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Ethiopian Thugmocracy [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
What do you get when you cross a thugocracy with democracy?
A thugmocracy.
When thugs are “elected” to political office, they become thugmocrats. Naturally, “elected” thugmocrats run thugmocracies.
If democracy is a government of...
Making Sense of an Electoral Score of 100 Percent [By Messay Kebede (PhD)]
According to the National Election Board of Ethiopia, the result of last week’s national election is that the EPRDF has achieved a complete victory by grabbing all the parliamentary seats. The same board and the Woyanne government qualified...
Why Is the T-TPLF Afraid of Its Own Shadow? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Why are the T-TPLF gods of FEAR, TERROR AND DREAD afraid of their own shadows in 2015?
On May 24, 2015, a “parliamentary election” is scheduled in Ethiopia. “Election” as in rigged.
Five years ago on May 23, 2010, the ruling Thugtatorship...
El-Sisi: Ethiopia’s Friend in Need, Indeed! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
A friend in need is a friend in deed, indeed!
Last week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stunned the world by rescuing more than two dozen abducted Ethiopians marked for beheadings in Libya by the ruthless self-styled terrorist...
THE TANGLED WEB WENDY SHERMAN WEAVES [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
In her Letter to the Washington Post, U.S. Undersecretary Wendy R. Sherman chastised the editorial board for “mischaracterizing her remarks” in its May 1 editorial. At issue is what Ms. Sherman said and meant by her words during her...
WENDY SHERMAN AND THE ETHIOPIAN “ELECTION” THAT ISN’T [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The folly of willful ignorance
I did not vote for Ronald Reagan to become U.S. president. But I appreciated some of his witticisms before he became president. In 1964, two years after he dumped the Democrats and joined the Republicans, Reagan...
ETHIOPIA: CRY ONCE AGAIN, OUR BELOVED COUNTRY! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Ethiopian lives matter!
Exactly ten years ago in 2005, almost to the month, the late supreme leader of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF), Meles Zenawi, personally directed a campaign of brutal suppression of...