Fwd: VOA Amharic, missing by design ?

Dear VOA Amharic producers,

I followed your Monday broadcast on Internet and I was surprised that VOA Amharic did not cover the protest in front of the State Department on the morning of Feb. 9, 2009. Was it because the protest demanding new policy towards Ethiopia from the new Obama administration was not worthy enough to get your attention ? I hope not, and you were alerted by local radios you frequently monitored that there will be rally and the argument that you might not be aware of it is not also true.

Citizens right to know and your obligation to inform the public especially in a country like Ethiopia where the only news is from government controlled propaganda media  is very crucial and I hope you will inform our people without any bias.

I have also called your listeners line which I enjoyed very much to share my concern to you and millions of Ethiopian listeners back home and worldwide.

                                                                                                                                           Thanks,

                                                                                                                                           Tedla Asfaw

                                                                                                                                            New York City

Arena Tigray in Mekelle

Tedla Asfaw

The first test of Gebru Asrate's Arena Party was on Mekelle and you can go to www.ecadforum.com and listen to what Girmaye Gebru of VOA compiled. Meles' youth tried to break the gathering after smearing those opposing Meles' TPLF as "Amhara lovers". The hate ideology of Meles is not leaving any one including those who sacrificed a  lot for the power of TPLF and are now discarded as "enemies". Ato Gebru and his friends pretty learn what to come on the so called fake election and it is time for all to call for the formation of a transitional government  to replace TPLF and save our country. The "revolutionary democracy" of TPLF is neither revolutionary nor democracy, it is in  black and  white  holing  power for infinity by pitting one ethnic or religious group against the  other. If Gebru Asrat is vilified for speaking in public few years ago in Addis as "enemy" collaborator, Amhara lover, and Judge Birtukan Medeksa  jailed for life  for not saying "Sorry" to the king or Teddy Afro  jailed for not singing for the current king to rule us for life, how is it going be possible to struggle peacefully in Ethiopia ?

Fwd: Rally for policy change towards Ethiopia

Tedla Asfaw

The new Obama administration acting Secretary of African Affairs, Philip Carter , is currently travelling to Ethiopia. Mrs. Clinton, the Secretary of State will officially be to  State Department next Monday and we would like to welcome her.  On Monday February 9  Ethiopians will come together to denounce the last eighteen years of failed USA policy and call for the resignation of Meles Zenawi and his racist party TPLF immediately.

The protest in front of  the State department in D.C. at 10 am is our first in the new Obama administration and all Ethiopians are welcome. The mobilization of Ethiopians in the diaspora is the only option available to help our people realize the May 2005 hope that was squashed by the Meles killing squads.

Moreover, our people are currently living under military decree and can not come out and show their disgust to the ruling mafia for its  financiers, Europe and America. We would like the new Obama administration  help our people exercise their God given rights of free speech and assembly to be respected and not to listen  to our tormentors in power for the last eighteen years..

If we do not see tangible policy of change immediately we will expose this administration like we did in the past by organizing continuous protests until change comes and we are ready for that. Some who discourage us not to participate in anti- TPLF rally by bringing flimsy excuses about who organized the protest and nothing will come out from protest, I will remind them that such excuses are not accepted especially this time  when the grass movement of Americans  succeeded in putting African American for the first time while many including myself were thinking otherwise.

Yes we can influence Obama's policy towards  mother  Ethiopia and what we need is mobilization taking example from  Obama himself, yes our people have shown their readiness like Americans.  We would like to remind also President  Obama that if he had to run for office in Ethiopia by now he would have been  in jail or killed. We hope he will be with the Ethiopian people not with the unelected killers..

Rally for policy change towards Ethiopia

Tedla Asfaw

The new Obama administration acting Secretary of African Affairs, Mark Philips , is currently travelling to Ethiopia. Mrs. Clinton, the Secretary of State will officially be to  State Department next Monday and we would like to welcome her.  On Monday February 9  Ethiopians will come together to denounce the last eighteen years of failed USA policy and call for the resignation of Meles Zenawi and his racist party TPLF immediately.

The protest in front of  the State department in D.C. at 10 am is our first in the new Obama administration and all Ethiopians are welcome. The mobilization of Ethiopians in the diaspora is the only option available to help our people realize the May 2005 hope that was squashed by the Meles killing squads.

Moreover, our people are currently living under military decree and can not come out and show their disgust to the ruling mafia for its  financiers, Europe and America. We would like the new Obama administration  help our people exercise their God given rights of free speech and assembly to be respected and not to listen  to our tormentors in power for the last eighteen years..

If we do not see tangible policy of change immediately we will expose this administration like we did in the past by organizing continuous protests until change comes and we are ready for that. Some who discourage us not to participate in anti- TPLF rally by bringing flimsy excuses about who organized the protest and nothing will come out from protest, I will remind them that such excuses are not accepted especially this time  when the grass movement of Americans  succeeded in putting African American for the first time while many including myself were thinking otherwise.

Yes we can influence Obama's policy towards  mother  Ethiopia and what we need is mobilization taking example from  Obama himself, yes our people have shown their readiness like Americans.  We would like to remind also President  Obama that if he had to run in office in Ethiopia by now he would have been  in jail or killed. We hope he will be with the Ethiopian people not with the unelected killers..