Oromo political prisoners constitute 85% of Qaallitti inmates
Oromo Affairs Blog - August 24, 2007
Three Ethiopian journalists recently freed from Qaallitti prison have escaped to Nairobi, Kenya where they gave interviews to the Washington Post Foreign Service (WP). According to WP:
“The journalists estimated that perhaps 85 percent of the inmates were political prisoners from Oromia.”
"There was a 90-year-old man and an 86-year-old man," said one journalist. "One had been there for 12 years, the other for eight years, and they were still waiting for a trial. The 86-year-old had scars all over his body from being beaten. If you heard their story, you would not think you are living in the 21st century." (Read WP report HERE) ...