Frezer Negash Update (Pregnant reporter kidnapped by the Ethiopian government)

Ethiopian Review ^ | January 30, 2006 | Committee to Protect Journalists

[Menelik]

Ethiopian security forces have detained a correspondent for the U.S.-based Web site Ethiopian Review... www.cpj.org

Ethiopian Review reporter in Addis Ababa Frezer Negash is being detained in Maikelawi police station. She is detained in inhumane condition as tens of thousands of other journalists, students, and opposition partymembers. Frezer is three-month pregnant and have been sick for the past few weeks. We are deeply worried for her safety knowing the brutal treatment she may be facing in the hands of the Federal Police...

[Menelik]

I fear that President Bush's foreign policy that calls for democratizing troubled spots of the world is being set aside in Africa. I am sad to say this, because I truely believe in Bush's foreing policy. It's the right one and should be implemented by the State Department. It's in the National Security interest of the U.S. to do so.

[son of caesar]

every liberal will tell you that being infected with a mass of parasitic cells is no big deal, its kinda like an infection. sacasm intended.

[aliquando]

I agree, but millions of dollars have been thrown at the continent with what result? It always seems to break down into tribal factions. This is not unique to Africa however, look at Europe and the Balkans. Hell the Irish were still blowing up the English until recently. Any ideas for a solution, or do we wait until they are tired of killing each other? Sorry, just i a pessimistic mood.

[Nathan Zachary]

Why is being "barely pregnant" as MSM usually calls it, suddenly important? Is MSM telling us that this condition is more than just a minor inconvenience? Is this a tiny HUMAN BEING who's life is in danger? I'm wondering if this "reporter" was even planning to keep it, or was this a condition she was going to have 'fixed' as soon as she was able to return to the USA where a proper facility was available.
I just find it a little disgusting that media, which usually has little or no regard for human life, (which begins at conception) suddenly saying that yes indeed, a 3 month old fetus is a human life and we should all be gravely concerned over it's welfare. Tomorrow media will be beating the drum, worried that a justice appointee will consider the same while doing his job.

[Menelik]

As President Bush likes to say, freedom works every where it is tried. Let, the State Department should give freedom a chance in Africa, too, and you will see the result. But when you give close to a billion dollars of aid to a dictator who uses the money to buy weapons to suppress freedom, what do you expect?

[Nathan Zachary]

"This is not unique to Africa however, look at Europe and the Balkans."

What about it? Do you believe that was a "ethnic conflict?" if you do, you are like many other Americans who have ben duped by leftist media. The balkans was NOT an ethnic conflict, it was a Christian population trying to expel a hostile islamic one. Clinton bombed the wrong side, and Americans should be ashamed, yet not a peep from the left's anti war crowd over the crimminal acts Clinton commited.

[Menelik]

What's going on in Ethipia is not a tribal warfare. It's a well-financed dictatorship trying to rule by force. Check this article by World Magazine if you wish to find out more:

One-party rule a tough habit to break
http://www.worldmag.com/subscriber/displayarticle.cfm?id=11341

[Admin Moderator]

The link you provided goes to the front page of the source.

Do you have a working link to the article you posted?

[freepatriot32]

State Department to Ethiopian Opposition: We won’t make changes

[Menelik]

this is the direct link:

http://ethiopianreview.homestead.com/0000FrezerUpdate.html

[arthurus]

I used to subscribe to the dead tree Ethiopian Review. It was a fascinating mag in which were articles by emigre would-be founding fathers about how Ethiopia should or could be rebuilt after Memgistu was deposed. They were very good well thought out studies and proposals and argument by serious thinkers until, sometime after Haile Mariam fled the country, it occurred to one of them that they were irrelevant, the shape of the new Ethiopia was being decided by the people still in Ethiopia. The tone of the mag deteriorated into frustration and railing against those who were doing the changing and establishing on the ground. It went from glossy paper to newsprint.I continued to subscribe for some time after that because I had become absorbed in things Amharic and Ethiopian. It is a fascinating country with a fairytale history like a 12th century European political and social system superimposed on a bronze age population that includes lost Jewish tribes and ancient Christians.

[aliquando]

Are not the different religions also different ethnicities in this case? Just asking, not sure myself.