FRANKFURT, GERMANY - The newly reorganized Ethiopian People Patriotic Front's (EPPF) International Committee has officially launched its campaign to organize Ethiopians in the Diaspora by holding its first council meeting Saturday, Nov. 14.
At the opening of the meeting, the Committee's head of public relations and former chairman, Ato Zewdalem Kebede, welcomed the members and introduced the new chairman Ato Leul Qeskis and the other officials.
The 20-member council's first meeting focused on discussing its mission and objectives. The members, who came from several cities in Europe and North America, also introduced each other and shared their ideas on how to rally Ethiopians in the Diaspora around the organization and mobilize humanitarian support to the families of EPPF fighters, according to the Committee's Head of the Press Office Ato Demis Belete.
Ato Leul Qeskis, on his part, briefed the members about EPPF's latest activities in the field, including recent military actions against the Woyanne junta in Ethiopia.
The chairman, Ato Leul, and Ato Assefa Haile, head of political affairs, had spent over three months in the field with the EPPF fighters before the leadership sent them to Europe recently to reorganize and lead the International Committee.
Both Ato Leul and Ato Assefa are elected members of parliament from Gondar and Wollo regions of northern Ethiopia. They joined EPPF after witnessing the barbaric killing of unarmed civilians and mass detention of pro-democracy protesters by the Meles regime following the May 2005 elections. Before being elected to the parliament, Ato Leul had served as head of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) in Gondar. Ato Assefa was a Kinijit organizer in Wollo.
Ethiopian Review will interview Ato Leul on Sunday, Nov. 16, about EPPF's current activities and future plans, particularly its effort to organize Ethiopians in the Diaspora.
The interview will be broadcast live via Ethiopian Review Radio starting at 3:00 PM.
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November 15th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
I wish the EPPF International committee success in their endeavour, Mr. Elias you are to be commended for having the courage to stand with Ethiopian Patriots in the midst of so many in the diaspora who are Woyanne agents and for the most part uninformed Ethiopians in the US. The EPPF International Committee has its work cut out for it because there are so many Ethiopians who are not used to supporting a Patriotic organization in Ethiopia who is actually doing the real fighting against the barbaric Woyanne regime.
I am sure the EPPF international committee members will face hostile questions from Woyanne agents and others who don't understand the principles of the EPPF, be patient with those who are not well informed and expose those Woyanne agents and those are still in the past. EPPF will eventually succeed because it has the support of Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Ethiopians in the dispora should stand with their brothers and sisters in country and help EPPF defeat the tribal junta known as Woyanne.
November 16th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Our motherland has fallen in two worst enemies 1. tribul junta wayane 2. humanitarian crisis. By any means we remove this evil greedy weyane by joining, helping each others,mobilizing our people.Let us devote ourselves for those true ethiopian hero sons& daughters who sacrify their life for our motherland.I think this is the time we help EPPF fighters that is why they are the true Ethiopian sons& daughters.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Let us unite and fight this tribal based government .Let us support all oppostion those who want struggle with woyane .Our people are suffer from economic and poltical crisis .
November 16th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
WEll done Eppf we(Eritreans) are on yourside through thick and Thin. We will be working togather after the down fall
of the woyanes. Long live the horn of africa.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:17 pm