The 9 th RUN FOR RIGHTS Raise money in support of Winnipeg organizations working for social justice and human rights in progress interview with SOCEPP and EPRP-YL participants
My friend came from out of town for a visit. I took him around to all the tourist places, including our local Museum of Modern Art.
Fretsidiq Fekade
A receipt of acknowledgment to insufficient and misguided TPLF’s code of conduct yields a landslide victory to the self-declared and illegitimate regime . A political process carried out by a single authoritarian directive, to unequivocally serve its own interest and deliberate more insult to receptive oppositions.
Jeddah: Tue, 01 Jun 2010
Saudi Arabian investment in the Ethiopian farm sector is expanding with many Saudis and local companies signing contracts with landowners to produce grains and other agricultural products, a report said.
The Associated Press
Sunday, May 30, 2010 | 12:14 a.m.
Ethiopia's election board says provisional results show the ruling party has won the national vote.
The Group of 8 Leaders and the Group of 20 Leaders are meeting in Ontario, from the 25th to the 27th of June, 2010.
May 28, 2010
PRESS RELEASE ON THE FARCE OF AN ELECTION IN ETHIOPIA
If it was not so tragic we would have gloated with a well deserved "we told you so" and hailed the end of the illusion of a multi democracy governance (however limited) in Ethiopia.
MAY 27/2010
VOA AMHARIC SERVICE CONTINUES WITH PRESENTING FRAUDS AND CRIMINALS (SIGN THE PROTEST PETITION AGAINST THE VOA SERVICE)
SOCEPP not only strongly protested against the VOA Amharic service sympathetic interviews of those who deny the brutal Red Terror ever took place in Ethiopia but also launched a protest petition that is still being signed by Ethiopians
May 25/2010
The ruling EPRDF has won almost all the seats contested in this year's general election and by making the one party state official has once again blatantly violated the right of the Ethiopian people to have not only fair and free elections but to enjoy multi partism and democracy.
BY Obo Arada Shawl - MAY 23, 2010
Where there is no political war, there is no election
ELECTION IN ETHIOPIA = NO ELECTION IN ERITREA
What is election? It’s a process of choice. What is choice? It’s a selection among many alternatives. But choice involves free spirit.
Hama Tuma
This is really a joke, a pastime actually as dictator and intelligent are oxymoron. Sort of an idiot Savant, a fine mess, a little pregnant, accurate rumors. An Amhara Weyane and abundant poverty. Of late some quarters have insisted on calling the tyrant in Addis Abeba intelligent at a time when he is blatantly rigging an election while at the same time insisting on calling Robert Mugabe a blundering fool.
EU observers have criticised Ethiopia's election, as Prime Minister Meles Zenawi held a victory rally attended by tens of thousands of people.
Sunday 23 May 2010
By Fitsum Alemu
May 22, 2010 — After one watches the “parliamentary” meetings and sees the assembled members with their varied “intelligence”, one has to pray for the country.
May 24- 2010
As the dawn of Nineteenth year of Brutality continues against Red Sea Afar and other citizens in Eritrea, disfigurement of our one time vibrant population, community and villages, demographic onslaught on Rea Sea afar undoubtedly can be characterized as ETHINC CLEANSING.
International Election Observers Should Condemn Voter Intimidation
(Nairobi) - Ethiopian government and ruling party officials intimidated voters and unlawfully restricted the media ahead of the May 23, 2010 parliamentary elections, Human Rights Watch said today.
Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa - VOA
Ethiopian officials say a record number of voters have gone to the polls in an election expected to give Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's ruling party a huge majority in parliament. Opposition leaders charge the vote has been compromised.
“ELECTION RIGGED AND UNFAIR”
RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONALE (RFI) has interviewed Ghennet Girma on her role as a veteran EPRP to comment on the coming May 23 elections in Ethiopia.
The following is solid evidence showing how this Woyane staged election can never be fair, legitimate and valid. Below is a vote card released (and distributed) secretly to the TPLF_lead EPRDF members and supporters 5 days
Panicked Government and Harassed Electorate
Between 2005 & 2010 Elections
The Rule of Draco & Machiavelli in Ethiopia
F. Zemariam - May 14 2010
Target: VOICE OF AMERICA SERVICE TO ETHIOPIA
We the undersigned strongly denounce and protest against the politically partisan reporting and interviews made by some of the VOA Amharic service reporters/ presenters. Our denunciation is especially directed at the sympathetic and supportive interview of Dr. Hailu Araya who was a central committee member of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's pro Soviet totalitarian party.
MAY 13/2010
The Meles Zenawi regime is responsible for the brutal murder and disappearance of a number of leaders of the Ethiopian Democratic Union (EDU), an opposition organization, and should account for the crime without any equivocation. Meles Zenawi's group collbaorated with the Sudan to jail and disappear and/or kill the following leaders of the Ethiopian Democratic Union:
By Obo Arada Shawl - May 13, 2010
ADWA I: An Act of Defense
According to thousands of written and oral histories as well as to historical beliefs including that of mine, the battle of ADWA (1896) was a defense against foreign aggression. I do not have to explain what conquest and aggression means to my readers.
Hama Tuma
I am no hashish smoker and I am not even restating the famous Marx saying that religion is the opium of the people. To each his own belief, poison, delusion or fantasy though I do know this can be a luxury in Africa where tyrants can ban Christmas, declare Christianity a crime, proclaim Islam a religion of slave drivers.
Four East African states have signed an agreement to seek more water from the River Nile - a move strongly opposed by Egypt and Sudan.
Under colonial-era accords, the two countries get 90% of the river's water.
By Jason McLure - May 13, 2010
Ethiopia’s government will ignore foreign and domestic pressure to free opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa from prison and keep her incarcerated beyond this month’s elections, Communications Minister Bereket Simon said.
By Yilma Bekele
It is election season in California. Two positions are open. The governorship and Federal Senate positions are up for grabs.
Zeineb Aliye
Meles Zenawi and Co. call Ethiopians chauvinists and it is right for Ethiopians in turn to call them ethno-fascists. Ethno-fascism is fascism shrouded and served in the plate of ethnicity.
After months of strong statements between Addis Ababa and Washington, over Ethiopia’s decision to jam Voice of America’s Amharic service, a new U.S Ambassador officially has assumed office in Addis Ababa.
(AFP) – Apr 29, 2010
ADDIS ABABA — Dozens of Ethiopians marched Thursday to rebury family members massacred during dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam's "Red Terror" purge which claimed tens of thousands of lives some 30 years ago.
(AFP) – 1 day ago
ADDIS ABABA — Gunmen have shot dead an Ethiopian opposition party activist, an opposition official said Monday, days after the government accused the party of killing a policeman in the same region.
By Aaron Maasho on 25-03-2010, 10:48 GMT - Reporting Africa - Permalink
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Attackers hurled a bomb at a political meeting in Ethiopia, killing two people and wounding 14 others just over two weeks before national elections, a government spokesman said Friday.
The blast happened in Adaba in the Oromya region of southern Ethiopia on Thursday as members of a party from the ruling coalition were hosting a 20th anniversary ceremony, spokesman Shimelis Kemal told AFP
May 7, 2010 at 8:51 pm (Commenatry)
By Zeineb Aliye
Meles Zenawi and Co. call Ethiopians chauvinists and it is right for Ethiopians in turn to call them ethno-fascists. Ethno-fascism is fascism shrouded and served in the plate of ethnicity.
By Jason McLure - May 07, 2010
Ethiopia’s ruling party has increased harassment of opposition supporters before a May 23 election in the Horn of Africa country, opposition coalition leader Merara Gudina said.
Activists loyal to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front have thrown stones at his car, breaking its windows and puncturing its tires over various occasions while campaigning in the Oromiya region in the past two weeks, said Merara, who is a parliamentary candidate.
The U.S. government's rhetoric on atrocities in Africa doesn't match its long record of supporting authoritarian regimes.
The reason I am writing you is that today I spoke to afamily member
 in Addiss and I was informed that last week upon visiting the memorial mueseum ( For people killed by the Derg Thugs) they saw Frezer's ( my brother's) picture among the dead . My guess is the picture might have been taken while he was inprisoned just before been killed . It is my saddest day of my life as it feels like a new Merdo . Ijust wanted to share it with you .
Thanks for all your help
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May 4, 2010
HERE IS HER REPORT
We had an event on African women on May 3,to present the second edition of a previous book which portrayed 52 women from 25 different African countries under the title “Women who Moved Africa”. The new edition’s title ( Femmes Africaines, batisseuses d’avenir) could be translated into “African Women, builders of the future” and it portrays 73 women from 31 countries including Miriam Makeba, Cesaria Evora. and myself (Ghennet Girma)
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has alleged that countries like China and Iran are curtailing freedom of expression by "limiting full access" to use of connective technologies like internet and cell phones.
67th Special Report 23 October, 2003
Introduction
It is to be recalled that EHRCO has issued reports at different times condemning the imprisonment and harassment of journalists by government security forces. It has also repeatedly appealed that the illegal acts committed by government security forces on journalists are in clear contravention and violation of the basic human rights of citizens.
Small-scale farmers and pastoralists in Ethiopia are likely to bear the brunt of the negative impacts of climate change in the region, which will include increased poverty, water scarcity, and food insecurity, according to a new Oxfam International report released today.
New York, April 30, 2010—In light of the Ethiopian government’s longstanding practice of jailing journalists on trumped-up criminal charges, the Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the detentions last week of two government TV journalists on allegations of misusing state property. CPJ is monitoring the legal proceedings closely.
By Helen Epstein
Parts of southern Ethiopia resemble the scenery in a Tarzan movie. When I was there last fall, the green forested hills were blanketed in white mist and rain poured down on the small farms and homesteads. In the towns, slabs of meat hung in the butchers’ shops and donkeys hauled huge sacks of coffee beans, Ethiopia’s major export, along the stony dirt roads.
By Hama Tuma
The dictators have not had enough–we call them tyrants, butchers, thieves and robbers, corrupt and adulterers, cruel barbarians and more but they want more.
April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s opposition plans to use violence to topple the government with backing from Western nations and non-governmental organizations after elections on May 23, a senior ruling party official said.
by Rick Rozoff
Global Research, April 26, 2010
Japanese navy commander Keizo Kitagawa recently spoke with Agence France-Presse and disclosed that his nation was opening its first overseas military base – at any rate since the Second World War – in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.
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