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British (In)Justice: The Persecution by Proxy Prosecution of Ethiopian Dissident Tadesse B. Kersmo [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Tadesse Biru Kersmo
I cut my “legal teeth” nearly four decades ago pouring over the Magna Carta, Blackstone’s “Commentaries” and Edward Coke’s legal treatises on the primacy of common law principles and the rule of law. Coke...
Ethiopia: Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Keeping One’s Land [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
In memory of Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident, human rights advocate, co-author of Charter ’08, Nobel peace laureate (2010) and political prisoner who died in Chinese government custody on July 13, 2013.
An enemy mentality will poison...
Indexing Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: Last week, Vision of Humanity issued its 2017 Global Peace Index (GPI). Its report on Ethiopia is certainly the most distressing though unequivocal, straightforward and clear-cut. The state of peace worsened in Ethiopia...
EthiopiaWIN.et and Tewdros Kassa-hun [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: This month the Ethiopian popular music megastar Tewdros “Teddy Afro” Kassahun released his “Ethiopia” album, which quickly topped the World Albums Billboard chart during the week of May 15. This “commentary” consists...
Glimpses of Trump’s Foreign (Human Rights) Policy in Africa [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Guiding all of our foreign policy actions are our fundamental values: our values around freedom, human dignity, the way people are treated. These are our values… not our policies… Policies change… our values never change.” Secretary...
About Time for the T-TPLF to Get in Their Spaceships and Scoot Out of Ethiopia? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Houston, we ain’t got NO problem!
I dreamt the nightmare was finally over. It could have been a vision. I am not sure.
There stood I watching the launch pad excitedly, anxiously, happily.
I can hear the robotic voice at Mission Control starting...
Apartheid State of Emergency in Ethiopia 2.0 [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
On October 9, 2016, the puppet prime minister (PPM) of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) Hailemariam announced a “state of emergency” (SoE) in a 20-minute televised statement. The PPM argued “anti-peace...
The Lords of Living Lies in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: In this commentary, I take a careful look at the “very sophisticated report from the Embassy [of Ethiopia]” submitted for the record at the “Democracy Under Threat in Ethiopia” hearing of the Africa, Global Health,...