Araya Tesfamariam Audio 1 
The regime of Meles Zenawi has for longt targeted militants of the Oromo ethnic group and undertaken repression in Oromo inhabited areas. On March 15 just gone, this newspaper carried an excellent but disturbing article by John Vidal, environment editor of the London-based Guardian newspaper. He wrote about food shortages and land-grabbing in Africa, and I was particularly troubled to read about deals going on to sell Ethiopian land to foreign investors. In the article, an Ethiopian government spokesperson was quoted as saying that "Ethiopia has 74 million hectares of fertile land, of which only 15 percent is currently in use — mainly by subsistence farmers . . . "
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Interview of Ethiopian Journalist Araya Tesfamarim @ Assimba Forum
ADWA, adwa or AADWA? Call me by my NAT
April 26, 2010 at 8:50 pm (Commenatry) April 23, 2010 IntroductionUsing the Latin alphabet to write ADWA, adwa or AADWA appears to portray insignificant difference to the naked eye or rather to the majority of Ethiopian intellectuals aka M’huran.
Open Letter to the Honorable Lennart Kotsalainen:I'm deeply concerned by what is happening to Mr. Araya Tesfamariam, an Ethiopian journalist
UPDATE ON THE BRUTAL TREATMENT OF JOURNALIST ARAYA T.M. IN NEW DELHI SOCEPP had called on human rights organizations to come to the help of Ethiopian journalist Araya Tesfamariam who was attacked in Delhi by thugs bought by the Meles regime. MELES REGIME ATTEMPTS TO MURDER JOURNALIST ARAYA TESFMARIAM IN NEW DELHI Journalist Araya Tesfamariam, better known as Eyersualem Araya and much admired for his incisive articles (in the now banned ETHIOP newspaper/magazine) exposing the human rights violations of the Meles regime, was attacked on the evening of April 16 in New Delhi by thugs identified as agents of the Meles Zenawi regime. Update on the Dire Situation of Journalist Eyerusalem ArayaApril, 22 2010 (Getachew Reda) www.Ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com Medrek and the Ethiopian election
By Yilma Bekele I am sure most of you have heard or read that the leaders of Medrek are on a tour of North America. They have held town hall meetings in Seattle, San Jose, Las Vegas, Washington DC and Atlanta and are coming to Los Angles this coming weekend. The delegation consists of Ato Seye Abreha, Ato Gebru Asrat, Dr. Negasso Gidada and Ato (engineer) Gezachew Shiferaw. All four gentlemen were ex members of TPLF, OPDO or AEUP.
Criminals and Red Terror Perpetrators: Is There Any Guarantee They Will Not Do It Again?By A/Prof G. Tadesse I am writing this short note in a response to recent radio interview of Dr Hailu Araya in Voice of America Amharic Program. Welcome Kifle Mulat? Are you alive? Were you in Asmara or in the Diaspora? Getachew Reda
Terror against Citizens is a Crime at Any Rate
April 18, 2010 at 10:15 pm (Commenatry) By Yelfiwos Wondaya With all due respect, Dr. Hailu and nameless journalist, Reporter or what have you, every which way you spin it around, terrorism is terrorism. On the contrary, being selfless, generous, and brave in terms of fighting for the weak and vulnerable citizens, and being loyal to friends and causes, and taking a heroic measure as a result to reverse the terror acts unleashed against citizens in defense is moral and conscientious at any rate. THE TIME OF THE BLOVIATORS or HOW TO SAY NOTHING IN FIVE HUNDRED WORDS
April 18, 2010 at 9:09 pm (Commenatry) By Hama Tuma I am sure not many of you know the word bloviator–I did not till someone told me to check it in Google. It means pompous, someone who puffs his chest and makes boastful declarations. The word defines many Ethiopian pseudo and self declared intellectuals of our time.
LET’S HELP OUR MAN IN CANADA
Travel AlertU.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEBureau of Consular Affairs April 13, 2010
The State Department alerts U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Ethiopia before and after national parliamentary elections scheduled for May 23, 2010, and recommends against all but essential travel to Ethiopia during this period. This Travel Alert expires on July 1, 2010. Past elections in Ethiopia have featured violence in Addis Ababa and other areas of the country throughout the campaign season, the election, and especially in the days and weeks following the announcement of election results. Election results are scheduled to be announced June 21, 2010. Was the Revolution tragic and brutal?
by Kassahun Someone close to my taste said, “what is very tragic is to sleep through a Revolution”, doing a Rip Van Winkle on the momentous event shaking the given country. Let me state from the outset that I have not (yet) read the book by Maaza Mengiste (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze) and I do not know the person or the politics of the reviewer of her book, Ato Abebe Gelaw. by Itai Muchena
Published 04/13/2010 - 1:03 a.m. GMT
(JT) A top Egyptian newspaper "Almasry Alyoum" reported that Egypt considers ethnic division in Ethiopia important to securing its Nile River domination and the Egyptian government is also planning to use multi-million dollar investment projects in Ethiopia as economic leverage to stop future large-scale Ethiopian projects. Amnesty International criticise government on tortureHuman rights campaigners have accused the government of aggressively pursuing "no torture" deals in order to deport people deemed a security threat.
AADWA TWO: Call me by my name - A Short Commentary on the recent conferences held on the so-called Horn of Africa
Obo Arada Shawl - April 13, 2010 Why the Horn? The Horn looks like a peninsula and it juts into the Arabian Sea and it lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. Physically it stretches to 2 million sq. km and demographically houses app one hundred million people.
According to the classification by the State Department of USA, the Horn of Africa comprises, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti and currently it includes Eritrea but not the Sudan. Bob Goldof Got a Gift of TPLF’s Status from his Comrades in Mekele
April 11, 2010 By Getachew Reda www.Ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com Who is Bob Goldof? Wikipedia described Bob Goldof “an Irish singer, songwriter, author, and political activist National Consciousness, Nation-State and the Problem of Economic DevelopmentFekadu Bekele, April 9, 2010 Discussion Paper for Seminar presented to the Conference on Good Governance, Peace, Security, Sustainable Development in Ethiopia & the Horn of Africa, from April 9-11 THE USEFUL DELUSION OF BEING INDEPENDENT
Hama Tuma Without going deep into the not so negligible difference between an illusion (more of a perceptual problem) and a delusion (concerning belief despite facts to the contrary) it is safe to state that most of Africa suffers from the delusion of being independent fifty years after some 18 African countries allegedly gained their “independence” from Colonialism which was a tricky monster if there ever was one.
What Does “People” means in definition? (Ethio-Eritrea Issue)
By Getachew Reda www.Ethiopiansemay.blogspot.comThis briefly written article is a reply to all concerned fellows who are critical to the Ethio-Eritrea People to People friendly conference carried here in San Jose. This response is not of the committee. This response is mine as a citizen and a media operator.
THE RETURN OF THE COUPHama Tuma Those who had been claiming that Africans enjoy sequels and the comfort of the misery they are used to have now been vindicated. The return of the coup d’etat highlights and confirms this for all to see. Expectedly, there would be those cynics who would ask “why not the coup?” indeed when civilian power holders are corrupt and their sanity really in question
April 5/2010
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Bertukan Midiksa, a woman at the head of a political party (UDJ) in Ethiopia, a land where there’s no rule of law, who has been detained arbitrarily like thousands of political prisoners is now suffering because of the incredibly bad situation in the prisons of her country.
