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Redwan Hussein Embarrassed the TPLF [By LJDemissie]
“The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: ‘we did
something wrong.’ But nobody in a family like mine [the hatemonger regime of the Tigrayan
People’s Liberation Front (the TPLF)] would ever respond...
Ethiopia: Beyond the Politics of Hate [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Statement of my credo: Hate is the one crumbling wall that now stands between the people of Ethiopia and freedom, democracy and human rights in Ethiopia. The T-TPLF has weaponized and politicized hate. But the mud walls of hate erected by...
Open letter to oppressed Ethiopians [by Nathalie Amiot / Addis Ferenji]
Do I have something relevant to say? Should I write? Is it presumptuous? I am not even Ethiopian. I am afraid I cannot help it. I have been stuck on social media for the last weeks when I was not googling Ethiopian news.
This is going to be...
Ethiopia: Rise of the “Amhara Retards” and Oromo “Criminals and Terrorists” in 2016? [Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Tigers on the prowl?
Are Amharas “retards”?
Are Oromo protesters demanding an end to confiscation of their land “criminals and terrorists”?
Are we now witnessing the rise of the “Amhara retards” and the Oromo “criminals and...
Ethiopian Spring in the Summer of 2016? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
No people [in the world] will remain smothered, meaning oppressed, for ages. It is [a] universal [truth]. No people, to the extent that they are people [human beings] and [as evident] in world history will not remain [like an inanimate object]...
Ethiopia: The Volcano, the Beast and the Tiger [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy
Beware what you wish for, you may get it…
Meles Zenawi, the late thugmaster of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF)...
A call to the true sons and daughters of Tigray [By Yohannes Berhe, Ottowa, Canada]
“Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come” the great Victor Hugo uttered these enduring words more than a century ago. And yet, one would be hard pressed to find more fitting words to describe the crises currently unfolding in...
Ma’ekelawi! Why is Ethiopia still running a ‘Torture Chamber’ from the past? [Kalkidan Yibeltal & Tesfalem Waldyes]
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In Piassa, an area many consider to be the heart of Addis Abeba, rests the Ethiopian Federal Police Force Central Bureau of Criminal Investigation, otherwise known by its Amharic name, Ma’ekelawi (Amharic for central). Notorious...