Kefelegn Alemu Worku, Ethiopian Torture Suspect, Arrested In Denver, Colorado
Note: There are a number TPLF torturers also who live peacefully in foreign countries today. Time will come when they will also be hunted down like Kefalegn Alemu, Dergue era torturer.
Aug 31, 2012, DENVER — Federal agents in Denver have arrested an Ethiopian immigrant, saying he tortured political prisoners in his home country.
Prosecutors said Friday that three former Ethiopian political prisoners identified the man they arrested last week as Kefelegn Alemu Worku (kah-FEH’-lun ah-LEE’-moo WER’-koo), saying he beat and tormented them and others in the late 1970s. They say all three picked him out of a photo lineup.
The man’s attorney didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.
Authorities say Worku entered the U.S. illegally in 2004 using a stolen identity and falsified paperwork.
Prosecutors say he is about 68 years old and has been living in a Denver apartment. They declined to say how he had been supporting himself.
The two-year Red Terror period began in 1977 when Mengistu Haile Mariam assumed unofficial control of the provisional Military Administrative Committee also known as the Dergue. During that period, tens of thousands of Ethiopians were held, tortured or killed.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Worku also used the names Habteab Berhe Temanu, John Doe, Habteab B. Temanu, “TUFA”, Kefelegn Alemu and Kefelegn Alemu Worku.
Worku was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 20 and arrested four day later. He made his first appearance in court on Monday.
Worku allegedly made false statements in connection with his November 2009 application to become a U.S. citizen, and repeated those statements in 2010. According to the federal prosecutors, those statements included using the false name Habteab Berhe Temanu, saying he was the father of five children and falsely responding to a question that asked if he had ever previously persecuted someone.
If convicted of unlawful procurement of citizenship or naturalization, Worku faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000. If convicted of aggravated identity theft, he faces an additional two year mandatory consecutive sentence and up to a $250,000 fine.
Let us talk about the current active ongoing torture masters and hangmen and hangwomen currently killing, torturing, imprisoning, expelling from homes, communities and country as well as grabbing fertile virgine farmlands and practically donating them to MAFIA foreign land grabbers while the owners of these and other human and material resources constantly die from abject poverty and shameful starvations. The arrest of the alleged prevoius regime’s criminal individual is just an attention diversion petty political tricks which is meant to serve the interests of the Wayane tyrants always making endless propaganda by barking about Mengistu’s crimes while their own is even 100% worse than that of Mengistu era.
If they are really serious about Mengistu era’s crimes why can’t they arrest Mengistu himself who is still alive and enjoying life and not dead like the head criminal of the current regime? Some one just wants us to dance at their self serving empty propaganda drums. VERY FUNNY!
I was asking the same question about arresting Mengistu Hailemariam.However, even those who tasted his brutality are not men enough to act upon your suggestion!!!
Well thought out comment,well done my friend.