{"id":440704,"date":"2023-04-08T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=440704"},"modified":"2023-04-08T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:46:06","slug":"ola-rebel-fighters-disarming-entering-rehabilitation-centers-ethiopian-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/440704","title":{"rendered":"OLA rebel fighters disarming, entering rehabilitation centers: Ethiopian official\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebel fighters are disarming and entering rehabilitation centers, State Minister of Ethiopia Government Communication Service (GCS) claimed on Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a briefing given to state media outlets, Selamawit claimed OLA rebel fighters are disarming and entering rehabilitation centers, except in the Western Wollega and Horo-Guduru Wollega zones of Oromia region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selamawit further claimed a government committee established to coordinate peace nationally is undertaking many activities in relation to the \u201cdisarmament and rehabilitation of OLA rebels,\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he is undertaking \u201cpeace outreach\u201d to OLA rebels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addressing Ethiopia\u2019s parliament, the PM said his government had tried \u201cpeace overtures\u201d at least ten times over the last two months, but the \u201cefforts\u201d have been hampered by lack of unity of command within OLA ranks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abiy also said, the ruling Prosperity Party has formed a committee to undertake possible peace negotiations with OLA rebels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Responding to the PM\u2019s statement, the OLA released a statement dismissing the PM\u2019s \u201cpeace overtures\u201d as insincere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The OLA which is listed as a terrorist group by the Ethiopian government has been accused in numerous occasions of mass atrocities on civilians across Oromia region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OLA denies the charges and instead blames government affiliated security forces of most of the reported mass atrocities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebel fighters are disarming and entering rehabilitation centers, State Minister of Ethiopia Government Communication Service (GCS) claimed on Friday.\u00a0 In a briefing given to state media outlets, Selamawit claimed OLA rebel fighters are disarming and entering rehabilitation centers, except in the Western Wollega and Horo-Guduru Wollega zones of Oromia region.\u00a0 Selamawit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":440705,"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-440704","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\/04\/ola.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1QE8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440704","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=440704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440706,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440704\/revisions\/440706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}