The Weyane regime is engaged in organizing a meeting in most European and North American cities to discuss about the so-called “5 Years Transformation Plan.” Here in Minnesota the meeting is planned to take place at down town Minneapolis Hilton Hotel on April 10/2011. The attempt by the Woyane regime to co-opt the Diaspora is a complete hypocrisy implicitly intended to solicit support to its misguided economic and political policies that thiopians everywhere objected to for two decades. Although Ethiopians at different times have called for political reform and better and well planned economic policies at different times, the regime has given it a deaf ear. Up until now, since two decades, the regime is unwilling to adopt participatory and inclusive social and political culture.
Economic transformation with out political reform is like rain with out clouds! Therefore, we Ethiopians in Minneapolis call upon the Woyane/EPRDF regime,
To reform the election board and judicial system so as to make it a neutral body free from Woyane/EPRDF members and supporters domination.
To release jailed members of opposition parties that are accused of inciting the North African style revolution in Ethiopia and stop their torture and maltreatment.
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To establish the army, intelligence and police as an independent entity that is guardian of the Ethiopian people rather than a servant of the incumbent party.
To stop one ethnic domination of the army higher posts, the intelligence and police should be reformed to participate other ethnic groups. Minority dictatorship should be stopped in Ethiopia.
To refrain from selling of Ethiopian land like a cheap product should be stopped and the regime should establish a regime that regulates this activity in a well-planned and controlled manner.
To stop the deliberate attempt intended to weaken free media in Ethiopia by formulating repressive laws and increasing the printing cost of free newspapers.
To stop immediately the mass politicization of the civil service and academic institutions in Ethiopia. Ethiopians should be treated the same no matter what their political persuasion and ethnic origin.
To put an end to ethnic based political system that nurtures parochial identity that ensures the hegemony of minority rule, at the expense of Ethiopian unity and nationality.
Until and unless Woyane/EPRDF is able and willing to transform itself it would be pathetic to disguise itself as a transformer. We Ethiopians dream of the growth and development of our country. Nevertheless, we also understand that this transformation will not be realized by a regime that is suppressive of people’s right and is guided by the policy of marginalizing the opposition and treating it as the “enemy”. We are exiled out of our country because of the Woyane/EPRDF autocratic and oppressive practices, and we hope the time will come that our struggle will result in obliterating autocracy and we will be going back home to live in the new Ethiopia.
