“Allah Waa Akbar” – The cry of Ethiopian Muslims
The Horn Times breaking News 14 December 2012
“Allah Waa Akbar”…The cry of Ethiopian Muslims from Menagesha’s torture chambers
by Getahune Bekele
“Oh
my Ethiopia what have you become?” wails a 39 year old Anbesa metro bus
driver, Geremew Balcha (not his real name) who lives in the vicinity of
the notorious Menagesha police station holding cells, about 25 KMs west
of Addis Ababa.
Built along the road to Holeta Genet town,
opposite to a vast flower farm owned by top TPLF cadre, Ato Sibehatu,
father of the ruling junta’s mouth piece Mimi Sibehatu, the Menagesha
police station has been used as torture and execution chamber since the
Muslim uprising began several months ago.
The sheer brutality of the ruling minority junta against Muslim protesters
“Every
night from 10 am we hear the cry of Allah Waa Akbar, from the compound
of the police station, we even count the crack of the whip as it landed
on the victim’s body. Few minutes later the cry goes silent until the
next victim starts screaming aloud, Allah Waa Akbar…” the tearful father
of three explains.
“It is heart breaking to hear the agonizing
cry of female victims. Even when the torturers put a gag, we kept
counting the bang…I just send my 7-month pregnant wife away to the town
of Ambo as the trauma becomes unbearable. The community of Menagesha is
severely traumatized. At times we hear mothers openly crying from nearby
houses when gun shots rang out in the middle of the night. Are the
federal police members executing prisoners? I don’t know.”Adds Geremew
Balcha.
The Horn Times reporter who travelled to Menagesha on
Tuesday evening 11 Dec 2012, further uncovered volley of bullets were
in fact heard in the farm’s compound but he find it difficult to
establish if the federal police executes intransigent prisoners there
and dump bodies elsewhere.
Again on Wednesday 12 Dec, the same
reporter observed more than 200 shackled prisoners crossing in to the
farm on foot where they are going to work as slave laborers on a- meal-
a- day payment.
It is a sad case of so-called liberators turning Voracious colonizers.
Affectionately
known by the faithful around the world as the children of Billal-the
Abyssinian, the moderate and peaceable Ethiopian Muslims are currently
refusing to be ruled by a genocidal Tigre sheikdom and their struggle
for religious freedom is gaining momentum, making the junta blanch with
fright.
The ruling elite views this peaceful struggle as a
prerequisite for more anti- TPLF insurrection by resuscitating
patriotism laced with religious fervor firmly rooted in Ethiopiawenet.
The warlords also know that such wide spread movement has the potential to end the 21 year plunder and enslavement of Ethiopia.
According
to a well respected political analyst based in Addis Ababa, making
torture perfectly legal and the building of phony detention facilities
shows the junta’s desperate attempt to crash the rebellion; and to
Ethiopians, this brutality is a stark reminder of the 2005 genocidal
massacre.
In another related news, an organizing committee member
for Sunday’s march to Kality prison called on all Ethiopians from all
walks of life to join their Muslim brothers and sisters in front of the
main gate of the prison at 8 pm.
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