Ethiopia: War crimes and genocide indictment inevitable for sadist thug Workneh Gebeyhu

May 20, 2013

Workneh Gebeyhu

Since he ordered kids following their parents to anti-government rallies to be shot and killed, millions in Ethiopia regard him as a very insane man endowed with evil powers to maim and murder the innocent and the defenseless.

Just looking in to his merciless gaze with blank cruelty of a cannibalized warlord sends shivers down the spine of his enemies. Since his master Meles Zenawi died Federal police boss Workneh Gebeyhu has been in sullen and vituperous mood; raging against any opposition to the TPLF.  The most feared and hated man in Ethiopia, never seen smiling or talking without angrily raising his fist and punching the air, TPLF warlords see him as an ideal replacement for the self-exiled gun and sex crimes maestro, Bisrat Amare of Columbus Ohio in the US.

The iron lady of murky Tigre politics, former first lady Azeb Mesfin still adores Workneh for his ability to defend the TPLF hierarchy and for the role he played in protecting her late husband Meles Zenawi for more than two decades. Read more…

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Change looms for Ethiopia’s ancient salt trade

By Siegfried Modola

Reuters/Reuters – A camel caravan carrying slabs of salt travels away from the Danakil Depression, northern Ethiopia April 22, 2013. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola

May 17, 2013, HAMAD-ILE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Abdu Ibrahim Mohammed was 15 years old when he began trekking with caravans of camels to collect salt in a sun-blasted desert basin of north Ethiopia that is one of the hottest places on earth.

Now 51 and retired, he has passed his camels to his son to pursue this centuries-old trade in “white gold” from the Danakil Depression, where rain almost never falls and the average temperature is 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34.4 Celsius).

But the tradition of hacking salt slabs from the earth’s crust and transporting them by camel is changing as a paved road is built across the northern Afar region.

Although the road being cut through the Danakil Depression is making it easier to transport the salt, the region’s fiercely independent local salt miners and traders are wary of the access it might give to industrial mining companies with mechanised extraction techniques that require far less labour. Read more…

The Evil Strategies of Land Grabbing in the Southern Part of Ethiopia

By Assefa Getachew | May 16, 2013

The historical impacts of land-grab in Ethiopia were characterized by brutal conflicts, cultural
extinction, and even genocide through mass killings. The war of occupation and land-grab in the
last decades of the nineteenth century resulted in the death of about five million people in
Southern Ethiopia (OSA 2013). The current problems associated with land-grab are especially
complex in Southern Ethiopia; the local people are not represented in the government of Ethiopia
that is dominated and led by TPLF. Mistrust between TPLF leaders who come from the North
and the Southern peoples of Ethiopia is rampant, shaped by a bitter history of war, occupation,
cultural domination, and inherited hostility. The non-Tigrayan population of Ethiopia sees the
decision of the TPLF regime as a deliberate and conniving move to dismantle the cultural fiber
of the South and expand Tigrayan cultural and economic domination. Land-grab is indeed
perceived among the Southern Ethiopian population as a hostile trap targeting their most sacred
property, their land. Read more…