Ethiopia (Vol 13, 2016)
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All the year’s events were overshadowed by persistent demonstrations and protests by, mainly rural, people against political repression and perceived inequalities in land allocation and against dispossession. The lives of hundreds of people were lost in violent repression, and there were also tens of thousands of arrests. Bloodshed and anger dominated the country for months, and demonstrations and pockets of armed resistance persisted even after the declaration of a ‘state of emergency’ in October and the instalment of a new ruling body, the ‘Command Post’, which took extrajudicial authority to “restore public order” and suppress activism. The overall situation was one of political stalemate, disarray and distrust.
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Ethiopia (Vol 13, 2016)
in Africa Yearbook OnlineSearch for other papers by Jon Abbink in
Current site
Google Scholar
(6,115 words)