Eleven Members of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) supreme council who are currently outside of the country wrote a joint letter to the party’s executive committee expressing full support for the decisions the council will be making in their absence. Click here to read.
With these 11 council members giving their consent, it is believed that next Sunday’s council meeting will reach a quorum of 31 members out of 60. At least 25 members are expected to attend the meeting. Those council members who would not respond to the executive committee’s call to council meeting will have automatically suspended themselves allowing the executive committee to replace them with new members, according to the Kinijit rules.
11 thoughts on “11 Kinijit council members currently abroad write to their executive committee”
Great call, Great move!!! True leaders whose goal is only to transform Ethiopia into a democratic state should not be restrained by a bunch of egoistic individuals who are nothing but thieves. The want to stole the popular movement to benefit their God-knows-what interest. The executive committee or the council should take a decisive measure and move forward. Let these chikashume and mislenes get stuck in the mud. These good-for-nothings do not have place in the struggle for democracy.
G R E A T!!!
The beginning of the Renaissance of KINIJIT!!!!
I am deeply taken by the astute disposition of the Kinijit leaders and the statesmanship they have showcased up to now. They yield the sub elemental prerequisite of DEMOCRACY, especially when tested at times like this. Democracy is a passion that will protect the right of dissention in order to abide by the rule of the majority. It is an inefficient political system with universal social script for equality. In our country it ushers the new beacon of hope by knocking down, dictatorial authority, military supremacy, self obsessed ethnic movements, communist ideologues. To those who herald their wishes about the end of kinijit, please remember what Mark Twain once commented when a reporter asked him that he thought he(Mark Twain) has already passed away: “The news about my death is slightly exaggerated”.
For the illegitimate regime of Ethiopia the US policy has the uncanny parallelism with Pakistan and the Tragedy witnessed today and its aftermath on the struggle for Democracy. Clearly HR 2003 as well be written and applied for all countries that exist under tyranny like Ethiopia, and therefore US foreign policy (aka bush doctrine) must be part of the political discourse in the 2008 US election. Let God who has never forsaken Ethiopia throughout her long history be with her people, especially with the leaders they elected in 2005. Kinijit.
yes, this is what we have been waiting for
be strong, we are with you.
Hailu Shawel RIP. when I say this to you, it is with a great pleasure.
Great move
Alah be with you
Love and my Hope is with
KINIJIT
Great Move,
Let GOD be with you,
Yidu
What a great news.Now I’m sure the enemy of CUD loss their hope.This is also one great step for the future but not the end.Anyways,Thankyou all the 11 respected CUD officials & also Birtukan,Muluneh and the others CUD legal leadreships.
KEEP IT UP FIGHITING & WE ALL ARE WITH CUD FOREVER!
CUDP is not a one man band. It is a peoples’ party, with the aspirations of the Ethiopian people at its core – DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM AND THE RESPECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS. tHE ETHNO-FASCIST WOYANE JUNTA MAY try every trick in the book to put a wedge between the various members of the CUDP leadership. BUT IT WILL NEVER WORK. nO MATTER how much money the woyane spend to quash HR2003 and to bribe people to delay the progree of the freddom movement in Ethiopia the will fail. Woyane are a spent force. they have been rejected by all and sundry, and their only support comes from opportunists and mean individuals who have neither conscience nor any sense of fairnesss and justice.
CUDP with or with out Hailu Shawel will march to victory, because it is supported by the people. Freddom and democry will win.
The Kinijit Supreme Council has been too patient in the face of flagrant and continued violations of the by-laws of the party by none other than its chairman himself. We understand why the patience has been in abundance and it comes naturally off committed democrats. However, assuming the patience as a weakness of the Supreme Council, Hailu Shawel continues with his despicable irresponsible acts of humiliating the party, its members, supporters and especially a huge chunk of the Ethiopian people who voted for the party in the 2005 election. The bodies of hundreds of those brave Ethiopians who paid the ultimate price in the run up to and in the aftermath of the election to bring about democracy and freedom to the Ethiopian people are rolling over in the graves each time Hailu Shawel and his culprits unleash their ridiculous and autocratic moves. The way Hailu Shawel behaves is totally irresponsible, indefensible and foolish. Hailu Shawel could not even defend his irresponsible and backward acts. He does not even know what power and responsibility is vested upon the chairman by the bylaws of CUDP. He did not bother, as a leader, to review the bylaws of the organization before taking any action let alone of huge and consequential ones. He even did not bother to prepare himself after his actions by referring to the bylaws to defend himself at interviews and otherwise. This is very very shameful for a person who claims to be a supreme leader. The fact of the matter, however, is there is no article in the bylaws that supports Hailu’s actions. It is saddening to hear some of his close collaborators (advisors) defending his indefensible actions by saying something to the effect of ‘… leke menber hono mabarer kalchalema minun leke menber hone?…’ (Roughly meaning as a chairman, if he cannot fire somebody whenever he feels like it, where is his chairmanship?). That is the strongest line of defense for his action that I have heard of so far weeks after the fact. Where is the rule of law Kinijit has been fighting for? Who is best placed to uphold the rule of law in Kinijit other than the chairman himself? If the chairman himself starts to violate it, where will that end up? What will be the impact of such foolish and irresponsible acts by the person, who is supposed to lead the way, on the struggle of the Ethiopian people for freedom and democracy? So, the action the Supreme Council will take on this issue in its upcoming extraordinary session must be decisive and swift. I hereby call for the dismissal of Hailu Shawel from his chairmanship and membership of CUDP altogether. He has already done more enough damage to the party.
Ewunetu
Impeach Hailu Shawel… Remenber Prof. Asrat