Ethiopia: Diaspora protest PM invitation to G20 Summit in Pittsburg
Published 09/25/2009
- 2:56 a.m. GMT
Credit - getty images
Meles Zenawi and his wife Azeb Mesfin arrive at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Coraopoli
About 100 Ethiopians organized one of the several demonstrations in Pittsburg and protested the invitation of Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to the 2009 G20 Summit in the United States. The protestors asked for the release of opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa and for justice in Ethiopia.
Only leaders of the most powerful countries and economies in the world are invited to the G20 summit. Meles Zenawi is coming to the summit as a leader of the New Partnership for Africa's development (NEPAD) of the African Union (AU).
Meles was reportedly a co-chair of an international meeting in New York over global warming and he has also been selected to represent the African continent at the Copenhagen Climate Change talks.
G20 Delegations began to arrive on Wednesday night while President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama came around 3:30 pm. Meles Zenawi and his wife Azeb Mesfin were the last to arrive at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Pennsylvania for the G20 Summit which will take place on September 24 and 25.
What 100 or are they behind the camera:-) Please don't make a full of yourself! In a country where there are 1000 of Ethiopians to see only this people turning up says alot about what the majority think. 100 what a joke! Because the Ethiopians in Denmark are not showing any interest the one in Sweden are organising a demonstartion. No new faces the same people the same number every where.
The tyrant with a fat belly and with a thin leg looks like an allien it seems that the blood of innocent kids shows up on his physical look and they like to tell us he is 54 (lies as usual)he is at least 65 any way this criminal has never been accepted as Ethiopian leader by ethiopians he hold the nation hostage by gun that he get from bush junior he is simply a clown in international politics who is doing his best to play intelligent by telling to the ethiopian enemys what they like to hear as he has nothing to do with the nation except looting(ZENAWI IS SHIFTA IN ITS BEST FROM JUNGLE)
These 10-20.5 persons are not Ethiopians; they are anti-Ethiopians /though they might be Ethiopians by origin/ whether they understand it or not. But I do not blame them since they do not have little info of their home land.
Please take recall your understanding from the past History which Ethiopia never face this kind of leader which is brilliant & selected from the Hole world , so you
are measuring your self how far you are innocent from the History , we know & compare from the former Governors like Majesty & the Derg Regime !!
You r opposing some body above u. You guys are not Ethiopians. He is representing Africa not only Ethiopia. You cant help it..He will going to do much more change. Protesters there is no genocide in Ethiopia don't let the world to laghe at u pleasesss. Maferia
This people must be ignorant. Conscious people protest against the G20 itself for what they are doing against Africa and underdeveloped world. Meles is not one of them. He is there to protest himself against the group that screw up Africa. G20 killed more Ethiopians. The neftegnas can not look to the detail of things. qiqiqiqi
