CUD leaders in prison have finally agreed to sign the proposal sent by Meles last week. If Meles doesn't, as he usually does, back down from his own proposal, our heroes will be out of prison next week. There are additional lines in the proposal including that the partial acceptance of responsibility
We endorse the Declaration of Commitment to Human Rights in Ethiopia
Petition to The People of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia 'ready for Eritrea war'
BBC NEWS
Ethiopia's prime minister says he is strengthening his army in preparation for an attack by long-time foe Eritrea.
"Our defence forces have the capacity to deter aggression and to repulse it if it occurred," Meles Zenawi told MPs.
An Eritrean minister said Mr Meles was "paranoid" and trying to divert attention from his domestic problems. He denied backing Ethiopian rebels
A Millennium Resolution: Never Take Wrong Historical Turns Again!
Network of Ethiopian Scholars (NES) -
Mammo Muchie, on behalf of NESJune 26, 2007
Justice is like fire; even if one covers it with a veil, it still burns
(Malagasy Proverb)
One of our strongest weapons is dialogue, sit down with a man, if you have prepared your case very well, that man, after he has sat down to talk to you, will never be the same again. It has been a very powerful weapon .
Nelson Mandela
Introduction
All those who desire to see a democratic, free, stable, peaceful, secure and prosperous Ethiopia can only wish all the divisions, rifts, squabbles, mistrusts and hatred borne of the many real and imagined difficulties and history come to an end through a moratorium freely entered out of respect of the important historic moment that September 11, 2007 provides as Ethiopia’s 2000 year old 2nd Millennium!
CALL ME BY MY NAME: A discussion with Debteraw, XII
Wolde Tewolde, alias Obo Arada Shawl
June 23, 2007
REVOLUTIONARY INSPIRATION VS WOUNDS OF HOPEThe PastThe Present *** The Future
No deal at Makdela Unity at Adua Debu’s Release Death at Metema Peace at Adua Peace in Agame (Assimba)Flight to Harare Bitena at Adua Prosperity at Marcato Plea at the League of Nations
Stability with Aagmelago
The three cornerstones upon which Ethiopia was built are FAITH, LOVE AND HOPE. Debteraw and his colleagues realized that the faith in the Ethiopian Church, the love from Monarchy/Aristocracy, and the hope from the modern schools would soon vanish as they have already failed.
Dr. Getachew Begashaw’s paper “Is it really Lessons learned and the Way Forward?”
LA UEDF Support Committee - June 23, 2007
Why are our lessons learned from the May 2005 elections and its aftermath so different from that of Dr. Getachew Begashaw’s as presented to the Canadian Peace-building Coordinating Committee in Toronto – entitled “Lessons from the May 2005 Ethiopian Elections: The Way Forward” . Before we address the topic, we would like to say this is written in the hope of starting a healthy and constructive dialogue from which we believe refined positions and clearer directions will ensue. We hope our modest contribution will foster a democratic culture that will contribute towards building a democratic system. It is not meant to score points and engage in a “win/lose” discourse.
Dr. Taye W/Semayat has been elected as chairman of Kinijit Intrnational
Listen to Dr. Taye’s interview
Friday, June 22, 2007
ETHIOPIA HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION PASSES
74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007
Regular Session, Senate Joint Memorial 3 Kudos for the Ethiopian American Association of Oregon and Their American Supporters for Enactment of Senate Joint Memorial 3
Ethiopian Prisoners Sign Paper in Bid for Release
Thursday, June 21, 2007; Page A16
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- Ethiopian opposition leaders jailed in a brutal crackdown following 2005 elections have signed a document accepting partial responsibility for the violence in exchange for their release, senior U.S. and Ethiopian officials said.
Only some of the 38 political detainees, whom Amnesty International has called prisoners of conscience, have agreed to sign the document. Others, including the senior opposition leaders, have refused, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are involved in the discussions.
Stand Up Ethiopians! Each One of Us is now a Leader Against the Terrorism of Our People!
Anuak Justice Council - June 18, 2007.
We come out in condemnation of the unjust guilty verdict against our opposition leaders, journalists and human rights defenders! Yet, instead of it being a deathblow to our movement for freedom and democracy, we have now received our marching orders! We are declaring a new “War on Terror: Ethiopia!” We Ethiopians are outraged with the injustice and brutal repression of the Ethiopian people, made more dramatically clear after the events of the last week! We are saying, “Enough is enough! The terrorists in our midst must be stopped!” Stand up Ethiopians! Each one of you is needed in our war against terrorism being carried out against the people of Ethiopia by its own government!
Ethiopia Agrees to Give Town to Eritrea
By LINDSAY HOLMWOOD
The Associated PressFriday, June 15, 2007; 12:21 AM
UNITED NATIONS -- After years of conflict and a tense border dispute, Ethiopia has accepted a U.N. commission's ruling to turn over a disputed town to Eritrea.
"I believe it's good news ... that was one of the bottlenecks in the situation," U.N. associate spokesman Yves Sorokobi said Thursday. "If they do agree, it should move the process forward a bit more quickly."
TSEGAYE, YISHAK AND OTHERS
JUNE 1991 - JUNE 2007 16 YEARS OF DISAPPEARANCE
June 1991: Tsegaye Gebre Medhin (aka Debteraw), Yishak Debretsion, Amha Belete, Teklai Gebre Sellasie, Sitotaw Hussein, Hagos Bezabih, Desalegn Amsalu fall into the hands of the TPLF in Quara /at a place called Sankisa for some/. Azanaw Demile, ak Tulu, was also forcefully deported from the Sudan and handed over to the Tigrean front that took power in May 1991. All were taken to Bahr Dar where they were imprisoned with other captives. From there, the traces of the above disappeared as the reports indicated that they were taken to Tigrai and sent to one of the secret prisons there. The regime denies ever holding them though some of its officials have said in private that "all were shot and killed".
Evaluating Three Decades of Ethiopian Resistance, its Challenges, Achievements and Failures: Perspectives for Political and Leadership Change
By Dr. Maru Gubena
Almost all relatively professional institutions or political organizations see an evaluation – or a brief presentation of policy-related activities or past experience – as a healthy and even vitally important part of both growth and development, whether this involves the general public or individuals who are involved and interested in the organization’s activities. Both large and medium-sized organizations see an evaluation or such a report as tools of understanding, cooperation, integrity, confidence building and a source of motivation for active members and financial contributors. More importantly, it is from an evaluation of outcomes and results, whether intended or unintended, that we draw lessons, learn, and correct or redirect policies and policy-related projects. In some extreme cases, however, and depending on the nature and size of the organization, an evaluation can stimulate or force a leader or leaders to revisit the original vision – the very foundation upon which the organization has been constructed – to s ee if it can be adjusted and whether the existence of the organization can be maintained.
Entire Audio of Dr. Maru Gubena’s presentation and discussion of the above article @ Assimba PalTalk Room held on Saturday May 12, 2007
CALL ME BY MY NAME: A discussion with Debteraw,
Wolde Tewolde alias Obo Arada Shawl
June 13, 2007
Little Knowledge is dangerous (Anglican church)
Silence is golden (Coptic church)
Too much information is lethal (Vatican)
Wisdom is everything (EPRP collective leadership)
Balancing is an Ethiopian ACT
So far, the collective leadership and the Party of EPRP have survived many ups and downs. The AB (ANJA & b’TENA) story within EPRP is relegated to history. The concept of B’tena has been realized by almost everybody for its social and cultural havoc. ANJA belongs solely to the leadership style whereas B’TENA refers to the members or followers of the Party. Both leadership and follower ships should equally share accountability and responsibility Anja and Bitena respectively. However, before relegating them into archives, we need to put them in their proper perspectives.
ETHIOPIAN WOMEN FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY
CALL FOR A WORLD WIDE NINTY DAY’S OF PRAYER TO USHER PEACE FOR THE ETHIOPIAN MILLENNIUM
Press Release from Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) on June 11, 2007 verdict
Ethiopia verdict 'not political' (BBC NEWS)
Ethiopia's government has denied accusations that the conviction of 38 opposition leaders was intended to stifle political dissent.
Government spokesman Bereket Simon told the BBC the court was independent and had based its verdict on hard evidence.
But an opposition leader said it was "a very tragic day for the rule of law and for democracy in Ethiopia".
Thank You, Great Patriots!
Alemayehu G. Mariam
6/11/07
When I learned of the expected news of the “conviction” of the Great Patriots in Zenawi’s kangaroo court this morning, my initial reaction was not disappointment or sadness. It was a deep and overwhelming sense of pride in the personal sacrifices and extraordinary courage shown by these Great Patriots for their country and people.
Ethiopian protest leaders guilty (BBC NEWS)
A court in Ethiopia has found 38 senior opposition figures guilty of charges connected to mass protests after disputed elections two years ago.
The charges ranged from armed rebellion to "outrage against the constitution".
Sentencing is next month and they could face the death penalty, says the BBC's Elizabeth Blunt in Ethiopia.
Hundreds of thousands took part in demonstrations complaining of fraud and vote-rigging by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government in the 2005 polls
Presentation at the "Horn of Africa Social Justice Forum" Yourk University (SOCEPP Candada )
On behalf of the Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners – Canada (SOCEPP-Canada), I would like to thank the Ogaden Human Rights Group and Students of York University for holding this important event on Human Rights in the Horn of Africa. We are honoured and privileged to be invited to this important meeting on such an issue that is timely and very dear to SOCEPP-Canada and the cause it stands for.
Roundtable Report of Ottawa - May 4, 2007 : Political Rights In Ethiopia
To generate ideas on how to support the strengthening of human rights protection and good governance in Ethiopia a roundtable discussion was convened in Ottawa on May 4, 2007, through the collaboration of the Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners-Canada (SOCEPP-Canada), Amnesty International Canada, Partnership Africa Canada, SubSahara Centre, the Canadian Network of NGOs in Ethiopia, and the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee (CPCC).
THE ADOPTION RACKET AND THE VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
SOCEPP June 7, 2007
The sale of Ethiopian children to foreigners has continued to be a brisk business with the EPRDF governmentg etting anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 US dollars per child sold under the flmsy cover of adoption. With some 5 million orphans and impoverished children with parents who cannot sustain them, the EPRDF is in full control of the sale of children which has brought it millions in the past two or three years alone.
Assimba PalTalk Room discussion with Professor Mammo Muchie - Sunday June 3, 2007
On current political situation of the country and the role of Ethiopian intellectuals galvanizing pro-democracy struggle.
Interview on Ethiopian struggle for Democracy and Unity paltalk room
Ethiopian struggle for Democracy and Unity room will interview Ato Obang the chairman of Gambella people's United Democratic front (member of UEDF) on June 8,2007 @ 4 pm EST.( 22 hours Holland time) to discuss about the current situations in Ethiopia and about the recent press released by the front. Come join us and ask any questions regarding the Democratic front and UEDF.
Surge in Adoptions Raises Concern in Ethiopia
ST. PAUL — Ethiopia was not on Mark and Vera Westrum-Ostrom’s list when they first visited Children’s Home Society & Family Services here to explore an international adoption.
Ukraine was first, because of their family heritage, until the couple discovered that the adoption system there was chaotic, with inaccurate information about orphans’ health and availability.
Vietnam was second, after they saw videos of well-run orphanages. But the wait would be at least a year and a half.
Then they learned about Ethiopia’s model centers for orphans, run by American agencies, with an efficient adoption system that made it possible for them to file paperwork on Labor Day and claim 2-year-old Tariku, a boy with almond eyes and a halo of ringlets, at Christmas
CALL ME BY MY NAME: A commentary
Wolde Tewolde alias Obo Arada Shawl
June 1, 2007
Politics: It is an open ended Relationship. We can build or we can destroy the bridge of Relationship. It is a matter of choice. I for one have chosen to build the bridge. Actually it was my profession to build a bridge. In the field of Ethiopian politics, the ELF, OLF, EPLF, TPLF, and the rest liberation fronts have chosen to destroy the bridge. I believe because their leaders were mainly men and men usually think in terms of space – a physical space while women conceptualize in terms of Time. The era of women has finally arrived in the Ethiopian societies. Hopefully the story of MAKON within EPRP will be a guiding light for all of us - men and women.
EPRP has never attempted to destroy a bridge. EPRP considered itself as a human bridge and I want to testify that it is not dead and cannot be dead provided people are open to understand its political history, its members, supporters and its leaders. I for one have made an effort to answer the following questions for my personal judgment. By the way, I am not an EPRP apologist. I am against sky-is-falling rhetoric.
Do we know the political history of EPRP?
Do we know its members?
Do we know its supporters?
Do we know its leaders?
Until we know or make an effort to answer these basic questions, I think we should withhold our judgments.
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Africa: Ethiopian, Zimbabwean Women Journalists Honored
1 June 2007
Posted to the web 1 June 2007
The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) has honoured an Ethiopian publisher for her courage and a Zimbabwean reporter for her achievements in journalism over a period of 35 years.
The IWMF announced in Washington, DC today that Serkalem Fasil, former co-owner and publisher of the weekly Ethiopian newspapers Asqual, Menilik and Satenaw, was among the winners of its 2007 Courage in Journalism Award.
Fasil was one of a number of editors and reporters arrested after publishing material critical of the Ethiopian government during parliamentary elections in 2005.
Kenya: 96 in Ethiopian Jails, Says Lawyer
The Nation (Nairobi)
1 June 2007
Posted to the web 1 June 2007
Ngumbao Kithi
Nairobi
Ninety six Kenyans are in Ethiopian jails after the Government stripped them of their citizenship on allegations that they were linked to terrorism, a human rights lawyer has said.
The whereabouts of 46 of them was unknown because Kenyan authorities were not willing to discuss the issue, lawyer Harun Ndubi claimed.
Boy Dies From Pool Accident That Claimed Sister
Yacob Gezaee Removed From Life Support Thursday
DENVER -- A 10-year-old boy who had been on life support since he was found in an Aurora condo complex pool has died.
Yacob Gezaee was taken off life support Thursday at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit where he had been since Monday.
Gezaee's 16-year-old sister, Bethlehem Gezaee, died Monday while apparently trying to rescue him from the pool.
Title: Making African Integration at the Core of African Development and Structural Transformation!
Network of Ethiopian Scholars (NES)
‘Out of a sample of developing countries, real wages between 1975-79 and 1987-1991 fell in 16 out of 24 cases. Generally the fall in equality, and wages, was greatest in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East’ World Bank Figures
The Changing Global Environment Affect Africa The global environment from the 60s to the 80s facilitated the public role to steer markets, education, infrastructure health and economy. As a consequence many African countries registered positive economic growth in spite of endemic corruption and unpredictable and unlawful patterns of governance arrangements in many of the existing postcolonial states. The world also enjoyed a global economic boom. World incomes rose including those from the developing world
Democracy in Ethiopia, Unplugged: Reflections on a Dream Deferred
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Thank you Kinijit-Oakland Support Chapter for organizing this Town Hall Meeting and for inviting me to speak on the second anniversary of the May, 2005 elections in Ethiopia. And thanks to all of you who have taken the time to attend this event. I am happy to be here at Samuel Merritt College. And it is always a pleasure to visit Oakland, a city which a generation ago was the epicenter of the African American struggle for equality and dignity.
Grenade attacks kill Ethiopians
(BBC News)
At least six people have been killed after grenades were thrown at a crowd in Jijiga, the capital of Ethiopia's eastern Somali region.
An unconfirmed number of people were also killed in an explosion in Degah Bur town, officials said.
One eyewitness in Jijiga told the BBC that children and elderly people were crushed to death in a stampede as police opened fire after the blasts.
The government says no one died but blames ONLF rebels, who deny the claim.
DENOUNCE THE POLITICAL MACHINATIONS OF THE RULING EPRDF
VIS A VIS THE VICTIMS OF THE RED TERROR
Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners (SOCEPP)
May 28/2007
On Sunday May 27, the ruling EPRDF organized a demonstration and a symbolic
burial of the remains of the victims of the Red Terror. This ceremony, planned
to coincide with the official celelbration of the takeover of power by the
TPLF/EPRDF (May 28/1991), is farcial and cruel in that it is orchestrated for
the political benefit of the ruling group.
Interviews from Ethiopian Struggle for Democracy and Unity paltalk Voice Room
AN INTERVIEW WITH AYALNESH AND BEKER MEMBERS OF EPRA, MAY 25th 2007.
Amnesty International Report 2007 - Ethiopia
An interview with W/Z AYALNESH and Ato BEKER members of EPRA @
Ethiopian Struggle for Democracy and Unity Paltalk room on Friday May 25 Th 2007
Time: 22:00h Holland time, 4 pm Est. 1:00 pm west,
4:00 am Australian time. Every body is welcome to join the room.
Ethiopia denies eastern losses (BBC News)
The two main rebel groups in eastern Ethiopia say their forces have killed dozens of Ethiopian soldiers in joint operations in May in the Ogaden region.
But senior Ethiopian official Bereket Simon said their claims were untrue and just an attempt to get media attention.
A statement from the Oromo Liberation Front said several separate attacks had led to more than 150 soldiers killed.
The BBC's Amber Henshaw in Addis Ababa says there is high tension in the area since an attack on a Chinese oilfield.
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