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Ethiopia: Violence continues

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005 @ 10:31 UTC

by Sokari Ekine

Countries:: Ethiopia
Topics:: none

My Heart's in Accra reports on the ongoing violence in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. News reports are now saying that 27 people have been killed by the police however Nazret.com, an Ethiopian news portal puts the figure at 100 plus.

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being in ethiopia, no name

We ethiopians are very much sad about the Western perception of Democracy they have had for Africa, now we are getting clearer the reasons why people in the Arab & moslem states are becomig aggressive against west. The socalled national interest of herself which the western states tries to protect in Africa will inevitably end up with the entire collapse of international order and statequo. This is a phrophecy, though negative it may be.

# 2005-11-4 at 1:31 am

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