Dear readers:
Tigrai.net has released on May 01, 2001
As we all know Tigrai.net has been suspended for the last one month. But now we would like to inform our readers that Tigrai.net is released on May 01, 2001. Here, the board members of Tigrai.net would like to thank everybody for his/her contribution and support in opening of Tigrai.net.
In releasing Tigrai.net, Yahoo! Geocities Support service wrote,

Hello, and thank you for writing to Yahoo! Customer Care.
We believe that the problem you are experiencing is a transient one that shouldn't persist. The problem may have been caused by our system, by your web browser, or a problem on the Internet between your ISP and us. Whatever the case, we apologize for any inconvenience that it caused.
If you continue to experience the problem, please reply to this message describing it in as much detail as possible, including the steps you take leading up to it, how often it occurs, and the exact text of any error messages that you receive. This information will help us to provide a solution more quickly.
Regards,
Yahoo! GeoCities Support

In general, what is vital now is opening of our web sites. Thus, as usual we will update our web site regularly with new information and great content. We aim to provide you with the best possible selection of Ethiopia current information, news, reference material, and useful functions.
Stay tune and peace!
Best regards,
Tigrai.net Board members!
May 06, 2001

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Tigrai.net has been hijacked since March 31, 2001
Tigrai.Net is a nonpolitical organization, was founded in August 2000 by a group of Tigrians and later able to launch its first web site work in August 2000 (Tigrai.net website address was- http://www.geocities.com/tigrayState). As a group we believe that the Internet technology makes the world smaller and smaller. The ability to communicate and exchange information and across distance has enabled more individuals to participate in the cyber technology regardless of their location. As a result our site purpose was to foster educational and benevolent activities, to preserve and advance the Ethiopia culture, customs, and language using this Internet technology.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN protect our freedom of speech and expression. Tigrai.Net believes that we all have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, and to write our own opinions freely and to counter or write upon the opinions of others. At the same time, Tigrai.net respect other’s copyrights and freedom of expression. However, recently Yahoo - Geocities, our web host provider violates our freedom of speech and expression by removing or blocking Tigrai.net for the reason, which is not clear for us. We tried to contact the Geocities web hosting and we got nothing but deaf ear. Since we are not having an answer why our website is suspended, we would like to inform our readers that our freedom of expression and speech is taking away by Geocities and the group who influenced Geocities to shot down our web site. Currently we are in the process of pursing legal action against Geocities. In the mean time, we would like to ask our readers to help us in providing petition to Geocities why they blocked our web site. Let’s tell them that it is a shame when they violated our freedom of expression in this free country. Let’s tell them that no matter what power and money they have our Constitutional First Amendment must not be violated by them.

As we speak, there are rumors coming from Ethiopia that the Prime Minister office of Ethiopia worked tirelessly in all corner of the globe to block any Information sectors. If these rumors were true, we would like to inform the Prime Minister office to STOP this unethical and illegal action upon others and us. In addition to this, as we specified at beginning of this letter, we would like to clear for everyone that we are not supporters of any political group or organization. Tigrai.net advocates building a democracy nation of Ethiopia. Finally, we would like to inform our readers that we are going to launch Tigrai.net very soon.

Tigrai.net Board members!
April 05, 2001