Mesfin Negash resonated his colleagues' deep disappointment and regret over the paper's closure, but was proudly defiant:
Our newspaper was one of the country's best examples of what independent journalists with an internal capacity to act free of constraints can accomplish in being the platform for intake and synthesis of public opinion. Unfortunately, a government which had a habit of wantonly and aggressively stepping into the locus and crystallization of public opinion as both a platform controller and dictator had made our task impossible...click here to read more...
