1ED4: Draft. Objectives to Goal I of Ethiopian democracy

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

Goal 1: Political and Administrative will meet the mission of Ethiopian Democracy.

The following 6 objectives must be met to farther the purpose of Goal 1.

Objective 1. Asserting the individual, human and political rights of Ethiopians forthrightly.

Ethiopian Democracy views all persons as equals in the eyes of the law. The leaders shall be elected by the people who have a social contract among each other and with their government. Ethiopian Democracy benefits when individuals have rights to life, liberties and the pursuit of happiness. Also individuals have the right to own land and other properties. Hence, Ethiopian Democracy is a repudiation of the ethnic-centered outlook of the EPRDF and misadministration by the Derg and the monarch previous to it. Gone will be the days of the pack of lies transacted by the tyrannical TPLF and its cover the EPRDF where their writings promise well sounding ideals while they practice ethnic-centered administration for the economic benefit of the prime minister, his extended family and people that he favors. Gone will be the days of politics derived from the TPLF and the Derg that denied landownership by individuals and the social and political injustices of the land tenure system implemented by the monarchy.

Objective 2. Ensure that inhabitants will be engaged in the mission-goals-objectives-strategies-tactics system that is called Ethiopian Democracy.

Ethiopian Democracy is a living document that will be made available to people at all levels of government and non-government organizations and agencies as well as in the social and educational areas. People will be made to discuss the document and learn from it. A society which is fully aware of the guiding document for its functioning will be linked to others through it and form a knowledgeable community

Objective 3. Organize a government that is duly elected by the people, by considering the Kinijit party leaders as the first democratically elected leaders in Ethiopia, and administer Ethiopian Democracy firmly and bestow justice to all with malice to none and furnace to all.

Ethiopian Democracy boldly proclaims and pursues the materialization of one person one vote democracy by implementing the same both at policy and administrative levels. The government will have co-equal sectors of a legislative, judiciary, and executive branch. All government and non-government organizations and agencies shall proclaim, promise, and implement polices and administrations which stand in support of the rights of the individual, and the supremacy of the law of the land which enshrines individual rights. The first popularly elected leaders of Ethiopia are the leaders of the Kinijit party in the May 15, 2005. They shall ran the government if permitted. Regardless they will be the founding fathers of Ethiopian Democracy.

Objective 4. Arrange and organize Ethiopia into administrative states (Provinces and regions) in ways that will provide ready and equitable services to all inhabitants of the region.

The administrative regions (states, provinces) within Ethiopia shall be arranged in ways that benefit inhabitants to receive egalitarian responses to their needs. The administration of each state shall implement the Mission of Ethiopian Democracy, and are in stark contrast to the rule imposed on Ethiopia by the TPLF/EPRDF. The TPLF/EPRDF has made Ethiopia a landlocked country and has given ethnic names to administrative regions. However, the designation of ethnic-names to provinces or states was not based on historical or traditional divisions. Also, since no province or state of Ethiopia is inhabited by recognizable and homogenous people that belong to one ethnic origin, the designation of ethnic names to administrative sates is a misnomer. Moreover, some of the states identified by ethnic-names are quite irregular in shape and large in size and do not permit equitable administration to the people within the states. Other than bringing about ethnic division among Ethiopians and providing inequitable distribution of taxes among the regions, the TPLF/EPRDF designations of ethnic names to regions and the shapes of those regions serve no useful purpose to the inhabitants. Accordingly Ethiopian Democracy would result in arranging administrative states within Ethiopia in ways that would better provide equitable service to the inhabitants of the states.

Objective 5. Organize the military, police, and security forces, and train the same to implement the principles engendered in Ethiopian Democracy.

The Ethiopian security forces, military, police and secrete services shall be trained to work for the democratic rights of Ethiopians. The overwhelming vote given to the pan-Ethiopian party, the Kinijit in the May 15, 2005 elections demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that Ethiopians had rejected ethnic-centered governance and the tyrannical governance of the TPLF/EPRDF. Accordingly, the security forces of Ethiopia shall take oaths to uphold a constitution that enshrines the supremacy of individual rights and the equality of Ethiopians under the law and in opposition to ethnic-centered politics or governance. The security force will be trained to serve the interests of all parties who engage in elections, and not serve the interest of a ruling party, which might be rejected by the electorate. Ethiopian Democracy will assert the inoperability of the shameful act of the security forces who backed the tyrannical TPLF/EPRDF, when it imprisoned the elected leaders and placed people of its choice as the mayor and councilors, though it was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters of Addis Ababa.

The army will no longer be used to round up young men and send them to fight wars for the purpose of placing an international boundary within Ethiopia as it did in the 1998, or to fight wars for the purpose of desegregating the blameless name of Ethiopia by attacking Somalia, as it did in 2006, which caused no imminent danger to Ethiopia. The army will not be used to disassemble the offices of pan-Ethiopian parties that wish to pursue nonviolent form of opposition to the politics of their country. A security force which is not consciously organized to implement the purpose of the mission of Ethiopian Democracy is dangerous to itself, to country and the people. A significant part of the political goal is to establishing a security apparatus which will take an oath to respect the mission of Ethiopian Democracy and not become servants to ethnic-centered politics, governance and rulers.

Objective 6. The political and administrative goal benefits from the establishment of freedom of press, and of a people who can express their views by utilizing any form of media.

Ethiopian Democracy and the tripartite system of government with co-equal branches of the executive, legislative, and judiciary will work more efficiently when a free press would expose inconsistencies of policies and improper applications of laws or policies. Hence unlike all previous systems of government from the TPLF reign through the Derg to the monarchy, the Ethiopian Democracy unequivocally supported the rights of the people to express their views freely.

HG. 1/29/07