Open Letter to ex-Norwegian Minister of Development, Mr. Erik Solheim
The high profile Norwegian Minister of Development, Erik Solheim, strongly defended Norway's aid policy towards the brutal regime of Meles Zenawi, in an interview he gave to the leftist newspaper Klassekampen.
March 27/2012
CONDITION OF ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES WORSENS IN THE SUDAN
More or less ignored by the UNHCR that was supposed to assure their protection, Ethiopian refugees in the Sudan are facing grave dangers and difficulties. Already, more than thousand of them languish in Kober and other Sudanese prisons without due process or legal protection.
March 27/2012
DENOUNCE ETHNIC CLEANSING AGAINST AMHARAS
Thousands of Amharas have been forced out of the Southern Bench Maji zone in what is appearing as a regime instigated ethnic cleansing and daylight expropriation/robbery. The victims have flocked to Addis Abeba and their search for shelter at the Kidist Mariam Church ahs been blocked by the Meles appointed and much reviled pope called Abune Paulos. The forced eviction of Amharas is continuing.
ARDUF PRESS RELEASE
No Training Camps were targeted and our struggle continues
ARDUF does not have any training camps in the neighbouring State of Eritrea to be targeted. Read more>>>
New York Tri State Ethiopians answered a call of our monks at Waldiba ancient Monastrey !!!!!
Tedla AsfawNew York City Waldeba Protest - March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012
DENOUNCE THE REPRESSION AGAINST PRIESTS OF THE HISTORIC WALDIBA MONASTERY
Reports reaching SOCEPP reveal that armed police of the Meles regime have infested the historic Waldiba monastery and are engaged in a hut to hut search operation, violating sacred quarters and manhandling the priests and monks.
March 26/2012
REPRESSION AGAINST AEUP MEMBERS INTENSIFIES IN THE SOUTH
The Meles regime holds too many members of the All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP) in its secret jails and labor camps like Zwai, Dedesa,etc. In the eyes of the regime this party is considered as Amhara, an ethnic group much hated and repressed by the Tigrean chauvinist Meles regime. Recently eight leading members of the AEUP have been detained in Southern Ethiopia.
Ethiopian Social Assistance Committee (ESAC)
First event held in celebration of Women’s History Month, advocating and creating awareness about the abuse of Ethiopian women in the Middle East
New York, NY (March 22, 2012) — The Ethiopian Social Assistance Committee held its first event on March 3rd, 2012, celebrating the Women’s History month by advocating for domestic workers in the Middle East.
Drama in Sharjah as woman tries to jump to her death
Suicidal housemaid in Sharjah taken into police custody for questioning
Sharjah: An African woman, believed to be in her 30s, is in police custody after she allegedly attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the window of a sixth floor apartment, Sharjah Police told Gulf News.
March 22, 2012
REPRESSION INTENSIFIES AGAINST ARENA TIGRAY ORGANIZATION
Arena Tigray, an opposition organization operating in Tigray region and grouped within the Medrek front has denounced the repression unleashed by the Meles regime against it all over Tigray. It is to be noted that two years ago Arena member and candidate for the election, Ato Aregawi Gebre Yohannes, was murdered in cold blood by the regime’s assassins.
Ethiopian Refugees are being unfairly targeted, hunted, tortured and killed by Yemenis
March 19/ 2012
ENVIROMENTAL DISASTER IN ETHIOPIA MELES ZENAWI REGIME BURNING FORESTS OF HISTORIC MONASTERIES
Viva Africa—They Need Us!
Hama Tuma
There are quite a few people, not necessarily white, who have concluded that we Africans, if only we did not have minerals and oil, rich and fertile lands up for grabbing, (we) would be quite useless and irrelevant in the march of History. France’s embattled president even said we are just at the door of civilization and the past century and not yet in though he did not say whether it is because we did not knock, or were too lazy to bother or were kept out.
37 years of the TPLF and the footprints of Meles Zenawi
By Kahsay Berhe and Tesfay Atsbeha Part two - March 2012
Why are we writing about Meles? Meles has absolute power as all his predecessors. He can decide the fate of more than 80 Million Ethiopians and probably the coming generations. As every major aspect of life of all Ethiopians is controlled by Meles, there is no possibility for Ethiopians to take their own destiny into their own hands without removing Meles. Since Meles, more than anybody else, has been committing so many crimes with impunity, it is Imperative to deal with the worst enemy of the people before everything else and hence expose his crimes.
MARCH 18/2012
SALE OF WOMEN TO MODERN SLAVERY CONTINUED
A few days after the brutal death of domestic worker Alem Dechassa in Beirut (Lebanon)—she was beaten in broad daylight by her employer and later allgedly committed suicide in a hospiotal--, the regime in Addis Abeba has revealed that it would send some 45,000 Ethiopian women to Saudi Arabia, a country notorious for mistreating domestic workers (and all women for that matter).
Ethiopia again attacks rebel targets in Eritrea
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops carried out more attacks on rebels inside Eritrea on Saturday, a government source said, a day after its neighbor called for U.N. action over a similar incursion earlier in the week.
The attacks are the first on Eritrean soil that Ethiopia has admitted to since the end of a 1998-2000 war that killed 70,000 people and left a border dispute unresolved. Eritrea says there have been others.
The Betrayal
By Getachew Reda
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Ethiopia and Winds of war
By Yilma Bekele
War is upon us again. War defines the Ethiopian Government. Since it came to power it has been at war with its citizens. No region or ethnic group has been spared from this infection. The regime is always at war with opposition politicians, journalists, publishers, intellectuals, and business people to mention a few. The regime has fought in Gambella, Hawasa, Ambo, Arba Minch and other localities against its own people. The Ethiopian Government is at war with our Somali-Ethiopians in the Ogaden and has been accused of war crimes.
THE FARCE CALLED KONY (2012)
By Hama Tuma
To avoid any possible misunderstanding, let me start out by stating that Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) , the relative of the equally infamous self declared witch Alice Lakwena ( frequented by many top Kenyan officials in Nairobi) is no joke at all.
Israel and Qatar mediate between Eritrean and Ethiopia
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Breaking news, it has been confirmed from different source this week that the Eritrean government and the Ethiopian government are going to have preliminary meeting in Germany on March the 20th, already some representatives of both countries arrived in Germany.
Ethiopian troops attack rebels in Eritrea
Reuters
By Aaron Maasho | ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia attacked rebel bases inside neighboring Eritrea on Thursday, accusing its arch-foe of training fighters who have staged raids, including a January attack that killed five Western tourists.
MARCH 14/2012
HORRENDOUS CRIMES AGAINST DOMESTIC WORKERS IN LEBANON
The Meles Zenawi regime is deeply involved in the human trafficking of Ethiopians (mostly women) and the sale of children for adoption by foreigners. Profitable businesses both. Ethiopian women sold to modern slavery in the Middle East have been suffering for long without anyone coming to their rescue. Especially in Lebanon,
Ethiopian domestic worker beaten on camera commits suicide
March 14, 2012 02:50 PM By Annie Slemrod
| The Daily Star |
BEIRUT: The Ethiopian domestic worker whose beating outside her country's consulate was widely publicized on video committed suicide Wednesday morning, Ethiopia’s consul general in Lebanon confirmed to The Daily Star.
Reports: At Least 19 Killed In Attack On Ethiopian Public Bus
RTT News(RTTNews) - At least nineteen people have been killed and eight others injured after unidentified gunmen attacked a public bus in western Ethiopia, local media reports citing officials said Tuesday. The incident reportedly happened some 12 miles from ...
The Anti Ethiopian Conference in Atlanta March 2012
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U.S. Representative Donald Payne dead at 77
The Anti Ethiopian Conference in Atlanta March 2012
Letter to Prime Minister of Norway from concerned Ethiopians in Toronto coordinating committe
Ethiopian Canadian Heritage Month
On behalf of Toronto City Council, Mayor Rob Ford proclaimed March 2012 as "Ethiopian Canadian Heritage Month" in the City of Toronto. Here is below the full tex of the proclamation:
March 6/2012
REPRESSION AGAINST STRIKING TEACHERS INTENSIFIES
As the strike of disgruntled teachers intensifies, especially in the region of Gondar, the regime of Meles Zenawi has intensified its repression with the aim of crushing the movement of the teachers.
The two Captured Germans are free but the Agony of the Afars Intensifies
MARCH 2/2012
REPRESSIVE REGIME TO EXPAND ITS PRISONS
The number of public hospitals has not increased, the situation in the education area is dismal, millions are starving but the repressive regime of Meles Zenawi has now decided to expand its prisons and build new ones at a cost of hundreds millions of Birr.
Ethiopia as a waste disposal.
By Yilma Bekele
The embattled former tyrant president of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh is going to settle in Ethiopia. Ethiopia will be his home in exile. Ethiopia was not his first choice. He wanted to settle in Oman his neighbor on the West. The Sultan of Oman was not receptive to the idea. His attempt to go to the UAR was politely rebuffed. Ethiopia is a refuge of last resort. We are being used as a dump. I am certainly familiar with that practice of getting rid of waste. Upon finishing a project we always have left over debris. We normally haul it to a public dump where they charge by the pound. The City makes extra effort to recycle our garbage.
The Ethio-Norway Forced Repatriation in Prospect
By Samson Seifu
In my previous article entitled ‘’The Ethio-Norway Forced Repatriation Agreement in Retrospect’’ published on 13 February 2012 on different websites, I presented the background and the events which led to the signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). In this article the events after the announcement and the prospects afterwards with focus on the plights of the stakeholders (the rejected asylum seekers from Ethiopia who have been living in Norway for many years, from 3-20 years) are presented as follows:
Ethiopia's Farmer Relocation Plan Raises New Concerns
By: Larisa Epatko
In an effort to clear land for investors and help boost Ethiopia's economy, the government in the East African nation is relocating farmers from land they've used for decades, sometimes against their will. Reporter Cassandra Herrman reports on Tuesday's NewsHour about how the "villagization" plan is affecting people in one farming community.
February 26/2012
RELEASE THE TEACHERS DETAINED IN DABAT
Ethiopian teachers hard hit by the galloping inflation have been trying to legally claim their rights and voice their protests and dozens have been arrested mainly in Dabat (Gondar region) and other towns all over Ethiopia. SOCEPP calls for their immediate release and the respect of the rights of teachers and all Ethiopians.
THE AFRICAN PARADOX CONTINUES
Hama Tuma
President Museveni of Uganda justified his clinging to power by illegally amending the Ugandan Constitution with the argument: I have stayed long in government and I am now an expert on governance and thus the better placed to rule Uganda. It is a kind of a vicious circle argument more in the line of lawyers defending the indefensible. And the AU built on the ruins of the most notorious Ethiopian prison, the Kerchielle, where thousands have perished and suffered, its new HQ. It is very appropriate in my view as the thieves and embezzlers and killers who are gathered within this useless body should sit on chairs on top of a former dungeon and hanging ground.
New Hampshire trial revisits trauma of Rwanda genocide
CONCORD, New Hampshire (CNN) -- A teary-eyed Rwandan emigrant entered a federal courtroom in New Hampshire on Thursday, marking the first day of a trial with roots in a genocide that left some 800,000 people dead.
Beatrice Munyenyazi, 42, is accused of lying her way into the United States after allegedly participating in her country's 1994 slaughter. Read More>>>
The above story mimics many “Red Terror” gurus of Mengistu Hailemariam living openly in North America and around the rest of the world taunting their victims until the day of reckoning shows their true faces. -- Assimba
USA already looks to post- Meles …. Indian Ocean Newsletter ..N°
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