Lessons to be learned from Abdi Illey case in Ethiopia

[Old_Observer]

The face book propaganda was that Abdi Illey and his government were Sadam, Gadafi, Mengistu....and deserves the same fate. Many Somalis who wanted power without work applauded enthusiastically when indescribable fake news and false flag operations were conducted to destroy everything in Kililka. The good along the bad all at once.

For those of you who bought into the fake hope of justice, democracy..in Kililka, I have bad news.

The most important crime of Illey as presented to court in Ethiopia is "overthrow of the constitutional order". In an Orwellian way it means separatist as told to most Ethiopians except Somalis. Arresting someone and keeping them in jail without a case, should not be encouraged at any time, yet that is what most people are doing and saying.

Even on human right violations, the cases the Ethiopian Abiy government is bringing is what happened in the false flag incident to churches, which at best is after the fact that various forces has already invaded Jigjiga by then to orchestrate the false flag operation.

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians were the first once to call this false flag, since such thing has never happened remotely by Somalis while in the rest of Ethiopia has happened in numerous places. Nothing could have made the Somali an overnight church burning, christian killing, but a false flag operation can.

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Ex-somali region president dismisses criminal charges against him as “coordinated lies”

Wednesday February 6, 2019

Former Somali regional state president Abdi Muhamud Omer, a.k.a, Abdi Iley, has today told judges at the federal high court fourth criminal bench in the capital Addis Abeba that the multiple criminal charges brought against him were “deliberately coordinated lies.”

Abdi said this at a reading of charges brought by the federal Attorney General against 47 individuals including himself. The charges were originally fielded at the fourth bench on January 30 but the judges have adjourned the reading for today due to absence of defense lawyers.
 

The charges included accusations of incitement of inter-communal violence and attempt to violently overthrow constitutional order.

When asked by the judges if he understood the charges Abid told the judges that he recognizes all charges as “deliberately coordinated lies” against him.

Out of the total of 47 defendants in the same case, only six are currently under police custody.

They include, Abdi Iley; Rahma Mohammed Haybe, former head of women and children’s affairs bureau; and Abdulrezak Sehane Elmi, former head of the diaspora affairs office of the Somali regional state; as well as Ferhan Tahir, former police commissioner commissioner of the region, and two individuals: Worseme Abdi and Guled Abel.

Prosecutors told the court that they were working to bring to the court some of the absentees but would like to get more time to do so.

In today’s hearing, unlike Abdi’s, the court did not receive an early plea from the other defendants in the case but adjourned another date for February 27 to receive together both their early pleas and defense statements.

The defense lawyers on their tern filed a complaint to the court saying that the prosecutors did not attach the list of witness names along with the charges, something they said was prohibiting their abilities to prepare defense statements. The court has ordered prosecutors to submit a response letter to the complaints and said it will deliver its verdict on February 13.

Background

On January 25, the Attorney General’s office revealed that the August violence resulted in the killings of 58 people while 266 were injured. the report by the AG also revealed a gruesome details which were previously unreported, including the discovery of a mass grave where the remains of 42 of the victims was found.

Eight more bodies were discovered inside the premises of St. Michael Church in Jigjiga city. The report also said ten women were raped in just a span of three days but added there could be more unreported cases of rapes.

And properties worth about 421 million birr were also vandalized in the violence.