A guide to G20 Protesters
By THANE BURNETT, QMI Agency
Did someone order a lot of opinions?
Here is just a sample of the concerns and organizations — most perfectly respectful and a few that are potentially far from peaceful — that will raise their voices during the...
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Ethiopians protest Meles Zenawi’s visit to G20
By Liz Monteiro
KITCHENER – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is a repressive dictator who shouldn’t be allowed to visit Canada and participate in the G20 summit this weekend, says an Ethiopian-born Kitchener man.
Semou Zinabou and about 60...
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Ethiopia’s Tyrant Expels U.S. Journalist for Probing Civilian Deaths
By Jason McLure
June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia expelled an American journalist working for the U.S.-owned Voice of America radio service after detaining her for reporting claims by a rebel group that government forces killed 71 civilians.
Heather ...
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Family of jailed Canadian wants Ethiopian PM excluded from G20
Debra Black Staff Reporter
Family and supporters of Bashir Makhtal, a Canadian jailed for life in Ethiopia, are denouncing Prime Minister Stephen Harper for inviting Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to the G20 summit in Toronto.
“We should...
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The human-rights abuser on the G20 guest list
Ahmed Hussen, National Post · Tuesday, Jun. 8, 2010
Later this month, leaders from Ethiopia and Malawi will be in Toronto as invited guests of the G20. While it is to be expected that the Malawian President would be invited in his capacity...
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Exiled Ethiopian journalist decries ‘outrageously ludicrous’ elections
Visiting scholar Abebe Gellaw says the United States has traded silence for security and military cooperation by ignoring Ethiopia's "appalling human rights record." He exhorts the United States to live up to promises to support democratic refo...
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Ethiopia’s Embarrassing Elections
By Abebe Gellaw
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, one of America’s key allies in Africa, is gloating over his “landslide victory” in the country’s national elections earlier this month. The ruling party has claimed to have swept all but...
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Government pressured, intimidated and threatened voters, rights group contends
JOHANNESBURG — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010 4:10AM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010 5:29AM EDT
Ethiopia’s ruling party has claimed a landslide victory in the first vote since a...
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The Bono’s say Ethiopia deserves better
This week Ethiopia held elections to determine who will hold power in Ethiopia’s parliament. The country’s official results indicate a big victory for Meles Zenawi and his ruling party—capturing at least 99 % of the 547 parliamentary seats....
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Ethiopia: Poll a Sham
editorial (http://allafrica.com)
Pro-democracy groups in Africa are questioning why the West, especially the United States, should continue to treat Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi with kid gloves even when they know he is one of the few rema...
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Nineteen more, Prime Minister Meles
Congressman Ed Royce I 26 May 2010
Our real allies are the brave Ethiopian men and women fighting the rot of years of Meles' unchecked reign. Aid them. Sadly, power has gotten to the point of absolutely corrupting Meles' 19-year rule.
Nin...
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Ethiopia’s leader creates a repressive one-party state
After Ethiopia's old dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam murdered the man he had deposed, Emperor Haile Selassie, he capped his triumph by having the body buried under his office floor.
Ethiopia's current leader, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who led the ...
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Election 2010 in Ethiopia: Consolidation of a One Party Dictatorship in Ethiopia
For Immediate Release
May 26, 2010
Election 2010 in Ethiopia: Consolidation of a One Party Dictatorship in Ethiopia
The European Union’s chief election observer Mr.Tijis Berman’s comments have confirmed other reports coming from Ethiopia th...
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EACA Urges President Obama To Reject Ethiopia’s Sham Election Results
ETHIOPIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ADVOCACY
Fighting for Democratic values, Human Rights, and Donor Accountability
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Re: Ethiopia...
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Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi Will Likely Muscle His Way to Re-Election
by Lauren E. Bohn
As the ballot counting continues in Ethiopia, tensions remain high.
Sunday's election is likely to give the incumbent Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's U.S.-allied party, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, a majori...
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Ethiopia: Government Repression Undermines Poll
International Election Observers Should Condemn Voter Intimidation
May 24, 2010
Behind an orderly facade, the government pressured, intimidated and threatened Ethiopian voters. Whatever the results, the most salient feature of this election w...
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Meles Zenawi Cooks Election Results
By JASON McLURE Published: May 23, 2010
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopians went to the polls on Sunday to choose a new Parliament, with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s ruling party expected to sweep the vote and extend its 19-year rule, after a ca...
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Ethiopia’s Democratic Sham
BY NATHANIEL MYERS | MAY 21, 2010
A government clampdown has rendered the outcome of Sunday's parliamentary elections a foregone conclusion. Washington doesn't seem to mind that its ally, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, is assured a win.
I first gli...
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Ethiopian Opposition Leader likens Mr. Meles Zenawi to Africa’s worst dictators
Peter Heinlein | Ambo, Ethiopia 20 May 2010
If Meles's interest is to cling to power at all cost, like all African dictators . . . he can continue the game, and Meles can take the country down with him." Ethiopian opposition leader Merera Gudina
...
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Ethiopia’s Meles Headed for Election Win as West Pours in Aid
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, whose nation receives billions of dollars in Western aid, is headed for an easy re-election on May 23 after stifling the opposition, according to analysts and human-rights groups.
“The g...
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