Hundreds of people from the towns of Mendi and Gimbi, western Ethiopia, are rounded up and taken to Senkele Police Training Center in Ambo. Special forces surrounded these towns after the residents started holding protests demanding the removal of Meles Zenawi and Junedin Sado. The protests were held after an unknown group distributed a pamphlet asking the people to rise up against Junendin Sado, “the Grazianni of Oromia.” Eyewitnesses who escaped arrest told Ethiopian Review that the protest will continue after the special forces leave the towns for other areas. They said the towns’ police are with the people. Similar protests are going on in Bale, southern Ethiopia, since last week. ER is trying to get more details.