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"Haacaaluu is not dead. He will remain in my heart and the hearts of millions of Oromo people forever," Santu Demisew Diro, his wife, said. "I request a monument erected in his memory in Addis [Ababa] where his blood was spilt."


"It is very sad that his body is accompanied by only a few people and security forces are keeping many others away," one of Haacaaluu's relatives, who had been allowed to attend the funeral, told Reuters.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2020 ... 35708.html

BBC News:

Hachalu Hundessa: Unrest rages in Ethiopia as protest singer buried

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-53262998

New York Times:

Singer’s Killing Shows Ethiopia’s ‘Combustible’ Politics

Mr. Mutiga, of the International Crisis Group, said that Mr. Abiy should rise to the occasion not just as a political leader but as Ethiopia’s healer in chief.

“I think where Abiy definitely could do better is to try to fashion consensus,” he said, “persuade his opponents and be more deliberative and consultative and try to carry people along with him.,”

FULL REPORT here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/worl ... g.amp.html