Monday, July 8, 2013

TADIAS MAGAZINE Duplicity is unforgivable


by Teshome Debalke
TADIAS MAGAZINE known for its elegant presentation of the lives of Ethiopian Americans
Tadias Magazine known for its elegant presentation of the lives of Ethiopian Americans in Diaspora caught with its pants down. The Magazine skipped the most important festival; the Ethiopian Sport Federation in North America (ESFNA) that brought in tenth of thousands of Ethiopians from around the world in the Washington DC metropolitan area.
Instead, Tadias featured an off-event concert by Mahmoud Ahmed and Teddy Afro as reported by Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post. The biggest event ever that brought the two famous entertainers was missing in action as far as Tadias Magazine was concerned. Not even a piece of article was afforded to the 30th anniversary ESFNA nor the star of the entire Festival-the organizers and the location were mentioned.
The New York based online magazine that claim ‘tailored towards the Ethiopian-American community’ missed the largest Ethiopian-American community across the Delaware River.  Talk about betrayal. This can’t be some kind of oversight but a deliberate attempt to censure the gathering of Ethiopians for what can only be described for political reasons. Only in Ethiopia under the ruling regime this can happen not in the free world.
Among the ‘latest news’ featured this week on the Magazine related to Ethiopian Diaspora are:
Ethiopia: Creating a Culture of Progress – Book Talk at Sankofa in DC.
Washington City Paper: See Some Ethiopian Music This Week (There Will Be a Lot of It)
This isn’t small matter to ignore. The Editors of the Magazine must be contacted by responsible Medias and organizations to answer for their clammy journalism. They must answer in public whether they are protecting the ruling regime or their advertizing income coming from the regime via Ethiopian Airline.
We have no knowledge of any other Ethiopian related Media that completely skipped the biggest event in the history of the Ethiopian in Diaspora, except the official propaganda outlets of the Woyane regime.
Ethiopians must follow-up on Tadias delinquency of duty and any other Media that says one thing and does another in a cover of Media. If Media outlets aren’t transparent to the public who would?
It is about time Media organizations form Media monitoring group to protect the public from misinformation, disinformation or pure propaganda of ‘Media’ outlets.

OVER 4,600 ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES HAVE ENTERED ERITREA FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE


July 7, 2013  — A record-breaking 4,634 Ethiopian refugees and asylum seekers have crossed into neighboring Eritrea for the month of June, opposition sources in Asmara have disclosed.

Eritrea, with is currently housing tens of thousands of Ethiopian refugees, has declined to comment about the alarming number of Ethiopian youth entering their borders.

Severe government oppression and lack of economic opportunities are the leading causes of youth fleeing Ethiopia, according to refugees inside the country.

On average, over 7,100 Ethiopian refugees have been fleeing towards Yemen each month, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Over the past few years, reports indicate a quarter of a million Ethiopian refugees have crossed into Yemen, making the country of 85 million the biggest exporter of refugees on the continent.

Despite the growing figures of Ethiopian youth fleeing their homeland, little attention is given in the media due to Addis Ababa's cordial relationship with Washington.

Perhaps the biggest indication at how large Ethiopia's refugee problem into Eritrea has gotten comes from a video released by the Tigray Peoples Democratic Movement. At least 6,000 TPDM rebels can be seen in just one of their bases in Eritrea. All these fighters were former military defectors or refugees who entered the country between 2001-2013.