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[Dama]

ብርቱካን (ብርቱኳን) ተመስገን ከበደ is making one more talking

They willingly decided to broadcast such a very much graphic story and knew who (which body) is involved from the story of the "victim" herself. They have never told us what they have tried to cross-check the story of a single individual from different perspectives. To try and fail is a different story, but they have never raised anything in this direction. Simply broadcast graphic stories and join-in the emotional scene of helping the "victim" in shedding her tears. What a lose! You should have learned what a professionalism means......

DDT

You got the principle of journalism twisted. You do cross-check facts when you do the reporting.
When victims testify the wrongs they suffered at the hand(s) of their abusers, you do not question their stories. You do not verify it. You do not editorialize it. You simply allow the victim tell their stories.
It's upto the perpetrators of abuse to come forward and refute the allegations.
If it is a crime, the police have the obligation to investigate the crime that has become now public. If the police investigated the alleged crime and found it was false, only then could you be able to state the story was false.
Staged? It's a long call! It means the media conspired with the false witness to claim victimhood they did not suffer.
But it could simply be the case that the individual lied without being encouraged or incentified to lie.

[DefendTheTruth]

A post on twitter reads:

"ሉላ ገዙ የኤርትራዉ የወንጀል ድርጅትና በኢትዮጵያ የህገወጥ ዶላር መንዛሪ የRed Star በለንብርት ስትሆን ይ(EBS) ኤርትራዊዉ አቶ አማን ፍሰሀፅዮን ሚስት ናት፣ መቅደስ ደበሳይ- የኤርትራዉ የደህንነት ሹም የደበሳይ ፀጋይ ልጅ ናት... "

አሳ ጎርጓሪ ቆፍሮ ዘንዶ ያወጣል ይሉሃል፡ ይሄ ነዉ።

" 25,

[DefendTheTruth]

Dude,

You have been told "nothing will change"!
"ምንም የምቀየር ነገር የለም!"

ይህን የምትለን ደግሞ ራሷ ልጅቷን ለመስገደል ስታሴር የነበረች ፍጡር ናት።

ብርቱካን (ብርቱኳን) ተመስገን ከበደ is making one more talking

They willingly decided to broadcast such a very much graphic story and knew who (which body) is involved from the story of the "victim" herself. They have never told us what they have tried to cross-check the story of a single individual from different perspectives. To try and fail is a different story, but they have never raised anything in this direction. Simply broadcast graphic stories and join-in the emotional scene of helping the "victim" in shedding her tears. What a lose! You should have learned what a professionalism means......

DDT

You got the principle of journalism twisted. You do cross-check facts when you do the reporting.
When victims testify the wrongs they suffered at the hand(s) of their abusers, you do not question their stories. You do not verify it. You do not editorialize it. You simply allow the victim tell their stories.
It's upto the perpetrators of abuse to come forward and refute the allegations.
If it is a crime, the police have the obligation to investigate the crime that has become now public. If the police investigated the alleged crime and found it was false, only then could you be able to state the story was false.
Staged? It's a long call! It means the media conspired with the false witness to claim victimhood they did not suffer.
But it could simply be the case that the individual lied without being encouraged or incentified to lie.

[sesame]

Abiy and his PP clowns are getting desperate if they expect anyone, other than their dim-witted supporters, is going to buy this crap. But what do you expect from sheep who are being led by a man who thinks selecting a leader by email is a smart idea.

[DefendTheTruth]

ምን ይቃበጥራል? የቤት ስራዬን አልሰራሁም ና ወድቄያለሁ ብሎ ለምን ጥፋቱን አይቀበልም? በቁስል ላይ ስድብ ጨምርበት ይሉሃል ይሄ ነዉ። አስመሳይ ትመስለኛለህ! ከተጋለጠ ቦኋላ ብዙ መቀባጠር ምንም አይጨምርም። የቤት ስራህን አልሰራህም!

[Selam/]

ከብት ካድሬዎች በብርቱካን ወሬና አሉባልታ ተጠምደዋል፣ ስለ መሰረታዊ ችግሩ ግን የማውራት ወኔ የላቸውም። ሽንታም ሁላ!


The
Guardian



‘This is a pandemic’: Ethiopia’s Oromia region gripped by surge in kidnappings

First it was rebel groups using abduction for political aims, but in a broken economy collecting ransoms is seen as easy money and now anyone can be a target

Fred Harter in Addis Ababa
Tue 23 Jan 2024 07.00 EST

The gunmen came for Alemetu when she was sleeping. They marched her out of her home in Ethiopia’s Oromia region and took her to a disused school in the countryside, where she was held hostage for four weeks.

About 40 fighters were living at the school, although hundreds of men passed through. Alemetu, who was pregnant when she was taken, said her captors beat her with a horsewhip. On one occasion, she was tied up and suspended upside down from a tree for several hours, an ordeal that left deep psychological and physical scars.

She was released only after her family paid a ransom of 110,000 birr (£1,530), a huge sum in rural Ethiopia, which they raised by selling livestock and borrowing from friends.

When Alemetu was kidnapped, the family was already struggling to pay a 90,000 birr ransom for her uncle, a farmer, who was held for 15 days in a separate abduction. The family is now destitute.

”Kidnapping is happening everywhere. The rebels have made it a way of life because it’s easy money for them
Kidnap victim’s relative

“It is very rare to find a family in our area who has not been affected by kidnapping,” says Alemetu. “The government has no control.”

Alemetu identified her kidnappers as insurgents from the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a rebel group that has been fighting Ethiopia’s government since 2018. The OLA styles itself as the champion of the Oromo, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, who claim a long history of marginalisation, but it has been accused of massacres and other abuses.

Ethiopia’s federal parliament classifies the OLA as a terrorist organisation.

After Alemetu was released, the fighters burned down her home. She believes she was targeted because her husband took a job at a local government office. “Even if you just pay taxes, the fighters will attack you,” she says.

Kidnapping has been a persistent threat for years in Oromia, a region that runs through the heart of Ethiopia and surrounds the capital, Addis Ababa. Until recently kidnappings were rare outside OLA’s strongholds in western Oromia. When they did occur, they were targeted. The main victims were like Alemetu: police officers, government officials or their relatives, and the aims were generally political rather than financial.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... g-pandemic