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Vote for Yohannes, one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2008

Written by CNN
Saturday, 11 October 2008
At age 19, Yohannes Gebregeorgis borrowed a soft-cover romance novel entitled "Love Kitten" that changed his life forever. Born in rural Ethiopia to an illiterate cattle merchant who insisted upon his son's education, Gebregeorgis had seen a few books in school. But it was the experience of having a book of his own that sparked a lifelong commitment. Today, at 56, Gebregeorgis is establishing libraries and literacy programs to connect Ethiopian children with books. Vote for Yohannes, one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2008

Senator Feingold introduces a bill to support Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia

Written by CyberEthiopia

Sunday, 14 September 2008

Senator Russ Feingold, Chairman of the Subcommittee on African Affairs, introduced a bill entitled “Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of 2008 ”.

According to the Coalition for H.R. 2003 , an alliance of groups committed to work collectively for passage of bill on Humans Rights in Ethiopia, the “findings” in the bill document a slew of human rights violations committed by the “Government of Ethiopia” in the aftermath of the 2005 elections, including the injury of “763 civilians,” the murder of 193 persons and detention of “thousands more opposition party leaders and their followers, “widespread violations of human rights and international law by the Ethiopian military in Mogadishu and other areas of Somalia, as well as in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia.”

The bill describes the use of “unjustifiably brutal tactics [by the government of Ethiopia] against its own citizens in Oromiya, Amhara and Gambella regions.”

Ethiopia deserves to be compensated for colonial ills

Written by Prof Mammo Muchie
Thursday, 04 September 2008
It is not enough for slave-masters and colonialists to apologise for barbaric greed. The former colonial powers must pay compensation for the wreckage, debris and havoc they left behind which still influences the ability of those who had been colonized to emerge with freedom to pursue structural transformation. Like Libya, Ethiopia had been under Italy’s pernicious influence ever since the European Scramble for Africa. It fought back this colonial encounter with heavy sacrifice including the loss of Eritrea to Italian colonial control for 60 years.
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