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Political Prisoners Inside Ethiopia’s Gulags
Posted on February 27, 2012, 12:17 am By

Alemayehu G Mariam The Plight of Andualem Aragie and Other Political Prisoners in Ethiopia  The “Gulag” prison system in the old Soviet Union was infamous for warehousing and persecuting dissidents…

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Ethiopia: Dictatorship is State Terrorism
Posted on October 3, 2011, 1:11 am By

Alemayehu G. Mariam Terrorism by “Anti-terrorism Law” Lately, Meles Zenawi, the dictator in Ethiopia, has been rounding up dissidents, journalists, opposition party political leaders and members under a diktat known…

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Out of Touch in the Horn of Africa?
Posted on February 21, 2011, 12:21 am By

Originally appeared in the Huffington Post on  2/20/2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/out-of-touch-in-the-horn_b_825795.html The Berlin Conference of 2009 In 1884, the Berlin Conference was convened by the European imperial powers to carve out colonial…

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