Ethnic Groups in Ethiopia
January reading:
Ethiopia: A New Start?, available at
http://www.minorityrights.org/admin/Download/Pdf/EthiopiaReport.pdf
U.S.-Ethiopia Special Relationship and the War on Terror
February readings:
(1) Remarks by the President, the President of Kenya, and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia in December 2002 available at http://www.state.gov/p/af/rls/rm/17084.htm
(2) “Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia: New Light on the Slippery Slope” by Theodore M. Vestal, 2000-01 available at http://fp.okstate.edu/vestal/Ethiopia/human_rights_abuses_in_ethiopia.htm
(3) Human Rights Watch World Report 2005: Overview of human rights issues in Ethiopia, available at http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/01/13/ethiop9833.htm
(4) Ethiopia is Important U.S. Anti-Terror Ally, Former Envoy Says, December 2004, available at http://usinfo.state.gov/is/Archive/2004/Dec/06-498178.html
(5) Rumsfeld in East Africa To Consolidate Western Military Control, December 2002, available at http://www.stopthenato.org/m/zit/id_ses/ce001f8f/id_p/10/opt/read_e/id_s/512.html
(6) U.S. Military Presence in East Africa May Increase, December 2002, available at http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200212/FOR20021209f.html
(7) “Ethnic Cleansing In Ethiopia: Tip of the ‘Golden Spear?’” November 2004, available at http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/analysis/2004/1104goldenspear.htm
Academic Freedom
March readings:
March readings:
(1) Ethiopia: Lessons in Repression: Violations of Academic Freedom in Ethiopia, available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/ethiopia0103/ethiopia0103.pdf
(2) Letter from expelled Finfine (A.A.) university students, available at http://www.oromia.org/Univ-stud-letter1.htm
(3) Ethiopia: Arbitrary detention / Fear of ill-treatment - Amnesty International, available at http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR250032004?open&of=ENG-ETH
(4) March 17, 2003 Human Rights Watch Letter to Ethiopian Ministers of Justice, available at http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/03/17/ethiop8130.htm
(5) September 8, 2004 Human Rights Watch Letter to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, available at http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/09/07/ethiop9320.htm
(6) Ethiopia: Stop Harassing Journalists' Group, available at http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/02/13/ethiop7347.htm
(7) BBC News--Ethiopian students flee to Kenya, available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3671169.stm
(8)BBC News--Oromo youths return to Ethiopia, available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3684245.stm
Torture
April readings:
(1) Jaranson, et al. Somali and Oromo Refugees: Correlates of Torture and Trauma History, American Journal of Public Health, April 2004. (Excerpt available at http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/4/591)
(2) Torture data supplement from James Jaranson, M.D.
(3) Human Tragedy in the Making, February 1996:
http://www.netnomad.com/oromotragedy.html
(4) U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, available at http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html
(5) U.S. Department of State, U.S. Remains Steadfastly Committed to Laws Prohibiting Torture, January 2005, available at
http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2005/Feb/01-98805.html
(6) U.S. Department of Justice December 2004 Memo on Torture, available at
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/dagmemo.pdf
(7) Memo Offered Justification for Torture, June 2004, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23373-2004Jun7?language=printer
Refugees
May readings:
(1) Hidden in Plain View: Refugees Living without Protection in Nairobi and Kampala, available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/kenyugan/ (pages 1 through page 54)
(2) 1951 Convention on Refugees Q & A, available at http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/basics (the full Convention and 1967 Protocol can be found on this site)
(3) U.S. Department of State Refugee Admissions Program for Africa, available at http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/fs/44168.htm
(4) Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2005: Report to Congress, available at http://www.state.gov/g/prm/asst/rl/rpts/36116.htm (Part I Overview of U.S. Refugee Policy and Part III Regional Programs—Africa)
(5) The Long Journey Home: an IRIN Web Special on the Challenge of Refugee Return and Reintegration, Kenya: No Place to Call Home, available at http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/rr/print/p-502076.asp
(6) The Horrendous State of Oromo Refugees in Djibouti, Oromo Liberation Front 2003, available at http://www.oromoliberationfront.org/20030728PressRelease.htm
(7) Letter to Hon. Emilio Mwai Kibaki, President of the Republic of Kenya, available at http://www.oromoliberationfront.org/Letter%20to_his%20excellency.htm
Oromo Liberation Front
June readings:
Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) Mission, www.oromoliberationfront.org/OLFMission.htm
Major OLF Policies, www.oromoliberationfront.org/OLFPolicies.htm
MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base, www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3651
“Prospects for Oromo Struggle under the Prevailing Situation,” Daawud Ibsaa, Chairman of the Oromo Liberation Front [speech given in Bergen, Norway at Conflict Resolution in the Horn of Africa conference on September 28, 2004]
“Challenges and Prospects for the Oromo in Ethiopia,” David H. Shinn, Professor at George Washington University and Former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia [remarks in Bergen, Norway on September 27, 2004]
Resolutions of the OLF Executive Committee on June 26, 2004, www.oromoliberationfront.org/20040726PressRelease.htm
The Resolutions, Declarations and Position of the 3rd OLF National Congress, www.oromoliberationfront.org/20041227_PressRelease.htm
“Oromo Resistance from 1970 up to Present,” in Oromia: An Introduction to the History of the Oromo People by Gadaa Melbaa, 1999, with permission of Kirk House Publishers, www.kirkhouse.com
“The Oromo National Movement,” in Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization by Asafa Jalata, 2001, with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. [The whole chapter is great, but if you have limited time the OLF’s development is covered from page 77 on.]
Political Repression in Oromia
July reading:
Human Rights Watch, Suppressing Dissent: Human Rights Abuses and Political Repression in Ethiopia’s Oromia Region, available at http://hrw.org/reports/2005/ethiopia0505/
Elections in Ethiopia
August readings:
“Democratization in Ethiopia: Some Notes on Theory and Methodology,” in Ethiopia Since the Derg: A Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance, Eds. Siegfried Pausewang et al., London: Zed Books, 2002, ch. 1.
Amnesty International, Ethiopia: The 15 May 2005 Elections and Human Rights, http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engafr250022005
U.S. Department of State, recent comments on Ethiopia:
Situation in Ethiopia (July 13), http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2005/49559.htm
Ethiopian Elections (June 13), http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2005/47807.htm
Ethiopia (May 10), http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2005/46018.htm
Oromo Liberation Front, Hypocrisy of Ethiopian Election (May 10), http://www.oromoliberationfront.org/Hypocrisy_Ethiopian_election.htm
Carter Center,
Carter Center Postelection Statement on the Ethiopia Elections (June 9), http://www.cartercenter.org/doc2122.htm
Ethiopia Trip Report: May 11-17, 2005 (May 19), http://www.cartercenter.org/doc2102.htm
Ethiopia Elections: Dispatch from Addis Ababa (May 16), http://www.cartercenter.org/doc2098.htm
News,
Ethiopia: Election Reports, Commentary (May 30), http://www.africafocus.org/docs05/eth0505.php
“Feeling is not good” after Ethiopia vote (July 21), http://nazret.com/blogs/blogs/index.php?m=20050721
“NEBE Announcing Official Election Results in Line With Constitution, Electoral Law,” http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200508010203.html
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