Free at last!! Ethiopian opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa is Free!!

Over the past several years, Ethiopia's government, which cherishes its role as a U.S. ally in the volatile Horn of Ethiopian opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa speaks to reporters from the window of a prison van after being freed in Addis Ababa, Oct. 6, 2010 Stringer / Reuters Africa, has steadily chipped away at political freedoms, arresting the opposition and quashing the free press. So it was hard not to be skeptical about its move this week to release Birtukan Mideksa, the country's best-known opposition leader.

How you interpret Mideksa's release depends on where you think Ethiopia is going. Has the country, as the opposition and rights groups claim, become a dictatorship that still can't resist making occasional symbolic gestures? Or is it, as Prime Minister Meles Zenawi claims, still marching, slowly but surely, toward democratic and economic openness? (See pictures of Ethiopia's harvest of hunger.)

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[EriPLaYa4LyFe]

@kochegn fuck your agame begger ass. millions of starving agames. we are the world! we are the children. ahahhaha gallas will unite and expell the woyanes/tigres from their land. viva oromia fuck agame

[tonywanag]

@EriPLaYa4LyFe INDA GIMAL SHINT WADAHUALA ATHID



[kochegn]

@EriPLaYa4LyFe, dirty hamasean. I am hiv + and I am fine with it. I am not suffering from Anger, Kinat or both. Your country will never be able to use your port to export anything except your people who are migrating to other countries. We left you 20yrs ago and you still cannot leave us alone. Dirty eritrean.

[EriPLaYa4LyFe]

@kochegn dirty galla youare all suffering from hiv. ethiopia is #1 aids addicted landlocked nation, i hope agazi agames shoot you in the street agan (2005 elections)

[kochegn]

@EriPLaYa4LyFe, beggar? oh are u living by exporting rockets or coffee? which on is it? Denqoro Eritrean you are always 20yrs behind. The time to stigmatize aids was over long time ago. Now the race is to come up with the 1st cure baby, the whites working with hiv every single minute you open your stinking eritrean mouth. Dirty Ebid beggar Eritrean

[EriPLaYa4LyFe]

@kochegn hey motherfucker aids amahara beggers! until you leave Eritrean sovergn territory you will never live in peace. dirty agame galla neftegna. fuck aidsthiopians

[kochegn]

@EriPLaYa4LyFe, EBID eritrean why are you still here? It isnot our fault that your country is a failure. Donot you get it?

[EriPLaYa4LyFe]

@tonywanag komata amhara neftegna ahiya

[tonywanag]

@itismebeauty that's right you r right

[tonywanag]

@EriPLaYa4LyFe DEDDB YEWISHA SHINT