Thursday, June 04, 2009

Ethiopia:Wayane charges 46 with 'assassination plot'

AFP
AFP
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia on Thursday charged 46 people, most of them ex-military, of plotting to assassinate government officials, a government spokesman said.

"The charges can be summed up as conspiring to kill different government officials and conspiring to demolish public utilities," Communications Minister Bereket Simon told reporters.

"The prosecution presented the charges to the court today," he said, more than a month after their arrest....read more

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