Welcome to Ethiopian American Forum

Home

Ethiopian American Forum

Open Letter to Senator Russ Feingold, Representative Donald Payne, and to all Members of the Congress of the United States.

If the concern of Al Mariam and his supporters were truly in the best interest of Ethiopia, there is no need to have the name of Ethiopia mentioned in those Bills. The same result would have been attained by simply erasing the name "Ethiopia" from both the Joint Feingold Bill and that of Payne's HR 2003. The same ideas contained in both Bills could have been stated as general principles governing all recipients of American money without singling out Ethiopia.

Questions to Prime Minister Meles

To: Our Readers

From: Araya Wolde-Giorgis, Ph.D Chairman, Ethiopian-American Forum

Subject: The questions that were submitted to the Prime Minister

We would like to notify our readers that our Vice Chairman, Ato Yared Bekele Mekonnen went to Ethiopia recently and personally submitted the following questions to the Office of the Prime Minister, H.E. Ato Meles Zenawi and we are hoping to get a response from the Prime Minister shortly. We promise to post the said responses as soon as we receive them. In the mean time, if the opposition or any individual would like to comment on those questions or pose additional questions, we will post on our website without any change as long as they are relevant to the burning issues of our time.

Happy Ethiopian New Year!!

Letter 1

Letter 2

Letter 3

Ethiopia's Response to Human Rights Watch's latest report

Human Rights Watch's latest report: a political agenda

It should be no secret that Ethiopia regards Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports on Ethiopia with concern. HRW has demonstrated, over several years, clear evidence of deliberate bias and numerous errors of fact. Ethiopia has raised questions about HRW's coverage a number of times. It has had no satisfactory response, nor indeed any response at all. HRW's latest report - Collective Punishment: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in the Ogaden Area of Ethiopia's Somali Regional State - demonstrates exactly why Ethiopia has consistently complained about HRW's aims and intentions: the display of a political rather than a human rights focus, the seemingly deliberate lack of balance, the extensive lack of background knowledge and of present circumstances as well as numerous inaccuracies, and the failure to investigate the interests and affiliations of its entirely external sources.