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Stockholm’s Peace Rally Report
By organizing Committee (November 18, 2004)
The
Eritrean – Swedish community comprising Eritrean political parties,
civic socities with the cooperation of Association for Eritrean Asylum
Seekers in Sweden (AEASS) went out to the Eritrean embassy’s office to
show their anger and disgust against the massacre of Adi Abieto. The
rally defied the stormig, the blowing winds and snowfalls of bad
weather of the day in Stockholm and come in huge number. Demonstrators
have come according the scheduled time with their flags, placards and
slogans.
The rally was guarded by Stockholm’s city police. The
demonstration leader welcomed the demontrators and opened the program of
the rally. In his intoroductory speech,the rally leader told the
audience that such mass -killing in Adi Abeito has occured all over
Eritrea before, and will occur again under the brutal regime, until the
regime is removed by the Eritrean people. ”It is time to come together ,
join hands and bring the criminals before the international court;” he
stressed.
Mr. Idris.,
committee member of the Association for Eritrean Asylum seekers in
Sweden, read the slogans of the demonstration one by one loudly and
good mannerly for the participants.
Mr.
Ibrahim Abdallah ELF representative in Stockholm has delivered a speech
in swedish language about the shooting and killing of innocent yougsters
at the Adi Abieto prison camp, and he stressed and condemned the round
up of civilians and detention followed by killings in Eritrea.
Mr. Sabah
Salah member of the Eritrean Federal Democratic movement has read the
Arabic version of the protest and condemnation letter.
Mr.
Salahadin Abdulahi, chairman of the Association for Eritrean Asylum
Seekers in Sweden read the condemnation letter in Tigrinya.
And Mr.
Hamid Abdallah, representative of the Eritrean National Alliance has
read the condemnation letter in Swedish language.
When the
time of submitting the letter of condemnation to the Embassy was ready,
the police told the demonstrators that the Embassy refused to accept it.
The police told the leaders of the rally to send the protest letter by
post to the Eritrean President.
The
demonstrators already know that the embassy will not accept it and
thanked the police for their cooperation.
A swedish
local newpaper reporter( Lidingِ
local tidning) was present at the demonstration and was briefed about
the human rights violations in Eritrea. The reporter told the organizers
that he will write in the local news paper about the human rights
situation in Eritrea.
Mr. Mehari
Abraham , reporter of the TV Zete in Stockholm has taken the pictures of
the rally and he will report it on the TV reportage, Open Channel, on
Sunday 21nd November at 14.30 local time.
Mr. Eyob
Bisrat, member and information and cultural secretary of the ELF
National Congress (ELF -NC) has taken the pictorial viwes of the rally
by digital camera later to be published in the Eritrean websites.
Finally,
the organizing committee thanked all who have participated in this
memorial cermony for those who were killed in Adi Abieto and the
liberation martyrs who lost their lives for peace, democracy, human
rights respect and the rule of law that are absent today in Eritrea.
After 2
minutes of silence and memory for our martyrs, the rally concluded and
all went home in peace.
Organizing
Committee
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