Lij Imru Zelleke, retired Ambassador of Ethiopia, dedicates his life to the national cause and the well-being of his countrymen. Politician, diplomat, orator, negotiator, writer and above all,committed humanist and patriot. Throughout his life, he has actively participated to key historical events, both at home and abroad, acquiring thus a keen insight into the political and social affairs of the world. His writings reflect an unconditional passion for his country and a wealth of historical and political knowledge.

Ethiopia.org conducted an interview with the Ogaden National Liberation Front representative Mr. Hassan Abdullahi

Mr. Hassan Abdullahi is ONLF's Ethiopian affairs and Foreign Relations officer.

Mission Statement   
Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front (EPPF) opposes the current regime's political philosophy, economic policies, social systems and cultural models.

EPPF stands as the vanguard organization committed to implement democracy in Ethiopia and to replace despair with hope, embrace freedom and rise national aspiration.

EPPF will empower the people, to establish good democratic and transparent governance founded upon a people's constitution with freedom and equality for all, without any discrimination on the bases of ethnic, religion, sex, region, etc....

Mohamed Keita is advocacy coordinator for CPJ's Africa Program. He regularly gives interviews in French and English to international news media on press freedom issues in Africa and has participated in several panels.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1981. We promote press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal.

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Leslie Lefkow is senior researcher and Horn of Africa team leader for Human Rights Watch's Africa Division. She has specialized expertise in investigating abuses in armed conflict, humanitarian crises, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa. She has conducted investigations for Human Rights Watch in Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Before joining Human Rights Watch, she worked for humanitarian organizations in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone. Lefkow is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Bryn Mawr College.

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Fikre Tolossa, Ph. D., is a poet-playwright, critic, essayist and educator. His latest book entitled,The Hidden and Untold History of the Jewish People and Ethiopians, as well as his original songs that he himself has composed and plays on the Kirar, will be released soon to the public at large. His film in English, “Multi-colored Flowers” was featured with great resonance in the USA, Canada, Europe and Ethiopia. He has written extensively on Ethiopian history and culture for the past 20 years upholding the banner of Ethiopiansim high, finding common factors that united the peoples of Ethiopia at a time of identity crisis, historical confusion and denial. Dr.FikreTolossa has authored over forty published and unpublished articles and books in Amharic, German, English and Russian. He could be reached at: ftolossa@aol.com

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Professor Getatchew Haile, Ph.D., F.B.A., is Cataloguer Emeritus of Oriental Manuscripts and Regents Professor of Medieval Studies at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library of Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota (USA). He studied theology at the Coptic Theological College, Cairo, Egypt (B.A., 1957); Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo, Egypt (B.A., 1957); and Semitic Philology at the Eberhard-Karls-Univertität Tübingen, Germany (Ph.D., 1962). He taught for over ten years at the Haile Sellassie I (now Addis Ababa) University, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), before he and his family moved to Minnesota, USA, in 1976, where he published several catalogues of Ethiopic manuscripts on microfilm and a few books and many articles on Ethiopian Studies. His latest book is an Amharic autobiography, Andafta Lawgachihu, which appeared in 2008. He is Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Award, member of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Addis Ababa University and member of editorial boards of several international scholarly journals. Professor Getatchew Haile and his wife Weyzero Misrak Amare are parents of six accomplished children and grandparents of seven grandchildren.

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Gregory H. Stanton

Gregory H. Stanton is the President of Genocide Watch.  He is the Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution of George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, USA.  From 2003 to 2009, he was the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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"The fascist intent was to exterminate all life in Ethiopia."
Emperor Haile Selassie I
June 30, 1936

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Artist Tamagne Beyene and Dr. Kassa Ayelew gave brief interview to ETHIOPIA.ORG on the successful demonstration that was held in Washington DC on August 5, 2010. 

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Peaceful demonstration against the policy of China in Ethiopia. 

(pictures courtesy of: Ato Abebe Belew and Ethiopian Review Web site).

Theodore M. Vestal has been a member of the faculty of Oklahoma State University since 1988, serving in the Department of Political Science, where he has been a professor since 1995, and in the School of International Studies. On 1 August 2008, he was granted the title of Professor Emeritus of Political Science. Professor Vestal teaches primarily in the field of constitutional law, with an emphasis on civil liberties and civil rights. His research interests include public law, contemporary Ethiopia, and international education. Dr. Vestal testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa in 1994 on "Ethiopia: The Challenges Ahead."In 2002, Professor Vestal was awarded a research grant from the Oklahoma Council for the Humanities to write a book about U.S. foreign policy and attitudes towards Africa generally and Ethiopia specifically as seen in the North American travels of Emperor Haile Selassie.

Anna Gomes nominated Birtukan Mideksa for  Sakharov Prize

Ana Maria Rosa Martins Gomes, better known as Ana Gomes, GCC, (Lisbon, 9 February 1954) is a Portuguese politician, who suspended her career as a diplomat to enter party politics in 2003. In 2004, she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (Portuguese Socialist member of the European Socialist Party) and was reelected in June 2009. She is married with one daughter, three stepchildren and six grandchildren. To Listen to Her Excellency Anna Gomes's interview with Ethiopia.org Click Below

 "Untold Ethiopian History Revealed"