By Jonathan Tepperman | NEWSWEEK
Published Apr 11, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Apr 20, 2009
Few people outside Ethiopia have ever heard of Birtukan Mideksa. And that's just how the government wants it. Since December, Birtukan has been kept in solitary confinement, one of hundreds of political prisoners there . Her apparent crime? Organizing a democratic challenge to the increasingly iron-fisted rule of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. more
From my latest observations, we see a regime that is lossing its grip and loosing entirely its confidence.
ReplyDeleteTo the contrary I can see Birtukan Mideksa prestige and international status growing. He tought he may silence her and defeat by his power of his gun. WELL SHE DEFEATED HIM WITHOUT FIRING BULLET. All over the place
the shadow of Birtukan is coming after him. I am sure she is coming also
to his mind in his dream.