When many of us learned about Columbia University’s invitation to dictator Meles Zenawi to give a keynote address on “leadership,” it was not difficult to figure out who were behind it — Sachs and Stiglitz, two American professors who exhibit passionate affection toward some of the world’s despicable tyrants, particularly Ethiopia’s bloodthirsty dictator Meles Zenawi. As it turned out, it was these two professors who have convinced Columbia’s president Lee Bollinger to extend the invitation to Meles.
But that is not the whole story. How did these two professors come to know Meles Zenawi? The answer is Prof. Awash Teklehaimanot, who works for Columbia University as Director of Malaria and NTD Program, and also for Meles Zenawi’s regime as Director of the Center for National Health Development in Ethiopia.
Before Prof. Awash’s friends and relatives — Woyannes — came to power, malaria had almost been eradicated from Ethiopia through the efforts of Ethiopian Malaria Prevention Center. When Woyannes came to power, they dismantled the Center and took every thing to Tigray. A few years later, Ethiopia was hit with Malaria epidemic that killed tens of thousands of people. Malaria continues to be one the deadliest diseases in Ethiopia.
Prof. Awash holds the title “Director of the Center for National Health Development in Ethiopia,” however, every foreign assistance he manages to obtain in the name of Ethiopia goes to Tigray.
As a loyal and prominent member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne), Prof. Awash also works to promote Meles Zenawi’s agenda in the U.S. academia by introducing him to the likes of Prof. Sachs, who is his long-time mentor. The current Minister of Health in Ethiopia and politburo member of the ruling Tigray People Liberation Front, Tewodros Adhanom, was Awash’s student. When ever Meles goes to New York, one of the few Ethiopians he meets with is Awash Teklehaimanot. The other one is his investment adviser Kassahun (Kassy) Kebede, Managing Partner of Panton Capital Group, LLC (more about this guy another time).
Awash Teklehaimanot also worked behind the scene to arrange former president Clinton’s August 2008 visit to Ethiopia.
In 2004, Awash arranged a visit by Columbia University president Lee Bollinger to visit Tigray.
[Columbia President Lee Bollinger (center) visited the village of Abraha Astebha in the Tigray region of Northern Ethiopia in July, 2004, along with Earth Institute health expert Awash Teklehaimanot (far left) and members of the Hunger Task Force of the United Nations Millennium Project. Jean Magnano Bollinger, President Bollinger’s wife, is standing to his left. Second to his right is Dr. Mitiku Haile, President of Ethiopia’s Mekelle University and a soil expert.]
Awash did not take Bollinger for a visit to southern, western or any other region during their stay in Ethiopia.
The Woyanne junta has many individuals through out the U.S. who work behind the scene to promote Meles Zenawi’s ethnic apartheid program in Ethiopia where every thing is controlled by one ethnic group.
It is up to Ethiopians to expose these bigots so we can challenge and confront them where ever they are in order to minimize the damages they are doing in Ethiopia.
Please post in the comment section below any further info you have about this Woyanne aparthied professor and others like him.
81 thoughts on “Awash Teklehaimanot – a dictator’s agent at Columbia”
Elias, Your website does more than any Ethiopian opposition does. God bless you.
wey gud
The whole idea of Meles’s invitation and the attempt to make a comeback for the Child Killer is nothing but a psychological attack intended to make his stay in power a smooth one. the whole core of the idea is to paint Meles as a dictator who has no choice but is being begged by his people to rule/lead them for lack of a better Ethiopian to replace him. his hired guns who have not seen a black man speak this good English are throwing him in the air as a trophy. But whatever is done, the blood on Meles Zenawi’s dirty hands and the corruption he has unleashed in the country would be a mark for his definition than the empty words he speaks in his English. A child killer is a child killer even if he puts a lipstick from Columbia or Yara!
The children of Ethiopia whose blood Awash Teklehaimanot and his Woyanne Tigreans are sucking
Mr. Elias where do you live, is it not individual right to support regime or not regardless.
This professor unfortunately supported the dicatorial regime lead by meles but still he has the right to support them as we have a right to reject them.
And one more thing please take it as constructive advise not as an insult, please take some course about journalism even if it is online sothat it makes you to look professional.
I know you won t post such kind of comment but read it and get lesson from it.
Thanks,
I recommend that you retract this article. There is a great depth of information that you have left out about the UN Millennium Development Goals and the fact that one of the Millennium Villages is located in Ethiopia. High delegation visits to ANY country will always be extremely brief and incomplete. The difference is when you actually are paid a visit at all.
Please do not surf web sites and copy/paste facts to simply point your anti-Woyane sentiments to all media that you publish. I promise you that you will publish incorrect information if the premise of all your articles will be discrediting the Woyane ruling party in Ethiopia’s government.
If nothing else, you will extend paranoia and extremism to discourage the best and the brightest from engaging to improve conditions in the country through international collaboration.
Great job Elias.
Once again, I am not surprised, but more disappointed and angry. Remember, a few years ago, when the former CNN employee Christiane Amanpour went to Ethiopia — the focus was also only in Tigrea province. It is a given, that Woyanes are using every means to influence every intellectual individuals and some world leaders for their gain and only to benefit Tigrea province. I believe, every TPLF Ambassadors around the world only represent Woyanes and work for Tigrea province in the name of 80 million Ethiopians. The Woyane Ambassadors also make sure that, Meles is known and seen, as one of the most gifted intellectual leaders in the world, and all his criminal activities are kept hidden away from the world eyes and ears.
We have more non-Woyane Ethiopian intellectuals around the world that can do a lot more, but sadly, the twofaced woyane lebas are turning Ethiopia upside down in front of our eyes.
This is investigative journalism at its peak. Keep digging deeepaaaaaaaaaaa., woyanes dirt must be exposed.
Ahmed Abdella PhD
Are you a phd of politics, or of individual right? From the way you write I do not believe so. Putting a PhD title behind a comment that some one has no expertise on is fraudulent. As supporting any one is once right so is opposing. Elias is with in his right to express his opinion as he see is fit. That does not require any qualification unlike some one who puts a phd behind his name.
Elias, keep up the good job.
“Before Prof. Awash’s friends and relatives — Woyannes — came to power, malaria had ceased to exist in Ethiopia through the efforts of Ethiopian Malaria Prevention Center.”……really? Which Ethiopia are we talking about? Malaria has been Ethiopia’s problem forever. Who ever wrote this does not know Ethiopia or he/she is full of it.
Selam All:
ER’s leading role in the campaign against the invitation of the TPLF Crime Minister to give a speech at Columbia is laudable. Almost everyday, its readers learn about individuals and groups who are involved or who may have a hand in what is basically a PR work to embellish Melles’ image. .
There is however, a point that has to be emphasized, if not corrected. It all revolves around the question which is not yet clear, at least to the general public, as to who are the REAL forces behind the TPLF apartheid regime. Actually, the invitation extended to Melles is the latest in the relentless efforts by certain interest groups to present the leader of their mercenary group, the TPLF, as someone with qualities and qualifications worthy of a world stage.
So, the ethiopian Prof. mentioned in the article is just a visible facilitator, definitely with some role, but not to the extent of initiating the rapport between Melles Zenawi Prof. Jeffery Sacks and Prof. Joseph Stieglitz . There are way much organized and powerful interest groups and agencies who provide them/TPLF/ with the necessary resources including “economic” experts like Prof. Sachs who happen to be one of Melles’ advisors.
The Woyanes and their masters are expected to do whatever is in their power to make the present campaign less effective; in order to counter such efforts, the most obvious move is to empower the politically conscious/active Ethiopian and other Horn Africa students and members of the faculty or administration at Columbia. ‘Hope the local groups organizing the demonstration have already set a tactful in-campus protest strategies.
Keep up our campaigns to expose the servant of the neo-colonial powers.
TRUTH shall PREVAIL!!
Elias,
Your campaign against this dictator and its cottails is commendable.
Melese has no plan to give up power or restore Ethiopia as a viable political or economic nation, except pitting Oromos against Amharas and helping them kill each other. If that fails he will kill them himself. He hates Ethiopans with passion. He is an enemy, the sad part is the rest of Ethiopia is sleeping.
As far as this Woyane butchela called Awash, he is just another tentacles of Woyane PR machine.
We have to admit, Woyanes are like Israeli’s in their PR. Good. Hope one day, all Ethiopians rise up and say no with no fear and tribulation. Until then, the Woyanes will keep destroying and exploiting all Ethiopians.
Some might benefit temporarily, but they are putting a death nail on Ethiopia and including them. At the end, we survive as a nation or perish all together.
Woyanes unfortunately, defy logic, they believe that they are so smart now, they even stopped being afraid of Amharas, never feared Oromos. Now, they think they are invincible. This is the best time to trip them with all of us work together.
Dawit
God/Allas bless you.
Dawit
Great Job Elias!!!!
This is absolutely true. he is the one who brought the current Minister of health to power from malaria.
Elias,
The day you exposed Sunshine’s owner, Samuel (last name I forgot), you have established yourself as a credible investigator and journalist. You do not have to be perfect or maintain a level of precision to deliver the truth we need today. Who cares if you plagiarized In Samuel’s case, he is the entrepreneur who would demolish houses in Addis Ababa and turn around and build schools in Tigray and Wolega. There are hundreds if not thousands of invisible ሰላቢዎች like Samuel and TekleHaimanot that need to be exposed. They are wolves in sheep clothing i.e they have biblical and iconic names while they victimize others.
Elias
god bless you brother. you are doing a fantastic job ever. thank you so much and together we will get rid of the tplf cancer racist and criminal groups from ethiopia as we all ethiopians in diaspora follow your job to expose tplf criminal elements as we continue to support the struggle against tplf tribal terrorist group.
Elias – what we are all missing is Meles has a bigger agenda than the known narrower Tigrean nationalism. Notice he said “liberal democracy is dead” in a meeting in Spain recently. What about his (PHD thesis?)on developmental economics in Africa? That paper don’t mention Ethiopia at all. What about lately he uses terms like as “an Ethiopian I feel..this and that…” etc.
What I am saying is you’re one step behind today exposing the discredited narrow Tigrean nationalists/nationalism crimes/achievement.
What fascinates some of us is Meles’s theoretical strength? in dealing with our underdevelopment. I suggest you and others try to tackle his theoretical foundation that makes him predict (as weak as it may seem..)that Ethiopia would join the civilized western nations status in 50yrs. I know the 3 meal a day flop but, he has not given up but came back with even higher goals. Remember Ethiopians are marathon runners. Whether Meles failed or not…..we….
Cheers!
Dawi
I am an optimist therefore, Meles’s Ethiopian renewal theory seems to have some validity in it? However, I am willing to change my mind so please folks demolish Meles’s developmental economics theory instead of Seye’s ( read tesfaye gebreab’s Seye’s book review).
#5 and 9 Your shitty history is coming out to the fore front. Yes indeed malaria was almost eradicated from Ethiopia by in both the Imperial and the Military regimes. I was working for malaria eradication service. Our campaign was directed on the border and some remote regions. especially #9 you act like DL Pupper or what ever. After wayne took Ethiopia I went to see my country for the first time after 20 years absence. After I I saw the country and what they did to her I decided never to go back unless it is liberated. The weyanes looted every thing including this old roof cover which is completely rusted. These idiots didn’t know the transportation cost they spent would have bought them 100 new covers for each one they took. History will remember you other wise. You two 5 and 9 go and enjoy the waltas.
Woyanes are hiding every thing they loot and kill. If that is not the case why wouldn’t they let indepndnet media investigate the truth?
I would not be surprised if the woyane professor does a lot more than what is reported here. In New York there are Woyanes who are sucking the blood of Ethiopia. The money launderer Kassye Kebede is another Woyane who does his work behind a cover.
Privte investigators are needed to open up probe on Woyane criminals in the US.
Eliyas is doing his part what about the rest of us?
These Colombia professors are money grabbers. They get the money through Al muddin. Guys we have to confront them.
I do agree with New Horn comment. Meles has protection from more powerful institutions. If we dig deeper, we find Melese in the payroll of foreign agency.
As always this website is growing and growing by exposing this menance to peace Meles and his junta.God bless you
Malaria was at a low level where it wasn’t affecting day to day activities in low land areas of Ethiopia before woyane’s ascension to power. what happened to malaria control in Ethiopia during woyane’s rule needs to be answered by Woyane, Awash T. Haimanot ( Head, Malaria control program before woyane) and Tedros Adhanom ( Jr. Biologist at malaria control program prior to woyane, a graduate of Asmara university, current minister of Health and politbureau member of woyane… ) everyone one knows malaria is not only a killer in low lands of Ethiopia, it is not only in Wonji or Metehara. it is a killer everywhere. the mosquitoes are insecticide resistant, the parasites are resistant to many anti-malaria drugs which are available for use to cure the infection. they destroyed malaria control program, they let loose the dangerous mosquitoes to suck on poor Ethiopians. Malaria is killing our people at will like woyane. malaria, woyane, Awash, Tedros , mosquitoes (bimbi) many faces, names of evil in my beloved Ethiopia. God save us!!
Watch the film GHOST WRITER starring Pierce Brosnan and may know what NEW HORN is talking about
Dr Ahmed Abdell: Of course, Prof Awash has every right to support any political body he wants. The only problem is that he is an agent of an illegitimate and criminal government. Peace be with him until judgement day.
Elias: a great job. Awash Teklehaimanot and his masters (Bollinger, Sachs and Stiglitz) are corrupt and irresponsible who are wasting the tax payer’s money dancing with killers and genociders under the pretext of helping the poor in Africa.
They also must be brought to justice as collaborators to war criminals and committing fraud.
Elias, may GOD bless you. You are teaching us new things everyday…
This is how you connect the dots.
Jeffery Sachs was at Harvard. Awash Tekle Diablos was sent to Harvard by WHO for fellowship. Sacks meet him there. Then Jeffery Sachs moved from Harvard to Columbia. He brought Awash to Columbia. Their marriage strengthened.
You know how Americans are. If they trust you with one thing, they will trust you with other things until they figure out your un-trustworthiness. Therefore Sacks and others just swallowed what Awash Tekel Diablos was telling them. He presented Meles as a saint to them, they accepted Meles as a saint.
lessons
1. The rest of Ethiopians should know Woyannes are working hard to develop there dry land at the expense of other Ethiopians
2. We are not doing our part. We should investigate, coordinate, and fight these selfish criminals who are supporting those people who kill, torture and imprison our innocent citizens.
3. We should support dedicated journalists like Elias Kifle.
Thank you
Tena
This Columbia University blood suckers are supporters of genocide. Elias thank you for this evidence. They have our blood in their hands. A picture is worth thousands words.
Elias: There are now unconfirmed reports that the Professor and his groups are working hard to fill the hall with Zenawi supporters in an attempt to minimize unfavorable questions that may be thrown at him from participants. The questions that Meles is most paranoid about involves his early days in the killing fields during the so called liberation strugle. For the first time people in Ethiopia are openly raising the issue of accountability for the killings of more than 650,000 inocent Ethiopians in late 70’s and 80’s by the so called liberation fronts of which Ato Meles’s TPLF was the dominant group. The question the professor is hard trying to avoid is whether or not Meles’ “seasoned” achivements in the last 20 years worth the lives of all those killed particularly the people in his own region, Tigrai? Ato Meles realizes that the days of romantecizing liberation heros is fast coming to an end and that he would most certainly pressed with question about his attempt to stop other so called liberation fronts without himself being held accountable for all those lives lost during his liberation years.
HEY NEITHER MELES ZENAWI NOR AWASH TEKLEHAIMANOT GIVE A DAM ABOUT THE REST OF ETHIOPIA OUTSIDE TIGRAY. AS FAR AS THEY ARE CONCERNED THE MORE ETHIOPIANS OUTSIDE TIGRAY SUFFER FROM MALARIA , STARVATION AND SO ON THE MORE MONEY THE TPLF REGIME GETS FROM DONOR NATIONS.THEY HAVE BEEN GETING PREPARED TO CREATE AN INDEPENDENT TIGRAY FOR QUIET SOMETIME.THEY DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO DEVELOP TIGRAY AND GET THE REST WEAK AND SICK.
@ AHMED ABDELLA
ELIAS IS MORE OF A SCHOLAR THAN YOU ARE . YOUR SCHOLAR KNOWLEDGE DIDNOT BRING ANY BENEFIT TO THE ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE COMPARED TO ELIAS’S SO GO TO ELIAS’S OFFICE AND TAKE SOME REALITY CHECK CLASS.
Elias, you’re doing a great job. God bless you my brother. You’re putting fear in the heart of woyane supporters. Nobody has taken them to task before, they have been having a free ride. Supporting woyane behind the curtain and at the same time trying to look like any other ordinary respectable Ethiopian. The comments #4,#5,#9,#15 are proof enough that you’re giving them hell. They try to sound reasonable, but they’re hardcore fascist supporters. Treat them like the trash that they are. Don’t try to reason it out with them like commentator #23 trying to do. Don’t give them what they want most – respect. Deny them that. Let them feel like the trash that they are.
Elias,
I just heard there is also another Woyane who is in the department of public health at Columbia who works with Awash. We are working to find who she is.
Great job Elias.
goooooooooooooooood job.
Dear Elias,
I can’t thank you enough for this article. It answered me lot of questions about this particular situation and the case of nepotism regarding Tewodros Adhanom’s post as Health Minister. I worked in the Ministry for over 10 years and didn’t know this guy until they named him a Minister from nowhere. Now I know how it happened.
You are really fighting the fight and inspire many people along the way. Your passion is infectious which this country needs right now.
Keep the excellent work up.
Great job! Eventhough it is individuals right to support dictators it is also our right to know who support these child killers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elias,
Go on and expose these bigot tribalists!!! that is what great journalists do – uncovering the scene behind the curtain and make it known to the public. Don’t listen to the cry of Meles’ prostitutes.
Ahmed Abdella (Illitrate woyanne in a dedebit like advise to Elias)who gives a criminals like yourself and likes many sleepless nights and knows you inside out if any normal person takes your advice he is doomed and goes back to stone age any you will be hunted down in the near future mark my words
Elias, you are the man.My knowledge of the woyane crime family has icreased by one, Awash. . . Keep up the good job
ELIAS good job let the whole world knows what is the connection the colombia universty president and weyanee . this is the key to fight weyanee criminal act. we need more INFO if it posible.
Please respect peoples right to favour or not to anyone. Living in a civilized community where liberty is at its pick, you are still thinking like one of those dictators. If you attempt to supress individuals right to support any party/people/religion…(like your freedom not to support)with the remote power you have at the moment, I can imagine what you guys gonna do when you hold of real power. This absolutely rings a bell and make us conscious on what is going on and also make us always ready not to fall in your blood thirty hands. Thanks for waking us up and we will work day and night to fight your cynical legacy.
Elias! We are proud of You! This should be the way and the only way to expose these tyrants. I think,This piece of news touched their nerve! KEEP UP!!!
Good Job, Elias.
Lij Tekle
Tank you very much Elias. I assure you that 99.9% of 80 million voiceless Ethiopians are firmly behind you and support you 100%.
Good and fearless actions in defense of good and honest burning issues UNITES.
Otherwise what is the purpose of life and existence itself? Lives and existences are expressed and demonstrated through movements, actions and acting.
Don’t pay any single attention to the self serving comments of the brutal dictator’s cadres sweating comments in their panic.
Information and communication is power!
You are giving VOICES as well as extremely important information and communication in defense of the voiceless 80 million Ethiopians who cannot practice their elementary natural and democratic rights of publishing, demonstrating, freely communicating or anything in that direction under the TPLF’S minority brutal spiritually materially, socially, physically suffocating dictatorship only serving its minority over fed over drinking FAT DUCK FAT BELLY members and minority tiny marginal region for the last 20 years.
It is a new form of colonialism, forceful occupation, enslavement and inhuman exploitation human and material resources as well as an emerging land grab ideology for the TOO FAT Wayane empire.
At the same it is good to keep actively networking with all Ethiopian groups and active individuals as to spread the words in order to jointly and separately expose and challenge blatant 21st century minority inhuman dictatorship.
Social movements need viral marketing of their ideas and the power of networking to spread the words and counter liars and their lies.
To the author of the article:
“Assuming it is true and the way you connected the dots, it is most likely true, convincingly some thing tangible to think over. It shows how ethnic inclined they are; it is one of Woyane’s worst short coming and grave mistake.”
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Attention to #20 ( Annonymous ):
“There are now unconfirmed reports that the Professor and his groups are working hard to fill the hall with Zenawi supporters in an attempt to minimize unfavorable questions that may be thrown at him from participants.”
New Horn ( #11)
“in order to counter such efforts, the most obvious move is to empower the politically conscious/active Ethiopian and other Horn Africa students and members of the faculty or administration at Columbia. ‘Hope the local groups organizing the demonstration have already set a tactful in-campus protest strategies.”
An interesting thread where several cerebral and proactive people came out to comment. Thinking of the moment and racing against time , the above two advice are timely.
I think woyane tugs will be there in the key/note speak/panel discussion to ask him positive questions such as about the fictitious economic growth and other, so that they disseminate their lie about Ethiopia. I suggest Ethiopians need to be there in the hall and ask the real questions. Please Ethiopians in new youk or close by participate and this blood sucker dictator uncomfortable.
Small Observation:
I do a research on polls/statistics; It is interesting to see that there is a pattern of those give feedbacks. Most of those who oppose to your ideas or the information put forward, regardless have the same Nick names (such as tazabiw)or use (wisely, ha) Anonymous names. The same plays with those who leave positive Feedback, support the idea or your idea or the information provided.
When is Meles Zenawi hanged like Sadam Hussien for his crimes against innocent Ethiopians? He is much worse than Sadam Hussien in his brutality. I know he will face justice and hanged like Sadam Hussien sooner or later. Now watch out this video.
Dr. Ahmed Abdella and Tazabiw I share your view and thank both. Latest challenge individuals by ideas and prove to others you convience the majority or not however the way this writer presented things is full of hate, has no dignity for the individual rights and ofcourse useless for all of us.
By theway I am opposing the cruel meles administration policy point by point and there might be somebody who support them point by point. Personally I disagree meles s supporters by principle but address my view in mature and to the point with respect of others. That should be our culture otherwise imagine what will happen this group and the likes get power, could be worse than now even to speak out the way I see them.
Once again thank you Dr Ahmed and Tazabiew
Columbia University Inc.
Certain universities raise their profile at any cost even at the expense of poor countries in order to receive endowments, research money, and recognition by internationl institues such as the U.N bodies.
Profile of the semi-celebrity gang at columbia:
1. Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979).
2. Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE (born 9 July 1933, London, England), is a British neurologist residing in New York City. He is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also holds the position of Columbia Artist. He previously spent many years on the clinical faculty of Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Sacks is the author of several bestselling books,[1] including several collections of case studies of people with neurological disorders. His 1973 book Awakenings was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name in 1990 starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.[2] He, and his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, were also the subject of “Musical Minds”, an episode of the PBS series Nova.
3. Lee Carroll Bollinger (born April 30, 1946) is an American lawyer and educator who is currently serving as the 19th president of Columbia University. Formerly the president of the University of Michigan, he is a noted legal scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech.[2] He was at the center of two notable United States Supreme Court cases regarding the use of affirmative action in admissions processes.[3] [4] In July, 2010 Bollinger was appointed Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York board of directors for 2011. Previously, he had served as Deputy Chair.
If the president of a celebrated Univercity is being bribed at the cost of the Ethiopian Nation then why blame the murderrers who R being given a red carpet treatment for the cost they paid.
<> I am ashamed of this!!