According to OHCHR, the Oromia Support Group ( OSG ) recorded 594 extra-judicial killings of Oromos by Ethiopian government security forces and 43 disappearances in custody between 2005 and August 2008.

According to tradition, Haile Selassie was the 225th in an unbroken line of Ethiopian monarchs of the Solomonic Dynasty.

According to him, in the government's ensuing conflict with the Ethiopian Olympic Committee, who wanted him to compete, he didn't get sent to either event.

According to Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church tradition, the straits of Bab-el-Mendeb were witness to the earliest migrations of Semitic Ge ' ez speakers into Africa, occurring roughly around the same time as the Hebrew patriarch Jacob.

According to the medieval Ethiopian cultural work called the Kebra Nagast, Sheba was located in Ethiopia.

According to materials published by the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency, the Blue Nile has a total length of, of which are inside Ethiopia.

According to Marcus, many of the Ethiopian nobility and commoners were impressed by the early successes of the Central Powers, and both listened eagerly to German and Turkish propaganda concerning events.

According to Blumenbach, there are five races, all belonging to a single species: Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, American, and Malay.

According to the Ethiopian Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, 412 tonnes of fish are landed each year, which the department estimates is 69 % of its sustainable amount.

According to Ethiopian cultural history, Bete Giyorgis was built after King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty had a vision in which he was instructed to construct the church ; Saint George and God have both been referred to as the one who gave him the instructions.

According to materials published by the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency, the Shebelle is 1130 kilometers long, extending for 1000 km inside Ethiopia and 130 km inside Somalia.

According to the Ethiopian government 36 countries including India, China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia had leased farm land there in March 2011.

According to historical literature from the Addis Ababa Mulu Wongel Church, Ethiopian devout Christians who didn ’ t approve of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church got exposed to the Evangelical movements occurring in Europe in the 16th and 17th century.

According to the 2005 statistics from the World Christian Database, Ethiopian Pentecostal / Charismatic members cover a bit over 16 percent of the country as P ' ent ' ays of Ethiopia.

According to membership and adherent records provided by the various churches and denominations, Ethiopian Protestants claim as high as 18. 59 % of the country's population.

According to Voice of the Martyrs there have been brutal killings of P ' ent ' ay Christians in rural areas that tend to be overlooked by the Ethiopian rural officials and stay undisclosed to international organizations.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ( 1977 ) this term includes groups such as Jewish Christians, Quartodecimans, Ethiopian Christians, descendants of English Puritanism such as the Seventh-day Adventist Church and others, who claim the necessity of obedience to the Mosaic Laws which are found in the first five books of the Christian Old Testament.

According to Ethiopian historian Tekletsadiq Mekuria, Herihor's father was the former High Priest Amenhotep, and his mother was a daughter of Ramses IV.

According to Tesfaye Gebre Mariam, Tekle Haymanot " is the only Ethiopian saint celebrated officially in foreign churches such as Rome and Egypt.

According to Alice Faber ( based on Hetzron's work ), together with Ethiopian Semitic languages ( such as the contemporary Ge ' ez language ) and the Modern South Arabian languages ( not descended from Old South Arabian but from a sister language ), they formed the western branch of the South Semitic languages.

According to the U. S. Department of State, there were 441 orphans visas issued to Ethiopian children in 2005, and 732 issued in 2006.

According to the colophon attached to most of the existing copies, the Kebra Nagast originally was written in Coptic, then translated into Arabic in the Year of Mercy 409 ( dated to AD 1225 ) by a team of Ethiopian clerics during the office of Abuna Abba Giyorgis, and finally into Ge ' ez at the command of the governor of Enderta Ya ' ibika Igzi '.

According to a 1999 report commissioned by Israel's Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, 75 % of the Ethiopian Jews living in Israel could not read or write Hebrew.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

According to the Department of Defense, the " Order of Titus award is the only award presented by the Chief of Chaplains to recognize outstanding performance of ministry by chaplains and chaplain assistants.

According to the U. S. State Department, " U. S. relations with Burkina Faso are good but subject to strains in the past because of the Compaoré government's past involvement in arms trading and other sanctions-breaking activity.

According to the United States Department of Energy, the wide range of its current and projected uses, together with the lack of any immediately suitable replacement, makes dysprosium the single most critical element for emerging clean energy technologies-even their most conservative projections predict a shortfall of dysprosium before 2015.

According to the U. S. Department of Commerce, opportunities exist for both on-and offshore oil and natural gas exploration ; however, these prospects have yet to come to fruition.

According to the US Department of State 2009 human rights report there are hundreds of political prisoners in Ethiopia.

According to Cyrus Vance's close aide Marshall Shulman " the State Department worked hard to dissuade the Soviets from invading.

According to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs White Paper on Foreign Policy, there were 213, 000 Irish citizens living in Australia in 1997 ; nearly three times the number of Irish-born immigrants to the country.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.

* According to the US Department of Justice, prison time as a percentage of the time sentenced to jail was 73 % in 1993 and increased to 86 % in 1997.

According to the Justice Department, " There has been no policy change nor blanket instruction for FBI agents to Mirandize detainees overseas.

According to the U. S. Department of State, " The Constitution provides for an independent judiciary ; however, the executive branch has exerted undue influence on the judiciary.

According to the records compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission, in 2009, the United States Department of Justice typically convicted a little over 81, 000 people ; of this, approximately 800 are convicted of money laundering as the primary or most serious charge.

According to the Justice Department 1 in 3 women have suffered rape or attempted rape, more than twice the national rate.

According to a US Department of State report on human rights practices, the government of North Korea often punishes the family of a criminal along with the perpetrator.

According to the U. S. State Department, Nauru ’ s GDP volume was US $ 1 million in 2004.

According to the Nevis Department of Culture, the aim is to protect and encourage indigenous folklore, in order to make sure that the uniquely Caribbean culture can " reassert itself and flourish ".

According to the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 198, 600 Physical Therapists employed in the United States in 2010, earning an average $ 76, 310 annually, or $ 36. 69 per hour, with 39 % growth in employment projected by the year 2020.

According to the now defunct Department for Constitutional Affairs, the Prime Minister is made a Privy Counsellor as a result of taking office and should be addressed by the official title prefixed by " The Right Honourable " and not by a personal name.

According to a 2009 U. S. State Department communication by Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State, ( disclosed as part of the Wikileaks U. S. ' cables leaks ' controversy in 2010 ) " donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide ".

According to the U. S. Department of State, more than 109, 000 children were working on cocoa farms alone in Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ) in " the worst forms of child labor " in 2002.

" According to the U. S. State Department report and reports by Human Rights Watch, the other Pakistani nationals fighting in Afghanistan were regular Pakistani soldiers especially from the Frontier Corps but also from the army providing direct combat support.

According to the Virgin Islands ' Department of Labor, close to 50, 000 people make the local workforce and are associated with various small and large businesses.

According to the U. S. Department of Labor, the Vietnam Era Veterans ' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 ( VEVRAA ) states, " A Vietnam era veteran is a person who