ECADF: On The Massacre of Ethiopian Muslims

August 5, 2013

ON THE MASSACRE OF ETHIOPIAN MUSLIMS IN THE TOWNS OF KOFALE AND TATOLAMO BY THE DICTATORIAL TPLF LEAD REGIME ARMED FORCES

FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE – AUGUST 4, 2013
ETHIOPIAN CURRENT AFFAIRS DISCUSSION FORUM (ECADF)

We Ethiopians, members of the Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum (ECADF) from all over the world condemn in extreme terms the massacre committed by armed forces of the brutal TPLF/EPRDF regime on innocent Ethiopian Muslim in the towns of Kofale and Totalamo, Arsi region on August 3, 2013. The death toll stands over 25 – including a child, four teenagers and a spiritual leader. In addition scores suffered critical and light endures from live bullets and beatings, as a result death toll may rise even higher. Information reveals that thousands have been detained in both Kofale, Totalamo and other part of the country’s prisons.

Extrajudicial killing, torture, mass arrest and disappearance of citizens are ritual for the dictatorial TPLF lead regime. One cannot forget the massacre of innocent Muslim brothers and sisters in the town of Assasa on April 27, 2012, while they were attending Friday Prayer, mass murder and arrest following the disputed 2005 election, genocide crime committed on Anuak, Ogaden and the rest of the country and forced eviction of Amharas from their home and birth place.

There is as such, no stone left unturned by this dictatorial regime to create rift and distrust among Ethiopians and to deceive its Western donors to stay in power. Its agents burned down churches and tried to put blames on Muslims; burned down mosques and tried to put blames Christians, placed and detonated explosive bombs and tried to put blames on opposition parties like OLF.

We members of the Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum, therefore:

1. Condemn the TPLF lead dictatorial regime in its extreme form, the massacre of innocent Ethiopian Muslims in the towns of Kofale and Totalamo.

2. We call upon Christians and non-Christian Ethiopians in Ethiopia to stand in unison, and be part of the protest.

3. We call upon political parties, movements, civic and religious organization to rise up and tell this murderer regime that enough is enough.

4. We call upon Ethiopians in the Diaspora to expose the evil doing of this regime to their representatives of parliaments or congress, and to the community they are residing in.

We members of the Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum would like to express our condolences’ to the families of those citizens massacred by the regime in Kofale and Totalamo village of Arsi zone,