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February 2021

Yekatit 12 – The 84th Annual Remembrance Day on-line Commemoration

Berhane Tadese, New York City February 23, 2021. Ethiopians residing in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut held a virtual remembrance day commemoration on Sunday, February 21, 2021 for mass massacre committed by Fascist General Graziani’s on Yekatit 12, 1929 (Ethiopian calendar). This observance event was organized by Ethiopian Community Mutual

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The Addis Ababa Massacre of February 19, 1937*

This Date in Black History: Ethiopia (By A. Alemayehu) Long before the resistance of Palestinians against Israeli occupation, even longer than the resistance of the French against Nazi occupation, Ethiopians have led a successful resistance against foreign occupation. Just as Ethiopia had been a beacon of defiance against colonialism, Ethiopia once again became a beacon

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Reflections on Some Challenging Questions about the Current Situation in Ethiopia

Messay Kebede February 19, 2021 On the Support of some Western Circles to the TPLF One thing that is as surprising as the swift military defeat of the TPLF is the support that it gets from some Western circles. In light of the TPLF’s abysmal record of human right abuses and the recent numerous atrocities

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A Brief Case Study on the Ignominious Defeat of the TPLF and Its Implications for Ethiopia

Assefa Fayesa February 18, 2021 Ethiopia is undergoing drastic and seismic changes. The Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF), a minority party that claimed to represent roughly the six million people of Tigray and for decades the undisputed overlord of Ethiopia’s ethnic/linguistic federation, made fatal miscalculations and now finds itself in its death throes. The TPLF,

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A misplaced moral outrage

By Shiferaw Abebe Wars are terrible things anywhere, anytime.  They take away lives, destroy hard-earned assets and inflict long-lasting emotional trauma. They often cause the most damage to those who don’t deserve any of it at all. So my heart goes out to the people of Tigray who have been directly impacted by the recent

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Emperor Paul Kagame: The Mouse Impersonating a Lion

The Queen of Sheba Pundits, armchair analysts, paid operatives, compromised journalists and media houses are having a field day blasting and censuring Ethiopia following the adventurous attack of the erstwhile TPLF cabal forces on the Ethiopian Defence Forces of the Northern Command. Just to briefly recall: The cabal forces attempted a fatal putsch by mercilessly

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