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Written by Socepp-Canada
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OTTAWA - A panel of Canadian lawmakers, government officials and human rights activists said in a communique that Birtukan Mideksa and all other political prisoners in Ethiopia should be released immediately and without preconditions. The ruling group in Ethiopia should negotiate with opposition parties like the 8-party coalition Medrek and other overseas-based groups on issues of human rights, democratization and the rule of law, the panelists said in a statement. Expressing fear that a fair and free election may not be held in the country, the joint statement said a new mechanism should be put in place to monitor the conduct of the elections. |
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Written by Rev. Tegga Lendado, PhD
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 What bothers me most is the apathetic silence of the religious leaders more than the adamant insensitivity of Bertukan’s captors. Once again, I am making this plea as, neither a political nor a humanitarian activist but a concerned servant of Christ advocating for truth, justice, peace and reconciliation. It is yet another plea to the government of Ethiopia to release Ms. Bertukan whose pardon was revoked subjecting her to re-imprisonment and solitary confinement for simply telling the naked truth in a foreign land. It might have not been ‘politically correct’ at its best, but unnerving truth to the core. My approach is not only from a Christian social ethics and practical SHIMGILINA role but also from purely apolitical compassion. |
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Written by Dawit Addisu
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 Mrs. Birtukan Mideksa, an Ethiopian native, a pioneer female politician, a judge, and a single mother is languishing in one of the Ethiopian government’s myriads of jails serving a life sentence. Her offence? Not intimidated by Ethiopia’s tyrannical regime’s bullying and not afraid of its silencing tactics, she was waging a peaceful struggle to bring freedom and democracy to her people, accountability from the powers that be, individual rights for all citizens, and legal protection for all unlawfully detained political prisoners. In short, at the time of her detention, she was fighting to bring about a peaceful political change in that troubled part of the world.
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