SOCEPP:  The regime of Meles Zenawi has made a mockery of justice throughout the process of what it called the Red Terror trials and it has now capped this with its arbitrary pardon of no less than 16 confirmed top criminals while it continues to hold 35,000 political prisoners in its dungeons and prison camps.  Read More…

By Rami G. Khouri:  … Every time I run into a Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan, Syrian, Bahraini or Yemeni, I ask them how they refer to their own political actions. Their answer is an almost universal, “Revolution” (or thawra, in Arabic). And when they refer to the collective activities of Arabs across the region, they often use the plural “revolutions” (or thawrat).  Read More…

Interview with Tazebew Assefa, from the EPRPYL leadership