Ethiopian regime unleashes war on Muslim citizens and their religious institution

The Ethiopian Community Association in
Victoria,Australia, is gravely concerned over the
regime`s state sponsored terrorism against the Muslim citizens for demanding
their religious right.Ethiopians co-existed peacefully, with many different
faith followers for many centuries. Aiming at the marginalization, the
destabilization and the destructions of the Ethiopian identities haven`t been a
new phenomena for this brutal regime.

Ever since, the tyrant Melese Zenawi
controlled TPLF government came to power with the forces of guns and with the
backing  of the top Western leaders
in 1991,Melese and his  TPLF top
dogs,detrmined to exercise their power as how to segment Ethiopia into pieces
and as how to weaken the Ethiopian fundamental values and assets. In here,
let`s not forget that Mr Zenawi who dashed into the Ethiopian palace 21 years
ago, has had been a spy boy and a mercenary for the developed West, against
Ethiopia`s Sovereignty and the Ethiopians interest. Even though, it is obvious
for us [Ethiopians] , for the sake of relating to the current situation and to
inform for the unaware foreigners, it is important to highlight or demonstrate
some facts that the regime`s boss [Mr Zenawi] and his top dogs have done
against the nation`s interest, and so:

* As soon as they took political power
from Colonel Mngistu, they proclaimed that Ethiopia as a nation is only a hundred
years old, introduced the none indigenous ‘Latin’ language to
weaken one of the oldest indigenous language [Amharic],facilitated, the
succession of one of Ethiopia`s Northern provinces [Eritrea] including Massawa
and Asseb sea ports, Ethiopia lost its natural and historical outlets to the
Red Sea, Ethiopia became landlocked nation, stripped away the Ethiopian
hereditary and the symbolic flag, portrayed it as worthless as rag, for which
our parents and grandparents sacrificed  their lives.  

* They implemented, ethnic language
based federalism- which is the Western colonialists ‘Bantunization’
style on third world colonised subjects: to disempower and to disharmonize  the social-cultural and the
psycho-dynamic attachments of Ethiopians, to sow the seeds of hatred and
animosity among Ethiopians.

*The Ethio-Eritrean war that took place
1998-2000,ended with  in favour of Eritrea.80,000-10000 young
Ethiopian men and women lost their precious lives  in  vain. In 2006,theTPLF led military forces
invaded Somalia on behalf of Ethiopia against the nation`s will, to appease the
Western powers, assisting them a war on Al-Qaida, a great number of Ethiopians
paid their precious lives for the interest of foreigners, in response to look
after Melese and his  political
reign

*In 2008,the TPLF
gangs, gave 1600 sq.km Ethiopia`s fertile farmland to the Sudan government, in
response to, Sudan not to host anti Melese forces. In the same year,75 million
acres of fertile land being leased away for foreign capitalists, further a
total of Belgium sized land mass is under way for lease for foreign corporate,
these have been at the expenses of the indigenous farmers displacement.

* The self assigned PM, Melese Zenawi
and his top dogs have  dismantled
numerous Ethiopia`s traditional and modern Institutions that had been well
built and established for centuries, such as: agricultural,educational,postal,telecommunicational,industrial,defencial
etc. institutions., replaced by theTPLF model structures with their ethnic
blood chain of commands. Zenawi,his family, his top
dogs and his affiliates have robbed the nation`s wealth in billions and have
deposited in foreign countries banks.

* From the very beginning of the
despotic Zenawi resumed political power in Ethiopia,he
has committed ongoing violations of:human,civil,polical,religious rights and
the rule of law. Numerous opposition political leaders ,their
members, their supporters,civil,political and human rights activists,
journalists etc.have been: imprisoned,bashed,ganged and tortured. Thousands of political,
civil and human rights proponents have been kept in various detention centres
or ranches like cattle for several years without trial. Many hundreds have been
killed, during peaceful protests in streets.

* Freedom of public and private
political discourses and expression, freedom of peaceful protest, freedom of
peaceful assembly, freedom of opposition political parties, freedom of  forming and organizing workers union or
association etc.were totally curtailed or repressed.

*Twenty years ago,Mr Zenawi overturned
the Ethiopian Orthodox churches Synodos power unlawfully, fired the Patriarch
who ascended through the Synodos hierarchical system and assigned  ‘ Patriarch Paulos’ with his
self defence pistol, who is eugenically qualified to Mr. Zenawi`s  ethnic .The legitimate Patriarch since
then, is  in exile, for that, fellow
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians  are
divided into two camps, antagonizing one another, it has been  a deliberate plot to  disunite  the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians.

* Starting early 2012,with
the pretext of sugarcane plantation or development, the regime ordered to
destroy one of the oldest Ethiopian Orthodox Monastery,that has been founded in
490 AD, located in Begemeder province, North Ethiopia. Monks and nuns of that
Monastery have been: bashed, beaten, harassed and imprisoned while protesting
against the act, the dispute is still underway. Members of the current, the
Ethiopian ruling class, have been doing several and ongoing attempts to put hatred
virus or venom, between the Muslim Community and the Christian community.Yet,as
citizens from both religious domains were aware of the rulers motive, so that
so, they refused  to take the
state`s evil influence or cancer.

“To know the present we must look
into the past and to know the future we must look into the present”
[Rodney Walter].To understand our Muslim brothers’ cause,
we must relate the above factors. This is another TPLF chosen Synodos, the
Synodos of “Al-Abash Sect of Islam”, being brought from foreign
land, to impose on many generations “home born and home grown majority
Islamic denomination.”

Let us look what their demands are:

1] The government to stop its
unconstitutional promotion of Lebanon based ‘Al-Ahbash Sect’ and
the ‘Awalia Mosque’ in Addis Abeba to be returned to the majority
Muslim community from a corrupted minority Islamic Council

2] Islamic Council elections to be held
at mosques rather than at local government offices.

3] Ethiopia`s ‘Islamic Affairs
Supreme Council’ to be free from undemocratic body of government stooges
or puppets

4] The government to stop labelling them
that they are ‘extremists’ etc..

From these points of view: who causes the
problem? Why the problem being created?

It is too obvious to understand, the
cause of the problem is the government itself, the so called government! The government
created this problem for three main reasons,
they are:

a] To create divisions between and among the Muslim Community like
that of the Ethiopian Orthodox church Synodos and to weaken the power of their
unity.

b] To get puppet followers as that of
pseudo ‘patriarch Paulos’ who leads the Ethiopian Orthodox church

c] To create Muslim versus Christian war
in Ethiopia, in particular, by using state media propaganda as if this movement
is ‘Islamic extremism or fundamentalism’- to get sympathy and  impression
from the national and the international Christian Communities, by labelling
them that they  are  threats  for Christians.

Based on these premises, the Ethiopian
Community Association in Victoria,Australia, Strongly
and unequivocally condemns the regime`s undemocratic handling of our Muslim brothers
religious rights and inhumane treatments.Also,the Ethiopian Community
Association in Victoria, ‘calls on’ the Ethiopian government:

1] To the immediate and the
unconditional release of any individuals who have been arrested on the ground
of exercising or demanding their religious rights.

2] To let them exercise their freedom of
expression, freedom of peaceful protest, freedom of peaceful assembly etc. as
these are elements of United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights :
Article-19&20-1948.

3] To let the Islamic Council elections
go ahead democratically, without government interferences

4] To stop the unconstitutional
promotion of the Al-Ahbash sect and let the Awalia Mosque be returned to the
indigenous majority Muslim Community in Addis Abeba

5] To stop labelling them as
‘extremists and as terrorists: until these and other their concerned  demands are answered or got response, the
Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria will continue  its struggle with our Muslim brothers and
sisters.

“All human beings are born free
and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience
and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”[Article1
of the United Nations Universal Declaration of ‘Human Rights’-UDHR]

To
overcome our National Crises and Hurdles, We must unite our: physical,morale, psychological,financial,political,spiritual
resources and collective wisdom

The
Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria