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Stay-away protest in Gondar enters second day, protesters free
political prisoners
ESAT News (August 16, 2016)
As Ethiopians in all corners of the country continued their demand for
the removal of a dictatorial rule, a stay-away protest in Gondar
entered its second day on Monday with government offices and
businesses remained closed and transportation services put on a halt.
Residents of Gondar stayed in for the second day turning this historic
town that is hit with protests against TPLF rule into a ghost town.
TPLF cadres used public announcement systems to encourage people to
resume normal businesses but to no avail.
Meanwhile in Amba Giorgis, north Gondar, a meeting called by local
authorities turned into a protest rally where protesters went to the
local prison and freed three prisoners held by the regime in recent
days of protests. Those who spoke on the phone to ESAT said they would
continue their fight till all prisoners were released and demands were
met. They said they had enough with the TPLF despotic rule.
An elderly woman whose spoke to ESAT called on the Ethiopian defense
forces to stop shooting at the people and instead side with the
people.
The number of peop
le killed in cold blood by the regime’s forces in Gondar last week
could not be exactly known but people with connections to hospital
sources say the figure could hit over a hundred.
In Bahir Dar sources said 55 bodies have so far been counted at the
town’s hospitals. Several of the deceased were buried as per the
instruction of local authorities as the bodies could not be identified
or loved ones did not claim them.
Protests against the minority despotic rule have been intensified in
the last two weeks in the Amhara and Oromo regions. The response from
the regime has so far been deadly.
Received on Tue Aug 16 2016 - 12:00:51 EDT