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Meles turned down the demand of the Opposition

The Office of the Prime Minister Meles Zenawi turned down the demand of Birtukan Mideksa’s release, saying that Bitrukan was imprisoned with an intention of ensuring the supremacy of law.
Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJP) held demonstration in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, on Thursday, demanding the release of Birtukan Mideksa

The representative of the demonstrators handed out a letter demanding for the release of Birtukan.

In its written response to the demonstrators, the Office of the Prime Minister Meles Zenawi stated that the government would accept the demonstration as it was held in a peaceful manner. Besides, the Ethiopian political spectrum encourages such legal struggle, it added.

The tenure of the Islamic courts was short lived. Ethiopian forces, backed and encouraged by US policy and military, invaded Somalia and toppled the Islamists in Mogadishu. The US backed Ethiopian forces quickly removed the Islamists. It soon became apparent (in an all too familiar way) that there was a plan for war but no plan for peace. Somalia quickly returned to chaos and became once again what in military parlance is called an ungoverned space, fertile for modern day piracy. (Read more)