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THE CELEBRATION OF MAY 15, 2005
Kinijit North America Editorial Support - May 11, 2007 Millions of honorable Ethiopian held a peaceful rally in Addis Abeba on May 8, and stood in queues for long hours with dignity on May 15, 2005. They rejected Zenawi and the TPLF/EPRDF and elected the Kinijit to govern them. Though their vote was not respected by the gun totting TPLF EPRDF Party militia, we celebrate the solemn determination of the Ethiopian electorate. Ethiopians have demonstrated their stubborn patience to change the current untenable condition through peaceful means. The TPLF/EPRDF ought no to confuse their patience for fear. We honor the indomitable Ethiopian spirit for freedom that was displayed by the peaceful act of the electorate. They have made May 15, 2005, a day that will live in glory in the annals of Ethiopian history. Full Text

Views & Analysis I, May 2007
China & US in Cold War over Africa’s Oil- Analysis
Somalia Sinks as the Wrorld Looks Away - Analysis
Somalia: a failing counter-terrorism strategy Opinion
Africa's Strategic Importance to US Is Growing US Info
US Policy Shapes HR Progress in Ethio - Amnesty Int
Responsible US Policy Towards Ethiopia - Dr Peter P.

Andenet Pick of the Week
Waging War Vrs Waging Peace - Must View

23rd Holy Synods of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Video of 23rd Holy Synods of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in exile lead by his Holiness Patriarch Abune Merkorios, Los Angeles Kidest Mariam Orthodox Tewahedo Church, CA Click to View

The Last Word: UN Envoy John Holmes This is the worst single displacement of people this year anywhere in the world. Newsweek May 18 Issue - Few foreign officials dare to go into Mogadishu. But as Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs for the United Nations, John Holmes felt compelled to visit Somalia's capital last week after the government and Ethiopian forces claimed that their four-month long campaign against Islamist insurgents had finally pacified the city. During the fighting, 2,000 Somalis were killed, and 365,000 people fled the capital—making it the worst violence in Somalia's 16 years of war and turmoil. News Week

Analysis: U.S. Highlights Bloggers at the UN, While Keeping Them from Amb. Khalilzad
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN - 05/03/07 The inquiry takes place in the wake of reporting on a European Union expert's April 2 e-mail warning to Eric van der Linden, the chief EU official for Kenya and Somalia, that: "there are strong grounds to believe that the Ethiopian government and the transitional federal government of Somalia and the African Union (peacekeeping) Force Commander, possibly also including the African Union Head of Mission and other African Union officials have through commission or omission violated the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court." Full Text

Analysis: ''Somalia Falls into Political Collapse''
By Dr. Michael A. Weinstein - 05/03/07 The Ethiopian-T.F.G. offensive in Mogadishu has broken the stasis, but has not stabilized Somalia and the Horn of Africa. Divisions and tensions are surfacing and deepening within and between actors at all levels, making further conflict and fragmentation likely. By leaving Somalia to collapse, however, Western powers are inviting its instability to spread beyond its borders. Washington, in particular, has staked its wager on Addis Ababa, which might turn out to be a "bad choice of allies." Full Text

Analysis: ''Somalia Falls into Political Collapse''
By Dr. Michael A. Weinstein - 05/03/07 The Ethiopian-T.F.G. offensive in Mogadishu has broken the stasis, but has not stabilized Somalia and the Horn of Africa. Divisions and tensions are surfacing and deepening within and between actors at all levels, making further conflict and fragmentation likely. By leaving Somalia to collapse, however, Western powers are inviting its instability to spread beyond its borders. Washington, in particular, has staked its wager on Addis Ababa, which might turn out to be a "bad choice of allies." Full Text

FH: Press Freedom Declines in Horn & E Africa
All Africa: Africa: IMF in Policy Shift

A HOPEFUL ETHIOPIA IS INDEED POSSIBLE
By Dr. Almaz Zewde, Contributed Commentary to KNA Editorial: April 28, 2007 Given the determination of Kinijit leaders and the overwhelming majority of Ethiopians to pay all necessary sacrifices, to stop this mad tyranny, one has every reason to be hopeful that freedom is at our door step. BUT FOR FREEDOM TO BE REALIZED SOON, WE MUST ALL STEP UP AND CONTRIBUTE OUR BIT TO HELP THE PROCESS ALONG STARTING TODAY.
Full Commentary

Not about the disciples, it is about the movement
By HG, Contributed Article to KNA Editorial: April 25, 2007 The time to place all hands on deck on ship Kinijit is now. The time to encourage Ethiopians and to safeguard their interests is now. The time to call on all armed forces of Ethiopia to guard against the probable fratricidal armed conflict among Ethiopians is now. Full Cont. Article

Bush's Somalia Strategy Enables an Ethiopian Despot By Paul Wachter, Feb 13, 2007 - It may be too early to tell what, if anything, has been accomplished by the recent US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, but at least on the streets of Addis Ababa one thing has become clear. Here in the Horn of Africa, as elsewhere, Washington is all too happy to overlook the undemocratic excesses of a dictator who will do its bidding in the "war on terror." Full Text

The Bridge from Tyranny to Democracy Kinijit North America Support Editorial Board. - April 1: The Ethiopian people are of varied ethnic groups who lived together for centuries. Well over 80 different ethnic groups peacefully coexist within the geographical boundary of Ethiopia share common Ethiopian nationality and citizenships. The past and present political leaders of Ethiopia, however, have committed errors by adhering to misguided politics and philosophy. As a result, the poor citizens of Ethiopia are suffering from starvation, malnutrition, and seemingly endless political instability.
KNA Editorial Board.

Concerning the so-called "Joint Call for Peace and Reconciliation" by an assorted group. Kinijit North America Support Editorial Board. - March 25: The tyrannical Woyane regime habitually postpones passing a verdict through " the court" after it brought trumped-up charges and incarcerated the most honorable Ethiopians, whom the Ethiopians overwhelmingly elected to govern them on May 15, 2005. It is in these trying times that some Ethiopians pulled away from the Diaspora Kinijit support unit and formed a splinter group under a so-called KIL (Kinijit International Leadership). The KIL recently used the name of Kinijit and in conjunction with individuals and groups came with a strange "declaration."
KNA Editorial Board.

Climate Matters
By Prof Habte Giorgis Churneth, March 2007 - Our knowledge on weather phenomena is increasing substantially. We have responsibilities to make farmers know about the climate on which they depend for their livelihood. The summer rainfalls or dry episodes result from the interaction of the different weather systems. Ethiopia should expect flooding during the summers in these days of Global warming. Farmers should be encouraged to plant trees that would help reduce the floods and to construct basins for catching flood waters that would help them get water during the long dry months. Full Text

Media Criticism: The Lies of the Times: NYT Pushes Bush Line on Somalia
By Chris Floyd,an American journalist: April 25, 2007
This is the "news" about Somalia that the New York Times believes is "fit to print": lies and spin about yet another war of aggression being fought at America's behest, with American money, troops, arms and bombs. Full Text

Somalia, It Just Gets Worse: The Economist: 04/26/07
This is all bad for Ethiopia. Morale among its troops is dropping; some have deserted. Another war with Eritrea is in the offing, along with terrorism by separatist and Islamist groups at home. The Economist

Analysis: Ethiopia and Eritrea - Apprehending the Algiers Agreement Must Read By Lillian West, March 2007 - At the end of the day, the Algiers Agreement remains at a win-lose sum game position viewed from the national crucial stance of the two disputing nations; that is to say, Eritrea (on the win-side of the political game) will be energized to keep Ethiopia landlocked and anticipates maintaining Ethiopia dependent and vulnerable. Ethiopia loses both its access to the sea and its Afar population inhabiting the Assab port vicinity. In this respect, what is Ethiopia gaining or about to gain from this agreement, judged especially from the standpoint of the over hundred thousand lives that perished, serious casualties and untold destruction it sustained since 1998? ... Full Text

Analysis: Somalia on verge of worst crisis ever, UN officials say
IHT By Jeffrey Gettleman Published: April 23, 2007
NAIROBI: United Nations officials say that Somalia, which has gone 16 years without a central government, is headed toward its worst crisis ever. More than 320,000 people have fled Mogadishu, the capital, since heavy fighting erupted in February. Many are now trapped in wet, squalid camps ringing the capital, with relief efforts severely hampered by the increasingly dangerous conditions. Full Text

Analysis: ''Somalia Seized with Stasis''
By Dr. Michael A. Weinstein, April, 2007
Having engineered the conventional military defeat of the I.C.C., Addis Ababa and Washington now face a militant Islamist insurgency, an overt Hawiye opposition and an I.C.C. political wing backed by Eritrea. The T.F.G. remains weak and unpopular, the Europeans are becoming disenchanted with the T.F.G., Uganda is out on a limb, Kenya is out of action, potential contributors to AMISOM are lying back, and the regional and international players are divided on the definition of reconciliation and the advisability of an Ethiopian withdrawal. There are no honest brokers -- every actor is compromised -- and the domestic players will only pursue reconciliation on their respective terms. Full Text

Melkam Fasika - Happy Eastern
Letter from Kinijit's (CUDP) Chairman, Engr. Hailu Shawel, to the Ethiopian People

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Opinion: The Algiers agreement - A trap without exit

Articles on Somalia, Jan- Feb -
Opinion: There and Back Again in Somalia
Urael Blog: Ethiopia/Somalia: a new Black Hawk Down
Opinion: Clan politics dictate the future of Somalia
Opinion: Is Somalia Doomed to Repeat History?
Opinion: More Blood for Oil
Analysis: Somalia and Ethiopia: a new front in the ‘long war’

Analysis I: US forces on terrorism proving 'disastrous' for Horn of Africa
By KEVIN J KELLEY, East African Special Correspondent Feb 26 2007 - United States foreign policy is sometimes driven by a single, dangerous “big idea,” says a new publication, The Silence of the Rational Centre. It was its all-consuming anti-communism that plunged the US into the abyss of the Vietnam war, and it is today’s anti-terrorism fixation that has led to the conflagration in Iraq, say international affairs scholars Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke in the book, which is filled with what The New York Times calls “persuasive and valuable observations.”
Analysis II: Somali reconciliation distant hope, talks needed By C. Bryson Hull Sun 25 Feb 2007 - Save for Ethiopian soldiers, Somalia's interim government seems to have few friends in the capital Mogadishu. Nearly every day, its soldiers and their well-trained allies suffer rocket, mortar and gun attacks. They blast back with artillery and invariably civilians are killed in the crossfire.
Analysis I | Analysis II

Somalia moving closer to total collapse Analysis, Feb 21, 2007. Somalia is becoming a more violent and chaotic place, though this is not how it was supposed to be. Nearly two months ago, an internationally supported transitional government expelled the Islamist movement that ruled much of the country and steamed into the capital with great expectations. But confidence in the government — never very high — is rapidly bleeding away. Somalia seems to be just shy of total collapse — again — because the Ethiopian troops who provided the muscle to throw out the Islamists have already begun to withdraw, while none of the peacekeepers promised from other African countries have arrived. Analysis I | Analysis II

Knijit North America Letter to State Department Full Text

Bush bombs Africa, no outcry! “I think the policy is wrong. I think that to go in and bomb that country with no authority is wrong,” Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) told The Final Call. “And I believe that we have 450,000 people killed in Darfur, and we won’t even support the UN going in there. And here we have so-called, some suspected al-Qaeda operatives. None of them even Somali
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Must Read Letter! to Meles Zenawi by Getatchew Garedew Amharic Full Text

ZENAWI’S COURT IS LIKELY TO IMPRISON OR KILL THE “YING”, THE NONVIOLENT MOVEMENT AND THE KINIJIT.” KNA Editorial, Jan 31, 2007 Mr. Meles Zenawi had falsely accused the leaders of Kinijit of treason and genocide when he placed them in jail in November 2005, and the court is going to provide a verdict in February 2007. This editorial points to the role Zenawi had played in Ethiopia since 1991,indicates the likely verdict that the court is is instructed to pass, and suggests the meaning of that verdict. Full Text

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Letter to Georgetown Univ. President from KNA Chairman Yosef Yazew regarding his deep disappointment at the Univ. decision to grant the “Legacy of a Dream Award” to Ms. Azeb Mesfin who is Meles Zenawi's wife. Opinion U.N. Sidesteps Military Invasion of Somalia

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