{"id":10645,"date":"2016-08-30T09:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T13:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2016-08-30T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:26:35","slug":"amhara-and-oromo-anti-government-protesters-shave-heads-in-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10645","title":{"rendered":"Amhara and Oromo Anti-Government Protesters Shave Heads in Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/ethiopians-shave-heads-to-mourn-fallen-in-oromia-and-amhara\/3485277.html\">VOA News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As protests continued to engulf parts of Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara and Oromia regions this month, citizens are shaving their heads as a sign of solidarity with jailed opposition leaders, VOA News reported.<\/p>\n<p>People posted videos online of themselves shearing off their hair with electric razors in response to a letter smuggled out of prison from Oromo political leader Bekele Gerba and others. In some Ethiopian cultures, a shaved head is part of the mourning process after the death of a loved one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re calling for mourning for those who are martyred, for visiting those who are in the hospital and to pay a visit to the families of the martyrs,\u201d said Jawar Mohammed, executive director of the Oromia Media Network, a dissident satellite TV channel based in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters are also pleading with the government and the international community to stop what he calls the &#8220;mass murder&#8221; of people.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch recently reported that more than 400 people have died since the anti-government protests started in Oromia in November last year. At least another 100 people reportedly died during another round of clashes between police and protesters earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>[Photo by <a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to oromia movies's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13803392@N07\/\" data-rapid_p=\"29\" data-track=\"attributionNameClick\">oromia movies<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: VOA News As protests continued to engulf parts of Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara and Oromia regions this month, citizens are shaving their heads as a sign of solidarity with jailed opposition leaders, VOA News reported. People posted videos online of themselves<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10645\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":10647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2860,1],"tags":[4893,4967,4827],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Amhara-and-Oromo-Anti-Government-Protesters-Shave-Heads-in-Mourning.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10666,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions\/10666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}