ESAT News (September 14, 2016) Reports reaching ESAT from Konso, Southern Ethiopia say at least 25 people were shot and killed on Tuesday by security forces while thousands flee their villages to safety. According to a source who spoke on the phone with ESAT the killings were perpetrated by members of the regime’s army and the special forces of the ...

ESAT News (September 14, 2016) International marathon star and Ethiopia’s symbol of defiance against a brutal regime, Feyisa Lilesa, whose protest gesture at the Rio Olympics exposed the atrocities committed by the regime in his country to the world, said he would have regretted for the rest of his life if he didn’t make the protest gesture at the finish ...

ESAT News (September 13, 2016) The United States should use its leverage to ensure that the Ethiopian regime respect the human rights of its people, Congressman Mike Coffman said on Monday. In an exclusive interview with ESAT, Congressman Coffman, who represents district six of Colorado, where thousands of Ethiopians call it home, said that if the Ethiopian government ignores the ...

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ESAT News (September 12, 2016) Security forces have beaten up Ethiopian Muslims in Gondar as they were celebrating Eid-Al-Adha on Monday. The laity were attacked by the Agazi forces, the fearsome special forces of the regime as, they were expressing solidarity with the people of Amhara and Oromo regions, who have been protesting against the tyrannical regime. Security forces have ...

ESAT News (September 11, 2016) The smell of yellow daisies and freshly cut grass accompanied by songs of best wishes by a choir of girls going door to door would normally be the ubiquitous phenomenon on this day, Meskerem 1, 2009 (Ethiopian Calendar), as Ethiopians usher in the New Year. Ethiopians use an ancient Orthodox calendar, separate from the rest ...

ESAT News (September 9, 2016) The veteran French journalist and analyst on Sub-Saharan Africa, Rene Lefort, said in a lengthy article Friday that “there is every sign that Ethiopia is plunging into a crisis whose scale, intensity, and multiple and interdependent drivers are unprecedented since the founding of the regime in 1991.” In the article published on the Open Democracy ...

ESAT News (September 9, 2016) Supporters and cadres of the Ethiopian regime have been accused of carrying out arson attack on several houses in nine localities in Konso, southern Ethiopia. The houses set on fire belong to people who have been demanding a zonal administration status for Konso and more control in the administration of their affairs. Reports reaching ESAT ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 8, 2016) The Oromo Democratic Front (ODF) and Patriotic Ginbot 7 for Unity and Democracy (PG7) said on Thursday that removing the tyrannical regime and replacing it with a democratic government is the ultimate goal of the ongoing struggle by the Ethiopian people. The parties said in a joint statement that there was no ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 8, 2016) Ethiopians residing in London, Frankfurt and Stockholm took over their Embassies on Thursday in protest to the killings and widespread human rights violations by the regime in their home country. The protesters took down current national flag and replaced it with the original tricolor that does not bear the regime’s emblem. The ...