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01/17/12

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Ethiopia gunmen 'kill five foreign tourists'

Ethiopia gunmen 'kill five foreign tourists'

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Five foreign tourists have been killed in Ethiopia in an attack by unknown gunmen, state TV reports.

The attack was carried out late on Monday in the northern Afar region of the country by gunmen who had crossed from neighbouring Eritrea, the TV said.

Two other tourists were seriously hurt and a third is said to have escaped the attack unharmed. The nationality of the victims was not given.

Afar is regarded as a haunt of both Ethiopian and Eritrean rebels.

Ethiopia and Eritrea have been bitter adversaries since their 1998-2000 border war.

Ethiopian Television (ETV) said the two injured tourists had been taken to a clinic by defence forces.

"The group of foreign tourists was attacked by gunmen late on Monday by members of a group that was trained and armed by the Eritrean government," Ethiopian government spokesman Bereket Simon told Reuters.

"It is the usual terrorist activity by the regime."

A Western diplomat also told Reuters that German nationals were among those killed, but that has not been confirmed.

However, reports in the German media said the tourists had been near the Erta Ale volcano.

Eritrea has so far not commented on the attack.

Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 but the two countries soon became embroiled in border disputes.

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35 comments

Comment from: Derese [Visitor]
This is the trade mark of the terrorist regime of Meles Zenawi. Probably it is a situation created to get sympathy from te West.
01/17/12 @ 22:49
Comment from: Dejazmach Habesha [Visitor]
Its pretty clear what needs to be done. The Ethiopian government needs to start screening the refugees pouring over from artera. The shabia shintamoch cant cross our border or they would eat a barrage of bullets, so they send fighters disguised as refugees. Arms can be delivered from Djibouti, our border is vulnerable there, look at the last Addis Ababa inde baghdad plot, they smuggled explosives into Ethio Afar region from there. These guys then got the weapons and plotted their attack.

The Shabia shintamoch have tried invading us, (big fail 150,000 dead arteran soldiers) they tried using eppf onlf, fail again. Then they tried bombing Addis Ababa they couldnt. So now the maximum they could do is kill foreign tourists because they know it will become international news and give Ethiopia bad publicity.

We need to strengthen cross border security at our Djiboutian frontier. The shabian shintamoch are getting desperate that they stoop to this low level.

I wish peace and comfort to the families of the dead.
01/17/12 @ 23:07
Comment from: john john [Visitor]
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This is Eritrean Shabia messenger job nobody else. It's about time to rethink and find lasting solution.
01/17/12 @ 23:43
Comment from: Bethihu [Visitor]
SHABIAs were given an appropriate punishments for every dirty game that they played agenist the Ethiopian people, and the international communities. So, they will pay a big price for this one as well!


God bless the world!
01/18/12 @ 00:08
Comment from: Gondar [Visitor]
It is normal to be heard such news from TPLF Media,
i think TPLF is responsible for such
crime !!!!!!

in Ethiopian recent history no terrorist action recorded before, even in military regime Derg,
01/18/12 @ 00:52
Comment from: C'est moi senait [Visitor]
I told you all the time.

Shabia will do everything to destabilised Ethiopia. We should bomb their head quarter in Asmara . Sending solders to Somalia is not going to solve the border hit and run problem. Bomb pol pot issayas to stone age. It was not for weyannes ,we the true Ethiopia should have finished them long time ago.
01/18/12 @ 01:05
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
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TPLF Thugs ,time to shut your poisonous mouth ,keep on your tears of crocodile for yourself .Nobody cares about your own family affairs concerning with your Shabyan bros . Afterall your leba master with his agazis is accountable for the Cahotic Situation created by his own Ideology of hates ,Politics based on ethno Clientelim and Regional Mercenary Missiions !!!!
01/18/12 @ 01:19
Comment from: Werner2010 [Visitor]
This is most probably a simple case of armed robbery and an attempt at kidnapping for ransom. 2007 an armed group has committed similar attack and released it's hostages after receiving undisclosed amount of money.
Still there is good chance that Eritrea is behind this crime, because Afeworki has publicly vowed to destabilize Ethiopia.
01/18/12 @ 03:13
Comment from: Shameful [Visitor]
Woyane is on a new front hunting tourists. They suspect everyone and capture to baptise them terrorists like the Swedish in jail, but this time something went wrong. For the reason, they need to accuse Eritrea for their failure as usual:)
What an evil regime! They never fail to lie and get exposed on the spot. But NO SHAME! same old, same old.

The undermentioned statement angered Woyane and forced them to come-up with unfounded another lie to tarnish the INDEPENDENT Eritrea .... read and enjoy:)

NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 16 � Eritrea has been cleared of allegations that
it was arming Al Shabaab militants in Somalia late last year.

A preliminary report by the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group
(SEMG) to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) concludes that
the allegations were untrue.

�The SEMG�s preliminary assessment is that these reports were
incorrect and that the alleged deliveries to Baidoa probably did not
take place,� part of the report states adding that �The monitoring
group also pursued its investigation into alleged arms deliveries by
air to the Al Shabaab controlled airfields in southern Somalia in late
October and early November 2011.�

Kenya had accused Eritrea of delivering arms to the Al Qaeda-linked
Islamists and reported the matter to the Security Council through the
regional Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
The SEMG report was compiled last month.

.......

God save the Horn from uncivilised inhuman and irresponsible invadors (woyane).

01/18/12 @ 03:25
Comment from: kile [Visitor]
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why the goverenment of ethiopia doing nothing in order to stop shabian attack ? without waisting time shabia must wept out of the rigion then the whole countres in the rigion will get peace
01/18/12 @ 03:43
Comment from: German Chancellor, Angela Merkal [Visitor]
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Hahaha, Meles afraid to call them terrorists and not to go forward legally like the Two sweden Journalists.

This is a very simple and basic technic Meles is using to confuse himself. We know everything better than you. We could even use a very simple attack against you and your cadres that you can not find out. You will keep accusing innocent Ethiopians when you can not catch the real treators.

Ethiopia is not a new Country as you are advertising it and causing utter against its past over Three Thousand Years history. You divided its people and its lands. You Massacred Millions of its People from Amhara to Gambella people. Because we don't speak directly to you, we are discussing many criminal issues you committed against Ethiopians for many years. You don't know us, we know you.

For record, you kept collecting Ethiopians name and pictures around the World. It is strictly illegal. You did this in Churches, Mosques, meetings, fundrisings, Renainsance dam investments and by using different examples to collect Ethiopians informations.

BTW, your brain and your empty pockets never contributed anything for Ethiopia. We never seen any 21st century leader who caused hugh damages against their own people and Country like you.

Look Afghanistans, who are much stronger than you, after those horror, they never ask separation and they never give their land to anyone. They fought the World. But, chicken head and simple fool like you, divided Ethiopia and Ethiopians. We have no time for cheap.
01/18/12 @ 05:23
Comment from: Hailu [Visitor]
As usual chimpanzy talk from bereket simon, super-idiotic dedebit logic. Woyane plants bombs in pubs and hotels in addis ababa and blamed it on olf, onlf or eritrea. woyane deploys bombs on the underside of trucks and the next day announces that its intelligence has discovered a bomb from beneath a car. Woyane staged human shield in Hawzen by firing from within the population and market area and staged the scene for the bombing of people of Hawzen. Woyane fired at innocent poor oromo women and childeren and blamed it on OLF. Now this time woyane murdered in cold blooded manner these turists and tries to blame it on some rebeles or eritrea. Woyane trades on blood.
01/18/12 @ 05:26
Comment from: nakfa [Visitor]
it,s bad to kill peaceful tourists for a political millage
01/18/12 @ 05:31
Comment from: alemu kebede ( ye azeb mesfin Pimp) [Visitor]
woyane & eritrean shabia are responsible for this atack , b/c they were both in the jungle 20 years ago , so they both know how to ambush tourists & terrorize innocent civilians .. DEATH TO woyane & shabia . God bless ethiopia
01/18/12 @ 05:36
Comment from: German Chancellor, Angela Merkel [Visitor]
*****
As a Woman and as a genies leader of the famous German people, you Meles, your brain is smaller than our zoo chimp. You short Man, you keep looking short Men to do business. Like Asians.

As a Woman and much, much, much better than you, I will make you to pay many times for the German person you killed in Afar area. I will show you how strong I am. I will make you run with your bare foot to your past foxhole.

You will never see it, we have Satellite Radars that we proofed your criminal acts. I do know your bedroom activities too, Meles.
01/18/12 @ 05:49
Comment from: Debelaa [Visitor]
The issue is much larger than just a single lunatic Individual called Isaias Afwerqe. Eritreans as a society have a distorted view of themselves and the world in general and being in a state of war is their way of covering up their inability to move on as an independent country. These are people who prior to the so called independence hoped Ethiopia to remain weak and exploitable, hence they are now having difficulty to accept the opposite outcome. Therefore, unless this fake and irresponsible piece of society is one way or the other wiped off the map of world (either by incorporating it to the Sudan or Qatar) Ethiopia will never have peace. If there are still Ethiopians who contemplate having Eritrea as part of Ethiopia, they are either ignorant of history or just plain stupid, cos it might sound like a typical Woyanee policy but I am of the opinion that despite the misguided belief by old generations Ethiopians the new generation Ethiopians have proved way beyond anyone's imagination that Ethiopia is capable of growing without these poisonous people and their camel ridden ports. But it seems from incident that Eritreans have just realized the things they should have realized before embarking on independence, the realization that Eritrea is not as big as they thought, and the fact that they have to live as inferior neighbor next to people(ethiopian) they once hoped to fool and loot for eternity. hence they are finding it difficult to accept the inevitable and desperately trying to reverse the irreversible in the hope that they might strike lucky..desperate people do desperate things but I think incidents such as this should NOT provoke Ethiopia because the 'people' of Eritrea although they have the same dream as their God Shabia they are also desperate to be freed from a man they love to hate and Ethiopia should not rush to free people who will breed another 1000 Isais Afeweqes..NO WAR NO PEACE is the way and watch those Eritreans we are inviting to our country cos there is Shabia in every Eritrean!
01/18/12 @ 06:17
Comment from: Bahir Dar [Visitor]
This is for German government and people as well as the Ethiopian government and people.


Few years back, the African enemies tried to stop China's influence/relation with Africa using the Terrorists as it happened massacring 76 Ethiopians and Chinese in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia. But, that situation didn't stop the China-Ethiopia relation. Instead it became the best reason why China and Ethiopia have to become more closer, work and benefit together and having brotherly and sisterly vision and relation for many years to come.

Germany as another best and trusted country Ethiopians want to have close relation and work and benefit together. However, there are some forces/governments including in Europe, don't want Germany to have influence in Africa. There are one or few nations in Europe thinking Africa is their personal property. They don't want others to have normal relation with Africa especially Germany knowing Germany is the hard working and fair people and can do something good for Africa and the world and they don't like that.

So, in this case Eritrea could be a proxy to attack the German and other good foreign people in Ethiopia to stop Germans influence in Ethiopia and Africa in General. Therefore the German and Ethiopia security forces must see the situation this way deeply and from different angles. Take time until you know everything behind before taking any judgment

There is a deep division in Europe and Germany with France and Italy are the leading powers. But there are some groups trying to sabotage the new EU and that group will try everything to affect Especially Germany.

Ethiopia and Germany will become more closer and work and benefit together. China is Ethiopia while Germany is the best friend to Ethiopia. This is what I see in the future. German university lecturers, Experts and others are transferring knowledge with out limitation in to Ethiopia and we thank them for that.
01/18/12 @ 06:25
Comment from: Extraterrestrial [Visitor]
There is something called just war in self defense. Ethiopia have now a legitimate reason or justification in the face of the international community to declare full scale war.

Meles loves to go to Somalia than Eritrea because he have some kind of deep seated weakness and non-Ethiopian nature within him when it comes to invading Eritrea.

Let me hope Meles will come to his senses this time and turn his face from Somalia to the bastard state of colonialism and arabism.

BOMB ASMARA NOW!!!
01/18/12 @ 08:34
Comment from: wegenaw [Visitor]
I would send a couple of jet fighters to Sawa where Isayas hides asap.6
01/18/12 @ 09:39
Comment from: Shameful [Visitor]
The "supposed to be government in Ethiopia" have no control of its border zone? How come Eritrea kill tourists INSIDE Ethiopia? LoL

If the woyane sent guards with the tourists, cannot even save their lives, why send tourists to such places INSIDE your zone?

Tourists should be guaranteed for their lives and shouldn't be exposed to any risk. Safe tourism is the arrangers responsibility.

When accusing Eritrea, Woyane is telling the world that they are not qualified to defend the country. Woyane has given-up.:):):)

If not Please give us some break!
This is childish WOYANE excuse.
01/18/12 @ 13:17
Comment from: Workeneh Bekele [Visitor]
The following is a list of Eritreans in the top echelon of the Ethiopian government (Woyane) junta.

Meles Zenawi (real name: Legesse), half Eritrean , half Ethiopian and naturalized Yemeni, the grand wizard of the TPLF junta

Bereket Simon (real name : Mebratu), full Eritrean, the unimaginative Woyanne propaganda chief who keeps a copy of Joseph Goebbels’ Propaganda Manual under his pillow

Debretsion Gebre-Mikael, half Ethiopian, half Eritrean, TPLF politburo member, radio, TV, and Internet jammer

Samora Yenus, half Sudanese, half Eritrean, Woyanne military chief of staff

Tewodros Adhanom, full Eritrean, TPLF politburo member, health minister

Tewodros Hagos, full Eritrean, TPLF politburo member, supervisor of the Eritrean opposition groups, head of political affairs for Tigray region (nothings happens in Tigray without his knowledge — president of Tigray Abay Woldu reports to him)

Isayas Woldegiorgis, full Eritrean, Woyanne chief assassin (carries out Meles Zenawi’s assassination orders), deputy head of national intelligence (but has more power than national intelligence and security chief Getachew Assefa)

Fasil Nahom, half Eritrean, half Israeli jew, legal adverser to Meles Zenawi

Neway Gebreab, full Eritrean, economic adviser to Meles Zenawi

Yemane Kidane (Jamaica), full Eritrean, former TPLF CC member, became multimillionaire over night, currently personal adviser to Meles and Azeb Mesfin, invests their loot abroad

The above is a partial list. The Ethiiopian government (Woyane) security apparatus particularly is filled with full or half Eritreans who hold multiple citizenships.
01/18/12 @ 14:06
Comment from: tokichawu [Visitor]
This murder is absolutely done by woyane itself for political advantages, I have no doubts in that!
01/18/12 @ 15:10
Comment from: Shameful [Visitor]
Habesha is ashamed to call himself Ethiopian, for the reason baptised himself Habesha which never exist in the world map:)
Habesha use to type hate and division over the Naz for so long changing different nicks as you can read him clearly above ..as
debelaa, Bahr Dar, Habesha and so on.
But the main question is, where are woyane soldiers? Are they engaged on loothing Ethiopian resources to Mekele, while these group of tourist risk their life without any guarantee in Afar area? Why do woyane allow tourists to a place where he cannot guarantee their safety? Woyane advocators use to babble day in and day out from inside their hiding place over here, but deep inside they know that Ethiopia is exposed to different kinds of enemies from inside the country the people of Ethiopia is sick and tired of woyanes imprisoning, dividing, depriving them from their homes and lease their land to foreigners and abroad woyane created thousands of enemies, jailing journalists, sending soldiers to neighbouring sudan/somalia, send woyane thugs to kenya and south sudan to attack the herds and their animals, uncountable crime create more enemies allover.
While woyane call "Eritrea-trained gunmen" they openely mean"opposition group Ethiopians", but all woyane cadres here have no any clue when they even read what their Simon say, forget them understand the reality. AMAZINGLY though they are quick to comment as if they have witnessed the events in person;)

01/18/12 @ 16:28
Comment from: Meron [Visitor]
Translation:
TPLF genocidal regime is scared of internal revolt and is yet again trying to create diversion by mongering war with Eritrea.

It makes no sense for Shabia to do something like this. Serves them no purpose.

Only TPLF would benefit from this. They have shown they have no qualms about murdering thousands if it serves their purposes (Remember Hawzen and also how they starved people in Tigrai during Derg).

We will see who will fight their war if war ever breaks out.
01/18/12 @ 17:21
Comment from: eselem [Visitor]



Ethiopia gunmen kill five touriests..., I do not think so! This is the mercenary's evil deeds. Woyane do not twist your evil deeds.
01/18/12 @ 19:09
Comment from: teddy [Visitor]
Meles Zenawi had them killed and blamed it on the Eriterian government to divert attention from the brewing revolt in Ethiopia and beg money from the west to use it for war against terrorism. The irony is, Woyane is the terrorist and the money US and European nations give him is going to be used to fatten his bank account and to supress dissent by any and all means necessary. Time for woyane to go. Leave Ethiopia for true Ethiopians, not for those, the likes of Meles, who started with hate for Ethiopia and are doing everything in their power to destroy the country.
01/18/12 @ 20:26
Comment from: anonymous [Visitor]
Debelaa , Bahir Dar, Dejazmach Habesha, aka Weyanne Tigray (Hagos) be proud of yourself why do you hide behind some ethnic names? You are busted and come out of the closet. it's the knowing fact only Tigray supports Weyanne. The injustice against Oromo people, Amhara people and Ethiopian in general is done by none other than Tigray your dooms day is approaching fast all your tricks are expired. Everybody knows your moves and how evil you are the chance are living with any of us has been lost. We will come out strong and justice will be done for the Ethiopian people. We know who you are, how evil you are its open secret.
01/19/12 @ 04:04
Comment from: Was no problem [Visitor]
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I f you give a "food" together for to maney animala, they kill everyone and no pease. God gave "Ethiopia" for Meles and Ethuiopia. Instead of builting the whole country from South to North and from east to west commen robery they choose to do silly tiffing and robbery to tigray and Asmara. Instead of finding commen language for administratiopn and education they divede every part by uggly language and ethnik politik.
01/19/12 @ 04:58
Comment from: YEDU [Visitor] Email
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i don't really understand why in the world all these people tends to blame Eretria. well, don't get me wrong, i am Ethiopian and i am very proud of it, however, we should see some kind of responsibility and accountability taken by the EPRDF to make sure that not only tourist but also regular citizens are safe in their own land. the disturbing fact is that they don't know the man, they don't have any evidence wither the person is from other side of the border, yet the EPRDF has the audacity to blame Eritrean :)hello EPRDF, for the past several years you have done everything in your power to harm our people and got away with it, in all these years i have never seen you being responsible, however, when things went wrong; you blame it on the opposition, Eritrea, Somalia or those poor regular citizens. so please tell me when do you man up, when do you become true leaders, when do you become responsible for your own mistake? if you haven’t learned your lesson through all these years (20 yrs) then i promise you won’t learn anything if we gave another 40 more yrs, so i think it is time to go for you!!
01/19/12 @ 17:51
Comment from: Agamino [Visitor] Email
No Matter what, there shouldn't be any war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, with in the coming 20 PLUS years::

Isayas afewerki (Agame!) is the only teacher, who can teach these anseba fools the language they understand!

So starting war against shabia is, just like doing a favor for these anseba fools.

Let them live the misrable life under Isayas Agame, Wedi Adey!!
01/19/12 @ 19:15
Comment from: tati [Visitor]
This is shabo's tererrist crime no right or left i hope they will get what they need and it's very simple. just gather together and pees from the highest mountain easy. No need of waisting one bullet to sing ASHEW AMBESAW just to remind them 1998-2000. German chancellor im so surprise to see your comment here very professional.
01/19/12 @ 21:33
Comment from: Brooks [Visitor]
Formal complain to nazret.com.

I have been using the name "Brooks" since 2007 the day Alan Johonston kinapped in Gaza to remind you the time line.If somebody is using this name,I am not/would not be responsible comments made under this name.Thanks.
01/19/12 @ 22:05
Comment from: Brook [Visitor]
@ tati: what are you reading? Are you being sarcastic or You have no idea what is written? I know you are one of the bloodsuckers Weyanne supporters you guys are knowing for your zero intellect.
01/20/12 @ 02:22
Comment from: Tulu Proud ET [Visitor]
It is the inevitable.

I don’t believe TPLF/EPRDF’s false propaganda that this incident has to do with Eritrea.

This person must be from Ethiopia sick and tired of TPLF controlled government propped up by the help of foreign interest.

People are now up to their neck , fed up with the current leachy and utterly hostile regime sucking and eating everyone’s, blood and flesh.
01/20/12 @ 16:42
Comment from: tati [Visitor]
To Brook Let me make it clear for you. we just need to urinate from the hightest mountaine to wipe you out of the wold map no need to fire one single bullet is it crystal clear? Remember 12 years ago your master was begging to stop the war this time there will be no way out. Mr intellectual.
01/20/12 @ 18:43

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