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ADDIS ABABA – (BORKENA) – Most of the 10,000 imprisoned individuals under the pretext of “extremist” and “anti-peace elements” are Amhara natives, a member of Addis Ababa City Council said. Police Commissioner of the City refuted on his part that his commission does not arrest on the basis of ethnicity, Ethiopia Insider reported. Kassa Teshager (PhD) who joined the City Council by representing the ruling Prosperity Party from Yeka Sub-City, said this last Saturday, 08 July 2023, at a regular meeting of the City Council. The Council Member said that “the treatment of detainees is not humane”. While presenting the plan execution report of 2015 Ethiopian Fiscal Year, City Mayor, Adanech Abebie raised among other things, the issue of peace and security. She said that over 2,000 “anti-peace elements” who were allegedly involved to endanger the peace and security of the City were prosecuted.

Abiy Ahmed has been treated as an international pariah due to his frequent lies, deceptive behaviour, and bombastic statements. Here are some instances of Abiy Ahmed’s public mendacity on the international stage. On June 10, 2018 Abiy Ahmed “swore by Allah” (Wallahi) to President El Sisi of Egypt that his government would not full up the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) without signing an agreement with Egypt, but two year later he started filling up the dam in July 2020 without any agreement with Egypt. Swearing in a public setting is juvenile. Children swear; adults agree. Making a commitment that he had no intention of fulfilling was fundamentally wrong, particularly when such a commitment was made in public to a state. Moreover, invoking a higher power when swearing intensified the gravity of the breach. There was no need for him to swear; instead, he could have simply said, “we will reach a mutually beneficial agreement” or use diplomatic courtesy. The issue is not