ED2: Draft. Mission of Ethiopian Democracy

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All are invited to contribute to this draft instrument to Ethiopian Democracy. The more the contributors to the discussion the better the document and the greater the ownership of the ideas in it. For brief descriptions on rights and contracts refer to (http://aboutethiopia.com/c12-preemption-is-a-false-right.htm).

In ED2 we see the following.

1. I identify the mission-goals-objectives-strategies-tactics system as Ethiopian Democracy.
2.  I provide conditions under which the document is being drafted,
3. I provide points for the Mission and have identified 2 goals, that are aimed at meeting the Mission.


The exercise, beyond generating a working document for Ethiopia Democracy, will show the gravity of the undertaking by the Kinijit Party, and  hence by the Diaspora Kinijit Support. It is a humbling task.
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Part A: CONDITIONS
Conditions that prevailed when the document, Kinijit Party mission-goals-objectives-strategies-tactics system, also called Ethiopian Democracy, is drafted.

The Kinijit Party (CUDP) has written a Kinijit Manifesto, which is the foundation of this document, when it was a coalition CUD and for the purpose of election. However, the electorate knew it as a party and not by the names of the component parties, and the coalition parties merged to form the Kinijit Party (CUDP). A day after the election of May 15, even Mr. Zenawi, the prime Ministe, had admitted that he had lost Addis by a landslide though as a dictator he wouldn't permit elected officials that he does not approve of to work in administrative capacities in Ethiopia . He imprisoned the Kinijit leaders by creating bogus charges of treason and genocide committed by Kinijit. The elected Ethiopian leaders were jailed for over a year and a verdict is said to be given in February 2007. Twenty seven million Ethiopians overwhelmingly voted the nonviolent Kinijit leaders as the leaders of Ethiopia in the may 15, 2005 elections. PM Zenawi and his party have trampled on the nonviolent movement and disrespect the vote of Ethiopians. The nonviolent movement has now to transition to “hizbai imbita.” This condition constitutes a major pressure to the establishment of Ethiopian Democracy, the mission-goals-objectives-strategies-tactics system, which is based on the manifesto of the Kinijit Party.


There may be other pressures against Ethiopian Democracy emanating from
diehard ethnic-centered interests that have been organized and supported by
internal and external enemies of Ethiopia, and from foreign governments.
Though adjustments might be made to suit these and other pressures in some
aspects of the document, we should, however, not budge from the central
premises of the document. The document must respect the vote of the
electorate of May 15, 2005, in which the people overwhelmingly voted for and
preferred a pan-Ethiopian party, the Kinijit Party to form their government.

Part B:  MISSION of Ethiopian Democracy
 1. Proclaim that each individual has the right to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. (Source Zera Yacob, 1667, John Locke, 1690, US
Constitution)

 2-  Establish a governance based on one-person-one-vote democracy (Source
US constitution)


 3- Establish a government that is elected by the people and is accountable
to the people. (Source Locke and derivatives)


4. Establish a social contract between individuals and their government to
maintain internal peace and external defense (Source, Hobbes, Locke and
derivatives) and establish a social contract among the citizens (Source,
Ethiopian tradition, Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1972)

 5. Establish that all men are equal under the law (source, Hobbes, 1651,
Locke and derivatives), and none by reason of belonging to organized
religion or ethnicity is either superior or inferior in the eyes of the law
(Source Zera Yacob),



 NB. Derivatives include documents that have been informed by previous
documents.  Whereas individuals have the right to believe that their
religion is superior, they should be bound by a social contract which
asserts that they cannot be regarded superior by reason of belonging to an
organized religion. Actually Zera Yacob's "hateta" demonstrates that none of
the organized religions are superior to others in the eyes of God.

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HG 1/15/07