Ethiopia

Ethiopia's Opposition Calls for National Protests

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Associate Press, By: ABCnews, 06/20/2013

Ethiopia's main opposition party says it will launch what it said will be a sustained national campaign against the country's ruling party. The announcement Thursday follows a peaceful demonstration on June 2. It was the first public protest since 2005 when security forces killed hundreds of protesters in postelection violence.

 

The Unity for Democracy and Justice Party said the country is heading toward "absolute dictatorship" under the ruling party, which has been in control since 1991.

 

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the peacefull demonstration at the ethiopian grand mesjid - anwar on saturday july 21 2012.mp4

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Published on Jul 23, 2012 by strivingforfreedom

this is a video that shows the peacful demonstration made by the ethiopian muslims against the government intervention on relegion specially on islam and they are asking for the realese of muslim scholars and reperesentatives.this days known scholars and muslim reperesentatives are being tortured. the muslims in ethiopia have been demonstrating pecfully for the last 7 months but the government is detaining and torturing the muslim reperesentatives instead of answering their basic and simple question. may allah help as whole.

 

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