Tell China To Stop

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March 4 Freedom New Years Candle Light Vigil, Feb. 5, 2012

Sign the Petition to Tell China Stop Supporting Dictatorship And State Sponsored Terrorism In Ethiopia

Ambassador: Mr. Zhang Yesui
Minister: Mr. Xie Feng 
3505 International Place NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Email:  chinaembpress_us@mfa.gov.cn

Re: Supporting Dictatorship and State Sponsored Terrorism In Ethiopia

Distinguished  Ambassador Mr. Zhang Yesui:

On Thursday, the 5th of August, 2010, Ethiopian Americans residing in the greater Washington DC area will hold a protest demonstration at the Chinese Embassy located on 3505 International Place, NW Washington, DC, starting from 10:00 AM in the morning.  China is supporting a rogue regime in Ethiopia against the interests of the people of Ethiopia and Ethiopian-Americans. By providing military technology, radio and satellite television jamming technologies, the government of China has played a role in the suppression of liberty and basic human rights in Ethiopia. These technologies provided by the Chinese are being used against several independent radio stations including the Amharic services of the Voice of America and Deutsche Welle. The latest victim of the rogue regime’s airwaves piracy is the newly launched and popular Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT).
 
China has also provided technology and technical experts to the ethnocentric dictatorship of Meles Zenawi so that it can engage in blocking websites that are critical of the regime’s policies and filtering e-mail messages of citizens. We understand that Chinese assistance to the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia also poses a threat to U.S. national security by destabilizing Ethiopia and entire Horn of Africa sub-region.
 
Instead of defending the Ethiopian people in their call for freedom and democracy, due to growing economic interest in Africa, China is colluding with totalitarian regimes that suppress their citizens’ rights and the quest for liberty and democracy in Africa. Instead of empowering Ethiopians in Ethiopia, China is engaged in an exploitative relationship in numerous of its projects throughout Ethiopia in a bid to quench its voracious appetite for strategic resources and cheaper labor in Africa. China is exploiting Ethiopia’s natural resources and hampering the Ethiopian people’s inalienable rights for liberty, justice, and democracy. Chinese firms have been engaged in bribing and corrupting Ethiopian officials.  
 
By supporting the Meles Zenawi regime, China is banking on profiting from the triumph of tyranny over liberty and democracy for the people of Ethiopia, as it is doing in much of Africa. 
 
China has a terrible human rights record at home and supports human rights violations abroad. It is time for China to stop supporting war criminals like Meles Zenawi, who has been suppressing basic liberties of the Ethiopian people. It is time for China to reassess its dealings with rogue regimes like that of Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and other African dictators.

We, Ethiopians and Ethiopians Americans, urge  that the Chinese government immediately
 
1.	Cease its support for Meles Zenawi’s ethnocentric regime; 
2.	Cease arming and supplying Meles Zenawi’s minority ethnic dominated military; 
3.	Cease its support for tyranny in Ethiopia/Africa
4.	Cease its support to Meles Zenawi’s regime in jamming the Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, and Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT);
5.	Respect the human rights of the Ethiopian people,  Ethiopian  workers employed in Chinese owned projects  in accordance with labor and environmental standards as well as the Universal Declaration of Human rights.
6.	Stop bribing and corrupting Ethiopian officials to get no bid contracts from the government and dumping their low quality and often dangerous products.

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