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Opinion
Introducing Dr. Solomon Inquai
By Kindeya Berhane (April 18, 2003) Con Coughlin, while introducing Saddam to his readers of his book said "writing a biography of Saddam Hussein is like trying to assemble the prosecution case against a notorious criminal gangster." Similarly, assembling the background of Solomon Inquai is a complex enterprise in its totality.
Edu/Tech
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Press Release
It would be better to remedy an abuse rather than making of attempts to cover a blunder with another blunder!(Explanations given to the allegations made by a Senior Official of the Ministry of Information against EHRCO over Radio Fana) April 14, 2003: It is to be recalled that the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) had, on March 21/2003, issued its 61st Special Report entitled "An urgent call for Immediate disclosure of the Whereabouts of People Who Have Been Abducted and Disappeared!" In this Special Report, ...
Analysis
Full statement on Famine in Ethiopia - The Socioeconomic Origin of FamineBy Professor Mesfin Wolde-Mariam, Chairman - The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (at present research fellow, Harvard University, Department of Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. DU Bois Institute for Afro-American Research April 1, 2003 (To: THE U.S. HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Technology
International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering ICECE-2003, Bahir Dar
Dates for the conference : Wednesday 29th October - 1st November 2003
Commentary
"Back to Square One?"By Berhane Habte-Mariam (04/11/03) It is over two years since the guns became silent, after the previous two years’ war between Ethiopia and its problematic neighbour, Eritrea. It is generally believed that almost a hundred thousand combatants died from both sides before the war ended with Ethiopian as the "victor". Badme, the village, which was initially invaded by the Eritrean army and which was after unimaginable bloodshed taken back by Ethiopia, then became synonymous with Adwa, the location of the first comprehensive victory achieved by Ethiopia over the Italian colonialists in 1896. [Source: Addis Tribune]  Photo:Ethiopian flag flies at Badime, March 1999
Commentary
Let Us Reject Defeatism!By A. G.Medhin (April 10, 2003) It is obviously clear that Ethiopia does not have competent, patriotic and courageous leaders to protect its interest against wide range of historical and very determined enemies. Thanks to the current leadership, Ethiopia once considered untouchable and respected in the arena of diplomacy has become a playground of third-rate minds of the international kind.
Public Meeting
To All Ethiopians in North America – A call for a public meeting on the boundary issuePlace: Unification Church, 16 and Columbia Rd., Washington, D. C., NW. Date: 19 April 2003 Time: 1:00 PM Tigrean International Solidarity for Justice and Democracy (TISJD)
Commentary
12 – December – 2000: The Day Shačbia Outwitted EPRDF/TPLFBy Asghedom Ghebremichael "In Ethiopia’s modern history, December 12, 2000 will occupy a very important chapter. This is the day when Ethiopian military, political, and economic victories that would have reaffirmed Ethiopia’s glorious history and ushered regional peace and stability, were aborted. Despite its humiliating defeats at all battle fields in the hands of the Ethiopian Defense Forces (EDF), Shačbia outwitted EPRDF/TPLF in the legal and diplomatic international forra."
Analysis
Ethiopia-Eritrea border ruling versus the international community
By Tseggai Mebrahtu "The fact that this clique has accepted the possible elimination of Ethiopia from existence by legalising secession (whereas no such Constitution exists in the world) should be seen from angle of their long term objective of strengthening Eritrea at the expense of Ethiopia; and if necessary by transforming the latter into an African Yugoslavia." "The Border Commission’s accusation that Ethiopia has jeopardised peace clearly shows how much it wants to overstep its stated mandate as an ad hoc body. The Commission’s mission, as itself has stated repeatedly, is to interpret the terms of reference determined by the “parties”. It does not have any right to talk about peace or war not to mention that it is not competent to decide if peace is jeopardised or not. As far as we know, the jurisdiction to determine whether peace is jeopardised or not belongs to the United Nations Security Council as is enshrined in the United Nations Charter." "It is true that “EPRDF/TPLF” have been waging a relentless war on Ethiopia. But now, as some far-sighted Ethiopians have warned us, it is not impossible that “EPRDF/TPLF” may be preparing to wage war on Eritrea by sacrificing Ethiopians for the third time to liberate the Eritrean people from the inhuman rule of the their president so that they will be in a more comfortable position to bleed and exploit Ethiopia. For “EPRDF/TPLF” leaders, nothing is too much for Eritrea even that means the death of Ethiopia."[Source:EthioMedia.com]
Commentary
Good bye Badme, At Least for Now!By Berhe W. Gabriel The Ethiopian Defense Forces were "deep" inside Eritrean territory. Eritrea's central command at Barentu has collapsed. Tesenei was brought under control as Eritreans continued to flee Mendefera and Dekemhare, having seen Shaebia being hotly pursued everywhere. BBC had to say this about the humiliating defeat Eritrea was enduring when Ethiopia launched its final offensive: ...
Commentary
Peronal opinion as an angry Ethiopian citizen over indescribable but
consistent act of the highest crimes of treasonBy Sisay Haile-Selassie, Former Radio Ethiopia Journalist now in Canada
Checklist: Ethiopian Government position on National issue
.....Moreover, even some maps submitted by Ethiopia not only showed the distinctive
straight line between the Setit and Mareb Rivers, but also marked Badme village
as being on the Eritrean side of that line. The Commission must also observe
that the Ethiopian invocation of the findings of the OAU in respect of Badme in
1998 (Comment, para. 1.4, footnote 4) failed to mention the OAU’s express
statement that those findings did not “prejudge the final status of that area
which will be determined at the end of the delimitation and demarcation process
and, if necessary, through arbitration.”
[
ERITREA - ETHIOPIA BOUNDARY COMMISSION OBSERVATIONS]
4.67:The qualification as to the northern section relates
to Tserona. In its reply, Ethiopia stated that a number of specific places
mentioned by Eritrea as the location of incidents on which Eritrea was relying
were irrelevant, since they were in any event mostly in Eritrea. The words used by Ethiopia were that "Fort Cadorna, Monoxeito, Guna Guna
and Tserona' were " mostly…undisputed Eritrean." While Monoxeito and Guna Guna are on the Eritrean side of the Treaty line
as determined by the Commission, the Commission finds that, on the basis of the
evidence before it, Tserona and Fort Cadorna are not.
[An excerpt taken from the
boundary commission documents (page 50 paragraph 4.69 and 4.70)]
6.9
The Parties agree that the origin of the "sixty
kilometers from the coast" formula was a recommendation by Emperor Menelik in
1897 to Major Nerazzini, the Italian negotiator. Eritrea adduced material to
sustain its contention that from 1897 until the conclusion of the 1908 Treaty,
the "60 kilometres-from-the-coast" formula served as a modus vivendi. Ethiopia
did not contest the existence of the modus vivendi prior to 1908. Ask yourself
why not?
6.13
Eritrea has contended that the 1908
Treaty "effected a delimitation" and that "all that remains to be done is to
apply the Article I delimitation formula to a map of the area." Ethiopia
contested this assertion. Say, thank you.
6.14 The
Commission considers that Eritrea’s contention is not well-founded. …. Moreover,
the boundary which was purportedly "delimited" in 1908 was not a natural
boundary, such as an identifiable river or watershed, but was only a formula,
the application of which required a series of subsidiary decisions on other
critical matters, e.g., the meaning to be attributed to the word "coast" in
Article I, and the point at which the boundary was to commence. To me, it was
not a natural boundary means the whole boundary is open for negotiation, if we
had had the right government who cares for the interest of Ethiopia at heart. We
simply don’t.[
Observation by By Gobezay Wedi-Tigray]
Tourism
Tourism Commission Prepares New Promotion Materials Worth $ 34,500, Ranks One Among Top Five in ITB
In its effort to expand mechanisms to promote Ethiopia worldwide, the Ethiopian Tourism
Commission is preparing new promotion materials mainly brochures worth USD 34,500,
Habtamu Bekele, acting head, tourism promotion department said on Tuesday.[Source:Addis Tribune]
Opinion
The world must take a stand on Sharia lawThe Monitor: "The real problem is that the Sharia law has remained conservative, and mostly barbaric, despite the fact that religion and the law are as dynamic as society itself. Religion and law are supposed to guide society and to enable human beings to live in harmony. Therefore, when these two respected institutions instead connive to bring about injustice and violation of human rights, we might as well say they work to bring insanity in society." |
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Addis Ababa, April 12, 2003 (WIC)- The Ethiopian Government has urged the Ethio-Eritrea
Boundary border Commission (EEBC) to rectify mistakes in the interpretation of
the April 13, 2002 Decision in the process of delimitation.
BBC (April 3, 2003): The Ethiopian Government has expressed its unhappiness after an
International Boundary Commission upheld its ruling that the symbolic village of
Badme lies in Eritrea."