Author Archives: Assimba

By Yared This commentary is the edited version of an offline discussion with Dr. Getachew Begashaw. It was triggered when G7 and OLF had a meeting in Arlington, VA, on July 10, 2011. The speakers of the meeting were Dr. … Continue reading →

By Yilma Bekele Some of our independent Web sites have put me in a quandary. That is not a good place to be. A certain amount of certainty is a must for rational existence. There have to be stuff that … Continue reading →

A letter to the people of tomorrow  (an uneducated view) Ambassador Imru Zelleke You are in your twenties and thirties, you have grown up in one of the most painful era of Ethiopian history, you have been traumatized by the … Continue reading →

Hama Tuma In the Horn of Africa, History repeats itself always as a tragedy. Famine has come around, the guilty regimes point their fingers at the usual “culprit” drought and the preying vultures that call themselves NGOs and charity organization … Continue reading →

HAMA TUMA A controversial man himself, Kenyan Mutula Kilonzo, has blasted at corruption the hangman’s way.  The corrupt should be hanged, he has recently suggested. This was the only way the vice could be fought successfully, Justice and Constitutional Affairs … Continue reading →

June 27, 2011 By Yelfiwos Wondaya One wonders why one makes such a public call without something on hand to support his plan of action to implement, and even worse the movement absented itself from the event  it claimed to … Continue reading →

            What follows is a brief excerpt from my forthcoming book (planned to be a little over 300 pages), “The Ethiopian Revolution and the Generation of the 1970s: Dreams, Memories and Harsh Realities.” The two … Continue reading →

 By Yilma Bekele “… within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate. From this point of view, propaganda should not approximate to the truth as closely as possible: … Continue reading →

fekadubekele@gmx.de   From the outset I would like to express my frustration that Professor Messay`s article does not have any new substance or cannot be accepted as entailing a thoughtful idea. Those who side with the position of the Professor may … Continue reading →

 Obo Arada Aba Shawl    June 13, 2011 Distortion on IBSA’s profile and belief Introduction I have read Amnewsupdate’s blog “The OLF controversy: Veteran OLF hardliner Ibsa Gutema…”as was posted in Assimba Website. I have also read Obo IBSA’s article titled … Continue reading →