General
comment on tactics (to be placed in the tactics of strategies to Objective 3).
"Hizbawi Imbita"
The mission of Ethiopian Democracy is not to wage an armed struggle or to overthrow the EPRDF regime. The mission is to “Establish a government that is elected by the people and is accountable to the people” (http://aboutethiopia.com/EthDemo/Total-Mission-Goal-Objective%20system.htm). The goal of Ethiopian Democracy is not to wage an armed struggle or to overthrow the EPRDF regime. Ethiopian Democracy has "political and administrative goal" and "economic and social goal". The objectives or the strategies of Ethiopian Democracy are twelve and do not include waging an armed struggle or overthrowing the EPRDF regime. All the mission-goals-objectives- strategies (http://aboutethiopia.com/EthDemo/ED5-strategies.htm) are aimed at is translating into actions the ideals enshrined in the mission of Ethiopian Democracy. In attempting to translate into work the rights of individuals to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the right to own property and land, including the respect of one-person-vote democracy which are enshrined in the mission of Ethiopian Democracy, we find that these precepts and ideals are at odds with the goals-objectives-strategies-tactics stipulated in the Revolutionary Democracy (http://aboutethiopia.com/a10-RD.htm) executed by the ethnic-centered TPLF/EPRDF Regime, and by its military apparatus.
Ethiopian Democracy asserts that no individual will have a preferential
advantage on the basis of ethnic origin or religion. In contrast,
ethnic-centered parties want to place themselves as governors in order to
enrich themselves and their associates as practiced by the TPLF
Leadership. The TPLF Leadership
promised to implement the divisive concept of attaining equality of ethnic groups as a means for
ascending to power. It continues to preach
the validity of ethnic-centered politics, because such politics would continue
to divide its opposition and help it to stay
in power. Some in the opposition camp
are ethnic-centered parties, who basically wish to replace the TPLF with their brand
of ethnic-party. Certainly,
It is to be emphasized that because the TPLF/EPRDF did
not respect the vote of
Tactic A. All personnel of
armed forces and the police who support Ethiopian Democracy should stay in
their units and try to implement the purposes of Ethiopian Democracy.
Tactic B. Those personnel
of the armed forces and the police who find it impossible to work under the
services of TPLF’s organizations should stay within
Ethiopia and form their own form of struggle or join other pan-Ethiopian resistance forces who are engaged in
removing TPLF's tyranny by all means necessary.
They have to recognize that they are fighting to get the votes of
Ethiopians respected, which means that they have to empower the Kinijit Party to
take the leadership of a transitional government after they have removed TPLF’s tyrannical regime.
Tactic C. All Ethiopians should participate in the “Hizbawi
Imbita” judiciously. They should try to
protect their lives from the wrath of TPLF’s
tyranny but must use all nonviolent means of struggle, including abstaining
from purchasing any items produced by the TPLF and its industries, delaying or
stopping the implementation of orders given by the TPLF and its agencies, etc.,
while supporting the purchase of goods and services from agencies
that are known to work consistent
with the principles of Ethiopian Democracy.
As people engage in the nonviolent form of struggle of “Hizbawi Imbita”, others who also ascribe to Ethiopian Democracy and whose
purpose is to get the vote of May 15, 2005 respected may elect to pursue armed
struggle as a means of persuading the TPLF/EPRDF to respect the voters. Indeed people have the right to raise arms to
rectify the harm imposed on them or on others (John Locke, see in
http://aboutethiopia.com/c12-preemption-is-a-false-right.htm). A word of caution: an armed struggle is not
waged for its own sake. There may be many who would join in an armed struggle
to attain goals different from the principles stated in Ethiopian Democracy. It
is wrong to support any armed struggle which is not aimed at enshrining
Ethiopian Democracy. Armed struggle by ethnic-centered groups should be opposed
by those who pursue Ethiopian Democracy for there is no justifiable mission,
goal, objective, or strategy that is shared between those who wish to build a
pan-Ethiopian society based on one-person-vote governance and others who seek
ethnic-centered governance. Ethnic-centered
armies are armies of division and do not struggle for the individual rights of
all Ethiopians no matter the ethnic-origin.
They fight to empower ethnic-centered party leaders in the name of the
people from their ethnic-origin.
It may sound contradictory to support nonviolent form
of struggle without rejecting armed struggle. However, the case in
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