ESAT News (February 23,
2016)
Dozens
of protesters were reportedly killed by Ethiopian regime forces in the Oromia
region where a three month protest by the people for political and economic
rights has met with deadly response by the army and security.
Children as young as ten were shot and
killed by the regime’s Agazi forces on Monday, on a day of carnage that saw at
least 40 dead of which 7 were children under the age of 15, according to posts
by Jawar Mohammed, Executive Director of the Oromo Media Network.
Gruesome photo and video
posts by Jawar, who receive them directly from the protesting areas and updated
by the minutes on his Facebook page shocked the nation, in what Ethiopians see
as further evidence of the brutality of the minority regime whose forces killed
at least 200 protesters in the last three months.
Protesters were peaceful
and their only weapon of defence was blocking the roads with stones and logs to
prevent the forces from entering their villages.
Video and pictures in the
social media are too grisly to share here but protesters are seen in one video
carrying a body of a young man who was shot on his torso, while other pictures
show bodies of children shot in the neck and head.
Another photo show Abdi
Adulla, a ten year old in East Harage, who was shot in the neck and killed
yesterday.
In just one locality
called Machara, ten people were killed and over twenty were wounded as the
Agazi forces arbitrarily shot at the protesters.
Protests were held in
Hararge, Wollega, Arsi, Guji and a number of other localities in the last three
days and reports show that they were still continuing today.
(Pictures obtained from
Jawar Mohammed/OMN)
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