Today, Ethiopian American students from San Diego State, UC Riverside & UCLA demonstrated in Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles against the tyrannical rule in Ethiopia. The students gathered to rally against dictatorship , the wrong foreign policy of the USA and to demand the release of political prisoners in Ethiopia including the pro democracy leader Birtuakn Midekssa.

Photo by Irene Fertik (www.irenefertik.com)

During the protest, the thiopian American students held signs and shouted chants asking the President Obama administration to support democracy.

The demonstration was sponsored by the Ethiopian Student Association in California.

Photo: by Irene Fertik (www.ireneferik.com)