{"id":1555,"date":"2011-07-13T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/174.120.63.226\/~hrlha\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2011-07-13T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:49:59","slug":"hrlha-urgent-action-july-12-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"HRLHA URGENT ACTION, July 12, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kidnapping and Disappearances of Innocent Civilians \u00a0in Central Oromia in Ethiopia<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned about the whereabouts and safety of seven Oromo nationals who were kidnapped and disappeared at different times and places in and around the capital Addis Ababa\/Finfinne in the past month of June.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Gammachu Anbassa Waddessa (head of finance department with a German relief agancy), Mr. Gammachu Garbaba Gurracho (a project manager with an NGO called Good Samaritan Training Centre), Mr. Asfaw Dadhi Tufa (an athlete with Menar Athletics Club), Miss Shitaye Melaku Kitila (internal auditor with the Urban Development Office of Kiltu Kara), Miss Abinet Hailu Gebresellasie (a human resource manager with a private company in the Capital), Mr. Girma Anbassa Waddessa (a project coordinator with Yetinayet Construction Company), and Mr. Ayala Alamu Qana\u2019a (systems administrator) were all kidnapped and taken away by who were described as government security agents on the 19th<\/sup> of June, 2011; and their whereabouts were not known since then.<\/p>\n

According to HRLHA correspondents in Addis Ababa\/Finfinne, these Oromo nationals were targeted because they were suspected of supporting an alleged underground youth movementprocess has already failed; and, in an already impoverished society with limited \u00a0\u00a0sources of income, individual and collective social-economic lives have gone from bad to worse.<\/p>\n

The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) is highly concerned, among other things, about the well-being of the three Oromos, as anything that could endanger their lives could happen to them under such extra-judicial circumstances. Also, the socio-economic, political, and psychological impacts of such circumstances on the families and friends whom those victims have left behind are not simple. So, the Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) calls on all local, regional, and international human rights and diplomatic agencies to exert pressure on the Ethiopian TPLF\/EPRDF Government to, first of all, disclose the overall situations of those victims to families and friends, and allow the relevant and proper legal processes to take place in case the three persons have committed any crimes; and, secondly, to exercise accountability and responsibility as a government by refrain from committing such extra-judicial and undemocratic harassments and intimidations against its own citizens.<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED ACTION:<\/strong> <\/strong>Please send appeals to the Ethiopian Government and its<\/p>\n

concerned officials as swiftly as possible, in English, Ahmaric, or your own language expressing:<\/p>\n