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Reporter, Ethiopia Saturday, 08 November 2008 Amare Aregawi Namrud Berhane Following the brutal attempt on the life of Amare Aregawi, the editor-in-chief of this newspaper, a number of local and foreign press organizations have issued statements denouncing the crime. Despite the variation in their wordings, the call is one: the government needs to bring before justice those who masterminded the attack. The organizations also stressed that authorities should ensure that such trends will not be established as norm and that strictest measures should be taken. The Ethiopian National Journalists Union (ENJU) condemned the attack of October 31st and called on the government to do all in its power to bring the perpetrators to justice. “When even the government is pursuing legal path, it is disturbing to witness the rise in the number of individuals who are operating underground and are anti-media professionals. All media practitioners and those who respect the profession must stand in unison and fight such illegal trends,” ENJU said on Tuesday. ENJU also thanked members of the community and those who were at close to the scene of the crime during the attempted assassination for their efforts to apprehend the perpetrators and effectively save the life of Amare Aregawi by taking him to a nearby hospital. The National Photo Journalists Association (NPJA) on its part called on journalists to stand strong and not bow down to what it termed “lunatics who have come in a new form.” “The association sadly recalls previous attacks and suffering caused to journalists by various groups. We call on all stakeholders to protect the profession and freedom of expression from such new lunatics. It is for his professional commitment that Amare Aregawi has paid a price,” NPJA said on Friday. The Photo Journalists Association also stressed that the government should do all in its power not only to bring to justice the “lunatics” who perpetrated the crime against Amare Aregawi, but to guarantee that such attacks do not be a norm in the country. “The Ethiopian police must investigate this attack thoroughly in order to identify both the perpetrators and the instigators,” Reporters Without Borders said Sunday. “A show of firmness will convince others who might be tempted to use physical violence to settle scores with the press that such behavior would not go unpunished.” The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) also called on the government to bring to justice the masterminds of the attack. "We condemn the barbaric beating of Amare Aregawi," said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Tom Rhodes. "The Ethiopian police must do everything in their power to ensure the masterminds behind this brutal assault are also charged." The International Press Institute (IPI) on Monday also issued a statement regarding the attack. "IPI denounces this assault on Amare Aregawi in the strongest possible terms," said IPI Director David Dadge. "Given that Aregawi has been targeted for his work in the past, IPI is concerned that this attack was linked to his journalism. IPI calls on the authorities to not only bring those behind this brutal act to justice, but to also do everything in their power to ensure that Ethiopian journalists are free to carry out their profession without fear of attack." Among the other organizations who expressed their shock against the attack is also the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). It is to be recalled that the main suspect had disappeared right after the attack on Friday October 31. Commander Girma Kassa of the Addis Ababa Police Commission on Thursday told The Reporter that the assailant had been apprehended and that an investigation was still being carried out into the matter. Another assailant and a taxi driver, whose vehicle was intended to be used as a get-away vehicle, were immediately caught after the incident outside the school of Amare Aregawi’s son. The commander said that a task force has been established to investigate the attack and a public statement will be issued as soon as the investigation was complete.