I didn't want to comment about this issue, simply the case is inhuman, and if that is staged, then difficult to contemplate about the nature of people we are sharing a country with. In case this story is staged, there are people who have turned into truly animals, carnivorous preying on human fleshes.
I don't want to judge just trying to add my personal opinion and question the professionalism of the people acting as journalists in the country we all share as a common home.
EBS is somehow now used to show some graphic stories and then turn to ask for support, I am not sure if that is to benefit or to harm the society at large.
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 and which societal responsibility you may have on your shoulder while carrying the title of "journalist". If I were the owner of the media organisation, then I would have fired you all in a mass without any prenotice.
If not anybody else, then why didn't you try to contact the said University and hear their side of the story before hand before rushing to the public and join in shedding your crocodile tears? This is unforgivable dereliction of duty. The young woman said she is not after a money, but yearning for justice and why are you deliberately covering up something??
I have worked with authorities proving asylum cases in the place where I live as a translator for a while and learned one key quality of story telling: how consistent is the story from the beginning to the end. The experienced officials of the authority are very keen to tell apart a fiction from a true story, mostly very much precisely without any additional input. When I listen to the story of this young woman as much as I am sympathetic to her heartbreaking stories I also failed to draw any consistency in her version of the story, sometimes dramatized out of nowhere for some preset scene conformity, it seems. I could have enumerated many instances of such cases, but I don't want to indulge myself into this.
Reportedly the original video has been already taken down by the publishers themselves but then there are others who rushed to download their own copy and now it is available on the internet, among other on the Facebook page of an entity calling itself "Amhara Association of California" and I ask myself about how did it know so soon that the video could be taken down and rushed to secure its own copy of it? It also added the following caption to the video post:
"አብይ አህመድ የሚመራው የኦሮሙማ አረመኔያዊ አገዛዝ በጀመርነው መንገድ ታግለን እስካላስወገድን ደረስ አማራ ሴት የተባሉት ሁሉ እጣ ፈንታቸው ተመሳሳይ ነው የሚሆነው።
እኦነግ እና የአብይ ቅልብተኛ የኦሮሞ ልዩሃይል፣ፓሊስ በመናበብና በመተባበር ከፈፀሙት ግፍ የቀረበውን ከግለሰቦች እናዳምጥ።"
ሰርቆ የደበቁትን ሴቶች አሁን ላይ አንድበአንድ እያወጡ መመንዘር ጀመሩ ማለት ነዉ፣ የፖለቲካ ኪሳራ ዉስጥ ስገቡ?
