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JUNE 2007
Solomon Tekaligne visiting EPPF and TPDM fighters in the field – a must watch videos
Message from Kinijit Int’l Leadership
– [Amharic, pdf]
U.S. power moves in Ethiopia’s conflict
Rumors are all over about the imminent release of CUD leaders. Whether the prisoners are released at all and under what terms is entirely dependent upon secret deals being struck between the U.S. and Meles Zenawi…
– Fisshea Tecle, June 26, 2007
On the conviction and promised release of political prisoners in Ethiopia
Reports of the signing of a mediated consensus document by political prisoners at Qaliti brings a fresh blast of hope to all who care for human rights and for the future of Ethiopia… – Donald Levine, June 26, 2007
Markup of H.R. 2003 (Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007) scheduled for June 26 – U.S. Congress, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Bereket Simon denied any agreement regarding the release of Kinijit leaders
The spokesman for Meles Zenawi on Sunday denied that a deal had been struck for the activists’ release. “So far there hasn’t been any proposal from the government, nor has there been any mediation involving any other country,” Bereket Simon said… – AFP, June 25, 2007
Cautious optimism as some Kinijit prisoners sent their personal items home
Ethiopian Review sources reported that on Sunday afternoon some of the Kinijit prisoners in Qaliti sent their personal items home… – ER, June 24, 2007
Article by Tadewos Beyene, a Kinijit activist who was recently released from prison – [Amharic, pdf]
Alert: The Truth inside Qaliti… – informed sources
European Parliament resolution on Meles Zenawi’s atrocities in Ethiopia – full text
Socialist Euro MPs urge the release of Ethiopian prisoners of conscience
The EU must stand by those Ethiopian citizens who voted massively for democracy on 15 May 2005, under the eyes of the EU Election Observation Mission, and were killed and wounded in June and November 2005, while their leaders were imprisoned by the Ethiopian authorities… – press release
European Parliament called on the U.N. to appoint a special rapporteur to investigate human rights atrocites in Ethiopia
The European Members of Parliament also asked the EU Commission and Council to “pursue a coherent post-electoral policy in Ethiopia” and “consider the application of targeted sanctions against senior government officials…”
– EU Press Release, June 21, 2007
The law of the jungle – Those who are not sure about how pure evil Woyanne is can benefit from reading this report [Amharic]. Similar incidents are repeated through out the country.
U.S. Congressman introduces an amendement restricting assistance to the Woyanne regime
Congressman J. Randy Forbes has introduced an amendement to a pending bill in Congress restricting economic assistance to Ethiopia until the Secretary certifies that the dictatorial regime is not wrongfully holding political prisoners… – read more, June 21, 2007
On the ongoing crisis in Kinijit Int’l Leadership
– personal opinion by Dawit Kebede, June 21, 2007 [pdf]
Some of the Ethiopian political prisoners sign paper in bid for release
Some Ethiopian opposition leaders jailed in a brutal crackdown following 2005 elections have signed a document accepting partial responsibility for the violence in exchange for their release, senior U.S. and Ethiopian officials said… – The Washington Post, Jun 21, 2007
Tegbar calls for blockade of roads in Ethiopia
Tegbar League asked citizens through out Ethiopia to block roads and major highways in the country in the month of August unless the Woyanne dictatorship releases the legitimate representatives of the people of Ethiopia from jail… – Tegbar, June 20, 2007
Ethiopian Orthodox Church asks Ethiopians not to participate in millennium celebration unless the elected leaders of Ethiopia are released from jail
– EOTC statement, June 20, 2007
Woyanne embassy reception cancelled
– Read the email intercepted by ER
Kinijit Australia demands the immediate release of the elected leaders of Ethiopia – statement
Video of Ethiopians storming the Woyanne embassy in DC – watch video [courtesy of ETN]
Kinijit North America statement – June 20 [Amharic]
A message to Ethiopian opposition parties
– Bekele Shume [Amharic], June 20, 2007
The State of Oregon takes a stand on the worsening human rights condition in Ethiopia
The Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Oregon condemned the ongoing, state-sponsored violence against the opposition in Ethiopia… – full text. Oregon is the second state to issue a resolution on Ethiopia. Massachusetts had passed a similar resolution a few months ago… – Oregon Resolution
Woyanne ambassador in DC invites Starbucks officials and lobbyists for meeting and dinner
See invitations for the meeting and dinner tomorrow, June 20 at 3 PM. These lobbyists, including former congressmen, must be told that they will feasting on the blood of innocent Ethiopians. Block the filthy embassy.
UN Department of Safety and Security in Ethiopia weekly security report – June 11 – 17, 2007
Stand Up Ethiopians! Each one of us is now a leader to fight the terrorism against our people
We come out in condemnation of the unjust guilty verdict against our leaders, journalists and human rights defenders! Yet, instead of it being a deathblow to our movement for freedom and democracy, we have now received our marching orders… – By Obang Metho, Jun 18th, 2007
Ethiopian protestors stormed the Woyanne embassy in DC – EMF, June 18, 2007
How can we support Kinijit’s call for action succeed?
Ethiopia’s major opposition party prepares for nationwide civil disobedience
In the wake of guilty verdict against its top leaders, Ethiopia’s major opposition group, the coalition for Unity & Democracy Party, issued a statement today asking the people of Ethiopia to prepare for massive nationwide civil disobedience against the Woyanne regime during the upcoming Ethiopian millennium… – ER, June 18, 2007
In Ethiopian desert, horrors of a hidden war
In the Ogaden region, village after village, people said they had been brutalized by Woyanne soldiers who are gang-raping women, burning down huts and killing civilians at will… – The New York Times, June 17, 2007
Sebhat Nega positioning himself to replace Meles?
ION reports that Sebhat’s recent public statement suggests a muffled power struggle at the top of the TPLF, in which Sebhat was positioning himself as an alternative to Meles Zenawi. Meles and allies, on their part, may be preparing to charge Sebhat (who controls Woyanne’s business empire) with corruption… – read more
Manipulation of the legal system and the making of totalitarianism in Ethiopia
– AFD statement on the Woyanne kangaroo court’s guilty ruling against the CUD leaders
Eritrea dismisses Woyanne offer to return Badme as “misleading”
The Eritrean government issued a statement today dismissing Woyanne offer to return Badme as misleading. Eritrea rejects Woyanne’s precondition that there must be a dialogue to improve relations before returning the land. Eritreans are saying, just the land, bozos. It seems that for Eritrea it is not about land any more. It is about meting out justice to Woyanne mass murderers…
– ER June 15, 2007
Perspectives for Political and Leadership Change
Evaluating three decades of Ethiopian resistance, its challenges, achievements and failures…
– Maru Gubena, June 15, 2007
Millennium message from Kinijit head of PR Gizachew Shiferraw, Qaliti prison – June 15, 2007
Woyanne returns Badme to Eritrea
The Woyanne regime has unconditionally accepted a U.N. commission’s ruling to turn over a disputed town to Eritrea… – AP, June 14, 2007 [The lives of over 100,000 young Ethiopians lost for nothing in that senseless war, thanks to Meles and his Woyanne generals.]
Reactions to Kangaroo court decision
EOTC Holy Synod
Kinijit International – [English, Amharic]
Kinijit Europe/Africa – [Amharic]
Kinijit North America – [Amharic]
Tegbar League
UEDF – [Amharic, pdf]
EPPF – [Amharic, pdg]
Donald Payne and Ana Gomes
Fabricated treason charges and convictions will not help the TPLF defend itself
Projecting ones nightmares onto others will only lead to ultimate doom… – Moges Mekuria, Jun 14, 2007
Somalia’s Nightmare and UN Double Speaks
On 12 June 2007, the UN’s Human Rights Council issued a damning report on widespread human rights violations against the Somali population between December 2006 and April 2007. In this report, there are victims but no perpetrators… – By Amina Mire, June 14, 2007
Last chance for Kinijit International Leadership to do the right thing
In the coming few days, the Kinijit International Leadership will elect a new chairman… – ER, June 14, 2007
Holy Synod expresses sadness over the kangaroo court’s guilty verdict
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s (EOTC) Holy Synod issued a statement strongly denouncing the court verdict on Monday, June 11, against opposition leaders in Ethiopia as an injustice and an obstacle to peace…
– ER, June 13, 2007
Kangaroo court denied defendants the right to speak before ruling guilty
Here is what happened in the court room on that fateful day in an impoverished corner in Addis Ababa…
– ER, June 13, 2007
Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s exiled synod to launch a radio broadcast to Ethiopia
The exiled Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has announced today that it will launched a weekly radio broadcast to Ethiopia starting July 2… – ER, June 12, 2007
Statement by Donald Payne and Ana Gomes on the guilty verdict of Ethiopia’s opposition leaders
We are deeply shocked and dismayed to hear the guilty verdict of the 38 courageous human rights advocates, elected parliamentarians, and opposition leaders. This decision clearly demonstrates that the judicial process is controlled and managed by the ruling party in Ethiopia…
– Statement, June 12, 2007
Tegbar League issues advisory to foreign companies and nationals in Ethiopia
Tegbar League-Ethiopia is calling on all foreign companies that are operating in Ethiopia to cease their operations in the country from August 20 until September 2, 2007, as preparation are underway for nationwide protests to demand the release of opposition leaders, journalists and all other political prisoners… – Tegbar, June 12, 2007
Kinijit statement on the Kangaroo court decision
– June 12, 2007 [English, Amharic, pdf]
– Message from Kinijit Europe/Africa
– Kinijit North America statement
Kinijit-DC press release – June 10 [Amharic]
Kangaroo court convicts Kinijit leaders
In a trial that has been widely condemned by international human rights groups as farce, a court in Ethiopia has found all the senior opposition leaders guilty of treason. Sentencing is next month and they could face the death penalty, says the BBC’s Elizabeth Blunt in Ethiopia…
– BBC, June 11, 2007
Shaleqa Yoseph Yazew and gang agreed to submit to the authority of Kinijit Intl
Shaleqa Yoseph and the gang of four who have created havoc in Kinijit leadership for the past several months have agreed today to accept Kinijit International’s authority as the sole decision maker on behalf of the elected Kinijit leaders…. ER June 9, 2007
Woyanne puppet regime in Somalia loses key towns
Militia loyal to the Islamic Courts Union’s Yusuf Mohamed Inda-Adde have taken control of Bulo-Mareer and Qoryoley towns in lower Shabelle region, southern Somalia on Saturday after heavy fighting with Woyanne-backed forces… – SomaliNet, Jun 9th, 2007
ONLF denies the reported alliance with Somali opposition
The Voice of America (VOA) recent report citing unnamed sources alleging that Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has entered into a coalition with political entities in Somalia is far from reality… – ONLF Press Release, June 9
Coalition of Somali and Ethiopian groups formed Against Woyanne and its puppets in Somalia
The objective of the coalition is to bring its common enemy, Woyanne, to its knees politically and economically… – VOA, June 8, 2007
Battle at Kruger – an example of a united action
It comes naturally to some. – video
Over 41 percent of children in Tigray face acute malnutrition and stunted growth – UNICEF
Woyannes cannot feed even the constituents they claim to represent–Tigreans… – UNICEF
The treasonous confession of Sebhat Nega
“I am writing this with great remorse for having some time in my past supported such a diabolical and anti-Ethiopia group of third-rate thinkers and treasonous mercenaries… – Tecola Hagos, former legal adviser to the TPLF leadership, June 8, 2007
Horn of Africa alliance to defeat the Woyanne terror regime
In a recent interview with Dimtsi Woyanne Radio, Sebehat Nega, Woyanne moneyman and senior member of the politburo, said that if all Eritrean organizations combine, their effort would not add up to what the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front did for the independence of Eritrea…
– ER June 7, 2007
Bekele brothers to compete in Eugene, Oregon, on Sunday
In what promises to be a fast two miles contest on Sunday in Eugene, Oregon, Ethiopia’s Olympic 10,000m gold medallist, and his equally talented younger brother Tariku, the world junior 5,000m champion will compete… – Great Run, June 7, 2007
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Ethiopia under Woyanne the 3rd worst place for Christians
International Christian Concern has published its first ever “Hall of Shame,” an annual list of the ten nations with the worst records of persecution against Christians. Ethiopia is listed ahead of Iran and Saudi Arabia! … – Invictus Maneo, June 6, 2007
Message from Kinijit South Korea chapter
– June 6, 2007 [Amharic, pdf]
European Parliament criticised Woyanne regime’s human rights record
The lack of democracy and the large-scale human rights violations in Ethiopia were condemned by Members of European Parliament yesterday at a hearing held by the EP’s Development Committee and the Human Rights Subcommittee… – European Parliament, June 6, 2007
Woyanne fascist forces shut down radio station, conduct house-to-house searches in Mogadishu
Hundreds of Woyanne troops trying to protect Somalia’s [puppet] government went house-to-house searching for weapons Wednesday, shut down radio stations…
– AP, June 6, 2007
Five Ethiopian soldiers seek asylum in Asmara
The soldiers said that they oppose the Woyanne ethnic discrimination… – shabait.com, June 5th
The growing Somalia crisis
A brutal crackdown by Woyanne and Somali government troops in early May has done little to end an incipient insurgency, and disaffected clan militias and remnants of the Islamic Courts Union have resorted to increasingly guerrilla-like tactics in the last several weeks… – Jennifer Cooke, June 5 [Didn’t Meles say in December that his forces will wipe out ICU in two weeks? May be the brave Woyanne soldiers are too busy raping Somali women. It is great to see that for once Woyanne is bleeding, as it has been shading the blood of innocent Ethiopians for the past 16 years.]
Another video of Woyanne festival paying tribute to their master, Shabia
Woyanne singer carries Eritrean flag and sings about how happy he is to see Eritrea is now a new country free from Ethiopia… – video
Charles Taylor’s trial puts dictators, like Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, on notice
A time will come for Woyanne criminals to also face justice for their mass murder. The U.S. govt will not shield them from justice forever… – CSM, June 2
Ethiopian rebel group launches a radio program
EPPF will officially launch a weekly radio program next Thursday…
– EPPF, June 2
Mehret Mandefro: from doctor to activist
– video
Poem dedicated to Solomon Tekaligne
– Ras Dashen, June 2
“Edifim ende endod” – Poem by Semeneh Meshesha
Joint hearing on Ethiopia by the European Parliament and U.S. Congress – Announcement
Blair in Africa
If Tony Blair [British PM] had left office a couple of years ago, his farewell safari might well have included Ethiopia. Meles Zenawi was the most prominent African member of Mr Blair’s Commission for Africa but he repaid the compliment by allowing his police to shoot scores of protesters dead and arrest hundreds more in the wake of flawed elections in 2005… – Economist, June 2
Do we need a separate All-Amhara party? Why?
– Dr. Getachew Workneh, June 1
Gambela People’s Democratic Front press release on Woyanne officials visit to Minnesota – GPUDF Press Release, June 1 [Amharic, pdf]
A shocking documentary about life in Bugna Woreda, a district “represented” by Bereket Simon – watch video
Kinijit-Canada launches its web site
World Bank approves $225 million to the Woyanne dictatorship
The World Bank approved $225 million of credit to [the Woyanne warlords in] Ethiopia Thursday [to help them continue brutalizing the people of Ethiopia and Somalia]… – Xinhua, June 1
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