Four Swedish tourists shot in Ethiopia

December 15, 2014 (Expressen) — Four Swedish tourists were shot in southern Ethiopia on 12 December 2014. The Embassy was in CONTACT with them and they feel under the circumstances, says Ulla Jacobson at the Ministry’s press office to SVT News 

According to the Foreign Ministry, the Swedish tourists were at an animal sanctuary when they came under fire. None of them were injured in the incident.

According expressen.se, which spoke with the wife of one of the shot, put the Swedes in a jeep. The husband saw other jeeps run to catch up, saw that they were getting ready to open fire and he threw himself down on the floor.

Firefight with park rangers

A gunfight broke out between the pursuers and park rangers in a jeep in front, with the Swedes VEHICLE in the middle

Afterwards boxes on their jeep riddled and it was bullet holes in the door, says his wife to Expressen.

She says that the tourist group has been in Ethiopia for a week, and that they consist of a group of FRIENDS at around a dozen Swedes who is on holiday in the country.

It was in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia as the Swedes came under fire near the border to northern Kenya. In northern Kenya, the terrorist group Al-Shabaab ACTIVE and the group has previously claimed responsibility for several attacks. But according to Ulla Jacobson does not know the Foreign Ministry that the area would be particularly risky.

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Memorable day with candle light ceremony for EPRP member's killed by TPLF

Two days ago, on December 12, 2014 Ethiopian people's Revolutionary Party Youth League (EPRPYL) has prepared a candle light ceremony as in memorial day for leader's and member's of EPRP mercilessly killed by TPLF. and the day of Martyrs.

The candle light ceremony and the program was performed in Oslo stortinget in front of the parlament at 2.00 pm in the afternoon. there was close to fifteen members of EPRP youth League presented in the progam. They have prepared and distributed a flyer about the program and the innocent martyr's who struggled and sacrificed their life and killed by the brutal TPLF butchered.

Some of the youth members has presented a speech about how they feel sad about the injustice done by the regime in Ethiopia and their struggle for justice must continue until justice served.

They said that that is why we gathered here, for more than two decades ruling time most of the EPRP leaders and member's mercilessly killed by TPLF government. The former Tigray president Geberu Asrat in his interview of voice of America on Oct. 6,2014 declared many of killed by the TPLF. He also described under the title of sovereignty and Democracy written Book among the prominent and figure of EPRP like Tsegaye G/medhin (Debeteraw), yseak Deber Tsion, sitotaw Hussien, Belete Amha,Desalegne Amsalu, Hagos Bezabeh, Tekelaye H/selassie, Azamaw Demissie mercilessly killed by Tplf butchered many EPRP comrads. Those martyr's struggled and pay incalculable sacrifice to ensured basic human rights, justice, democracy, freedom and among those who struggled for a long years many of them are injured, exiled and sacrified even soe members from the fascist dereg saved their life still struggled the existing TPLF government. Most of them want to ensure peace and stability not retaliation. It is well known that the TPLF responded any opposition with bullet. This mass suppression created revolt and taken into retaliation still continue its suppression over the Ethiopian people but the society seriously opposed and struggle to bring freedom and justice. No society accept oppression it is a life and death struggle.

No peace without bloodshed that is why we gathered here to remember the marty's people. We clain that all the political prisoners in jailed must be free from prison until the Ethiopian people declared its freedo and deocracy we continue our struggle.

And this has been shared and poted  in EPRP Youth League Norway Facebook page and Youtube.