{"id":70151,"date":"2018-01-07T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T01:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almariam.com\/?p=57721"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:44:39","slug":"t-tplf-playing-political-football-with-political-prisoners-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/70151","title":{"rendered":"T-TPLF Playing Political Football with Political Prisoners in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almariam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Football-2.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe \u201cLF\u201d in TPLF stands for Lie Factory. Melies Zenawi was the chief executive officer of the TP Lie Factory.<br \/>\nWith last week\u2019s announcement of the so-called \u201crelease of political prisoners\u201d by the T-TPLF, I am absolutely convinced the TPLF is a factory for lies, damned lies and statislies (statistical lies).<br \/>\nFor a decade and half, the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People\u2019s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) regime boldfacedly claimed it holds no political prisoners in Ethiopia.<br \/>\nThe late thugmaster Meles in 2006 boldly declared \u201cThere are no political prisoners in Ethiopia.\u201d He repeated his barefaced lie claiming, \u201cNobody has been imprisoned for criticizing the government. No one,\u201d except, of course, criminals bent on \u201coverthrowing the duly constituted government by unconstitutional means\u201d and \u201cpushing the country towards chaos\u201d. [&#8230;] <a href=\"http:\/\/almariam.com\/2018\/01\/07\/t-tplf-playing-political-football-with-political-prisoners-in-ethiopia\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cLF\u201d in TPLF stands for Lie Factory. Melies Zenawi was the chief executive officer of the TP Lie Factory. With last week\u2019s announcement of the so-called \u201crelease of political prisoners\u201d by the T-TPLF, I am absolutely convinced the TPLF is a factory for lies, damned lies and statislies (statistical lies). For a decade and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-ift","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263985,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70151\/revisions\/263985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}