October 2011

(chicago tribune) Charged in Will County with raping his adoptive sister over two years starting when she was in 5th grade, 20-year-old Benyam Bereket-Ab fled to his homeland of Ethiopia from Naperville in January 2006. Bereket-Ab’s bond had initially been set at $4 million, but his attorney successfully argued that he wasn’t a flight risk …

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(BBC) The US military has begun flying drone aircraft from a base in Ethiopia, as part of its fight against Islamist militants in neighbouring Somalia. US officials have confirmed to the BBC that the base, in the southern city of Arba Minch, is now operational. But they stressed that the remotely-piloted drones were being used …

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Source: CPJ New York, October 11, 2011-Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s public accusations on Monday against two imprisoned Swedish journalists compromise the presumption of their innocence and predetermine the outcome of their case, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The journalists were arrested in Ethiopia in July and charged with terrorism for associating with …

Ethiopia’s Zenawi calls jailed Swedish journalists terror accomplices Read More »

Court orders Driver Nissim Ben Yakar to pay NIS 60,000 after refusing to let woman on his bus and telling her “Ethopians are stupid people.” (jpost) A bus driver who humiliated a young Ethiopian student by telling her he “doesn’t let blacks ride on the bus” has been ordered to pay NIS 60,000 compensation, the …

Bus Company fined $16,000 for refusing to let Ethiopian woman on his bus Read More »

By Messay Kebede In the final analysis, the difference between the Derg and the Woyanne regime in terms of repression and exclusiveness is becoming blurred by the day since the 2005 election. In a previous article, I indicated that the toughening of repression is part of a political strategy associated with the “implementation” of an …

Don’t Kill Them; Break Them Read More »

(photo file) Norwegian News A chorus of critics demonstrated outside the Oslo hotel where Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was attending an international energy conference this week. He brushed off the criticism, while Norwegian leaders say they took up some of it with him. “Norwegian and other countries’ organizations think they have a right to …

‘Meles the Menace’ condemned in Norway Read More »

By Messay Kebede In the final analysis, the difference between the Derg and the Woyanne regime in terms of repression and exclusiveness is becoming blurred by the day since the 2005 election. In a previous article, I indicated that the toughening of repression is part of a political strategy associated with the “implementation” of an …

Derg vs. Woyanne – same goal, different style Read More »

By William Davison From the arrest of more than 100 Ethiopian opposition activists, journalists, and columnists, to the arrest of two Swedish journalists, Ethiopia’s government is showing its intolerance of dissent. The arrests of two Swedish journalists – captured by security forces in early July after a firefight with ethnic Somali rebels – and the …

Arrests of journalists show Ethiopia’s sterner side Read More »

By Dula Abdu Meles uses brute force at home and a massive PR machine abroad to crowd out the opposition and to hide his evil empire. Until their fall many evil geniuses like Ivan the Terrible, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Leopold II of Belgium exhibited similar behavior. Internationally, far too many individuals have become …

Evil Genius, Dictator Meles of Ethiopia Read More »