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01/13/12

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Standing with Ethiopia's tenacious blogger, Eskinder Nega

Standing with Ethiopia's tenacious blogger, Eskinder Nega

By Jason McLure/Guest blogger

CPJ

It would be hard to find a better symbol of media repression in Africa than Eskinder Nega. The veteran Ethiopian journalist and dissident blogger has been detained at least seven times by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government over the past two decades, and was put back in jail on September 14, 2011, after he published a column calling for the government to respect freedom of speech and freedom of assembly and to end torture in prisons.

Eskinder now faces terrorism charges, and if convicted could face the death sentence. He's not alone: Ethiopia currently has seven journalists behind bars. More journalists have fled Ethiopia over the past decade than any other country in the world, according to CPJ.

Eskinder could easily have joined them. In February 2011, he was briefly detained by federal police and warned to stop writing critical stories about Ethiopia's authoritarian regime. The message was clear: it's time to leave. Eskinder spent part of his childhood in the Washington D.C. area, and could have returned to the U.S.

He didn't. Instead he continued to publish online columns demanding an end to corruption and political repression and calling for the security forces not to shoot unarmed demonstrators (as they did in 2005) in the event the Arab Spring spread to Ethiopia. That's landed him back in jail--where he could remain for years in the event he avoids a death sentence.

Since then a group of journalists, authors and rights activists have organized a petition calling for the release of Eskinder and other journalists unjustly detained by Ethiopia's government. Among the signatories are the heads of the U.S. National Press Club, the Open Society Foundations, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The petitioners also include Maziar Bahari, the Newsweek journalist jailed by the Iranian government for four months in 2009; three former BBC correspondents in Ethiopia; development economist William Easterly; the Christian Science Monitor's Marshall Ingwerson and others.

The campaign also included a letter published in The New York Review of Books, contacts with the U.S. State Department, press releases, and media interviews. Still, making an impact is difficult. Eskinder was just one of 179 journalists jailed worldwide as of December 1, 2011, according to CPJ data. In addition, Ethiopia is viewed as a strategic partner for the West in combating terrorism and instability in East Africa, making Western governments less likely to press Zenawi on human rights abuses.

People have asked me why we should try to help someone who could have saved himself by fleeing the country. It's a good question. I suspect that even if he were to be released tomorrow, Eskinder would stay in Ethiopia and continue writing and publishing online--at the risk of being thrown back in jail.

After all, this is a reporter whose wife, journalist Serkalem Fasil, gave birth while they were both in jail following the 2005 elections. When they were released in 2007, Serkalem and Eskinder were banned from reopening their newspapers. To survive, they rented their house in central Addis Ababa to a team of Chinese telecom workers and moved to a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the city.

Like many good journalists, Eskinder is stubborn to a fault. Standing for free speech in Ethiopia can seem a Sisyphean task, but if Eskinder is principled enough to risk more years in jail - and possibly the death sentence - it's our obligation to stand with him.

Jason McLure was Bloomberg News correspondent in Ethiopia from 2007 to 2010.

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45 comments

Comment from: yyyyy [Visitor]
*****
Eskinder is a good Ethiopian.
The Weyane leader keep murdering and arresting True Ethiopians who challenged him, exposing his secret agendas and True Ethiopians.

Meles held secret meetings with his key Tigray mafioses.
He said, he is going to flee the Country and Tigray to be separated soon. As we all know, tigrays they never open communities under Ethiopian name. The keep organizing Tigray community everywhere. The participants and main organizers are Tigrays.
01/13/12 @ 23:55
Comment from: Dynamite [Visitor]
Eskinder is indeed tenacious. He stood tall and defiant despite the horrendous odds and repeated warnings from the vile regime. His detention was the least of his worries. He is totally focused in telling the truth and bringing about a better and just Ethiopia. A very selfless and brave journalist. I wish I were like him. I am only brave enough to write hiding behind a screen name.
01/14/12 @ 00:14
Comment from: AGAZIT WOMAN [Visitor]
People like birtukan mekedsa,and coward oppsition leaders in ethiopia who put themselves before the people always bragg about them selves how brave they are.

They bragg about getting locked up for few months as sacarfice while gobbling up good meals,like KITFO,DORO WET,COMBINATION TSOME MEGEB,on the tax payers of ethiopia people.

If you go back to TIGRAY and knock every house hold chances are 99% of the tigray people had lost 70% of thier family member just in the 17 year bloody civil war.

Dont fucken call my beloved tigray people minority because they had being melting like candle to defend ethiopia from foreign invaders for millinium.

Yet the oppositions continues to spread hatred instead of addressing fundmental issues that concerns the citiznery of Ethiopia.

The oppositions did have ample freedom to address thier program to thier followers.

Instead these so called some oppositions always conspired with foreign indivduals or groups to grabb power for thier own fucken selfish personal reasons.

The last 20 years thier had being uncontroled private news papers and magazines that is filled with pure hatred and lies.

Instead of telling thier followers the truth and future plan for Ethiopia.

I am not gonna sit here tell any compatriot ethiopians that democracy is perfect in ethiopia.No.

But the avenue is there and its the opposition and thier followers who are undemocratic with HUTU TENDENCIES.

In the theory of democracy having an opposition party is good for the people as well as the opponent sides.

But most of the oppositions partys always resort to defamations,lies,fabrication and even some of them are working with the COWARD EPLF.

And in Ethiopia we are not gonna have western style democracy over night,but understanding being an opposition does not mean you have to conspire to undermine the CONSTITUTION.

If the courts find mr.iskinder not guilty he will be set free.After all the hate mongers birtukan and the entier CUD leaders were set free.

After they excepted the 193 people life that was killed after the after mass ot the 2005 election.

01/14/12 @ 00:25
Comment from: Agerwedad [Visitor]
Those who choose to be a voice to the voiceless and strive to stand up for human rights, free speech and democracy have to be embraced and it is our duty to stand up for their rights; just as they have done for ours. It is unfortunate that the regime of Meles Zenawi has chosen to muzzle the press by imprisoning the brave children of our beloved country. The likes of Ato Eskinder chose the pen instead of the gun and for that they are paying a price. It is about time the world stop treating dictators like Meles with kid gloves and treat them like the pariah they are.

I can't help but muse at why a regime that won an excessive majority (99.6%) would be worried about a couple of journalists, unless of course it's an admission that the figure is not an accurate representation of the electoral sentiment. Meles needs to wake up and smell the coffee even his fellow dictators like those in Myanmar/Burma are attempting to reform while others have met their demise. Dictators are an endangered species the sooner the regime reforms the better off we will all be.
01/14/12 @ 04:07
Comment from: warya [Visitor]
I believe this guy, Eskinder is a traitor and not a genuine jouralist.I think he works for the Kenejit org or that he is a spy for the Eritrea through his Neftenga colleague members in Dc and hey,to that saleout person called Ato Kiffle.Otherwise, what's his real argument about a freedom of speech begging from Addis? Where the hell did he seen/known that Ethiopia ever had it a freedom of speech and democracy? Isn't the woyane regime who brought it the word Democracy first time in the history of Ethiopia? Where did he or those Neftenga known Democracy? what a jokes! These ruthless Neftenga must be kicked out from the country.They all turned to spy our enemies.They don't either care or that deliberatly decide to turn their backs the graudual economic growthand prosperity that the new Ethiopia reaches in every day.Did this man ever reported about this facts? the answer is NO.But of course his all articles wriiten and that published through net all conveies the Negatives about the country and the government.
Other thing is that let me say now,I am a proud Somali Ethiopian and hey Not before the woyane arrives in Addis and that kicked out the Neftenga from power many Ethiopian in their country's.The Ogadenis and many others including the Tigrayians never never had been in the believe of their true citizenship due to the denials of their basic rights under those pervious long oppressive Neftenga regimes.So what hell a Kenejit traitor he could tell us.Let him go to the jail and roted in Alembaka.I have no any regrates since the same jail still can be find the traces of my forefathers DNA whom paid their blood and sacrfies for the young democracy,freedoms and eqaualities for all Ethiopian nationalities.
01/14/12 @ 06:04
Comment from: Gebru [Visitor]

Nobody's above the LAW to stand with criminals is your choice; not me.......
01/14/12 @ 06:09
Comment from: Heny [Visitor]
'He yearned for it; he got it'
01/14/12 @ 07:58
Comment from: Mesfin B [Visitor]
Not only this - Ethiopian Hero - Mr. Eskinder Nega is the target of the the Tyrant /shifta EPRDF but my motherland , Ethiopia, is being tortured as "Terorist" by the same group of lunatic ,greedy,heyanas .
It is time to bring African Spring to our Ethiopia and give Meles the fate of "Gadafi".
አቶ እስክንድር ነጋ የዛሬው ጀግና አርበኛችን ስትሆን መላው አገራችን እማማ እትዮጵያ በ ሽፍታው ስግብግብ ቀጣፊ መለስ ጨናዊ እንደምትማቅቅ አለም ያውቀዋል ::
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በቃ
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ህዝባዊ ትግል በአንድነት አሁን ::
ሞት ለ እ ህ አ ዴ ግ ::

01/14/12 @ 08:07
Comment from: estif [Visitor]
I admire Eskinder for his stand in what he believes is right, This is what lucking in most of diaspora heart, everyone tries to get advantage behind the scene. It's the thing of the post to benefit at the expense of others life......Actors like tamagn are stealing hard earned $$ by dramatizing clips taken out of Tv, People wake up you got to tell the difference b/n show-biz and reality. The same old Tamagne after 20 so yrs still playing the same drum and making a living by humiliating the level of knowledge.
01/14/12 @ 10:25
Comment from: Gashe mamo [Visitor]
It is much more easier to say the Ethiopian people are in mass exodus because of the repressive regime's failed economic policies, total loss of human right,abuse of power , etc....

Eskinder should be admired to stand in front of a monstrous regime to become the voices of many who are whispering. Each of us knows so many who would pay tens of thousands just to immigrate to the US, but Eskinder remained, to face the danger. He knew what would be comming. His trust was on the Stalin era constitution, the Ethiopian people and the international community.
I can assure you no one will dare to choose willingly to go in the hands of the evil interrogators in the famous " Makelawi" and get abused by their racial insult & be tortured. That is what he did.
His commitment is extra-ordinary!
01/14/12 @ 10:35
Comment from: Yirgacheffee [Visitor]
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Lets see if this 'tenacious' blogger can blog his way out of Kaliti.
01/14/12 @ 11:19
Comment from: ensmama [Visitor]
Jason Mcclure,
You have so much to write about the current economic situations in your own country. Such as, how to handle the millions of homeless people who pick food from trashes, the huge number of people who are thrown out of their houses because of their inability to pay their Mortgages, Millions of people do not have medical Insurance. I can go on and on.
How important is it to preach those people about their freedom of speech? Is that what they want? or Would your provide them with economic assistance?
You see you have so much dirt in your own backyard to clean first, before you jump to talk about other country.
Every country has its own type of freedom of speech and assembly within the Law of that country. There is no such freedom "one size fits all." That depends on the cultures, religions and so on. That we must respect their right also.
Anyone who writes article that sponsors chaos, civil unrest, disturbunces should be punished according to the law.
If there is any articles written through social media and others to agitate or to orchestrate to assemble rival groups should be investigated by the higher authority.

01/14/12 @ 13:42
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
Agasess woman ,why don't shut your poisonous mouth full of Hates .Keep on your "Bere wolede" ,"Mogni Yayew Felit " "Village Idiot" stupid Fairytales !!!!Whether your leba master even his ass holes bandas do not give a dime interest of your childish lie .KENTABI LEKAMI BANDA !!It's not on this website that you'll find the proper treatment for your Complex of Inferiority vis à vis the Great Amhara Peoples .Tchiffenee (Aiga the crime minister's ass Licker )you'll soon hear about this great Patriot ,afterall your Garbage Wabsite (Aiga) is already strown as a DEAD STOCK media !!!!Kaliti Concentration camp shall be your next graveyard ignorant ,Lekeskes KETAFFI BANDA !!!
01/14/12 @ 14:53
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
Agasess Woman is supposing to give us a lesson of Democracy concerning her leba master and his Agazis .Hey Miss Bandatiera ,the equivalent of the then Hutu Power Tyrant leader (Habya Rimana)and his evil wife well known in Ethiopia are of course your own Leba Master and the blood sucker Azeb .Hutu Power = Talaku Tigrai . Agazi = Interamwe .GENOCIDE already and still comitted against Amharas ,Ogadenese ,Oromos ,Anuyaks ,Afars etc....Here are then the "NAKED FACTS" ,SHABYAN PROSTITUTE LEKAMI BANDA !!!!!!
01/14/12 @ 15:07
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
By the way Agassess Woman ,another Fact that TPLF = Hutu Power .ETV ,ENA , Aiga ,Walta ,Adgi Zemen all of them medias of Ethno political Ideology of Hates. The Agzis and Tigre Mafiosis "RADIO MILLE COLLINES" .Advocating mass murdering and the illigal detention of opposition leaders ,FREE PRESS journalists and Human Right Activists .By approving the miss treatments and tortures which they are subjected in Prison .
01/14/12 @ 15:19
Comment from: Agerwedad [Visitor]
Just in case anybody is wondering whether Meles' sycophants are even more delusional than he is one of them claims that the regime serves "KITFO,DORO WET,COMBINATION TSOME MEGEB" in the prisons. If only they knew what a fool they are making of themselves. How about some objectivity for once?? It's this kind of blind loyalty to dictators that raises the stakes in our country. Meles' transgressions are his and his alone stop forcing yourself or the people of Tigray under that load, they have nothing to do with it! Ethiopians hate Meles not because he happens to be from the Tigrian ethnic group but because of his policies that enrich the politically connected elite (not necessarily ethnic group) and his trampling on our civil rights and equality. Fact is irregardless of ethnic group no one in Ethiopia can dare oppose the regime and free speech is only applicable to those that sing its praises. By the way this rant was meant to one of Meles' minions with a hope that logic would infiltrate her reasoning.
01/14/12 @ 15:20
Comment from: Berhan [Visitor]
Based on some of the dellusional comments on this board, I think it is way better for each of the current 9 regions to separate from each other for a period of ten years. This will be a cooling period and see if they can make it on their own and may be most people may become cool headed and prefer to live and work together.

Valuable time is being wasted bickering about every little thing and the sooner the better taht we decide to live together or separate from each other.
01/14/12 @ 15:28
Comment from: emunate [Visitor]
Eskinder is fighting the wrong fight because the rudmentary principle has been neglected that is to say education has to come first before democracy so that society can truely understand and appreciate what it means to live in a free and democratic society. I would suggest to eskinder to teach the gext generation of ethiopian who to read and write and become more self relient and indepentent. Then what he truely stand when it come to freedom of speach , the write to assembly so on and so forth will become fruition. Untill this happens he will not have any lasting impact on society.
01/14/12 @ 16:11
Comment from: Dagnachew Koru [Visitor]
"torture in prisons"? Tej yemokere yeDC ferenj yemitsifewun ayawuqim.
In DC there are journalists very much drunk, drug stimulated, in a simple relation just simply convinced, by joining the Ethiopian beauties as girlfriend, agitated by ONLF, OLF, EPLF, and paid for their evil rootless jargon. The way white man thinks about Ethiopia and the real Ethiopia is totally different.
Today in the name of freedom, the old Neftegna feudal oppressor regime is fighting the true Ethiopian people’s freedom inside and outside of the country. Do the white men know about the reality what neftegna means. They don’t know. Let me tell this stupid white man a very little example:-It is just few years ago in 1950S-60s, what happen to the black Americans in 12 states such as Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi etc...? In Ethiopia the same shit happen means the Americans had color difference, and also the basic contradiction which is between slave and the owner.
Here is the dirtiest part of Ethiopian history; the Ethiopian people have been enslaved by their own fellow citizens, tortured, harassed, abused, evicted from their own land, their own wife had been taken and raped, their church had been burned similar to Alabama’s and Mississippi’s, while the people have nothing to eat for theirs living but the food which they had in their savings taken by force by Eskindir Nega’s and his likes fathers and grandfathers and people died of hunger, too many horrible things to say as it had happen just 40 years ago. This is what the Ethiopian people fought for years and years and over throw the regime and become victorious.
Eskindir Nega is not journalist but traitor who is manipulating the 80% Ethiopians people freedom, he and his likes who live in DC for example:- Eskindir Nega, Ali G/M( gim…), Messay Kebede, Yilma Bekel, Tedla Asfaw, Mesfin Mekonin, Anteneh Shiferaw, Abebe Gelaw, wondesen Mezlekia, Zeruhun Mekuria plus the financer Ermias Sahile Silasie etc… Watch all these names who are they? They are the bandas of the scrooge neft toddlers and grand toddlers. Tamagn Beyene and some Derg cadres I don’t count them, because they just doing their old Derg fart, “uneducated is out of politics”.
Jawar Mohamed and Hidesa Abdul, they don’t know for whom or for what they are talking about? They supposed to stand for their identity which keeps their people free forever.
The basic contradiction will never end until this scrooge 20,000,000 neft stop thinking about Ethiopia as theirs own property. I think it is better for them to change their strategy rather than trying to hide the truth.
The white man, did you understand it? You bullshit sold f.g stay away from own business. If we wound or hurt each other, we don’t need your stupid help; but even if we have contradiction, we know how to rub each other, so who hell are you? Go hell!
Let me tell you white man once again, in Ethiopian jail there is no torture on any prisoner, our scrooge guys in DC had very cheap talk, they are the cause for hundreds people death, contrary they blame the government; they all are criminals. About the jail term, even the whites who jailed there know what is going on in the jail. The Ethiopian jail is not the jail in Alabama, South Dakota, Atlanta, and Denver etc… The jail in Ethiopia is family jail but not racist jail. Ena………. Mot lenewutegna en leneftegna.
01/14/12 @ 16:20
Comment from: xxyyyyxx, f11ken weyaney [Visitor]
*****
Ahahahahahahahah.................................................................................................hahaha.

Befere, you were Agazie Woman.

Now, you become AGAZIT WOMAN.
What the hell!!!!!!
You are perfectly, Man and Woman or I like to call you MAW (Man And Woman). I can't believe it! You weyanes are something else. You brought all kinds of shits. You CHIRAQ Weyane! OMG! Agazi is half man half woman. I could almost see your shadow in my room. I want hide under the bed or under my blanket. OOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!
01/14/12 @ 23:15
Comment from: Halafi mengedi [Visitor]

AGAZIT WOMAN

TAKE SOME MATHS CLASS.
NO 99% of the tigray people had lost 70% of thier family member just in the 17 year bloody civil war.
Plus murderers identity thieves stole the fruit of all the sacrifices that were made. .
Legesse Zenawi killed the true Meles to take his power , Meberatu G/hiwot stole the true hero's name Bereket Simon to get acceptance Kuma demekssa is dead and his name stolen by the current Addis Ababa mayor the list goes on and on and the sacrifice that was made is directed for something it was not intended to.
01/15/12 @ 05:55
Comment from: weye [Visitor]
Dear Jason,

Thank you for writing in support of the hero Eskinder (Alexander). I am so surprised that you have people questioning you why he didn't escape from Ethiopia. Have people lost their true integrity, standing up what they believe in? Have more people of the world had become cowards that they have nothing to stand for but for the survuval of their temporary flesh and but no conviction in what they believe in? I am just surprised such questions coming out from others. We have all become cowards and it has been over 30 years since Ethiopia has true heroes. It is hopeufl that we still have heroes poping out slowly like Eskinder, like Yenesew who burned himself alive. Look the short attention of people is gone already and they have forgot about yenesew who died for the freedom of Ethiopia.
01/15/12 @ 06:32
Comment from: Yibekal [Visitor]
*****
Please speak out to save Eskinder. As clearly put in this article Eskinder and his family had the choice, as many other of our compatriots harmful situations do, to run away from this brutal regime. However they chose to stand firm on their principle for greater public good. Unlike most of he made a choice to remain there and fight faces them. He is telling to the tyrants that you can put me in jail or torture or kill me but I want my freedom. The regime kills, tortures, imprisons and forces critics to flee so that the Ethiopia remains devoid of people who think independently and speak out against the injustice.
People like Eskinder are the flames inside Ethiopia please let’s do our bit to keep flame glow even more. Every one of us can contribute in whatever our own little way to help our heroes and heroines who are targeted for speaking out against tyranny, injustice and corruption. A simple letter to your State or Federal representative, to a human right advocacy organization, an American you meet in your daily life at your work place or educational institutions or a short essay on your local news paper goes long way in exposing this brutal regime and eventually in eradicating it from the face of Ethiopia. Remember as the Chinese saying goes a “Journey of a thousand mile starts with a simple step”. Victory to democracy!!

01/15/12 @ 10:19
Comment from: Sodo [Visitor]
Wether you stand together or site together, who cares for modern colonizers. Leave Ethiopia to Ethiopian we know what is good for us. There will no any reason to single out particularly to those guys out of the >80million populations of Ethiopia, could there live below the rule of law.

Those of call CPJ, talk about the paper spray for students in the US and occupy wall street, talk about the right of children in the streets of UK ride by police, talk the rights of civilian Libya bombed by u westerns, talk the refuge rights in Europe? Why is issue related to Africa get magnification while even not make it public a very big crimes in western?

As far as u are playing double standards, no one cares about your toxic and disintegration strategies in African communities so as to make ur business, by selling weapons and loading free resources. Screw yourself no more.....too late Africans are awaken! try other?
01/15/12 @ 12:51
Comment from: Anonymous [Visitor]
@Agazit woman
With 4+ million people, you are actually a minority and accept the fact.

Dmemocracy means the rule of the majority, while respecting the rights of the minority and not the other way around. Currently, our country is ruled by a ruthless minority that is causing the chaos, disruption of life, pain, killing, looting that our country has suffered.

01/15/12 @ 13:04
Comment from: ( I am Somali) [Visitor]
from: AGAZIT WOMAN [Visitor]

your peoples died for your nonsense agenda,who cares about tegres,
01/15/12 @ 13:57
Comment from: Mo Ethio [Visitor]
I believe the word "HERO" has been misused or abused by most so Called opposition group. If we call this guy Eskinder a hero, I think we should evaluate our mental capacity. there have been so many hero's in the past that gave their life for the sake of their country. please stop insulting freedom lover Ethiopians. One more thing, before you start talking about Tigray ot tigrians, make sure you have a right information. for the last 20 years of this administration(Meles) the most discriminated ethnic group in Ethiopia is Tigrians. by the way as much as I don't agree with Al Mariam I congratulate him for using my quote " with out our different ethnic groups in Ethiopia, there is no Ethiopia". regardless how much you think you hate Tigray, Oromo.....except your ethnic group, Ethiopia will always be there for all....
01/15/12 @ 16:48
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
Agasess Woman to refresh your Alzheimer affected mind ,those who did work for the Coward Shabyan are you along your thuggy bros and systs including your leba master and his bandit Agazis .The 193 victims of the June and Nov 2005 most of the observers did have stated the double number of the victims ,are the evil action of your leba master ,who by willingly sheating on the election imposed a state of terror masterminded by the Shabyan ass hole Bereket and executed by the coward Agazi officers and kilib lekami federalis bandas .By the blessing of the Adwa Gangs including the Aba Diabilos with the support of Azeb Mesfin and the Tigre Mafiosis plus the Kersam Aderby Bandas as Adissu Legesse ,Lidetu Kedetu ,Mulugetta Asrate Kassa and others .
01/15/12 @ 19:25
Comment from: Dagnachew Koru [Visitor]
To xxyyyyxx, f11ken weyaney.
How about your Bezawit Endirias(nice one) to Bezayit Endirias?
What the hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01/16/12 @ 02:59
Comment from: ejole bishoftu [Visitor]
@Agazit woman,

So sad for you!!!!I wonder why you have wrong perception of urself and Tigray people.I believe Tigray people are great people but not special from others.

You are just mentally abnormal.Pls look at urself!!!!!
01/16/12 @ 03:10
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
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Well said Anonimous ,but in fact TPLF thugs ,bandit Agazis ,Tigre Mafiosis including their ass holes bandas and kilib diasporas are no more than 10000 .The naked fact that this shabyan prostitute never accepts .By the way Dengayatchew , Neftagnia means only peoples carrying arms ,not really as your dilusioned stupidities "Amharas" . Afterall patriot as Eskinder ,Tamagnie ,Berhanu ,Birtukan stand for the Rights of the Ethiopian Peoples .Refusing ,on the contrary of the ass Holes Pig Ben and Hypo Sele, to sell their pride and dignity to your Leba master and being corrupted by Tigre Mafiosis and the Saudi Tycoon . VIVA ESKINDER NEGA !!!! VIVA THE TRUE ETHIOPIANS !!!! MOTE LE LEBA WOYANE KENE BANDAWOTCHU !!!!!
01/16/12 @ 05:09
Comment from: Afarman [Visitor]
Eskinder Nega is an attention seeker, he has been trying to destabilise Ethiopia for some time. His hate towards the EPRDF regime is boundless, as a result the strategy he designed to oust the regime is instigating chaos in the country. According to our constitution the only way to change regimes in Ethiopia is through peacefull and democratic struggle.

The peacefull and democratic path doesnt allow ethnofascists like Eskinder nega to come to power, ethiopians from all walks of lives have abandoned those fanatics in the last election, the EPRDF seems to have won the hearts and minds of ethiopian people. This is the fact on the ground. Whereas so called "journalists" like Eskinder Nega were trying to copy and paste Arab style revoluion. He has been encouraging people to fight the EPRDF regime in a violent way.

This is what Eskinder did to Ethiopia, if push comes to shove the government of Ethiopia has the right to take measures to ensure peace and stability in Ethiopia. So detaining evil minded people like Eskinder is fully justified. Those who want to live by the sowrd die by the sword. Lets wait and see what the toxic diaspora will be saying with regards to it.

Ethiopia currently isenjoying peace and stability, the country is developing fast, foreign direct investment is increasing. the lives of ethiopians from all walks of lives is improving, infant mortality has gone down, maternal mortality has gone down. The coverage of health and educational services has increased tremendously. These is what Ethiopians are witnessing in the country. Ethiopia despite the crocodile tears of the toxic diaspora and some opposition groups is booming.

Now, what does the opposition group want now? this is not nuclear physics, they just want to grab power by hook or crook. Ethiopians wouldnt allow ghetto raised gangsters to destabilise our nation, its time to consolidate the existing peace and stability in our nation. To that extent the government should not be soft n the opposition groups. The country needs to be firm towards those who try to destabilise the nation.

welldone
01/16/12 @ 05:20
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
Hey Dengayatchew what the hell are you talking about ,you're just fooling yourself ignorant Lekami banda .If your Leba Master Prison cells are as confortable as you're lying why don't you go and test them by yourself .As your own former leaders have always witnessed on different occasions is that Torturing ,murdering ,looting are the main specialities of your leba master and his evil fellows as Sebehat Nega ,Samora ,Bereket and co. No matter to read your stupidities ,while peoples can witness how much opposition leaders ,Free Press Journalists ,and civil Right activists are phisically affected on your recent ETV report of propagandas . KEEP ON BARKING TOUTHLESS HYENA LEKEMKAMI BANDA !!!!!!
01/16/12 @ 05:33
Comment from: Heny [Visitor]
Mesfin B,
African Spring nafaki, If you do not go to the street of Addis and lead the revolution, no one will do it for you, You are simply jilajil.
TEDDY, it sounds the valiant lioness, Agazi woman, is making your life miserable. I salute her for burning your in and out. hen I see you shouting here with indignation and anger, wow, U have no idea how much I am refreshed.
Agazi woman, bravo gual haras nebri. Hit those losers on where they will feel the most pain. Just keep striking. We have enough ammunition.
01/16/12 @ 07:03
Comment from: Heny [Visitor]
Jason McLure,
This loser, who dubbed himself as the guest blogger, is a ridiculous little sheep. When I heard him talking on ESAT, an utterly ugly propoganda machine for Shaebya, I concluded that he is just a lost soul dangling in a foreign country in search of topics for his belly, while the streets of his country are litered with a lot burning issues/social ills. Stay there, loser. You shall not see the beautiful country again. I mean Ethiopia.
01/16/12 @ 07:11
Comment from: JOHN [Visitor]
free Eskinder Nega!! free Eskinder our voice our hero!! Free Eskinder our loved one!! Free Eskinder the freedom seeker and the freedom lover!! free Eskinder our hero our voice!! free Eskinder our icon!! Free Eskinder the lover of Justice and the committed Ethiopian!! Free Eskinder our voice our hero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01/16/12 @ 08:24
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
Hyena keep on barking for Nothing .Now you have lost the games time for you and your prostitute syster to take a rope and Hang yourself ignorant MOron Kilib Banda !!!!By the way Afagniman(the fake Afar guy ,but in fact Aiga gang)nobody is as an Ethnofacist as your leba master his evil wife ,the Agazi officers and the Tigre Mafiosis !!!!!
01/16/12 @ 13:10
Comment from: Dagnachew Koru [Visitor]
To Teddy please don't reply....
You are a kind of Scooby Doo who don't know what you are talking about, and who wanted in Minneapolis private zoo. Temenja yeteshekemkew enatihin lemedifer meseleh? For what reason you think they carried that arm? That arm is not to rape or kill you dissidents, but to rape, to kill, to rob somebodies property, to enslave somebody and somebodies land and people from other tribe. Tell that rant explanation to Mengistu H/mariam not me.
Todays the new neft is trying to grab the gun from the current government and to play their old grampus way. But no way!!!
01/16/12 @ 15:17
Comment from: Afarman [Visitor]
Agazit woman...well said sister, you need to tell the diaspora idiots who dream of the Arab spring even in winter. They are funny, they are trying to drag us in to Rwanda style ethnic conflict, am sure those who oppose you in the room are ethnofascists...wanna be Interhamwees. They don understand your comments, they are blinded by ate and prejudice. Just the name Agazi makes them wee in their pants kkk.

Agazi army has obliterated them, now whenever they see the name they have nightmares. A good example is Teddy, did you see how he felt..?

Agazi woman, well done, tell those idiots, they are day dreaming. They will continue to cry till they die, Ethiopia is changed for good, we the nations, nationalities and peoples of Ethiopia have taken back our country.

Down to shaebiya messengers and their chauvinist servants...no more timkiht, we will not allow any monster to insult our respected name Agazi. if you have any issue deal with the issue forget the name, the name agazi is sacred i Ethiopia, its such a sanctified name and it shouldn't even be mentioned by those who hate weyane. Weyane power is closely linked with Agazi and Agazians.

Agazit women ...tell those idiots, if they got any remaining brain they will get it.
01/16/12 @ 21:27
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
Afagniman you are finally admitting that you're one of these TPLF paid cadres and Tigre Mafiosis infecting this website .For the Ethiopian Peoples as the whole Agazi means bandits ,looters ,traitors the same as the then Bandas the traitors issued from your own region and Eritrea Served facist italian Invaders !!!!
01/17/12 @ 01:29
Comment from: ejole bishoftu [Visitor]
@afar man,

you failed to understand the
Agazit woman.May be if you have a same feeling that tigray people are special and better than the rest ethiopians,you must be stupid in this regard.Try to read her mind.she wants to preach the superiority of her ethnic group all the time.






01/17/12 @ 03:23
Comment from: Eden1 [Visitor]
*****
5 Stars for posting the story.

Heart aching!!!! When such a talented writer, potentialy a great future historian is locked up. The shame is even on some of us who we think are free in the country of others, enjoy his posts from ETHIOPIA EVERY FRIDAY on ethiomedia.com, feel denied our rights to be informed (due to his arrest). Any other solution beyond the good old petition tried in 2005?

01/17/12 @ 04:04
Comment from: Mesfin B [Visitor]
To Teddy
I like your tenacity in putting these Ag*** Bas**** to size.
Whether it is Heny=hayena, agazi/agazit= man/woman or dagnachew/Ag** in pseudo amhara name.
Keep on bobarding these loosers bro!!!


United we shall squash the TPLF and its rifrafs
01/17/12 @ 15:06
Comment from: WUBIT [Visitor]
Federal Crime Investigation Department Head Alemayehu Shiferaw said "on his part that the rights of the prisoners are ensured."

Responding the complaints expressed by some prisoners that they did not confess to the police until now.

Alemayehu Shiferaw said "Prisoners have been confessing to police but there are some who refused to give their confession to the police. Besides, it would be difficult for the police to take the words of the prisoners at a time for they are dozen in numbers.
Taking the confession of the prisoners will continue turn by turn The terror suspect's arrests were justified by reasoning of insuring safety and stability. More people will be released but the police have to screen them first . The police are trying their best to release people but obviously this takes time."

01/19/12 @ 13:55
Comment from: Mesfin B [Visitor]
This is to all "Aga**" TPLFites.
the likes of heny/hayena, Addis zemen/addis Gered, Afarman/afersew.
If you guys think this - Agazi Woman/Agazi Whore is the best you have got, I laugh at all of you stooges.This ለቃሚ ሴተኛ አዳሪ doesn't have any coherent ideas. She blabbers idiotic phrases and can't even make sense for a child. yet you guys boast as if she is the best blogger on Nazret? KiKiKi!!! Forget the best like -Amhara princess, Abysinagirl4life, She can't even discuss toe to toe with the average blogger like me.
So I say bring her on anytime for I can put her to her midget "chimp' size in any topic she wants.
ይህች የመለስ ቅጥረኛ በ ዝሙት ስራ ብታጣ የ ናዝሬት ድረ ገጽ ዘላፊ ሁና ሳንቲምዋን ትለቅማለች አይደል !! ወይ ግሩም ጊዜ የሰጠው ቅል እንዲሉ እናንተም ሽፍታዎች ቀን ወጥቶላችሁ ከየመንገድ ዳር ልመና ወደ ተሳዳቢነት ደረሳችሁ :: ግን ሁሉም ዋጋውን ያገኛል ::
The final days of the tyrant is around the corner.
01/19/12 @ 19:23

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