Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle (Shengo)
To Navanethem Pillay – Chair, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Request for an immediate investigation in to the forced eviction of Amharas from Western and Southern Ethiopia.
Recent developments in Ethiopia indicate that thousands of ethnic Amharas have been forcefully evicted from the Benshangul Region in Western Ethiopia. Overnight, masses of unassuming people including vulnerable women and children have been uprooted and forced to leave their livelihood in the most callous
The despicable and barbaric action of targeting, evicting and deporting ethnic Amaharas from the Benishangul-Gumuz ethnic state in western Ethiopia is a horrific crime and a crime against humanity by any measure and the outrage of Ethiopians across the world is justified. The stories we hear from the victims themselves and the witnesses who saw it are heart wrenching. Thanks to social media and communication technology, we are hearing from the victims themselves and seeing some of their tragic pictures in real time
We Ethiopians in front of the World Bank Head Quarter in Washington DC on April 20, 2013 are bringing the voice of poor farmers, pastoralists and indigenous people of Ethiopia who are
Input Director Øyvind Sveinsvoll at Rogaland Police District in conversation with one of the protesters. In the foreground sits Consul General at the Ethiopian Embassy in Stockholm.
PHOTO: Jarle Aasland
The whole room was boiling with demonstrations in Tasta bydelshus Saturday afternoon.
PHOTO: Jarle Aasland
The two embassy folks who would chair the meeting, had to put up with people from the audience covered the regime's flag.
PHOTO: Jarle Aasland
About 300 filled the auditorium, many Ethiopians were visitors from other cities.
PHOTO: Jarle Aasland
Great concern when it was discussed with the police.
PHOTO: Jarle Aasland
PHOTO: Jarle Aasland
The two representatives from the Embassy heard many stories from home.
PHOTO: Jarle Aasland
The engagement was thus the size of the meeting was stopped by police.
The police came out with three cars and six policemen and stopped a meeting of Tasta bydelshus where the atmosphere was becoming so very testy among the more than 300 attendees.
Forum on security, organized crime – A high-level forum on ‘security and organized crime’ will be held 20-21 April in Bahir, Ethiopia, on the initiative of the peace and security study institute (IPSS)
The following post is a part of a series that discusses 'managing risk for development,' the theme of the World Bank’s upcoming World Development Report 2014.
Ethiopian authorities are discussing on disabling Viber internet phone service. As we all know that Ethiopian technology system is first about maintaining dictatorship than serving its natural purpose of being of service to the people.
Despite holding thousands political prisoners in dungeons of the reclusive iron curtain province of Tigre where the ruling Tigre People Liberation Front, TPLF reigns supreme, the minority junta is currently going ahead with its evil plan of dispatching key political prisoners to remote jails where torture and execution is prevalent.
Hundreds of Ethiopians and origins of Ethiopia who reside in Stockholm and its surroundings went to the street this afternoon to express their anger over the on-going camping which targets the displacement of Amharic speaking Ethiopians from different parts of the country.
The protesters condemned the eviction of Amharic language speaking innocent Ethiopians from Southern and Benishangula gumuz regions which they alleges is masterminded and geared by the ruling TPLF party.
Religious representatives of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Muslims on the occasion also expressed their disappointment over this unconstitutional, racist and illegal practice perpetrated against one ethnic group. They demand victims of this crime who are displaced from their lands should be returned immediately and call up on all the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Organizers of the rally on the other hand urged the government to release Eskinder Nega, Reeyot Alemu, Woubshet Taye and thousands of other Ethiopian prisoners of conscious immediately and unconditionally. They say, they went to the street to express their outrage over TPLF’s regime unconstitutional policy of evicting hardworking Ethiopians and their families from various parts of the country.
The protesters also urged the government to release all leaders and followers of their Ethiopian Muslim compatriots and to stop its interference in religious matters. In a letter they submitted the Swedish Parliament, he organizers urged the Swedish government and the European Union to pressure on TPLF regime to respect its citizens’ rights enshrined in the constitution. The demonstrators say they will continue their solidarity with the on-going struggle at home and abroad against the dictatorial regime until the regime transferred its power to the government elected by the people. The two hours rally is concluded down town in Stockholm.
Her predicament touched millions of hearts around the world in 2012 when it was established that she had a malignant tumor in her breast which prompted her lawyer father and others to plead with the late Ethiopian despot Meles Zenawi for clemency on humanitarian grounds.
Monday, April 15 at 2:00PM U.S. CONGRESS: Rayburn House Office Building (45 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC)
A SHORT DOCUMENTARY ON LAND GRABBING WILL BE SCREENED
Land grabbing is becoming the single most combative issue in Africa. It involves large-scale land acquisitions by foreign countries and corporations for farming, biofuels, logging and minerals.
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 US whipping was a powerful weapon used by the white master. Whipping to humiliate was the hallmark of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Whipping is an old fashioned tool and really not that effective. Today psychological form of mental whipping is what is practiced by totalitarian regimes.
The international community has continued to express condemnation of the death of 12 people in an ambush of a United Nations convoy in South Sudan’s Jonglei state on 9 April
In its updated report on Information controls in Ethiopia, the OpenNet Initiative states that Ethiopia remains a highly restrictive environment in which to express political dissent online. The government of Ethiopia has long filtered critical and oppositional political content, ONI reports. Anti-terrorism legislation is frequently used to target online speech, including in the recent conviction of a dozen individuals, many of whom were tried based on their online writings. OpenNet Initiative (ONI) testing
Last April, I wrote a “Special Tribute to My Personal Hero Eskinder Nega”. In that tribute, I groped for words as I tried to describe this common Ethiopian man of uncommon valor, an ordinary journalist of extraordinary integrity and audacity.
Ethiopia’s ruling party, EPRDF, has held its 9th General Assembly this week. It elected Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Ato Demeke Mekonnen as its chairman and vice chairman