Journalist Dereje Habtewold, who is currently in exile, recounts the terror that was unleashed in Addis Ababa and throughout Ethiopia by the Meles regime in November 2005.
Dereje remembers his interview with the newly elected mayor of Addis Ababa, Dr Berhanu Nega of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) just a few moments before he was arrested along with all the other top leaders of the party.
Shortly after Dr Berhanu’s arrest, Dereje and almost all editors and journalists in Addis Ababa that worked on independent newspapers were rounded up and thrown in jail. They were released two years later.
The article is a good reminder of the fascism that currently exists in Ethiopia under the U.S.-financed brutal dictatorship of the tribalist junta.
Ethiopians celebrate Obama’s election as President of the United States because it has real meaning. It is the hope of all Ethiopians that the new Obama Administration will stop financing the regime in Ethiopia that is accused by all credible international human rights organizations of stealing elections and committing crimes against humanity.
The articles is in Amharic (pdf). Click here to read.