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My Letter to President Trump Requesting Targeted Sanctions Against the TPLF Regime in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
October 2, 2017
Donald Trump
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Re: REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST PERSONS AND ENTITIES INVOLVED IN THE IRRECHA MASSACRES ON OCTOBER 2, 2016 AND OTHER...
The Amhara Psychology (BefeQadu Z. Hailu)
To begin with less controversial fact, today’s Amhara is not exactly what it is referred in old historical scripts of the country (Ethiopia). It has mostly been used to refer to the Christians, and also, to mean ‘good people’. It...
Oromo-Somali conundrum: Can Ethiopia tame the Liyu police?
Written by Zecharias Zelalem
(OPride) ― Ethiopia says hundreds of Oromos killed and hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced from their homes in still ongoing violent clashes in the Eastern part of the country.
Conflict along...
I told you so, Sai Karuturi. But you would not listen! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: Last week, the infamous landgrabber in Ethiopia, Sai Karuturi, wrote a letter informing the black apartheid T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front) prime minister that he has had enough and wants...
The Next Decade with EPRDF Be Like…? (BefeQadu Z. Hailu)
The recent clash between Oromo and Somali citizens of Ethiopia across the longest regional border in the South-Eastern part of the country is only different from previous ethnic clashes in a few things. The first is that it has been reported...
Ethiopia: Ten Days of Accountability and Reckoning for the T-TPLF! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The ten days of T-TPLF kumbaya propaganda charm offensive in Ethiopia
I have heard of the “12 Days of Christmas”. Even sang it. “On the first day of Christmas/ my true love sent to me:/ A Partridge in a Pear Tree/…/”
Who has ever heard...
How Much Do You Know About (mis)use of Ethiopia’s Anti-terrorism Proclamation? (BefeQadu Z. Hailu)
Many often fail to imagine the subjective consequences of public actions. Here I want you to imagine personal crises with the numbers I will follow.
As a living victim of (mis)use of the Anti-terrorism Proclamation (ATP) in Ethiopia,...
Chinese Neocolonialism in Africa: The Dragon Eating the African Lion and Cheetah? (Part I)[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: In March 2013, I wrote a commentary entitled, “The Dragon Eating the Eagle’s Lunch in Africa?”. That commentary 1) lamented the disadvantages of American companies in Africa competing with Chinese state-supported enterprises...