Ethiopia: Government by trikery · Global Voices
Sokari Ekine

Ethiopundit reports on the BBC news item stating that the Ethiopian government had released 2,417 who had been detained  during last weeks demonstrations.  However, Ethiopundit points out that “We only have the word of a murderous dictatorship that these people were released. No one knows how many were arrested to begin with. No one really knows how many were even killed. This is a classic Soviet style maskirovka effort just like the deception operations of an intelligence service……A false layer of pseudo-rational good will is being painted over a bloody massacre and crackdown against innocents. So much we hear from this government is this form of ‘mengist be'ashattir’ (government by trickery).