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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi has accused the official opposition of collaborating with armed insurgents.
His comments came after an opposition leader complained in parliament about harassment in the Oromia region.
Mr Meles also mocked foreign press coverage of events in the south-east Ogaden region where rebels claim to have battled the army over the weekend.
Some groups have taken up arms in the Oromia and Somali-speaking Ogaden regions in pursuit of greater autonomy.
Arrests threat
In the parliamentary session, broadcast live on Ethiopian television, the prime minister said the opposition were acting as a Trojan horse for armed insurgent movements.
The accusations came after opposition leader Bulcha Demeksa complained about widespread arrests and harassment in the Oromia region in the southern central part of the country.
Mr Meles said the government was aware that some senior leaders of opposition organisations were members of the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
He said once the government had enough evidence the culprits would be arrested and put on trial.
Another opposition leader accused the government of ignoring issues in the Ogaden region despite allegations of human rights abuses in the international media.
In response, Mr Meles poked fun at media coverage of recent Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) claims that the rebels had besieged his political adviser.
As he had been with the adviser at the time, Mr Meles inquired why he had not been surrounded too.
However, he said nothing about rebel claims of heavy fighting in the past few days.
The ONLF says up to 250 government troops died in a battle on Sunday.
On Monday, a government spokesman said any skirmishes may have involved local, pro-government militias, not the army.
5 thoughts on “Ethiopia’s dictator warns opposition – BBC”
The Ethiopian Crime Minister should be on warned oppositions groups are sick and tired of his dictatorial leadership and the Woyane regime is on the verge of collapse!
meles is playing his game because we the people let him too. what we can do is UNIT and stand for the democracy of the people of ethiopia.
unity is the only way we can abolish the regime of Meles. what are we doing people ? most of us living IN UNITED STATES didn’t give a damn about our own people living in ethiopia. they are living in misery and pain. we know that but we don’t care, some of us don’t even want to hear about it. so when we start doing what we can do we can throw the Meles regime. unity is the answer. MAINLY BETWEEN POLITICAL PARTIES. IF THEY REALLY STAND FOR THE PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA. THE POLITICAL PARTIES MUST AND SHOULD UNIT AND DO SOME THING.
HR-2003 is the answer.
(1)support human rights, democracy, independence of the judiciary, freedom of the press, peacekeeping capacity building, and economic development in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia;
(2) collaborate with Ethiopia in the Global War on Terror; (3) seek the release of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Ethiopia;
(4) foster stability, democracy, and economic development in the region;
(5) support humanitarian assistance efforts, especially in the Ogaden region; and
(6) strengthen U.S.-Ethiopian relations.
HR-2003 is good for Ethiopia & bad for dictator Meles.
“He said once the government had enough evidence the culprits would be arrested and put on trial.”
he didn’t say “…once the government had enough evidence…” he said “once the government has enough ‘mereja'” which means enough information, not evidence. That is how justice is for the Crime Minister. He needs information to incriminate and send people to jail, not evidence. This guy is a monster set loose from hell and I suspect that Satan is his elder brother. I think they will enjoy “sleeping” together when his days end here on earth.
The Parlimenterian Bulcha Raised his cocern about ihe OROMO region treatment,Abuse of human right,the harassment the OROMOS recive on the hands of woyane security forces.GOD BLESS HIM HE is a curages man TO stand up to his connistituence,IF others FOLLOW Bulchas foot step and excepose the woyanes EVIL did againest the Ethiopian People as a whole will be a great contribution to the People.The wayane leader now he warn to sweep the way for his dictatorial EGO,next he will fabricate false acusation then he will send INOCENT people to prison.Because their coming was based on lie and decit.IN general let me put it this way the WOYANES AND THEIR mASTER are The MASTERS OF ALL LIES ON THE WHOLEWORLD.GOOD wORK BULCHA GOD BLESS YOU.