Ethiopia poll was flawed, declares EU

[struggle4progress]

Addis Ababa, Thursday

The European Union criticised Ethiopia today for flaws in bitterly-contested elections that have given Prime Minister Meles Zenawi a second term.

In a report published in Addis Ababa, an EU election observer mission listed a catalogue of irregularities in the May 15 poll and the lengthy counting-process that followed, including unnecessary delays and intimidation of opponents.

In one case, a witness to opposition allegations of fraud, Wudu Amelegn, was assassinated days after testifying to a complaints investigation panel, the report said. <snip>

"In several important aspects, international standards for genuine democratic elections were not met." Unrest over alleged vote-rigging led to the police shooting dead at least 36 protesters and arresting thousands more in June. <snip>

http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=27891

[wli]

1. sounds like Bushler's plan to shut up election fraud protests in 2008

Except I'm sure he'd love to have a much higher body count.