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September 22, 2009 Uncategorized

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Sign the petition to apeal to your representative to do more to end the dictatorship and genocide in Ethiopia

I am a taxpaying and voting constituent and am writing to appeal to you as my elected representative to do more to end the dictatorship and genocide in Ethiopia.
 
As you know, it is the policy of the United States to support the advancement of human rights, democracy, and economic freedom in Ethiopia as well as in other African countries in concert with United States security interests, in order to better enable Ethiopia to play a leading role in participating with the United States and other countries in fostering stability, democracy, and economic development in Africa.

Nevertheless, the ruling Ethiopian dictators who have held power now for more than 17 years continue to be responsible for ethnic conflicts that claimed countless lives, brutal suppression, mass killings, disappearances, detentions, political persecutions of opposition, civic society and the free press. The actions of Ethiopia’s rulers are threatening the economic progress and stability in the region and thereby affecting the interests of United States and Ethiopia.

Your support of over 80 million Ethiopians will go a long way towards building political stability, democratization and regional stability in Africa now threatened by the Ethiopian government, and will help to stop the unfolding humanitarian crisis in East Africa and better serve our national interests.
 
As your constituent, I call upon you to do more to end the 17 years crisis in Ethiopia and demand that the 
 
•	Congress must make human rights central to U.S. relations and must restrict that the use of tax payer’s money from being spent in ways that help support authoritarian regimes, such as in Ethiopia.
•	Congress must ask for the immediate and unconditional release all prisoners of conscience detained in Ethiopia, including Mrs Birtukan Mideksa (Chairwomen of the Unity and Democracy J), human rights defenders and independent journalists.

•	Congress must demand that Ethiopian rulers recognize and respect the rights to freedom of speech, assembly, association and press freedom and respect the international and regional human rights treaties to which Ethiopia is party and demand to remove the Draconian laws against press freedom, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and terrorism that are turning Ethiopia into a police state.

I urge you take a stand to support the US national interest by supporting over 80 million Ethiopians!  
Sincerely,

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