From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Wed Jun 16 2010 - 08:41:51 EDT
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=ab8c_8nsyvHY
Ethiopian Official Receives Death Sentence for Rebel Support
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By Jason McLure
June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s Federal High Court sentenced a former top
regional official to death for killing three people and organizing a
separatist group in the western Benishangul Gumuz region, the state news
agency reported.
Jemua Ruphael Amen was the former chief of the planning and economic bureau
in Benishangul Gumuz’s regional government, the Ethiopian News Agency
reported yesterday. He received military training in Eritrea and formed the
separatist Benishangul Gumuz Liberation Movement, it said, citing a
statement from the Ministry of Justice.
Three other members of the group were sentenced to 10 years in prison, the
news agency said.
Relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea have been tense since the two
countries fought a 1998-2000 border war. Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of backing
ethnic separatist rebel movements in the country’s eastern Somali region and
southern Oromiya region.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jason McLure in Addis Ababa via
Johannesburg at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: June 16, 2010 05:06 EDT
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