ESAT News (March 15, 2016) The Human Rights Council in Ethiopia released a report on Monday listing names and pictures of peaceful protesters killed and injured in the Oromia region of Ethiopia in the last four months. The Council reports of extrajudicial killings, rape, abduction, torture, beatings and other violations perpetrated by forces of the tyrannical regime. The report released ...

ESAT News (March 14, 2016) Ethiopian regime forces on Sunday killed two people in Konso, in the south of the country, where residents of the area have for weeks been protesting the tyrannical government which ignored their demand for a zonal self-administration. Fantaye Korya Konte and Daniel Tulu Kero were shot and killed on Sunday by the regime’s special forces ...

ESAT News (March 10, 2016) A former Member of Parliament and deputy administrator of the Bench Maji zone in south Ethiopia said the crimes perpetrated against the people of Surma in the lower Omo Valley had direct links to the unbridled land grab by officials of the minority regime as well as the 100km land given to South Sudan. The ...

ESAT News (March 10, 2016) Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn vowed to crash demands by several ethnic groups in the country for self-administration and assertion of their identity, what the people believe was their constitutional rights. The premier, presenting his six month report to the rubber stamp parliament with all its seats taken by the ruling coalition EPRDF, admitted that ...

ESAT News (March 10, 2016) At least 200 people have been detained in Konso, south Ethiopia, following demand by the people for self-administration as per the constitution of the land. Regime’s forces have been responding heavy handedly since last Saturday when they arrested Konso’s traditional king, Kala Gezahegn, a member of the elder’s committee spearheading the movement told ESAT. A ...

ESAT News (March 09, 2016) A considerable number of people are leaving Dabat, north Gondar, to join the armed resistance groups in northern Ethiopia following a brutal crackdown by the Ethiopian security forces against the residents of Dabat who revolted against the minority government, according to a source who spoke on the phone with ESAT Radio on Tuesday. The people ...

ESAT News (March 8, 2016) Students of Addis Ababa University staged a demonstration on Tuesday demanding an end to the brutal crackdown by security forces against protesters in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. The students marched to the US Embassy located near the main campus carrying white cloth as a sign of peace. The students said they wanted to bring ...

ESAT News (March 8, 2016) Ethiopian regime security forces killed a man in Koso as tension continued for the fourth day on Tuesday following heightened confrontations on Saturday between the forces and the people of Konso who have been demanding their constitutional rights of self-administration as enshrined in the Ethiopian constitution. Sources said Mr. Soyta Gara was killed in a ...

ESAT News (March 7, 2016) A photo that surfaced on the social media on Sunday showing the Surma people of South Ethiopia in a chain gang has triggered an uproar and condemnation against the brutality of the forces of the tyrannical regime in the country. The undated pictures show a group of men, loaded on a police pickup truck, one’s ...

ESAT News (March 07, 2016) An Ethiopian man was found on Monday at Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, in the cargo hold of an Ethiopian Airliner from Addis Ababa. Swedish police say the 27 year old man had applied for asylum. His name has so far been not disclosed. In August last year, ground crew at the same airport found a 24 ...