Ethiopian Americans living in DC metro began 2012 with Candle Light Vigil demanding the release of political prisoners in Ethiopia and asking the Obama administration to stop its support to tyrants ruling the country for over 20 years.
The Ethiopian gathered outside the White House for a candlelight vigil on January 1, 2012 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
March 4 Freedom  stated that the reason for holding Vigil on the on New Year’s day was to renew the commitment to the struggle for human rights, press freedom, social justice and democracy in Ethiopia.
It is the nature dictatorial regimes to get more desperate and brutal when their days are numbered. At a time when the winds of change have been dismantling the pillars of power in North Africa and the Middle East, dictatorial regimes are making a last ditch effort to forestall popular uprising through brutal repressions and scorched earth tactics.
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Washington — A large crowd of Ethiopian-Americans, Ethiopians, and friends of Ethiopia gathered Sunday evening at the White House to bring to the attention of the Obama Administration to the recent wave of politically-targeted arrest of many Ethiopians by Meles Zenawi under the guise of fighting terrorism.
Today’s vigil hosted one of the biggest crowds DC had in the recent past.
The Ethiopians urged the Obama administration to stand with the people of Ethiopia in its struggle for democracy, freedom, justice, and equality. More report to follow!
Photo By Tewodros Mekebeb & Yesuf Ibrahim from Ethiotube.net
Urgent Media Release
Ethio-American Muslim Ad-Hoc committee
Contact: Sadik Ahmed, Public Relations
Phone:Â +1-202-569-8455
E.Mail: fhfhumanright@gmail.com
No to Violations of Ethiopian Muslims Right by the Ethiopian Government!
We, the Ethiopian/American Muslim Community in the Washington Metropolitan Area, are gravely concerned about the Ethiopian government’s interference in Ethiopian Muslims’ religious affairs by imposing a religious sect of its choice.
According to different media outlets and Ethiopian government officials, the government sponsored Lebanese and Syrian nationals who are alien to Ethiopian Muslims’ religious cultures and ways of life started the indoctrination of the Muslim populace with the choice of theology of the government’s like. Lately, the violation of Ethiopian Muslims’ religious rights intensified in most public spheres. Officials who work closely with the government informed the media in Ethiopia about the plan to train (indoctrinate) close to 30,000 imams throughout the country by violating its own constitution as a secular government and forcing students and their parents sign documents agreeing not to wear the religiously mandated head scarf (Hijab) or perform the religiously mandated prayers even though the official stated policy permits them to do so. As part of this plan of intimidation, the government announced the arrest of over 500 Muslims religious leaders and activist in the town of Assandabo in Oromia region.
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