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  Zenawi's Political Vendetta Will Not Slow Our Quest for Freedom
December 23, 2009 (Press Release)
On November 19, 2009 the kangaroo court of the ethnocentric regime in Ethiopia passed a "guilty verdict" against General Tefera Mamo and another 40 defendants. Five days later, on November 24, the "federal prosecutor" who also is Zenawi's henchman ..............
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  Meles Zenawi, the Man Who Sold Ethiopia Turns His Eyes on Africa
December 22, 2009 (Press Release)
In August 2009, when African leaders selected Ethiopia's notorious dictator to represent Africa in the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, Ginbot 7 expressed its strong opposition and advised African leaders to reconsider their decision. ..............
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  Profanity at the Helm of Diplomacy: The Moral Decay of Meles Zenawi
December 18, 2009 (Press statement)
Last week, during the UN's human rights review session on Ethiopia, the United States' Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, Douglas M. Griffiths stated that: "Independent observers have noted.that most senior government positions are overwhelmingly represented by one ethnicity". ..............
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  Political Moral Hazard For Africans
December 14, 2009 (Press Release)
It is a truism that Africa is the only continent on the planet that has not been industrialized and, therefore, has contributed virtually nothing to climate change. Yet, it'll be severely impacted by the effects of global warming. ..............
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  Zenawi's Secret to Food Security: Selling Land and Begging for Food
December 10, 2009 (Article)
The World Bank, the IMF and the Ethiopian regime annual development reports have highlighted on Ethiopia's higher GDP growth rate over the past 10 years, yet the UN development index and other indices [Misery Index] that measure the well-being of people have declined both absolutely and relative ..............
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  Low Verdict In a High Court - The Political Drama of Meles Zenawi.
November 27, 2009 (Press Release)
Meles Zenawi's kangaroo court handed down a "guilty verdict" against the top leadership of Ginbot 7, Movement for Justice, Freedom, and Democracy. In its farcical trial referred to as "The case of General Tefera Mamo et al", the kangaroo court ..............
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  Torture and State Terror in Ethiopia
November 20, 2009 (Press Release)
While the Soviet-sponsored dictatorship of Mengistu Hailemariam was in power in Ethiopia, torture and other brutal instruments of state terror was the norm. Today, Meles Zenawi's Western donor-supported regime is increasingly resorting to the same type of brutality to control the population and stamp out dissent..............
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  Ethiopia - The Donor Colony
November 16, 2009 (Press Release)
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  Right Message, Wrong Messenger
October 30, 2009 (Article)
In about six weeks (December 2009), government leaders and environment officials from 117 countries will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference to forge an agreement on a new climate treaty that succeeds the Kyoto Protocol. The fundamental objective of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference [COP 15] is to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, ..............
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  Ginbot 7 Strongly Condemns The Illegal Sale of Ethiopian Farmland
August 20, 2009 (Press Release)
The ruling minority regime in Ethiopia has recently announced that it has set aside nearly 3 million hectares of land for sale to foreign companies and governments. The land that is put aside for sale constitutes a substantial amount of the nation's fertile land, which is owned and operated by the Ethiopian people.............
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  Ethiopia's Economic Fallacy, Nominal Growth and Real Poverty
August 13, 2009 (Report)
So much has already been said about the Ethiopian economy and so much more can be said. The TPLF regime trumpets sustained GDP growth, opposition political parties decry bad economic policies that alienate the poor, the IMF questions the pace and scope of financial-sector reforms, and most Ethiopians ask - where is the food?............
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  Yet Another Sham Verdict by Zenawi's Kangaroo Court
August 8, 2009 (Press Release)
The kangaroo court of the illegitimate and ethnocentric regime in Ethiopia has handed down a "guilty verdict" against the top leadership of Ginbot 7, the Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy. In the show trial referred to as " The case of General Tefera Mamo et al" we have witnessed the same old discredited pattern of a rogue regime concocting false charges, ............

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  EFFORT and The TPLF Business Empire
July 13, 2009 (Report)
The Ethiopian economy is controlled by two large interlocking conglomerates: The Endowment Fund For The Rehabilitation of Tigrai (EFFORT) and Mohamed International Development Research Organization Companies (MIDROC), the Saudi billionaire, Sheikh Mohamed Al-Amoudi’s vast business enterprise............

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  The declaration of Afar People's Party (APP)
July 9, 2009 (Press Release)
Ethiopia is home of diverse nationalities with different cultural and religious ties, which is an asset rather than a burden, if it was not for the past and present political suppressions and social injustices....................
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  Systematic and Illegal Abuse of Detainees by the Zenawi Regime
June 17, 2009 (Press Release)
In direct violation of international laws and its own constitution, the Ethiopian government has used abusive physical and mental torture during the interrogation of its recent political prisoners...................
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  The Draconian Anti-Terror Law And The Makings of a Police State
June 15, 2009 (Statement)
Since the ill-fated National election of May 2005, Ethiopia has steadily been sliding from a fledgling democracy to a quasi-fascist ethnic kleptocracy. Indeed, Ethiopia as a nation has gotten perilously close to a lawless state where one man, Meles Zenawi, fully controls the levers of the executive, legislative, and judicial power..................
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  Supporting Ethno-centric Policies is Complicity with Ethiopian Government Crimes Against the Population
June 04, 2009 (Statement)
Ginbot 7 has repeatedly reiterated that with the ignominious defeat of the ruling party, Tigrai People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the May 2005 election, the regime of Meles Zenawi had lost its legitimacy to rule Ethiopia.................
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  The Total Domination of the Ethiopian Army by Ethnic Tigrean officers
May 30, 2009 (Report)
Since day one of its active political life, Ginbot 7 has repeatedly informed the international community that the ethnocentric political and economic policies of the TPLF regime are the primary sources of violence and instability in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa at large.................
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  The Case of the "Coup Plotters": Yet another Example of TPLF's Farcical Justice System
May 27, 2009 (Statement)
As it always happens, in direct violation of its own constitution and international human rights obligations, Meles Zenawi's regime continues to hold over 40 detainees incommunicado...............
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  Statement On The First Anniversary of The Establishment of Ginbot 7
May 15, 2009 (Press Release)
May 15th is a historic day of revitalization and courage for all freedom loving people of Ethiopia. Moreover, May 15 is a day of awakening and resolve that brought Ginbot 7 to the Ethiopian political scene.............
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  Ginbot 7 calls on the free world to stand with Ethiopians in their struggle against the Tyranny of Meles Zenawi
May 13, 2009 (Press Release)
Two weeks after Meles Zenawi’s regime announced the arrest of more than 35 military and civilian officials; more people are rounded every day and taken to Addis Ababa’s notorious prison (aka Maekelawi). ............
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  Meles Zenawi's Regime Recent Panic Is Not Without Cause
May 7, 2009 (Press Release)
The recent accusation by Meles Zenawi 's clique of an alleged "coup" attempt led by Ginbot 7, which in a matter of days, was revised and heralded as an "assassination" attempt is a vivid indication of a very serious internal danger that the regime has begun to face. The only objective of the confusing and the constantly changing statements coming from the Prime Minster's office is to distract Ethiopians and the international community from seeing the real crisis engulfing the regime...........
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Ginbot 7 Press Release
April 25, 2009 (Press Release)
Following this morning's announcement by the ruling party in Ethiopia, the Tigrai People's Liberation Front (TPLF) claiming that it has foiled an attempted plot by Ginbot 7 to over throw its regime, our movement has been receiving inquiries and clarifications from a number of media outlets..........
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Ginbot 7: on the withdrawal of Meles Zenawi's troops from Somalia, January 4, 2009; Read full press release

Ginbot 7 condemns Meles' regime brazen disregard for the rule of law and human rights, 30th Dec, 2008 Read full press release

 
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