All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP), a former member organization of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (Kinijit), is reporting that police in the town of Sodo entered it’s vice-chairman Dr Tadiwos Tantu’s hotel room and confiscated his documents on Oct. 28. According to AEUP’s press release, Dr Tadiwos Tantu was on a working visit in Sodo at the time.
Another official of AEUP, Ato Ali Mirah Yayu, was arrested in Assayita Zone by the local police on Oct. 27, 2008, and released the following day. Ato Ali was arrested on the order of the Assayita police commander Shambel Mohammed Abdela, according to AEUP. Ato Ali Hareb, the property owner who rented his building to the AEUP for office, was beaten up and tortured by the Assayita police.
Ato Getye Desta in Northern Shoa and Ato Bekele Girma in Gedio Zone — both AEUP officials — are currently languishing in jail.
Two days ago, UDJ vice-chairman Ato Gizachew Shiferraw and two other party officials were arrested in Gojjam, northern Ethiopia.
On the same day, secretary general of the Oromo Federal Democratic Movement (OFDM), Ato Beqele Jirata, was arrested by the Federal Police while on his way to his office. His home was searched and documents were confiscated.
On Friday, Ato Shiferraw Jarso, a Woyanne regime official, was on Voice of America claiming that opposition parties are free to operate in the country. Click below to listen:
[podcast]http://www.ethiopianreview.info/audio/voa_crossfire_temesgen_vs_teshome.mp3[/podcast]
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3 thoughts on “More arrests of opposition party members in Ethiopia”
See! that is how you show that EPRDF is a collection of bullies, you just work on the rules which they claim to uphold and find them breaking it so badly. Sitting aside and making deafening shouts wouldn’t help. Meles has lost all of his disgrace during the 2005 election. The downfall contiuned when the CUD leaders were jailed, when UDJ was frobidden to hold a meeting in imperial hotel, etc. That is how you really show how tyrant is the guy and the dictatorship prevailing in Ethiopia. I can see how you enjoy posting such stories as they taint the ruling party as a matter of fact. But someone has to be there to bring out this monsterous acts of the dictator and his thugs.
Meles as the son of Lucifer has many cousins and nephews who are out to kill torture and destroy – with their followers they are exhausting themselves thinking they can control the freedom movement – a minority bandas are counting their days – no where to run or hide – they will pay for every innocent ethiopian they have killed and tortured – their every action is recorded – we have it so do their foregn supporters – the starvation and genocide is already recongized by their stonch supporters the british government.
Disappointment leads to frastration, frastration to aggression, and at the end aggression makes blind and leads to distruction. This is what is taking place in EPRDFs yard now. Their position is getting narrower and narrower. Many crisis are haunting the prime minster and he must fight them by every availeable means. But i am not sure if only fighting, without the hearts of people will save him from making suicide.