20 June 2008 (Addis Ababa) In its 30th Regular Report, the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRC) documents gross human rights violations by Meles Zenawi’s regime, including extra judicial killings, beating and Torture, Assault by firearms with list of names. “The fact that many of the violations are being perpetrated by government security forces and other agents of the state with impunity makes the situation even more worrying. Thus, EHRCO urges the government to respect and protect the fundamental human rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution of the country,” says the report. Read full report in: [ENGLISH] [AMHARIC]
EHRCO reports gross human rights violations
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June 20th, 2008 at 7:33 am
what do excepted from that country. which law is protecting the people, give me a break. the constitution is to fool people only, when it comes the truth does not work. killing and touching is their basic habit with out that they can not be in power. in the Maoist state there is no human right. principal it is right. but you must be insane to question about the human right. this is a flip flop state has no permanent principal to imply rule of law. if you teal me the jungle law is in their ,I believe you. there is a constitutional law to respect a human right.I must be insane to believe that only work the jangle law because it is a Maoist state. fighting for human right I accept that in the Maoist state follow the cadre guide line otherwise the trouble is in a door step.
viva! Ethiopia one day will be a free state with out problem.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:50 am
ያሳዝናል::
የኢትዮጵያ ገዢዎች ሃገርም ህዝብንም እየጨረሱ ነው::
ወገን ዝም አንበል::
June 20th, 2008 at 8:02 am
This is yet another crime against Humanity. No Human Right Groups are allowed to monitor such reports in Ethiopia.
What is the solution for such miscarriage of justice in a nation that escape colonial rule.
The differences between Meles and Idi Amin are that the former is a cannibal. We didn’t see Meles eating Human body, but killing and throwing them like wiled animals.
SAD!
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:19 am
Its incomplete
As to the religious report .. its one sided…. as they always do.
It took a local jornalists to remined them to report on massive killing occured in broad day light in the middle of merkato. Anwar mosque masacre… Remember?
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 am
Hey Ethiopians, once we established a committee that will document all the crimes made by the current regime at each level , from the PM to Kebele. Where is that committee now. We need to support it because the days that will bring these people to justice is with in reach.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Once again, I pay tribute to the remarkable work of EHRC and their energetic, careful and constant recording of the human rights abuses in Ethiopia under the current regime.
To the best of my knowledge, the council is the first indigenous human rights watch group in our country that has monitored the various human rights violations across the land and meticulously documented them for many years while appealing that these rights be respected by the regime.
In our epic struggle for the birth of genuine democracy and the rule of law in our country,EHRC has carved itself a unique place and its various documents have come to be of great historical value.
One can easily imagine how extremely difficult it is for one to carry out such an extensive and bold task in Ethiopia given the inadequacy of resources and the danger with which one is faced in collecting the evidence, to mention only two of the problems.
Despite the many hurdles that EHRC has faced, it has succeeded in bringing us and the world the vivid and harrowing tales ..yegif zena..of thousands of helpless and voiceless victims of the injustice prevailing under TPLF regime.
Thanks to these courageous, compassionate and graphical reports of EHRC,the victims are no more abstract figures or mere statistics removed from us by time and place.
Instead they are real human beings who, like the rest of us, love life, have aspirations of their own and are imbued with self-dignity and freedom to pursue their lives’ goals with out any harm inflicted on them by their own country men. Yet, their ‘fate’ under TPLF,as we read from the pages of EHRC’s, time and time again, is far from that.
Their uncalled for sufferings and abuse, the callousness and impunity with which they are imposed on them fills us with horror and deep grief. More poignantly, the snuffing away of those young productive lives in their 20s and 30s leaving behind them young children as well as frail mothers and fathers, fills us with extreme rage.
Thankfully,EHRC,by transcending the rage and grief, have over the years calmly and patiently campaigned against the abuses.
Needless to say,their example is worth emulating. We should, like them. dedicate ourselves to a cause. Moreover,we must be able to follow it through to the end. As they say, we must concentrate on our goals like a laser beam does.
How true that the committed life is one that is worth living!
My huge thanks to EHRC for the latest report and your unswerving commitment for the noble cause of human rights in Ethiopia.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I am tired of this endless usual useless propaganda.