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Ethiopia has sacked its prison chief and withdrew Thursday three opposition groups from its "terrorist" list, the latest measures taken by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to shake the decades-old African giant of regime obsessed with security. The head of the prison service, accompanied by four former colleagues, came hours before a Human Rights Watch report detailing torture in a notorious prison and urging the government to hold public officials accountable.
Berhanu Tsegaye prison officials must respect the individual rights set out in the constitution, a rare public reprimand to the country's security apparatus.
Ethiopia is now at a turning point or a transition. What is the destination? His remarks echo Abiy's stark criticism against security forces last month, where the 41-year-old doctor, Ph.D. in peace and security studies, has recognized widespread police brutality and equated it with state terrorism.
"Does the constitution stipulate that prisoners must be badped and beaten? This is not the case," he said during a televised parliamentary session. "Police badped.It is unconstitutional.Police was a terrorist."
Abiy's remarkable 100 days
Abiy, in power for only three months, overthrew politics in the nation of 100 million inhabitants of the Horn of Africa
.month peace talks with the neighbor and the sworn enemy Eritrea, against which Ethiopia has waged a border war between 1998 and 2000 in which 80,000 people reportedly died
Ethiopian Prime Minister calls for unity, promises democracy and improves relations with Eritrea
He also announced the cancellation of the state of emergency and announced its intention to partially open the economy, notably by attracting foreign capital in the national telecommunications company and the national airline, two prospects of ## 147 ##, ############################################################### 39 attractive investment considering the t and the growth of Ethiopia. the recent release of political prisoners, parliament ruled on Thursday the Oromo Liberation Front and the Ogaden National Liberation Front, two secessionist groups, and the "Ginbot 7", an exile The opposition movement has no Was no longer a "terrorist" group.
The reshuffle by the former multilingual soldier of the Oromo ethnic group, the largest in Ethiopia, won Asmara's applause in Washington and comparisons with the perestroika of the 1980s "Reform of the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Resistance to Reforms
However, it also aroused the opposition of the extremists of the Tigray People's Liberation Front ( TPLF ), the Tigrayan ethnic party that dominated the ruling EPRDF coalition, and by badociation the country and the economy – for nearly three decades.
Two people were killed in a grenade explosion at a pro-Abiy rally in Addis Ababa last month.
There was no claim of responsibility, but the attack underscored the magnitude of Abiy's challenge and raised fears, including from the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki. that the new leader of Ethiopia can not carry it.
"Ethiopia is now at a turning point or transition.What is the destination?" Isaias said last month in Asmara's first response to Abiy's peace overtures [19659005] The Tigray Factor
In the Tigrayan regions near the Eritrean border, locals were critical of the Abiy olive branch, the TPLF warned that it would "not take part to any process that would harm the people of Tigray "
Ethiopia-Eritrea reconciliation project meets the resistance of border communities
It then adopted a more conciliatory tone The positive response of Eritrea to the openings of Abiy, however, some senior "securocrats" do not go quietly.
Major-General Teklebrhan Woldearegay, who resigned in April at the head of the computer security agency INSA told a radio Tigrayan: Abiy was "undemocratic and acted like a king"
Gebreyesus Gebregziabher, the head of the ax prison, is a member TPLF while his replacement is from Abiy's party, The Oromo People's Democratic Organization
. Abiy was elected to lead the four parties EPRDF in March after three years of violent protests from Oromo and other groups who felt exploited and abused in a campaign of economic development.
[Photos] Explosive Gathering of Ethiopia "In Abiy We Trust"
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