Former head of Mega Enterprise, one of the ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front’s
multi-billion illegal businesses, Mrs. Azeb Mesfin, who is rightly dubbed “Queen of
Mega” for her prominent role in illegal trades, is a member of the Central Committee of
the TPLF, the hard core of the ruling party the TPLF/EPRDF, and one of a handful of
people that control almost everything in Ethiopia.
She is also a member of an illegitimate
parliament who secured her election through intimidation like all other TPLF/ EPRDF
parliamentarians who were rejected by the people but made their way through the
daylight robbery of votes in the election of May 2005. The robbery of the votes and
widespread rigging of the election by Mrs. Zenawi’s party is well documented by the
testimony of Observers of the European Union and the Carter Center.
This corrupt lady
also runs numerous multimillion dollar business conglomerates that are directly
controlled by the ruling party TPLF with little government oversight and accountability.
Mrs. Azeb Mesfin is not only a wife of tyrant but also a member of the leadership of a
government that has killed hundreds of unarmed protestors in June and November
2005, confirmed to be a massacre by none other than the Inquiry Commission, whose
members were hand picked by her husband.
The Chairman of the Inquiry Commission
and two other colleagues had to flee the country with the documents to tell the truth to
the world including the United States Congress. Mrs. Zenawi was watching from her
palace as tens of thousands of young people were arrested and sent to malaria infested
concentration camps in the lowlands of Ethiopia where many died of hunger and
disease.
Like her husband, this lady’s hands are soaked in the blood of the Ethiopian people.
What makes this award even more disgraceful is the great dreams of Dr Martin Luther
King Jr, who stood up against the kind of discrimination and oppression that Azeb and
her husband have mastered in the last fifteen years.
The award is too ironic for a woman, whose ruling party TPLF has used one razor
blade to dry shave multiple political prisoners in a country where the prevalence
of HIV/AIDS is one of the highest in the world.
How blind are the officials of Georgetown University to these crimes against humanity?
Couldn’t they have, at least, talked to one Ethiopian on the streets of Washington DC or
any of the Ethiopian students studying at the University? We wonder.
Georgetown University is putting a huge black spot on its good name and reputation
This Award is a disgrace and a shame on the part of those who made the decision on
behalf of the University.
Ethiopians and Ethiopian-Americans Against Tyranny in Ethiopia
