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Thesis:
America should understand that there are countries that do not get their same amount of freedom, and people should acknowledge and understand the opportunity.
“Ballot verses Bullet”
By Tadesse Walle (PhD)
Ethiomedia
http://www.ethiomedia.com/newpress/ballot_bullet.html
June 28, 2005
November 21, 2008
Summary:
The May 2005 election in Ethiopia has showed that there has been a type of planning that went into the process. Power was trying to be gained by the Republican Party by any means necessary including killing those who opposed their views. This shows that there is still constant battle between the government and the people to gain popular vote by any means. The election in May was one of the best seen in Addis Ababa. This preliminary vote resulted in the Democratic Party to have a lead in the votes. Investigators have proven that this election has been “fair and free” of any disclaimers. Although the elections were fair and free in Addis Ababa, further out from the city, the counting of ballots was fraud. The opposing party “was forced to create a lot of scapegoats in order to conceal its true picture. Orchestrating post election violence, holding opposition party leaders responsible for violence, detaining thousands of innocent civilians - claiming inciting violence was all intended to camouflage the course of events.” They used theses reason as a way to get away with the miss count of the ballots. The opposing side won the election because “1. if the election in Addis Ababa and major cities was not fair and free the result achieved in Addis Ababa would have been unfeasible; 2. if international observers had not covered the election in Addis Ababa, the election would not have been fair and free and the result in Addis Ababa itself would not have been possible; 3. had the election and ballot counting beyond Addis Ababa including the one in most parts of Tigray region was covered by international observers the election result of rural Ethiopia would have been very much same to Addis.” – Selam Kassa
“Ethiopia's Ruling Party Headed For Election Sweep”
By Peter Heinlein
Addis Ababa
Voice of America News
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2008-04/2008-04-11-voa54.cfm?CFID=70062092&CFTOKEN=58558259
April 11 2008
November 21, 2008
Summary:
Before the election had begun, the UPDF “withdrew” from the election. This meant that the opposing view would have the majority of the vote. Many UPDF members boycotted the election, because they felt it was rigged. "This is not an election," he said. "This is a farce drama. OK, if it is an election, democratic multi-party election, who are they competing against?" says Petros. The EPRDF (opposing side) disqualified all the voters from the UPDF, meaning that they had the majority of all the votes which makes it a “one-sided” rule in Ethiopia. After the entire struggle Ethiopia has went through to get the equality, the opposing side once again wants to have total control. Ethiopia has been trying to take steps forward into a new beginning, but by the results of the killing and putting people in jail, it shows that Ethiopian government is taking “many steps backward since 2005.” –Selam Kassa
“24 killed in Ethiopia protests”
BY AFP
ABC News
Posted Thu Jun 9, 2005 12:24am AEST
Updated Thu Jun 9, 2005 5:22am AEST
November 21, 2008
Summary:
Since the May 2005 elections in Ethiopia, there has been many killings due to boycotting the so called rigged elections. During these protests many officers shoot at the civilians resulting to injuries and deaths. This has been said to be the worst that has happened since the 2001 shooting of College students because they were rioting. “40 students were killed during the riot by officers.” This caused a major concern in the stability of the Ethiopian government. "I was looking for my son, I opened the door and I was shot," 39-year-old Ateneyesh Mamo, a mother of two who was shot in the pelvis, said.”The government’s response to this unlawful behavior is they were trying to prevent from any violent attacks to occur as well as damaging of any property. "These people were committed to destroying the smooth functioning of civil life and law and order so we had to protect the people," the opposing side says. “The board had been due to validate those results, which give the EPRDF a majority in Parliament despite significant Opposition gains, on Wednesday but last week announced a month-long delay due to the volume of complaints it has to investigate.” – Selam Kassa
“Ethiopians go to poll”
By BBC
ABC News
Posted Sun May 15, 2005 10:04pm AEST
November 21, 2008
Summary:
Massive lines were present in polling area in Ethiopia in the presidential elections. The Ruling EPRDF is hoping to keep its power for the next years to come. The international representatives, who monitored the elections, say that thus far no problems or complaints have occurred. One of the opposing parties the UDC has been trying to keep a place in the election. “The EPRDF are expected to lose some of the 481 seats they hold in the 547-seat parliament.” This will hopefully result in the Democratic Party wining the Ethiopian Elections. –Selam Kassa
“One Student Killed in Ethiopian Election Pretest”
Reuters
ABC News
Tuesday, Jun 7, 2005 5:13am AEST
November 29, 2008
Summary:
A college student was killed “accidently” after a protest that occurred on a college campus though the government clearly banned this on May 15. "A total of 520 university and high school students involved in the protests have been arrested and are in custody." Media did not include how the students were injured or died. This happened because the opposing party has been accusing the government party of changing the ballots because of they wanted to keep power and therefore banned all protesting. During these riots it has been said that students were chanting slogans and slurs that were against the ruling government and needed to be detained. Students tried to escape and police said the shot because of this.
The Ethiopian government is supposedly a democratic government and says that it believes it equal opportunity, but when the students tried to express their freedom of speech. I feel that the government is not telling the whole truth of the situation. They are contradicting how they want other countries to see them by their actions. ~Selam Kassa
Comments (1)
sandra jamieson said
at 12:36 am on Dec 3, 2008
I agree with the sentiment in this thesis, but I am not sure about the reason you give for why President-elect Obama should care ("because they have contributed their labor to this country"). Is the risk that they will stop working? Do we owe it to them because they have contributed to the country? Should we care because human rights are being violated and to ignore that makes us all less human? Or all of the above? The challenge for you is to tell us who will benefit from other people caring--what the outcome of such care will/could/should be. Does this make sense? This may be something that you address once you have a draft to work with, so don't worry if the paper is almost finished and you didn't fix the thesis.
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