629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}