March 18, 2008

Ethiopia Election Under Tyranny

The outright rejection hangover of the EPRDF tyrant regime during the May 2005 election was not yet over but the cruel government is planning to held another fill up and local election in the next month without confrontation because of three main reasons
1. As it is indicated in the EPRDF constitution handed to us it describes the legistlator.judiciary as well the executive are independent bodies with out the interference of the parties governing the country but what we see is EPRDF is the executive,legistlator and the judiciary body of the country. This phenomenon was clearly justified when the fiasco trial was conducted for about 22 months in the court of Kaliti which ended up with the decision of Meles Zenawi which shows the end justifies the means.
2. EPRDF did not expected that opposition parties could confront the ruling party and its puppets but what the people decide was enormous rejection, so EPRDF has to dismantle its opposition for this election either trying to harras,make them illegal by giving to name and the emblem of the party to an individuals who are the supporters of the ruling party,or buying time by disarraying party members some in jail,some to flee from the country,some to evict them from their work place,some to bypass the salary increment done for all civil servants and some dead. Moreover in rural areas to forbid fertlizers,credit and some basic agricultural supplies unless and otherwise they support the ruling party or putting the prominent members as labeling them as members of the liberation fronts of which EPRDF labeled as terrorists or saying they are sent by the neibouring coutry Eritrea. In general the ruling party think that the preparations done currenlty are far more better than the 2005 election to fill some members in the parlament and new electrorates at the local level.
Is the mandate of the people or one governing party to dismiss an elected member without the constituent is not a clear question which needs a clarification which is not a problem for a tyrrant,because they are the rule,directives and the solo democrats who always know for the people than the people.
3. The EPRDF second assignment done for the last two years to gain its power grip is the prepare minimun 300 electorate from every locality in which in Ethiopia condition the last hierarchy of administration called Kebele some times have around four hundred inhabitants of which about 15-20 percent are in the teen age below 17 who cannnot participate in the due process,that is the number of nomimnees are more than what a Kebele comprise. The reason is clear that it is done purposefully since the now available oppsitions are not well organized and grass rooted as the former opposition CUDP,so EPRDF think it is a tactical move. As to my information EPRDF have filled its electees without the know how of some people who even do not know they run for the local election.
What all this shows is that EPRDF has to be clothed the color of democratic government for the west not to its people and know clearly is not a party "by its people for its people".
We have to stop such a theatrical election process every time eletion comes in Ethiopia by showing the world the reality and the drama done in our Ethiopia.
I hereby plea Ethiopian to join hand in hand to change this tyrant governmrnt for our own sake.
Sooner or later EPRDF will fall by the vote of Ethiopian people