The Horn
Times Newsletter January 1, 2014
Numbers of
exhumed remains rising
On Tuesday
morning 31 December 2013, mortified Army chief-of-staff Gen Samora and Deputy
PM D. Mekonen were spotted leaving the third battalion barracks, TPLF’s secret
execution site for many years. Ethiopian regime secret execution site.
Despite
the regime’s massive cover up campaign, intimidation and open threat of
secondary mass grave for the accidentally exhumed corpses in order to avoid
investigation or to conceal evidence of the mass murder; Ethiopians winced in
terror when the news of the discovery of mass grave in Addis Ababa travelled
across the vast nation exposing the savagery; atrocities and duplicity of the
current ruling minority junta, – largely of Tigre coterie.
The
gruesome discovery was made on Friday 27 December and Saturday 28 December
2013, between Sidist- Kilo and Ferensay- legasion areas at Jan-Meda, inside the
barracks of the third army battalion when an excavator working for road
expansion project pulled out two corpses wrapped in same color blankets and
again another four corpses each wrapped in blankets of identical colors.
Eyewitnesses
who got to the area and took the photos before the federal police cordoned off
the vicinity told reporters that two of the corpses were still in hand-cuffs
and one of the victims had his hands tied behind his back
>“I
jumped into the ditch driven by emotion and although the remains were
dismembered and co-mingled, I have counted four corpses on Saturday, all shot
to the base of the skull. That is, as we all know a Bolshevik style execution
practiced by the Stalinist TPLF warlords for years. These remains are
undoubtedly victims of 22 years of TPLF repression and terror. The blankets,
manufactured by the Debre Birhan blanket factory did not lose their original
colors and labels. That indicates the executions were not carried out that long
ago. ” A retired medical doctor living in Jan-Meda area of Addis Ababa told
reporters, sobbing silently
When
contacted by an undercover reporter on January 1, 2014, the Debre Birhan
blanket factory’s sales and customer service manager who gave his first name as
Negasi, admitted supplying the correctional service authority of Ethiopia with
more than 200,000 blankets similar both in color and design to those found in
the mass grave in 2005, 2006 and 2007 financial years
According
to Negasi, the factory did so after legally won tenders The sales clerk’s
admission is a damning proof beyond any reasonable doubt to journalists that
the dead tyrant Meles Zenawi’s homicide squad known as the Agazit executed
detainees and committed the war crime during the 2005 nation-wide anti TPLF
insurrection.
Well, grim
reminders of the Meles Zenawi era, but how many more mass graves are we going
to uncover in the coming years in this city purged by Tigre People Liberation
Front with unparalleled audacity? It would be the biggest flagrant miscarriage
of justice if the ICC chief prosecutor Madam Fatou B let the panicking TPLF
warlords off the hook. It is incumbent up on her to send a team of
investigators to Addis Ababa without any delay
“ This
blood curdling discovery has exposed the nation’s festering wounds and further
complicated the dreadful ethnic fault line created by the ruling Tigre People
Liberation Front/TPLF in May 1991. I personally know that then federal police
boss; the snarling evil Workeneh Gebeyhu used the third infantry battalion
compound as the headquarters of operations in 2005. He quit the post last year
and where is he today? The nation is crying for justice.” A political analyst
who is following events for the Horn Times from Addis Ababa explained
“TPLF
warlords thought they found a safe spot to store remains of the barbarically
executed non-combatant, peaceful protesters. Mass grave right under the nose of
the international community and the people of Ethiopia. This crime scene is
full of the telltale fingerprints of the dead former ruler Meles Zenawi….” The
political analyst added.
In
addition, after getting fresh reports about the exhumation of more skeletons on
Monday 30 December 2013, the Horn Times’ attempt to get comment from the
junta’s top spin-doctor Shimeles Kemal regrettably proved unsuccessful.
Moreover, as it is a norm in a totalitarian regime where the flow of
information is government controlled, dreading being indicted for war crimes
and extermination, not even ordinary federal police officials were willing to
comment on this very sensitive matter with far- reaching consequences.
Currently,
the army, using corrugated sheet has fenced off the killing spot. The public no
longer observes the exhumation; hence, no one knows the exact numbers of
corpuses recovered up to so far. According to a journalist the Horn times spoke
to minutes before posting this piece, the Jan-Meda neighborhood remains tense
with heavily armed federal police and the military manning several roadblocks
in the area
Shell-shocked
residents nonetheless, are unanimous in their call on the ICC, the
International Criminal Court to investigate the senseless genocide, a result of
two decades of tempestuous minority junta rule in Ethiopia
“Members
of IAGS, International Association of Genocide Scholars, must rush to the crime
scene to help with recovery and identification of the remains of possibly the
2005 election massacre victims, a dark chapter in our history.” Another
resident of the area told the Horn Times reporter asking not to be named for
security reasons
Democracy
has been a conglomeration of violence and brutal repression to the
long-suffering people of Ethiopia. According to the opinions of several
prominent Ethiopians, for the nation to move forward, western powers must
disown the genocidal minority junta now and let justice take its course
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