By Yilma Bekele
I am hoping this is the last discussion about our emotional response regarding the disappearance then death of Ato Meles Zenawi. As controversial and in your face individual he was alive his death has brought drama, division …
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Death and drama in Ethiopia
Tagged with: African Dictators, Dictator Meles Zenawi, ethiopian diaspora, failed state, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Meles Zenawi and his health
Ethiopia, Ato Meles and his health. By Yilma Bekele
Ato Meles Zenawi, Chairman of Tigrai People Liberation Front (TPLF) and Prime Minster of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is not in good health. I became aware of that fact …
Tagged with: Abebe Gelaw, African Dictators, Dictator Meles Zenawi, ethio, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Human Rights, Ethiopia News, failed state, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
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Posted in Ethiopia News
Further discourse on the Washington DC undressing
By Yilma Bekele
The Washington DC incident with Ato Meles is the talk of all Ethiopians in the Diaspora. I found out there is no reason for me to raise the issue, every one I met sooner or later will …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Dictator Meles Zenawi, ethio, Ethiopia News, ethiopian diaspora, failed state, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, yilma bekele
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Posted in Ethiopia News
A note to President Obama
By Yilma Bekele
Dear President Obama,
I am sure you do not have time to read my letter nonetheless it gives me a certain amount of release from the pain I am feeling and the little chance of this letter …
Loving Ethiopia to death – the Doctors
By yilma Bekele
On November 11, 2011, Yenesew Gebre was driven to kill himself on behalf of all suffering Ethiopians. He killed himself out of love for his people and country. He made the ultimate sacrifice to wake us up …
Tagged with: dictatorship, ethio, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Human Rights, Ethiopia News, ethiopian airlines, ethiopian diaspora, failed state, yilma bekele
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Posted in Ethiopia News
The displaced Ethiopians
By Yilma Bekele
I am sure we are all familiar with what is known as the ‘melting pot’ concept when it comes to describing how America functions. The term is a metaphor ‘for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Dictator Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Dictatorship, Ethiopia Human Rights, failed state, TPLF
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Ethiopia and Syria revisited
By Yilma Bekele
The Syrian regime is killing its own people to save the country from terrorists (ashebariwoch). The world is watching and keeping score. Thanks to social media such as Twitter and Facebook we are all witnessing this display …
Emperor Tewodros and Ato Meles
By Yilma Bekele
I watched a video of an interview Ato Meles gave to a woman journalist. The edited version on You Tube and our Independent Diaspora sites starts without introduction and ends abruptly. We have no idea who the …
Arrival of the Ethiopian Spring
By Yilma Bekele
No one likes a whiner. Why complain insistently when it is of no use. We used to be good at that. Whining was our domain. Did I just say ‘was’? Yes I did. It seems that we …
Tagged with: Addis Ababa, African Dictators, democracy, Ethiopia Human Rights, Ethiopia News, failed state, G7, Meles Zenawi, OLF, repression, voa, Woyanne
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Posted in Ethiopia News
The ‘domino effect’ in living color
By Yilma Bekele
What is referred to at the domino effect is “a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby, which then cause another similar change, and so on in a linear sequence.” We …
Tagged with: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Dictatorship, Ethiopia News, Ethiopia Rigged Elections, failed state, Meles Zenawi
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Posted in Ethiopia News
The Meles Doctrine
By Yilma Bekele
What exactly is a doctrine is a good question. It is a formal way leaders lay down their beliefs, principles, and/or vision so that their citizens will have some clue of where they are taking the country. …
Tagged with: Birtukan Human Rights, dictatorship, Ethiopia News, failed state, Meles Zenawi, Starvation, TPLF
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Posted in Ethiopia News
Ethiopian and Californian elections
By Yilma Bekele
It is election season in California. Two positions are open. The governorship and Federal Senate positions are up for grabs. Both parties, that is the Democrats and Republicans are going thru the primary process to nominate their …
Tagged with: Birtukan Midekssa, Ethiopia News, failed state, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, VOA amharic, Woyanne
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Posted in Ethiopia News
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
By Yilma Bekele
It is an old expression meaning waiting for something bad to happen. We Ethiopians are familiar with that expression. Yes sir, nobody can take that away from us. We are unsurpassed in the art of moving ከድ …
Tagged with: Africa, Ethiopia News, failed state, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, Woyanne
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
The case for war
…This new year fills us with hope that at longlast we are ready to take matters into our own hands. It is a new year, It is a new day. It is a new begining. It is the time to
Woyanne turned Somalia into the worst state in the world
EDITOR’S NOTE: As if terrorizing and starving millions of Ethiopians is not enough, the regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) – supported by the U.S. State Department and the World Bank – has invaded Somalia and turned it into …