following the re-release of judge birtukan mideksa from prison on 6 october 2010, he wrote a critical piece exposing the motive behind the decision and particular procedure selected for her release. he criticized the regime for harbouring an ill will to crush the morale of the judge not only by incarceration, but also by selecting procedures ill fitted for securing her freedom from prison like forcing her to confess and request for pardon as well as for being hell-bent on destroying her political career. in his the unbearable lightness of pardon: reflections on birtukan’s second sailing, he contends that both of her sailings out of prison proved to all the unbearable lightness of pardons in ethiopia. in spite of the inhumane treatment birtukan received in the hands of her jailors, one thing that is certain is that she will remain to be a source of inspiration for all who work the betterment of the human condition in ethiopia.