Stop the brutal repression of our people by the Agazzi (the TPLF/EPRDF killing machine in Ethiopia) before it turns into its African ancestor: the Interhamwe

I am a concerned Ethiopian forced to live in Diaspora agonizing every day of my life over the kinds of pain and suffering my/our people and my birth country, whom I love so much and gave up so much for, have gone through under the brutal rule of the TPLF/EPRDF leadership. To us Ethiopians, Meles and his cronies are none of the things some Western leaders have portrayed them to be but close incarnates of the Hutu military leaders and their paid militia (the Interhamwe) with their own killing machine the Agazzi special forces, hacking its way to infamy. It is them (the government) which repeatedly talks about interhamwe raising everybodys eyebrows and it must be suspected that something worse is brewing in the cooking pots of desperate politics. We are seeing the very signs of their brutal killing potentials. Irrespective, I am sure that our people will not fall prey to such hate politics and will and must resist this temptation as they have for the last 14 years. The question, however, remains: how many more people have to die and how many more rare Generals like Canadas Romeo Delaire does it take to stir life into the dozing conscience of Western leaders? The same leaders who failed Rwandan Tutsis but who never shy away from playing vanguard for liberal democracy and justice when it comes to dealing with less powerful tyrants who fall off the wagon whenever they fail to continue their compliance to their interest-driven demands. What is the color of democracy and justice? If color matters, as it often does in the Orientalist worldview, selective reasoning, and rationalization of intervention/non-intervention, then we understand and it becomes our own primary duty to determine our own future. On the other hand, if peace loving nations are true to their words and abide by the many International Conventions they have signed, then we ask you and them to intervene and persuade Mr Zenawi, to:

1) Release all prisoners without any precondition;

2) Account for the missing and the dead during his 14 years of brutal rule, and

3) Peacefully transfer power to the elected opposition.

It is also important that donor nations seriously consider suspending financial and military aid to the regime in power so that it would not continue killing our people and destroying our motherland. We also urge all the recipients of this petition to push for investigation into all the killings and disappearances that happened under this regime and bring the perpetrators to justice at the International Criminal Court (the ICC) for crimes against humanity.