APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Cholera outbreaks have hit several concentration camps where tens of thousands of ethnic Amharas are detained in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa and Oromia region state.
Health professionals on Saturday told APA on condition of anonymity that as many as 300 detainees have died due to the Cholera outbreak.
Pictures and video footages have been widely shared on social media outlets in the past few days purportedly show thousands of people rounded up in a camp and some of them receiving medication.
As many as 40,000 ethnic Amharas have been detained since Abiy Ahmed’s administration declared a state of emergency in early August in response to the armed resistance of ‘Fano’ combatants in Amhara region.
Some are seen receiving IV Fluids. Most of the images are from Tulu Dimtu area – in the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa – which the Oromia regional state included in the Sheger City Project where over 100,000 residential homes, mostly targeting ethnic Amhara, were demolished on alleged grounds of “illegal settlements.”
A large portion of ethnic -Amhara in Tulu Dimtu make-shift concentration camps were randomly arrested in the capital Addis Ababa, eyewitnesses told APA.
The Ethiopian government this week denied that it does not have a concentration camp and that the number of people it has arrested is only 764. Video footage circulating on social media, however, appears to show that more ethnic Amharas are in detention.
In a statement issued this week, the government said that its detention centers are in Kombolcha, Gondar, Bahir Dar, Shewa Robt and Awash Arba ( in the Amhara and Oromia regions).
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