Ethiopian News and Politics Journal
Statements/Press relases
The right to food violated by Meles Zenawi regime
Oct 16th
SOCEPP: The right to food is a basic right that remains grossly violated by successive regimes in Ethiopia. Presently 12-14 million people depend on food handout from international sources and hunger has become a constant and deadly companion of millions. Read More…
Letter to all human rights organizations in Canada
Sep 16th
SOCEPP: Two individuals (one in Toronto and one in Ottawa) who have been illegally using the name of SOCEPP Canada have continued to besmirch the name of SOCEPP and have recently associated themselves openly with political factions calling for a political "united front" against the regime in Ethiopia. Read More…
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Ethiopian refugees in peril in Kenyan Capital
Jul 18th
SOCEPP: Kenyan police have launched raids in Pangani and other Nairobi districts where many Ethiopians refugees live. More than 35 have already been arrested. The justification made for these brutal actions is the need for security, the anti terror campaign and to flush out so called "illegal aliens". During the raid many refugees have been mistreated, beaten and in some cases even robbed by the police. Read More…
Protest against the death sentence on Jemua Ruphael Amen
Jun 24th
SOCEPP: Jemua Ruphael Amen has been sentenced to death by the State controlled court in Addis Abeba. Jenua was the former chief of the planning and economic bureau in Benishangul Gumuz’s regional government and he has been accused of forming the Benishangul Gumuz Liberation Movement and of being trained militarily in Eritrea. The BGLM is accused of killing a number of people and soldiers in the Assossa region. Three other members of the Movement were sentenced to 10 years in prison. Read More…
World Refugee Day: The Worsening Plight of Ethiopian Refugees
Jun 23rd
SOCEPP: As the world observes June 20 refugee day, SOCEPP is sadly obliged to state that the plight of Ethiopian refugees has worsened all over the world. Hundreds of refugees perish in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean as they try to make their way to Yemen or Italy, immigration authorities deny them asylum on the flimsiest of pretexts, Libya holds hundreds in desert prisons, Sudan recently deported 48 Ethiopian refugees to placate the authorities in Addis Abeba. Egypt routinely shoots and kills Ethiopian refugees trying to enter Israel and Israel itself holds dozens of refugees in prisons. Fortress Europe is in place and from London to Oslo, Ethiopians have been denied asylum status and quite a few sent back to a very uncertain fate. Many female refugees have been raped by border police in many places. Read More…
SOCEPP condemns the rigging of the General Election in Ethiopia
May 25th
The ruling EPRDF has won almost all the seats contested in this year's general election and by making the one party state official has once again blatantly violated the right of the Ethiopian people to have not only fair and free elections but to enjoy multi-partism and democracy. The claim by the ruling front that no less than 29 million people voted all over the country is false as people had refused to register and more have boycotted the election altogether as was seen in Addis Abeba itself and many Northern and Southern towns. Read More…
Britain should stop supporting repressive regime in Ethiopia
Mar 26th
Liberation Front of Meles Zenawi (TPLF) when it was in the jungle and fighting for the secession of Tigrai. When the TPLF took over power, following the charade of a
