Portland, Oregon declares Sept. 2 to be Remembrance Day for late PM Meles Zenawi (Oct 12, 2012)

Portland declares Sept. 2 to be Remembrance Day for late PM Meles Zenawi (Oct 12, 2012)Mayor of the City of Portland, Oregon, the "City of Roses", Sam Adams, announced publicly that September 2 starting from the year 2012 to be a day of remembrance for late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. A statement issued by the mayor's office said the late Meles was a wise and selfless man who gave up his bright future at early age 19 to join a rebel group in Tigray, to free his fellow Ethiopians from a military junta that hijacked the student revolution of 1974.It also underlines the late PM's unfaltering quest for democracy, economic growth, regional peace and stability that enables him to quickly becoming one of the strongest voices of Africa on the world stage.The Statement said Meles was so determined to lift Ethiopia out of poverty that the youth of Ethiopia are determined to carry the torch forward and lift their country out of economic hardship.Ethiopians in Portland have honored the demise of the late Prime Minister with a celebration of his life under the theme "it is not how long or well you lived that counts, it is how & what you contributed". mfa.gov.et/