WOYANE CRIMINALS WHO SHOULD BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURT OF LAW FOR CRIMES THEY COMMITTED AGAINST THE ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE
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crimes against humanity in Ehtiopia and have to answer for it
before the court of law.
1.MELES ZENAWI (PRIME MINISTER, CHAIRMAN OF THE TPLF AND OF THE
EPRDF
Born May 8, 1955 in Adwa (north) - Member of the Tigrayan People's
Liberation Front (TPLF, since 1975) - Chairman of the TPLF (since 1989) -
Chairman of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF-
since 1989) - President of the Transitional government of Ethiopia (TGE)
2. ABADI ZEMO (MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF EFFORT)
Born in Addis Ababa (centre) - Managing Director of the Relief Society of
Tigray (REST, 1978-91) - Deputy Director of the Relief and Rehabilitation
Commission (RRC, 1991-94) - Member of the Board of Directors of the
Endowment Fund For the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT, 1995
3. ABAY TSEHAYE (HEAD OF SAERT, LEADERSHIP MEMBER OF THE TPLF
AND THE EPRDF)
Born in the late 1940s in Axum (north) - Member of the Central Committee of
the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF, 1976) - Chairman of the
Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray (1985) - Executive Committee member of the
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, since 1989
4. ADDIS ALEM BALEMA (AMBASSADOR TO CHINA)
Born August 14, 1957 in Mekele (north) - Public Administrator of the
Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF, 1976-85) - Head of the Political
and Information Department in the Foreign Relations Bureau of the TPLF
(1986-88) - Head of the Political and Information Department in the Foreign
5. ADISU LEGESE (PRESIDENT OF AMHARA REGIONAL STATE)
Born in Herne (east) - High school teacher at Haile Selassie school in
Gondar - Secretary of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) in
Belesa (1977-80) - Member of the Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement
(EPDM) - President of Amhara Regional State (since 1992) -
6. ALEMSEGED GEBRE AMLAK (MP, ADVISOR TO THE PRIME MINISTER
Born in 1957 in Adwa (north) - Member of the Politbureau of the Tigrayan
People's Liberation Front (TPLF) - Member of the Executive Committee of the
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) - Elected MP for
the TPLF to the House of Peoples' Representatives (HPR, May 1995)
7. ALEMSEGED GEBRE YOHANNES (DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF THE
FEDERAL POLICE COMMISSION)
Born in the 1930s - Police Officer in Gojjam - Member of the Ethiopian
Democratic Union (EDU) in Sudan - Exiled in the United States - Deputy
Commissioner of the Federal Police Commission (since 1995).
8. ARAYA ZERIHUN (CHAIRMAN OF TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION)
Born January 22, 1953 in Tigray Region (north) - Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Tigray Development Association (TDA) - Chairman of
Experience Ethiopia Travel. TRAINED IN THE UNITED STATE
9. ARKEBE OQUBAY MITIKU (MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
EFFORT)
Born in Adwa (north) - Member of the Central Committee of the Tigrayan
People's Liberation Front (TPLF, since 1983) - Elected to the Constituent
Assembl (1994) - Member of the Board of Directors of the Endowment Fund For
the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT, 1995).
10.ASSEFA ABRAHA HAGOS (HEAD OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES SUPERVISING
AUTHORITY)
Born April 6, 1956 in Tembien (north) - Engineer at the Ethiopian Standards
Authority (1980-82) - Jailed (1982-91) - At the Prime Minister's Office
(1993-94) - Head of Public Enterprises Supervising Authority with the rank
of minister (since 1995).
11.AWALOM WELDU (AMBASSADOR TO ERITREA)
Born in Tigray Region (north) - Member of the Central Committee of the
Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF, since 1979) - Head of the office
of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (TGE) in Assab (1991-93) -
Ambassador to Eritrea since June 1993).
12.AYENEW BITEWELIGN (VICE-MINISTER OF TRANSPORT AND
COMMUNICATIONS)
Born November 10, 1945 in Adwa (north) - Senior Analyst of Ethiopian
Airlines (1970-74) - General Manager of Asmara Fiber Company (1974-77) -
General Manager of Dire Dawa Textile Company (1977-80) - General Manager of
Ethiopian Meat Corporation (1980-84) - Jailed (1984-89) -
13. BEREKET SIMON (MP, MEMBER OF THE ANDM POLITBUREAU)
Born in Dabat (north) - Member of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party
(EPRP) - Member of the Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (EPDM) -
Member of the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM) Politbureau (since
1994) - Elected MP for the ANDM to the House of Peoples' Represen
14.BERHANE GEBRE CHRISTOS (AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES)
Born in Mekele (North) - Member of the Central Committee of the Tigrayan
People's Liberation Front (TPLF) - Representative of the Ethiopian People's
Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) in Washington - Ambassador to the
United States (since January 1992).
15. DAWIT YOHANNES (SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF PEOPLES'
REPRESENTATIVES)
Born in 1953 in Addis Ababa (centre) - Exiled in Sudan, Italy, France and
the United States (1979-91) - Member of the Council of Representatives of
the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (TGE, 1991-95) - Member of the
Politbureau of the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM, 1994)
16. FASIL NAHUM (MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF CONSTITUTIONAL
INQUIRY)
Born in 1943 in Asmara (Eritrea) - Professor at the Haile Selassie
University (HSIU) - Head of the Institute of Nationalities (1983-87) -
Member of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WPE, 1984-91) - Legal Advisor to
the president of the Transitional Government
of Ethiopia (TGE, 1991-95)
17. GEBRU ASRAT (PRESIDENT OF TIGRAY REGIONAL STATE)
Born in Mekele (north) - Member of the Central Committee of the Tigrayan
People's Liberation Front (TPLF, since 1979) - President of Tigray Regional
State (since 1992).
18.GELASSA DILBO (GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE OROMO LIBERATION FRONT)
Born in Wollega region (west) - Government cadre in Shoa province as a
member of the Oppressed Peoples' Party of Ethiopia (ECHAAT, 1975-77) -
General Secretary of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, since 1992).
19. GENET ZEWDIE (MINISTER OF EDUCATION, MP)
Born in the early fifties in Dessie (north) - Member of the Ethiopian
People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP, 1975) - Jailed (1977-84) - Vice-minister
for Higher Education (1991-92) - Minister of Education (since 1992) -
Elected for the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM)
20.KINFE GEBRE MEDHIN (GENERAL MANAGER OF THE NATIONAL
SECURITY, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE AFFAIRS AUTHORITY)
Born in the early 1950s in Dabat (north) - Intelligence Services Official
(Halewa Woyane 06) of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) -
Vice-Minister of Interior (1991-94) - General Manager of the National
Security, Immigration and Refugee Affairs Authority (since 1995).
21. MULUGETA ALEMSEGED (CHIEF OF THE SECRETARIAT IN THE PRIME
MINISTER'S OFFICE
Teacher in Axum - Member of the Central Committee of the Tigrayan
People's Liberation Front (TPLF) - In charge of the security of the
president of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (TGE, 1991-95) - Chief
of the secretariat in the Prime Minister's Office (since August 1995).
22. NEGASSO GIDADA (PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA)
Born September 8, 1943 in Dembi Dolo (west) - Exiled in Germany (1975-91)-
Director of the Third World Centre in Frankfurt (1984-89) - Minister of
Labour and Social Affairs of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (TGE,
1991-92) - Minister of Information
of the TGE (1992-95)
23.NETSANET ASFAW (MP, INFORMATION OFFICER IN THE PRIME
MINISTER'S OFFICE)
Born in 1942 in Adwa (north) - Journalist for Deutshe Welle in Cologne
(1971-79) - Department of information of the Tigrayan People's Liberation
Front (TPLF) -Elected MP for the TPLF to the House of Peoples'
Representatives (HPR, August 1995) -Information Officer in the Prime
Minister's Office
24. PAULOS GEBRE-YOHANNES (PATRIARCH OF THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX
CHURCH)
Born in 1935 in Tigray (north) - Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
(EtOC) in Washington (1976-92) - Patriarch of the EtOC in Addis Ababa (since
1992).
25.SEBHAT NEGA (MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF EFFORT)
Born in 1934 in Adwa (north) - School Director in Adwa - Chairman of the
Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF, 1979-89) - Head of the Economic
Affairs Department of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
(EPRDF, 1991) -Member of the board of directors of the Endowment fund
26.SEYE ABRAHA (CHAIRMAN OF EFFORT)
Born in the early 1950s in Tembien (north) - Member of the Central
Committee of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF, since 1979) -
Military commander of the TPLF - Minister of Defence of the Transitional
Government of Ethiopia(TGE, 1991-95) - Elected MP for the TPLF to the Hous
27. SEYOUM MESFIN (MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MP)
Born January 25, 1949 in Adigrat (north) - Member of the Central Committee
of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF, since 1976) - Head of the
Foreign Relations Office of the TPLF (1975) and then of the Ethiopian
People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, 1991)
28. TEFERA WALWA (DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF
DEFENCE)
Born in Yirga Alem (south) - Member of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary
Army (EPRA, 1977-79) - Member of the Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement
(EPDM, 1981-94) - President of the Addis Ababa Region (Region 14-1993-96) -
Member of the Politbureau of the Amhara National Democratic Movment
39. TEWODROS HAGOS (MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
EFFORT)
Born in 1953 in Mekele (north) - Member of the Central Committee of the
Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF, 1983) - Member of the Central
Committee of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF,
1989) - Member of the Board of Directors of Endowment Fund For the
Rehabilitaton.
30. TEWOLDE GEBRU (AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN)
Teacher in Tigray - Member of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF)
-Spokesman for the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)
in London - Ambassador to Sweden (since January 1992).
31.TEWOLDE WOLDE MARIAM (MP, ADVISOR TO THE PRIME MINISTER
Born in Shire (north) - Member of the Central Committee of the Tigrayan
People's Liberation Front (TPLF, since 1979) - Deputy secretary of the
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, 1989) - Elected MP
for the TPLF to the House of Peoples' Representatives (HPR, May 1995)
32.TSADKAN GEBRE TENSAYE (CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE DEFENCE FORCES)
Born near the town of Adigrat (north) - Member of the Central Committee of
the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF, 1983-91) - Chief of Staff of
the Defence Forces (since 1991).
33.YEMANE KIDANE (CHIEF OF THE CABINET IN THE MINISTRY OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS)
Born in Eritrea - Member of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) -
Assistant to the chairman of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF,
1979-89) -Assistant to the Chief of Defence Staff (1991-95) - Member of the
Board of Directors of the Endowment Fund For the Rehabilitation