NEW(Qeerroo News, Finfinnee, 28 October 2011) The brutal regime of Meles Zenawi government has a plan for another round of mass arrests that mainly target Oromos, Ogaden and Amhara political dissidents, members and supporters of opposition political parties.

According to our sources this plan is only the smaller components of the bigger plan that has been implanted by TPLF’s government since July 2011 to systematically wipe out critical political dissidents in Ethiopia.

This new information we get from our sources noticeably substantiates one of the promises Meles Zenaw made to his parliament recently. During his latest parliamentary address Meles announces that there are several people on whom his government is collecting an evidence to make another round of arrest.

He said "There are people we know they are involved and have a connection with terrorist groups. We just need some more evidence before we take arrests. However, we don’t want to ruin everything by moving too fast”.

According to our sources, this new plan of arrests may also spank some of the government employees and civil servants whom the TPLF see as "potential threats” and "insider information sources” of individuals and Media who are critical of regime.

Belay Olana, who is an expert on TPLF’s Policy on civil service reform, commented that "given the very nature of TPLF and its policy of civil servants and government employees, this news should not be surprising for anyone”.

He said "the government has been doing all in its hand to purge independent and competent civil servants and appointees, whom it thinks as non supporters of TPLF’s policies and marked political dissidents, from its institutions using different mechanisms”.

This expert added that "the ruling party calls this category of government employees as ‘Trojan Horse’ infiltrated the government bureaucracy to speed up the fall of the regime.”

 "Therefore, if government uses its anti-terrorism campaign to purge and prosecute its employees…it is just another means to terrorize and repress its own citizens inside its own apparatus”

In related news TPLF’s Ministry of Justice has established a team whose mission is "to investigate and find out the possible individuals in Ethiopian Criminal Justice Organs”  who have been providing information for news media that are reporting on prevalent abuse of power and inhuman  handling of political detainees in that county.

Our sources inside in the Ministry further indicated that this newly organized team targets the Oromo legal experts and former friends of Mr. Leggese Alemu who was a Public Prosecutor and Director in Ministry of Justice before he fled to America in July 2011.

This team has already contacted and interrogated some of these experts as to whether they provided information for news media or for Mr. Leggese and his contacts after he left the Ministry.

Our sources revealed that, Mr. Kifly Mehari, a veteran member of TPLF and a member of this team directly threatened some of these experts by saying that "Mr. Leggese is a person for whom our government is seriously looking for. If you give any information or documents to this man we will find out and then you will be the one who pay the ultimate price for his acts of betrayal and treason”.

The establishment of this team might be a reaction of the Ministry of Justice to the critical information recently seeps out and subsequently published by several news media. This information was related to members of TPLF who have been playing leading roles in persecuting and torturing of Oromos and other political dissidents in criminal justice institutions, especially in Federal Police Investigation Centers.

According to recent Media reports more than 200 individuals were arrested and charged under Ethiopian Anti Terrorism Proclamation, a piece of legislation that has been aggressively used by the TPLF government essentially to crack down on  Oromos, political dissidents and other professionals critical of the current regime. The victims of these arbitrarily arrests includes prominent artists, politicians, and veteran international and local journalists.