Ethiopia: plotters sentenced on terrorism charges
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
February 21, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) – Court in Ethiopia tried two men under country’s new anti-terrorism law on accusation of a plot to carry out terrorist attacks against government officials.
The Federal court of Ethiopia passed 18 and 21 years prison terms to the defendants who admit their guilt.
The plotters were accused of preparing to assassinate top government officials, destroy public facilities and major infrastructures of the Country.
Earlier in January, Ethiopian security forces said that they have foiled Eritrea backed terrorist attack and arrested a number of people belonging to a terrorist group.
The alleged terrorists were caught with various weapons in their hands while they were trying to cross to Ethiopia from Eritrea via Sudan.
The Ethiopian federal police said that the plotters have admitted being trained and receiving weapons from Eritrea.
The foiled attack was also meant to disrupt Ethiopia’s upcoming national election scheduled to be held in May 2010.
Ethiopia has repeatedly accused arch-foe Eritrea of orchestrating such attacks, something Asmara denies.
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Ethiopia: plotters sentenced on terrorism charges
Sudanese government to secure the bordering areas with Ethiopia and Eritrean closer with Sudanese area.
Gadaref, Kassala, Red Sea, (Port Sudan), and Halayeb.
The weapons might come through Hamas via. Iranian backed Hezbullah though from via. Suez Canal or either from Yemeni Shiites groups backed by Iran.
By the way, the peoples of Gadaref, Kassala, and Red Sea Sudanese tribes speaks Amharic and Tigrinya dialects as well as Arabic, so it is very intensified and compricated with these groups of tribes.
The Beja is the one of them.
The Ethiopian government should help Sudanese Referendum 2011.