{"id":12683,"date":"2020-01-28T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12683"},"modified":"2020-01-28T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:06:23","slug":"hate-crimes-flourish-in-ethiopia-to-the-silence-of-ethiopian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12683","title":{"rendered":"Hate Crimes Flourish In Ethiopia To The Silence Of Ethiopian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 4 Mosques ablaze, more than 150 Muslims shops, properties damaged, robbed since last December<\/p>\n<p>Political experts and residents of the East African country told that the government has remained silent amid a wave of hate crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Idris Yeba, a political analyst Turkey\u2019s, Ankara, believes the government is busy focusing on lesser issues when its primary function should be maintaining law and order.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 21, unknown attackers vandalized and destroyed Muslim shops and properties and spray-painted hate slogans on parked cars. Yet the media and government officials neither denounced it nor took legal action.<\/p>\n<p>The hate crime took place during the celebration of Ethiopian epiphany after a group of people refused to allow Christians to hang flags on a mosque&#8217;s walls a day before the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Yared Getachew &#8212; a resident of Addis Ababa who once lived in Harar, the city which saw the recent hate crime &#8212; that Harar was a city known for peaceful and harmonious co-existence between Muslims and Christians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things are becoming worse, especially after the change,&#8221; he said, referring to the recent action.<br \/>\n&#8220;The elite are playing at the outflow of the public,&#8221; he said, adding people had been living peacefully in spite of their religious and ethnic differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 4 Mosques ablaze, more than 150 Muslims shops, properties damaged, robbed since last December Political experts and residents of the East African country told that the government has remained silent amid a wave of hate crimes. Idris Yeba, a political analyst Turkey\u2019s, Ankara, believes the government is busy focusing on lesser issues when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12685,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683\/revisions\/12685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}