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BBC reported 38 Ethiopian opposition leaders were found guilty of links to 2005 protests aganst alleged pool-ringging, in which 193 people died. Sentencing is next month and they could face the death penalty,says the BBC's Elizabeth Blunt in Ethiopia. The charge ranged from armed rebellion to "outrage aganst the constitution". BBC noted that hundreds of thousands took part in demonstrations complaining of fraud and vote-ringging by the prime minister Meles Zenawi's government in the 2005 pools. Most of the dead were protesters killed by security forces but the government also claims that policemen had also died. An independent inquiry carried out by an Ethiopian judge concluded that the police had used excessive force.He went to accused them of carrying out a massacre. The judge later fled Ethiopia saying he had been put under pressure to change his findings and had received death threats.
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