ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia’s [puppet] president announced Monday that a document providing a legal framework for the fight against terrorism would be submitted to parliament.
“At a time when terrorism threatens countries across the world, there is a need for sustaining security and protecting citizens,” President Girma Woldegiorgis said at the opening of the new parliamentary session.
“It is of the utmost importance that a legal framework exist in the fight against terror. As such, a text will be introduced to parliament regarding the issue,” he added.
He gave no further details on the bill nor did he say when it would be tabled but added: “Our country has been a victim on many occasions.”
The Ethiopian regime generally describes as terrorist a secessionist insurgency in the Somali-ethnic Ogaden region, where fighting continues to claim many lives.
On September 28, four people were killed and 22 wounded in a bomb explosion in Jijiga, the capital of Ethiopia’s Somali province, which was attributed to an Islamist rebel group called Al-Itiihad Al-Islamiya.
Several other bomb attacks have been carried out in the capital Addis Ababa.
The Ethiopian army invaded neighbouring Somalia in late 2006 to rescue the embattled Western-backed transitional government there and oust the Islamic Courts Union which had taken control of the country.
Addis Ababa had justified its intervention as a means of countering the threat it said Islamist movement posed in Ethiopia.