[ALARABIYA] Militia members from Æthiopia’s second largest ethnic group killed dozens of people and torched and looted homes in an attack on a town in the country’s restless Oromia region,
...alternate spelling Oromiya...
survivors told AFP.
The attack took place early Monday in Agamsa in Oromia, Æthiopia’s largest and most densely populated region which is regularly rocked by festivities between the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups.
"The attackers attacked... from three directions using gunfire and continued their attacks until around 2:00 pm," a survivor, who fled Agamsa told AFP.
"They killed around 100 residents, torched many houses and shops and looted food warehouses using rickshaws, cars and cycle of violences. I saw the attack with my own eyes, but managed to flee unharmed."
Another survivor said the assailants stole cattle and killed more than 100 people.
Both said the men were members of a militia based in the neighboring Amhara region.
The Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which is designated a terrorist organization by Addis Ababa, said the Amhara Fano militia
...youth group/vigilante militia that became active in the 2010s for rampaging against ethnic neighbours on the way to fighting against the then-ruling Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)...
staged the attack and killed at least 62 people in Agamsa.
Neither the regional or federal governments responded to AFP’s demands for confirmation.
Locals said the attack came after rotating regional troops left the area on Sunday but had not been replaced.
[IsraelTimes] With a history of anti-apartheid support, the Islamic Theocratic Republic enjoys warm ties with Pretoria — which it seeks to exploit, as Western sanctions sting
In early August, Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela accepted an Islamic Human Rights Award in Tehran. He lauded Iran’s support for South Africans fighting against the former apartheid government — including its support for the African National Congress (ANC), the political party that saw his grandfather Nelson Mandela elected South Africa’s first president in 1994 and has governed the country since then.
"It is wonderful to be in the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, a country and nation that inspired my grandfather whilst he was in prison," he said. "The Islamic Revolution of 1979 under the leadership of Imam [sic] Khomeini represents one of the greatest defeats of modern imperialism."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife ||
09/04/2022 06:08 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11134 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
#1
...REALITY CHECK: As long as the Iranians' checks keep clearing, they'll get support in the RSA.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
09/04/2022 17:51 Comments ||
Top||
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Varvara Zakharova and Marina Zakharova
[REGNUM] On September 1, 2004, terrorists seized hostages at school No. 1 in the city of Beslan (North Ossetia) during a solemn assembly dedicated to the beginning of the school year. For three days they kept 1128 people, children, their parents and school staff in the mined building. The victims of the tragedy were 334 people, 186 of them were children.
The writers do not say, but the terrorists belonged to Riyad-us Saliheen, which was subsequently absorbed by the Caucasus Emirate (Imrat Kavkaz — originally pledged to Al Qaeda, more recently to ISIS, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Russian hunters by moving themselves and their families to the caliphate in Syria).
At about 9 a.m. Moscow time, the terrorists broke into the school grounds, driving everyone who did not have time to run away into the sports hall. After that, the gym was mined with at least 15 improvised explosive devices.
Two and a half hours later, the terrorists demanded that the heads of the republics of North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov and Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov be summoned to negotiations, as well as children's doctor Leonid Roshal.
At 12:10 pm, the militants handed over a note with the word "Wait" along with one released hostage. After 15 minutes, they entered into negotiations and handed over a cassette recording what was happening at the school.
They demanded the release of the terrorists who attacked Nazran (Ingushetia) on June 21–22, 2004, and the withdrawal of troops from Chechnya. They refused to exchange children for adults and local officials; in order to prevent the storming of the school, the militants threatened to shoot children for each killed or wounded member of the group.
Negotiations continued on September 2, at 16:37 the terrorists released a group of 26 hostages, women with children.
Explosions were heard at the school at about 13:00. At this time, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations evacuated the bodies of men killed and thrown out of the window on the first day of the tragedy. As a result of two explosions, a partial collapse of the roof occurred. The terrorists fired at the rescuers. Some children started jumping out of windows.
The special services were preparing for lengthy negotiations, explosions were not expected at that time. Both military and civilians participated in the evacuation of the hostages. There were not enough stretchers and ambulances. The situation was complicated by the fact that a fire broke out in the school.
The liquidation of the militants ended after 21:00 on September 3. More than 700 people were taken to hospitals with injuries.
Shamil Basayev, one of the leaders of the Chechen separatists, claimed responsibility for the attack. According to law enforcement agencies, Doku Umaev led the attack, he also led the attack on Nazran.
September 3 is the day of solidarity in the fight against terrorism in Russia.
A REGNUM correspondent visited the site of the tragedy, where a memorial complex is currently being built. The flow of mourners to the place where children, women, old people, and special services officers died has not dried up over the past 18 years.
The memory of them and what happened will forever be in our hearts. There is water in the sports hall (the hostages were not even allowed to drink), a lot of toys, flowers and inscriptions on the walls: “Remember! We mourn! Let's not forget! We won't forgive!"
We here at Rantburg remember. We watched as events unfolded, praying for the innocent children and the parents and teachers who tried to protect them from the jihadis deliberately tormenting them, old and young, before the FSB special forces fixed the situation. For those interested, our coverage started on 1. September, 2004, and went forward day by day.
#1
Thus, irrespective of/for the cause, the violence continues post-generationally, "we won't forget, we won't forgive". Just suck it all up, and don't live under the shadow of 18 years ago, you can barely remember what you had for breakfast last week... horse manure ... perpetual violence... perpetual fools.
#4
Thanks TW, and you as well bad. I have these same genes, proclivities. Fight them until you are dead, and who cares about breakfast. Fools to the weak-hearted I suppose. I count Voldemorte among the other fools for having no heart, he or she of the 'it happened, get over it' thought flow.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
09/04/2022 8:25 Comments ||
Top||
#5
Leftists and totalitarians. Putting children through their grinder since time immemorial.
And angry children sign on to their disgusting project every day.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/04/2022 8:29 Comments ||
Top||
#6
That was generously said, Whiskey Mike.
Voldemort Sproing4909 sounds like Gandhi’s 1938 open letter to the Jews (link). I give him also the 2009 response of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to Gandhi (link) because they say it so much better than I could. Because this is not irrespective of/for the cause, as if those proto-ISIS jihadis were merely the Hatfields, and Russia the McCoys; this was yet another vicious attack by this generation’s expansionist totalitarian threat *, working to force their beliefs on the entire world, starting with their own neighbourhood.
* Yes, dear Reader, I know that Islam has been trying since the 7th Century, but the threat had been waning until the radical Shiites overthrew the Shah of Iran, inspiring radical Sunnis to aspire to a caliphate of their very own.
#2
Well yeah. It's the old British empire game of divide and rule. We did it in many countries. Iraq and Syria are just the ones people remember because it's recent.
#4
Ayup.
Also, it has nothing to do with millions of Afghans, Syrians, Moroccans and so on HeadlessChicken has accepted under his rule in order to fill the vote plantations... No sireee....
Tragically, we don’t have to do anything to Russia. In another generation there won’t be anyone left in the hinterlands to hold it together. And China is in a similar predicament.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
