Ethiopia’s tyrant Meles Zenawi and his wife Azeb (mother of corruption) may think that they have friends in Obama, Sarkozy and other Western leaders. Watch what happened to his friend in Tunisa, Ben Ali. The following video is satire, but it’s based on the truth. French President Sarkozy and all EU leaders rejected him when he was chased away by the people of Tunisia. In a couple of years, or may be even sooner, Meles will be facing the same fate. The countdown starts.
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Everybody in Ethiopia wants to be like Ben Ali. Sad but true. If somebody had a better idea, then it would not have cost us Eritrea. Now, we will be divided into Ogaden and Oromo.. But the solution is in my opinion to give fair chance to majority Muslims to lead then unity will come otherwise we continue bleeding let alone change the whole country. those who call themselves EPPF don;t represent my issues. So forget them to rally me. I need something very different with broad caolition and free idea then our neocolonialist mentality will go away. Most diasopra worries about his bread and does not think of liberty. Liberty will come when Ethiopian youth thinks out of the box. But our brain is dead what worries us is tabot, and church. Attract the muslims as part of the new revolution.
Two years is too long to keep despot Zenawi in poweer.
Washington dropped Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late shah of Iran, when popular anger threatened the country’s stability.
The ripple effect:
(25 January 2011 Last updated at 18:10 ET)
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At least three people are reported to have been killed during a day of rare anti-government protests in Egypt.
In Cairo, where the biggest rallies were held, state TV said a policeman had died in clashes. Two protesters died in Suez, doctors there said.
Thousands joined the protests after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia.
In central Cairo, police starting using tear gas early on Wednesday in an attempt to disperse the crowds.
Thousands of demonstrators remained in the city centre around Tahrir Square late into the night, vowing to camp out overnight and setting the stage for further confrontation.
There were appeals on Facebook for food and blankets for those staying put.
Activists had called for a “day of revolt” in a web message. Protests are uncommon in Egypt, which President Hosni Mubarak has ruled since 1981, tolerating little dissent.
At the scene
Jon Leyne BBC News, Cairo
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The demonstrations in Egypt were clearly inspired by what happened in Tunisia. They were bigger than anything seen here for a number of years.
What was also most striking was the boldness and anger of the protesters. Even when the police moved in with water cannon and tear gas, they stood their ground.
The police, by contrast, appeared wrong-footed. They are unused to confronting crowds as big and determined as this.
On its own, this is not going to threaten President Mubarak’s hold on power. But it must be a huge shock to him. And the protesters might just begin to think that anything is possible.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her administration supported “the fundamental right of expression and assembly” and urged all parties “to exercise restraint”.
She added that Washington believed the Egyptian government was “stable” and “looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people”.
The events in Cairo were co-ordinated on a Facebook page – tens of thousands of supporters clicked on the page to say they would take part.
Reports said the social networking site Twitter had been blocked in Egypt and that mobile phone networks in the Cairo area were down.
The Swedish-based website Bambuser, which streams video from mobile phones, said it had been blocked in Egypt. On its blog, it accused Egyptian officials of trying to control the news agenda.
The BBC’s Jon Leyne in Cairo said rallies had been held in several parts of the capital, and the turnout had been more than the organisers could have hoped.
Police were taken aback by the anger of the crowd and let protesters make their way to the parliament building, he says.
There police regrouped in full riot gear with tear gas and water cannon and temporarily drove the crowd back. However, protesters threw stones and stood their ground, pushing the police back until they were on the run.
Protests also broke out in other areas, including the eastern city of Ismailiya and the northern port city of Alexandria.
In Alexandria, witnesses said thousands joined the protests, some chanting: “Revolution, revolution, like a volcano, against Mubarak the coward.”
‘Nothing to fear’
In Cairo’s Tahrir Square, demonstrators attacked a police water cannon vehicle, opening the driver’s door and ordering the man out of the vehicle.
Officers beat back protesters with batons as they tried to break the police cordons to join the main demonstration.
Cairo resident Abd-Allah told the BBC that by Tuesday night some protesters were saying they wouldn’t give up until President Mubarak had gone.
“People are behaving as if they are ready to die,” he said.
“The atmosphere is very tense, it feels like a revolution. I see people who are determined, people who have nothing to lose, people who want a better future.”
Reports said protesters had earlier gathered outside the Supreme Court holding large signs that read: “Tunisia is the solution.”
A poster of Hosni Mubarak was defaced by protesters in Alexandria
Some chants referred to Mr Mubarak’s son Gamal, who some analysts believe is being groomed as his father’s successor. “Gamal, tell your father Egyptians hate you,” they shouted.
The organisers rallied support saying the protest would focus on torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment, calling it “the beginning of the end”.
Disillusioned
Weeks of unrest in Tunisia eventually toppled President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali earlier this month.
Egypt has many of the same social and political problems that brought about the unrest in Tunisia – rising food prices, high unemployment and anger at official corruption.
However, the population of Egypt has a much lower level of education than Tunisia. Illiteracy is high and internet penetration is low.
There are deep frustrations in Egyptian society, our Cairo correspondent says, yet Egyptians are almost as disillusioned with the opposition as they are with the government; even the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned Islamist movement, seems rudderless.
While one opposition leader, Mohamed ElBaradei, called on Egyptians to take part in these protests, the Muslim Brotherhood has been more ambivalent.
Our correspondent adds that Egypt is widely seen to have lost power, status and prestige in the three decades of President Mubarak’s rule.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12272836
Didn’t he call Meles Zenawi? I thought they talked. I guess I must have been imagining it.
Gragn Ahmed #1,
You suggest Muslims in Ethiopia should be given the leadership position in order to achieve a perfect unity.
How can a person in his right mind bring the Ethiopian Muslims to a higher position since one knows the chaos, the killings, and the abusive of powers in most Muslim countries whose leaders are Muslims, not Christians?
It would be much worse if the Ethiopian Muslims assume the leadership position over the Ethiopian Christians. The safest way to have a perfect unity in our country is to give more power to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church to bring all Ethiopians into one faith, one flag, and one language.
For example, the Tunisian Muslims are able to bring down Dictator Ali because they have one religion – Islam – and one language – Arabic; therefore, I argue that Christianity should be the official religion of all Ethiopians as the Amharic language is.
You said: “Attract the Muslims as part of the new revolution,” but I would say we must discourage Ethiopian Arab-Muslims from outnumbering us and from taking key positions in this Christian land of Ethiopia if we want to pass the beauty of Christianity to the next generation without being diluted with other superficial faiths or interfaith delusions.
You also wrote: “But our brain is dead what worries us is tabot, and church.” Yes, we must worry about our tabot and our Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, which has been the fundamental cause for unifying all regions into one country – Ethiopia, before the moon-god worshipers destroy our Christian heritage, the tabot, and defile the bride of Jesus Christ, our Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church.
I will assure you we will never, ever allow Muslims to govern us because we have had a bad experience about the leadership of a Muslim warrior, Gragn Muhammad, who destroyed our holy Churches and burned our valuable manuscripts. You can stick to your moon-god allah, and we will stick to our God, Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world.
Assta is a paid agent trying to split Ethiopians into religion. He could be Weyane, Egyptian or Shaebia who would like to see the demise of Ethiopia under the pretext of good vs evil. Ethiopia does not need divisive people like Assta and Mohammed Gragn. Please expel these two from your blogs.