DEAR PRESIDENT G.W.BUSH: DON'T BE A BYSTANDER TO THE GOVERNMENT SPONSORED TERRORISM IN ETHIOPIA!!!

September 26,2005

The Honorable George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500

(president@whitehouse.gov)


Dear Mr. President:

What is the wish, the purpose and the function of the USA? What is it? Is it to fallen
humankind? Is it to categorize people of some parts of the world, as First- class mankind,
and give them more attention, protection and help them genuinely? Just like the people in
Ukraine. Mr. President, do Ethiopians belong to second-class mankind category (if there is
such a thing like that), and therefore deserve less attention? and therefore deserve second
generation laws of human rights and low-grade or sub-optimal democracy? What is it Mr.
President? Is the great saying of Abraham Lincoln "All men are created equally.",
outdated? or does it apply, conditionally? Or is it replaced by a system that says some
people of the world are created differently and deserve more rights than others, or
deserves special laws? Something doesn't make sense at all, Mr.President!

Dear Mr. President, I am a humble Ethiopian American, who presently residing in the
great land of the USA. I am not a politician but a mother, who strongly believe that only
One Lord, has an authority to create and/or take life, therefore I don't shy to speak up
when I see things that violates this wisdom. I am writing this letter to you today because I
strongly believe that you have both the heart and the power, to save mankind, today, while
you are in White House! As we speak right now, the people of Ethiopia, are facing
another holocaust, and/or "Rwanda type Scenario", one that you are able to end, you have
the heart and the power of your office. The poor people of Ethiopia have the heart, but no
means to protect themselves from Sadam Hussein-like, Tyrant. Act Now, Mr. President,
the time is Now!!

Dear Mr. Bush right at this moment, there is a tremendous concern about impending
violence by the Prime Minister Meles' regime against peaceful demonstration on Sunday,
October 2, 2005. A series of troubling and terrorizing statements are being made and sent
by the Prime Minister and other government leaders, through the government's media to
the people, not to exercise their God-given freedom of expression. Prime Minister Meles,
sent a televised nation wide address on September 24, 2005, saying to the peaceful,
well-cultured, God-fearing people of Ethiopia, that mass popular movement are merely to
create instability to the public, and therefore he has dismissed the concerns of these
movements. Mr.President Bush, Ethiopian people are well-cultured, God-fearing and
law-abiding citizens, who remained silent and wait patiently to the longest election process
in the history of the World, to release the result of the election--it took more than 2
months. No single person has been reported opposing violently, neither the duration of the
election process nor the outcome of the result. The statements and the actions by the
Prime Minister Meles, degrades the idea of human rights.

Dear Mr. Bush, it is now apparent that a considerable amounts of election frauds, abuse
and human right violations took place during the election process. We heard this, both
from the EU (preliminary) and Carter Center's observation teams' statements. Although,
Prime Minister Meles, made a disturbing statement, questioning the legitimacy of election
observers of the EU, and naming the report as "full of lies and garbage". The Ethiopian
people are often ashamed of this and other expressions coming out from the Prime Minster
(although he is well mannered usually when he addresses the international community.)
Dear Mr. Bush, the prime minister has created an atmosphere hostile to the exercise of
people's rights in advance of the peaceful demonstration. Right at this moment, the prime
minister is mobilizing military armies, to the streets of the country, and sending messages
that undercut the legitimacy of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. Mr. President
Bush, mind you::: the people of Ethiopia have no right to keep and bear arms, therefore
why are they being terrorized by an armed forces???So what is the regime is being scared
of? is it the truth in the name of "keeping the public safe and stable?"

Dear Mr. Bush, thank God to cyber technology, information is no longer hard to access to
regular people like myself. We Ethiopians, around the world are well informed yet
confused and frustrated with the definition and implication of international standards of
legitimacy, what is it? does it exist? Or the standards apply to all countries except
Ethiopia? In Georgia and Ukraine popular movements used peaceful and democratic
means to reverse the outcome of illegitimate and unfair elections and to ensure that the
will and voice of the people determined the constitution of the government. Dear Mr.
George W. Bush, your administration raised charges of election fraud in Ukraine, and help
the people of Ukraine to elect their legitimate leader. That is great, but we Ethiopians
cannot help wondering why your administration dismisses the same charges when they are
raised in Ethiopia? Are we second generation mankind, and deserve sub-optimal laws and
democracy? What is it Dear Mr. President Bush?

Dear Mr. President: I urge you today to take immediate and concrete steps to prevent the
impending violence by the Prime Minister Meles’ regime against the peaceful, unarmed,
God-fearing and law-abiding demonstrators, participating in peaceful demonstration
merely to express their God-given right of freedom of expression. Peaceful demonstration
of the people, either to support and/or to oppose the outcome of the election is part of
electoral process, is it not Mr. President?
Dear President Bush, as a matter of priority, I call on you to undertake immediate action,
to warn the regime of Ethiopia to take responsibility and to honor the basic rights to
freedom of expression, assembly and association provided for and protected by the
Universal human right articles 19, 21 and 22 respectively.
Dear President Bush, I call on you to warn the Prime Minister to cease harassment,
terrorizing the peace loving and unarmed people of Ethiopia and civil society leaders.


Dear President Bush, most of all, I call on you to contact the Prime Minister immediately,
and to put him on notice and to warn him that he will be held criminally responsible for
any atrocities that he may bring on the unarmed, peaceful, well-mannered, God-fearing,
and law-abiding citizens of Ethiopia, who will merely participating in the demonstration to
voice their God-given rights.


Dear Mr. George W. Bush, and finally, as you sit tonight at the dinner table, with your
lovely family around you, please remember the mothers, who lost their children three
months ago, on the streets of Ethiopia. Children 13-14 years old, shot dead on the streets,
coming home from school, carrying their school bags nothing more, looking forward to
see faces of their mothers and fathers, but instead met by military armies, just received
ordered from the Prime Minister, to shoot on the head and kill these innocents little kids
on the streets, some of them shots from the back, others on the head. Almost all of the
kids shot and dead, are children of poor families who make a salary of 50 USA dollar per
year. It is fact, President Bush, I tell you this story, because I strongly believe that you
have got the heart, to show compassion to mankind. On the top of the killings, these
financially challenged moms, who lost their children on the street were told, the children
were killed because they were caught robbing banks, but it was proven later that there was
no single bank robbery attempt, on the day of the killings. To these moms, to hear these
wrong accusations and excuses for the killings, was like a double loss!

Mr. Bush, we Ethiopians around the world have no strength left to face another
bloodshed, please exercise the power of your office and your God given compassion to
mankind, and prevent the violence by the regime of Ethiopia, against the poor, God-fearing,
law-abiding, and peace loving people of Ethiopia. Please act now, while the problems of killings
the innocent people, can still be solved. Please help the Ethiopian people struggle, free from
fear, hatred, and deaths they produce. Dear Mr. Bush, let the donations your country provide to
Ethiopia, be lasting, genuine and meaningful. The best donation to Ethiopia is not money, it is
FREEDOM!!!!!

Dear Mr. Bush, some day people will ask you: “ What did you do to stop the massacre ahead of
time, in Ethiopia, against peaceful demonstrators?” Are you prepared to answer them, the proper
answer without a shame and regrets? Dear George W. Bush, you have the heart, you have the
power of your office, to act now and to protect mothers, whose salary is $50 dollars/year, yet
manage to send their kids to school, by eating one meal a day!!! Protect these unarmed poor kids, from being shot and
killed on the streets. Protect these poor moms from unspeakable, deep sorrows. Protect
mankind.

May God bless you President G. W. Bush, May God bless your family, May God bless your great
country. Thank you so much beyond words, for your full attention to these matters at this critical
time. I know you will act immediately, because I know that you have got the heart!!! That is all it
takes!!!!



Humbly & Respectfully,

SAY-NO-TO-HATRED


****Dear President G. W. Bush, please refuse to be a bystander of violence by the Ethiopian
regime against the peace loving, God-fearing, and law-abiding protesters of Ethiopia.
Let’ s not witness another scenario of Rwanda. Instead, let’ s help the poor people of
Ethiopia to repeat the scenarios of Ukraine and Georgia. If you act now, the atrocities
can be prevented!!!