CNN’s list of the 2008 top 10 U.S. political turkeys gave us an idea to prepare our own list of Ethiopian political turkeys.
10. Beyene Petros – has always been a turkey, not just this year.
9. Lidetu Ayalew – just look at him on tv sitting inside the fake parliament.
8. Ato Gebremedhin (Aba Paulos) – Beyonce did not keep her promise to come back and visit him.
7. Mesfin Woldemariam – tells Ethiopians not to call the fascist Woyanne regime an “enemy.” It is like telling a rape victim not to call her attacker a “rapist.” That is how twisted his logic is.
6. Seye Abraha – the hero welcome he expected did not materialize.
5. Abraha Belai – exposed himself to be less tribalist than Woyanne only by a small degree.
4. Azeb Mesfin – still claims that she is poor after having looted Ethiopia’s treasury for the past 18 years (ye chigaram neger).
3. Al Amoudi – it turns out he is a fake billionaire who cannot even pay off a few million dollars debt.
2. Meles Zenawi – got his butt kicked out of Somalia by 3,000 ragtag rebels.
1. Birtukan Mideksa – falls from the most popular Ethiopian politicians to an irrelevant political figure in a matter of 6 months.
Ethiopian Television Network (ETN) will host a debate/discussion between Ethiopian Review publisher Elias Kifle and Mebt Radio host Meshesha Biru on Nov. 29, 2008.
According to Ato Gizaw Legesse, the program host, the main topic of the discussion will be the different strategies of the various opposition parties that are striving to bring change in Ethiopia.
The program can be seen live on ETN Saturday, Nov. 29, starting at 7:00 PM Washington DC time.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s dictatorial regime said on Wednesday a government-Woyanne-funded probe had found no evidence to support reports by a rights group that its military committed war crimes during a campaign against rebels in the eastern Ogaden region. [Woyanne investigating itself? This must be joke of the day!]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued two reports in June that it said documented attacks on civilians in the arid region; one based on witness accounts and another on satellite imagery showing burnt-out villages during a year-long military offensive.
Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi’s government junta accuses the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) of being terrorists supported by arch-foe and neighbor Eritrea.
It launched the offensive in April 2007 after ONLF rebels attacked Chinese-run oil fields in the region also known as Somali, killing more then 70 people [mostly members of the Woyanne death squad].
But Ethiopia Woyanne, which is a key ally of Washington’s war against terror in the region, said its seven-man -donkey team had proved that the HRW reports were fabricated.
“They found villages untouched that HRW alleged were burnt by Ethiopian National Defence Forces. Many of the names of those allegedly killed proved simply fictitious nor had populations been forcibly relocated,” the team said in a report.
“The investigation also found no evidence to support HRW’s allegations of systematic war crimes or crimes against humanity,” it added. [Even Yammammotto doesn’t buy this story]
The U.S.-based group had accused the government of limiting access to the region and had hit out at Western donors for failing to condemn war crimes on the mainly ethnically Somali people of the region.
But the two-month probe joke found that populations said to have been forcibly relocated were found in their original homes, while people who were allegedly tortured and killed were found alive and well.
Villagers and elders also denied allegations of extra-judicial killings, rape or torture by the security forces, the report said.
“The investigation demonstrated clearly that HRW perhaps unwittingly had allowed itself to be used as a propaganda tool by the ONLF terrorist organization which it has clearly romanticised.”
(Writing by Tsegaye Tadesse and Wangui Kanina; editing by Richard Balmforth)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The dictatorial regime in Ethiopia released today 44 members of the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). The decision was recommended by the by the ministry of justice, it was announced today.
The Ethiopian President Woyanne puppet Girma Woldegiorgis endorsed Tuesday the recommendation made by the Board of Pardon at the Ministry of Justice and ordered to free 44 OLF members.
The decision comes after statements made the Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi who had given a green light for talks with a faction of the Oromo rebels last week. The ministry of justice said the pardoned rebels had sworn to be “peaceful, law abiding and productive citizens”.
However, an Ethiopian committee for political prisoners (SOCEPP) alleged today that the government had unleashed a new wave of arrest and repression against the Oromos in the country. The committee which is based in Germany accused the government of arresting dozens of Oromos and provided some names.
“Poet and lecturer Assafa Dibaba, OFDM secretary general Bekele Jirrata, ETV female employee Lelise Wedajo, Hilton Hotel deputy manager Kebede, Hawi Hotel owner Eshetu Kitil and singer Zerihu Wedajo” are among the arrested people according to SCEPP.
It further described the pardon of some “youths and old people” today as cover up of the on going repression against Oromos.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates will keep the top Pentagon job for at least the first year of the Obama administration, FOX News has learned.
There was very strong support for Gates among Democrats, said one Democratic source in the Senate whose boss was intimately involved in bringing Obama and Gates together to see if they were compatible.
Obama’s decision to keep Gates follows speculation, encouraged before the election by Obama’s aides, that Gates would stay on for an interim period.
A registered independent, Gates has served various Republican administrations. President Bush nominated Gates to replace Donald Rumsfeld after the 2006 midterm elections, when the war in Iraq was descending into chaos and became a political liability for Republicans.
Gates will continue to preside over two U.S. wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, that Bush launched as part of the larger war on terror.
There are several issues on which Gates and Obama disagree, including missile defense. Gates supports placing a missile defense system in Europe, but Obama already has suggested that he won’t sign off on it until the technology has been proven capable.
A formal announcement is expected immediately after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend as part of an unveiling of the new national security team, which is expected to include Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state; Marine Gen. Jim Jones as national security adviser, Admiral Dennis Blair as director of national intelligence and Susan Rice as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The report in this video by UK’s Channel 4 TV is about the devastating Woyanne-Eritrea war of 1998-2000 in which Woyanne tribal warlords Meles Zenawi and Seye Abraha carelessly and recklessly sacrificed over 100,000 young Ethiopians to liberate a small piece of barren land called Badme.
The only thing that is NOT factual in the video is that the war was not between Ethiopia and Eritrea. It was a war between Woyanne and Eritrea. Unfortunately, it was Ethiopians who were used as cannon fodders by Woyanne, not the Woyanne army.
In that war, Woyanne military leaders used what military experts call ‘human wave’ –a cruel and inhumane military tactic where tens of thousands of poorly trained soldier are forced to run right into the firing line with no regard to their lives. Those who were retreating in the face of a rain of bullets from the Eritrean soldiers were shot dead by the Woyanne special forces unit called Agazi — an exclusively one-ethnic (Tigrean) army that serves as a praetorian guard for the tribal junta. It is this same unit that had gunned down pro-democracy protesters in 2005 in the streets of Addis Ababa and other cities of Ethiopia.
While sacrificing all these precious young Ethiopian lives for a small, dry piece of land that the United Nations later had asked to be given to Eritrea, the Meles-Sebehat regime gave away thousands of square kilometers of Ethiopia’s fertile land to Sudan without the Sudanese government demanding it.
After getting its butt kicked in Somalia by 3,000 ragtag insurgents, Woyanne is currently preparing for another devastating war with Eritrea. This time, however, the result will be different. The people of Ethiopia will stand with the Eritrean army and bring an abrupt end to the Woyanne era of endless misery and war.
