June 30, 2009
Hero vs. Zero
Doublethink, Doublespeak
George Orwell may have understated the situation in the Big Brother totalitarian state of Nineteen Eighty-Four: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” He would be amused to learn that in the police state of Two Thousand and Nine Ethiopia, Big Brother has been unceremoniously replaced by THE P-R-O-C-E-S-S! More on Hero vs. Zero
Join us in Chicago and deliberate on national issues, review the process and prepare new resolutions. The door is open. This press release and the conference program will be available at www.enpcp.org and other Ethiopian websites. In our next statement, we will communicate on the “Deliberations and Resolutions of the Chicago Conference.” Stay tuned!May God Bless Ethiopia!! …” More On
The deceptive regime of Meles Zenawi is adept at fabricating false slogans and fake priorities which it cleverly passes to foreign news medias and agencies. In this vein, it has recently circulated a non issue like the possible stepping down of Meles Zenawi from his post as prime minister and tried to cover up the main point that the coming 2010 election is going to be rigged and false as has been witnessed before. More On
The US has confirmed that it has sent weapons to Somalia’s UN-backed transitional government.
The state department said the move followed an urgent call for help from the government, which has been fighting Islamist militias. More on US says weapons sent to Somalia
June 24, 2009
Who was Neda? Slain woman an unlikely martyr
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) – The young woman who last weekend emerged as a powerful symbol of opposition to the Iranian government embraced life in many ways, but there was little about her that would have led her friends to predict she would become a martyr, one of them told CNN. More on Who was Neda? Slain woman an unlikely martyr
June 23, 2009
Ethiopia – In Preparation for the 2010 Election
Introduction:
Most people in Diaspora and inside Ethiopia expect that the next election is going to be a rematch of the 2005 race. But as the 2010 election days come closer and closer, the opposition groups both at home and in Diaspora all together seem still; and have not yet started their respective warm-up campaign. More on Ethiopia – In Preparation for the 2010 Election
June 22, 2009
Torture, Inc. (Ethiopia)
Inside the Torture Chambers of the Dictatorship in Ethiopia
Last week, Barry Malone of Reuters reported that families of the suspects allegedly involved in a “terror network” against the dictatorship in Ethiopia told him that some of their loved ones had “been tortured and are injured. They have been interrogated for up to nineteen hours. One man with injuries to his penis had to be treated in hospital.” Voice of America’s Peter Heinlien further reported: More on Torture, Inc. (Ethiopia)
Ethiopia’s next national election is a year away, but tensions are already increasing as Birtukan Mideksa, one of the key opposition politicians has been jailed, possibly facing life in prison; and security forces have arrested several others, accusing them of plotting against the government on behalf of Geembot-7 conspiring with EPLF from Diaspora. More on The 2010 Election and Birtukan Mideksa
June 21, 2009
What next for Somalia
The speaker of Somalia’s parliament has called for neighbouring states to send troops to the country within 24 hours.
Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nur made the appeal as fierce fighting that has spread to the north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, continued for a second day. More on Somali appeal for foreign troops
