The two human rights activists,Daniel and Netsanet,who got jailed by the Meles government in connection with the 2005 election has been sentenced for 2 and half years on Wednesday December 2007. These human rights activists will walk out of prison within days as they have already been in prison for the sentence period. Its reported that the "judges" read a statement about the two activists before they convicted them that sounded like they were nominating them for Nobel prize.Its so laughably sad and depressing to see how utterly incompetent and inconsistent the EPRDF judges are.Good Lord!
Read the news here
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
A Reply to A Reader's Comment
Tesfaye said... December 21, 2007 7:08 AM
Dear Ethiobloger, you seemed to be loyal to the people and smear other websites believing that you are neutral and favored to the people. But what you did is the same as the others did. The only difference is that you stayed on the side of Birhanu and the others are on the side of Haliu.
So,please try to clean up your mind before you charge others dear blogger.
Try to be media for the truth not for your cliques like the other sites you mentioned are doing.
Thanks a lot for your understanding.
Abe Ze-Ethiopia
Comment:
We never claimed to be neutral in any of our posts and we never criticized any website for siding with the Engineer. What we instead criticized was the way they are expressing their disagreement. Instead of focusing on the principles and argue why they think they believe their opponents are wrong, they almost always focus on attacking individuals by talking trash about them. That is what we are against. We are against personal attacks regardless of which side one is on. If you have read the article you commented on we even criticized an article written attacking Engineer Hailu personally. We have to step up and make our discussions on issues rather than individuals. Dear Reader, go to the web pages we criticized and read their posts. We can guarantee you that a good percentage will be on attacking individuals than discussing ideas.
Thanks for reading our blog.
ethiopianbloggers staff.
Dear Ethiobloger, you seemed to be loyal to the people and smear other websites believing that you are neutral and favored to the people. But what you did is the same as the others did. The only difference is that you stayed on the side of Birhanu and the others are on the side of Haliu.
So,please try to clean up your mind before you charge others dear blogger.
Try to be media for the truth not for your cliques like the other sites you mentioned are doing.
Thanks a lot for your understanding.
Abe Ze-Ethiopia
Comment:
We never claimed to be neutral in any of our posts and we never criticized any website for siding with the Engineer. What we instead criticized was the way they are expressing their disagreement. Instead of focusing on the principles and argue why they think they believe their opponents are wrong, they almost always focus on attacking individuals by talking trash about them. That is what we are against. We are against personal attacks regardless of which side one is on. If you have read the article you commented on we even criticized an article written attacking Engineer Hailu personally. We have to step up and make our discussions on issues rather than individuals. Dear Reader, go to the web pages we criticized and read their posts. We can guarantee you that a good percentage will be on attacking individuals than discussing ideas.
Thanks for reading our blog.
ethiopianbloggers staff.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Happy Eid
We would like to wish happy Eid-Al-Adha to our Ethiopian muslim brothers and sisters. Blessed Eid!!
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Recent developments around kinijit
The leadership crises in kinijit reached its climax this week when engineer hailu suspended 5 top CUD leaders who toured North America recently. In this 7 pages long letter the chairman mentions countless unfounded allegations and hearsays as the basis for his decision. He, however, mentions nowhere in the letter what section in the bylaw gives him the power to single handedly decide on such major issues (he in fact couldn’t answer this very question in his interview with journalist addisu abebe of the VOA amharic. click voa for part 1 and amharic for part 2) Most of the allegations in the suspension letter actually fit ato hailu's actions better than anyone else. What he just did is the replica of what shaleqa yosef did earlier when he suspended KIL and Andargachew and berhane. The action of ato hailu and his groups is a clear evidence that shows these people are foreign to their bylaws in particular and democratic principles in general. What they know well instead is smear campaign and spreading unfounded allegations on individuals.
The other group on the other hand released a mildly worded press release in response to the engineer’s decision. They also came on ECADF and briefed thousands of listeners regarding the situation. In this paltalk interview Dr hailu and sileshi proved once again their leadership caliber. Despite some emotionally driven suggestions from some frustrated audiences to quick fix the problem, they insisted on following what the bylaw says and responding to ato hailu’s action in kind would be hypocritical. As much as we wanted to see a quick solution to this debacle, we liked the way they are handling the situation. Instead of emotionally responding and trying to fix engineer hailu’s mistake by another mistake, they chose to put personal grudges aside and stick to following the party’s procedures. We all need to applause them for that.
On this same ECADF briefing we were baffled to hear elias kifle of Ethiopian review suggesting protest rally against the engineer and his group. We wonder why elias thinks we need to protest against them. Is it because they are not with us any more? They have every right to break away and go their own way. And we don’t think we need to have protests of any kind against these people. We have to show them that we are different breed of politicians who respect differing opinions. If we have to protest it would make sense to protest against EPRDF’s brutality in ogaden, oromia, gambella other regions of the country. Elias, please heed our advice and drop that absurd idea of organizing protests. It doesn’t help the struggle for democracy in any shape or form besides making us the laughing stack of EPRDF. If you have the time and the energy, there are millions of things you can do to help the struggle.
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On another note, its beyond our understanding to see the merits of posting this kind of articles. It is just lowering ourselves to the level of Ethiolion/EPRP and KIC owned kinijit/org. They are good at doing smear campaigns and personal attacks on any one who dares to stand against them. Let us not distract ourselves from the main agenda. Let us leave them behind and keep the fight for democracy going.
The other group on the other hand released a mildly worded press release in response to the engineer’s decision. They also came on ECADF and briefed thousands of listeners regarding the situation. In this paltalk interview Dr hailu and sileshi proved once again their leadership caliber. Despite some emotionally driven suggestions from some frustrated audiences to quick fix the problem, they insisted on following what the bylaw says and responding to ato hailu’s action in kind would be hypocritical. As much as we wanted to see a quick solution to this debacle, we liked the way they are handling the situation. Instead of emotionally responding and trying to fix engineer hailu’s mistake by another mistake, they chose to put personal grudges aside and stick to following the party’s procedures. We all need to applause them for that.
On this same ECADF briefing we were baffled to hear elias kifle of Ethiopian review suggesting protest rally against the engineer and his group. We wonder why elias thinks we need to protest against them. Is it because they are not with us any more? They have every right to break away and go their own way. And we don’t think we need to have protests of any kind against these people. We have to show them that we are different breed of politicians who respect differing opinions. If we have to protest it would make sense to protest against EPRDF’s brutality in ogaden, oromia, gambella other regions of the country. Elias, please heed our advice and drop that absurd idea of organizing protests. It doesn’t help the struggle for democracy in any shape or form besides making us the laughing stack of EPRDF. If you have the time and the energy, there are millions of things you can do to help the struggle.
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On another note, its beyond our understanding to see the merits of posting this kind of articles. It is just lowering ourselves to the level of Ethiolion/EPRP and KIC owned kinijit/org. They are good at doing smear campaigns and personal attacks on any one who dares to stand against them. Let us not distract ourselves from the main agenda. Let us leave them behind and keep the fight for democracy going.
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