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Ethiopian editor sentenced to prison; another freed on bail

03/10/06

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Ethiopian editor sentenced to prison; another freed on bail

New York, March 10(CPJ), 2006—An editor was sentenced on Wednesday to one year in prison on a charge of publishing “false news” in a 2002 report attributed to the BBC, which claimed that Ethiopia was training rebels in neighboring Eritrea. Abraham Gebrekidan, who edited the now-defunct Amharic-language weekly Politika, was immediately jailed, several local sources told the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Meanwhile, pregnant Internet journalist Frezer Negash was freed from custody today after a court on Wednesday ordered her release on bail, chief prosecutor Shemelis Kemel told CPJ. No formal charges have been brought, but Negash, who had been held since January 27, is still under investigation.

A Committee to Protect Journalists delegation raised questions about her case and many others, including another jailed pregnant journalist, Serkalem Fassil, in meetings with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and top Justice Ministry officials on Thursday.

Ethiopian authorities launched a massive crackdown on the private press last November, after protests against alleged poll-rigging turned violent. Police blocked most private newspapers from publishing; drove dozens of journalists into hiding; raided newspaper offices; expelled two foreign journalists; and issued a "wanted list" of editors, writers, and dissidents.

Negash is a correspondent for the U.S.-based Web site Ethiopian Review, which is highly critical of the government. Its publisher, Elias Kifle, is one of several exiled journalists charged in December with genocide and treason. Dozens of opposition leaders and at least 14 journalists have been jailed in Ethiopia on similar charges since November.

As part of the crackdown, a number of other journalists have been prosecuted for alleged press law violations that date back several years. Getachew Simie and Leykun Engeda, for example, were sentenced to prison in December for stories that dated to the late 1990s. (See CPJ’s December 12, 2005, alert..) Simie has been released pending appeal.

Other cases stem from purported technical infractions. For example, Iyob Demeke, former editor-in-chief of the defunct Amharic-language weekly Tarik, was fined in February for failing to print the name of the newspaper’s deputy editor on its masthead in one edition. He spent six days in jail before enough money was raised to pay the fine. (See CPJ’s February alert)

Meeting yesterday with the CPJ delegation, Zenawi said the government would review the prosecution of journalists facing longstanding charges related to their work. The delegation visited Kality Prison, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, where opposition leaders and journalists have been held. The delegation included Africa Program Coordinator Julia Crawford; Charles Onyango-Obbo of Kenya’s Nation Media Group; and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a Johannesburg-based journalist and CPJ board member. (See CPJ's March 9 alert.}

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msg Comment from: SOLOMON [Visitor]
no free speech it all in the Ethiopian period the gueilla leader
meles i don't think he undersand about democracy value and human rights he keep abuse our people almose 15 years torture and murders
brutal regime. is no independent judiciary system all court system is control by meles. our country is
back word. meles is control by devil
god help Ethiopian people our country is mess-up.
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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
Business as usual. No comment.
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msg Comment from: Satenaw [Visitor]
Nazret
Can you please report with out the picture of that Gorilla looks alike Monster, Meles Zerawi, and leader of theTigray Parasitic Looting Front Known as tplf.
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msg Comment from: Giyorgis [Visitor]
Beloved Ethiopians,

What more can we expect from our great Prime Minister and his regime? There is no way in hell there will ever be a Democratic Government in Ethiopia when you get put in jail just for reporting the news. The only thing we have left to be proud of is that we were never colonized by the white people. Unfortunately, based on the performance of our recent past and current leaders, I can't tell the difference.
Ethiopians, we should stop letting Meles and his friends shoot us out of the streets and take back our country before eprdf lead us into another famine. Meles had his chance, but now he wants to be Negus of Ethiopia (H.I.M. BALEGE WOYANE).
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msg Comment from: SOLOMON [Visitor]
meles is eritrea so he don.t care about Ethiopian people period
i am askin odam amhara people please
do not suppor the brutal and ethnics
divider regime. child killer woman killer. heard the brutal regime build
more jail that is shame. meles use ethipian budget for propaganda. i am asking all ethiopian we must stick toegther and defeat the brutal regime and build our country
meles regime is destroy our belove countey period. gueilla regime is only konw about shot and divide people. god bless our nation and destroying our enemy.
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msg Comment from: Zomby [Visitor]


The court system is in action. The rule of law should be above all. So respect the rule of our country and work ethically. Our press law is democratic enough and is comparable to any others with democratic experiences. The problem is we do not have qualified journalists almost all are amateurish.
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msg Comment from: Satenaw [Visitor]
Dear true Ethiopians!!

A friend forwarded me this very interesting article even if so late please read it. At list it shows that meless has never A feeling of ethiopiwinet in his life.

All along we are led to believe by Woyanes and their supporters that they single handedly fought Col. Mengistu's regime without outside assistance. We now know Sheik Alamoudi, through his Saudi connection, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, the Sudan and even Libya, which was friendly to the Colonel, were behind the conspiracy of EPLF/TPLF. The Somali regime was known to have provided passports and travel documents to the separatist movements. This latest revealation by Dr. Abdi Aden provides further evidence to the roles played by Somalia. .

Dr. Abdi's anger about Meles' betrayal is understanable. However, I cannot believe that such naivete is unassumed in a person of his education and experience. Why would Meles who betrayed his own father land (his mother is Eritrean) be trusted to be loyal to Somali interest? Meles is universally believed by Ethiopians to be very wicked because of his many nefarious deeds. What is mind boggling is the blind support that Meles, the modern day Judas Iscariot, extracts from Tigrian followers as a man of vision that will deliver Ethiopia from the dark ages to the community of elited nations. He is nothing but a pariah to be shunned and ostracized by all.
Ethiopia’s betrayal and hidden agendas towards Somalia


By: Dr. Abdi Aden Mohamed
Edited by HAN (Horn Africa NewsLine)January 31, 2002

Ethiopia’s betrayal and hidden agendas towards Somalia :
In early 1992, Meles Zenawi and his Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) came up with the idea of paying back Somalia. The TPLF government noted that Somalia provided to it millions of dollars during its long struggle against the regime of Mingistu Hailemarium and openly admitted that for over fifteen years it used to purchase arms in the official documents of Somalia’s defence ministry. It continued to say that most of its Executive committee members, including Meles have been provided with Somali Diplomatic passports that they used to travel a round the World as well as with special luxurious villas in Mogadishu and Meles used to stay in a villa just behind Towfiiq Hotel. Because of all the above cited, TPLF said that its intended to pay back Somalia by helping them to reconcile and thus create a government of national unity in Somalia, however, later on it become clear that such intentions weren’t true at all.
As the deputy minister of health of Ethiopia, I led a nine member Ethiopian delegation and participated in the first International meeting on Peace, and Rehabilitation of Somalia that has been organized by the United Nations in October 1992, in Geneva, Switzerland. Our main mission was to lobby for the continuation of successive meetings on Somalia to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Most of the countries that were represented in the conference voted in favour of our proposal on the second day of the meeting and that was a big achievement for Meles and his Foreign minister, both of whom warmly congratulated us on the successful mission while we were still in Geneva.
The first Meeting on Peace, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation of Somalia was organized by the UN in Addis Ababa on January 03-05, 1993. Besides the UN and Ethiopia, delegations from the Western nations, Africa, Arab countries and others participated actively in the first three meetings that were held in Addis Ababa in 1993 and I was the Deputy-Chief Delegate of the Ethiopian delegation to those meetings. The leaders of Somalia’s warring factions met face to face for the first time but nothing tangible come out of that first meeting. Several member of our delegation met with the warlords and their delegations at the Ghion hotel before they left and told them to include in their next delegations representatives of their communities, like elders, women’s groups, doctors and other with the intentions that the Somalis might interact more among themselves and the next meeting might be more productive, however, the foreign Minister was upset by our move and ordered us not to take further actions in the future without his consent and knowledge.
The second meeting was on 11-13 March 1993 and it started in more optimistic atmosphere since the warlords were shaking hands without our interventions and more than one thousand Somalis participated. However, I noticed policy changes in the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, which started to favour some of the warlords. The Ethiopian delegation was instructed for the first time to keep in mind Ethiopia’s interests as a priority during these meetings and the whole attitudes of the Ethiopian government changed to the opposite of its originally declared policies. Again, the foreign minister through the instructions of Meles informed our delegation that some of the warlords were hostile to Ethiopia while others were friendlier and hence the latter should be put in power in Somalia. At the same time the foreign ministry started to provide secretly large amounts of money to the pro-Ethiopian warlords so that they will not sign to the agreements at all unless it was in our interests and later on, the Minister of defence was order similarly to supply arms to the friendlier warlords. It was of utmost importance in keeping these manoeuvres secretly from the other Somali warlords, the UN and other international delegates, particularly those from the Western Nations and their Embassies in Addis Ababa.
At this point in time, I complained to Meles about our policy changes, but he told me that we will support the pro-Ethiopia warlords. Now, I came to realize the motives of why Ethiopia wanted in the first place the meetings to be held in Addis Ababa, which were to road block in the reconciliation of the warring factions and thus prevent the creation of a national government of unity in Somalia. The meeting in March ended with the Somali warring factions more divided than ever and the delegates headed home once more empty handed. Within a month the pro-Ethiopian warlords were invited back to Addis Ababa and as guests of the foreign ministry stayed in lavish hotels with all services available and more secret meetings were planned. I wasn’t invited to these secret meetings, but was still able to get information through some of the members of our delegation who weren’t TPLF.
The 3rd meeting was held in Addis Ababa on November 29-December 03, 1993. Meles refused my request to be excluded from the Ethiopian delegation saying that such a move will cause suspicions to the Somali factions. They knew my stand and excluded me from the briefings of our delegation with Meles as they continued to plan for the failure of the meeting. Again, the third meeting concluded in absolute chaos and with the Somali warring factions much further and further apart than they were in their first meeting of January 1993, but for the Ethiopian regime it ended with success in accordance to its hidden plans towards the peace process, reconciliation and rehabilitation of Somalia. Also it should be absolutely and without any doubt understood that Ethiopia wasn’t or isn’t opposing only to the creation of a national government in Somalia but does so against any Somali region that was or is peaceful and stable in line with its policy of divide and rule the Somalis and Somalia.
To that effect, towards the end of 1993, The Ethiopian regime become anxious about the peace, stability and unity of the Somalis in the self-declared republic of Somaliland and thus started planning for possible actions in order to alleviate its concerns. The Ethiopian government invited a group of politicians from some of the clans in Somaliland to Addis Ababa and successfully kept this event as secretly as possible. Abdulmajid Hussein Bare, who was the external economic cooperation minister of Ethiopia was appointed to be fully responsible for that secret operation, where he prepared all the necessary arrangements. For over a month the group met secretly at his residence and several times with Meles and his foreign minister at their residences and finally, the group unilaterally declared that they were against the succession of Somaliland and joined the warring factions in Mogadishu. It must be noted and clearly understand that at this point in time, Ethiopia wasn’t advocating at all for the unity of Somalia, but was rather concerned with the peace, unity and stability of Somaliland and was simply trying to weaken it. Those manoeuvres have led to the outbreak of the terrible civil war in Somaliland during 1994-1995, and the group hasn’t been allowed to return home since than and are an opposition to it. Again, look at what Ethiopia is currently doing to the Somalis in Puntland, a region that has been successfully peaceful and stable for the last decade!
The foreign ministry used to provide secretly money to the pro-Ethiopian Somali warlords mostly just the night before the reconciliation agreement signing day in Addis Ababa, and I am convinced that had the meetings were held in any other East African country or elsewhere in the World, Somalis would have reconciled and a viable central government could have been established during 1993-1994. Ethiopia has tried since early 1993 until today with its power, influences and efforts to prevent the formation of a national government of unity in Somalia. The Ethiopian Empire has been held together by force for centuries and now most of the nations and nationalities are opting for their right for self-determination and is not capable of conquering Somalia, but might use some warlords to occupy their regions on behalf of Ethiopia and thereby create mini-Somalia regions under it’s indirect rule!!
Meles is not concerned with the development of poverty ridden Ethiopia, but does so in staying power in line with his long believes in Marxist-Leninism ideology. I remember the night when Meles invited the late General Mohamed Farah Aidid at his residence in December, 1993. Upon our arrival, he greeted Aidid warmly and said with raised voice: “Aidid you are the Hero of Africa!” and congratulated him for fighting against the Americans in that terrible day of October the 3rd, 1993 in Mogadishu. Clearly, he was happy of that human tragedy, asked about the fighting and later on said: “Americans deserve what has happened to them and Africa needs more sons like you”. But now, he is showing one of his other faces as being pro-American. The fact is that he is a man of many words! Look at his friendly way of paying back the failed nation, Somalia? Who on earth is going to trust him? he can deceive some people sometimes but he can’t deceive all the people all the times!!!
Meles officially opened the first Somali meeting in Addis Ababa on January 03, 1993 and said repeatedly in his speech: “My Somali brothers and sisters, Ethiopia has no hidden agendas towards Somalia by hosting these meetings in Addis Ababa and we are willing to help you at any cost”. This was a dishonesty statement but the Somalis in the meeting honestly believed him and clapped their hands with joy and happiness and many of them instantly said: “May be he is a Somali, he is more of a Somali than us!!!” This man is a hypocrite and that is clearly shown by his destructive intentions towards Somalia, a nation that has practically brought him to power. Some confused Somalis might argue that Ethiopia has allowed the Somalis to live and stay in Ethiopia following the civil war in Somalia, but the Somalis were bringing millions of dollars to the impoverished economy of Ethiopia. Look at Ethiopia’s current actions: why doesn’t it allow the Somalis to reside in Ethiopia without the so called special ID cards for the Somalis only, even including the Ethiopian-Somalis? Meles told me in 1993: “Somali clans queue up for my office, each one claiming to be the largest and friendlier to us, however, we know that they are united in their long hate and enmity against Ethiopia”. Whether some warlords or clans like the Ethiopians or not, for them the bottom line is: A Somali is a Somali, period! May be you are living in illusions with the temporary ‘friendships’ that will be simply terminated any time the present Ethiopian regime loses its grip on power or while its still in power! This man has been using some Somali warlords to his advantages; just imagine the Somali generals, colonels and politicians destroying Somalia upon the command of young junior Ethiopian military officers? What more goals could Ethiopia have achieved so easily and cheaply in this historic period?
Tribalism which is the true opium of the Somalis has been practised early in the civilization of mankind; unfortunately, Somalis trust and worship it even now and usually close their eyes and turn a deaf ear to the truth if it compromises into their tribal oriented interests and ideological thinking. Most of the Somali politicians and intellectuals practise tribal-based politics, which is not compatible with the modern way of governing in the 21st century. Somali politicians and intellectuals must wake up now!, the ball has been at your corner for along time and it is time to re-evaluate fully your responsibility to the Somali society and act responsibly with positive attitudes for the future of the Somalis and Somalia in this World, keeping in mind that unless you decide to change the present history course of Somalia by yourselves, no body is going to do it for you! Hopefully the Somalis will come back to think rationally, use their sense of reasonable judgement and work to bring Somalia back to its feet as a nation. Somalis must forgive each other, lessen or stop practising tribalism and put national interest as a priority rather than self or the clan for the sake of reconciliation and nation building in Somalia.
Whatever happened to the qualities of the Somalis, for the time being they are living in low life and have buried their dignity, patriotism and nationalism for clan and selfish interests! Ethiopia is considered to be the poorest nation in the World by many experts, but has been supplying arms worthy millions of dollars to the pro-Ethiopian warlords for the last eight years. The truth is that these weapons will haunt back Ethiopia sooner or later; what goes around will come back to you! Ethiopia is a landlocked country but isn’t planning to use permanently even one of Somalia’s several seaports that have been lured to it freely by the pro-Ethiopian factions, but has signed an agreement with Sudan to use permanently it’s seaport at Port Sudan!!! Pro-Ethiopian factions, whether you like it or not the fact is that the over a century suspicions, mistrusts and enmity between the Ethiopians and the Somalis are still strong and alive and Ethiopia is using you for it’s short term interests only and doesn’t honestly trust you at all for a long ride!!!
The Western Nations and the UN should understand the basis of the over a century hostility between Ethiopia and Somalia. Ethiopian regime’s destabilizing policies against some of its neighbouring countries in East Africa must not be underestimated. Ethiopian soldiers frequently cross the border into Somalia and thereby loot and terrorise the suffering Somalis. Besides, this regime is terrorizing its own citizens, particularly the Somalis and the Oromo, and there are 4-5 million Ethiopian-Somalis who have been exposed to long hidden atrocities, gross human rights violations and are presently living in subhuman conditions in the Somali region of Ethiopia, under it’s illegal colonization against their will and consent. These Somalis will keep on pressing their long struggle of fighting injustice until they get back all their human dignities and rights, including their basic principle right of self-determination, all of which have been stolen and hidden from them as well as the World by successive brutal Ethiopian governments for over a century, the present one being the worst of all of them!!!
Finally, the World, and particularly the Western Nations, has turned its back to the plight of Somalia for the last eight years, while its hostile neighbouring Ethiopia has taken Somalia’s internal affairs into its own hands uncensored. Let us say as an example that Pakistan become like present Somalia! Would the Western Nations and the UN have requested India to assist and come up with solutions in establishing a government of national unity in Pakistan or vice versa? Personally, I don’t think so and the enmity between Ethiopia and Somalia is older and worse than theirs. Why is Ethiopia propagating massive propagandas against this failed nation, Somalia? The truth to this question is that Ethiopia is trying to deceive the Western Nations in order to get economic aid and arms that it will use against some of its neighbours in East Africa. Now, it is high time for the merciful, compassionate and peace loving Western Nations, the UN and the rest of the World to start to help and come up with viable solutions to the desperate situation in anarchized Somalia, brought on by the more than decade old civil war. Besides, Ethiopia should be told clearly once and for all to take off its brutal and destructive hands from the internal affairs of Somalia.
Prepared by Dr. Abdi Aden Mohamed
Orleans, Ontario, CANADA.

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msg Comment from: tizibt new [Visitor]
Bekele,
You are right it trully is business as usual.

Killing imprisoning torturing is trully your dailiy routine. Put a pregnanant journalist in a cell for months with no charge and tell us that this is business as usual. You put tens of thousands in concentration camps, deny that you have no prisoner and next day anounce that you have released 11,000 of them. Then you come here and tell us that it is business as usual. Agazis kill people at random, kill mothers and children and you tell people that they have been thrwoing bombs. That is business as usual. silence the whole independent media, imprison kill or chase every viable opposition and claim you are a democrat never seen in the world, for that is for you business as usual.

Yes, Injustice, deception and corruption are all hallmarks of "business as usual" for TPLF until.........
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msg Comment from: Zomby [Visitor]


Our journalists are sensationalits propgandist and unethical need to learn more to be objective and fair seasoned reporters of the truth; till then they will end up victims of the press law. The law need to be respected. Sorry
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msg Comment from: tizibt new [Visitor]
Zomby,
Don't forget that no law was quoted to imprison the pregnant journalist. Which section of the media law requires putting journalists with out trial for months? Only the unwritten TPLF law. Not even the rotten Bereket's "press law" could come to defence of the barbaric act of TPLF.
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msg Comment from: Zomby [Visitor]


For that matter you do not need the press law you have to live by the honor code of conduct but that requires a higher level of competence and dedication for the profession. I am not saying that a pregenant women need to be abused but a pregenant journalist or a non-pregenant one are the same in the court of law. but you might give her some amensty based on humanitarian grounds. Otherwise buddy that is the case man. Sorry
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msg Comment from: SOLOMON [Visitor]
no free speeech no free media no freedom no free press meles is communist brutal regime. i am asking
all ethiopian people how long we suffer.our people is starving to death our people need food immediately one million people need food right now. meles tplf groups
they stolen money from our poorest
nation use own perisonal purpose meles and the mafias group is destroying our poorest nation basically. may 15 - 2005 suppose to be change year about is not happend
our elected leader is throw jail meles accused our leader genocide. let me ask all Ethiopian people who has weapone meles the brutal regime who order to shot innocent people meles so meles he need to be charge genocide. one more ask to ethiopian people we need support our freedom fighter back home also we must contribution money for our gueilla fighter if we do that we well win i guarntee you victotry for Ethiopian people. ethiopian lover tplf regime is #1 enemy so we must do right that is suppot our gueilla freedom fighter. defeat meles regime once and life time.
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msg Comment from: dehenet bahelachen [Visitor]
CAN WEALL GET ALONG PLEASE HOW ABOUT SOME RESPECT FOR MANKIND, WOMEN, BEGERS, BALAGERS,AZMARIS,ZEBENGHAS SHERITAMS,BARIAS ETC IF U THINK ABOUT IT THESE R THE PEOPLE WHO R EAGER AND MOTIVATED TO TAKE POWER AND BECOME RULERS OF MANY AFRICAN STATES SO PLEASE LET US NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE REPRODUCTION OF MORE OF THESE PEOPLE AS THE SAYIN'GOES WHAT GOES AROUND IT COMES AROUND.PEACE AND DEMOCRACY IT DOES'NT COME EZ SO LET'S START FROM HOME AND MOVE ON.PEACE, LOVE,EQUALRIHGTS,AND JUSTICE 4 AL
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msg Comment from: W/Senbet [Visitor]

As Mr. al almudi put it clearly v.recently that he would support and give his life to tplf/eprdf. That means he is the number one enemy of Ethipia and Ethipians.
Needless to ask, why?
We have to keep in mind any person invest to collect his profite in the first place. Not 77th, let him stand first, it's up to him.
Y.E., you never buy the spirit and mind of Ethiopians, I think, you know much more better than I am that there are things mony can't buy.
It's not too late to change your mind and stand on the side of Ethiopians.It's all the same these children killers(tplf/eprdf) to go away once and for all.

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msg Comment from: ALEC [Visitor]
All Ethiopian.

All Ethiopian/ True Ethiopian listen carefully. Meles is going to be here for long time than you can imagine. Let’s imagine for example, if he got kill tomorrow, the people that's going to take over are the people that are below him. this thing is going in cycle. we Ethiopian have to brake this cycle by only means of struggle. How do other countries do it if they were in similar situation? They fight hard. for example when Eritrea got it independent they fought with any means of necessary. We have to do the same, self sacrifice, gorilla tactic...etc. we all have to stand up for this coward man. or else he will destroyed every ethnic group in Ethiopia excerpt tigrye and Eretria.
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msg Comment from: Doyoo [Visitor]
ONLY outlaws outlaw lawful press. For that matter Woyane's "press law" is drafted by the lowest of the low who are basically lawless.

Doyoo
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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
Alec
You wrote, and I quote,

"Eritrea got it independent they fought with any means of necessary. We have to do the same, self sacrifice, gorilla tactic...etc. we all have to stand up for this coward man. or else he will destroyed every ethnic group in Ethiopia excerpt tigrye and Eretria."

If your fighting is as bad as your grammar, then you are our ally. You and your ignorance are our weapons of mass destruction. You are better than a nuclear bomb, man. Keep it up. Please do not use foul words. It is counter productive and against the terms and conditions of Yeneta.

Have a nice day.
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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF LOST AND FOUND IN KALITI

FOUND: One slovenly, untidy, neglected pseudo-pregnant cat. Owner may collect the poor cat against a reward of 5 ETB payable in advance to finder. Credit cards and checks not accepted.

P.S. Prescription for contraceptive pills intended for population control available on demand.

The Administration of Kaliti wild cat pound. Opening hours: 24/7
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msg Comment from: SODO [Visitor]
The release of one person is really a drop of a small peble in our port of Asasb.There are seventy million Ethiopians the Weyanes are holding hostage.Frankly speaking,Kemal Bedri and his cousins have no business setting up a Sharia court to imprison Christian Ethiopians.He hates them because they are Ethiopians first,Christians second.That is called "CONFLICT OF INTEREST".Like Grange Mohamod would be asked to guard a church to protect it from marouding/barbaric killers in Arsi.
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msg Comment from: SODO [Visitor]
Bekele You and your circle of HODAMS write hate and insulting comments about Bertukan Demeksa? Isn't it wonderful?You are a miserable pig.Pigs never look up while they eat.AS I said before watch your back.You hodams are rich now and we are documenting every property you own.It belongs to Bertukan.She is suffering in your dirty hands.The penalty stipulates your property will be given to her for the damage you inflicted on her. May God free our people from the HODAMS.
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msg Comment from: SODO [Visitor]
All Hoddams : from all etnic groups,Oromos,Gurages,Amharas,specially whose proximity is close to Ras Hailu of Gojjam,you are collaborating with the enemies of our (there are many besides Weyane)people,it is time to stop,repent for the sins and crimes you have done and come back to beautiful Ethiopia.
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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]

A pregnant woman graduates from a Kality rehabilitation---Tsebay maremia. We will see how much tsebay she marems. Well, by all means, that was a nice thing to do for the Prime Minister. A lot of you accused the PM of being cruel and dictator. I always argued to the contrary. Why would a cruel and dictator man release a pregnant woman from a prison? He proved you all wrong. He even released about 8000 people a few months ago. How many people has he to release to make you CUDites happy? Be resealable. Try to work with him. He is the best leader any nation would ask for. He releases people from prisons. I didn't think this pregnant lady and her child would ever see the light of a day in their CUDite lives. That's why I was consistently talking about birth control. As a matter of fact my views go along the same line with the Washington Post article about Ethiopia's population getting out of control. The problem is that it looks like only Prime Minister Meles Zenawi knows the debacle we are in, and he is also working hard to get us out of there. CUDites on the other hand are accusing him of false crimes. No matter how much you accuse him of, he will continue to release people from prisons, especially the pregnant ones(although my choice was to offer them birth control.) Well, later.
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msg Comment from: SATENAW [Visitor]
I love Melese.
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msg Comment from: andenet [Visitor]
SOLOMON.
YOU CALLD AMHARA PEOPLE. HODAM AMHARA PEOPLE. IS THAT WHAT YOU WROTE ABOVE.I REALY FEEL SORRY FOR YOU TO SAY TAHT.BUT HOW OLD ARE YOU? PLEASE THING LIKE HUMAN BEG OKAY.I HAD MUCH TO WRITE BUT ONE WORD IS ENOUGH FOR WISE MAN.
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msg Comment from: ozz [Visitor]
Dear Satnew. cc: Dr A.A. Mohamed

Were you all taught in a school “Defense as a better way to attack”?
Well then it is contrary to the way National business is conducted in modern and civilized society today.
You all forgot, It is Ethiopia’s legitimate God given right to defense it territorial integrity and nurture peace and stability to its own citizens.

Dr, I think your upbringing could remind some heroic incident of your Father’s behaviors, when “not even a Lion” Hyenas prey for his Camels. You remember those days definitely, chasing and beating those tinny beast to death is all considered defense measures taken by your Father to protect the family’s assets and meanwhile providing safe and secure environment for you to grow .
“Is your Father Guilty by the definitions of Animal right Activist?” you judge that.
Meanwhile there are so many Somali organizations petitioning Ethiopian Government for the last 15 years for financial aid in order to bring peace to the troubled no mans land. Could you please tell them not to bother with Ethiopia?

Satnew:

A journalist is a writer or editor for mediums.

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people.

A citizen journalist is a volunteer journalist who contributes to a news effort.

But these crooks in Kaliti were CUD’s Spokes people and troubled individuals who want to vent their anger on public. Sympathy for infidels? Don’t waste your time. Justice will prevail.

Cheers
Viva EPRDF

PermalinkPermalink 03/11/06 @ 13:38

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msg Comment from: adidas [Visitor]
setanew

he is married.
PermalinkPermalink 03/11/06 @ 14:42

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msg Comment from: solomon [Visitor]
gueilla leader meles he is evil man
killed so many innocent Ethiopian people. our true cudp leader is jail
about sacifice for us and for freedom. meles he don't believe free
speech and free press that way he throw free media journalist to jail
meles he want be boss by him self forever about is not going happend
all ethiopian brother and sister we must support our freedom fighter back home that only way we get defeat the brutal regime. god bless our freedom fighter.
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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
Warning
Someone wrote in my name a false article printed 03/11/06 @ 12:02

This is the kind of dirty tricks tizibt new uses regularly. Be warned.
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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
Concerning the PSEUDO-PREGNANT CAT found in the vicinity of Kaliti.

She is doing fine and when interviewed why she preferred to go to jail, she thought it was fashionable for a cat surfing the web. When asked who her master was she just shrugged her shoulders and whispered, for QUASIMODO, alias ato E. Kifle.
You may wonder how a cat can say so much, especially a pregnant one. Well, you know they well trained cats in Holywood who can do anything, especially tarnishing names. Please come and get the cat, mr. QUASIMODO.
PermalinkPermalink 03/11/06 @ 17:04

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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
Take heed, O ye denizen of the underworld of DC and LA, for you will go about weeping and wailing in sackcloth and ashes when day of reckoning and gnashing of teeth comes to Kaliti! I hope you will be thrown into a den of hyperactive lions, O thou sad TRIBALISTS! Harken, O thou who art a byword for idiocy, for you will be trampled by a herd of stampeding pigs! I hope you will be swallowed by a whale with excessively bad breath, thou lazy NEFTEGNA and Derg remnants! I pray thou shalt be turned into a pillar of salt, O ye offspring of a squashed cockroach and eaters of Kentucky Fried! Thy name is CUD. Woe unto thee, O thou babbling CUD/Neftegna, for you will see your pomegranates wither even between your legs! Behold, thou shalt be kicked by an incontinent camel, O ye breaker of the commandments and the constitution and ye INSTIGATORS OF ETHNIC CONFLICT! Take heed, thou irritating inhabitant and lobbyist of DC, for you will beget difficult teenagers that forever will live of ganja! Woe unto thee, O thou sulphurous, vitriolic, vociferous nonentity, for you will be smitten with all-over boils! We acknowledge, O LORD, their wickedness, and the iniquity of their fathers, those breakers of thy commandments: for they have sinned against thee and against those peasants of Ethiopia suffering from drought and poverty. CUDs/Neftegnoch/Derg litters are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish for ever and ever Amen. While EPRDF/TPLF shall live forever.
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msg Comment from: Ashenafi, MD [Visitor]
Dear Friends:
As saying said "Don't hate the player, hate the game!"

stick onto the point on the agenda... rather than discribing how/what he/she look like from out side which doesn't help under any condition but showing how you are just unmatured, meaningless or harter to others.

so just work hard on your assigment! again; "don't hate the player, hate the game"...cuz that is how the politics should be and your personal comment will help.


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msg Comment from: tizibt new [Visitor]
What was the title that I was supposed to have posted on your behalf/using your name Mr Psychopat? Do you start doubting even your self? Or is this your way of deception? I know it is very difficult to get rid of bad habits. particlulalrly those bad habits learnt through human blood. From the little I know, this is called delusion of persecution which often affects people who are deeply emersed in crimes. As a fellow Ethiopian, I advice you to seek psychiatric care ASAP. Of course the psychiatrist's first advice woud be to stop committing further crimes before it gets incurable. Are you ready for that? I doubt it very much?
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msg Comment from: tizibt new [Visitor]
The above posting was for Bekele, the psychopat paranoid.
PermalinkPermalink 03/11/06 @ 18:18

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msg Comment from: SOLOMON [Visitor]
meles he doesn't respect is won constitution. military government must end soon Ethioian people suffer thirty plus year by brutal regime dreg and tplf. i was hope may 15-2005 election change Ethiopian political system. 26 million people went out and elected
first place cudp and second place uedf but the meles regime stolen the majority people voice by force.god bless our poorest nation.
PermalinkPermalink 03/11/06 @ 19:21

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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]

My Ankoberite friends, I have a proposal you won't refuse. This is so good that you will have to be nuts to turn it down. Just like Menelik II gave the descendants of Yohanness the fiefdom of Tigray for their recognition of his supreme authority, give Meles the right to rule Tigray under the central government, where the central government is a constitutional democracy. One of the reasons our people are afraid of introducing democracy is that we know we will never be able to rule as we are minorities. However if you agree with some reasonable deal of the sort I have just suggested, it is possible to work something out. Meles Zenawi and other EPRDF officials will be safe in Mekele and the rest of the country will enjoy democracy. Sometimes, we have to be imaginative and creative to solve this problem. I think our officials are a little concerned about their own future. We need to work out some formula that would protect them. As you all might have heard, Slobodan Milosevic died in prison today. On many instances his situation is parallel to our leaders. Milosevic committed crimes against humanity to protect his people, the Serbs. In exactly the same manner, Meles Zenawi's action could be interpreted in the same manner. Especially after he is out of office, someone with an echoing voice reading some of the events taking place now on national radio with a sad music in the background, trust me, the people will go out in mass to eat his flesh. I don't think he deserves that, but that's what usually happens. I love our prime minister. As a thinker, I constantly think of ways to settle this problem. This is my new idea. It would be great if you guys agree with it.
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msg Comment from: solomon [Visitor]
must people killed by racsist mafia
meles regime is amahra and oromo
i am asking hodams amhara and hodams oromo people please don't support cold blood killer meles is not from Ethiopia he is from eritear
that way is torture and murdrs our students meles is back word perison
since he was child he love make trouble. he need to be charge genocide he murdrs so many Ethiopian people since 1991 still right now. meles is control the court system and everything.
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msg Comment from: Yirgacheffee [Visitor]
Solomon,


You belong in Kaliti too!
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msg Comment from: Jibril of Finfinne [Visitor]
Yirgacheffee,

Are you still funning for killers of innocent people? Please stop bro. This is just rubish.

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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
tizibt new
You write in may name all sorts of rubbish and you seem to enjoy it. You are accustomed to borrow identity for your leaders by comparing them to Mandella in the hope of benefiting from the association in a process of diffusion or osmosis. Here you are stealing my name and I feel flattered to know that I can replace your non-entitiy personality. Those who know my writings can smell you out in 5 seconds. Tell it to your Neftegnoch who abuse you daily.
PermalinkPermalink 03/12/06 @ 06:42

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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
CAT DIET
The cat they found in Kaliti, I mean the pseudo-pregnant one, says hello and Miaaaaaws all the way to DC. She is happy now because the diet in Kaliti consists of chicken soup, but not from Kentucky, and a few leftovers from the kitchen. She says it is good and other CUDs should try it. You don't know what you are missing.
M-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-w
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msg Comment from: Helina [Visitor]
Our heros journalistes ...good bless you for your secrifies,any way ...SEBER ZENA ETHIOPIANS GO TO DEJEN RADIO CLICK ON MAR/1/06 .YOU WILL AMEZED.WOLADITE AMLAK YALECHIW AIKER !!!
PermalinkPermalink 03/12/06 @ 07:32

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msg Comment from: tizibt new [Visitor]
Bekele,
Do you have to be the rapist to confirm that it realy was pregnancy/true pregnancy? Is that the way you used to confirm pregnancy while you were out in the jungles? I am afraid, you aren't heeding my advice for psychiatric help. There is every manifestation that you are hallucinating. One good evidence is that you talk a lot of animal staff thinking that you are still in dedebit jungles (the birth place of the animal farm). You seem to have forgotten that the animal farm, where you find your caties has moved to sheraton. If my memory doesn't fail me she goes by a name Mimi/mamush or some thing of that sort. Does she purr when she rubs against Meles/TPLF?
PermalinkPermalink 03/12/06 @ 07:33

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msg Comment from: yehuna [Visitor]
Dear all!
'ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) -- Ethiopia said on Sunday explosives used in a series of attacks in Addis Ababa last week were smuggled from Eritrea'

( by bereket or meles or...)!!!!!

'...and Eritrean-backed "terrorists"'

(meles and the network)

'...were behind the blasts.'

I knew that!
thanks ethiopian police.

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msg Comment from: tizibt new [Visitor]

Bekele,

Ok, I understand that Miiiiiiiiiiiiiaw means yes as per the language of the sheraton Animal farm group. So, your response was that that daughter of the former owner of Bihere tsige, the girly cat of Eftin purrrrrs when she rubs against Meles or who ever who provides...

Thank you for your reply
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msg Comment from: tizibt new [Visitor]
This is what I think is the scenarios to all the TPLF drama. It is important to see the big picture and see the unusual coincidences. There is hardly any coincidence in what TPLF does. This much I give credit to Meles. The four important interelated activities by TPLF in the last fortnight are:
1.Reporter's serial fabrication of news about some CUD mebebers having talks with Shaebia in Asamara.
2.The Addis bombings
3.The "Ethio/TPLF Eritrean talk and agreement in london.
4.Allegation of Shaebia to the bombs in Addis.

One thing I couldn't rule out yet is the possibility of a joint drama by shaebia and TPLF. A least likely possibility!

Unquestionable fact: TPLF has planted the bombs. Primary objective being to produce " further evidences" against CUD and its leaders and justify the continuing atrocities to the foreigners (TPLF has lost all of its regard to the people of Ethiopia). TPLFites have learnt so quickly that this bombing and accusation business was firing back. On the first day every report including those by “reuters” tried to associate the bombing with CUD. It was changed to shaebia on the fourth day. I can't underestimate the contribution of media like nazret.com for change of blame direction by TPLF. They have made the plot bare lie. Yet, they had to blame it to some body. Shaebia was apparently a perfect choice. Isn't it? No body now seems to take it further to prove that shaebia may not be the culprit. Isn’t this a wonderful approach? Moreover, Reporter has also already done the job of associating CUD and Shaebia, so it would still serve their purpose.

What is puzzling is the association of this accusation and the London agreement. Here is a clip from most medias about the agreement: "Ethiopian officials at the two-day meeting in London indicated that their government now accepted without reservations the decision of an international tribunal to award several territories to Eritrea." This was after the bombing in Addis. Yet the accusation came on the next hour. Where are you going Mele? What is cooking?

Could it be another way of trying to further scare the people of Tigray so that they won’t raise their voice against the agreement they made in London? It is a real possibility. One thing is sure though. This is just the beginning of the complex plot by Meles. It is important to be on guard and expose them as they come.
PermalinkPermalink 03/12/06 @ 23:05

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msg Comment from: Sammy [Visitor]
Dear Solomon

Please brother make a clear sense when you are commenting on Meles; charge him with genocide, are you retarded. Meles is the greatest leader since His Majesty Haile Silassie.
PermalinkPermalink 03/13/06 @ 00:14

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msg Comment from: Honest [Member]
Give me a break!!!

If Shabia had anything to do with the blasts it would have blown the Restaurant to kingdom come. One has just to look to what they did to a school in Mekele to know what I mean. This bombing was done by none other than T.P.L.F. to smear the opposition, and when it didn't seem to catch on they probably said why not blame Shabia every Ethiopian will believe it. T.P.L.F. terrorizes Ethiopians be it by killing young kids and mothers or bombing places.

Honest
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msg Comment from: wedi bole [Member]
Comment from: Shewarega [Visitor]
Yebole Lij

only one animal from thousands and thousands that GOD created eats
more than its weight. Its name,
you guessed it a LOCUST, in Bole
language, ANBETTA. And that s what
you are, but your days are numbered.
Learn from Rwandas tutsi parasaties.

Deme Metache Agame.
03/12/06 @ 22:41
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(THAt's why your idiot leaders are rotting in jail)
i wish you bi`atches tried anything towards us Tigreans. i can't imagine how much fun i would have putting lead in your useless skulls.
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msg Comment from: Helina [Member]
Dear Satenaw...i know some smart ass ''SHAEBIA'' or let me say unmanly person useing your name.Don't think about it.The article you put up there ,it is dame right .Every body should read it.''LE DEKAMOCH BIRTAT ,EWONET LETESEWEREBACHEW LEGAREDEBACHEW BIRHAN SILEMIHON'' Every one of us should pass new thing to the other. By the way, i thank the ''CPJ'' members what they trying to do .Bless you !!!
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msg Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
Pregnant Cat Case

How and why did she get pregnant? Is there a risk that she might spred bird flu, heaven forbid. If she is infected then euthanasia may be the solution. Who wants bird flu? Yet another solution, deport her to where she came from with a bill of health warning recipient, she might infect other birds and cats. We do not recommend the feather and tar method, an outdated form of barbarism once populare the US.
PermalinkPermalink 03/15/06 @ 10:41

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msg Comment from: tizibt new [Visitor]
Bekele,
Miaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw(yes), the cat of Eftin may have contact with a cock (Bekele), the ony possibility that she may carry the bird flu virus(TPLFism). So, both could be hazardous to the health of Ethiopia and Ethiopians. They need to be quarantined there at their animal farm, sheraton Addis. They would be definitley barred from entry to any other country.
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msg Comment from: henok takwala [Visitor]
solomon you have alot of comment why you not fighting with the freedom fighters? ethiopian need realy warlords like befor so we can sperat the true blood
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