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This report directly from Addis Ababa
just came in. The regime in power is perapring for a long dictarship and seems to hope that they can paint themselves as democrats and get away with it.
I will continue to follow events as closely as possible and hope to compile a documentation in e-book format by the end of the month. Any comments posted to the newsflashes will be included in the e-book. Thank you. GB ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi my friend, things are not good here. The Dictators are still playing their old game. More than 2000 prisoners were released from the Ziway prison camp but still there are hundreds of prisoners there. Some of them are being hidden in secret cells where visitors are not allowed. The security forces are doing the worst crime on the detainees like shaving the heads of prisoners with a shared razorblade. Nobody knows how many of prisoners are going to be infected with HIV/AIDS. All of them are at risk of getting malaria, as they have no protection. There are detainees who are diabetic and these people are suffering a lot without proper medication. We have heard from inside source that more than eight prisoners died in the camp due to beating and torturing. The revenge is very severe on the opposition party members and supporters. The TPLF security forces had established a new Nazi-like camp in the north of the country in Wollo region, in a place called "DONKORO CHAKA" (it means "deaf bush"). That is where most of the opposition party members and supporters are being tortured. It is completely forbidden to approach this torturing camp and the area is full of malaria. The security forces are deliberately establishing prison camps in malaria-affected areas in order to expose the victims to the disease (malaria is epidemic in most parts of the country and it is almost equivalent to HIV/AIDS in killing people in Ethiopia). Practically, most of the military camps in the remote areas have been turned into temporary prison camps, for example the HURSO military camp in Harerge region. That is where Alemaya University students are detained. BILATEN military camp near the Kenyan border is where students from DEBUB university detained and there are a lot of torturing camps throughout the rest of the country. They are good places to isolate and torture those who are suspected as supporters or members of the opposition parties, particularly of the CUD and UEDF. The problem for the TPLF leaders now is how they are going to put the 70 million Ethiopian people in isolation camps without having to declare the whole country a concentration camp. Go To Page: 1 2
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