Looking at the following World Bank data, it's false to say that Ethiopia's GDP became better than that of Kenya for the first time in 2010 (a misleading story on Nazret.com). During the dictatorial Derg regime, Ethiopia's GDP was much larger than that of Kenya (and also growing at a much faster rate than that of Kenya) - all throughout 1980's while Ethiopia was waging bloody internal wars, in the mist of a biblical famine and under extreme socialist system. Ethiopia's GDP made a nose dive downwards in 1992 when TPLF took power in Addis Ababa - the downward trend during TPLF's reign gave Kenya the advantage to be the biggest economy in east Africa. Therefore, even though Ethiopia's GDP was much better than that of Kenya during the Derg regime, that alone had not made Derg democratic. In other words, GDP size has no relation to whether a regime is repressive or democratic; it is possible for undemocratic regimes, such as Derg and Woyane, to have a bigger GDP size than any relatively democratic country. Read More » » »

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By Qeerransoo Biyyaa

Five years, hundreds of dead bodies, thousands of imprisonments, disappearances, evictions and land confiscations later after the 2005 parliamentary elections, Ethiopia is yet to stage other sham elections for its total seats of 547 in the House People's Representative - commonly known as the "national parliament" - in May 210.

To the extent that there is no room for exaggerations, the adjectives of world languages seem not to be enough to describe and carry the tone of the nature and magnitude of the destructive acts by EPRDF/TPLF ruling party in Ethiopia.

We talk about such problems not to make the key international actors in Ethiopia guilty, shameful and embarrassed, yet all of which are right to do, but to urge the actors to take actions and withdraw the direct financial aid they give to the Ethiopia's regime. These actors need to break their silence about the despicable acts of this government.

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