Finote Hibret Radio Voice of EPRP:01/28/2012
Ye Zebenaye Gedaye [The killers of Zebenaye]
It is difficult to write about ones pain of the monstrous Mengistu regime. It’s so personal. It is dredging up the personal, from the darkest recess of our soul that is a problem. The details of who, what, when, where, why, that forces one to recall and relive those awful memories. Anger, sorrow, confusion rear their ugly head…pain and anguish. The story is never complete, the Red Terror, a horror that defies explanation.
Appeal letter to Prime Minister of Norway
As you may know, Ethiopian asylum seekers in Norway have faced enoromous challenges. We believe Ethiopians through out the world can do something to solve this problems. Read More>>>
Al Mariam’s Contradictory approach to the Right of Free Speech
Getachew Reda getachre@aol.com www.ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com
Ethiopia Sentences 3 Journalists to Long Prison Terms
Voice of America
January 27, 2012 Ethiopia Sentences 3 Journalists to Long Prison Terms Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa An Ethiopian court on Thursday sentenced three journalists and two opposition political activists to long prison sentences for terrorism-related ...
Ethiopia's Ayele Abshero breaks course record in Dubai Marathon in debut
Washington Post
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ayele Abshero of Ethiopia won the Dubai Marathon on Friday with the fourth-fastest time ever in his first marathon, giving his country a victory over rival Kenya in an Olympic year. The 21-year-old Abshero also set the ...
Ethiopian Rebels Say Ethiopia Blocks Release of Hostages
BusinessWeek
27 (Bloomberg) -- An Ethiopian rebel group said the country's government is blocking the release of two German hostages the fighters are holding. Communications Minister Bereket Simon denied the allegation. The two Germans and two Ethiopians were ...
AEUP SUPPORT IN EUROPE
Attacking & Destabilizing Opposition Organisations is Undermining Democracy and Democratic Governance
NORWAY—STOP HARASSING REFUGEES AND THREATENING DEPORTATION!
Sad as it is, the State of Norway has broken with its worthy past of being the land of asylum and refuge. Nowadays, xenophobia is the vogue and real politick determines the policy of the Norwegian government. Ethiopian refugees have become the visible victim of this callous and cruel slide into the realm of violator of human rights on the part of Norway.
January 26/2012
DENOUNCE THE REPRESSIVE REGIME’S ILLEGAL SENTENCINF OF JOURNALISTS AND POLITICAL DISSENTERS
The State controlled court in Addis Abeba has sentenced a number of journalists and political dissenters to years of imprisonment and thousands of Birr fine. Thus, Journalists Woubshet and (Ms Reyot have been sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment a 33,000 Birr fine. The leader of the Ethiopian National Democratic Party, Zerihun Gebre Igziabher, has been sentenced to 17 years and a 50,000 Birr fine. Hirut Kilfle got 19 years and Elias Kifle, in abstentia, was given a life sentence.
January 20/2012
CONDEMN THE MISTRETAMENT OF ETHIOPIANS IN SAUDI ARABIA
SOCEPP HAS RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING LETTER FROM CONCERNED ETHIOPIANS IN SAUDI ARABIA:
January 21/2012
SOCEPP CONDEMNS THE IGAD PROPSED ACCORD AGAINST DISSIDENTS
The members countries of the IGAD (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia—Eritrea is not yet formally readmitted) have let it be known that they are to sign/ratify an accord to “deport criminals back to their countries of origin”. Djibouti has already signed the accord and others are expected to follow as the Meles regime and Khartoum have already agreed to deport those they call “criminals”.
The Proxy Game
By Gemencho
The London conference of 1991 deserves the credit for engineering the coup d’ etat of 1991 in Ethiopia, and for manufacturing a democratic cover to the anti-Ethiopian narrative. Not surprisingly, this is what frames all colonial and imperial adventures. Dismantling third world nationalism has always been the pre-occupation of colonial elites-the core element of their project.
'Man of integrity': Aussie father among dead in Ethiopian bus plunge
Friends have described a Melbourne father killed in a fiery bus crash in Ethiopia as a ‘‘man of integrity’’ who devoted his life to his family.
Dawit Fantaye Taye, from Tarneit in Melbourne's west, was initially pulled alive from the wreckage of the bus, which plunged about 80 metres into a gorge north of the capital Addis Ababa on Tuesday, killing 43 people on board.
Ethiopia bans Olympic champion Bekele and 34 others
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has indefinitely banned 35 athletes - including Olympic men's 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Kenenisa Bekele - from competition in a row over training, the technical director of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation said on Friday.
Ethiopians in Diaspora
To Whom It May Concern;
We are concerned Ethiopians in Diaspora, who closely follow our detained 35 Ethiopians in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia while they were gathering in a home to celebrate Christmas in December 2011, which is allowed according to the law of the country. From these innocent prisoners, 29 of them are women who some of them left their children in their home.
Ethiopia forcing thousands off land to make room for Saudi and Indian investors
Telegraph.co.uk
Ethiopia is forcing tens of thousands of its poorest people off fertile land earmarked for Saudi Arabian and Indian investors and into villages lacking schools, clinics or clean water, a new report has claimed. By Mike Pflanz, Nairobi Already, ...
Ethiopian-Israeli begins three-day march to protest racism
Haaretz
By Revital Blumenfeld Tags: Israel protest Jerusalem An Israeli of Ethiopian descent yesterday started a three-day protest march from his home in Kiryat Malakhi to the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, where he will join other Ethiopian Israelis ...
Canada urged to stop Ethiopia from evicting villagers
CBC.ca
A rights' watchdog is urging Canada and fellow aid donors to pressure Ethiopia into ending an abusive and systematic practice of forcing rural villagers off their land. A report released Tuesday by New York-based Human Rights Watch blasts the Horn of
Ethiopian Regional Leader said to Admit Role in Ethnic Killings
VOA
The president of a volatile Ethiopian regional state has been fired from his party leadership position after reportedly admitting involvement in a 2003 ethnic massacre. The leadership of the southern Gambella region is coming under increasing scrutiny for corruption and abusing the rule of law.
