The chigaram (beggar) dictator in Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, and his regime led by Woyanne thugs have taken the country’s economy down to a new level of poverty where Ethiopians are forced to rent newspapers to get information, as the video by CNN below shows. That’s why Ethiopians are rising up to say BEKA! (enough) to the 20-year-old vampire regime.
The New York-based press right group, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi to stop jamming German Radio broadcasts. Read the CPJ statement below:
New York (CPJ) — New York, April 11, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on authorities in Ethiopia to ensure that broadcasts of the German state-funded station Deutsche Welle, which had been jammed, be allowed to air freely. Local journalists confirmed a report by the Berlin-based international broadcaster that its programs were inaudible in Ethiopia last week until Friday.
The management of Deutsche Welle told CPJ that the International Broadcasting Bureau, which provides non-military broadcasters with transmission and technical support, confirmed interference on the station’s shortwave signal to Ethiopia on April 3, 6 and 7. In a press statement, the station’s management accused Ethiopian authorities of involvement in the jamming in response to Amharic-language news and coverage critical of the government. No other foreign broadcasters were believed to have been disrupted.
On April 3, for instance, the station aired a popular discussion program in which participants claimed the Ethiopian government feared a popular uprising similar to those witnessed in North Africa, the station’s management said. The station also covered a Human Rights Watch statement criticizing the government for the arrests of more than 200 ethnic Oromo opposition members. Local journalists told CPJ that they believed Deutsche Welle signals would be blocked again during a planned civil society protest on May 28 called Beka, meaning “enough.”
Government spokesman Bereket Simon told Reuters that the government had not jammed the Deutsche Welle service. The station had a very low listenership, Simon said, and would not be worth jamming. The management of Deutche Welle disputed this and cited a 2009 study that said the station has the highest foreign radio listenership in the country, reaching 3 million to 4 million people a day.
“Ethiopian authorities have jammed international broadcasters in the past during politically sensitive moments,” said CPJ East Africa Consultant Tom Rhodes. “We call on them now to ensure that all foreign broadcasts can be heard.”
Individual broadcasters were jammed in Ethiopia during the May 2010 elections, according to CPJ research. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi ordered the jamming of the U.S.-backed broadcaster Voice of America two months before the elections last year.
Global Civic Movement for Change in Ethiopia
PRESS RELEASE
The Ethiopian Diaspora protected its home turf by successfully foiling TPLF’s disinformation campaign to divert the attention of the people of Ethiopia from the impending uprising that is brewing against tyranny at home.
The April 9th and 10th road show of the so-called Growth and Transformation Plan of Meles Zenawi, has just ended up in a total failure. In almost all of the 13 cities the delegations were received with noisy protest rallies.
The actual meetings had a number of difficulties. There were cancellations, disruptions and interruptions. On the average, the meetings started about 2 hours late. Less than one percent of the Ethiopian Diaspora in North America attended these sham meetings. The auditoriums were not filled to their capacities. Even though it was billed as a public meeting, it turned out more like a private meeting with the apparatchiks of the Tigrai People’s Liberation Front.
Community leaders, scholars, activists and supporters of Ethiopian pro-democracy opposition forces were refused entrance to the meeting halls on account of not having an “invitation paper.” Even those who presented the “invitation letter” were refused entrance. Those who managed to get in and ask questions were verbally abused and in the case of Washington D.C and Los Angeles physically assaulted by Meles Zenawi’s thugs.
In every city security was very tight. The organizers were confrontational and nervous. Those who requested meeting orders were thrown out of the halls by hired security agents. The propaganda video that was shown contained no new information. The PowerPoint presentations were boring, contained voodoo statistics, and the presenters were incompetent to speak on the contents of the PowerPoint documents. The question and answer sessions were carefully controlled and stager-managed. The responses given were embarrassing even to the TPLF’s supporters.
Nevertheless, some individuals who got the opportunity to ask questions managed to raise the hot button political, economic and human rights issues. The rosy picture the delegates tried to paint was, of course, a direct opposite of the reality on the ground.
The amount of money spent on this propaganda tour is outrageous while millions of our people are starving. We have learned today that the price of petrol increased by 3.00 Birr just yesterday. Ethiopians are now paying 21.00 Birr for a liter of benzene causing unbearable economic hardship on the society.
The TPLF propaganda tour has backfired as the Ethiopian Diaspora is now more determined to work in unison for regime change in Ethiopia. All in all, the amazing performance of courageous Ethiopians in all the 13 cities has been Beka’s rehearsal for the Ethiopian Diaspora uprising!
Beka!Geye! Yeakel! Bass! Aloni! Diiteh! Gides! Wetandem! Enough to TPLF tyranny!
Freedom, justice, equality for the People of Ethiopia! Victory to the people of Ethiopia!
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German Radio, which is listened by over 20 million people in Ethiopia, has a great coverage of the anti-Woyanne activities in North America on Saturday and Sundy. Listen below (or click here) the interview with Ato Neamin Zeleke who articulated the purpose of the protest rallies in 13 cities over the weekend.
Seattle’s main TV station has the following report, which includes an interview with Dr Shakespeare Feyissa, one of the organizers of the anti-Woyanne protest rally in Seattle Sunday.
ESAT Report
Arkebe Equbay, head of the Woyanne delegation that is sent by dictator Meles Zenawi to N. America on a disinformation campaign, faced angry Ethiopians in Los Angeles. The meeting yesterday was forced to stop 2 hours early due to the constant and loud voices of protest by the Ethiopians who gathered outside the hall. Watch the video below:
Ethiopian vs. Woyanne showdown in Los Angeles
BEKA! slogan has started to spread like a wildfire in Ethiopia. Read more and see photo here by Tinsae Ethiopia.