Ethiopians in UK to express their outrage by holding protest at the British Parliament

Wondimu Mekonnen
As you all have heard and know by now the latest events unfolding in our country are reaching such critical stage that makes the situation intolerable to anyone that shares a remote sense of humanity and justice. At separate times in the last 22 years, the hate-driven and ethnicist regime of TPLF/EPRDF unleashed its excess against the various groups of people in Ethiopia.
What makes the latest targeted assault on members of the ‘Amhara’ group living in Benshangul-Gumz region is the mass scale of the action, the callous nature it has been perpetrated and the manner the crime was completed in apparent evident way. Ethiopians living everywhere are appalled and outraged by the heinous measures of ethnic cleansing conducted by the regime. They have been denouncing the crimes perpetrated against ‘Amharas’ and appealing to the international community to thoroughly investigate the matter. Ethiopians worldwide have been voicing their firm criticism to those who have been giving continuous support and emboldening the regime. They have repeatedly stressed the money given by the donor countries including the UK had been used by those who commit gross human rights violations in Ethiopia.
Ethiopians in London representing all sectors of the community have organised a protest vigil to send a clear message that they also denounce and deplore the act perpetrated on ‘Amharas’ by TPLF led regime. On the day of the protest they will submit their protest letter to UK government, while at the Parliament session the Foreign & Commonwealth Office will answer to the oral question that will be made by Mr Dave Anderson (MP). The protest will be held:
Date: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Time: 2.00 – 7.00pm
Place: In front of the House of Commons/Parliament
Please make sure take the least moral action an Ethiopian can make by being a voice to your fellow citizen by attending this important protest event. Please circulate this information widely by sharing it to all your contacts and networks.
With all the best wishes,
On behalf of the organising group.

Is it mistake or a deep rooted hatred?

    by Yoseph Afework

Most recently the eviction of 5,000 ethnic Amharas from Benishangul Gumuz regional state was a hot issue on Ethiopian media. Starting the day ESAT reported on the incident, we have heard many reports on the issue and now most recently we heard that the Benishangul Gumuz regional administrators had apologize for the incident and call the evicted to return claiming it a mistake and vows to take administrative action on those involved.
Some considered the apology as a positive progress on the situation. Is it really a good progress? Are the returnees safe when they are back? How are these victims assisted to return to their regular life? Would these returnees coop up with the psychological trauma they have passed through? We did heard nothing how these people are going to be assisted, so one which point is the progress? The apology is just to escape from the mounting criticisms of the media and Ethiopians around the world and would do nothing good for the victims.
Actually my point wasn’t to talk about the apology but rather was the eviction of ethnic Amharas from Benishangul Gumuz just a mistake?
knowing TPLF`s hatred for ethnic Amharas its difficult to accept it as a mistake and for this it’s enough to recall the atrocities and ethnic cleansing by ethnocentric TPLF on ethnic Amharas in the last 21 years let me mention few among many.
The intention of humiliating ethnic Amharas by TPLF begins from their struggle for power by alienating ethnic Amharas as chauvinists and national oppressors which is followed soon by hateful revenge by systematically cleansing ethnic Amharas no one forgets :-
- The killing of 150 Amhara civilians in December 1991 in small village of Arba Gugu in western Harrarge
- In April 1992 again 150 Amharas were killed in the town of Bedeno in the same region
- And more killings of civilians including man and woman in Grawa Asebot, Assosa and Bedeno.
- The expulsion of people from different part of the country just because this people are ethnic Amharas.
- The missing of 2.4 million from the population on 2007 national census.
And what we are witnessing the expulsion of ethnic Amharas from Benishiangul Gumuz and Gura Ferda in SNNP is not just a mistake or because this people are illegal settlers rather it’s the continuity of the legacy of hatred towards ethnic Amharas by the late prime Monster Meles Zenawi .
And so let’s not simply consider the incident of evicting innocent civilians from different parts of the country as a simple mistake. We all have to stand in unit regardless of our ethnic backgrounds or language to stop any form of discrimination based on ethnic background, language or religion.
We have to say NO for any form Racism!
MAY GOD BLESS ETHIOPIA!