Meles lied to the Ethiopian people by telling us he will accept the election result. Now, he will be caught red handed by the international community for saying he will abide by the judgement of the EU observation mission. Once a lier will always be a lier, he will soon be diagnosed as having a serious lying compulsive disorder. Why should the Ethiopian people put up with this blood thirsty, lying deranged individual? he dose not deserve to be the head of his family not alone the 75 million strong grate Ethiopia.
His weird character will be out in the open soon, to be seen by the whole world. It will show that Meles is behaving this way not because of a deranged mind, but from cold, calculating rationality combined with a chilling inability to treat others as thinking, feeling, human beings.
He is a mass murderer whose only place should be in prison.
EU says Ethiopian poll not up to standard
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
25 August 2005 12:58
The European Union said on Thursday that Ethiopia's disputed May 15 elections did not meet international standards in several key respects, including post-vote investigations into fraud.
In a report also harshly critical of weekend polls in Ethiopia's remote Somali state, which concluded the voting process under the country's split election cycle, the EU said the process had fallen short of democratic requirements.
"The EU observation mission regrets [that the election process] did not live up to the international standards and to the aspirations of Ethiopians for democracy," chief EU election monitor Ana Gomes told reporters.
She noted a litany of problems with post-election developments, including "irregularities, delays and opacity of the counting and aggregation of data plus subsequent fraud [and] handling of complaints".
Gomes said fraud complaint investigations -- conducted after deadly violence erupted in the capital in June following the release of preliminary returns -- that resulted in re-votes in about 30 constituencies on Sunday had not been satisfactory.
"Despite the significant efforts to accommodate complaints and verify them, the overall process has failed to give the remedy expected by the parties," she said.
At the same time, Gomes assailed Sunday's Somali state election as "poorly organised [and] full of irregularities, including ballots being sold on the black market".
Most of Ethiopia cast ballots for local legislatures and Parliament on May 15 in an exercise hailed at the time by EU and other international observers for its peaceful conduct and extremely high turnout.
But preliminary results, later confirmed, showing a ruling-party victory, sparked complaints of massive fraud, many of which are still unresolved amid threats of a Parliament boycott by Ethiopian parties.
Protests against the early returns turned deadly when police fired on crowds during demonstrations in the capital on June 8, killing at least 36 and as many as 42 people. -- Sapa-AFP
EU mission has come to Ethiopia with the hope it will able to see our progress in democracy. It is telling us however we have not yet qualified to the democracy of the west. Anyway the EU obsevation has made clear that the opposition was not even capable to perform its homeworks but the EPRDF eventhough there were limitations. Hence the report tacitly is indorcing the veridct of the NEBE.
