ESAT News (September 15, 2016)
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Residents of Amba Giorgis and Sela Arbai towns in north Gondar have reportedly engaged regime security forces in gun battles following the latter’s attempt to disarm the locals, reliable sources told ESAT.
The fighting that began on Wednesday night has continued on Thursday for hours as efforts by the regional and federal police to disarm the locals faced stiff resistance by the armed residents, the sources said.
Uprising against the regime in north Gondar that has intensified since July has claimed the lives of at least 50 people who were shot and killed as they held peaceful demonstrations.
Determined not to give away their arms, the locals had carried out surprise attacks on the forces who were in the towns to collect guns and rifles that the farmers legally keep for self-defense purposes.
The regime has deployed massive army and security to towns and farming villages in the Amhara region where people have been demanding the removal of the tyrannical regime. The residents believe that the tyrannical regime has violated their rights forcefully displacing them from their ancestral land and incorporated huge chunk of fertile land in Wolkait, Tegede and Telemt to Tigray region.
ESAT News (September 15, 2016)
Bodies of prisoners killed at a federal prison in Ethiopia two weeks ago were being given to families, who confirmed to ESAT that the cause for the death of their loved ones was bullet wounds and not the fire that gutted down the prison, as the regime claims.
The Ethiopian regime, contrary to what families of the victims found out, has said in official statements that the cause of death was fire. The government put the number of the victims at 23, but information obtained by ESAT indicate that at least 60 people were shot and killed by security forces.
A source who was an unarmed guard at the prison during the incident told the press last week that the guards of the prison on duty were replaced by special forces of the regime a day earlier. He said the fire was actually started after some of the prisoners were shot by snipers from the security tower and that the majority of the victims were shot and killed as they run away from the fire. He said he believed the killings were premeditated.
The funeral of Yilak Achenef of North Gondar was held yesterday and his family confirmed to ESAT that he had gunshot wounds, not fire burns on his body.
The regime has refused to disclose the cause of the death to families and it is not yet clear if all families have received the bodies of their loved ones.