Portland protesters, Ethopian immigrants decry violent unrest in Ethiopia Portland's Oromo community is drawing attention to thousands of arrests and hundreds killed during human rights protests in Ethiopia. Duration: July 11, 2020About this story (transcripts) :Black lines matter protests are not the only demonstrations going on in portland the home to a large ethiopian community today they martian solidarity with other ethiopian immigrants all over the us they're trying to draw attention to what's happening in their homeland hundreds killed and thousands arrested in a fight over human rights katherine cook reports moi. In a timely protest happen almost daily in portland this group doesn't want to be overlooked as. Most of these oregonians including the matches actually lab are from ethiopia specifically the country's ethnic group they want others to know what's happening as their people fight for human rights Am honored to be here with you today at the heart of it ethiopian prime minister of the arc minute peaceful resolution of the border disputed through in ethiopia and eritrea he recently delay democratic elections and has been operating military posts in the original rejected moi late? Last month deal realm of people's oppression reached a fever pitch when a roman musician an activist actually decent was assassinated since then more than two hundred people have died the original accuse the prime minister of targeting the singer who spoke out against him just days before his death and this is just a systemic operation there what we understand right now is that there's a civil war going this is the second time portland's oral community has protested publicly who the last week marching over the burn side bridge they plan to continue protesting until everyone understands their plight to listen to us we're taxpayers in oregon most of us here our healthcare workers were people who to the community you're on a community is asking morgan lawmakers to pull all support for during this time of unrest a member of the community shared an email they receive from senator jeff berkeley's office it says someone from his forebears policy team will be happy to me with them virtually next week office confirms they've been in touch those here say they welcome all support as they fight whether love lines thousands of miles away and join us in our peaceful protests emailing treating the senators and the representatives reach out please bleeding invert in portland just

Source: Ethiopian News July 11, 2020 07:05 UTC