Monthly Archives: April 2012

Invisible Ethiopian

I am a man without a country. I feel like the protagonist in the novel “Invisible Man”, a character so invisible that he did not even have a name in the book. Invisible Man is a chronicle of a man …

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Ethiopian transitional council formation underway

PRESS RELEASE

The Organizing Committee of Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC) held a press conference on Saturday, April 28, 2012, to deliver progress report and announce new initiatives. Several members of the media and over 84 participants had attended the …

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Ethiopia: A Special Tribute to My Hero Eskinder Nega

Alemayehu G Mariam

eskiEskinder Invictus! 

On May 1, 2012, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia’s foremost journalist and political prisoner, will be awarded the “Freedom to Write Award”, the highest honor given out by Pen America, one of the great international free press

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Al Amoudi employees, Pakistanis, attacked in Gambella

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Woyanne regime-controlled Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported today that several employees, including Pakistani nationals, working for Al Amoudi in the southwestern Ethiopian region of Gambella have been killed and wounded by an armed group last night. Read

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Rebels attacked Al Amoudi’s farm in southwest Ethiopia

By William Davison

(Bloomberg) – Gunmen attacked the camp of an agricultural company owned by a Saudi billionaire Al Amoudi in southwest Ethiopia, killing at least one person, Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam said.

The assault on Saudi Star Agricultural …

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Isaias Afwerki: Reports of my death are highly exaggerated

Recent rumor regarding his state of health “attests to the mounting frustration on the part of its authors.” – President Isaias

By Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Asmara, 28 April, 2012 – In a brief interview he conducted tonight, 28 …

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Kamal Galchuu on the Asasa massacre in southern Ethiopia

STATEMENT by General Kamal Galchuu

Massacre by Wayyanne’s federal police at Asasa, Arsi Zone, Oromia is Wayyanne’s
continuation of war against Oromo people

The Oromo Liberation front shockingly learned that the Melese Zenewi’s Federal police
massacred innocent Oromo people in …

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Press conference on transitional council – Saturday 4 PM EST

The Ethiopian National Transitional Council Steering Committee will hold a press conference on Saturday, April 28, at 4 PM Washington DC time.

Dr Fisseha Eshetu, member of the steering committee, will present progress report and make a special announcement at …

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Muslim anger against Zenawi intensifies

Muslims outraged by heavy-handed government interference

Ethiopian Muslims angered by the heavy-handed interference of the government, staged one of the largest rallies following Friday prayers on April 27, 2012.  In a move that appears designed to attract Western money and

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Ethiopia faces instability and genocidal violence – study

The U.S.-based Genocide Prevention Advisory Network lists Ethiopia as a country that is facing high risk of instability. Read the report here. …

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Woyanne troops killed several Muslims in Arsi Zone

Woyanne Fedeal Police troops opened fire and killed several Muslims in the town of Asasa, Arsi Zone, southern Ethiopia today, according to local sources. The Woyanne troops fired live bullets at the Muslims who were attending a Friday prayer… tune

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Obama’s Atrocity Prevention Board ignores Ethiopia

The Atrocity Prevention Board that President Obama created held its first meeting on Monday. While the atrocities in Syria, Sudan, and other countries were highlighted at the meeting, there is no mention of the genocide, ethnic cleansing campaigns and other …

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EOTC asks the U.N. to protect Waldeba Monastery

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Holy Synod in Exile appealed to the United Nations to help protect the historic Waldeba Monastery in Ethiopia. In a letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon, the EOTC wrote: “We hope that the United …

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Digital Security Tactics – Computers

  1. Use passphrases for all your sensitive data.
  2. Keep your most sensitive files on flash disks and find safe places to hide them.
  3. Have a contingency plan to physically destroy or get rid of your computer at short notice.

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Is Walmart bribing Ethiopian officials?

Editor’s Note:

Is Walmart working with corrupt Ethiopian officials?  According to the New York Times, giant US retailer has been caught bribing Mexican officials to the tune of $24 million dollars. Bribery and partnership with ruling party-owned businesses is a

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Green Justice or Ethnic Injustice?

Alemayehu G Mariam

Blaming the Victim

Last week, dictator Meles Zenawi hectored his rubberstamp parliament in Ethiopia about the forced expulsion (or as some have described it “ethnic cleansing”) of Amharas from southern Ethiopia and zapped his critics for their …

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Clearing out the Al Amoudi trash

Removing the Al Amoudi and Woyanne thugs from the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) is a major victory that must be replicated in all other Ethiopian organizations and places of worship. The fight is hard, but we are …

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With much to hide, Zenawi suffocates Ethiopia with information control

Editor’s Note: 

Meles Zenawi has a lot to hide.  There is much stealing and naked brutality that needs to be kept under wraps. There is torture, imprisonment, murder and the trafficking of women for profit.  Western donors, who sustain the

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The giant shows signs of life

By Yilma Bekele

I feel energized. Our freedom tree is bearing fruits. It is the result of the tireless effort of thousands if not millions of us working together in harmony. Due to the miracle of the Internet such as …

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ESAT event in Atlanta with Tamagn Beyene (video)

Artiste Tamagn Beyene in Atlanta

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Discussion on boycotting Ethiopian Airlines (audio)

Ethiopian Review editor Elias Kifle discusses with Netsanet Le Ethiopia Radio about boycott campaign against Ethiopian Airlines and other TPLF-controlled enterprise. Listen below:

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Ethiopian media organizations call for boycott of Ethiopian Airlines

Several Ethiopian media organizations issued a worldwide call for economic boycott against the ethnic apartheid dictatorship in Ethiopia.

The call was made by 12 major Ethiopian electronic and print media at a teleconference that was held on Saturday, April 12, …

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Ethiopia’s economic miracle: 2 weeks of work for a chicken

Editor’s Note:   The average Ethiopian has to work two weeks to afford one chicken.  Meles Zenawi’s economic nirvana is creating a living hell for Ethiopia’s 99 percent, while creating unprecedented wealth for a tiny ethnic minority.

One chicken costs US

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Meles Zenawi explains eviction of Amharas from southern Ethiopia

Dictator Meles Zenawi explains his campaign to evict tens of thousands of Ethiopians of the Amhara ethnic group from Benchi-Maji zone of southern Ethiopia. As expected, his explanation [watch the video below] is full of lies. There can be no …

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Digital Security Tactics (Mobile Phones)

The tactics listed below are case- and context-specific. They need to be adapted to the local situation.

  1. Buy lower-end, simple phones that do not allow third-party applications to be installed. Higher-end ones with more functionalities carry more risk. Use cash
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Rebels burned down TPLF businesses in northern Ethiopia

Fighters from the Ethiopian Unity and Freedom Force (EUFF) have burned down 1 hotel and over 20 stores in the northern Ethiopian border town of Metemma last week, according the group’s spokesperson. The report has been independently verified from local …

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As West and China coddle African dictators, press freedom suffers

Africa’s Free Press Problem

By Mohammed Keita | New York Times

AS Africa’s economies grow, an insidious attack on press freedom is under way. Independent African journalists covering the continent’s development are now frequently persecuted for critical reporting on the …

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Ethiopia: The Bridge on the Road(map) to Democracy

Alemayehu G Mariam

Last week I had an opportunity to address a town hall meeting in Seattle sponsored by the Ethiopian Public Forum in Seattle (EPFS), a civil society organization dedicated to promoting broad dialogue, debate and discussion on Ethiopia’s …

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Healers or Enablers? The case of Ethiopian doctors in exile

By Anonymous

Some Ethiopian doctors in exile are said to be planning to invest in Ethiopia. In preparation, they have had meetings with the Woyane deputy prime minister, and ambassador Girma Biru among other officials. They wish to build a …

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Court ordered Al Amoudi thugs to stop using ESFNA

A U.S. court ordered Al Amoudi thugs to stop using the name Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) and any reference to it. After the ESFNA board kicked out the Woyanne-Al Amoudi cadres and thugs from the organization, they

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Dislodging Tyranny with Nonviolent Civil Resistance

DEFINITIONS:

Dictatorial Rule: Exercising absolute power.

Tyrannic Rule: Violating rule of law.

Fascistic Rule: Abusing the human rights of oppositions and perceived enemies.

To quote Gene Sharp, a researcher who has for many decades studied and written about the …

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Southern Ethiopia — the playground of Meles Zenawi

By Yilma Bekele

Most locations are just bland places. There is not much variation in the topography. Look at Google satellite map of Africa and you will see what I mean. Endless flat land, a stretch of desert, an occasional …

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Boycott Woyanne cash cow: Ethiopian Airlines

By Elias Kifle

The Woyanne junta continues to commit horrible atrocities against Ethiopians with impunity. The recent ethnic cleansing campaign against the Amhara, Gambella and Afar people is not surprising because nothing has been done when khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi …

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A Nonviolent Civil Resistance Template to Remove the Enemy

In conflicts between a dictatorship, or other oppression, and a dominated population, it is necessary for the populace to determine whether they wish simply to condemn the oppression and protest against the system. Or, do they wish actually to end …

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PEN 2012 Freedom to Write Award Goes to Eskinder Nega

Top PEN Prize to Honor Eskinder Nega, Jailed Ethiopian Journalist and Blogger

Leading Free Expression Advocate on Trial for Terrorism

New York City, April 12, 2012—PEN American Center today named Eskinder Nega, a journalist and dissident blogger in Ethiopia, …

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EYNM Public Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden

Guest Speakers: 
  • Prof. Alemayehu G/Mariam: International Human Rights Advocate and Proffessor of Law and Political Science
  • Topic: Challenges for Democratic Change in Ethiopia and their solutions 
  • Dr. Feseha Eshetu: Former President and Owner of Unity University College
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    Dealing with the Tyrant’s Repression

    The oft quoted phrase “Freedom is not free” is true. No outside force is coming to give oppressed people the freedom they so much want. People will have to learn how to take that freedom themselves. Easy it cannot be. …

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    Worldwide conference on economic boycott against Woyanne – today

    In light of the ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign in Ethiopia against the Amhara, Oromo, Ogaden, Gambella, Afar and other Ethiopians, several Ethiopian media will come together on Saturday, April 14, at 1 PM, to propose a worldwide economic boycott campaign …

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    Alem Dechasa’s lonely death

    By Clar Ni Chonghaile | The Guardian

    BURAYU, ETHIOPIA — Alem Dechasa left Ethiopia in January to work as a maid in Lebanon, where she apparently killed herself. Her journey started in Burayu, a poor settlement outside Addis Ababa.

    Lemesa …

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    Identity Politics and Ethiopia’s Transition to Democracy

    By Alemayehu G Mariam

    History Keeps Repeating Itself in Ethiopia

    Last week, the Voice of America Amharic radio program reported on the forced official removal (“displacement”) of a large number of people e from the southern part of Ethiopia. According …

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    Amhara cannibalized by hodam Amharas

    By Elia Kifle

    The recent ethnic cleansing of 78,000 Ethiopians of the Amhara ethnic group from southern Ethiopia by the Woyanne junta is a horrible crime. Ethiopian Review has been reporting similar ethnic cleansing campaigns against other Ethiopian ethnic groups, …

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    Can Ethiopians Afford to Ignore TPLF Inc.’s atrocities?

    By Aklog Birara, PhD

    “The people occupying the plateau of the Blue Nile are conscious of a glorious past and proudly call themselves Ethiopians.” – Elise Reclus, Philosopher

    Ethiopian ethnic-based political elites, most prominently, the champion of ethnic politics and …

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    Questions to Dr Abinet et al

    By Teshome Wolde

    I understand you had a meeting with Ethiopian Woyanne Ambassador to United States to discuss about the establishment of referral hospital in Ethiopia. We would be very grateful if you can spend few minutes to elaborate the …

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    Loving Ethiopia to death – the Doctors

    By yilma Bekele

    On November 11, 2011, Yenesew Gebre was driven to kill himself on behalf of all suffering Ethiopians. He killed himself out of love for his people and country. He made the ultimate sacrifice to wake us up …

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    List of doctors in the Diaspora who collaborate with Woyanne junta

    On the weekend of March 24, 2012, the Woyanne ambassador in Washington DC, Girma Birru, held a meeting with over 70 exiled Ethiopian physicians who reside in the US. As reported by Ethiopian Review previously, the objective of the meeting …

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    UN slavery unit: Investigate death of Ethiopian in Lebanon

    UN urges Lebanon to investigate Ethiopian maid’s death

    By the BBC

    The UN special rapporteur on slavery has urged the Lebanese government to carry out a full investigation into the death of an Ethiopian domestic worker.

    Alem Dechasa, 33, killed …

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    Woyanne security chief paralyzed by depression

    The security and intelligence chief of the ruling Woyanne junta in Ethiopia, Getachew Assefa, is reportedly suffering from sever depression.

    Getachew, who is a central committee member of the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) and head of the notorious criminal …

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    Hillary Clinton’s deadly hypocrisy

    It’s obvious that the U.S. Government’s foreign policy is full of hypocrisy with deadly results. Let’s take Ethiopia for example: As shown in the picture below, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets Ethiopia’s genocidal dictator Meles Zenawi like a close …

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    Enablers praise Ethiopia’s dictator as he torments journalist

    Blogger fights terror charges as Ethiopian leader praised

    Last week in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, while Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was making a speech about Africa’s growth potential at an African Union forum

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    Civil resistance and Diaspora

    The Diaspora plays important roles in the democratic process:
    1. Act as the voice of conscience to the world.
    2. Lobby diplomats for international support and cooperation.
    3. Mobilize activists for grassroots involvement both inside and outside the country.
    4. …

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    Ethnic cleansing of Amharas (shocking photo)

    The Woyanne junta has intensified its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Amhara ethnic group in southern Ethiopia. So far, over 78,000 people, including children, women, and the elderly have been evicted after every thing they owned was confiscated, as reported …

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    The Rule of Law in Ethiopia’s Democratic Transition

    Alemayehu G Mariam

    Rule of Law, Rule by Law, Rule by Unjust Law, Rule by Man

    All of the weekly commentaries I have written over the years have been structured on a single fundamental principle: the rule of law. What …

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    Teleconference on Transitional Council – Thursday, 7 PM EST

    Worldwide teleconference on establishing Ethiopian National Transitional Council.

    Thursday April 19, 2012, at 7 PM Washington DC time

    Topic: Establishing ENTC Chapters in your city

    1. Do you want to know more about ENTC?
    2. Do you want to know …

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    Discussion in Atlanta on transnational council – today

    ANNOUNCEMENT

    Former Unity University President and founder Dr. Fisseha Eshetu will come to Atlanta to discuss the current state of affairs in Ethiopia and his involvement in the preparation to establish Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC) on Sunday, April 22, …

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    Ethiopian man in Maryland wins $108 million in Mega Millions Lottery

    APRIL FOOL

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