{"id":1420,"date":"2016-09-05T13:46:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T13:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2016-09-05T13:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T13:46:01","slug":"us-says-excessive-use-of-force-against-ethiopia-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"US says &#8216;excessive use of force&#8217; against Ethiopia protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Samantha_Power.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1421\" alt=\"Samantha_Power\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Samantha_Power.jpg\" width=\"132\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>JUBA, South Sudan \u2013 \u00a0The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says her country has raised &#8220;grave concerns&#8221; about what it calls excessive use of force against protesters in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Samantha Power spoke to reporters late Sunday as the U.N. Security Council ended a visit to South Sudan. It moves on to Ethiopia on Monday for talks with African Union officials.<\/p>\n<p>Power called the violence in Ethiopia &#8220;extremely serious&#8221; and called for a transparent and independent investigation. She said the U.S. has asked the government to allow people to protest peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has seen months of sometimes deadly protests calling for wider freedoms, while the government has been accused of killings, beatings and internet blockages.<\/p>\n<p>The AU last week for the first time expressed concern about the recent unrest in its host country.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/09\/05\/us-says-excessive-use-force-against-ethiopia-protesters.html\">Fox News<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Samantha_Power.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nJUBA, South Sudan \u2013 \u00a0The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says her country has raised &#8220;grave concerns&#8221; about what&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/?p=1420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;US says &#8216;excessive use of force&#8217; against Ethiopia protesters&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-views-and-opinions","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberethiopia.com\/2013\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}