ESAT News (September 20, 2016) Ethiopians outraged by the cruelty of the TPLF regime in Addis Ababa hold up a consulate office in Los Angeles, California on Monday for about 45 minutes. They were protesting the massacre of innocent civilians in their home country by the brutal TPLF regime, which they accuse of taking the nation hostage. Over a thousand ...
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Huge rally in DC condemns massacre in Ethiopia
ESAT News (September 19, 2016) In an indisputably the largest turnout by Ethiopians in Washington DC, Ethiopians from all walks of life, the youth and the seniors, women and men, religious leaders and political activists, came out in record numbers shutting downtown Washington, DC for most of the day on Monday, to denounce the tyrannical regime in their home country ...
Read More »Gondar, Bahir Dar strike again
ESAT News (September 19, 2016) Residents of Gondar and Bahir Dar in the Amhara region went on strike for the third time in the last three months of protest against the TPLF regime demanding the release of jailed compatriots and calling for an end to the tyrannical regime. Government offices and other institutions were shut down on Monday, the start ...
Read More »Locals protest against TPLF army commanders turn gold prospectors
ESAT News (September 19, 2016) Residents of Gizan in Benishangul Gumuz region in south western Ethiopia protest against high brass army commanders and officials of the TPLF who went to the area to explore gold. The locals were protesting against the robbing of their natural resources by the over 1000 corrupt army commanders, officials and cronies of the regime who ...
Read More »ESAT recognizes Feyisa Lilesa, Col. Demeke Zewdu as persons of the year
ESAT News (September 19, 2016) Feyisa Lilesa, an international marathon star known for his protest gestures at the Rio Olympics and Col. Demeke Zewdu, a leader of the uprising in Gondar against the TPLF brutal regime were recognized as persons of the year 2008 Ethiopian Calendar at an annual event hosted by the Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio (ESAT). The ...
Read More »Ethiopian regime refuses permit to ailing athlete’s request to return home
ESAT News (September 16, 2016) Mulugeta Zewde, an Ethiopian athlete in Norway, who two years ago made the protest gesture now made famous by Feyisa Lilesa at the Rio Olympics, pleaded help from Ethiopians and the international community as his health is deteriorating and the Ethiopian regime prevented him from returning home. In an interview with ESAT, the athlete said ...
Read More »Families receiving bullet riddled bodies of Qilinto prisoners
ESAT News (September 15, 2016) Bodies of prisoners killed at a federal prison in Ethiopia two weeks ago were being given to families, who confirmed to ESAT that the cause for the death of their loved ones was bullet wounds and not the fire that gutted down the prison, as the regime claims. The Ethiopian regime, contrary to what families ...
Read More »Security forces accused of displacing Amharas in Konso
ESAT News (September 15, 2016) Security forces in southern Ethiopia are forcing the displacement of Amharas in Konso, in what the locals said was a deliberate attempt by regime operatives to incite ethnic violence, according to ESAT’s sources. The displacement came as the people of Konso, who demanded self-administration, were also under attack by the forces. Unable to respond positively ...
Read More »Gun battle rages in north Gondar
ESAT News (September 15, 2016) Residents of Amba Giorgis and Sela Arbai towns in north Gondar have reportedly engaged regime security forces in gun battles following the latter’s attempt to disarm the locals, reliable sources told ESAT. The fighting that began on Wednesday night has continued on Thursday for hours as efforts by the regional and federal police to disarm ...
Read More »US Congressman condemns Ethiopian regime treatment of citizens
ESAT News (September 14, 2016) Congressman Chris Smith said at a presser on Tuesday that the way the Ethiopian government treat its people is an abomination. Presenting a new resolution on Ethiopia H RES. 861, the congressman said the Ethiopian regime has been an ally and friend on the war on terror but when the regime is mistreating its own ...
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