(ST) BERLIN – An Ethiopian rights group based in Berlin, Germany has accused the United Nations refugee body (UNHCR) of delivering Ethiopian refugees in Khartoum to the Sudanese authorities.
Different rights advocacy groups denounced in the past months the narrow collaboration between the Sudanese and Ethiopian authorities against the political opponents to Addis Ababa government.
“Ato Dereje Ayele, a refugee who refused to open his door, was taken out by the UNHCR officials called in by other refugees but was handed over to the Sudanese police by the UNHCR officials,” said Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners (SOCEPP) on Saturday. It is not known where he has been taken, SOCEPP added.
The same fate has fallen on Weizero Almaz Mitiku and At Genanaw Mengistu. The acting chairman of the Refugees’Association, Wondimagegn, is still being held in an unknown prison, the group claimd.
There is a serious and legitimate fear that the detained refugees and others may all be deported back to Ethiopia to be victims of repression there.
The Sudanese authorities have stepped up their harassment of Ethiopian refugees, especially in Khartoum. Recently, police have raided at night the houses of refuges and taken away a number of them.
On 27 September 2007, the Sudanese authorities forcibly returned 15 recognised refugees to Ethiopia. They were handed into the custody of Ethiopian security personal at the Ethiopia-Sudan border. Amnesty International said last year.
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The power of money
One special purpose of Meles Seitanawi’s selling Gondar’s land to the Sudanese government is to make the Sudan government his political partner in catching any Ethiopian refugees found in Sudan’s soil or some where else and sending them back to Ethiopia, a land of sorrow and affliction, to face persecution, imprisonment, and finally death while they are in jail like other thousands of Ethiopian inmates.
Meles and Al Amoudi have perhaps over trillion dollars, and with this big money, they can even bribe the United Nations agents to hunt Ethiopian refugees wherever they are, and ship them to the most oppressive government on earth – the Meles Seitanawi’s government. If the United Nations is helping Meles the Dictator instead of the poor Ethiopian refugees, then the fates of Dereje Ayele, Almaz Mitiku, and Genanaw Mengistu are in the hands of Meles Seitanawi rather than in the hands of the Unite Nations. Such actions of the Unite Nations are going to create a political malaise between law and order- and justice-loving countries like Sweden, the Netherlands, and Canada. I hope other nations should not emulate the United Nations’ double standards. I know this eleemosynary and meretricious United Nations is created in the image of the United States when it comes to helping dictators of the world.
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March 16th, 2008 at 7:24 AM
You know what the current Ethiopian government is highly working towords hunting the Diaspora/Ethiopian refugees worldwide , it is telling the world that the country is peaceful and nice now and that all can return.This is the strategy devised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs one year ago before the millinnium in order to catch Opposition and rebel groups found in African,European and North Ameriacn countries.The strategy is currently getting success as some countries are being lured and transfering us.This has been hugely seen in Western Europe and East Africa in the past and this year.Several oppositon leaders,members, supporters and rebel groups plus journalists have been transfered/deported.Currentl, most of them are in Maekelawi and Kaliti prisons under introgation and tortures.
I would like to tell all Ethiopians and groups to let the world know about this misterious and hidden act that is being done by this tyranical governmnet.
Let all the Ethiopians in Exile Unite and tackkle the strategy.
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March 16th, 2008 at 10:21 AM