Why don’t the ambassadors also talk about the tens of thousands of political prisoners still in jail?
Addis Ababa (ENA) – Ambassadors to Ethiopia of five countries have commended the Ethiopian government’s Woyanne’s measures to have pardoned 18,000 prisoners.
The ambassadors representing France, Canada, New Zealand, Finland and Spain on Friday attended a graduation ceremony of 40 inmates in Oromia who received technical and vocational training from the training center of the State’s prisons administration. Amenities constructed by the Institution were also inaugurated.
The Ambassadors on the occasion said the measures the Ethiopian government has taken in connection with the new millennium to have pardoned the stated number of prisoners were laudable.
The Adama Model Prison house on the occasion inaugurated lounges, meeting halls, dormitories for women inmates and other amenities it constructed with an outlay of nearly two million Birr.
Meanwhile, Justice for All Prison Fellowship, an NGO, has announced activities it launched with an outlay of 20 million Birr to help improve human rights handling of inmates and enhances good governance.
Ethiopian Human Rights Commissioner Ambassador Kassa Gebrehiwot on the occasion said the Oromia State Government was carrying out promising activities in improving amenities at prison houses to ensure that inmates are handled humanely.
The Oromia Prisons Administration has announced plan to offer computer aided training to 140 more inmates. Similar training had been given to 63 inmates.
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ENA is a Woyanne-controlled news agency.
5 thoughts on “Ambassadors thanked Woyanne for releasing 18,000 prisoners”
Too little too late… there are still over 25,000 Oromos unjustly thrown in filthy prisons in Ethiopia because they demanded Freedom
http://oromantic.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/oromos-filled-ethiopian-jails/
I wonder how many are left behind the bar?? if we assume meles released about 15% then u know how many are still in prison? 102,000 innocent ethiopians. ALLAS!!
They were not released out of Good will. The reason was they can’t feed them. Due to higher price of crops the NGO’s
will cut aid to Ethiopia and Meles is taking a measure to feed his army instead of prisonors. Western knew very well the reason behind it. We can’t trust Woyanne. They do not have heart…………..
those be sewu kusele enchete sededubete ambassadors should stop blessing the well known dictator in the world. Most amabassadors have acted like as a memebers of TPLF against the wish of our ppl for freedom and democracy.
Release or no release that is only tokenism for confusing the national and international public opinion in Wayanes favour at this very point when the dictators are getting ready for another election robbery and the fear of the fresh Kenyan phenomena.
Those people affected by the so called bogus amnesty are people who shouldn’t have ever been to jail even for a second start with.
Freedom can never be given or donated by philantropists but needs to be taken. Even Odinga of Kenya did not just sit arround and got what he got as a good will charity from his opponenets, or did he?