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Toronto – Ethiopian Rebels operating in the Amhara region, known in the region and beyond as Fano now organized as Amhara Fano National Movement (AFNM), on Monday released a statement calling on opposition parties in the country not to take part in the upcoming 7th general election which is scheduled to take place in June this year.
“The oppressive Prosperity Party has opened a genocidal war on the Amhara people and is indiscriminately massacring children, women and men, youth, elders using ground and air forces, ” Fano forces said in the statement they released.
It also mentioned that innocent civilians are being “slaughtered” in their own places and towns are being shelled with heavy artillery. “The struggle we are undertaking, therefore, is one that can not be addressed with regular peaceful politics. It is an existential one with a mission to protect the people” from genocide, Fano forces said.
Fano tends to see the election as a means of fraud for the ruling party – and it’s said “the international community understood it.” It also sees it as an effort to get “legitimacy” to perpetuate war on the Amhara people.
It argues that taking part in the election would be like accompanying the ruling party. And that, for Fano, amounts to cooperating with the ruling party on the massacre of the Amhara population.
Furthermore, it said that those who are taking part in the election not only denied the struggle to reverse existential threat against Amhara but also denied the existence of the people, and helped the “regime” to get documents to continue the war on Amhara. “They are equally enemies to the Amhara people,” Fano said.
“Therefore, we call upon you to withdraw yourselves from the election,” Fano said.
The call is also extended to the people, media outlets and the international community.
The Ethiopian government has not remarked on the statement from Fano forces. There are opposition parties in the country that opted to field candidates only in Addis Ababa, as was the case with Oromo Federalist Congress.
Another major participant in the pre-election debate process is a coalition of six parties – Coalition for Ethiopian Unity. It has been expressing reservation about the fairness of the process and hinted in the past it may withdraw from it.
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This is what amounts to warning those in the opposition who are planning to ruń for a seat in the parliament. Is this person serious? His contemporary in Oromia region had first warned those who decided to participate in the past election and followed that up with going after them killing some and chasing others away from districts.
This warning does not surprise me. Nothing good comes of violent form of struggle in settings like the old country. Scenarios that have been worrying me for decades are starting to show up in the two most populated regions of the country. It is reported that mass exodus of the youth is now taking place in the Amhara region due to the closures of schools and to escape the pressure to join armed groups there. That has been going in Tigray and Oromia regions since the start of armed violence there. They are fleeing in all directions. Very sad indeed. I am holding the leaders of both sides for this national tragedy. May The Good Lord Save That Gem of Humanity!!!