Thursday, August 25, 2016

PLAGIARSIM AND PLAIN THEFT

A WOMAN CALLED MEAZA MENGSITE plagiarized one of  my short stories (1993) and wrote a fulll book  " Beneath the Lion's Gaze" and has refused to apologize up to now. I have no lawyer to take to court in the USA. In Ethiopia, a certain Awgchew (a book seller) violated the copyright of Babile Tola and translated into Amharic the book entitled :The Red Terror in Ethiopia--To kill a Generation. It was also a very bad translation. The authorized translation was actually made by the late Tsegaye Gebre Medhin debteraw killled by the TPLF regime. Awgchew later apologised but a like thieving cat has come back again to republish the  unauthorized translation (Empress Publisher,Addis Abeba). Babile has also no lawyer to argue for his rights as the writer. Injustice at all levels.