By Afkar Abdullah, Khaleej Times
SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Sharjah police have started investigations into the death of an Ethiopian housemaid who was found hanging in the house of her employer in Umm Khanoor area on Thursday.
The 23-year-old maid, identified as Fatihia A.M. was found hanging with a piece of cloth in her room.
The police said that the maid died in her employer’s hands when he tried to save her by removing the cloth which she used to stangle herself.
The maid’s employer told the police that she committed suicide after talking on the phone with her sister who is abroad.
The maid had been working at her employer’s house for one year.
She was normal and nothing odd had been observed in her behaviour.
Captain Abdullah Rashid, duty officer at Al Haira police station, is investigating the case.
19 thoughts on “Ethiopian maid in UAE found hanging”
First of all I would like to express my depest condolences to her family, her friends and to her may God place her soul in rest. The causes of all political economical and social problems of our people and our country is the tigray minority regime in power who doesn’t care the welfare of the contry and its citizens. Filipinos are also working and living there but there government do take care of them they never commit suicide never abused physically and sexually and regulay paid there salary unlike our citizens. We must go against the cause of our whole problems, the woyanne thugs they must go once and for all.
God bless and rest her soul in peace. thanks to TPLF, ethiopians became the world hatred and suffering people everywhere. ethiopia needs justice. ethiopia’s farmers are in the hand’s of sudan’s police because of their resistance against the sudan’s invasion of ethiopia’s land. TPLF is a home made foreign agents . the time will come soon that they will be hunted one by one for their crime against humanity in all ethiopia and somalia.
No Ethiopian girl ever hanged herself while working in somebody’s home during the time of Emperor Haile Selassie and for that matter during Mengistu Haile Mariam reign of terror in Ethiopia.
What does, by the way, Meles Seitanawi feel when he hears such disturbing news about an Ethiopian girl, hanging herself in a foreign country? Forget Meles! What about his wife, Azeb, what does she feel about a women like herself killing herself while working in someone’s house, somewhere, far away from Ethiopia? The Meles family that does not have sympathy for the sufferings and the deaths of the Ethiopian girls is a cursed family – a family out of touch with the Ethiopian people.
Do you think Meles Seitanawi will send his agent to the United Arab Emirate to investigate the tragic death of this Ethiopian girl? I doubt it; he has no time to take care of every Ethiopian girl with an Ethiopian passport, working in a foreign land and being molested and killed by the dirty Arabs for their dirty money.
Fatihia, 23, might have reasons why she went to her room, clothed her door behind her, took a piece of cloth she, perhaps, had brought from Ethiopia, tied her neck with that piece of cloth, hanged herself and died in the hands of, no, no, no, her employer, rather by the hands of her employer, but we cannot prove it how she died. She might have killed herself because her employer had refused to raise her wages; she might have killed herself because her employer had refused to pay her salary on a timely fashion; she might have killed herself because her employer had promised to marry her but later changed his words; she might have killed herself because her employer might have sexually abused her; she might have killed herself because she could not send enough money home to support her parents; and she might have killed herself because the UAE government might have refused to renew her passport.
For whatever reason, this beautiful Ethiopian girl, like many other Ethiopian girls before her, is gone forever and never come back to Ethiopia she left a year ago. May the Almighty God give her soul rest and comfort in heaven, and may he give discomfort to the Meles family, the main cause for the deaths of innocent Ethiopian girls abroad and at home.
I dont tink she is hanging her self.
I tink thate stupid (arebe) did.
I relly file bad about her she is very yang.let we ethiopa be come unitd and stop that areb distroing our pepole.
let we pray together for our ethiopia.
fainaly i am so angry i said stubid that areb.
ammaaaeee replies:
February 26th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
first, spell arab right, 2- stop bitching about stuff and insulting people as if u were looking from the sky
Thank you US, Israel, Britain and other civilized and western nations for your job dealing with Arabs. You are protecting the world from the Barbaric and dangerous Arabs to Humanity . All of their history is associated with cruelty and crime against humanity. Remember what they did to the Jewish people including during the Mosses era. At that time all Jewish men including just born baby boys have to be killed. Remember why and where Mosses as a just born baby was found. Who was responsible for all of that crime against Humanity?
Remember what they did to the blacks. Even before the Prophet Mohamed era, they were engaged in mass black Slave trade. They also bought millions European slaves. war; killing, destruction and much inhuman behaviour were the foundation of Islam. The word Islam as a peaceful religion is just a wishful/misleading thinking. The reason why one men can/has to marry up to four wives is because of all men were died fighting and killing in the name of Islam since its beginning. Yet they are preaching Islam is a religion of peace despite war and crime against humanity was the base to its foundation.
Bilal who was the first person to become Muslim was a moujhadin commander reached as far as Syria to spread Islam with war and killing. So, the foundation of Islam is war, crime, hostility and injustice. The nature of Arabs against Africans today as Usual reflects the truth about. They are saying they are believers and praying 5 times a day. But they are committing crimes against innocent and poor 24 hours a day. This Ethiopian woman is the Victim to Islam exercised by Barbaric Arabs.
US, Israel, Britain and the rest of the civilized and humanity world need to protect humanity and the earth from the barbaric Arabs that are known ever since their existence with crime against Humanity. Their crime against Jewish and blacks started since thousands years a go tells the truth about them. Do you remember what happened to a pregnant slave jewish woman by the Arabs at the time when the bay was ready to be born. It is really a hate crime against humanity.
As far as the Ethiopian girls/women that are suffering and loosing their humanity and love, i have no much worry. why they are going there despite they know teh Arabs are bad? If they like to work, there is lots of work in Ethiopia all sectors and directions. For these reason they are teh first to be blamed< their family and the nation as a whole not the Arabs that are known withg crime against humanity.
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you looks a retarded bastard ,who did not a good parent who teaches the good behavior ,you are a sharmutta kid.Hanging for ones self is a common culture in Ethiopian Orthodox followers,whether in addisababa,gondar ,bahardar…
I am sadened by the news, and I ask myself how long will the suffering of Ethiopians continue? I agree with some of the comments given above that tplf/woyanees are the causes of all the problems. They refused to give any space for others. We couldnot be able to discuss, and find solutions for our economical, social and other problems. So what are we waiting for? This innocent girl died ones and many Ethiopians are diyng everyday. Where does our pride and bravity gone? Common you people! Reise your hands! Fight woyanees and their tugs ones and for all hwerever they are. There should be no save heaven for them while the majority people are suffering and diyng! Enough is enough!!
I am sadened by the news, and I ask myself how long will the suffering of Ethiopians continue? I agree with some of the comments given above that tplf/woyanees are the causes of all the problems. They refused to give any space for others. We couldnot be able to discuss, and find solutions for our economical, social and other problems. So what are we waiting for? This innocent girl died ones and many Ethiopians are diyng everyday. Where does our pride and bravity gone? Common you people! Reise your hands! Fight woyanees and their tugs ones and for all hwerever they are. There should be no save heaven for them while the majority people are suffering and diyng! Enough is enough!!
LET say some time we pay a very big price in our life get rich or die trying.from ethiopia to dubai who to be blame lack of information,from our goverment. people who are leaving the country should have good info.1st can they speak any forign language that should be asdked atleast english or must speak arebic other wise you real slave.
when they go to get visa this question should be in the first place!!!
have they any relative who take care of them?on their arrive?forign sponsers who live in UAE should have relative in ethiopia if they are ethiopians.enable them to sponser some one.
sponser if they are UAE citizen the uae embassy in ethiopia shuld take full responsiblity on behalve of his citizen.
for the care of our citizen.
once this thing are ujested you go to other alternative to protect your citizen.it doen’t matter how poor we are .
i my self once i was walking in central london, suddenly saw two ethiopian girls pushing two kids which are belongs to royal areb family .immidetly what shocked me they were wearing uniform how on earth in the west they treat people like that they are not in hospital they realy look nurses.the purpose was serategnanetachewn lemelyet bicha yetederge new.
what i did was when the family pop in to a shop i jupped out from my car in the miidel of a traffic write my number an gave to them to call me.its along story or like a film.
they phoned me how they left the hows?……
just parked my car pick them up drove home .
stayed 3 mothe with me then took them immigration.
they intaiteled as a refugy now one she got merried have a child the other working well and supporting her family back home.
i mate their families in ethiopia as well.that give me a great deal of satsfaction .we ethiopians where ever we are
we should support each other.
that girl in dubai some one some where could have saved her life.
thank you..
Dear Editors;
Many Ethiopians died in Arab countries due to not yet clearly expressed or defined couses. We Ethiopians know that our sisters have been or are being abused in these countries and yet our web-sites or what some call fanatic Ethiopian web-sites failed to bring the real stories behind these trajedies. How did each woman get to where she died? Who gave them visas? What is the extent of Ethiopian officials involvement? What are the responcibilities of the host(Arab)countries? Who paid for transportations? etc…
It’s about time that Ethiopian web-sites dedicate enough time and resources to uncover stories behind these Ethiopian trajedies.
Hi lemlem, rest assured ethiopia is a country for all and Islam is going to be an integral part of ethiopia. We can say a lot about the “other” relegion and what they doing to Ethiopia. You are a racist and preaching hate and destruction. Stick with your cult and leave Ethiopia and Islam alone. ER shame on you for entertaining and devoting your precious space for such Garbage.
Let us unite and take part in a demonstration against the cause of these problems, wake up and stand by this issue ?Create awareness to the youth both female and male.
The national office of IMO how are you helpingin this respect
ohhhh poor girl, 23 is just such a young age to die!!!
she had her entire life ahead, but it was stolen from her.
peace be on her soul!!!
and those who are insulting arabs and talking trash, go get help instead.more ethiopians are abused inside ethiopia than anywhere else in the world.
Dear Samatar,
You wrote: “Hanging for ones self is a common culture in Ethiopian Orthodox followers, whether in addisababa, Gondar, bahardar….” Can you explain what you are saying and give examples to understand what you are writing?
UAE is not a democratic country.its citizen dont even have a right.the country is just for few like ethiopia .since ethiopia is one of the poorest and undemocratic country in the world,its citizen are a refuge throght out the world.they have no country.they are slaves every where.they lost their pride.we dont need to blame islame religine.every religine has a problem.read RICHARD DAWKINS’ ” THE GOD DELUSION”.if we have free society who respect its citizen,our ppl wont be humilated everywhere.wake up guys.this has been happening for long time.this is not the first time.we should blame not UAE BUT our own goverment.the ppl on power they dont give a **.some of us support these ppl.ethiopia is just for a few.because of them everybody is for sell.everybody leaves their home land to sell themselves for the highest bidder.we lost our diginte.nobody respect us.we are a second class citizen everywhere.i dont expect LESS FROM UAE.we are one of their slave.everyone of us is bleeding inside .we know why this thing keep happening.our own ppl leads us to the grave yard.they are selling us alive.i dont blame anybody but our own ppl.our sisters are slaves to feed their little brother .sometimes they dont take any more.UAE is one of the uncivilized society in the world. they have oil.that is the only thing they have.they are still backward.they have no respect for humanity.HOWEVER BLAME OUR OWN PPL WHO ARE IN POWER,NOT UAE.also those ppl who sold their soul to this goverment .
sorry for the girl, and all the girls n women in the world who suffer cos of the cruel situations. i don’t know what u mean by woyanees pls anyone can explain?
also am aware the americans – cia or whatever are messing up with african nations since last few years under guise of fighting terrorism. but they are the cause and the biggest terror in the world and in world history.
God is great may he give us protection from the real terrorists.
Ethiopian love and respect forigners.The have never felt inferiority in their life, but equality. When the are subjected to discrimination they don’t acceptit it but resist the discrimination.Even the farmers in the rural areas respect human right and practice it. The developed countries, US, Canada, BRITISH, ISREAL, kinow this and give respect to Ethiopians. The 1,000 years back countries stil believe in killing humanbeings. As ethiopia is going down economicaly its citizen became refugees in other countries. I would like to advise Ethiopians and othe poor citizens not to go to countries who don,t respect human right. Always I pray against evel practice in the middle east.
It’s interesting to hear different perspectives on why a person would hang themself and in this case a maid working in a foreign country. The funny thing is the blame I’m hearing is practically on everything and everyone except the woman herself! Don’t Christians believe in the devil? Isn’t it possible that she committed suicide out of selfishness and hopelessness? Why is all the blame being put on the government, sponsor, or “arabs” (who by the way, 95% of them treat maids fairly, only a few bad eggs ruin the image for all). From my own experience, my friends’ Ethiopian maids stole money from the sponsors, were prostitutes, or in one extreme case murdered the woman sponsor and her 2 year old daughter by stabbint her 70 times and setting the apartment ablaze after working for her for 2 days during Ramadan. Why don’t we discuss this? Who’s fault is this? The whole notion of playing the blame game goes in contradiction to the teachings of the Bible.