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  ESAT News (October 12, 2016) Two members of the Agazi forces, the special paramilitary widely accused of committing mass killings, torture and detentions, were killed in a grenade attack Tuesday in the northern city of Bahir Dar, according to two witnesses who spoke to ESAT. The red beret soldiers were patrolling the subdivision of the city called Kebele 05 ...

ESAT News (October 12, 2016)   Members of the European Parliament on Wednesday denounced and expressed concern on the deteriorating human rights violations in Ethiopia.   “The killings of Oromos and the country-wide six-month state of emergency declared on Sunday 9 October by the Ethiopian government were amongst the main issues raised by human rights subcommittee and development committee members ...

  ESAT News (October 12, 2016)   The editorial board of the Washington Post on Tuesday urged the United States and Europe to directly address the repression in Ethiopia by the TPLF regime.   “Ethiopia’s rulers have redoubled a repressive policy that is failing. Instead of looking for ways to alleviate the pent-up frustrations of the ethnic Oromo and Amhara ...

  ESAT News (October 12, 2016)   The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association says it was outraged at reports of mass killings and abuses in Ethiopia. “We are outraged at the alarming allegations of mass killings, thousands of injuries, tens of thousands of arrests and hundreds of enforced disappearances,” said the UN Special ...