37 years of the TPLF and the footprints of Meles
By Tesfay Atsbeha and Kahsay Berhe - February 2012
Part one
On 19 February 2012, the official 37th birthday of the TPLF, many people in Tigray have to think of their loved ones as martyrs as every year; it is a day for remembering the loss of about 60 000 young women and men; as well as thousands of civilians killed in the country side and urban centres by the TPLF and the Derg respectively.
Ethiopia and Syria revisited
By Yilma Bekele
The Syrian regime is killing its own people to save the country from terrorists (Ashebari). The world is watching and keeping score. Thanks to social media such as Twitter and Facebook we are all witnessing this display of total madness safely from our home. The Missile attack on neighborhoods is televised in living color. The old Soviet tanks lined up outside towns are not defending the country from outsiders but rearing to rain death on their own people.
February 24/2012
SUDAN REPRESSION AGAINST ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES INTENSIFIES
The regime of Omar Beshir in the Sudan has intensified the repression against Ethiopian political refugees as it strives to placate the Meles regime and achieve its sectarian political gains.
Why We Oppose the Ethiopian Dictatorial Regime?
Since 1991 the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is ruling Ethiopia with an iron hand & without popular consent. The divisive ethnic policies it adopted to rule Ethiopia are intended to guarantees TPLF’s monopoly of political & economic power by weakening the composite identity of Ethiopians that transcend ethnicity & religion. Politically engineered deep ethnic & religious fissures are threatening the very coexistence of its people.
Expose TPLF Agents Masquerading As
Refugees within the Ethiopian Diaspora
Of Hyphenated Ethiopians and the Pathetic Defense of Criminals
Tsige Amberbir
For all those who are crying vociferously in defense of the dictator Mengistu, a question must be asked. Where were they when thousands were being slaughtered?
The art of bullying Ethiopians.
By Yilma Bekele.
‘Prime Minster Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday Ethiopia could pardon politicians and journalists arrested under a 2009 anti-terrorism law.’ That news was reported widely including inside Ethiopia. Normally what we hear outside and what the people are told is two different things. This time the message was meant for the Ethiopian people. It reinforces the idea of the benevolent Land Lord.
Ethiopia on the spot over jailed journalists
Daily Nation
By ARGAW ASHINE, NATION Correspondent in Addis Ababa Tense negotiations are under way for the release of two Swedish journalists jailed by Ethiopia for terrorism in September. A delegation from the European Union, of which Sweden is a member, ...
Ancient Mine in Ethiopia May Have Belonged to Queen of Sheba
Christian Post
Archaeologist and former British Museum curator Louise Schofield purports to have found a gold mine in northern Ethiopia that would have been the source of wealth for the Queen of Sheba. Part of the find included a stone slab bearing a sun and crescent ...
PRAYERFUL LETTER To His Excellency - Prime Minister of Norway -
Jens Stoltenberg
Norway Oslo
Ethiopia's tribes cry for help
ALJAZEERA
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The Lower Omo Valley in south-western Ethiopia is a vast and rugged region of mountains and valleys, inhabited largely by nomadic agro-pastoralist tribes numbering some 200,000 people. Many live a simple existence, living in straw thatched huts and have little contact with the outside world. But the Ethiopian government's new found appetite for large-scale sugar production threatens the very existence of many of these tribes.
The Ethio-Norway Forced Repatriation Agreement in Retrospect
By Samson Seifu - Oslo, 12 February 2012
Prelude
On January 26, 2012 the state secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, Pål K. Lønseth appearing on TV channels announced with great sigh of relief the coming to an end of 20 years of negotiations ordeal with the dictatorial regime of Meles Zenawi to repatriate the rejected Ethiopian asylum seekers. According to the official press release of both the Ministry of Justice and the Directorate of Immigration (UDI), the signed agreement carries with it the threat of forced repatriation of about 400 rejected asylum seekers to the regime in Ethiopia.
Meles Zenawi: Where the truth lies
Daily Maverick’s The AU Summit: A rare ring of truth by Kevin Bloom lauds Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as being unique in speaking “trenchant truth” at an AU gathering in the 49 years since its establishment (initially the OAU). Taking exception to this interpretation, JANICE WINTER exposes where the truth lies.
Saudis pressed to release Ethiopian Christians
BP News
WASHINGTON (BP) -- America's congressionally approved watchdog for global religious liberty has called on Saudi Arabia to release 35 Ethiopian Christians arrested during a prayer meeting and imprisoned for nearly two months.
ISRAEL: The tribulations of being an Ethiopian Jew
IRINnews.org
Sium, 32, has lived in Israel most of his life, but says he and other Ethiopian Jews are treated differently from other Israelis: factories do not want to employ them; landlords refuse them; and certain schools turn away their children.
Patriotism rekindled by Ethiopian cabdriver in Texas
Bangor Daily News
He was Ethiopian and had lived in Houston for five years. He came, he explained, on a “DV,” a diversity visa, which I had never heard of. I learned that it is a Department of State program that encourages countries with low immigration numbers to send ...
Behind African ‘land grabs’ by U.S. institutions and universities
A new report from Human Rights Watch says that Ethiopia is forcibly relocating 70,000 indigenous people from the city of Gambella. The reason? To free up land for foreign investment. The report goes on to argue that actions like this, which move people to areas where they can’t feed themselves, are a sure-fire recipe for large-scale famine.
Ethiopians in Diaspora
To Whom It May Concern;
We are concerned Ethiopians in Diaspora, who closely follow the dangerous conditions hundreds of Ethiopian asylum seekers facing in Norway. Recently, the Government of Norway announced to repatriate Ethiopian asylum seekers from the country.
It is difficult for us EPRP (Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party) Norway to find words to express our horror and consternation at the decision by the Norwegian government to cooperate with the tyrant government of Ethiopia on the repatriation of Ethiopian refugees.
UN Rights Advocates Criticise Ethiopia's Use of Anti-Terror Law
BusinessWeek
3 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations criticized the Ethiopian government's use of an anti-terrorism law to curb freedom of expression by jailing opposition politicians and reporters critical of the state. In December, two Swedish journalists were ...
Ethiopia's human rights record poses awkward questions for its aid donors
The Guardian
UN human rights experts have expressed their dismay at what they see as the continuing abuse of anti-terrorism legislation to curb freedom of expression in Ethiopia. The blunt criticism from the UN may not be so easy to shrug off by a regime usually ...
U.S. Ally Ethiopia is One of the Worst Human Rights Abusers
By Jeff Furman
In recent years, investigations and reports carried out by independent organizations have described the steadily worsening human rights picture in Ethiopia. A 2007 report from the UN committee that monitors the ...
Ye Zebenaye Gedaye [The killers of Zebenaye]
It is difficult to write about ones pain of the monstrous Mengistu regime. It’s so personal. It is dredging up the personal, from the darkest recess of our soul that is a problem. The details of who, what, when, where, why, that forces one to recall and relive those awful memories. Anger, sorrow, confusion rear their ugly head…pain and anguish. The story is never complete, the Red Terror, a horror that defies explanation.
The Red-Terror, a Dreadful Memory that Marked our Childhood in Ethiopia
By Yelfiwos Wondaya
The Red Terror in Ethiopia was a reign of terror; a mass execution conducted by Mengistue’s government and carried out by political cadres and Kebeles across the nation. It was a crime committed against humanity and still is fresh in the hearts and minds of all Ethiopians. And yet the hirelings responsible for carrying out the terror campaign against victims are not brought to justice yet. Instead here they are hounding the same victims (generation) with no regret what so ever.
Appeal letter to Prime Minister of Norway
As you may know, Ethiopian asylum seekers in Norway have faced enoromous challenges. We believe Ethiopians through out the world can do something to solve this problems. Read More>>>
Al Mariam’s Contradictory approach to the Right of Free Speech
Getachew Reda getachre@aol.com www.ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com
Ethiopia Sentences 3 Journalists to Long Prison Terms
Voice of America
January 27, 2012 Ethiopia Sentences 3 Journalists to Long Prison Terms Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa An Ethiopian court on Thursday sentenced three journalists and two opposition political activists to long prison sentences for terrorism-related ...
Ethiopia's Ayele Abshero breaks course record in Dubai Marathon in debut
Washington Post
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ayele Abshero of Ethiopia won the Dubai Marathon on Friday with the fourth-fastest time ever in his first marathon, giving his country a victory over rival Kenya in an Olympic year. The 21-year-old Abshero also set the ...
Ethiopian Rebels Say Ethiopia Blocks Release of Hostages
BusinessWeek
27 (Bloomberg) -- An Ethiopian rebel group said the country's government is blocking the release of two German hostages the fighters are holding. Communications Minister Bereket Simon denied the allegation. The two Germans and two Ethiopians were ...
AEUP SUPPORT IN EUROPE
Attacking & Destabilizing Opposition Organisations is Undermining Democracy and Democratic Governance
NORWAY—STOP HARASSING REFUGEES AND THREATENING DEPORTATION!
Sad as it is, the State of Norway has broken with its worthy past of being the land of asylum and refuge. Nowadays, xenophobia is the vogue and real politick determines the policy of the Norwegian government. Ethiopian refugees have become the visible victim of this callous and cruel slide into the realm of violator of human rights on the part of Norway.
January 26/2012
DENOUNCE THE REPRESSIVE REGIME’S ILLEGAL SENTENCINF OF JOURNALISTS AND POLITICAL DISSENTERS
The State controlled court in Addis Abeba has sentenced a number of journalists and political dissenters to years of imprisonment and thousands of Birr fine. Thus, Journalists Woubshet and (Ms Reyot have been sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment a 33,000 Birr fine. The leader of the Ethiopian National Democratic Party, Zerihun Gebre Igziabher, has been sentenced to 17 years and a 50,000 Birr fine. Hirut Kilfle got 19 years and Elias Kifle, in abstentia, was given a life sentence.
January 20/2012
CONDEMN THE MISTRETAMENT OF ETHIOPIANS IN SAUDI ARABIA
SOCEPP HAS RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING LETTER FROM CONCERNED ETHIOPIANS IN SAUDI ARABIA:
January 21/2012
SOCEPP CONDEMNS THE IGAD PROPSED ACCORD AGAINST DISSIDENTS
The members countries of the IGAD (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia—Eritrea is not yet formally readmitted) have let it be known that they are to sign/ratify an accord to “deport criminals back to their countries of origin”. Djibouti has already signed the accord and others are expected to follow as the Meles regime and Khartoum have already agreed to deport those they call “criminals”.
The Proxy Game
By Gemencho
The London conference of 1991 deserves the credit for engineering the coup d’ etat of 1991 in Ethiopia, and for manufacturing a democratic cover to the anti-Ethiopian narrative. Not surprisingly, this is what frames all colonial and imperial adventures. Dismantling third world nationalism has always been the pre-occupation of colonial elites-the core element of their project.
'Man of integrity': Aussie father among dead in Ethiopian bus plunge
Friends have described a Melbourne father killed in a fiery bus crash in Ethiopia as a ‘‘man of integrity’’ who devoted his life to his family.
Dawit Fantaye Taye, from Tarneit in Melbourne's west, was initially pulled alive from the wreckage of the bus, which plunged about 80 metres into a gorge north of the capital Addis Ababa on Tuesday, killing 43 people on board.
Ethiopia bans Olympic champion Bekele and 34 others
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has indefinitely banned 35 athletes - including Olympic men's 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Kenenisa Bekele - from competition in a row over training, the technical director of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation said on Friday.
Ethiopians in Diaspora
To Whom It May Concern;
We are concerned Ethiopians in Diaspora, who closely follow our detained 35 Ethiopians in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia while they were gathering in a home to celebrate Christmas in December 2011, which is allowed according to the law of the country. From these innocent prisoners, 29 of them are women who some of them left their children in their home.
Ethiopia forcing thousands off land to make room for Saudi and Indian investors
Telegraph.co.uk
Ethiopia is forcing tens of thousands of its poorest people off fertile land earmarked for Saudi Arabian and Indian investors and into villages lacking schools, clinics or clean water, a new report has claimed. By Mike Pflanz, Nairobi Already, ...
Ethiopian-Israeli begins three-day march to protest racism
Haaretz
By Revital Blumenfeld Tags: Israel protest Jerusalem An Israeli of Ethiopian descent yesterday started a three-day protest march from his home in Kiryat Malakhi to the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, where he will join other Ethiopian Israelis ...
Canada urged to stop Ethiopia from evicting villagers
CBC.ca
A rights' watchdog is urging Canada and fellow aid donors to pressure Ethiopia into ending an abusive and systematic practice of forcing rural villagers off their land. A report released Tuesday by New York-based Human Rights Watch blasts the Horn of
Ethiopian Regional Leader said to Admit Role in Ethnic Killings
VOA
The president of a volatile Ethiopian regional state has been fired from his party leadership position after reportedly admitting involvement in a 2003 ethnic massacre. The leadership of the southern Gambella region is coming under increasing scrutiny for corruption and abusing the rule of law.
