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Genocide Watch calls on UN to initiate action against Meles
March 31, 2009 (Addis Voice) - Genocide
Watch, the international campaign to end
genocide, has called on United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Justice
Navanathem, to initiate an investigation
against the government of Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi. Genocide Watch cited...More
An Open Letter to the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights
March 23, 2009 | Justice Navanathem Pillay
"I first became knowledgeable regarding the abhorrent human rights
situation in Ethiopia when Genocide Watch and Survivors Rights
International were called by the head of the Anuak Justice Council,
Obang Metho, (now the leader of the newly formed Solidarity Movement
for a New Ethiopia) to investigate the brutal massacre of 424 Anuak
carried out in Gambella, Ethiopia in December of 2003. The Anuak are a
tiny, dark-skinned ethnic group who live in a remote section of...More
Open Letter to the President of Genocide Watch
23 April, 2009 (SMNE) - " The
foundation for a future case against
those involved, which implicated
those in the highest levels of Ethiopian
government, is well established thanks
to your willingness to listen and to
follow that up with two thorough
investigations sponsored by your
"Today is the Day for killing Anuak" and "Operation Sunny... More
On December 13, 2003, members of the
Ethiopian military and militias formed from
non-Anuak minority groups entered Gambella
town in southwestern Ethiopia. Over the course
of three days, they sought out, tortured and killed
424 men, burned houses, and scattered families.
Since that time, the genocide and crimes against
humanity have continued, raising the death toll
between 1,500 and 2,500, and causing more than
50,000 Anuak to flee..More
Pastor Oletho Okwier, one of the first killed
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