(Qeerroo News, Finfinnee, 10 October 2011) The Qeerroo Research and Study team reveals the names of the topmost torturers who tortured and subjected the Oromo, Ogaden and Amhara political prisoners who have been incarcerated in Maekelawi[i] investigation centre in connection with OLF, ONLFA and the Ginbot 7 Movement.

According to Qeerroo research team the following topmost tortures in the Maekelawi Investigation Centre are sadist individuals who enjoy the suffering of others and whose enthusiasm to subject others to suffering appropriately qualifies them in the category of the mentally sick patients.

         Name                              Position

1.  Getachew Aseffa-    Chief of Intelligence  

2.  Tadesse Meseret-    head of Maekelawi

3.  Yohannes –              inspector

4.  Tezerra Bogale –     inspector

5.  Moni Mengesha-     inspector

6.   Ketema –                inspector

7.  Seyid Ali –               inspector

8.  Tadesse Ayalew –  inspector

9.  Berhane –                inspector

10.              Belete –           inspector

11.              Gebre Medhin Nure – inspector

12.              Mulugeta – inspector

13.              Assefa Atikut - vice inspector

14.              Reta Tesfaye- commander

Among these torturers, the ones who are notoriously famous for their boundless cruelty are Yohannes, Ketema, Berhane and Tezerra. For instance,Yohannes Ketema and Berhanu are the torturers who took different innocents to the Finfinne forest and subjected them to untold suffering.

According to the report revealed by the Qeerroo, most of the above torturers are the ones who hanged a plastic bottle filled with water unto male private organ thereby causing great pain and suffering to them.

According to the report these cruel individualists are not only torturing but also engaged in writing the alleged self-confessions of the prisoners and subsequently forced to sign them for the further self-incriminatory system in the country.

"Subsequently, these inspectors presented these allegedly voluntary self-confessions of the prisoners to the court thereby allowing the judges of the ethnicist regime to pass verdict ranging from life-time imprisonment to the death sentences,” says the report.

The Qeerroo team believes that the peace loving nations and compatriots would do all the best to see these notoriously cruel and ethnicist officials of the Central Investigation Office (CIO) would be brought to justice and be penalized for the suffering they have caused to innocent victims during the last years.

 [i] Maikelawi is the well-known detention and torturing center in Finfinnee, Ethiopia. It used to also be called Sostenga Police Tabiya (the Third Police Station) during Mengistu’s military regime. This is the place where Oromo sons and daughters experience the most atrocities committed by the EPRDF federal police, security services and anti-terrorism task force.