Thursday, September 5, 2013
From home to anywhere …..
By Meron Admasu | September 4, 2013
The Ethiopian regime intensified the killing, imprisonment and persecution of the Ethiopian civilian population. Thousands of innocent people were forced to flee their homes and became refugees in the neighboring countries of Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, and all over the world.
The Ethiopian government has also actively pressed neighboring countries to abduct Ethiopian refugees. There have been evidences that refugees who have been forcefully returned to Ethiopia from neighboring countries have been persecuted upon return. The refugees had the history of facing torture, rape (women) and imprisonment on the basis of the imputed political views and membership in the other political parties. The case of Engineers Abebe and Chemeda, and numerous other cases, is a testimony to the fact that such action of returning and refugee – abductions are in violation of major regional and international human rights laws, treaties and refugee protocols.
Many Ethiopians are left with no other option than leaving the country; At least half of the more than 2.5 million refugees fleeing Ethiopia are Oromo.
The main reason Why Ethiopian people being refuge
The restrictions on freedom of expression and association through politically motivated trials and convictions of opposition political figures, activists, journalists, and bloggers, as well as increased restrictions on print media, no separation of state and religion in Ethiopia, problems included arbitrary killings; allegations of torture, beating, abuse, and mistreatment of detainees by security forces; reports of harsh and at times life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention; detention without charge and lengthy pretrial detention; a weak, overburdened judiciary subject to political influence; infringement on citizens’ privacy rights, including illegal searches; allegations of abuses in the implementation of the government’s “villagization” program; restrictions on academic freedom; restrictions on freedom of assembly, association, and movement; alleged interference in religious affairs; limits on citizens’ ability to change their government; police, administrative, and judicial corruption.
Most of Oromo people jailed and tortured on suspicion of belonging to Oromo political organizations. Without exception the refugees decided to leave Ethiopia only after being subjected to torture or imprisonment or after a close friend or family member had been killed or jailed “indefinitely”. Recently stepped up military action by the TPLF dominated junta has caused still more refugees to flee.
What ways do they use to migrate?
Many of them mistreatment, abuse, or torture among people who make the journey by smugglers boats in the process of this forced migration, many Ethiopians cry for being victims of illegal and inhuman organ trade (trafficking) in sinai and other dessert s. Quite many cry falling in the fierce Jaw of beasts while crossing jungles. Others risk their life crossing dangerous sea and ocean waves on worn out boats under the shadow of death; and many of them cry while capsizing to be buried under sea bed or becoming live preys for sharks.
Ethiopia government security forces have been actively abducting refugees and Asylum seekers in third countries such as Djibouti, Somaliland and Kenya.
After years in refugee camps many Ethiopian refugees are able to reach the different county through the assistance of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United States government.
There have been evidences that refugees who have been forcefully returned to Ethiopia from neighboring countries have been persecuted upon return returning mandated and non – mandated refugees without trying them in a court of law in the country providing asylum and convicting them has posed credible dangers to the lives of those forcefully returned.
What happen during migration?
Ethiopian migrants tell of torture and rape in Yemen the Ethiopian teenager survived a treacherous boat journey being smuggled across the Red Sea. But on reaching Yemen was kidnapped and driven at gunpoint to a mud brick house. They got beaten and they raped them at gunpoint. The women get raped and the men are burned. They break bones take people’s eyes out.
Our sisters living in Middle East and Arab countries are crying under the shackle of modern slavery; being denied their wage for the harsh labor work they are subjected for. Some become victim of boiled oil by their employers and cry bearing life threatening burns and scars on their face and bodies. As if these are not enough to bear on their weak shoulder, many of young girls are being raped without their consent and become hopeless to get any legal protection or justice.
–Meron Admasu
IS TPLF LEADING THE COUNTRY OR EXPANDING IT’S BUSSINESS EMPIRE?
Firehiwot Guluma Tezera
Firehiwot Guluma | Sept 4, 2013
Since the dictator TPLF seized power, it has been clearly engaged in massive corruption and unethical business practices by national or international business rules. As a ruling party, it not only owns strategic sectors of the economy and engages in commercial and trading activities, it also puts competing private sectors in a hopeless no-win situation. This preponderant economic dominance is also used as a political weapon to harass, incarcerate, dominate, weaken and control opposition forces in order to stay in power indefinitely.
The TPLF, the core political power of Ethiopian government, has transformed the Ethiopian economy from State ownership to the private ownership by political parties, mainly the TPLF, by buying investment assets formerly owned by the government of Ethiopia, as prescribed by the World Bank Report and political coercion by the United States Government. At the same time, the TPLF has also started a huge investment program of its own through sham corporate structures. For example, the TPLF controlled Endowment Fund of Rehabilitation of Tygrai (EFFORT) is a conglomerate with an asset estimated well over a billion Ethiopian Birr involved in business investment in all aspect of the Ethiopian economy.
It was established by expropriating capital equipment from different parts of the country and by the infamous defaulted bank debts. Currently there is no business sector that is free from the involvement of EFFORT. It stretched from production to distribution, from finance to insurance, from wholesale to retail, from real-estate to horticulture, from mining to IT. Peculiarly, this trade empire hasn’t ever been audited by external auditor nor repays the loan it borrowed periodically.
Surprisingly, almost 99.9% of the employees in these innumerable companies of EFFORT are Tigrian; which means that majority of the economy is occupied by either the Tigrian private companies or by the extractive trade empire called EFFORT; and they primarily privileged job opportunity for Tigrians. As the complete cycle of economic dominance and privileged labour market portrays, we are under a severe economic genocide. The following tables show TPLF companies under EFFORT.
Companies with investment capital of < 20,000,000 Million Ethiopian Birr
| Company Name | Yr.Est(EC) | HQ | Capital | Board chairman |
| Selam Transport | 1995 | Mekele | 10,000,000birr | Arkebe Ekubay |
| Segel Construction | 1995 | Mekele | 10,000,000birr | Araya Zerihun |
| Mega Net Corp | 1995 | Mekele | 10,000,000birr | Alemseged Gebreamlak |
| Hitech Park Axion Association | 1995 | Mekele | 10,000,000birr | Shimels kinde |
| Fana Democracy plc | 1995 | Mekele | 6,000,000birr | Negash Haile |
| Express Transit | 1995 | Mekele | 10,000,000birr | G/selassie Gidey |
| Ethio Rental Axion Association | 1995 | Mekele | 10,000,000birr | Atikilt Kiros |
| Dilate Brewery | 1995 | Mekele | 15,000,000irr | Kahsay Tewolde Tedla |
| Dessalegn Caterinary | 1995 | Mekele | 15,000,000birr | Dr.Maru Erdaw |
| Addis Consultancy House | 1995 | Mekele | 10,000,000birr | Sibhat Nega |
| Birhane Building Construction | 1995 | Mekele | 10,000,000birr | Bereket Mazengiy |
| Total Capital | 116,000,000birr |
Companies with investment capital between 20-49 Million Ethiopian Birr
| Company Name | Year Est (EC) | Capital | HQ | Board Chairman |
| Sheba Tannery Factory Axion Assoc | 1995 | 40,000,000 | WUKRO | Abadi Zemu |
| Meskerem Investment | 1995 | 40,000,000 | Axum | Tewodros Ayes |
| Africa Insurance Axion Association | 1995 | 30,000,000 | A.Ababa | Yohannes Ekubay |
| Global Auto Sparepart | 1995 | 26,000,000 | A.Ababa | Teklebirhan Habtu |
| Experience Ethiopia Travel | 1995 | 26,000,000 | Mekele | Tony Hiki |
| Addis Engineering consultancy | 1995 | 25,000,000 | A.Ababa | Arkebe Ekubay |
| Hiwot Agricultural Mechanization | 1995 | 25,000,000 | Mekele | Yohannes Kidane |
| Berhe chemical Axion | 1995 | 25,000,000 | Mekele | Abadi Zemu |
| Rahwa Yibenal Fiyel Export | 1995 | 25,000,000 | Mekele | Yassin Abdurahman |
| Star Pharmaceuticals | 1995 | 25,000,000 | Mekele | Arkebe Ekubay |
| Tesfa Livestock | 1995 | 20,000,000 | Mekele | Yohannes Kidane |
| Total Capital | 307,000,000 Birr |
Companies with a paid-up capital of >50.000.000 Million Ethiopian Birr
| Company Name | Year Esr(Ec) | Capital | HQ | Board chairman |
| Almedan Garment Factory | 1995 | 660,000,000 Birr | Mekele | Abadi Zemu |
| Mesfin Industrial Company | 1995 | 500,000,000 Birr | Mekele | Arkebe Ekubay |
| Mesob Cement Factory | 1995 | 240,000,000 Birr | Mekele | Abadi Zemu |
| Almeda Textile Factory | 1995 | 180,000,000 Birr | Mekele | Abadi Zemu |
| Sur Construction | 1995 | 150,000,000 Birr | A.Ababa | Arkebe Ekubay |
| Trans Ethiopia | 1995 | 100,000,000 Birr | Mekele | Shimelis Kinde |
| Dedebit Saving & Loan | 1995 | 60,000,000 Birr | Mekele | Atkilit Kiros |
| Ezana Mining Development | 1995 | 55,000,000 Birr | A.Ababa | Tewodros H. Berhe |
| Addis PharmaceuticalsProduction | 1995 | 53,000,000 Birr | A.Ababa | Abadi Zemu |
| Tana Trading House Axion Association | 1995 | 50,000,000 Birr | A.Ababa | Sibhat Nega |
| Total Capital | 1,868,000,000 Birr |
Companies that did not make their paid-up capital public.
| Ambassel Commerce | Dinsho Share Company | Tigrai Tagai Association | Brook Chemical Share Company |
| Dashen Beer Factory | Express Ethio Travel Service | Tigrai Development PLC | Computer Networking Technology |
| Amhara Meleso MaquaQuam | Berhan Building Construction | Star Pharmaceutical Importers | National Electromechanical |
| Saba Emnebered | Guna Trade Services | Biftu Dinsho | Oromia Credit Bank |
| Adwa Flour Factory | Wendo Trading | Shala Advertisement | National Geo-Textile |
| Trans Ethiopia | Tikal Agri Tigrai | Walta Industry | Alage Forest Products |
| Sebhat Nega PLC | Addis Transport | Tikur Abbay Transport | Martha poultry |
| Dima Honey Processinf plant | Zeleke Agricultural Mechanization PLC | Beruk Tesfa Plastic Factory | |
| Aberdele Animal Export Company | Maichew Particle Board |
*Some Board Chairmen might have moved within the parastatals.
*The amount shown on the tables above are initial start-up capitals. The total net worth of the parastatals has quadrupled.
Table Source:Ginbot 7
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