Ethiopians stormed World Bank in Washington DC

 by Efe Ebelo reporting from Washington DC
Source: Daily Independent

Ethiopians in their numbers Saturday morning stormed the 17th Street Office complex of the World Bank in Washington DC, protesting the bank’s alleged support for land grab and ethnic cleansing by President Girma Wolde-Giorgis
Displaying placards with various inscriptions like “World Bank stop financing Human rights violations,” “USA say no to ethnic cleansing of the Amharas in Ethiopia” and what will it take to end poverty? Empower people not dictators” among others, they claimed that they decided to protest to the headquarters of the bank against forceful eviction of poor farmers by alleged corrupt tycoons and foreign corporations to enrich themselves.
According to the protesters, “in Gambella more than three million hectares of Annuak land was sold to foreigners to produce food for their own people. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations claim securing land to feed their people for the future. More than 70,000 Annuaks have already been forced from their land and another 150,000 will be displaced in the coming few years.
They alleged that these evictions and ethnic cleansing is financed by the World Bank as they claim the Ethiopian government cannot do them without support from the World Bank and financing by the International Monetary Fund, (IMF).
“The World Bank and IMF are financing it at all levels including paying salaries for those who are killing the poor people. Annuaks are now an endangered species so are the Mursi people who were chased away from the South Omo Valley hunting ground to clear the land for the regime’s sugar company.
They said that if the World Bank could deny loan to Cambodia in 2011 when that government was displacing its farmers, there is no reason why the Ethiopian case should be different demanding the Bank to come clean and distance itself from the alleged crimes being committed by the present administration in that country.
“We endorse the demand of the Human Rights Watch on its recent press release on Ethiopia for the World Bank to do its own internal investigation on the land eviction issue in Ethiopia and make it public. Thousands of Ethiopians were and are evicted; many children, women and elderly are dying as a result of this. The World Bank either has to condone or condemn this human rights violation and crime against humanity” they added.

Ethiopia: Jailed hero journalist Woubshet Taye off to Zeway death camp

The Horn Times News 20 April 2013
by Getahune Bekele, South Africa

As the unpopular, corrupt and inefficient minority junta continues to govern the police state Ethiopia with brute iron hand, dealing ruthlessly with political prisoners and jailed journalists whom it blames for causing the late despot Meles Zenawi’s “ untimely” death; Ethiopian political prisoners have fallen on hard times filled with dread and terror.
The former Editor of Awramba Times, Wubeshet Taye is the latest Prisoner to be sent to Zeway death camp to serve the remaining time of his 14 years sentence away from his family, with the likes of Bekele Gerba, Albana Lelisa and several others who are already condemned to the notorious facility.
Chained in leg iron and carrying his belongings in tiny bag, hundreds of curios inmates at Kilinto prison watched the young scribe taken away by more than 20 TPLF soldiers on Tuesday morning April 16 2013.
A friend of the terrorized journalist confirmed to the Horn Times that Woubshet Taye is currently in Zeway, still in leg iron like all political prisoners.
The 2011 trial of Woubshet Taye was at the time described unfair and was way below the international fair trial standard under the controversial and draconian anti-terrorism law designed to persecute and silence dissenting voices.
The Horn Times franticly tried to talk to TPLF officials in charge of prison administration to find out the reason behind sending opposition prisoners particularly Ethnic Oromos and the Amharas to Zeway during the known malaria season, but none of them were willing to reply including the office of the man himself, warlord Berket Simeon.
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RALLY TO DEMAND THE UN INVESTIGATE ETHNIC CLEANSING IN ETHIOPIA

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Ethiopia’s genocidal minority junta verging on madness?

 The Horn Times News 21 April 2013
by Getahune Bekele, South Africa
Human rights institutions urged to assist in stopping the illegal transfer of political prisoners to Zeway death camp

Located 170 kms south-east of Addis Ababa on the outskirt of Zeway town, the Zeway death camp has been in the news recently after the ruling minority junta began sending political prisoners to the camp since early March 2013.
Chillingly dubbed “the Auschwitz of Africa” the prison was established by former TPLF strong man Tamrat Layne

Warlord turned Pastor Tamrat Layne

(pictured) in 1993 as forced labor camp to provide cheap slave labor force for his massive sunflower and vegetable farms in the area which he co-owned with the uncontestable black billionaire Sheik Alamoudi Mohammed.
However, after the 2005 nationwide anti-TPLF insurrection, the walled in ghetto with high death rate than any other prison in Ethiopia was transformed into death camp by the late evil tyrant Meles Zenawi.
The high death rate is attributed to malaria infestation, cholera outbreak, tuberculosis, severe malnutrition and unbearable overcrowding; and to widespread torture and extrajudicial killings committed by carefully selected corrupt Tigre camp guards.
In the camp synonymous with poor sanitation, prisoners drink untreated water drawn from the nearby Lake Zeway. The stench of human waste and raw sewerage hangs in the air and gets worse during rainy season.
According to investigation done by the Horn Times and vital information obtained from former inmates, suicide is rampant at the country’s most brutal facility where the minority Tigre junta enslaves Ethiopians forcing them to live with rats and lice inside concrete cells in unspeakable squalor.
“Zeway concentration camp is the most frightening place to be at specially if you are a political prisoner. To survive there you need malaria tablet, the most sought after item in the camp. The brutal Tigre guards sell two tablets of proguanil Hydrochloride and chloroquine phosphate for up to 3 USD to those who afford it, and the smuggled medication costs double that amount.” A former political prisoner who spent 8 years in the facility without ever given a trial date told the Horn Times.
“But for Amhara and Oromo political prisoners things are very different. Even when they produce money to buy medication the genocidal TPLF camp guards would tell them ‘keep your money, you are here to die.’ All guard towers inside Zeway are mini-enterprises for the Tigres who are making extra cash by selling medications, insect repellants, cigarettes and other basic goods at inflated price. Your life in Zeway camp as political prisoner is at the complete mercy of the sadist guards. I am wondering what will happen the day this junta collapses and the entire wronged army of political prisoners attain freedom. Surely there will be a reckoning…” the ex- inmate from the Rift valley city of Awassa warned.

Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Kebede snatched victory in the London Marathon

Winning feeling: Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Kebede celebrates after winning the men’s race at the London Marathon 2013 Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Kebede snatched victory in the final kilometre of the London Marathon in an unofficial time of two hours six minutes and four seconds today.
Kebede, winner in 2010, timed his attack perfectly to overhaul tiring Kenyan Emmanuel Mutai, the 2011 champion, and pull away to win by 30 seconds.
Ethiopia’s Ayele Abshero was third over the 42.195-km race. Last year’s champion Wilson Kipsang of Kenya finished fifth with Ugandan Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich sixth.
Britain’s Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Mo Farah had dropped out of the race at the halfway stage as planned.
Kenya’s Olympic silver medallist Priscah Jeptoo won the women’s event in an unofficial time of two hours 20 minutes 15 seconds.
World champion Edna Kiplagat was runner up for the second successive year and Japan’s Yukiko Akaba took third.
Jeptoo had been leading with Kiplagat at 30 km but began to increase her pace to leave her rival trailing and eventually won by over a minute.
Ethiopia’s Olympic champion and pre-race favourite Tiki Gelana dropped off the pace after colliding with a wheelchair athlete at a drinks station at 15 km.
Source: Independent.ie

Breaking News: Ethiopians in Norway Chased TPLF Ambassador

Norway police stopped meeting in Tasta Bydelshus

Source: Aftenbladet

The police came out with three cars and six policemen and stopped a meeting of Tasta bydelshus where the atmosphere was becoming so very irritably among the more than 300 Ethiopian origin attendees.
The 300 attendees were Ethiopian asylum seekers or people with Ethiopian background. The police feared that it would get completely out of control when people in the audience went to the hard verbal confrontation against two representatives from the Ethiopian Embassy in Stockholm who had called for and chaired the meeting.
The police gave the first message that all protesters to leave the meeting while the two embassy people and their potential supporters can be seated. This denied the attendees protesters, and several feared it would come to an open confrontation between police and people in the audience. Then, specific efforts manager Øyvind Sveinsvoll of Rogaland police to stop the meeting and clear the room.
It was a wise decision, said several of those present protesters. They did not want the two embassy people should be left as “victors” while they were evicted.
- Our goal was to stop the meeting. We managed, says one of them to Eve magazine.
Had to isolate embassy people
The atmosphere was tense that the police chose to isolate the two embassy people from the rest of the participants. They escorted them out to a private car that carried them away from the area. The 300 attendees were then drop out of the courtroom.
There was general consul at the Ethiopian Embassy, ​​Abay Mebrat Beyene, who would chair the meeting with embassy secretary. The main theme was collecting money in the Ethiopian exile to a very controversial prestige project for the regime in Ethiopia.
Mass demonstrations abroad

Ethiopians in UK to express their outrage by holding protest at the British Parliament

    Wondimu Mekonnen

As you all have heard and know by now the latest events unfolding in our country are reaching such critical stage that makes the situation intolerable to anyone that shares a remote sense of humanity and justice. At separate times in the last 22 years, the hate-driven and ethnicist regime of TPLF/EPRDF unleashed its excess against the various groups of people in Ethiopia.
What makes the latest targeted assault on members of the ‘Amhara’ group living in Benshangul-Gumz region is the mass scale of the action, the callous nature it has been perpetrated and the manner the crime was completed in apparent evident way. Ethiopians living everywhere are appalled and outraged by the heinous measures of ethnic cleansing conducted by the regime. They have been denouncing the crimes perpetrated against ‘Amharas’ and appealing to the international community to thoroughly investigate the matter. Ethiopians worldwide have been voicing their firm criticism to those who have been giving continuous support and emboldening the regime. They have repeatedly stressed the money given by the donor countries including the UK had been used by those who commit gross human rights violations in Ethiopia.
Ethiopians in London representing all sectors of the community have organised a protest vigil to send a clear message that they also denounce and deplore the act perpetrated on ‘Amharas’ by TPLF led regime. On the day of the protest they will submit their protest letter to UK government, while at the Parliament session the Foreign & Commonwealth Office will answer to the oral question that will be made by Mr Dave Anderson (MP). The protest will be held:
Date: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Time: 2.00 – 7.00pm
Place: In front of the House of Commons/Parliament
Please make sure take the least moral action an Ethiopian can make by being a voice to your fellow citizen by attending this important protest event. Please circulate this information widely by sharing it to all your contacts and networks.
With all the best wishes,
On behalf of the organising group.

አምባሳደር መብራት በየነ ከኖርዌይ ተባረረች (ኖርዌይ)

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የኢትዮጵያ የቁርጥ ቀን ልጆች በኖርዌይ ስታቫንገር ከተማ የአባይን ቦንድ ለመሽጥ የመጡትን ወያኔዎች አባረው ወያኔ ያዘጋጀው አዳራሽ ውስጥ ተስብሰበው በሃገራችን ወቅታዊ ጉዳይ ላይ ተወያይተዋል ቦንድ ለመሽጥ የመጣችው አምባሳደር መብራት በየነ ንግግር ስትጀምር ስለታሰሩትና ስለተፈናቀሉት ወገኖቻችን በመጀመሪያ ጥያቄችንን መልሽልን በማለት ወጥረው ያዝዋት ውጥረቱም ተበብሶ አምባሳደሯ ውርደቷን ተከናንባ ከነጀሌዎቿ በፖሊስ ሃይል አፍረው ተመልሰዋል። ለተጨማሪ ዘገባ እዚህ ይጫኑ

ተጨማሪ ፎቶግራፎችን ለመመልከት እዚህ ይጫኑ

 

ኢህአዲግ (ወያኔ) የአባይን ግድብ የቦንድ ሽያጭ በባህር ማዶ የሚኖሩ ኢትዮጵያውያንን መተንኮሻ አድርጎታል

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ከኖርዌይ ከተሞች ውስጥ በደቡባዊ ክፍል የምትገኘው ስታቫንገር ከተማ ዛሬ ሚያዝያ 12/2005 ዓም በስዊድን የኢትዮጵያ አምባሳደር ወ/ሮ መብራት በተገኙበት ለአባይ ግድብ ቦንድ ሽያጭ የተዘጋጀው ዝግጅት ከኦስሎ ከ ስምንት ሰዓታት በላይ በአውቶቡስ ተጉዘው በስብሰባው በተገኙ ኢትዮጵያውያን በገጠመው ከፍተኛ ተቃውሞ ሙሉ በሙሉ ዝግጅቱ ተሰርዞ አምባሳደሯ በፖሊስ ቦታውን ለቀው እንዲሄዱ ተመክረው አዳራሹን ለቀው ወጥተዋል።
በመርሃግብሩ መክፈቻ ላይ በሥርዓት ተቀምጠው የተገኙት ኢትዮጵያውያን መርሃግብሩ ከመጀመሩ በፊት ”በዘመነ ኢህአዲግ የተገድሉትን ኢትዮጵያውያን በቅድሚያ በህሊና ፀሎት እናስብ ይህንንም ለማድረግ ሁላችንም ከተቀመጥንበት እንነሳ” በማለት አምባሳደሯም እንዲነሱ እና አብረው በፀሎት እንዲያስቡ ይጠይቃሉ።አምባሳደሯም ሆኑ አብረዋቸው የመጡት ፈቃደኛ አልሆኑም። በመቀጠል ኢትዮጵያውያኑ እንግዲያው ስለ አባይግድብ አሁን ልንነጋገር አንችልም በማለት ያስታውቃሉ።በእዚህ መሃል ከፍተኛ የተቃውሞ ድምፅ መሰማት ይጀምራል።
”ከአባይ በፊት የሰብአዊ መብት ጥሰት ይገደብ!”
”የሙስሊሙ ድምፅ ይሰማ!”
”የኢትዮጵያውያን ድምፅ ይሰማ!”
”የዘር መድሎ ይቁም!” (stop apartheid in Ethiopia!” ወዘተ… የሚሉ መፈክሮችን በማሰማት ላይ ሳሉ የኖርዌይ ፖሊስ ሁኔታውን ለማረጋጋት ሁሉም እንዲቀመጡ ይነገራቸዋል። በእዚህን ጊዜ ግን ኢትዮጵያውያኑ የኮኮብ ምልክት ያለበትን ከአምባሳደሯ ጀርባ ባለው ግድግዳ ላይ የተለጠፈውን ባንዲራ የኢህአዲግ አርማ ኮኮብ በሌለበት በኢትዮጵያ ባንዲራ ሸፍነው ጨርሰው ነበር።

ፖሊሱ ኢትዮጵያውያንን ካስቀመጠ በኃላ ቀጥሎም ሁኔታው ደህና መሆኑን ለማስረዳት ይሞክራል። በእዚህ መሃል ኢትዮጵያውያኑ ይብሱን ቁጣቸውን በዜማ ይቀጥላሉ።
”ተከብረሽ የኖርሽው ባባቶቻችን ደም
እናት ኢትዮጵያ የደፈረሽ ይውደም የደፈረሽ ይውደም”
ይህን የተመለከቱት ፖሊሶች ኢትዮጵያውያኑን ከማስወጣት አምባሳደሯን ማስወጣት ትክክለኛ እርምጃ እንደሆነ ስለተረዱ አንዱ ፖሊስ ወደ አምባሳደሯ ቀርቦ አዳራሹን ለቀው እንዲወጡ በቃልም በእጁም መውጣት እንዴት እንደሆነ እያሳየ ይነገራቸውል። አምባሳደር መብራት ቦርሳቸውን አንስተው ወደ አዳራሹ ዘወር እያሉ እየተመለከቱ ወደ በሩ አዘገሙ። ኢትዮጵያውያኑ ቀጠሉ።
”ተከብረሽ የኖርሽው ባባቶቻችን ደም
እናት ኢትዮጵያ የደፈረሽ ይውደም የደፈረሽ ይውደም”’