Monthly Archives: June 2011

Woyanne accuses jailed journalists of terror plot – CPJ

CPJ — The Ethiopian government Woyanne regime today publicly accused an editor and a columnist of involvement in a terrorism plot, according to news reports and local journalists. Woubshet Taye, deputy editor of the leading Awramba Times newspaper and …

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On the Democratization Process

By Messay Kebede

This is not a response to the numerous reactions generated by my previous article titled “The fallacy of TPLF’s developmental state” Some of the reactions raised serious and legitimate questions; others emanated from misunderstandings of …

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Disintegrating Tyrant’s Key Pillar of Support – THE POLICE

The police are almost always an important source of power in society. They maintain law and order, they carry out the government’s laws, and they insure that the system remains stable. Within the police one can identify all of the …

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Radio interviews on Ethiopian Review Anniversary

Addis Dimts Radio and Netsanet LeEthiopia Radio have discussed Ethiopian Review’s 20th anniversary on their weekend programs. Listen below.

Nesanet LeEthiopia [forward to 28:00:01]
[podcast]http://www.ethiopianreview.com/audio/netsanet-le-ethiopia-radio-26jun2011.mp3[/podcast]

Addis Dimts [forward to 1:25:38]
[podcast]http://addisdimts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/06-25-11.mp3[/podcast]…

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Awramba Times editor tortured

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — The deputy editor of Awramba Times, Woubshet Taye, who was arrested a week ago, June 19, may have been tortured by the interrogators at Maekelawi Prison, according to a family member.

It’s been 8 days since …

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ICC issues arrest warrants for Gaddafi

The International Criminal Court (ICC) Monday issued arrest warrants against Libyan leader Mummar Gaddafi and two of his high-ranking officials. The Pre-Trial Chamber I issued warrantsfor Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the “de facto Prime …

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U.S. Africa Policy: Empty Words, Emptier Promises

Alemayehu G. Mariam

(This is the second installment in a series of commentaries I pledged to offer on U.S. policy in Africa under the heading “The Moral Hazard of U.S. Policy in Africa”. In Part I,  I argued that

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CPJ speaks out on recent detention of journalists in Ethiopia

New York (CPJ) — Ethiopian authorities have been holding a newspaper columnist incommunicado since Tuesday, local journalists told the Committee to Protect Journalists. Reeyot Alemu, a regular contributor to the independent weekly Feteh, was expected to spend the next …

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2011 Failed States Index

  Complete Results Methodology

Ethiopia under the Woyanne tribal junta and its khat-addicted dictator continues to rank high in all failed state indicators. Click here to read the complete report.


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Ethiopian journalist illegally detained since Sunday – CPJ

(Awramba Times) The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on Ethiopian authorities today to immediately release journalist Woubshet Taye, who has been held since Sunday.

Police picked up Taye, deputy editor of the leading independent weekly Awramba Times, at his …

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Ethiopia’s ruling junta ramps up the fear machine

By Yilma Bekele

… within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate. From this point of view, propaganda should not approximate to the truth as closely as possible:

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Disintegrating Tyrant’s Key Pillar of Support – The WORKERS

The ABCs of Toppling a Tyrant:

A. UNITY!
B. PLANNING!
C. DISCIPLINE!

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Ethiopia: The Fakeonomics of Meles Zenawi

There is the economics of Adam Smith, the intellectual father of capitalism. There is Levitt & Dubner’s freakonomics of weird stuff. Then there is the fakeonomics (economics by gimmickry) of  Meles Zenawi, the dictator in Ethiopia and author of the …

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Woyanne soccer team’s defeat brings joy to Addis residents

Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa residents had some thing to be cheerful about Saturday after Buna defeated the Woyanne-affiliated football team Dedebit 2-1.

In a typical Woyanne fashion, the game was full of controversy and intrigue, but Buna were able to …

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Ethiopian man arrested near Pentagon on suspicion of terrorism

ABC News is reporting that a man with uniquely Ethiopian name, Yonathan Melaku, was arrested Friday morning near the Pentagon carrying what are thought to be bomb making items. There are two possibilities: 1) the guy is mentally sick, or

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China helps Ethiopia’s tyrant jam broadcast signals

A worldwide boycott of Chinese products may need to be organized to let China know that it needs to stop helping brutal dictators in the third world silence independent media. The following is a press release from ESAT.

ESAT accuses

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Mind the Jump: A Brief Response to Prof. Messay Kebede

Abiye Teklemariam Megenta

Professor Messay Kebede’s challenging essay, “The fallacy of TPLF’s developmental state,” makes a lot of fresh arguments and suggestions. Some of them are deeply unsettling to many of us who consider ourselves to be part …

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Tyrant’s Pillar of Suppot – The RELIGIOUS ORGANIZAIONS

Though usually recognized as a “conservative pillar of support,” organized religion sometimes plays a very dynamic role during processes of political change… [read more]…

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The fallacy of TPLF’s developmental state

By Messay Kebede

This paper can be taken as a manifesto of an individual who has pondered on the tragedy of Ethiopia for many years and whose specific features is that he is passionate about the country, has no political …

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Volcanic ash cloud heading toward Addis Ababa

ADDIS ABABA (AP) – Airlines that travel through East Africa said Monday they are keeping an eye on an ash cloud after a volcano eruption in Eritrea, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the eruption is forcing her …

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Internet in a suitcase

U.S. Department of State is financing efforts by activists to circumvent Internet blockade by dictators such as Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, according to a New York Times report:

By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF | The New York Times

The …

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George Ayittey’s War on African Dictatorships

Alemayehu G. Mariam

George AyitteyGeorge Ayittey, the distinguished Ghanaian economist, and arguably one of the “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” (a person of ideas who stands for things far larger than one’s academic discipline) worldwide who “are shaping the tenor of

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Syria braces for more anti-regime protests

Syria plunged deeper into chaos and bloodshed Friday as adamant pro-democracy protesters took to the streets across the country in cities and towns including Homs, Lattakia, Amouda, Izram, Dara, Der Ezzor and Qamishli in mass protests that mark what protestors

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ESAT is back on air

ESAT (Ethiopian Satellite TV) has announced that is once again back on air and transmitting direct to Ethiopia for the 7th time starting yesterday.

The new satellite parameters are:
ABS1 Satellite
75 degree East
C Band
Downlink: 3.480 GHz Vertical …

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Ethiopia’s dictator clings to power: CBS

By Joshua Norman | CBS

This is an installment in the CBS WorldWatch series, “The world’s enduring dictators,” inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, in which CBSNews.com takes a look at the men who continue to rule their

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Do the people of Ethiopia need more tanks?

Ethiopia’s khat-addicted, bleached skin Yemeni dictator Meles Zenawi has ordered 200 tanks from Ukraine at the cost of USD$100 million, according to a Ukraine newspaper (read here).

Who are the tanks going to protect? The answer is obvious. They …

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Meles blames the Ethiopian people

By Yilma Bekele

I am not making this up You can follow the link below and watch the four part video of the leader for life meeting with Ethiopian business leaders. It is a very interesting video. The video is …

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‘Zenawi told me that he is Yemeni’ – Gaddafi

In televised speech 20 years ago this month (June 1991), Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi told a cheering audience that Ethiopia is an Arab country and that the new leader, Meles Zenawi, is a Yemeni:

Apart from the the royal family,

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Notorious criminal Col. Tesfaye WoldeSelassie died

Col. Tesfaye Woldeselassie, the Derg regime’s security chief who is responsible for the torture and death of thousands of Ethiopians, has died in prison.

Suspicions have risen after the fall of the Derg regime that during his last years as …

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10 Ethiopians on their way to Yemen suffocated to death

YEMEN (UPI) — At least 14 refugees died at the hands of smugglers as they traveled from Somalia to Yemen, the United Nations said Tuesday.

The U.N. refugee agency said in a release issued in New York that 10 Ethiopians …

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EHSNA invites you to its first annual Ethiopian festival in DC

ETHIOPIAN HERITAGE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
Invites you to the First Annual Ethiopian Heritage Festival (JULY 1-3/2011)

The first annual Ethiopian Heritage Festival will be held in Washington D.C. from July 1, 2011 to July 3, 2011. The Festival will …

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The SEEDs of Hope in the Ethiopian Diaspora

Alemayehu G. Mariam

[This commentary is an expanded version of remarks I gave at the annual SEED Award Dinner (Society of Ethiopians Established in Diaspora)[1] held at the Georgetown University Conference Center, Washington, D.C. on May 29, 2011.]

I thank …

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U.S. says Yemen president should resign

The Obama administration, anxious to deny al-Qaida’s most dangerous offshoot more space in which to flourish, urged Yemen’s wounded president on Monday to immediately step aside and clear the way for a transfer of power aimed at averting all-out civil …

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Disintegrating Tyrant’s Key Pillar of Support – THE MILITARY

Military force is viewed as the “trump card” by authoritarian regimes. Unlike police personnel, military units are often separated from civilian society. This separation from the public hinder the development of personal relationships between military and civilian families. [read

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BEKA spreads in western Ethiopia

Tinsae Ethiopia members sent this photo from the western Ethiopian town of Assosa. (read more at Tinsae.org)

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Woyanne calls economic sabotage report a ‘hoax”

Bloombeg has reported today that Shimeles Kemal, the communication state minister for Ethiopia’s ruling tribal junta, said that Tinsae Ethiopia Patriots Union’s report on attacking Woyanne’s infrastructure is a hoax and that “we have not heard of such group.” Shimeles …

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Fiber optics communication line cut off in southern Ethiopia

Government offices, banks, and Woyanne-affiliated businesses in a large part of southern Ethiopia are currently without broadband internet connection after Tinsae Ethiopia members and supporters cut off the fiber optics communication line that is routed through southern Ethiopia to Kenya. …

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