Category: Ethiopia Deserves Peace
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Dear World
An 8-year-old Amhara girl wrote to the Vatican pope, ‘Where are you? Children are dying.’ A 5-year-old boy wrote to US President Biden, begging for peace. In his “White Post for White House” letter, he said, ‘Hundreds of thousands of children will never have proper burials.’ They received no reply; nor did the 105-year-old, who wrote to world leaders Joe Biden and Boris Johnson.
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NGO No Go
Shaking his right hand up and down, Atse Menelik said, ‘At heaven’s gates, God will ask, “What did you do to ease those people’s hunger?”‘
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Ethiopian Woven Wisdom
Can Ethiopia’s cotton cloth be likened to her people? Refined yet tough? In Bahir Dar, on the shores of Lake Tana at the source of the Blue Nile, I witnessed a fusion of dance and spinning. A slender lady did Eskista shoulder dance while walking in a deep squat in a circle, smoothly without bouncing up and down. At the same time, she spun cotton expertly. Incomparable and unique.
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Marvellous Ethiopian Charities
SLCO and GPO aim to help all Ethiopians that need their services. They promote gender equity. Donations directly benefit the disadvantaged – money is not wasted on administration. Coordinators and operators work voluntarily. They run cost effective projects.
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The November War in Ethiopia
In November 2020 in Tigray, mass graves held 70,000 Amhara members of the community. The TPLF had buried alive the elderly, women, children and babies. Rebels ran over people with trucks. TPLF atrocities were as vicious as those of the Nazis. Victims were Jewish, Christian and Muslim.
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HR6600 Against Ethiopia
The HR6600 bill introduced in April 2022 by the US attacked Ethiopians. It would have stopped Ethiopian diaspora in the US from easily sending so much as $1 to a hungry mother in Ethiopia – AFTER they had paid US tax. Inside Ethiopia, enterprises would not have been able to import medicine or industrial supplies without cash payment.
