We’re asking you to help us identify the people who were at the TPLF demonstration on Thursday 5. August in front of the White House and State Department in Washington DC!
Die-hard supporters of TPLF were there, as well as hodams with investments in Ethiopia who slavishly showed up upon receiving written request by TPLF representatives to attend, for fear that TPLF will otherwise take away their business. Demonstrators were given blue and red “uniforms” and several were flown in on expensive flights from other U.S. states, paid for courtesy the taxes of impoverished Ethiopians in Ethiopia, and by Al Amoudi’s blood money.
The demonstration looked hardly different in type (though very different in size!) from the forced rally TPLF organised after the 2010 “elections”: Then as well as here, they screamed anti-Human Rights Watch slogans, expressed their love for Meles, and praised the repression against Ethiopians as a flourishing democracy, in the best Orwellian tradition. One had to be in a coma to have been fooled by the pro-TPLF websites which stated that the rally is all about “national questions” such as the Nile water. But if some had indeed been in a coma, they woke up to the real story at the latest when they saw the anti-HRW signs and heard the We Love Meles chants.
So the supporters of Ethiopia’s brutal ruling clique wanted to attract public attention and media coverage for their demonstration on Thursday at the White House and State Department? Well, they got it! We’re giving them all the media attention they can dream of, up close and personal. Especially the hodams, who in this country of liberty could have stayed home but attended the pro-repression rally in the hopes of getting favourable business deals for their investments back home.
Please write us at joinus@march4freedom.org if you know the names and resident cities of the TPLF supporters. You may also enter the information in the comments box by clicking on the pictures. When emailing us, please indicate the person you are referring to by the photo’s number or the link to the photo location. We will daily update this site with incoming names, and will check all name and city information to make sure it is correct, before posting.
Thank you!
To view the pictures of all TPLF supporters and loyalists (hodams), you may visit our pictorial presentation by clicking here.
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Unity Toronto
Greater Toronto Area and surrounding regions is home to thousands of Ethiopian Canadians. Early settlement begun in great numbers as far back from the early 80s following Derg’s red terror campaign and armed rebel groups displacing local populations. The influx of refugees to Sudan from Gondar, Eritrea and Tigray in thousands prompted western governments to implement an unprecedented resettlement programs at a larger scale. The Canadian people have since hosted at least 50 thousands of immigrants of Ethiopian origin who have chosen this great vast country home for starting and raising families pursue and advance careers and ultimately retire. Currently, we see Ethiopians in all walks of life at major towns and cities and the visibility is getting clearer as more sons and daughters of early or late settlers are going through academic and professional excellence and joining the mainstream job market. Noticeably again, Canada will soon witness emergence of a second generation Ethiopian Canadians destined to make a difference in all respects.
There seems no end to the influx of refugees and appears size of population is continuously growing as citizens in Ethiopia are still subjected to various forms of human rights abuses. Harassment, intimidation, arrest and extra judicial killings are mounting under Melez Zenawi’s terror infested regime. Our people are suffering under the fascistic grip of Meles brutal security system.
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