At least 100 killed as violent unrest continues in Addis Ababa

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Applying the Uzbekistan solution to popular unrest, it seems.

ADDIS ABABA -- In the second day of violent unrest in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, an estimated 100 people, and perhaps as many as 200, were killed by police and army forces battling rock-throwing demonstrators, most of them young people in their teens or early twenties.

The seems little hope that the violence will subside in the near future.

At least two people, and perhaps as many as 10, were killed in Magananya, just a few hundred meters from the Israeli embassy and the compound run by the Falashmura community waiting to immigrate to Israel.

Eyewitnesses reported that army forces shot at demonstrators as they were running away and entered houses were they had taken refuge. On at least one occasion, troops shot protesters in the street who had been taken into custody.

Haaretz

[Erika]

1. But Bush said he has brought peace to the world

Yeah.

[MisterP]

2. in the Coalition of the Willing, of course

ditto Eritrea, which hasn't had an election since 1995.
Other members:
El Salvador--old butchers, new goverment
Italy--corrupt oligarch one
Ukraine--corrupt oligarch two (non-military "pro-American" foreign policy)
Uganda--let's take the D.R.C.'s metals
Rwanda--and their children!
Colombia--blood bath!
Kuwait--bad females!
Palau--are you KIDDING me?!
Solomon Islands--eh?
Poland--don't forget!
Denmark--"Baby Thatcher" Ass-mussen
Albania--please don't hurt us!
Macedonia--let's go shoot Pakistanis after bringing 'em over
Czech Republic--we're neolib!
Slovakia--we're neocon!
Baltic States--we're flat
Iceland--we weren't even told we were in this!
Saudi Arabia--beheadings every Wednesdays and Fridays! (not in CoW)
Afghaistan--oh for Pete's sake
Pakistan--Iraq was asking for it
Japan--can we have China, Malaysia, and Indochina after you nuke them?--again
Angola--we're Marxist, and we have no idea why we're in this
Thailand--can we blow up Muslims at home instead?
The Philippines--bury Aquino, raise Marcos: "People Power is dead"

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3. Scores die in Addis Ababa street battles

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Doctors and witnesses yesterday said security forces opened fire at stone-throwing opposition supporters, killing 33 and wounding 150.

Separately, the government reported two policemen killed and 54 injured.

"God help us," said 19-year-old student Tigist Daniel, whose mother was admitted to a hospital with gunshot wounds. "How can they shoot women? Don't they know that women are mothers?"

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This was the second consecutive day of violence in Addis Ababa. At least eight people were shot dead on Tuesday in clashes between police and demonstrators who apparently heeded opposition calls for new protests over a May 15 poll it says was rigged.


http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=2978306

[Erika]

4. So the W hasn't helped this part of the world

Don't they have any oil?

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5. Ethiopia unrest spreads beyond capital

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Gunfire echoed sporadically around Addis Ababa for a fourth day on Friday as reports emerged that unrest had spread beyond the capital, a development likely to deepen international concern for Ethiopia's stability.

Information Minister Berhan Hailu told Reuters he had word of "some kinds of unrest in some areas" of the north-central Amhara region, but dismissed the disturbances as insignificant.

Residents contacted by telephone said students in Dessie town, 400 km (250 miles) north of Addis Ababa had thrown stones at police who dispersed them by firing in the air.

Amhara region is the base of the Amhara people who make up about a fifth of the ethnically-diverse nation of 77 million, sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous after Nigeria.

Reuters