Tens of thousands of city residents marched through the streets of the Ethiopian capital on Sunday in an Andinet-organized rally for democracy and justice. Police were trying to block many people from joining the rally. Andinet rally organizers were taking cautious measures as undercover agents of the regime tried to pit police against demonstrators so that the rally would be disrupted. Activists chanted, among calls for the release of political prisoners, that the “police belong to the people,” in a clear message that the pro-democracy camp abhors violence as opposed to the regime, which has been in power since 1991 against the will of the Ethiopian people.
