February 21, 2015

Deja Vue to deprive Human Rights in Ethiopia

ETHIOPIA IS ONE OF THE POPULOUS COUNTRIES IN THE HORN OF AFRICA WITH ABOUT 90 MILLION. THE COUNTRY IS IN THE HAND OF THE MINORITY GROUP THE TIGRYAN PEOPLES LIBERATION FRONT SINCE 1991. THE EXPECTATION OF ETHIOPIANS WAS THAT THE COUNTRY WILL TRANSFORM TO DEMOCRATIC RULE WHEN THIS GROUP COME TO POWER OVERTHROWING THE MILITARY REGIME. THIS EXPECTATION WAS SHATTERED WHEN THOSE HIS ALLIES WERE THROWN OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT AT THE FIRST NATIONAL ELECTION (1995). SINCE THEN THE COUNTRY HAVE CONDUCTED FOUR FAKE ELECTIONS TO SHOW THE WESTERN WORLD THAT DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE RESPECTED. HERE WHY WE RAISED THAT THEY NEED TO SHOW THE WESTERN WORLD IS DUE TO SOME 30 PERCENT OF THE NATIONAL BUDGET COME FROM FOREIGN AID OR BILLATERAL LOAN. ALL THE FOUR ELECTIONS WERE OBSERVED BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AND THEY WERE CATAGORIZED AS BELOW STANDARD AND ELECTION DONE UNDER REPRESSION. IN ORDER TO PROVE THE SITUATION ONE CAN SEE WHAT THE EUROPEAN ELECTION OBERSVATION TEAM WROTE AFTER 2005 ELECTION. "The 2005 parliamentary elections were the most competitive elections Ethiopia has experienced, with an unprecedented high voter turnout. However, while the pre-election period saw a number of positive developments and voting on 15 May was conducted in a peaceful and largely orderly manner, the counting and aggregation processes were marred by irregular practices, confusion and a lack of transparency. Subsequent complaints and appeals mechanisms did not provide an effective remedy. The human rights situation rapidly deteriorated in the post-election day period when dozens of citizens were killed by the police and thousands were arrested. Overall, therefore, the elections fell short of international principles for genuine democratic elections. THIS WAS WHEN THE ELECTION PROCESS SOME WHAT TO THE HIGHEST STANDARD IN THE COUNTRY EVEN THE OUTCOME WAS OPPLED BY THE RULING EPRDF GOVERNMENT BY IMPRISONING 138 PEOPLE AND ABOUT 200 PEOPLE DIED IN THE AFTERMATH REPRESSION BY THE AGAZI MILITARY LAUNCHED BY SOECIALLY TPLF CHAIRMAN MELES ZENAWI. DURING THIS TIME MELES EVEN INSULTED THE THEN TEAM LEADER ANNA GOMEZ (EU PARLAMENTARIAN) ON NEWS PAPER WRITING 17 PAGES. THEN COME THE FOURTH ELECTION WHICH I WROTE THAT TIME IS IT ELECTION OR DEPRIVATION? AS MY FORECAST IT WAS A DEPRIVATION OF ETHIOPIANS THEIR RIGHTS COMPLETLY BY CLAIMILG 545 SEATS OUT OF 547 SEATS. THE 2010 OBERVAING TEAM EU EVEN WAS NOT ALLOWED TO DISCUSS ITS FINDINGS AND WAS TOLD BY THE THEN MELES ZENAWI PUT IT IN GARBAGE. Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has blasted the recent European Union report on last May's elections, calling it "trash". Speaking to Ethiopian journalists, Prime Minister Meles described the EU Election Observer Mission report as "useless trash that deserves to be thrown in the garbage". He is quoted as saying the report was not about Ethiopia's election, but was "just the view of some Western neo-liberals who are not happy about the strength of the ruling party". NOW ETHIOPIA IS IN A DEJA VUE FOR THE FIFTH ELECTION IN MAY 2015. BUT WHAT IS SPECIAL IS UNLIKE THE OTHER ELECTION, THAT IS BRINGING NEW GUIDELINES OR NEW REGULATIONS THE GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED TO DISSOLVE PROMINENT PARTIES BY HATCHING CLONES. THE CLONING IS DONE BY BRIBING SOME WEAK MEMBERS OF THE PARTIES OR INFILTRATING PARTIES WITH ITS OWN MEMBERS AND APPROVING THEN THROUGH THE ELECTORAL BOARD AS IF THEY ARE THE LEGITIMATE ONES. THIS HAS HAPPENED TODATE TO UNITED JUSTICE FOR DEMOCRACY PARTY (UDJ) AND ALL ETHIOPIANS PEOPLES PARTY (AEPP) BY GIVING THEM TO MEMBERS WHO WERE BRIBED WITHIN.