By Eskinder Nega (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) - In a move that is widely believed to have been deliberately chosen to coincide with World Press Freedom day, the Ethiopian government has struck against the private press yesterday. This is part of the erstwhile slide to naked tyranny following the brutal crackdown after the 2005 election.
10,000 copies of a non political monthly magazine ,Enku, has been impounded by the police and its publisher and deputy editor, Alemayehu Mahtemework, imprisoned. The magazine was impounded last night just before it was set to hit the market early today, Saturday. Along with the publisher, three other persons in no way connected to the Magazine but who were in the van carrying the magazine out of the printing press were also imprisoned. The magazine’s cover story is about the imprisonment of Ethiopia’s pop icon and critic of the government ,Tewdros Kasahun, which is stirring political passions in the country.
The imprisoned are due to appear before court on Tuesday
May 6th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Never count on “ethiopian opposition group”. We need to find a solution ourselves, each of us should come up with an idea that we think best works to topple zenawi’s tyranny.
I for one believe that assasinating zenawi and then terrorizing the lower level woyane goons by physically attacking their family members and implementing a well designed social descrimination against the woyannes can be fruitful.
But to coordinate such actions trustworthy leaders are imperative, we need such leaders to coordinate the meagre indivisualistic efforts to a wave of public force to outset zenawi and his tigray relatives out of our country.
One way to pursue the above mensioned startegy is to align the diaspora movement with the ARMED FORCES that are functioning in the peripheries of ethiopia. But again to do this we need to get information as to the aim of these groups and we need to identify and work with only those that can serve the GOOD OF ETHIOPIA AND ITS PEOPLE!!
To hit on my points once again, to weaken woyane and later topple it:
1. assassinate zenawi, through contracted assassinators.
2. exercise effective discrimination and physical attack on family members of woyane thugs!!