Ethiopia: Child Abuse Caught on Mobile Phone Camera
March 30, 2012
Ethiopian Facebook users have reacted to a mobile phone recorded YouTube video which shows a little girl constantly being abused by her mother. Shortly after the upload of the video, netizens on Facebook organized an online campaign for justice by starting a Facebook group called “Ethiopians Against Child Abuse”:
One local radio station has offered a 10,000 Ethiopian Birr (about US$ 600) reward for any one with information leading to the arrest of the abusive “mother”. The girl laughing in the background who recorded the video has finally gave her side of the story.
A local online newsletter [am] reports that the mother has now been identified.
Social media helped Ethiopian netizens discover the video and spread it among themselves. Facebook penetration in Ethiopia is at 111.19%. The country ranks number 93 in the ranking of Facebook statistics by country. According to Internet World Stats, as of 31 December, 2011 there were 622,122 Internet users in Ethiopia.
Recently, mobile phone video footage showing an Ethiopian domestic worker being beaten and dragged by force into a car outside the Ethiopian consulate in Beirut, Lebanon caused angry reactions amongst Ethiopian netizens.
We should fight not only dictator regim such as Melles but also all sort of injustice. This should be part of our goal. The mother who abused her child in this manne should be half-beast.
we now this long time ago specialy among the Ethiopian ladys who live north America Canada and USA after they divorced they cry in the court to take child custody just for income reason after they win in every divorces house the childeren always complain about their mother abuse but the Government they don,t have the ear to lesten the father because the level of feminizim is dominating the family value we all are hoping one day some body will come after them for purpose of child safty to me after the two adult divorce the father supose to have a right to involve with his childs live fully while the child live with biological mother and the Government supose to give equal right for both gender insteed of playing gender card.
in cuase of this lady who have been shown on ayyaantuu web must get punished and her freind as well the recorder her self is a part of abuse.
thankyou
justice for children
My friends,
The schedule is completely in agreement with the meeting of the other oromo organizations(OLF/THBO). There is no conflict of time at all!….
If u are an Oromo: come and join the whole sided struggle against injustice,repression and undemocratic nature of the Ethiopian empire. Don’t throw dirty words that might harm people who are sacrificing their energy, time and money for the well-being of Oromo nation.
The time you sit idle and blame on another for any minor defects in QBO is over!. We are not buying such low-level and non-constructive ideas.
If u are not an Oromo and who wants to work angainst the interest of Oromos shut your dum mouth!
As the cruelty/brutality of the so-called mother angers any body with a sense of humanity, the extrem and unbelievable strength, tenacity and endurance of the child that even didn’t cry or try to run away is very surprising. When the child is repeatedly hit hard and still stay quite and gets ready for he next hard hit, it looks like as if the child is a doll pulled or attracted towards the ‘mother’ with a invisible string. It is painful and shows how savage some parents are. Sorry!
I wished I did not see that child’s abuse because it was sickening,I was so sick and helpless for sake of that difenceless child and its so sad that individual abuse that poor child so much. I hope she should be punished for what she did. she is so cruel predator of week child. We real want justice for that poor child if there is any justice.