Monthly Archives: May 2016

State Terrorism and “Computer Crimes” in Ethiopia

Smoke and mirrors: The T-TPLF replacing its “anti-terrorism law” with a “computer crimes law”?

Criminal MInds 2The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) is getting hammered left and right and upside the head on its so-called antiterrorism law (“Anti-Terrorism

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May 28, 1991: A Day that Shall Live in Infamy in the History of Ethiopia

“Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity.”

May 28,  2016: Ethiopia Day of Outrage  

On May 28, 1991, the curse of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) descended upon Ethiopia.

The T-TPLF regime that is in power in Ethiopia today is a certified terrorist …

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Human Rights and the “Virtue-ization” of Hypocrisy by Barack Obama

Last week, Barack Obama was in Vietnam preaching the gospel of human rights. He told his tired old story  about human rights to the Vietnamese:

When there’s freedom of the press — when journalists and bloggers are able to shine

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Does Ethiopia Need a Constitution?

Ethiopia Map10The question is NOT if Ethiopia needs a new constitution.

The question is, “Does Ethiopia need a constitution?”,  since it currently does not have one.

The so-called “1995 Ethiopian Constitution” is a constitution of the T-TPLF, by the …

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The Intellectual Poverty and Moral Bankruptcy of Ethiopia Famine Deniers

Famine No 5

There is  “no famine in Ethiopia… Ethiopians aren’t starving to death… People aren’t dying… Animals are dying of thirst…” Alex de Waal

Last week, in an op-ed piece in the New York Times (International Edition), Alex de Waal from Addis …

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Ethiopia Linked to Panama Papers Offshore Companies

The Panama Papers

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) today released a searchable database that strips away the secrecy of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions, from Nevada to Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands.

Among the secret accounts …

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The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia

ttplf terror4

Author’s Note: This is the third installment [1] in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in Ethiopia”.

The twin aims of the series “Apartheid in Ethiopia” are:

1) to demonstrate …

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The Ant That Killed the Grand Old ElephANT (Party) in America

Trump Vanquish

An old African proverb says, “An ant can kill an elephant.”

The ant is said to get into the elephant’s ears and trunk and gnaw and nibble until the pachyderm goes completely crazy and dies from exhaustion.

That …

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Ethiopia: Bekele Gerba’s Trial in T-TPLF Monkey Kourt

In American legal lore, there is the Scopes Monkey Trial.

In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching human evolution in a public school [violating the Butler Act]. Throughout the U.S., the …

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