“I think it is a tinderbox. This potentially could explode at any moment. It is a very, very dangerous situation.” Says, Ambassador Tim Clark, a veteran of conflict resolution in Africa, and the European Union’s special representative in Ethiopia.

” Ethiopia is in a potentially dangerous situation because if the opposition feel that they have lost credibility, they have lost a sense of ownership of the results, if people’s voting has been taken away from them, and there is despair and distrust and tension, hostility, then you’ve got a recipe for a civil war. And under no circumstances can that be allowed to happen .”

To relax the ever growing tensions between the people and the EPRDF, the opposition groups have proposed a peaceful way out, of forming an interim/transition government, that has vehemently been rejected by Meles.

In light of this, the remaining solution seems what Tim Clark has worried about. To protect Ethiopia and the people form the potential danger, we have to push the western powers to interfere and halt the regime’s act of terror.

Rally and in Brussels

Date and time: Thursday, 22 September 2005, starting at 09:00AM
Place: Metro Schumann (in front of the EU parliament), Brussels.
Organized by – Joint task force: Ethiopians Civic and political Organizations in Europe

Contacts:

Switzerland:+ 41 792079207,+ 41 216472251
Belgium: +32 16 20 17 45, +32 49 4 14 73 45
Holland : +31 652006062, +31 704451 682
Germany: +49 1632436308, +49 173 667 5974
UK: +44 7960691661
Sweden: +46 7626 42 705, +46 87108676

The Task Force invites all Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia living in all cities of Europe.

God Bless Ethiopia!