THE AFD AGREEMENT NEED TO BE SCRAPPED.
The AFD has been a buzz word lately for many Ethiopians. Ethiopians have been expressing their views from different direction in support and in opposition. The Alliance which was supposed to be a unitying force has divided us from the get go.
Initially the majority of Ethiopians were supportinve of the AFD. Unless he is an enemy of Ethiopian of devil-possessed who would not like when Ethiopains come together to solve their country's problem.
Support of the AFD has slided down when the MOU and statutes were made public. Since then many are shying away from the AFD. Even the individuals who signed the agreement on behalf of Kinijit are afraid to face the public. They are willing only to come out in a controlled environment and only with the OLF people by their side. They are comfortable only to preach the CHOIR.
Kinijit Supporters like Ambassador Imeru Zelleke, Ato Abate Kassa, Professor Habte Girogis and many more have been calling for a renegotiation of the AFD. Many have expressed internally their oppositions. Unfortunately, the North America KInijit , which is controlled by the three individuals who signed the AFD, is not willing to listen. They basically igonred the plea of many kinijit supporters. THEY ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO NO ONE. THEY HAVE BECOME OUR "MAJESTIES". Therefore, there is no hope these people will do the right thing for Ethiopia.
They don't listen.
Attached below is a plea from professor Habte to Kinijit leaders.
The role of Kinijit support leadership in the AFD
From the desk of HG,
Selam all,
I hear from different places that some Kinijit support leaders say things about the AFD that they shouldn't.
Things to say or not to say about the AFD membership.
1. If you are not an OLF leader or supporter please do not speak on behalf of the OLF. Let them represent their views. They are very articulate in sharing how they wish for peace to prevail in the Horn of Africa. They will speak how democratic processes will benefit the OLF etc.
2. If you are a leader or supporter of the Kinijit-support units speak about Kinijit, its platform and how it will benefit all Ethiopians irrespective of ethnic origin. Learn about the Oromo history perhaps by beginnig to appreciate how Afan Oromo propogated over the languages of the ancient Ethiopians so that different dialects including the Mecha, Tulama, Borean, and Qottu developed (http://aboutethiopia.com/Propagationoflanguage.htm).
3. If they ask you about the AFD, please do not speak outside of what has been agreed upon in a written form in the AFD documents ( the mou and the statutes). If you have read those speak truthfully about what is written. If you have not read the documents, say that you have not read the documents. Do not speak about the AFD beyond what is written in the documents. However, you could share your wish of what an AFD could be, by making absolutely sure that you are expressing your wish but not what is written in the AFD documents. Many of us have read the mou and the statutes that were posted on ER, and that is what we go by. Apparently, Kinijit-USA support leadership that brokered the AFD document is so-ashamed of what it signed that it will not post the signed documents on the Kinijit web-site. I wonder why they perform tasks in which they appear to be so ashamed of?
In a recent piece http://aboutethiopia.com/k4-2-alliance.htm I had indicated the following.
"It is in the contents of the MOU and the Statutes that the major failings are to be found. It may be time to enumerate some of the values that derive from having an alliance, so that we can better indicate the failings of the statute.
The advantages of the alliance include the following. 1. Giving a hand to parties such as the OLF at the time when they are weak so as to cause their members become more magnanimous in their vision of Ethiopia. 2. Blunting the ethnic feud instigated in Ethiopia by the TPLF/EPRDF. 3. Offering a bridge to some OLFite-Ethiopians who might have been living wearing ethnic political clothes though they might have not believed in it deep in their psych. The alliance gives them opportunities to express more fully their Ethiopianess because currently even the OLF is pro alliance with other Ethiopian parties including the pan-Ethiopian Kinijit party. 4. Causing several OLFite-Ethiopians to realize that their real concerns are cultural issues that can easily be resolved by democratic process instead of by placing anger against a presumed oppressor Amhara nation that the OLF used to feed them as the source of the underdevelopment of the Oromo Ethiopians. 5. Offering opportunities for enterprising Ethiopians, irrespective of linguistic affiliation, to find better and workable proposals for the well-being of Ethiopia. With such and other advantages, why then oppose the alliance? No one opposes the alliance, what people oppose relates to the contents in the MOU and the Statutes that give powers to parties instead of to the Ethiopians in Ethiopia. What is objectionable is that the MOU and the Statute do not have any sacrosanct and nonnegotiable issues about Ethiopia, namely the sovereignty of the people and the country, and the achievements of its people. Because of lack of agreed upon nonnegotiable issues about Ethiopia within the MOU and Statutes some disadvantages of the alliance become apparent including the case of Kinijit providing a platform to popularize the secessionist OLF. I have enumerated previously many other objections including making the point that the net effect of giving equal weight to the votes to constituent parties of the alliance has a deleterious effect to Kinijit. This is such a crucial failing of the statutes that it deserves more exposition. Each of the ethnic-centered parties claim to represent their ethnic group, how come the kinijit which represents the whole of Ethiopia has the same voting weight as the ethnic-centered parties? Moreover, the only goal of the alliance is to ask that a national conference be held in Ethiopia. Suppose tomorrow Mr. Zenawi permitted the holding of such a conference with about 70 ethnic-parties, including the components of the TPLF/EPRDF and other affiliated parties, will all the conference parties have equal voting weight? The question becomes why wouldn’t Kinijit-USA have understood the failings of the alliance before signing on the MOU and Statutes? What guarantees exist to cause Mr. Zenawi to respect the utterances of an all party conference, when it well-known that it has forcibly nullified the majority vote of twenty six million voters any way? As a nonviolent movement why did kinijit-USA elect to be secretive about the alliance? Why wouldn’t it publish the alliance documents? Why did it transform itself into the KIL? Why does KIL’s political wing provide a prèss release (http://www.ethiomedia.com/carepress/kil_pr1.pdf) so similar in content to chapter 1 of a 1993 book that proclaimed ethnic-centered politics as an inevitable political paradigm (http://www.ethiolion.com/news/ANDARGATCHEWs%20WISDOM%20INTRODUCTION.pdf)? Some of these issues are described further in section 2 more fully. Here, the point to stress is that the Kinijit-USA and/or KIL should rescind the MOU and Statutes, and replace them by a knowable and measurable alliance agreements, such seeking the release of elected Kinijit leaders, as expressed in the press release of executive committee of the AFD based on its deliberations of June 29-July 1/ 06 (http://www.ethioforum.org/News/article/sid=1362.html).
Initially the majority of Ethiopians were supportinve of the AFD. Unless he is an enemy of Ethiopian of devil-possessed who would not like when Ethiopains come together to solve their country's problem.
Support of the AFD has slided down when the MOU and statutes were made public. Since then many are shying away from the AFD. Even the individuals who signed the agreement on behalf of Kinijit are afraid to face the public. They are willing only to come out in a controlled environment and only with the OLF people by their side. They are comfortable only to preach the CHOIR.
Kinijit Supporters like Ambassador Imeru Zelleke, Ato Abate Kassa, Professor Habte Girogis and many more have been calling for a renegotiation of the AFD. Many have expressed internally their oppositions. Unfortunately, the North America KInijit , which is controlled by the three individuals who signed the AFD, is not willing to listen. They basically igonred the plea of many kinijit supporters. THEY ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO NO ONE. THEY HAVE BECOME OUR "MAJESTIES". Therefore, there is no hope these people will do the right thing for Ethiopia.
They don't listen.
Attached below is a plea from professor Habte to Kinijit leaders.
The role of Kinijit support leadership in the AFD
From the desk of HG,
Selam all,
I hear from different places that some Kinijit support leaders say things about the AFD that they shouldn't.
Things to say or not to say about the AFD membership.
1. If you are not an OLF leader or supporter please do not speak on behalf of the OLF. Let them represent their views. They are very articulate in sharing how they wish for peace to prevail in the Horn of Africa. They will speak how democratic processes will benefit the OLF etc.
2. If you are a leader or supporter of the Kinijit-support units speak about Kinijit, its platform and how it will benefit all Ethiopians irrespective of ethnic origin. Learn about the Oromo history perhaps by beginnig to appreciate how Afan Oromo propogated over the languages of the ancient Ethiopians so that different dialects including the Mecha, Tulama, Borean, and Qottu developed (http://aboutethiopia.com/Propagationoflanguage.htm).
3. If they ask you about the AFD, please do not speak outside of what has been agreed upon in a written form in the AFD documents ( the mou and the statutes). If you have read those speak truthfully about what is written. If you have not read the documents, say that you have not read the documents. Do not speak about the AFD beyond what is written in the documents. However, you could share your wish of what an AFD could be, by making absolutely sure that you are expressing your wish but not what is written in the AFD documents. Many of us have read the mou and the statutes that were posted on ER, and that is what we go by. Apparently, Kinijit-USA support leadership that brokered the AFD document is so-ashamed of what it signed that it will not post the signed documents on the Kinijit web-site. I wonder why they perform tasks in which they appear to be so ashamed of?
In a recent piece http://aboutethiopia.com/k4-2-alliance.htm I had indicated the following.
"It is in the contents of the MOU and the Statutes that the major failings are to be found. It may be time to enumerate some of the values that derive from having an alliance, so that we can better indicate the failings of the statute.
The advantages of the alliance include the following. 1. Giving a hand to parties such as the OLF at the time when they are weak so as to cause their members become more magnanimous in their vision of Ethiopia. 2. Blunting the ethnic feud instigated in Ethiopia by the TPLF/EPRDF. 3. Offering a bridge to some OLFite-Ethiopians who might have been living wearing ethnic political clothes though they might have not believed in it deep in their psych. The alliance gives them opportunities to express more fully their Ethiopianess because currently even the OLF is pro alliance with other Ethiopian parties including the pan-Ethiopian Kinijit party. 4. Causing several OLFite-Ethiopians to realize that their real concerns are cultural issues that can easily be resolved by democratic process instead of by placing anger against a presumed oppressor Amhara nation that the OLF used to feed them as the source of the underdevelopment of the Oromo Ethiopians. 5. Offering opportunities for enterprising Ethiopians, irrespective of linguistic affiliation, to find better and workable proposals for the well-being of Ethiopia. With such and other advantages, why then oppose the alliance? No one opposes the alliance, what people oppose relates to the contents in the MOU and the Statutes that give powers to parties instead of to the Ethiopians in Ethiopia. What is objectionable is that the MOU and the Statute do not have any sacrosanct and nonnegotiable issues about Ethiopia, namely the sovereignty of the people and the country, and the achievements of its people. Because of lack of agreed upon nonnegotiable issues about Ethiopia within the MOU and Statutes some disadvantages of the alliance become apparent including the case of Kinijit providing a platform to popularize the secessionist OLF. I have enumerated previously many other objections including making the point that the net effect of giving equal weight to the votes to constituent parties of the alliance has a deleterious effect to Kinijit. This is such a crucial failing of the statutes that it deserves more exposition. Each of the ethnic-centered parties claim to represent their ethnic group, how come the kinijit which represents the whole of Ethiopia has the same voting weight as the ethnic-centered parties? Moreover, the only goal of the alliance is to ask that a national conference be held in Ethiopia. Suppose tomorrow Mr. Zenawi permitted the holding of such a conference with about 70 ethnic-parties, including the components of the TPLF/EPRDF and other affiliated parties, will all the conference parties have equal voting weight? The question becomes why wouldn’t Kinijit-USA have understood the failings of the alliance before signing on the MOU and Statutes? What guarantees exist to cause Mr. Zenawi to respect the utterances of an all party conference, when it well-known that it has forcibly nullified the majority vote of twenty six million voters any way? As a nonviolent movement why did kinijit-USA elect to be secretive about the alliance? Why wouldn’t it publish the alliance documents? Why did it transform itself into the KIL? Why does KIL’s political wing provide a prèss release (http://www.ethiomedia.com/carepress/kil_pr1.pdf) so similar in content to chapter 1 of a 1993 book that proclaimed ethnic-centered politics as an inevitable political paradigm (http://www.ethiolion.com/news/ANDARGATCHEWs%20WISDOM%20INTRODUCTION.pdf)? Some of these issues are described further in section 2 more fully. Here, the point to stress is that the Kinijit-USA and/or KIL should rescind the MOU and Statutes, and replace them by a knowable and measurable alliance agreements, such seeking the release of elected Kinijit leaders, as expressed in the press release of executive committee of the AFD based on its deliberations of June 29-July 1/ 06 (http://www.ethioforum.org/News/article/sid=1362.html).
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