የተባበሩት የሲዳማ ፓርቲዎች ለቅንጅት ነጻነት እና ለፍትህ በወቅታዊ ጉዳይ ላይ መግለጫ ሰጠ፤ ኣዲሱ የኢትዮጵያ ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር ኣቶ ኃይለማሪያም ደሳሌኝ የሲዳማን ህዝብ ክልል የመሆን ህገ መንግስታዊ መብት እንዲያከብሩ ጠየቀ
ፓርቲው
ለወራንቻ ኢንፎርሜሽን ኔትዎርክ በላከው
ጋዜጣዊ መግለጫ ላይ እንዳመለከተው የኢትዮጵያ
መንግስት የሲዳማን ህዝብ በክልል ደረጃ ራስን
በራስ የማስተዳደ መብት እንዲያከብር ጠይቀዋል።
የጋዜጣዊ
መግለጫው ሙሉ ቃል እንደምከተለው ቀርቧል፦
The
New Ethiopian Prime Minster ‘Hailemariam Desalegn’ Must Respect
Sidama people’s Constitutional Rights to Regional Self
Administration!!
Press
Release
By
United Sidama Parties for Freedom and Justice (USPFJ), October 11,
2012
The
Sidama nation endured various forms and shapes of injustices imposed
on them by the successive Ethiopian rulers including the current
TPLF/EPRDF’s regime. The injustices the Sidama nation is exposed to
involve an economic and political marginalization, socio-cultural
subjugation and gross violations of their fundamental rights.
Even
though the Sidama nation owns one of the richest regions in the
country, its people are subjected to a persistent government induced
poverty that had chronologically deepened from time to time. Sidama’s
development institutions are dismantled or made to serve politicians.
Its people don’t have representation from federal to the levels of
farmers associations. Unemployment and diseases are rampant as is all
round deprivation. The government apparatuses in Sidama are
accountable to the ruling party instead of to the people. All the
successive regimes deliberately perpetuate human misery in
Sidamaland. To protect the interests of the regime, the current PM is
also repeating his predecessors’ acts of deceit and systematic
subjugation of the Sidama people using his regional and Zone Sidama
puppets.
Prior
to the incumbent regime’s assumption of power in 1991, the Derg’s
dictatorial regime slaughtered several thousands of Sidamas in
addition to an over 50,000 Sidama civilians who were summarily
executed in allegation of alliances with the then Sidama Liberation
Movement (SLM), although the majority of the victims were
noncombatant civilians. In a similar vein, the current regime had
slaughtered and is doing so to the Sidama people and unlawfully
imprisoning Sidama civilians since it took over from its predecessor.
The regime’s constitution guarantees the constitutional rights to
the regional self administration for which claims the Sidama people
are continually harassed, intimidated, tortured, imprisoned, killed
and socio-politically and economically marginalized. The said
constitution is only prepared to satisfy the interests of and deceive
the regime’s western donors and human rights organizations
incognizant of the reality about Ethiopian political dynamics. The
glaring truth reveals however what the regimes malicious intents in
particular towards the Sidama people looks like.
Whilst
the current regime nominally implements its constitution in others
parts of the country; it adamantly self contradicts when it blocks
this from happening in Sidamaland for variety of reasons that are
neither justifiable nor legal. Oblivious of the fact that the Sidama
nation consistently demanded and remains demanding for the said
constitutional rights in the past 21 years; the regime preferred
responding with violence, intimidation, harassments, imprisonments,
sawing fear and terror, physical and psychological torture, killings,
underdevelopment and perpetuating man made poverty in Sidamaland.
Over
10 year ago, on May 24, 2002, the then regime’s regional president,
the current PM (Hailemariam Desalegn) was ordered by the late PM to
implement a very essential assignment in Sidamaland for his regime.
To respond to the late PM’s demand, the later meticulously planned
and implemented the massacre of the Sidama civilians in Loqqe
village. The Victims were claiming the aforementioned rights. No one
held accountable for the massacre of hundreds of Sidama civilians
whose 69 names among others identified and recorded. For his part in
effectively managing the massacre of the Sidama civilians and the
aftermaths of the atrocity, the current PM was elevated to a higher
authority to reach where he is currently. In addition to others
injustices he implemented in Sidamaland, the current PM has also
ordered the Sidama peoples houses to be totally burned down in some
of the villages in ‘Lokaa Abaayyaa’ district after the May 24,
2002’s massacre of the Sidama civilians in Loqqe village. Such
actions against the Sidama people of the said district had been
meticulously planned, consciously ordered and callously monitored by
Hailemariam Desalegn-the current PM.
When
the houses of the Sidama people were fully wiped-out of the village’s
map in the aforementioned case, the Sidama civilians were ordered by
the current PM to be forcibly transported to another region from
where all of the Sidama victims latter returned to their region using
their own means. Subsequently, the said villages were replaced by
hundreds of peoples from ethnic Wolyatas recruited by the new PM
Hailemariam Desalegn, the then southern regional president. By the
time, the current PM had fully established the necessary institutions
such as clinics, water facilities and others that previously weren’t
present for the Sidamas before he relocated the Wolayita ethnic
groups onto Sidamaland. His plots against the rights of the Sidama
nation was only short lived simply because the Sidamas with their
customary patience, tolerance, resilience and heroism repulsed
Hailemariam Desalegn’s invaders to reclaim their lands and villages
despite the presence and resistances of army.
The
current PM has got grievances for his inability to do so by the time;
for which reason in addition to others he is using the current
regional pariah as his iron rod to hit the Sidama people with. The
Sidama people strongly believe that the malicious plots of the
current PM and his regional puppet remains in vain simply because the
Sidama people heroically, but peacefully push with their demands for
their regional quest until they assert it.
The
current PM has also ordered and followed up the stage management of
the massacre of between 800-1000 Sheko Mezenger unarmed civilians who
have demanded their fundamental rights to freedom of expression and
the rule of law to be exercised in their region in 2003, in Tepi
after the massacre of the Sidama civilians in Loqqe. No one held
accountable for the said crimes against humanity to date. The current
PM remains the sole culprit of the said crime against humanity in
Tepi as is in Hawassa’s Loqqe.
At
present, the current PM plots against the Sidama people under the
pretext of federalizing Hawassa town using the angles of darkness led
by the regional puppet such as Shiferaw Shuguxe and Zonal renegade
Million Mathewos to do his dirty jobs in Sidamaland; is therefore, a
part of his long awaited strategy. Therefore, the work of the current
PM in Sidama region reveals how deceitfully cunning he was, is and
his callous and calculated actions against the rights of the Sidama
people remains. The current attempt of PM to block Sidama people’s
constitutional rights to regional self administration is therefore
entirely connected with his deep rooted hatred of the Sidama people.
The
regional and Zonal pariahs, who are at present making the lives of
the Sidama people intolerably difficult are continually and wildly
intimidate, harass and attempt to belittle the Sidama nation and the
Sidama cadres on daily basis. Both pariahs forcibly order the cadres
to implement the aforementioned illegal policies of the current PM in
Sidamaland. The regional renegade also remains unrepentant for his
parts in the above crimes against humanity.
Disregarding
the constitutional rights of the Sidama people, the new PM with his
regional and Zone puppets is doing what it takes to implement the
said unconstitutional and illegal polices that aims at totally
undermining the Sidama people’s fundamental rights; their actions
remain illegal and unconstitutional. Therefore, such vicious polices
of the regime in Sidamaland in particular in the entire southern
Ethiopian at large must be stopped unconditionally.
The
United Sidama Parties for Freedom and Justice (USPFJ) demands the
current PM to urgently allow the Sidama nation to exercise their
constitutional rights to regional self administration. We also urge
the new PM’s government to unconditionally stop harassing,
intimidating, imprisoning and torturing Sidama civilians who are
peacefully and non-violently claiming their constitutional rights to
regional self administration; and remove from the Sidamaland the
covert and overt security forces and army personnel terrorizing the
Sidama people on daily basis.
Cognizant
of Sidama nation’s resilience, indefatigability, farsightedness,
peaceful and nonviolent resistance; and their sons’ and daughters’
continued suffering at the hands of state sponsored terrorists; the
USPFJ besides urges the Sidama people to push with their quests to
regional self administration until it’s fully being achieved.
The
USPFJ urges the Sidama people to reject the orders and calls of the
Regional, Zonal, Districts and Farmers association cadres instead
demanding their unconditional resignation to join Sidama people’s
constitutional demands for regional self administration.
The
USPFJ urges all Ethiopian related opposition parties operating within
Ethiopia and Diaspora to reject the slogan of the current PM on
implementing what his predecessor had aspired to achieve including
rampant torture, unlawful imprisonments, theatrical legislations on
anti-terror law, intolerance of dissents, gross violation of human
rights, complete absence of freedom of expression and independent
judiciary systems, the defense as well as police forces; and
unanimously demand for the rule of law to be supreme. Also we urge
all to demand the entire regime affiliated criminals who are widely
circulating among the society to be brought to justice! The USPFJ
also urges the regime to stop propagating highly misguided and ill
-intended information about the Sidama nation’s quests for regional
self administration-the message that emphasizes the Sidama nation has
dropped their quest -which is totally and utterly wrong.
The
USPFJ reminds the new PM that he remains with others culprits the
sole responsible for the massacre of the Sidama civilians in Loqqe
village and urges him to stop facilitating for another massacre in
Sidamaland. The international criminal court (ICC) must indict the
Ethiopia’s new PM for crimes against humanity for his part in
massacring the Sidama and Sheka Mezenger peoples in 2002 and 2003
respectively.
The
USPFJ demands the new PM’s government to urgently release all
political prisoners who are unlawfully detained and judged to be
eternally incarcerated including journalists such as Eskindir Nega,
the Sidama prisoners of conscious such as Iyassu Ragassa, Aemiro
Wonago and others several hundreds of civilians.
The
USPFJ demands the International human rights organizations, the
powerful western governments, regional and international as well as
the local human rights organizations and establishments to
unanimously condemn the unconstitutional and illegal actions of the
current PM’s government towards the Sidama people and others
nationals at large!
The
United Sidama Parties for Freedom and Justice (USPFJ), October 11,
2012
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