Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi ‘in hospital’

Meles Zenawi has led Ethiopia for more than 20 years

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Ethiopia’s government has denied Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is critically ill but says he has been in hospital.

“He is not in a critical state. He is in good condition,” spokesman Bereket Simon told the AFP news agency.

A spokesperson for the Ethiopian embassy in London told the BBC the 57 year old was in a stable condition after hospital treatment.

Green Justice or Ethnic Injustice?

April 23, 2012

Alemayehu g mariam:

Blaming the Victim

Last week, dictator Meles Zenawi hectored his rubberstamp parliament in Ethiopia about the forced expulsion (or as some have described it “ethnic cleansing”) of Amharas from southern Ethiopia and zapped his critics for their irresponsibility in reporting and publicizing it. Zenawi denied any expulsion had taken place, but explained that some squatters (he described them as “sefaris from North Gojam”) had  to be removed from their homesteads in the south purely out of environmental conservation concerns for the area’s forestlands. In a broadside against organizations “that promote the view that our collective identity is Ethiopianity,” Zenawi harangued: