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Ethiopia's Zenawi threatens to close Embassy over Birtukan Mideksa case
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is threatening to close his government's Embassy in Sweden due to Stockholm's continued pressure for the release of top opposition leader Judge Birtukan Mideksa, according to local media sources.

Judge Mideksa has been imprisoned for nearly 600 days and supporters say she was denied medical assistance after her long hunger strike. The first woman leader of an Ethiopian political party whose ancestry comes from multiple ethnicities, she has crossed various barriors to become a common national icon and the symbol of Ethiopian resistance against tyranny.

Birtukan Mideksa was the chairperson of the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party, which is the largest opposition group in Ethiopia and a member of the "Medrek" grand opposition coalition. Ms. Mideksa was re-arrested and imprisoned on December 28, 2008 after making speeches to her supporters in Sweden that angered the Zenawi government. When asked about the danger of being re-imprisoned, Birtukan said she was "ready to sacrifice everything for the cause of democracy, justice and peaceful change" in Ethiopia. The Swedish government reacted strongly against her re-imprisonment as Swedish Minister Gunilla Carlsson warned that the "scope for democracy and pluralism is shrinking in Ethiopia" and Birtukan's incarceration is "a source of great concern."

This week VOA also reported that Meles declared the Ethiopian embassy in Sweden will be the first to close due to economic and diplomatic reasons. Currently, Sweden provides development aid, encourages privatization and supports health initiatives in Ethiopia.
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Added: August 15, 2010. 07:51 AM GMT
meles is going crazy
how many embassies will the dictator close?? all woyane embassies in europe/america?

every western government openly or secretly hates him
Adama
Added: August 15, 2010. 08:26 AM GMT
Please STOP CRYING! Meles Zenawi is respected african leader and he brought multi-party democracy to Ethiopia for the first time

VIVA PMMZ!
Gebre
Added: August 15, 2010. 11:58 AM GMT
too bad
bertukan made mistake abandoning her child and mother for imposible dream
Anonymous
Added: August 15, 2010. 12:02 PM GMT
Tip to gebre
Gebre,
your brother Meles is a common street looter leader.
Anonymous
Added: August 15, 2010. 01:03 PM GMT
Waqaraa Bobbasaa
Of course, the direction of the dictator's steps and movements are predictable and crystal clear already from the start and the get go.

He organized a low soul, immoral totalitarian mafia minority bandit group, talking soft and enlisting sympathies at start, and through that treachery attracting supports from some national and international circles, milking resources and buying ARMS while the people were starving to death in mass just in front of his own eyes and the eyes of his so called wayane rebel compradors.

And then, after taking power through immoral manipulations, cunning maneuverings,Satan's treacheries,etc. started to show his true faces over the last 20 years period of brutal dictatorship and robbery, starving 80 million people to death, mass murdering in the east, west, north, south and center.Hmm...

Butchering with DUMDUM bullets some 200 young and innocent Ethiopians in broad daylight on the streets of the capital city in connection with the 2005 election. Totally suffocating, excluding, cunningly outmaneuvering, manipulating and robbing the entire Ethiopian voices in connection with the FAKE 2010 election and owning the so called defunct parliament to himself alone just like he placed all his tigrian military officers at the head and the leadership of all the Army and police departments of the large country he is dividing, enslaving and exploiting.

And now, being entirely overwhelmed by his pathological fear and runaway paranoia for all of his ongoing and bygone multiple crimes, he has now a frail young female lawyer, single mother, shamefully locked up in his well known medieval torture chamber, similar to that of the ex-Cambodian sweat head dictator, POL POT, who became so MAD and out out of his sheer INSANITY bent on exterminating ordinary poor people and building high barbed stone and wire walls around foreign embassies, preventing them from moving out and expelling some from the country. The Ethiopian dictator is also following the foot steps of the ex-Cambodian dictator, though trying to buy time through cunning temporary manipulations of dividing domestic and international oppositions as well as playing the fashionable but worn out cards of the totally ill defined"anti terrorist" front, currently high jacked by brutal dictators dictators bent on dehumanizing legitimate oppositions while monopolizing power and enriching exclusively only themselves.

Remember the fact that Ethiopia under the 20 years of TPLF dictatorship is the worlds poorest country next to Niger. Mind boggling!

Is keeping a young and helpless female lawyer in torture chamber and threatening foreign donors and embassies the solution? ):
Anonymous
Added: August 15, 2010. 02:13 PM GMT
This tyrant is like a mad dog. He bites all those who fed him.
Driba
Added: August 15, 2010. 04:51 PM GMT
ignorant persone
THIS PERSON DID NOT GROW IN COFINDENT PPL. HE IS SELFISH AND AROGANT. HE DID NOT CARE ABOUT THE PPL OF ETHIOPIA BUT HE CARES ABOUT HIS POKKET AND HIS POWER. GOD BLESS ETHIOPIA
NEGA
Added: August 15, 2010. 06:45 PM GMT
sweeden
What is sweeden? does it contribute anything to anyone?

i dont even recognize it as a country.
Anonymous
Added: August 15, 2010. 10:46 PM GMT
Dictators don't of suffering people
He never stop closing embassies even if that hurt the interest of the country. He does't care about poor people vanishing due to poverty. He just think how to cling to power and snatch from the poor. The history will judge and those participating in this criminal act will face a consequence. Lets united and fight at all cost.
Madda
Added: August 15, 2010. 11:22 PM GMT
@Below Commenter
For the idiots, blind supporters and looters. Here is the Swedish nurses sacrificing to help desperate people in Oromia. But you are telling us that the Sweden has contributed nothing to Ethiopia. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd4n72jDvFk&feature=player_embedded .....Watch it you; you bloody liar.
Of course, you may applaud them if they have assisting Tigrians.


Sweden all it is a country that serving its people at all cost, and a successful country as a result unlike the poorest country on the Planet. Sweden is a country where there is almost not relative and absolute poverty, and one of the most equal income distributions. It provides equal as well as comprehensive access to education and health care.

You simple-minded people degrading our country and our people. We are suffering. On the other hand, you are looting and getting rich. Enjoy until right time will come.
Madda
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