From africa.bulletin@pcpostal.com Mon Apr 6 00:59:20 1998 Received: from myownemail.com (www.myownemail.com [207.204.37.70]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with SMTP id AAA00945 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:59:16 -0600 (MDT) From: africa.bulletin@pcpostal.com Message-Id: <199804060659.AAA00945@csf.Colorado.EDU> Received: from moby [207.204.37.70] by myownemail.com (SMTPD32-4.02c) id ACF132B0090; Mon, 06 Apr 1998 01:57:53 CST Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 01:57:53 +0100 Subject: ANNOUNCE>Study/Travel*IT & Women's Conferences|Cuba Brazil Africa To: African.Academic.Bulletin@igc.org Sender: africa.bulletin@pcpostal.com Reply-To: africa.bulletin@pcpostal.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Content-Type: text/plain [Please Post / Forward] Academic Travel*Conferences/Africa Cuba Brazil AFRICAN.ACADEMIC.BULLETIN Interns-Volntrs-Conferences | CUBA BRAZIL AFRICA ANNOUNCEMENTS * LIST of Opptys: Volunteer Paid Academic * Year Round & Summer * CONFERENCES: InfoTech, Dist Lrng, CyberSpace, Media Women's Health & Human Rights, Computer Literacy * Abstracts, Proposals, Papers requested for 1998 and/or 1999 _______________________________________________________________ A f r i c a n B u l l e t i n o f O p p o r t u n i t i e s __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ _/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ _/ Programs & Events for Academics, Professionals & Students __________________________________________________________________ C O N T E N T S - 1998 Programs, Events & Opportunities 1] AASP EduTravel-CUBA BRAZIL AFRICA; Multiple progs year round 2] CROSSROADS Africa & Brazil Travel-Study & Workcamps; Summer 3] African Dist Lrng, Comp Literacy & InfoTech CONF-GHANA May 20 4] CONF on Women's Health & Human Rights-Indianapolis, IN; Oct. 22 5] ASA CONF: CyberSpace*Media*InfoTECH in Africa-Chicago; Oct 29 6] A M N E S T Y & J U S T I C E ///\_[_/\\\ * Write to Human Rights victims of African descent * Send appeals for humane treatment * Please help by LINKing to your Webpage (see below) +===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+ * NON-PROFIT ACTIVITIES, EVENTS & CONFERENCES * CUBA BRAZIL AFRICA EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL * ACADEMIC CREDIT - Arrange with your campus to earn credit +===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+ Africa Brazil CUBA: INTERNS * VOLNTRS * Proj DIRS * LEADERS +===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+ CALL FOR: MODERATORS * PRESENTERS * PAPERS * ABSTRACTS * PROPOSALS _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ C U B A B R A Z I L A F R I C A 1. ** A A S P ** Select from among several programs, countries, itineraries, themes, prices, dates, departures all 4 seasons AASP Africa-Brazil-Cuba Study/Travel * Multi-Disciplinary - Multiple progs, 1 to 3 wks in duration, year round - 15-20 African countries plus Cuba and Brazil ACADEMIC CREDIT is offered at UNDERGRAD or GRAD Level For all info, Send street address to abc@starmail.com For application & details, go to both: http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/african-disaspora/index.html http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/african-disaspora/journey.html Call for Descriptive Catalog: 312-443-0929 List of Programs & Organizations >>> For a LIST of orgs & progs offering VOL & PAID opptys, type "Send Prog List" in Subject field & include your FULL MAILING Address; send to: abc@starmail.com ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 2. Cossroads Africa & Brazil - Work/Travel/Study 7-wk Summer Prog * Workcamps * Internships * Field Study RainForest*Health*Medicine*Agriculture*Building*Comm Dev Participants (Interns) & Group Leaders (Proj DIRs, 26 yrs & up) Send street mailing adrs to oca@igc.org, abc@starmail.com Funds are raised in the community and on campus Go to: http://www.igc.org/oca/ application & details Phone: 212-870-2106 - Director of Prog Services ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 3. D I S T A N C E L E A R N I N G & I N F O T E C H African Computer Literacy, Distance Learning & Info Tech Ghana, May 20-22 '98 CALL FOR Proposals Abstracts Papers Presenters Moderators Exhibitors Sponsors [Note: Abstracts & Papers are now being accepted for the '99 CONF] For proposal help, guidelines, CONF goals, sub-themes, updates, help with travel & accommodations, go to: http://www.ulbobo.com/gdep/ http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/african-diaspora/travels.html A full program of Pre- and Post-Conference activities is planned; come early, leave late! * To receive Reg Form automatically by E-mail, send a msg to the AutoResponder: gdep-reg-email@ulbobo.com Pls join the Conference Discussion List (for volunteers, attendees, organizers, and interested persons) - send a msg with "subscribe ghaclad-scope" in the body to: majordomo@igc.org For Airline & lodging discounts: dewindt@acsu.buffalo.edu Must contact BOTH Dr. Darkwa and Pharra ASAP to reserve $750 Roundtrip NY-GHANA ticket darkwa@uic.edu, dewindt@acsu.buffalo.edu Flexibility in departure and return... 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W A A D W O M E N'S C O N F E R E N C E Prof. Obioma NNAEMEKA, Convenor Women's Human Rights & Health CONF at Indianapolis, IN/USA 2nd Int'l Conf. on WOMEN IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA OCTOBER 22-27, 1998 President, Assoc of African Women Scholars (AAWS) [Now accepting members, ALL are welcome] French & Women's Studies Program Indiana University 425 University Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46202 - USA Phone: (317) 278-2038; (317) 274-0062 (messages) Fax: (317) 274-2347 E-mail: nnaemeka@iupui.edu, ABC@STARMAIL.COM For Registration Form by E-mail, write to: abc@starmail or go to: http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/african-diaspora/women-conf.html Go to Website if you would like to help with this Conference or to download/print the Registration Form; At Website, obtain details re: CALL FOR Abstracts Proposals Papers Moderators Exhibitors Volunteers Sponsors [LIST] To join CONF List to discuss issues impacting women of African-descent and CONF organizing/planning, send the request: "SUBSCRIBE AFWOSCHO" TO: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Join, Participate and MAKE A DIFFERENCE! ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 5. C H I C A G O , I L l I N O I S African Studies Association: Call for Papers Submitted by: Brian Murphy Help make a difference for someone! Coordinator Family Liaison ................... Urgent Aid for a Human Rights Victim * An African Am. tourist given 18 yrs in France, with no appeal * A "Rescue Mission" is now underway - urgent help is needed with sending appeal letters to the French govt. * Individuals, groups, and even organizations and classrooms willing to lend a hand a hand would be much appreciated * This victim will pass his 5th consecutive birthday behind French bars in July * Having pen friends to write to about his ordeal will allow him a much needed outlet * For this troubling, still-evolving story; pls go to: http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/african-diaspora/justice.html Please help by linking your Webpage to our site Or write us ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Posted by EduNet Int'l Education & Internships Network _________________________________________ Get your free vanity email address at http://www.MyOwnEmail.com From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Mon Apr 27 16:00:19 1998 Received: from nwi.calumet.purdue.edu (nwi.calumet.purdue.edu [205.215.64.9]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with SMTP id QAA12743 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:00:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: from calumet.purdue.edu (e01-07b-175.calumet.purdue.edu [205.215.78.175]) by nwi.calumet.purdue.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id RAA14611 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:02:30 -0500 Message-ID: <35450022.6149E857@calumet.purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:01:07 -0500 From: Alan Spector Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: [Fwd: [EthioForum] - Cracks in Ethiopia's Calm Façade] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------A0B1EB5996374FEAC5B6F942" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A0B1EB5996374FEAC5B6F942 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- --------------A0B1EB5996374FEAC5B6F942 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline X-POP3-Rcpt: spector@nwi.calumet.purdue.edu Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by nwi.calumet.purdue.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id EAA26729 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 04:24:22 -0500 Received: from Ethiolist.com (1Cust147.tnt1.gilroy.ca.da.uu.net [208.255.212.147]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id CAA08966; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 02:12:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804270912.CAA08966@proxy3.ba.best.com> Received: from hotmail.com (f73.hotmail.com [207.82.250.159]) by proxy2.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id BAA13675 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 01:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2503 invoked by uid 0); 27 Apr 1998 08:58:42 -0000 Received: from 152.71.17.133 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 01:58:38 PDT X-Originating-IP: [152.71.17.133] From: "Goshu Bahru" To: EthioForum@Ethiolist.com (EthioForum Mailing List) Subject: [EthioForum] - Cracks in Ethiopia's Calm Façade Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 01:58:38 PDT X-Rcpt-To: ethioforum@ethiolist.com Reply-To: EthioForum@Ethiolist.com Sender: EthioForum@Ethiolist.com **************************************************** EthioForum - OPEN FORUM FOR NEWS, FREE EXPRESSION OF IDEAS & OPINIONS. http://www.ethiolist.com **************************************************** Disclaimer: The opinion expressed is that of the writer. Ethiolist does not take any responsibility for the content of the e-mail. **************************************************** Rights groups say 10,000 are imprisoned for political or national-security reasons Lara Santoro Special to The Christian Science Monitor ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA The art of political compromise, Ethiopians will tell you, has never been big here. Over the past 50 years, the country has gone from dictatorship to dictatorship in a succession of bloodbaths. Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's last emperor, was overthrown in 1974 by Col. Mengistu Haile-Mariam. Colonel Mengistu's Marxist regime - known as Dergue - gained international notoriety for its unapologetic approach to political murder. People were shot in the street, their deaths were advertised on state TV, and whoever wished to recover the bodies had to pay for the spent bullets. Close to 20 years later, it was Mengistu's turn to be overthrown. The man who took his place in 1991, Meles Zenawi, has made a name for himself on the opposite premises, substituting talk for terror. He introduced a multiparty system, liberalized the economy, and sanctioned the proliferation of the independent press. Today, Ethiopia ranks as the second-largest recipient of US aid to Africa, a privilege many say has come with its increased involvement in the war to topple the Islamic regime in Sudan. Flanked by two deeply unstable countries - Sudan and Somalia - Ethiopia is seen by the US as a vast oasis of peace and calm. QUESTION OF RIGHTS: Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi (l) and President Clinton sign the joint declaration at the Entebbe Summit for Peace and Prosperity in Uganda March 25. Ethiopia is the second-largest recipient of US aid to Africa. But human rights activists question the relationship, citing a pattern of rights abuses. (WIN MCNAMEE /REUTERS) Hard numbers dug up by human rights organizations, however, tell a different story. In a report released three months ago, Human Rights Watch/Africa detailed a pattern of arbitrary arrests and summary executions eerily reminiscent of the days of the Dergue. The Ethiopian Human Rights Council published the names of 10,000 political detainees, none of whom have had their day in court, and of 132 dissidents who have disappeared in the seven years since Mr. Meles took power. The government's perceived inability to accommodate political diversity, observers have argued, is not so much a product of a Darwinian tradition of rule by the strongest as much as the result of minority rule. Meles and his Tigrean People's Liberation Front - an ethnically based armed group that overthrew the Dergue - represent 5 percent of Ethiopia's population. As a Western diplomat pointed out, "this is a minority government ... their challenge is to enlarge their political base." Human rights activists say the challenge has been largely ignored, a claim Meles rejects. "I know what happens when peaceful dissent is muzzled," he said in an interview, "I know what happens because I was on the receiving end of it. There is no reason why others would not do what I did," under the same repressive circumstances. Muzzling the press? Yet even to the casual observer, Meles's democratic speeches strike a hollow note. For one thing, 14 journalists are sitting in jail waiting to be charged with a specific offense. Fourteen more have been accused of libel or incitement to ethnic hatred and are out on bail. Today, Ethiopia ranks as the country with the highest number of jailed journalists in Africa. Asked about the government's handling of the press, Meles is quick to cite Germany and its laws against Nazi propaganda. "Do we have journalists in prison? Yes, we do. Do I believe this is wrong or that we are stifling political expression? No, I don't. What we need is accountability. If what they publish is against the law, if it incites ethnic violence and hatred, then we take them to court." Yet when three top editors from Ethiopia's largest newspaper, Tobia, were recently arrested, accountability did not seem to be an issue. The paper published a seemingly innocuous UN document illustrating procedures for evacuating its employees in case of a security emergency that contained a few disparaging comments about Ethiopia's security situation. Three days later, the editors were jailed and informally accused of endangering public security. The next day, a fire gutted the paper's offices. Since then, Tobia has suspended publication. "The government will not come out and shut the paper because it's good for the show of democracy. They keep the press for the consumption of the international community," says Derbew Temegen, a lawyer who is defending the editors. Journalists sitting in Addis's central prison are by no means alone. "Our president is in prison, our vice president was assassinated, and our secretary general is in exile in the United States," says Shimelis Zewdie, deputy secretary general of the Ethiopian Teacher's Association (ETA), one of the country's two largest labor unions. Labor unions defanged ETA head Taye Wolde Semayat, an elderly man in precarious health, was arrested two years ago and charged with heading a clandestine armed group. His successor, Assefa Maru, was gunned down by police in broad daylight on his way to work in May last year. He was subsequently accused of planning a terrorist attack, a charge his wife, Shewaye Gebeyehu, laughs bitterly at. "He wrote, and he spoke, and he loved his country," Ms. Shewaye says. "I've seen what happened to my husband. For me, it is evidence that there is no democracy in this country." Since May, the ETA's 138 branch offices have been shut down and the seven members of the executive committee have been dismissed from their jobs without explanation. Another powerful labor organization, the Industrial Federation of Banking and Insurance Trade Unions, has also been quietly done away with. The original federation was declared illegal and a new, friendlier version has been brought safely within the government's fold. Still, residues of the old labor union remain with an obstinate bunch, who refuse to let go until the courts have had the last say. "From time to time, the police come and asks me: why don't you leave?" says Ato Abyi, the once respected president of the old labor colossus. Still, he maintains, "this government is better than the Dergue. They don't kill you on the street. They kill you gradually by taking your bread away. I appreciate that, I really do." The association with the Dergue is one that the government would not take kindly to. More than 1,800 officials of the old regime have been arrested and 3,000 more have been charged with genocide and crimes of war. Yet in the crowded coffee bars of Addis, it is precisely this sort of comparison that is often heard over the hiss of espresso machines. Analysts and diplomats say the comparison is vintage Ethiopia: extreme, unforgiving, and ultimately unbalanced. "The improvement on the Dergue has been vast," says a senior Western diplomat. "Accountability is coming into this country against a tradition of rule by the strongest," says another. "Yes, there are problems with human rights," he adds, "But how are we [in the West] going to be useful? By hammering on their heads?" The answer to that question, people in Washington have found out, is a resounding no. Diplomats have been made to choose between overt criticism of the government's practices and access to its top officials. "[Human rights issues] are being discussed," the first diplomat says. "But we have to do this in private." The URL for this page is: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/04/23/fp8s1-csm.htm ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --------------A0B1EB5996374FEAC5B6F942-- From donc@commonlink.net Mon Apr 27 21:43:42 1998 Received: from nexus.commonlink.com (nexus.commonlink.com [208.132.64.114]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id VAA26776 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:43:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 208.26.148.149 (208-26-148-149.mcn.net [208.26.148.149]) by nexus.commonlink.com (8.8.7/8.8.3) with SMTP id WAA13385; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:39:43 -0500 Message-ID: <35455071.3AB3@commonlink.net> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:43:46 -0600 From: Don C Reply-To: donc@commonlink.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu CC: Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies Subject: Re: [Fwd: [EthioForum] - Cracks in Ethiopia's Calm Façade] References: <35450022.6149E857@calumet.purdue.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit kFor some additional background on the situation in Ethiopia, check http://www.usis.usemb.se/human/ethiopia.html, the Dept of State 1997 report on Ethiopian Human Rights issues in 1996. Don C