Ethiopian Runner Calls on US to Push for Human Rights in His Country

"I know that Americans are peace-loving people. My people are also peace-loving people, but they have been denied peace for a very long time," he said in his native Afaan Oromoo at a news conference Tuesday on Capitol Hill. "People are calling for the freedom, democracy that you have here. We want the same things, and I call on the U.S. government to urge the Ethiopian government to make sure that democracy prevails in Ethiopia." ......See More