ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Garowe Online) – At least 1,700 Somalis have been rounded up in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa over the past 48 hours, Radio Garowe reports.
Sources in Addis Ababa said all the detainees were Somali men, some of whom were pulled out of their homes for questioning by Woyanne security agents.
“The Somali men who were arrested were here [in Addis Ababa] for different reasons, but mainly as transit” to other parts of the world, said Addis Ababa resident Mulki Mohamed.
She indicated that the men are being held at seven different locations, adding: “We do not know the real reason for the arrests.”
Addis Ababa has expressed increasing concern of terror attacks inside Ethiopian cities, with emerging reports indicating that the Somali detainees were asked questions about any links to Somali insurgent groups.
15 thoughts on “1700 Somalis detained in Addis Ababa in past 2 days”
It is really good to tighten security in all aspects. I think the Hargessa suicide has given a lesson to Ethiopian government and all necessary precautions are commendable. Because, these moron Al shababs are in day dream to attack not only neighbouring countries, but also all countries in the planet from Alaska and Chile to Japan and China. This was exactly what their leaders said in his interview with Al Jazeera.
Of course! The historical trend is all too well known. When Eritrea got its independence after some 40 years of determined and bloody struggle, the Wayane final response for power monopoly in Ethiopia is to commite barbaric ethinic cleasing by forcing even Ethiopians of Eritrean blood or half blood to pack up and leave the new Wayane minority monopoly empire. It is a revenge for the Eritrean final independence and determination to remain free at all costs.
As history repeats itself now again, Wayane who have invaded an independent nation of Somalia and squandered scarce human and material resources against the overwheming opposition of Ethiopians is now completely humiliated and defeated in Somalia and is coming back to Ethiopia inorder to continue the same old story of dictating, robbing and starving 80 million Ethiopians as usual.
The revenge for its humiliating defeat in Somalia is to come back to Ethiopia and continue the same worfare on the innocent and helpless Ethiopians of Somali origine or their refugee friends. Who will be next?
The defeated Wayane is now only trying to extend the failed external war of invastion inorder to put its defeated and frustrated vanquished army in to action so that it may not muteny or rebell against years of misuse and mismanagement in Somalia where they were constantly killed and their corps being frequently drageg along the filthy and dirty slum Somali streets.
This is normal minority Wayane make-believe tricks of creating fake enemies outside and fake enemies inside and offering wayane dictatorial minority solutions for fooling naive starving Ethiopians and looting their human and material resources as usual.
Ethiopians have no enemies but Warmongering and violent Wayane does have lots of enemies.
FOLKS! Why can’t this people think before they jump in to the burning fire, rather than start thing after jumping deep in to the burning fire using the good name of Ethiopia for bad selfish intentions?
So why should Somalis be victims of ethnic cleansing in in a multinational Ethiopia while Wayane is committing violent genocides in the Ogaden Ethiopian Somali region inorder to keep them absolutely Ethiopians by force of arms, but at the same time come back to Addis Ababa and collect ethiopians of Somali origine to concentration camps for deportation to NOMAN’S LAND? by denying them anything of Ethiopian connection.
What a cunning fox dressed in sheep skin?
weyane serve america not ethiopian security. weyane creat problem with somalia ppl like he creat with eritrea. now also with kenya tomorow he will send his agazy to darfor and creat problem with sudan. god bless ethiopia.way you do not accept my comment?
How do they trust Woyane?
A dictator for one is a dictator for other.
Amharic proverb “Weyanen yamene gum zegene.”
This is yet another display of racism by Woyanne thugs, they have been arresting and killing Oromo youngsters for years yet what bothers me the most is the diaspora Ethiopians don’t say a peep about these dastardly actions. I applaud the protest on behalf of Teddy Afro but there should be more protests on outrageous acts of this fascist regime more often. There was not much protest when Woyanne arrested and deported peaceful Eritreans and Ethiopians of Eritrean descent in 1998-99, that to me was ethnic cleasning pure and simple, now Woyanne is perpetrating ethnic cleasning on a larger scale in many parts of southern Ethiopia, it is about time every Ethiopian to stand up and expose this ethnic cleasning and the genocide going on in Ogaden.
Here they go again: ANOTHER ETHNIC CLEANSING! My fellow brothers and sisters I have a question or two for all of you! WHERE IN PLANET EARTH ARE WEYANE SLAVES GOING TO LIVE AFTER ALL THE DUSTS ARE SETTLED DOWN IN THE HORN OF AFRICA? IS THERE NO MORE GOOD WEYANE LEFT OR ONLY THE DEAD WEYANES ARE THE GOOD WEYANES? WHERE IS THE OUTCRY OF THE TIGRYAN PEOPLE AGAINST THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS THAT WILL HAUNT TIGRYANS FOR MANY GENERATIONS TO COME BY EHTIOPIANS, SOMALIANS, AND ERITREANS? Did Dr. Frazer promise them a safe haven in her backyard or Bush promised them a safe haven in Crawfard, TX.? And lastly when will the Adwan gangs, their Eritrean masters/advisors going to be deported to their rocky mountain hood? God save Ethiopia and the Ethiopian people from the modern slaves of the horn of Afrcia!
Meles and his crime synddicate weyane will not stop putting innocent ethiopian civillians(excluding tigrayans)into jail out of fear that they might revolt.Gangsta Meles and his hodam followers are afraid that they will be thrown out of power,because they have commited horrible crimes against Ethiopians and are hated by all Ethiopians.Their fate definitely is same as the fate of the brutal regimes in history as Mobutu of Congo(previoussly Zaire)and Idi Amin of Uganda.
In case of the hodamoch they will be judged by yhe people for being an accomplice to the crime that weyane committed.Ilove the amharic word Hodam the sold out greed drive ego centric individual or group of people as Ato bereket Simon the meles puppet who claim to represent Amhara ethnic groups.On the other side you have the so called moderate hodamoch that reside in D.C or european cities that believe that the criminal T.P.L.F or weyane is a legitimate Ethiopian government and opposition groups have to listen to his orders and settle for his nonsense non violent struggle when the weyane keep on killing thousands of Ethiopians in ogaden,Addis and all over the country.Don”t they remember the post election masacre of Addis residence.
Weyane leaders Sebhat Nega,Meles and his wife,Abay Zehaye and the devilish Aba Gebremedhin which havd been hired by Bush administration and carried out Jendayi Frazier orders to invade Somalia are the main perpetraters of human miseries and tragedies that is happening in somalia.The sad part is their mercenaric adventure have led to mistrust and hate and between the two peoples.
I hope that one day yhe people of horn will put an end to the mercenary govenment leaders like Meles,Yusuf of somalia.Thanks E.R for exposing their crimes and promoting understanding between peoples.
He`s losing it.Meles is really uder a lot of pressure.He`s acting like a wounded animal.His TPLF is taking a beating in Somalia and he`s taking it on those poor Somalis in Addis.What an statesman!!!
Needs must when devil drives:somalis of both origin have no choice but keep fighting and fight now the last battle.in ogaden,where the young men and women, whose future have been distroyed by a problem not proportional to their age ,and old men and women who are haunted by the memory of their sons & daughters whom were killed as they look at their smiling photoes,is a country were graves take more portion of land than houses and its people cry louder for help but hear only their echo.and in somalia the people who go to school plus those going to work are less than the people attending daily funerals.These are war crimes ethnic cleancing, and genocide comitted in a proud day light by Melez with the knowledge of UN.somalis,oromoes and all oppressed nations must not be peroccupied by drawing blood from stone but stand up be united and fight the last battle
Meles is about to be taken to the international criminal court. I read the news at http://www.ethiopiannatinalgovernmentinexile.org news.
My dear brothers and sisters of Ethiopians and Somalis, in the 21 century world of civilization and democracy, if we don’t take together a common meassure to stop TPLF’s AGAZIANS act of MASTER RACE, the time will not far away that we are going to have a RACISM IDEOLOGY in Ethiopia. The arresting, killing and confiscating the properties of non-TIGIRES people in our country today is not diffirent from the actions of SS( PROTECTIVE SQUADRON )of NAZI GERMANY. Today the TPLF consider it’s self/Tigires as MASTER RACE in Ethiopia. Also the choice is for TIGREAN too weather to stop TPLF or go with it in to the HISTORY. And for sure the TPLF is digging it’s own grave and it is speeding up it’s falling into that grave.
The arrest of Somalis in AA is made a hot news all of a sudden.I am amazed by the news media,because Somalis themselves are the wrong doers to their country’s mase,let’s leave this fact to somalies and talk about our owen mase in ethiopia made by TPLF,EPLF,and OLF.These 3 inhuman,barbaric,facsistic and ethno-centric groups have destroyed the very identity of ethiopianism by making their power hungry mentality to come before sovereignity,territorial integrity and indipendence.According to their propaganda there is no Ethiopia and only Amhara domination.Who are they? OLF uses oromo muslims to kill ethiopian christians,EPLF is using everything in its power to eliminate Ethiopia from the world map and TPLF introdused bantustanism,well everybody take your pick, the arrest of somalis or attrocities committed inside Ethiopia upon its people by the above mentioned barbaric groups as your talking points?
Abdile, you claim to be named Abdile but you sounds like old Ethiopian rulers of pre-TPLF. The time of chaufinists has gone already and you are still swimming in the ocean of dreams. Today all Ethiopians are looking for a way of living together in peace and harmony. A person like you is a person who is in the jail of identity crisis and are not diffirent from the mad rulers of Ethiopia. All Ethiopians regardless of their ethnic groups love Ethiopia, but not the Ethiopia which has served only a certain group of people. EQUAL and UNITED Ethiopia will win over all evils !!
Abdulkerim,is that your real name,I dont think so.Any way you sound more like anti ethiopian than Abdille or who ever is his name.When one mentions identities that make us Ethiopians he is more an EThiopian than you would ever like to be.Abdulkerim,you are not ,dont hide behind your PC,and words like “EQUAL” & “UNITED” which in reality you dont have taste to, spit it out.
The walking dead so called ” Lapisso” still crys for the ” has gone time” of his fathers. He is very funny poor creature.