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July 18, 2006


The paradox of CUD in a foreign country

“Amnesty International considers these defendants (who are leaders of the opposition Kinijit) — arrested in connection with demonstrations in November 2005 — prisoners of conscience who have not used or advocated violence and calls on the Ethiopian government to release them immediately and unconditionally.” – Amnesty International: May 16, 2006


Once again, a fear of secessionist activity is dominating Ethiopian thinking both at home and abroad. However, with the exception of some hirelings the vast majority of Ethiopians are in a state of high alert not to get duped by any backdoor dealings ever again.

Ethiopians have had it in London, and could not afford to have seen history repeating itself in favor of their national rivals for a second time so it is a period of time in which their state of alert must be put in full force to discourage hirelings from taking further illegal and subversive actions against the security of Ethiopia. In point of fact, the party in power doesn’t have a clear mandate to rule, the election was bogus, so was the claim the TPLF made and everything else thereafter went wrong including CUD’S decision to go into partnership with the OLF, ONLF and others.

Honestly, though without affectation or pretense, it is a known fact that all the integral parts of AFD with the exception of CUD are liberation fronts engaged in armed struggle against the “Abyssinia Empire”. Aside ONLF, and SLF, OLF is an old liberation front and who is also an old hand at the foundation of AFD, which is why millions of Ethiopians are skeptical about this new deal fearing that it may result in crisis. Once again fearing that the Holland’s conference is yet about to reinforcing the London’s’ conference many Ethiopians are tending not to believe but to question it.

Be that as it may, as ethnic-oriented they are, they always do promote ethnic politics and always do speak in favor of disintegration. Isn’t that the reason why they declare themselves liberation fronts fighting to free their respective regions from the rest of the “Abyssinian Empire”? Amassing all these facts and more of their nature, who can easily be duped into thinking that the set up in which these liberation fronts operates is intended to play a role of unity building process? It is an unworthy of serious risk for CUD to suppose that it doesn’t know what their political objectives are all about. However, unlike CUD, the rest of pro unity forces are concerned not only for they find the nature of liberation fronts is threatening to Ethiopia’s sovereignty, they also learned that their political ideology is fetal to the existence of Ethiopia as a nation as well.