Unconstitutional birthing of the Central Ethiopia Region
Posted: 31 Jul 2024, 23:11
"In their quest for the right to self administration, something that is enshrined in the Ethiopian multinational constitution, the people of Gurage through their zonal council, were among the first of eleven national groups in the SNNP to have unanimously voted for the establishment of a separate Gurage regional state as far back as November 2018. Since then however, their demands were met with state-sanctioned brutality and suppression, marked by the killing, maiming, jailing and forced disappearance, among others, of community leaders, activists, journalists and politicians. Despite the incessant crackdowns, the Gurage people’s demand is far from over."
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"The unilateral decision by the authorities does not only constitute a clear constitutional transgression, but also undermines the basic principles of democracy, human rights, and social stability that the people of the five zones and one special woreda yearn for."
"The decision to birth a regional state without the full consent of the people to be incorporated in it in a region that has already been neglected even in the best of times will exacerbate existing communal, religious, or cultural tensions within the diverse communities."
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"The unilateral decision by the authorities does not only constitute a clear constitutional transgression, but also undermines the basic principles of democracy, human rights, and social stability that the people of the five zones and one special woreda yearn for."
"The decision to birth a regional state without the full consent of the people to be incorporated in it in a region that has already been neglected even in the best of times will exacerbate existing communal, religious, or cultural tensions within the diverse communities."