Posted by: jeffmooney | April 4, 2008

Ethiopia: Local Instigator of church Attacks Released from Custody

Compass Direct has posted a disconcerting article concerning the brothers and sisters in Ethiopia. Here is an excerpt.

ISTANBUL, April 1 (Compass Direct News) – Ethiopian judicial authorities have released a prominent local official accused of instigating deadly church assaults that left one Christian dead and 17 wounded last month.

Local Christians confirmed over the weekend that Hussein Beriso, house speaker of the Nensebo District Council, has been released on bail by a court in southern Ethiopia’s Oromo region. But 20 other Muslim suspects arrested over the machete attacks against two churches in Nensebo Chebi village on March 2 remain jailed, a local source said.

Go here for the full article.

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