By Kinijit North America Support Editorial Board, March 2007
The tyrannical Woyane regime habitually postpones passing a verdict through " the court" after it brought trumped-up charges and incarcerated the most honorable Ethiopians, whom the Ethiopians overwhelmingly elected to govern them on May 15, 2005. It is in these trying times that some Ethiopians pulled away from the Diaspora Kinijit support unit and formed a splinter group under a so-called KIL (Kinijit International Leadership). The KIL recently used the name of Kinijit and in conjunction with individuals and groups came with a strange "declaration."
Several Kinijit supporters are appalled both by the form and content of a so-called joint declaration that was posted on the KIL website and other KIL-sympathizing websites.
http://www.kinijitethiopia.org/docs/Press%20Release/Joint_Resolution_English.pdf.
Refreshingly, within hours of its posting on the KIL website some of the so-called signatories have already distanced themselves signifying that some innocent individuals were duped via tricky phone calls into the scheme of assembling a bunch of names in support of a perplexing declaration. That is reportedly what happened to Ethiolion which has since apologized to its readers on its website for the inclusion of its name in association with the so-called joint resolution.
The content is quite puzzling viewed from different angles. Kinijit Ethiopia had all along worked for a peaceful resolution so that the so-called "Joint Call for Peace and Reconciliation" merely should have affirmed what Kinijit has already stood for, instead of implying to attack Kinijit as though its principles and actions were not peaceful before the pronouncement of this so-called joint resolution appeared.
Viewed from another angle, for the collage of émigré Ethiopian groupings that are said to have made a joint resolution with Kinijit to call for a peaceful resolution and reconciliation without, except for Kinijit, establishing any credible movement within Ethiopia merely generates 'sound and fury signifying nothing.' Reconciliation is a serious matter that needs a lot of groundwork from all sides to make it work. At least, the government should be approached before one even begins to talk about reconciliation. But then, even the KIL, which is dragging the good name of Kinijit down the gutter day by day and without an end in sight, had at one point indicated that it had no mandate to deal with governments. Hence, the content of the joint resolution seeking reconciliation is vacuous, insipid, infantile and inoperable from the get go.
We are mindful that one should not put roadblocks to suggestions that one may not agree with, that Ethiopia has children of different descriptions who might prescribe different solutions to problems, and that all her children ought to be allowed to struggle in the different ways that they can comprehend. Moreover, one might argue that any individual or group or grouped groups have their right to say whatever they want. However, what the KIL has done through the so-called resolution posted on its web site does not refer to championing the right for free speech or the right for a different mode of struggle. Rather, what the KIL has done, in the so-called joint resolution, is to assume the role of Kinijit leadership and make it equivalent to one-person shows, or groups composed of half a dozen individuals.
We are obliged to remind friends and foes of Kinijit that the KIL and its collaborators have used the name of Kinijit to soil it, to misrepresent its purposes and to belittle its achievements by creating the usual tried and failed tactics of assembling an alphabet soup of Diaspora groupings. The intention of the guys who placed the good name of Kinijit for whose purpose several Ethiopians died, and most of its elected leaders are incarcerated since November, 2005, among a list of a bunch of Diaspora groupings is to disrespect the vote of 27 million Ethiopians who overwhelmingly elected the Kinijit party to power. These guys have tried to make Kinijit with its millions of supporters equivalent to "souk bederete" Diaspora groupings some of them composed of one or a handful of Ethiopian émigrés. We underscore that the so-called resolution posted at the KIL website demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that the KIL not only does not have a respect of the Kinijit Party that had received the votes of the majority of the electorate, but also it incessantly works to spoil the achievements of Ethiopians who gave their determination before, during, and after the May 15,2005 elections.
We again remind the Ethiopian people to be cautious and carefully filter away misleading information that might deliberately or inadvertently be generated and posted on irresponsible websites and disseminated in an attempt to severely impair the struggle for democracy and the unconditional release of the leadership of Kinijit and other prisoners of conscience. We emphasize that though the leadership is illegally incarcerated, that no one except the duly elected Kinijit leaders can take the responsibility of negotiation with any entity on behalf of Kinijit and the millions of Ethiopians who elected them to office
Kinijit shall thrive,
Ethiopia shall survive.
Kinijit North America Support Editorial Board
, March 2007