On 27 September, the Sudanese authorities forcibly returned 15 recognized refugees to Ethiopia, handing them over at the Ethiopia-Sudan border. Their whereabouts are now unknown and Amnesty International believes they are at risk of enforced disappearance, arbitrary and incommunicado detention, torture and unfair trials.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on 11 October that the 15 had been part of a group of more than 30 Ethiopian refugees arrested in early July 2007 by Sudanese intelligence officers in Khartoum and Blue Nile state.
Among the 15 was Atanaw Wasie, who has chronic asthma for which he needs medical treatment. He was a leader of the Ethiopian Democratic Union (EDU) political party, which opposed the Dergue government thatwas overthrown in 1991, but is no longer active. He was arrested on 7July 2007 in the eastern town of Gedaref and held incommunicado.
Others who were returned and detained are reported to be alleged members of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which is fighting the Ethiopian security forces in the Oromia Region. Several thousand members of the Oromo ethnic group have been arbitrarily detained and tortured in Ethiopia in recent years. Read more here...
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SUDAN: Forcible return/Fear of torture/Arbitrary detention of several hundred Ethiopian and Eritrean nationals
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After many months I happen to listen VOA. The VOA journalist interviewed Mr.Gebru Asrat. It is amazing; Mr. Asrat was making a statement about the new political organization; buy saying the newly formed political party is stands for TG sovereign state and he continue to explain how TG is dissatisfying with the current regime. Anyhow my question is, how many time is TG is going to be librated? At this moment TG is the largest territory with in Ethiopia. They concord part of Gondar Territory, Wolquit, Tegede and Telmet. On the other part of Ethiopia wollo. They even crash the natives who ask question. The redistricting and evasion of those territories mad TG the largest and powerful ethnic group. Having saying this, what Mr. Gebru is doing is, establishing the reserve party. When the current regime going to bench he will take over and continue oppress the people of Ethiopia for the next century.
Those of you from Gondar, wolqit, Telemt, wolo, you need to speak up by joining your fellow Ethiopian there is no such thing, minority over majority. Think of who control the wealth of the country, the power sharing. Take a look the power structure is that represent all Ethiopians ethnics I don’t think so.
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