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- Towns attacked by OLF
- The Indian Ocean Newsletter, 4 February 1995.
Armed units of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, opposition)
invaded the towns of Humruna and Jarte, Horo Gudru Province,
taking money and burning documents.
- A Breakfast Meeting with Prime Minister
Meles
- By Harold G. Marcus, 20 October 1995. Aim is to clarify
Prime Minister Meles’ views for those of us who remain
uncertain about his thinking and the policies and intentions
of his government.
- ‘Red Terror’ detainees finally
charged
- Amnesty International Index, 23 January, 1997.
Detained are some 1800 people involved in the Dergue military
government’s 1977/78 “Red Terror” campaign.
Detainees held for involvement in human rights crimes under the
former Dergue government have now been charged with specific
criminal offences.
- Ethiopia bulletin
- Amnestry International Urgent Action Bulletin, 20
February 1998. 15 among scores of members of the Oromo
ethnic group (or “nationality”) arrested in Addis
Ababa in early February 1998 for suspected involvement
with the armed opposition Oromo Liberation Front
(OLF). Reports of torture, “disappearances” and
extrajudicial executions of OLF suspects.
- Interview—“I have never heard of any
convincing reason as to why we should privatize land”
- The Reporter (Addis Ababa), 3 May 2000. The
Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Mr. Meles Zenawi, responded to
questions and remarks by a panel of distinguished Ethiopians
pertaining to issues that relate to the socio-economic
performance of the country during the past eight years.
- Rethinking the Continuing Insanity of Ethiopian
Politics
- By Dr. Fisseha-Tsion Menghistu & Associates, Addis
Tribune (Addis Ababa), 13 October 2000. What exists in
many poor and underdeveloped countries, particularly in many
African countries, is a sham and meaningless sovereignty, which
only protects the interests of the leaders and neglects the
masses of the people. An unprecedented era of mega-mergers and
globalization. Disturbing developments with respect to the
ongoing ethnic politics.