The Assassination of Ethiopian Activist Gezahegn Gebremeskel
The assassination of Ethiopian Activist Gezahegn Gebremeskel There were no Western sources who have covered the assassination. Mail and Guardian Article Ethsat (Ethiopian Source) Flowers left by the community in downtown Johannesburg. Source: Paul Botes Ethiopian activist Gezahegn Gebremeskel was assasinated on Saturday, April 21st in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. Gebremeskel (known as Gezahegn Nebro) was a family man who had lived in Johannesburg with his wife and two children after fleeing political persecution in Ethiopia in the late 1990s. He became a pillar for the Ethiopian diaspora community whom arrivals turned to for both practical and financial support. He too was an outspoken critic of the Ethiopian government, much to the irritation of the Ethiopian embassy in Pretoria. He believed that Ethiopia is "stifling human rights and democracy," which he tried to express at an Ethiopian embassy event in Johannesburg on the 20th of April which was a m...
