Are official lies becoming TPLF ‘s preferred ways of running Ethiopia? Part I
1 JUL ory (TEO) — I – “Newspapers are read at the breakfast and dinner tables. God’s great gift to man is appetite. Put nothing in the paper that will destroy it.” W. R. Nelson, Publisher of the Kansas City Star , 1915, quoted in Ben H. Bagdikian’s The Media Monopoly 1987 This article is an expression of this writer’s disappointment at a news item that appeared Saturday on the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) page regarding the investigation by the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on May 6, 2014 of Ethiopia’s commitment, behavior and human rights performance as the Organization’s member, signatory to its Charter and several international human rights instruments. Created in 2006, the UPR is a mechanism by which the human rights records of all United Nations member states are reviewed, based on advance notification, schedule and information circulated by the United Nations to all member states, national and internati