The general secretary of the Swedish ruling party, Marita Ulvskog, together with members of parliaments of the Liberal party is joining world wide rally for the release of political prisoners in Ethiopia. According to sources the party has also taken a clear position by denouncing Meles Zenawi act of jailing w/t Birtukan Mideksa. Upset by Meles Zenawi’s act of violence on citizens, thousands of Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia are joining hands and mobilized for global rally on Wednesday, 14 Jan. 2009. The cities include,
Brussels, Belgium
Date: 14/01/2009
Time: 13:30PM
Place: Brussels Shuman Station – Near EU HQ
Rally destination: EU commission, EU council and EU Parliament
Details: Organizers
Frankfurt, Germany
Date: 14/01/2009
Time: 13:30PM
Place: Frankfurt Hauptbahnof – Outside McDonald
Rally destination: Ethiopian Consulate in Frankfurt. Mendelssohnstraße 51
Details: www.ethiogermany.de
Geneva, Switzerland
VENUE: GENEVA IN FRONT OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE
DATE: JANUARY 14, 2009
STARTING TIME; 13:30
Details: Organizers
London, UK
VENUE: In front of Parliament, Parliament Square, London SW1A 0AA
Date: Wednesday, 14th,2009
Time: 16:00pm to 19:00pm
Contact: 07946644831, 07970350860
Oslo, Norway
VENUE : OSLO IN FRONT OF THE PARLIAMENT & FOREIGN AFFAIRS
DATE: JANUARY 14, 2009
STARTING TIME; 13:00
Details: Organizers
Seattle, Washington
Date: 14/01/2009
Time: 12:00PM
Place: Westlake Center – 1600 block & 5th Ave.
Details: Seattle Andinet
Stocholm, Sweden
VENUE : Stocholm Sergel square
Destination: Mynt square, in front of the Swedish Parliament
DATE: JANUARY 14, 2009
STARTING TIME; 13:00
Details: Organizers
Washington, DC
Date: 14/01/2009
Time: 9:00AM
Place: State Department – 2200 C st NW
Details: DC Andinet, EPRP-D, Activists
http://www.abugidainfo.com/?p=7106
January 10th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Correction.
Dear Editor (s),
Her excellency Marita Ulvskog is not the secretary of the ruling party in Sweden. She is the secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party which has lost the election in 2006 and is in the opposition now. The current government in Sweden is a coalition of three parties of which the conservatives are the largest and having the post of the premier.
Have a nice weekend.
Haimanot.
January 10th, 2009 at 8:34 am
አምባገነኑን የተረት አባት መለስ ጣጣዊን ለመቃወም የስዊድንዋ ዜጋ አብረውን ስለሚሰለፉ ልባችን ተነክትዋል::ኢትዮጵያውያንም ለዚህ ትልቅ ተቃውሞ ሰልፍ አንድነታችንን እንድናሳይ አደራ እላለሁኝ::
January 10th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Unity First
The only solution is to unite to avoid this corrupt and murderer dictator and his gangsters-Bereket, Sibhat and Siyum who are generational enemies for unity ! Go for Ginbot 7!!!
Unity First!
January 10th, 2009 at 10:10 am
if your DC event is organized by despicable anja pro weyane kehadis you will not have more than 30 people and that will be a shame.when are you guys going to learn that bandanet and militancy are not the same?
January 10th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Ethiopia
THE MORAL AND LEGAL DIMENSIONS OF PRESIDENT BIRTUKAN MIDEKSA’S IMPRISONMENT
By Teodros Kiros ( PH.D)
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The intricate legal dimensions of President Birtukan’s case was recently handled by two sparkling articles by distinguished legal scholars: Professor Alemayehu G.Mariam and Professor Tecola W. Hagos, published in Ethiomedia and Tecolahagos respectively. And Professor Mesay Kebede, in Ethiomedia and Tecolahagos, most powerfully articulated the moral dimension of Birtukan’s arrest and imprisonment.
I am most grateful to these scholars from whom I continue to learn.
My own modest contribution is in the area of moral philosophy, to which I will return momentarily, and on which moral edifice, I will seek to ground the complexities of the legal arguments so ably articulated by the two mighty scholars.
The legal arguments as presented by Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam are the following:
(1) President Birtukan did not deny asking for pardon, but when asked a question pertaining to the pardon in Sweden , she specified asking for pardon as a matter of due process, which the detainees did not do, and signing for a pardon agreement negotiated by the Shimagles. She denied the first, as a matter of fact, but admitted the second, and that the prime minister has no shred of evidence for arguing that she denied receiving a pardon.
(2) President Birtukan also stated that the person who submits an appeal for clemency ought to have been either the concerned person’s lawyer, or family member. This duty was illegally assumed by the Prime Minister, who felt obligated to stand for the detainees as their lawyer and took the document to the board and the president.
(3) President Birtukan has the legal right to discuss, reflect and examine her condition at any time, any place, in the right manner, since the document that she signed did not precisely specify what she can and cannot say, regarding her condition. That is her legal right as a citizen, a person and a thinking human being.
(4) Assuming that she has violated the law, the person who threatened to arrest her, unless she retracts her statement should not have been the police commissioner. According to Proclamation 395/1996, Arts, 16 and 17, there is a lawful process by which pardon could be revoked. The lawful process was flagrantly violated, since she was denied her due process, which was taken over by a police commissioner, performing an illegality, under the said proclamation.
(5) Under the conditions, specified above, President Birtukan was arrested without a criminal charge.
Professor Tecola W. Hagos’s earlier article is similar in several of his important views with Professor Alemayehu G.Mariam’s arguments in (1) and (2) and most specifically emphasizes the human and democratic rights of freedom of thought, speech, and expression which is emphasized in (3). We may surmise Professor Tecola’s views in the following three points:
(1) Professor Tecola points out that the right to speak ones mind even includes the right to openly advocate the peaceful removal of Meles Zenawi from office. Thus, signing a pardon cannot possibly be used to muffle President Birtukan’s mouth. The Ethiopian Constitution itself grants her fundamental and inalienable rights of speech, expression and thought, thereby fully in agreement with Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam’s views in (1).
(2) It is Professor Tecola’s understanding that in discussing the pardon, President Birtukan, was making a fine legally analytic distinction between constitutionally supported processes (Due process) and an ad hoc improvised process mediated by a third party, the Shimagles, a point that Professor Almemayehu G. Mariam also sharply noted in (1).
(3) One could argue that President Birtukan might have played with fire, when she spoke her mind at the wrong time, in the wrong place and to the wrong authority, in this case, a relentless dictatorship, an instance of a lapse of judgment but excusable, as plainly stated by Professor Tecola.
Haimanot Lakew, also shrewdly noted the same point in a thoughtful article, “Magnanimity Should Have Been The Order of the Day” (Aiga Forum) Summarizing considerably, and with a sincere attempt of not sacrificing the technical legalities, I now move to articulate the moral dimensions of this perturbing case, by following the important lead most eloquently put forward by Professor Messay Kebedes’ eye-catching argument.
For Professor Messay Kebede, what is at issue is the moral status of the very idea of asking for pardon, when one is not convinced that one has committed any wrong, in light of the indisputable legal facts that Professors Almayehu G. Mariam and Tecola W. Hagos compellingly presented, with both concluding that President Birtukan did not commit a crime. According to Professor Messay Kebede, the intention then was not that President Birtukan committed a crime and that she must be punished by the rule of law, but that the Dictatorship wanted to humiliate her publicly.
Disagreeing with the view that it was a lapse of judgment, Professor Messay Kebede, praises the heroine for being true to herself by speaking conscience to power. For him, President Birtukan did not lack in judgment, she chose the path of the moral virtues, and presented herself as upright, principled, courageous and selfless.
To Professor Messay Kebede, President Birtukan is a moral heroine, the voice of principle, the path of resistance, the orchestration of revolutionary political action in the agora.
She has set a standard of moral greatness—an example to us all by presenting herself as a catalyst of change, and a barometer of what Dessalegn Asfaw, luminously called, “An inward struggle.”
Indeed, she is a moral figure that the regime attempted to silence by life imprisonment, by using her as a spectacle, and sending signs to the masses that the prize of courage is prison and torture, and that material comfort and government appointments are the rewards to the servile, docile and those who live only for bread.
President Birtukan has proved them wrong, and that we the Ethiopian masses must now assemble, protest and be vigilant citizens, working on our inner selves, and make Birtukan’s struggle our very own, our very moral fiber, and fight docility with moral action, comfort with suffering, alienation with vibrant moral life, fragmentation with Andent, and Ethnicity with Ethiopianity.
We must move on full speed and use the complex legal arguments as the justifications for the exercise of the moral virtues.
Now is the time, in which we can fight by the use of the moral edifice on which stand the legal defenses.
Teodros Kiros ( PH.D)
January 7, 2009
January 10th, 2009 at 11:21 am
መሪያችንን አሳስረን ዝም ማለት የምራል ውድቀት ነው በሰላማዊ ሰልፍ ቢያንስ አይዞሽ እንበል
January 10th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Agazzzi baby killer lead by sudanawi meles zenawi killing, looting in its final days.
TPLF regime heading to ultimate demise,
President Isaias underscores - Shabait
http://www.eastafro.com/Post/2009/01/06/tplf-regime-heading-to-ultimate-demise-president-isaias-underscores-shabait/
All Ethiopian, despite our differences should join EPPF and Ginbot 7!
Unity First!
Isayas is with us ethiopia. Isyas belive in united ethiopia. no one will stop united ethiopia. Therefore, my beloved country, lets smash those agazzzi woyane TPLF gangs our people are crying
http://www.tigraionline.com/chauvinists_barking.html
http://www.eastafro.com/Post/2008/12/29/eritrea-video-tigray-peoples-democratic-movement-fighters-%e2%80%93-field-report/
The Tplf mafia group seems preparing and getting ready for any eventuality as thier final demise is fast approaching. The mafia group is confisicating and converting looted Ethiopian Birr in to any foriegn currency and stashing away to foriegn Banks. Here is what Africa Intelligence says —
The Indian Ocean Newsletter
N° 1253 10/01/2009
Now that the EPRDF has been in power for almost two decades, its leaders have had time to accumulate wealth. We make a roundup – by no means exhaustive - of their activity.
Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, takes no mean interest in the world of business and sometimes has been highly interventionist in defending the commercial interests of those close to her. She recently put the spoke in the wheels of the firm Nyala Motors over the importing of UD Nissan lorries; conversely she has lobbied in favour of Sunshine Construction whose executives Samuel Tadesse and Fetlework Elala are close to her. Moreover, Azeb Mesfin is believed to have a stake in Alfa University College and in property in Addis Ababa.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Seyoum Mesfin, is for his part at the head of a unit producing ceramics for the construction industry. It is winning all of the contracts, to such an extent that it has pushed some of its rivals to close down. Asefaw Yirga, the manager of Ase Marble, is believed to be one of them. He committed suicide on 20 December. Seyoum Mesfin also owns several tens of lorries registered in his name. Addisu Legese, the Deputy Prime Minister currently on the way out, owns a hotel at Bahr Dar, which is the stopping place for all the officials visiting this town. The State Minister for Public Works, Arkebe Oqubay Mitiku, owns two buildings in the capital, while one advisor to the Prime Minister, Bereket Simon, owns a rental building and a fleet of lorries transporting oil products from Djibouti. The Police Commissioner Workineh Gebreyehu is at the head of an import-export company which has no difficulty in getting foreign currency when it needs it. A band of generals is very active in the property market, buying and selling villas and plots of land, beginning with the army chief of staff, General Samora Younis, who owns a building in the smart neighbourhood of Bole.
The Ethiopian government recently attributed plots of land in Addis Ababa together with money for building, to some generals, mainly Tigrayans. Samora Younis, Yohannes Gebre Meskel and a few others are among the lucky beneficiaries of this scheme
January 10th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
i am compelled to join the demonstration not to shout for the release of
individuals alone who claimed to be leaders,as there are no by any standard dedicated leaders currently in opposition camp,but to all prisoners of conscience who langushing in woyane dungeons for good number of years.Nonethless it is going to be a fiasco if the demonstration manuverd as an event to glorify Burtukan’s image and build personality cult.We have to learn from Ledetu,who was once acclaimed as champion of Democracy and Liberator by the same diasporas, now every one knows what Khedtu is doing. He is serving woyane as fifth column. So do this lady too can take Lidetu’s trend if woyane release her within 6 months after he make sure that she is baptized. Because to her woyane is not an enemy of the Ethiopian people.So
Her weavering stand can give for woyane to manipulate her as much as he wants.
January 10th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
በጣም የሚገርመው jan 14 ቤቱ ሚቀመጥ ኢትዮጵያዊ ካለ ብቻ ነው::
January 10th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Protest at the Ethiopian Embassy in Stockholm/ Sweden
http://hornofafrica.de/
January 10th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Protest at the Ethiopian Embassy in Stockholm/ Sweden
http://hornofafrica.de/
http://www.eastafro.com/Amharic/
January 10th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
For those Fellow Ethiopians who used to Visit the woyane/Melse/ website, (aigaforum), this is what i have got while i was visiing the site.
This website at “www.aigaforum.com” has been reported as an attack site.
Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.
So my advice to fellow Ethiopians, do not go and visit the woyane website /aiga forum/ and put yourself and your friends at danger and damage your and your friends computers.
For more information, Look the follwing link and image and see yourself.
Seeing is believing
http://www.geocities.com/tgizew/aiga.bmp
:? :?
January 10th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
DANGER Agazzzi Cyber WAR
DANGER Agazzzi Cyber WAR
www.aigaforum.com” has been reported as an attack site. steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.
Agazzzi cyber war .
weyane carde losing their mind. Don’t visit http://www.aigaforum.com. is attack site. Agazzzzzi cyber war. Agazzzi gainst civilization.
shame on Agazzzi
This website at “www.aigaforum.com” has been reported as an attack site.
Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.
So my advice to fellow Ethiopians, do not go and visit the woyane website /aiga forum/ and put yourself and your friends at danger and damage your and your friends computers.
For more information, Look the follwing link and image and see yourself.
Seeing is believing
http://www.geocities.com/tgizew/aiga.bmp
January 10th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
What is happening in Canada?
January 11th, 2009 at 1:28 am
i wonder why woyane chose this moment toput birtukan in jail she is not any threat to them why they didnot arrest the rest of kinijit like hailushowl
January 11th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Yonas , i see your anger,
You are a minority and should live as minorties do all over the world.
That is how politics is all about whether you like it or not
:-) :-)
January 11th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Ayte Yonas
Come cool down man! We know why you are that much angry on Ethiopians. It is enough for you what you have plundered from Ethiopians. It is time for you to stop. Dont worry about the crumbs you get from Woyanne. You will live like other fellow Ethiopians when democracy prevails. It is unjust to live in a situation where you enjoy your rights and we cannot. We want all Ethiopians participate equally. And you are the one! Please dont be so much selfish!!! think for others as well.
The majority wins
January 11th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Please also pay attention to Tokichaw’s comment as collaboratoer to my comment or vice versa. Let us think in terms of summation and integration of facts deductivly and synthethic logic to enable us to construct a political model that fits the description of the loyalist fragmented parties, TPLF and others of the genuine oppositions. Rather than dewelling on the analysis of each individual incident in a piece meal. Let us not also fall into trap of handling homeworks handed to us by TPLF and Ex-EPLF.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
fyi:http://www.anuakjustice.org/
fyi
—–Original Message—–
From: Anuak Justice Council
To: obang@anuakjustice. org
Sent: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:57 am
Subject: SMNE Endorses January 14th Rallies Throughout the World to Free Birtukan, Teddy Afro, Bekele Jirata and All Ethiopian Political Prisoners!
Dear Friends and colleagues;
I hope this e-mail find each one of you well. Attached please find new article
entitle: “Solidarity Movement Calls for New Actions: SMNE Endorses January 14th
Rallies Throughout the World to Free Birtukan, Teddy Afro, Bekele Jirata and All
Ethiopian Political Prisoners!”
We in the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) are pleased with the
very positive responses we have received from numerous diverse Ethiopian groups
who indicate a willingness to sign a collective letter calling for an end to
tyranny in Ethiopia. Such a letter would be addressed to policymakers in key
donor countries, to the media and to other strategic leaders asking them to
stand with the Ethiopian people against the oppressive policies of the current
government of Meles Zenawi.
More specifically, we would be calling for their action-based support for the
release of Birtukan Mideksa,(UDJ Chairperson) Teddy Afro, (Ethiopian popular
musician) Bekele Jirata, (General Secretary of the Oromo Federalist Democratic
Movement (OFDM) party) Jumma Rufaai, (Human rights activist from
Beni-shangul- Gumuz) Sabeel Aldakheet (former Vice President of the
Beni-shangul- Gumuz region) and all other political prisoners,
for the rescinding of the recently passed Society and Charities Proclamation
law,
for the halting of all human rights abuses in the Ogaden and throughout Ethiopia
and the Horn of Africa,
for the restoration of the full and equal rights of all citizens under the
Ethiopian Constitution and
for the opening up of genuine political space. This letter will be published
next week.
Please read it and forward it to your friends and colleagues.
Thank you for your never ending support.
Yours Truly,
Obang
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
minority keen to set bush fires in people’s minds” - by Samuel Adams
Solidarity Movement Calls for New Actions: SMNE Endorses January 14th Rallies Throughout the World to Free Birtukan, Teddy Afro, Bekele Jirata and All Ethiopian Political Prisoners! Solidarity Movement for New Ethiopia | January 11, 2009 We in the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) are pleased with the very positive responses we have received from numerous diverse Ethiopian groups who indicate a willingness to sign a collective letter calling for an end to tyranny in Ethiopia. Such a letter would be addressed to policymakers in key donor countries, to the media and to other strategic leaders asking them to stand with the Ethiopian people against the oppressive policies of the current government of Meles Zenawi. More specifically, we would be calling for their action-based support for the release of Birtukan Mideksa,(UDJ Chairperson) Teddy Afro, (Ethiopian popular musician) Bekele Jirata, (General Secretary of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) party) Jumma Rufaai, (Human rights activist from Beni-shangul-Gumuz) Sabeel Aldakheet (former Vice President of the Beni-shangul-Gumuz region) and all other political prisoners, for the rescinding of the recently passed Society and Charities Proclamation law, for the halting of all human rights abuses in the Ogaden and throughout Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, for the restoration of the full and equal rights of all citizens under the Ethiopian Constitution and for the opening up of genuine political space. This letter will be published next week. The Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) groups of North America, Europe and in other countries, led by imprisoned leader, Birtukan Mideksa, are examples of some of those who have told us of their intent to be signatories of this letter. They have also pledged their support of the 100,000 person, “March for Freedom and Justice,” to take place in Washington D.C. in September of this year. As mentioned before, the SMNE is not a political group, but it does represent the interests of all political groups in being able to freely carry out rightful political activities within the country—something that is currently not tolerated at any level within Ethiopia. The imprisonment of Birtukan is a shocking example of the blatant politically based manipulation of Ethiopian law, under the flimsiest of reasons, in stark contrast to the “culture of impunity” that has been put in place to protect government-supported perpetrators of serious crimes. Birtukan is not alone—there are many more political prisoners like Teddy Afro; thousands detained/tortured Oromo Prisoners like Mr. Bekele Jirata, General Secretary of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) party; Asefa Tefera Dibaba, university lecturer at Addis Ababa University; Bekele Negeri, businessman; Dejene Dhaba, businessman; Fiqadu Jalqaba, college student; Eshetu Kitil, owner of the Hawi Hotel and Desta Kitili, his brother; Kebede Borena, assistant manager of the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa; Leslie Wodajo (f), a journalist. Thousands detained and tortured Gumuz prisoners in Beni-shangul-Gumuz region like Sabeel Albakheet, former vice president of Benishangul region; Anazeer Ibrahim, Benishangul regional government employee; Mustaffa Mussa, khumasha warda employee; Abdel-Raheem Alshafee, Asossa zone head; Mudawee Abdelraheem, Khamusha warada employee. All of them are currently detained in Asossa military prison. There are also thousands detained and tortured Afras and Ogadenis prisoners. The Ethiopian people, themselves, have become prisoners within their own country and it will require unified and widespread calls for justice for them to be heard. Birtukan’s own example demonstrates her desire to raise the volume of those cries as she is not carrying on a hunger strike for her own personal release, but for the freeing of the country from tyranny. SMNE Calls for All Ethiopians from Diverse Groups to Rally on January 14 In this spirit of unity, the UDJ has scheduled rallies to take place in ten cities on January 14, 2009. This is an opportunity to bring worldwide attention not just to Birtukan, but also to the tyranny that exists in Ethiopia—not just against one leader, one group or one political party, but against all who dare dissent against this regime! That is why we in the Solidarity Movement are calling on other political groups, including those from resistance groups, to participate. In other words, we want both those advocating for a peaceful struggle and those advocating for an armed struggle to join because both groups are united in wanting freedom and justice in Ethiopia. Needless to say, if freedom and justice can be accomplished without an armed struggle, who would not support that? However, it is hard to blame some who are discouraged with the progress of the past few years, particularly as the situation worsens; yet, together, we might be more effective in shaking the foundations of this regime than was possible in the past with competing factions. We also call all on Ethiopians of every ethnicity, region, viewpoint, gender, age and religion who can rally without being shot, to join with their fellow Ethiopians in calling for the release of Birtukan Mideksa, Teddy, Bekele, Jumma, Sabeel and all other political prisoners. Also, bring other names of those you know from other regions and groups throughout the country who are languishing in prison. Condemn the new draconian “Society and Charities Proclamation law”, explaining its impact on some of the most vulnerable in our society. Condemn the killing in the Ogaden or in other places of which you know. Call for courage, strength and conviction among the people to stand up together against brutality. Call for international condemnation of such injustice!We in the Solidarity Movement are also continuing to work behind the scenes to advance the goals of the SMNE. Call Your Legislators to Arrange Meetings This Week! A rally is a great step, but more is required of each of you and it must be done immediately! Meles’s recent actions show that things cannot get much worse in Ethiopia. As Meles reveals his “real colors”, it becomes more convincing to outsiders to join with united Ethiopians in confronting this government. US legislators have told us that only five or ten letters or calls from people from within their districts can make a difference. Already some of you or us have taken great action to contact key people. As a result of that, we can see the statements coming out from Donald Payne, from Swedish International Development Cooperation Minister, from German Development Minister, from Amnesty International, International Federation for Human Rights in Paris, France, from World Organization Against Torture in Genève Switzerland, from Human Rights Watch and there are more to come next week. Good job! Don’t be discouraged for we can do much more! If Ethiopians work to get another bill like HR #2003 before the House after Obama comes into office, there seems to be good indication that he will sign it, but still, Ethiopians must be the ones to do the work. This week, Ethiopians—individually, in small groups or as teams in representation of a large group—should call their senators and congressional representatives to schedule meetings with their staff. Ethiopians who live in Washington D.C. should attempt to schedule urgent meetings with top policymakers like Chris Smith, Donald Payne, Russell Feingold, Patrick Leahy, John McCain and others to let these people know how urgent this situation is, telling of Birtukan’s hunger strike, about other political prisoners, the crisis in the Ogaden and the new law, then encouraging them to take immediate action. Ethiopians from California should schedule a meeting with Nancy Pelosi (or her staff) to tell her about the condition of Birtukan and others. As a political leader, a woman and mother herself, she should understand. This model of approaching key decision makers or special interest groups should apply to all Ethiopians throughout the world. Start arranging such face-to-face meetings this coming Monday or Tuesday. Tell your local newspaper about what it going on and ask them to cover the issues. Give them copies of articles from the Internet, all of which could add explanation and documentation to your case. We have to be the voice that brings Ethiopia to the local newspaper. Tell them that our tax money (over $900 million) is being given to a country whose leaders are committing unthinkable human rights abuses against your fellow Ethiopians and denying citizens their most basic rights. Ask them to take a moral stand against supporting such dictators and extending their regimes. By virtue of Meles’s actions, it will also be easier to engage new non-Ethiopian people to join. Seek help from people within your religious groups, communities and social justice groups. This new Charities law will raise the anger of women’s groups, groups for the disabled, political action groups, musicians and artists (Teddy Afro) and many others. Tell them how it has become illegal for NGO’s—including religious groups—receiving more than 10% funding from outside the country (estimated to be over 95% of the 3800 registered groups) to promote human rights, democracy, equality among women, ethnic groups or religious groups, conflict resolution and rights for children or the disabled. In other words, one could be sentenced to up to fifteen years in prison for promoting reconciliation between ethnic groups, women’s equality in business and the rights of the disabled for increased accessibility to services for the handicapped. Most people will not be able to believe it! If we do this right, we can free our country. Give Up the Past Failing Models If You Want a New Ethiopia As we have been saying all along, this is beyond one political party. If Meles can put Birtukan in jail, he can put anyone in jail. If you want a “New Ethiopia,” you and I must stop swallowing, regurgitating and then again swallowing the same rotted food we have consumed for the last 50 years. It has led to our perpetual shame, tyranny, poverty and hardship. Think about our thinking and our attitudes! That is where our problem begins! We have excluded many, elevated our own and when we suffered, we blamed everyone else but ourselves. Go back to the student movement in the nineteen-seventies. It was a movement that became immoral movement right after it was formed because it was based on killing, division, exclusion and power-grabbing. It divided us at home and in the West. As a result of this, countless Ethiopians lives were lost and it destroyed the nation. It was a movement that firmly planted the seeds for the unhealthy society we live in today. The worst part of it is that the devastating results of this movement have never been addressed, even today. There was never any accountability or attempt to bring justice or reconciliation. It was swept under the carpet where it remains. Meles was the result of never “cleaning up” after our last tragedy. The TPLF was born out of the previous injustice. Oppressed Tigrayans fought to liberate themselves. However, they did not deal with it properly, using terror and violence to achieve their goal. Just like those of Mengistu, they focused on themselves rather than including all oppressed people, using others when needed and discarding them when not. By luck, they overthrew Mengistu, not by their numbers or by the power of their guns, because Mengistu had more of each, but by aligning with the West. Unfortunately, when they came into power, they became worse than Mengistu! They brought in this system of ethnic preference, which is essentially an apartheid-based system supportive to the members of this minority party, which did not include many Tigrayans or others who had helped them get into power. This apartheid Ethiopia has caused many oppressed and marginalized Ethiopians to not want to be part of this country anymore because of how far this minority party has gone in grabbing the benefits made possible through ruling with a powerful iron hand. The TPLF uses the threat that they will destroy Ethiopia if we “push them too much.” Now, because of their actions against the majority, it has gotten to the level where many Ethiopians are saying that the reason they are denied education, cannot feed their children and are denied their rights is because of the Tigrayans, wrongly putting them all in the same box. Anyone who denies the fact that there is hatred towards Tigrayans would be lying. It is critically important that these feelings be addressed so that the rational parts can be dealt with in a civil and just manner and the irrational parts confronted and corrected. If we are to become a healthy society, there must be widespread acknowledgement of how our society (made up of individual Ethiopians) has contributed to the creation of serial dictators, cronyism, division and the marginalization of our minorities—all going back 50 years. This favoring of one group over all others is the reason why so many want to run away from Ethiopia and why some of our darker skinned people feel that they are not Ethiopian while at the same time, others stoke the fires of that alienation by considering themselves to be “the pure Ethiopians.” If we are going to deal with the problem of Ethiopia in the same ways we have done for all of these years of failure, all we will get is more of the same only with different names and a different tribe controlling Menelik Palace. Now is the time to change this and is a fundamental reason we created the SMNE. The goal of the SMNE is to go back to 1) respecting the basic value found within every human being that supersedes ethnicity—humanity before ethnicity—and 2) working towards becoming a society that values justice, freedom and opportunity for all—no one is free until we all are free. Many of our societal problems would be resolved with the adoption of these two simple principles. Widespread practice of these principles would break the cycle of our self-perpetuated misery. Action Need is UrgentThe need for united action right now is very urgent, especially knowing that Birtukan is on a hunger strike and that she is in poor condition; something that the International Red Cross has told me they will check out. Yet, her own mother says she can hardly recognize her daughter who continues to refuse to eat in protest to this regime—may God protect her life and accomplish far more than we can imagine through her actions. In response, I am calling for every Ethiopian to put yourself in Birtukan’s position. She is young and a mother. No one would have blamed her if she would have stayed in Europe or North America when she was there, but instead, she returned to Ethiopia and did not back down to Woyanne threats. She did not go to prison for herself, but is telling Ethiopians and those who value freedom for others, to do something about the lack of every freedom in Ethiopia. She is saying, do not let a moment go by without thinking about the countless millions of people within Ethiopia who are suffering and dying every day because of tyranny and deliberate mismanagement. She is speaking for everyone and the action we take will tell us what kind of people we are. Will We Just Pass By? So many have told me that I should do more, but that they are afraid to do so themselves because they want to go back to Ethiopia to see family or friends. I have heard this comment not hundreds of times, but thousands of times, from Ethiopians of every distinction in the Diaspora. They live outside the country, but are still afraid to publicly join against killing, imprisonment and the destruction of our country! What would happen if all of us in the Diaspora said we would postpone our visits until our country was freed from tyranny? God calls us to be fearless in standing up for what is right and that true believers would show it in loving actions towards others—in loosening the cords of injustice. What if everyone was too afraid to take a position? Meles would probably stay in power and continue to brutalize the people with your passive support like he is doing it now. If you find this morally intolerable and feel guilty for not doing what is right yourself or urging others to do so, now is the time to make that change. It is not about politics, it is about morality and about being a responsible human being. If we don’t do this, no one else will. Think about if all of the thousands of you would do something! A few months ago, a young Ethiopian woman, only in her mid-twenties, forced to beg for food for herself and her young child, died on the streets of Addis Ababa. She must have died at night because in the morning, as people were walking by, her small, two and half year old daughter could be seen pushing on her mother, repeatedly saying, “Mommy, get up. Mommy, get up.” A stranger sensed something was wrong and discovered that the woman was not breathing and had died. The man called the authorities and later, the police came and took the young child. I tell you this story because how many Ethiopians out there have been calling, “Mommy get up, Mommy get up?” All of us should put ourselves in the shoes of that child. Did her mother die from something preventable that could have saved her life if someone had intervened? Did her mother give up her own food so that her daughter could live? We will never know, but we do know that Ethiopia is on the brink of death and destruction and many are already crying out to us, “Mommy, mommy.” We may try to cover our ears to it, not wanting to hear it, because we—some within Ethiopia and some in the Diaspora—may be personally benefitting from it or some outside the country might want to go back, visit and invest in this “stolen” country. Because of that, they do not want to get involved in “politics.” However, this is not about politics but about saving lives. Ethiopia, as the country we were born in, is dying and most Ethiopians are simply “passing by” like those passing by the crying child who is desperately seeking any sign of life from her mother, but does anyone care? We need to pay attention to this dying nation and to those sacrificing to revive it before it is too late. They are at the front lines, some whose names we will never know, but some we already do. Their names are Birtukan, Teddy, Bekele, Jumma, Sabeel and many more. So get up from where you have become comfortable. Stop blaming; stop accusing; stop attacking; and stop denying the voices of suffering crying out for help! Stop begging someone else for your own freedom or the freedom of your family and loved ones. America, the UK, the European Union and all other outsiders will not do it. It is we the people, the average Ethiopians, who must do it with the help of our Almighty God, the Creator of the heavens and the nations and the Creator of our hearts and our souls. May God give us the strength, wisdom, courage and depth to rediscover our own gift of humanity, known in relationship to God and then to uphold the moral requirements that flow out of that relationship that must be reflected in our attitudes and actions towards others. May God bless Ethiopia!=================================== ======================================For more information please contact Mr. Obang Metho, Executive Member of the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia: E-mail: Obang@anuakjustice.org
January 11th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
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From: Anuak Justice Council
To: obang@anuakjustice. org
Sent: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:57 am
Subject: SMNE Endorses January 14th Rallies Throughout the World to Free Birtukan, Teddy Afro, Bekele Jirata and All Ethiopian Political Prisoners!
Dear Friends and colleagues;
I hope this e-mail find each one of you well. Attached please find new article
entitle: “Solidarity Movement Calls for New Actions: SMNE Endorses January 14th
Rallies Throughout the World to Free Birtukan, Teddy Afro, Bekele Jirata and All
Ethiopian Political Prisoners!”
We in the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) are pleased with the
very positive responses we have received from numerous diverse Ethiopian groups
who indicate a willingness to sign a collective letter calling for an end to
tyranny in Ethiopia. Such a letter would be addressed to policymakers in key
donor countries, to the media and to other strategic leaders asking them to
stand with the Ethiopian people against the oppressive policies of the current
government of Meles Zenawi.
More specifically, we would be calling for their action-based support for the
release of Birtukan Mideksa,(UDJ Chairperson) Teddy Afro, (Ethiopian popular
musician) Bekele Jirata, (General Secretary of the Oromo Federalist Democratic
Movement (OFDM) party) Jumma Rufaai, (Human rights activist from
Beni-shangul- Gumuz) Sabeel Aldakheet (former Vice President of the
Beni-shangul- Gumuz region) and all other political prisoners,
for the rescinding of the recently passed Society and Charities Proclamation
law,
for the halting of all human rights abuses in the Ogaden and throughout Ethiopia
and the Horn of Africa,
for the restoration of the full and equal rights of all citizens under the
Ethiopian Constitution and
for the opening up of genuine political space. This letter will be published
next week.
Please read it and forward it to your friends and colleagues.
Thank you for your never ending support.
Yours Truly,
Obang
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
minority keen to set bush fires in people’s minds” - by Samuel Adams
Solidarity Movement Calls for New Actions: SMNE Endorses January 14th Rallies Throughout the World to Free Birtukan, Teddy Afro, Bekele Jirata and All Ethiopian Political Prisoners!
Solidarity Movement for New Ethiopia | January 11, 2009
We in the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) are pleased with the very positive responses we have received from numerous diverse Ethiopian groups who indicate a willingness to sign a collective letter calling for an end to tyranny in Ethiopia. Such a letter would be addressed to policymakers in key donor countries, to the media and to other strategic leaders asking them to stand with the Ethiopian people against the oppressive policies of the current government of Meles Zenawi.
More specifically, we would be calling for their action-based support for the release of Birtukan Mideksa,(UDJ Chairperson) Teddy Afro, (Ethiopian popular musician) Bekele Jirata, (General Secretary of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) party) Jumma Rufaai, (Human rights activist from Beni-shangul-Gumuz) Sabeel Aldakheet (former Vice President of the Beni-shangul-Gumuz region) and all other political prisoners, for the rescinding of the recently passed Society and Charities Proclamation law, for the halting of all human rights abuses in the Ogaden and throughout Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, for the restoration of the full and equal rights of all citizens under the Ethiopian Constitution and for the opening up of genuine political space.
This letter will be published next week. The Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) groups of North America, Europe and in other countries, led by imprisoned leader, Birtukan Mideksa, are examples of some of those who have told us of their intent to be signatories of this letter.
They have also pledged their support of the 100,000 person, “March for Freedom and Justice,” to take place in Washington D.C. in September of this year.
As mentioned before, the SMNE is not a political group, but it does represent the interests of all political groups in being able to freely carry out rightful political activities within the country—something that is currently not tolerated at any level within Ethiopia.
The imprisonment of Birtukan is a shocking example of the blatant politically based manipulation of Ethiopian law, under the flimsiest of reasons, in stark contrast to the “culture of impunity” that has been put in place to protect government-supported perpetrators of serious crimes. Birtukan is not alone—there are many more political prisoners like Teddy Afro; thousands detained/tortured Oromo Prisoners like Mr. Bekele Jirata, General Secretary of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) party; Asefa Tefera Dibaba, university lecturer at Addis Ababa University; Bekele Negeri, businessman; Dejene Dhaba, businessman; Fiqadu Jalqaba, college student; Eshetu Kitil, owner of the Hawi Hotel and Desta Kitili, his brother; Kebede Borena, assistant manager of the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa; Leslie Wodajo (f), a journalist.
Thousands detained and tortured Gumuz prisoners in Beni-shangul-Gumuz region like Sabeel Albakheet, former vice president of Benishangul region; Anazeer Ibrahim, Benishangul regional government employee; Mustaffa Mussa, khumasha warda employee; Abdel-Raheem Alshafee, Asossa zone head; Mudawee Abdelraheem, Khamusha warada employee. All of them are currently detained in Asossa military prison.
There are also thousands detained and tortured Afras and Ogadenis prisoners. The Ethiopian people, themselves, have become prisoners within their own country and it will require unified and widespread calls for justice for them to be heard. Birtukan’s own example demonstrates her desire to raise the volume of those cries as she is not carrying on a hunger strike for her own personal release, but for the freeing of the country from tyranny.
SMNE Calls for All Ethiopians from Diverse Groups to Rally on January 14 In this spirit of unity, the UDJ has scheduled rallies to take place in ten cities on January 14, 2009.
This is an opportunity to bring worldwide attention not just to Birtukan, but also to the tyranny that exists in Ethiopia—not just against one leader, one group or one political party, but against all who dare dissent against this regime!
That is why we in the Solidarity Movement are calling on other political groups, including those from resistance groups, to participate. In other words, we want both those advocating for a peaceful struggle and those advocating for an armed struggle to join because both groups are united in wanting freedom and justice in Ethiopia. Needless to say, if freedom and justice can be accomplished without an armed struggle, who would not support that?
However, it is hard to blame some who are discouraged with the progress of the past few years, particularly as the situation worsens; yet, together, we might be more effective in shaking the foundations of this regime than was possible in the past with competing factions. We also call all on Ethiopians of every ethnicity, region, viewpoint, gender, age and religion who can rally without being shot, to join with their fellow Ethiopians in calling for the release of Birtukan Mideksa, Teddy, Bekele, Jumma, Sabeel and all other political prisoners. Also, bring other names of those you know from other regions and groups throughout the country who are languishing in prison.
Condemn the new draconian “Society and Charities Proclamation law”, explaining its impact on some of the most vulnerable in our society. Condemn the killing in the Ogaden or in other places of which you know. Call for courage, strength and conviction among the people to stand up together against brutality. Call for international condemnation of such injustice!We in the Solidarity Movement are also continuing to work behind the scenes to advance the goals of the SMNE.
Call Your Legislators to Arrange Meetings This Week! A rally is a great step, but more is required of each of you and it must be done immediately! Meles’s recent actions show that things cannot get much worse in Ethiopia.
As Meles reveals his “real colors”, it becomes more convincing to outsiders to join with united Ethiopians in confronting this government. US legislators have told us that only five or ten letters or calls from people from within their districts can make a difference.
Already some of you or us have taken great action to contact key people. As a result of that, we can see the statements coming out from Donald Payne, from Swedish International Development Cooperation Minister, from German Development Minister, from Amnesty International, International Federation for Human Rights in Paris, France, from World Organization Against Torture in Genève Switzerland, from Human Rights Watch and there are more to come next week.
Good job!
Don’t be discouraged for we can do much more! If Ethiopians work to get another bill like HR #2003 before the House after Obama comes into office, there seems to be good indication that he will sign it, but still, Ethiopians must be the ones to do the work.
This week, Ethiopians—individually, in small groups or as teams in representation of a large group—should call their senators and congressional representatives to schedule meetings with their staff. Ethiopians who live in Washington D.C. should attempt to schedule urgent meetings with top policymakers like Chris Smith, Donald Payne, Russell Feingold, Patrick Leahy, John McCain and others to let these people know how urgent this situation is, telling of Birtukan’s hunger strike, about other political prisoners, the crisis in the Ogaden and the new law, then encouraging them to take immediate action. Ethiopians from California should schedule a meeting with Nancy Pelosi (or her staff) to tell her about the condition of Birtukan and others.
As a political leader, a woman and mother herself, she should understand. This model of approaching key decision makers or special interest groups should apply to all Ethiopians throughout the world.
Start arranging such face-to-face meetings this coming Monday or Tuesday. Tell your local newspaper about what it going on and ask them to cover the issues. Give them copies of articles from the Internet, all of which could add explanation and documentation to your case.
We have to be the voice that brings Ethiopia to the local newspaper. Tell them that our tax money (over $900 million) is being given to a country whose leaders are committing unthinkable human rights abuses against your fellow Ethiopians and denying citizens their most basic rights. Ask them to take a moral stand against supporting such dictators and extending their regimes.
By virtue of Meles’s actions, it will also be easier to engage new non-Ethiopian people to join. Seek help from people within your religious groups, communities and social justice groups. This new Charities law will raise the anger of women’s groups, groups for the disabled, political action groups, musicians and artists (Teddy Afro) and many others.
Tell them how it has become illegal for NGO’s—including religious groups—receiving more than 10% funding from outside the country (estimated to be over 95% of the 3800 registered groups) to promote human rights, democracy, equality among women, ethnic groups or religious groups, conflict resolution and rights for children or the disabled. In other words, one could be sentenced to up to fifteen years in prison for promoting reconciliation between ethnic groups, women’s equality in business and the rights of the disabled for increased accessibility to services for the handicapped. Most people will not be able to believe it! If we do this right, we can free our country.
Give Up the Past Failing Models If You Want a New Ethiopia As we have been saying all along, this is beyond one political party. If Meles can put Birtukan in jail, he can put anyone in jail. If you want a “New Ethiopia,” you and I must stop swallowing, regurgitating and then again swallowing the same rotted food we have consumed for the last 50 years.
It has led to our perpetual shame, tyranny, poverty and hardship.
Think about our thinking and our attitudes! That is where our problem begins! We have excluded many, elevated our own and when we suffered, we blamed everyone else but ourselves.
Go back to the student movement in the nineteen-seventies. It was a movement that became immoral movement right after it was formed because it was based on killing, division, exclusion and power-grabbing. It divided us at home and in the West.
As a result of this, countless Ethiopians lives were lost and it destroyed the nation. It was a movement that firmly planted the seeds for the unhealthy society we live in today. The worst part of it is that the devastating results of this movement have never been addressed, even today.
There was never any accountability or attempt to bring justice or reconciliation. It was swept under the carpet where it remains. Meles was the result of never “cleaning up” after our last tragedy.
The TPLF was born out of the previous injustice. Oppressed Tigrayans fought to liberate themselves.
However, they did not deal with it properly, using terror and violence to achieve their goal. Just like those of Mengistu, they focused on themselves rather than including all oppressed people, using others when needed and discarding them when not. By luck, they overthrew Mengistu, not by their numbers or by the power of their guns, because Mengistu had more of each, but by aligning with the West.
Unfortunately, when they came into power, they became worse than Mengistu! They brought in this system of ethnic preference, which is essentially an apartheid-based system supportive to the members of this minority party, which did not include many Tigrayans or others who had helped them get into power.
This apartheid Ethiopia has caused many oppressed and marginalized Ethiopians to not want to be part of this country anymore because of how far this minority party has gone in grabbing the benefits made possible through ruling with a powerful iron hand.
The TPLF uses the threat that they will destroy Ethiopia if we “push them too much.” Now, because of their actions against the majority, it has gotten to the level where many Ethiopians are saying that the reason they are denied education, cannot feed their children and are denied their rights is because of the Tigrayans, wrongly putting them all in the same box.
Anyone who denies the fact that there is hatred towards Tigrayans would be lying. It is critically important that these feelings be addressed so that the rational parts can be dealt with in a civil and just manner and the irrational parts confronted and corrected.
If we are to become a healthy society, there must be widespread acknowledgement of how our society (made up of individual Ethiopians) has contributed to the creation of serial dictators, cronyism, division and the marginalization of our minorities—all going back 50 years.
This favoring of one group over all others is the reason why so many want to run away from Ethiopia and why some of our darker skinned people feel that they are not Ethiopian while at the same time, others stoke the fires of that alienation by considering themselves to be “the pure Ethiopians.”
If we are going to deal with the problem of Ethiopia in the same ways we have done for all of these years of failure, all we will get is more of the same only with different names and a different tribe controlling Menelik Palace. Now is the time to change this and is a fundamental reason we created the SMNE.
The goal of the SMNE is to go back to
1) respecting the basic value found within every human being that supersedes ethnicity—humanity before ethnicity—and
2) working towards becoming a society that values justice, freedom and opportunity for all—no one is free until we all are free. Many of our societal problems would be resolved with the adoption of these two simple principles.
Widespread practice of these principles would break the cycle of our self-perpetuated misery. Action Need is UrgentThe need for united action right now is very urgent, especially knowing that Birtukan is on a hunger strike and that she is in poor condition; something that the International Red Cross has told me they will check out.
Yet, her own mother says she can hardly recognize her daughter who continues to refuse to eat in protest to this regime—may God protect her life and accomplish far more than we can imagine through her actions. In response, I am calling for every Ethiopian to put yourself in Birtukan’s position.
She is young and a mother. No one would have blamed her if she would have stayed in Europe or North America when she was there, but instead, she returned to Ethiopia and did not back down to Woyanne threats. She did not go to prison for herself, but is telling Ethiopians and those who value freedom for others, to do something about the lack of every freedom in Ethiopia.
She is saying, do not let a moment go by without thinking about the countless millions of people within Ethiopia who are suffering and dying every day because of tyranny and deliberate mismanagement. She is speaking for everyone and the action we take will tell us what kind of people we are.
Will We Just Pass By? So many have told me that I should do more, but that they are afraid to do so themselves because they want to go back to Ethiopia to see family or friends. I have heard this comment not hundreds of times, but thousands of times, from Ethiopians of every distinction in the Diaspora.
They live outside the country, but are still afraid to publicly join against killing, imprisonment and the destruction of our country! What would happen if all of us in the Diaspora said we would postpone our visits until our country was freed from tyranny? God calls us to be fearless in standing up for what is right and that true believers would show it in loving actions towards others—in loosening the cords of injustice. What if everyone was too afraid to take a position? Meles would probably stay in power and continue to brutalize the people with your passive support like he is doing it now.
If you find this morally intolerable and feel guilty for not doing what is right yourself or urging others to do so, now is the time to make that change. It is not about politics, it is about morality and about being a responsible human being.
If we don’t do this, no one else will. Think about if all of the thousands of you would do something! A few months ago, a young Ethiopian woman, only in her mid-twenties, forced to beg for food for herself and her young child, died on the streets of Addis Ababa.
She must have died at night because in the morning, as people were walking by, her small, two and half year old daughter could be seen pushing on her mother, repeatedly saying, “Mommy, get up. Mommy, get up.” A stranger sensed something was wrong and discovered that the woman was not breathing and had died. The man called the authorities and later, the police came and took the young child.
I tell you this story because how many Ethiopians out there have been calling, “Mommy get up, Mommy get up?” All of us should put ourselves in the shoes of that child.
Did her mother die from something preventable that could have saved her life if someone had intervened? Did her mother give up her own food so that her daughter could live?
We will never know, but we do know that Ethiopia is on the brink of death and destruction and many are already crying out to us, “Mommy, mommy.”
We may try to cover our ears to it, not wanting to hear it, because we—some within Ethiopia and some in the Diaspora—may be personally benefitting from it or some outside the country might want to go back, visit and invest in this “stolen” country. Because of that, they do not want to get involved in “politics.” However, this is not about politics but about saving lives.
Ethiopia, as the country we were born in, is dying and most Ethiopians are simply “passing by” like those passing by the crying child who is desperately seeking any sign of life from her mother, but does anyone care?
We need to pay attention to this dying nation and to those sacrificing to revive it before it is too late. They are at the front lines, some whose names we will never know, but some we already do. Their names are Birtukan, Teddy, Bekele, Jumma, Sabeel and many more. So get up from where you have become comfortable.
Stop blaming; stop accusing; stop attacking; and stop denying the voices of suffering crying out for help! Stop begging someone else for your own freedom or the freedom of your family and loved ones. America, the UK, the European Union and all other outsiders will not do it. It is we the people, the average Ethiopians, who must do it with the help of our Almighty God, the Creator of the heavens and the nations and the Creator of our hearts and our souls.
May God give us the strength, wisdom, courage and depth to rediscover our own gift of humanity, known in relationship to God and then to uphold the moral requirements that flow out of that relationship that must be reflected in our attitudes and actions towards others. May God bless Ethiopia!=================================== ======================================For more information please contact Mr. Obang Metho, Executive Member of the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia: E-mail: Obang@anuakjustice.org
January 11th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
http://www.ecadforum.com/content/023.html
SLOGANS FOR THE 14TH OF JANUARY DEMO
FREE BIRTUKAN MIDEKSSA
FREE BEKELE JIRATTA
FREE TEDDY AFRO
RELEASE ALL POLITICAL PRISIONERS IN ETHIOPIA
STOP THE STATE TERROR IN ETHIOPIA
STOP SUPPORTING THE DICTATOR OF ETHIOPIA
STOP FINANCING THE DICTATOR IN ETHIOPIA
STOP THE REPRESSIVE NGOs BILL IN ETHIOPIA
STOP THE ABUSE OF POWER IN ETHIOPIA
STOP THE MASSACRE IN OGADEN
JUSTICE FOR THE MASSACRED IN ETHIOPIA
JUSTICE FOR THE MASSACRED IN OGADEN
SPEAK AGAINST HUMAN RIGHT ABUSE IN ETHIOPIA
NO HUMAN RIGHTS IN ETHIOPIA
NO JUSTICE IN ETHIOPIA
NO FREE SOCIETY IN ETHIOPIA
SUPPORT DEMOCRACY NOT TYRANNY
WE STAND FOR DEMOCRACY
WE STAND FOR FREE SOCIETY
WE STAND FOR LIBERTY
ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION, ONE ETHIOPIA
January 11th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
ayee commando smihin keyrk well done meless=mad dog so bcarefull he became melataw mengistu he can bite and kill you waaaaaaaaaaaa
January 12th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
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እንደመንግስቱ ጥሎ መሄዱ
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January 12th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Death to agazzzi baby killer. Eritrea got Gold, watch developement in eritrea. 24/7 media service http://erietinet.com/. Eritrea got oil, the chineese drilling it.
tigrain will be wiped out from the face of the earth. like titusi rewanda. We eritrean just waiting until ethiopian get united under “One ethiopia” push tigran agazzzi baby killers from rest ethiopia. the united “one ethiopian force from the south will push the agazzzi agammme tigrain baby killer from the south, and we, Eritrea force attack form the north wipe all the tigrain from the face of the earth including 3 month kids. tigrain will be wiped out from the face of the earth. tigrain just pray that meles stay in power in ethiopia. We eritrean onlt waiting green light from ethiopian people. we will push south, this time the ethiopian people will not save you like ther saved you in badme war
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January 12th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Death to agazzzi baby killer.
We eritrean just waiting until ethiopian get united under “One ethiopia” push tigran agazzzi baby killers from rest ethiopia. the united “one ethiopian force from the south will push the agazzzi agammme tigrain baby killer from the south, and we, Eritrea force attack form the north wipe all the tigrain. tigrain will be wiped out from the face of the earth. tigrain just pray that meles stay in power in ethiopia. We eritrean waiting green light from ethiopian people. we will push south, this time the ethiopian people will not save you like saved you in badme
January 12th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
The model the solidarity moement has been expressed by one of the commentators as Humanity befor Ethnicity, which is the same frame work of thought for this dynamic movement, with its latest campaign of Protest, it could very well mergeor collaborate with www.ethiopiawinet.net, the political model describing it is Ethiopiawinet before Ethnicity engages both in protest and boycott for the merchandizes of TPLF and TPLF affiliated enterprizes. This campaign is also wedged by International Ethiopian Women Organization against the current regime. If all ethiopians in the diaspora and at home unite over practical and effective strategy of protest and boycott as part of the peaceful struggle, Ethiopians do not need Ginbot 7, nor the political model UDJP conciously or unconiously adopting. Ethiopia might however, need EPPF supported by Ginbot 7, possibly stationed inside Ethiopia as standing army ready to maintain peace and stability after the war between Eritrea and TPLF. TFDM will have to do the same, because in the past Both EPLF and TPLF run the guerila wor from their home base, why do the EPPF and Ginbot 7 run their warefare from sombody elses home base, in the pretext of an enemy of your enemy is my friend and /or Eritrean president wants unity with Ethiopia, with what kind of memorandum of understanding.
January 13th, 2009 at 4:48 am
satenaw. shabiaw agzii is in the move to hit you more like badma you ppl are good at lie and cry like a baby. your malaria head PIA. has said we learn our mistake. you see there is no joke with woyanne. the proof we can see your anger you are writing every website to devided Ethiopians.
but you will loose like your shefafa PIA. so stop barking like an old mad dog every website.
we are in your country eritrea so why don’t you come back and fight????
the truth you just can’t fight b/s you have no food no moral no gut NOTHING. only BIG mouth to lie & cry. BASSSSSSSTA. NOW get lost to your shefafa PIA. Wedi tereguabi mankor Tilian.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Tigrain Rats, you and your people are cornered by enemies. No tigrain will be left after meles. Isayas belive “ONE Ethiopia” you tigrain minority. You are minority in ethiopia. you will be minority you can’t change it. Thank for ethiopian for last “Badame ” war, they helped you. Next time around ethiopian will not help you. we will march to your dirty dirty city kill eveything that is moving including 1 month baby. Those in the camp are tigrain/eritrea half. therefore thet are tigrain. Tell all ethiopian how tigrain leaving ethiopia like flies. claimin that they are eritrean. the eritrean government have informed US gorvnment of this scam. tigrain are leaving ethiopia like flies fearing that they will be targeted in ethiopia like rewanda style genocide. fact. alot of tigrain in the west than ever. A tigrain guy told me that tigrain leaving ethiopia like flies afraid of rewada style genocide.
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January 13th, 2009 at 5:12 am
Eritrea got GOLD. are you singapoorians still in day dream ?? forget GOLD first try to get bany in the street of your old city Asmara. your ppl can’t even eat two times a day. what a shame. and yet you come here to tell US as if Eritrea is rich country. DINQEEM alech ye mererat gered. PLS go and watch in Tigray shemelbal there are morthan 55.000 Singa-poorians trying to eat atlist 2 x a day. kedadadoch get out of our country hodams.
I disagree with melles b/s thoes singa-poorians in shemelbal are like ”neqez” or hayenas. we don’t like to give you food so go to your singa-poor the land of GOLD.)))) hahahahahahahahahhahahah wey GOLD
”SILU SEMTESHAL KOMATA DIHA”
January 13th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Solution: 1- we ethiopians have only have to assume that weyane is the no ONE enemy of the ethiopians.
2- We have either support the best political parties like Ginbot 7 finacially, idealy, and morally, or find our own ways to fight weyane or just to get rid of weyane.
3- we ethiopians do not have to spend more time on argumentative ideas, rather lets spend more time on practical moves against weyane.
4- Fight the weyane everywhere in diaspora, through churches, mosques, communities, schools, civic and political organizations.
5- Try to expose the weyane HODAM non-tigrian cadres everywhere and give enough information for best ethiopian websites so that everyone can identify them.
6- Boycatt all weyane business and thier products in diaspora, including Resturants, gas stations, convience stores, groceries, and all products that comes from ethiopia including Ambo Mineral water, Axumite wine, Teff enjera and others.
Finally, we all would be able to see the end of weyane era soon,
Together we win.
Death to all weyane members, blind and racist supporeters, and HODAM cadres
January 13th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
i dont think ginbot7 is well organized to chalenge woyane olf and onlf and eppf these are the only ones who can bring woyane to its knee soon the fight will entensify intheastern part and north western frontby eppf and incenteral oromia so we will see how much woyane can sterech its militery wing death to hodam woyane and its father shabea
January 15th, 2009 at 11:24 am
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Agazzi baby killer Rat you are fighting eritrea,somiia,sudan,
egypt,ethiopia against agame watch vedio
Somali Islamists strike at departing Ethiopians ( (Reuters)
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shame on tigray Agazzi baby killer Rat peiople. shame in yourself, and your agazzzi troops. hahhahahahhahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahah
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Ethiopia should be ruled by majority not minority. We eritrean will enslave and have fun with tigrain girls onice ethiopian rule ethiopia. good tigrain Rat is a dead tigrian.
January 16th, 2009 at 12:01 am
jay soon you will be under tigray republick if you hesitate youwill be just like palestinian
January 21st, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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