dear readers i don’t know when and how we can stop tplf from murdering and arresting oromos and other people. as Bulcha Demeksa said The authorities plant documents in potential politicians’ houses, trying to relate them to rebel groups like the OLF or the ONLF. They are simply potential candidates like Oromo singers Haacaaluu Hundasa and Ms Diribe Gada were arrested and were reportedly tortured in Maikelawi. DAWN TPLF!!!
Mderek and other areeste, torrure
Bako Tibe Woreda (W. Showa) finance office employee, Mr Dabala, was arrested on 10 September and taken by security forces to an unknown location after his house had been searched in vain for evidence linking him with the OLF (OLF News, 16 September).
HRLHA (Press Release 19, September 2009) reported that 73 detainees, most of whom had been detained in Shinile, Dire Dawa, E. Hararge, for five years without charge or trial, were finally brought to court in September. Their names were taken from the Dire Dawa Prosecutor General’s charge sheet which was presented to the Federal High Court in March 2009. According to HRLHA’s informants, a number of prisoners had died in detention before the court hearing, due to lack of food and medical care. They receive only two glasses of water and three pieces of local bread each day. The survivors are aged 18-80 and include 9 women. All were charged with involvement with the OLF. Their names and ages are listed in Appendix 6.
Reuters and AFP, reporting from Addis Ababa on 10 September, published claims by Medrek coalition parties that they were being ‘crippled by a campaign of arrests, imprisonments and intimidation’. The parties claimed that nearly 200 members had been arrested over the preceeding three months. OFDM leader Bulcha Demeksa told reporters ‘Ruling party cadres throughout the country are jailing our potential candidates on false charges’. Nine men were convicted that day and sentenced for 10-17 years for financing and buying weapons for the OLF. Bulcha Demeksa said ‘The authorities plant documents in potential politicians’ houses, trying to relate them to rebel groups like the OLF or the ONLF. They are simply potential candidates.’
Oromo singers Haacaaluu Hundasa and Ms Diribe Gada were arrested on 15 September and were reportedly tortured in Maikelawi CID, according toEthiomedia, 6 October.
OLF News reported on 29 September that family members Malkamu Ababa, Malkamu Tarafa and Bayisa Tarafa, were taken from their home in Addis Ababa earlier in the month and severely beaten in Maikelawi CID. Also mentioned in the report, in Fantalee Woreda, E. Showa, Dalale and Abdi Mi’eeso were among several Oromo detained on 24 September and tortured, and at least 110 were detained in W. Hararge on 28 September.
GSF, aged 25, writing from exile on 25 January 2010, recounted a five year history of persecution culminating in his last arrest in September 2009, before he fled the country. He was first arrested and tortured in Ambo police station for two months at the beginning of 2004, following student disturbances there. He was released on condition that he stopped attending the high school, avoided contact with other students and teachers and that he avoided all public meetings.
He went to Addis Ababa and joined the OFDM party. He was again arrested in November 2005. He remained in detention at Maikelawi, Karchale and then Kaliti until February 2009. During this period of more than three years he was shackled hand and foot for prolonged periods, whipped with electric cable, beaten severely by fist, boot and gun and accused of organising students on behalf of the OLF.
He successfully challenged a ten year prison sentence at the Federal Supreme Court to obtain his release. He was shot at by security forces around his family home in Wallega in June and again returned to Addis Ababa, where he was closely followed. He reported that a four day detention in September 2009 was the worst. After ‘severe torture’ he was taken out at 1.00 a.m. to Entoto mount to the north of Addis Ababa and threatened with a pistol inserted into his mouth to ‘reveal OLF secrets’ (see Torture methods, Oromo political prisoners’ appeal, p. 16). He was again released on conditions; of avoiding personal, internet and telephone contact with anyone and of remaining within Addis Ababa. After hearing from a friendly Federal Security insider that he was being targeted for assassination, he fled the country at the end of 2009.
source:-oromo.org
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