On April 3rd, 2014, the regime in power newly began targeting Sidama nation and its students who have demanded their constitutional rights to be unconditionally implemented in their region. In Yesterday’s particular demonstration, the Sidama students have asked one of their long overdue demands for their language to be used in their high schools and primary secondary schools in and around Hawassa. In their claims in which the core quest remain demanding the regime to answer Sidama nation’s regional quest to self-administration. They’ve also emphasised that the names written in Amharic in their Schools to be replaced with their Sidaamu affo.
Following their yesterday’s demands, at least two hundred Sidama students were arrested and remain in jails; unknown numbers were brutally beaten by regime’s federal vicious forces where severe injuries causing various degrees of fractures have been involved. Whilst some were beaten and wounded, one particular student has been shot dead whose body was taken away by the federal forces and its whereabouts remains.
Meanwhile, the regime’s regional and federal cadres and Federal security forces continued their systematic terror of Sidama people in general, Sidama Liberation Movement (SLM) leadership and members in particular. As a part of their undemocratic and unlawful campaign against Sidama nation and its only political party, SLM, they have arrested two sons of one of the SLM leaderships’ who is staunch advocate of Sidama national rights and overt critical of the undemocratic and authoritarian nature of TPLF/EPRDF led regime. Therefore, it seems that the regime’s cadres target his children with aim of intimidating and silencing him. However, after 24 hours in jail, both son of SLM leadership were released after some rumours that an unknown groups of Sidama right defenders threatened to retaliate if they weren’t released.
In another development, SLM members who have attended the March 29th 2014 SLM/Medrek conference in Hawassa are also being targeted in various districts of the Sidama region- most of whom are said to be arrested. The latest report from SLM’s office suggest that its at least 45 members were detained throughout the region and others were psychologically terrorised with regime’s agents. The entire leadership of SLM are being shadowed by the regime’s security agents 24/7 in entire region.
The recent development suggest that the regime in power is in a state of complete chaos, therefore, doesn’t know how to handle the situation unfolding in all regions which is becoming out of control. For instance, the grievances in entire regions of the Empire are growing to the extent where peoples’ are expressing their frustrations by stating the fact that life under such circumstances isn’t worth living; therefore majority feel compelled that the only way forward is devising an alternative way of defending own rights. This is palpable in all regions from south to west, east to north.
This is the case in Oromia where the regime is displacing legitimate owners of land from Finfiinee and others areas of region’s vast land, in Ogaden Somali where genocide is taking place, in Amhara region where people are seriously concerned with border with Sudan therefore telling they had enough of brutality of the current regime, in Tigray itself where people are expressing their utter dismay for the fact that the regime’s apparatuses are abusing others Ethiopian peoples by their names whilst brutalising Tigreans, Gambela where the regime uprooted tens of thousands of civilian to sale their ancestral lands to transnational companies; in the entire south where 56 nations and nationalities are involuntarily kept under the prison known as southern nations and nationalities regional state where brutality is being openly exercised in various forms and shapes, in Benshangul where their lands are being given to international traders those who are destroying nature and natural environments and more others.
These all trends show how the regime in power is at the verge of final destruction. Weapon can intimidated peoples to a degree where reasonably able to silence all; however when majority had enough, all will be meaningless. The main issue here is that there must be utmost care so that its’ demise doesn’t cause major problem for nations and nationalities of the empire. The authorities of the current regime have built their personal empires with the bloods and sufferings of majorities of various regions of country for the past 22 years. If the right time comes (which is inevitably nearing), however, their personal wealth can be out of order within a day- if they don’t listen to the ongoing outcries of the peoples of all regions. The Sidama nation’s ongoing suffering therefore is beyond comprehension and part of the whole saga.
Therefore, the federal regime’s Sidama terrorising agents must unconditionally leave Sidama region and Sidama students who are unlawfully arrested on April 03, 2014 for claiming their constitutional rights must be automatically released. Those who have killed one of the Sidama students and hid his body must return back his body to his family to be properly mourned and buried; those who have killed him must be brought to justice. The Sidama regional quest and ongoing Hawassa discontent must be unconditionally addressed and others regional issues must be dealt by the legitimate owners, the Sidamas!
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