Ethiopia has been governed by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front since they apprehended the capital city and ended the Ethiopian Civil War in 1991. Members of the Tigrayan ethnic group established a minority of Ethiopia 's population. Nevertheless members of this ethnic group control the superior positions in the country 's political and military structure while the majority of Amhara and Oromo people are cut off, which make up the majority of the population. The country has been experiencing rapid economic growth since the 2000s, and is one of the world 's fastest-growing economies and is Africa’s second most populous country. The Oromo make up well over a third of Ethiopia 's 100 million people. Historically, Oromos have
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Oromos are blamed as secessionists to justify the ongoing control, obsorbation, and policing of Oromo intellectuals, politicians, activiest and last but not least artist. By many Oromo reprenteters requests for equal presentation and government as extremist and exclusionary, it tried to drive a wedge between them and other ethnic groups, particularly the Amharas. This enables the leading Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front and Tigrayan best to present themselves as the only political movement in the country that could provide the stability and progression seek by regional and global powers with a bestow attention in the region. Although these protests are triggered by more recent events, they are microcosms of a more enduring and huge crisis of political portrayal and systematic estrange suffered by the Oromo people. In its 2015 comprehensive country report titled "Because I am Oromo", Amnesty International found evidence of systematic and widespread patterns of indiscriminate and disproportionate attack against the Oromo simply because they are …show more content…
We should stop the violence against civilians by the TPLF regime, we should put on travel restrictions and freeze asset of the human rights perpetrators in Ethiopia. Congress has the power of the purse to stop the large human right mistreatment in Ethiopia. They should dispatch specialist of human rights to investigate the atrocities in the Amhara, Oromo and Somali regions by the Ethiopian security forces, and to let the media look into those regions. Another action congress can do is to cut all non humanitarian aid to the Ethiopian regime until the State Department reassesses U.S. foreign policy in light of the current unconcealed human rights mistreatment. Retaining the present circumstances would refuse the 90 million Ethiopians the right to choose freely a government that has the consent of all of Ethiopia’s numerous religious and ethnic culture. The circumstances should halt the seeds of ethnic strife, violence and extremism from spreading into the despotic country and region. And for the west that would mean more migrants crossing the Mediterranean and heading for Europe. The very disaster America and the EU are expending vast resources trying to eliminate now. The UN Human Rights Council has the power to create an international commission of inquiry to examine the current stern disruptions of international human right and international
Oromos are blamed as secessionists to justify the ongoing control, obsorbation, and policing of Oromo intellectuals, politicians, activiest and last but not least artist. By many Oromo reprenteters requests for equal presentation and government as extremist and exclusionary, it tried to drive a wedge between them and other ethnic groups, particularly the Amharas. This enables the leading Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front and Tigrayan best to present themselves as the only political movement in the country that could provide the stability and progression seek by regional and global powers with a bestow attention in the region. Although these protests are triggered by more recent events, they are microcosms of a more enduring and huge crisis of political portrayal and systematic estrange suffered by the Oromo people. In its 2015 comprehensive country report titled "Because I am Oromo", Amnesty International found evidence of systematic and widespread patterns of indiscriminate and disproportionate attack against the Oromo simply because they are …show more content…
We should stop the violence against civilians by the TPLF regime, we should put on travel restrictions and freeze asset of the human rights perpetrators in Ethiopia. Congress has the power of the purse to stop the large human right mistreatment in Ethiopia. They should dispatch specialist of human rights to investigate the atrocities in the Amhara, Oromo and Somali regions by the Ethiopian security forces, and to let the media look into those regions. Another action congress can do is to cut all non humanitarian aid to the Ethiopian regime until the State Department reassesses U.S. foreign policy in light of the current unconcealed human rights mistreatment. Retaining the present circumstances would refuse the 90 million Ethiopians the right to choose freely a government that has the consent of all of Ethiopia’s numerous religious and ethnic culture. The circumstances should halt the seeds of ethnic strife, violence and extremism from spreading into the despotic country and region. And for the west that would mean more migrants crossing the Mediterranean and heading for Europe. The very disaster America and the EU are expending vast resources trying to eliminate now. The UN Human Rights Council has the power to create an international commission of inquiry to examine the current stern disruptions of international human right and international