Tecola and his crocodile tears. By Yilma Bekele
Crocodile tears (or superficial sympathy) are a false, insincere display of emotion such as a hypocrite crying fake tears of grief. That is what it felt like reading the gentleman’s article after …
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Tecola and his crocodile tears.
Ethiopia shall overcome.
Ethiopia shall overcome. By Yilma Bekele
In May of 2005 the noble idea of bringing change by peaceful means died a violent death in Ethiopia. The Tigrai People Front declared in no uncertain terms power sharing is not part of …
Tagged with: Andenet Party, ethiopian elections, ginbot7, Patriotic Front, semayawi party, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Ethiopia-visions of the final battle.
Ethiopia-visions of the final battle. By Yilma Bekele
We all should thank the Central Committee of Tigrai Peoples Liberation Front for making things a little clearer in our country. When election season is close the TPLF removes all pretenses and …
Tagged with: Andenet Party, Birtukan Midekssa, Ethiopia Dictatorship, ethiopian elections, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Elections and helicopter-an Ethiopian drama
Elections and helicopter-an Ethiopian drama. By Yilma Bekele
I am thinking you must have read my last report on Ethiopian helicopters that made an unauthorized trip to Eritrea. I felt I left the story hanging out there and it is …
Tagged with: election board ethiopia, elections ethiopia, Ethiopia Democracy, ethiopian diaspora, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
What does it take to get the helicopters back?
What does it take to get the helicopters back? By Yilma Bekele
Normally regimes do not lose such an important asset just like that. Fighter jets or helicopters just do not fly out of the coop so easily. But we …
Tagged with: Ethiopia Dictatorship, Ethiopia News, ethiopian helicopter, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
The Ethiopian Diaspora and consciousness
By Yilma Bekele
The Bay Area that currently is home away from home for thousands of Ethiopians is nothing like any other place that I have known. I was born in a small village on the southern part of Ethiopia …
Tagged with: Ethiopia Human Rights, ethiopian airlines, ethiopian diaspora, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
How to honor Mandela in Ethiopia.
How best to honor Madiba in Ethiopia. By Yilma Bekele
President Mandela was inspired by the history and people of a place called Ethiopia and today we Ethiopians look at the life of this great man as an inspiration and …
Tagged with: Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Human Rights, Ethiopia News, Mandela and Ethiopia, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Pentagon to Ethiopians: your suffering is not important to us
Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter Discusses Security Partnership With Leaders in Ethiopia
By Cheryl Pellerin | American Forces Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 25, 2013 – Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter met with senior government and military leaders here …
Proving them wrong – the Ethiopian way.
Proving them wrong – the Ethiopian way. By Yilma Bekele
They say all kinds of bad stuff about us. It is said so many times and so often some of us start to believe the lie. That is always the …
Tagged with: al amoudi, Dictator Meles Zenawi, dictatorship, Ethiopia Democracy, ethiopian diaspora, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
voice from the grave
Voice from the grave. By Yilma Bekele
Meles Zenawi is dead. Meles Zenawi is alive. I am afraid in our case both statements are true. We saw the tyrant being buried or placed six foot under and the extraordinary sendoff …
Tagged with: African Dictators, dam on river nille, Effort, Ethiopia News, ethiopian rivers, Meles Zenawi, river nile, salini, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Keep your eyes on the prize.
Keep your eyes on the prize. By Yilma Bekele
We are witnessing a flurry of news from the TPLF party that calls itself the Ethiopian government. Why is the Woyane party so busy and why is the party pushing its …
Tagged with: Dictator Meles Zenawi, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Human Rights, ethiopian diaspora, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
I am an Amara.
I am an Amara. “ene Amara negne.”- By Yilma Bekele
“Ich bin ein Berliner.” – “I am a Berliner” Those words were spoken by President John F. Kennedy on June 26, 1963 in West Berlin. He said that to show …
Tagged with: Amhara, Beneshangul/Gumuz, Debretsion Gebremichael, Dictator Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia Human Rights, ethnic cleansing ethiopia, Woyane crime, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Welcome to the whipped nation- FDRE.
Welcome to the whipped nation- FDRE. By Yilma Bekele
Animal trainers use a whip with a stiff handle to show who the boss is. A whip is used to gain control and achieve compliance using pain. During slavery in the …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Azeb Mesfin, Dictator Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia News, Meles Zenawi Foundation, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Violence and the Ethiopians.
Violence and the Ethiopians. By Yilma Bekele
We always think of our people to be so loving that welcome a stranger into their homes and share what little they have. Our language is full of sayings about being a good …
Tagged with: Abebe Gelaw, dictatorship, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Human Rights, Ethiopia News, ethiopian diaspora, TPLF spies, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Ato Seye and his politics
By Yilma Bekele
Mr. Charles Krauthammer is an American syndicated columnist, political commentator and is considered a highly influential conservative voice. He is critical of President Obama’s policies and supports the election of Mr. Romney to be President. As a …
Why are they making us cry?
By Yilma Bekele
The Ethiopian people have been told to show grief regarding the death of Meles Zenawi. This is sadness by government decree and it is not unique to us. We just witnessed it happen in North Korea but …
Tagged with: Abebe Gelaw, Dictator Meles Zenawi, dictatorship, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Human Rights, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Standing up with our Muslim citizens
By Yilma Bekele
The TPLF regime is the kind that believes in a proactive stance in their approach to ward off unwanted happenings. They learned that during the war with the Derg. It is said that upon taking over a …
Tagged with: ethiopia religious freedom, Ethiopian Human Rights, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Ethiopia: The quiet before the storm
By Yilma Bekele
It has been forty-eight days since we saw or heard from Meles Zenawi. Some are convinced the tyrant is dead while the regime insists he is recovering, on vacation or just hanging out, depending on Ato Bereket’s …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Dictator Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia Democracy, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or leopard its spots?
By Yilma Bekele
Is Meles Zenawi dead or alive has become the burning question of the day. It is sad even in death or near death the tyrant does not get any respect. You would think after dominating the Ethiopian …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Dictator Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia Human Rights, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Meles Ashebari Zenawi and death
By Yilma Bekele
It has been two weeks now since our conversation has been revolving around the dictator. We know for sure he is not well but beyond that no one has come up with any credible explanation for his …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Birtukan Human Rights, Dictator Meles Zenawi, dictatorship, Ethiopia Dictatorship, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
TPLF and Addis Abeba
By Yilma Bekele
Dictator Meles Zenawi has not been seen for over three weeks or so. We know he is not in good health after we saw his picture with the Chinese Prime Minister in Mexico. Some are claiming we …
Tagged with: Addis Ababa, African Dictators, Dictator Meles Zenawi, ethio, Ethiopia News, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, Woyanne, 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
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Ethiopia and Winds of war
By Yilma Bekele
War is upon us again. War defines the Ethiopian Government. Since it came to power it has been at war with its citizens. No region or ethnic group has been spared from this infection. The regime is …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Dictator Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Dictatorship, Ethiopia Human Rights, TPLF, Woyanne
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Syria and Ethiopia–two peas in a pod.
Syria and Ethiopia–two peas in a pod. By Yilma Bekele
Tahrir Square, Misrata, Darra, Homs are becoming a household name. They are home of the brave and the bold. History will show epic battles were fought in this locations and …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Birtukan Human Rights, Ethiopia Dictatorship, Ethiopia News, Ethiopia Rigged Elections, Meles Zenawi, Woyanne
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Ethiopia – In search of a common ground
By Yilma Bekele
How to manage and resolve conflict has always been our Achilles Heel. That is part of the reason why we stumble from one crisis to another. Last week was a perfect example of an attempt to try …
Tagged with: Africa, African Dictators, common ground, Ethiopia Economy, Ethiopia Human Rights, Ethiopia News, ginbot7, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, Woyanne
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Posted in Ethiopia News
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
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Exporting Kilil to America
By Yilma Bekele
Being an Ethiopian has always been difficult. The bad news is, it is not going to get any easier. Two weeks ago I found out it can be taken away too. It has come to a point …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Dictator Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia Human Rights, VOA amharic, Woyanne
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Meles and our BEKA! moment
By Yilma Bekele
By all accounts the minority based dictatorial regime in Ethiopia is in big trouble. Circumstances in the neighborhood are a bit disconcerting to Meles and company. You can tell from the flurry of activity being orchestrated the …
Tagged with: African Dictators, dla piper, ethio, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Human Rights, Ethiopia News, Meles Zenawi, Woyanne
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Meles and Gaddafi – partners in crime
By Yilma Bekele
They say ‘in any relationship, if one party wants a change, that party needs to instigate change.’ The Tunisian people felt change was necessary. The Egyptian people agreed. The Libyans, Yemenis, Algerians, Bahrinians and the Iranians are …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Ethiopia Constitution, Meles Zenawi, Woyanne
Posted in Ethiopia News
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
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Let my sister go!
By Yilma Bekele
“Opposition UDJ party president Birtukan Mideksa, whose pardon was revoked and life sentence reinstated in December 2008, remained in prison throughout the year. She was held in solitary confinement until June, despite a court ruling that indicated …
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
ET-409 and the surplus Ethiopians
By Yilma Bekele
It took an article on LA Times to help me gather my thoughts together. I knew there was some thing missing in the story unfolding in front of me. The article by Alexandra Sandels and Borzou Daragahi …
Tagged with: Africa, ethio, Ethiopia News, ethiopian airlines, Meles, TPLF, Woyanne
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Meles writes Obama
By Yilma Bekele
To my dear friend Barack Obama. I hope this letter finds you well. We are doing fine here in this location that will stay nameless. Except for that little matter of famine, deflation and inflation most things …
Tagged with: Africa, ethio, Ethiopia News, ginbot7, Kenya, Meles Zenawi, Obama, 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
The missing 8.6 million Ethiopians, where art thou?
By Yilma Bekele
I couldn’t sleep all night. I kept turning and tossing to no avail. What was bothering me was what I heard on VOA yesterday afternoon. VOA is Voice of America for those of you not in the …
The joy and sadness of November
By Yilma Bekele
November 9, 1989, is a special day for the German people, in particular, and for the rest of humanity, in general. It is a day that one more system designed to treat fellow humans as lesser beings …
Intense fighting erupts as Somali fighters ambush TPLF thugs
By Bonny Apunyu, SomaliNet
Intense battle erupted on Saturday morning in Somalia in an area between Lego and Yaqbariweyne in the Bay region (south) when Al-Shabaab forces ambushed Ethiopian TPLF and Somali government troops heading to the capital, Mogadishu, residents …
VIDEO: Back from the ‘African Guantanamo’
After spending eight years behind bars in Ethiopian jails for presumed links with the terrorist Al Qaeda network, eight Kenyans speak out about their terrible ordeal.
After being secretly detained in Ethiopia for more than one year, …
Woyanne defends draft law to criminalize NGO activities
By Peter Heinlein, VOA
Listen the report: [podcast]http://www.voanews.com/english/figleaf/mp3filegenerate.cfm?filepath=http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/english/2008_10/Audio/Mp3/LCR%20Heinlein%20ETHIOPIA%20NGO%20LAW%202350155%20%20329P%20gg.Mp3[/podcast]
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Ethiopia’s government The Woyanne dictatorial regime in Ethiopia is coming in for fierce criticism over a draft law before parliament that would prohibit or criminalize many activities of …
Tagged with: Addis Ababa, ethio, Ethiopia News, Meles Zenawi, NGO, VOA amharic, Woyanne
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Posted in Ethiopia News
Meles forms think tank to teach his troops how to be nice
The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia has made an agreement with a retired British colonel to study better ways of training Woyanne thugs (death squads) to control riots. The study was done by Colonel Michael Dewar, who is a former Deputy …
3 Woyanne troops die in landmine explosion
By Mohammed Omar SMC
A convey of Ethiopian military troops Woyanne henchmen which has left the Somali capital Mogadishu, and heading towards Afgoi district which is some 30KM from the Somali capital Mogadishu came under a remote control landmine explosion …
Video: Woyanne vs. the People of Ethiopia
Compare these two videos: In the second video, Woyanne receives money from “representatives” of southern Ethiopia to build schools in Tigray while in the first video Ethiopians in the south have no food to eat, let along go to school. …
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 …