thear wear no election related clashes in AU
bot u may wish all clashes to be so
the clash was based on ethinic based disputes with some students

If we really want to see a real change in Ethiopia, we must stop worshipping individuals and instead start building institutions. I am now more optimistic than ever before because more and more of people are coming forward and telling the truth like it is. Beginning to identify and admit the main reasons for our hitherto failures is the first big step in the right direction in solving our problems. Empty bravado without building the institutional capacity to back it up has never gotten us anywhere except bringing us repeated failure and humiliation. Adulating individuals more than institutions, waiting for miraculous wind to land among us an authoritarian messiah (qorat meri) instead of building institutions that help leaders emerge is nothing but a symptom of insanity. I do not want to embroil myself into the argument of chicken or egg comes first, but for me it is institutions that deliver good leaders and not vice versa. Strong institutions come first before strong leaders. Strong institutions are the essential precursors for the emergence of strong leaders. Strong institutions serve as the platform for the emergence of strong leaders. Strong institutions not only help create strong leaders but strong institutions keep strong leaders in check from abusing or misusing their power as well. The question then is who builds strong institutions. The answer is very simple. It is the people, us. How? By upholding the time honored fundamental principle: No one is above the institution (the law). If we are unequivocal in making our fundamental principle and values sacrosanct, no one dares to violate the laws of the institution. No genius, if the laws of an institution are fully respected by everyone, the institution becomes strong. We will not and cannot have a strong institution if we always keep starting up building an institution from the scratch, then abandon it for this or that reason and keep going back to square one. We will always be found floundering in square one even decades and centuries down the line instead of striding forward. No institution is born perfect. Any perfection requires time and investing lots of efforts in it. Newly created institutions are like new born babies. No sane mind expects a new born baby to be able to do everything, much less a miracle, as soon as it comes out of the womb. It takes a village, time and lots of efforts to bring up a child and make him/her a strong citizen. The same thing is true for any institution. We really have to give it time and invest in it to make an institution a strong institution. I believe and hope that more and more people are slowly but surely coming to this understanding. That is a key for our future efforts to bring about change in Ethiopia - a change whereby all the rights of all its citizens are respected fully without any if's and but's. Finally, I am not talking about strong dictators here. I am talking about strong leaders. Leaders are totally different from dictators. Dictators never create institutions, instead they destroy institutions. Dictators create a network of mafia terrorist groups/militia that terrorize the people. Dictators claim to be leaders without being elected by the people they claim to lead. Meles is a strong dictator but he is not a leader. Meles has never been elected by the Ethiopian people. He came to power and stays in power by terrorizing and killing the Ethiopian people through the network of militia he created.

I am suspicious of many posts here, most of them are non-amharic speaking posts! It seems the egyptians are here pretending to be Ethiopians to incite us to kill each other.

Another thing, if the opposition "Medrek" is so violent now, imagine how they will be if they take power: Derg military regime reborn

the conflict in addis abeba universty arises due to lack of well understandinig about ethiopia.we know that we are under the gun ,so to remove this we should have to unite ourself instead of making divided."UNITED WE STAND DEVIDED WE FALL".ETHIOPIA

gize gize gize hulum gize alew ene Melesin bemirkuz sihed bagegnew enkuan efaredewlehu achafariwochun chimir.

i know EPRDF is the democratic party and is responsible for every inconvinencies in the country ,but all others are disturbances and have lack of thinking well......so enough decisoin must have to give for these oppossition supporters ok...

It is important to understand the meles zenawe is looter never never leave peacefully therefore all sort mass demostration is a way forward of expossing dictators uglyness. I support the students, workers, farmers to join hand to hand to exposs this tigre racist. Don't afraid to dye for freedom. Freedom is never give and you will earned. Ethiopian join hand ti hand to remove thses tigree racist.

stop the games
the ruling junta will never give up power peacefuly

why dont learn from the passt, it is obveous why people Scarify themself for nothing?

observers should go to the rural Ethiopia where mischief is widely done by the ruling party!!