15.05.05 - We salute those brave brothers and sisters who fought for free and fair elections in the run-up to the election

Ethiopia: Donor Aid Supports Repression

The Ethiopian government is using development aid to suppress political dissent by conditioning access to essential government programs on support for the ruling party, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch urged foreign donors to ensure that their aid is used in an accountable and transparent manner and does not support political repression. more

Sakharov Prize 2010: three finalists

Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas and Ethiopian opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa are the three shortlisted finalists for the 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The winner will be announced on Thursday, 21 October, by the President of the European Parliament, following a decision of the Conference of political group leaders. The winner will receive €50,000 and will be invited to participate in the award ceremony on 15 December, in Strasbourg.

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Ethiopian top opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa freed

Breaking News: Free at Last! Birtukan Released from Jail

24-09-2010

Ethiopian Birtukan Mideksa, S&D nominee for the 2010 Sakharov Prize

The Group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament will nominate Ethiopian activist Birtukan Mideksa for the 2010 Sajarov Prize next Tuesday, 5 October.  The candidacy of Ms. Mideksa, an Ethiopian prisoner of conscience, was adopted with unanimity at the S&D Group Meeting. S&D

13-09-2010

Der wahre Geist der deutschen Bundesregierung - Äthiopien

25-03-2010

Äthiopien wie einst im roten Terror

	Zwei Monate vor der Wahl wirft Human Rights Watch der Regierung schwere Menschenrechtsverletzungen vor. Addis Abeba / Nairobi - Als den Journalisten die Fragen beinahe ausgegangen sind, muss Georgette Gagnon zum ersten Mal grinsen. . . more derstandar

Repression Rising Ahead of May Elections

12-03-2010

US Rights Report 2009 Lists Ethiopian Opposition Leader as Political Prisoner

.. Opposition UDJ party president Birtukan Mideksa, whose pardon was revoked and life sentence reinstated in December 2008, remained in prison throughout the year. She was held in solitary confinement until June, despite a court ruling that indicated it was a violation of her constitutional rights. ... report

12-03-2010

Genocide Watch

The International Campaign to End Genocide Letter to Justice Navanathem Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights“Let us kill them all! From today forward there will be no Anuak! There will be no more Anuak land! No one will arrest us! Erase the trouble makers! letter(pdf)

12 -03 -2010

Live Aid-Arms Aid?

THE BBC brought the 1984 Ethiopian famine to the world's attention. The outcry in richer countries at the starvation of hundreds of thousands of people led directly to Band Aid, Live Aid, and a punchier approach to humanitarian aid. An investigation published last week by the BBC claims to have discovered that nearly all of the aid money handled by the Marxist rebel Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which then controlled northern Ethiopia, was spent buying arms to fight the Soviet-backed dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam

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07 -03 -2010

"Band-Aid"-Gelder für Waffenkäufe abgezweigt

07-03-2010

Bob, Band Aid and how the rebels bought their arms

An edition of the BBC World Service programme Assignment, alleging that money intended for famine relief in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s was used to buy weapons, has prompted an angry response from aid campaigners.

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07-03-2010

Bob Geldof demands proof of BBC Ethiopia aid report

Bob Geldof has challenged the BBC to substantiate its report that millions raised for famine relief in Ethiopia were diverted to pay for weapons. more

03-03-2010

Ethiopia famine aid 'spent on weapons'

Millions of dollars in Western aid for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 was siphoned off by rebels to buy weapons, a BBC investigation finds. more

08-06 -2005

We are outraged and in deep sorrow witnessing how a brutal gang turns Addis Abeba in to a killing field.   No crime remains unpunished!

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