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ESAT News (September 19, 2017) The ethnic violence in Eastern Ethiopia continued with new reports showing further killings and the displacement of over 70,000 people. Ethiopia’s government spokesperson, Negeri Lencho, confirmed the number of the displaced to China’s Xinhua news agency and said the hot spot areas are now being manned by regime’s army and the situation has calmed down. ...

ESAT News (September 19, 2017) The Human Rights Watch said it found evidence that security forces of the regime “not only triggered the stampede that caused many deaths but subsequently shot and killed some members of the crowd.” In a report released today in connection with the one year anniversary of the death of hundreds of festival goers in Bishoftu, ...

ESAT News (September 18, 2017) Ethiopians in the metropolitan Washington, DC area and elsewhere took to the streets today in support of H. RES. 128, a human rights bill by the U.S. congress on Ethiopia. HR – 128 resolution, among others, calls for the Ethiopian regime to investigate the killings and excessive use of force against protesters in the Oromia ...

ESAT News (September 18, 2017) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said today that unless there is opening up of the political space in Ethiopia, the country is doomed to fail. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein was speaking in Washington, DC to members of the press and the human rights community, where he recalled that his team of human rights ...