Breaking News: Heavy gunfire heard in Addis Ababa

Written on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm by ethioforum

EMF May 21, 2008 - Heavy gunfire is heard in Northern Addis Ababa and part of Nazreth area on Wednesday, reliable sources told EMF. Eye-witnesses also said Explosions and fighting erupted between Sudan’s soldiers and Ethiopian peasants in the border town of Gonder. The gunfire erupted after Zenawi told his rubber stamp parliament that he has given 1,600 km land to the Sudanese farmers. In related news, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack says an American citizen was killed in a minibus explosion Tuesday in downtown Addis Ababa.

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  • 16 Responses to “Breaking News: Heavy gunfire heard in Addis Ababa”

    1. gobez Says:

      Gobez,

      Tenes Tensh. Min Iskinihon New?

      The enemay is in power killing everyone. Please, let us
      stop talking and act together.

      Down with tplf lord of destruction.

    2. Abba Jaffar Says:

      GOBEZ, tenes, tenes, We have been sleeping for seventeen years, Now it is time, wake up, get up fight, amets, use any available means, all the enemies, the woyane bandas, the teletafis and the suporters.

      tenes, tenes, wake up, get up . ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ETHIOPIA PREVAILS

    3. Belaye Zeleke Says:

      Ethiopia Calls’ on All Her Children’s
      While we in diaspora are too busy hairsplitting and labeling ourselves with or against a political party, our people have risen up without any leadership and resources out of desperation and frustration:

      Its time to rise up and claim our heritage!
      Its time to rise up and reclaim our borders!
      Its time to say enough is enough!
      Its time forget and forgive our political division and stand united!
      Its time we prove that we are the generation of our fathers before as

      Enough with the political expert’s analyses and press release

      It is time to rise up before we loose our motherland

    4. Amare Says:

      The woyane regime knowing its rule will come to a halt once President Bush leaves offices in the coming few months, has bombed a mini-bus in the Ethiopian capital and murdered an American Citizen in an attempt to make it appear Ethiopia is targeted by “terrorist” groups, and to get continued support from the next US administration to sustain the regime’s current intensive care survival mode with a US life-support. The bombing bears a hallmark of the evil weyane regime’s security forces.

      R.I.P. to the innocents who lost their dear lives in this senseless brutal murder committed by none other than the terrorist weyane regime !

    5. kebede Says:

      Dear brothers

      Let us stand up and fight with TPLF today.we have to find different mechanizm.we have to be ready to kill and to die .we are 70 million people, as individuale each of us if we kill one our enemy they can not stay on their place even a month.let us be ready to get our freedom and and to give a freedom life to our childrean .

    6. Ethiopian! Says:

      We Can Do this. It is going to get worse before it gets better. All hope is lost. All out war against TPLF. Death to TPLF

    7. megal Says:

      It is time to stop everything left and right and earnestly seek God’s mercy. Because we will never be united as yester centuries, we are torned apart, and look forward the day of complete independence from one another. Let us pray for freedom from tigray.

    8. Yagerleje tensa Says:

      Ethiopian under colony or apartid by tigrian, please we stand unit
      Don’t sleep ! hodam amara and hodam oromo why waiting ? 70 milion
      people under ruled by four milion ? Especially Orromo and Amhara kills
      woyanne any time and any where. why ? why ? why ?

    9. azeze Says:

      ምኑን አውቀህ ነው ‘ተነስ!’ የምትለው:: ድንቁርና ነው:: ሰላም ያውርድልን::
      አመጽም ከሆነ የተደራጀ: ስር አት ያለው ተራ ሰውን የማይንካ ወታደራዊ እንቅስቃሴ ብቻ ነው መደግፍ የሚኖርበት::
      ለህዝቡ ምንም ቸር ነገር የማያመጣ: ደንታ የማይሰጥ: በወያኔ መሃል ኩ ድ ኤታት : የሻቢያ ግርግር: የሶማሌ ቴረር ሊሆን ይችላልና! ባይሆን ማውግዙ ይቅደም እላለሁ

    10. Belew Says:

      To Yagereleje Tenes,

      I think, generalization and targeting Tigreans as a whole will not take us anywhere. Remember, Kinijit had a good support by Tigreans even in Tigray region, but the lost that support for the same reason of generaliazation “Tigre wede Mekele, nibretu wede Kebele”. If you are thinking in numbers, the population size of Tigray is either 4 million or 40 million, depending on the circumstances.

      Besides, who are you to make a call for the Oromo people to rise up against Tigreans. Do not forget how you were treating them just yesterday. You were the one who was calling them under different dispising terms.

      Belew.

    11. Temam Ahmed Says:

      Meles Zenawi is the sworn in enemy of Ethiopia and it is ridiculous to expect him to protect our lan and interests. As a Tigrayan nationalist and warlord, he is doing all he can to plunder and build his future republic of Tigray. He has told us the fact and reality that he is for his ethnic home land and does not care for Ethiopia.

    12. Abel Says:

      Is killing innocent people in a taxi a success of the move? That will bring nothing to Ethiopia.

    13. Tazabi Says:

      Hello Dears,

      Look the so-called “ethiopiafirst.com” , the one who grew up in Addis but has recent ancestors in Tigray, first he was saying that it is totally false, and now he is saying “yetefenakele gebere yelem”. One thing, is Meles and he telling us that if it is not a farm they are always willing to give a land??

    14. belie Says:

      Please do not spread a faulse information. This is something serious. The killing in Addis is the work of Eritira and Somalia. Noboady wants to see innocent people get killed. Thanks AZEZE.

    15. get Says:

      Let us stand up and fight with TPLF today.
      death to woyane!!!!
      God bless Ethiopia!1

    16. Habesha Says:

      Hello my beloved brother n Sister, what are we saying here kill this kill that, this tribe stand against that one. I thought we are called Ethiopian not whatever tribe you think you represent. I don’t know much about politics n I don’t have any intension of being a politician my dad always tell me “politics is a dirty game” I believe that. However one thing I know we should all stop labeling ourselves as some little tribal people for good lord sake we are Habesha n thank God we are one Ethiopian. I hope we all feel this way so we can emancipate our self from mental slavery like Bob Marley said. God bless I love you all.