PasserBy Posted November 3, 2011 The Ethiopian Somali in North America demands a stop to brutality and torture against elders by Liyu Police in Somali Region Written by ismail Tuesday, 01 November 2011 13:12 Liyu Police Militia said "forcefully arresting and killing" natives in southeast Ethiopia Among them Dr. Abdulmajid ‘s uncle From mid-October, the Liyu Pilce has started forcefully arresting thousands of families in the rural areas around Harshin [in the restive Somali region in southeastern Ethiopia, where local government forces are engaged in arresting and killing against the villagers]. Two week ago, The special militia ( Liyu Police) loyal to the President of Somali Region is rounding up all adults and detaining them in few designated villages around the road between Yacaale and Harshin, leaving behind their children and livestock unattended at the mercy of wild beasts. Furthermore, the Liyu policeis separating the women and taking them to military camps for sexual abuse. Some of the villages used as concentration camps are in Jijiga area. Civilians who escaped from this massive campaign are highly distressed and hiding in nearby towns. They are recounting horrendous stories about the fate of the young children left behind. The villagers escaping from the killing and arrest of Liyu police found the remains of young children and livestock eaten by hyenas. The Local government and its local agents are telling the rural population that anybody found in the surrending Yacaale district will be arrested. This is an escalation of the ethnic cleansing of other clan people that has been continuing since 2010 and is unprecedented in both scale and savagery and needs urgent federal government attention and immediate intervention to stop it. The local government has made up stories that the villagers crossed from Somaliland. One of the elders whom the BBC Somali service reached him, he said , “The late Dr. Abdimajid Hussein ‘s uncle is born in Ethiopia and could not be a person who crossed from the border; he is among the fifty elder who were arrested last week.” , he added that it is an unfounded allegation and pretext that the President of Somali , Abdi Mohamed is using to dislocate other Somali clan and resettling his own clan, ******i, due to his latest creation of fifteen districts. Since Local government has isolated other prominent Somali clan , Issa, Issaq, Garinle, Gadabursi and Sheikkhal to name a few and dismantled the local party where the President is the chairman and things have gonefrom bad to worse . The Somali community in North America and Europe urge the federal government to interfere and restore peace and send media to report about the calamity in Somali Region villagers; the liyu police militia has a free rein to conduct scorched earth campaigns with impunity without fear of retribution. Consequently, the Harshin people have no international or national protection since the local militia ( Liyu Police) state protection is itself conducting the pogrom. The possibility of thousands of civilians perishing and hundreds of thousands migrating is eminent unless urgent federal government and international intervention happens. Therefore, Ethiopian Somali in North America aka Hawd and Reserve Area appeals to the federal government of Ethiopia UN, the Security Council, the AU and the international community to act immediately and take adequate measures to protect the civilian population in Somali Region . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
