{"content":[{"text":"The government of Ethiopia must carry out its basic responsibility to \n ensure public safety and security by ending the politically motivated \n violence in the Oromia, Benshangul and Southern regions of the country. \n In his opening remarks to the recent hearing of the House \n Africa Subcommittee on the crisis in Ethiopia, Rep. Chris \n Smith stressed the importance of Ethiopia, called for a return to \n peace, and said that long-term stability requires dismantling the \n system of ethnic division that was created by the TPLF regime. \n “It is my belief that Ethiopia is one of the two most \n strategically significant countries in Africa–Nigeria being the \n other one–and what happens there is amplified throughout the \n region,” he said. “","bbox":{"left":0.118968,"top":0.08156,"width":0.757681,"height":0.241235}},{"text":"Ethiopian-Americans recommend adding the following language to \n Senate Resolution 97: \n -------------------- \n Add this to the Preamble: \n WHEREAS the unabated and ongoing politically-orchestrated ethnic \n cleansing of Amhara farmers in the Wollega region of Oromia and in the \n Metekel region of Benishangul has resulted in gruesome killings of tens \n of thousands and in the creation, inside Ethiopia and in southeastern \n Sudan, of over 60,000 refugees;","bbox":{"left":0.118968,"top":0.377942,"width":0.7477050000000001,"height":0.204237}},{"text":"Reformulate the language of (1): \n Now be it Resolved, That the Senate— \n (1) Strongly disapproves the attacks on by the now banned Tigray \n Peoples Liberation Movement (TPLF) on Northern Command \n headquarters in Tigray in early November 2020 that no government can \n tolerate, and the Maikadra massacre of civilians by the retreating TPLF \n forces; \n Add a new (B) to the list: \n (5) calls on the Government of Ethiopia to— \n (B) immediately carry out its basic responsibility to ensure public safety \n and security by ending the politically motivated violence in the Oromia \n and Southern regions of the country;","bbox":{"left":0.118968,"top":0.616563,"width":0.7451110000000001,"height":0.280783}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}