{"id":456541,"date":"2023-07-30T07:41:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T11:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=456541"},"modified":"2023-07-30T07:41:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T11:41:10","slug":"security-forces-kill-two-civilians-in-northern-ethiopia-city-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/456541","title":{"rendered":"Security forces kill two civilians in northern Ethiopia city: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security forces kill two civilians in northern Ethiopia city: Report<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security forces have killed two civilians in separate incidents in Shoa-Robit city in North Shoa zone of Ethiopia\u2019s northern Amhara region, the Addis Ababa based online media outlet Addis Maleda reported on Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addis Maleda reported one civilian was killed by gunshots while another civilian was beaten to death by security forces in the city. The killings reportedly took place on Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addis Maleda further reported security forces routinely harass and beat Shoa-Robit residents on various pretexts including that they are either Fano members or have Fano members\u2019 pictures on their mobile phones and in their houses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beatings and harassments has reportedly forced some Shoa-Robit residents to flee to the nearby city of Debre-Birhan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The security crackdown on the city\u2019s residents has also caused suspension of transport and banking services adding further hardship on the civilian population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Separately, Shewa-Robit residents told Mereja.com on Friday Ethiopian army soldiers are engaging in severe beatings, tortures and stabbing attacks against civilians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city\u2019s residents also told Mereja.com the soldiers refused to release the body of a young man to his family. The young man was reportedly shot dead by the soldiers earlier this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shewa-Robit city residents also disclosed to Mereje.com, soldiers are engaged in looting of private houses properties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since April, various parts of Amhara region are experiencing ongoing deadly unrest, as the Ethiopian federal government engages in crackdown against civilians and armed self-defense groups in the country\u2019s second most populous region.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security forces kill two civilians in northern Ethiopia city: Report Security forces have killed two civilians in separate incidents in Shoa-Robit city in North Shoa zone of Ethiopia\u2019s northern Amhara region, the Addis Ababa based online media outlet Addis Maleda reported on Sunday.\u00a0 Addis Maleda reported one civilian was killed by gunshots while another civilian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":456542,"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":[8,4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-456541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/tse.jpg?fit=1080%2C608&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ULz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456541","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=456541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456543,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456541\/revisions\/456543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}