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Ethiopia:The Diplomacy of Defending Dictatorship
Alemayehu G. Mariam– In November 2006, in her farewell cable to her replacement Donald Yamamoto and the Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Fraser, former Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Vicky Huddleston warned: “It is time to stop hating Ethiopia.” In November 2007, in a N.Y. Times op-ed piece, Huddleston sternly admonished the U.S. Congress: “Do not turn on Ethiopia.”
Tigray is part of the Ethiopian pro-democracy movement!
Press Release Beka! Global Civic Movement for Change in Ethiopia The wind of change that is sweeping the Middle East and North Africa has reached at the doorsteps of Ethiopia. Ethiopians throughout the country and in the Diaspora have resolved to embrace the change, and through a sustained and determined peaceful struggle, will remove Meles [...]
People power revolt spreads to Oman (AP)
MUSCAT, Oman (AP) — Protesters set a supermarket ablaze and gathered in several sites in a seaside town in Oman on Monday in a third consecutive day of unrest that has included deadly clashes in the strategic Gulf nation. Security forces sealed off main roads to Sohar, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of the [...]
Nonviolent Struggle: Ethiopian Exceptionalism? (Jawar Mohammed)
Thugtatorship: The highest stage of African dictatorship
By Alemayehu G. Mariam—If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people, a thugocracy is a government of thieves, for thieves, by thieves. Simply stated, a thugtatorship is rule by a gang of thieves and robbers (thugs) in designer suits. It is becoming crystal clear that much of Africa today is a thugocracy privately managed and operated for the exclusive benefit of bloodthirsty thugtators.
Awaramba Times (Vol. 3, No.156)
Awramba Times Issue_156