67 Killed in Ethiopia Unrest, but Nobel-Winning Prime Minister Is Quiet
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was in Russia when the protests broke out and has yet to publicly comment on the violence.
By Simon Marks
Oct. 25, 2019
Updated 5:57 p.m. ET
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Weeks after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is coming under harsh criticism over his silence in the face of protests this week that police said had resulted in the deaths of 67 people.
Mr. Abiy remained at a summit meeting of African leaders in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, Russia when thousands of people took to the streets of the Ethiopian capital and several regional towns on Wednesday.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/world/africa/ethiopia-protests-prime-minister.html
Some of these protests are violent, some are repressed with a lot of violence as in Iraq. I was not aware that Ethiopia was that bad this week.
