(OLF News, May 25, 2009) According to the information OLF News has received from inside sources, the Woyane-Ethiopian regime is on an intensive training of new spies recruited from daily laborers such as shoe cleaners (commonly called “lestros”), daily brokers (dallaalas), and other low income or jobless and homeless people in Finfinnee and other cities in Ethiopia. It is further reported that these new recruits, after completion of the training, will return to their original job or status and collect information from people suspected of opposing the government’s policies or suspected of supporting political parties such as OLF, ONLF, ONC, OFDM, Ginbot 7 or UDJ (formerly CUD) and others, and are required to report their findings to the forces of the regime.
While many countries have reasonable number of intelligence officers to protect the security of their citizens, in Ethiopia, such training of spies by the name of “intelligence personnel”, do just the opposite, namely, they put the security of citizens in danger in order to keep the regime on power by hunting down all innocent civilians who have legitimate grievances over the policies of the regime. All victims of human right abuses of the past in Ethiopia, that have been hunted down by the regimes forces, thrown into jail indefinitely without due process of law, tortured, mutilated and many others killed are by using such low income (some no income at all) unreliable spies or so called “intelligence personnel” who do anything dirty for the regime in order to get paid.
According to further information we received from the regime’s Information Security Agency, the information that is intercepted by committees formed for the purpose of this job will be sent directly to Meles Zenawi’s office. The main committee of this spying duty is said to be lead by Meles Zenawi himself, and includes Minister of defense, Minister of Communication and authorities of Telecommunications Corporation.
It is to be recalled that OLF News correspondent reported on May 12, 2009 that a former telecommunications corporation employee Ms. Haannaa Margaa, who worked at several capacities as operator and now escaped to a neighboring country, exposed that the current TPLF-led Ethiopian regime is unlawfully recording the telephone conversations of citizens in an attempt to control the movement of opposition party and to hunt political opponents of the country, contrary to the privacy right of the people in the country.
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