Calling Out the Rogue Regime in Ethiopia
July 8, 2010 (Statement)
On May 3, 2010 on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, President Obama singled out Ethiopia among the countries that are enemies of free media. The jamming of the Voice of America Amharic broadcast and Deutche Welle radio as well as the new independent Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) attests to this fact................
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  Zenawi's Regime has Closed all Doors to Peace & Democracy
June 1, 2010 (Press Release)
Ethiopia is a nation that has a remarkable civilization and more than three millennium of historical continuity. However, a good part of its long history is marred by instability, poverty, and power struggle between regional lords. Throughout its 3000 plus years of history, Ethiopia has never gone through a peaceful transfer of power. In fact, the action of PM Meles Zenawi, in the May 15 election was a reaffirmation of the historical account of power transfer in Ethiopia where ...............
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  The Landslide Victory of Zenawi's Regime
May 25, 2010 (Press Release)
Ethiopia, the primal hellhole, that best exemplifies the enduring power of savage repression, has just concluded the much-anticipated 2010 election. Zenawi's regime is claiming that it has won a landslide victory (unconfirmed reports put the winning at 98 percent). This type of unparalleled victory depending on one's political persuasion can be heralded by the "victors" as a miracle and by the "vanquished" as ample evidence ...............
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  The Enduring Legacy of May 15th (Ginbot 7)
May 15, 2010 (Press Release)
May 15^th 2005 will forever be remembered in Ethiopian history as a shining moment in the nascent struggle for democracy in Ethiopia. It was a day millions of Ethiopians (90 percent of registered voters) peacefully brought down the one-party ethnic dictatorship of the Tigrai People's Liberation Front (TPLF) but, on the eve of Election Day, Meles Zenawi violently changed the election outcome. ...............
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  The 2005 election in Ethiopia and its painful lessons
Hearing in the European Parliament
(Speech by Dr Berhanu Nega)
April 26th, 2010 , Brussels
Honorable Ana Gomes,
Members of the European Parliament
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let me first thank the organizers of this hearing for inviting me to offer my remarks on the current troubling political situation in our region in general and on Ethiopia in particular. My remarks on the lessons of the 2005 elections and the events that follow it as well as the coming sham election in Ethiopia comes from my own intimate participation in 2005 as a member of the CUD leadership and its campaign manager, my role as head of the negotiating team with the ruling party following the election as well as my active engagement with the diplomatic community throughout the election and post election process.................
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  Strategic Blunder of Historic Proportion
March 31, 2010 (Statement)
As dismayed as we are to hear the news of the EU's decision to send a team of election observers to monitor the 2010 sham election in Ethiopia; we are also gratified by the unflappable courage and principled stand of Ms. Ana Gomes, who led the EU-EOM team to Ethiopia in 2005. We salute her commitment to democracy and social justice in Ethiopia and around the world................
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  Zenawi's Personal Vendetta will not Break the Fighting Spirit of Birtukan Mideksa
March 29, 2010 (Press Release)
Ever since Birtukan Mideksa was re-arrested and sent back to life in prison, the mental and physical health of Ethiopia's lone female political leader has been deteriorating. According to family sources in Addis Ababa, last Saturday, March 20, 2010, Birtukan informed her visiting mother that she is terribly sick and her condition will quickly deteriorate unless she gets immediate medical attention................
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  The Desperate Acts Of a Dying Regime: Invoking the Rwanda Genocide to Jam VOA-Amharic Service
March 25, 2010 (Statement)
Five years ago, when the TPLF regime lost ground in the general elections, Meles Zenawi went out of his mind and compared the captivating Ethiopian opposition to the "Interhamwe", a group of young Hutu males who carried out the Rwandan Genocide. Five years later, and as recently as last week, Meles Zenawi once again brazenly compared the VOA Amharic service broadcasts, to Radio Mille Collines, the infamous Rwandan radio station that incited the Hutus to kill the Tutsis................
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  Politicizing Food Aid, the Unabated Behavior of the TPLF Leaders
March 05, 2010 (Press Release)
On March 3, 2010, the BBC broke to the world the news that millions of dollars in international aid for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 was siphoned off by the TPLF leaders to buy weapons to overthrow the military regime in power. Though it is unclear why it took the resourceful BBC twenty-five long years to investigate a scandal of this magnitude, its recent headline news was familiar to the Ethiopian people. Unfortunately, this criminal behavior of the TPLF leaders remains unabated to this day...............
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  Stop Appeasing Ethiopia's Planned Fraudulent Election
February 26 2010 (Press Release)
The consequences of the 2005 national elections in Ethiopia, particularly its aftermath are still fresh in the minds of the Ethiopian people. Hundreds of Ethiopians were killed; tens of thousands were imprisoned, including journalists of the independent press and the entire leadership of the opposition that defeated Zenawi's party. Nearly five years after the election, the whereabouts of hundreds of Ethiopians still remains unknown. In spite of testimonies ..............
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The Ethiopian Military Leadership Under Haile Selassie and Derg Regimes
February 20, 2010 (By Ginbot 7 Research Team)
A few months ago, Ginbot 7's research team presented an extensive list of the top military commanders of the Woyane regime including their names, their position in the military and their ethnic background. That meticulously researched study showed how the current military of Meles Zenawi's regime is totally dominated by one ethnic group where by some 95% of the top brass of the military emanate from the Tigrian ethnic group representing about 6% of the population...............
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