May 30, 2009

Amnesty International Report 2009: Human Rights Situation in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Head of state Girma Wolde-Giorgis
Head of government Meles Zenawi
Death penalty retentionist
Population 85.2 million
Life expectancy 51.8 years
Under-5 mortality (m/f) 151/136 per 1,000
Adult literacy 35.9 per cent

Restrictions on humanitarian assistance to the Somali Region (known as the Ogaden) continued. The government engaged in sporadic armed conflict against the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and both forces perpetrated human rights abuses against civilians. Ethiopian troops fighting insurgents in Somalia in support of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) committed human rights abuses and were reported to have committed war crimes. Security forces arrested members of the Oromo ethnic group in Addis Ababa and in the Oromo Region towards the end of the year. Independent journalists continued to face harassment and arrest. A number of political prisoners were believed to remain in detention and opposition party leader Birtukan Mideksa, who was pardoned in 2007, was rearrested. A draft law restricting the activities of Ethiopian and international organizations working on human rights was expected to be passed by parliament in 2009. Ethiopia remained one of the world’s poorest countries with some 6.4 million people suffering acute food insecurity, including 1.9 million in the Somali Region.

Background

The Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission completed its mandate in October, despite Ethiopia failing to implement its ruling, and the UN Security Council withdrew the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) in the wake of Eritrean obstruction of its operations along the Eritrea/Ethiopia border.

Thousands of Ethiopian armed forces remained in Somalia to support the TFG in armed conflict against insurgents throughout most of the year. Accusations of human rights violations committed by Ethiopian forces continued in 2008. Insurgent factions stated that they were fighting to force Ethiopia’s withdrawal from Somalia. A phased plan for Ethiopian withdrawal was included in a peace agreement signed by the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia-Djibouti and TFG representatives in late October. Ethiopian forces began to withdraw late in the year, but had not withdrawn from Somalia completely by the end of the year.

The government faced sporadic armed conflict in the Oromo and Somali regions, with ONLF members also implicated in human rights abuses against civilians. Ethiopian opposition parties in exile remained active in Eritrea and in other countries in Africa and Europe.

"Ethiopian forces attacked the al-Hidya mosque in Mogadishu killing 21 men..."

Divisions split the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) party, leading to the emergence of new opposition parties, including the Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJP) led by former judge Birtukan Mideksa. She was one of more than 70 CUD leaders, journalists and civil society activists convicted, then pardoned and released in 2007.

Suicide bombers attacked Ethiopia’s trade mission in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on 29 October killing several Ethiopian and Somali civilians.

Prisoners of conscience and other political prisoners

A number of political prisoners, detained in previous years in the context of internal armed conflicts or following contested elections in 2005, remained in detention.

  • Bekele Jirata, General Secretary of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement party, Asefa Tefera Dibaba, a lecturer at Addis Ababa University and dozens of others from the Oromo ethnic group were arrested in Addis Ababa and parts of the Oromo Region from 30 October onwards. Some of those detained were accused of financially supporting the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
  • Sultan Fowsi Mohamed Ali, an independent mediator, who was arrested in Jijiga in August 2007 reportedly to prevent him from giving evidence to a UN fact-finding mission, remained in detention. Tried for alleged involvement in two hand grenade attacks in 2007, he was sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment in May 2008.
  • On 15 January Birtukan Mideksa, Gizachew Shiferaw and Alemayehu Yeneneh, then senior members of the CUD, were briefly detained by police after holding party meetings in southern Ethiopia. Birtukan Mideksa was rearrested on 28 December after she issued a public statement regarding the negotiations that led to her 2007 pardon. Her pardon was revoked and the sentence of life imprisonment reinstated.

Prisoner releases

Many released prisoners faced harassment and intimidation, with some choosing to leave the country.

  • Human rights defenders and lawyers Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie were released on 28 March. They had been detained since November 2005 together with hundreds of opposition parliamentarians, CUD members and journalists. Unlike their co-defendants in the trial who were pardoned and released in 2007, Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie remained in detention, having refused to sign a document negotiated by local elders. They mounted a defence and were convicted by the Federal High Court of criminal incitement (although the presiding judge dissented) and sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment. When it became evident they would not be released, even after they appealed, they chose to sign the negotiated document, and were subsequently pardoned and released after serving 29 months of their sentence.
  • Charges of conspiring to commit “outrages against the Constitution” faced by Yalemzewd Bekele, a human rights lawyer who had been working for the European Commission in Addis Ababa, were dropped, without prejudice, before trial.
  • Abdirahman Mohamed Qani, chief of the Tolomoge sub-clan of the Ogaden clan in the Somali Region, was detained on 13 July after receiving a large public welcome when he returned from two years abroad. He was released on 7 October, and his relatives who had also been detained were reportedly released several days later.
  • CUD activist Alemayehu Mesele, who had suffered harassment since his release from prison in 2007, fled Ethiopia in early May after he was severely beaten by unknown assailants.
  • The editor of the Reporter newspaper Amare Aregawi was severely beaten by unknown assailants on 31 October in Addis Ababa. He had previously been detained by security officers in August.

In September, the government announced that it had released 394 prisoners and commuted one death sentence to life imprisonment to mark the Ethiopian New Year.

Freedom of expression

Independent journalists continued to face harassment and arrest.

At least 13 newspapers shut down by the government in 2005 were still closed. Independent journalists were reportedly denied licences to operate, although others did receive licences. Serkalem Fasil, Eskinder Nega and Sisay Agena, former publishers of Ethiopia’s largest circulation independent newspapers, who had been detained with CUD members, were denied licences to open two new newspapers.

Gizachew Shiferaw Fires Up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10 December 2008.
Gizachew Shiferaw Fires Up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10 December 2008.

In February the Supreme Court upheld a decision to dissolve the Ethiopian Teachers Association (ETA) and hand over its assets to a rival union formed by the government, also known as the Ethiopian Teachers Association. This action followed years of harassment and detention of union members. In December the union, under its new name, the National Teachers’ Association, had its application for registration as a professional organization rejected.

On World Press Freedom Day (3 May) Alemayehu Mahtemework, publisher of the monthly Enku, was detained and 10,000 copies of his publication impounded. He was released after five days without charge and copies of the magazine were later returned to him.

In November a Federal High Court judge convicted editor-in chief of the weekly Enbilta, Tsion Girma, of “inciting the public through false rumours” after a reporting mistake. She reportedly paid a fine and was released.

Human rights defenders

A draft Charities and Societies Proclamation was revised several times by the government in 2008, but remained threatening to the rights of freedom of assembly, association and expression.

Its provisions included severe restrictions on the amount of foreign funding Ethiopian civil society organizations working on human rights-related issues could receive from abroad (no more than 10 per cent of total revenues). It would also establish a Civil Societies Agency with sweeping authority over organizations carrying out work on human rights and conflict resolution in Ethiopia. It was expected to be passed into law by Parliament in early 2009.

Ethiopian troops in Somalia

Ethiopia maintained a significant troop presence in Somalia which supported the TFG until the end of the year. Ethiopian forces committed human rights abuses and were reported to have committed war crimes. Ethiopian forces attacked the al-Hidya mosque in Mogadishu killing 21 men, some inside the mosque, on 19 April. More than 40 children were held for some days after the mosque raid before being released .

Many attacks by Ethiopian forces in response to armed insurgents were reported to have been indiscriminate and disproportionate, often occurring in densely civilian-populated areas.

Internal armed conflict

The government continued counter-insurgency operations in the Somali Region, which increased after attacks by the ONLF on an oil installation in Obole in April 2007. These included restrictions on humanitarian aid which have had a serious impact on conflict-affected districts of the region. The government did not allow unhindered independent access for human rights monitoring.

Reports, dating back to 2007, of beatings, rape and other forms of torture, forcible conscription and extrajudicial executions in the Somali Region were investigated by a government-contracted body but not by an independent international body.

Torture and other ill-treatment

Reports of torture made by defendants in the trial of elected parliamentarian Kifle Tigeneh and others, one of several CUD trials, were not investigated.

Conditions in Kaliti prison and other detention facilities were harsh – overcrowded, unhygienic and lacking adequate medical care. Among those detained in such conditions were long-term political prisoners held without charge or trial, particularly those accused of links to the OLF.

  • Mulatu Aberra, a trader of the Oromo ethnic group accused of supporting the OLF, was released on 1 July on bail and fled the country. He had been arrested in November 2007 and reportedly tortured and denied medical treatment for resulting injuries while in detention.

Death penalty

While a number of death sentences were imposed by courts in 2008, no executions were reported.

  • In May the Federal Supreme Court overturned earlier rulings and sentenced to death former President Mengistu Haile Mariam (in exile in Zimbabwe) and 18 senior officials of his Dergue government. The prosecution had appealed against life imprisonment sentences passed in 2007, after they were convicted by the Federal High Court of genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated between 1974 and 1991.
  • On 6 April a court sentenced to death five military officers in absentia. They served under Mengistu Haile Mariam, and were held responsible for air raids in Hawzen, in the Tigray Region, which killed hundreds in a market in June 1980.
  • On 8 May a court in Tigray Region found six people guilty of a bus bombing in northern Ethiopia between Humora and Shira on 13 March and sentenced three of them to death.
  • On 21 May the Federal Supreme Court sentenced eight men to death for a 28 May 2007 bombing in Jijiga in the Somali Region.
  • On 22 May a military tribunal sentenced to death in absentia four Ethiopian pilots , who sought asylum while training in Israel in 2007.

Amnesty International reports

Ethiopia: Government Prepares Assault on Civil Society (1 July 2008)
Ethiopia: Comments on the Draft Charities and Societies Proclamation (1 October 2008)
Ethiopia: Draft Law would Wreck Civil Society (14 October 2008)
Ethiopia: Arbitrary detention/torture or other ill-treatment (14 November 2008)
Routinely Targeted: Attacks on Civilians in Somalia (6 May 2008)

May 25, 2009

Murtiilee Hirmaattota Seminaara Hawaasa Oromoo Godina Awuropaa

Murtiilee Hirmaattota Seminaara Hawaasa Oromoo Godina Awuropaa

Seensa

Seeminaara kana kan qindeesse koree hojii geggesitu ABO godina Awuropaa ti.

Seminarri hawaasa Oromoo godina Awuropaa Caamsaa 23 bara 2009 ganama kessaa saatii11:30 irraa egalee waaree booda haga saatii 20:00 itti biyya Beeljigii, magaalaa Antwerpen kessa itti geggefame. Seminaarri kun akka sirna aadaa saba Oromootti ebba manguddooliin ergii banameen booda mata duree gurguddoo gosoota shan (5) irratti xiyyeeffachuun hirmaattotaaf dhiyaate. Isaanis:

1ffaa. Deemsa Siyaasa Gaanfa Afrikaa fi Sochii QBO ABOn Hogganamtu irra itti ibsa kan kenne Jalle Dawud Ibsa, hayyu duree gumii sabaa ABOti;

2ffaa. Dhibdee Walabummaa Seeraa Impaayera Itoophiyaa irra itti ibsa kan kenne Jaale Tashaalee Abarraa, abbaa seeraati;

3ffaa. Garaagrummaa mooraa QBO keessatti dhalatan maddaa fi Furmaata isaa irra itti barnoota kan keenan Dr. Alamayyoo Birruu, ogessa Sayinsii Philosophaati;

4ffaa. Gufuulee ABO Mudatanii fi Bu’aa Galma’anii jiran irra itti ibsa kan kenne Jalle Dhugomsaa Dhugasaa, miseensa gumii saba ABO gadaa dabireeti;

5ffaa. Qooda Dubbartootaa QBO fi Tajaajila Hawaasaaf kan jedhu irra itti ibsa kan kennite, Jalle Angatuu Balchaa; fi

6ffaa. Adeemsa hojii waldaa gargaarsa Oromoo (ORA) irra itti Jaalle Lidiyaa Namarraa, miseensa gumii sabaan ibsi kennameera.

Mata duroota seminaara armaan olitti tuqaman kanneen irratti walduraa duuban jaallan qabsoo oromoo keessatti muuxannoo dheeraa qabaniin, hayyoota dhimma siyaasaa fi mirga dhala namaa naannoo gaanfa Afrikaa irratti deemaa jiruu fi ture irratti qorannoo geggessan, xiinxaltoota siyaasaa, fi ogeessota seeraan barnootaa fi ibsi gadi-fagenyaan kennamee jira. Hirmaattooti seminaara kanaas gaaffilee fi yaada ijaaroo dhiheessuun mariin ballinaa erga geggefameen booda yaada walhubannoo tokko irra gahuun dhuma irra itti murtii fi ibsa ejjennoo armaan gadhii dabarfachuun seminaarichi milkii fi injifannoo boonsaan xumuramee jira.


Ibsa Ejjennoo

Nuti miseensonni hawaasoota oromoo biyyoota Awuropa keessaa dhufne seminaara kana irratti hirmaachuun rakkoolee jireenya hawaasummaa, siyaasaa, fi dinagdee gaanfa Afrikaa keessa jiruu fi keessumattuu hacuuccaa mootummaan TPLF (Wayyaanee) saba Oromoo fi saboota Impaayera Itophiyaa keessa jiraatan irratti raawachaa jiru ilaalchisee ibsa hogganoota ABO, bakka bu'oota jaarmiyaalee mirgoota dhala-namaa ( human rights group), fi hayyoota siyasaa irraa kenname qalbii guutuu fi gaddaan dhaggeeffannee erga yaada waljijjiirree booda ummata Oromoo sirna gabronfannaa (kolonii) motummaa TPLF jalaa bilisomsuuf qabsoo hadhooftuu geggefamaa jiru tumsuu fi gumaata nu irraa barbaadamu gama hundaan kennuuf kutannee akka jirru ibsa armaan gadiin mirkaneessina.

  1. Ummatni Oromoo wareegama qaalii gumachuun qabsoo bilisummaa biyya isaa Oromiyaa kessatti geggessaa jiruu fi haala hunda keessatti qabsoo bilisummaa ABOn finiinsaa jiru daran jabeessuuf waan qabsoon nu gaafatu maraan deeggarsa keenya cimsinee akka itti fufnu ibsina.

  2. Wayyaaneen (TPLF) erga ol-antummaa meeshaa waranaan mootummaa Impaayera Itophiyaa bara1991 irraa eegalee dhunfatee jalqabee ummata Oromiyaa fi ummatooota cunqurfamoo kibba Itophiyaa irratti bifoota dhoksaa fi ifaan yakkoota dhittaa mirga namoomaa raawachaa turee fi jiruuf ni balaaleffanna!

  3. Mootummaan wayyanee (TPLF) seraan ala ummata oromoo qe'ee fi qabeenya isaa irraa maqaa investmenti jedhuun beenyaa tokko malee buqqisee arihuun lafa qonnaa Oromiyaa dureyotaaf hiruun qotee bultoota Oromiyaa hiyyummaa hiriyaa hin qabneef saxiluun umurii sirna gabronfannaa isaa tikfachuuf toftaa fi tarsimoo dirirfatee jiruf ni baalalefanna!


  1. Mootummaan wayyanee (TPLF) seraan ala lafa qonnaa Oromoo dhaabbilee sadarkaa addunyaatti ababoo daldalan (International flower companies) itti gurgurachuun bu`aa dinagdee argataa jiruun mooraa waraanaa gargaarsa mootumoota duromaniin ijaarate sana jabeeffachuun ummata Oromoo sababii gabrummaa kessatti ittisaa jiruuf ni balaalefanna!

  2. Mootummaan wayyanee (TPLF) tarsimoo faallaa misoomaa fi egumasa qabenyaa umamaa Oromiyaa kessa itti dirirsee jiruun: fakkenyaaf bishaan laga Awash fi haroo Qoqaa summii fayyaa dhala namaaf balaa ta`eef saxiluu, bosona umamaa dhabamsisuu, xaa´oo yeroon itti darbee hojii irra olchuun lafa-qonnaa borqaayina yeroo dheeraatti jijjiruu, jireenya ummata Oromiyaa balaa beelaa fi dhukkuboota daddarboof saaxiluu, fi kkf haala dhokasaa fi ifaan saganteeffatee waan raawachaa jiruuf guddifnee balaalefanna!

  3. Mootummaan wayyanee (TPLF) qabeenya biyya Oromiyaa saamuun galii dinagidee isaa karaa tokko jabeeffataa karaa biraan ammo ummati Oromoo akka tajaajila egumasa fayyaa, bishaan qulqulluu, midhaan nyaataa, barnotaa, fi misooma aadaa barbaachisaa ta`e akka hin arganne gochuun sadarkaa guddina hawaasummaa fi dinagdee Oromiyaa foyya´iinsa dhorkuun egeree saba Oromoo balaa hiyyummaa hiriyaa hin qabneef saxilaa waan jiruuf ni balaalefanna!

  4. Oromiyaan gargaarsa hawaasummaa karaa jaarmiyaalee miti motummaa (NGO) akka hin arganneef labsii sochii hojii misoomaa dhaabbilee miti motummaa ugguruu (danqu) motummaa wayyanee (TPLF) seraan ala waan dabarseef ni balaalefanna.

  5. Jaarmiyaaleen siyasaa qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo hogganaa jirtan hundi garaagarummaa xixiqqoo giddu kessan jiru mariin furachuun mooraa qabsoo bilisummaa angessuudhaan ummata Oromoo roorroo sirna gabronfannaa mootummaa wayyanee (TPLF) jalaa bilisoomsuuf akka waltumsuun qabsoo finiinsitan waamicha keenya isinii dhiyeesina.

  6. Lammileen Oromiyaa roorroo sirna gabronfataa mootummaa wayyanee (TPLF) jalaa gara biyyoota alagaatti baqachuun kooluu gallee jirru hundi keenya sadarkaa ijaarsa jaarmiyaalee hawaasotaa fi waldaalee Oromoo biyyoota ambaa jiran jabeeffachuun waan nu irraa barbaadamu maraan mooraa qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo daran tumsuuf walqunnamtii cimaan sochoonee akka hojjennu waamicha Oromummaa irratti hundayee isinii dhiheessina.

  7. Humnootiin siyasaa impaayera Itophiyaa hundi keessan waltumsuu fi gamtaan qabsoo fininsuun akka sabootaa fi ummatoota dhaabbattaniif injiftannoo gonfachisuun sirna gabronfataa jaarmaya wayyaanee (TPLF) jalaa bilisa baaftan waamicha isinii dhiyeesina.

  8. Gochaa faashistummaa fi sanyii dhala-namaa ballessii mootummaan TPLF saba Oromoo, Ogaadeen, Anyuwaak, Sidamaa, fi saboota biroo irratti raawwateef Mallas Zenawii fi hordoftooti isaa tessuma mana murtii yakka addunyaa (ICC) irratti dhihaachuun yakkoota dhittaa mirga dhala namaa fi waraanaa ajaja angoo motummaan raawatameef akka ol-antummaa seroota adunyaan adabamaniif karaa jaarmiyaalee hawaasota addunyaa deeggersi barbaachisaa ta'e akka qaamota dhimma kana raawachisaniif godhamu maqaa ummata Oromoon iyyannoo keenya dhiyeefanna.


Injifatnnoon ummata oromoof !

Hirmaattoota seminaara Hawaasa Oromoo godina Awuroppaa

Beljigii, Antwerpen,

Caamsaa 23 bara 2009



"... For my country, for my people, it is very painful still.” Shiferawu Lemu

City man’s dream of becoming a Canadian about to come true
DAMIEN WOOD - Herald-Tribune staff



After fleeing his home country of Ethiopia, fearing jail or death, and coming to Canada to start a new life, Shiferaw Lemu will officially become a Canadian citizen Wednesday.

Damien Wood



A little over four years ago, Shiferaw Lemu was getting off a plane at Grande Prairie airport, unsure of what he would find.

He found members of St. Paul’s United Church waiting for him with flowers and he knew then he had found a new home.

On Wednesday, the long journey he started then will be completed when he becomes a Canadian citizen.

Lemu was born in Oromiya, Ethiopia – a place where his people came to be treated in horrific ways by the ruling government.

He said there is no peace there – none of the basic human rights to which we would not give a second thought.

“That country is controlled by gangsters. I can’t say government ... those who come to power is by guns. No human right is respected. If you ask for human right, you will be jailed ... or you will be killed,” said Lemu.

Over the last four years, he has gone from his early jobs in Canada at Home Depot, Superstore, Wal-Mart and the bingo hall to running Towne Centre Laundry, a business of his own.

It was not an opportunity he was going to have in Ethiopia – the way it is now.

“If you work hard, you will get everything here ... I worked hard,” said Lemu.

His final days in the country in which he was raised were spent on the run from the authorities. Lemu is Oromo, and he said that alone makes him a criminal.

He had been arrested previously, accused of aiding the Oromo Liberation Front – a group of nationalists labelled as terrorists.

Twenty days underground without food or water was the price paid, he said, for this perceived crime he insists he did not commit.

He said he had helped the OLF before, though not on this occasion.

“They come to arrest me (again), but I run away ... I never went back,” said Lemu.

“They will kill me (if I go back).”

He fled to Nairobi, Kenya, where as he puts it, he gave his hand to the United Nations.

He was given a visa to come to Canada, sponsored by St. Paul’s United Church.

But to run, Lemu had to leave his family behind.

When he got here, he started working for them to be able to make the same trek across the globe he did.

“The process doesn’t finish quickly. When I come to Canada, the Canadian embassy at Nairobi promised they would collect them within the year ... to come to Canada,” said Lemu.

It would be three years before this could become reality.

They did make it though, and now Lemu’s wife, Mulunesh Taye Nagry and three of his six children are with him. Three other adult children remain in Ethiopia. His family will see him as he takes oath and is sworn in as a Canadian citizen this week.

He said his journey felt complete a week ago though, when he got his paperwork from the Canadian government in the mail.

“I was very happy,” said Lemu, but added he realizes this is just one journey completed.

“For myself – only for myself. For my country, for my people, it is very painful still.”

He said he wants to see peace and democracy brought to his old country, through the work of his new country and his community.

TPLF Tightening the Full Control of the “Ethiopian Defense Forces”: 18 of the 21 Key Commanders are now Tigreans.

TPLF Tightening the Full Control of the “Ethiopian Defense Forces”: 18 of the 21 Key Commanders are now Tigreans.

(OLF News, May 24,2009) According to our sources from inside of the Wayyaanee army, the Tigrai dominated Wayyaanee regime is taking the full control of the so called “Ethiopian Defense Forces” more than any other time seen before. Accordingly, it is known that out of 21 of those Generals and Colonels who hold key positions in the army at this time, 18 are Tigreans. This in complete contrast to the fact that the Tigrai ethnic group is only about 7% of the population of Ethiopia. All of the remaining three, namely,

1. Lt/ G. Abebaw Taddese, commander of the Central Division,

2. Col. Misgana Alemu, commander of the 35th Division, and

3. Col. Zewdu, commander of the 44th Division, 41st brigade,

are all from the Agawo ethnic group, another minority ethnic group of Ethiopia.

It is to be recalled that several Wayyaanee generals have been arrested at the beginning of May, 2009, for their alleged relation with the Ginbot 7 party and because they were accused of making a “coup plot” against the regime. It is reported that the regime used this so called “coup plot” as a pretext to clear all the individuals born from the two major ethno-national groups: Oromos and Amharas tightening its complete control of the “defense forces”. Accordingly, there is no army commander from Oromos and Amharas which together constitute about 65% of the population of Ethiopia, while about 86% of commanders are from the Tigrai ethnic group, which is only 7% of the population. Many analysts say that contrary to the regimes claim, it is now clear more than ever that Ethiopia is a minority Tigrai dominated narrow government which does not have any legitimacy from the Ethiopian population.

OLF News

May 24, 2009

“REVIEW YOUR AID TO ETHIOPIA” A MESSAGE FROM OROMO ACTIVISTS TO EUROPEAN DECISIONMAKERS

“REVIEW YOUR AID TO ETHIOPIA”
A MESSAGE FROM OROMO ACTIVISTS TO EUROPEAN DECISIONMAKERS



22 May 2009, Brussels - Oromo activists from across Europe converged on Brussels today to raise international awareness of the ongoing human rights abuses being perpetrated in Ethiopia under the administration of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Marching from the European Commission’s Berlaymont building, demonstrators crossed the city of Brussels to bring their message to the embassies of both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Oromo representatives explained to international media the importance of the protest as a means of bringing scrutiny to bear on Ethiopia ahead of the 2010 elections and the environmental degradation that was going unchecked at the
same time as human rights were being eroded.

As part of the protest, letter of appeal were issued to the European Commission, Members of the European Parliament, representatives of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific states, and the embassies of the United States and United Kingdom.


The appeal made the following calls:

  • That the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees initiate an inquiry into allegations of human rights abuses perpetrated by the Ethiopian Government;
  • That European Union (EU) member states to raise the issue of human rights in Ethiopia with the Ethiopian government;
  • That EU member states to express a collective and public concern at the human rights situation in Ethiopia, including a call for the release of all detained political prisoners;
  • That European companies, their Ethiopian partners, and the Ethiopian government adhere to international environmental standards and obligations;
  • That a mechanism capable of bringing together all stakeholders in resolving Ethiopia’s internal conflicts be established and supported.
  • That the Ethiopian government is held publicly accountable for all aid donated to, or channelled through, its departments.

For more information, including photographs and press releases, please refer to:

http://www.unpo.org/content/view/9617



Photo: OLF InfoDesk & UNPO

May 21, 2009

Press Release Reminder


PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Oromo call for Justice in Ethiopia and the Bringing To Account of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi


Brussels, 27 April 2009 – Democracy, justice and pluralism remained illusory in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Government, led by the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) continues to intimidate opposition parties and civil society whilst muzzling a mass media that as a result is neither free nor fair. Heavy-handed state responses to legitimate protests have left scores dead and many more injured – and their families have no recourse to adequate justice.

To bring these abuses to the attention of the European public and decision makers, the Oromos residing in Europe will hold a demonstration on Friday 22 May 2009 beginning at the Schuman station from 10.00am moving to the European Commission (Berlaymont Building), European Parliament (Place Jean Rey), UK Embassy and final stop will be at USA Embassy where activists will stay until 13:00pm.

The demonstration will urge the European Union and advocates of justice around the world to take note of, and act against, the atrocities being committed against the Oromo people and other nationalities of Ethiopia.

Activists will also call on all nations and nationalities in Ethiopia to stand in unity on behalf of the country’s innocent and voiceless peoples whose lives and livelihoods are being constrained by an unrepresentative and minority government.

Note: There will be media opportunities during the demonstration and activists with first-hand experience of the situation in Ethiopia will be available for comment.


Attachment: Oromo_Demonstration_Press_Release_2009(final)-1.pdf

May 18, 2009

After 18 years in power, serious moves are afoot to renew the leadership of the ruling EPRDF (Africa Confidential)

A change is going to come

After 18 years in power, serious moves are afoot to renew the leadership of the ruling EPRDF

Change is coming to Ethiopia, says Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. It was time the country's political old guard stepped down, he told Africa Confidential in an interview on 3 May. Meles has submitted his resignation and the ruling party discussed it in February - but that does not make it inevitable. If there is a change, it would be more of personnel than policy, he suggested. The issue was not that the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front had ruled for 18 years but that 'the same people have been in positions of leadership throughout the period'. He included himself in 'the old leadership which was leading the EPRDF during the armed struggle and up to now'.

When asked if he was expecting 'a collective transition', Meles replied, 'Yes, I think that the next crucial step needs to be taken,' implying that the older generation faced retirement. Meles has recently repeated that he would like to step down by the next elections. This statement has been greeted with scepticism. He had been less forthright about renewing the leadership - a message that many of his colleagues will not welcome. The EPRDF has ruled since 1991 and many leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the main party in its four-party coalition, have been in positions of power since they took up arms in 1975. No names have officially been named.

Any changes on this scale require an EPRDF congress. Several options would open up regarding Meles' successor (see Box). 'The generation that moved the mountains', as the war veterans that defeated Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime are known, may be growing tired. It seems unlikely that a collective transition could pass unopposed: some in the EPRDF might feel they should take over if Meles left office.

Opposition could also come from closer to home: the Premier's wife, Azeb Mesfin, is now in a controlling position at the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray. She might not relish a diminution of her growing political role, even for the sake of the ruling party's political health.

Leading potential candidates include Seyoum Mesfin, Abay Tsehaye, Addisu Legesse, Tewodros Adhanom and Arkebe Oqubay. All are Tigrayan: ethnicity is an important bargaining chip in this diverse society and despite representing the major nationalities, the EPRDF is dominated by Tigrayans, even though they are nationally outnumbered by both Amharas and Oromo. There are those who think a Tigrayan successor to Meles could widen ethnic divisions that the EPRDF has never been able fully to close.

No consensus
The question of succession may be largely academic. Leaving the final decision on Meles's resignation to the party offers plenty of room for a change of face. The issue was raised at the quarterly EPRDF Executive Committee meeting in February, attended by an equal number of representatives from each member party: the TPLF, Amhara National Democratic Movement (both EPRDF founding members), Oromo People's Democratic Organisation and Southern Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Movement.

There was heated discussion but no consensus. Meles's recognition of the need to rejuvenate the EPRDF as a whole demonstrates that he understands the need for a show of democratic change. A new party leader would set an important precedent and mark the first-ever peaceful and voluntary handover of power in Ethiopia.

However, a change of age group might not trigger a change of attitude. Tewodros would ostensibly constitute a departure from the traditional leadership; he was not involved in the student movement and played no part in the liberation struggle, yet he is very close to Meles and would provide no real change of direction. Arkebe took part in the liberation struggle, albeit for less time than others of the old guard, yet he retains more political independence than might be expected.

In any event, the EPRDF has begun to prepare actively for the elections. The government has organised talks on procedure: it is keen to avoid the violence and other problems of 2005, when an impressive pre-electoral process was marred by post-poll violence, followed by the refusal of some elected opposition members to take their seats in Parliament. The opposition has already said that it does not expect a fair deal but although still much divided, some elements have begun organising.

The major challenge may come from the Forum (Medrek) for Democratic Dialogue in Ethiopia (FDDE), an alliance of parties established by former Defence Minister Siye Abraha and former President Negasso Gidada. A central element in the Forum is the Arena Tigray for Democracy and Sovereignty, under Gebru Asrat, an opposition party in Tigray Region which threatens the TPLF in its own heartland.

The other parties in Forum include: Ethiopian Democratic Unity Movement; Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement, led by member of parliament Bulcha Demeksa; Somali Democratic Alliance Forces; the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces, which consists of the Ethiopian Social Democratic Party and Southern Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Congress (both chaired by Beyene Petros, MP), plus the Oromo People's Congress of MP Merara Gudina; and Union for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), chaired by Birtukan Mideksa.

These parties have all agreed to contest the elections under the Medrek banner while maintaining their own structures and leaders. They thus hope to avoid a collapse like that of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy in 2005. The CUD had never been much more than a veil covering major policy disagreements and competing ambitions; its leaders' inability to put aside these ambitions lost it many supporters. The need for an effective coalition is pressing.

A group of former CUD members led by Birtukan set up the UDJ, which is now in the Forum. Former CUD Chairman Hailu Shawel, who refuses to have anything to do with his former colleagues, has formed the All Ethiopia Unity Party. Yet another splinter, led by Ayele Chamiso, has kept the CUD name. The United Ethiopian Democratic Party-Medhin is renamed the Ethiopian Democratic Party. It is still led by Lidetu Ayelew, who caused its split with the CUD after a confrontation with Hailu Shawel.

Ginbot 7 was founded last year in the diaspora and is not registered in Ethiopia. It is led by Berhanu Nega, the only opposition leader to leave Ethiopia after oppositionists were pardoned in 2007. The 24 April arrests have raised its profile (AC Vol 50 No 9). Most ex-CUD parties suffer from the widespread disenchantment about their infighting; it is uncertain how much support they will get.

Opposition fractures are visible, despite the fledgling alliances. Where power is fiercely contested, this is dangerous. Many oppositionists have little faith that the government will really address their concerns: expanding political freedom; freeing all political prisoners; press freedom and equal media access; neutrality for the National Electoral Board; full and independent judiciary; and freedom of expression. Yet without a concerted attempt at organisation, none of the opposition parties can hope for a favourable outcome to the 2010 elections.

In 2005, the EPRDF made the telling point that the opposition criticised the government but never came up with any serious alternative policies. However, Meles' government has done little to address opposition concerns, then or since. The government has stressed that it is keen to avoid any of the violence that haunted the 2005 elections. This requires dialogue with the opposition and addressing the issues involved in building a democratic system.

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May 17, 2009

HRLHA Press Release No. 16, May 2009: Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia


HRLHA Press Release No16, May 2009

Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia

Death from Brutal Torture

Two civilians have become the most recent victims of torture in Ethiopia. Mr. Abdurashiid Ibrahim Adam and Mr. Hassan Ibrahim Tule, both from Eastern Hararge Region in Oromia, have died from extreme torture inflicted on them by members of the Ethiopian Security Forces while they were in prison.

Mr. Abdurashiid Ibrahim Aadam, a 38-year old farmer, was subjected to torture that resulted in his death in Burqaa Tirtiraa Prison in Eastern Hararge. According to HRLHA reporter, Mr. Abdulrashid was suspended upside down with his hands and legs tied on his back and severely whipped and beaten everywhere on his body including the sole of his feet. The security agents subjected Mr. Abdulrahsid to such harsh torture to coerce him to confess that was a member of an opposition political organization, OLF in particular, and to reveal alleged secrets he knew about the Front. HRLHA reporters have confirmed that Mr. Abdulrashid died from this brutal torture on May 08, 2009.

Mr. Hassan Ibrahim Tuulee, also known as Hassan Lakku, was a 57-year old businessman and a father of seven, who used to live in Baddanno Town in Eastern Hararge. He had been in and out of prison so many times since 1992 on the same alleged political grounds – that he was a member of opposition political organizations. Mr. Hassan Ibrahim died in prison on unspecified day in Fabruary, 2009 from harsh torture he too was subjected to while he was in prison. The possessions of Hassan Ibrahim, money, a car and other valuable items, were confiscated by members of the security forces.

HRLHA reporters have confirmed that these are the very common types and systems of tortures most alleged political detainees face while in detention.

Back ground Information;- It has been being reported widely that thousands of members of the Oromo ethnic group have been killed, kidnapped, disappeared and/or detained, and many of subjected to different forms of torture in prisons in recent years for allegedly having links with the OLF. Also, thousands of Oromos have gone into exile. The OLF has been fighting the Ethiopian government in eastern and western Oromia Region and in other areas since 1992. The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa/HRLHA believes that those who were subjected to such harsh treatments, including killings and inhuman actions that resulted in death, were innocent citizens who had not used or did not advocate violence.

HRLHA calls upon governments of the West, all local, regional and international human rights agencies to join hands and demand the end of such inhuman treatments, and to pressurize the Ethiopian government to bring the culprits to justice and to immediately release its citizens who have been detained on alleged political grounds.

The HRLHA is a non-political and non-profit organization that attempts to challenge abuses of human rights of the people of various nations and nationalities in the Horn of Africa. It works on defending fundamental human rights including freedoms of thought, expression, movement and association. It also works on raising the awareness of individuals about their own fundamental human rights and that of others. It encourages the observances as well as due processes of law. It promotes the growth and development of free and vigorous civil societies.

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May 16, 2009

World Heavyweight Champion Evander Holyfield to fight Ethiopia exhibition bout in July


Holyfield to fight Ethiopia exhibition bout in July

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Former world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield will fight an exhibition match in Ethiopia in July to help raise funds for AIDS victims, promoters announced Friday.

The 46-year-old will take on Ethiopian-born American Sammy Retta in Addis Ababa on July 26, in what will be the Horn of Africa nation's first ever showpiece boxing bout.

"The two boxers and their team will arrive in Addis Ababa on May 17th to conclude a contract and for promotional purposes before the match on July 26," promoter Eshetu Belay told a press conference.

The match will cost organisers upto seven million dollars, Eshetu said, but declined to disclose how much Holyfield would receive in appearance money.

"Evander showed extreme enthusiasm to fight for the first time in Africa. He is very much delighted to be part of such a worthy cause," Eshetu added.

His scheduled opponent is a 35-year-old super-middleweight.

The four-time world champion last fought a competitive match at the end of last year when he lost in controversial circumstances to Russian Sultan Ibragimov in an attempt to clinch an unprecedented fifth title.

Holyfield is best remembered for having his ear bitten off by Mike Tyson in 1997 in a match which was later coined as the "The Bite Fight".

The fight would rank as one of the highest-profile all-American boxing bouts on African soil since the legendary 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" that pitted Muhammad Ali against Joe Frazier in the former Zaire.

Copyright © 2009 AFP.

May 12, 2009

Got Mother's Day flowers? Ethiopia does, but few are buying.

Ethiopia is being hit hard by a dramatic slump in demand for flowers as the global economic crisis forces consumers to curb spending on perceived luxuries.

A local pop song trills out from the radio, filling the cavernous packing hall at the Ethio Highland Flora farm in Sabeta, a 45-minute drive from Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.

Dozens of workers tackle a seemingly endless stack of exotically named roses, separating the short stems and rotten petals from the bright Valentino, Duo Unique, Wild Calypso, and Alyssa blooms destined for Europe.

Most of the farm's 400 employees earn less than a dollar a day, but it is a steady wage in one of the world's poorest nations where 80 percent of the population lives off the land.

This year the 20-hectare farm, a sprawl of irrigated and temperature-controlled greenhouses, is set to beat its target for growing, cutting, and exporting 21 million stems.

That is a 15 percent rise on its contribution to the 1.5 billion stems exported by Ethiopia in 2008, earning an estimated $175 million for the industry.

But the positive figures belie a dramatic slump in demand for flowers as the global economic crisis forces European consumers, Ethiopia's main market, to curb spending on perceived luxuries. It's a tough blow for Ethiopia, where flower power was touted to supplant coffee as Ethiopia's main export and highest earner of foreign exchange.

Many analysts now fear that, without swift assistance, Ethiopia's nascent flower industry will wilt in the heat of global recession.

"We're not talking about falling profit this year, just survival," says farm manager Emebet Tesfaye. "Even Valentine's Day was down from last year. The problem is Europeans don't want flowers right now. The buyers in Amsterdam control the market, and they are setting prices very low – there is no minimum price for our stems. Every loss is on the growers' side: transport, water, electricity, wages, and even fees to the rose breeders."

Sales down on Valentine's Day and 'Mothering Sunday'

Sales forecasts are traditionally pegged to an expected bonanza at Valentine's Day and Mothering Sunday (Europe's version of Mother's Day on March 22). This year Ethio Highland Flora Farm sold 20 to 30 percent fewer flowers, punching a hole in expected revenues and compounding the pain caused by low stem prices.

Prices per stem are now 10 cents (euro) or less, down 15-20 percent from last year.

On bad days, the flower auction houses of Amsterdam – where the majority of stems from Kenya, Ethiopia, Namibia, and Tanzania vie for buyers – have reported dips of up to 40 percent.

Four farms have already filed for bankruptcy – out of 85 – while at least half of the remainder are operating at a loss.

Oh, what a difference half a year makes

Just six months ago, things looked very different.

Foreign and local investors piled into the sector lured by predictions of revenues of $1 billion within five years, tax incentives, and a surfeit of cheap labor.

One thousand hectares of land went under cultivation, more than 50,000 people were directly employed on the farms, with tens of thousands earning a crust along the supply chain, as Ethiopia threatened the regional primacy of Kenya's longer-established floriculture.

Keen to banish Ethiopia's famine-ridden reputation, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi played his part, hailing flowers as the flagship of an increasingly buoyant economy – the government says that in 2008 gross domestic product grew at just under 10 percent.

And it is to him that the flower farmers are now turning, calling for a reprieve from the banks which are nervously eyeing their loans, and the freight firms and airlines, who currently charge $1.85 per kilo of cargo to fly the flowers to Europe.

"This is a problem caused by the developed world, but we are paying for it in Africa," says Tsegaye Abebe, president of the Ethiopian Horticulture Producers and Exporters Association (EHPEA). "We can tolerate low market prices for a time, but if prices continue like this for many more months our industry will be under serious threat. It is time for all the businesses with a stake in the sector to help each other out."

Despite a recent pledge to support the industry "through thick and thin," Meles – as he is widely known – can not hold back the confluence of global and local forces sweeping across the Ethiopian flower business.

Too much power in hands of European middlemen?

It is a tough trade; cheap and high quality stems pour into the market from across Africa and Latin America, putting European buyers in the driving seat.

Prices are set low in the knowledge there is a surplus of supply from desperate growers, and farm owners have yet to build the capacity to trade directly with supermarkets – the major sale point for flowers.

As a newcomer to the market, Ethiopia does not benefit from the same economies of scale as neighboring Kenya, raising fears it is particularly vulnerable to the price shock.

Mr. Tsegaye believes survival can be secured through a diversification of products to include herbs, fruits, and vegetables, and markets to reach Japan, Middle East, Russia, and the United States. "But that depends on the short and medium term being kind to us," he says.

The social impact of decline will also be keenly felt in Sabeta – where small holding farmers were convinced to sell their land to flower farms by the promise of big rewards to come.

The majority of flower workers are women, and the recession threatens to stymie plans to empower them with minimum labor standards and unions.

It has deflated Emebet Tesfaye's hopes. She may soon be left with the awkward choice of dumping some of the 70,000 flowers a day produced at Ethio Highland or flooding the market with roses no one is buying.

A recent visit to a Dutch auction house intensified her gloom as she witnessed the pecking order of a market which roots flower-producing nations to the bottom.

"Each morning the buyers look at their computer screens and click one button that determines the life of all these people," she explains gesturing to the female packers. "We have no power."

The Christian Science Monitor

May 09, 2009

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