The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (EPPF) has launched a new web site, eppfonline.org, on Sunday, Nov. 23. The official launching of the web site was announced by the organizational affairs head of EPPF’s International Committee, Ato Sileshi Tilahun, in an interview with Ethiopian Review.
Ato Sileshi has also announced that EPPF will launch a radio program shortly, which will be run by Ato Demis Belete, head of the EPPF International Committee’s press office.
Earlier this month, EPPF has started a campaign to organize Ethiopians around the world to support its cause of liberating Ethiopia from the fascist tribal junta of the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne). To that end, the EPPF chairman Meazaw Getu and the general executive committee had sent to Europe former Ethiopian parliamentarians Ato Leul Qeskis and Ato Assefa Hailu with an assignment to reorganize the Front’s international committee.
The newly reorganized EPPF International Committee is currently building its grassroot structure in several countries, says to Ato Sileshi, who is heading the effort. In the coming few weeks, EPPF chapters in Washington DC, London and other major cities will officially start their operations.
Through the International Committee, EPPF has also started to counter the massive propaganda campaign that was launched by the Woyanne regime against freedom fighters that are engaged in an armed resistance. The Woyanne propaganda is intended to create fear and confusion among Ethiopians about EPPF and its allies, including the Government of Eritrea, says Ato Zewdalem Kebede, an executive committee member of the EPPF International Committee who is in charge of public relations.
The EPPF press office, through its web site and radio program, and in collaboration with independent media such as Ethiopian Review, will campaign to educate Ethiopians and the international community about EPPF’s mission and objectives. EPPF’s military and other actions will also start to get adequate media coverage.
EPPF is an armed resistance group that is currently fighting with the brutal dictatorship in Ethiopia at several locations, but mostly in the norther part of the country. As EPPF gains strength, it is trying to widen its area of operations. Last years it signed an agreement with the Tigrean People Democratic Front and other armed group to create an alliance and coordinate their anti-Woyanne campaign.