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Newsflash - Killing of Democracy in Ethiopia !!

© Glenn Brigaldino

The elcitons of May in Ehtiopai have apparently been hijacked by the ruling party. Final results are now delayed until July, as the Governing EPRDF is apparnelty fearing defeat. In the capital massive peaceful protets against the delays and mainpul;aitons of the ongoing fraud investigations have been crushed with brutla military force. Moire than 30 people, have been killed by the Government. Hunderds of university students have been roudnded up to camps outside fo the city; shops and pucli trnasport have shut down.

Here in the free West, mainstream media pays little if any attention. As I am receinving direct updates from a local eye-witness to the political events, I am sharing these on suite101.

!!! Please forward this info as widely as you can to raise awareness and hopefully spurn action to stop the violence of the Ethiopian Government. !!! Thank you.

Here is the latest report from today (previous ones are available on www.epo.de)

-------------- My dear friend.

This evening the Ethiopian Information Minister Bereket Simeon told that the CUD (Coalition for Unity and Democracy) leaders are under rest and they will be brought to court for all the killings carried out by his security forces. One of the CUD leaders Lidetu Ayalew is in his office and he is without food for the past 30 hours. He gave an interview this evening with VOA Amharic service and confirmed that he was beaten by the security forces and even the security forces told him that they will kill him and throw his body in the street. The observers from the EU tried to visit him and to give him some food, but they were not allowed to enter to his office. This is how EPRDF defines its democracy, by torturing those who oppose in a peaceful way. The EU countries cover most of the Ethiopian budget deficit and they sent around 200 election observers to the country. I wonder why the TPLF-led government bans the journalists from Deutsche Welle Amharic service and VOA. These were the only media from where the Ethiopian people could get balanced information about their country. The TPLF (their local name is WOYANE) owned radio and TV stations broadcast always their propaganda, based on fabricated lies and the people are sick of listening to them.

This evening I received very terrible and shocking news that the ruling party is printing forged leaflets, that look as if produced by the CUD leaders and in which they supposedly call for the killing of Tigryans (the ethnic group of the ruling part TPLF). These leaflets are to be used as "evidence" against the CUD leaders, fabricating a cause to maybe even kill them.

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