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The
Audacity
of Evil in
Ethiopia
Canada foils terror plot to

attack train
Wosen Yitna Beyene,
President
Ethiopian Association in the GTA
and Surrounding Regions
Solomon Abebe is a resident of Toronto, Canada. He is also the director of a

new documentary called - HOPE. The
new documentary has been sumbitted
for reveiw and potential competition
with the prestigious Toronto Film Festival as well as the New York documentary film festival. Solomon A K A
Mike shares with us his upbringings,
reflects the wise words his grandfather once shared with him and tells us
about - HOPE.
Read More Page 22

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@ Phrmacy
Toronto, ON
416-858-6071
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Ask for SARA
Hours: Tues-Fri. 9-5
Sat. 9-7 Sun 1-6
Mon.
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We sale cheap Tickets for Ethiopia, Africa

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222 Main Street
We do Personal and Busines

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962 Scarlet Road, Toronto, ON
IN CONVERSATION WITH
THE MAKER OF - HOPE
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Victoria Park & Gerrard
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ABADER TAX & BUSINESS LTD.
More Read Page 19
Read More Page 21
Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam
Police say two men have been arrested and charged with plotting a
terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train.
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Promoting and Protecting Canadas

Interests and Values at NATO
April 23, 2013 - Brussels - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird represents Canada at the NATO
Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels.
The important global security challenges we face today underscore the strategic importance of our
alliance, said Baird. Canada remains concerned about the global security threat posed by conflicts
in the Middle East, North Africa and, in particular, Iran. We will continue to work with our allies
and international partners to address the challenges we face.
Canada is a key player in NATO. Our priority is to ensure that the alliance remains modern, flexible
and agile in the face of global security threats.
Canada foils terror plot to

attack train
Police say two men have been arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack
against a Canadian passenger train.
A file photo of Canada's VIA passenger train which was a possible target of terrorist attack [Reuters]
state-sponsored".

Canadian authorities have said that
they had arresed and charged two men with an

The pair, who are not Canadian
citizens, are expected to appear in court on
al Qaeda-linked plot to "carry out a terrorist
Tuesday for a bail hearing, AFP news agency
attack" against a passenger train.
reported.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police on
Monday named the two accused as Chiheb

Charges include conspiring to carry
Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, from the Montreal
out an attack and conspiring in association with
a terrorist group to murder individuals.
and Toronto areas respectively.

Canadian police and intelligence

"The RCMP is alleging that Chiheb
agencies said the operation was conducted
Esseghaier and Raed Jaser were conspiring to
in co-ordination with the US Department of
carry out an al-Qaeda-supported attack against
a VIA passenger train," RCMP official James
Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of
Malizia said.
Investigation (FBI).
A US law enforcement source told Reuters news

"While the RCMP believed that these
agency the alleged plot was not linked with last
individuals had the capacity and intent to carry
week's Boston Marathon bombings.
out these criminal acts, there was no imminent
threat to the general public, rail employees,

In 2006, Canadian authorities also
train passengers or infrastructure," the police
arrested at least 18 suspects reportedly linked to
a terror plot, involving attacks on the parliament
said in a statement.
and a major broadcast company.

The police told a news conference
the suspects "were receiving support from alSource:
Qaeda elements located in Iran" but added
"there's no indication that these attacks were
Al Jazeera And Agencies
List of Priority Occupations and Organizations

Designated to Conduct Educational Credential
Assessments for Federal Skilled Worker
Program Released

Ottawa, April 18, 2013 The
list of 24 occupations that are eligible
under the Federal Skilled Worker Program
(FSWP) when it re-opens on May 4, 2013
was released today.

In addition, four organizations
have been designated to provide the
now-required independent third party
assessments of foreign educational
credentials for applicants who studied
outside of Canada. These assessments,
which must be completed before an
application is submitted, are aimed at
helping newcomers through the FSWP
to get off to a better start and into the
Canadian labour force more quickly when
they arrive.

The governments focus remains
on jobs, economic growth, and long-term
prosperity, said Citizenship, Immigration
and Multiculturalism Minister Kenney.
Under the new Federal Skilled Worker
Program, Canada will be able to attract the
skilled immigrants our economy requires,
who are the most likely to succeed and
contribute their full skill set to the Canadian
economy.

With the re-opening date
approaching, future applicants should be
aware of several key elements that will
have an effect on the application process:

A new eligible occupations list,
with a total of 24 occupations;

An overall cap of 5,000 new
applications for all eligible occupations,
including a sub-cap of 300 new applications
for each eligible occupation;

Four organizations have
been designated to conduct educational
credential assessments (mandatory for

applicants submitting foreign educational
credentials); and

Applicants must show proof

that they meet the minimum threshold
of Canadian Language Benchmark 7 in
all four language skill areas: speaking,
reading, writing and oral comprehension.

As a result of the actions taken
by the Government to deal with the
massive backlogs and unacceptably long
wait times, FSW applications will be
processed in approximately one year, said
Minister Kenney. We will not be able to
remain competitive and attract the skilled
immigrants we need if we allow backlogs
and wait times to grow again. Thats why
we are capping application intake and
focusing on specific occupations that are
experiencing labour shortages in Canada.
This will also help us transition nicely into
the just-in-time immigration system of the
future.

Applications under the new
FSWP will be accepted starting May 4,
2013. Until then, however, the FSWP
application process does not change only
individuals with qualifying job offers or
those applying under the PhD stream are
eligible for processing.

All applicants who are considering
applying on or after May 4 are invited to
consult the Backgrounder . It outlines some
of the steps that can be taken now to prepare
and includes the eligible occupations list
and the organizations designated to conduct
educational credential assessments.
Easter Statement by the Honourable Jim

Karygiannis, Member of Parliament for
Scarborough-Agincourt
Hon. Jim Karygiannis
P.C., M.P. (jim@
karygiannismp.com)
I would like to take extend my warmest wishes to all Canadians who are celebrating Easter.
Easter is the greatest feast in the Christian calendar. On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This religious festival comes at the end of Lent
- a period of 40 days of prayer, contemplation and fasting. During Lent, Christians prepare
themselves spiritually for the crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday.
This year, Christians, who follow the western calendar, celebrate Easter March 31, 2013,
while Orthodox Christians observe Easter on May 5, 2013.
Easter is a time of new beginnings - a time to look to the future with a renewed sense of hope
and purpose.
As you gather with your loved ones at this time of re-birth, let us celebrate the promise and
hope of Easter.
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Professionals
The race is on.

The Canadian government has finally
reopened its immigration program for
professionals. This is the program under
which most immigrants have arrived in
Canada in recent years, and so is a vital
part of Canada's immigration strategy. The
day the government will start taking receipt
of Federal Skilled Worker applications is
May 4.
However, there are four very important

factors hopeful candidates should be aware
of:
First, Canada will only process the first
300 applications it receives in each job
category. There is also an overall cap of
5,000 applications.
Second, the government will be
unforgiving with respect to technical and
program requirements. Clerical errors, let

alone more substantial errors, will lead to
otherwise good applications being rejected.
Third, the government has changed the way

that points will be calculated. You should
not assume that you will qualify under the
new process just because your previous
calculations said you would qualify under
the old process.
Fourth, the list of qualifying work
experience has changed. To qualify
candidates must show they have at least
one year of work experience in one of 24
occupations (listed below).
These factors should encourage hopeful
applicants to move quickly but with great
care to have their applications properly
prepared and filed. It is very possible that
where applications are returned because of
clerical or other mistakes it will then be too
late to be file again.

Applicants
must
meet
minimum
requirements with respect to factors that
include English and/or French language
skills, education, relevant work experience,
age, and adaptability.
Where a candidate has a job offer from a
Canadian employer, that candidate may
be exempted from some of the criteria
that apply to other candidates. Most
importantly, that candidate can apply even
if their job is not on the list of 24 jobs listed
below.
Those who can apply under this category also
include PhD graduates from provincially
or territorially recognized private or public
post-secondary educational institutions in
Canada. A maximum of 1,000 applications
will be processed under the PhD stream.
Canada Open for Business to Start-Up Entrepreneurs New Start-Up Visa

opens for applications on April 1
Ottawa, March 28, 2013 The worlds best

and brightest entrepreneurs from around the
world, with ideas for new business ventures
and financial backing from Canadian
investors, can apply to the brand-new StartUp Visa Program as of April 1, Citizenship,
Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister
Jason Kenney announced today.
Canada is open for business to the worlds
start-up entrepreneurs, said Minister
Kenney. Innovation and entrepreneurship
are essential drivers of the Canadian
economy. That is why we are actively
recruiting foreign entrepreneurs - those who
can build companies here in Canada that will
create new jobs, spur economic growth and
compete on a global scale - with our new
start-up visa.
Canadas Start-Up Visa Program is the
first of its kind in the world. By providing
sought-after entrepreneurs with permanent
residency and access to a wide range of
business partners, Canada hopes to become
a destination of choice for start-up innovators
which will help Canada remain competitive
in the global economy.
CIC
has
worked
with
two
umbrella
organizations, Canadas Venture Capital

and Private Equity Association (CVCA)
and theNational Angel Capital Organization
(NACO), to identify and designate the
venture capital funds and angel investor
groups that are keen to participate in the
program. Immigrant entrepreneurs hoping
to launch cutting-edge businesses in Canada
and attain permanent resident status need the
support of participating Canadian investors.
A full list of designated venture capital funds
and angel investor groups is now available
on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada
website.
"The CVCA and our individual members

look forward to the launch of the Start-Up
Visa Program, said Peter van der Velden,
President of the CVCA. Our participating
funds welcome the opportunity to take part
in this first-of-its-kind program, which has
the potential to help them attract best-inclass entrepreneurial talent to their Canadianbased investee companies.
"There has been significant interest from
both angels and entrepreneurs since the
announcement of this program," said
Michelle Scarborough, Chair of NACO.
News Release Immigration

backlog reduced by forty percent
Faster processing times for workers and families

Mississauga, ON, March 26, 2013 As a result
of actions taken by the government since 2008,
the backlog of permanent resident applications
has been reduced by about forty percent,
paving the way for a faster and more effective
immigration system in 2013 and beyond,
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism
Minister Jason Kenney announced today.
Backlogs and delays prevent Canada from
attracting the best and brightest from around the
world and ensuring that our immigration system
is contributing to economic growth and longterm prosperity, said Minister Kenney. For
too long, we accepted far more applications
than we could process each year. That led to
backlogs increasing every year and processing
times of eight to ten years in some cases, which
discouraged talented, dynamic people from
coming to Canada.
This has been accomplished, in part, by
continuing to process a high number of
applications from parents and grandparents in
the Family Class while a temporary pause on
new applications remains in effect until the end
of the year. In addition, a pause was put in place
on new Immigrant Investor applications and
the oldest Federal Skilled Worker applications

were eliminated while we continued to process
record high levels of existing applications.
The government will continue to transform
Canadas immigration system to make it fast,
flexible and more responsive to the labour
market. The massive reduction in the backlog
allows us to move toward a just-in-time system
that recruits people with the right skills to meet
Canadas labour market needs, fast tracks their
applications and gets them working in Canada
in a period of months, instead of years. It also
means that families will no longer have to wait
close to a decade to be reunited with their loved
ones.
We still have work to do, but by taking clear
and decisive action to deal with backlogs,
we will attain our goal of having a fast and
flexible immigration system, said Minister
Kenney. Newcomers will arrive with skills and
talents that are in short supply in Canada and
contribute to our economy. The immigration
system must work for Canada, which is why
we will continue to reduce backlogs and speed
up the system, so that people spend less time
waiting and more time participating fully in the
Canadian economy.
"Our angel group members across Canada are

eager to participate, and we look forward to
supporting the growth of new businesses and
helping them to make their mark in Canada,
further expanding our economy."
To apply for permanent resident status in
Canada, the foreign entrepreneur must first
secure a significant investment commitment
from a designated Canadian angel investor
group or venture capital fund. Applicants
must also demonstrate language proficiency
skills at a Canadian Language Benchmark 5
in listening, speaking, reading and writing,
and have at least one year of education at a
post-secondary institution.
With our new start-up visa, we are opening
the door to new and exciting opportunities
for Canadas economy to grow and prosper,
added Minister Kenney. This is part of our
governments transformational changes to
Canadas immigration system that will make
it fast, flexible, and focused on Canadas
economic needs.
The Start-Up Visa Program is a pilot program
that will run for five years. It is expected
that due to the narrow focus of the program,
initially, the number of applications will be
limited. However, the focus of the program
will be on the quality of the applicants and on
establishing a track record of success.
TIPS
List of Work Experiences that

qualify for Immigration under
Skilled Professionals Category
For those who do not have a qualifying job offer

or who are not PhD graduates, the list of work
experience that qualifies someone to apply
(unless the category is full) is as follows:
Engineering managers
Financial and investment analysts
Geoscientists and oceanographers
Civil engineers
Mechanical engineers
Chemical engineers
Mining engineers
Geological engineers
Petroleum engineers
Aerospace engineers
Land surveyors
Physiotherapists
Occupational Therapists
Medical laboratory technologists
Medical radiation technologists
Medical sonographers
And Computer engineers (except software
engineers/designers)
Computer programmers and interactive media
developers
Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics
Audiologists and speech-language pathologists
Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists
and cardiopulmonary technologists
Cardiology technicians and electrophysiological
diagnostic technologists, not elsewhere
classified
Inspectors in public and environmental health
and occupational health and safety
Medical laboratory technicians and pathologists'
assistants
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IN CONVERSATION WITH THE MAKER OF - HOPE

By Samuel Getachew
Solomon Abebe is a resident of Toronto, Canada. He is also the director of a new documentary called - HOPE. The new
documentary has been sumbitted for reveiw and potential competition with the prestigious Toronto Film Festival as well as
the New York documentary film festival. Solomon A K A Mike shares with us his upbringings, reflects the wise words his
grandfather once shared with him and tells us about - HOPE.
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Solomon Abebe is a resident of Toronto, Canada. He is also the director of a new documentary called - HOPE.
Samuel:Solomon - Congratulations on your newly

produced documentary. Tell me about
yourself?
Solomon:Thank you Samuel - once again - my name

is Solomon Abebe however my friends call
me Mike. I was born in Addis Ababa. My
father moved from Ethiopia to Toronto in
1998 when I was 17 years old. I moved to
Canada at that young age and I was excited
to come here because I have always wanted
to be exposed to the outside world and
Canada became that destination for me.
Growing up, I was always very eager
to learn new things and I learned them
fast! My parents used to call me Felasfa,
which means philosopher, because of
my hunger for knowledge. When I was a
young boy, I always dreamed that I would
be an artist, or at least someone known for
something big.
My grandfather used to tell me If you
worked hard and put your mind into it, you
could do anything. I literally believed all
the words. Then and there I decided to pursue what gave me a great
foundation to achieve what I wanted to be
successful at - which for me became film
making.
Soon after, I decided to go to film school
in Vancouver in 2008 to study film
production. While in school, I worked as
an editor for Vancouvers largest editing

studio, and in my spare time I started
working on documentaries. Now that I am
back in Toronto, I am currently evolving
my skills by participating in a film program
provided by UforChange.
Samuel:Tell me about your new documentary. You
must be excited.
Solomon:I am very excited. I wrote and directed it
and its called - HOPE. This documentary
is based on the Canadian immigrants
experience and comparing it to those that
were born in Canada. The main reason I
wanted to do this documentary is because
I am passionate about topics relating to
hope, faith, religion, and cultural.
I have always been interested in making
films, writing poetry, or doing some kind
of story telling about hope. I was inspired
by the experiences that I have been through
as an immigrant, and this Idea compelled
me to make this documentary. I feel that
my vision will bring awareness to the city
of Toronto. Although documentaries were
not my first choice - I enjoy film-making
more - this happened by chance and I am
very grateful for that. I have submitted it
to the Toronto Film Festival and the New
York documentary film festival.
I encourage everyone to watch and support
my film.
Letter to the editor

scott.brison.a2@parl.gc.ca (scott.brison.a2@parl.gc.ca)
Despite his claims, Flaherty is raising your taxes

Dear Editor,
Conservative Finance Minister Jim Flaherty likes to boast that "we will not raise
taxes." Theres only one problem: that
claim is not remotely true.

His federal budget increases
tariffs on everyday items imported from
dozens of countries. These rising tariffs are a hidden tax on everything, from
clothing and shoes to household cleaning
products to televisions.

They are also increasing your
Employment Insurance taxes. Increasing
this tax on jobs is reckless when so many
areas of the economy are still struggling.

Jim Flaherty is increasing taxes
on hospital parking, taxes on life insurance, taxes on safety deposit boxes, taxes
for airport security, taxes on credit unions,
and the list goes on.
For years now, Conservatives have tried

to boast that they never raise taxes. That
was easy to do when they took power
and inherited a $13 billion surplus from
the previous Liberal government. However, these tax-and-spend Conservatives
dug themselves into a deep deficit; they
increased program spending by almost
40 percent and are now hiking taxes left,
right and centre.

Its time for the Conservatives
to show Canadians some respect and be
honest about taxes. No amount of spin or
government advertising (that they pay for
with your taxes) can change the fact that a
tax hike is a tax hike, and we know it.
Yours sincerely,
Scott Brison, MP
Liberal Party of Canada Finance Critic
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The Audacity of Evil in Ethiopia
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Triumph of Evil?

The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil is that good men do nothing,
said Edmund Burke. But what happens when evil
triumphs over a good young woman journalist
named Reeyot Alemu in Ethiopia? Do good men
and women turn a blind eye, plug their ears, turn
their backs and stand in silence with pursed lips?

In an extraordinary letter dated April
10, 2013, the Committee to Protect Journalists
pled with Berhan Hailu, Minister of Justice
in Ethiopia, on behalf of the imprisoned 32-year
old journalist urging that she be provided urgent
medical care and spared punishment in solitary
confinement at the filthy Meles Zenawi Prison in
Kality just outside the capital Addis Ababa.

Prison authorities have threatened
Reeyot with solitary confinement for two
months as punishment for alleged bad behavior
toward them and threatening to publicize human
rights violations by prison guards, according to
sources close to the journalist who spoke to the
International Womens Media Foundation on
condition of anonymity.CPJ has independently
verified the information. Reeyot has also been
denied access to adequate medical treatment after
she was diagnosed with a tumor in her breast

Last week Reeyot was declared winner
of the UNESCO / Guillermo Cano World Press
Freedom Prize 2013. That award recognizes a
person, organization or institution that has made
an outstanding contribution to the defence and/
or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the
world, especially when this has been achieved
in the face of danger. The $25,000 prize will be
awarded on the occasion of World Press Freedom
Day on May 3, 2013.

In May 2012, Reeyot received the
prestigious International Womens Media
Foundation 2012 Courage in Journalism Award
for her commitment to work for independent
media when the prospect of doing so became
increasingly dangerous, her refusal to self-censor
in a place where that practice is standard, and her
unwillingness to apologize for truth-telling, even
though contrition could win her freedom.
In December 2012, Reeyot, along with three other
courageous independent journalists, received
Human Rights Watchs prestigious Hellman/
Hammett Award for 2012 in recognition of their
efforts to promote free expression in Ethiopia,
one of the worlds most restricted media
environments.

Reeyout Alemu is Ethiopias press
freedom heroine
In May 2012, when Reeyot received the
IWMFs award, I wrote a commentary entitled,
Reeyot Alemu: Young Heroine of Ethiopian
Press Freedom recounting some of Reeyots
courageous acts of journalism and denouncing
the abuse she received at the hands of those in
power in Ethiopia. In June 2011, Reeyot and
her co-defendant journalist Woubshet Taye were
arrested on trumped up charges of terrorism
and held incommunicado in the infamous Meles
Zenawi Prison. Reeyots arrest occurred just
after she had written a column in a weekly paper
criticizing the late Meles Zenawis harebrained
fundraising campaign for the so-called Grand
Renaissance Dam over the Blue Nile. That
column seemed to have angered the cantankerous
and irascible Meles. Reeyot also skewered Meles
sacred cow, the half-baked five-year growth and
transformation plan (which I critiqued in The
Fakeonomics of Meles Zenawi in June 2011) .
In September 2012, Reeyot and Woubshet were
charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts
and participation in a terrorist organization under
Meles Zenawis cut-and-paste anti-terrorism law.

Reeyots trial in Meles kangaroo
court was a template for miscarriage of justice.
She was held in detention for three months
with no access to legal counsel. She was denied
counsel during interrogation. The kangaroo court
refused to investigate her allegations of torture,
mistreatment and denial of medical care in pretrial detention. The evidence of conspiracy
consisted of intercepted emails and wiretapped
telephone conversations she had about peaceful
protests and change with other journalists abroad.
Her articles posted on various opposition websites
were introduced as evidence of conspiracy.

Human Rights Watch was confounded
by the idiocy of the terrorism charges:
According to the charge sheet, the evidence
consisted primarily of online articles critical

of the government and telephone discussions
notably regarding peaceful protest actions that do
not amount to acts of terrorism. Furthermore, the
descriptions of the charges in the initial charge
sheet did not contain even the basic elements
of the crimes of which the defendants are
accused.

Amnesty International denounced the
judgment of the kangaroo court: There is no
evidence that [Reeyot and the other independent
journalists] are guilty of any criminal wrongdoing.
We believe that they are prisoners of conscience,
prosecuted because of their legitimate criticism
of the government. They must be released
immediately and unconditionally.

PEN American Center protested
the harsh punishment handed down to Reeyot
and Woubshet and demanded their immediate
and unconditional release. PEN asserted the
two journalists have been sentenced solely in
relation to their peaceful exercise of their right
to freedom of expression, in violation of Article
19 of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights and Article 9 of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, to which
Ethiopia is a signatory.

The International Womens Media
Foundation saw the kangaroo court trial as
an intimidation tactic against all independent
women journalists: The fact that the Ethiopian
Government pursues and persecutes courageous,
brave and professional women journalists does
not bode well particularly for young women
who may be interested in journalism. As a result,
womens voices (as reporters, editors, journalists,
decision-making chambers) are rarely heard and
womens issues are often relegated to secondary
position.
Following Reeyots kangaroo court conviction,
her father told an interviewer his daughter will not
apologize, seek a pardon or apply for clemency.
As a father, would you rather not advise your
daughter to apologize?

This is perhaps one of the most
difficult questions a parent can face. As any one
of us who are parents would readily admit, there
is an innate biological chord that attaches us to
our kids. We wish nothing but the best for them.
We try as much as humanly possible to keep them
from harm. Whether or not to beg for clemency
is her right and her decision. I would honor and
respect whatever decision she makes To answer
your specific question regarding my position on
the issue by the fact of being her father, I would
rather have her not plead for clemency, for she
has not committed any crime.

Meles offered Reeyot her freedom
if she agreed to snitch on her colleagues and
help railroad them to prison. She turned him
down flat and got herself railroaded into solitary
confinement. Even in prison, Reeyot remained
defiant as she informed IWMF: I believe that
I must contribute something to bring a better
future. Since there are a lot of injustices and
oppressions in Ethiopia, I must reveal and oppose
them in my articles.
The problem of evil in Ethiopia

Over the hundreds of uninterrupted
weekly commentaries I have written over the
years, I have rarely strayed much from my
professional fields of law and politics. I make
an exception in this commentary by indulging in
philosophical musings on evil, a subject that has
puzzled me for the longest time (and one I expect
to ruminate over from time to time in the future)
but one I never considered opining about in my
public commentaries. I am mindful that there is
the risk of sounding pedantic when one reflects
on Big Questions, but pedantry is not intended
here.

My simple definition of evil is any
human act or omission that harms human beings.
For instance, convicting an innocent young
journalist on trumped up terrorism charges,
sentencing her to a long prison term and throwing
her into solitary confinement is evil because
such acts cause great physical and psychological
pain and suffering. Ordering the cold-blooded
massacre of hundreds of unarmed demonstrators
is evil because that act arbitrarily deprives
innocent people of their God-given right to life.
Forcibly displacing indigenous populations from
their ancestral homes and selling their land to
outsiders is evil because that act destroys not
only the livelihood of those people but also their
history and social fabric. Trashing the rights
of individuals secured in the law of nations is
evil because it is a crime against humanity and
an affront to human decency and all norms of
civilization. Discriminating against a person
based on ethnicity, language and religion is evil
because it deprives the victims of a fundamental
right of citizenship. Albert Camus argued evil is

anything that prevents solidarity between people
and disables them from recognizing the rights or
values of other human beings. Stealing elections
in broad daylight and trying to deceive the world
that one won an election by 99.6 percent is evil
because such an act is an unconscionable lie and
theft of the voice of the people. Stealing billions
from a poor countrys treasury is evil because
such theft deprives poor citizens vital resources
necessary for their survival.

The evil I struggle to understand is
that evil viciously committed by ordinary or subordinary people in positions of political power.
Such persons believe they can cheat, rob, steal
and kill with absolute impunity because they
believe there is no force on earth that can hold
them accountable.

I am also concerned about the evil of
passive complicity by ordinary and extraordinary
people who stand silent in the face of evil. What
is it that paralyzes those good men and women
who can stand up, resist and defend against
evil to cower and hide? Why do they pretend
and rationalize to themselves that there really
is no evil but in the eye of the beholder? What
evil binds the blind, silent and deaf majority?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taught, He who
passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as
he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil
without protesting against it is really cooperating
with it.

I should clarify my use of the word
understand in the context of evil. One can never
understand evil. The Holocaust and the Rwanda
Genocide are evils beyond human understanding
and reason. To understand the deaths of
millions or hundreds of thousands of innocent
human beings is to implicitly justify it and
somehow diminish its enormity. To understand
the deliberate and premeditated murder of 193
unarmed protesters is beyond understanding
because there could never be adequate reason,
explanation or argumentation to justify it.
Understanding such evil is tantamount to
suggesting that there are or could be justifications
for its occurrence.

When I use the word understand, I
mean to suggest only that I am trying to get some
insight, a glimpse of the moral makeup of people
who live in a completely different moral universe
than myself. It is impossible for me to see the
world through the eyes of those in power who
perpetrate evil in Ethiopia. When I speak of the
triumph of evil in Ethiopia, I realize that there is
nothing I can say by way of reasoned argument
or presentation of evidence to persuade those in
power to forsake their evil ways and deeds. I have
concluded that those in power in Ethiopia live on
a planet shielded by the equivalent of a moral Van
Allen radiation belt that keeps out all cosmic rays
of virtue, decency and goodness.

Let me also clarify what I mean when I
speak of the audacity of evil in Ethiopia. The evil
I am talking about is not the evil that Aquinas
wrestled with in Questions 48 and 49 of Summa
Theologica. Nor I am concerned about the evil
Spinoza determined originates in the mind that
lacks understanding because it is overwrought by
fickle emotions. Neither am I concerned with evil
that, for most of us, is associated with the Devil
and his lesser intermediaries. I am not concerned
about inanimate non-moral evil which manifests
itself in the form of famine, pestilence and plague.
I am also not referring to that evil lurking deep in
the nihilistic being of those soulless, heartless and
mindless psychopaths who are so disconnected
from the rest of humanity that they feel justified
in slaughtering innocent people at a sports event.

I am concerned about the evils of
ordinary human wickedness and bestial human
behavior that Aristotle alluded to in Nicomachean
Ethics. I am concerned about gratuitous evil
(pointless evil from which no greater good can be
derived) committed by ordinary and sub-ordinary
wicked people whose intellect is corrupted, and
their bestial counterparts who are lacking in
intellectual discernment. Such evil is cultivated
in the soil of arrogance, ignorance, narcissism,
desire for domination, self-aggrandizement and
hubris. Those who commit gratuitous evil do so
audaciously, willfully, recklessly and impulsively
because they feel omnipotent; because they
fear no retribution; because they anticipate
no consequences for their evil deeds. They
know they are committing evil and inflicting
unspeakable and horrific pain and suffering on
their victims but nonetheless go about doing
evil with calculation and premeditation because
they believe they are beyond morality, legality,
responsibility and accountability. Hubristically
relying on their power, they have exempted
themselves from all rules of civilized society.
They believe that their stranglehold on power

gives them a license to commit evil at their
pleasure and therefore make a habit of doing evil
for evils sake. They are incapable of remorse or
regrets because they have made evil their guiding
moral principle.

My musings on the audacity of evil
in Ethiopia are not intended to be abstract
philosophical reflections but observations with
practical value for victims of evil. I have an
unshakeable belief that there will come a time in
Ethiopia when the demands of punishment, blame
and justice would have to be weighed against the
greater good of peace, harmony and reconciliation.
There will come a time when the open wounds of
ethnic division, hatred and sectarianism must be
healed and safeguards put into place to prevent
their future recurrence. I believe insight into the
nature of gratuitous evil is an important step in
the healing process. By understanding (gaining
insight) why individuals and groups in power
commit gratuitous evil, it may be possible for
Ethiopians to develop the courage, perseverance,
fortitude and spiritual strength to move towards
a reconciled and peaceful society. That is exactly
what the South Africans did by instituting
their Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(TRC) after Apartheid ended. Perpetrators of
gratuitous evil were given the option to come
to a public hearing and confess the evils they
have committed and seek not only amnesty and
immunity from civil and criminal prosecution
but also forgiveness from their victims and the
survivors of their victims. The Commission
largely succeeded in that mission. The Rwandan
Gacaca courts (traditional grassroots village
courts composed of well-respected elders)
which were established to administer justice
to those alleged to have committed genocidal
acts similarly sought to achieve reconciliation
of all Rwandans and building their unity by
putting justice partially into the hands of the
surviving victims or victims families who are
given the opportunity to confront and challenge
the perpetrators in the open. The Rwandans also
achieved a measure of success.
What has been learned from the TRC of South
Africa and Rwandas Gacaca courts is that the
act of forgiving can be an activity that victims of
evil can find enormously helpful and beneficial.
By publicly confronting the perpetrators, victims
gain a sense of psychological satisfaction, moral
vindication and physical well-being. The victims
are no longer tormented by the desire for revenge
and retribution. Coming to terms with the
enormity of gratuitous evil makes it easier for a
society to reconcile and prevent the recurrence of
such evil.
Touched by evil

The Socratic thesis is that no one does
evil intentionally. In other words, men and women
commit evil out of ignorance which blinds them
from doing right and good and deprives them
of the practical wisdom to know the difference
between right and wrong and good and evil. Evil
doers are morally blind and unable to value other
human beings while overestimating their own
value and worth.

Why do those in power in Ethiopia
commit the gratuitous evil of throwing into
solitary confinement an innocent young woman
who has been internationally honored and
celebrated for her journalistic courage? Could it
be the evil of misogyny that makes powerful men
derive sadistic pleasure from the humiliation,
degradation, dehumanization, depersonalization,
demoralization, brutalization and incapacitation
of strong-willed, intelligent, defiant, principled
and irrepressible women who oppose them?

The gratuitous evil that is inflicted on
Reeyot by those in power in Ethiopia is only the
latest example. The exact same evil was inflicted
on Birtukan Midekssa, the first woman political
party leader in Ethiopian history, who was thrown
into solitary confinement for months at Meles
Zenawi Prison because she stood up and opposed
him. The same evil in different form was inflicted
on Serkalem Fasil, another world-renowned
female Ethiopian journalist who was imprisoned
and forced to give birth in prison. The common
denominator between these three women is that
they are strong, self-confident, determined and
principled and risked their lives to stand up to a
brutal dictatorship. Because they refused to back
down, they suffered the most inhumane treatment
at the hands of powerful men.

Solitary confinement in Meles Zenawi
Prison is used as a psychological weapon to
drive the victims mad. By depriving victims of
all human contact and by denying them access to
any information about the outside world, the aim
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is to make them feel lost and forgotten. Solitary
confinement for women is a particularly insidious
from psychological torture intended to humiliate
and breakdown their physical, psychological,
spiritual and moral integrity. Those in solitary
confinement in Meles Zenawi Prison are not
allowed to visit with friends. They are denied
access to books. They are not allowed to meet
their legal counsel. Family visits are interrupted
even before smiles are exchanged; and even hugs
and kisses with family members are forbidden.
Solitary confinement is a dirty psychological
game played by those in power to plunge the
victims into the depths of despair, sorrow and
confusion and make them feel completely
helpless and hopeless.
When Meles threw Birtukan into solitary
confinement, he just did not want her to suffer.
That would be too easy. He wanted to humiliate
and dehumanize her. When she was in solitary
confinement, he used a cruel metaphor describing
her as a silly chicken who did herself in. While
in solitary confinement, he mocked and took
cheap shots at her telling the press that that she is
in perfect condition but may have gained a few
kilos. He wanted her to suffer so much that he
told reporters, there will never be an agreement
with anybody to release Birtukan. Ever. Full
stop. Thats a dead issue. He wanted Birtukan
to be the living dead in solitary confinement.
Providence had a different plan.

The gratuitous evil perpetrated against
Serkalem Fasil is beyond human comprehension.
In their letter to President Lee C. Bollinger of
Columbia University opposing Meles Zenawis
appearance to speak at that institution, Serkalem
and her husband the world-renowned journalist
Eskinder Nega wrote:

We are banned Ethiopian journalists
who were charged with treason by the
government of PM Meles Zenawi subsequent to
disputed election results in 2005, incarcerated
under deplorable circumstances, only to be
acquitted sixteen months later; after Serkalem
Fasil prematurely gave birth in prison.Severely
underweight at birth because Serkalems physical
and psychological privation in one of Africas
worst prisons, an incubator was deemed lifesaving to the new-born child by prison doctors;
which was, in an act of incomprehensible
vindictiveness, denied by the authorities. (The
child nevertheless survived miraculously. Thanks
to God.)

Do those who slammed Reeyot and
Birtukan in solitary confinement and forced
Serkalem to give birth in one of the filthiest
prisons in the world realize what they are doing
is evil? Do they care about the suffering of these
young women?

Birtukan has survived and continues to
thrive. Serkalem struggles to survive every day
as she agonizes over the unjust imprisonment
of her husband Eskinder. Reeyot, I believe, will
survive in solitary confinement because she is a
strong woman of faith and conviction. Solitary
confinement to persons of faith and conviction is
like fire to steel. It brings out the best in them.
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years; but
is there a man alive who is more compassionate,
humane, kindhearted and forgiving than
Mandela?

Sigmund Freud wrote about the kind
of sadistic gratuitous evil driven by deep-seated
hatred and aggression against women. Other
psychologists see the root of gratuitous evil in
personality fragmentation caused by feelings
of rejection and inferiority. They say those who
commit gratuitous evil seek to defragment and
hold themselves together by degrading and
feeling superior to their victims. Others have
argued that beneath the gratuitous evil that
perpetrators commit lies a profound emptiness
filled by sadistic rage, anger, and hatred.

I believe those in power in Ethiopia
commit gratuitous evil to obtain absolute
obedience and respect. As Stanley Milgrams
obedience experiments (and in other aspects the
Zimbardo (Stanford) experiments) have shown,
those in authority seek to secure obedience
by establishing social models of compliance.
In other words, those in power aim to teach
by harsh example. If you are an independent
journalist and do your job, you will be jacked up
on bogus terrorism charges, held in detention,
thrown in solitary confinement and tortured. If
you challenge a stolen election and protest in
the street, you will be shot in the streets like
a rabid dog. By using extreme violence, those
in power in Ethiopia seek to create not only an
atmosphere of fear but also a culture of terror.
The experiments have also shown that resistance
can also be taught by example. Reeyot, Serkalem,
Birtukan, Eskinder, Woubshet, Andualem are
social models of resistance.

Hanna Arendt observed Adolf
Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the
Holocaust, at his trial in Jerusalem and found him
to be medium-sized, slender, middle-aged, with
receding hair, ill-fitting teeth, and nearsighted
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eyes, who throughout the trial keeps craning his
scraggy neck toward the bench. He appeared
to be a common man incapable of monstrous
crimes. The banality of evil is the capacity of
ordinary people to commit monstrous crimes.
The audacity of evil is the capacity of ordinary
and sub-ordinary people to commit evil not out
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Doing evil, doing good

I have many unanswered questions.
Are the individuals in positions of power in
Ethiopia evil by nature? Was evil thrust upon
them by a demonic power? Were they victims of
evil themselves and now seek to avenge the actual
or perceived evil done to them and ended up
being evil themselves? Did they become the very
monster they slew? Are there persons who are
innately incapable of doing good because they are
bad seed and are born with a natural disposition
to do only wrong and evil? Is gratuitous evil a
psychological illness, an incurable sickness of the
soul?

My questions do not end there. No
one is immune from evil. Those of us who rise
up in self-righteous indignation and denounce
evil should look at ourselves and ask: If we were
shown all the kingdoms of the world and their
splendor, would we succumb to that offer and
choose the path of evil? Nietzsche said, When
you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into
you. When we raise our lances at the windmills,
do we really see monsters? Let us not forget that
He who fights monsters should see to it that he
himself does not become a monster. Are we
also brutes, like those we criticize, costumed in
a veneer of civilization and morality untested and
unseduced by the corrupting power of power?
Are human beings innately good, and evil people
merely mutations of good ones?

The evil that men do lives after them

The late Meles Zenawi has left a dark
and bleak legacy of gratuitous evil in Ethiopia.
The evil he has done shall continue to live in the
prisons he built, the justice system he corrupted
and the lives of young good Ethiopians he
destroyed like Reeyot, Eskinder, Serkalem,
Birtukan, Woubshet, Andualem and countless
others. In Shakespeares Julius Ceasar, Antony
speaks: The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it
be with Ceasar.
When I speak of Meles, I speak not of the man
but of the wretched legacy he left and of the
pious devotion of his disciples to that legacy. His
disciples today speak of his great achievements
and his great vision with Scriptural certitude and
apostolic zeal. Their mantra is, We will follow
Meles vision without doubt or question. One
must speak out against pre-programmed robots;
but raging against the machine should not be
mistaken for raging against the man.

I remain optimistic that in the end good
shall triumph over evil because the ultimate battle
between good and evil in Ethiopia will not be
waged on a battlefield with crashing guns and
rattling musketry; nor will it be fought and won
in the voting booths, the parliaments, the courts
or bureaucracies. The battle for good and evil will
be fought, won or lost, in the hearts and minds of
ordinary Ethiopian men and women who have the
courage to rise up and do extraordinary good.

Elie Wiesel, a prisoner in the Auschwitz,
Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps, and
Nobel peace laureate said indifference is the
epitome of evil and swore never to be silent
whenever and wherever human beings endure
suffering and humiliation. We must always take
sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the
victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never
the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.
When human lives are endangered, when human
dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and
sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men
or women are persecuted because of their race,
religion, or political views, that place must at
that moment become the center of the universe.

I have taken the side of Reeyot
Alemu, Eskinder Nega, Serkalem Fasil, Birtukan
Midekssa, Woubshet Taye, Andualem Aragie.
and made them the center of my universe.
(to be continued.)
Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam teaches political
science at California State University, San
Bernardino and is a practicing defense lawyer.
Previous commentaries by the author are
available at:
http://open.salon.com/blog/almariam/
www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/
Amharic translations of recent commentaries by
the author may be found at:
http://www.ecadforum.com/Amharic/archives/
category/al-mariam-amharic
http://ethioforum.org/?cat=24
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In Ethiopia, the Boston Marathon Gave me Hope
- by Samuel Getachew
media outlets, including an eight-year-old,

and injured many. According to CNN, "at
least 110 people being treated, at least
eight of them in critical condition and 14
in serious condition. At least eight of the
patients are children."
In what Gov. Deval Patrick calls "a horrific
day in Boston," it was reported that the explosions happened seconds apart. Severed
limbs were witnessed as runners and spectators were running to find refuge. An eye
witness described how he "saw people's
legs blown off." Many described the scenery as mirroring a "war zone."
Lelisa Desisa
While growing up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I knew very little about Boston. Yet I
knew everything to know about the Boston Marathon.
I understood the Boston Marathon to be
where the world came to compete and
meet a personal milestone. I understood
that even a country that is as poor and
powerless as Ethiopia can compete, win
and offer a slew of best athletes as it did
yesterday in Lelisa Desisa when the Ethiopian athlete became the latest champion.
He earned $150,000 and the traditional
olive wreath bringing delight to a country
that places high regards on its athletes.
I also learned via the spirit of the Boston
Marathon that winning is not a "sprint but

a marathon" -- in sports as well as in life. In
Ethiopia, countless people would celebrate
the return of the athletes with handwritten
signs that read: "Welcome back from Boston Marathon."
This year, the marathon celebrated its 117th
anniversary and according to the organizers, it still is one of the six World Marathon
Majors attracting half a million spectators
and 25,000 runners annually from around
the world and many from Canada.
Then, the spirit of the Boston Marathon
was forever changed when multiple explosions killed three, according to multiple
Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed

how "I was shocked to learn of the explosions that occurred today during the running of the Boston Marathon. It is truly a
sad day when an event as inspiring as the
Boston Marathon is clouded by such senseless violence." It seems we all know a Canadian or at least someone who is participating at the marathon.
One person I knew from afar who is a regular at the Boston Marathon is Ottawa's
Jennifer Heartley whom I knew from my
political activism days. She had been in
Boston a few days and looking forward to
participating with her children. She met
one-time Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff
yesterday and he wished her good luck via
his Facebook.
Ignatieff updated her friends via social

media earlier today: "I confirmed with her
husband a few minutes ago that she was
clear of the area and is OK. So are the kids.
The bombs seem to have injured a number
of people at the finish line." The victims of
today's madness could have been anybody.
To those who follow the Olympics closely,
this resembles the 1972 Summer Olympics experience long before I was born. In
Munich, (West) Germany, 11 members of
the Israeli Olympic team was brutally murdered for a political reason destroying the
innocence of the sports for generations to
come.
I hope the Boston Marathon will be different. I hope the spirit that gave me and my
friends hope in communist Ethiopia as a
youngster is big enough to not be limited
by the power of the person or persons who
is directly responsible for this tragedy.
President Barack Obama addressed Americans, "Make no mistake we will get to the
bottom who did this. We will find out who
did this and we will find out why they did
this."
Indeed, the world needs to know so that the
Boston Marathon movement can continue
to give hope and optimism to the world. In
the mean time, I can not help but wonder
why anybody would do such a horrible
thing.
April 4th is Refugees Rights Day in Canada
- by Samuel Getachew
In Canada - April 4th is Refugees Rights

Day.
The date was chosen to mark a milestone
decision on refugee's rights known as
the Singh decision in 1985. According to
the Canadian Council of Refugees - the
case and its ultimate outcome marked
an endorsement of a written notion that
"the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms protects the fundamental rights
of refugees".
In turn - according to the group - "the court
decided that 'everyone' includes refugee
claimants in the sentence: 'Everyone has
the right to life, liberty and security of the
person and the right not to be deprived
thereof except in accordance with the
principles of fundamental justice".
This is a hallmark of the principles of
equity found in our Canadian citizenship.
In a country of immigrants - Canada has
been blessed with many Canadians citizens
who trace their roots to that of being a
refugee. One time Governor Generals
Adriane Clarkson and Michaelle Jean were
such famous examples.
extensive exemplary citizenship as well

as volunteerism, his accomplishments
and accolades and most importantly, his
dedication to our country and communities
make him an example of what a person
could become when given a second chance
at citizenship.
His journey began as being a school
administer and deputy mayor of his
hometown in Axum, Ethiopia. As civil war
intensified in Ethiopia - he left and became
a refugee in Sudan. In time, he was reunited
with his family and started a career with
the International Red Cross in the East
African country. Then the opportunity
to move to Canada came as a convention
refugee in 1991 and moved to Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan.
Since then he has dedicated his life to
strengthening the social inclusion of new
comers to Canada, while donating an
incredible amount of his time and energy
to a wide variety of voluntary pursuits.
refugee claimants. Outside of work he

volunteered with the Canadian Red Cross
of Saskatoon, joined the Friends of Frances
Morrison Library and dedicated time to
UNICEF.
After moving to Windsor in 1996, he
obtained a maintenance position with the
YMCA of Windsor and Essex County.
A year later in 1997, his hard work and
passion for helping people went recognized
when he was internally promoted to a
settlement counselor position.
He also became involved with the
Sudanese Community Group, the Windsor
and District Black Coalition and the
Windsor Red Cross among many other
worthy causes. He also became a founding
member of a group to help and facilitate
the transition of newcomers from Ethiopia
and Eritrea to Windsor - two countries that
have had historical frictions in the past.
And then - there are those that are

quietly contributing to the fabrics and
greatness of our communities such as
Beyene Haile of Windsor. His effort is an
He began his settlement work in 1993

with the Saskatchewan Mennonite
Central Committee Refugee Assistance
Program where he worked on a project to
computerize and compile refugee statistics,
planning and organizing the processes,
making contact with past sponsorship
groups, Canada immigration officers and
In recent years - with the support of his

local MP - Brian Masse - he has been
heavily involved with the St Clair Beach
Rotary Club (Rotarians Enhancing learning
African Youth) to raise funds to upgrade an
elementary school for about 800 children
in his hometown of Axum, Ethiopia. The
group succeeded and traveled there with
sufficient funds in 2009 to work on and
oversea a significant renovation which
Some people are frightened by the thought of

acupuncture and may feel that it takes a great deal of
courage to inflict 'the needles' on themselves. The first,
and probably the most important fact to understand
about acupuncture, is that it is not a Frightening
experience. It does involve the insertion of fine
needles through the skin, and most acupuncturists
use between sixand eight acupuncture needles at each
treatment session. The needles used are smaller than
injection needles, in fact an acupuncture needle fits
into the central hole of a normal injection needle.
Acupuncture needles have a doweled end, not a
Cutting end like most hypodermic needles, and
therefore are far less likely to cause tissue damage or
bruising when inserted.

Needle Insertion

The insertion of an acupuncture needle is
not a painful experience. Patients sometimes sit with
eyes closed and teeth clenched asking, 'When are you
going to put the needles in?', and are often surprised
to learn that the needles are in place before they have
finished asking the question. It would be wrong to
suppose that the insertion of an acupuncture needle
is devoid of any sensation, but those who experience
acupuncture do not usually describe it as a painful
sensation.
Needling Sensation
The Chinese state that if acupuncture is to
achieve its maximum effect it is necessary for the

acupuncturist to obtain a 'needling sensation', over
each acupuncture point that is used. This involves
the needle being moved slightly while it is in the
skin, and the sensation experienced by the patient
will vary. Needling sensation is not painful but it is a
dull, bursting or numb sensation around the site of the
inserted needle. The sensation may also travel up or
down the channel being treated; the stimulation of an
acupuncture point on the right knee may precipitate
the experience of a strange burning or numb sensation
in the right ankle. Needling sensation is probably best
defined by the statement, 'When needling sensation is
experienced the needle no longer feels like a needle!'
What Happens When You Have Acupuncture?
included donating school supplies as well

as renovate an old building to turn it in to a
safe and livable school environment.
The group will also travel this year - to
expand on the effort. This time - they will
open a clinic. On April 12th - they will
hold a fundraiser at Elis Deli restaurant
(100 Ouellette Avenue) in Windsor to
fulfill their ambitious goal.
Last year - the Province of Ontario
awarded Beyene the prestigious 'new
comer Champion award' - in celebration of
his efforts and dedication to his Canadian
citizenship. The Queens Diamond Jubilee
medal followed soon after.
For me - Beyene has shown a life time
of remarkable dedication to his adopted
country while celebrating his international
Canadian citizenship abroad. His powerful
impact yet least visible is his mentorship of
countless young people all over the world.
Today and everyday - I will continue to
celebrate my Canadian citizenship. For
an inspiration - I use the examples and
principles of great Canadians such as one
time refugee - Beyene Haile.
Follow Samuel Getachew on Twitter:
www.twitter.com/GetachewS
Some acupuncturists use an electrical stimulator to
excite acupuncture points as a substitute for obtaining
needling sensation. Electro-acupuncture causes a
tingling sensation over the acupuncture points that
are being stimulated, but the Chinese believe that
this does not replace the need to obtain needling
sensation. If the stimulator is mistakenly turned to a
very high intensity then
the patient will experience some discomfort, so it is
wise to be cautious when using electrical stimulators,
and to adjust the intensity slowly and carefully.
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April 19, 2013
THE ETHIOPIAN ASSOCIATION IN THE GTA and SURROUNDING REGIONS TO HOLD AN OPEN
COMMUNITY FORUM ON MAY 18, 2013 IN TORONTO.
The Ethiopian Association in the GTA and Surrounding Regions (the Association) is
organizing a one-day; open Community Forum to discuss and address the challenges facing
the Association and to chart a course of action for its revival.
The Association, established in 1980, was once the envy of similar non-profit organizations and
a model for success. Unfortunately, over the past two years the Association faced significant
challenges on a host of issues: Government funding cut, the loss of valuable and experienced
staff, substantial reduction in programs and service, dysfunctional board, disinterested
membership, and disaffected client.
Faced with these circumstances, the board at its October 18, 2012 meeting approved the
necessity and timeliness of organizing a Community Forum and assigned three board members
including the President to initiate and oversee the process and provide leadership. The process
of organizing the Community Forum started with a consultation held with a few invited
members of the Community on November 23, 2012. The outcomes of the consultation were
presented to the December 1, 2012 Semi Annual General Meeting which endorsed the idea of
organizing community forum. Subsequently, a Community Forum Organizing Committee was
launched on January 18, 2013 with the mandate to organize the Forum. The Committee has
been actively engaged in the preparation of the forum that will be held on Saturday, May 18,
2013 at Estonian House at 958 Broadview Avenue. This one-day forum aims to provide a
platform for invited speakers to share their insights on issues of interest to the Ethiopian
community.
It is important to recognize that rebuilding our Association should begin with an honest
assessment of all members of the community. The Association is fully committed to listen to all
Ethiopians living in and around Toronto to seek viable solutions to the critical issues facing the
Association. Therefore, the Board asks for your attendance, because the existence and
revitalization strategy of the Association is everyones business.
Meida Contact:
Wosen Yitna Beyene, President

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