Immigrants Decry Violence in Ethiopia… – WP, June 15
June 14: 11:50 AM – The protest rallies in Washington DC and New York have now ended. In the afternoon, representatives of CUD and UEDF will meet with Deputyu Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Donald Yamamoto.
9:25 AM – There are about 5,000 Ethiopian in front of the State Department now protesting the murder of unarmed protestors by Meles Zenawi. More are on the way.
Ethiopian are also holding a protest rally in front of the United Nations building in NY right now.
8:30 AM – Ethiopians holding a protest rally in Washington DC In front of the State Department now…
June 21 – A CUD MP-elect escaped assassination attempt. Ato Seid Muhammed, a CUD candidate who has been elected to parliament from the Dessie Zuria constituency, has escaped an assassination attempt yesterday. According to Ato Seid’s friends, EPRDF cadres opened fire on him as he walked on a public street. He escaped the assassination attempt uninjured, and now he is in hiding. Following the attempt on Ato Seid’s life, the police rounded up hundreds of CUD members and students in Kombolcha and surrounding areas and sent them to unknown locations. We are hearing about similar stories of massive repression by the EPRDF government through out the country. We are reporting here only what we can verify with first hand accounts. While every one is focusing on Addis Ababa, Meles and his cadres of terrorists are avenging EPRDF’s election loss in rural areas of the country with impunity.
June 20 – Canada’s Opposition Foreign Affairs Critic and Member of Parliament denounces human rights violations in Ethiopia … ER
June 20 – Is the opposition ready? Yes, and can prove it… more
June 20 – Ethiopian Election Board today said it will investigate allegations of election fraud. But the Board said its review panel would only investigate alleged irregularities in 136 of the 299 constituencies where opposition parties are complaining of fraud. “The members of the review committee as it stands now are employees of the Board whose neutrality we question,” CUD representative Gizachew Shiferaw said… – Reuters
June 20 – CUD’s South Wollo branch head Ato Bisrat Abdi and a member of the executive committee, Ato Yohannes Mamo, as well as hundreds of other CUD members and supporters are still under arrest at unknown locations. Dessie police commissioner told the families that the prisoners will appear in court this coming Friday.
June 20 – Lisa Friedman’s report yesterday about U.S. Congressman Rohrbacher and U.S. aid to Ethiopia is misleading, to put it mildly. The Congressman’s bill (HR 1061) is not only about one Eritrean-Ethiopian, according to this letter. HR 1061 is intended to help thousands of Ethiopians whose properties have been nationalized.
June 20 – Eight Ethiopian SU-27 interceptor pilots defected in Belarus today. Lieutenants Fassil Mammo, Anteneh Moges, Eyob Gebremichael, Anteneh Mekuria, Gossa Girma, Abdissa Befikadu, Abduljebar Mama, and Abaya Bekele have been in training in Belarus. They sought political asylum at the American embassy in Minsk.
These pilots set themselves as role models for the Ethiopian military that they serve the people, and not the tyrant… more on German Radio … your comment
June 21 – The Meles regime has opened a Nazi-like concentration camp at a place called Denkoro Chaka. This place is in the middle of a huge jungle about 200 km south of Kombolcha. According to eyewitnesses, thousands of young Ethiopians from Wollo, Gonder and other regions are being detained in this concentration camp. The prisoners, mostly young people from poor families, are given one bread a day, some times none. Every day, they are savagely beaten, and forced to walk on sharp stones. They are also exposed to malaria. The way the local people describe what is going at this camp is sickening.
June 21 – Mourning the death of two sons … reporter
June 20 – Over $10,000 raised at a San Jose event… ER
June 20 – Police deny involvement in last week’s massacre … reporter
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