TPLF Messengers Dr. Mitiku Tesso and Dhaabaa Dabalee Entered US for Lobby

Ayyaantuu.com | Waxabajjii/June 08, 2014

Two OPDO members and messengers of the minority junta TPLF who are part of the system that is killing Oromo students and people are in Washington, DC USA on a mission to defend the massacre in Ambo/Oromia and to lobby for the TPLF.

Dr. Mitiku Tesso, Ambo University President

Dr. Mitiku Tesso, President of Ambo University, who has few weeks ago denied mass killing of Oromo students in Ambo and Dhaba Dabale, central Committee of OPDO are here in Washington, DC to further bleed the Oromo people by denying and defending the daylight killing of tens of Oromo students in Ambo and in all over Oromia. Dr. Mitiku and Dhaabaa, who is a long time TPLF loyalist, are sent by TPLF to make the lobby effort in States Department to directly counter the just struggle of the Oromo people at home and the diplomatic victory scored by worldwide Oromo movement to support the struggle back home.

Theses two TPLF agents are also working against the effort and the positive dialogue that the group of Oromo community leaders, youth leaders, women organization leaders, religious leaders and nationalists in Washington, DC are making with the States department on the current crises and problems in Oromia.

Therefore, Oromo nationalists are making a call to all Oromos to unit once again in defusing the evil efforts of these two TPLF messengers.

Dr. Mitiku Tesso and Dhaabaa Dabale are currently staying in the Hilton Garden, located at 815 14th Street NW Washington, DC. Tele. no. 202-783-7800.

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Somalia: Al-Shabaab militants reject the reports that ONLF aiding its fighters in Bakool Province and labeled ONLF “un-islamic”

By Ahmed Abdi | June 7, 2014

Somalia’s Islamist militia Al-Shabaab denied that its fighters associated with ONLF Liberation Army (ONLA) and labeled ONLF “un-Islamic”, this follows after the governor of Somalia’s Bakool Province, Mohammed Abdi Tool, told VOA’s Somali service that he had evidence that fighters from ONLF fought alongside Al-Shabaab in Bakool regions.

“It is a blatant lie, these guys (SFG) never ashamed of telling lies, it is bespeak that ONLF’s denial and they (ONLF) would not decline if they took part in the fight,” said Sheik Abdi-Aziz Abu Mus’ab, Al-shabab’s Spokesperson on Friday.

“We have no relationship with the ONLF, which we regard as un-Islamic as long as it is not fighting a cause of religious ideology, and it’s banned from the territory under our control,” added Abuu Mus’ab.

The governor in a lengthy interview with the VOA Somali service accused ONLF of becoming allies with the Shebaab since they both have a common enemy, Ethiopia. And he justified Liyuu Police’s involvement in the fight as a good intention of chasing ONLF fighters in Somalia

The Ogaden National Liberation Front did not take part in that fighting nor in any other fighting between Al-shabab and the Army of Ethiopia, whether in Somalia, along the border or inside the Ogaden, said a press release issued by the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) on Thursday.

“This unfounded allegation by the so-called regional governor of Bakool is probably instigated by the Ethiopian regime that controls most of Somalia. It is a foolish attempt to link ONLF and Al-Shabaab, while justifying the defeat suffered by the joint Ethiopian and Somalia tribal militias, “reads the press release.More…

“They said without clear evidence ONLF fought in Jawhar, in Kismayo, and in the central Somalia regions it seems, whoever is defeated in the battlefield claims that the ONLF is part of the fight. They always say this when they get hurt and the pain of the bullet touches them in a bid to receive Ethiopia’s TPLF assistance against their fellow Somali rivals,” Said Adaani Hirmooge, the ONLF Spokesperson.”This Man referring to the Somali governor, Mr. Tool, is neurotic that Ethiopia requested to act as an Ethiopian mouthpiece because he is paid or threatened. It is truly amazing how dirty a country can be towards Somali officials and Ethiopia is a good example.”

ONLF mentioned in her press Release the unreported daily fighting that have been going on more than two decades and rejected involving in what it called “the quagmire in the political marshland of Somali, which it says its big ,bad neighbor of Ethiopia “always try to capitalize on” but finally meets her waterloo.

ONLF mentioned in her press Release the unreported daily fighting that have been going on more than two decades and rejected involving in what it called “the quagmire in the political marshland of Somali, which it says its big ,bad neighbor of Ethiopia “always try to capitalize on” but finally meets her waterloo.

“As for the Ethiopian surrogates in Somalia regional administrations posing as Somali officials, it is not the responsibility of ONLF if your tribal militias donned Somali National Army uniforms are thrashed by Al-Shabaab. The responsibility lies solely with you, who are incapable of building and managing an effective administration that can create the objective conditions that can bring security and good governance to the Somali people and defeat those who endanger it.”

It’s reported that the heavy-fighting between Al-Shabaab and Ethiopia that took place in Somalia’s Bakool regions was involved in Ethiopia’s notorious Liyu Police Militia, which Human Rights Groups accuse committing human rights abuses in Somali region of Ogaden.

Liyu Police is not part of the AMISOM mandate in Somalia. And why did the Liyu police enter into Somalia is a story in itself. Trained with funds from Western donors, Liyuu Police is an ethnic Somali paramilitary force that fights with Ethiopian troops against ONLF National Army.

Reliable sources say that Liyu Police, Militia has captured 7 towns in Somalia’s Bakool Province, including Aato, Rabdhure, Biyabaho, and Laga’lay, but lost at least 40 its fighters in the battle with Al-Shabab.

The ONLF rebel movement is founded in 1984 by Somali intellectuals of Ogaden. The Liberation movement wants referendum for separation of its oil-and-gas rich territory of Ogaden from Ethiopia. Peace-talks between Ethiopia and Ogaden stalled in Oct 17,2012,after the ONLF rejected to accept the Ethiopian constitution which it says the Ethiopian constitution does not concern the Somalis in Ogaden .

It also reported the Ethiopia regime divided how to conduct the peace-talks with ONLF as Ethiopian generals based in Harar,Ogaden region opposed to proceed the progress which may risk their economic profit from Ogaden region.

The ONLF fighters oppose exploration for Oil by Ethiopian authorities and foreign companies in the Ogaden region. In 2007 ONLF attacked an oil venture and killed 74 Ethiopian guards and 9 Chinese Oil workers.

 -Ayyaantuu

Nimoonaa Xilahuun Wareegame

Posted: Waxabajjii/June 6, 2014 · Gadaa.com

June 6, 2014 by OroMedia.net and Radio Afuura Biyyaa

(Oromedia, 6 Waxabajjii 2014) Mana hidhaa mootummaa Itoophiyaa keessatti waggoota dheeraaf dararamaa kan ture, sabboonaa Oromoo, Nimoonaa Tilahuun guyyaa har’aa addunyaa kana irraa boqote.

Sababa gaaffii mirgaa fi bilisummaa Oromoo deeggareef humnoota tikaa wayyaaneetiin Waxibajjii 26, 2008 hidhattoota mootummaa konkolaataa gabatee isaa 3-F ta’een qabamee kan hidhame Nimoonaa Xilahuun, manneen qorannoo fi hidhaa Itoophiyaa kan akka Maa’ikalaawwii fi Qaallittii keessatti hiraarfamaa akka ture ni beekama.

Nimoonaa Tilahuun

“Namni mul’ataa jabaa qabu kun hojii barsiisummaa jalqabee otuu baatii tokko hin gahiin Poolisii Federaalaatiin ukkaamfame,” kan jedhan hiriyooti isaa yeroo sanatti ijaan argan, “Konkolaataa kana keessaa namootni uffata sivilii uffatan utaalanii bu’uudhaan balleessaa tokko malee barsiisaa Nimoonaa ukkamsanii fuudhanii sokkan,” jedhan.

Hiraarfama waggoottaan dheeraatiin dhukkubsatee wal’aansa gahaa dhabee kan ture sabboonaan Oromoo kun, yeroo sana irraa kaasee haga dhiyeenya kanaatti tajaajila gahaa dhabuu irraa kan ka’e hedduu hubamuu isaa ibsan.

“Woggootii ja’aan darbaniif Manneetii hidhaa Mayikelaawwii, Qaallittii, Qiliinxoo, akkasumas Ziwaayitti gidiraa ilmoon namaa arguu hinqabne baayee arge,” kan jedhan raga-baatoti kunneen sababa kana irraa kan ka’es dhukkuba irra bu’uu isaa mirkaneessan.

Yeroo hedduu erga hubamee booda akka yaalamuuf gara hospitaala Xiqur Anbassaa geessamus, qaamni isaa hubame deebi’ee dandamachuu waan dadhabeef du’a irraa hafuu hin dandeenya.

Nimoonaa Xilahuun sabboonaa, kutataa fi qaroo dhimma sabaa irratti ejjannoo jabaa qabu ta’uu hiriyooti isaa ragaa bahu.

Hiriyooti isaa akka ibsanitti, Nimoonaan akkuma maqaa isaa, yeroo mana barumsaa ture irraa kaasee haga gaafa hidhameetti, otuu garbummaa fi garboonfataaf hin jilbeeffatiin nama kutannoon qabsaa’aa tureedha.

Mana hidha akeessattis doorsissaa fi reebicha diinaaf otuu hin jilbeeffatne, ejjannoo isaatiin waan dhaabbateef murtiin guddaa itti darbee ture.

Seenaa isaa irraa akka hubatamutti, Nimoonaa Xilaahun bara 2007 Yunversiitii Finfinneetii eebbifamee godina Shawaa Kaabaa mana barumsaa Shanootti barsiisaa ta’ee ramadame. Waxabajjii 26, bara 2008 immoo humnoota tikaatiin ukkaamfamee woggootii ja’aan darbaniif Manneetii hidhaa Mayikelaawwii, Qaallittii, Qiliinxoo, akkasumas Ziwaay keessatti gidiraa ilmoon namaa arguu hinqabne baayee argaa ture.

Dhukkuba isaa kanaafis yeroo dheeraa fuundura woldhaansa haakimaa argachuun irra ture hinargatiin hafe. Bulchiinsi mana hidhaa lubbuu dargaggoo kanaa baraaruuf gargaarsi woldhaansaa hakimaa olaanaan akka isa barbaachisu otuu beekanii yeroo dheeraadhaaf wal’aansa ugguran.

Dhuma irratti guyyaa muraasa fuudura waardiyyoota poolisii federaalaa afuriin marfamee eegamaa hospitaala Xiqur Anbessaa akka seenu godhan. Haata’uutii, qaamni isa adhukkubaan hubame dandamachuu wana dadhabeef hospitaala “yaalamaa” ture keessatti waxabajjii 6, bara 20014 ganama addunyaa kana irraa darbe.

Nimoonaan akkuma sabboontota Oromoo, sababa garbummaa didee bilisummaa filateef hidhaatti darbame; mana hidhaa dararamaa ture keessatti lubbuu isaa jijjiirraa hin qabne bilisummaa Oromoof wareege.

Oromedian maatii isaatiif jajjabina; lubbuu isaaf immoo qabbana hawwa.

- OroMedia.net

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#OromoProtests in Perspective

By Ayantu Tibeso

Image via Twin Cities Daily Planet

June 6, 2014 (warscapes) – Since April 25th, thousands of high school and university students across Ethiopia’s largest region, Oromia, have turned out in peaceful protest against a government land grab that stands to displace millions of indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands. Even though the country’s constitution theoretically allows for peaceful demonstrations, the student protesters, along with local populations in many cities and towns, have faced a ruthless crackdown from Ethiopian Special Forces, known as the Agazi Commandos. These forces have used excessive violence by indiscriminately shooting into crowds in an attempt to quash the protests. Children as young as eleven years old have been killed, according to statement issued by Amnesty International on May 13, and reports of fatal injuries, torture, imprisonment, disappearances and killings have been coming out of Ethiopia since then.

The Ethiopian government has evicted millions of indigenous peoples from their homelands at gunpoint under the pretext of “development” since it took power. In and around the capital of the country, Addis Ababa, over 200,000 of these residents have been removed from their lands without proper compensation since 2005. The newly-announced Integrated Development Master Plan for Addis Ababa (known simply as the “Master Plan”) seeks to legalize past land grab activities and to consolidate larger areas of territory displacing native peoples from their land. The Master Plan will expand the territory of Addis Ababa city administration to about 25 times its current size and is expected to forcefully remove another four to five million Oromo peasants from their lands within the coming years.

The current Ethiopian government came to power in 1991. It is a government dominated mainly by elites from a single ethnic group, the Tigray, which constitute approximately six percent of the peoples within Ethiopian boundaries. The Oromo, who are targeted by this Master Plan, make up between 40-50 percent of the population.  The Ethiopian Agazi special Commando force is almost entirely Tigrayan. The government relies on this ethnic army to stamp out the Oromo protests.

The current crisis cannot be understood apart from the ethnic dynamics at play in the policy of the Master Plan and in its response.  In the Ethiopian political, social and economic system, ethnicity and language are the two most important factors which influence policy preferences and choices of different sectors or communities in Ethiopia.  It is also along these two dimensions that the Ethiopian state has been structured since the current regime came to power. In recognition of these factors, a formal system of Ethnic Federalism has been instituted and written into law as the centerpiece of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Oromia, where most Oromos reside, is legally recognized as one of the nine members of the Ethiopian Federation.

In practice, however, all the key government positions and institutions are controlled by elites—directly and indirectly—that come from the Tigrayan ethnic group. Key positions in security sectors, including the military, are exclusively under the control of Tigrayan rulers. It is this group of elites that have aggressively pursued policies that have drawn on the military might to remove Oromo peasants involuntarily from their homeland over the last decade or more. The new Master Plan for Addis Ababa should be seen in this context, as the protestors well understand.  The Master Plan is one more chapter in implementing a disastrous policy that has already displaced thousands of the native peasants, and now officially aims to displace millions more. This is the policy against which Oromo students have gone out to protest. In keeping with their former legacy of sheer brutality, the Tigrayan ethnic armed force, the Agazi, responded to peaceful gatherings with a rain of bullets.

The brutal crackdown on the Oromo people is not new. The Ethiopian state itself has been predicated upon the expropriation of Oromo lands and held together through violent assimilationist policies, the destruction of the identity of conquered and resistant people, and economic and political exploitation of groups who are not represented in government. With each changing regime state power has been retained in the hands of minority rulers and the Oromos, who are the largest group living on the richest land, have remained the main targets of Ethiopian state repression, terrorism and discrimination. Over the last two decades alone multiple human rights organizations have released reports documenting the extent of extrajudicial killings, mass imprisonment, and torture on a massive scale, mutilations and disappearances. For instance, as of May 2012, the Oromia Support Group reported 4,407 extra-judicial killings and 992 disappearances of civilians perceived to support the political and even social groups opposing the current regime. Most of these have been Oromo people.

It is within this context that the current violent response to Oromo protests should be understood and appreciated. Like it has always been, kidnappings and/or extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and disappearances continue in different parts of Oromia Regional State. Those being imprisoned face an imminent danger of death, torture or disappearance.  Yet despite the fact that the situation is quickly deteriorating, it is going largely unreported in the international media. The Ethiopian government is notorious for keeping very tight control over all local and international media in the country. Information is not easily attainable. Independent journalism and human rights monitoring are securitized and criminalized. Major restrictions remain on exchange of information, as the government is known to block almost all websites it regards as forums capable of providing information about the atrocities committed by its security agents. These include all independent websites that are situated both in and outside of Ethiopian territories. Given these circumstances, it has not been possible to determine the exact number of victims of the recent retaliation against Oromo protesters.  But thanks to social media and mobile technology, a view of the scale of the crisis is emerging.

Some human rights organizations have managed to get limited information and offer an insight regarding what is taking place as the protests continue. For instance, according to the above-mentioned statement released by Amnesty International, hundreds of those arrested during the protests have been held at different detention centers, including at unauthorized places such as police and military training camps. Detention in these places is almost always arbitrary, with prisoners spending months and years without being formally charged or taken to a courtroom. As the Amnesty International report notes, “military camps in Oromia have regularly been used to detain thousands of actual or perceived government opponents.” These detainees are not allowed access to lawyers or relatives, usually throughout the duration of their detention. In many instances, relatives do not know where their loved ones have been taken upon arrest. Human rights organizations, including Amnesty International have received reports of torture on a massive scale at these unofficial holding places.

In addition to Amnesty International, other human rights organizations have also released statements of concern that recent detainees face imminent risk of torture and abuse, if not death. Human Rights Watch reported that security forces beat and shot at peaceful Oromo protesters in many towns in Oromia Regional State, among others, Ambo, Nekemte, Gimbi and Jimma. The Human Rights League of Horn of Africa has also issued a report citing torture and disappearances in places where student protesters are being held in Naqamte, East Wollega zone. In one instance alone, fifty detainees were taken away by security forces in Naqamte.  Their whereabouts remain unknown.

The crisis in Ethiopia is a major international story of mass protest, wholesale dispossession of millions of peasants, and state-sponsored violence.  Yet it has gone almost completely ignored in the international media. To be sure, the story has attracted fleeting attention from English-language outlets like the BBC and the Guardian, while Al-Jazeera has curated what little information trickles out of the country from social media users on the ground.  But sustained analysis of the causes and context of the government’s plan, the protests in response and the violent government crackdown have been hard to come by.

There are a number of reasons the story hasn’t grabbed attention around the world—the situation’s complexity, the tight control of information by Ethiopian authorities, and western journalists’ unfamiliarity with Ethiopia’s tense ethnic politics, to name just a few. But the bigger issue has to do with Western media bias. Over the years, a considerable amount of attention has rightly been given to bloggers and journalists whose individual rights have been violated by the Ethiopian government. This is not surprising. It is easy to sympathize with those trying to practice their freedom of expression or tell a difficult story in the face of authoritarianism. The repression of media in a given country is an easier account to give, and it is a simpler story to process. The miseries and violence of the other repression—that against the voiceless masses—cannot afford to be get lost in the shuffle, as the situation in Oromia makes clear.   As long as this bias remains salient, the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, will continue to go unreported and unrecognized, and the cause for which so many have sacrificed will remain hidden.

Ayantu Tibeso is a researcher and communications consultant based in North America. She can be reached at atibeso@gmail.com or on twitter @diasporiclife.

Source: warscapes

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Eutelsat Fingers Ethiopia as Jamming Incidents Triple

June 6, 2014, PARIS (Space News) — Satellite fleet operator Eutelsat said intentional interference, which accounted for just 5 percent of the disruptions to its fleet in 2010, was responsible for 15 percent of the signal disruptions in 2013.

The tripling of intentional interference events, tied in part to the expansion of Eutelsat’s fleet serving Middle Eastern and African television audiences, is unlikely to drop in 2014 with the latest round of jamming by an unidentified source in Ethiopia.

Eutelsat said the jamming, which has affected Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat’s satellites as well as at least two Eutelsat spacecraft, has been geolocated in northeast Ethiopia.

The way the jamming is conducted has resulted to interference not only on the presumed target broadcaster, but to all broadcasters sharing the affected satellite transponders.

Jean-Francois Bureau, director of international affairs at Paris-based Eutelsat, said the company has relayed its jamming data to the French National Frequencies Agency (ANF), which will forward it both to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva and to the Ethiopian government as part of a protest.

Arabsat has similarly said it is taking its protest to the ITU, although industry officials admit the United Nations affiliate has no real power to impose penalties on governments, even those that are identified as conducting or sanctioning the interruption of satellite signals.

Alexandre Vallet, head of regulatory affairs and spectrum and orbit resources at the French ANF, said France will be working within the ITU this year to push forward an ITU proposal to use a global network of antennas to geolocate jamming sources more quickly.

Satellite operators, especially those that have joined the Space Data Association and are contributing to a data pool at that organization, already are able to use each other’s satellites to identify, with a precision to within 100 kilometers — and usually much less — a source of jamming.

Mark Rawlins, head of payload operations and engineering at Eutelsat, said June 4 that it took Eutelsat just a couple of hours, using two of its own satellite located near each other, to pinpoint the Ethiopian jamming source.

Rawlins said the jamming source is using a high-powered antenna to disrupt programming on the uplink to transponders on two Eutelsat satellites, located at 7 degrees west and 21 degrees east.

Rawlins declined to speculate on the reason for the jamming, saying jammer motivations, while usually political in nature, are not always easy to discern.

The Eutelsat spacecraft affected carry a channel owned by Oromia Media Network of Minneapolis, a network that has been jammed before. The network launched in March to provide independent, citizen-driven reporting on Ethiopia and Oromia, the country’s largest and most populous state.

“We believe this is part of the Ethiopian government’s  [policy of] silencing alternative voices,” the network said in a June 5 statement, citing previous examples of Ethiopian government officials’ defense of jamming techniques.

Arabsat does not carry Oromia broadcasts, but one industry official speculated that the jammers are aware that Arabsat may soon sign a contract that would put Oromia on an Arabsat satellite at 26 degrees east.

While Eutelsat and Arabsat both say they have localized, beyond a reasonable doubt, the national territory in which the jamming is occurring, their claims as interested parties do not carry the weight of a neutral oversight network.

That is why France and other nations are backing the ITU proposal to create a network of antennas recognized by the ITU has being objective.

“Our understanding is that the proposed contributors to the network have agreed to participate, and what we want to do now is close the loop with the ITU,” Vallet said here June 2 during the Global Space Applications Conference, organized by the International Astronautical Federation.

Lyudmyla Karpenko, of the Ukraine State Center of Radio Frequencies, said a Ukrainian antenna farm near Kiev is one of the proposed contributors to the ITU network and has agreed to take part.

Most satellite signal interference events are due to poorly aimed or maintained ground antennas that accidentally cause interference. The Space Data Association and other industry organizations, including the Global VSAT Forum and the Satellite Interference Reduction Group — backed by industry heavyweights including fleet operators Intelsat, SES, Inmarsat and Eutelsat — are promoting ways to stop accidental interference.

The methods include systematic training of ground operations and the adoption of “Carrier ID” by satellite antenna manufacturers enabling quick identification of antennas that are causing interference.

But Carrier ID will not resolve the problem of intentional jamming, which in Eutelsat’s case has reached about 15 percent of total annual interference events. Bureau said part of the reason for the increase is that Eutelsat’s fleet has increased from 28 satellites to 34 in the past three years, meaning the company is now a larger target in interference-prone zones.

“What is clear is that over the past three years there has been a significant increase in deliberate jamming,” Bureau told the conference.

Vallet said that given the lack of enforcement muscle at ITU, the best way to combat jamming for now is “naming and shaming” the perpetrators and using diplomatic pressure to get them to stop.

Rawlins said the SDA grouping of satellite operators — to date, Asian operators have not been persuaded to join the group — is working on automating their geolocalization so that they interconnect automatically. The new system should be operational by early 2015.

Source: Space News

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Dozens of migrants bodies found along Yemen shores

June 4, 2014, SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni security official and witnesses say the bodies of dozens of illegal immigrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, have been found on western beaches after their boat capsized in the Red Sea.

Witnesses said Monday that about 50 bodies were found starting Friday and buried near the town of Zoubab.

Mohammed Yahia, who witnessed the burial, says that residents brought a bulldozer and buried them in a mass grave.

The official, who could not be named in accordance with Yemeni practice, says the immigrants’ boat capsized. A second boat loaded with 45 migrants was seized and those aboard were arrested.

The immigrants were headed for Saudi Arabia.

–AP

Ethiopia:Benishangul Separatists Reportedly kills scores of Government troops

June 1,  2014 (Waagacusub.net) – Forces from Benishangul’s Separatist rebel group are reported to have killed scores of government soldiers in two days fighting-a renewed clash between Ethiopian Security Forces and Benishangul People’s Liberation Movement (BPLM), Western of the Country.

According to a report by  Ogaden Media Network,  which quotes  non-governmental organization worker in the Capital city of Addis Ababa, who declined to be named for fear of reprisal the secessionist rebel group killed 23 soldiers most of them hailing from the Tigray ethnic group.

According to the source,The Independence-seeking rebel group of Benishangul People’s Liberation Movement  (BPLM) have  escalated its fight against the government forces since its formation in 1990s in part of its efforts to gain full Independence from Addis Ababa. 

It was one of the heaviest losses inflicted by the separatists on the army in months of low-level insurgence and counterinsurgency in  western parts of the regions. The Secessionist group of Benishangul is more active than  anticipated earlier the report added. 

Before last week, ethnic Tigrayans have been slaughtered in the Benishangul Capital city of Assosa while scores wounded when an ethnic rebel group attacked a vehicle carrying 28 Tigrayans according to Abraha Desta, A Tigrayan and member of ARENA/MEDREK opposition party.

Benishangul Liberation Movement has been fighting for Self-determination since it was founded in 1990s. Ethiopia accuses Sudan and Eritrea for supporting of the Berta,Gumuz and Shinasha Nations with training,guns and live ammunition. an accusation both Eritrea and Sudan deny it.Speaking with the media.

By Ahmed Abdi

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