ስለ ኣዲሱ የሲዳማ ብሔራዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ንቅናቄ (ሲብዴን) የፖለቲካ ፓርቲ ምን ያውቃሉ

Overview

The Sidama people had suffered a lot by repeated undemocratic and brutal rulers like other nations, nationalities and people suffered in Ethiopia although; the Sidama nation in the history had never acknowledged unjust and undemocratic regimes and brutality peacefully. Sidama nation had made various attempts to shape the autocratic nature of the recent four subsequent regimes of Ethiopia including the present narrow sated regime. In the early, the Sidama people had fought against with Menelik-II regime which was for the first time invaded the Sidama land. Before this time Sidama was autonomous state in the history and the state was governed by traditional administration which was fair, just and democratic management system and by far better and democratic than any democratic country in the world.

In 1880’s Menelik-II sent bouquets of first group invaders to Sidama land led by General Beshah Aboye. The Menelik army was highly organized and equipped with weaponries and carrying guns aided from Europe. Even though; Sidama was not armed and was not carrying weapons equivalent to that of Beshah forces, the battle was completed with full control and domination of organized Sidama army and civilians. The battle was organized by local leaders of Sidama so called Mootee from Sidama side. The army of Beshah Aboye was totally beaten and returned back to Addis Ababa. After the defeat of his first army, the Menelik Government left in confusion until the second round junta of attack was launched. Another general who led second attack of invasion of Sidama land was general Leulseged. During this attack, the Menelik force returned back with comparatively superior forces than the first attempt. Thus, Sidama resistance force devised to strategically retreat. Because of superior army, Menelik force was able to break the force of Sidama and established full domination in the Sidama land. During this time Menelik army killed many Sidama heroes and kings. Balicha Worawo one of the notable kings who was killed by Menelik force for the revenge of complete dismantle of Bashah Aboye led army.

After this time, the nation relatively remained calm and the brutal suppression continued until the Italian occupation of the country. The nation has gained comparative freedom during the Italian invasion and Sidama accepted Italians in varying intensities however, some lowlanders completely reject it. The best example was one of the Yanasie King (Moote) Alito Heewano, who fully rejected and expressed his objection to Italian Leader saying you and your army will stay in Ethiopia and in my land for short period of time probably five years then after you and your army body will be dragged out. The Sidama resistance movement gained impetus during the Italian occupation. Using this opportunity, various Sidama nationalist individuals started armed struggle to uproot the miscellany of the Menelik regime from the Sidama land although, after Italy was driven out of the country by the allied forces, the rulers had got an upper hand and were able to temporarily silence the struggle of the Sidama people for freedom. As revenge to the resistance movement of Sidama on Abyssinian during Italian invasion, the Abyssinian rulers massacred over hundred thousands of Sidama armed forces and innocent civilians.

As we heard from our elders, General Leulseged who forcefully invaded Sidama land used to design divide and rule system to scatter the indigenous unity of Sidama. Thus, General Leulseged called by Sidama people as bad engineer who divided the unity of Sidama people to fight their enemy. After his invasion Sidama lost unity and few nationalists continued fighting with invaders. Notable example is heroic individual resistance movements that led by recognizable Sidama patriot Takilu Yota, who had shaken the foundation of Abyssinian ruler in Sidama land until the last stages of the last emperor regime ruling time that the Sidama was able to reunite.

In the late 1970s and at the beginning of 1980s notable Sidama heroes and resistance leaders formed the first organized Sidama Liberation Struggle which mobilized Sidama in the large scale. For the first time Sidama fragmented force allied to fight their enemy. During this time, their organized unity was not formally structured then after many Sidama freedom fighters joined the unity and established well organized libration organization called Sidama Libration Movement (SLM). For the first time SLM started an armed struggle against military regime for consecutive eight years from 1976-1983 and fully liberated the three former wide districts now became six districts namely Harbagona, Hororessa and Bansa Daye and partly Hawassa, Leku, Aleta wondo and Hulla. During this struggle, Sidama sacrificed lives of thousands of freedom fighters and innocent Sidama civilians and the struggle made historical contribution for the final fall down of the derg regime however, the current brutal TPLF monopolized the outcome of the struggle.

In the begging the current regime tried to attract local libration fighters and international community by devising fake democracy and self determination policy documents that were only on the papers which none of them were put on practice. During this time, the fake regime pledged to put the documents on practice and to let nations and peoples to demonstrate their basic human rights and self determination. Late the regime continued to violate and suppress basic human rights that it did pledge. The May 2002 Sidama Loqqe massacre, Sheko Mezhenger, and Gambella people massacre and 2005 National election  followed Addis Ababa massacre are the best examples of clear human right violation of the regime.

The Sidama nation is one of the nations in Ethiopia who fully taken off its right of self determination which thousands of Sidama nationalists and innocent civilians were sacrificed their life. For the last twenty years, the Sidama people were questing for their regional autonomy but it was denied by the regime and the regime decided to merge the nation under the southern nations and nationalities regional state. The nation quest for self determination was hijacked by some opportunists and the regime continued to terrorize the Sidama nationalists who raise the banners of late heroes an action which led Sidama people to develop lack of trust and dissatisfaction on the regime.

In Sidama today, there is widespread disappointment and insurgent civil movements are developing in different areas of the region, even though, with varying degrees. Instead of responding to the demands of the people, the regime is engaging into suppression and brutality, which in turn is fueling the resistance movements. Unless there is timely resolution to these growing problems, the danger in advance is more likely to be of serious consequences. Our nation, Sidama, the third most populous nation in Ethiopia with more than 6 million people, must be considered as pivot of economic and political stability in the country. If current trends of the regime’s implementation continue, we fear that the Sidama people will indulge into dispute that will weaken the entire image of the country.

In addition, the Sidama nation is affected by persistent extreme poverty and famines that our nation had never been experienced in their life, health problems such as vaccine preventable disease, malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis, and other diseases that are killing many lives. However, the country boasts as it has achieved health related Millennium Development Goals; thousands of children are dying from lack of health and mal-nutrition, high maternal mortality as a result of poor quality of health coverage in the region. The Sidama nation is also suffering with poor quality of education, high unemployment rate; people are suffering with lack of good governance, no accountability among appointees and widespread corruption that worsening the situation and leading the nation to complete disarray.

Thus, the Sidama nation can no longer shoulder continued subjugation and basic human and democratic right violation and denial of self determination. The nation believe that all the peaceful efforts made with current regime to practice the stated democracy and self determination to bring effective and efficient management system to meet the demands of our nation has already been exhausted and the remaining ultimate alternative is using unavoidable force to sustainably build peace and democracy in Ethiopia broadly and in Sidama land specifically. To achieve this end, the Sidama nation and Sidama nationalists are once again decided to continue to fight for their peace, Justice, freedom and self determination. Accordingly, the Sidama National Democratic Movement (SNDM) has been re-established and developed a political program to strengthen and guide a continuation of previous heroic movement and Sidama Liberation struggle.

ስለ ፓርቲው ኣጠቃላይ የፖለቲካ ኣቋምን እና ኣላማ እንድሁም ለበለጠ መረጃ የፓርቲውን ድረ_ገጽ ይመልከቱ @  http://sidamanationaldemocraticmovement.org/about-us/overview/