Journalist Dereje Habtewold, who is currently in exile, recounts the terror that was unleashed in Addis Ababa and throughout Ethiopia by the Meles regime in November 2005.
Dereje remembers his interview with the newly elected mayor of Addis Ababa, Dr Berhanu Nega of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) just a few moments before he was arrested along with all the other top leaders of the party.
Shortly after Dr Berhanu’s arrest, Dereje and almost all editors and journalists in Addis Ababa that worked on independent newspapers were rounded up and thrown in jail. They were released two years later.
The article is a good reminder of the fascism that currently exists in Ethiopia under the U.S.-financed brutal dictatorship of the tribalist junta.
Ethiopians celebrate Obama’s election as President of the United States because it has real meaning. It is the hope of all Ethiopians that the new Obama Administration will stop financing the regime in Ethiopia that is accused by all credible international human rights organizations of stealing elections and committing crimes against humanity.
The articles is in Amharic (pdf). Click here to read.
10 thoughts on “The unpublished interview with Berhanu Nega”
Eng. hailu is our Obama and he is confronting Weyanes directly in ethiopia.
The Traitor party UDJ is preparing to work with TPLF without any preconditions. Is that why ethiopians died for? Is that why thousands of ethiopians still suffer in weyane camps? what a shame and a disgrace!
g7 is a paper tiger. Berhanu nega tries to take power by living in usa? That will never happen!!
AEUP is the only genuine Opposition in Ethiopia!
Only eng. hailu rejected any parlama or election without the p8 pre conditions fulfilled first.
Read interview of eng. hailu first! in clear words!
http://mahder.com/3187.html
To mamusha,
mamusha are you still sleeping? Who is hailu shawel? where is he now?
are you talking about the idiot hailu shawel who has killed the biggest histoic ethiopian struggle under kinijit along with his top advisor moron Taye W/ Seytanat and EPRP retiree power mongers and money chasers group in the collaboration of Nigis Honda and Bedinu Adem whom they both were imported from Ethiopia to destroy kinijit inorder to achive the EPRP ego idoiot members.
Hailu( of course idiot) continued his mess with the Bedinu adem(of course weyane cadre) and Nigist Honda( who had been rejected asylem in the US and just simply hang out around washington dc now) and recently he got fire with abayneh birhanu who was another top advisor of idiot hailu.
Mamusha, do you where abayneh is now? where is denkoro Taye? where is nigist honda and bedinu adem? where are the so called pretenderes of hailu shawel supporters?
well, hailu has nothing but only survived by the so called vagabond groups of EPRP who still want to confuse the public by keep diverting the topic, while everyone knows about the dirty game of EPRP and thier driven donkey hailu shawel.
You know hailu has a posted a big sign in his leaving room that says ” Mission Accomplished” and now he is building his own big shopping mall around old airport in Addis Ababa, while there were many tousands of people that had lost thier life, had displaced, and have still incarcenated at weyane jail.
anyway, we have no time to hear either about the idoiot hailu shawel or about the poor and dead weyane propaganda anymore.
time to completly fight weyane by anymeans along with the best leaders of Ginbot 7.
shame on eprp ego sympetyzers
go g7 go
death to all weyane members and blind racist supporters
kkkkk…Engineer hailu is your obama!!??? Don’t make me laugh…hailu is an arrogant feudal..he can only be compared with Fitawrari Meshesha of Fikir Eskemekabir..kkkkk
Dear elias,
No matter how you put it – Dr. Bernahu Nega will have no future in Ethiopian poltics. As they say it he is “poltically dead”.
Prof. Mesfin w/m did most of the killing in Sept. 2007 on the VOA interview. Mesfin was expected to mediate and resolve the CUD crissis – instead he went on the killing of his rival.
What Berhanu did now is run around and talk. That is all. You better look for something else to do.
interesting article.the writer visualise in the form of narration.it is history. great!
The question is where is the former third prisoner, the TAPE? .The two other prisoners were Dr. Berhanu and Journalist Derege.
Always rushed and skimmed through Ginbot7’s broadcast, however, I allowed time for their Nov. 6 broadcast and found it excellent.
-Part One: Obama’s presidency
-Part Two: Vocal narration (that can easily be mentally visualized) of the mentioned article by journalist Derege (although his voice was familiar, never noticed the name).
It was the best eye witness narration on the riot and arrest of November 1, 2005 in Ethiopia I heard of so far.
Part Three: On poverty, although did not complete through part three, it was well fitting to observe one of the country’s top problems.
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To those people who argue to defend leaders of this party and that movement or what ever, I don’t believe it is worth your time or your emotion to dwell on the past. To me personally, the post Kinijit split made me aware of which party or movement had a certain pattern of leadership, strength, weakness, ability, future and trustworthiness from the past.
The way things are, I cautiously observe both Kinijit-AEUP, Kinijit-UDJP and Ginbot7 movement. Some times it is like spreading your soul, mind and heart and that was why the former Kinijit seemed complete and deserving of any support.
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Wodi tigray!
Dont u think that u are more idiot than Eng. Hailu Shawel? U did not pointed out any reason why Hailu is Idiot rather u wrote his name 10 times. I think u are Woyane. I know that Hailu Shawel was the main challenge after the 2005 election. U dont know that the decision of kinjit to refuse joining the woyane parlameint is due to the strong effort of Eng Hailu? U are so idiot. I am not supporting either Birhanu or Hailu but we should not forget that he is the true Ethiopian.
Ethiopia for ever!!!!!!!!!!!
Wedi Tigray,sanjaw your comments makes me feel like you are unworthy to be called Ethiopians.I am glad that people like you are really far from Ethiopia it would be a real mess to have you in Ethiopia.You have no single clue of the definition of being Ethiopian at all.Wedi Tigray lol demo EPRP tilaleh ende?Was the Enginneer EPRP? ‘dekama zega’ Engineer Hailu is just the one God fearing leader Ethiopia needs right now. You see he is not emotional unlike others who are saying ready to work with the devil to throw woyane.Woyane is evil there is no other evil who can cooperate with Nega or Midekssa to throw woyane nonsense. Ethiopia needs a God fearing well paused Ethiopian leader like the Engineer.I am sure that we have dozens youth Engineer Hailu Shawls in Ethiopia too get rid of the evil and ready to cooperate with God to serve the Nation in peace and Love.
Oops I forgot,
Thank you very much dereje we will look forward to hear from you.
Wedi Tigray,
You sound woyane though if you are one just shut up we are not sure that you guys are Ethiopians yet. Eski eskitimeremer tebik then you will be able to comment on Ethiopian issue.