Monthly Archives: April 2007

How rescued British diplomats in Ethiopia abandoned their local staff – for the second time

By BARBARA JONES
The Daily Mail

The chandeliers in the grand drawing room of the Ambassador’s Residence sparkled overhead.

Swathes of tartan were draped round the room and a bottle of whisky stood at the centre of every table as …

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The only way the US can prop up its client regime in Somalia is through lawlessness and slaughter

By Salim Lone
The Guardian

This is the most lawless war of our generation. All wars of aggression lack legitimacy, but no conflict in recent memory has witnessed such mounting layers of illegality as the current one in Somalia. Violations …

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Al Amoudi lawyer threatens Ethiopian Review

Ethiopian/Saudi billionaire Al Amoudi is unleashing his lawyers at Ethiopian Review. He has the audacity to threaten ER with a lawsuit for associating him with Meles Zenawi’s terrorist regime.

Dear Attorney David H. Bamberger,

Do you want to know how …

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Mogadishu: Another Darfur in the Making?

Congressman Donald Payne
For Immediate Release

Innocent civilians in Mogadishu are being killed and maimed by Ethiopian security forces and the militia of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). The atrocities being committed against innocent civilians in Mogadishu are war crimes …

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U.K. steps up Ethiopia travel warnings

Warnings for holidaymakers visiting Ethiopia were stepped up by the British government today.

The Foreign Office now advises holidaymakers against all travel within 50 kilometres of all of Ethiopia’s borders.

“We advise against all travel to areas off the principal …

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Addis Ababa University students angry at Menelik II hospital

Addis Ababa University students expressed outrage and anger on Tuesday after doctors at Menelik II hospital allegedly took out some parts from the body of a student. Daily Monitor reports as follows:

The deceased Ahmed Abdurrahman, a 3rd year physics …

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Open letter to the people and government of China

The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)

Our people have been subjected to persecution including, killings, torture, arbitrary arrest and other forms of abuse by successive governments in Ethiopia. The current regime in power in Ethiopia led by the Prime Minister …

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Mogadishu chaos engulfs the region

As Mogadishu endures an eighth day of fighting, one sombre conclusion is unmistakable. A new regional war is now being fought in the Horn of Africa.

The latest clashes are probably among the bloodiest in Somalia since America’s disastrous intervention …

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Woyanne forces, Islamist guerrillas battle for 9th day in Mogadishu

Forex TV GLOBAL NEWS

MOGADISHU (Thomson Financial) – Shells and machinegun fire pounded the Somali capital today, setting buildings ablaze, as Ethiopian [Woyanne] forces and Islamist guerrillas battled for the ninth day.

After a night of sporadic shelling, columns of …

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Ethiopia rebels want to hand over Chinese hostages

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian rebels who killed 74 people and seized seven Chinese workers in a raid on an oilfield said on Thursday they had no plans to hold the hostages or to attack other foreign companies.

A London-based …

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The warlords of death return to steal city’s brief taste of peace

By Martin Fletcher in Mogadishu
The Times
April 26, 2007

Said Muhammad Abukar, a mere 40 days old, lay grey and trembling on an operating table in Madina hospital. His tiny stomach was slit down the middle. Doctors were searching …

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Chaos at Addis Ababa University

News24 (SA)

Addis Ababa – Dozens of students were injured on Thursday in clashes with each other and the police at Ethiopia’s largest university, said students.

One student said he saw another killed by demonstrators, and about 50 wounded in …

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Ethnic Somali rebels kill 74 at Chinese oilfield in Ethiopia

By Anita Powell in Addis Ababa
The Guardian

Rebels stormed a Chinese-run oilfield in eastern Ethiopia yesterday, killing 74 workers and destroying the facility, guerrillas and government officials said.

The Ogaden National Liberation Front, an ethnic Somali group that has …

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Woyanne facing results of its Somalia adventure

Addis Abeba, 24 April – As the Somali population of Mogadishu is facing decimation, Somali fighters have taken over the city of Kisimayo. Nonetheless, Minister Meles Zenawi said military operations to clean Somalia of Islamist extremists were going well. Despite …

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O.N.L.F. Statement On Military Operation Against Illegal Oil Facility In Ogaden

Before dawn this morning At 0430 AM local time in Ogaden, the ’ Dufaan’ commando unit of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) conducted a military operation in the vicinity of Obala, 30km North-West of Degah-Bur in in Northern Ogaden. …

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The southern city of Kismayu falls into the hands of Somali patriots

By Aweys Osman Yusuf

More than 16 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in the port city of Kismayu, 500 km south of the capital Mogadishu, Monday after a heavy gun battle between rival clans, Majegten and Marehan, …

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Woyanne forces indiscriminately bomb markets and homes

By Mohamed Abdi Farah

(SomaliNet) At least 20 people mostly civilians have been killed and more than 40 others were wounded in a renewed fighting that raged in the Somalia capital Mogadishu overnight, local medical sources said on Wednesday – …

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Scores of Ethiopian troops flee Somalia to Yemen

Sana’a – Scores of Ethiopian army troops serving the Woyanne tribal junta have arrived off the coast of Yemen onboard two boats belonging to smugglers after they fled fighting with Islamic insurgents in Somalia, a press report said on Tuesday. …

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Woyanne War crimes and the war on terror

By Abdurrahman Warsameh
ISN Security Watch

The deputy prime minister of Somalia’s transitional government, Hussein Mohamed Farah Aideed, has accused Ethiopian troops of committing “genocide” against the Somali people in the capital, Mogadishu, taking already high tensions to a new …

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San Francisco Chronicle reports about torture in Ethiopia

Reports of torture in Ethiopia are widespread

By Nick Wadhams
San Francisco Chronicle

Ghimbi, Ethiopia — First, the police threw Tesfaye into a dark cell. Then, each day for 17 days, it was the same routine: Electric shocks on his …

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Ethiopia ranks at the bottom in IT – World Economic Forum

Ethiopia remains at the bottom (119th out of 122 countries) when it comes to the effective use of information and communication technology (ICT), according to a new report from the World Economic Forum. The WEF’s Global Information Technology Report (GITR) …

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Woyanne savagery against students in Dembi Dollo

Ethiopia’s offenses noted by State Dept.

Nick Wadhams
The San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, April 16, 2007

The State Department’s 2006 human rights report for Ethiopia cited “numerous credible reports that security officials often beat or mistreated detainees.” It included more …

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130 Ethiopians and Somalis Die After Yemeni Coast Guards Open Fire on their boat

Source: UN Integrated Regional Information Networks

Somali community leaders in Sana’a said on Saturday that 130 Ethiopian and Somali migrants died at sea when their boat capsized off the Yemeni coast after coast guards opened fire on them.

Three boats …

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War Crimes Are Being Committed in Mogadishu, Somalia, but does the world care?

By Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi

The scenes coming out of Mogadishu are so horrible that they are unbearable to watch. Civilians are lying dead in their homes and on the streets; there is no water; no electricity; hospitals have been shelled …

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Human Rights and Humans Without Rights in Ethiopia

(Full text of speech given at the University of Minnesota Law School, Conference “On the New Breed of African Leaders and the Future of Human Rights and Democracy in Africa”, April 6, 2007.)

It feels great coming back to my …

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EU appoints team to investigate war crimes by the Woyanne regime

By Alisha Ryu, VOA

Ethiopia has denied allegations its soldiers in Somalia attacked and killed innocent civilians during heavy fighting against insurgents in the Somali capital earlier this month, calling the charges false and unfair. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports …

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Joy amid struggle – The Getatchew Haile story

By Amy Bowen
St. Cloud Times

Is this Dr. Getatchew Haile? the caller asks.

Yes, Getatchew answers into the telephone.

Can I come over and talk to you?, the voice asks.

Why and about what?, Getatchew asks, skeptical.

It’s Oct. …

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The Christmas War in the Horn of Africa Continues: What is the Way Out?

By Mammo Muchie (Ethiopia) & Osman Abdulkadir Farah (Somalia)

Introduction

Once again the Horn of Africa is on the news radar screen with the usual nauseating projection and imaging of a region embroiled with a seemingly unending litany of violence, …

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Woyanne soldiers accused of rape

By Aweys Osman Yusuf

Mogadishu 15, April.07 (Sh.M.Network) Speaking with journalists, an 18 year old Somali girl said she was raped by Ethiopian [Woyanne] soldiers in Mogadishu’s Hamar Bille neighborhood.

Fardowsa Abdi Hashi told local stringers that she was tortured …

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Andragachew Tsgie and Elias Kifle are guilty, court rules

By EthioZagol

In a remarkable precedent in Ethiopian legal history, the court in charge of the treason trial of CUD leaders, independent journalists and civil society members ruled today that Andargachew Tsgie, Mesfin Aman and Elias Kifle are guilty of …

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Press release from the Oromo Youth Association

Press Release
April 04, 2007

“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” Francis Bacon

The successful rally led by Oromo youth on …

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