October 27, 2000

THE RULING PARTY (TPLF) CALLED UPON TO ACCOUNT FOR THE MURDER OF SCORES OF PEOPLE

            Concerned Ethiopians and relatives of the murdered people have called upon the ruling party, the Tigrean People's Liberation Front, to answer for the crime of murdering scores of people, many of whom were its own members and cadres. The TPLF (which makes up the core and most of the officially ruling EPRDF) is accused of arbitrarily murdering the following people: 1. Teclu Hawaz, member of the central committee of the TPLF and a former teacher from Adua;

2. Atsbeha Dagnew (aka Shewit), deputy member of the CC of the TPLF;

 3. Dawit, from Agame region, a leading member of the TPLF's Mass Mobilization Department;

 4. Nigisti Woldu (female), also a leading member of the above department;

5. Hagos Haile Selassie, a student from Adua;

6. Abera Menka, a student from Enderta;

7. Iqubagzi Beyene (aka Rezene), from Axum, a University student;

8. Nega Tecle Mariam, student from Tembien;

 9. Fisseha Seifu, a student from Tembien;

10. Hailal, a student from Kilte awalalo;

11. Gizaw, a radio technician;

 12. Abebe, a student from Erbakassa, Tembien;

13. Alula, a graduate of the Alemaya agricultural college;

14. Hintsa Shifferaw, a student from Axum;

15. Mulugeta Abraha, a leading member of the TPLF's cultural troupe;

16. Gidey W. Giorgis, a university student who hailed from Shire;

17. Tewolde "Djibouti", from Axum, a musician;

18. Asmelash Asegehey, from Adua, clandestine organizers for the TPLF in urban centers'

19. Wolde Hawaryat (Hadgay), from Tembien;

20. Gebre Tsadkan, a student from Adua;

21. Berhane Gebre Michael, a student from Adua;

22. Yekuno, a student from Agame;

23. Haile Selassie Gebre Meskel, from Adua;

24. Gebrehiwot Berhane (aka Bado-bado), from Tekuz, Adua

 25. Hagos Atsbeha, who had worked for the TPLF in the Sudan;

26. Grazmatch Belay Gebru, from Qolla Tembien;

27. Abadi Tedla, from Degga Tembien;

28. Worku Leul, from Gera'alta, Enderta;

29. Araya Asfaw, from highland Tembien;

30. Asfaw Welde Aregay, from Yeha, Adua (a former footballer and trainer);

31. Kebede Gebre Igziabher, from Adiet, Axum;

 32. Memher Semali, a monk from Shire;

 33. Nasser Abdel Semed, a theologist from Shire;

34. Fitawrari Embiza, from Adua;

35. Yemane Gebre Meskel, a member of the central committee of the Tigray Liberation Front (TLF);

 36. Yohanes Tekle Haimanot, a member of the CC of the TLF;

 37. Gebre Yesus Gebre Igziabher, a student kidnapped from Adua ;

 38. Tadesse Tilahun, a member of the CC of the TLF;

39. Berhe Gebre Mariam, a teacher kidnapped from Adua;

 40. Grbre Kidan Gebre Tensai,a farmer from Adua.

Updated  17.11.2000

41. Fitewrari Bitsue Welde-Georgis Enderta (Seharti) 

42.Wezero Bafena Atsibiha Enderta (Seharti)

43. Gra-azmach Taddele Maru Tembien 

44.Kegna-azmzch Kiros Maru Tembien 

       This is but only a partial list of the people murdered by the TPLF during its struggle fo  r power. The TLF was a rival organization whose leadership was killed by the TPLF which had called them for a reconciliation meeting.

            Relatives of the above and of the many others killed by the TPLF in Tigrai are demanding that the TPLF

 (a) brings to trial those who ordered and committed the killings and 

(b) makes an open account of the many other innocent people killed by the organization prior to its assumption of power. 

            SOCEPP supports their call and demands that the TPLF reveals the names and number of dissidents and innocent people it had arbitrarily killed in that period.

SOCEPP