Urgent call to Ethiopians in Seattle
KILLERS, NOT IN OUR CITY!!!

We, Ethiopians and Ethio-Americans living in and around the greater Seattle area, received the news of the visit by the unelected current Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia with great dismay and utter disturbance. The Deputy Prime Minister Addisu Legesse is directly and primarily responsible for the death, torture, and imprisonment of thousands of Ethiopians. Among the thousands of victims of Addisu Legesse and his chief Meles Zenawi, includes elected officials, journalists, children, women, elderly and people from all walks of life. While we are appalled and shocked by the audacity of Addisu Legesse to show up in Seattle, we would like to inform all those who care and concerned about human and civil rights, Ethiopians in Seattle are outraged by Addisu Legasse’s visit to our city.

Accordingly, we respectfully request and invite that all residents of Seattle and beyond to join us in expressing our deepest and heartfelt rage by the so called Ethiopian Consulate General to host a known killer in our city. We also call upon on all Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia in and around Seattle to show our rejection, protest and disapproval of extra-judicial killings, massacre, torture, and unjust imprisonment of Ethiopians by Addisu Legesse and crew. Please gather at the address below on

Thursday, August 24, 2006, from 4:00-8:00 p.m.

The Mountaineers Building
300 Third Ave West
Seattle, WA 98119

Let’s show Addisu Legesse that Seattle is not a place for baby killers and torturers of millions. Let’s show Addisu Legesse that Ethiopians in Seattle will not support or keep silent of the grand plan by Addisu and his crew to repeat Rwanda’s horrific Genocide history in Ethiopia. And above all, let’s show Addisu Legesse and his crew that the world no longer accommodates killers, torturers, and dictators. Certainly, Seattle shall not be a place for Addisu Legesse to spread his poisonous message of ethnic hatred, and justify the killings of thousands innocent citizens. Taking this occasion we kindly request the American people and all Nations committed to promote genuine democracy to side with the Ethiopian people in getting the popularly elected opposition leadership out of jail!