To Solomon
i think you must be narrow minded that can not
people poletical view out of sex. you r bad man
let alone doing good things which can lifeup the
country like MELES ,you do not have......
Bad Guy u better Stay out of this forum

Yihem Yalfal;

“Meles is such a venom, enough to blind you and the rest of the world.” How many of the intelligents are there not to be fooled!
Is it the US and all its Embassy staff and intelligence in Addis being fooled!!
Is it the UK and all its Embassy staff and intelligence in Addis being fooled!!
Is it the Dutch and all its Embassy staff and intelligence in Addis being fooled!!
Is it the German and all its Embassy staff and intelligence in Addis being fooled!!
…. The list goes!!

It is you, the few, Diaspora junks who are fooled and yelling at nowhere.

You produce your statistics out of nowhere
You complain on every move of Meles and Co.
You admire everything done by the CUD & Co. to everybody’s surprise even Hailu the bull’s interview.
You knew nothing about your BELOVED country except what is in your mind!
You talk about Ethiopia but not its people!
Go on, go on shouting….

Poor Diaspora!

I'm sorry for being naive as there were many invaluable members of the Diaspora. Unfortunately, you are totally overwhelmed by these 'loud mouths---Mr./Mrs do littles'

Almaz.

City: Addis Ababa

Email: lmazgenet@yahoo.com

City: Addis Ababa

I sujest Norowegiansyara to see our country.
Under Meles's regime -the most popular forest in the southestern of the country parched with fire.
- most of the couuntries nationla parks are now in recurrent fire and populated py farmers.
- I am not exagerating when I say youcan see most of the trees un cities than in the rural area.
- under his regime that large number of people ever starved in the country. ---.

please dear awardes turn to your mind and see the reality.

To say little, It is an oppen offensive against Ethiopians!!!!!

Email: tesfaben@yahoo.com

City: Addis Abeba

My dear Ethiopian sisters and brothers: for the last 14 years Meles and his groups have been trying to divide us and divide our country. The harmonious life that we have had for centuries and the unity of our diverse cultures, religions, etc built not only in blood but also in spirit, could not be penetrated.

Under his presidency our beloved country has been looted and our brothers and sisters have been harassed and killed. He may have been successful in looting, killing and harassing our people but he never succeeded in taking our identity and unity. Our people know that by being united we have a lot to benefit.
Countries showing support to the Meles administration know what he was up to from the beginning and his actions speak louder. Of course he is a wicked and evil man but some of his know-it-all and cunning attitudes are not the result of his exemplary education but rather from being coached by foreign advisors. This award is for his obedience and action.
Now let’s demand that this blood money awarded by the Norwegian Yara group to Meles go to the people whose relatives were killed during the election protest.

If Meles’s aim is to prevent hunger by buying fertilizer from Norway or other places:
Why is he still begging for food aid?
Why is he always complaining about poor rain?

Email: negat@sbcglobal.net

City: Houston

almaz
what i am trying to tell you is. we Ethiopian dont
like Meles zenawe(Zarkawi). i know that you are from
tigrai and you are one of those peopele who want to
divide us. but whether you like it or not my lovely
country will remain united for ever. we will destroy all meles supporters including those who live in tigray .waite and see .

Email: solomon@yahoo.com

Almaz
zarkawi has fooled only ONE Ethiopian and it is YOU. You are a stuge without your own critical view of the situation. You should go back to school to learn to think better. You are not supposed to be writing here. It is only for genuine Ethiopians. 'Nebir ayegn bey'.

AMA (that same almaz anyway)
Unless you want to multiply yourself (the only supporter) by a million there can never be a million supporters of a killer. In fact, you are parasites and may multiply yourself. Don't twist agenda to dergue as your only way of argument. There is nobody supporting dergue. Woyanie is now trying to outsmart dergue by killing more.

Down with stooges and boot lickers! Victory to the Ethiopian people!

Dear Aykerie:

How ignorant can you be? You are so blinded by hatred I am glad you are not in any responsible position. I am sure you are frustrated by your current life station and you are a loser. Now you are channeling your failure in life to politics. I feel sorry for you. Ethiopians don't deserve people like you and those people who you blindly support. Ethiopia needs a tolerant leader who represents all Ethiopians not those narrow nationalists like you who can not tolerate any decent? Do you like it if I call you are one the Amharas who is advocating for Amhara superiority in the name of Ethiopian nationalism? As an Amhara myself I abhor losers like you. Ethiopia deserves better. You don't belong to an intellingent forum. You belong to a forum where everybody has the same narrow minded views and who are actually losers and will remain so always. Even if the party you support comes to power you will still remain a loser.

Email: haileabera@yahoo.com

City: Addis Ababa

Here is a simple strategy to get the attention of Yara fertilizer company. The strategy below worked when Nestle demanded a 6-million dollar compensation for a nationalized business enterprise it did not own at the time.

1. link the death of the 40 demonstrators, our PM's refusal to acknowledge mistake and apologize for the deaths, and the enduring food insecurity in Ethiopia. Be factual.

2. publish and distribute the facts (pictures and all) to all locations where Yara does business. There is nothing that deters groups like Yara more than a disclosure of their insensitivity and social irresponsibility. In other words, it is not enough writing letters of complaint. Good luck.

Shiferaw,
You are not supposed to be writing here. Get out of this forum. 'Nebir ayegn bel'

Aykerie,

Sham on you.You claim to stand for democracy. Yet you seem the most despotic person in the world.

What a contradiction???? If you are not aware of the concept of democracy, please shut up.

alef

Email: Alef-2005@yahoo.com

City: Addis

alef,
Do you want to define democracy for me? Go ahead and you may shamelessly make reference to that of woyanie's democracy whereby you kill under the cover of bank robbery. You also get out of this forum. You can't just come out of the bush and write here.

"Yara" is just a multinational corporation that is poised to make money by selling explosives and getting Third World agriculture hooked on a range of chemicals. A brief write-up on it describes it as:

"Yara International tries to make the world green -- and, in the process, make a little green of its own. The manufacturer of fertilizers and industrial gases is among the world's largest plant nutrient companies and ammonia producers and marketers, selling more than 20 million metric tons of fertilizer per year. It is also a top supplier of CO2 and nitrogen chemicals to industrial markets and of nitrates to the explosives industry. Environmental operations include manufacturing products to improve the taste of drinking water and reduce nitric oxide pollution. Formerly known as Hydro Agri, the company was spun off in early 2004 by Norwegian alumnium maker Norsk Hydro. Yara markets its products worldwide."
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/132/132754.html

So, the reference to Norway and U.N. Secretary General seems to be a smokescreen to hide the true nature of the scheme. The deal carries around it a smell of blatant corporate bribery of yet another greedy African dictator. Yara is handing out green to get even more green for itself. That may be fine for it. But this attempt to use a corrupt transaction to help enhance Meles's tattered image is both preverse and deplorable. Meles's achievements should be measured by how many Ethiopians are able to get off the starving or at risk list. On this he has failed miserably. Cynical awards issued by a self serving chemical company only hide the failure and prolong the mismanagement.
Getachew.

Email: GFelleke@Miyazaki-mic.ac.jp

Playing Theory of Individual VS Group Rights:

Somali Perspective



Dear Ethiopians:


Norwegian prize is going to Meles Zenawi since he has done an excellent job for his country.
What is important to take note is that the so-called opposition group who is claiming to bring Heaven on earth is not delivering a coherent program that will address the ills of Ethiopian economic, social and political factors. In other words, they are playing the mental exercise of Western philosophy that does not match the reality at the ground. Last night, I have heard interesting debate where a certain representative of CUD has confused the issues as if he was solving article 39 on the question of individual rights versus group rights. He combined two theories namely the Rose revolution and the rights revolution which is in my opinion in the first place a propaganda scheme that is masterminded by the father of all misery and massacre, Negede Gobeze. However, I will address in this brief note the rights of revolution and leave the Rose Revolution to the CUD's die harder supporters.


This theory that has been butchered is inherited from the rights revolution which is fundamentally a revolution in the way we think and act about rights. The essence of this revolution is captured by enhancing our right to be equal and protecting our right to be different. The challenge of the rights revolution is to enhance equality while safe-guarding difference.

Moreover, the rights revolution is not strictly for Ethiopian only, but it is a global phenomenon as every day brings news of a group in some part of the world fighting for its rights. The Somali question was a case in point before the arrival of EPRDF at the helm of the power. What makes EPRDF deed so important for Ethiopian of all walk of lives is the case it makes for seeing Ethiopia as the epicenter of this revolution in thought and action.


In addition, it is EPRDF’s contention that Ethiopians have been in the forefront of learning how to negotiate continuously and peacefully the claims of distinct ethnic, religions, culture and linguistic communities within their democracy. This experience, EPRDF argues, has given rise, in both our intellectual life and constitutional practice, to a recognition of group rights that has much more to offer the contemporary world than the more prestigious British, American and French traditions of individual rights. CUD leader has muddied the question of Federal system within the group and individual rights. Further, he deliberately missed that EPRDF embraces of multiethnic and mosaic Ethiopia , and upholding of rights of self-determination claimed by the Somalis, Oromo’s and Afar to name a few and other nations.


All in all, as the saying goes, irony of ironies we Ethiopians are, or are becoming, a people of peoples, a people whose unity is built on the recognition that we all are equals and our group rights are protected. In other words, the line of demarcation of government right and regions ones on the one hand and the right of Ethiopian and accepting difference while living on equal footing to access to the resources is a million dollar question that CUD should address and EPRDF should make practical.

Email: shirdons@yahoo.com

City: Washington DC

Ibrahim,
I think you are confused. Also, please keep your stories short. You are wasting a lot of time writing junk.

What a sickness !

You people in Europe or may be in the US , why are you so upset because Meles has won the Norwegian prize ? For sure ,you suffer from all sorts of maladies including the complexes.
If the peasants were to read what you are writing ,they would have invited you to their new houses with separate rooms including dining and spacious rooms.

Don’t forget that you had condemned them to a life of impoverishment when you were at the helm of power before fleeing with the money you have stolen to where you are now .

Farmers, particularly in the surplus producing areas, are now leading decent life, a far cry from what it was under the tyranny of the Dergue. These days, you can drive on a tarmaced road enjoying the green lush meadows on each side of the high ways constructed over the years since Meles came to power.

Yes, you will never accept the reality; the changes that have occurred in the lives of the peasants. You are nostalgic about the “good old days “ when your mentors and yourselves were enjoying the national cake while the poor were dying of starvation.

And now you cry foul when the people started to decide on their own destinies. This was possible thanks to the policy Meles implemented to improve the food security and the life of the rural poor.

Dear friends, can’t you see the truth and the facts on the ground? Why don’t you appreciate the judgment of others like the agriculture group, Yara International ?

All your defamatory attempts are in vain.

Truth will prevail and Meles is the man of the people .

I am really shocked to read your non-sense .

What a sickness?




Birhan

Email: Abebe_D

City: shashemane

Here is the answer...

Peace, famine and 'Ethiopia's Green Revolution'

Peace, famine and Ethiopia's 'Green Revolution'
By Abebe Gelaw
‘Money and friendship break the arms of justice’—Italian proverb

A few days ago, a dubious news story circulated among local and international news outlets. It says: “The Board of the Yara Foundation has chosen to award the first African Green Revolution Yara Prize, to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, for his contribution to improve food security and human nutrition in ways that also protect the environment.”

At first it appeared a hoax story that goes like: “Osama bin Laden has received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his extraordinarily outstanding contribution to world peace and stability.” Why not? Anything can happen these days!

Three years ago, the TPLF-comandeered public media had excitedly delivered another amazing story about a Korean inspired Christian peace council that heaped a mountain of accolade on Meles for “ending the Ethio-Eritrean conflict.” At a cermony held at the National Palace in Addis, the World Peace Prize Awarding Council Inc., presented a ‘global’ peace prize, accompanied by an “honorary doctoral degree”, from a Korean university, to one of Africa’s notorious despots. Known amongst his subjects as an openly atheistic archenemy of peace for nearly three decades, Meles must have been flabbergasted to be told that he was also honoured by the council with the position of a “roving ambassador for peace and human cultural assets.” However, through its motto the Council conveyed to him one of the most monumental and humbling messages, i.e. “Jesus Christ is the only King of Peace.”

Clad in Hannam University’s silk gown and proudly clutching his peace certificate, Meles delivered an angelic speech, though he failed to make a single reference or acknowledgement to Almighty God. "I am proud to state with clear conscience on behalf of our government that we have never let our people down and we have tried as much as humanly possible not to lose any opportunity for peace…. Making a choice between bullets and a loaf of bread for the hungry child, is not always that simple…. It is not enough for one to seek and desire peace in order to be able to achieve it. Peace requires partners for its achievement. The possibility for protecting and securing peace is made all the more difficult when, on top of not having partners for peace, those who have to make the painful decision discover that diplomacy is made to seek a false middle ground," he said, to the delight of his loyalists and worshippers who gathered at the opulent palace to witness the glorification of a peacemaker.

On the contrary, his speech did not strike a cord with reality in the ears of ordinary Ethiopians due to the fact that his track record depicts quite the opposite of what was claimed. Yet, looking at it from a different perspective, the WPPAC has discharged its Christian duty by trying to mellow and exorcise the spirit of violence that has possessed our atheistic leader for over three decades with the powerful spirit of peace. Even if it was not as effective as expected due to the relapse of PM’s violent mood and caprice, the effort was quite commendable.

At a time when Meles was desperately seeking uplifting stories in the aftermath of an overt and covert vote rigging scandal, the massacre of more than forty civilian protesters, the maiming of over one hundred fifty poor people and the mass arrests of over five thousand opposition supporters and sympathizers, another prize arrived with a tag of ‘Green Revolution.’ This time round the awarding body turned out to be a foundation formed and financed by a Norwegian multinational corporation called Yara International ASA, that sells over six billion dollars worth of fertilizers annually in over one hundred thirty countries including Ethiopia.

The chemical company shamelessly claimed that the first African Green Revolution Yara Prize 2005 is awarded to Meles Zenawi, for his dedication and inspirational leadership, for the results achieved in improving food security for his people, and for Ethiopia’s response to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s call for a uniquely African green revolution for the 21st Century. The praise and eulogy did not in any way match any of the dark records of Meles.

Nonetheless, the outrageous claim was quickly diminished by a commonplace news story from Ethiopia. It was reported the next day, 20th July 2005, by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that at least 18 million people are facing hunger in the greater Horn of Africa, with more than half of them in Ethiopia. The grim news overshadowed the excitement among his followers. How come all these people face the fangs of hunger in a green empire ruled by Yara’s first African king of the Green Revolution?

According to the World Food Summit, food security means that all people, at all
times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. UNICEF warned, less than a week before the announcement of the Yara Green Revolution award, that up to 170,000 children could die of severe malnutrition this year. "Severely acute malnutrition among Ethiopia's children has reached alarming levels across the country," said Bjorn Ljungqvist, Ethiopia representative of the U.N. Children's Fund. He said UNICEF urgently needed $42 million to quadruple the number of feeding centres it runs in Ethiopia, provide more vitamin A, de-worming and anti-measles care and food for 6.8 million children and extend emergency water and sanitation to 1.2 million people. "Emergency health and nutrition programmes have only 25 per cent of their funding," said Mr. Ljungqvist. Under such circumstances, Yara should have contributed the $200,000, which it allocated to glorify one of Africa’s merchants of hunger, to the efforts being undertaken by the unsung heroes—UNICEF and many under-funded charities, which are struggling hard to avert the hovering threat of humanitarian disaster.
In its 22nd November 2002 edition, The Economist published an article headlined, ‘Bad weather, and bad government’. It indicated that Ethiopia faced a famine worse than the catastrophe of 1984. “Bad weather is partly to blame. But, as elsewhere in Africa, so too is bad government,” it said.

Analyzing the chronic suffering that Ethiopians have been facing for far too long, The Economist blamed the government, referred by some as Africa’s merchants of hunger, for making political and financial capital out of the appalling disaster of starvation. “Bad weather is rarely enough, on its own, to kill large numbers of people. Famine usually requires bad government, too…. In Ethiopia, the food crisis has been aggravated by the legacy of a senseless border war with neighbouring Eritrea between 1998 and 2000. It killed tens of thousands, forced 350,000 to flee their homes, blasted both countries' infrastructure and prompted foreign donors to freeze a lot of aid. In all, it cost Ethiopia an estimated $2.9 billion—almost a whole year’s output for every farmer in a country where 80 per cent of the population lives on farms. Such a monumental man-made disaster has made it harder for the country to cope with a natural one.”

The conclusion of the article has not been different from that of numerous analysts and writers. Bad governance, as opposed to good governance, is the source of our misery. The main responsibility of any government is not to beg around for food aid, as merchants of hunger do. It is rather to mobilize the nation and resources at its disposal to produce enough food to feed the people. The duty of a government is not to declare to the whole world that Ethiopia is the bread basket and water tower of Africa without devising mechanisms to utilizing and harnessing our water resources to enable farmers to be less reliant on food aid and rain-fed agriculture. Because of bad governance, the most significant economic growth registered during the last decade and half is the increase in foreign aid, which now accounts to over 40 per cent of the Gross National Product (GDP). This is probably a potent piece of evidence that shows the incontrovertible failure of a government.

There is little doubt that the luxurious Ethio-Eritrean conflict, or rather the Meles-Isayas war, has brought disaster to both poor nations not only in terms of the huge human and financial cost, but also in aggravating famine and poverty. After Meles awarded Isayas a large chunk of land including all Ethiopia’s 1000-km long coastline, Meles claimed he caught Isayas stealing a tiny stony village. To restore the nation’s ‘honour’, a bloody war was fought over Badme, which a Financial Times reporter, Michela Wrong, referred to as, “the kind of one-hotel, two-bar village in which yellow-eyed goats wander through the front rooms.” The tragic war was fought with one of the most deadly and cruelest military tactics. Eritrean soldiers dug trenches and planted lethal mines along their stronghold areas while Ato Meles, ‘commander-in-chief’ of the Ethiopian army, decided to launch human wave assaults. Over 80,000 people perished in the senseless and unjust war. After paying such a cruelly high human cost, but to the relief of Isayas, Meles declared that he was much more worried about Eritrean sovereignty than a conclusive victory and pulled out the army from key strategic positions. The Algiers Peace Pact was signed by the co-authors of the war. In spite of all that and the decision of the boarder commission, the military standoff still continues costing both poor nations hundreds of millions of dollars annually while massive scale famine permanently looms over these earthly purgatories, where human suffering seems endless.

Drought is an unavoidable natural disaster and can happen anywhere in the world. However, in countries where leadership has failed, drought compounded by already existing civil strife and poverty, creates and perpetuates famine. According to Melaku Ayalew, an expert in disaster management, famine does not strike unexpectedly, but builds up slowly and provides a lead time before it occurs. The predictability of famine makes it possible to prevent it. If a food shortage develops to the scale of famine and mass starvation, it must be blamed on the failure of society in general and government in particular. In other words, famine is a man-made disaster that can be prevented by a responsible government.

It seems unnecessary to list down the inadequacies of the Meles regime to prove to Yara its well documented misdeeds and misguided policies. Unlike the Norwegian fertilizer giant, we Ethiopians know the grim realities facing our nation. We have never seen Meles planting any trees or flowers. If Meles is a green revolutionary for Yara, so be it. However, he may do justice if he shares the prize with Mengistu Hailemariam and Isayas Afeworki. The trio merchants of hunger and destruction have done a great deal of damage to affect every household in Ethiopia by scorching the earth with artillery shells and bombs while millions have starved to death. Why doesn’t Yara hail them collectively as ‘the great pioneers of Green Revolution in Africa?’

Come September, we will see whether Meles would share the prize money with anyone or import millions of seedlings to start a Yara-sponsored Green Revolution in Ethiopia where almost everything is at stake. I bet the Prime Minister will make a wonderful speech about peace, democracy, human rights, election, poverty alleviation, food security, green revolution and will laugh all his way to the bank, rather than wasting his time planting trees.

Dr. Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan pioneer of the ‘green belt movement’, an Africa-wide movement that empowered women, challenged corrupt officials and planted millions of trees in ravaged lands, including Ethiopia, deservedly received the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004, in Oslo, Norway. With Yara’s sponsorship Meles may even double his prize with the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, for his “exceptional contribution to peace and development not only in Ethiopia but also the world at large.” Nothing is impossible for him! A few weeks ago we saw Meles in disbelief on TV tucked behind leaders of the G8. Ethiopians who camped at Gleneagles to demand the G8 leaders to help them bring the tyrant to justice were bitterly disappointed to be ignored by the most powerful politicians on earth. After all, Blair and Bush prefer to condone his misdeeds simply because he is a key partner against “the war on terror,” and keeper of the balance of terror in the Horn of Africa. As an Italian proverb goes, “Money and friendship break the arms of justice.” Director of the United Nations Millennium Project, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, is expected to present the Yara prize to Meles in Oslo on 3rd September. For most Ethiopians the PM’s leadership is disastrous and depressive. Still we cannot wait for the great speeches that the first Yara’s African green revolutionary and his agents, promoters and sponsors will deliver at the awarding ceremony…. It will be a glorious day not only for Ethiopia but also for the whole of Africa. The hungry people of Africa are watching their ‘inspirational’ green revolutionary with great expectations!

Birhan, wasyhun, etc

This forum is not for bushmen and women like you. First, you have to finish your school. In fact, this is why you have been the soft targets and victims of zenawi's rotten and exposed propoganda. Get out of this forum with your junk.

Birhan,
Are you sure you are not the one who is sick? If you were not sick, you would see why a 'second worst' enemy of Ethiopian people should never ever be given an award. He rather deserves a death sentence. And this is gonna happen... lemayet yabkash

Meles won the Yara price for green revolution. I as agronomict know preaty good that Meles and his gang are responsible soil acidity caused by input of chemical fertilizer in the soil. Just to feal his pocket from the sale of chemical fertlizer, he has worsend the life of farmers in Ethiopia by forcing them to use this fertilizers causing decrease of Humus of the soil and increase dependency on imported fertilizers. Alternatives are the use of organic fertilizers, other farming technics such as Agroforestry. Meles is a literate in this field. His Land policy is also hindering investment (aforestation, teracing etc.) by the farmer. The only alternativ is privatization or sozialisation of land. Land to the tiller, not land to the state(Dictaters). His contribution to agriculture is null. Zero.

Email: debalque@yahoo.de

City: Hamburg

Like any other prize, is it NOT based on the accumulation of evidence that an individual satisfies at least minimal criteria for the prize???

Is it that same Meles Naziawi who is a social predator, who charm, manipulate, and ruthlessly plow his way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts, shattered expectations, and empty wallets. Completely lacking in conscience and feelings for others, who selfishly takes what he wants and does as it pleases him, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret? Hey, it should be a name sake.

Is it that same MELES NAZIAWI whose hallmark is a stunning lack of conscience, and whose game is self-gratification at the other person´s expense. Come on, you should be kidding!

If you think about it, you will realize that what is missing in this picture are the very qualities that allow human beings to live in social harmony. It is not a pretty picture, and some express doubt that such a person like Meles Naziawi exist. Please don’t pull my leg by telling me he got a prize.

Meles Naziawi’s acts result not from a deranged mind, but from cold, calculating rationality combined with a chilling inability to treat others as thinking, feeling, human beings. Are you serious this MONSTER got a prize? I guess you are joking!

The so far personal history of Meles NAZIAWI is a deeply disturbing inability to care about the pain and suffering experienced by others – in short, a complete lack of empathy, the prerequisite for love. Hey, it should be “july the fool”. It is unthinkable that any rational person gives any prize to this MONSTER. I can never ever believe this.

Meles NAZIAWI lied endlessly, lazily, about everything, and it disturbed him not a whit whenever someone like the BBC journalist points out something in his file that contradicted one of his lies. He would simply change the subject and spin off in a different direction. And yet you dare to tell me he got a prize? No, no, no, no, it can’t be. It should be a hoax.

If what you are saying is true, what fascinated the NORWAY guys should be that Meles NAZIAWI remains absolutely unflappable even after his deceit is revealed – Perhaps what fascinated the NORWAY guys most should be what in his psychological makeup, gave Meles NAZIAWI the power to override reality, apparently without compunction or concern?

This prize may further strengthen his narcissistic and glossy inflated view of himself, worth and importance, a truly astonishing egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and may see himself as the center of the universe, as superior beings, who is justified in living according to his own rules. Don’t be surprised if he next time come across as arrogant, shameless braggarts-self-assured, opinionated, domineering, and cockey.

The prize will strengthen Meles NAZIAWI”S a stunning lack of concern for the devastating effects his actions have on others. As you all remember he was completely forthright about the recent massacre, calmly stating that he has no sense of guilt, he is not sorry for the pain and destruction he has caused, and that there is no reason for him to be concerned

Meles NAZIAWI”S lack of remorse or guilt is associated with a remarkable ability to ratianalize his behavior and to shrug of personal responsibility, for actions that cause shock and disappointment to family, friends, associates and others who have played by the rules. Usually he has excuses for his behavior, and in some cases he denies that it happened at all. In an ironic twist, Meles frequently see himself as the real victims. In the recent election, he said vote rigged by the opposition.

Did they give him the prize for this ability? Hey, hey hey don’t make me mad. It can’t be true.

Meles NAZIAWI views people as little more than objects to be used for his own gratisfaction. The weak and the vulnerable – whom he mocks , rather than pitty – are favorite targets.

When caught in a lie or challenge with the truth, he is seldom perplexed or embarrassed, he simply change his stories or attempt to rework the facts so that they appear to be consistent with the lie. Are you saying this man got a prize?

Meles Naziaw seem proud of his ability to lie. Many observers get the impression that he sometimes is unaware that he is lying, it is as if the words take on a life of their own, unfettered by the speakers knowledge that the observer is aware of the facts.
My fellow citizens, don’t expect dramatic changes. To a large extent, the personality of Meles Naziawi is ”carved in stone”. There is little likelihood that anything you do will produce fundamental, sustained changes in how he sees himself or others.

Finally, given his glibness and the facility with which he lies, it is not surprising that Meles NAZIAWI successfully cheats, bilks, defrauds, cons, and manipulates some countries and have not the slightest compunction about doing so.

Email: hagere_ethiopia@yahoo.com

City: Addis

Dear sir "
i think we need to grow up ! your working as a Moderator to this ROOM, you have to be example To Others , by showing some respect !! If u call H.E Pm Minster Meles zenawi , as It should , then every forum member who happen to be agrreing with him Or disagreeing with him , might see You as a Genuine Moderator, Otherwise-your heading the hate campaing againest The PM of Ethiopia. showing some manner has to be our daily life.You have every right to hate Him Or disagree with his Policy Or the way he`s running the Country ,But as a Moderator-as Medium of Information- you should be accountable & behave in suchaway.
We all are tierd of hate mongers, name callers-plz, let us be wise & respectfull

Dear sir ------we don`t get it , when you calll the prime Minister -as Meles Zarkawi ?
what`s that suppose to mean ?are u trying to show us , he`s a terrorist like al-zarkawi?
i am very much saddened by this

This title must be 'Meles Zenawi wins the Norwegian prize FOR CRIMINALS.

Email: Tola@hotmail.com

Like any other prize, is it NOT based on the accumulation of evidence that an individual satisfies at least minimal criteria for the prize?

Is it that same Meles Naziawi who is a social predator, who charm, manipulate, and ruthlessly plow his way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts, shattered expectations, and empty wallets. Completely lacking in conscience and feelings for others, who selfishly takes what he wants and does as it pleases him, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret? Hey, it should be a name sake.

Is it that same MELES NAZIAWI whose hallmark is a stunning lack of conscience, and whose game is self-gratification at the other person´s expense. Come on, you should be kidding!

If you think about it, you will realize that what is missing in this picture are the very qualities that allow human beings to live in social harmony. It is not a pretty picture, and some express doubt that such a person like Meles Naziawi exist. Please don’t pull my leg by telling me he got a prize.

Meles Naziawi’s acts result not from a deranged mind, but from cold, calculating rationality combined with a chilling inability to treat others as thinking, feeling, human beings. Are you serious this MONSTER got a prize? I guess you are joking!

The so far personal history of Meles NAZIAWI is a deeply disturbing inability to care about the pain and suffering experienced by others – in short, a complete lack of empathy, the prerequisite for love. Hey, it should be “july the fool”. It is unthinkable that any rational person gives any prize to this MONSTER. I can never ever believe this.

Meles NAZIAWI lied endlessly, lazily, about everything, and it disturbed him not a whit whenever someone like the BBC journalist points out something in his file that contradicted one of his lies. He would simply change the subject and spin off in a different direction. And yet you dare to tell me he got a prize? No, no, no, no, it can’t be. It should be a hoax.

If what you are saying is true, what fascinated the NORWAY guys should be that Meles NAZIAWI remains absolutely unflappable even after his deceit is revealed – Perhaps what fascinated the NORWAY guys most should be what in his psychological makeup, gave Meles NAZIAWI the power to override reality, apparently without compunction or concern?

This prize may further strengthen his narcissistic and glossy inflated view of himself, worth and importance, a truly astonishing egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and may see himself as the center of the universe, as superior beings, who is justified in living according to his own rules. Don’t be surprised if he next time come across as arrogant, shameless braggarts-self-assured, opinionated, domineering, and cockey.

The prize will strengthen Meles NAZIAWI”S a stunning lack of concern for the devastating effects his actions have on others. As you all remember he was completely forthright about the recent massacre, calmly stating that he has no sense of guilt, he is not sorry for the pain and destruction he has caused, and that there is no reason for him to be concerned

Meles NAZIAWI”S lack of remorse or guilt is associated with a remarkable ability to ratianalize his behavior and to shrug of personal responsibility, for actions that cause shock and disappointment to family, friends, associates and others who have played by the rules. Usually he has excuses for his behavior, and in some cases he denies that it happened at all. In an ironic twist, Meles frequently see himself as the real victims. In the recent election, he said vote rigged by the opposition.

Did they give him the prize for this ability? Hey, hey hey don’t make me mad. It can’t be true.

Meles NAZIAWI views people as little more than objects to be used for his own gratisfaction. The weak and the vulnerable – whom he mocks , rather than pitty – are favorite targets.

When caught in a lie or challenge with the truth, he is seldom perplexed or embarrassed, he simply change his stories or attempt to rework the facts so that they appear to be consistent with the lie. Are you saying this man got a prize?

Meles Naziaw seem proud of his ability to lie. Many observers get the impression that he sometimes is unaware that he is lying, it is as if the words take on a life of their own, unfettered by the speakers knowledge that the observer is aware of the facts.
My fellow citizens, don’t expect dramatic changes. To a large extent, the personality of Meles Naziawi is ”carved in stone”. There is little likelihood that anything you do will produce fundamental, sustained changes in how he sees himself or others.

Finally, given his glibness and the facility with which he lies, it is not surprising that Meles NAZIAWI successfully cheats, bilks, defrauds, cons, and manipulates some countries and have not the slightest compunction about doing so.

Email: hagere_ethiopia@yahoo.com

City: Addis

It really is disgusting.What the heel is happening to the these Norwegians? Do they really have the statistics to merit the award for the tyrant dictator of all times? you should realize that you are giving him the go ahead to kill more.Leave alone awarding this *****rer,nominating him should have been unthinkable.Your careless actions will leave a scar in our minds.You are not diferent from the Agasus army that brutally killed more than 40 Ethiopians during the aftermath of the may 15th elections.
SHAME ON YOU.

Email: doctordo44@yahoo.com

City: Losangeles

A fascist, a dictator and a traitor wins a prize? This is the most brutal action being taken by Norway and its company against the Ethiopian people. Stop it!!! Meles Zenawi is a killer, a mass morderer, a traitor and a terrorist more worse than Usama Bin Ladin. Norway has to stop the Yara company from this brutal action.

The West has decided that Melese is their man in the same way that have decided autocratic leaders such as Kings of Saudi Arabia and Jordan; and Presidents of Egypt and Pakistan are their men. All this dictatores have been given prizes of all sorts including honorary doctorate at point of time when they were first identified as being essential for Western interest in the region.

The prize that is given to Melese by the Norwegians is the beginning of many other prizes to come. They want to send a message to their constitutencies (the public) that Melese is not as bad as the opposition portraits him.

What we should do is use the same propaganda machninery to show the Norwegian public that the danger of promoting dictatorship in Ethiopia is the same endorsing the dismemberment of the country.

At another level we need to document how the money is spent and where.

City: Paris

I just read Yara's response to the struggle of Ethiopian community in Norway. Bravo to our sisters and brothers there. That is the mark of resistance by a free people. That is what needs to happen everywhere and all the time. Yichalal

Lebaw Meles HAS NOT WON THE PRIZE!!!!
YARA HAS /IS RECONSIDERING IT'S MOVE BECAUSE OF OVERWHELMING REPORT THAT MELES IS A THEIF AND NOT WHAT HE SAYS HE IS TO THE WEST.
WE WILL MAKE SURE HE NEVER GETS IT !!!!! BELIEVE THIS.

Hello,
I have not found Kofi Annan's e-mail and i would like it if u cud find it

Email: dubaigal@hotmail.com

I am proud of you Meles, we didn't have ever such a brillant brain in ethiopian history!. forget those of people, which are lost in thier life for ever!because they are trash and narrow minded.

Email: yekesere.amara@yahoo.com

City: atlanta