Ethiopia Human Rights

Ethiopia Detains Terrorist Suspects As Rights Group Criticize Politically Motivated Arrests

AP | Posted 11.05.2011

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- An Ethiopian official says the government is holding 29 people in the capital and other parts of the country on suspicion of ...

A Declaration in Defense of Human Rights in Ethiopia

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Alemayehu G. Mariam

John F. Kennedy said: "Those who make peaceful change impossible, make a violent revolution inevitable." The English colonial government made peacefu...

"C'est la Vie? C'est la Vie en Prison!"

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Alemayehu G. Mariam

When Meles Zenawi, the arch dictator in Ethiopia, was asked about Birtukan's health in his prison on March 23, 20e0, he was comically philosophical ab...

Interview With Birtukan Midekssa

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Alemayehu G. Mariam

Note: Except for elements inserted in the nature of narrative license, syntax and independently established facts, this "interview" is based on Englis...

Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Ethiopian Style

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Alemayehu G. Mariam

You can wrap an old fish (see: dictatorship) in a piece of paper and call it "democracy" but after 20 years it stinks to high heaven.