Special coverage of the 25th anniversary of the srebrenica genocide just. After 98 you watching the stream it has been a week since the assassination of a child. He was a musician a roma activists well known in ethiopia the for that has included people on the street people being arrested internet being closed down and media being closed down as well theres so much to talk about the if you can the asper is huge i know that youre already in are you to chat if you go outside to add to this conversation would love to hear from. I want to say hello to the guest the guests will greet you please tell our audience who you. Are in one way or you know are. Currently. Ok. Its good to have welcome to the stream introduce yourself to an international audience. Hello everyone i never saw a lot of International Lawyer working on internet is it. Good to have you welcome back to the stream. Thank you for joining us again tell it will hear you well. Thank you for having me my name is all us along the seahawks to grandmas house and i live in washington d. C. Now you may have heard there is no government representative in this conversation that is an important thing to add because we invited the government they said yes they agreed because of the internet shutdown they were only able to join via the phone because of the internet shutdown were not able to have them join the show because the show is a virtual show and everybody has to connect by the internet is its very unfortunate and also a big point of our conversation today so let us start with this incredible aroma musician i know. You did a tribute to him who wrote about him we spoke about him he started the most recent protests amongst the Roma Community tell us a little bit about what he makes the Roma Community. If you was missing from his passing. Hes a towering. Moved to the cultural and. Spiritual in golden eggs of course. Movement. Your claim of the. Prime minister into our. Creative or. In terms of really being who still wonders in finding the kind of the quick expression. Of 2 people in the. d wake. d of the last 2 or more. But i think he is somebody who. Certainly for whats. More you me or who are hope to accomplish in our lifetime. I want to go to. My colleague mohammed at dow he did a report about essence fuel so you can see what a Huge Investment actually was and 7. The funeral for theo paean singh a child who was held in his native town as undressed over his death spread from the original where he was seen as a hero. The crowds of morris were not as big as and dissipated many say that when tun away by police and easy the funeral procession on and on the protest got that. The single was shot in the capital of the suburb on monday the motive for his killing remains unclear the musician and activist embodied thus partitions of ethiopias Largest Ethnic Group the oral more songs focused on the rights of all more people and became on thumbs in a series of protests that led to the downfall of the previous Prime Minister in 2008 team. So then im just looking at a headline from out in syria dot com here more than 160 killing a few of your protests of a sickness not. Can you help us understand why was that happen why would there be so much violence. And assassination but send violence on the people who were trying to on am trying to get to the funeral it seems like a tragedy on top of the tragedy. Thank you very much. First of all it takes is opportunity to express my deepest condolences to everyone grieving of hijo and as are innocent citizens who were killed last week you know me our region and be said hi john was a very bright and i would say free spirited and shes dead is. Very shook it should shocking news to all of us. Are going to need an ideological differences i think. I dont do that daily high profile as a nation but its by no means and its only didnt see it in. One incident that we have seen in the last 3 years as a country. And she came hygienist around. We saw no opposition and as a government we were already trading in solitaires and traitors if theres a lection was our support and all that and of course as a crisis that ensued he is and what has transpired. Once more showed as existence of. Social and opponent the problem in the country is a killing of innocent citizens. From years. And years one has. A disagreement. And still we dont know what. We dont know dont have. To see who was the killer. Who is. Their government. And. Were missionaries its or not a judge but why did you or your choice the bigger picture. Here in syria let you know when you know your i. Q. Were going with this i know you lose weight is tweeted you this is from a manual a manual says how to lose not it is just a trick radical ethno nationalism in 83. 00 its time to mint at the root of the armrest you take is once. Well. This is a very simplified in our statement to the deep rooted problem that we have in the country for the last 2 years the country has been. Very. Volatile situation and it was actually kind of. What you call it. Into. High profile people. For example. You can take the assassination of. The chief of staff John Mclennan and original. Actual and other high profile. In the country so. I dont want to say that. Its because of. The narrative that we have from different ethnic groups its a very simplified segment for me to call these. Narratives. Actually. Is not for me for me. And it has meaning in. Our regional leadership. For the last 2 years now as we speak. Internet access in the country and its also. Blocked t. V. Stations like independent you stations like or amman and. The great t. V. And another t. V. Station called. So its really sad that this situation that we are in as a country is really. And on the whole that the does or fight on who can disarm exacerbate the situation i was. Not only to the or more but he was it was 2 nations in the finale. Its really shocking and its i consider it as a murder. As. There is to our democracy to difference in opinion and. To. Demand off. In different parts of the country because he is being voicing for us of this sort of uncertain Self Determination of oh i want to put the city you guess and i was in touch with the. Office. The Prime Minister earlier on today and again were having issues getting content on to asho we tried really hard but one of the things i heard was the media entities are fanning the flames and that there are rumors going around which arent true and this is a politically motivated assassination. This these are the governments response to a lot of what is being talked about right now how will how would you respond to that. For a course i dont want to say one. New relation to your question about this north. Korea thing that got us honestly where is the. Interview for which or infinitely beaten out of those others. For the last minutes of the years that i think ignore. It and do that and being deliberately close huge by some of. Them a little bit into it its different now i think all of them are also. And this is being a huge. You know acid occasion to facilitate that kind of ringback presentation just to the. Country house and return to the country to. Time also as those holdouts she would be orderly person that would have the visit everything that happened theyre going to stop by and use for them to move out that you know its a. Its in terms of. The. Governments response that this is a politically motivated it all evil it was a submission that was used who really had the motivation to. There might be multiple actors who know that interest was needed in both the government before he heard voices. Her or. Her or it was noticed. Or whether this would be fair there are some. Fired used voice us who are and no immediate new yorker or we knew their way to so no apparent employee has. Let me let me bring in. On it this is what he said he in the wake of investors to this have listened. To the other touch and the like what our enemies want is that we dont finish the work that we started that the aroma people for this reason fight are killed the blood is spilled that the journey that we started gets derailed the undercover. So africa for life theres so much going on online you choose from so much were having a vibrant conversation on like africa for life makes a good point when are you going to talk about all the good the good abby has done its not misinformation and tactics. There has been reform democratic reforms where are you now compared to a year ago in ethiopia is this. Easy if you have me going in the right direction we got a democrat even though the internet was that kind of a dunce does not. Wear on the good as he has done. Before i go. Question let me know if you want mystery go to what i want to say earlier i think we should understand that there are serious problems. If your peon media cycle. Media. Which have been broadcast. Driven propaganda i can i can mention what what was happening in the last few few days for example we can mention or. Even said. They have been broadcasting the speech and some of where is that actually calling for extermination of minorities who are let me not only have read so. I may be back to coming back to your question i think. Prime minister is one of the Prime Minister of years one of the most progressive leaders that we have seen we have seen in recent history of the country has released many many prisoners of course there was a conclusion of the public protests. That made to him to come to power but yeah we have mentioned a blocking off entirely in blocking off entirely that is not the 1st time that we have been rocking of. It was there. 27 years when theres a degree and. I know its hard for you to. Connect in prior the internet i got a message on twitter a few days ago and it said i am so fed up with the internet being closed down every time that there are protests every time in some discomfort the government whether its this current government if its previous. Current governments why is it that the internet is shut down remembering that if you are right now and i think as a teen people how much people are trying to do that well that is really irritating for people not to have the internet seeing that other government stray should also shut down the internet does not necessarily make it might now be counted on thank you for being in to. Think that what he says that there are people who are hired by abbe are made to spread false information on the social media so both sides of this debate a planing that is force in summation i am just wondering about this promise this year maybe i cant really Say Something on the sat if i did i may. Im going to get stuck on the media even though im part of the media im going to push. That allow will allow me to push and i was going to be at the end of the show weve only ever spoken about media art so. There was this promise this this this its easy as im so ill be on it as Prime Minister he is from the aroma ethnic group of people very excited that he could bring unity to ethiopia what do you think about where we are now with ethiopia is he face not. Just i dont consider ideas on issues because the us. Is to to to have their own right and to live with. Other nations initially. Peacefully and you know how many but they want to have. You know their own. Version of questions to be answered there in months to be addressed but he has never been committed to on these questions. So i think from day one what i want. You know if you want to finish let me finish i did you. Want to finish you finish there ill let you finish right with me. I know that im going to tell you didnt think that everyone knew each other i will finish so in one sense. The reason the very beginning people hundreds and to be very optimistic was that it got to the leadership of i mean when he used. Of course he was. Promised by the previous leader and a result of. You know reform by the r. B. S. But. I would like to give him credit for that for releasing prisoners for opening up the media but what we have right now is broke it off internet communication in the country all funded media are banned. On it and. You are also very not. Going to keep going back all. You do you. Give the courts time i would say youre reinforcing an argument youve already made between folks. No i was saying i think. It is a Prime Minister and is somehow going to get a stage because a Prime Minister has been trying to unify a country that he has inherited which was quite divided of chords there are some limitations but to argue of him being for example again is certified mr is it is is it is a total light for now we can take this you dont want people. People where do you for so if i did nutrition for 27 years and 30 period didnt responded to that question and the Prime Minister could manage to respond in less than 2 years how can she do that if you 900. 75 i know that other. People. For the last 27 years sit down my people when. I dont think so little bit again you have got it. Right just to say the you tube audience ok just give them a little bit of a break they hear that you are. Only chew and i dont really want to put this to you our people are asking for abbey Prime Minister. To step down they say he needs to resign part of this its due to the fact that the top elections have been postponed until im not too sure way is this a cool through resignation is. Sounding off or we see something is a reasonable thing to ask in these current situation. I think i think there. Is a once in a do if you have to fix. The most important my b. G. Higher when we come to our. National consensus. For healing with and eventually where you look he spent a considerable part of his. Normal hans the deeper if you guessed it how was this violence that we had seen now indicates is really the deeper fracture that exists within that your best it well that i am so you do to do with the belief was that. And really the serious problem on the line is that i understand the. Challenges pursue truly took on students that kind of i think to the solutions and erasure. Thats somewhere or certainly said by your people to hear and he could have voted out who did well who appeared to be and he dismantle the kind of structure that you know in the person that is it provided in the newsgroups newsnight is with the citizens to do it within our created this is kind of your heart the and how to uses it resources to do this is miss it is ours the possibility for if weve been open individually almost caught so you know what extent any point of the illusion will be had given the argument is look at least our understanding of the ways in which it is extended even a dubious news who will get it done and i think it is all of these things not just that us initially. I order squeeze this one more coming in because it takes us back to how we started we are alan is a journalist and he had this important point to make out the assassination of a beloved singer and then the fallout from the assassination. Immediately after i had. Islamists inside india to going to see this incense at most a 100 people. Most of the mass in the end or was fish had ass many houses and it is necessary. To i didnt seem people who were in annecy use after trying to misuse International Media and media as a giving person permission doesnt think 20 hes government has arrested not only is a person who is saying friends but also position figures who are known for. That it is. So much conversation on i am. Disappointed that we didnt get the governments voice on to the program thats one good reason to hats have internet available for every country despite the conversations and the political conversations are happening i did also tapping into the Prime Ministers spokesperson and i had to say that they wanted a new era of trust and federation. 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