by Dula

• June 20, 60 Ethiopian Migrants Drown in Lake Malawi. Read more…

• On Sunday, it was reported that an Ethiopian woman was gang-raped in a Middle Eastern country where numerous other reports have surfaced involving forced servitude and sexual violence against Ethiopian women who left Ethiopia seeking jobs and better lives. The girl that we saw in Lebanon, being dragged and beaten by a Lebanese, has died. Read more…

• On Monday, it was reported that 1,700 Ethiopians languish in Saudi Jails and they are in dire conditions. The prisoners said they lack sufficient food, water and medical treatment, and that eight Ethiopian inmates have died from malaria and other causes. Read more…

• Yesterday, it was reported that 42 Migrants from Ethiopia have been found dead in the backof a truck in Tanzania. Read more…

The above photo was taken Tuesday, June 26, 2012, by the Tanzanian officials. An official in Tanzania says that 43 Ethiopian and Somali nationals suffocated in the truck they were being smuggled in and Tanzania’s state television said the bodies were thrown off the truck and dumped in the bush after the driver of the truck realized some of the people he was smuggling had perished.

In Ethiopia, there is no hope. All the factors that make life unbearable exist: lack of economic opportunity, and freedom. People are forced to take risks in leaving the country: Ethiopians having been facing increasing  dangers as above while fleeing and at home. Imprisonment, homelessness, starvation, death by suffocation, in bushes, downing and More have become inevitable predicament of current generation.

Many young people in Ethiopia end up homeless on the streets or starving in the countryside despite Ethiopia possessing land that outsiders are dying to get hold of.  It is not lack of land, it is the system that is creating this miserable life, especially for the young generation.

Only a dictator like Meles can create such havoc on his people and get away with it.  Ethiopians seek freedom and opportunity. None of them exist in Ethiopia. So they end up dead in the Middle East or in a route to uncertain future or at a refugee camp.

This is a summary of a report gathered by Obang Metho , Exec. Director of SMNE.