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Human Rights Developments
Defending Human Rights
The Role of the International CommunityEight members of the board of directors of the Human Rights League remained in detention a year after their arrest in October 1997, charged with armed conspiracy with the OLF. On April 8, 1998, security agents raided the offices of the league, took away its office equipment and archives, and sealed the premises. The government refused to register the league following its establishment in December 1996 by members of the Oromo community in Addis Ababa, despite constitutional guarantees of freedom of association. The veteran Human Rights Council continued to function without any form of official recognition or responses to its repeated appeals for human rights improvements. Other monitoring groups, such as the Ogaden Human Rights Committee, the Oromo Ex-Prisoners for Human Rights, and Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners, were forced underground or into exile, and could onlypublish critical reports abroad, increasingly through the Internet. The government authorized the activities of several civic and human rights education groups. An international human rights conference on the establishment of a human rights commission and office of Ombudsman, sponsored by international donors and organized by the Council of People’s Representatives, convened in Addis Ababa in May. Notable absentees were the Ethiopian Human Rights Council, the Human Rights League, and also the private press, who were not invited. |
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