Rebirth for Ethiopian Democratic Struggle
Democratic struggle in Ethiopia goes to the beginning of the century but the output is not yet seen by the people due to the wrong strategies considered in the past years and one needs to bring a new vision or version of struggle to overthrow tyranny from this undeveloped,illitrate,hunger stricken and undemocratic country.
It is easy to say than to do but we, Ethiopian, have to discuss about this issue and find a solution. Here i post this idea so that intersted groups irrespectives of their political,religous,ethnic as well sexual orientation can put their ideas,as the English proverb" one hand washes the other."
The past years if statstics counts Ethiopians had formed more political parties than any African countries but the result as to me is a zero sum game interms of bringing democratic rights in the country. Why? This is the basic question to deal with. How? I want to put some ideas for those who think that they are contributing for the well-being of the country interms of bringing democratic rule and the rule of law.
I will use my experiences about the different parties prevailed as well some issues and experiences from other countries i have visited.
Ethiopia as country of mosaic ethnic groups,it is a futile excercise to organize according to nations and nationalities because during the last two centuries the movement of people in search of work or resources has played a significant role in the amalgamation of the people from different ethnic origins some going from North to South some going from East to West /south/north and if one tries to organize parties (as now done)in this line it will left out those with mixed ethnic backgrounds.
The second issue is that it is not good to organize parties along religious lines as some countries due to that their are families with both major religions in a family or a vicinity so the only way out to organize parties interms of visions and programs stand the only way out to bring a balanced and sound democratic rule in the country.
What have we experienced in the last half century in terms of political organizations is that there is either a hidden connection of the above that is to say that all the parties luck transparency and vision or the commitment to their respective objctives set in the formation of the parties.
So the end is sometimes the beginning and one has to start thinking a new way of formulating Ethiopians along a new amalgamated front based on the manifestos of the parties.
Why we need a new way of reorganization is due to:
1. If we detailly examine the parties organized in / outside of the country their roots are buried in the 1960s theories of the then popular ideas of marxism lenninism or as a whole left oriented
2.As organization the prevailing parties started their formation through secretly recruiting their members and this excercise is still popular in the eve of the 21st century (some due to security reasons and some due to nepotic reasons)which will curb transparency.
3.the other main feautures of all parties is the issue of formal transformation of power from one excecutive committee to another is not seen as a whole including the ruling party EPRDF (one can remember the fall out of some members from TPLF)as well in other parties which they themselves think are the most democrats but end up in faction formation
4.when paries are organized and if we look in the by-laws they are terrefic but what is excercised is the words of the chairperson rather than the guideline set.
5. Most members including excecutives are more than once shifted from one prominent party to the other due to some unaccountable reasons and would like to mix things and loose dedication and loyality in the new party and when criticized will start moving to other parties or take some group faction in the party which makes things more intertwined
So what has to be done to ameliorate this marxist oriented, shifting members behaviour build parties and party excecutives who always want to be the chair of the party until their death or until they go out of steam?
The most and formost issue has to be to refine the programs of parties and examine why always their is fall out and to come to sensible solutions. Besides that the number of oppositions within/outside the country is enormous and they have to open up a forum for discussing their difference and come together to overthrow the tyrant regime and afterwards put their ideas to the people of Ethiopia with their concrete programs to be decided by the votes of the people.
UNITY CAN BRING DOWN EPRDFs TYRANNY UNLESS OTHERWISE IF WE DO NOT UNITE THERE WILL BE EPRDF AND ITS CADRES DECIDING FOR US.