Ethiopia: Attack On Opposition Unjustified

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The question "Who is more Ethiopian?" which appeared in a viewpoint article published on January 27, 2013, poses an obsolete question, which most Ethiopians have moved beyond. Such a question, in fact, is not only obsolete, but also offensive to Ethiopians who, ipso facto (by the fact itself), are equal in every sense of the word. An Ethiopian is an Ethiopian no more or no less than the next Ethiopian.

However, nothing in this article strikes one as much as the reference to the Coalition for Unity & Democracy Party (CUDP) and other opposition leaders in the 2005 elections as "irresponsible hooligans". The CUDP leaders are being hit with this word for the second time, the first being by Shimeles Kemal, the now deputy head of the Government Communications Affairs Office (GCAO), who was persecuting, rather than prosecuting them, during their trial in 2005 for attempting to illegally change the constitutional order of the country, for which they were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

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