Protests in Ethiopia

Ethopian Students Protesting -- Note the US Flag.

BBC reports:

Hundreds of Ethiopian students have been arrested in the capital, Addis Ababa, after staging protests over last month's elections.

Baton-wielding police stormed the two university campuses which the students had occupied. They had accused the ruling EPRDF party of fraud.

The EPRDF has won a majority of the seats declared so far.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi banned demonstrations for a month following the poll.

"Where are they taking my son?" cried the mother of one student as he and others were herded by police onto one of eight trucks, each carrying about 80 people, reports the AP news agency.

"We are demonstrating because EPRDF is making a fraud, misleading the whole international community saying they have won," one student yelled through the gates of the social science school before the police took action.

Read the whole thing here.

Gateway Pundit is all over this thing. Check him out here, and particularly note the role Jimmy Carter played in this mess.

Also check out the comments at Ethiopundit here.