Four killed as Muslim protesters attack Ethiopia prison
VOA Afaan Oromo interviews on the incident happened
http://archive.org/download/VoaAfaanOromo/wallo.mp3
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Four people were killed in eastern Ethiopia when a group of armed demonstrators raided a police station following protests over alleged government interference in Muslim affairs, an official said on Monday.
Thousands of people have staged weekly street protests and mosque sit-ins in the Horn of Africa country’s capital for nearly a year, arguing that the government is promoting an “alien” branch of Islam – the Al Ahbash sect – which is avowedly apolitical and has numerous adherents in the United States.
The protesters say the government controls Ethiopia’s highest Muslim body, the Supreme Council on Islamic Affairs, and has prevented long-overdue elections that could bring alternative views onto the Council.
Officials deny interference and accuse the demonstrators of plotting to spread “extremism” in the country, which is 63 percent Christian and 34 percent Muslim, according to official figures.
The Council held polls two weeks ago but some members of the Muslim community had called for boycotts.
The incident late on Sunday occurred after postponed elections were held in the town of Gerba in the Amhara region, and sparked by the arrest of a protester who attempted to disrupt the vote, government spokesman Shimeles Kemal said.
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“His supporters, armed with machetes and handguns, tried to have him released by force,” he told Reuters.
“In the ensuing conflict, three members of the extremist group who tried violently to break in the prison were shot dead by police officers.”
Shimeles said one police officer was also killed while two others were wounded during the scuffle.
A similar incident saw four people killed in the Oromiya region in May.
Activists have posted pictures online of dead bodies and men with gaping wounds they said were sustained during the incident.
Security officials rounded up several members of the protesters’ committee a few months ago and the majority of them are awaiting trial.
Ethiopian officials say the protesters are bankrolled and commanded by Islamist groups in the Middle East and accuse the group of plotting to turn the country into a “sharia-led” state.
The demonstrators deny this and claim their grievances are purely aimed at government tampering.
Al Ahbash, also known as the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects, was founded in the early 1980s by Sheikh Abdullah al Harrari, an Ethiopian cleric who was forced to leave his country for Lebanon in 1950.
The vast majority of Muslims in the country adhere to a moderate, Sufi version of Islam.
Hunda dura Waaqayyo dhiga namoota dhangal’eef murtii sirrii akka kennu kadhachaa raadiyoo sagalee amerikaa galataeeffachuun fedha. Oromiyaa keessatti haala ta’aa jiru duuka buutanii gidira ummataa addunyaan akka dhagahu gochaa waan jirtaniif guddoo galatoomaa. dargaggoon Walloorraa waa’ee fincila turee ibserree galatoomuu qaba. Walloo irraatti Afaan Oromoo hangana qulqullaa’ee yoo dubbatamu dhagahuun baay’ee na gammachiisa. Qabsoon musiliimni amma gochaa jiran kun sabummaa waliinii illee hamma tokko walitti-hidhata waan ta’eef nuti Oromonni amantii ka biraa hordofnu illee isaan cinaa dhaabbachuu qabna.
All the sects of religions are imported unless we’re talking about when they’re imported-those which were imported during the old days vs. those which were imported recently.
Having said that the true reaction of the TPLF/EPRDF regime against the religious activists will show when the enclosed (Mosques-based) protests take to the streets. I think it’s not the protests behind enclosures in Mosques that will effectively challenge the regime but protests that take to the streets.
guyyee
Get your stats right! 63 and 34 … who are the other 3. Shame on you and the lie you portray to the public is nasty. There is no way that 63% is christian and 34% muslims. It could be the other way and please post only what is right and do not mislead the public.
Ummata Garbaa fi Dagaan poolisii federaalaa tokko adabuun isaanii ummata musilimaa fi ummata Oromoo bakka biraa jiraniif barumsa ta’uu qaba. Yaroo poolisiin federaalaa akka barbaade nu ajjeesu, nu reebuu fi mana hidhaatti nu guuru usnee ilaaluun homaa furmaata waan hintaaneef meeshaa qabnuun ofirra faccisuu qabna.Jarri poolisii federaalaa jedhaman kun dhugumaan poolisoota moo humna addaa Tigiroota ummata fixuuf addatti leenji’e dha?
qopheesitoota ayyaantuu hundaaf
Oduu sobaa wabsaytiin bareechuuf hadaraa hindabarsinaa. yoo madda oduu dhugaa irraa gulaaltan dhabdan ofirraa irra dabraa malee dhara booda isin jalaa bahuuf jiraatuun wabsaitii guuttanii nama doorsuuf hin yaalinaa.
yaroo amma dharri tokkolleen hin dhokotu hubadhaa.mootummaa wayyaanee tan ummata nagayaa ofiif dubbii barbaadaa jiru osoo argitanuu akkasuma magaalaa garbaatti waan hawaasicharratti raawwatame VOA n gubbrraatti dubbatuufii tan isin afaan ingiliffaatiin gabaaftan walfaalleeysa osoo tahuu beeytan akkana hin jettan poolisaatuu dhukaasee ajjeese gariis eega fuudhan karaarratti ajjeesan malee ummatichi mana hidhaa akka hin cabsin hubadhaa. yaa kijibtoota
nuti ilman oromoo biyya nama ma dhaale ?
nuti ilmaan oromoo biyya nama keessa faffacaanne mirga abba biyyumma dhabne biyya teenna jiitu namaf latne biyya nama dhaaluni 1ffaa tokkummaa dhabuu 2ffaa qarshiin wal gurgurachuu kannafu yaa saba koo lakka moottumma abba irree kana jalaa bahuuf tokkumman baayye barbachisa maloo maloo! haa tokko tanu mottumma wayyaanne ha ufirra galchinu qarshin wama miti yoo nageenyi jiraate boru argamti galatooma!!!!