Governments that censor lose the moral authority to govern. Throughout history, authorities who have reverted to news suppression and harassing dissent have one thing in common, they use the lie of security to nullify privacy and free speech. Such is the case in Ethiopia where Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s regime has shed its reform agenda and embraced the repressive tactics of Hailemariam Desalegn, Meles Zenawi and Mengistu Hailemariam.
Yesterday afternoon, journalist Mesganaw Getachew was arrested on trumped up charges using the ever amorphous “Anti-Terrorism Proclamation”—egregious laws that were implemented by the previous TPLF junta—because Mesganaw had the temerity to record an interview outside a courthouse in Addis Abeba. Remember when PM Abiy promised a new day in Ethiopia,released all political prisoners and swore to respect and preserve a free press? That was so 2018 ago. Abiy has taken Ethiopia back to 2008 as he targets journalists for daring to question government positions.
For the past 44 years, Ethiopia has been shrouded under the blanket of fear, suspicion and repression ushered in during the Derg era, perpetuated by the TPLF and now embraced by the OLF/ODP led Ethiopian government. In Ethiopia, one is safe to stoke ethnic tensions and foment violence the way that Jawar Mohammed does as long as one does not question the Federal government’s plans and policies. However, if one is of a different ethnicity and...continued...
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Re: Crisis in Ethiopia: “Anti-Terrorism” is a Euphemism to Silence Dissent and Abrogate Journalism
Look at this lie lover! Does it matter to you that the solomonic dynasty myth has been dispeled by Amhara historians themselves? Are we to consider you a media who insists on championing a lie as part and parcel of your logo? Can a poor, quasi-empire of ethiopia afford to be a perpetual ground of experiment for every lie loving wannabe who struggles for personal identity and significance in the name of journalism? I personally dont think so!
Your arrogant lies do not end with your outright historical distortion, but continues aggitating catch phrases that pulls society into a detached mental state that you chose to live in! It continues with the selfloathing pronouncement that ethiopia's government is an OLF government when the fact remains that a disproportionately represented 36 member EPRDF runs the country's major decisions!
And yes, the world has a pax-chino-american order which has in-effect doubled the world economy while holding inflation at bay, all the more it remains malaligned and Judio-stigmatized by functionally illitrate, parasitic elite who wont generate a dime worth of employment for society at large! Here, it remains a fact that a large portion of these so demonized institutions are being run by africans themselves; IMF africa's Abebe Amrosillasie a worthy of mention. If you havent noticed, no one is demonstrating, nor is the system apologizing...less you, oversocialized and self-loathing group who insist that we owe you our minds in exchange for your lies!
Wushetam!
Your arrogant lies do not end with your outright historical distortion, but continues aggitating catch phrases that pulls society into a detached mental state that you chose to live in! It continues with the selfloathing pronouncement that ethiopia's government is an OLF government when the fact remains that a disproportionately represented 36 member EPRDF runs the country's major decisions!
And yes, the world has a pax-chino-american order which has in-effect doubled the world economy while holding inflation at bay, all the more it remains malaligned and Judio-stigmatized by functionally illitrate, parasitic elite who wont generate a dime worth of employment for society at large! Here, it remains a fact that a large portion of these so demonized institutions are being run by africans themselves; IMF africa's Abebe Amrosillasie a worthy of mention. If you havent noticed, no one is demonstrating, nor is the system apologizing...less you, oversocialized and self-loathing group who insist that we owe you our minds in exchange for your lies!
Wushetam!