I
have no Enemy! Reality or denial?
By Getachew Reda
I am not referring to the
Eritrean Jehovah Witnesses who defied the1993 Eritrea's referendum and
declined participating in the military service claimed they do not have
enemy base on their religion. These once I am talking about are Ethiopian
peaceful opposition top leaders. Read
More......
Democracy
Activists Disappeared in Ethiopia since 1991
Voice of Concerned Ethiopians, Vol.1, No.1, 2008
IEWO
Radio on our global cultural weaknesses
Statement from the Kinijit Support Forum in Atlanta (Amharic Pdf)
Thousands
of Political Prisoners still Suffering
SOCEPP - December 27/2007The
release of Danial Bekele and Netsanet Demissie after two years of illegal
incarceration is welcome news but the regime should not be allowed to
cover up the grim fact that there are still more than 35,000 political
prisoners being held without any due process of law. Read
more…
Sweden
kinijit Support Group Press Release in Amharic
Somalia's New Reality: A Strategic Overview
Drafted By: Dr. Michael A. Weinstein
Events during the weeks following PINR's December
11 report on
Somalia have confirmed its judgment that the country has settled into
a chronic condition of statelessness characterized by devolution of
the political community to clan-based solidarities, dispersion of power
to local warlords and insurgent groups, and resultant multi-faceted
conflicts.
Eritrea
accuses Ethiopia of border attack
NAIROBI, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Eritrea has accused Ethiopia of attacking
its security forces this week, describing it as part of ongoing provocation
along their disputed border. Read
more...
Ethiopian
anti-poverty campaigners vindicated by court
Julie
Middleton
26 December 2007 – Ethiopian
activists Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie may face brief additional
time behind bars, as the court today sentenced them to two years and
six months in prison on charges of incitement, despite demands by the
prosecution that they receive the maximum sentence of 10 years. Read
More.....
Read
More.....
CALLL ME BY MY NAME: A commentary on EPRP's split, XXI
Wolde Tewolde, alias Obo Arada Shawl
December
23, 2007: On Friday morning, a day of freedom, I came across of an old
friend by the name of Kebede Essatu, a poet and a revolutionary of a
kind. I always tease him whenever I see him. He had sacrificed his education
for the sake of EPRP and thereby for the sake of the Ethiopian Eway
Revolution. This time he somewhat teased me about the split of EPRP
leadership? According to rumors he said that EPRP leaders have split
and have shared the Party’s asset. Or, he further asked me if
there is a process of reconciliation as he came to read it on websites. Read
More.....“
Treason,” “Attempted Genocide,” “trying to overthrow
the government with unconstitutional means” does any of these
sound familiar...?
A
former Prosecutor, Alemayehu Zemedkun, takes on the case of Netsanet
Demissie and Daniel Bekele
Netsanet
Demissie and Daniel Bekele are victims of TPLF/EPRDF government well
orchestrated plan designed to send a chilling message to all Non Governmental
Organizations (NGO) across Ethiopia that empowering seventy seven million
Ethiopians to exercise their freedom of speech, respect for individual
Human Rights, providing an understanding of basic given individual rights
which are all essential for democratic aspiring institutions will ultimately
result in consequences and severe repercussions. Their case is unprecedented
given that both are not even members of any political parties.
Meles Zenawi lies again
on Somalia
EPRP Statement
The Meles Zenawi diatribe against the UN and its
agencies is not new as the tyrant has proved himself to be a determined
liar. As he denies the catastrophic situation in Somalia, we remember
that he had denied the massacre in Gambella ("fiction") and
is still trying to pull the wool over our eyes to coevr the brutal repression
in the Ogaden. Read
More.....
Denounce the Ceding of Territory to Sudan
EPRP Statement
The EPRDF regime headed by Meles Zenawi has reportedly
ceded fertile land in Western Ethiopia to the Sudan. People in Ethiopia
have protested against the act but the rulers did not even present the
issue to the rubberstamp parliament but have agreed to the infringement
on the territorial integrity of Ethiopia to gain other advantages from
the Sudan. Read
More.....
Divide and Rule: Ethnic Federalism in Benishangul Gumuz Region of Ethiopia
By Berhanu G. Balcha
The
option picked by the TPLF to solve the political predicament in the
region marked by an egoistic
option that serves the interests of the TPLF. Favouring the minority
group against the majority group is the hallmark of TPL’s Machiavellian
style politics and, above all, it is the political logic of the TPLF:
a rule of the minority over the majority. By favouring the minority
against the majority, the TPLF can get a total submission and loyalty
from the minority. Because, the minority can clearly understand that
without the TPLF’s favour it could not get a privileged and dominant
position by subduing the majority. Of course, this is against theprinciples
of the TPLF’s policy of ethnic entitlement and also in contrary
with the ambiguous and ostentatious
constitution. Read More.....
Jamming of Radios and Internet Blocking: Freedom ofCommunication Violated
SOCEPP
20 December 2007:The authorities in Ethiopia have jammed many radio
stations broadcasting from abroad to Ethiopia and blocked Ethiopian
web sites and blogs, altogether. Among the radios jammed using equipment
brought from China we can cite the Amharic program of Deutschewelle
and the opposition Finote Democracy Radio and among the popular web
sites blocked by the regime it is possible to mention www.debteraw.com. Read
More....
Ethiopian
anti-poverty campaigners vindicated by court
Julie
Middleton
26 December 2007 – Ethiopian
activists Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie may face brief additional
time behind bars, as the court today sentenced them to two years and
six months in prison on charges of incitement, despite demands by the
prosecution that they receive the maximum sentence of 10 years. Read
More.....
Read
More.....
CALLL ME BY MY NAME: A commentary on EPRP's split, XXI
Wolde Tewolde, alias Obo Arada Shawl
December
23, 2007: On Friday morning, a day of freedom, I came across of an old
friend by the name of Kebede Essatu, a poet and a revolutionary of a
kind. I always tease him whenever I see him. He had sacrificed his education
for the sake of EPRP and thereby for the sake of the Ethiopian Eway
Revolution. This time he somewhat teased me about the split of EPRP
leadership? According to rumors he said that EPRP leaders have split
and have shared the Party’s asset. Or, he further asked me if
there is a process of reconciliation as he came to read it on websites. Read
More.....“
Treason,” “Attempted Genocide,” “trying to overthrow
the government with unconstitutional means” does any of these
sound familiar...?
A
former Prosecutor, Alemayehu Zemedkun, takes on the case of Netsanet
Demissie and Daniel Bekele
Netsanet
Demissie and Daniel Bekele are victims of TPLF/EPRDF government well
orchestrated plan designed to send a chilling message to all Non Governmental
Organizations (NGO) across Ethiopia that empowering seventy seven million
Ethiopians to exercise their freedom of speech, respect for individual
Human Rights, providing an understanding of basic given individual rights
which are all essential for democratic aspiring institutions will ultimately
result in consequences and severe repercussions. Their case is unprecedented
given that both are not even members of any political parties.
Meles Zenawi lies again
on Somalia 
EPRP Statement
The Meles Zenawi diatribe against the UN and its
agencies is not new as the tyrant has proved himself to be a determined
liar. As he denies the catastrophic situation in Somalia, we remember
that he had denied the massacre in Gambella ("fiction") and
is still trying to pull the wool over our eyes to coevr the brutal repression
in the Ogaden. Read
More.....
Denounce the Ceding of Territory to Sudan
EPRP Statement
The EPRDF regime headed by Meles Zenawi has reportedly
ceded fertile land in Western Ethiopia to the Sudan. People in Ethiopia
have protested against the act but the rulers did not even present the
issue to the rubberstamp parliament but have agreed to the infringement
on the territorial integrity of Ethiopia to gain other advantages from
the Sudan. Read
More.....
Interview on Diaspora Paltalk Room with the victims' families of the
June 2005 massacre by Agazee soldiers under the command of Meles Zenawi 
Divide and Rule: Ethnic Federalism in Benishangul Gumuz Region of Ethiopia
By Berhanu G. Balcha
The
option picked by the TPLF to solve the political predicament in the
region marked by an egoistic
option that serves the interests of the TPLF. Favouring the minority
group against the majority group is the hallmark of TPL’s Machiavellian
style politics and, above all, it is the political logic of the TPLF:
a rule of the minority over the majority. By favouring the minority
against the majority, the TPLF can get a total submission and loyalty
from the minority. Because, the minority can clearly understand that
without the TPLF’s favour it could not get a privileged and dominant
position by subduing the majority. Of course, this is against the 
principles
of the TPLF’s policy of ethnic entitlement and also in contrary
with the ambiguous and ostentatious
constitution. Read More.....
The
Second Coming of Christ - the Final Judgement - the EPRP to be blamed
by the Dawes?
By Selam Demeke
First
of all, please allow me to express my sincere condolence to the
families, friends and followers of our Late true Father, Like Tebebt
Ayalew Tamiru. I will never forget his famous Book – ‘Mech
Telemedena Ketekula Zimdina?’. I will never forget his relentless
prayers and spiritual struggles against the puppets of the Woyanes
from the Hierarchy of the Holy Synod. He set the highest moral standards
and examples, for which he paid heavy sacrifices, even including
his Pensions at his dying age. May Our Almighty God Rest His Sol
in Heaven, in Peace! Read
More.....
Prof.
Al Mariam's response to statements made by Ethiopian "government"
lobbyists DLA Piper
Dear
Mr. Klein:
I write this letter to challenge recent statements that you have
personally made in a radio interview, and other statements 
made
by your firm on behalf of your client the “Government of Ethiopia”.
In these statements you and your firm make certain factual assertions
about political conditions in Ethiopia, and inaccurately characterize
the legislative intent of H.R. 2003 (“Ethiopia Democracy and
Accountability Act of 2007”. I believe a number of statements
that you and your firm have made concerning political conditions
in Ethiopia and H.R. 2003 are grossly inaccurate; and other statements
reflect a reckless disregard for the truth. Read
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KNA
- Regarding Kinijit Delegation to the US
A Good Political Culture
Frew Anteneh
A
good researcher of any kind first completes his experiment on paper
and executes it to get a good result. If experienced enough, will
be able to see or determine the result from they way it is planned.
Good planning, good result, bad planning bad result. If enough care
is not taken, the experimental work can be arrested in the middle
due to a number of reasons. The same is with politics.
Read More
Malaria
will kill over 300,000 kids this year in Ethiopia
All Africa
Some 344,000 children under five will die of preventable causes
including malaria in Ethiopia this year, the United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday. Read
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Media
Watchdog Criticizes Ethiopia's Press Freedom
VOA
A
senior researcher at Reporters Without Borders, Vincent Brossel,
said
the Ethiopian government's inconsistent actions are destroying the
credibility of the country's justice system, and that their release
does not signify any move toward press freedom. Read
More.....
OUR
SONG
Sing
the song
the eternal chant of our people
the funeral dirge.
A lamenting "kirar"
and a falsetto voice
the song of survival.
Read two poems from Hama Tuma's EATING AN
AMERICAN AND OTHER POEMS (1995).....
THE
GEMORAWS SHAME & Dr. TAYE WOLDE SEMAYAT. Etu Brutu?
By Yilma Begashaw
Julius
Caesar had a very famous and loyal General called Brutus (like Gebriye
of Theodros). During his last moment Caesar was hand-cuffed, tortured
and bled. At this critical moment of his suffering and sighs, he
saw his loyal army General approaching. He thought that the General
was approaching to give him the usual comfort and protection. Instead,
Brutus pulled out his majestic sword and pushed it into Caesar‘s
heart. The totally surprised and dismayed Caesar uttered a last
word before he fell on Brutus‘s shoulders - ‘Etu Brutu?
- Meaning, ‘And you, too, Brutus? Read
More.....
Woyane’s
Mission of Manipulating Ethiopians of Wolqait and Tegede Origin
Failed Miserably
Community Organizers, August 18, 2007
Two TPLF officials who called for a meeting on August 18, 2007 in
Columbus , OH failed to reach their goal of dividing the people
of Wolqait and Tegede. After an hour or so of diatribe and exaggerated
statistical report on developments on the region, the participants
took the advantage to maneuver the attention to the most dire and
urgent issues of freedom and democracy in their homeland.
Read More.....
Ethiopian
government frees 32 opposition members from prison
ADDIS
ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) -- Ethiopia freed 32 opposition members
Saturday who had been
held without charges since a disputed 2005 election led to violent
street protests, a senior
official said. ... But global anti-poverty campaigner ActionAid
said at least two activists, including one of its own staff, remained
in prison facing charges of "outrage against the constitution."
They were not released, the aid agency said, because they refused
to sign a formal apology. "They ... continue to defend their
case. They declined to join the others in an appeal for a pardon,"
ActionAid spokesman Julian Filochowski said in a statement, adding
that they were "prisoners of conscience". Read
More.....
The
Phony OLF Lacks Distinguishing Between Truth & Falsehood
By Getachew Reda
As I explained to my readers in the past, OLF is not political,
but criminal entity. For well over a quarter
of a century, the organization as a faculty for group of myth dreamers
& mercenaries, it demands the dismemberment of the Oromo society,
its human affairs with its God made fabrics and relations with the
rest of their Ethiopian brothers and sisters.
Read More.....
KINIJT
Leaders expected to arrive in the U.S. on August 29, 2007
For immediate release, August 17, 2007
The Ad Hoc Coordinating Committee for Coalition for Unity and Democracy
(CUD) Leadership Delegation
Visit to the United States is pleased to announce the
scheduled arrival in the U.S. of six top Kinijit leaders on August
29, 2007. Read
More.....
The
International Ethiopian Women's Organisation (IEWO) Radio, 12 August
2007
James Swan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
African Affairs
Volcano
erupts in Ethiopia's Afar state, 2 missing
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A volcano has erupted in Ethiopia's remote
Afar region, leaving two people missing and forcing hundreds to
leave the area, the state news agency said on Wednesday. Read
More.....
THE
REPRESSION IN THE OGADEN MUST BE STOPPED
Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian
Political Prisoners (SOCEPP), August 14/2007
The
regime in Addis Ababa is benefitting from the diplomatic and political
support of certain countries
that have liked its role as a foot soldier in the so called "war
on terror" and it has taken this opportunity to spread terror
among the people in Ethiopia. One of the main targets of its wrath
are the Ethiopian Somalis living in the Ogaden. Read
More.....
The
Farce of a Pardon
By
Hama Tuma
Meles
does not rival Bush in giving us gems of Bushism but he does, to
his credit or discredit, try. Take his recent statement that the
released CUD party leaders cannot regain the parliamentary
seats they had won in the last election after “boycotting
the parliament for two years”. Where were these alleged boycotters
for the last two years? In the prison Kaliti where Meles had thrown
them! How can they boycott when their very right to be free had
been boycotted and they had to suffer in Kaliti? The tyrant enjoys
such statements as his aversion to fact and decency has for long
been known. We did cross the border but we never invaded Somalia
was what he said at one time. We killed many peaceful demonstrators
because our riot police had no training and rubber bullets, he had
said at another time. He can declare the Sahara is a rice paddy
and Fogera a mountain gorge. What we call in Ethiopia a man who
has washed his eyes with salt and lies outright. The tendency to
play out history as a farce maybe a symptom for some particular
malady which, I admit, I do not know the name. No doubt though,
it is a malady. Meles Zenawi is sick and that is no joke.
Read More…..
US
moves to shut Eritrean mission
BBC
The
United States has ordered the closure of Eritrea's consulate in
California, in a sign of worsening
diplomatic relations. US embassy officials in the Eritrean capital,
Asmara, say the decision is due to a string of restrictions imposed
on its embassy. In response, Eritrea has accused the US of an unjust
and unfriendly policy. Relations between the two countries soured
after US-backed Ethiopia entered Somalia to fight Islamist forces.
The BBC's Peter Martell in Asmara says the closure will affect the
Eritrean government's attempt to collect a 2% income tax on Eritrean
expatriates in California - an important source of income. This
row is the latest in a series of tit-for-tat measures the countries
have imposed on each other. These include Eritrean demands to inspect
confidential diplomatic bags against international conventions,
as well as imposing visa restrictions - claims rejected by Eritrea.
Let
us celebrate The Ethiopian Millennium in the Sprit of Love and Unity!
CCEM Press Release, August 13, 2007
As
the countdown to the Ethiopian millennium approaches, representatives
of Ethiopian civic and political organizations as well as those
from the Business community in the Washington DC area are organizing
one of the most festive and reflective celebrations to mark
this important historic event from September 7 to 12, 2007.
Read More.....
War
crimes 'rampant' in Somalia
BBC
All
sides have committed war crimes in Somalia's conflict this year,
according to lobby group Human Rights Watch. It says the worst abuses
have been by Ethiopian soldiers, who are supporting the government
against insurgents. Ethiopians have often indiscriminately attacked
civilian areas and looted hospitals, its report says.
CALL
ME BY MY NAME:
A commentary
Wolde Tewolde alias Obo Arada Shawl, August
13, 2007
In 1986, a group of Ethiopian graduate students were enrolled
at the University of Virginia Tech. On the first week of college
day, we attended a conference on “Futuristic” seminars.
The futurists explained at length on countries that would progress
and regress. In the end they enumerated those countries without
future. Ethiopia was listed as a futureless country. At that moment
all my Ethiopian colleagues left the conference, as they were upset.
I stayed not only until the question and answer session but also
even after the conference has formally closed. I had to get a real
explanation for their prediction. Having talked to some of them,
I found out it was based on shallow reasoning and scientifically
or statistically untenable.
By
Obang Ujilu
(Note
from the Editor: We publish the above
article for discussion sake and invite the professor and others
to reply)
Watch website on HR2003
Note to the Editor: EACA would like
to strongly encourage you to urge your readers to go to the website
of Washington Watch and vote in favour of HR2003. Such tallies are
examined not only by "regular" interested individuals,
but also by staffers in Congress engaged on or interested in public
opinion about this bill. Currently, the tally is 72% in favour of
HR2003 and 28% in opposition to it. By encouraging your readers
to go to the site and vote, we can dramatically increase the in-favour
tally and demonstrate to visitors of Washington Watch across America
that there is tremendous citizen support behind the bill. The website
is: http://washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_2003.html
Leakey
calls Lucy skeleton tour 'prostitution'
The Associated Press, August 10, 2007
NAIROBI,
Kenya: Ethiopia's dispatching of the Lucy skeleton on a six-year-tour
of the United States is akin to prostituting the fragile, 3.2 million
year-old fossil, paleontologist Richard Leakey said. The Lucy skeleton
— one of the world's most famous fossils — was quietly
flown out of Ethiopia earlier this week for the U.S. tour. Leakey,
one of the world's best-known fossil hunters, is not the first to
criticize what some see as a gamble with an irreplaceable relic.
The U.S. Smithsonian Institution also has objected to the tour,
and the secretive manner in which the remains were sent abroad has
raised eyebrows in Ethiopia, where the public has seen the real
Lucy fossil only twice. "It's a form of prostitution, it's
gross exploitation of the ancestors of humanity and it should not
be permitted," Leakey told The Associated Press in an interview
Friday at his Nairobi office.
EDITORIAL:
Time Overdue for the Release of Debteraw
and His Comrades
There
are reports that the Meles regime may release some 13,000 prisoners
for the New Year and of these some may very well be long time held
political prisoners. It is proper to call for the release of Debteraw
and his comrades held since 1991. Proper also to call for the release
of the thousands in Dedesa, Zwai, Bir Sheleko, in secret prisons
in Tigrai and other regions. Read
More.....
Listen
to the IEWO Radio Programme for 05 August 2007
Scientists
warn that hominid 'Lucy' is too fragile for six-year US tour
By David Usborne
Palaeontologists
in Ethiopia and in the United States were expressing alarm yesterday
following confirmation that the fossilised bones of the world's
famous hominid, "Lucy", were on their way from Addis Ababa
to a museum in Texas for a six-year tour of American cities. Read
More.....
Famous
Fossil Lucy Leaves Ethiopia
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer
ADDIS
ABABA, Ethiopia - After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of
the world's most famous set of fossils was quietly flown out of
Ethiopia overnight for a U.S. tour that some experts say is a dangerous
gamble with an irreplaceable relic. Although the fossil known as
Lucy had been expected to leave the Ethiopian Natural History Museum
this month, some in the nation's capital were surprised the departure
took place under cover of darkness with no fanfare Sunday.
Read More.....
SOCEPP
Objects to illegal execution of Major Tsehaye W. Sellasie
August
6, 2007:
The regime of Meles Zenawi has executed Major Tsehaye Wolde Sellasie
who had been convicted of shooting to death the former security
chief Kinfe Gebre Medhin in 2001. The trial of the Major was neither
fair nor proper and SOCEPP had objected to this in time. Read
More.....
Ethiopia
executes spy boss killer
BBC
A major in the Ethiopian army has been executed for murdering the
head of the intelligence and security services six years ago, the
authorities say. Read
More.....
Of
Lies, Promised Joy, “Shimagles”, Pardons and Bananas
Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam 8/6/2007
“If
they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth
about them.”
Note
to the reader:
The following analysis may appear be a bit long for the casual reader
of internet literature. I am told that “people do not read
long political analysis” (and perhaps even short ones as Prof.
Ephraim Isaac has proven to us). But I have been overwhelmed, as
many have been, by a systematic and clever disinformation campaign
calculated to mislead and deceive us about recent events in Ethiopia.
We must fight back lies with Truth, and I hope the reader will take
the time to read and consider my defense of the Truth against an
avalanche of lies and deception that have been unleashed against
us recently. Read
More.....
CALL
ME BY MY NAME:
A debate with Debteraw, XV
Wolde Tewolde alias Obo Arada Shawl, August 3, 2007
Debteraw Team in its Web Page has launched a second step –
posting -the pictures of the leaders of struggle who not only reject
the TPLF’s way of governance but also defy death to save Ethiopia
and Ethiopians. How many of us do we know about this leadership
and followership? What kind of Azmatches/zematches were they? What
were their personal background, their common cause, their common
bond and their political experiences? It is high time to know them
closely. Hurray – Bravo – Congratulations to Debteraw’s
team.
Read More.....
We
are all the Losers: Looking at the Effects of the Ethiopia–Eritrea
Border Dispute
By Maru Gubena
(This paper was written in early 2000, and was published in Ethiopian
Review Magazine and other Ethiopian newsletters at that time. Although
the text is almost a decade old, the issues analyzed are still current
and fresh. Read
More....)
Verdict
On Ethiopian Campaigners Fixed For October
ActionAid UK
Judges
trying the case of two anti-poverty campaigners in Ethiopia yesterday
(Thursday 2 August) adjourned the trial until 8 October, when the
court will give judgement. Read
more.....
VIOLATIONS
OF RIGHTS OF BETTE ISRAELIS—RAMPANT RACISM CONDEMNED
SOCEPP - AUGUST 2/2007
A
recent example of the rampant racism and violations of rights to
which Bette Israeli (”Ethiopian
Jews”) are subjected comes from Petah Tikvah where some 80
recent immigrants from Ethiopia have been denied the right to go
to schools. Outwardly, the reason given is that the Ethiopians have
not finished their ”conversion process” while the real
reason seems to be their their skin color. Read
more.....
Four
more Ethiopian journalists sentenced;
SomaliNet
New
York, August 2, 2007—Ethiopia’s High Court handed down
heavy prison sentences to four journalists jailed in connection
with their coverage of deadly post-election unrest in 2005, after
the journalists waived their defense and pleaded guilty in anticipation
of a pardon, according to local sources. All of them worked for
now-defunct Amharic-language weeklies.
Read
more.....
It
won’t be Far to Hear Mr. Yamamoto Repeating Mr. Cohen’s
Regret for Supporting the TPLF/EPRDF?
By Getachew Reda
At
the end, after all, there were skillful Diplomats before you who
meddled in the affairs of Ethiopia in 1991. They all regret to support
Meles Zenawi, and it will not be far that you too will be heard
on CNN and VOA addressing your regret for supporting Zenawi as others
did it before you. Read
more.....
ETA UNDER ATTACK
Wondimu Mekonnen
There
is a disturbing news development in the premises of the Ethiopian
Teachers Association, in Addis Ababa, this morning, 02 August 2007.
Read
more ....
Africa:
Focus on Ethiopia and Eritrea" 
Ethiopian
Socio-Cultural Rules Require Fundamental Change: A Case from my Bag
of Childhood Memories
