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LIBERTY voice CHANNEL: The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia... : The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia By almariam        Author’s Note : This is the third installment  [1] in a seri...

The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia By almariam        Author’s Note : This is the third installment  [1] in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in Ethiopia”. The twin aims of the series “Apartheid in Ethiopia” are: 1) to demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt that the political system created and maintained by the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF)  is a slightly  kinder and gentler ethnic form   of the racial apartheid system practiced by the white minority regime in South Africa before the establishment of black majority rule, and 2) to engage Ethiopia’s Cheetah (younger) Generation in broad and wide ranging conversation, debate and discussion necessary for the creation of the New Ethiopia cleansed of ethnic apartheid. In the series, I aim to go beyond mere critical political and legal analysis and intellectual and...

Ethiopia: Activist charged after anti-govt Facebook posts (Agence France Presse)— ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The ex-spokesman for Ethiopia’s main opposition Blue Party has been charged with inciting violence and being a “ring leader” of a banned rebel group after he criticized the government on Facebook. Yonatan Tesfaye, who has been jailed since December 2015, in one message accused the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) of using “force against the people instead of using peaceful discussion with the public.” He was referring to the authorities’ response to protests that have rocked the Oromia region in Africa’s second-most populous nation. Home to some 27 million people, Oromia encircles Addis Ababa and stretches over large parts of the rest of the country. It has its own language, Oromo, distinct from Amharic, the language of Ethiopia’s government. The demonstrations began in November against a government plan to expand the boundaries of...