Yearly Archives: 1997

Ethiopia: The Curtailment of Rights (HRW)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This report, based on findings from two missions to Ethiopia during 1996 and 1997, was written by staff of Human Rights Watch. The report was edited by Peter Takirambudde, executive director of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, …

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Feleke v. INS

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Feleke v. INS

Janis M. Clay (argued), Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner.

Joan E. Smiley, Washington, DC, argued (Frank W. Hunger, on the brief), for Respondent.

Before MAGILL,1 BEAM, and LOKEN, Circuit …

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The brutal murder of Assefa Maru by the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Human Rights Council
Special Report – May 13, 1997

EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING

Ato Assefa Maru was killed on May 8, 1997 at 8:20 a.m. while he was walking from his home in Woreda 12 Kebele 06 to his office. He …

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101st BAA Boston Marathon: Fatuma Roba Wins

By Michelle LeBrun and Larry Eder

Fatima Roba becomes First African Women to win Boston in 2:26:24!

Lameck Aguta wins the 101rst BAA Boston Marathon today in 2:10:33. Joseph Kamau of Kenya was second in 2:10:44, with Dionicio Ceron in …

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A historical explanation as to why members and supporters of TPLF are ethnocentric

By Fikre Tolossa

In these days of ethnic madness, many Ethiopians consider Tigreans to be self-centered, and even tribalistic. “Where is the Tigrean sense of Ethiopian nationalism?” they ask. If they are not Ethiopians, who is? I hesitate to make …

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Obituary: Crown Prince AsfaWossen HaileSelassie

By Richard Greenfield

The death of Asfa Wossen, Crown Prince of Ethiopia since 1930, almost certainly marks the final demise of thousands of years of Ethiopian monarchic tradition.

He was born in 1916 in the ancient Adare walled city of …

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