Over 40 teachers and employees of Adama University, 100 kms south of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, have been arrested during the past few days, according to Ethiopian Review’s correspondent in Addis Ababa.
The reason for rounding up and throwing in jail these number of teachers is not clear, but a teacher who escaped arrest told Ethiopian Review that the Woyanne regime police is accusing the teachers of poisoning students with spoiled food.
Ethiopians in Toronto will hold a special event marking Ethiopian Satellite Television’s (ESAT) 1st anniversary on July 30, 2011. See the poster below for more info:
Most Ethiopians are staying away from the ESFNA event this year to protest its continued association with the Woyanne junta and its agent Al Amoudi who are looting and plundering Ethiopia. ESFNA has a clear choice to make: cleanse itself of all Woyannes and their {www:lackey}s, or fall apart. The video below shows a soccer match between Las Vegas and Boston yesterday at the Georgia Dome. There was no one to watch the game.
The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) is holding its annual event this week. This year’s event is being held in Atlanta. When ESFNA was formed about 28 years ago, it had a lofty goal of bringing Ethiopians in North America together around sports and cultural activities. Since 2005, however, the organization has been hijacked by the Woyanne junta through their money-man Al Amoudi. Soon, the annual event turned from a family gathering into a pandemonium of thugs and Al Amoudi’s manwhores. In short, it became a source of embarrassment for the Ethiopian communities in N. America.
After being bullied and pushed around by Al Amoudi’s thugs for several years, finally this year ESFNA’s board members started to muster some courage to take back the organization. They, however, are up against a well-financed gang of thugs led by Abinet Gebremeskel, and, to be frank, many of the board members luck the gut to stand up for the right thing.
To provide reinforcement for this gangsters, Abinet flew from Ethiopia recently with a bundle of cash and he is now running around in Atlanta with his bodyguards.
The majority of ESFNA’s board members will hopefully do the right thing and cleanse any Woyanne element from the organization. For example, Abinet and his thugs, must be banned from all ESFNA venues. Until they show the courage to do that, all patriotic Ethiopians need to boycott the ESFNA event that is underway in Atlanta. When it comes to the anti-Ethiopia Woyanne, there must be no compromise.
Ethiopian Review will closely follow the developments in Atlanta and post updates. Stay tuned.
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By Elias Kifle
This past weekend (July 1st – 3rd) the Ethiopian Heritage Society in North America (EHSNA) held a highly successful Ethiopian festival in Washington DC. During the same period, on July 2nd, members and friends of Ethiopian Review gathered to celebrate the journal’s 20th anniversary. I participated in both events and left with a feeling that {www:Ethiopiawinet} has been reborn in North America.
Two days before Ethiopian Review to hold its 20th anniversary event, the Woyanne junta held a televised press conference to falsely accuse me of organizing terrorist activities. It’s clear that Woyanne’s intention was to terrorize people not to attend Ethiopian Review’s event for fear of being accused of supporting a “terrorist.” The propaganda did in fact scared off a few individuals, but the event achieved its objectives, i.e., celebrate our past achievements and recommit ourselves to work harder in the future.
The highlight of Ethiopian Review’s event were the speeches by Artiste Tamagne Beyene and my father, Kifle Seifu. Watch the video below.
(I will post the video of Tamagne’s speech shortly.)
Guest speakers included Ato Neamin Zeleke from Timret; Dr Aklog Birara, a senior economist at the World Bank; Ato Masresha Tilahun from Ethiopian National Youth Movement; and Ato Abebe Belew from Addis Dimts Radio.
There was also an auction to raise funds for Ethiopian Review’s 2011 expansion plan.
The event was concluded at 6 PM and most of us went straight to the Ethiopian Festival that was underway at the Georgetown University in Washington DC.
When I arrived there, I could not believe my eyes. The stadium was filled with thousands of people of all ages — from small children to the elderly. I knew the festival would be a great success, but not to this extent in its first year.
As we all know, the Woyanne junta that is currently looting and plundering Ethiopia has been trying to destroy Ethiopiawinet in the Diaspora by infiltrating institutions and turning them into its own political tools. One of its victims was the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) that had been hijacked by Woyanne businessman Sheik Al Amoudi. This past weekend, Woyanne’s Diaspora campaign, financed by an annual budget of $40 million, has finally been dealt a major blow. Ethiopiawinet is being revived once again thanks to a group of patriotic Ethiopians who came together to organize such a spectacular event.
At the stadium, I met several Ethiopians from as far as California and Calgary, Canada, who came with their families to participate in the festival. It was a great feeling to spend time with them.
The organizers, led by Dr Shakespeare Feyissa, Ato Tekle Abebe, and Wzr. Meron Ahadu, did a magnificent job that has exceeded every one’s expectation.
