Students getting killed in Ethiopia
I have a cousin in Jimma, one of the cities in Ethiopia other than Addis Ababa. There's sh*t happening there - here's part of her email:
There is some news from us here-donno what they put on tv but I have tried to put all rumours together to try to get the truth.
Day before Yesterday (june 7) we had a bit of a problem here coz the university students went on a strike of some sort opposing the government. They had elections and the results were to be announced on june 8. the present govt was in power for 14 years and they don’t have much of a support. They have announced that they have won but the opposition says it has manipulated the lections and has asked the govt to give up power. The prime minister is not willing to do so. The students in a university in the capital started protesting and 4 or 6 were shot dead. About 500 students have been arrested. Following that, in the university here in jimma, some students started to protest and they were also arrested. Getting arrested here is not a good idea coz they will torture them a lot-beating on the knees and much more. Yesterday, about 300 to 400 were arrested, of which 50 were girls. Mom saw them being taken to the police station by trucks. Me and mom and the whole community here heard gun shots being fired in the air 5 to 7 times. None of the foreign staff went near the university. The ones who went were also sent back by the military. They blocked all routes to the university so that no one will know wht is going on inside. The whole episode was like hitler being re-enacted. Everyone says the situation has become ok, but no one knows what will happen tomorrow.
Seems many students have been killed in this whole problem. There are rumous that two deaths have taken place in jimma university. Now the clash has changed into that between people from different regions. Lets say like people from tamil nadu and karnataka are fighting-like that two regions of this country are fighting-students of those regions I mean. As such the university is functioning but it looks quite deserted. Everyday, the rumours keep changing that we don’t know what to believe. But all of us here are on the alert. Everyone is praying that the whole episode will get over soon without any bloodshed. Do please pray that we will get out of this mess soon...
Here are links to other posts:
Ethiopian Students International Association
Guardian
There is some news from us here-donno what they put on tv but I have tried to put all rumours together to try to get the truth.
Day before Yesterday (june 7) we had a bit of a problem here coz the university students went on a strike of some sort opposing the government. They had elections and the results were to be announced on june 8. the present govt was in power for 14 years and they don’t have much of a support. They have announced that they have won but the opposition says it has manipulated the lections and has asked the govt to give up power. The prime minister is not willing to do so. The students in a university in the capital started protesting and 4 or 6 were shot dead. About 500 students have been arrested. Following that, in the university here in jimma, some students started to protest and they were also arrested. Getting arrested here is not a good idea coz they will torture them a lot-beating on the knees and much more. Yesterday, about 300 to 400 were arrested, of which 50 were girls. Mom saw them being taken to the police station by trucks. Me and mom and the whole community here heard gun shots being fired in the air 5 to 7 times. None of the foreign staff went near the university. The ones who went were also sent back by the military. They blocked all routes to the university so that no one will know wht is going on inside. The whole episode was like hitler being re-enacted. Everyone says the situation has become ok, but no one knows what will happen tomorrow.
Seems many students have been killed in this whole problem. There are rumous that two deaths have taken place in jimma university. Now the clash has changed into that between people from different regions. Lets say like people from tamil nadu and karnataka are fighting-like that two regions of this country are fighting-students of those regions I mean. As such the university is functioning but it looks quite deserted. Everyday, the rumours keep changing that we don’t know what to believe. But all of us here are on the alert. Everyone is praying that the whole episode will get over soon without any bloodshed. Do please pray that we will get out of this mess soon...
Here are links to other posts:
Ethiopian Students International Association
Guardian
posted by Dinoj | 06:20
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