Oromia region militia forces are reportedly deployed for the forced conscription mission
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Toronto – Ethiopian government is reportedly undertaking a forced draft in cities like Addis Ababa.
According to Meseret Media, security forces were rounding up youth in the capital Addis Ababa and transporting them to military training camps.
Hundreds of youth have been taken to military camps in the past two weeks.
Targets of the forced conscriptions are daily laborers from South Ethiopia, according to the report.
The source also cited a source within the government to report that members of Oromia Militia are undertaking the draft and the militia members are given a quota as to the number of youth they have to round up and bring – apparently to the center from where they are transported to the military training camps.
In addition to Addis Ababa, the draft is underway in Sheger town. They are doing it in daylight.
About a month or so ago, the Ethiopian government declared what it called a “final operation” against Fano forces. Additional 40,000 troops were deployed according to other local news sources.
However, the government did not seem to have managed to turn around the momentum that Fano forces have been demonstrating for over a year now.
For more than three weeks now, the government has been intensifying drone attacks but the victims are mainly civilians as the strikes targeted schools and health centers. Most of the rural areas in the Amhara region are under the control of Fano Forces.
In addition to the war in the Amhara region, the government is battling against the ethnic Oromo militant group, “Oromo Liberation Army.”
Apart from the domestic security situation, tension developed in the region as Abiy Ahmed’s government relations with Eritrea and Somalia deteriorated over the issue of access to the sea. Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia have formed a “military alliance” after the leaders of the three countries met in Asmara earlier this month.
For the past few weeks, Ethiopian State owned media were reporting about completion of military training from various military training schools in the country.
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They’re taking youths by force from Addis Ababa?
We have studied that the suffering of Ethiopians come from their choices in governance and reaction to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church… They have been at civil war since Emperor Haile Selassie I reign was replaced by the DERG.
Then we want to call the dam after them, by changing the words. Ethiopian people maintain Wickedness and Misery to it’s people and trying to disrespect black people for choosing peace and love spiritual practices instead of tribalism and war.
I’m tried of hearing about how these divided tribal governments are jeopardizing the strength of Ethiopia’s sovereignty.
Ethiopian government is reportedly undertaking a forced draft in cities like Addis Ababa? WOW
When did you lost your brain my friend. How on earth you lie such things? it is clear that your support FANO which is fine, but don’t show us that you are low life by wasting your time writing false s**t ANKOLA!!
I personally know people who were drafted, it is happening and I am not surprised by your ignorance as the government is doing a great job at concealing it. Clearly you know nothing of what goes on around you, it is sometimes best to not comment on things you do not know nothing about or fully understand. Civilians, both innocent and arrested for different crimes, are being sent to fight for the government. It might be the government’s right to draft people but it is not its right to hide it from its own people. And please be polite when responding to other people even though they offend you in some way, I thought Ethiopian mothers taught that to their children