A congress of youth delegates held in Chicago has formed the EPRP Youth League on June 29, 2009. The congress was attended by young delegates from various places while others took part via a teleconference. A special message from the EPRP centre in Addis Ababa was read to the Congress participants.
Ethiopian police have shot and killed two people who were helping to build a Christian church at a site which is also claimed by Muslims, officials say.
Violence broke out when police tried to stop the construction in Dessie, 250km (155 miles) north-east of Addis Ababa.
(Breaking News ) Reports coming from Chicago reveal that the founding congress of the EPRP Youth League has been completed with success on 29 June 2009. Delegates took part and solidarity messages from Ethiopia and other places were also read to the Congress. The Congress has approved the League’s draft constitution and structure. (More detail and official communiqué of the youth body will be posted soon...)
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(Nairobi) - Ethiopia's draft counterterrorism law could punish political speech and peaceful protest as terrorist acts and encourage unfair trials if enacted, Human Rights Watch said today.
We all hear countless accusations and denunciations being hurled at what has come to be known as modern slavery. Talk of slavery and it is only on June 18/2009 that the US Senate issue a formal apology. One news report put it as follows:
“The Senate adopted a resolution Thursday (June 18) offering a formal apology for slavery and the era of “separate but equal” Jim Crow laws that followed. After the clerk finished reading the resolution (S Con Res 26) in full, Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, the measure’s sponsor, noted that Congress has never before issued a formal apology for slavery”.
The deceptive regime of Meles Zenawi is adept at fabricating false slogans and fake priorities which it cleverly passes to foreign news medias and agencies. In this vein, it has recently circulated a non issue like the possible stepping down of Meles Zenawi from his post as prime minister and tried to cover up the main point that the coming 2010 election is going to be rigged and false as has been witnessed before.
Here follows a message on Hama Tuma’s book from Avital Inbar, a well known Israeli translator (he just translated the second part of Marjane Satrapi’s PERSEPOLIS).
Dear Friends,
Allow me to highly recommend an Ethiopian book that I have been reading very slowly for the past two weeks, very slowly so it won’t end. I didn’t translate it (Dori Parnes’ translation is exquisite) so my recommendation is pretty objective. I asked the quality-addicted publisher, Saray Gutman, to send me the press release and the cover (enclosed) so you’ll know what I’m talking about and so you won’t confuse this book with other Ethiopian books.
In my opinion, the presence of a fascist force and person commanding absolute political power in Ethiopia is not as adequately debated and discussed as it ought to be. The purpose of this piece is to make a modest contribution to understanding the nature and variant of fascism in Ethiopia and waging an appropriate struggle to abolish it.
“Languages are not strangers to one another, but are, a priori and apart from all historical relationships, interrelated in what they want to express.”
Walter Benjamin in “The Task of the Translator”
Western culture has a penchant for worshipping the exotic from a safe myopic distance, overlooking the human reality rubbing up against its elbows and knees, unintentionally creating cross-cultural connections comical, frustrating, and inspirational all at once. Israel, literally and figuratively, finds itself somewhere between Europe and Africa.
The deplorable human rights situation and the economic crisis have led to the increase in the number of Ethiopian refugees. Hundreds have perished this year alone trying to reach Italy or Yemen. Thousands of young women have also been trafficked to the Middle East and Europe to face a precarious existence as refugees/sex workers.
What prompted me to write this article under the title: ‘Ethiopia- Born Again Politicians’? I happen to observe few articles popping-up these days with the news that a paradigm shift and “strategic” power struggle is on the making.
The charade of the kangaroo court of the ruling EPRDF is in full swing. Citizens accused of plotting assassination and other terror actions are being parade before State controlled judges who trample on due process as a matter of routine.
This article is the result of 4-recent articles I read as indicated in my reference list below. I’m aroused to write this article as a response to those earlier articles and share my opinion with the wider Ethiopian readers. Hence, comments from all directions are most welcome as this is the only way we clear the shadows of dangerous events from happening.
The leader of Libya Muaamar Gadafi is visiting Italy and there are reports that relations between the two countries are going to improve considerably. This does not at all augur well for refugees who are being deported by Italy back to Libya. Hundreds of refugees from Iraq, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, North Africa, etc have lost their lives trying to make it to Italy from Libya. Recently,
The Deputy Police Commissioner of the ruling EPRDF, Hassan Shifa, has blatantly lies about the practice of torture in Ethiopia under the EPRDF by boldly declaring that "not only we do not do torture but we do not even have one instrument to do it with". Hassan Shifa is a central committee leader of the Tigrai Liberation Front (TPLF)....
“Old Testament vs. New Testament” - In real world the Old Testament lays the foundation for the teachings and events found in the New Testament. As such the Bible is a progressive revelation. If you skip the first half of any good book and try to finish it, you will have a hard time understanding the characters, the plot, and the ending. In the same way, the New Testament is only completely understood when it is seen as a fulfillment of the events, characters, laws, sacrificial system, covenants, and promises of the Old Testament.
several leaders and veteran members of the opposition Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) fell into the hands of the Tigrai liberation Front (TPLF) in Gondar and Gojjam following a wart launched by the latter and its allies against the EPRP. The Sudanese regime of Omar Beshir, an ally of the TPLF, also handed over several EPRP members who were refugees of whom Azanaw Demile has been disappeared since.
MAY--JUNE 2005-- the EPRDF regime committed fraud and cancelled the results of the general election. Its defeat was turned into "victory", more than 200 peaceful protesters shot dead, close to 50,000 people rounded up and sent to prison camps (Zwai, Shoa Robit, Dedesa and Bir Sheleko) and "ghost" prisons all over Ethiopia.
Whenever they see critics of Issayas Afewarki some commentators ask what about Meles Zenawi. Usually a writer has a specific goal and bounds to restrict one’s views when the writer starts composing on a given topic. That means I don’t have to jump all over and address all leaders in the region inclusive of Meles. Here and now my very sole concern is to write about the agonies faced in Eritrea by Eritrea’s highly feared leader Issayas Afewarki.
Obama signs bill limiting military uses of American aid. President Obama signed H.R. 1125, the “Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009” on March 11. The bill includes language that limits the use of certain American military assistance to several countries, including Ethiopia.
If and when the fate of our nation is determined must be determined not by a small group of elites who desires to control state power but by the people of Ethiopia themselves.
I really appriciate your patience and strength to be involved for a long time in a poletical struggle. It has been 40 year since EPRP started its struggle. You are not able to bring any change for the Ethiopian people who is currently suffering from the tyrant weyane during these 40 year.
Customarily come the month of May, Eritrean Independence Day is what comes into the picture for any Eritrean first. Rightfully it was so. Indeed, with the ardent sacrifice and unflinching support of TPLF, on May 24, 1991 Eritrea happens to claim its national independence from Ethiopia.
(David Calleja is a contributing writer for Foreign Policy Journal and several other websites with a focus on the Southeast Asian Region. You may view a sample of his writing at: www.foreignpolicyjournal.com. The following article is his interview with Chris Flaherty, the documentary producer and director of the Ethiopian-centred documentary, Migration of Beauty)
Funny enough we are told by Eritrean /“Ethiopian”/ Review article of May 28th 2009 that Andargachew Tsigie the Secretary General of Gunboat-7 Movement is currently on a working visit in Asmara, Eritrea mainly holding talks with Issayas Afewrki’s regime on how to create a united front with Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF), OLF and ONLF.
Dambisa Moyo: author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa
Ahead of the publication of my book Dead Aid, an author friend of mine cautioned me about responding to opponents who found it necessary to color their criticism with personal attacks. This, he argued, is a tried and tested way of side-stepping the issues and providing a smoke screen when faced with a valid argument.
David Dadge - guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 May 2009 08.00 BST
Despite the generosity of donor nations, Ethiopia is ruled by an authoritarian government with virtual impunity
The European Union, United States and other major donors will pump about $2.5bn (£1.6bn) into Ethiopia this year, a sum that does not even begin to include the cost of medicines, famine relief and countless other services provided by non-profit groups in one of the world's most impoverished countries.
Call me by my name, address and title - Obo Arada Shawl
May 23, 2009
History of Arts
Any real history starts at the grassroots. Any one of the following seven disciplines is a type of visual art. This may be a simplified version of what we know about visual arts means. Eathiopians do not seem to have problems in distinguishing these types of arts.
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The charade of the kangaroo court of the ruling EPRDF is in full swing. Citizens accused of plotting assassination and other terror actions are being parade before State controlled judges who trample on due process as a matter of routine.
