Kaliti Prison: An eye-witness account

"Kaliti Prison: An eye-witness account
By Fasil Yenealem
How can a video showing armed men shooting straight into the eyebrows of young bare handed Ethiopians’ be brought as evidence against innocent people, most of whom never pulled a trigger in their life, to convict them as guilty? Who owns the guns?
May God the Almighty be praised, for he has pulled me out of the jaws of the Ethiopian hyena, for he has allowed me to write this urgent call to rescue our dear leaders, journalists and civic society members who have been languishing for almost two years in unspeakable harsh prison conditions. I am not making this call because I am an important figure. I am making this call because I have a moral responsibility as an Ethiopian citizen and I have first hand information about the prison conditions these leaders are in.
I was one of the Kaliti “prisoners of conscience” until my release on April 7, 2007. I have experienced the challenges of passing each day in prison with no means of communication and enjoyment; the challenges of listening to the insults of the uncivilized watchmen pointing their guns at us 24/7; begging them to take us to the so called health center, seeing our family be ridiculed in front of us by the unruly guards during visiting hours; the difficulty of adapting to the temperature of the congested and corrugated iron cells, the stench of the toilets during the hot days; the difficulty to control our temper when hearing the voices of young Ethiopians arrested as ‘adegegna bozene’ (hooligans) begging to be executed rather than being tortured every day.

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