Alemayehu G. Mariam

President Obama likes to pontificate about being on the ‘right side of history’ and rhetorically clobber those who are on the ‘wrong side of history’.

The secrecy-obsessed regime in Ethiopia has a huge creepy dragnet of secret electronic surveillance programs to sniff out the deeply-buried secrets of the people of Ethiopia. They spend sleepless nights interrogating themselves about what the people could do to them.

Exactly two years ago, I wrote a commentary entitled, ‘The Dam and the Damned: Gi

I am getting a little jittery over the repeated delays, postponements and all the backpedalling talk about ‘false evidence’ and ‘lying witnesses’ in the Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta International Criminal Court trial. I don’t want to say I smell a rat but I feel like I am getting a whiff.

The campaign is conducted largely through regime lackey-proxies, stooges and puppets. Through its minions, the regime has used the most loathsome words, inflammatory rhetoric and repugnant imagery to describe Menelik’s alleged brutality in his quest for territorial conquest.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela finally finished his long walk to freedom in the last month of the Year 2013.

According to Ethiopia's “Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs”, approximately 200,000 women sought employment abroad in 2012, the vast majority of them in the Middle East.

Last week the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the ruling regime in Ethiopia announced:

The African Union’s threatened “mass treaty-cide” (a phrase I am compelled to coin to describe the bizarre threatened walkout on the Rome Statute) fizzled out.

I defend the International Criminal Court (ICC) not because it is a perfect judicial institution or system but because it is an imperfect one that can be perfected over time with the support and cooperation of the community of nations.