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Letter to Justice Navanathem Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights

March 8, 2010 by EthioSun

Petitions Team Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOG-OHCHR 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Dear Madam High Commissioner, No one has ever been brought to justice in Ethiopia for the massacre of 424 Anuak in Gambella, Ethiopia on Decembe...

November 14, 2009 by EthioSun

Crocodile liberators called Ethnic-Somali rebels in the south-east of Ethiopia say they have launched an offensive against the Tigrai ruling forces and captured several towns. The tribal Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) which is not different fr...

October 21, 2009 by EthioSun

According to the ONLF Ethiopia’s Ogaden National Liberation Front, the weapons cache displayed by the Tigrai Tribalists blood sucking Ethiopia was just another show of a liar game. On Saturday, tigrai tribalists who possessed the state television attempted to mislead id...

September 28, 2009 by EthioSun

Yannick Demoustier: Three children came to greet the rebels as they approached the farm. Completely isolated, it consisted of two small huts delimited by dry wood and thorn branches. The few sheep and goats that the farmers possessed were startled by the appearance of ten a...

September 16, 2009 by EthioSun

If the neutral left is really neutral, why does it keep coming down hard on the West’s official enemies while ignoring the West’s henchmen? By Stephen Gowans: Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe (L) is probably one of the most vilified figures in international poli...

August 8, 2009 by EthioSun

By Bronwyn E. Bruton, International Affairs Fellow in Residence U.S. strategic interests in the Horn of Africa center on preventing Somalia from becoming a safe haven for al-Qaeda or other transnational jihadist groups. In pursuing its counterterror strategy, the Unit...

November 30, 2008 by EthioSun

By Alemayehu Zemedkun: On November 26, 2008 I was amazed to see news on Ethiopian Television Amharic service where the news Anchor was dismissing the recent detailed Human Right Watch(HRW) report on the atrocities committed by the government of Ethiopia on the People ...

November 27, 2008 by EthioSun

Ethiopia's ruling gangsters said on Wednesday a government-the rulers funded probe had found no evidence to support reports by a rights group that the gangsters committed war crimes during a campaign against rebels in the eastern Ogaden region. The report is intended ...

September 29, 2008 by EthioSun

Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), Chairman of the Subcommittee on African Affairs, introduced a bill entitled “Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of 2008″. Ethiopian Americans are grateful to Senator Feingold and his staff for introducing this legislation...

August 17, 2008 by EthioSun

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia's Ogadeni rebels accused the regime in Addis Ababa on Friday of deliberately blocking international aid to their war-wracked and drought-stricken region. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) issued a statement following the announcement...

June 12, 2008 by EthioSun

By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 June 2008 U.S.-based Human Rights Watch says it has collected extensive evidence that confirms allegations the government in Ethiopia is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in its military campaign to crush the rebel movement in th...