COPENHAGEN – Braving frigid weather unseen for over eight years, patriotic Ethiopians drove for several hours from all over Europe and descended on Copenhagen where they denounced genocide perpetrator Meles Zenawi, a pro-democracy website reported on Sunday.
Waving their native country’s tricolor, and holding high an oversize photo banner of Birtukan Mideksa, the activists chanted for hours for the release of the prominent opposition leader, and thousands of other political prisoners that Meles has locked up in his dungeons.
Zenawi, who has been in power since 1991, has committed numerous crimes – ranging from turning Ethiopia into a landlocked nation to committing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He has evaded Western government attention by fueling conflicts in the Horn of Africa, for which he appears as a Western ally in the name of a ‘partner in the war on terror.’
The tyrant was attending the Climate Talks as chief negotiator of African countries but ended up shaming developing countries by crowning himself the unofficial chief negotiatior for the rich West.
The betrayal of Meles Zenawi that made headline news for the rest of the world was nothing new for Ethiopians who have for nearly 20 years appealed to the international community to help them ostracize the man they believe is their country’s worst enemy.
AbbayMedia said the protest rally was organized by the Committee of the International Network against Repression and Injustice in Ethiopia. Most of the activists were drawn from host country Denmark, UK, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, France and Italy.
The video clip (top right) was produced by AbbayMedia editors, who took part in the protest rally in Copenhagen and drove for 27 hours to get back home to London.
