Archive for year 2012

Associated Press(02 November 2012): As midday prayers came to an end at the Grand Anwar mosque in Ethiopia’s capital, worshippers continued on to what has become a regular second act on Fridays — shouting anti-government slogans.  Read More…

By Hama Tuma:  American ambassadors to Ethiopia have worked hands in glove with the dictator. The latest was the tennis partner of Meles. Shinn said in his blog, along with Rice, that they had had their differences with Meles who was, come what may, like Caesar, an “honorable man”. Not very funny at all. However much America tries to talk of human rights and concern for democracy the reality is that America is just interested in her own national interest and has embraced and would embrace dictators faster than fast so long as they are under its diktat. The Chinese do it as do the European countries.  Read More…

Open Democracy:  In seeking respect for the principle of secularism, strict separation between Church and the State, they draw on enlightenment rationality. They also employ theological and subversive genres—subversive in the postmodernist sense of the term. They chant ‘Allahu Akbar!! [God is great], they carry the white ribbon, and appropriate non-verbal modes of expression to expose and counter the narrative of the state.. Insofar as terrorism figures as a significant trope in the strategy of the state, the protestor’s strategy aims at ‘disruption’ i.e., disrupting the state’s narrative of violence and terrorism, and therefore denying it the very weapon it needs to justify its own violence against protesters.  Read More…