Viewpoint: The TPLF/EPRDF Constitution: The reasons and dangers behind it
by Mulugeta Mossissa
... In terms of human rights protection, the constitution of the TPLF/EPRDF regime, the current ruling mono-ethnic clique in Ethiopia, appears more progressive than its two predecessors. Judging at face value, one can say that it is a great breakthrough in the history of Ethiopian constitutional history. Many elements of human and democratic rights are enshrined in the current constitution. Many of these democratic rights were what the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) had put forward during its partnership with the TPLF in the Transitional Government of Ethiopia between 1991 and 1992. The TPLF/EPRDF has adopted some of the proposals of the OLF in its constitution although for reasons totally different than envisaged by the OLF. Subsequent events have clearly shown that provisions of the TPLF constitution were merely devised to mask the massive human rights violations committed against particularly the Oromo people. No doubt it was also meant as a dilatory tactic against the struggle of the Oromo people for their natural rights for self-determination ...
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