The opposition leaders kept quite when Meles and his Nazi stroops massacred the students. Not only that, they negotiated with the killers while thousands are being tortured. Now he is coming after the opposition leaders themselves. Guess who's not in the list of those who are going to face charges...

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CUD faces insurrection charges,
160 Air Force employees fired
July 11, 2005

ADDIS ABABA – Nine top leaders of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) will appear in court after a government prosecutor charged them with inciting “insurrection” and trying to overthrow the government by force, the pro-government Nation newspaper has reported.

The Ministry of Justice accused the CUD leadership of stirring unrest among university students, and distributing subversive leaflets in a bid to bring about a change of government by force, an opposition radio Tensae quoted the Nation as saying. Among those who face the charges are CUD President Hailu Shawel, and CUD executive officials Lidetu Ayalew, Mushe Semu, Abayneh Birhanu, Gebre Christos Haile Selassie, Admassie Melaku, Getachew Mengste, Gizachew Shiferaw, Endargachew Tsige.

CUD has repteadely denied any involvement in the student arrests, and the public takes the government measures as a "cover-up" to liquidate the oppostion. Seven university students also face similar charges as accomplices of the opposition. Political observers take the charges seriously, saying the ruling party was bent on reversing the Ethiopian people’s drive toward a democratic governance.

Meanwhile, the ruling party of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi this week sent 160 professionals of the Ethiopian Air Force into "retirement." According to the opposition Radio Tensae, 80 of those who lost their jobs were highly experienced employees of the Aviation Maintenance Department. The Ethiopian Air Force has recently been hit by a series of pilot defections over the June 8 killings of unarmed demonstrators and the arrest of thousands of opposition supporters and university students.

Latest reports indicate that the Meles regime, which committed the June 8 killings by deploying a shadowy commando force composed mainly of Eritrean Military Camp Sawa-trained soldiers (despite the deliberate labeling of the unit as ‘Agazi’ to mislead the public that the unit was drawn from the now-defunct Tigray People’s Liberation Front) was setting up check-points along the major Addis-Bahr Dar-Gondar route.

Charging the CUD officials, and the mass retirement orders at the Air Force as well as erecting check-points in many key parts of the country shows the 14-year-old Meles regime had exhausted prolonging its life through the semblance of democracy was now nakedly resorting to hold the nation down by means of the gun. "It is very clear what all these measures being taken swiftly following the ruling party's defeat in the May elections are aimed at," one observer said, "adding Ethiopia risks an uncertain future."

This is typical of the mindset of the tyrant Zenawi. He was asked on the BBC interview about the investigation into the June 8th massacre. He said he would do the investigation in his own time. Now he got enough time to file a charge against his victims whom he has been harassing, putting under house arrest and police surveillance. This is adding insult to injury.
When he himself should be put on trial for murder,he has turned the table on others. How much more evil can one get. surely, things cannot go on like this!!

Guess what, the judge is going to be Kemal Bedri.

Good news for Ethiopians who have been looking for it and bitter for ciber fighters.

NY:

The opposition leaders are to blame. They should have held him accountable for the masaccre and demand his resignation. Lidetu turns out to be right, and the rest of the CUD leader now look a bunch of sheeps awaiting their slaughter one after another.

Wait and see. He will come and chase each supporter of CUD/UEDF. Meles is ferious now. He doesn't care about the international communities. He will chase each individual unless the oppositon leaders react quickly.
Tami

"Latest reports indicate that the Meles regime, which committed the June 8 killings by deploying a shadowy commando force composed mainly of Eritrean Military Camp Sawa-trained soldiers (despite the deliberate labeling of the unit as ‘Agazi’ to mislead the public that the unit was drawn from the now-defunct Tigray People’s Liberation Front) was setting up check-points along the major Addis-Bahr Dar-Gondar route."
SHAME ON ETHIOMEDIA FOR THE MISINFORMATION, AGAZI ARMY IS ALL TIGREAN ARMY TRAINED IN MEKELLE NOT IN ERITREA. AS WE ALL KNOW THERE IS NO ERITREAN LEFT IN ADDIS EXCEPT MELES , BEREKET AND SEYOUM MESFIN. ALL ERITREANS WERE KICKED OUT OF ETHIOPIA IN 1998-2001.
ETHIOMEDIA FAILED TO THE TRAP OF WOYANE&CO TO MAKE THE KILLERS ERITREANS INSTEAD OF THE REALITY OF THE CRIMINALS ARE ALL TIGREYANS.