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Of Lies, Promised Joy, "Shimagles," Pardons and Bananas - Ethiopian Review

Of Lies, Promised Joy, "Shimagles," Pardons and Bananas - Ethiopian Review
Of Lies, Promised Joy, "Shimagles," Pardons and Bananas
Aug 6th, 2007

By Alemayehu G. Mariam

“If they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.”

Note to the reader: The following analysis may appear be a bit long for the casual reader of internet literature. I am told that “people do not read long political analysis” (and perhaps even short ones as Prof. Ephraim Isaac has proven to us). But I have been overwhelmed, as many have been, by a systematic and clever disinformation campaign calculated to mislead and deceive us about recent events in Ethiopia. We must fight back lies with Truth, and I hope the reader will take the time to read and consider my defense of the Truth against an avalanche of lies and deception that have been unleashed against us recently.

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