Day: February 9, 2016
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Editorial: Ethiopia should stop killing, maiming and incarcerating its people’s question
It is happening again, sadly. The government in Ethiopia is back to its signature of killing, maiming and jailing its own people because they are exercising their chance of rejecting state excesses using the only means available: taking to the streets to protest. Ethiopia is a country that has effectively obliterated several channels that normally help foster a healthy communication…
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Why Oromo Protests isn’t just a protest against a ‘Master Plan’?
In mid-April 2014 senior officials from the Oromiya Special Zone were the first ones to have publically resisted the Addis Abeba and Surrounding Oromiya Special Zone Integrated Development Plan (AASOSZIDP), popularly known by its misnomer ‘Master Plan’. Subsequently hundreds of thousands of university students and residents in various cities of the Oromiya Regional State took to the streets to protest…
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