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Mass graves accidentally uncovered in an Ethiopian prison

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – On Tuesday this week, construction workers have accidentally discovered mass graves inside the notorious Central Investigation’s (Maekelawi) detention center that is located behind the Addis Ababa Police Commission.

The Addis Ababa Police Commission’s headquarters is being torn down and rebuilt.

Mass graves accidentally uncovered in an Addis Ababa prison

Fresh bodies and old bones accidentally uncovered at Maekalawi, Ethiopia’s notorious prison that’s run by the U.S.-financed regime of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne). In 2009, the U.S. Department of State asked Congress to authorize $472 million to be given to the Woyanne regime.

According to Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit’s sources, the graves were discovered when the bulldozer that was leveling the ground accidentally damaged the foundation of the building where the mass graves are located. When the building came down, the construction workers and some passersby saw several fresh bodies, as well as skulls and bones in plastic bags.

The Federal Police prison guards immediately chased away every one and sealed off the area.

Maekelawi is run by the Federal Police under direct command of Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi.

Disappearances of the Meles regime’s critics, particularly less known ones, have been common occurrences in Ethiopia. It is not a big surprise such mass graves exist inside prisons. There are thought to be hundreds of them through out Ethiopia.

26 thoughts on “Mass graves accidentally uncovered in an Ethiopian prison

  1. true ethiopians : all we have to do this time is to write their names down, to take their photos, to mark their steps, and keep reporting on their crime of the current ‘LEBA’ DICTOTERS.Then ,will soon come their fate, when they will be begging for mercy.

  2. Dear Ethiopian Review Editors
    -I beg you to do a favor to Ethiopia and Ethiopians by Collecting This ETHNO-FACIST TPLF WAR LORDS PICTURES WITH THIER NAMESinorder to Expose them to the rest of the World.Their Victims are in Thousands all over EThiopia
    Thank you

  3. Dear Editor
    I think its very important and urgent to contact International Organizations including the ones who helped during excavations of the Derg’s killings (Argentinians I believe )because we really dont know when these murders were done and we owe it to the families of the murdered to publicise and uncover the truth.

  4. This just shows you the weyane mafia family led by the notorious butchers, Bereket Simon and Legesse Z., have murdered more innocent people that their predecessors combined. The saddest of all of these crimes by these mafia families are, A- all the NGO’s and other organizations are aware of these attrocities; however, for their own dollars and cents gains their rather remain silent, B- the western powers are all aware of all these crimes because it is their own weapons that had been used to slaughter them all. How much more can momma Ethiopia bleed? OH LORD PLEASE SAVE THE ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE FROM THESE MURDERERS!

  5. The discovery of a fresh mass grave in the heart of Addis is not suprising given the track record of the Meles regime. We have gotten used to the governments brutal actions and atrocities, committed openly or covertly, during the last 17 years.What is amazing, however is, why no one among the Woyane murderous thugs, foresee the possibility of its discovery during months of digging at the construction cite next door.
    My guess is that, because these fascist criminals have dug so many such mass graves all over the country, their memory has become befuddled to the extent that they are unable to recall the whereabouts of each and every one. Carelessness or forgetfulness, the crimes oe Meles and his cohorts will keep unfolding as each day passes.

  6. Is there anyways that the ”mass grave” could be uncovered for international human rights?. Can this ”ethiopia review intelligence unit unfold this grave to other world media people?????

  7. this happens everywhere. for arogant persons which are beyond the control of people some times this is good treatment please remember the hungers stopped by Fetno derash police with out which the inocent society survival is in danger. please let us think twice . this happens every where even in US we have guantanamo there are many guantanamos every where if somebldy goes against in extreme way

  8. The discovery of a mass grave doesn’t surprised me. Instead it made me very very upset and angry. However, being angry and upset is not going to bring these harsh and cruel butchers down to their grave yard where they belong to. I don’t expect anything less from these butchers called TPLF, definitely morethan what the Derg regime did to us. It is extreemly troubling and sad that these same killers are the same group of butchers who are calling themselves librators of the oppressed and punished members of the Derg regime. We need to find any possible way to stop these butchers for once and for all by putting our minor differences aside for the sake of our country and the Ethiopian people! Specially with the new Obama administration and the message of “HOPE”, this is one of the evidences we can use againest the Meles Dictatorial Regime to make our case. Finally, I pray and pray to the Almighty God stop the suffering of the Ethiopian people for once and for all.

    God Bless

    ArbaGugu Tez Alegn

  9. Well it’s true that the tplf{woyanee}is a bad govt and it has been 18 years since they have been in power but we ethiopians
    don’t have a clear mind whether to oppose or to be their side all we know is how to talk talk and talk and that’s why they
    don’t give a dam about us specially the ethiopians who live
    out side the country. above all we could not even become one
    to be against them that is a real shame and we expect the US
    govt will decide our fate remember the us govt is the # 1 enemy and supporter of the woyanee {gang} so let us not be
    a fool again us we now woyanee came to power through the barrel of a gun that is the only way to remove them and we
    need to be one opposition group against the woyanee. I think
    that is the only way.

  10. This is the real facts of tigrean gang’s mass terror campaigns against the general population.The majority of the victims are oromos, amharas and other non-tigreans. Despite the horrible reality , the dictators are still in power and continue mass murder of Ethiopias. This and other horrible acts of tigrese against Ethiopians proves that they are committed to deliberately eliminate Ethiopias. Unless we are ready to defend our selves,they ontinue killing us one-by-one!!!!

  11. PLEASE lets unite before it’s late. Let’s force all oposition parties to unite for our people sake. If we continue divided our country will fall apart. Think about it. We gotta clean Ethiopia from vampaire.

  12. Hellow There,

    This is a great crime and genocide if the allegation is fact, therefore it is vital importantto follow this case and bring it up to th whole world specially to those powers who arm and finance the bloody woyane murderers to accountability and international criminal court.

    Please dig it up more.

    Thank you

  13. Malkes tergum yelewem Ebakacheuh endenesu tatken enenesa engi bisafem belekesem endehone meles keseltanu ayenesam ena tatken enenesa ende ethiopian arbenoch genbar

  14. Dear Ethiopian Review Editors
    -I beg you to do a favor to Ethiopia and Ethiopians by Collecting This ETHNO-FACIST TPLF WAR LORDS PICTURES WITH THIER NAMESinorder to Expose them to the rest of the World.Their Victims are in Thousands all over EThiopia
    Thank youFresh bodies and old bones accidentally uncovered at Maekalawi, Ethiopia’s notorious prison that’s run by the U.S.-financed regime of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne). In 2009, the U.S. Department of State asked Congress to authorize $472 million to be given to the Woyanne regime.
    PPL DO SOMETHING GET CONECT WITH GUN:

  15. The ethnic dictatorship led by war- lord Meles Zenawi by now has proved beyond doubt that it’s genocidal and murderous.The regime might have murdered more people especially opposition elements than the brutal military regime led by Mengistu.

    In view of this, the mass grave revealed here above might seem trivial, but it’s not.In countries where democracy, rule of law and human rights are observed, the death of even a single individual will be given a serious attention and due process of law.
    The time for such a happy moment no doubt will be realised sooner than later by the combined peaceful struggle of the majority people of Ethiopia who are relegated to a secondary citizenship by the racist regime of Meles Zenawi.

    Death to Woyanne and their suppoters!!!

  16. Iam sure these ppl are mostly oromo and amhara and the somali whom they were rounding up two weeks ago thank you elias for bringig such atrosities commited by woyane let the worled now these crime against humanity

  17. As a guest Nr. 1 has said, ” TRUE ETHIOPIAN “, there are no true and false Ethiopians. Ethiopians are Ethiopians from north to south, from east to west and it is in our own interests to get rid of such a rotten mentality. Any way my main point is the mass grave of our brothers and sisters. Really i believe that we are being ruled by devil ( TPLF ) which wants to destroy the Ethiopians and live alone in paradise Ethiopia. The last 18 years of TPLF, thousends of peoples have been disappeared and nobody knows where they are. This is the criminal work of TPLF which is guided by Meles and his likes. The Ethiopians have not sit and be killed. We have to rise up and fight TPLF from every corner of our country. So long the TPLF is on power, there will no peace and prosperiy in Ethiopia. MAY BE THERE ARE STILL MORE MASS GRAVES IN ETHIOPIA.

  18. I was really astounished by your reactions to the accidentally found grave becuase you sound as if no one was killed in Ethiopia. Do you really know what is going on in Ogaden? If you do or care for, you would not be shocked by the appearances of few bodies from grave.
    Don’t take me as a mean person; I know killing even one person is bad, but when you compare what you saw today to what has been happening in Ogaden region, I am sure this incident will be a piece of cake. Every inch of Ogadenland is mass grave!!!.

  19. Are there not such organizations as the Haige, Amnesty International, The war crimes commission, etc. that are supposedly the protectors or guardians of the oppressed and the hopless that are rotting in the prisons both literally dead and/or alive. These organizations did not lift a finger and slept thru Rwanda, Darfur, Somalia and now Ethiopia. How is it they jump when it is Bosnia, Chechnia, or some God forsaken unknown and not heard of Island somewhere in Europe or the Americas and not historic and 3000 year old country like Ethiopia. It is written in the Bible that an Ethiopian cannot change the color of his skin, therefore just because … if you can’t help us; for God’s sake don’t enable the murdorous monkey that is sucking the blood of our country butcher us by providing him with free money and weapons. When God’s judgement comes, it comes both on the evil doers as well as the rightous. Judgement day is closer than anyone anticipates, God will punish the punishers and avenge the blood of his people. Everyone should pray for that day to hasten. Blessed be the name of our God the Almighty. Amen.

  20. Ethiopia(our contry) Faces many challenges as a nation. Its people are struggling under the repressive rule of a government that is doing everything in its power to shut down the opposition parties as well as criminalize any NGO or group, whose mandate is to protect human rights….but there is no human right with such a gaverment
    Metasebia Desta

  21. Mass graves can be found everywhere in Ethiopia but in the Tigray province, and these mass graves are vivid testimonies to the excessive killings of the Ethiopian people by an Ethiopian lunatic person – Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi).

    In the future, when Ethiopia becomes free, it will hire hundreds of archeologists and send such experts throughout Ethiopia to dig such mass graves so that Ethiopia can expose the necked aggression of Meles Seitanawi to the rest of the world. We will collect those bones and put them in a big museum for American and European tourists to visit them, and perhaps they would regret for paying millions of dollars for Meles death squads to commit such atrocities. They would regret that their hard-earned money had been used to commit such incomprehensible crimes against humanity.

  22. Since they hit the darg regiom 18 years it is not surprising that they may experience the same thing darg was accused of. That mass grave show us that the death of Zenawi is at his door.Sinc Maikelawi is governed by him he will be accountable for that. Don’t worry time will come. He is not an angel.It is really sad they used Tigrian people to be seen in a such aguly ways infornt of Ethiopia people. Ethiopia people expect the Tigrian people to say no to Zenawis groups killing the citizin for power.THis is the time to separate themselve from those who wants to use them for their benefit. If still they are supporting Zenawi groups you are lost.

  23. DEAR MY ETHIOPIAN CITIZENS,

    WHERE IS THE LOCATION OF MAEKELAWI PRISON IN ADDIS ABABA??

    I RESPECT ALL YOUR EVOLUTIONARY DISCUSSION TO CONFRONT FACIST WOYANE.

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