June 9 – The Carter Center expresses its deep alarm and sorrow at the violence, injuries, deaths, and violations of human rights that have occurred since June 6 in in Ethiopia
June 9 – UK’s Conservative Party questioned whether Meles Zenawi should remain on Tony Blair’s Africa Commission… AP
June 9 – “Everybody needs to refrain from violence and exercise restraint,” Scott McClellan, White House spokesperson, told reporters while travelling with president George W Bush – Reuters
How could Mr McClellan equate shooting at unarmed civilians with peaceful protest? It’s a disappointing answer. More work needs to educate the White House.
June 9, 9:30 AM – There are reports of clashes between people and Meles Zenawi’s Agazi force in Addis Ababa’s Woira Sefer and Akaki, the outskirt of the city.
The brutality of the Agazi troops towards unarmed civilians is appalling. These are blood thirsty murderers.
June 9 – CDU leaders continue to be under house arrest. dpa
Lidetu Ayalew is detained in his office without food and water. Those who brought him food have been chased away. A staff member, Azeb Amare, has been taken away. Here whereabouts is unknown.
European Commission’s head of Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, spoke with Meles Zenawi urging tolerance and restraint on the use of force in response to recent unrest EU
June 8, 11:00 PM – Over a thousand Ethiopians in DC held a protest rally today in front of the British Embassy… ER
Kofi Annan condemns the violence in Addis Ababa UN
UK’s Foreign Office Minister Lord Triesman issued statement FCO
European Union observers condemn the arrest of opposition leaders PA
CPJ expresses concern – CPJ
sickening photos of atrocities… MSQ
June 10 – “We deeply regret that lives have been lost, and if there has been an instance of excessive use of force, that is obviously something we will look into” Meles Zenawi told Reuters.
Meles and his Agaazi killers must be held accountable for murdering unarmed civilians.
June 10, 10:30 AM – Bereket Simon is talking on the radio right now in a conciliatory tone towards the opposition… what is he up to? … he is talking about some kind of agreement with the opposition parties.
ALERT
Meles Zenawi’s hand-picked administrator of the Oromiya region, Ato Juniden Sado, is now
aggressively campaigning to incite ethnic violence against non-Oromos in the region. EPRDF agents
are also distributing a flyer in Addis Ababa that foments ethnic hatred. This is Meles Zenawi’s strategy of divide and conquer. CUD and UEDF need to use every means available to them to expose this evil act.
June 10, 10:00 PM – Violent clashes resurfaced today, uprising spreading to other cities… ER
June 10 – Kofi Annan intervenes to secure freedom for opposition leader. Over 1500 students and opposition supporters detained … Abebe Gelaw
June 10 – Security forces are rounding up youths… Reuters
June 9 – President Bush is being kept awake by thousands of Ethiopians … ER live
JUNE 2005 – Page 10