All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP) USA-Support Group
We are saddened to hear and read that President Barack Obama will
visit Ethiopia, a nation that is currently ruled by a merciless
dictatorship, in July 2015. America is a country that works toward
forming a better union for its citizens. The American declaration of
independence holds self-evident that all men are created equal with
inalienable rights for life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and
that individuals have the right to overthrow a ruler who works against
their just rights. All such individual and the just human rights of
Ethiopians have been trampled over by the ethnic-based party, which has
been ruling Ethiopia during the last 24 years, and which incrementally
has become a stronger and brazen dictatorship.
The regime operates by smoke and mirrors: it has a good sounding
constitution but it does not follow it; its leaders speak of good
sounding principles to western leaders, but they are merciless and
brutal to their own citizens; its leaders speak of the plight of the
impoverished, and diseased Ethiopians, but the rulers enrich themselves
by pillaging Ethiopia. The so-called national army is organized by the
ruling party, and over 95% of the officer belong to the ruling ethnic
group. Ethiopians have no rights to have independent journalists. The
country has no independent judiciary, or national election board.
The regime holds sham elections every five years and gets elected by
imprisoning, torturing and killing opposition party officials. It places
individuals in the national parliament, which it assigns as members of
the opposition party. Just before the so-called National Elections of
May 2015, the regime imprisoned the duly elected president, President
Mamushet Amare, and 46 other Ethiopians of the largest pan-Ethiopian
party, AEUP (All Ethiopian Unity Party, also known as MEAD -Yemelaw
Ethiopia Andenet Derjit”)
The representatives of other pan-Ethiopian parties had also been
replaced by individuals who have been hand-picked by the ruling regime,
or were allowed to function, while some opposition candidates running
for elections had been tortured, imprisoned or killed by the regime. In
short, pan-Ethiopian opposition party officials are hunted down, one by
one, and put to jail, tortured or killed for using their “constitutional
guaranteed” rights to run for elections and to speak out against
injustice perpetrated by the ruling TPLF/EPRDF regime.
We are saddened to know that the USA continues to give monetary
support to the ethnic-based regime of Ethiopia, and we were even more
deeply angered and saddened when a US official, Mrs. Wendy Sherman, so
shamelessly and blatantly made wrong public statements to provide
support to the dictatorial regime of Ethiopia days before the
re-election of the regime.
The Ethiopian dictatorship is an abomination to all freedom-loving
people across the world. It survives through trickery and double dealing
with the West and the East. It ought to have been unthinkable for the
USA to provide any support to the brazen dictatorship of Ethiopia, which
has forcibly created ethnic-based Bantustans that dislocated millions
of Ethiopians, killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians. The citizens
of Ethiopia will not benefit by any support given to to dictatorial
regime.
Upon President Obama’s visit to the OAU at Addis Abeba and the
dictatorial Ethiopian regime in Ethiopia, we plead to President Obama to
consider the following.
1. Ask firmly for the release of President Mamushet Amare, Mr Abraham
Getu and 46 other AEUP officials, as well as the untold number of
prisoners of conscience including Andualem Arage, Unity for Democracy
Justice Party V. Chairman and journalists, Eskindr Nega, Reyot Alemu,
Zone 9 Bloggers and tens of thousands who languish in the TPLF/EPRDF
jails all over the country for only exercising their constitutional
rights in a peaceful way.
2.Put the necessary pressure to have the dictatorial regime scrap the
so called ” Charities law ” which has become the weapon of subjugation,
as an excuse of fighting terrorism to suppress, harass and kill
opposition party members and citizens.
3. Attach any American aid or budget support to the Ethiopian regime
be contingent with or on conditions of the protection and safeguarding
of basic human rights and accountability.
4. Go through the USA State Department’s own 2014 and 2015 country
reports on Ethiopia and demand answers from the Ethiopian regime.
Ethiopia stretches her hands to God, and it shall survive.
All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP) USA-Support group
June 24, 2015
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